jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication
https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/29/kuo-iphone-13-to-support-leo-satellite-communication-allowing-users-to-make-phone-calls-and-send-texts-without-cell-signal/
Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots
https://qz.com/1419418/uniqlo-cut-90-of-staff-at-one-warehouse-by-replacing-them-with-robots/
Facebook is trying to register BOOK as trademark in Europe
https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/018075708
Salted Password Hashing – Doing it Right
https://crackstation.net/hashing-security.htm
Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05725-6
The vital art of talking to strangers
https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2021/07/10/the-vital-art-of-talking-to-strangers
GHC 7.8.1 released
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2014-April/024137.html
New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/new-concerning-variant-b11529
Show HN: Split Keyboards Gallery
https://aposymbiont.github.io/split-keyboards/
The downfall of smart TVs: From promises of seamless viewing to ad tool
https://adguard.com/en/blog/smart-tv-ad-blocking.html
Questions about Cameron’s ‘new’ porn-blocking
http://paulbernal.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/10-questions-about-camerons-new-porn-blocking/
Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter
https://expensive.chat
Tor – Arti 1.0.0 is released: Rust Tor implementation ready for production use
https://blog.torproject.org/arti_100_released/
Is Stack Exchange in violation of NY labor law by using volunteer moderators?
https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/337117/16587
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/
Poverty, not trauma, affects cognitive function in refugee youth: study (2019)
https://news.yale.edu/2019/10/24/study-poverty-not-trauma-affects-cognitive-function-refugee-youth
Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR
https://www.oculus.com/blog/meta-accounts/
Internet in Iran gradually shuttting down due to protests
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1195775905907576832
20×10%
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2022/09/20/20x10/
Y Combinator Numbers
http://ycombinator.com/nums.html
Programming Language Rankings: June 2016
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2016/07/20/language-rankings-6-16/?
Spark as a Compiler: Joining a Billion Rows per Second on a Laptop
https://databricks.com/blog/2016/05/23/apache-spark-as-a-compiler-joining-a-billion-rows-per-second-on-a-laptop.html
World food prices hit 10-year peak – FAO
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-food-prices-hit-10-year-peak-fao-2021-10-07/
Expanding our testing in San Francisco
https://blog.waymo.com/2021/02/expanding-our-testing-in-san-francisco.html
Core Infrastructure Initiative
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/core-infrastructure-initiative
Our data centers now work harder when the sun shines and wind blows
https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-centers-work-harder-sun-shines-wind-blows
Framework Laptop Mainboard
https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard
Huge success in business is largely based on luck: new research
https://theconversation.com/huge-success-in-business-is-largely-based-on-luck-new-research-130843
Reliability of police mobile phone evidence questioned after hack
https://theferret.scot/reliability-of-police-mobile-phone-evidence-questioned-after-hack/
Automatic CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux
https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq
Attorneys for Barrett Brown want case on linking to hacked material dismissed
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/mar/04/attorneys-barrett-brown-hyperlink-hacked-material-want-case-dismissed
American Express fails miserably at basic security
http://timetobleed.com/warning-american-express-fails-miserably-at-basic-security/
Firefox 96
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/96.0/releasenotes/
Nim 0.19
https://nim-lang.org/blog/2018/09/26/version-0190-released.html
The EU's Copyright Proposal Is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even Wikipedia
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal-extremely-bad-news-everyone-even-especially-wikipedia
Reddit's redesign could kill discussion subreddits
https://changemyview.net/2018/04/11/reddit-redesigned-its-site-and-it-could-kill-discussion-subreddits/
Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ (2015)
https://seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-greatest-scene-casablanca-and-la-marseillaise/
What I learned in 2017 writing Go
https://www.commandercoriander.net/blog/2017/12/31/writing-go/
Krugman on BitCoin
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/golden-cyberfetters
A $5,600 Electric Makeover for Old Diesel Cars
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-31/there-s-a-5-600-electric-moonshot-for-your-combustion-clunker
IMAX’s absurd attempt to censor Ars
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/from-quote-to-retraction-request-imaxs-absurd-attempt-to-censor-ars/
The State of Data Science and Machine Learning
https://www.kaggle.com/surveys/2017
Facebook kept its own oversight board in the dark on program for VIP users
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/tech/facebook-cross-check-oversight-board/index.html
Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/indian-academics-throw-weight-behind-sci-hub-and-libgen-in-landmark-case-51780
Regexper – Regular expressions visualizer
https://regexper.com/
MongoDB's Server Side Public License Is Likely Unenforceable
https://www.processmechanics.com/2018/10/18/the-server-side-public-license-is-flawed/
Anti-Lukashenka hackers seize senior Belarusian officials' personal data
https://en.currenttime.tv/a/seeking-change-anti-lukashenka-hackers-seize-senior-belarusian-officials-personal-data-/31392092.html
A Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1k
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/upshot/health-care-huge-price-discrepancies.html
Anomalous CPU utilization on Windows build node caused by ads
https://twitter.com/shipilev/status/1149679913974280193
New NSA Documents Shine More Light into Black Box of Executive Order 12333
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/new-nsa-documents-shine-more-light-black-box-executive-order-12333
NPM package ‘ua-parser-JS’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised
https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/qdlela/breaking_npm_package_uaparserjs_with_more_than_7m/
Do you really want Linux phones
https://blog.brixit.nl/do-you-really-want-linux-phones/
speaking about Novell, Isn't Miguel De Icaza a Novell employee ?
good old noki noknok
I've bought machines with Debian and Red Hat (back in the day) preinstalled from http://dnuk.com and would buy from them again. I've never bought a machine with Ubuntu preinstalled from them, but they do give the option.
Video and first-hand account are here:
http://informationliberation.com/?id=33127

It doesn't help that he wasn't exactly as polite as possible in dealing with the TSA agents in the screening area.

Can anyone point to the statute making it illegal for him to leave? Interesting that he's threatened with fine and lawsuit after leaving, but the agents who escorted him out get a pass for not knowing it was illegal for him to leave.
Good points. However I have to say I love frameworks (compass?) that handle all the cross-browser / ie6 stuff for me. If that is not reason enough to use CSS frameworks, I don't know what is.
How was Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood political?
Rooted in fondness according to who? Are you saying that someone that expresses an inclination for in-person collaboration is actually deceiving themselves into remembering the experiences differently than they actually were?
This reminds me of a physics teacher I had in elementary school:

-But is there anything faster than light?

-??? ...

-Yes! Our thoughts. In my thoughts I can be on the moon instantly.
Comparing salaries in Germany to the ones in SV is a nonsense. In Germany you have free healtcare, free education and cost of living and renting is lower than SV. 120k in SV are like 60k in Germany.
I worked at a smaller social media website. We were constantly pressured by investors+management to grow new users and grow engagement of existing users. It turns out these 2 requirements were constantly in tension, so naturally we had 2+ teams that were constantly changing the same page templates in a perverted Yin/Yang struggle.

One of Steve Job's best (IMHO) jobs at Apple was to constantly apply pressure on all teams+products to _simplify_ everything. The universe (including social media websites) tends towards entropy, so it takes a special kind of product team to both achieve primary goals and continue to keep the UX/UI clean and unobtrusive.

I've noticed sites that combine

- cookie warning,
- app download prompt,
- browser notifications permissions,
- browser location permissions,
- nudge me to login just to lurk,
- use tracking/analytics such as QuantCast which occasionally offers the viewer a survey to gather demographics,
- display multiple ad networks,
- then pop up dialog/modal for a "special offer" after my mouse leaves the viewport

Each of these in isolation is a business requirement, perhaps even a reasonable one. It requires a rare type of business hierarchy to allow one department to override another's business requirements for the sake of something as vague as "a better look and feel".

Craigslist is the only site I'm really envious of. It has been around for basically the lifetime of the web, but has managed to keep the UX/UI the site very minimal and still managed to provide a decent product which makes a healthy profit.
There is more which has value than money.
The problem with COBOL is that you can't afford "better", you can only afford "good". Excel should be a sufficient demonstration that visual programming is doable beyond the start.
There's a lot that can be said about this but I want to give a personal answer to a question that has come up in this thread already, and that comes up often in these kinds of discussions.

It's usually framed as something like, "why do we care if there are more women in the programming world or not?" Here are a few answers that are true for me. Maybe these will resonate with some of you.

- I often meet women or read accounts written by women who struggle to simply exist in the world of programming without feeling like they are being called out as women all the time. This includes everything from being assumed to be ignorant of concepts to losing out on opportunities to being sexually harassed. As a male programmer, this makes me uncomfortable and unhappy as well--I want my female colleagues to feel welcomed and to equally "own" the identify of "computer programmer" (or software engineer, or what-have-you). Having more women programmers would help this, in many ways.

- I think it is possible we are missing out on some brilliant programmers coming into this field who could contribute things we haven't yet conceived of. Having more women programmers is not going to upset the balance in a zero-sum game; it's more for everyone. So having more women programmers could potentially help the world as well as provide all of us with more excellent colleagues.

- I would like to have more women colleagues because I enjoy the experience of working with women. Yes, I think women are different from men--but this is obvious if only because women will always experience the world differently from men. So I think having this perspective can only enrich a project and provide a more fertile ground for a successful project or team to grow.

I want to add one more thing. I get the sense that a lot of male commenters on HN feel immediately defensive about this subject, and feel like somehow they are going to lose something if they acknowledge that there is anything wrong or anything that could be fixed, or at worst, acknowledge that there is something that they could have handled better in the past.

But consider this: working in development, a concept that comes up again and again is software having a "smell." It seems obvious to me that the constant issues that come up relating to sexism in the industry is a very strong smell, albeit within the social fabric of the larger programming community. And it's equally obvious that the defensive, knee-jerk reaction is not productive. Consider, how would you approach this if it was a bug, and just wouldn't go away? If you were a good developer, first you would spend serious time trying to understand the problem and dig into it deeply, before you started writing code willy-nilly, right?
Most people I know probably think I'm smart enough, yet I still didn't get the right answers to all the test questions posed in the article. I started to wonder how come.

One question giving me no trouble at all was item 5. It was obvious to me that the problem was one I often encounter, deciphering the ratios is a skill developed reading countless medical research reports. After a while it seems natural, it's about something salient in my universe.

I'm guessing the item about marital status of individuals, one looking at another, doesn't align with the salience of usual experience. In normal life we have to be sensitive to the context, and in the question that context was deliberately stripped away. It reduces to a purely abstract notion whereas people, even intelligent ones, really want to know "is she married or not". That information is lacking hence the "C" response.

Some of the other questions are kind of tricky unless one is familiar with the statistical domain they arrive from. Sure there's a logic involved, but learning how to think in those logical terms is unlikely to occur unless it's germane to the individual.

If someone I cared about tested positive for the disease (#4), you bet I'd have good reason to figure out the odds. Otherwise, probably not. The motivational aspect is highly relevant and in many cases the "missing link" between intelligence and worse than expected performance.
Declining birth rates only lead to shrinking populations when the birth rate was stable to begin with.

--

Date 1: Every two people produce four offspring.

Date 2: Every two people produce three offspring.

Between Date 1 and Date 2 the birthrate declined by 25%, but the total rate is still positive.
This is amazingly exhaustive, and for those still hungry, there's always the Nurbs Book http://www.springer.com/computer/image+processing/book/978-3...
Unassuming yet momentous line item on page 1-2:(j) EVA for 2 hours 40 minutes
>You’d think that any programmer with a basic grasp of recursive algorithms would be hesitant to take a job as a software engineer.

What does this mean? Is software engineering "below" programming? Do software engineers write less code?

I've only been in the industry for a few years, mostly working on my own. I've assumed these titles were arbitrary. Are they not?
Can you explain how to actually win? I've done more than 40 points in snake an lost. I How much points do I need to win?
You still get investigated even if you are a contractor. I know many of them firsthand, and they tell me that contractors are put under additional scrutiny, actually. You need a high-level clearance for this sort of work done on behalf of the government, regardless of your employer.
I suppose this will work:
http://code.google.com/apis/documents/

You can both upload and specify format when downloading. I guess that includes the OCR applied if necessary.
I've just tried hackerfollow.com and found a bug with self posts: After entering a login phrase I see all of PG's comments and posts. Many of the posts are discussions on HN (eg http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861577), which gets linked to http://hackerfollow.com/comments/1861577, which in turn shows an "500 Internal Server Error".
Very convenient service. Just works!

Curious about business model. I'm sure that services like rapidshare could be profitable (bad interface, worsen service for free users etc), but it not so clear how to get profitable such service with so strait forward interface.

Other file-sharing service with simple interface that I've tried to use was filesavr.com but after some time it became very unstable.
For me it's less the lugging (though that's a factor), but more the easier ability to use the machine in cramped quarters, like at some coffee shops, and in economy-class plane seating.
I think that point is that if he were buying a MBP that it would not be able to justify the purchase to himself without maxing everything out. So that price comparison is really only applicable to him.
I don't understand - injecting a person with testosterone increases their logical reasoning ability? I hate to be that guy, but [citation needed].
MBAs look nice for on the go but I definitely wouldn't give up my 27" imac at home (1 20" attached to the imac too) setup at home. I have a company MBP that I use for whenever i'm out and about. I definitely don't haul it everywhere but it's no trouble to take on even an afternoon trip if there's a chance I could use it.

I'm also not sure what the problem is with switching to a different workflow on a laptop vs a desktop. I'm fine alt-tabbing between chrome and coda or xcode and ios sim but I'd prefer to not have to. All of my content stays in sync with a combination of git and dropbox so no issues there either.
In Ireland sadly we have a Landlord culture and many landlords move people on regularly to ensure they don't get any rights or simply get too comfortable.
I have found the China Neican newsletter [1] to have insightful, contextualized critique of CCP as well as critique of the US+Australian critique.

[1] https://www.neican.org
I love my Mac, IPhone etc. but Apple is not the be all end all of success stories. They have one culture, Google has another (more hacker-centric), and other successful companies have even more of a hacker culture.

Apple is a hardware company first, software second, with web services a distant third. So one could also argue that Apple's top down, less hacker, culture has produced some mediocre web services compared to Google and even Yahoo.
Only a fallacy if it's an argument for something. It's actually a criticism of your criticism. Oh hey, you tried to spin my comment with a different meaning. I guess you're guilty of an entirely different fallacy.
Quick reply to myself, just finished reading the whole thing. So yeah, morning gone.
"Given the power of our prior beliefs to skew how we respond to new information, one thing is becoming clear: If you want someone to accept new evidence, make sure to present it to them in a context that doesn't trigger a defensive, emotional reaction."

This was a fascinating read. I've snipped out what I consider the bonus quote above because I run into it so often. If someone is engaged in an issue emotionally then having a rational discussion with them becomes problematic at best.

Here on HN we've seen the nuclear power and currency discussions which both clearly have an emotional component.

I was a bit annoyed that the article focused a bit much on the climate discussion, clearly it is the one the author has the most emotion invested in :-) I think my views on it are pretty well known so I won't bother going into that.

But that brings us to the subtext, which is that emotions interfere with reasoning. You react emotionally before you react rationally (purportedly because it made evolutionary sense to do so). On the show 'Big Bang Theory' the character Sheldon Cooper is a stereotype of a brilliant, OCD, Asberger's Syndrome scientist. That stereotype works because it seems fairly common that technologists, as a population, have a higher incidence of folks who have a difficulty emotionally interacting with other humans. It makes me wonder if this could be the mechanism by which breakthrough science and/or technology gets done.
Keep applying fir this interviews. Each interview failure will make you get out your books and hone your craft. After 6 interview failures you will be learning more than what you learnt the whole previous year.

Just saying, your on the right track as long as you keep interviewing.
PG, it's not just YC that I'm talking about, it's lots of other accelerators...but i do have multiple concrete datapoints from investors who committed on the spot across accelerators post demoday...

re: 3-5 yr commitments: that's how long it takes to exit a company. As a founder, I view the acceptance of outside capital as a commitment to return their investment. emotionally, i think you are signing up for the long hall when you accept investment

re: Greplin, i agree, perfect example of someone who actually didn't try to raise a big seed round at demo day, but capitalized over time after demo day, once he was more sure of what he was doing...i think that's the model to follow, not just raise because it's demo day, right?
Yeah, seems dangerous for Lyft to get sucked into a price war. But I do see a lot of potential longer term value in getting riders and drivers accustomed to multiple pickups.
Yes, because nobody wears jewelry anymore.
I don't want to discourage you so much as warn you; I too have spent a lifetime dieting and have lost and gained back weight many times. All working diets feel like you to maintain them for ever during what I call "the momentum phase". Your brain is amazing at slowly making diets cease to work over time.

That said, portion control and calorie counting are components of a working weight loss plan and one should be extremely skeptical of diets like the "eat only before midnight diet". I have never been a night snacker and managed to get morbidly obese just fine without it.
Ultimately it comes down to opinion, but for me, it matters for reasons of authenticity. I want the sound I'm hearing to be the actual sounds the engine in my car is making, even if there is no sound at all. Am I a fool for wanting authenticity?
Isn't the colon an adequate indicator that you have left the anonymous function declaration?
Wow, they struck a glancing blow to that barge! From space!
>>> Changing would be expensive and risky, and would only be worthwhile if lots of their colleagues and clients were also moving.

This is a huge point. Adobe is so entrenched in so many corporations, it's almost like MS Office to a degree. Even in most startups, if you want to hire someone, you're going to go with Adobe products instead of having a training/learning curve to worry about.

>> So Adobe has intentionally created a lot of barriers to exit.

Of course they did. Once you have an entrenched software platform, you want people to continue using your product, regardless of whether they like it or not. It's just smart business. Not really good business, but smart nonetheless.
Whatever you need to tell yourself if it helps you sleep at night...

I am using the term in the same sense you are. People feel dependent on their social networks, their apps and even declare to feel things akin to withdrawal syndrome when they are away from their devices or haven't checked their networks for updates.

And again, the fact that "other companies do similar things" is not an excuse, less so due to the fact that Facebook has way more reach and uses technology that can amplify their effectiveness infinitely. I don't have Starbucks baristas knocking on my door offering me coffee, I do have Facebook listening to conversations inside my house because of my wife's phone.