jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Who says those are my actual instincts? For all you know, I completely agree with your positions on taxation and am merely testing how well you advance our mutual beliefs.

I can only take your position as stated, I’m not willing to sit here an imagine that you’re secretly disagreeing with yourself ;)

> For all intents and purposes, they constitute a vast majority of laws.

All that is necessary is to establish the lack of necessity.

> Source?

Anthropology. Read about the origins of property and government.

> How did I concede?

You agreed that there are laws that don’t include coercion.

> You've yet to advance an alternative mode of government that exists without it.

I’m sure if you review the discussion you will see that I have. Its the same as the model of marriage without rape. You just remove the rape/taxation.

> In the same way that a monopolistic market still creates contracts despite power and information asymmetry, sure.

So you understand that rents are negotiated whereas taxes are extorted violently. Excellent.

> Social contract and free association,

How does free association work when you coerce taxes from people? Can people opt out this association or are they slaves to the government?

> which is how governments are founded.

Tell that to the Lakota.

> Tell it to the Lakota.

Expropriation is not homesteading.

> Voluntary exchange is still founded on the principles of violent enforcement in the case when exchangers break contracts.

No, it is not. You’re assuming contracts require violent enforcement, which is not true. The parties to the contract decide how they themselves will react when a party believes that the contract has been breached.

> And that's the crux of it. Anytime there is more than a single person, you have a state. It's states all the way down.

Thats nonsense.

> There's always a bigger state. And usually, the state itself.

There is an infinite chain of states expropriating each smaller one on into infinity? This sounds nonsensical.
Isn't this a violation of copyright? Assuming edia is protected by international law even when you don't particularly like the nation that produced said content.
I agree with this. We would have been better off if Facebook and it's ilk did not exist. I deleted my accounts long ago, but I wish my wife would do the same.
> 2. It converts nodejs code that isn't compatible with the browser into browser code 2. It converts JS code that isn't compatible with nodejs to nodejs code

I’m not sure what that lot means. Are you talking about converting CommonJS to… I dunno, ECMAScript Modules? and vice versa? And there’s plenty that’s available in the NodeJS or web environments that’s simply unavailable in the other, e.g. the "http" and "https" modules from NodeJS and the fetch() global in the web, and you often can’t translate between the two at all, and even if you can, it’d be decidedly messy.

Output format is almost orthogonal to what I understand you to be talking about. In the terms of other bundling stuff, you seem to be talking more about features of Babel rather than features of webpack/Rollup, and if so, then output format is completely orthogonal.
There are simpler explanations that don't rely on the strange and sex-obsessed assumption that everyone who did something foolish is an incel.

The impossibility of gaining a modest return on your savings without risking it in stocks is enough for me.
>I wonder if "1%" is just a number that is repeated when talking about this subject.

I'm inclined to think it is. Often times I'll see 1% discussed in articles and the threshold is different each time. At this point, I'm certain that 1% is just a rhetorical device used to mean "bad people with money".
Whoa that's a very specific situation, kinda reads you're either regaling an anecdote or you're a shill with an Agenda. If the former, please add a "I happen to know one case of tax credit fraud".

I mean you're really broadly generalizing "poor people" here. It really sounds like you feel strongly about these. Can you elaborate?
In other words, click fraud primarily costs legitimate publishers money, not advertisers.

Setting tax rates 25% higher won’t change a thing for complete evaders. It’s not 20% across the board.
> I hope they pass a new law whatever it is.

To mix metaphors, blank checks are rarely balanced. Be very very careful what you wish for here.
It's true. Nazis didn't come to power with boos and jeers. The baddies always come to power with thunderous applause and it's pretty much all that's been going on today over deplatforming one side of the political spectrum.
How would we know that the fraud that would be prevented with voter ID is insignificant? It seems we have no real election auditing in our country, which frankly should be something that's done automatically at least on a spot-check basis. One large category of fraud that it would prevent would be illegal immigrant voting. In my state you can register by having someone that is already registered vouch for you. That's it. No other identification needed.

I'd honestly like to know what voter suppression tactics are happening in America. From what I've heard from Europeans they tend to be pretty amazed at how lax our process is.
That’s an interesting train of thought. I also wonder about content that’s been modified in some significant way (fact check labels not clearly separated from the content itself for example) by the provider: is there a point where the provider could become liable? I.e. if I made a joke website where you could post comments and it would auto-replace any mention of “topkai22” with “the notorious scoundrel topkai22”, could you sue me directly?
International Red Machines - Sounds like the USSR
I think part of it isn't really in bad faith, it is just some sort of magical thinking, along the lines of: "a coup is something that happens over _there_, those places we see only on the news".
Why is it that whenever someone posts a variation of "platforms shouldn't ban users for simply saying naughty words / having naughty opinions"; the first thing that comes to proponents minds is CP?
Only because it’s a failed coup. Don’t take their failure as a lack of their seriousness, we might not be so lucky next time.
While it would be nice if this were the result, why do you imagine that Twitter would ban these accounts promoting violence when members of the American government and major media outlets openly signal boost and support the very same violence? It is clear that one faction's promotion of violence is considered acceptable while the other faction's promotion of violence is not.
Can you delegate some of your 8-hour job stuff?
No, I'm saying that an individual is uneducated if it hasn't been exposed to a second language.

Second languages are learned in school, starting from the second grade, and tend to be languages that are spoken internationally.

English and French are the preferred languages, and both are an easy transition from the Latin languages; for that reason alone I have a hard time picturing Chinese taking over.
I think you're right, it's Arial. The angled t. And whenever I think "why fake it?" I realize why I'm not working hollywood. :)
Well, except that many users want full indexing of e-mails, including attachments, such that they can use an AJAX web interface to quickly search them.

So, storing all e-mails encrypted is not really feasible if you want to have such features as well [1]. It's a trade-off - convenience or security (I am sure someone will site Benjamin Franklin now ;)).

[1] Yes, I know that there is work on indexing encrypted data.
In case anyone missed how NYC deals with it:

http://www.vice.com/video/you-dont-know-shit-full-185
I'm sorry :)
Thanks; that is perfect. I just tried that it works on the root commit in a newly initialized repo.

I will always do this from now on:

$ git init
$ git commit --allow-empty -m NIL

Maybe the git maintainers can be persuaded to make a "git init --nil" which does this in one step.
Again, anecdotal evidence on my part suggests that he's more widely known than Linus Torvalds. I have no solid data to back that up.
Very nice! there's a certain amount of elegance in the shapes, really beautiful!

Wouldn't say relaxing, but a good time-killer.
It isn't a zero sum game. The top 20% doesn't take away 84% of the wealth pie and leave the rest to us. They also create a lot of it. If fact, if the top 20% can create enough wealth for the whole country to live a good quality of life, that is not a bad thing.
Really, we're in a day and age where most people can do their daily activities on the web.

The usual "word processing, research, facebook" student load, for instance? A dedicated physical machine powerful enough to run even MS Word locally is a waste of money in this instance.

Access to the global information network and ability to use things on it is step 0 in getting people into the modern era. All that other stuff that you get from a "real OS" is a step above that.
This class of emergent behavior hypothesis of capitalism is a good point, but too much emphasis upon this behavior risks absolving and abdicating the agency all participants possess in democratic settings. It has always been pointed out that republican-type democracy only functions when both represented and representing participants continuously, actively engage the system and each other, making changes cautiously and introspectively. More than the economic system alone is broken; the political context it takes place within is arguably also severely missing vital transmission functions.
Ah that's good; I installed and tried out Windows 10 a few weeks ago on my tablet / convertible and I didn't see any way to bring a Windows 8.1 like menu back only the Windows 10 start menu. I'll have to look into it, thanks!
If you're into this kind of artificial life simulation, I can recommend you watching this talk: http://developertalks.tumblr.com/post/109998034809/simon-swa...
> I can neither confirm nor deny whether I have any actual experience with polygraph testing, or whether I know anyone who does.

Pity, that just about negates your otherwise informative comment.
"What has complexity theory done recently that is of practical importance?"

It is probably worth noting that "practical importance" is probably the least useful measure of the value of pure research. In fact, historically, applications emerge from high level mathematics which was began with no practical applications initially in mind.
Every time I try to post a comment I get a 500 error. I like the concept but the site seems a bit buggy right now. Also, I tried to post my comment from an iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2.1 if that info would help.
thanks.
i will still need to manually load each of those up in crunchbase to figure out who corresponds with which company, but it's a big step in the right direction.
It will be bad for the US leadership, but great for the country and its people.
This is great. I'd like to reverse-engineer every successful web startup to see what they know.
> the app determines which one has the last state and updates accordingly

Have you used Things' desktop sync? I have. It didn't do that. I frequently updated items on my phone while I was out, then did some work and added/completed other items on the desktop before I sync'd. It handled everything well.

I'm not saying Things isn't worth the money; I bought a copy and frequently recommend it.
This all sounds similar to the argument that Google should stick with search instead of moving into email. Or stick with Search + Email instead of moving into mobile devices.
To solve the problem with non-US character-encoding.
Web browsers of 90s were notoriously bad with client-side encoding. The only way to show content properly for all available clients was server-side recoding and different HTTP ports were used to serve content with different encoding - ISO, DOS, Windows and KOI. Each web-page had a set of links, usually in top-right corner, labeled as "ISO", "DOS", "Win" and "KOI" which transferred you to corresponding HTTP port.
Follow-up studies, such as this 12,000 person RCT [1], have not been any more favorable towards omega-3 fatty acids.

When my patients ask me if they should take omega-3 capsules, I tell them that it depends on whether they enjoy paying for them. (Some do.)

1 = http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1205409
Because they made the program. So it's their decision.

If you want a program that turns this off by default, please feel free to create your own program with this feature disabled.
If experience is anything to go by, Microsoft may well turn out to be the next IBM: large, profitable, and irrelevant.

I would agree with that. My point, though, is that that doesn't make Ballmer a bad CEO. Not an amazing one, sure, but not anyone can keep such a giant ship cruising along.
Do you think all the tech companies were talking to cooperate, or one of them pulled the trigger and they all realized it was fair game? This is Facebook, Twitter, reddit, twitch(!), Google play and apple app store bannings
There is some rather deep irony in whistleblowers accusing Pack of trying to propagandize Voice of America. To provide some context, it was founded during WW2 as a "counter-propaganda" broadcaster. It continued this role during the Cold War, albeit under the Department of State. In fact, up until 2013, VOA broadcasts were banned in the US under the Smith-Mundt Act, which regulates propaganda activities conducted by the Department of State (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Act).
You host anywhere.

Follow this:
https://medium.com/@jasonrigden/how-to-host-a-site-on-the-da...
“I was born this way” is no longer the thinking w/r/t homosexuality. It was a short-lasting trope actually, probably more political than scientific in origin. Modern theories leave some room for genetics but nothing like what the public came to believe back in the 2000s and early 2010s.
You might not be upset, but the right is deeply upset by what they feel is censorship of their thoughts, which fuels their rage, which should upset you.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691709
you could aot compile most of most programs and jit the rest. or just jit everything
What's exponentially hard about it?

Talking like a human is a bounded problem, it has no margin for growing (or shrinking). Any kind of growth in capacity will help against it.
I see you got no further than 'legitimate political view' and then immediately decided to reply. Read the whole comment before replying, please. And go ahead, disagree with my definition -- I was pretty clear. Convince me that intolerance should in fact be tolerated; that it will not destroy a tolerant society.

Why is it that conservatives consider intolerance to be their right above everyone else?
1) Why would it be necessary to investigate where there has been no evidence to show that an investigation is even warranted? Where does the line get drawn?

2) Even if they did investigate it clearly wouldn't work. These conspiracies are self sealing - lack of proof is itself proof. If you're capable of rigging an entire election, then of course you will be able to do it without leaving any evidence.
strange, I can't get to it either - hopefully it'll be working tomorrow after they all sober up ;)
I don't disagree with the message that people are responsible for their own happiness. But right now, a "health conscious" person can go out, realize they need to eat a good diet, and be filled unto overflowing with actively harmful advice pushed by virtually every authority in existence. At some point they've done their due diligence and can no longer be blamed for the result.
I appreciate your response, but you know how it goes with startups. The moment it's not pushed as hard as it can go is the moment that the company begins its downward spiral. We are way too dedicated to let that happen with ClearDB.

As a compromise, I'll only post when we have new features from now on, but don't expect that to reduce the frequency of news coming from ClearDB. :-)
This reminds me of one of the best real-life history log entries I have seen:

vi .emacs
The web UI side of a readinglist manager, complete with offline syncing.
So I did my BSEE at UT and am now doing a PhD at Stanford. While at Stanford, I have been a part of two funded startups (cofounder of one, and 5th employee at the other). It is certainly the case that Stanford offers many more opportunities to explore startups, entrepreneurship, and general business education for ee, cs, and other technical majors. That is due to three main things. The first is a handful of startup/and business courses such as MS&E 273 (Technology Venture Formation), and EE204 (Business for Computer Scientists), and a few others. Note that these are graduate level courses, but they do count as 3 graded units of engineering credit. Also note that I have not included the iphone app etc courses. While these are cool hacker courses, they don't really focuses on how to start a company or the principles of running a business.

The second thing is the constant presence of startup companies on campus. They hold hack-a-thons, infosessions, sponsor events and competitions, and so on. This is extremely important to get students excited and involved in the startup world, as it is very different from big company world.

The third thing is that many of the students (though still a minority) are interested in or currently pursuing a startup. There are several on-campus business plan competitions that are well attended by engineering students and there are terrific resources on campus (and around campus) for pursuing startups.

Honestly, I think UT is doing a pretty decent job. Austin has a fairly strong startup presence, and I know startups recruit there. There are certainly hack-a-thons and business plan competitions. I think they could certainly benefit from a few business oriented engineering courses. My main gripe about UT, as the OP mentioned, is their curriculum and the general attitude is extremely focused on cranking out engineers for large companies (and they are very good at this). I do not think that their goal should be to generate more startups, but I do think that they should provide a more well-rounded exposure to different opportunities. While I was there I got very little exposure to research, and almost no exposure to startups (for the record, I was at Stanford for almost 2 years before I got involved in a startup).

So in conclusion, Stanford is certainly not a magical startup land like many think it is, but they do provide a very well-rounded exposure to different opportunities. UT is already doing a decent job of promoting entrepreneurship, but they could be doing a lot more, especially in their curriculum.
I don't see this as a decrease in freedom over the default situation, though. If code is copyrighted, third parties can't use your code in their software, unless they reach a licensing agreement with you.

I see GPLing my software as making a limited quid-pro-quo exception: you can use my code for free, without individually negotiating a license, but only if you do the same with your software. If that situation doesn't apply, then I'm happy to license the software in the normal manner, as one proprietary software vendor doing business with another one.

My view is something like: If someone is writing a piece of proprietary software, they should understand what proprietary software licensing means, and be prepared to pay for a commercial license if they want to use someone else's code, just as they'd expect anyone else to pay to use their code.
It's extremely difficult to be simultaneously concerned with the end-user experience of whatever it is that you're building and the architecture of the program that delivers that experience. Maybe impossible.

Layperson who's never seen it: "Impossible"

Practitioner who's becoming better: "Extremely difficult"

Expert: "We do this all the time. What's the big deal?"

I think the only way to pull it off is to simply not care about the latter. Write comically straightforward code, as if you just learned to program, and go out of your way avoid wearing any kind of software engineering hat--unless what you really want to be is a software engineer, and not the designer of an experience.

I know that OP meant well, but I think this is about the worst advice I've ever seen here. A little background...

I have reviewed or maintained the code of thousands of other programmers, and I've encountered maybe a couple dozen I'd actually hire and about 5 I'd consider as technical co-founders. What's the biggest difference? Until today, I wasn't sure how to verbalize, but now, I think a good description would be those who appear to take OP's advice and those who know better...

AFAIC, there's is a close correlation between good code and user experience. There's a close correlation between readable code and maintainable code. There's a close correlation between expertise and precision to detail throughout. And perhaps most of all, there's a close correlation between something built properly to stand the test of time and long term user satisfaction.

If you want to learn a hobby, develop a passion, or really dig deep, by all means, follow OP's advice and just code it. Sometimes that's simply the best way to understand what goes on under the hood and learn what's possible once you learn the right way to build things. Once you learn the right way to build things.

But, please, please, please, leave your experiments on your own hard disk where they belong. You may have thought that those bleeding pixels were cool, but your name will be cursed by the poor souls who forever have to maintain your mess.
Many moons ago I did something like this at a place I worked. Instead of a phone, I took the guts of a dreamcast running Linux and duct taped under the CTO's desk because he refused to stop claiming that our network was significantly more secure than it actually was (which is to say, he claimed it it was very secure, when in reality it wasn't secured at all).

Unfortunately, it didn't have the desired effect; and the network admin was pissed that he had to count all of the connection lights on the switches in the network closet once a week.

Rogue devices on your network are hard to detect and defeat.
This is from 2004. A lot of the paper still applies, in principle, but I'd argue that there are far fewer people chomping at the bit to get in to the search business these days. Now it's all "social" or "game" related.
Ugh, sorry. I just look at the URL to make sure it's as clean as possible. I didn't think about multiple entry points on the blog.
Here's what I predict:

1.) IPv4 addresses get harder and harder to obtain especially in large numbers.

2.) Some authoritarian country with a quickly growing internet population (China) mandates a switchover.

3.) Business everywhere scramble because they want to sell in China

4.) For all practical purposes, the transition is complete. Consumers in the rest of the world switch over in following few years.
I'm a sucker for premium orange yolk eggs. My partner is sucker for buying eggs from a guy who grows them in his backyard.

Sometimes, especially when making creamy scrambled eggs I can almost taste fishy or shellfish flavour (not something I like). We are based in NZ and I've heard people use sea shells as a source of calcium for hens, but I find hard to believe that it could be it.
A great way to not build the next big thing is to say to yourself "we're not gonna build the next big thing."
Nitpicking is nitpicking. Compared to the majority of sites linked to from HN, that webpage is one of the most readable yet. P.S. - the guy writing the article isn't the one responsible for the site design.
You can go from london to south east asia with AirAsia X for $500 and a decent midrange hotel costs around $20 to $30 a night. Also if your backpacking (hostels) or couchsurfing, it can be quite valuable.
seems like structured data has more value than unstructured. And email is pretty unstructured, requiring a lot of interpretation. And Craig's list to me does not have enough structured data. Is jotgot an evolution in the right direction?