jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The truth isn't that you don't need a teacher. You may be able to learn everything from a book or solitary practice, like yourself. But others probably can do that sometimes, may sometimes need a teacher, may sometimes need to discuss with peers, etc. And I don't mean that some people are visual learners, or readers, etc. I mean that people learn different topics in different ways, on different days, with different contexts, etc.

I think the cultural norm should be that if one way of learning isn't working for you, try another way. Practice, read it yourself, ask a friend for help, get a tutor, whatever you need.
Y'know, I've racked my brain and I can't recall ever following any bad advice.

I can remember a lot of good advice that I didn't follow, though.

Conclusion: maybe I'm just not very good at following advice.
I saw a billboard this morning advertising it. It looked like this one:

http://www.allnewsmac.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Th...

I got confused for a while, thought they'd photoshopped Steve Jobs's face over George Harrison's (left). Don't they look similar?
I think there's something rather juvenile about pointing out that every well-meaning rule or law based system has its hazy areas, gray zones, and ambiguities. The developer here is ostensibly exercising deliberate provocation.

I'd much rather wait until a well-meaning, well-intended app, one that is attempting to be useful to a regular person, is rejected for unreasonable reasons and get outraged about that. This meanwhile is clearly a bid for attention.

Somebody who is deliberately provoking Apple for reasons "uphill" from more insidious reasons is wasting our time. In my opinion most slippery slope arguments are just bad arguments used to make something look much worse than it is.
If they have a URL an are somewhat popular, I use my website: http://www.moreofit.com to find similar services and companies. By noting the tags you can gain tremendous insight into the breadth and depth of the market space. By altering the sort popularity, you can quickly note who's doing well.
I was able to snag a 17" iMac with better specs (4GB RAM) from craigslist < the new Mac Mini cost.
That's not terribly uncommon. PostgreSQL also does not reclaim space from deleted rows until you vacuum. Many hash table implementations also only mark items deleted rather than actually removing them.
The clickable link is http://emp.ly/
+1 mostly for an awesome handle
This is awesome. There's only one thing missing. I have lots of experience with programming, but little in Marketing and Startups.

So while I absolutely want to mentor someone who's interested in programming, I'm not capable of mentoring someone in Marketing/Startups.
Clickable Link: http://www.meetup.com/Hacker-News-NOVA-DC/calendar/13768657
Reserves seems like a weird way to measure a company's size. After all, we're talking about potential here, not past revenue, total worth of equipments, employees etc or other assets...
The password is for visiting, not for posting. If you set a password, nobody can visit your blog w/o the password.

http://posterous.com/help/private_sites

"You can set a password on your Posterous site so only the readers you want can see it. To see your site, a user must go to your site url and also enter the correct password for your site."
Any submissions to this new blog empire can be sent to bookmarkbroker@gmail.com, or leave a comment and link below.

If we get a good response, we should get a team together to make this happen.
>won't be playing the games of their formative years on their terms

Do they care? Lots of these games are like fashion, where the core gameplay loop is pretty similar to exactly the same as previous games, just with a different art direction on top. The fact that its popular is what makes it popular until its not.
We might instead be asking why we let South Korea's TFR drop to 1.0 while NK is maintaining 2.0. We don't know by what criteria history will judge us. (I think my fellow Californians will be judged just fine -- Korea's not our problem.)
The GIL is actually a way of keeping Python internally uncomplicated at the price of lost efficiency.

String formatting: that's a case of the "explicit is better than implicit" dogma. As for "complicated": I'd rather explain to a newbie that % takes a string template and data and substitutes, than that string literals are actually complex expressions with possibly side-effect-ful subexpressions.

Versioning problems in language distributions vs Linux distributions: is there a language community without?
Well I did try to use Tor to get past censorship(I'm in China) and it's not effective here unless you already know someone outside the Chinese network to connect to (that is not a public ip).

They (Tor) are losing their fight. IMO
(I rather suspect that Mr Shaw is trolling, but anyway.)

It's certainly true that humans have all manner of interesting behaviors owing to the fact that we're smart apes with huge numbers of survival heuristics. I would pause before taking a sandwich from Hitler, because I'm human, but it's not pertinent to the question of whether the sandwich is any good. (Except in as far as you think it more or less likely that the sandwich is poisoned etc.)

So I find the whole first half of the text to be a flabby way of saying that the arguments of dishonest people need to be evaluated more critically than those of honest people. But I find that the arguments of honest people need to be critically evaluated too. I think that the authors of Haystack were honest, but their assertions turned out to be dangerously wrong. (Which, by the way, we know thanks to Mr Appelbaum.) So, as a guide, the motives of the author don't seem to be very useful to me.

Then, in the second half, we find a mixture of arguments that I find valid, and many that I don't. A sense of vertigo at the amount of trust that we have to put into software is justified. It is possible to hide major bugs in code and we're standing on a stack of hardware, kernel, and userland which is incomprehensible to any one person these days.

It's also true that there are some fairly effective attacks against Tor for the capable opponent. It's a real-time mix-net, with all the tradeoffs implied and it generates a lot of research. I recommend reading some papers of the papers, I find them often to be very good.

But accusing the Tor people of being NSA agents because they once got funding from the navy doesn't hold water. The Internet was an ARPA funded project. Military spending has subsidised much of the modern world.

Many people have read through Tor's source and evaluated the protocol etc. Of course, all those people could be NSA agents too, publishing fake papers. You could, in fact, be in The Matrix. But you probably aren't.

Some, likely massively exaggerated, secret project might be monitoring every ISP on the planet and thus able to break any real-time mix net, but they probably aren't.

Likewise, all the Tor node operators that I have met might all be NSA plants, but they probably aren't.

And finally the author picks out Mr Appelbaum for special criticism because he connects him with Wikileaks. I think his assertion that the goals of Tor and Wikileaks are in conflict is wrong, but we could go around all day trying to pin down the goals of Wikileaks so that's probably not fruitful. But it does seem ironic that the author voices support for Wikileaks right after asserting that such supporters are not to be trusted.

So, while the stack of software is, indeed, large, Tor remains a reasonable tool to use. If the author is so concerned with the human aspect, the Tor authors are make regular appearances at conferences and are wonderful people to meet. So do, and are, node operators in my experience.

Also, on top of Tor, there's a fair chance that the author is using a browser who's network and SSL stack I've had a hand in. And who knows what kind of person he's taking a sandwich from now?
There were several security advisories in the past years, of various privilege escalation or other security holes that were actually in SELinux and not present in the vanilla source. I didn't keep a log of the details but you probably can find them in the advisories archives.
There's more to Ad Hominem arguments than unjustified personal insults.
You could always self-publish if you don't think publishers provide any value.
First, congrats to everyone at Coinbase. What a great step in their journey.

I’m going to hijack the negativity here and ask if anyone has any advice on writing a first smart contract.

I feel like I cannot fully understand ETH or BTC lightning until I write one for fun. Does anyone have any advice on how to get started?
> How it proves it? Those guys do not drop ports, they just make them modular.

In the case of the framework laptop, most of the "modules" just seem to be USBC/Thunderbolt-to-X dongles that fit flush with the case.
Mine has it. I'm guessing it is checking for a library and if it exists then it shows the icon because it showed up after a few seconds.

There are about a 100 different voices that I can choose from and they all suck.

A few months ago we trained a pretty nice DNN TTS engine and I wish I had the permission to release as a free software for Linux. I feel Linux has been in need of a good TTS forever.
I admire your honesty!
Basically I'm not clear where to go with it (if I go anywhere :p), and perhaps offer paid accounts with more features (like hosting images, videos, etc). And yes, I know this is not mutually exclusive but I dont see the point of everyone installing their own kalaksi. Its not made as something you self host for your own content but as a central platform.
If I ever abandon the project, for sure the code will go open, if not before :)
Hi!

I get two errors;

1) no such option: -r

2) Permission denied when using Git HUB

Yes i'm a noob.
One of the things I think about is how important scale is for evaluating the viability of a product.

I suspect that there aren't enough people who would pay $99 for a IDE theme to support an ongoing company with employees. However, for a single designer, it's perfect. The fact that 99.9% of the population turns their nose up doesn't matter because 0.1% is still 600,000 people. $100k is just over 1000 sales, which seems eminently doable for nearly any project.

My take-away is that - if you're considering a solo side project that will only work if you charge a "high" price (which probably isn't as high as you think it is) or if you get a ton of sales - try charging the high price!
I'd say it's not about the capabilities of the language, but the scope of the environment. You need a language to orchestrate your builds and tests (which usually means command execution, variable interpolation, conditional statements and looping constructs), and you need a language to interact with your build system (fetching code, storing and fetching build artifacts, metadata administration).

Lua would be a good candidate for the latter, but its standard library is minimal on purpose, and that means a lot of the functionality would have to be provided by the build system. Interaction with the shell from Python is needlessly cumbersome (especially capturing stdout/stderr), so of those options my preference would be Ruby. Heck, even standard shell with a system-specific binary to call back to the build system would work.
Is there anyone in the community of HN capable, with their unique work history, able to compare the differences or similarities on the monopolies which Uber, Lift, and the Traditional Taxi Medallion industry all hold?

Are there any former Big Cab execs/actuaries/quants on Uber/lift payroll?

It would appear that what Uber and Lyft really did was unveil the monopoly over cab *FLEETS* which existed..

By greatly increasing the fleet size to N, and eliminating the barrier to being a driver, they have caused that disruption handedly. However, maintaining all other aspects of a healthy and profitable company came in second step.

Which is fine...

But how maintain? How much money do these companies make - that they aren't jointly working with all EV mfr companies to create the perfect cab?

Built on billions of rides - they should be able to glean the optimal reqs for a cab. and have a custom cab built to spec based on that data - and have the cab behavior change over time based on more data....

Further, they should be tracking the full commute/transport of the user base - such that they know how many rides terminate to a bus, train, ferry, walk, etc.

Which districts have the longest commutes to them? Which companies have the longest commutes to them per employee capita.

Then they can build products to service companies better. The company realizes that the avg commute time is 47 minutes, of which XYX are spent in car, train, walking respectively - and can accommodate on better terms for all.

Etc.

The amount of behavioral data in these companies is insane - and it would be lovely to see what that looks like.
> But since a downvote is a punishment, often times people will second guess if they should post something interesting just in case it is taken the wrong way by someone.

Yes. A thousand times yes. I finally had to create a second "alter ego" account just so I would stop censoring myself.

I have ended up, as expected, getting a small number of downvotes and comment flags from people who simply didn't like what I had to say. Even when what I said was a factual summary backed by strong scientific evidence for which I provided citations (with only minimal opinion sprinkled in).
This is what the author of the article suspects, a fork of IE that will remove compatibility modes. Did you read the article, or just skim it?
If one reads this, one should make sure to read the comments, and perhaps even follow the links in those comments.
> Create something game-changing instead.

I can't just be a citizen on the web. I have to be an entrepreneur in order to matter.

I want the wide-eyed hippies back in charge rather than the Ayn Rand freaks.
Am I the only one who doesn't see what's so creepy about this? It's a bunch of colors, and cars being dipped into the colors, with dumb music and sfx. Is it really so harmful? Honestly curious as I don't have kids of my own, so not sure.
And knowing who paid the lawyers is an effective tl;dr -- what the law truly seeks to accomplish.
That paragraph is a straightforward description of power steering. It doesn’t suggest that Teslas are drive by wire. The article is not incorrect in this instance.
I had to write garbage a couple of times. The important thing is wrapping it very well so the client can't smell it.

I usually leave comments on garbage so later when I'm doing something else I try to fix it.
My experience with those was that they’d crunch the window down to a small rectangle which was hardly useful. I like having the browser and terminal be a reasonable size, even if hidden. Especially the browser; as I’m rarely testing mobile layouts when making changes.
Serious answer: It isn’t intellectual, there’s no property, and you have no rights.
Now we know why they hated that rug so much.
Life gets more pleasant when you internalize that consistency is not aligned with how the universe works and idempotence is your friend.
What really scares is me is "combined with third party service provider support" part. That means it is not just you who has the capability to flip the switch.

Imagine someone breaking into service provider's database, acquiring all the keys. That couldn't surely happen, could it?
From one of my favorite tumblrs: http://rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com/post/6290597184/498-hi...

"498. Hidden gems won’t stay hidden forever. Especially if you brag about them."

So yes, eventually HN will become like all the others, especially if the quality stays high. I am almost certain there is a 'Murphy's Law' type thing about this, though I don't know the name. Also, there will be another thing out there that does not suck while HN will start sucking, but it will be hard to find. Likely, there are a lot of them already, but their userbases are so tiny that it's almost impossible to find them.

Actually, hey. Why can't we engineer around this? Like say, have subreddits that your IP defaults into, keeping the userbases small no matter how big the site gets.
Let Over Lambda is opinionated, and at times, contrarian, which is the exactly kind of tech manual I enjoy reading.

The author's stance against Emacs in the appendix is surprising to find in a lisp book and resonated with me: "Emacs causes you to think about ways to write programs to do editing rather than write programs that write programs for you. You only need to script the process of editing when the code you are editing was redundantly written [...] Emacs has extension after extension, toy after toy, gimmick after gimmick for programmers to endlessly play with, be confused by, and get trapped in [...] The problem with emacs is its backwards philosophy. It treats editing as an end rather than a means. Editing itself is not an interesting process; it is what we edit that is interesting". The author prefers, not vim, but the simpler nvi. As a vi user that spent a great deal of time setting up slime and emacs, I wish I'd found more common lisp introductions that took an editor-neutral stance.

The author spends time disassembling CL code into assembly, replicating C's pointer arithmetic in lisp, jumping hurdles with macros, implementing a forth in CL, and in general, performing many other common lisp stunts which "blub" languages inefficiently handle.
Looks very good. I just don't like how mesmerizing the meteor animation is. I wasn't even paying attention to the content. Also it could use a navigation bar once you start scrolling?
~500 Karma
Maybe they are not pushing propaganda. Just because News Corp. (owners of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, News of the World, etc.) ignores journalistic and societal ethics, and simple honesty, doesn't mean that others do the same. It's an interesting argument, to set their own standards so low and then persuade their audience that everyone else is equally dishonest.

Much to the misfortune of the nation and world, the current conservative establishment built its power on propaganda that overcomes any level of absurdity with aggressiveness. Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and the Wall Street Journal editorial page are good examples. For example, they led the nation to war over WMD in Iraq, they deny climate change, they talk about death panels, Obama's citizenship, etc.

I don't see that elsewhere on the political spectrum. There are fringe left-wing outlets, but they aren't the top-rated cable news channel and leading newspaper.
It was put to a popular referendum. For better or worse, those don't always result in the best (for themselves) outcome as many people (maybe even most) vote more on emotion than reason. If it had been left to the government to establish this policy, they likely wouldn't have followed through or they would have had a further out deadline, to allow the transition to new treaties and agreements that would've helped preserve the positive aspects of their pre-Brexit relationship with the EU.
Well the whole idea of Bitcoin being a store of value isn't that its price is stable between 2017 and 2018, but its non-inflationary in long run (something which isn't true for the time being, it is inflationary.

However, the idea is that between 1971 (the closing of the gold window), and now, USD and all fiat currencies lost 99% of their value. The same is not true for Bitcoin on a similar time frame (i.e. 30+ years).
You were not supposed to notice this transfer.

You were supposed to be fighting each other neck deep in the trenches of the culture wars while this was happening.
eventually all sessions will have to operate like they are in a private window keeping the cookies permanently isolated to the host site visited and quarantine any third party cookies perhaps even find a means to spoof them.

in effect our browsers will need a db type tech to manage cookies and only serve them back when appropriate. a lot of what sites want to preserve for us; log in and such; can easily be done without cookies
I can flash any iOS device using iTunes for Windows. I don't see this situation as fundamentally different.
Well, i don't think so. These links are simple urls not widgets (which are tracked) : Look here at #2 https://turbofuture.com/internet/Social-Sharing-Buttons-With...
If AWS doesn't do it, then GC has no incentive to do it either.
I think this should be mandated by law, so all companies will have to introduce caps that actually work.
If the customer sets $100, this is the maximum they should pay, regardless if the operator has any delays or other problems. It should be their problem.
I think once the law mandates it, they'll quickly find a solution.
Django fan here. You are not. Several frameworks exist to satisfy several needs and profiles.
People have been living on docked boats in the Netherlands for very long. Lots of cities have old barges with students living on them. Some of these are very old. Going circular here opens up a lot more areas to habitation as you need less infrastructure to make it work. Those old house boats have electricity, water, sewage, and gas connections. You don't need any of that if you can do everything on site.

You are floating in water. All you need to do to use it is filter it. For waste water, you need to clean it up before you release it back to where it came from. Most of the tap water in Amsterdam comes from the water that surrounds it in any case. For energy, solar, wind, and batteries should go a long way. The main thing you need is enough square meters for the panels. 50KW should go a long way even on very cloudy winter days. If you insulate the houses/boats properly (i.e. lower your energy needs) it barely needs any heating or cooling. Also, you are floating in water, which makes heat exchange pumps really easy (no need to dig in the ground). Lots of nice engineering problems to solve there. Phone/internet can be wireless these days 4G/5G, or space link. There is no need for gas if you heat & cook electric. This looks like it still uses some shared infrastructure (probably for cost/efficiency reasons) but you could feasibly design something that is completely self sufficient. The key thing is to make durable structures that don't need a lot of maintenance, that are energy efficient, etc.

As for the other risks. Boats sink occasionally but rarely when they are safely docked in a harbor. You obviously don't want to dock in a place that has currents, large waves, etc. There are plenty of secluded lakes, channels, etc. that should be perfectly fine for this.
You should try it, it’s really all batteries included.
I came to the comments to say the same thing. Being able to write clearly while holding together a narrative is a gift.
I'm more of a Django man, worked with Flask only when i had to. There's no "wrong" or "right" in this…
I think there is room in larger teams for both types. There are always high priority tasks which need immediate attention, and a backlog of tasks which needs to be churned through. If you can have both types of people on a team, you can assign the tasks appropriately and be sure they will all get done.
I'm in this boat right now-ish. I don't want to be the person who only knows somemthing. I'd rather delegate it and then if I get sick I know someone else can cover the work needed to get the job done.

I just recently had my first junior developer assigned to me. Learning how to mentor, teach, as opposed to just getting a task done is harder than I imagined
let’s stop talking about masks because they’re at best a minor mitigation for the public, but a major mediopolitical leverage point, and thus an unworthy diversion. wear them indoors when near non-household members for extended periods, but otherwise mind your distance indoors and we’re all good. service workers and certain professions like healthcare will already have the necessary masking rules that we don’t need to keep talking about it for that reason either.
> establishment

You need a citation at very least