jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think he's just upset about the TSA articles

The TSA articles are annoying noise that undermine HN. Unless it's discussing the technology of the devices or heuristics of algorithms used to analyze it, it's pop political garbage that belongs on Reddit.

Though I'll disagree with him on one thing: HN should be more elitist, not less. HN's distinction was once that it really was where the smart technology people were. Of course once it gets that rep the hanger ons follow, and soon they're the ones stamping their feet and yapping about the TSA or even North and South Korea -- those are nice, calming, accessible topics, and it's how every community driven site, without oversight, eventually drifts to the mean.
Never heard of it. But it actually does use the same technique (I use flash as fallback for browsers that doesn't support websockets... well actually, Socket.IO does it all <- love it).
Flag them. Flag them all.
More than one server across multiple datacenters is the only way. The use either a load balancer (which brings its own problems) or some kind of status aware DNS scheme to route traffic to live servers.

I wish linode would offer some kind of high availability load balancing like amazon ec2 does, that really is a killer feature.
Smells like politics to me. It's all over the place here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/

If you feel a need to discuss it, perhaps that would be a more appropriate forum?

Not to mention featuring on sites like cnn.com. It's a pretty big issue that is certainly not "startups" or "tech". Yeah, there's tech involved, but the issue is how does society believe it should be used: politics.
This is a community of white collar workers who quite frequently look down on blue collar workers. I’m sorry but it’s true. A TSA worker...

Who here actually looks down on truck drivers or plumbers? It's a disingenuous way of framing the issue.
Pollution comes from individual activity and consumption almost entirely (since industries are more or less directly producing for people). So solutions against pollution are individual actions (lower footprint, it's possible to live well with 5% of the average person's footprint) and global ones (green cities)

It's a bit ironic to think about buying air purifier/conditioners/filters.. which maybe lower very locally the pollution, but increase the global pollution (for making, delivering, maintaining, powering, recycling those devices)
>Word doesn't at the same time allow markdown input and autoformats it impredictibly!

Word can't even auto-format plain text input predictably. If you try anything at all complex involving spacing our outline formats it gets completely turned around.
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OK, this got funnier the longer I read.

> Buy a Big Mac before boarding the plane, and eat it whenever you want. Bring chocolate and other snacks.

If I ever end up sitting next to somebody who brought along a Big Mac...well, the plane better have empty seats somewhere else...

(I was touring NSW, Australia via rail some years ago and sat across from another tourist who was calmly consuming a large chocolate bunny. It's become such a strange memory that I have to wonder if he just did it to mess with people or what. By the time I got off the train I wanted my own bunny)
There’s a whole industry that basically exists to accept these terms from Federal and State government. They skim a few points, get screwed by the receivables for late payment, and accept whatever onerous terms that are imposed.

For example, a global company needs to report on how many Northern Irish employees are Catholic or Protestant to sell crap to New York City. Nobody wants to deal with crap like that, so the reseller sucks it up.
Without additional supply, you might succeed at dampening demand and temporarily decreasing prices - most US homebuyers are shopping a payment similar to rent (and accounting for their downpayment amount). However for places that have more desirable properties (employment, weather, etc), all else being equal, you will still get an influx of people over the less desirable and will still be in a supply shortage.

Bay Area in particular you have a crazy imbalance that basically absorbed the high salaries of those working there. For many, the issue could be fairly easily solved with some additional height and/or townhome density. It’s happening slowly. The pandemic has created other dynamics though, so who knows.

EDIT: just a closing thought on the policy side, you are basically making affordability problem worse by reducing incentives. Those already in the real estate market/ownership will be fine, but price of entry will be a lot higher.
Yes. My symptoms correlate with the amount of air pollution around me, and much worse in winter.

Right now the only thing I can do is travel away from Europe to south/central america for the winter.

I tried all commercial air cleaners, but they don't decrease toxic gases, just PM2.5, which doesn't help me. I'm thinking of building a house/apartment with very clean air (maybe using nitrogene and oxygene concentrator). Also I'm planning to try cortisosteroid in my sinuses using a biodegradable net.

Biologics may help as well, but they help only IL-4 / IL-5 type inflammation, and I don't know what cytokins are causing my inflammation (I was thinking of doing an cytokin profiling from biopsy, but of course I need a great ENT doctor to help with it).

At the end the main problem is that there are multiple causes with CRS symptoms, so it's impossible to have 1 drug to cure all the symptoms. Also as it's not deadly short term, FDA is much stricter with the drug companies that try to come up with treatments, which is understandable.
We don't allow that kind of thing on HN, and if you or anyone else thinks it's happening, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it.
Its just priced to how much people are willing to pay for it like everything else, I guess.
> Sometimes I think of Python as the Nash Equilibrium[a] of programming languages:

I think you can say that about almost any language. Each feature has it's advantages and disadvantages and even the most hated features of some languages have some reasoning behind them - so changing it would hurt some use case.

Language design is sometimes more about reasonable compromises than genius ideas.
How does collab make money? Do you have to eventually pay? Or pay to make it faster?

Considering the computationally intensive nature of ML, does it make more sense to train on specialized cloud-based processors?
No mention of the incorrect theories of flight/lift, which are or were very common.

Here is a good summary:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/wrong1.html
Ah yes, passionate and naive is an awesome combination for exploitation.
Nostalgia can be insatiable, sure.
I use bitbucket mainly to host all my private repos (unlimited free private repos) and use github for my public ones. I'm not sure what the tradeoffs are regarding features (so far I'm not missing anything on bitbucket) but it's still git so the core things are still the same.
When it comes to CPU cycles or training data, as in so many other things, quantity has a quality all of its own[1].

1] http://www.quora.com/Who-said-Quantity-has-a-quality-all-its...
In my experience, it is absolutely true.

And I worked at really small and really big companies.

No one thought about the cost of a meeting, they thought of them as a normal thing every company does for a few hours a week.
I used to hold shares in a similar "too big to fail" company. I sold them. A few years later I shorted the company (note: this company is not IBM).

Perhaps it's time to consider shorting IBM.
The delete thing is actually not true https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8930181
The paradox of tolerance in and of itself is okay. We've seen already what happened if intolerance was tolerated, and way more than once.

However, the tightly guarded boundary between "tolerant" and "intolerant", as well as "context thereof" must be defined precisely and not be moved around according to one's mood, or depending on whether someone is losing an argument, or whether someone is in an outgroup or in an ingroup.

A good application of the paradox of tolerance requires integrity, which is a threatened species among human traits.
Wuffs touts its lack of memory allocation as a safety feature [0]. Rust could add a `#![forbid(alloc)]` declaration and achieve the same effect. I think this would be a good idea.

Wuffs types are not parameterized with lifetimes, so they may contain references only to items with static lifetime. This means that Wuffs cannot implement linked lists, hash tables, or other common data structures. To support those structures, Wuffs will need to either add lifetime parameters and a borrow-checker (like Rust) or add reference counting (like Rust `Arc`, C++ `shared_ptr`, Golang, Java, etc).

[0] https://github.com/google/wuffs/blob/v0.3.0-beta.1/doc/note/...
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Shafting people has been around for aeons
If anything Threema seems like the best alternative.
So many good points in this post. But I’ll nit pick this one anyway :-)

>technical debt is almost always created by accident through lack of experience rather than a conscious tradeoff.

I agree with this, at least early on in the business. But my experience is that many organizations eventually realize their technical debt. Sometimes the realization comes so far down the line that it feels like a monumental task to fix and then it does become a conscious decision. “We know the code base is shoddy and needs to be fixed, but the schedule/cost risk outweighs the quality risk.”

>Software is a new industry

In the early 1990s I heard it referred to as the “cave drawing days” of the industry. I wonder if it’s similar to how mechanical systems were in the early days of the industrial revolution. Lots of innovation, very few codified best practices related to pressure systems etc. It seems like the steam era of “move fast and break things”. Eventually, industry caught up and put together standards like ASME codes (or were regulated to do so). I’d like to see this more commonplace in software beyond its current adoption in a few industries
Because Telegram is not secure at all and the only content that is not stored on server unencrypted are so-called secret chats, used by approximately 0% of audience. So they have zero need to be paranoid about data privacy.
Yeah, NodeJS is indeed lacking some proper introspection functionality :(

What I'm doing to get the call stack really is nothing but an ugly hack. And users of this logger even have to do the annoying `log = init(log)` dance to make the hack work. Because if I had put the hack inside the formatter directly I would not have been able to get the actual calling location from the stack trace, as NodeJS is limiting the stack trace length to 10 entries by default, which in this case would be too short.

So the strong arguments for JS really aren't its language design and features but rather the fact it can be used universally in backend, frontend and mobile (i.e. allows for code sharing, less context switching during development if you're "fullstack"). Wish there were more languages that would easily support that :)
Standard Notes. I have a single item for each day, dated today, with additional tags as they become relevant.

Open source. Multiplatform. Stable.

My only beef is that the Android client is slow when the number of notes is high.
Is the number of empty wallets of a cryptocurrency a useful metric in any way?
> Hashify.me seems to be overloaded for the moment.

Here's what I'm seeing in my browser console:

{ "data": [ ], "status_code": 403, "status_txt": "RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED" }

I should have included appropriate error handling for this! Everything except shortening continues to function, though.
I don't think so. Apple puts it's profits first, users second and developers somewhere down the line. I've always found it funny how otherwise liberal/non-authoritarian people to go great lengths to justify Apple's "Father Knows Best" mentality.
Making significant money off mobile apps is a little more complicated than just releasing a clean app.

Here's what comes to mind to be able to produce a decent advertising revenue:

- the app needs to be useful on a daily (or so) basis

- the app needs to provide regular notifications to remind people of the app's existence and to draw them back into the app

- the app needs to have inelastic, strong demand. To give you an example of what I mean, I built the 'Spy Camera' app. That's the kind of product that has a strong demand. I've been charging $6 most of the time, and people buy it! I've made $25K over two years without have any of the above elements. Strong demand goes a long way. But this works for selling apps, not for advertising revenue. The revenue from the ads in the free version of Spy Camera is barely noticeable.

Click-through rates are much higher when the user starts the app on his own as opposed to getting there via a notification. Quantity vs quality.

Also, if you take a look at the OG's apps, he places the ads right next to the buttons. That kind of stuff won't fly in Google Adsense. It does on mobile, for the moment. Google will fix that in AdMob, then every other network will do the same or risk losing the advertisers. Nobody wants fake clicks.

Finally, notice the OG's profitable apps are random catchy stuff that appeals to the general population.

Clearly, the OG has done his homework. Don't think money will land in your lap by just releasing a shiny app.
Just an idea, but you could whitebox the software and sell it to congresspeople to use on their websites. You are right that without the traction they may not want to affiliate themselves with you, but they still want the functionality. Technically other voting software may fulfill requirements but people always like specialized and you are already in this space and would be considered an "authority".
We should really be taking this opportunity to make all cars sound like the cars on the Jetsons.
I love the positivity of his messages and the work he is doing to improve the lives of those that need it most. His call for us to become global citizens is greatly needed to tackle many of the problems we face and stop thinking, acting and voting just for ourselves.

However, global warming is such a big and immediate issue — we have until 2017 to start reducing carbon dioxide output, after that we lock in >2C dangerous, irreversible warming — that despite all the progress being made in developing countries today, the effects of climate change are likely to negate much of that work in the future.

Gates is bound by capitalist ideology, his emphasis on the need to develop a 'miracle cure' source of energy is evidence of that — we have the technology we need to solve the problem today, but it will require a fundamental shift of focus and wealth. We are putting profit before the place we live. We are betting big on the miracle cure in the future. What if the miracle never happens?

edit: I've written a post with a bit more detail and sources: https://shamocracy.org/2015/01/22/2015-gates-annual-letter/
Are you aware of a documentary in the English language on Olivetti?
SVG should be no problem if loops and conditionals are enough for the logic. Never tried though.
This is a great article. I say this as a physician and someone just today returning to work after having been out all week with the flu.

I weigh the evidence similarly to Cochrane/FDA. Though I was aware I had the flu within ~12-24h, I did not elect to take Tamiflu. This is both because I currently have no comorbidities, but also because the side effect profile is quite real. People really do sometimes add nausea and vomiting to their list of flu symptoms because they take these medications.

In the inpatient setting I offer Tamiflu to anyone sick enough to be hospitalized, and I am happy to offer it to outpatients with the flu as well if they understand the potential side effects, but it's definitely not a clear winner.
I have a Jolla (Sailfish) phone. I can not use the web client, because I need an Android, Windows or Blackberry phone. WhatsApp does however work fine on my phone (via Alien Dalvik).

This "web client" is not actually a web client - it's just an app for your phone that you can display on your computer monitor.
"Holographic" live shows may be where it shines.
As a regular used of "Addy Lee", I've found that's not normally true if you go for the standard cards (the Ford Galaxy): from my home to Euston is about £20 in an Uber, £35 in a black cab, and about £25 in an AL.

Given Addison Lee is not VC subsidised, you have to wonder how they're getting the price down, but I always choose AL when I can.
Academia is not free
I've worked with hardware accelerated vector graphics engines (2D GPUs). It sounds like a good idea to do everything vector, because some things are very simple while retaining quality as you said. But in my experience, the vector operations are so expensive compared to raster ones that you go back to rasters to maintain framerate.
The largest ISP in the US, Comcast, has deployed IPv6 on 100% of their network. If they can do it, why can't you?
The tragedy is that teachers who don't teach to the test and provide an excellent education that is tailored to the children they have are starting to worry about the security of their jobs, whereas poor teachers who have no real ability except to regurgitate the texts and drill the kids on process and recitation are relatively safe.

Evidence for this empirical statement? I have my doubts about this, because the best teachers I had in childhood (too few, but more than one) were able both to engage the pupils from the dullest to the brightest with deep, thoughtful questions and able to cover the fundamental facts of the lessons with efficiency.
That's not an interpretation rooted in the text of the amendment. An equally simple rule is that the government needs a warrant whenever a search impinges on your property right (person, house, papers, and effects are all things you have a property right in).
>> Most human cultures are built on the nuclear family

>> Adam Smith lived in the clouds

>> Family structures of one married couple and their children were present in Western Europe and New England in the 17th century, influenced by church and theocratic governments.[5] With the emergence of proto-industrialization and early capitalism, the nuclear family became a financially viable social unit.[6] The term nuclear family first appeared in the early twentieth century. [...] The concept that a narrowly defined nuclear family is central to stability in modern society has been promoted by familialists who are social conservatives in the United States, and has been challenged as historically and sociologically inadequate to describe the complexity of actual family relations.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_family

Is this some kind of joke?
Reserved pricing for that instance ranges from

1 year with $0 upfront and $293 a month (i.e. $3522 a year)

to

3 years with $5195 upfront and $0 a month (i.e. $144 a month)

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
This is an awesome piece of work.

metagame: find the hardest/simplest level on earth :) (I got Manhattan vs Tokyo)
Not sure if you will catch this but loved your raspberry ok adventures. Always interested in meeting fellow Brits in this strange industry - could not find your email easily, hence the comment
That definition makes very little sense for computing. The basis of multithreading is an illusion of concurrency.
I am surprised this comment is needed on HN, but a tool is a great tool in the hands of a professional, and a shitty one in the hands of an amateur.

Jokes aside, as a kid once very interested in photography and took courses, I was shocked one night to watch TV and see one of those garbage entertainment gossip shows in passing mention how one Sports Illustrated Smiwsuit photographer's camera choice would shock you: he was using point-and-shoots (not all the time, but a good portion of the time).

Surprise, surpise, I search and I find him: Terry. Richardson.

http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/09/25/terry-richardson-talk...

A DSLR, like a programming language, is good in some contexts and not in others, and timing vs equipment needed does make a difference like he says, but the death of DSLR? Were we not discussing the slow death of PHP in the PHP thread a few hours ago? Haha. Good tools die, bad tools die, but they will remain tools with supporters and detractors.
I'm sick of the crypto "experts" equating weak (or even "pretty strong") security with no security.
What keeps Canon and Nikon in business is that the ecosystem is more worth than the camera itself. If you buy a Nikon or a Canon there is a high probability that if someone makes some cool gear, it will work with these cameras.

The camera is the least important component since it is nigh on impossible to find a terrible SLR. And you if you are serious about photography, you will end up spending more money on lenses than on cameras.
Agreed, the first title, even partially wrong had at least some information.
Also, I forgot to mention that everybody looks at the past with rose-colored glasses. There were plenty, PLENTY, of films in the whatever era you view as the greatest that you would consider terrible. You're not aware of them as they died the death of irrelevance.
Based on 3 minute testing, I like, thanks.

If someone tries to install this on ubuntu with just the quick start instructions and fails, note that you need to

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

Obviously, this is told in the more detailed install instructions.
Location: Toronto, ON ( Canada)

Remote: No. (though perfectly willing to work on a trial basis remotely before relocating.)

Willing to relocate: Yes (US and Canada only - If you are based in US, I will expect efforts from you to apply for a US visa that leads to a P.R. A TN permit for Candians like me can be used as a stop gap measure.)

Technologies: Web, Android(out of touch) and Windows desktop apps. * 15 years of experience on the web(from frontend to back, though my pref is mostly backend). See résumé link below for further details.

Résumé/CV: http://tinyurl.com/n5bdsd9 (downloadable in .doc, github code also available)

Email: dennis_quicksort-1@yahoo.com

* =not that the number of years of experience matters, but 20 somethings shallow 'software-is-my-only-passion' kids are annoying,(I'm fine with the young, wise, humble ones). I prefer working with silver hairs(or ones born with silver hair - like I was :)) who have life/opinions/wisdom beyond software. Take Care.

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