jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How do ya figure?

We recognize the Founders for having the courage to throw off the yoke of an oppressor, and succeed. We honor them for then in the same lifetime laying out a blueprint of government that has reasonably withstood the test of time and managed to remain flexible in spite of some serious adversity.

Is it showing it's age? Probably, Is it long overdue for a strong reaffirmation? Probably also. Does it instill in any one particular dude the absolute unquestionable right to rule over anyone else? No. No it doesn't.

The American Experiment, though the institutions of today hedge more on the side of "we'll be the judge of whether you can do that" was fundamentally a novel effort at it's time. It enumerated the Governments specific powers and limits, then dumped the rest of the power in the people to do with as they will.

Completely different beasts.
It is a little interesting to consider that none of the board- the people steering the largest semi-public space there is online- lack any mass reputation or presence to speak of. And they are bound not by what they think is right or their hopes or their values, but by fiduciary duty to stakeholders.

There is a certain something to the idea of having people who have reputations they care about having their reptuations on the line, publicly, having staked in to doing a good job, not just sitting quietly on boards. The current board mainly fears for profitability, wants to make sure everyone gets paid, even if they kind of ruin the utility in the process or change the system to try & get there. Elon would, I imagine, mostly fear being uncool, fear making jackass moves that hurt twitter's values. That's what he's conveying here, to me: that he's hip and savvy to the deeper value, that he would make sure the real potential is guarded, no matter the cost. Whether or not I trust him to do that, I honestly don't know (but have a hard time imagining faith in any one person or product/service), but that he can identify & label the battle for what it is is a step beyond the staid limited low potential corporatized bottom-line thinking that alas infects & capitalizes so much of this world. He's not wrong.

(But I also don't get why there aren't more people chomping at the bit to go fund federated & p2p alternatives, so we can de-risk humanity's online existential crisis & insure an open future... we need some frontiering, not just new town planners for the de-jure monopoly of join online public space.)

((Strangely to me, there's a lot of attention to algorithms, which frankly I think we have radically overhyped as important & deliberate, when in fact they're fairly random & chaotic & not that impactful at all, in spite of the colossal amount of data we gather. I fall way more on the Corey Doctorow side of how important I think algorithms are than the Shoshana Zuboff side: we culturally have hyped ourselves up into believing in quasi-religious powers of something that's really not very special or good. I do believe in platforms having transparency, and think trust is necessary & presently weak, but I just don't think the algorithm really matters. It'd be bareley on my top 10 of issues at Twitter. Issues like moderation & governance & interoperability/competitive compatibility obstruct alternate modes of operation, exploration of the problem. Little else feels like it holds a candle.))
I have ADD and am a coder. I am on Concerta (methylphenidate, a derivative of methamphetamine) and find that my interest in math, as well as programming, has increased significantly.
America is a very unequal country that is true. Just not unequal in opportunities. The richest people in the US (the ones with 80% of the wealth) have probably in most cases earned it.

Can you provide evidence for either of these claims?
The reported number does sound pretty low since a not insignificant part of 4chan is dedicated to anime and there's got to be quite a few people who grab fansubs and read manga scanlations, both of which are clearly illegal.

I'm also wondering what the Drug User questions looks for. People who are taking illegal substances or people who are taking prescribed medication. It sure is interesting to compare that percentage to the criminal question.
To add insult to injury, the article is cited dozens of times. This is extremely disappointing and worrying. It raises a whole score of questions regarding both the intelligence, the knowledge and the moral fiber of people participating in medical research.
Previous HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1968994
Rethinking the Progress Bar: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/progressbars/index.htm...

A paper that investigates how non-linear progress rates also affect perceived completion time.
For the genres/fetishes, it would've been interesting to see how those differ between male/female survey participants.
Can you provide links of some of the high quality tutorials you have found?
Except maybe the smoking part, which is as you might know bad for health.
On the upside, if he manages to brick it, the ISP will replace it and maybe his problem will be fixed.
This varies depending on the market but many banks in Europe at least do retain large parts of their loan books, in part because the securitisation market was always and still is less developed here.

Banks can and do routinely turn away higher grade borrowers with no other relationship angle (ie no short or long-term profitable cross-sell) because those loans are unprofitable for them and they can only make money on riskier credits.

More broadly, sub-zero base rates are a real problem for banks and may actually hurt rather than help credit creation (since banks are likely to do less of something which is less profitable).

The reason they're a problem is that most banks have a large portion of their funding in the form of deposits and passing on negative rates to depositors is very very hard - in my experience only the very largest (billions of dollars) overnight deposits get charged negative rates.

All this does contribute towards the search for yield phase of the credit cycle (CDOs were just a part of that - everyone likes to blame them but they didn't cause the credit cycle which is really a "natural" phenomenon, although they did act to obscure the amount of leverage in the system and thus the likely size of the damage when the bubble burst). Everyone across the board wants to take more risk because they can't make their numbers stack up with the less risky part of the credit spectrum. As a result over the long term some credit becomes mispriced and when there's a wave of defaults credit investors wind up losing money overall then we start the cycle again.
Interesting issue. The oil companies got broken up geographically. Same with the phone company. How to break up an internet business?
> [building houses] is the goal of Habitat for Humanity, correct?

I think that's PART of their goal. They're a Christian organization. "Service" is also a part of their mission, that means having people physically work for/with the needy (and not just give money).

Moreover, much of their work is done domestically where construction labor is NOT cheap. Yes, some things are going to be shoddy, but it's really hard to get a house built and renovated for low cost in the USA. There are challenges not only in finding labor but also general contractors and materials.

Could all the "building of houses" be done more efficiently if Habitat for Humanity was all just finance and management operations? Perhaps, but the service aspect would be missing.
As a Russian myself, I recommend Strugatsky brothers "The Doomed City", because firstly: it's a damn good book. Secondly, I think it gives great, subtle and wild representation
of soviet people minds. Also, this book is full of awesome philosophical ideas, for which it was hidden from general public for a lot of years.
Any resources/links you're aware of? Would be nice to learn more about the recent developments. Particularly with regards to "understanding" user-generated free text
I think the solution here is laws which require anonymity, and that includes in banking (where it will never happen).

That is because a couple days ago, I got a text message from tmobile (which seemed genuine) basically saying that my account was one of a larger subset of prepaid phone accounts which had been compromised and that my personal information had been potentially taken by "hackers".

To which I got a good chuckle, because tmobile is one of the few phone companies that will let you create completely anonymous prepaid accounts using cash and without filling out any information. AKA you buy a sim card for $$$ and that is it. So, basically the only information they lost of mine as far as I can tell, is the phone number and type of phone I'm using (which they gather from their network). If they got the "meta" data about usage/location/etc that would have been different but it didn't sound like the hacker got that far.

Had this been a post-paid account they would have my name/address/SSN/etc.
As an economist, if people are willing to pay the price being charged it is almost by definition worth it.
3D printing cotton masks? Are there 3D printers that can work with plant fibers?
There are equivalents of North American word prohibition in Europe, as well. For example, many academics and NGOs would be uncomfortable with someone using the term "Gypsy" in some nuanced historical context, instead they would insist that "Roma" or "Roma and Sinti" be used at all times.
I think, when developers don't like working in XML, it's because the tool forces them to do the job properly.

That's work for whoever is producing the document, but wonderful for all the consumers.
I’d also argue that, in America at least, most people don’t know much about Napoleon either other than he was some guy who existed and was French.
JSON is a really poor format for anything but simple data.

XML may be verbose and not readable, but it is an excellent format for describing and storing data.

One alternative for SVG could be an SQL table like datastore, similar to sqlite. I would love yo have the ability to query data, rather than parse through XML. I do understand that transferring such data blobs over networks is an issue.
Remote VS Code via SSH works absolutely fantastically everywhere with the one exception being the Pi Zero which is a shame.
Mm, but you're in management. All the Amazonians I've talked to have indicated that it's a very rough environment and they were glad to get out. Maybe you get a distorted view due to the power imbalance between you and your peers?
Guns in the US are near saturation from a market perspective

The statistics show record gun sales. More and more Americans are becoming firearms owners for the first time, and existing owners are expanding their collections.
Let's not throw a bandaid on a flesh wound.

What we need is strong, fast acting civilian oversight over the police to punish any that get up to shenanigans like this.
Maybe it’s just an American thing, then.
Licensing is a real mess, but actually there is a handy compromise in this case - particularly in the case of logos. Armin should try the Mozilla Public License [http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/mpl.xml] which exists pretty much to do exactly what he wants to do.

Ever notice how Debian has "Iceweasel" instead of "Firefox?" Same product - different logo and mascot. That's because "Firefox" is a trademark, and the Mozilla Public License says you have to follow the trademark restrictions of the original author.
Designing libraries for qualified imports -- http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-June/0439... -- is encouraged now that the namespace has gotten so large -- http://donsbot.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/visualising-the-hask...
Safari Books Online can use either HTML or Flash. I'm writing this from my iPad and I have SBO open in the next tab.
UI is always a mix of usability and discoverability, I think. The color wheel is perfectly usable, but little changes might affect discoverability.

That said, I think far too many UIs (window managers, etc) confuse the two. I'm only a newbie at a system _once_. If it takes a little longer to learn, then it's totally worth some initial confusion.
You should also understand that the recruiter or hiring manager knows exactly why they ask that. It's not like it is a secret that answering it gives them an excuse to pay you less.
It's taken me a while to learn this direct, cut to the chase, approach when it comes to recruiters. Huge time saver!!
Your comment is particularly entertaining since Gilead just released a cure for HCV!
I know it's tempting to see the younger generation as a sign of larger cultural shifts, but the Baby Boomers were once a lot like the Millennials, and one day the Millennials will be a lot like the Baby Boomers.
nice, but it's way easier in Dart and if you want to develop Chrome Packaged App there is even project template for this in DartEditor
Does IBM never do large firings?
USENET 2.0 could be set up so only headers are transferred. Then third party groups could publish moderation whitelists that the USENET provider to subscribe to. If a moderated whitelist approves some content, then the server would download it via DHT so its locally available. If a user requests something in a header that hasn't been filled yet because it's not moderated by an approved whitelist, it would download it and then serve it to the user.

This would make it so content that's purely spam wouldn't be pulled to all the USENET servers. If a moderation provider started vouching for a lot of spam, it would quickly be removed by providers.
Might be it... time will tell.
Even more than the efficiency penalties, it's the drastic increase in complexity that makes me want to stay far, far away from microservice architectures.
The only thing Signal should be able to do with crypto is send it privately.
You mean like: "Buttle" vs. "Tuttle" ?
from a fair bit of the LA area, you can do burbank/long beach to oakland/san jose/sfo (though fog delays are common to sfo) and access a fair bit of the bay area in ~3 hours of commute time each way. not ideal, but once a week would be tolerable for many folks. i’ve done that day trip a number of times (though not weekly), and have known folks who did that (or the reverse) on a weekly basis.
> what the possible up side could be for a company telling a staff researcher to withdraw or not to submit a research paper

My org has a big focus on scientific integrity and doesn’t want to put out inaccurate information. So the upside is reputational to have high quality scientific output.

I’d guess they may also want some sort of review for IP or trade secrets to make sure info is appropriate for release.

Finally, I’ve worked places where there is comms and branding review where the org wants all the right product names and stuff to line up.
Or maybe they figured it was only worth trying once, and not really worth pursuing further when it became clear that she would not cooperate. It is not grasping at straws to claim that when the Russians want to make someone's life hard they are far less restrained about it than the Americans. American political activists face BS criminal charges and are sometimes placed on the no-fly list; Russian political activists find themselves poisoned with radioactive metals and with nerve agents.
Despite the intent to push “wuffs a 21st century programming language”, nothing here is presented that couldn’t be achieved by just applying the same limitations/optimizations to the current libpng code.
A hard fork in a decentralized cryptocurrency is democratic, users chose which of the 2 new chains assets' they want to keep. No binary winner is decided, the market currently values ETH as 122 times more valuable than ETC, but ETC is not censored.

The sentencing of criminals in republics is very removed from democratic action (see drug criminalization).
It’s disingenuous and unproductive to frame discussions of “rights” in the legal/moral sense this way. A belief that individuals should be entitled to some “right” doesn’t imply a lack of understanding of the fact that an individual can be deprived of the same by force, and that this happens on a daily basis for millions of people all over the world.
dang banned anyone with an original opinion from the right under the guise of civility
I was planning to build a site called HN Filter which would use the (unofficial) API from api.ihackernews.com

Basically it would allow each person to filter out stories based on keywords (perhaps "TSA", "iPad", or whatever their pet peeve is), by URL (to get rid of blogs they don't want to see), or by user (in the case of personal feuds).

In the end I started working on another startup before I got into this idea, but someone else might enjoy working on it.
That's bypassing the point. Discussed once, absolutely; discussed in hundreds of posts, maybe not so much.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+i...
Oh, cucumber speaks english now?

Last time I checked cucumber was the equivalent of inventing an additional, imaginary stakeholder for every story. A stakeholder who recently immigrated from a distant country and insists on having each and every spec laboriously translated to his unusual and very limited dialect of english, before anyone is allowed to proceed.

I'm all for imaginary friends, but I really think you should refrain from bringing them to the office if you value your productivity.
Solve a problem someone has first. Rarely will that solution be an API. Advice is never universally right or universally wrong, but the advice in this post is almost universally wrong.
I don't think that you know agile that well. If you define agile as "hacks" then it's no surprise that only hacks will match your definition of agile.

"requirements for a (short) release cycle" is a good description for a scrum sprint backlog. Scrum or agile does not say that you can't have "Specs, designs, and dot releases" in some form if you need them.
They were down for us nearly 6 hours Saturday night, 1 hour this morning. They broke their SLA by a mile. Moving to EC2 asap.
The problem with this is, "anything good hackers would find interesting" is the rule that allows 'carbocation to comment here about the molecular biology of human metabolism on HuffPo stories about high-fructose corn syrup, and you want that to happen. But it's also the rule that allows whole comment threads consisting of nothing but people quoting Ben Franklin and the 4th Amendment at each other on TSA stories, to no end.

That there is someone here that can write engagingly about the dosimetry of backscatter machines proves my point. Yes, there are TSA discussions that have value to HN. That's the mouse hole the swarm of TSA stories crept in through. This is the pathology I'm talking about.

"Anything that good hackers would find interesting" is a norm that is being abused.
What domains?

I read (or click through) to most everything that hits the front page and never hit paywalls, except for academic journals.

As annoying as it is to be blocked by a paywall, I don't think that's a valid criteria for censorship. Good content is good content, and often the comments on HN are worth more than the article itself.
Sure, "priorsmart litigation alerts". Here is a review/description: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/08/patent-litigation-al...
1. Which are the stories that you are complaining about ?

2. The only time I have seen a similar complaint is when nytimes links are posted. But those stories are not behind a paywall. The registration is free.

A request to anyone complaining about stories on frontpage. Please post links to stories unless they are glaringly obvious (like the wave of iPad articles). I don't remember coming across any paywall. So if there are links to the stories it helps to actually understand what the OP is complaining about.
> for many

Yes, for many sites with a technical audience. But for sites with an older, less technically sophisticated userbase, IE still has the vast majority over other browsers.

I hear what you're saying about the widget. But is that downloads? In which case: selection bias. What do the stats look like as far as impressions go on the non-techy sites?
He was an editor at Dr. Dobbs. See also http://pip.pragprog.com/podcasts/show/31
Is it free because they are using cyrus?
I agree, but this may become more of a problem as time goes on: apparently paywalls are coming back into vogue.

Example is the NYT apparently re-introducing paywalls in 2011, at least according to this NPR story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1227770...

Here is a blog post about the economics of the NYT paywall: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/01/20/the-economi...

I haven't heard about this for a while, and it looks like the posts I found are from the beginning of this year. Does anyone know if the NYT is still doing this? I hope not...
It never even gets to a server if it doesn't have a protocol. The browser would have no idea what to do with it. It wouldn't even know how to understand it.

Is:

foo@bar.com

mailto:foo@bar.com
or
ftp://foo@bar.com
or
http://foo@bar.com

Each one of those does something totally different, and all are legal.

The browser can add a default though - and it does.
They need to add a 4th product option: her phone number.
Click on "Home" for more detail. This is the "things I've learned" part of the blog, there's more detail.
Apropos of Portal, but unrelated to the release of Portal 2, this Youtube clip is one of my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L-rrkyvApU
This is exactly the type of article I like to see on HN. It presents a simple solution to an obvious problem that I hadn't even really recognized, and it reminds us to keep looking at things in different ways.
"Wow, that took a lot of effort" is not frequently an element of the offense, for anything.
You should charge for each demo created. A very, very prominent "these cheapskates didn't pay for iorad" logo will dissuade most people from avoiding the charge.
Portal did have challenge maps which I for one found legitimate challenging.

In agreement: One of the things I like about sequels, especially for things like Portal, is that they are much more able to just jump into the action. Portal 1 is in some sense the tutorial level.

For a movie example, while the first Harry Potter was enjoyable, it spends almost the entire movie just setting up. The later ones I enjoyed much more because they were done setting up.

Sequelitis is bad, but I think it's an error to mistake that for sequels being bad in general, though I freely concede I understand where the temptation to simplify that concept comes from.
? MSSQL mirroring failover is very easy and painless( arguably one of best compared to other rdbms), just make sure not to do automatic failover as that can cause false failover with spotty network between nodes and witness.
They basically all had to do this. In a bunch of my German Strugatzki books there are a few snippets about the history of the works where they talk about how they worked around it (and sometimes rather didn't publish stuff than to kill it).

The techniques are the same as "always" (you find exactly the same if you look at old movies in the US): Don't say the important things explicitly and provide explicit decoys for the censors to latch onto. And have good editors that are willing to fight for you.
1. Instead of just looking at the opportunity cost also factor in the actual costs, e.g., Netflix requires a paid subscription in addition to time.

2. You could include affiliate links to services for earning money in free time as an alternative to wasting time with earning estimates given input time and skill level. This could include ride-hail platforms (Lyft, Uber), knowledge work platforms (Fiverr, Upwork), even Mechanical Turk.
1984 is harmful because government agents get inspired by ideas in the book.