jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In my opinion, this "Ask HN:" creates a context in which consent to its premises implies a belief that HN is in decline. I probably would have better understood your comment had it been prefaced with something like "I do not believe HN is in decline, however..."

Looking at the recent net negative comments by the person creating the "Ask HN", one achieved that status quite reasonably due to tone. The other began with "I would argue..", and consisted of a single sentence of disagreement without support of facts, examples, or rationales. It added nothing to HN and the best one could say is that it was undeserving of upvotes. That it wound up net negative is just a result of it being on a topic - the nature of vinyl - that is not subject to definitive conclusions and likely to elicit strong opinions from those interested in it. In this it is akin to religion or politics.

There are objectively bad comments. There are objectively good comments. In general the votes by HN's community correlate with each.
Still, if the highway were only autonomous networked vehicles, you could do some other cool things, like allow faster speeds and more throughput because the cars could be spaced closer together.
I once wanted to do automated testing with it. But because PhantomJS used an old webkit version, I couldn't :(

But that's one use case where I would love to use phantomJS or any other headless engine to test the frontend. I'm aware that for headless testing to work, there should be a headless browser of every major vendor. Maybe it's an utopia.
> It's very important to work out assumptions and to be able to explore your models to find out where you've gone wrong.

I agree and that's what I was getting at. To me, it's 'programming' when create something that has to be consistent enough for us to be able to explore it with real data. Thought experiments are something we can easily get lost in.

We can have interactive environments that we don't see as programming and they can be useful, but the discipline of being able to create those models and know that they are doing what we intend for the reasons we intend - that's programming, and people gain that discipline through environments that make them work for it to some degree.
Interesting. I use unblock-us (no affiliation) which I assumed just switched your dns to make it look like you were in another country.

http://superuser.com/q/617266/6263

Can someone educate me as to why people need to use a vpn to access Netflix instead of a service like the above?

Is it only for people in countries that Netflix doesn't service?

EDIT, yes I'm well aware of the different catalogs in different countries, that's the point of using unblock-us:) That doesn't answer the question I had asked:)
There are lots of them. This one is pretty relevant: http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/social/people/reputatio...

Amy Jo Kim is also a classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUt-163gZI

Making work into a game: http://www.adavies.org/blog/2010/03/15/gaming-the-crowd/

Note that almost all of these warn against leaderboards.
you're welcome! we write a new tutorial every tuesday - some beginner, some advanced. if you subscribe to the blog rss feed you can get the notifications
Hacking is the exploitation of the unexpected side-effects. Hacking absolutely and positively started with exploiting security "holes" in telecommunications and shared computing environments. That's exactly what Steve Wozniak was doing when Steve Jobs met him.

Hacking then and hacking now has an air of subversion to it. Coming up with an exploit like Firesheep is hacking. Figuring out how to use PS3s as a supercomputer--and simultaneously subverting the entire business of building and selling supercomputers for ginormous amounts of money AND the business of selling gaming consoles--is hacking. Super-logging out of Facebook is hacking. Renting a botnet and using it to extort money from a business is not hacking, fine, that's just criminal.

But yeah, calling yourself a "hacker" ought to mean frowns from establishment types. "Hacker" is almost the antonym of "professional." If you want to be a super-genius who works within the system, the word you're looking for is "nerd."

I categorically reject the idea that the word needs to be "reclaimed" from script kiddies. If anything, I want the word reclaimed from money-grubbing bourgeois poseurs who happen to be interested in technology businesses.

I respect and admire people who want to start businesses. I respect and admire people who love to create great software. But if someone is ashamed of being associated with Steve Wozniak or John Draper, maybe they need to ask if they are really a hacker rather than asking if the word "hacker" is being improperly used.

p.s. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1914498
I don't think that's all that accurate.

Berkshire has a market cap of ~200B, buffet owns around ~45 billion of their stock so his actual investment was 5 * (45/200) = 1.125B. It's reasonable to think he might be swayed by 2.5% to 5% of his net worth, but his personal investment is not all that significant (for him).
true, it is the states that get you. I paid Ohio $28k in estate taxes on an amount well under a million dollars, the majority of that being equity in a house that is very hard to sell.
can you link to the protocol you use, and explain what results you got?
I don't know why more people aren't excited about Reia. ErlangVM w/ more approachable syntax? Awesome. Not that I don't like Erlang syntax, I just think more people would be willing to use it if it has more familiar syntax.
That deck is so fucking generic it's not even funny. I actually laughed out loud at the hockey stick line. What ever happened to creativity and innovation?
Back in the dark ages, we used to break pre-production into three stages: alpha (distribution inside the organization for comment, subject to possible radical change after feedback), beta (distribution to key customers for feedback), and gamma (more wide-spread release after feature-freeze).

I don't know how you can call something "pre-beta" if you're giving it a release outside the organization. It's not as if Google didn't know people would be commenting on it. What does that term mean?
TD Waterhouse (Canada). Commissions aren't the lowest, depending on the market too (I usually trade on European and Asian markets), but I'm very happy with the service. Keep in mind TD is also my main bank, so it is convenient to use them as my broker as well (part of the reason I don't mind the slightly higher costs).

If I were to switch, it would probably be to Interactive Brokers - their fees are significantly lower and they have an equally or possibly slightly more compelling set of features.
I think Spolsky's description[1] of working at the bakery explains best how it works for me. My bad days don't seem to be anything catastrophic going wrong, just a multitude of tiny frustrations. Basically the opposite for the good days.

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057....
The ACLU has abandoned any pretense of actually being concerned about civil liberties in favor of being a generic left-wing advocacy organization. For example, just recently they were perfectly happy to throw out a commitment against double jeopardy in order to stoke some standard left-wing racial grievances[1].

I used to think if you donated to both the ACLU and the NRA you could cover all your civil liberties pretty well, but I don't think the amount of good coming out of the ACLU is worth it anymore. At least the EFF is still pretty good, even if airports are a bit out of their domain.

[1] http://www.volokh.com/2013/07/18/correction-re-the-aclu-and-...
We've moved beyond simple negative attacks here at HN. Maybe a list of considerations or caveats would have been more approrpriate. The idea is novel, and this particular solution probably has many uses.
People may use this differently than me, but the examples shown seem to lean towards people that no one living remembers.
Practically every famous quote ever has been attributed to Churchill, so I'm skeptical.

But it really is a country song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l50L4GYhpLc
So just because capitalism exploits some people harder than you this somehow casts doubt on your right to complain?

I honestly don't see any other argument in the article, so apologies if this sounds like a strawman or a nitpick - this is definitely not intentional.
Silicon Valley was built in the valley because that was cheap available land that was mostly empty but still accessible to a major coastal port. It only became the crowded modern environment after the corporations were built there and became successful. San Francisco became big because it was a major shipping port.

Not that long ago it was Detroit, Buffalo, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Princeton, Pittsburgh, Trenton, and more than I can count that were the bustling megalopolis' of America where you went to if you wanted engineering talent or culture for that matter.
Its additional. I haven't put thought into which I'd most want them to stop but the combination is worse than either on their own. It also allows the possibility of automated face recognition and social graph tracking in public places via CCTV (if not now then in the future).
>Regardless if you're life is in danger that's the equivalent of slavery and their not your family anymore their your masters.

Yes, women were historic (in many places) and currently (in some places) property of men. Why don't you get this?

You even see history of it in the current western marriage ceremony. A father "gives away" her daughter at the alter. This horrible "tradition" represents the exchange of property from father to husband.

Anyways, marriage for love is a recent invention. Previously in time marriage was more of a business transaction.
While this might be true for a large portion of HN's audience, there are also developers stuck in shitty positions in countries where making $100K writing software is a pipe dream. I'd be happy if I was paid a third of that.
It may seem obvious but HtDP emphasizes designing programs. It's not really trying to teach theories of computer science or abstractions. It's about developing coding habits - in terms of SICP it's all about good wishful thinking.

SICP, and this is not a criticism, is more like a stamp collection of computer science topics. It provides a point of reference when I've read about operating systems, state machines, compilers, data structures, etc. etc.

Between the two, SICP is flat out a better book qua book. On the other hand, working through just a little of HtDP will probably have more impact on the way you write software than working through a little of SICP.

Lastly, while there may be some similarities to other introductory texts, I doubt that there is any computing pedagogy backed by as much research as Felleisen and the PLT group. While SICP and Scheme were intended to facilitate teaching, the Racket ecosystem [and PLT Scheme before it] are continuously developed with pedagogy as a primary driver.

Most pedagogy is driven by "I think this would be a better way to teach programming." The PLT group checks their theories statistically and their theories are tied to educational theories in general. And they've been going down that road for several decades.
I agree with the sentiment, but I think your facts are a bit off and reflect HN insularity. The median 33% household income ("middle class") in the US is $30,000 to $62,500 (household).

Even if you are the sole earner in your household, it is still unlikely that you make less than $62,500. If you do make less than that, ask for a raise. If you don't make less than that, or your combined household income is more than that, you are a member of the upper class, and you should try and remember your privilege. (Hey, life's not so bad.)
Only if you define them to exclude it.
Funniest thing I've read all day.
Now in order to be hired you have to know trivia questions.
I once was on a workshop organised by and for mathematicians which supposed to be about biology. There was a talk where guy was discussing PDE system describing some colony growth; at some point near the beginning he concluded that the results for real input are "boring", and one can get "intriguing chaotic behaviour" with negative cell number, and continued with that assumption (;
If this actually works, then you'll have solved a major problem I have. Having an option to add people and their birthdays and just emailing me a link to a "select a gift for $name" page would be awesome.

That being said, I think the hero section of the home page could use more work to make it more obvious what the site does. The current tagline wasn't very helpful for me
What was the performance like for those queries?
How exactly are they cloning something and then just blowing it up to a significantly large size?

(though if someone could show up with actual clones (or near enough to) of the mba range that would be awesome.
very cool app. Any way to change the keyboard shortcuts to be more like vim? E.g. use hjkl instead of awsd?
Looking after a puppy - yes, it's stressful and far less rewarding than children. Signed, a cat person.

I do however think this is a brilliant insight and in hindsight so obvious.
Google penalising a site for not having original content may be one. Ofc, it uses bandwidth and costs the site you're scraping resource/money for no benefit to them.
Here we leave the realm of copyright and enter trademark law. HWACI's operating instructions reference their trademark on SQLite. Given that the reasonably adept HN readership has members confused into believing this was an HWACI product it seems to fall squarely in the realm of trademark violation.
One practice I personally follow with my team is to always pay attention to when the code you're reviewing is not obvious. e.g. If I have to spend more than a few seconds trying to figure out what a function does, then you're pretty much going to have to either rename it, rewrite it, or (not ideally) do a better job at clarifying through comments.
Quite a number of scientists are studying how brain development is affected by very early experiences, and so far it seems like it might be more than most people thought. Basic experiences of childhood like breastfeeding, number of words heard per day, amount of music heard, even the number of books in a house, have significant correlations with later metrics of mental success like IQ, grades, career outcomes, etc.

By the time a person is old enough to be taking math classes, their "innate" abilities are a combination of nature and nurture. Hitting a "breakpoint" might be the result of deficiencies in their nurture, rather than truly innate (i.e. genetically determined).

The question is, if you took every person and raised them in the optimal way, how far could they go in math, programming, or any other pursuit? I think it's obvious that there would still be differentiation according to talent, but I also think it's likely that the average would be a lot higher than it is.
APRIL 18, 2014, from a political website, and submitted here from various websites many times before. Not Hacker News.
His observations are sound, but his blaming it on the "bazaar philosophy" doesn't really follow. The problem of unused dependencies that he points out with the Firefox port is a failure in packaging, either due to clumsy work with the port itself, or an inability to properly support soft dependencies.

I barely understand the voodoo magic behind libtool myself, but as PHK says, it "tries to hide the fact that there is no standardized way to build a shared library in Unix". I'd wager dynamic linking inherently poses such quandaries that are easier solved through kludges.

Hey, it's still probably better than WinSxS.
I beg to differ. I get re-assessed every year.
Blocking someone's ability to navigate on public property is coercion, it is not a right

What magic gives you as an individual more right to a given parcel of public property than any other individual (or collection thereof)? You want to use the road. They want to use the road. Seems to me like a classic first-come-first-served sort of freedom.

If you want them to stop using the public property they're on so that you can use it, you'll be appealing to authorities to coerce them off it. That doesn't sound like freedom either.
> The police are merely a representative of a government formed by the people for the people—for all people

Peelian Principles [1] explicitly say that the police force is not representing the government, as that's the job of the military. Firstly, the police force are citizens in uniform and part of the local community. The police are explicitly in place so the military can stay out of the community.

Militarised police forces around the world would do well to keep in mind that they are making themselves redundant, since if the police are indistinguishable from the military, they might as well be done away with and replaced by the military.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles
This topic is close to my heart. I spent a few years immersed in the Qualcomm basebands as part of the unrevoked project and personal research. I stared at the ARM code for what must be hundreds of hours.

There are so many vulnerabilities in the baseband that it's not even funny. Even the QCOM secure boot process is full of holes. If a government agency wanted to drop a persistent baseband 'rootkit' on your device with full access to userspace, they could (unless you're using one of the few phones with separate userspace and baseband processors).

The DIAG commands are particularly fun. You can read and write memory on most phones. Some have locked it down to certain areas, but this varies wildly depending on manufacturer.
yeah, typo. i meant ecosystem.
The threat of MAD and nuclear WWIII never actually went away. People just sort of forgot about it.
> ("three megabytes of hot RAM"!!!)

Hell, even today, three megs of RAM can be pretty expensive: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SMI-2MB-Premium-RAM-Card-for-HP-48GX...
It's about the psychology of it all. People now have a way to verify actual ownership of artwork. Whatever added value the work has is just a construction of our minds and is no different to adding value to physical artwork for arbitrary reasons, but it's true that the upper limit for value will always be less than physical artwork because you can just copy it more easily.
Alt+D is easier to press with one hand.
Charge for it, like any other product. Opera used to do it, a long time ago. I think it was about $40 for a license.
Well, IMO what you're really advocating for is massive government-initiated research and development that ISN'T outsourced as pork to contractors.

The lobbyists destroyed those types of programs.

We used to have a pipeline for PhD candidates to these government programs, but that doesn't seem to exist anymore.

Speaking of unpopular guys, Musk's Tesla and SpaceX are very much "skunkworks" companies. Maybe the US could, say, incubate more companies like that? The irrational hate of Musk reflects America's deep and strong anti-intellectual anti-nerd anti-engineering popular culture bias. Sure Musk isn't a boy scout, but the list of evil noxious business executive that are objectively worse than Musk in the last 50 years is probably about 10,000 to 20,000 longer than anything Musk has done. Possibly 100,000. Huge numbers of healthcare insurance, petroleum, defense, mining, and manufacturing executives. Microsoft and Intel's run of market manipulation and monopoly. Cable/Telephone companies sitting on their monopolies.

The 50s and 60s still had the overarching group achievement and patriotism from WWII. But our modern era has steadily fallen more and more to greed, apathy, laziness, and especially narcissism.
Same values that original hand painted Monalisa has over any other hand painted Mona Lisa. It's the one.
No offence, but this latest comment doesn't fit with the original comment I replied to. You were clearly commenting on what Apple does with their acquisitions, not the tone of the response, and that is what I was replying to. You said "What Apple does with the acquisitions I think is far more relevant" and then went on to detail how you thought they handled their acquisitions differently.

That said, I don't agree that the tone is different for Apple vs any other company. I would have agreed years ago, but it's not longer my observation today.
Hi! It was a bit of both fun and work ;)

I use graphile and didn't want to have to implement a resolver in JavaScript, keeping logic and integrity of auth systems in the database.
Shoot, there's a big Antifa monument right behind the executive compound! It is a monument to the 1st Division of the United States Army, whose service in North Africa and Sicily contributed to the fall of the original fascist regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Division_Monument
Telegram still doesn't support message reactions. I agree with all the rest and I like to use it for some less important chats taking into account the lack of the encryption but the reactions feature seems to be really lacking and no replacement comes close - replying with stickers seems counterproductive - reactions allow less messages, not more.
Im paraphrasing but theres this principle in aviation that every rule is paid for in blood or something to that effect. The same is often brought up with regards to automotive safety and really anytime engineering meets public safety, but I digress.

Point being is that the social media experiment and the wild west days of the internet writ large has run its course. We’ve had our fun and money has been made and lost and made again and again and again and the writing is on the wall I’m afraid.

If history is any evidence the gravy train is about to come to a glaring and disastrous end. Legislation will be passed, examples will be made by the powers at be and society will look back through the lens of history at these past 30-40 years as a cautionary tale.

To your point:
There is already a huge body of law that exists that would not take much retooling to apply. Held back by the voluminous pedantic arguments entertained ad nauseam. However the blood is there in droves and now the powers at be have had the chaos special delivered on a silver platter. Its one thing for us to comment and argue in the safe confines of our little luxury bubbles the internet provides, its another thing to watch in casual horror when the death toll numbers get so large as to be incomprehensible to many and then continue those same arguments to no effect. But make no mistake reality is what refuses to go away when you choose to stop believing in it and the reality is that for the first time as of yesterday the powers at be have had their bubbles burst as a result of their collective negligence and blood has been delivered as a direct result to their door.

As if 350k people dead isn't enough, theres a tyrannical despot once again guilty of treason on national tv for all to see that this time has literally instigated a coup with blood on congress floors as a result. Fueled specifically by social media and the internet. Sure things may have seemed ephemeral and hard to legislate before because hey its the internet and its on a cute little screen, but no more.

I expect the laws to be written, applied and enforced the same way they always have been. And I expect the piles of anti- trust cases to encounter not much friction now and as for social media... i expect that it will be fine as long as it doesn't get too big and crosses that pernicious threshold where it ever again is able to be a real threat to the powers at be.
peloton has games built in. you get ranked based on your performance for each group class. you can compare yourself to previous classes. you can view your exercise history. etc
Yeah, you and me both. Took the words out of my mouth.