jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Here you go, if you're using python(?): https://ftfy.now.sh/

That's the web demo link above, but ftfy is a Python library you throw all your text through and it comes out magically perfect. I can copy Unicode text through (non-UTF-8 aware) VNC and completely destroy it, paste it into FTFY, and it just figures it out no matter how bad it gets.

Since I'm here, I _have_ to do this...

I copied a small piece of text back and forth through TigerVNC a few times, yielding this:

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What FTFY thinks I copied back and forth: "You’ve"

Note the â€™ - err, sorry, ’ quote character :)

(Oh hey, I made my comment get a horizontal scrollbar, without using any code formatting! Nice!)
The US Military is not just another employer.

The US Military and associated intelligence branches have crafted heros, but also committed atrocities against our own men and women in uniform. That used to be the line they didn't cross.

You can give an enlisted man syphilis and see what happens. You can even overtly target black enlisted men and see what happens.

But you do the same kind of experiment with the civilian population and you are straight fucked.

I guess if we're obliterating that line, then sure, what's the difference? You're either cop or little people.
Perhaps.

In the past two months, I've had pat-downs in DCA, BWI, and PHI (my home airport, SYR, doesn't have scanners, so there's nothing to opt out of).

They all use machines similar to this one:

http://www.tsa.gov/sites/default/files/images/edt_closeup.jp...

I've never seen a failure myself (the green bar you see pops up after a few seconds), but according to a friend who has, a red bar pops up instead.
This just seems so broken to me and it makes very grateful that we have the NHS here in Scotland.
There are a lot of great engineers who live in SF, are unwilling to live anywhere else, and don't want a long commute.

The only way to get them to work for you is to have an office in the city.
> work on cool projects

Because of the density of "cool projects".

If I move to Boise* to work at your cool company, and something happens, and it's not so cool anymore, I'm in Boise. If I'm in SF, I go next door.

[1] Sorry Boise. I chose you because the grand-parent used you as an example... feel free to insert your favorite city for rhetorical purposes
"This demo requires a decent graphics card and up-to-date drivers."

Fair warning! This demo almost broke my PC back then. Nice trip down memory lane. Good to know, that this thing is still alive.
Why do big companies shut down websites instead of selling them?
Delicious is my bookmarking mechanism. I use it probably 20 times per day. Bummer about this.
In zsh, !! is expanded by the shell, but leaves the expanded command at the terminal, waiting for you to execute it. Most of the time this means I have to hit enter twice to run the command, but it's convenient when I want to explain to someone what !! is useful for.
This is sad. I use delicious daily, and I actually use it as a search engine - The ones that are most bookmarked is usually what I am looking for.

Another advantage is that I can share links form multiple machines.

I am avoiding chrome until they have something like noscript plugin (which will likely not happen) in firefox
Same story, different sources:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1994951 - physorg.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991763 - physorg.com - several comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1989565 - nature.com - no comments
> very scary indeed

I guess the hacker community is just as susceptible to fear-mongering as the average Republican, because dozens of reasons not to be concerned about this are screaming out at me:

1. No one uses it yet.

1.1. We're not sure anyone ever will.

2. There is zero evidence that it will cause any harm.

3. There is zero evidence that, if it does cause harm, that harm will be irreparable.

4. There is at least some reason to believe that it might have good effects as well.

5. Many of the harmful things that people in this comment area are complaining about could already be accomplished through other means today. The actual increase in attack surface is essentially nil.

6. Many of the commenters, while complaining about vigilante justice, are also calling for vigilante justice against the app's author. On the one hand, turnabout is fair play. On the other hand, if you embrace this sort of vigilantism, why not embrace the sort the app's author is promoting? Also, have you no shame, you hypocrites?

If you think that this app is "very scary indeed," I really believe you need to work on your fear tolerance because there are things in the world worth being afraid of and this is not it.
Also a botfly in a woman's head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNDG7WPtVO4
It's a sad day to see an internet icon go down, but congrats to you and the pinboard team. I finally made the leap.
The article misses a simple point -- if present trends continue and if we act wisely, there will be fewer fossil energy sources in the future, and more renewable sources. And in the long term this change will be forced on us -- we will be required to move to renewable energy sources. When that happens, gas-fueled cars will stop running, and electric cars will become the norm.

The author is right -- at the moment, in most places, the Tesla is a fossil-fueled car. In principle it could be powered by renewable energy sources like wind, solar, hydroelectric and (eventually) fusion power. But take note -- in the long term that principle will become a fact.

Also, because electric cars powered by centrally generated electric power create less pollution per watt than gas-powered cars, while we're waiting for renewable energy to take over, it's still more environmentally sound to drive an electric car.

http://content.sierraclub.org/evguide/myths-vs-reality

Quote: "According to a range of studies doing a ‘well to wheels’ analysis, an electric car leads to significantly less carbon dioxide pollution from electricity than the CO2 pollution from the oil of a conventional car with an internal combustion engine. In some areas, like many on the West Coast that rely largely on wind or hydro power, the emissions are significantly lower for EVs. And that's today. As we retire more coal plants and bring cleaner sources of power online, the emissions from electric vehicle charging drop even further. Additionally, in some areas, night-time charging will increase the opportunity to take advantage of wind power -- another way to reduce emissions."
Since moving to Utah, I have never waited more than 5 minutes on the side of the road for somebody to pull over and help me. It's a different world here; everybody feels it their duty to help. Very cool stuff. Thanks for the story!
Whoops, not anymore.
Smith-Mundt Act repeal in 2010 leading to the flood of CIA propaganda directed at citizens.

As a wise man once said, the chickens have come home to roost.
I always thought that it was an unspoken social more to not turn comments on social sites into news. Something about it feels eerily intrusive, like overhearing a conversation at a restaurant and immediately broadcasting it to the world.

Perhaps I'm old-fashioned/alone in this view/mistaken.
Especially for the launch. They want peoples' first reactions to be "Wow!"
I second the Liar's Poker recommendation. Besides being insightful, there are some great anecdotes. My favorite was the one where traders would ask interviewees to open a window, which had been previously nailed shut. One interviewee was so exasperated that he tossed a chair through the 43rd floor window.
> When I tried Signal, I saw an empty list and had to add numbers / find people myself

That's not how it works; Signal directly gives you the list of contacts that are available, just like Whatsapp or Telegram.

The most likely is that you had an empty list because no-one in your contacts have it.
The most interesting thing about Bitcoin to me is that nobody knows who created it. The second most interesting this is that the creator holds a substantial amount of Bitcoin (estimated around a million).
Discrete GPUs are soldered to boards using ball-gate arrays, a technique which was invented with lead solder balls in mind. The patent holder died before the EU mandated non-lead solders.

The reason this matters is because the process by which those solder balls are made does not check for the presence of voids in them. At least 10% of these balls (regardless of composition) x-ray as having voids.

GPUs go through the most radical thermal shifts of any surface mounted component. Lead has a sense of humor about that kind of temperature change; tin alloys do not and begin to crack after a sustained number of shifts. This happened on my 2011 MBP which was not used for gaming.

It's worth noting that the iMacs made the same year, where the discrete GPU was a replaceable daughtercard, had a voluntary recall for exactly the same reported video problems. The irony here is that the average cost of having a GPU reballed is about $150US, with a high rate of reliability compared to reflowing. Part of that reliability comes from reballers refusing to use anything but lead.

The EU is directly responsible for this problem but Apple is responsible to its users and with a cash reserve outstripping the US Treasury's, could have absorbed the cost of repairing these MBPs easily.
Star Trek's Holodeck. Enter a large laser tag room with these on. Now you can project anything in the room. Unlike Oculus you can actually run around and play in the environment because you can see where you are going.

Virtuix Omni is a hack to make Oculus physically immersive: http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/11/4419832/virtuix-omni-vr-ha...
Technically he said "treat" them like rock stars, not "pay" them like rock stars. Lots of evidence points towards the fact that people respond much more favorably towards being given $500 worth of perks than they would being given a $1000 pay rise.
Biggest problem: the fuel stays hot and will re-ignite afterwards (you can even see it in the video).
There's also Dead Set, a one-off from the same team (or at least writer) which is the contestants on a Big Brother reality show unaware that a zombie apocalypse has started while they are sealed in the house. Available on 4oD I think.
I'm very certain this is a hacker's account configured to follow a great deal of projects and people (2k projects, 1.3k users) for this very purpose -- a suspicious [redacted] [unknown] profile, https://github.com/trnsz
I can totally see your stance here and in most instance's I would generally agree. This is probably one of those rarer cases where paying the $30 is a crap shoot at if they'd bite at something. If they really got into this, then with how fast kids learn it probably wouldn't be much use beyond the point of a year anyway as they're likely to have naturally progressed. If they genuinely love it then you will have made them godlike. When you consider this as a hobby product compared to others aimed at this demographic, surely it feels like stealing :)
What will definitely fall out is whatever fees the Winklevoss brothers decide to pay themselves. We don't know what those fees are though, because they haven't said. You can ctrl-f around in the S-1 for "sponsor's fee" and note that it's left blank in the filing.
Saying that ISIS isn't a terrorist organization doesn't mean that user is defending the organization. Terrorist has become a catch-all term that is used way too broadly (seems to cover any armed force motivated by Islam for many people). ISIS can be an awful organization without consisting of terrorists.
From looking at market volumes, I think a skilled group using trading software could probably sell a few million USD worth of bitcoin per week without giving up a huge edge.

But I agree that this is one of the few ways to get liquidity on a huge position.
...says one vegan. I ask others, I get a different answer.

This is the typical "No True Scotsman" argument. Look it up.
> Ancient graffiti in Rome tells you more about ancient Rome than privileged writings of the era.

This just isn't true, for the simplest possible reason: there's more preserved literature than there is preserved graffiti. It also isn't true for the slightly less simple reason that the literature covers a much wider range of topics.

What historians desire most is driven by what they don't have now. Cuneiform tablets are so numerous that they mostly just sit around untranslated. Would they be informative if we did translate them? Of course, but the manpower isn't there. Identical documents from 3rd-century Germany would be an epic, multiple-career-making find. Those would be translated immediately.

We value things the same way. Yahoo Answers is worthless to us because we have infinite amounts of similar material, so there's no cost to destroying this subset of it.

You could try to argue that Yahoo Answers has great future value, and we should therefore preserve it, but if we followed that advice, Yahoo Answers would have no future value, because so much content like it would have been preserved. This approach fails to be logically coherent.
I don’t understand what Yahoo is supposed to be. Suddenly in 2015, they have the genius step of publishing an email UI on paar with Gmail, as they should have done about 10 years earlier. But unless you are using their email, what _is_ Yahoo? For me it is a weather widget and a news feed. Not counting Yahoo Finance because other comments say it’s shutting down. So what is the core business of Yahoo? A news corp that repeats Reuters, but without the TV front-end that CNN has, and without the journalists that the Washington Post has?
While I hope this doesn't get flagged, it probably will because it might be too controversial. But I really think we do need to have the chance to read another side of this story and reflect on what is going on here and in society in general with tons of similar cases.

I for one (with not stake in any of this) truly welcome the intellectual stimulation and challenge of having the loud, aggressive and angry voices against Stallman (that are easy to agree with if you want) contrasted with softer and more measured voices making arguments to the contrary such as in this submission (more difficult to listen to or agree with due to the fact that they might be in the minority or at least not part of the loudest group and as such require more intellectual effort to discuss and consider).
I remember having to use GraphQL to delete a Docker image that was stuck in my private repo and there was no GUI to clear it. Wasted a couple of hours trying to send a GraphQL query which would have been a 2 minute jobbie using cURL. Github's public REST API didn't have this feature.
Thanks for looking into the site and giving early feedback. The reason I asked this question was I found myself spending too much time trying to get things like login, fb like on the front page and organizing the layout. It is good for learning but it is preventing me from addressing other key issues.
This is really similar to something I have been working on. Awesome.
A canvas' borders are its constraints.
Erosion of civil liberties can in both very small and very large ways affect entire nations.

I'm actually way more worried about that, and I think that's the rational answer.

(Edit: Implicit in the way I phrased that, BTW, and I'm now making explicit, is that I agree you have a good point and you shouldn't have been downmodded. I believe the secondary effects of civil liberties erosion outweigh the secondary effects of terrorism as the situation now stands, but I agree that your point must absolutely be considered to make a decision based on all the facts.)
There are a lot of peoples blogs that are quoted on Hacker News that have a lot better content than Jeff Atwood, but are not as well written or presented as Jeff Atwoods pieces.

I would not say Atwood is a better writer. Better "presentation" is a better description.

I think he writes in a deliberate tabloid headline, slam down, almost troll style. And he very aggressively simplifies his topics, even the ones that should never be simplified like that.

And that makes him more accessible and thus more widely read.

But more popular is not the same thing as better.
10 years ago I managed to convince my employer at a time to move to Subversion from some proprietary system. Labelling a version of their customer facing application took all day as it copied every single file. We moved the code into Subversion as a test and showed we could label it in 1 second. Sometimes you have to show people to get them to understand.
As a non-paying customer I have seen nothing but 100% uptime and perfect service. If it weren't for HN and Twitter I wouldn't even know Github was under attack.
> Time to DDOS the entire Chinese IP space. Once the citizens experience network outages, they'll be able to direct their anger at the PRC who started this bullshit.

Sigh. I'm referring to Chinese citizens... Your post was wrong in every way, in stating that DDoS'ing Chinese citizens will make them angry with their government.

Freedom of speech isn't as forward there (you know the whole GFW), so whatever the media pushes (I.e. what the government feeds them) will be what the vast majority of the public think... Even if you wanted to search for the "truth", the GFW could easily censor it like they already do.
I think it has more to do with the first point. That's the culture, and culture tends to perpetuate itself, especially if it's a big corp where people stick around way longer than in startups, and it's a much bigger burden to switch tools.
So if I want a news outlet to pay more attention to a particular issue, the solution is to do the reporting myself and serve it up to them on a silver platter? Maybe that's true, but it hardly seems practical in general, nor does it answer the OP's question...
scribophile.com is paying my salary right now. Not as much as working as a developer at a big company, but enough to live, and I'm much happier :)

Completely bootstrapped. The only cash I put down was $100 for some small graphic design work, $500 for an initial Adwords campaign, and $20 for a server.
Write a short program to extract the meta data from your photos, organize them in clusters of dates and volia they are organized.
Depending on why you need them organized, using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to tag photos based on content might be a viable solution.
Nice question. I got about 200GB all organized within iPhoto. Size comes from the pictures being mostly saved in RAW. Still, iPhoto becomes slow.
I moved the library to an external hd to have free space on my internal one.

I fear the day I got to dig through every picture I made and decide if it is worth keeping or not. :-/
Thanks for your insight! I'm going to start by looking into DomainTools (never heard of that before, but sounds super helpful). If I had to guess, the person that bought it back in the day bought it for a long period of time because he/she thought the idea would work - at least that's what I'm hoping.

I might end up sending you an e-mail too. I really appreciate that you'd be willing to give up some of your time to help me out with this. I think the majority of us here on HN really value our time very highly (myself included), and it speaks worlds about your generosity to be willing to give some of it up. Thanks again!
1. Not entirely correct. In most states, S Corporations pay more taxes on their income than do LLCs. Also, you don't avoid paying the self-employment tax; you just pay it in a different way, as payroll and other taxes through the S Corporation. In many states, taxes incidental to the employee relationship will end up exceeding the self-employment tax. Moreover, wages paid through an S Corporation cannot be characterized as capital gain (15% rate vs. higher), whereas income earned from an LLC can be capital gain.
Also, the S Corporation has significant restrictions. The most important is that only US citizens/legal residents can be investors. If any of the restrictions is not met, the S Corporation will be taxed as a C Corporation, resulting in double taxation of income.

2. I agree; the only benefit of a series LLC is avoiding the administrative costs of forming multiple LLCs. Unfortunately, the accounting costs and hassles for a series LLC will more than swallow up the (relatively small) administrative savings.
Also, the series LLC is not a new form; it's just an extension of the sub-partnership concept and will be taxed the same way. (If the corporate tax structure is selected, it each new LLC in the series will be treated as a subsidiary.)

If you're worried about filing taxes, just choose the simplest form. The tax code is very simple as long as you don't try to play games with it.
In general, I shoot for medium roasts just because they're safer - I like the richer flavors from dark roasts, but most dark roasts are just burnt, which makes for a really bitter and unpleasant cup. You're absolutely right about the range of flavors, though - I tend to like nutty coffees (not nut-flavored), and citrus/floral/peaty tend to be less appealing to me. Light roasts seem to accent lighter flavors, like citrus, whereas the darker to roast, the more accented the round, full flavors like peat and nut tend to be.

I actually drink my coffee black (for health reasons; I realized that I was taking in a ton of daily calories in milk and sugar) which is what motivated me to find better coffee. When you're masking the flavor of the coffee with additives, it's easier to get by with bad coffee, but when it's just the brew itself, the tastes matter a lot more.

The lighter roast = more caffeine thing is actually (kind of) a myth; you get less caffeine per bean, but since the dark roasting process removes more water, you actually end up with a higher caffeine-by-volume content in darker roasts. If you're using the same volume of coffee per pot (say, 4 tbsp), then you may actually end up with more caffeine from a dark roast, since substantially more of that 4tbsp will be the coffee itself rather than water left unextracted from the bean. However, the caffeine differences between something like a robusta vs an arabica bean are very significant, so if you need more or less caffeine, you can pick a roast you like with a bean that gives you the caffeine you desire.
> Most teachers understand that what students learn in school is because the whole school has made an effort, not just some individual teachers. In the education systems that are high in international rankings, teachers feel that they are empowered by their leaders and their fellow teachers.

This is the exact opposite of my (previous) experience teaching high school, where the main purpose was clearly to provide daycare.
Write once, debug everywhere.
Self driving electric cars will have little effect on traffic congestion. If the region is completely car-centric in its design, with a weak public transit system, you'll still have traffic jams and lengthly commutes.

The only difference is that the single people in the cars can look at their phone instead of looking at the bumper infant of them.
Well let me clarify what I said above a little more to give you some perspective of where I'm coming from. I'm not making a moral judgement of what you did. I'm making a statement of fact - society will punish you for not following the law. And if you know that up front and you willingly ignore it because you think you're in the right, well don't be surprised when you come into conflict with law enforcement and authority. Take that responsibility on your shoulders, because you chose to act a way that would get you locked up.