jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For me it's Sir John Betjeman. Very English of course. But...

A man on his own in a car
Is revenging himself on his wife;
He open the throttle and bubbles with dottle
and puffs at his pitiful life

She's losing her looks very fast,
she loses her temper all day;
that lorry won't let me get past,
this Mini is blocking my way.

"Why can't you step on it and shift her!
I can't go on crawling like this!
At breakfast she said that she wished I was dead-
Thank heavens we don't have to kiss.

"I'd like a nice blonde on my knee
And one who won't argue or nag.
Who dares to come hooting at me?
I only give way to a Jag.

"You're barmy or plastered, I'll pass you, you bastard-
I will overtake you. I will!"
As he clenches his pipe, his moment is ripe
And the corner's accepting its kill.
Every time I read one of these articles I'm surprised that the rise of smart phones isn't cited as a contributor to this change of preference. Every minute I'm driving is a minute that I am disconnected from the internet. Constant connection is arguably a bad thing, but I'm pretty much addicted, and I would bet that everyone else is too.

I think the best summary I've heard of this was on CBC Radio (probably on Spark, but I'm not sure): "For older generations, mobile phones are distractions from driving. For millenials, driving is a distraction from their mobile phones."
Would love to hear more about the book you mentioned "Winning Through Intimidation". Just marked as to read on Goodreads. What'd you like about it?
Mario Benedetti:

Don’t Play it Safe

Don’t stand idle
at the side of the road
don’t hold off on happiness
don’t love with half a heart
don’t play it safe now
or ever
don’t play it safe
don’t fill up with calm
don’t take cover from the world
in a quiet corner
don’t let your eyelids come down
like a weighty sentence
don’t forget you have lips
don’t sleep but to rest
don’t ignore the blood in your veins
don’t think you have no time

but if
in any case
you can’t help it
and hold off on happiness
and love with half a heart
and play it safe now
and fill up with calm
and take cover from the world
in a quiet corner
and let your eyelids come down
like a weighty sentence
and dry up without lips
and sleep not to rest
and ignore the blood in your veins
and think you have no time
and stand idle
at the side of the road
and play it safe
in that case
don’t hold on to me.
This is awesome!

I was just planning to start a trip around the world next year. Great idea, waiting to see the execution
it's worth remembering that firefox won't let you PUT an attachment from a form, it must be POST which is a real pain for dealing with couchdb sometimes
Meddling? Sure.

But western style democracy?? Did you completely ignore what happened during the last "election" there?
This guy was a bond salesman, not an investor, it is no wonder why he didn't even understand the basics. It didn't matter. His job was to convince people to buy what his company was selling and to generate commissions.
So what? US (and other countries) has much worse missiles. US is the only country who used nuclear weapons in war.

Why do you fear Iran so much? US, Russia, China seem much more dangerous from the point of view of the weapons.

Iran is being bullied by the US for no real reason. Even if they were building nuclear weapons, it's their right. A bunch of countries have them.
what is "the cables"?
Here's Wikipedia's definition of "free market":

"In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are self-regulated by the open market and by consumers. In a free market, the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government or other authority"

If you outlaw pump and dump scams, it's not a free market. I tend towards favoring less government rather than more, but I wouldn't invest in stocks in any sort of free market environment.
I believe the idea was that the app would simply save data on a local drive that could then be synced with your favorite technology or service.
This repository is Windows only, it uses \ as a path delimiter all over the place. Gives you weird error messages on Linux.

Consider using / instead: it is accepted on both Windows and UNIX.
No offense but I feel like I'm being dishonestly marketed to from your landing page

The biggest thing is the tagline is "Simple, free version control" but after checking your pricing (which is buried in the footer) you have tiered pricing just like everyone else in this space, albeit with a different pricing scheme. Obviously it costs money to run and I would never expect a service like this to be completely free, but why pretend like your differentiator is being free?

Another smaller thing is your 100% SLA. Clicking through to the fine print again, you offer 5% of the cost back per 30 min downtime per month. 30 min per month is "only" between 3 & 4 nines (plus even if you miss that you only refund 5% of the cost not a full refund so it's a pretty soft promise anyway). As with the price I have no problem with the actual SLA, 99.95% uptime seems reasonable, I just feel like you're trying to trick me as someone coming to your site.
For note taking I use the open sourced Notational Velocity [1] (actually I use nvAlt [2] which is a fork that has some extra features like Markdown support). My two favorite features are that it can store your notes as plain text files in a folder of your choice, plus there's syncing through Dropbox or Simplenote. Notational Velocity is a Mac app, but with Simplenote you get x-platform support.

[1] http://notational.net/

[2] http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
So has the iPhone.
It's a little like a communist central planners dream come true... Have a giant computer make all the decisions in the economy faster than a human could.
Congrats Evan, great work.
The only problem then is, how do you do pred the inverse of succ? ;)
It's awesome that you're starting so young! I'm learning too and a place I love to hang out is the #rubyonrails channel on freenode. Look up IRC and download a client if you're not familiar. There are so many friendly and helpful people in that room at any given time.
With that question in mind, BlendTec is the only blender company that I know of. Granted, I don't exactly pay much attention to the blender market, but I think that's the point.
1. Project Natal/Kinect

2. Surface Table

Both are good innovations, on which media would go over gaga, had they come from Apple/Google.
What about the OS on the new Windows phone?
A previous round of comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1581830
I recall some notes from one of interviews with Musk that mentioned a "a plan for poorer countries and a plan for those stuck with Comcast". Not sure if Musk said this personally though, I haven't watched the interview itself yet.
For future reference you can use the "Open in app" option in Firefox to open the app in F-Droid from the website link in the parent.
Thank you for your service! The app is really special.
Lightning is usable for sending micropayments. Lightning and Bitcoin make a perfect pair for implementing 402s for machine learning API calls, as one "killer use case" example.
How do the oracles work with these kinds of smart contracts?

I also don't understand the use of some of these. You can borrow crypto against other crypto?! What is the use case for that?
Which if the rest of the world is, is going to decrease the risk of any legislation happening to begin with no?
If you use Mac you can use keychain to save all those passwords. If not you can use password manager.

1Password and LastPass is a good alternatives. Both of them offer hosted service where you can sync all your passwords. This is really needed if you have several team members that need access to these passwords.

AFAIK the service also allow you to save ssh private keys. in case you also need to save lots of keys
This is what's possible with WebVR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-7J5OaSag
After 911 there is a medical background check, once a company learns I am mentally ill I get the rejection letter that says "overqualified" that rejects me.

I had a hard time trying to find work, with a history of being mentally ill on the records and my background. Most people hide it and don't see a doctor and go undiganosed because of the social stigmas of being mentally ill.

I happen to suffer from schizoaffective disorder which is rare less than .05% of the population has it. It is like bipolar and schizophrenia combined.

When I did have a job as soon as they learned I was mentally ill from my communications, I was bullied, harassed, and picked on, and then eventually fired when I had a panic attack from the stress.

I am sure if I found the right company that wouldn't treat me that way or understand mentally ill people and don't let their employees pick on, bully, and harass them.

I used to earn $150K/year as a programmer, but now they say that is too much money to trust to a mentally ill person. In all honesty it was never about the money, I just loved programming and happened to become good at it in Visual BASIC and Active Server Pages, which are 13+ years out of date now. But I still try to keep up and learn.

My wife doesn't want me to relocate, or else I've have worked for Google in 1999, and I might have avoided the stresses I had that made me mentally ill in 2001. So I am sort of stuck in St. Louis MO and what companies there are here to work that don't like mentally ill people working for them. We tend to drive up health care costs for their insurance and when they think of disabled people they think of people in wheelchairs not the mentally ill. They tried to justify firing be by having a software contractor work $100/hr to do my job while I was in a hospital claiming that none of my coworkers could operate at my level of work. This fits the undue hardship clause of the employment law.

I had about three employers do that to me in a row, and my doctor put me on disability because I couldn't get a stable job.

I was usually hired to debug software to get a company to the next level. I optimized ADO recordsets, SQL Server tables and stored procedures, optimized Crystal Reports reports, and fixed broken Visual BASIC code so it wouldn't crash the machine and it runs faster. I also did web development in Active Server Pages using VBScript and HTML and CSS and JavaScript.

But like I said, no company wants to hire me now, and if they did it would only be temporary to use me to get to the next level and then fire me after I got them there. I feel like a third stage rocket booster.
I should have probably mentioned that I'm about to take an introductory computer graphics course at Uni. But I'm thinking a bit more long-term than that.

However I did consider starting out small and making different projects that may accrue into something bigger later on. I feel like my inability to make these decisions really goes to show how lacking in direction I am right now..
On a good team of engineers, I think a consensus generally builds when someone is not performing at the necessary level. Either you are constantly fixing their code, or they are slowing down the team because they cannot produce fast enough. Eventually this will bubble up to the manager, and they can then decide to shuffle them around, mentor them, put them on an improvement plan, or let them go.
I wish this was true. But in reality, in my experience in the Netherlands and in Australia, tickets get written because x, y says so. Not because you were or weren't doing anyy reckless. And we are conditioned by this, I am really dumbfounded when people are not jaywalking in the middle of the night in an empty street. And personally I am glad to take that ticket risk.
You're right that LEDs aren't there yet in terms of price, but in new installations where you build LED lighting in rather than trying to retrofit existing incandescent fixtures with LED bulbs, you can get some amazing lighting with LED which isn't possible any other way.

On the environment, the low hanging fruit is to make electricity incredibly cheap -- I want PV solar and wind for grid resilience, but huge nuclear fission (U-233/Thorium, or reprocessing of U-235/Pu-239) using standardized designs in large quantities.
We're starting to build API endpoints with this where I work. We didn't have compound documents in an earlier version of our API, and we ended up having to make a lot of roundtrips for some things. So I had been thinking about something like the jsonapi "include" mechanism, and when I saw how jsonapi was doing it, it was pretty close to what I would have done. That made me feel better about going along with their decisions in areas I haven't thought about.

They keep saying that they're closing in on 1.0, but there's a few issues left:

https://github.com/json-api/json-api/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3...

They've been making a lot of changes lately:

https://github.com/json-api/json-api/graphs/contributors

It's good that they want to get all of the breaking changes done so that they can declare a stable 1.0. But it also seems like they're going to try and call it stable right after making a bunch of changes, which seems risky.

I also pitched JSON-LD/Hydra at work, because they're w3c-backed and JSON-LD has some uptake. But the other people who looked at those specs found them hard to digest. And I agree; as an implementer, I can read the jsonapi docs quickly and have a pretty clear idea of what to do. But with JSON-LD/Hydra, not so much.

I get the sense that JSON-LD/Hydra is more flexible than jsonapi, but I think jsonapi does what we need. And if it does what we need, then additional flexibility might actually be a drawback. I guess we'll see how it goes.
1. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2016

2. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2017

3. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2018

4. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2019

5. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2020

6. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2021

7. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2022

8. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2023

9. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2024

10. http://predictionbook.com/predictions/2025

(Also, looks like Brian forgot to ever do a wrap-up for his 2008 predictions - http://brianbreslin.com/2008-predictions/ and http://brianbreslin.com/category/predictions/ )
Flood the market with 3D printed tusks?
I've had this conversation with friends before. Some people can't see outside their own risk profile.
I've been using sass and going kind of mixin crazy in my latest project. Once you discover all the various CSS3 generators online, creating good-looking mixins is absolutely trivial and a lot of fun.

A couple of comments:

1. Aside from my dislike of CamelCase on a few classes, it might be simpler to call the .borderRadius helper "round"? .borderRadius(@radius) is not the best naming, IMHO.
2. As mentioned below, click-stops on gradients really make for nice looking gradients.
3. For the button, I suppose you could make it into a helper method where it can take @buttonColor as a parameter. I'm not loving the almost brown color for the active state. What I did was the reverse the gradient for the active state - so light to dark becomes dark to light when clicked on.

Lastly, what I'm finding is that all these gradients, mixins, shadows, etc. do add up, but I supposed if we compress our assets it will in most cases be less than using images. Anyway, nice work.
Europe is having the lead -- that's pretty cool.
Rui is writing a book for the chibicc compiler in the cosmo codebase. I should probably write a book on system interfaces since there's no school for it. I had to go straight to the primary materials, i.e. the source to pretty much every existing kernel and libc along with the historical ones in order to understand the origin of influence. That's what helped me have a razor sharp focus on the commonalities which made this project possible.

So I'd say that the SVR4 source code would be a good place for you to start. It's like ambrosia and once you've read it you can always tell by reading modern code which developers have and haven't seen it. There's also the Lions' Commentary on Unix. I highly recommend Richard W. Stevens. The last book on the required reading list is BOFH.
I am very confident in both the idea and the design, but I am not stuck on either. The idea has already completely changed once, and has slightly changed several more times.

I know a lot of people claim to have big ideas and it is tough to believe them because talk is cheap, but this is real! Something is going to happen and if anyone is serious about doing a startup I would love to get together to talk. Even if we don’t end up working together [passionate young people discussing Ideas, the future, and making life better] couldn’t hurt.
From what I know is CVV isn't required if the card is presented in person. The card processor will revoke your agreement if you verify the card is present and it's actually not however.
For me, its about the higher level things included. I don't want to write a queue, event system, or cache layer again.
Because after 9/11 we spent twenty years pretending that brown men are the perpetrators of mass violence in this country
I can step in: Covington High School student
Open source can’t solve the problem if government control exists.
I agree. That's an important point and I suppose that begins with the government focusing on enacting legislation to actually solve problems that would make people's lives better - healthcare, educational debt, financial assistance during the pandemic and so on - rather than say shutting down the government to try to erect a barrier.
Twitter moderates user content. They have suspended or banned a large number of accounts for calling for violence, or even for wishing ill upon people (e.g., a lot of people got suspended for Tweeting when Trump got COVID that they hoped he would die from it).

Parler does not. There are numerous accounts on Parler calling for the killing of Pelosi, Biden, Pence, Chief Justice Roberts, assorted judges that ruled against Trump's lawsuits, state and local election officials, Republican governors and legislators who are not fighting hard enough for Trump, and numerous others. There were numerous accounts their calling for storming the Capital on January 6th and stopping the electoral vote counting using any force necessary to achieve this.

In short, Twitter is not banned because Twitter tries to comply with Apple's and Google's requirements to moderate user content and remove threats of violence, and Parler is getting banned because they do not.
I don’t understand the point of Parler. What happened to 4chan / 8chan etc ?
It took two years to go from banning Alex Jones to banning of the President of the United States.

Some slopes really are slippery. Everyone cheering for this censorship from billionaire elites while claiming to be part of resistance doesn't know what's coming for them.
All the comments talking about how the Capitol Police didn’t have any choice but to let the protestors in, the bigger question is why weren’t they reinforced with National Guardsmen, who were apparently ready and prepared for exactly this situation ahead of time. Linked article from four days ago. [1]

1. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/dc-national-guard-activa...
Yeah this is a valid point here.

If you think it should be illegal to yell "fire" in a crowded theater, you're a dictator.

If you think it should be illegal to create/sell/distribute child porn, you're a dictator.

Nice false equivalence. The US is divided right now because of bad faith arguments like this.
do you mean to say drone's are more expensive than people ?
Domain is a Domain. You don't need a amazing domain to be successful.
Well this was a bit disappointing: http://img1.uploadscreenshot.com/images/orig/11/32200275254-...

Perhaps set a lower limit on image sizes that get used?
Well, no one has talked about technologies related to distributed computing i.e. Mapreduce/Hadoop, BigTable/HBase/Cassandra etc. Google deserves the credit for developing these technologies in the first place. But Yahoo did the trick by providing open source implementations of these technologies. By providing them as open-source(may be first open-source product from yahoo),hadoop has quickly grown to what it is now in a very short span of time. Currently, almost all the big players in the web market are adopting these technologies for their use and, at the same time, contributing to these technologies. Facebook and twitter, both are now dependent on these tools.
I know that internally Google may be far too ahead than the current distributed computing technologies available in the market. But google is just using them internally, they are not using them either to offer them directly or by offering some other service depending on these technologies. I think, google need to think in this direction.
There's no excuse for data loss, but the inconvenience of trying to work remotely from an aircraft is very significant (heck, it wasn't even possible a couple of years ago).

Sad that Obama has continued the Bush legacy of trouncing our freedoms at the border. There needs to be a better balance between government power and civil rights at the border that still allows the government to manage what is coming and going.
Do you do your work on that linode directly (via ssh), or do you just use it for syncing?
Why don't they go back to the old design? Also make it easier to find people and get rid of the spam. Just make it more simple. Also the mashup with facebook is a stupid idea.
As a frequent early adopter, I'd say the most important thing you can do after providing a useful product in order to retain early users is to actively provide excellent support. I'll tolerate buggy software longer if it is easy to report bugs (and I know that reported bugs actually get looked at).

Interacting directly with early users also "humanizes" your company, which makes people both more forgiving of early mistakes as well as more likely to put a little bit of extra effort into helping you get better.
The type appears quite small. Do you know if this is a problem for pilots?
Hi guys, just wanted to let you know I'm a strong JSON supporter, we had XML support already working and while we were pivoting we decided to push the new version as soon as possible (aka milestone). We're working on the JSON specs as well and we're looking for feedbacks :) - you can try to use Mashape with the HACKERNEWS coupon to get an invite immediately. Feedbacks/comments are very welcomed :))
This is really great. It's really easy to disincentivize the right behavior. If you point out every typo in a first draft, then people aren't going to let you see work that's not "90%" done, even if you tell them to bring you a "30% draft."
>back in those days it was quite common to see little TVs with an integrated VHS player. But if you were the sort of person who bought individual audio components, you probably also avoided those things

Even more, if your VCR went rogue and started taking out tapes, you didn't have to throw out your TV. This mentality is now completely gone, because you're expected to throw your TV (or phone or whatever) out every 6 months.

Forced obsolescence is always a boon for manufacturers.
no problem. the cheapest (and still good quality) can be found in many middle eastern shops. they wont sell them by the canvas sack, but you can usually get a pound or two for a couple of bucks and its going to be better than walmart brand.
Nice one guys. Our company uses mostly Perl for our server side code. We'll keep you in mind as a provider.
Where do you buy those beans at? Online or a local coffee joint?