jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you haven't already, you may take a look at networked thinking applications, like the open source logseq[1] or all the similar proprietary outliner alternatives out there.

There is a growing ecosystem based on a modern note-taking style heavily based on bi-directional links for organizing your knowledge with a bottom-up strategy, and a friendly community sharing advice while discovering the possibilities of these tools.

Plus, you can do zettlekasten or GTD on these tools if you have already built a habit on these techniques. The outliner will accomodate that habit, and let you grow it long-term into a personal knowledge database providing opportunistic insights.

[1] https://logseq.com/
No kidding, I see people posting pictures on Reddit of street food they bought in European countries like Europe for 1.50 euros that would easily cost 10 bucks + tips in the US.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FoodPorn/comments/thvk4e/a_casserol...
If I had the money I would absolutely commission some watchmakers to make an analytical engine with modern, tiny ass clock work.
> a major technological hurdle

I don't think it's a technological hurdle at all, scraping websites is fairly standard nowadays. The challenge is a logical one. You just need to mentally think up of a better logical algorithm than Page Rank.

Page Rank is a very robust heuristic with many perhaps unwitting parallels to social psychology. How people gain status in groups and social norms are created is similar to how websites rank. Perhaps you could catch up on social psychology theory or other seemingly unrelated fields to see if any sparks fly about how you could apply it to the web.
I'm not exactly sure if you are saying the guys working as lawyers and bankers are the mountain climbers or the ones sitting by the fireplace. I really don't think they're either.

I climb mountains, and the going up part sucks. I do it for backcountry skiing so it is always cold, usually windy, and very wet. But getting to the top feels amazing, and going down on skis is even better.

The startup is like the mountain climb, there is a top (hypothetically).

For bankers and lawyers, there is no top. There is never a point when you say "that is enough". It is a treadmill, not a mountain climb. You just stay on it slogging for more cash and more cash. First you have an apartment, then you want to have kids so you need to move out to Westchester and buy a 2 million dollar house, then you need nice cars to drive to the train station (which soon will have to be replaced when the lease runs out), and boats, and then a porsche, and then private school for your kids, and then a vacation house in the mountains, and then private college for your kids, then money for retirement, and if you have a lot of money you give your kid the seed money for his hedge fund. It never stops.
Considering how many acquisitions Google has made, and that "organize the world‘s information" is part of their mission statement, I'm dismayed they think deliberate linkrot is an appropriate way to handle acquired assets. It's not as if they have no capacity to keep those pages in the web.
> I've had multiple bugs based on whitespace being significant.

Interesting. In several years programming with Python, I've had exactly zero bugs based on whitespace being significant.

> I can't just comment out, say, an if

What I do is comment out the if statement and add another if statement under it, like so:

#if condition:
if 1 == 1: # FIXME temp code for testing
do_something()

I always grep my code for FIXMEs before pushing to production, and have my text editor configured to highlight FIXMEs and TODOs.
If you have the database dump from Gawker, you can search for either your associated Email address, or the username they had on record. Extract that line from the file, put it in a new text file and run John The Ripper[1] on it: "./john mypassword.txt". On consumer hardware, it may take a while, but you'll eventually get it. My 2 year old 2.00GHz iMac took about 36 hours to crack my password.

If you'd like, email me and I can try to retrieve your password hash based on your email address. My email is in my profile.
Really good article about UT's CS department - the situation is very similar for the EE department as well.
Right. I'd also hazard a guess that it is not right to compare kernel-mode C to a shell script on a line-for-line basis.
Wow, they have deleted the tweed - the next one[1] says:

"Sorry – the last tweet was posted in error. We’re 100% focused on getting Skype back in action. Stay tuned for more information."

1. http://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/17979814220660737
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Has anyone else read the judgement? The case itself is super fun. Some sweet justice was served on the jackasses behind Enzyte. They lied through their teeth to convince people to buy their product, enrolled them in recurring payments against their wishes, and lied to banks to let them keep running.

Almost all the convictions were upheld in this ruling. In fact, the ruling that the defendant's fourth amendment right was violated ended up having no bearing on the case. The evidence was not thrown out because they ruled that the agents acted in good faith according to the law (which they didn't even follow correctly). The fault is put on the law.

Does that mean that if the law (stored communications act) is challenged as unconstitutional that the case could be re-ajudicated and the charges overturned?

(Also, sad to see this sentence in a legal document: "All told, the electronic evidence originating at Berkeley filled three “tera-drives” and numbered 17 million pages." pretty sure they meant terabytes.)
Free labor for them? If interview test code is in anyway a part of their codebase, you should be running the other way.

Programming tests are simply to make sure you can actually code. You'd be surprised how many people interviewing for engineering positions can't.

Startups are generally very small, and can only afford to hire engineers who are going to get a tremendous amount of work done.
pretty slick. a free plugin with not quite as many bells and whistles:

http://code.drewwilson.com/entry/tiptip-jquery-plugin
> I think everyone should be judged on the merits of their thinking, not on their status within academia.

Which is what the preceding 3 paragraphs of my comment were about. And I said it was a red flag, not a reason to outright reject the paper. While there are a few cases of outsiders making significant breakthroughs, it's rare. It's far more common for outsiders to produce work with elementary errors, which is what appears to be happening here (see the dissection at http://badphysics.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/nobang/).

Also, for the record, Einstein was not unpublished prior to his SR paper: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientific_publications...)
If true...

They probably outsourced it to disconnect it from them, same as subcontractors doing things the state can't like operate drones on the border without massive outcry. Also it makes it less easy to pin on anyone at the agency/state and makes the individual(s) that put it in seem wacko if they stated that independently. You can just deny, deny, plausible deniability. It is easy to play the psychological reactions this way.

If the FBI, NSA, and others aren't doing stuff like this then I wonder how they are thinking they can hang with the Chinese, Russian, etc hackers of the state.

It's so funny, people believe in their own tribe/country that the authority would never do this but you think of it happening in China or Russia and you think, 'of course they are doing that!'. It is a problem of relativity/trust. Wikileaks put evidence of our very own State Department and Hilary Clinton bugging the United Nations but we aren't doing this across the internet/software landscape? hrm. Algorithms are hard to put trapdoors in, but the software that wraps them can help make it easier...
I don't think it's just about hashing. When I see restrictions on passwords or other fields, I always assume the worst. If < is not allowed, that's because your password will show up unencoded in HTML somewhere. If $ is not allowed, that's because somebody is afraid that it will actually be treated as a variable reference somewhere. Likewise & or % in URL-encoded data, ' or " in JavaScript, etc.

The most universal and silent restriction seems to be on NUL bytes.
How does someone start to get into the contractor side of things? Are you generally working connections initially? Or are you going via a headhunter/craigslist for contract only gigs?
adioso can't get me directly to saigon (sgn) from anywhere it seems.
That's close to the "Restatement" (law school) definition of theft in America. In practice, the statutory definitions of theft are far more expansive, and even where they aren't, case law has made the standard for "permanent deprivation" ridiculously low.
I've been trying to learn the emacs way of doing things, without resorting to Vim emulators, but this is really tempting.

One question, how well do these work with say Paredit mode? Paredit really hates it if you change a parenthesis via some other function. If they get unbalanced paredit has a seizure.
In practice you have to check messages as they arrive because you cannot control what others will send you.
The security flaws found by that independent review aren't particularly worrying.

Clearly there are improvements that could be made but almost all of the problems that they found were procedural and the ones that were technical amounted to "if I can control the server I can control all the votes" or "if I can control a user's computer I can control their vote", which is not a surprising outcome.

If I control the vote counting depot I also control all the votes, if I coerce a person I also control their votes. We have dealt with these problems for more than a century, we can deal with them in an online context.
I’m extremely soft on crime because I believe that countries which have adopted this stance have reduced levels of crime. As a Canadian, this is clear as day to me just by comparing the US to Canada.

It’s annoying when talking to people who disagree because their argument is in essence that I don’t understand the concept of revenge or that my (perceived) permissiveness is a character fault. They also foolishly believe that maximum penalties act as a deterrent.

If someone commits a serious crime and the punishment is profoundly life altering then that person is just so much more likely to become violent, kill witnesses, try their luck at a high speed chase, whatever.

Having a parent in jail statistically raises the likelihood of delinquency. Growing up in poverty can feel like it’s own type of prison. It’s just so obvious to me why the crime rate is so high. But people who support the death penalty (as an example) are just so firmly stuck in the nature vs nurture mentality.

“So you think that someone who rapes and kills children should walk away?” They always fall on this line as though people like me just simply don’t get it when from the way I see it, it’s them who have blood lust for murder and they just don’t care at all to consider the systemic effect that their mentality has.

“Soft on crime” is a generational investment so that the next batch of kids won’t be as fucked up as we are.
We have partially lizard brains that evolved for running distances to pack hunt. If your expectations are that we should all be able to sit for 8-10 hours a day from the time we're children, it's easy to say some percent of us have a defect. The defect -- to me -- doesn't seem to be that some percent of our lizard brains can't do that. It seems to be in our expectations.
i am not sure there are true top spots in the javascript world.

in my circles more and more people look at svelte to try to get away from frameworks altogether.

new tooling is always just around the corner: there is a webpack killer annonced every couple of months.

this very site is full articles "why we switched from/to react", etc.

in the javascript community "stability" is anything with a bit less churn than the bleeding edge. i think it will result in a massive burnout for a whole generation of developers.
This is great. If you start with the same thing in your payload (with whitespace removed and key ordering preserved), you can add that to what you grep. If GitHub used JWT and started the payload (the second of the three dot separated items) with `{"gh":`, they could grep it like this:

eyJ<base64stuff>.eyJnaCI6I<base64stuff>.<base64stuff>
It is not active yet. If you select "recommended project", then it will probably switch when the time comes. For now, it is reddit.

Check http://chat.efnet.org:9090/?channels=%23noanswers for updates.
Isn't the substance abuse risk solved by dextroamphetamine precursors like Vyvanse?
50% vs placebo is nice but how does this compare to stimulants?

BTW it is not widely known but the graal stimulant does not exists yet. Vyvanse has a unique value proposition but is only a prodrug to dextro amphetamine, in order to be optimal (for some people, results may vary) it would need to also have a levoamphetamine prodrug. I don't think such a prodrug has been discovered yet.
That is a very illogical line of reasoning.
It’s valid because GitHub is using cycles on format when the functionality is more important.

I think these new formats are nice, but don’t care give how hard to use their token scheme is. Just some mention of other stuff coming would be nice.

The problem I have is I’m not even sure if GitHub recognizes this as a problem (I have to grant access to every repo I can access to every script) and it’s been broken for years. Would be nice to know what they’re working on.
So I presume the message is Amazon cannot be compared to Walmart because it’s much smaller? I love xkcd but this one left me confused because amzn’s market cap is 4x larger than wmt’s. So 4x larger and 4x faster growing.
You're right, there are no African-Americans or Asian-Americans in Finland… There are some African-Finns and Asian-Finns though.
Poor Keith, reported it 17 years ago and then vanished in 2005 missing out on the long journey of his feature request.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259640
I can't help but feel that this is going backwards. Cities are effective engines for value generation. Being in a city is valuable due to network effects, density, and overall efficiency that suburbs lack. Increased urbanization has gone hand-in-hand with increased prosperity for centuries. People don't pay $4.5k for a one bedroom in SOMA (just) to be close to the office.

It's too early too say if the historic value of cities will be replaced by the internet, IMO. YC makes each batch move to SV for a reason.
They wouldn't extend an offer to you in this case. Acqui-hires have no upside for employees and barely any for founders. Some small return to investors to sign off on the acquihire. Usually most people still have to interview for their jobs.
This has been a non issue for me. I just slap minor fixes in with other tickets even if they are not related. Usually I just drop a comment in the review page with "saw this other issue and fixed it"

Short circuiting the review and QA steps is not ideal. A reviewer should see the change is just a comment typo fix and accept it even if it has nothing to do with the current ticket.
I got an 8" Dobsonian about ten years ago at still am far from exhausting the possibilities. I got the Bintel (GSO) brand which seemed a little better, came with three eyepieces decent focusser and finder, and moon filter.

You can move the 8" Dob around with one person and fits across the back seat of a small car. You manually push it around so you learn to star hop, and learn the constellations more than you would with an electronic GOTO.

Only last year upgraded the eyepieces to Baader Morpheus. Gives good claer views of Saturn & rings, cassini division, Jupiter & great red spot, equatorial bands, Uranus, Neptune, Messier objects etc etc.

A 6" dob is a good option for planetary viewing too and arguably better than 8" in some regards (a bit smaller and more forgiving on cheap eyepieces). 8" is better for deep space objects of course.

Consider a 10" dob for deep space, but they start to get a bit large to move around.
There's no way Mozilla is going to rewrite their entire UI layer for a single OS, much less a minority one.
When a lifestyle business is bought-out, assuming the employees are also significant equity stakeholders, do they typically get compensated for the loss of expected lifetime earnings - and/or a contractual right to buy back their IP from Apple, given that an acqui-hire is not guaranteed to be in the employees’ best-interests - or be long-lasting?

Just asking - because if my company were to be acqui-hired I have serious doubts about my ability to stay at Apple specifically - given (for example) their prohibition on most of their FTE SWEs having a personal GitHub account or doing any kind of moonlighting. What does Apple do when they really want to acqui-hire a company but the people they want don’t want to work at Apple without special-exemptions from the normal rules?
"Personally, I welcome anyone who wants to cut a $50K check to support a new product and pull a smart mind out of wall street or advertising or any other industry that is not pushing the limits of what can be."
The things that would get me to switch banks would be:

- A system that helps me strategically save, pay off debt, etc., all integrated with the bank's online banking system.

- The ability to deposit checks by submitting a photo of the front of the check via a website or iphone app.

- No fees. Period.

- A high interest savings account designed to get me to save more. Perhaps by adding extra interest if I reach a predefined goal and roll some of it into a CD.

- A built-in line of credit to prevent overdrafts/fees and to encourage a more aggressive savings strategy.

- Electronic signatures

- Credit coaching. Help me take steps to get that 800 credit score. I think people value their relationship with a bank very highly, and this sort of thing would build tremendous trust/loyalty.
http://librato.com is another hosted product (disclosure: I work on this) for systematically monitoring/managing applications.
>After the employee's departure, Google chose a three-person government relations team, all female, led by Julie Zhu, an energetic woman in her thirties.

am i the only one who thinks that such approach have no chances to work in China, Russia, India, etc,...?
It seems pretty promising so far. I guess my next Emacs hacking project will be a Greplin source for anything.el. Has anyone written plug-ins for Spotlight or Quicksilver?

For someone like me whose attraction is improved Gmail searching, I can't see paying $4.99/month for this. Were my daily workflow based on Google Apps and Evernote, it'd be another story.
With disposable diapers, I found that I was going through steps 1-9 at least once a week. The diapers come in 40 packs. If my son averages 8 diapers a day, that is only 5 days. Sure, I can (and did) buy multiple 40 packs at a time, but I only have so much room at my house and in my car for transportation and storage. Moreover, especially when my son was younger, it was not uncommon for him to go through 5 diapers during a single night and he had a much fast diaper burn rate than even what I described above.

Your linked study seems interesting and I am reading through it.
It's like Edward Tufte, Leni Riefenstahl—and, I dunno, Polyphonic Spree?—got together to brainwash you.

I've got to hand it to the video's production company, The Cultivated Word, for creating an triumphantly insipid piece of propaganda. Some advice, though: Try a slightly less obvious, bombastic approach; it might be less clear to your subjects, er audience, what you're trying to do.

The company's motto, from their web site: "We turn passive viewers into engaged audiences." What does that even mean?! Passivity and engagement are fairly orthogonal concepts—and what does "engagement" really mean? And the last time I checked, an audience is made up of viewers.

What they seem to be going for is the cultivation of sentiment based on emotional manipulation, which is nothing new, but I find the way they package it—as part of the solution rather than part of the problem—rather galling.

On another note, it very much reminds me of the end design work done in Waiting for "Superman", which itself made me feel a little like their director thought his audience a group of simpletons in deed of stick figure diagrams explaining the most basic concepts.
A site takedown starts with a request from some government agency, so the first thing that come to mind is to host it in a place where every request will need to go through a tick barrier of language issues/misunderstanding/bureaucracy. But considering that you'll also need a good network infrastructure there aren't many places that meet these requirements.
What about China?
PPA aside, what's interesting is that PokerStars just announced a partnership with the Wynn recently. I don't know that it's the US brick and mortar casinos that are behind this.
"Limbic System FarmVille" doesn't have the same ring to it.
Kickstarter is shaping up to be the ultimate R&D/test marketing platform. You have an idea, you can make prototypes, you test market the prototype on Kickstarter, the consumer speaks with their wallet, and you can either take it to the mainstream or gracefully exit whilst giving away some "exclusive" tchotchkes to the people who paid in.

It could also become the manufacturing version of a "pop-up store", where potential buyers are given "exclusive" timed access to a product before it hits the mainstream outlets. This exudes value (like the Humble Game Bundles or Macheist) while focusing laser-sharp on just one product (a la woot) and is compelling to our baser consumer desires for access, urgency, and exclusivity.

Could be an interesting pivot for kickstarter (or perhaps be a nice niche for someone to exploit).
What's so "social" about Delicious? This is a serious question.

You can subscribe to bookmarks from other people (only if you already know their logins) and you can send bookmarks to others (using a weird for:nick meta-tag). Both features seem a bit sketchy by today's standards. This was definitely a breakthrough when Delicious was launched, but nowadays people expect more from a social site.

Not that I care about social features. I didn't miss them in Delicious, and I don't miss them in Pinboard. But it just doesn't sound convincing to brand Delicious as a great social product for Google to acquire.
Yes, post a comic strip with the punchline as the headline—that's a really good idea. You have added value for us all! Well done.
http://www.dojotoolkit.org/
PHP is not the best language anymore for most web development.

Ruby or python is probably the best choice, and I personally favor python.
Google Apps, App Engine, Chrome OS, Chrome Browser and Android is a vertically integrated computing platform where:

* my development is done on AppEngine

* my operating system is replaced with Google's web browser

* my information is stored in Google docs

* my files are on a Google filesystem

* my applications run on Google's infrastructure

* all my phone calls, search, and interactivity is done through my Android smartphone

Google is systematically building an environment where every byte of data I consume will flow through Google's network.
K.I.S.S rule
"keep it simple s...."

it is usually better to subtract code to fix bugs (and to optimize) then to add code.
This shouldn't be surprising. These app makers are not producing free apps just for fun. When an app is ad supported, you can be sure it is participating in the selection of targeted ads.