jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I could see this change working for other sites, but HN actually does have a sort of collective wisdom.

I've also stopped looking at comments entirely. Before, I would sometimes click through to just read the comments. There was value there. It's not necessarily gone now, but it is much harder to find.
Perlmonks.org does this. They only show you vote counts for nodes you've voted on. It always seemed effective to me -- I'd vote on comments I thought were good, and after I voted I'd see what their vote scores were.
If it matters to someone other than as a question of genuine curiosity, then you don't want to work for them because they are looking backward for fault instead of forward for possibility.

Anyone who uses it to differentiate between two otherwise equal candidates is just using it as a proxy for something else about which they are biased so you weren't getting the job anyway.
A mechanism to implement XKCD's password recommendation: http://xkcd.com/936/
These kinds of passwords remind me of gfycat URLs.
A 301 is unequivocally less work in every respect.
Why not create a low-level hardware state interface layer that linux uses to save/restore hardware state. The attitude could be "it's not linux's job to fix your hardware" At first nothing would use it and it would be basically useless, but eventually manufacturers would add support. In the meantime, Another layer on top of this low layer could be created to make older hardware compatible. For hardware that is worth the effort, people could write drivers or other things that could bridge the gap between hardware and the low-level interface.
You can use alpine and mutt just fine with remote imap and smtp, including gmail. It's not hard.

Apart from "they look old" (which is a fake argument), what about console mail clients makes them feel as though they aren't designed for the modern era? Sure, they don't look like other mail clients, but that's as much other clients' fault as theirs. What exactly about their UI, intrinsically, do you dislike? Or do you just love the mouse too much to give it up?
I tried packing one of my monitors inside checked luggage back when I was flying to/from college a lot. It didn't fit, and in retrospect I guess that was a good thing -- although this was 4-6 years ago when security personnel were slightly less insane.
I hope that this is in fact the case, and that the android angry birds isnt just gzipping my contacts db and pushing the whole lot out to an ad agency every time I load the program.

I doubt that it is, I think even the most aggressive and intrusive ad agency would see that the potential bad press that could come from this would outweigh any marketing benefits.

In actual fact, some contact data is sent out only when I use the "share with friends" function (which is never,) as you would expect? Right?

Time for some wireshark action methinks...
Penn's "34th St" magazine has been doing this every semester for a while now: http://www.34st.com/content/2010/dec/shoutouts-fall-2010

The formula works.
Is it just me or are most of the titles on HN lately becoming very misleading (I suspect linkbait)? Why do people upvote these?

(for the record, I've been a HN lurker for almost two years now)
purchased! now I have a toy to play with during christmas :-)
It is an interesting place to be, if the round is very competitive, then including taking some money off the table might make sense. I think the Groupon folks were the poster child for this. But really its a negotiation between the investors and the founders, rather than something outside parties really care about. Does it inform on the competitiveness of some rounds? Sure, just like having 4x liquidation and participation on termsheets in 2001 told you that VCs understood getting money was very difficult.

It is a part of business that always rubs me the wrong way but I recognize that puts me at a disadvantage. Later when money is hard to come by and some VC is demanding extortionate terms or the company goes under, the founder takes it "to get the deal" and moves on. The VC who finds themselves frozen out of the round unless they agree to giving away some of the cash to the founders, takes it "to get the deal" and moves on. Will these same two people meet again with the roles reversed? Possibly, possibly not. Will it affect their transaction? Hard to say. The constant is "got the deal, moving on."

It isn't like you can run the counter experiment and see how your life would be different if you didn't make that choice. All you can do is have a code and live by it.
Grenfell wasn't caused by lack of regulation but rather, a construction firm that knowingly defrauded the regulators, and regulators that were in turn incompetent and easily defrauded. There is quite some shocking testimony related to that case coming out in the last year.
That’s what I was trying to get at: that management/coordination of humans tasks are much more similar across companies than deep technical tasks.

I think of those as on the branch of the Y of management, not the branch of Y of technology specialty.
I'll code until I retire.
fwiw Firefox always had a print preview; it was just behind a different shortcut rather than integrated into the default flow.
i.reddit.com is still the best reddit
In a lot of regular (non-tech) companies it's way harder to progress on the technical path vs management path. The need for very senior technical people is often not very high and there is not much of the type of work that these people could do. Most companies don't develop new databases, operating systems or cloud offerings.

A lot of them also like their managers to make at least the same money or more than the tech people reporting to them so your salary outlook is also limited.

In summary: Unless you are at a company that does very advanced technical work the technical specialist career path is often very limited in terms of advancement opportunities and salary potential.
I agree with your point, but many Asian countrys' pouplaces' attitudes to drugs are deeply influenced by the damage caused by British opium trade. It is more deeply rooted than a problem of education I think, unlike in the West.
Are they true fans in that they would happily pay for anything you build, or are they customers who pay for this service and would think before paying for another of your services?
The best advice my father gave me about the internet: assume everyone is a rapist who will stalk you and put you in a van if you say anything that can be traced back to you.

Ironically enough I use uber under my real name and I'm fine, but everyone I know how uses their real name in social media has had problems.
Uh, so false. Malnatis is such a beautiful thing.
I question the post-scarcity assumption. If you described how people live now to someone who lived 5000 years ago they would think we live in a post-scarcity world now. We have such abundance now, yet we still have "poor" people and humans still want to consume and control more. It's human nature to want more. Maybe in the far future people will want their own planets and anyone who doesn't have one will be considered living in "poverty". I don't think it will ever end unless the biology of human nature and the animal brain changes.
Point 1: Don't focus on just computers. If you can succeed with computers you can succeed with other things.

Response 1: This would be better stated as "Be well rounded". The article goes on to say some gibberish about understanding the size of the universe which is only related in the idea of "big" being more than "narrow".

Point 2: Learn to learn. Be well rounded. If you don't understand something, figure it out.

Response 2: As opposed to what? Accepting solutions? This is a very hackerish mentality. It can teach you many things... counterpoint is that sometimes you should just accept good advice or answers and not reinvent the wheel.

Point 3: Don't bother with formal education.

Response 3: Formal education helps a lot of people. Not me personally, but many people's learning style requires them to have help. Not all hackers are crazy self taught maniacs.

Point 4: Build your own computer

Response 4: There is nothing much to building your own PC these days. IMO you really aren't going to learn much from it any more than assembling some legos. A better idea would be to build your own 3d printer; that will teach you a lot more and give you better hands on skills.

Point 5: Run your own Web, DNS, and email servers.

Response 5: I've written my own DNS server from scratch. It was interesting sure. I've dealt with the low level packaging of emails; it is a pita. I think coding exercises are better advice than this, especially dealing with logic puzzles. It is much more fun, and you will get more out of exercising your brain that way. Web, DNS, and email servers are boring as shit.

Point 6: Read science papers

Response 6: This should just say "Read books that interest you and make you thing". Why only sciene papers?

Point 7: Watch security conference talks and learn the culture.

Response 7: This is fine and reasonable.

Point 8: Listen to podcasts

Response 8: Isn't this the same as point 7?

Point 9: Read a lot

Response 9: Point 6 broadened?

Point 10: Use LaTeX

Response 10: If you intend to teach math perhaps. Otherwise I'm not understanding what one will get out of this.

Point 11: Use Vim or Emacs, not an IDE

Response 11: I've met a lot of "hackers newb morons" who suggest this. I know how to use Vim, and also use Vimdiff when needed. IDEs don't hide anything. Prolific use of jEdit, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc are very helpful and will teach you more than using Vim. This is stupid advice imo.

Point 12: Use Linux or Unix as your main OS

Response 12: Who actually uses branded Unix as their OS. This is silly. Say "Use Linux." Additionally, throwing out OSX as bad here is ignorant.

Point 13: Dale Carnegie.

Response 13: Fuck that. The person who recommended most for me to read this book was a total asshole, and frankly manipulating people is not going to improve your technical abilities.
> we considered "institute" but worried it would come off as pretentious.

Mildly so, but "Recurse Institute" still sounds awesome. :)
> The biggest problem, I think, is that often you end up with 10 different ways to solve the same problem in the code because instead of looking at the existing code, people Googled for a solution with subtly different keywords than the previous person and found a different blogger. This kind of duplication is very hard to identify and remove, and this does cause bugs.

It's interesting to code in large code bases. They end up getting to the point where no single person can ever understand the entire thing. It is usually at this point that things like Hungarian and strict coding guidelines really help. If you need an array of pointers to some kind of object, you can be reasonable certain that search will be able to find it.
Isn't that NaCl?
I can see how you might feel that way about some of it. But I actually do not really find that to generally be the case. And plenty of it is far nicer than Mdown.

However, this is jumping into completely subjective territory; you, of course, do not have to like rst, just as I do not have to like mdown. So, I will stick with my original sentiment of wishing these services would support the thing I like :)
To support my previous comment. Quoting David the founder: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/10/foundationdb-not-your-stand...

“The most important innovation with MongoDB is its API,” Rosenthal said. “We sell an amazing storage technology that could be compatible with NoSQL technologies like MongoDB.”
Hence why it's been a social faux pas for the last 10+ years to tell a non-hire anything other than "We're not a match".
There's an app for that.

Didi kuai che for taxis.

Didi Zhuan che if you want something more like Uber.

The latter allows you to pay electronically from your union pay account, the meter is GPS (just like Uber), so you'll never get ripped off. Beijing taxis drivers are pretty honest as China goes, of course, that is just in the city, out in tourist ghettos it can be much worse.
> So this is the notion that there is a 10 fold
> difference between productivity and quality
> of work between different programmers with
> the same amount of experience.
> Is this fact or fiction?

One thing everyone forgets: there's never the same amount of experience. Different people have different experience and therefore perform differently on things, where difference in experience matters. So, obviously there could be even a 100 fold difference.
https://twitter.com/githubstatus/status/582862783827591168
I really wish Heroku would support http2/spdy easily without the use of clunky buildpacks that I never really trust fully in production.
Bet the optional* keyboard costs like $300 now, though.

*not really optional
Bullshit. If there are no 10x programmers in your group, it's because your group is tiny, you can't hire 10x programmers, or because you're stifling your 10x programmers with bureaucracy.
I believe companies should be free to set their terms of use and/or whom they provide services. Like in a real life, if you don't like someone or you don't follow her/his ideas, you are free to not answer his questions or concerns, why it should be different in corporate world?

If you think company does wrong, just fight with them in a same way.

In other words, why I should demand from local bar to serve me a kosher beer? They feel like it is not profitable for them to serve all kind of minorities (or even some majorities depending on type of bar) and I should be ok with that.
I like how the top comment in the Dropbox thread (#5) is someone criticizing it. Ah HN... Never change.
This post resonated me so well...

It's been more than a year since I quit Twitter and the likes. I can't stress enough how good it feels to not have constant stream of mental hazard. I decided to rely on my whim to collect information using my own filter bubble (something I like to term as "information mindfulness"). I feel: as digital platforms are growing and evolving, with everyone inside the echo chambers [0], it's better to practice this "information mindfulness".

I am sure it depends on your own usecase for social media like Twitter; how you're going to sink in the platform. For me it didn't work. I hit my mental limit (finally after a long time).

[0] - At this stage, almost everything feels like an echo chamber.
1733 is a bullshit marketing figure. Nobody has ever seen that.

The best I’ve ever seen on WiFi 5 is 850-900 MBps (4x4 MU-MIMO router, 3x3 MacBook Pro, nothing else active on the network)
If "the externalities are not fully priced in", isn't that just good for me? I hate to say it, but my financial situation hasn't been great recently; I might just go for it.
As an Indian undergraduate who is looking forward to a job, I find this very intimidating. I have always known consultancy based companies are shit and treat employees none better than a herd of sheeps, too easy to get another one. But I had better thoughts about product companies.

I can suggest another option though, start building a portfolio and have open source contribution that put you out of the cheap crowd.I am sure there are enough jobs at good hourly rates for people who can deliver quality. Even our hacker news "seeking freelancer" thread s offer pretty amazing set of opportunities.
To some extent, it’s a problem Trump brought upon himself by relying so much on social media. If Twitter had banned Obama, well, people would barely have noticed, really. Most politicians just aren’t dependent on social media in the same way Trump is, and are generally much better behaved on it.

And what’s the alternative? Force them to provide service to every crazy person?
When you say that the "brackets were always awful", are you referring to their placement? If so, the Kinesis Advantage is programmable, so why didn't you relocate the brackets?
Not a contradiction. In first case he's give what it should be, in the second he's giving a real example of what does happen.

By simply using an example he's not condoning the example.
Did he actually "favoured" the society in Island? I know that he personally experimenting with drugs during the time he wrote it, but when I read the book I saw it as "Brave New World, governed by a leftist-idealist".

The same principles to manipulate the society on Brave New World are applied on the people of the Island.

You still see people being conditioned to obedience/compliance ("Pavlov used for the good, for love"), you still see use of drugs as a way to escape reality, etc...

Not to mention that is pretty clear that the society is not sustainable. A society that is not able to defend itself from the first menace is like a living organism without an immune system: it either lives in a bubble, or it is not viable.
What's with having to drag to pan? Is there some reason you decided to not use native scrolling?
I think the reason that we need a big bunch of discrete symbols is because our brains are good at spewing these things out in a stream.

For example, I just typed a bunch of words at you. I didn't have to 'interact' with the computer at each step, even though I suppose I could have used a touch interface where I typed the first letters of each word and then hunt around from a list.

We're good at being able to say that something is going to be equal to (-b + sqrt(b^2 - 4ac))/2a, for example, by blasting out a bunch of different symbols that the input system is unlikely to be able to anticipate. I can't type that formula as fast as I can gibber away in English... but I can still do it pretty smoothly without having to drop into a 'select things from some sort of menu' mode.

This is made worse by the myriad of perfectly useful operators in a language like C, as well as all the variables that may be defined at that moment. I think discrete symbols are a fine way of expressing this.

All those things that you talk about 'instead of statements' are fine things, but just as information-dense as a good-quality statement and will still call on you to express an idea drawn from a huge space of possibilities.

Definitely in agreement on how interesting this all is as a concept. This would be my toy project if I had time for toy projects. :-/
Oh, but in naked puts the seller of the underlying assets (i.e. the buyer of the put) calls the shots. If they don't want to sell, they don't have to sell. And the writer of the put only ever has to put up at most the strike price of the put.

So no unlimited risks there.
Interesting. Could it be that they are looking to raise equity to make it easier to acquire competition?

Makes sense to me that they need to diversify their model to compete with some of the new ventures in the market. It might make more sense of Yelp to acquire the platform and the product knowledge than build it in-house. If they have equity in the market, it might be easier to acquire these companies with stock than through a private cash acquisition.

Not sure if that's true, but I'm throwing it out there for debate.
I don't think it's the vocalizing per se.. it's really about thinking through your problem with enough depth to explain it to someone else.
Yeah you're not wrong it's loads of fun
>They are normalizing the "workaround" of using an insecure IP address when Tor is inaccessible. This will lead to all non-secretive and non-illicit Tor usage to go back to the open insecure internet. Thus, everyone still using Tor "has something to hide" (as if that wasn't the case already). By forcing all but the most desperate users off Tor, Tor can be discredited as a nefarious tool.

I think this is a reach - after all, if you wanted to discredit a tool for people in oppressive regimes, people who care about their privacy, and people doing illegal things, why start with the programming help site? (I know SE has other sites, but the biggest ones are for tech help)

...That said, I could see this being a way LE could try and unmask a very high-value darkweb programmer. Still a reach.
I've had an interviewer literally stop the interview to give me career advice when I told him I was a generalist. His advice was that whenever he hears about someone who's a full stack generalist he knows they aren't that good. His advice was to specialize and get really really good at something.

Keep in mind I'm super senior. Much older than most people in this industry.
Etsy has (or had when I was still working there) a cool directory-namespace based custom autoloader for PHP (named, not inexplicably, EtsyLoader). When the PHP runtime detected that the script was trying to use an identifier not in scope, the loader would try to find a matching file by splitting the identifier on underscores into different folders, with the last segment being the target file. So Listings_Migration_Checker would get resolved to listings/migration/checker.php.

Way more deterministic and predictable than Rails autoloading, which always seems to devolve into a crazy mess. And you knew exactly where a constant was located on disk just by eyeballing the name.
They do all kinds of acquisitions. Beats was exactly the same fit. Most of the company's value was in its branding and cultural buzz rather than actual products.
It's very common to use more than one account, and send money between them for various reasons.
I doubt if they care about copycats. At first glance I thought - "WTF? Why they publish this and do not make it Open Source". But after a while I think it's good for few reasons:
- it can be inspiring for others - in terms of usability, typography, etc
- it illustrates how to make good spec for your company / employees and avoid this "i-just-saw-nice-plugin-lets-use-it" behaviour
- at some point this illustrates company`s culture
- this shows how "organized" and "enterprisy" they are - I do belive, that there are still some people who judge herokus website and think, that this must be some kind of smaller hosting company for ones pet projects
If you think the company that has agreed to collaborate with a Chinese company to make a different version of Skype (Tom-Skype), for the sole purpose of letting the Chinese government spy on Chinese citizens' communications in real-time, can be "trusted" to not have backdoored cloud services in China, then I have a bridge to sell you.

Microsoft has proven again and again that it's willing to make any concessions to the Chinese government if there's the slightest chance of them making an extra percent market share in China. We saw that when Google was hacked by the Chinese government, too. Microsoft was more than happy to agree to all the censorship policies Google didn't, because it meant that maybe possibly that would earn them some market share in China, after Google would be gone - it didn't anyway. Baidu took all that difference Google lost.
http://www.esofund.com/
I actually felt that R functions and data structures are more straight forward to use than SQL commands. But sadly the data only exists in memory..
Yeah, BMRT was great and it was really upsetting to see it destroyed by Pixar.
After years of using it, I finally just bought a Sublime license. It's about as close to perfect as an editor gets for me - fast, stable, powerful, extensible, portable, and very low cognitive overhead.

Kudos to the Sublime folks.
Likely you mean: touch ~/-@
Is there an aricle with specifics on this and why it was done?
I just looked Nawal El Saadawi up; apparently she is a survivor of female genital mutilation. Having your genitals cut off sans anesthesia in the name of preparing you for marriage is a rather good excuse for speaking out against the institution, don't you think?
It is unconstitutional in spirit and practice in the United States for lawmakers to meddle in existing contracts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_Clause
Person says SARS-Cov-2 is no big deal or cured with quackmeal, causes deaths, not de-platformed.

I think it's a calculated risk knowing that Biden's win was actually certified so there's now no way this can come back and bite them. I am sure in an alternate universe @PresidentForLife would have been able to tweet indefinitely.

Twitter wants no skin in the game.