jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is also being researched how endogenous retroviruses are part of aging. The very rough idea being that at some point long in past a retrovirus became endogenous and provided a pathway for aging increasing the evolutionary rate of that organism, which would then out-compete most of the immortal organisms with time.

Something like:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20346965/
Oh no! What will all the US companies already forced out of China do!?!
In virtually all countries, the size of the mortgage allowed is based on capacity to carry debt, by law or by market practice, and expressed as the percentage of monthly income that may be used on a mortgage, which is capped.

That means increasing interest rates and halving the payback time will massively increase monthly cost to carry debt / monthly mortgage payments.

Given the cap, that means people can borrow much less. Their ability to buy or afford a home does not improve. Why would that be preferable?

What you'll also achieve is that those with cash now will have a big advantage over those without cash, but with a stable income, who're willing to work for 30 years, because mortgage-based buying becomes less interesting.

Lastly, you'll make sure that much less capital flows to real estate, which means it's less interesting to build more of it, reducing the long-term supply, and exacerbating the housing shortages you see in many countries.

And you're doing all this, artificially. Set interest rates above market rates. Set loan terms to max 15 years, while a 25 year old will need to live somewhere after 40, too, and is fully capable to take on a loan at 41, or 51, or beyond.

There's simply no easy solutions to this issue. This idea that messing with interest rates will magically solve things is myopic.

What I will agree with is this: make owning or renting fiscally neutral. In many countries, home owners get subsidies, tax breaks, interest rate deductions, while renters don't. That must be stopped.

Second, we need to consider government policy to deter hyper-concentration, i.e., in many countries, the 5% top-1 tier cities get 25% of the investments/attention/projects/jobs/universities/infrastructure. That leads to massive demand in a few spots, and a brain/capital drain from the rest of the country. Because land is finite, it makes no sense to concentrate all economic activity in one or a few cities. Cities are efficient and necessary, but tier-2 and tier-3 cities need more attention to spread people around more. There's actually plenty of housing, but some of it costs $500 per square foot, and some $50. That must be balanced more.

Third, national government should exert its power more over local governments to be more accommodating, e.g. when it comes to zoning, building laws, density etc. Local government is often captured by existing home owners, which must be heard, but whose voice is currently overpowering generations of future citizens who outnumber them and aren't being accommodated. You have an industry captured by NIMBYism, and local government has no governance model to give future citizens a voice. In a municipality with 60% single family owner-occupied homes who wish to keep construction low, vs 30% long-term renters and 20% transient renters, and 500% future renters, who wish construction to increase, the current democratic governance model keeps favouring the 60% SFH owner-occupiers. But it's not necessarily a net benefit to society, or the most democratic outcome.
Except for social network effects (larger user base), what are WhatsApp's advantages vs Signal?
I don't think you came off strong at all. It inspires me to read about others successes and especially how they got there.
And I have a lot of family members still stateside who think things will get better with Kamela… whereas i left almost 5 years ago… good luck my fellow Americans… because its only going to get worse…

Moral hazards abound… piper going to get paid…
Signal has no web client.

> I thought basically no one used android tablets anyway

Tens of millions of Android tablets are sold every quarter.
What's the point of saving? One car crash and it's wiped out. You save and delay the gratification, but it never comes. You save and save and save, then some bad luck wipes it out. You lose a job. A vet bill. A friend needs a room and some food.

Or spend the money today on some burgers and a DVD for the kids. Get hugs and kisses and a full belly.

Poor people aren't stupid. You seem to think they are. She may go to school, get qualified but it's a huge gamble. And if something happens that means she has to miss school and doesn't pass the exams, that's a lot of wasted money. You have to be in a place where a 3 year plan is achievable. Gambling time and money on self education takes a lot of mental effort. Every day you have to be prepared to be knackered, poor, time deprive your kids, all for the gamble that in the future even with the qualification you'll get a better job.

What's the point? Who the hell cares.
They share the parking lot of my company, and the cars look pretty cool.

What I don't understand: cars are not encrusted with sensors like Google's self driving cars.

Would love an explaination of their tech to hide sensors.
>Oh, I totally agree with that. But try telling that to your average Green Peace liberal who just wants to abandon technology because it's "killing our planet" or some such.

Abandoning something (e.g. some technologies) because it's "killing our planet"? What a crazy idea!

No, we gotta have more of it, forever increasing, and it will sort out the problems it creates itself. Why ever be content with anything we have? After all the meaning of life is having more and more of everything.
This NanoNote is good as a concept of open source hardware.

However, as a product it falls in the middle between a decent mobile phone(which have better screens) and a netbook, this middle seems like a very tiny niche, which I am yet to find anyone interested in.

Granted, it is not meant to be an end-user product, but it has to appeal to enough people to make the whole project a success. In fact, the creators wish for people to tinker with it and produce something useful. Ok, porting Debian to this has been done, but what then?

Still, even if this project is a failure(too early to tell), some good may come from it, if the open source designs are used to create something bigger/better.
No network cards included. Remember that.
In similarly large tables, I found if you shove about 1000 rows into the DOM at a time inside a setTimeout(0) loop, most browsers behave quite ok.
"Purpose" is exactly right. I've been meaning to start a business for years, but I kept getting sucked into other people's projects because they were working on great stuff. Being a parent has really forced me to extend my planning horizon, get organized, figure out what's important (for my family as well as myself) and devote myself to it.

When my daughter was born, I took 8 months off from my day job, intending to divide my time between taking care of the baby and banging out a prototype. I expected that I'd be able to work while the baby was asleep. That was true, but what I didn't expect was that my free time would come in very short intervals. I found I couldn't maintain focus long enough to create something new.

Instead, I switched strategies and started doing contract work. That was better; with well-defined tasks, I could make real progress in 15 or 20 minutes, be interrupted and then efficiently pickup where I left off. That was a setback, no doubt, but it hasn't derailed me the way it once would have.

Not making progress on my prototype delays my startup plans, but it does put me in a better financial position to carry them out. My purpose is clear and concrete. It's not some abstract ambition like making "a lot" of money, gaining the admiration of my peers, or "being a success." It's to be able to give my family what they need, as completely as possible.

So being a parent has forced me to take a slower, more deliberate path, but it's also given me the determination required to walk it.
Let's just hope that meanwhile the developers got it right and those games can be installed on case-sensitive filesystems. IMO this is a huge problem with game software on OS X, even Steam f* it up when recently they approached the Mac.
It is iFart, you just diversify your comedy portfolio!
I answered this the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1419853
Didn't come off that way to me. Care to explain?
I'm more impressed by all of these for the effort put in than for any technical achievement. Sure, you can make any arbitrarily complex shape with a correspondingly complex set of arcs and lines, but who would bother?

The animation is a nice touch, though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliometrics
I'd be happy for a while if Apple follows the trend it set with iPad and iPhone 4 and starts shipping notebooks with IPS screen even if resolution is the same as it is now.
annotated source link:
http://jashkenas.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/buddhabrot/docs/buddh...
How do you pronounce it?

I usually say "arrow", or "dash-greater-than"... but come to think of it, I very rarely have to ever actually say this.
yeah, if aws achieves something close to a monopoly we'll be fucked.

And of course this is BOUND to happen. If its not AWS it'll be someone else. But it's inevitable.
Yes, I do operate in a demanding market. As such I've had to really figure out how to make this work. I started out by offerring "rockstars" loads of money & potential equity. This was unsustainable. I mean, they were rockstars and the quality of their work was awesome, but there was no way I could compete with well established companies. (Yes, I run a very humble, mostly self funded startup).
My proposition is simple. It's like "dating", we both have some risk. But the benefits I offer, is a place where you'll love to work, (we have lots of "unconventional" benefits). Also, once you're perm, you'll make above market salary+bonus+equity+... It's not everyone's cup of tea.
If money and security are your thing, you wouldn't be happy with my company anyways. We're a startup, we take risks and love the thrill. That's why when one of your ideas make the company money, the bonus you'll see on the next paycheck will make veterans' paychecks look like chump change & if it's something that'll help us long term, you'll get the bonus in terms of equity.
So far, our team is like family. We love what we do & look forward to Monday...
What you're saying is that it's not clear to you what your code needs to do.

That's a fundamental problem that neither TDD or any other methodology can really solve.
How much design and algorithm design did you do in simulation as opposed to using the physical robot itself?
Actually, this is the aftershock of GTA 1 being released in 1997. They're finally ripe!
Would it be street legal to operate a civilian right hand drive vehicle?
Spoken like someone in the second 20% who believes that they are in the top 20%.

"We engineers" are barely in that top 20% if at all. It's occupied by corporate CEOs, Wall Street bankers, and lawyers: the people who either write or lobby/bribe the people who write the laws (at least in the plutonomy/plutocracy that we call the United States).

"We engineers" don't control the information. We write the tools that do. The people with the money (see above) use the tools.

Statistically speaking, I imagine that the majority of engineers who participate in a successful startup exit (how else is an engineer going to get into the top 10 or 20%?) are still less well off than a great deal of the above "fat cats".

What separates "we engineers", at least those that read and participate in Hacker News, is that, perhaps, we have just a little more potential for social mobility than the rest.

Bring on them downvotes!
An alternative to irssi + screen is ZNC: http://en.znc.in/wiki/ZNC

After installing ZNC on a server, you can use a native IRC client and keep the connectivity usefulness of screen.
The nutritional recommendations they make (don't skip breakfast, eat 6 times a day , 60% carbs diet) are complete
bullshit if you are looking to have energy during the day.
thats what confused me
"If you don't have the right abstractions, you can make things artificially difficult." - Joe Armstrong

"How long will people continue believing in the myth of the 15-year-old hacker genius while simultaneously decrying the unreliability of software before the cognitive dissonance finally cracks?" - Dave Herman (http://calculist.blogspot.com/2005/12/12-weeks-with-geeks.ht...)

Also, there are quite a few at cat-v (http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/).
This is literally spyware;

1. It aims to function without the user's knowledge.

2. It aims to collect data about the user for use by a third party.
But how many six-year-olds would succeed at memorizing every event in their their life if they ever decided to do so? Since there wasn't any environmental stimulus for them to do so I suspect a genetic reason for their ability.

They also never mentioned that they somehow decided to spend a lot of time cataloging their memories. It seems to be totally effortless for them.
Mint.com will solve the balance and payment issue.
>If those who see Virgin Mary in a toast would claim that the toaster manufacturer made the toaster so that Virgin Mary would be burnt into toasts I would have no problem with that. That would be a testable hypothesis. It’s just that they don’t.

I guess in those terms a hypothesis could be that the universe is deterministic in some sense and that the image of the Virgin Mary was effectively programmed into the initial state so as to emerge on that piece of toast. Untestable fo' sure.
Whether it's good or not, there's still demand for it.
This apparent mismatch has mostly to do with the common use of oo, rather than oo itself. Joe Armstrong, creator of Erlang, is famous for quoting Alan Kay (who invented OO) when he wrote that the big idea behind smalltalk is not classes or objects, but messages (Joe Armstrong recently mentioned this at 4:30 of his most recent Qcon presentation: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Message-Passing-Concurren...)

Jim Coplien and Trygve Reenskaug discussed this apparent mismatch on the article: The DCI Architecture: A New Vision of Object-Oriented Programming (on http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_vision.html).

Jim also recently gave a presentation on the subject: http://www.infoq.com/interviews/coplien-dci-architecture.
It's different in one very important respect; most likely, you are completely willing to admit that you like big tits. As you said, your ex girlfriend would never admit she wanted a man for his bank account.

The lack of honesty is why most people don't like golddiggers.

A golddigger [1] is morally equivalent to a guy who lies to women about wanting a relationship, simply with the goal of getting into her pants. Actually she is worse, since her actions are considerably more harmful.

[1] I exclude the honest golddiggers, of which I'm sure there are a few. I've got nothing against a girl honestly trading sex for money.
For Schell, this, or some version of it, is the future (the future as such, not just of gaming). His talk was all over the place a while back, including here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1142424), so you may well have seen it already, but video and transcript here: http://www.realtimetranscription.com/showcase/DICE2010/Jesse...
Although that's true, I'm not sure there's much information there. There are always many more people willing to switch away from the most popular platform. Imagine if 10% of Windows users would consider their next machine to possibly be a Mac. Even if 100% of Mac users were planning on buying Windows next, the 10% would outnumber them. While interesting, I'm not sure that statistic is very useful.
Nice first effort, but after watching all I can think is:

arms = tired

looks like a clumsy, highly particular and low volume way to sift through data
This is definitely needed. If it comes down to it, I may have to write it myself. I know what I want and I'd be the first person to use it.

I've ran some numbers of this and the biggest problem is gamers won't pay for anything, they hate ads and they don't click through. So when evaluating this versus other opportunities it loses out because there are still plenty of other better options. All that being said there is a need and after you have a loyal user base there is always a way to monetize it (right!?).

I've seen a number of these sorts of sites come and go over the years. Even a few facebook apps. No one has come close to nailing it. It seems that founders are not gamers; they miss the boat and make it too social network like. And if they are gamers, they never seem to push the site out of it's alpha phase.
Girls whose priorities are in wealth ...[will]... not end up attracting guys who are interested in relationships based off of emotional commonalities...Likewise...

You've obviously never dated in NY.

Many women will fake whatever they need to fake to get a rich guy. I'm told many men will do more or less the same thing to sleep with a girl (or so I'm told, I've got no personal experience though).
Solution I found (globally, in a lot of scenarios, not just related to HN) is: Don't do anything unless it's specific.

I try to only sit at the PC if I'm "doing" something on it. Even in micro bursts. Shortlist of examples:

- If I'm thinking, I'll stand up away from the station

- If I need to code, I'll sit down with the purpose of coding to a goal / time window

- If I'm stuck, then again, I'll get off the station / away from the keyboard and think

- If I fire up HN, its specific - I'm checking HN for 20 mins to see whats happening, browsing some articles, then stopping.

- I try to avoid randomly tabbing back into mail clients and etc, I'd rather tackle it as a distinct thing as well

It applies pretty much everywhere though. If I want to game, I don't just sit down and play, I'll decide - take a break, 20 mins, gaming, do it. Done is done, get back on task.

The higher level thing is to hit your day / hour / afternoon period etc with a clear idea of what you actually want to get done. I find when you're carrying a bigger idea (eg, shit, i need to get this document out today!), it automagically structures your time a bit more.
Surprised noone has mentioned Heroku. Simple, accessible, and generally easy to navigate. http://docs.heroku.com/
Thank you. Your app may the reason I finally quit my cable tv in the near future. I only subscribe for news and filler.. and since i'm addicted to breaking news, your site is perfect!

In regard to the source sites.. is there a list anywhere? is the plan to make it customizable?
Central databases are vulnerable to this sort of attack. I wonder if there is a way to do a distributed name lookup service...

It could bootstrap by falling back to regular DNS. I supposed the main problem would be resolving conflicts.
I'm not well-versed in information theory, so this may be a misinterpretation. But this strikes me as a beautiful truth that rewards careful pondering.

A library containing all possible books may contain all the gems of knowledge in the world, but it also contains far more nonsense: Books full of random letters that mean nothing, as well as real books with changes made to them, both unnoticeable and noticeable. Such a library, though containing all information, would not contain any information about which books contain real information and which do not. A single real book, though, while it may contain factual errors, can at least be guaranteed to contain the beliefs and assumptions of its author, which is more than you can say about the infinite library.

Look at it this way: an infinite list of strings containing all possible strings (or even a finite list of strings containing all possible strings shorter than a given length) contains less information than a program or essay that I wrote, because the infinite list gives no indication about which strings are "important", "informational" or "useful", while my one essay or program contains concise, easily-extractable information intended for a particular purpose.

One more example, just for fun: Imagine I'm a stupid bank robber who keeps all the plans for my heists and the names of my partners in one Word document on my hard drive. If the police arrest me, they have enough information to send me and my partners to jail. However, imagine that I've written a program that makes a million copies of my secret plan and changes the names and locations inside all of the copies to random values. Now, if I get caught, without knowing which document is real and which are fake, the authorities don't have any useful information.
My issue is the increasingly low quality of Google search results. The problem is not with just one particular site, as distasteful as I find Mahalo, but a class of sites. If you don't consider the SEO practices of the content mills that are infesting the majority of Google results "spammy", IMO you should either reconsider what practices you consider spammy or refine the search algorithm to produce higher quality results.

I recall reading a thesis linked on HN that the only technologically knowledgeable users care about search quality - that the average, non-technical google user doesn't care that a result is from low quality content mill, only that they get some sort of information that sort of seems relevant. I think (hope?) that technical users are the leading edge here, and google's reluctance to act on content mills and improve search quality will end up hurting.

I appreciate the direct response, though.
Sorry, it's just the opposite:

> it seems a Native American student who was required to read the book took issue with the its depiction of native people. The girl's mom, Sarah Sense-Wilson, agreed...

The child misunderstood the terminology being used and the parent likely didn't read the book to comprehend the difference. However, on face value we have no way of understanding the full situation. Is this a school with a high-percentage of native students where the terminology, time and time again will be misunderstood?

Just because this is the first student to complain and the first parent to be a decent enough (if misguided) parent to actually follow through with their child's complaint, doesn't mean this isn't the first child to be turned off in this school from the terminology.

Change 'Savage' to Nigger and you'll offend black students in other areas, perhaps Chink and you'll offend Asian students. It just happens that this book has bad terminology for the students that were reading it that is preventing at least this student from getting to the meaning behind the words.

Furthermore, this could all have been avoided by competent teachers. Perhaps introducing the book before requiring students to read it would have avoided this. We're dealing with 80 year old books with 80 year old social mores and terms. You're going to get problems sooner or later somewhere or other. It's inevitable, get over it assign a different book with the same message.
So if this gets passed there will be a numerous ways of circumventing this as people will organise around it. Also once this starts happening it will provide huge promotion for the sites that are inflicted with this legislation.

Can we volunteer to go first? I'm sure I can find a snippet of a Disney movie to post under the grounds of fair use.
Agree, I don't think it will work.