jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Same here.

Great idea, though.
Never let a good crisis go to waste. I think we are seeing the beginning of a purge of a certain line of thought from the internet, using a few crazy people as the catalyst.
It's (typically) perfectly legal, but not necessarily perfectly fine.
"Simple is often erroneously mistaken for easy. 'Easy' means 'to be at hand', 'to be approachable'. 'Simple' is the opposite of 'complex' which means 'being intertwined', 'being tied together'" - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
It's supposed to work like that, but it's a lot easier to screw up. Smart people screw it up all the time, and it's hard to spot in code review, whereas average programmers have no problem avoiding swallowing exceptions once they realize it's important, and if they do mess up it stands out like a sore thumb in the code.
As for process, main advice for games is just to get to working prototype ASAP and start playtesting ASAP.
/me mumbles: Yes, Yes. Linux, toy...but 386BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD...

I think what I meant to say by lacking things I consider important was availability of software due to ecosystem/networking effects, common peripheral standards and so on. They all have been islands, and if you didn't had the application which could really use the graphics- and/or io-system you could use them as nice bases for your living room table and using not so crappy PCs instead.

Imagine putting a plate of glass horizontally over a few of them :-)

I mean, I understand the fascination. Sometimes when I'm reading about the Next Cube, 'modders' putting some Turbo-board into it, or the graphics thing, turning it into a truly unique variant which was never sold as such.

The same for Next-/OpenStep on PA-RISC, using a superscpecial dithering only available on that hardware.

Alas, silos useless in practice. So I mostly really don't care(anymore). Sorry ;-)

Still nothing like a crossover between Hypercard and Visual-Basic performing well and clicking once, running everywhere while being effortlessly understandable.
Fiat systems impose the risk of opacity, regulatory heuristics and reversible transactions.
See https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/list-of-the-best-enc...
We've been through this a gazillion times and the upshot is that the site guidelines ask you not to post insinuations of brigading, astroturfing, foreign spying, and all the rest of it, unless you have some evidence for saying so—in which case you should email hn@ycombinator.com so we can investigate. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Someone posting internet comments that you strongly disagree with is not evidence of any of that; it's evidence merely that people have opposing views on divisive topics—a phenomenon that hardly requires explanation.

I've spent years investigating this stuff on HN and can tell you that the overwhelming finding—and I do mean overwhelming—is that nearly all comments like what you posted here are purely imaginary. This is simply how the mind reacts to offensive things on the internet: we assume that people couldn't possibly be posting such obviously wrong and awful stuff in good faith, so we make up a sinister story to explain it. These sinister stories actually do far more damage to the site than the things they're claiming. The underlying reality is that the community is simply much more divided and diverse than most readers assume it is. Posting poisonous stories makes it more so. That's why I post about this so often; it's probably the single most destructive internet trope that we see here.

Is it possible that far more successful manipulation is going on than any of our investigations have ever uncovered? Sure it is. But if you go down that road, you have to relinquish any need for evidence of any kind, which puts you in the wilderness of mirrors. That can't be right. So the principle we apply is that there needs to be some relevant evidence of some kind, any kind, before making these sorts of accusations—and that already rules out over 99% of these claims.

Plenty more explanation here for those who want it and have the patience: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

By the way: you broke another site guideline also, the one that asks you not to go on about downvoting because it never does any good and makes boring reading. There's a third reason too: it usually ends up completely inaccurate, as it did in this case, because the GP comment has now been heavily upvoted. Meanwhile the complaint sticks around, adding off-topic and false information to the thread.
No, I was just using it as a easily-understood reference of comparative energy usage. Really, it's about the same value for any other car with the same aerodynamics and weight as the Tesla.

As you point out, it gets a lot more complicated when you start adding up how much energy it takes to make a Tesla (or any other EV).

Really, if we actually wanted to make motoring sustainable, we would all be driving 60's era Fiat 500s or Honda C50 mopeds. They cost very little to make, in every way, are very fuel effecient (even with their very old engine designs), and discourage long journeys.

That won't work though, because there's too much money to be made from EVs.
I am not so surprised by the reaction of the ruling elite/government...avoiding to make a fuss towards China.

I am more surprised by the reactions I have seen in HN community here in recent times on this issue. They've been ranging from outright defending CCP to defending turning a blind eye because we need iPhones.

As a European, this is signalling me whatever the US was/or projected itself as... is long dead. At least in this generation.

Can you imagine an Apollo Era engineer defending CCP? How about a whole community of them, or most of them?
Sure you can tell. You just hire an investigator to find out who wrote the memo, and find where in the world they grew up, in what culture.

If the answer comes back very US, then it's middle endian US format. Else it's DMY.

Note that the article is wrong to just say "dd.mm.yy" is used in "Europe". Some countries use yyyy-mm-dd and others dd/mm/yy.

The US format is the only one that's retarded, though.
I use a Japanese keyboard that pretends to be a US-ANSI on my laptop. The extra keys and narrow spacebar are super handy.

Something like http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/gists/9150730dbd4d28...
i'd encourage everyone thinking about using it to go read the code (it's fairly approachable) but in short it just connects each node in the cluster to each other node in the cluster via a tcp connection and sends packets between them. there's almost nothing as far as protocol, queue management, congestion control or traffic management. it's discovery mechanism is just shipping lists of peers around. pretty much any competent programmer with networking experience could put together something comparable

it works okay in small clusters on reliable low latency networks but it's not a replacement for an actual network mesh

there have been attempts to fix it but none have really found adoption. i think this is the most notable: https://lasp-lang.readme.io/docs
> it is almost immune from confusion because (hopefully) nobody is insane enough to expect YYYY-DD-MM. YYYY-MM-DD both satisfies the American intuitive expectation of month coming before day,

I disagree. (Or, perhaps I’m insane...)
I paused when coming across the ANSI version in the article as I couldn’t tell whether it was YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-DD-MM.
I thought there was a typo or something.

I’ve nothing against the standard, but as Americans have no ‘intuitive’ reason to sort the fields by significance, it is natural for some to incorrectly assume the ANSI version is just the American version written backwards.
Jeff Bezos is now seriously contemplating changing this to their company slogan: "You're too poor to fight for your rights. Know your place."
drop out into a lucrative field

Paid speaking engagements appear to be fairly lucrative for former politicians.
Do you know what evidence your dad had for Aramaic being the original language?

I think I've been misunderstood. Aramaic was the earliest text for which people had high confidence in its transcription from whatever lay underneath. We don't have autograph works, we have copies in varying degrees of fidelity across time, space, language and religious schism.

Did he think aramaic was the origin language? Yes. I believe he did. But, its an outsider theory. Whats less outsider is the age of the text variant, and subsequent divergences.
> make a fraction less profit

Unfortunately this part often kills quality initiatives. Why fix bugs for your existing customers when you can deploy the engineering resources on a DLC or a sequel which will milk those customers for more? There is no more craftsmanship or pride in good work left in software.

"When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through." -Steve Jobs
It also reduces wear on storage devices. Why write temporary build artifacts to permanent memory after all? Gotta use those 32 GB of RAM for something.

Linux will automatically cache all source files in RAM because of the page table cache. Writes to slow storage devices are eliminated through tmpfs. Amazing really.
> As powerful and influential in reshaping American classrooms as the standards could be, they don't include lesson plans, or teaching methods, or alternative strategies for when students don't get it.

That seems like a really serious flaw. Did the teaching community at least make and share their own?
Sounds cool, I'd do something like this if it was in Ruby. Haven't used perl in several years, not sure I'd be much help
In theory, your passwords are encrypted locally before they are uploaded. They claim that they are unable to see your passwords. That said, they are right next door to Langley, VA so who knows.
Are you addressing me specifically? Hn does not give me the option to downvote direct replies to my comments, even if I wanted to. Someone else on this website felt your comment deserved a downvote.
That may well be the case, but also remember that a significant number of HN users aren't American, so while one TSA story may be considered news, a glut of them might not be. It probably doesn't take many flags to bury a story. It'd be interesting to see where people burying these stories are from.
Whatever, this hasn't stopped me from writing LinkedIn's distributed social graph engine in it.
thanks for the explanation, i didn't mean to be evil. my suggestion might be obvious to some, but definitely not everyone, considering this isn't a singular occurrence.
I like the idea of a more limited social network. Or better yet, one with tiers. I hesitate adding people on facebook if I don't know them that well. It would be cool if adding them didn't automatically give them "friend" access level.
My impression is that Bay Area VC's will invest outside Silicon Valley if you get the right VC and you are the right company. Most SV Angels prefer to be geographically closer though.
> The court determined that the discount was intended to encourage women to attend the bar in greater numbers, rather than to discourage attendance by males.

Regardless of whether it should be legal or not, "positive discrimination" is still discrimination.
"8000 uniques a day"
There has been a continuous replication and mutation of your gene pool since the first prokaryotes came into existence several billion years ago. So you planning to put a halt to it?
It is not a clear issue, because it involves very subtle but crucial changes in attitudes from authorities to people of different categories.

However, from my understanding, the research all seems to be pretty directionally consistent - minorities in the US receive worse treatment from the justice system. Here's a good overview of why the statistics might be under-reporting the size of the impact: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-statistics-dont-cap...
Causation may be evidence for correlation. But the reverse is simply not true.
Same chances are it has every presentation done in the last 5 years copied to the desktop, in order to give presenters their USB sticks back.
It's weird to talk about "switching" to atomic time. If you want seconds to always go 58,59,0, and you want time to always increment 1 second at a time, then UTC has never been appropriate. People who need to measure time this way should already be using TAI or GPS Time (which do this). Many people already do this, there's no "switching" needed.

However, most civilian applications want a time that is synchronized, to bounded degree, to the Earth's rotation. UTC has leap seconds, which are occasionally added or removed, to make that happen.

There's been a push for removing leap seconds from UTC, because that'd be convenient for computers. But no one's figured out how to change the Earth's speed to match this new definition of UTC :-). So if we want time-of-day to be related to the position of the sun in the sky, adjustments like leap seconds are necessary.
opening this doc opens a video of a guy singing about never giving up
Sure. Unless their security policies are completely broken, any laptops they are using should also have disk-level encryption.
> I've never heard conservatives, Republicans, or Trump supporters argue for a one party state.

Trump praised China for paving the way to make Xi Jinping's presidency permanent

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trump-china/trump-praises...

> “He’s now president for life, president for life. And he’s great,” Trump said, according to audio of excerpts of Trump’s remarks at a closed-door fundraiser in Florida aired by CNN. “And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday,” Trump said to cheers and applause from supporters.

Which IMO implies support for a one-party state.
On its face I would say: well between cleaners and the public going in and out there's no way they'd have anything confidential on something like that.

Then I remember the countless times I've been on a flight from SFO and seen executives with NDA documents pulled up on their laptops with no privacy screen and remember that it's entirely plausible this thing had something confidential. I just hope their default image included full disk encryption.
60% of Behance.
I can be productive but I would always prefer a larger/external screen. I use a DVI/VGA thunderbolt adaptor for second monitor, and VMWare Tools/Xorg sees the additional displays as 'Virtual1, Virtual2 [..]' so xrandr 'just works'.

For the MBA specifically, the resolution is less desirable (non-retina) but the retina model just doesn't exist yet. 8GB RAM max is a bit of a limitation too but I can work around that.

AwesomeWM (tiling window manager) helps me be productive in any monitor configuration though :)
Cool. What does OpenBSD do?
As a founder of a company that's raised $25M combined over our seed, Series A, and Series B, I think Sam's coming from the right place. We raised a $2.5M seed round and a $7.5M Series A. At no point during our seed and Series A (the time period you're talking about) would it have made any financial sense for the founders to cash out even a penny. We felt this way because we had and still have genuine intentions of building a huge company, and every penny should be invested in growing the company. If we had instead felt differently, we would have tried to cash out some of our equity (which we didn't), and that should have been a red flag for investors to stay away.

There's nothing wrong with trying to build a company to flip it for a few million in a year. Even better if you can do it without taking any outside money. If I were even an angel investor though, I would run away if I had any suspicion that that was the case.

Also, if your company is worth $5M on paper due to investor term sheets, there isn't any really meaningful way you can achieve financial security unless you sell almost your entire stake in the company, which investors obviously wouldn't want to partake in. $5M from a term sheet doesn't meant $5M of liquidity.

As an aside, I think your reply is incredibly immature, but I'm not going to use that as an argument for why you're wrong.
I agree that the government shouldn't have pervasive access to the records, but I WANT Uber to track my rides. That's how I can have recourse if a driver takes me for a spin. I WANT my driver to be identified and for them to track who picks me up. He claims that it's troublesome for a female passenger to be identifiable to a driver. How about if you're a female (or male) driver driving in your spare time? Would she not feel safer picking up someone who is at least somewhat identified versus a shady looking stranger?

One of the crucial components of sharing apps is the building of trust and accountability. Identification is part of that.

This list of complaints doesn't hold water for me.
Comfort/convenience vs principles/ethics. To each his own.
Couldn't it also be argued that the GNU limits user freedom by requiring users never use non-free software?
Best statement in the book is in the section on decision blockages - "The Big Fact is this: In very few instances is one decision actually better than another." Many different decisions can be made successful, given the investment in seeing it through.

From my review of Overcoming Indecisiveness; a very useful little book.

http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Indecisiveness-Stages-Effec...
I think that's a different project; probably this: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919

I think you're thinking of this: http://haystacksearch.org/
"When interviewing candidates for programming positions, I always look for someone who is brave enough to say "I don't know" when they need to. Candidates who can't or won't do this get red flagged; those types of programmers are dangerous. "Can-do" attitiudes have a superficial allure, but they're actually poison in our field."

I think this might be misleading. I never like saying "I don't know" by itself. Most of the time in real life situations, it's "I don't know, but I'm happy to find out" or "I don't know, but I'd love to learn how." To me, my attitude as a programmer is ALWAYS can-do, meaning, there is nothing that I can't or won't figure out or learn if it needs to be done. I think that helps me constantly push my technical limits.
The only problem is that he's still stressing about money at that point. If he has even 300 people willing to pledge $8/month, he can bank on $2400/month and adjust his living expenses accordingly, if necessary. I'm sure there are people that would give $500+ in one shot, but then he has to set a runway, keeping asking, etc. in order to continue that. PG has talked about how much raising money is a distraction, too.

Not saying it's not a possibility, just saying there are advantages in not offering a one-time donation. If you still want to give, I'm sure he would accommodate you, if you contact him (he's very friendly).
A related excerpt from BBC Horizon documentary on Psychedelic Science with interviews including Micrsoft's Bob Wallis on the use at the Homebrew Computer Club and Kary Mullis (who claims that LSD was intrumental in the development of the Polymerase chain reaction) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2WurhYEQyY [Flash video!]
Not misleading at all. You just misunderstood. A drop is a drop even when it's relative.
The whole thing can be read in order from Chapter 1 if anyone feels like doing so :) I've tried to make it a continuous progression.
The back-and-forth between Lisp and Python was enjoyable.

I frequently put Python/Lisp versions of functions I have to write for C++ courses in the comments in the hopes of inspiring the graders to think beyond.
Trademark laws are about consumer protection which is why companies must enforce their trademark or they risk losing it. In this case, I initially thought Postwoman was a spinoff of Postman built by the same team (not sure why they would do this but I guess representation is all the rage nowadays). If a consumer could mistake the product as a different one then it's grounds for trademark violation.

Disclamer: I am not a lawyer but I have at least a high level understanding of trademark law.
There are no good guys here.

Neumann, by taking money from SoftBank, was completely complicit. He knew his financials, he knew the company was a flaming dumpster, he knew he had no plan to fix it, other than buying a wave pool company and assigning his family to high-level positions.

You really think if the company had gone public, Neumann would have what, stepped up and said "see, this is why we need to add more investor protections"?
> It has to exist on a private network behind a firewall with ports open to application servers and other es nodes only. Running things on a public ip address is a choice that should not be taken lightly. Clustering over the public internet is not a thing with Elasticsearch (or similar products).

I've met at least one cloud provider in the past (small Dutch thing) that provides _only_ public IP addresses. They do have customers, though one less now. Clustering over the public Internet is a thing. It shouldn't, but I could say the same thing about this website and yet here we are.
Current US pickups just direct blunt force trauma to your chest and vital organs instead.
Yes, that was my point.

egg box / case : http://www.eggboxes.com/media/ecom/prodlg/30doz.jpg

egg flat : http://www.eggboxes.com/media/ecom/prodsm/5x6superflat.jpg

egg carton / box : http://www.eggboxes.com/media/ecom/prodsm/005.JPG
Don't you consider this unethical -- if not against the site itself, than against the other users of the site whose data you're scraping?
GraphQL is the reason I just switched from a paid Paw license to insomnia!
I desperately want to go to Erlang Factory but as a freelance programmer $800-$1200 USD for a ticket is just way out of my range. The lineup of speakers and talks from every year are amazing and it would be so cool to spend time in person with other Erlang users. Bummer about the cost :(
I would say mister Levine gives the government too much credit. Just because signal has received government funding (allegedly) does not immediately mean it's a honey pot like he is insinuating. The "government" is not a single entity there are different organizations with in it with different priorities and different interests.
You absolutely should. Make COBOL ON COGS a reality and post about it on HN for PR and, more importantly, our amusement.
I think he meant to say that the constitution doesn't say anything about having a right to be notified about those rights when you are arrested. What could be understood to be "Miranda" rights have a very clear constitutional basis and were not established by the supreme Court, as you said... but I think the term refers more to the Miranda warning that the police has to give to suspects in custody.
There are cavalier attitudes on one side, and alarmist attitudes on the other side, and in my humble opinion saying that "Anytime you do anything that's actually at all effective, there is hell to pay" falls in the latter.

What's the hellish consequence of eyeglasses?
From the article: and I’ll put her name in IMDb. And she didn’t have a page, so I couldn’t post hers.

I would take the: "put her name in IMDB" to mean he just did a search. On first reading like you I did think that meant he created an IMDB entry, but the 2nd part of the sentence changed my mind.
I don't see any sign of that in the UK statistics:

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

And what explains the deaths?