jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had this book recommended to me by someone when I was in college; the person that recommended it to me thought I might very well go on to invent the Glass Bead Game...

This summary kind of mischaracterizes the book, though. Far from "running the planet," Castalia, the society within which the Game thrives, rather pointedly does not concern itself with "worldly" matters, being singularly focused on the life of the mind. The Game itself is a reflection of this attitude, consisting of symbols put together to represent cross-linking through various intellectual fields, such as music, mathematics, philosophy, and the sciences.[1] It is the main character, Joseph Knecht, who has risen to become Magister Ludi (master of the Game), who sees Castalia's detachment from the outside world as a danger and a potential threat to its existence, and who ultimately leaves his high post to become the tutor for the son of a friend of his from school who is a "man of the world." Knecht's perspective comes from his rather unique background, not just his friendship with the outsider, but his studies of history (a very non-Castalian field of study) with a prominent historian during a "tour of duty" at a monastery. It's a very deep book, and one which you'll probably find new insights in every time you read it.

On the subject of recommendations that bridge science fiction and philosophy, might I also suggest C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy ( Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength )? It's another work that works on several levels. That Hideous Strength, in particular, is almost entirely a fictional expression of the arguments Lewis presented in The Abolition of Man. There's also a fair amount of attention devoted to linguistics; the books' central character, Prof. Elwin Ransom, was based on J.R.R. Tolkien. And yes, there's a certain amount of Christian philosophy in there, but on a higher intellectual level than The Chronicles of Narnia. A bright 14-year-old would probably enjoy it.

[1] Joseph Knecht's first annual ceremonial Game as Magister Ludi was based on the dimensions and structure of a traditional Chinese house, i.e., the principles of feng shui in Chinese philosophy. It was routinely cited thereafter as "The Chinese House Game."
There are more ways to deal with this crisis than are being implemented. A desire to live outside of lockdown is not synonymous with selfishness, even if that were my motive.
Huge problem, interesting solution.

It takes time to derive the high-level from the codebase. I guess, your walk-throughs would be similar to how I'd explore it myself - without the mistakes.

EDIT it's documentation, so can get stale/out of sync as the codebase evolves (not a problem for PRs). Though high-level architecture/APIs rarely change.

BTW In github, I keep expecting the text next to files/dir to be a comment explaining the high-level (instead of the most recent commit message).
Short answer: they have all been bottlenecks thus far. In fact, that's a big reason why testing hasn't improved as rapidly as everyone hoped it would. The biggest bottleneck now is dwindling supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) for those involved in obtaining and handling the test specimens.
Nice find. I find this interesting too:"Internet Book of Critical Care (IBCC): COVID-19" (Written by a pulmonologist): https://emcrit.org/ibcc/covid19/
Yes - all over the place. That was the biggest challenge: sourcing and validating the data. It's also why this is and will continue to be a work in progress: the situation on the ground is dynamic. We need help sourcing and validating data. If you're willing to volunteer, send a note to contact@codersagainstcovid.org
How does one get a list of all domains?
I'd argue it's ethically worse

On one hand, you have someone who loves the content (but who would not buy it) and so pirates it - this is "unrealized" revenue for content owners.

On the other hand, you have a company that makes money and pays no royalties - this is outright theft from the content owners.
So if $1 billion in shares trade hands at x valuation, does that prove Facebook is in fact worth >= $33 billion? I find it difficult to believe the value of FB shares is anything other than what people are paying for it when a whole billion dollars worth of shares trade hands.

We could argue the semantics of 'worth' again ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719975 ) and whether the long term value is way off base to its current value, but the evidence is overwhelming that FB is currently worth tens of billions of dollars.
Found the old site in the google cache:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c9cda-O...

Last post was in January, but she wasn't squatting by any means.
Must be someone who didn't know the difference between G$ and Gi$ (1024 vs. 1000)…
Facebook has more traffic than porn but has been less profitable than Java. WTF?
Great job! I will use it when I am in NY for blogworld expo:)
I'd argue there is absolutely no evidence (and even some counter evidence) to suggest that homophobia came into this.

I apologise for insinuating you were judging (I agree that was uncalled for) but I think it's important nowadays that homophobia is never brought into these conversations unless there is obvious influence in such a decision.

It's counter productive to the whole equality battle.
From what I've heard/read about them, they take a lot of manual maintenance and oversite to make sure things run smoothly.

As far as scam, they aren't really tricking people, it's just that people are dumb and don't spend enough time to realize they could spend a shit ton of money on something if they don't pay attention.
Working on sourcing parts for Reprap's and I was shocked to find out that the metalworkers in the area had to convert all my numbers to standard. In electronics manufacturing we used whatever the print had so I just assumed everyone did. I stick with the standard I am used to which is use whatever the print has on it...if its standard I use standard, if its metric I use metric.

I still prefer miles and gallons to km and liters but if I am doing a precise measurement I will use mm. In electronics everything is metric so that is what I use.

Conversion errors kill spacecraft...right?
Why not put it in a savings account?

Most of that money is seed money for YAPC::NA, as I understand it.
I'd be willing to guess that you are more concerned with revenue because you have shareholders to answer to. R&D is something that doesn't show up on the bottom line with regularity. Sure, you might develop something huge and make tons, but probably not.

What would be interesting is to see some heavy quantitative studies done on the ROI of research in a corporate setting. If we could prove that R&D provides a decent ROI, I'd be willing to bet that the business types would be more willing to fund it.
I'd love to see a vetting process for this. Either:

1. Approve new chefs. Meaning "chefs" that are just restaurant menus aren't allowed in.

2. Allow both in. Highlight the actual Chefs.

3. Just have different sections of the site, one for actual restaurants and one for Chefs. Highlight actual chefs?

Just a couple of ideas that came to mind.
It's the same algorithm, but it only considers upvotes by users who registered before (checking the code...) December 13, 2008. That's astonishingly long ago—only (checking the data...) 1.5% of HN accounts existed back then. Yet the "classic" frontpage is not that different from the main frontpage. This was the main conclusion when pg launched the feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=607271, and again in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2073513.

What that tells me is that the forces creating the HN front page don't have much to do with changes in the userbase over time. That's a major finding, and I think to most people (me included, and pg probably included) a counterintuitive one.
I'll invest $100 in Magic Messenger at a $100 million valuation if you can get TechCrunch to write it up. I won't even ask for a liquidation preference!
To me, the drill example misses a crucial point about cars. Cars are a pain in the ass to own. First you need a license. Then you need insurance. You need to get it checked up once a year. You need to park it every day and night. You need to refuel it every so often. So Uber doesn't only solves the transportation problem. It relieves you of all these (super) annoying chores and is much more convenient for a lot of people. But uber for drills? Brings more problems than it solves at an individual level imo.
Microsoft successfully won the battle of the desktop computer. It's amazing how this monument of achievement actually gave Microsoft a long-term disadvantage as desktop computing slowly became irrelevant to laptops and mobile. Failing now promotes success in the future. It will be interesting to see what happens over the next 10 years, especially with DIY and web dev on the rise.
I've met A LOT of incompetent leaders. So, I asked myself this question a million times. And I think I have found a logic answer...

The secret here is "incompetent". Being incompetent means these people have a hard time holding on to a job. Because they get no raise, no promotion and no special treatment. Heck, they don't even feel part of the team. Cause they're just the guy who does an OK job.
Naturally, these people are often out of a job. And since every job quickly gets complicated for them, they tend to start their own little startup.

Contrast that to competent people. Chances are, they'll get hired to do something they love and be offered a comfortable salary. Therefore mitigating (in most cases) the need to create a startup.

Now the fun part, here are some examples of incompetent leaders I've known:
- A web agency owner, who was the initial web developer for years, but writes HORRIBLE, INCREDIBLY VULNERABLE code.
- A head sales representative who can't write properly in his maternal language.
- A web agency owned and run by someone who doesn't know anything about technology. He calls jQuery "iPhone compatible technology".
- The best, a boss who couldn't even speak in front of his mere dozen employees. I wonder how he negotiates his contracts.
google email to developers:

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This email is to notify you that we’ve made some changes to our policies; here are some highlights:

- Streamlined the ads policy, with guidance on interstitial ad behavior, and a new “System Interference” provision, which prohibits ads in system notifications or home screen icons, and requires user consent when an app changes specified settings on a device

- A revised hate speech policy that provides more comprehensive coverage, while recognizing Google Play’s role as a platform for free expression

-Clarification that the gambling policy extends to all games that offer cash or other prizes; that virtual goods and currency in games are subject to the payment processor policy, that incentives should not be provided to users to rate an app; that artificially inflating an app’s install count is prohibited, and that the Google Play Program Policy applies to all developer information or content made available on the Store.
Please review the Google Play Developer Program Policy to see all the changes and make sure your app complies with our updated policies.

Any apps or updates published after this notification are immediately subject to the latest version of the Program Policy. If you find any existing apps in your catalog that don’t comply, we ask you to fix and republish the application within 30 calendar days of receiving this email. After this period, existing applications discovered to be in violation may be subject to warning or removal from Google Play.

We recognize that some developers will need to change their app and advertising practices to comply with the revised policy, but we believe these changes will help ensure all users and developers can maintain confidence in the standard of apps available on Google Play. Our aim is to foster a high standard of app behavior, so you will be able to take advantage of Google Play as a successful platform to distribute your apps and continue to grow your business.

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Sure has.

iD has large number of built in presets and also transparently queries http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/ for the more eccentric stuff.
Sounds Pratchett-esque to me...
iTunes is a horrible store front, so I had to vote you up. Maybe it was acceptable for what was available when it launched but it's coming up on 10 years later and basic features that would aid discovery are still missing.
I'm surprised by people pushing OTP and TFA as an answer to our problems when most implementations use insecure key distribution. SMS is no better than email.

One could use something like PGP to encrypt your OTP list, but this would still leave the OTP list on the server for nefarious server accessors.
How about "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."?
We've inherited this rationalist idea that people form opinions as the result of careful consideration and weighing of evidence. This is mostly false. Evidence suggests that people form ideas from (1) group-membership and (2) repetition. If this is true, imagine you were a person trying to influence public opinion and had access to social media. An obvious strategy would be to...

1. Create an account with clear political affiliations (american flags, laser eyes, pronouns, etc in the bio). This establishes group membership.

2. Repeat a basic message over and over and over.

This is exactly what we're seeing.

I'm 100% for allowing free and open debates. I'm not for bot- or state-controlled accounts trying to sway public opinion.
If "bps" is supposed to stand for basis points, then you're saying they get a 0.15% cut?
Is that anything besides whataboutism? While I'd love it if our society could straightforwardly rely on uncensorable systems, if two centralized systems censor disjoint sets of material that's a workable state of affairs.

Your nit feels analogous to people criticizing Snowden for needing to flee to Russia. Despite Russia engaging in totalitarianism (like every other country), pragmatically they can help us mitigate our own country's totalitarianism. Thus even as a foreigner looking in, it's directly disappointing to see the content cartels firm up their grasp in another sovereign state.
Sorry but that makes it even worse. You can't just push ethical decisions to your customers. You are the one building the product and you are the one defining the ethical boundaries within which it can be used by your customers. As technology builders we are at forefront of pushing all kind of societal boundaries and often end up redefining them in the process. As technology moves so fast it can take years for society to catch up and decide that something definitely was a bad idea but by that time it's often too late. No one wants to be the engineer realising years later that what their build was harmful to society, so try be more conscious of the decisions you take. One good framework to reason about the impact of what we build is to simply ask ourselves if there would be any negative long term effects to society of a billion people would use the feature. Right now from your perspective that seems far away and unlikely but in our field this happens all the time, either through scaling or others copying you.

So either put a big disclaimer yourself at which point no one will probably want to enable it anymore except for edge use cases (which hopefully are ethical even though I can't really think of one right now) or just remove it fully. It's a huge breach of privacy and most customers who have issues with drop rates probably should redesign their form and CTA. Unless the reason for people dropping of is that they're doing something sketchy and/or asking for way too much personal information of course, which is exactly the case where I absolutely do not want to have that data nor would I consent to them collecting it before I click submit.
If you read the court PDFs you see that they tried it.
What is PG's so-called "hacker radar" if not some analogue to the "hacker acceptance factor" that I tried to allude to?

People think that languages like Python and Ruby are "cooler" somehow than Java - that's all I was trying to get at.

I don't think that I was making any judgments about the validity of that opinion, but I would say that it is fairly pervasive for better or for worse, and for many of the reasons that PG alluded to.
Infochimps is bringing in the DataMarketPlace user base and community to expand its data sources and resources exponentially. This is only the beginning of what Infochimps could be. :)
Agreed, was linked to and discussed in the comments on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998642
I think your hacker definition falls a little more along the same lines as mine. I initially read the list expecting the author to be telling me ways of how to obtain 1337 skillz, but realized he was talking about hacking from the tinkering perspective. I really wish they would quit dicking with the definition. Crackers just sound so foolish.
oh missed that, though that's just as bad imho.
I get ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH from the website.
I buy stocks I intend to keep for long time frames, longer than 10 years.

As far as maximizing gains over 5, 10, 15 years period I think anyone will tell you each of these time frames is significantly different. The general idea seems to be the longer the time frame the more risky/volatile assets you can stomach.

As far as cryptocurrencies go I do not understand their value proposition thus I stay away.
Even in the case that you bring up having the photo in your possession should not be illegal. Distributing it or producing it without the consent of the ADULT subject should be illegal. That's where the damage is being done. Every new set of eyes that sees the photo makes it worse.

In other words if:

1. someone already has a photo.

2. No one interacts with it besides the current owner

3. Nobody knows or will ever know about it but the current owner

Do you think there is damage being done? Right now I don't think so. I think all of the damage is done when material is produced and spread, and then spread again.

I dislike talking about this subject so I'm alright with disagreeing.
He basically did.

He was creating frameworks for understanding self-replicating systems before the nature of DNA had been determined.
Servo [1] was the project to do that. Unfortunately they don't care (enough) about it anymore [2].

[1] https://servo.org/
[2] https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/08/11/mozilla-layoffs/
religious beliefs != informed opinions

Your boss or project maintainer in an open source project starts spreading conspiracy theories on the internet (Q, Flat Earth, whatever), to the point he becomes a public embarassment. Do you want to continue working with him?
You do realize that we are human being too, right? Those of us who feel that our rights are being violated by having to choose between going through a machine that creates a fairly explicit photo of us (and one which we don't know who sees, if the image is being stored, or if it could end up online or being passed around) or being groped have our day ruined every time we have to go through that.

I'm not going to feel bad for fighting back against people who are trying to do something wrong, and neither should anyone else.
For me, the main unpleasantness of reddit lies in the amount of pun threads that show up in the comments on any story. It may have been funny at first, but it just makes it harder and harder to find the actual interesting comments.

however, judging by the number of upvotes they all receive, there's probably hundreds of thousands of people out there who disagree with me, but seriously, a lot of comments on there are like i can haz cheezburger without the cutesy grammer.
For some reason I can't flag. Someone else, please do.
I think he's done really well between sales of his books, speaking fees, and teaching one-day courses. His one-day courses alone net 6-figure revenues each time they're taught: fee of $380, audience of about 350 people. Even if less than half that is profit, it seems like he can pull in upwards of $50k from teaching a single-day course.
:)

Amazon is waaaay from monopoly. It competes with eBay, specialty web stores,...

And also - entering the field of WEB commerce is not a hard to get into market per say. Getting into oil market or telco marker, even getting Wal-Mart out of the way - now these are some hard undertakings.

In a town with 1 fruit shop - you can always go to nearby town if you don't like your fruit merchant (out of spite for example). But when you arrive to these nearby towns - and everywhere there is basically the same fruit retailer, with the same problem that bothered you with the first one. That's when you encountered a true monopoly.

I'm from ex-socialist republic and mostly everything was monopolized (many things still are) by the government or government owned enterprises. If you're from US, you wouldn't have seen stuff like that since AFAIK you guys are really good at breaking stuff like that apart.

So while I admit that your reasoning is solid, I view the term "monopoly" as inherently bad, since lets face it most (even all?) businesses start squeezing their customers when they get the chance.
I’m not sure I can agree with you about the New Yorker’s “wokeness” and bias. But I will say that the magazine’s humor pieces and cartoons have changed completely over the past ten years. They used to be genuinely funny, sometimes hilarious, and appealed to a broader wit and humanity. Now they’re miserably self-referential. I doubt they’re even funny to the tiny in-group of wealthy anxious Manhattanites for whom they’re written.
True, but if you have any pipes with standing water you might be unpleasantly surprised in the morning.
Then to see where that leads, read this: http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/1kszxu/my_22f...
They brought it back, under the name 'Releases', in July:

https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
"They weren't allowed to have the kind of access that the media originally reported."
Is trading shares of stock or oil futures any more legitimate? Or even terribly different?
Thanks for your comment!
Yeah, a lot of non-direct marketers I talk to are like "Sending Emails? That's so oldschool, nobody reads them anymore and nobody is entering their email addresses on their mobiles anyway". That couldn't be farther from the truth. People need to understand that mobile devices replace common desktop setups more and more. I might publish a case study of one of my mobile campaigns about that if you're interested.

I know that the guys behind the Runtastic apps are collecting emails and offer more features in return. A non-mobile example would be League of Legends where they reward you with a free skin if you like their page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/leagueoflegends/app_208195102528120).
It was not the best class ever, for sure!
That's an interesting link, I never saw that way. Probably because how I learn them too, i.e. a mandatory thing to know.

Now I mostly wonder why/how did they get so big.
Not just that, I would expect criminal charges to follow.
It took quite awhile to understand what narcissists are and to recognize that attempting to talk to them is pointless.

They are simply incapable of valuing any other human being, let alone comprehending that such human being might have superior knowledge in any area.

After all, the narcissist is the supreme being. At least in their reality.

To be fair, “Unabashedly elitist” was a confession — if one were wise enough to recognize it.