jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
[slightly off-topic]

WhatsApp has been a more or less indie creation helped to cut cost of text messages to zero. Then it was acquired by FB and is now part of big tech. We all know what this means.

With signal as a notable exception, I doubt that there could ever be a different outcome for any commercial product.

Why is it, that we do not see more competition from non-profits? The tech world has changed so much, that the ideas of the open source/free software movement are not as applicable as they were when Stallman founded GNU. However, with Wikipedia we see a worldwide Top10 site being a non-profit.

So, where are all the Google/Twitter/Facebook competitors funded by contributions of its users? Given how hard and expensive it is to really compete in that space, is the goal unrealistic? Or is it that there are some (hidden) incentives in the game which contradicts that goal? (Other than monetary incentives for the founders)
Depends what slice of Britain you're talking about. The upper classes weren't opposed, as you say, but public opinion tended to pretty strongly anti-slavery. Lincoln actively encouraged this; see his public letter to the Manchester workers quoted on Wikipedia. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_and_the_America...
There's also the keep WhatsApp for legacy contacts but use Signal or some such for new ones option.

Personally I'm probably a bit odd here in that I don't mind facebook having my info. So they may show me a personalised ad - big deal.
I like to think the problem is that "the nerds" have failed the rest of the people. People used to listen to us about computer stuff. Then computers became usable without us. Then smartphones arrived. We gladly were relieved of our obligations, but also of our influence.

It's too late to go back. People are already used to the trade-offs, convenience rules above all. People may be "sort of concerned" about privacy, but they shrug it off. If privacy was high-value, any privacy-conscious competitor would've taken the market by storm.
In reading the email communication and also paying attention to the timeline, I did not get the impression that the OP was "pestering" the Apple Manager. He was cordial and gently reminding that he was promised a response and had not received one.

If anything, I got the impression that the Apple Manager was stalling (or maybe he really was ill and it really took him 10 days - from May 4 to May 14 - to "get back on his feet")
Your Apple developer account came with an NDA in the terms and conditions.
Nope. While some USB keyboards and mice are PS/2 compatible (and would probably survive the entire chain, with the right drivers), a flash drive isn't going to work.
You should make running WordPress securely a thoughtless process. The best practices should be clearly explained to every single user who downloads/installs it.
It would have been better if they'd let him know when they'd decided not to, though. It seems like they kept him hanging for a couple of weeks after saying "Sure, we'll send you a login so you can access our full database".
Whereas Wolfram isn't. I'm trying to understand the analogy or how does this contradict my assertion, if that was the point at all.
Don't worry. We'll lock down campaign contributions so much that only the six major corporations that control the mainstream media in the U.S can cover their campaigns.

>Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-med...
Imagine the swap file it would need!
Can anyone explain how the end wire-format works? Can I just fill an XML and POST it directly to some service (like I assume a paper form would work?)
> In 1986, Microsoft Press invited me to write a book explaining how it worked, and again I agreed that this would be a good idea. We didn’t publish source code, because it was too specific to the Macintosh, written in Pascal, using 16-bit integer arithmetic. Instead, I explained the geopolitical considerations behind the game in a series of chapters that broke it down by topic, and then provided the equations and algorithms, explaining in great detail exactly what each term meant. It was a manual on how to build a geopolitical game.

Does one of you know the title of the book? That sounds fascinating.

Edit: nevermind, I found it here: http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/my-books/balance-of-power-...
Slavery is not very capitalist. In fact, it's closer to corporate welfare than capitalism (aka socialism except for corporations). Involuntary labor hurts everyone. It's highly inefficient.
Yeah that would be my first question. Hormones(like the ones used for birth control) frequently fail to be filtered out by regular sewage plants and have an effect on the environment. I wonder if this would deal with them too?
Having been using this for a over a year I find it to be very easy to use and well designed overall. Only thing that is sometimes confusing is that it changes the location and options depending on what you do most often. I have even found that it adapts to what you do at each ATM, for example if I do mostly deposits at ATM Alpha then that option is presented first, if at ATM Bravo I mostly do withdraws the normal withdraw is the dominant option.
Citation needed. Sounds like more FUD.
I would like someone to dig into which was greater, the shareholder return during his 13 years as CEO, or the shareholder return when he announced his retirement.
I think it's just an innocent attempt to promote a new feature, but I have no idea why everyone suddenly cares about background images.
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.
I actually rather like this quote:

Anybody can say "yes". Somebody needs to say "no"
find_by_id/find_by aren't "wrong", they're just different. Sometimes you want to fall back to nil instead of raising an exception.
Absolutely! Why not give to everyone on need or merit basis? I was admitted last year but wasn't able to attend because of money.
It takes courage to fess up to that!
You do, actually. To give two examples, markets and machine learning.
I read Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency before ever coming across Coleridge's Kubla Khan and spent quite a bit of time (this was before I was on the Internet) trying to find the rest of the poem. I was quite disappointed once I figured things out but on the plus side I understood what happened in the book afterwards.
It's literally more limited Discord trying to market itself into existence.
I don't understand why it would need to use strlen anyway. Why wouldn't it treat the string like a stream when scanf is already coded to operate on an actual stream?
I would guess your risk would go down substantially if you're able to just not disclose where you were going to work publicly, for a few months. (If/when you choose to leave).

"I'm looking a few options, but taking some time off first"
Here you seem to be demanding that the authors and maintainers of their own cryptography library lighten up about security, because you find the way they manage their own package to be controlling. You see some irony in that, right?
I think the author was trying to sound UKian and meant to write "arrant bollocks". Unless of course, I'm not up to date and they are all saying "arrant bonkers" now.
you can play chess on this readme profile https://github.com/timburgan
that's great, thx
The one punch law is still bad law. But way to answer a point the other poster didn't make.
I love this. Good work, keep it up!
If you think _Christianity_ is an inoculation against anti-Semitism, well, you might want to have a look at Jewish history in Europe.
Out of curiosity when did you join CH? I find the the app differs by month, it was good for me for exactly one month. I think the predominate culture shifts so much as waves of people join, and they're not very good at allocating people into their respective tribes. So people churn when it's no longer their cup of tea.

Their solution seems to be these high profile interviews held by investors of the app, almost like HBO would have GoT to get the weekly engagement up.
I think it does indeed apply to component level, when that component is so user visible. There aren't competitors in this space yet; it's "buy it from them", or don't have it. They aren't selling a luxury good based on a brand (but that is otherwise indistinguishable from their competitors); they have a monopoly.

Again, I think it's...rather a lot of hubris to assume that a company is doing the less profitable thing (and it is an assumption, since none of us have better data than they do).

That said, sure, we can speculate there may be other factors at play.
> A sentence can be technically correct while also being actively misleading.

So we can say no deaths by comma, until proven otherwise.

Definitely not misleading.
I agree, it's not a pure calculated greed but some sort of a "mental denial of change" coupled with the historically unusual legal powers. Immediate property appreciation is more like blinders, it is very hard to swim against "number go up". End result for society is still the same though.
In my estimation it's apples and oranges. When it comes to game logic, Twine is basically just a platform for running JavaScript.

Ink, on the other hand, is a scripting language, and although you can play raw Ink scripts, it's really designed to integrate into graphical games (after all, it's what powers all of Inkle's games). I'd say in the IF world, it's much closer to Inform 7 than Twine.
I mean... it literally does nothing for you. And the kids blog is rife with political bullshit.
To this day I run into development managers who will dismiss an easily replicated issue on the grounds it won't happen enough, though of course with a big group of users it actually does, to warrant fixing. While this can be true at times and one excuse is always, we have support to fix the data, it tends to a standard by which all fixes are handled.

which is, once you start blowing off testing, having exceptions to avoid every fix, you rarely if ever leave that mode and end up with a stressed support staff and users in the field who think your coders are incompetent.
USD will collapse, and with it all the big tech bubbles
Ice cream isn't comparably addictive and unhealthy to beer and cigarettes. C'mon.

But yes, I also believe the poor are equally deserving to enjoy a beer or a cigarette as the rich. I also think both the poor and the rich should be helped out of alcoholism or cigarette addiction, of course, when such issues arise. But I really don't see why the poor should be given so much moral scrutiny over every little pleasurable indulgence that no one questions the right of the rich to access as they choose.
The advice I've received is to just set the isolation level to serializable and stick with that until you get performance problems, which you likely won't. If you stick to that advice, I doubt you're going to get "lots of subtle race conditions".
The masses do not use X directly, they use GTK+ and QT. And those moved to Wayland. Window/desktop managers moved (e.g. Gnome) or have been rewritten (e.g. i3 -> sway). Looks like a success to me (marketing side). Frankly, by your writing it looks like Wayland had been proposed today and needs to make a dent.
I'll frequently get quoted different prices on travel sites when using different computers or after turning incognito mode on.
Fried grasshoppers (chipolines) are a staple in Oaxaca's zocalo. They're great with beer.
use google translate:
http://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2013/de-mail-unqualifizierte-ma...

It's a big joke.
You made my day. Nice find!
> People have elaborated on it for months. It's so thoroughly discredited in every way that if you don't see it now, you're not going to. Consider it "unfairly maligned" if you want - no one cares any more.

Oh the corrupt journos showed up. I wonder why. https://twitter.com/totalbiscuit/status/521737847758663680
Given the absence of a highly detailed model, in this case a Charlie Chaplain mask, the illusory effects may be due to the absence of sufficient visual depth cues - similar to the effects seen in the "Spinning Dancer" effect. As a further example, next time you see a plane in the air making a turn at a great distance from you, there are actually two ways you could perceive its direction - all dependant on what you convince your brain it to be first. I would not draw too many conclusions from such a vague study.
I love the fact that someone has turned my idea into a DNS server!

Check out: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ecllk/the_4_litt...
Starcraft II.
It's not a habit but when I think 30 years back I'd actually say that what killed most of my creativity are computers and the Internet. They simply offer too many distractions and cannot replace the intimacy of working with pencil and unlined paper. But maybe it's just the way I use it -- e.g. that I answer questions like yours and follow sites like hn etc. They offer pleasant/stimulating distractions but on the whole ... Maybe it's a good idea to display your question as screen saver.

Nice quote although my habits were much better when I was 30 than they are now.
AoL is better written -- I found both his prose and his code style more inviting -- but much more dated than LiSP. That I liked it better has more to do with not already knowing most of it, the way I did with LiSP. If you can pick it up cheaply, do, at least for history and entertainment.
Yes, and even this is a more complicated problem than simply stating it would make it seem.

Imagine a solution that was open and allowed anybody to utilize its social graph. In theory this would allow other sites to build off the original and feed it back, maintaining equilibrium between every service. But in practice, this only holds until somebody decides to make a proprietary graph, because then users have nothing to gain by using any service other than the proprietary top level with the extra functionality.

And why would we do something like that other than greed? Well, perhaps we want to implement some unique system that's not streamlined or practical, but which we need for a particular plan we have. So we create a system that contains that extra, proprietary data, which is proprietary because making it open would simply make every other service messy. Or perhaps it's that what we want to do would take too long to implement in an open solution, and we'd rather be advanced than be consistent. But the more we build on, the harder and harder it is to move back to that original openness.

Similar to an environment like Flash, for instance, which lets developers implement functionality that's vastly beyond HTML (or, was vastly beyond, and still to some degree is), but which then ruins engines that rely on HTML's open format to work. Either you develop to be open, and sacrifice potential features, or you use something proprietary and lose that connection, and further place yourself in the hands of a third-party developer.

There isn't a single optimal solution, unless you consider using multiple platforms an optimal solution. (Which I do. I don't feel frustrated at using four sites to monitor my various friends/feeds/updates. I just be careful to delineate all four so that each item appears in the right place, and so that my own updates get pushed to the right places.
I somewhat agree. You dont need a teacher to learn anything, but you do need a mentor. To me mentors have changed my life, career and the way I approach everything. They usually enlighten you with their own experience and help guide you when you are lost.
http://macsoftwarespotlight.com/ is offering 35% off SpiderOak pricing (less than an hour left). their DIY API seems simple enough and hacker-friendly, although i hope they standardize their API so it's easier to migrate from, say S3.
call me when open office and gimp don't suck
disclaimer: i am 1/2 two members of the management team at my company - if it was larger - this could be a problem I agree
What if these predictions and others like them are self-fulfilling prophesies?

Maybe someone is objectively less likely to pay back their loans, less likely to succeed in school and more likely to be arrested for a crime, but when those predictions end up forcing them to live in a worse neighborhood because they can't qualify for a loan in the better one, go to a worse school because they aren't expected to succeed in the better one and live with a higher police presence because they're more likely to be arrested, maybe those predictions aren't just predicting worse outcomes but are actually reinforcing them.
With github1s getting released last week, I have seen a few implementations that help in quickly viewing a remote codebase. This is my attempt to build one, the tool pulls a remote repo locally and opens it in your favorite editor. It takes care of deleting the repo after you close your editor as well.
Arrrg and now there is a santa monica police helicopter hovering dirctly over my head for the past 10 minutes after I started writing this (pico blvd and ocean blvd). If you are in the area you can attest. Its hard out here.
Yeah, I just installed the pass support for otp for some site. Can't remember which.

My problem with the habit remains, though. I would love if my phone insisted me try a key at least once a week. I don't know how to force that. :(
You dont need anyone whos been a founder /investor/layer (altough im one of those three) dont let them pressure you.
If they didnt invest on this new idea thers no way they should have the right to ask you for that
Great tool, thanks !!!
Approach it like they do in psychological studies: given their initial consent, deceive them if you like, but give a debriefing afterwards.
I'm pretty sure you can't actually buy them, any more. I know someone who tried.
"I don't understand this thing so I'm going to call it bullshit."
Whilst talking tough and doing nothing is probably the most sensible position as well as the default, I don't think "the governments" are sufficiently co-ordinated to have a coherent strategy for dealing with centralised whistleblowers.

I'm sure there are some agencies motivated to get carefully selected (and quite possibly false) helpful material "leaked" onto Wikileaks whilst other agencies sincerely do what they can to try to get the operation shut down. Net result: a huge amount of attention is drawn to Wikileaks by leaning on their support network despite the relative lack of dynamite and large amount of noise in what is leaked, but some of the most ardent supporters of government policy amongst the general public are too angry with the very existence of the website to consider reading it...
Up next, on our tour of faaaaaaabulous homes, we have the Army's biowarfare lab at Fort Detrick...
Just to clarify - they never pressured me. They just said that this is common practice and would be a good way for me to keep the good relationship going.

I also offered them to invest in the new company and they want to do it. But they feel like getting some shares from my common on top would be only fair
Parachutes are pretty easy to come by if you know any skydivers.

The replica didn't need to be perfect, just look similar. They don't take jewels out of their box every day to take a close look at hem unless they need to. He got that from the gift store.

You could find a pilot willing to drop you at night at the same place you find a parachute. Skydivers & and their friends are weird thrillseekers. They would do a night drop for someone because they thought it was cool. Blanchart didn't have to tell them the truth as to why he wanted dropping.

As for the vacation... that seemed to come first, and the robbery on a whim. He didn't go there planning to steal the star.
These are black box metrics, better then counting lines of code, but essentially never truly able to describe the complexity of a system. To my knowledge, there's not even a strict theoretical definition describing what complexity is.
This was mentioned in Cognicast Episode 50 [1]

[1] http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2014/02/25/luke-vanderhart-an...
Not just average Joes. Lots of extremely wealthy people put their money in actively-managed hedge funds that also underperform the market: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-06/hedge-funds-trail-s...
> Even Microsoft, the technology's creator, sees no future in [Silverlight]

I don't understand the basis for making such a statement. The last Silverlight release is not very old; the linked "lifecycle search" lists mainstream support for the latest version of Silverlight until 2021; there are no announcement that the product is being abandoned. Is it just hyperbole?
I think the authors point is generally valid. But...

Personally, I see things as 'programming can be easy or hard (but doable), but only if you have the type of mentality that you will never quit.'

Basically anyone can learn a language if they are exposed to it constantly, and if you are programming or debugging a lot, it is inevitable that you will learn the language you are looking at. And basically everyone could get to that point. They could also learn to communicate basics with their language. But it obviously doesn't mean you can build a rocket just because you have the ability to read language and books related to rockets.

So I think there are some easy things about programming that do apply to 'everyone', and for those things it may be appropriate to say 'anyone can do it'. However, there are certain things that require deep understanding of complex subjects generally only learned by hard work. If you are not the type of person who likes to work hard to learn, then you "can't" do those kinds of programming tasks.

So it is both easy and hard, depending on your mentality. What parts of it are easy and what parts are hard may vary based on aptitude and a variety of other factors.
Being a senior at 22 is like being a regular teenager who knows everything
While I think this article does a great job of highlighting what the dangers of the consolidation of power inherent to the growth of index funds, I'm not certain it captures the whole picture behind why exactly they've become the dominant investment vehicle of choice.

I don't need to rehash any discussion of low interest rates, QE infinity, and housing prices here. But I wonder if an increase in interest rates / treasury yields would marginally drive capital out of index funds to mitigate the problems the author discusses. The money must move or slowly decay, but where else can it go?
Yeah should have validated that claim first. Seems like the form on hibp.com always submits your input to the server...

Still, if I had to chose between hibf.com and hibp.com, I'd lean to hibp.com since Troy is a known name in the industry and has offered this service for a long time without any complaints.
@ArchegosFO

Martian Institute of Technology (MIT) - Online class of 1945
I give bad financial advice

Already a twitter parody account :).
>Honestly, I think it's a dedication to competence and good engineering.

Apple is fully form over function. Macs laptops are anything but good engineering (hardware wise)
if you are levered 10 to 1 and the stock has an implied vol of 10% you only need a 1 SD move to eat all your capital. Viacom is now at 60% implied vol so they could get those losses with a position as small as $10 billion.
Yes just like SNRIs antidepressants so what is the difference?
(stimulants also are dopamine reuptake inhibitors and low serotonine reuptake inhibitor)

And no it does not cause the release of any monoamine, when they are released they can stay longer in the brain before being garbage collected which virtually increase their density.
It is an unknown whether delayed this garbage collection cycle accelerate ageing or other side effects.
There are definitely certifications for welders, especially if you need to weld something that human lives depend on.