jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Why are you all pushing for this Signal crap when Matrix is objectively better...

At what exactly? Elaborate and enlighten us a bit.

> and doesn't require phone numbers?

That's true, but you know it's still not enough for John and Jane Doe to use it. Elaborate us on more reasons otherwise John and Jane Doe will use 'this Signal crap' instead or even will go back to WhatsApp. (Again)
No. Your attempt to project hyperbole into what I 'feel' is not rhetoric.

If it's a small group of heretofore unknown people with a major stake in a new, exotic and opaque, 1 Trillion dollar asset pool, then describing them as 'all men' is perfectly reasonable if they are. Just as if they were all American. It's relevant because they are obvious characteristics of the group and not a random outcome.

If there was some women in the group then it wouldn't have been notable.

This is not SJW journalism it's just journalism.
What we can say about iq tests is that they test something, and those results remain consistent through life. The results are positively correlated to many things (such as academic success. The people scoring a 9, the maximum result, on the tests used in the Swedish conscription live longer, etc...).

Had it been completely pop-pseudoscience it would not be used by, say, the Swedish school system as a tool to gauge whether someone has special needs that warrant another form of school with extra support. The tests used are however not the same as most people have done online, like WAIS (but for kids. Can't remember the name of it).
Likely not because a feature like that kind of has to be implemented as part of the core language. Maybe someone could retrofit a “safe” version of c/c++, but there’s nothing on the horizon that indicates that would be possible (they are hampered by back compat issues).
They also run on AMD ;)
Second picture from his camping trip should fully answer "what these nomadic folks do".
“Why wasn't this bug caught in the first place” - this isn’t an attack on whichever developer introduced the bug.

It’s a (totally fair) attack on Signal’s lack of QA/testing in their development + release cycle.

Do they implement peer reviews on PR? Multiple reviews on changes touching mission critical code (ie. data migrations)? Do their test suites provide adequate test coverage? Do they have a manual Q/A process that involves real people testing new releases?

Considering Signal’s funding, I would hope the answer to all of those questions is yes.

But if it’s possible to release code that completely corrupts the app with no known fix, I suspect their test coverage and Q/A processes aren’t as robust as they need to be.
Can we finally get HLS support for Windows now?
So what todo list software do you use?
This was my entry in the Data Viz Challenge that they mention at the bottom:

http://canigetareceiptwiththat.com/
It is difficult to develop when rendering on all browsers is different.

I do agree with him, one platform that did what we told it to. All hacks were documented.

However I don't miss it. Plenty of capable platforms out there that can help build browser compatible sites quickly. Besides if you have to resort to bold inside an option tag, your design has some other flaws.

My favorite is still web kit. I hope it gets more share.

Edit: try putting image tags inside option. I believe only FF renders it. I could be wrong though. It's been a while I've worked this deep with HTML. The DTD never allowed yet FF renders it.

Edit: I was right, he is using option tag to do something it is not supposed to. http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/option.html I suppose he missed IE6 for a reason ;)
Private companies already determine what you do with your waking hours and many other aspects of your life that you have to conform to or face homelessness or worse. This is only a smaller effect of control.
Trump gave Twitter the power though, so I don’t think his suspension supports your logic. He was the user who communicates only over Twitter, purposefully de-fragmenting it. He could e easily protected himself from this by publishing the same content across many different platforms.

The tech giants only have power when users give it to them. Trump could’ve negated their power very easily, without legislation.
In what sense is Twitter a "Massive Big Tech conglomerate"?

They're merely a successful platform.
I'm squarely in group b, however, I don't think it's an actual dichotomy in the way you present it. I think American's fetishize "free speech" which leads to a "hyper group a" that argues since censorship is scary (which it is) we'd rather face any other conceivable consequence rather than wrestle with the hard questions of what is appropriate vs. inappropriate public speech. I believe we're seeing examples of where the pendulum has swung too far, in the US, towards "say what you want" and we need to bump it back a bit. If it swings too far the other way I'll quickly switch my thoughts on the matter.

Also, there's another dimension which I think gets immediately thrown on the floor when these discussions come up. Very rarely are people calling for controls on what can be said at any time. Instead, it's controls on what can be said to large amounts of people. Group b folks, such as myself, are not saying that we're concerned about dinner conversations. We're concerned about speech that is being amplified in a way where there's a civic responsibility to ensure that the harmful messages are not being amplified.
WhatsApp proves that switching away from an unfavorable service is not as easy as you think.

It is still essential in many countries, and many users, including myself, are unable to switch.

This is why companies first offer a product for free to gain a user base, and only then think about monetization.
Calling terrorists patriots sounds like a stellar reason to ban him. This is prime, low on content, high on wall-of-text rationalization.
I'll just ask then: what's the other side? what is "my" side? why would "all the institutions" push one side versus the other?

You're essentially just insinuating a conspiracy without providing a valid alternative to consider. Be substantive.
I'm not sure this even deserves a follow up question. But go ahead and show some specifics.
Maybe the solution is to use 21st century tools for democracy in 21st century. Issue based open voting, flexible mechanism of vote delegation, and ability to trade votes to reach compromise can fix what social media have broken https://voteflux.org
Given that the essay opened with "Any essay on hiring hackers quickly gets bogged down in definitions. What is a hacker, and how is he different from a cracker?", I gave him the benefit of the doubt and read that not as his universal definition of the term, but the one he was using for the remainder of the post. Admittedly it could be better labeled.

"Is X a Hacker?" is only a step removed from "Is X art?" When someone gives their definition for the moment, you really have to just accept it, contingently.
Try "war": (http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=war&year_star...). Nice peaks on WWI, WWII, and Vietnam; maybe a tiny peak on the Gulf War. Any other search terms where you can see meaningful fluctuations?
I assume this post was down-voted due to the "fed" being political. I find the topic more interested in that it is a field/service that needs disruption. Too bad it was a government policy change that had to do it.
-who says they'd want to filter them out completely?
-i'm in the position, that our speed laws are outdated. Cars are now much more stable at speeds. Hell you can go 140mph in a M3 without actually feeling it. Hell it doesn't even have to be a M3...you can do 120mph in a civic just fine. There's actually been studies done that show that lower speed limits actually end up causing more accidents. No, I'm not advocating for 120mph speed limits, but 80mph is perfectly safe for any car.
-There is a huge difference between someone going 80-90 in the fast lane, and the guy doing 80-90 passing people on the shoulder.
It only scales jobs, it doesn't scale dynos.
This is really fun to play with: http://goo.gl/mNSDD
This scales workers, it doesn't scale dynos.
Sweet. I noticed there's 6 more suggestion cards in the app. The Game Crafter deck only has 30.
Somebody on /r/spacex made the following spreadsheet to demonstrate the effect of savings due to the reusability of the first and potentially second stages: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhFJHvEz4SHQdDB...
Although having a boat (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/20/technology/20101...) in the office is something, some part of their office would make me more tired during the breaks (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/12/20/technology/20101...).

I believe I would prefer Google style offices more. Their Zurich office, for example.
When I was thinking about stuff at work other guys, who were electrical or mechanical engineers, would describe me as "praying".
On my German keyboard, -- is actually easier to type than //.
Are you a biologist?

> Inside the bee's head is an ODE (ordinary differential equation) solver
> basically an analog computer. Just think of the ODE solver as a complicated
> timer, but with output depending on both time and some hidden variable.
> These are common objects in biology, and don't require many neurons.

Do you have any sources to back any of this up at all?

EDIT: Here's a very long list of papers on Honeybee navigation. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/287/5454/851.abstract. From the looks of no one really knows how it works. That includes the OP.
He's not the first mathematician to get annoyed by how poorly designed the numeric classes in the Haskell prelude are. But there are better alternatives already out there. http://hackage.haskell.org/package/numeric-prelude
That's obsessively anal for a comment that adds nothing. No wonder you take issue with moderation and humour on HN.
I browse on a phone, mistakes are easy to make. I'm well aware of the requirements of me in my profession but thanks for doing your civil duty and reminding me. I'm sure you're a real blast at parties!
That jumped out at me as well. He states that he believes he is within his rights and that may even be the case but as it is presented it does not actually look like it and this could come back to bite him, hard.
The number of shares in an option grant is not necessarily the number of shares in a stock grant. You're assuming the choice is "5,000 options [for a single share]" or "5,000 shares." That's ridiculous. Clearly the shares are worth strictly more. But that's (typically) not the comparison.
These exist on many highways in the US. However, if you're behind a slow driver waiting for the passing lane to open up, it's normal for the slow driver to gun it when the passing lane appears and race you to the end of it, then resume driving 15 mph below the speed limit.
The previous one was 99.965% efficient.

http://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-super-black-materia...

So yeah, this article is bull.
Serious question: is there any reason to think that mice would be a good proxy for human health results re: meat consumption?
It is, for sure.

There are some other points to consider. First, the dataset sizes for most biomedical research are very small. Most advanced statistical methods don't apply. Due to curiosity, I took some advanced stat courses and tried to apply the methods to our lab's data. It didn't provide any significant improvement compared to basic ones, like linear regression, logistic regression, etc.

Second, biomedical research is highly collaborative these days. For some research that generate a large amount of data, either the researchers themselves understand statistics very well, or they collaborate with statisticians very closely. There is a field called biostatistics. Most biostatistics professors are either math or stat major, and many of them are adjoint professors in biomedical departments.

Biomedical research is really tedious and time-consuming. The professors I knew when I was doing biomedical research worked more than 60 hours a day, and they wish they had more time. One young woman professor came to the lab at 8am, left at 6pm, spent some time with her 4 children, and came back to lab at 9pm again, and worked until midnight, on every weekday. She brought her children to the lab on Saturday, and worked the whole day. IMHO, it is better for her to focus all her energy on the biomedical part, which she is best at, and collaborate with statisticians.
So I've been out of security for a while, but I don't think I've ever seen this sort of misdirection applied before - or even disused.
There was a BestOf'd comment on Reddit giving another perspective on this article.

http://np.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/2qpqh9/the_end_of...

http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/2qqujj/ucalvindehaze...
The article ignores the single biggest reason Americans are likelier than Swedes to die on the roads, which is simply that Americans drive more. The death rate is nearly four times higher per capita in the United States, but only twice as high per mile driven [0].

(In fact, in America, the last few decades' worth of safety improvements to cars have been almost entirely offset by an increase in miles driven; despite their much safer cars, Americans are only slightly less likely to die driving today than they were in 1990 [1].)

The bigger mystery is why Americans are now far likelier to die in their cars than Europeans even after you control for the time they spend in them. That didn't use to be the case. Until the mid-1990s, Sweden (like almost every other country [2]) had a higher rate of traffic fatalities per mile driven than did the United States. Those rates have declined markedly all around the world, but much less in the United States than elsewhere.

My guess is that the divergence comes down to diverging patterns of living. Over the last few decades, American cities have sprawled all over the landscape, so Americans not only drive more, but their road infrastructure is built to facilitate daily travel at high speeds over long distances. A great many Americans drive 30+ highway miles each day between their suburban homes and city offices, but that sort of commute is rare elsewhere.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...

1. http://www.planetizen.com/node/68200

2. See, e.g., statistics showing that fatalities per vehicle mile were lower in the United State than in many European countries in 1991, https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/hs93/Sec7.pdf [PDF; see page 4]
Based on your questions, you obviously didn't know Sun or its engineering culture very well. The company's best work was done by outrageously small teams -- and its most regrettable done by absurdly large ones.

Speaking for DTrace, everything was done by the three of us on the core team: we wrote 100% of the technical documentation (somewhat infamously, actually), we wrote the test suite, we wrote the test cases, we ran the alpha program, etc. I know it doesn't fit your narrative very well for DTrace to have been done by three people over the course of 23 months[1][2] -- especially when the Linux efforts to mimic it have floundered for so much longer than that -- but that's what it is.

ZFS was larger than DTrace, but not by as much as you might thing -- and it was very small (as in, only Jeff and Matt) for a very long time. (The history there is public, and I don't particularly feel like doing your homework for you.)

As for your question about paying for ourselves: I am (of course!) subtracting out COGS. Indeed, the product line was so immediately successful and profitable that it attracted the attention of one of its biggest customers as a potential acquirer -- but that's another story. Again, I know that it doesn't fit your narrative to have had small teams develop technologies that were both innovative and profitable, but that's what it is: ZFS and DTrace and Fishworks were examples of Sun at its best, not its worst -- and I don't think that that's a terribly controversial opinion...

[1] http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/houston.txt

[2] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2008/09/03/happy-5th-birthday-dt...
I've used it continually since 1996, and I'm still using it now.
Yes, I've been locked in a Wal-Mart in Arkansas since 1990 with no internet. I didn't get the idea that the web is irrelevant to sales, I got the idea that the web is irrelevant to the sales of Tazo tea. I got this idea because I see people buy Tazo tea almost everyday, have not looked at their website until today, and then it took me 5 minutes to figure out how to get it to work. This tells me that their website is irrelevant to their sales.

If this is so why don't you create an awesome landing page that converts really well for tazo tea, get some SEO going, open up an account at shopify and then sell tazo tea on the internet? Perhaps you're not doing this because it would not generate the sales worth having the site? Prove me wrong, be a millionaire by selling tea on the internet because it converts so well.
ahahaha. The idea that bee brains contain a structure known to exist already in many other types of brain is equivalent to bees being able to use virtual particles for computation?

That's crazy talk, and you know it.
Somewhat related, the Touring Plans guys do an awful lot of analysis of Disney crowds and ride wait times to build itineraries for different types of park visitors.

http://touringplans.com
And I want the PRICES to be in that menu. Drives me nuts when there are generic menus with no clue of prices.
Hashing is indeed the wrong way to go.
Short answer: no

Lets take a look at the clickstreams for some non-porn websites:

- http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/google.com#clickstream

- http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/aol.com#clickstream

- http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org#clickstream

- http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com#clickstre...

Facebook is near the top of all of those lists. To me, that looks like people are browsing Facebook and then browsing to these other sites: it doesn't imply that all of the traffic is based on direct link referrals.

The data is also skewed by the fact that it comes from Alexa (and thus the Alexa Toolbar).
According to http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook Facebook has only even had $836M invested in TOTAL. And they have a lot more to show for it.
If I remember correctly from an article many years ago, they want the C++ API to be high-level and fast-moving; the C API exists so that they can support low-level use and almost all clients while only maintaining one API well.
Do any of the Google Ventures investments ever have partnership terms, or cross licensing?
> I find the intensity of advertisement to be offensive to my ability to live

Other people find Muslims, Jews, Mormons, non-caucasians, breast-feeding mothers, alcohol-imbibers, blondes, Ugg boots, motorcycles, gold watches, crying children, airplanes passing overhead, and dogs to be offensive to their ability to live. Can't ban everything you don't like.

Also, there are already restrictions on advertisements (when was the last time you saw an cigarette ad on television?), and some places are much more restrictive than others.
I was hoping they'd reference clipping in the presentation today. After they talked about "Cortana" appearing randomly on your desktop and in IE, all I could think of was "it looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help? Get help typing the letter. Just type the letter without help." every... single... time...

I really hope this isn't another Clippy. If "Cortana" gets annoying I'm totally figuring out how to add the Clippy graphic to the UI and rename her "Clippy" (I bet you can personalise the name). Which, after thinking about it, I might try to do anyway just because it would be amusing...
I don't have an internal memo or something to prove that, of course :-) But think about it, why didn't they include support for large screens in Froyo at least? This delay caused hardware manufacturers to delay Android tablets, that's why there's no good Android contender to iPad now (other than some Chinese manufactured junk).

I think Google was still caught in thinking Android solely in terms of a system for phones and pushing Chrome OS (and untested OS, still under development) for larger devices.
I didn't expect for this to make it this high in HN. I certainly didn't see it as worthy of much discussion.

I'm going to take a weekend (Or a few nights) to go over these comments and make improvements where I can. Especially the books! I've got to read these to make sure I'm not adding any old boring thing :)
Your comment provided interesting historical context, but I'd be more inclined to consider Mr. Naggum's arguments if he didn't send out another email shortly thereafter calling pg names like 'cretin', "lowlives who could not program in Ada if it would save their lives" and "too randomly wired to accomplish anything useful.

http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3232480542642559@naggum....

If your argument against someone is that they are immature, it doesn't help to behave immaturely yourself.
We agree to disagree. I don't see any of these things as issues for my use case. My parents don't have a computer now. They don't want to listen to music and they mostly want to consume pictures of their grandkids which we would email to them or post to Picasa. The video chat through google talk is icing on the cake.

I can't get rid of my 'real' laptop because I need to interface with other hardware like my Arduino, etc. But for emailing and reading my news feed I like the Cr-48. Would the same purpose be served by a different netbook? Probably but I don't have one of those to compare to.

And my experience with fast user switching on windows is totally different from yours. Maybe it's the age of the laptop and not having an SSD but it's not even something I consider doing it's so slow. When my kids want to check their email, we fire up an incognito session on chrome on the existing windows session. Again, probably to do with my hardware.
IIA[American]L.

The answer to your question about how lawyers figure out changes to the law is: they give an assignment to a new associate (or law student, in the case of scholars) to track down the history manually. It's a horrible pain in the ass.

Most codifications I'm familiar with (both state and Federal), whether in print or online, include a list of amendments along with each statute. But any given amendment may have changed a dozen (or far more) statutes, and it's generally a tedious and time consuming job to track down the changes to a given statute over time. Also, the reasoning for the changes, when it's given at all, is often burried in committee reports, which are rarely accessible by following links on a webpage. Some commercial services (LEXIS, WestLaw) will provide historical "snapshots" of particularly important statutes (the Internal Revenue Code, for example), which can help to some degree but which still leave a lot to be desired.

Statutes in general contain a lot of structural information (cross-references, definitions, etc.) which in some online sources are hyperlinked at least, but changes to which are not to my knowledge expressly tracked. One can easily get confused when, for example, a court case refers to a section of a statute that has been renumbered, or to which a new subsection has been inserted in the middle.

I took a quick look at the UK site above, and ... it actually looks quite impressive. As you say, however, it doesn't purport to be current, so some legwork is still left to the grunts. As a former programmer (and text munger a la Perl), it has always seemed to me that there should be a lot of opportunities to apply the tools of software development (version control in particular) to the texts of the law, but simply slurping up text into a repository is not likely to be all that helpful, and the overhead of doing anything useful would be considerable.
You do realise that Asus, Lenovo, HP, etc... sell Chromebooks, right? Google sells very few branded as a 'Google' product.

The numbers are out there, but Google isn't releasing numbers because they're a tiny vendor.