jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If it was possible to flat out buy 10% of the US congress with no involvement from the actual democratic process, it would be done more often. The Tea Party might be less grassroots than it lets on, but let's not get carried away. Millions of voters cast votes for tea party candidates in multiple elections, and democracy starts and ends with that fact. The best argument against democracy is five minutes with the average voter, yet it's what we have.

But instead of arguing over the Tea Party: How has Wilders caused the dominant parties in the Netherlands to collude less than the ruling parties in the US and the UK?

Basically, my thesis is that parties are mostly irrelevant. If there are important wishes in the population at large (ie. showing up significantly in polls), those will mostly be accommodated, not because of ideology, but because of self-preservation. For the 99% of stuff that we don't hear and care about in our day-to-day lives, the bureaucracy is in charge in all important aspects, and the iron law of bureaucracy[1] applies supreme.

It is a dangerous distraction that changing the voting system actually changes anything that matters.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Iron_Law_of_Bur...
that is the craziest work i have seen in a long time.

you need to check this !

innovative, beautifull, usefull. big gratz.

ps : too bad we cant upvote
Could you provide more details? How many servers, where is the data stored, what type of support will you offer, is it an LLC, how many people behind it, company roadmap, application roadmap, what happens with it if you die tomorrow, etc?

Thanks!
OMG, that sounds worse than I expected.. I just asked in their chat window if it is somehow possible to get one earlier than 6 weeks (it said at least 6 weeks) but it isn't :) Their website is also kinda crappy, btw.
I am currently running Ubuntu on my old Macbook and it is perfectly fine and fast, but because of a problem with the discrete GPU I don't know how long it will last, sometimes it won't start anymore..
I am looking at the framework laptop again, can't remember why I discarded it... Probably a Macbook is still the least of trouble and best hardware - for the price of being locked in..
my6sense (www.my6sense.com) aggregates Twitter, Facebook and RSS in one place and dedupes by source, meaning you shouldn't see the same update from one person. An added benefit is prioritization of content you are most interested in, so it reduces the noise in a big way. (I'm VP of Marketing there)
Still, it's unfriendly to newbies. You need to learn console commands. Also, the registration process does not allow webmail addresses. On places like chess.com or chesscube, you can pretty much start right away.

That said, I still prefer FICS for the greater flexibility in timings and the ability to review all past games.
hotspot is not a tracing jit, I believe parent^2 was thinking of tamarin/tracemonkey 6 the likes.
A well written, balanced article. As someone who has spent many years in the banking/investment industries on both the "buy" and "sell" sides I can say that there is no doubt in my mind that banks are an essential part of a healthy economy. I can also say without any doubt that banks have been allowed to go way too far and that it is all about the short-term rewards.
Step 1: Find a person that has a problem

Step 2: Find a solution to that problem

Step 3: Get person to pay for the solution

Repeat...
If the stuff you'd write seems obvious and boring, you probably waited too much after you figured it out. I'd say write it up immediately, even if it's unpolished.
There is less difference in expectations from AWS though, probably because it's lower-level.
Change, yes. Though not always in the direction you expect. Or desire.
I missed minimise-to-taskbar; made a temporary workaround: https://gist.github.com/unhammer/d970780be79a3121a48ccc8049f...
But if you had seen the previous comments, that is, if you'd experienced repetition instead of new information, then they'd have been less curious and less useful. Curiosity wants to find new things, learn new things—it basically wants diffs. My source? Self-observation and observation of this community. Is it really a controversial point?

Even when we mark stories as dupes there are often users who say it was new to them and they appreciated the post. That makes perfect sense. No one sees everything, and if you haven't encountered the earlier elements of a repetitive sequence, then for you there is no repetition. I'm always reminded of a second-hand clothing store in my home town called "New to You".

But at a site-wide level it's not hard to understand that this is a stochastic process and we have to manage it globally. The alternative would be not to moderate repetition at all, and the community would definitely not prefer that.
Sure. Spontaneous remission of cancer-- even later stage cancer-- happens frequently enough to be well documented in literature. And especially so with lymphomas etc.

https://www.google.com/search?q=spontaneous+remission+lympho...

This one is Stage IV-b https://www.hematologyandoncology.net/archives/november-2012...
I don't care about Trump being kicked off twitter. He is just a name that is meaningless in the grand scheme of things. I also don't care about the people you agree with or how they ended up, although I do think it's funny that you seem to care about them and yet you are pushing for a similar environment that will end up with similar results.
Who said anything about JSON? XML is just shit. It requires documents be well formed which sucks when you want a secretary to deal with the documents. It's just a poor combination strict and loose.
For those stupids our there (like me), take a look here[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax
The two websites are operated by the same company. I have nothing to do with them; I'm just a happy user of EZ-RJ45.
I don't want be a troll, but I am struck by something. I think this may be the first TB thread I've seen, about college education, where there isn't a strong sentiment (approaching 50%) questioning the value of college education at all, dismissing it as "signaling," and demanding "disruption" of the entire higher education system.

Is Stanford that powerful of a brand?
Yes I thought of Pace too. I second a visit to Salts Mill. Great collection of Hockney's.
Back in the early 2000s I worked at a company where we did a fun “Bring Your Gun to Work day” on Wednesdays. Instead of going to a restaurant at lunchtime we went to the shooting range instead. Was a really popular activity, probably 1/3 of the office participated. Some people brought several guns to try.

Good times! Could never do this these days in Silicon Valley though :(
If you aren't willing to post specifics about your own activities, you could at least provide references for the statements you did make, e.g. battle to consume resources, and throwing the microbiome off.

Don't bother to make vague generalizations without being willing to back them up, especially anonymously. It makes the statement nearly information-free. And this is coming from someone who agrees with your assessment.
I wish JS had ignored type annotations built into the language so that TypeScript code could run directly without a transpilation step.
I like the concept but please correct me if I'm mistaken that this is essentially a Kickstarter approach of validating a product concept but backers are putting in more skin in the game than the one who came up with the idea? I think it's important to validate an idea and people's willingness to pay but that is based on trust/brand/distribution/credibility as well. Instead of a pay option, it might be more interesting to harvest emails for early access or updates.
Like Zello was back a decade ago? I would have agreed with this statement if Clubhouse was around a decade ago when Facebook and Twitter weren't large tech companies or mainstream / established.

What's has become old has just become a new repackaged VC hype machine based around the same concept. I've used Clubhouse to see what the hype is about but its quite frankly underwhelming.

We'll see after the hype dies down.
This is a nasty column. The author agrees that the public reasons given for Donald McNeil's firing are weak, but says that he probably had it coming anyway because, the author speculates, McNeil is a "crotchety old-school asshole". Here are some quotes:

'Donald McNeil

He did not deserve it for quoting someone who had used a racial slur (the use/mention distinction matters!). But I have a vague sense that it’s more complicated than this.

...

Anyway, here’s the totally speculative hunch I’ve formed from the stuff I’ve read. Now, I have no idea whether this is true, but I’ve gotten the impression that McNeil is sort of a crotchety old-school asshole. But the resources, visibility and plum beats that guys like him are afforded might be part of the festering frustration of younger, less white, less male staffers, who feel that they aren’t being given equitable opportunity for advancement.'
Coincidentally I saw a tweet yesterday which said that albeit looks like a German word but isn't
They can't patent the general idea, so just base something off the information in the Wikipedia article. At time of writing, I don't think doing that would infringe their patent.
But that's only necessary if and when I open a support case with them, not merely because I bought the product.
The point of capitalism is to align the interests of those with no scruples with the interests of everyone else.

How well it does this and what else might do better is a matter for frequent — and loud — debate, but it is certainly better aligned than the feudal setup which preceded it.

Anyway, here is a link to some open-sourced generically engineered spider-silk producing yeast, to demonstrate that advanced cutting-edge biotech is getting to be as accessible as computing was getting in the 80s: https://youtu.be/2hf9yN-oBV4
According to Wikipedia: "It also has a large amount of documentation, but it is not standardized. A partial standardization is planned, and an incomplete pre-release already exists."
>The web has re-leveled the playing field.

Can't say I agree - the original owner of @N has a huge potential reach since he's a writer for medium, and knows how to structure and write an article so that people root for him instead of Twitter.

If @N would've belonged to some Chinese kid, that kid could have written on his unknown blog in Chinese and no-one would have cared.

Edit: Mixed up nextweb.com/medium writers
Unfortunately it's nowhere near the quality of the native versions and they only introduce small updates every quarter.

Hopefully one day...
Hoard of uncirculated coins in chronological order found buried under a tree? Isn't that the likely result of a robbery?
It's a thing of personal preference and requirements. I can easily see that there are requirements where Nomad is a better fit. However, I also have to say that Kubernetes has clearly won the battle a will be the safe choice for most companies for the years to come. It will be much easier to find knowledgeable DevOps and SRE workforce for k8s, than any other orchestrator alternative.
Does the elimination of a large irresponsible player actually offer any new information about how irresponsible the other actors in the market are? I don't think there is any particular reason why that would be the case, I am interested to know how.
I'm pretty tired of languages that claim 'erlang-style' concurrency without any of the erlang features that actually make it useful (process isolation, link/monitor, supervisors etc).

EDIT: Personally, I would also add to the above list: algebraic data types, optional static typing with a (mostly) sane type system, no inheritance / minimal indirection, immutable by default, (reasonably) good introspection, support for live code replacement.
My point is that specifying the radix is a best practice: there are still a number of situations where it's unnecessary for properly functioning code (ie: if you aren't using zero-padded numbers). Specifying the radix certainly helps readability, but you can't just do a regex search and say that all the code it finds is buggy.

On the other hand, casting Math.random() to an int is wrong unless you're trying to express 0 in an obfuscated way.
This works flawlessly (and sooo smooth, even in fullscreen mode at 1920x1200) in my Firefox 4 on Windows XP. And Microsoft said XP couldn't do the modern Web.
Well, say you're trying to get an int from .style.top, it'll never have leading zeroes.
Actually, geting reference counting right and mostly bug-free is much easier, if you use C++ and do the counting via objects on stack (RAII).
To be honest, if XBox Music needs to be implemented in 100k lines of a very high level language there's something very wrong going on.
Of course, it's nonsense, because it doesn't include the "off budget" supplemental expenditures, nor the money contributed to the Social Security Trust Fund that is dumped on the Federal balance sheet. (in exchange for an IOU)
You might be able to get ER treatment for when the cancer throws a clot and causes a stroke or infarction, but somehow I'm guessing that ERs don't perform chemotherapy and radiation for people who can't pay. Am I wrong on that? Do ERs perform chemotherapy?
Obviously you've got the problem of people that are good at doing things being fewer in number and less likely to need to actively hunt for collaborators than people looking for others to do things for them, which skews the typical site visitor towards those that post ads rather than reply to them.

This could be a problem for StackOverflow etc as well, but the difference is that people are both happier giving free advice to strangers than embarking on large scale projects with them, and more likely to stick around and answer a few questions on a site that might help them on frequent occasions in future with other issues.

Even if they work, sites catering for people making big one-time decisions like finding a cofounder are always going to end up looking like a ghetto. The people that find what they're looking for don't need to come back.
I've long thought that Google Maps API was great not just for the maps, but for other uses.
I did something a bit similar a few years ago for a university project: http://qut.rodh.org

I've used the maps API but rejected the whole maps/satellite imagery part of it, and added my own map of the university. In the back end the vending machine staff can move and place the vending machines on the map. It uses the long/lat functionality (but not the real long/lat values) to work out the closest machines to you etc.

The javascript isn't nearly as nice as the Khan Academy one (was one of my first Javascript heavy sites) and I'm sure there's a few bugs (site hasn't been used in years). Perhaps with HTML5 there might be better ways of doing this but Google Maps has a great framework now for doing some cool cross browser things.

Nice work!
Maybe I'm being dense, but can someone explain what I'm getting and how exactly I'm supposed to be saving?

It says I get Starter plan, value $228, that is $19/month. I cannot see a plan with such name nor price: http://www.ginzametrics.com/pricing.html

What are this service's unique selling points? Its "Feature Tour" shows:

SEO Dashboard Overview - I cannot read what is on X nor Y axis of this graph, description doesn't say either and I cannot zoom in.

Monitor Search Engine Rankings - I'm not very much into SEO, but... am I supposed to pay for this?
I always thought of the 'different result' as meaning improvement, and the action in repetition as being suboptimal. Thereby no matter how much you practice you will be at best improving sub-optimally.

This makes particular sense when you're practicing a musical instrument, bad habits will be more and more engraved as you repeat more. The best instrument players are those who have been taught or self-discovered good ways to improve, and put in the hard practice/repetition.
As downtrodden and abused as you might pretend to feel, claiming that I resorted to an ad hominem is quite fallacious: My comment was specifically and only about the argument (which was a variation of the "Apple is always the inventor" theme that is so popular among a few), not about the speaker. It is, quite literally, the exact opposite of which you claim.

Though the image of you putting on your top hat and adjusting your monocle was delightful. I pray that you haven't succumbed to the vapors.

Patents (which trace back to Venice circa 1474) were always were protections for individual inventors and creators. The "everyone churn out patents for the company to lay a monster landclaim --- just take what you find and add "with a computer" or "with a touchscreen" and we're golden", with patent ownership reverting to the corporate entity, is an altogether recent concept.
I don't have a box to test this on right now, but you might have to set HISTCONTROL=ignorespace for that to work.
My impressions are made from afar, but it is that YC is a high intensity immersion/sprint for founders to catapult themselves to the next level while having the support of experienced advisors and colleagues in the same situation around them. In other words, help shape and catalyze founders to become great with anything they touch (and recognize what to avoid). Strictly in the context of YC (or TechStars, Excelerate, etc.) it seems like that becomes lost when working with founders at a higher experience level.
Holy hell. I'd love to live in that. Sure, I live in a rather cheap apartment right now, but come on. That's beautiful work, cheap, and probably could sell for a hell of a lot more.

The only stipulations coming to my mind that would stop me from rushing out and doing it /right now/, are

* What are the laws like, regarding parking and sleeping this somewhere? Do I have to find campground or something, or just live in Walmart parking lots all the time?

* What's done for cooling/heating? Does this require a pretty temperate environment, or is it relatively well sealed?

* Is all power generated by the bus? If so, does that make traditional tasks on the computer or other places hell, with the shaking, and if not, what generates it and how much can you support?

In general, I LOVE the idea, and the execution. That bus looks as roomie as my(once again, crappy, but still, a real) apartment.
What makes you think they run strikingly.com ? From what I can tell strikingly.com is a squarespace type deal, and they're using some cheap plan which plasters a logo on the page.
Beautifully clean lines.

I sure hope he used Formaldehyde-free plywood though. It would be terribly noxious to live in if he just used the standard stuff.

http://www.epa.gov/iaq/formaldehyde.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanal
> the free lunch is now over and that this could not last ad infinitum

Could we expect the same to happen to Gmail? It also has a 15GB free quota.
> Why would you ever do this?

There are still situations where you want a gif. Your approach works fine if you're writing your own code, but if I want to embed a looping animation on a Confluence page, it isn't a viable option.
This is basically a mechanism that would allow for a honeytrap on steroids. https://blog.finjan.com/honeytokens-used-to-track-cybercrimi...

> that would require keeping track of bogus submissions

You don't have to keep track of the submissions because you can generate them with a reversible algorithm. Basically use a word list method https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawi... but have the list be entirely people's names (or generated from a corpus of known accounts and something like https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn to make them harder to spot)

> generating new data for each company where you create an account.

yes https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15794

Basically treating the data from various email honeypots as a "Numbers station" but instead of using it to prime encryption keys, you use it as a form of steganography. To do this entirely anonymously, the next step would be to publish on a public blockchain or anonymous service so that the owner's device (that generated the emails originally) can uploaded a signed statement that proves they were the phone pwned and who the offending app was.

A similar idea seems baked into a couple of crypto initiatives https://coincentral.com/sentinel-protocol/ but fundamentally we're talking about an anonymous reputation system modeled after how swarms operate to gossip risk.

It would be necessarily stochastic in nature because you'd be depending on the 3rd parties to send emails a bit at a time, but if you get a deluge of phones all reporting the same app, you can assume fairly confidently that app has been compromised. Punishment (Brand reputation, sanctions by app store) for being compromised would encourage better security.

This could (and would need to be) operated at the hardware level and orchestrated by the OS, and OS provider. This is the kind of thing apple and google could do as part of their privacy initiatives around "differential privacy" https://venturebeat.com/2019/12/21/ai-has-a-privacy-problem-...

What, you think that deep learning chip on your phone is there to make cute avatars?
But Ethernet worked around that problem pretty quickly with switches.

I'm sure Token Ring would have solved it the same way.

I think the point about IBM's licensing is valid.
If Gentoo doesn't work on fridges, what's up with this:

> The Gentoo/s390 Project works to keep Gentoo the most up to date and fastest s390 distribution available.

That's a declaration of support, and if that's not what they mean, they could list some limitations on their wiki. [1]

A lot of system distributions declare some platforms as supported and others as best effort and still others as probably not working, but you're welcome to try. That's reasonable, of course, but it's nice if you're upfront about it.

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:S390
That's a fundamental problem with any decentralized system no matter what source of consensus you use. Blockchains retain their history forever, it's only natural that it's going to use an excessive amount of storage.
IMO it's simple: with undo you want to 'go back in time' so you want to remove the commit and get the exact same list of staged/modified files that you had before (especially useful when you made a git commit -a which added too many files in the commit)