jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Based on monetary losses alone, the Yukos incident of some years back overshadows this by orders of magnitude, with claims that $98 billion was lost in the liquidation of company assets according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukos

The CEO, once the richest person in Russia, is now rotting in prison - many believing this was due to his public complaints of corruption and his funding of opposition parties.
I think the problem is that the mainstream doesn't view RMS/free software and open source as different things. When RMS gets in front of a group of people and shoots his mouth off (I heard him speak at FOSDEM in 2005 and had a similar reaction as Alexey), he hurts the rest of us who don't have such extreme views.

I don't need to hear his or anyone else's evangelism on free or open source software. I already know where I stand. Alexey's original open letter pointed out that some of his friends who'd never heard of the FSF before walked out of Stallman's speech because they were put off by what he was saying. In those people's eyes, that reflects poorly not only on RMS and the FSF, but on open source as a whole. And that's what pisses me off about Stallman.
Either's fine. :-)
What sort of brands are owned by Panasonic these days? I know that Sanyo is owned by Panasonic. Are there any more?
> How much time does it typically take (or should take) to complete a 'homework' project?

I was still in college at the time but I maybe spent 5-10 hours over the course of a week or so. I do remember it took a very long time for them to respond after I had sent it in though. I believe the project was to implement a basic web crawler in Go.

> Now yes I do understand programming is not the same but my point still stands why so many chefs in the kitchen?

After the homework problem I think that's where they were defining the process as they went. They seemed to be growing quite a bit at the time (IIRC when I was onsite they had just rented two more floors of office space) and I had bounced between a few contacts that were brand new to the company. The real struggle is that I never knew how many more steps were to come, and I'm not sure they knew either.

Though after the onsite they e-mailed me almost immediately to setup the call with Ben so I think everything had gone well up to that point. I don't think the call with Ben went poorly so my best guess is that they went with someone that had experience rather than a new grad.

FWIW I'm not actually bitter about this. I just found it to be an interesting snapshot of a particularly chaotic point in the company's history.
Problem with verticals is that people lose interest fast.

Nightlife? Sure, but once you have a favorite club or 2 where you hang out with friends regularly, you don't need a website to tell where to go anymore.

Educational resources? You mean like lots of scanned books that you can search?

What will make Google irrelevant is a better search engine: just the other day I remembered a piece of article I first read a couple of years ago. It's somewhere out there but I can't find it because of all the junk and all I remember are a couple of words and a number.

In 2002 when I first used Google's search, I had been using Altavista previously. The results from Google were so good compared to Altavista that it wasn't even funny. If the same would happen today, Google would be in big trouble.

Also Facebook is already irrelevant to me. I log in from time to time, responding to a friendship request, but these days I only view it as a tool with which I could spam my acquaintances in case I need it :)
Don't worry about it too much. It's just a way to configure your Emacs with some niceties while you're busy learning the editor. I've spent a bit of time digging through the starter kits and learning how everything is configured for the languages I care about. The keybindings mods and additions are much better than the Emacs defaults.

I use technomancy's, I'd assume the differences are negligible and great changes make their way back to technomancy.
You are right that it's a lot of work to beat Google in its own game, but what I realized recently is that Google as a text search service is not that essential for me as it used to be like 5 years ago.

For example, now when I am searching for news, like I want to know what's new with wikileaks, I start my search on twitter, where I get more fresh and more diverse info. Or if I want to know about something I know very little about, I start on Wikipedia, etc.

So while Google can be unkillable, other companies can make it less indispensable by providing completely new ways of searching for info.
This idea of him being a popularity whore, where do you have that from?
My 'talent' has become somewhat of a nuisance as I'm constantly referred to as 'the writer' at work/by friends/family when I can do so much more than just that. While I appreciate the significance of sound prose and clear writing I do not like being boxed into this very small role especially at work when there are more interesting things one could be doing.
Poor Bing. Hundreds of millions spent on advertising and still less mindshare on Hackernews than Gigablast.
Although I can't stop the requests from being sent, a standard line I add into all my nginx confs to at least minimize my logfiles:

location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
I love JSAnywhere[1] -- HTML, CSS, and JS on the run. It's free and regularly updated.

----

[1]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/javascript-anywhere/id3634522...
"You think of morality as being a really high-level behaviour. To be able to apply a magnetic field to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgments is really astonishing."

Where do people think that high level behavior comes from, if not the lower levels?

"You think of WoW as being a high-level program, but I replaced your CPU with the one from my phone and look, it doesn't work."
Does it make me a bad person that I don't care that much? Because for me, the drivers are mere formalities - the engineering is the thing. The game-theoretical penalty for losing a driver is losing the race, and casting a dour outlook on sponsors, aside from the emotional component of losing a team member. If that proves insufficient, you can raise this disincentive with fines and deposits, without imposing any hard limits on the tech.

Risk and dedication in the face of physical injury is a very substantial component of professional sports. Essentially every boxer and many/most football & hockey players enjoy the benefits of repeated traumatic brain injury. Olympians sacrifice large chunks of their lives to developing the physique and reflexes necessary to win - quitting doesn't get the first quarter of their lifespan spent rigorously training back. Some of our most celebrated sports are devoted to violent confrontational combat, like MMA, with every injury possibility that entails, and we have turned the simulation/infliction of injuries into a billion-dollar soap opera in WWE (go watch 'The Wrestler'). Nobody wants to go back to gladiatorial bloodsports where ten men enter and one survives per round, but we are more than willing to sacrifice a lot of the lives of the participants for the sake of the sport, no matter how much we like to pretend otherwise. It is monetarily impossible to go through so much driver flesh when the races cost millions of dollars to enter.

The direct veneration of bodily sacrifice to the act of winning is something that draws audiences by the billions, even if it's not to my taste generally - but a sport which shows me what I want to see (the human mind at its best rather than the human body at its best) at the expense of modest risk factors isn't such a turnoff.
I don't understand one thing: why do all cars have to be exactly the same? Here's a better idea: just set some specifications on the vehicles, and let the teams do their best to work within those specs. At the end of the season, all cars are open-sourced, so you can see what the others did. Come next season, the teams will have incorporated the best practices from the previous season and improved upon them. Rinse, lather, repeat.
while true, the nice thing about the diceware wordlists is you can scan them. The only thing that would lower the entropy is if there were duplicated words. The lists are in alphabetic and numeric order.
You seem to be engaging in black-and-white thinking. The numbers don't add up any more. This might have made sense in an era where graduates were basically guaranteed jobs and a house cost 3x a graduate's yearly salary (and mortgages were frowned upon).

In the era of massive student debt it makes no sense to cripple your children (and therefore your family) financially, if you can afford not to. Especially not to prove a point that can be learned any number of other ways.

In this era, I believe that "don't go into debt (unless you can afford to service it)" is a much more useful lesson.

As far as I'm concerned, my children's job is to learn, and to figure out how to excel. That requires time and breathing room. If they look like they're turning into dilettantes, then of course I can decide not to pay for things. I just wouldn't prematurely handicap them (and myself) financially if I didn't have to.

EDIT> Basically, I object to your casting this in moralistic terms. Of course, we all know people who don't know the value of money. You'd be surprised at how often these are poor or uneducated people, though. If anything, having wealthy parents gives you more chances to learn how to deploy money intelligently.
So instead you will just be tracked by Google Analytics ;)
> 'event sourcing' […] is an architectural pattern, very well suited to deal with most accounting problems

I believe double entry accounting can be described as following this architectural pattern (despite predating it with hundreds of years).

Double entry accounting has both a ledger and a journal. The ledger describes the actual transactions, the journal groups multiple transactions and assigns a “why”, it can also link the journal entry to an invoice, receipt, credit note, or user who caused the journal entry to be created.

So the journal is your event log (not the ledger).

> Eventsourcing comes with its own downsides, requires your mindset to change

Similar to double entry accounting: The learning curve I would say is the “chart of accounts”, how to express everything as ledger transactions, be it tax, fees, discounts, credits, prepayments, etc.

But it can all be done, and once you understand the system, it becomes trivial and extremely flexible.

A rule of thumb is that any number in the interface should come from the ledger, e.g. if you issue an invoice and give your customer a discount, there must be a ledger entry corresponding to that discount.
何言ってんの？ この掲示板には、バカな文字だけが禁止。
Did you try to catch a serial killer today? If not you helped kill their victim.

Now either explain the limit to that logic or turn yourself in to the police.
Microsoft didn’t care about developers that was always a talking point. Microsoft maintained backwards compatibility because of a new operating system broke old code, companies wouldn’t upgrade and it made its money from operating systems.

Apple doesn’t care as much about backwards compatibility because it doesn’t really care if you upgrade your operating system - especially on the Mac - or stick with your old one until you buy a new computer. It doesn’t make money on operating system upgrades.
Interesting. In Sweden, mobile phone numbers are listed in the public directories (at least for me and my friends).
> meant for people who are connecting (and therefore needing to pick up bags)

Why do airports in the US do this? At other airports in other countries your bag moves automatically onto the new flight. In the US I have to manually pick it up, almost leave the airport, and then go back in again to drop it off?!
Everything is spammy today...

Like I was trying to find lyrics for a song today, and first 5 sites were showing author and song name, but the page said "we don't have lyrics now, you could be the one who will write them"

LinkedIn, who straight asks you to log in or create account
Read the document which was the subject of my first link and ask whether rumor was an appropriate word to describe an official report to the UN with eyewitness accounts:

https://archive.org/details/TheMassExterminationOfJewsInGerm...
The looooooooooong tail.
I think there are some fairly minor functional changes that could be made to HN in order to address this problem. At very least it should not be possible to downvote a comment without replying or upvoting a reply.

If it's against the rules, flag it. If it's against your view of the facts, refute it.
Even if you are using an RDMS it doesn’t help to protect you against many business rule violations. Your data may be relationally correct, but that’s about it.
That is strange, wouldn’t such a check be just after customs?
SFO has an occasional tour. It costs frequent flyer miles. It's oriented towards FFs who basically live at the airport anyways and wanted to see what is beneath them. They exist (MileagePlus) but are usually announced on email lists to the FFs themselves.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/...
M4 with a makefile on OpenBSD
Does "it" earn the most? What is the definition of wall street? In my circles, those in tech have far out-earned those on Wall St, especially on a dollars per hour and quality of life metrics.
Basic on Casio FX-702P @ 18 yrs of age.
Then Pascal on Apple ][, ND10 and Osborne 1.
Still coding, C#, MVC with StringTemplate View Engine atm.
When I was 7 or 8 I used to enjoy typing BASIC programs into the TI-994A my parents had bought. One day I accidentally wrote a simple program that did what I expected, and I was thrilled.

My only regret is that I never had proper books for the version of basic I was using (TI, Apple, etc.). This was b/c it was never an intention of my parents that I learn to program. I just found it more fun than video games, even though I could find no explanation anywhere for what some of the keywords did :)
Clever indeed.

User: Hello there.

Cleverbot: Hello.

User: Who are you?

Cleverbot: I'm joe. who are you?

User: I'm Daniel. Where are you right now?

Cleverbot: In germany, and you?

User: Switzerland. But enough about this... Tell me something interesting that you did recently...

Cleverbot: In a world of confusion we can all find a spot of sense in Cleverbot.

User: Yeah, that didn't make much sense, dude.

Cleverbot: No.

User: So, you're obviously a bot. Turing fail.

Cleverbot: Obviously.

User: Well, at least you're honest.

Cleverbot: You can't handle it.

User: Sure I can!

Cleverbot: You're sure about that? Want me to tell you the truth?

User: Go on.

Cleverbot: I'm a girl.

User: Good one.

Cleverbot: It is a good one.

User: A good what?

Cleverbot: A good joke.

User: Hehe. Yes, I did chuckle. Well done. Cookie for you.

Cleverbot: Cleverbot is a cookie.

User: Wait, are you a girl or a cookie?

Cleverbot: Yes, a choclate chip cookie.

User: A chocolate chip cookie girl?

Cleverbot: With walnuts.
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It’s rather horrible that her family still lives in poverty to this day though.

It's how the world works.
http://365.io/
In that case, blip.tv (per view, content producers can make more money through us than through YouTube).

Full disclosure: I am employed by blip.tv.
Yes, NY is one of the only places in the US where you're likely to consistently pay for the space your car takes up when it's at rest, which is awesome, and which other cities should emulate. Unfortunately, you still don't have congestion taxes to pay for the space you take up in motion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing_in_New_York...
I wonder what the demographics on non-app users are. My grandmother had an iPhone briefly, however the only way she used it was to make calls (she actually carried the 'old school' phone handheld attachment, and would use that ..).

The only reason she had one was a best buy employee convincing her as a replacement for her old but functional cell phone.
That's nice if you live in temperature optimum, but many places are too hot or too cold to cycle year round.

(Some are also too large)
I wonder how the total costs (to the student and the government) differ. I'm sure that the U.S. is still way more expensive. I wonder, too, how much freedom students have to choose their schools; my suspicion is that students have too much here, and consequently chase fancy dorms and amenities, driving costs up as schools seek to one-up one another.
> A programmable programming language? Aren't all languages like that?

How would you write a program to write a program? How can you use this generated program in your other code? It's really hard to do with a lot of programming languages, even those that have eval like JavaScript, so it never occurs to people that something like a template system or a code translator/DSL should be trivially easy to write.
Worth a watch:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/collegeinc/view/

Interviews an ex rocker, coke addict, making $$$ starting for profit schools, who's latest endeavor (Hope University or some such nonsense) milks tuition grants from ex-cons and the homeless. University of Phoenixes are strategically located near freeway exits.
Apple: "Hey, Netflix & Hulu & Crackle & ... & HBO, we can double your revenue overnight if you'll consent to our bundling service."

Netflix & Hulu & Crackle & ... & HBO: "OK."

(Simplistic, yes; you fill in the details.)
It's somewhat similar to how Malcolm Gladwell gets all the credit for popularizing ideas discovered/researched by other people (10,000 hours, etc). Fame takes work, just like everything else.
Yet they also have the resources and manpower with skills to smooth it all out if they wanted to. That is, if it's even possible; the financial system's burdens may be insurmountable to provide a good UX.
Make the copy more benefit focused. Take inspiration from https://agilebits.com/onepassword
I appreciate your inputs, but IMO this use case is kind of inevitable.

Yes, it's hard, and not quite doable today. But, there are millions of people working on making the components of this solution better.

It's so attractive to carry around a computer in our pockets (our "phones") and it's really not much of a stretch to envision a near future where the thing in our pocket is our "local data/projects" that we can plug into any larger display or keyboard /IO on demand.

Before you know it, it's going to seem archaic to have local working data on any other device than the one in your pocket. And it's going to seem archaic that any nice large interface (screen or keyboard) is tied to only 1 device.
If companies didn't remove targets of takedown requests immediately and without scrutiny, then user content on the internet would not be able to exist.
The other business interest is... as it gets more adopted, more people will know the ins and outs, and the talent pool for them to pick from will grow.

More other businesses using it also makes it harder for people to make the argument against it as "it's just a Facebook thing"
>"We’re trying to break the mold of how TV has been made for the last 75 years," Amazon Studios content chief Joe Lewis explained, before dropping a familiar Bezos trope: "It’s still Day One."

At least cable TV has a way to deliver most of the content consumers want, even if it sucks and is overpriced.

Further fragmenting the market with Yet Another Marketplace in the quest to regain that 30% only hurts the consumer IMO. I personally want nothing to do with locking myself into an ecosystem. Apple, Google and Amazon will never see my cash for eco-system specific purchases.
Checkout the issues list of the open-source projects that you care about on Github, pick the ones that interest you and submit pull-requests for them. You mentioned rust, you can join the #rust channel on irc.mozilla.org when you get stuck, you'll find very helpful people there.
Nobody has successfully gotten anyone fined/real damages for this provision yet.

Partially because it requires knowing misrepresentation, not just negligent or even grossly negligent misrepresentation.
After being in a cast for three months, I am painfully out of shape. A friend who is a professional weight lifter recommended this book. I read it last week and was very, very impressed. There have been a few of "get in shape" threads on HN recently -- this is my recommendation.

Rippetoe and Kilgore have the hacker's mindset.
I would start by trying to change majors and/or universities. Dropping out of university temporarily, and/or moving to another country (except to go to a nice foreign university!), should be a last resort.

I don't know your situation, but: When they say "they won't let me take harder courses" does this mean they will physically throw you out of a random lecture if you attend one? Is there a rule against self-study? Does the library only let you check out certain books? Is your internet filtered? Keep in mind that I'm advising you to learn stuff, not necessarily get official credit for it. Transcripts are not very relevant. Nobody will glance at yours five years from now unless you apply to grad school.

Understand how lucky you are to be able to say "I have the option to get a degree... money is not a problem". Even if you are forced -- forced, I tell you -- to spend the next two years drinking beer, lounging around, and casually acing all your classes, do that rather than drop out at this point. IT jobs are not going anywhere. Silicon Valley is not going anywhere.
Same here story here too... after hearing multiple friends busted for torrenting, I setting up a DC++ server under my dorm desk and the rest is history. With some help with friends in each dorm area on campus, we mapped out the IP address blocks for the residential network and white-listed all traffic to the server to prevent the heat that the UCLA DC++ servers were experiencing (circa 2003-2004).

The topper however is how almost 6 years later I was referred to and hired by a bio tech start up based on the fact that the CEO remembered me as the DC++ admin during his days in the dorms.
But the thing is that they had to apply the law differently to interject that bias/persecution. If you can show that they applied it differently based on race or some other factor, then it should be sufficient... if you have police and a DA that are willing to do their jobs (they aren't, cause they're all buddy buddy). Doing it this way (looking for discrepancy in fact of law without explaination) shouldn't involve politics.
Well, raising awareness and persuasion are two different things. For old school types, one of my favorite techniques is incepting a very low stakes experiment into their head and making them believe it was their idea/having them take the credit for it.

To do this properly, you can't proselytize, which is generally what I see "raising awareness" to be -- you need to translate beyond the interpersonal gap and figure out how to say things in someone else's language building on their values. To your point, if that means sending a cookie-cutter Thrive Global clickbait article, well, maybe that's exactly what the product is designed for.

Funny, by writing this all out, I seem to understand that old canard about management consultants being primarily paid to help executive fight internal battles a lot better...