jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Source? Curious to read that :D
Probably, but it seems to me the effects of the stigma are for the most part positive, and not entirely undeserved. Does tobacco use deserve to be singled out among the examples you mentioned? Maybe not. But I feel that whatever is being implicated by your final sentence should probably be spelled out if there is any further point (outside that of those illustrated in the review) to be made.
Microsoft doesn't support IE11 anymore. You're probably safe to write modern JS unless you're in a very, very narrow niche.
For what it's worth, this is right in the middle of the "Value of Statistical Life" used in public policy decisions, $4M to $10M.

https://strata.org/pdf/2017/vsl-full-report.pdf

At least one of the states has a statutory value of a life, but I'm afraid I can't find it now (don't Google it, you will be fed into the intake funnel for wrongful death lawyers), but I think it is around $7M.

That said, $500M is for a victims' fund, about $1.4M/death, the rest appears to be a deterrent to deceiving regulators
> There was no “if convicted”

Yes, there was and is:

“Everyone identified and involved in this should be arrested, tried, and if convicted executed” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25661918

To which you responded:

“You are calling for murder, that’s not appropriate on this forum.” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25661942

Why lie about something so easy to verify?
nabla9's comment is in jest. It's poking fun at Apple and some of its users/practices
There are other countries on the planet. Rioters breaking into parliaments is not exactly common, but it's not particularly shocking either
> The bias here is that the election has concluded with a clear winner in accordance with state law and the Constitution, and one man is using their platforms to make people doubt the integrity of the election.

Yes, and because of the partisanship it’s mainly liberals that don’t want to take claims of election fraud very seriously.

When Trump won in 2016 there were claims of fraud for that in addition to claims of support from Russian hacks into voting machines. None of these were taken down.
Nothing. It's a great innovation in web development and UI declaration to be more precise. I was skeptical for a while, but when started writing it it became natural real fast.
XNU itself is one of the ones that can definitely be built outside of Apple! Lots of people have made custom kernels over the years.
HSTS could prevent this from working.
Works reasonably well on Firefox 3.6.3 + Windows 7 Professional.
This was my take at the time it was first announced: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=703627

It's a shame they went with Sharepoint as host for the business version, but meh.

I have to say the interface is pretty nice; it would have creamed the last version of Google Docs, but I think the recent docs updates levels the field a lot (to be honest, they really feel like two different offerings anyway - I like the current version of Word for "fancy" documents and docs.google for hardcore writing).

Having Powerpoint in the cloud is brilliant, on the other hand the lack of word count in Word is annoying.

All in all mixed results; I am guessing things will expand rapidly.
Start-up founders will have signed (and presumably read) quite a few legal documents (and even written a few themselves) before they hire a real lawyer. They should have had a real lawyer look over a few things first (on a consulting basis), as may be required by their E&O insurance, but they will have done quite a bit of "lawyerish" work themselves.

They may have also emptied the bins, unplugged the toilets, watered the potplants, and done a lot of other routine maintenance work.

There are very few jobs that can't be done (to a certain extent) by a non-professional. Practicing medicine is one obvious professional-only profession, but even then there are gray areas. Before you hire a company doctor, should you look into getting a sick bay, and doing a first aid course?
Unless I am missing features; it works fine for me on Chrome under Linux (that's about as far away from your proposed requirements as you can get :))
Thanks for the link - CNET made it impressively difficult to find in that damn article!

Did a quick trial run: Word, Excel seem alright, but my primary use-case - OneNote sync'ing - is finally addressed :) Now I don't have to futz around anymore with the slightly clumsy (but honestly kinda nice) implementation of Live Mesh to keep my OneNote notebooks sync'ed between work and home machines!
> 2. It will apparently be possible to retroactively upgrade from the 250 MB plan to the 2 GB plan if you're going to be over, so the fears of forgetting that you left Pandora running and paying hundreds seem to be a bit unfounded.

Well... In one of the initial discussions someone did the calculation that if you leave Pandora playing for 40 hours/week, it amounts to 5+GB of data, and that's on the low quality stream.
I guess they can just use magic to protect their ideas.
I was a bit of a sceptic initially, but now that I work in a company with a bunch of remotes (and am temporarily remote myself due to The Plague), it really helps.
Accident analysts call this "cascade failure". Something goes wrong, and the safety system intended to deal with it is also broken.
Used to work at fb in an infra team.

Their abstraction for job scheduling (Tupperware) is about 5 years behind - something like Borg or EC2/EMR. Something like that is a fundamental reason why fb can’t do cloud as it is right now.

Plus, the infra teams do operate like product - impact at all costs. Which to most management translates to short-term impact over technical quality.

It would be a true 180 in terms of eng culture if they could pull off a cloud platform. An example is how they bought Parse and killed it, while firebase at google is doing extremely well.

Having said all that, I think focusing on impact over technical quality is probably the right business decision for what they were trying to do at the time - drive engagement and revenue.
No doubt Canonical tests more, but there's something about the way they configure the kernel and packages that gave me more problems over the years than most other distros. In fact, the first Ubuntu install ever, back in '06 failed for me completely, while Mandrake worked.

I do appreciate that this is subjective, I just wished Ubuntu isn't the only choice people evaluated when trying Linux.
I share your concerns, but it is impossible to predict the future state of the world. Roblox is currently looking for candidates who will be available to work full time on our San Mateo campus when it is safe to do so. We will provide relocation for qualified candidates.
It's being run backwards and looks great that way. Imagine playing a couple of pool games and then singling out that one really cool shot you made, and start by saying, "that pool shot is how I play pool."

The parasites did their thing just fine for each individual organism. But that one random one that happened to cross wires in just the right way ended up doing orders of magnitude better. A rare occurrence, but very advantageous once it happens.
There is no hard data for the "invisible hand of the market" but people still promote it. It's just how things work, people have ideals, and they push them into the spotlight to be discussed and talked about, which leads to studies being made and people finding pros and cons.
Please don't do this here. It literally adds to the thing you're complaining about.

Btw, pg hates cult of personality stuff as much any of us.
The difference between HTTP and HTTP2 is not noticeable cost-wise on the consumer side, it is only noticeable in the aggregate when serving millions of requests.

Let's not try to pretend that HTTP2 is about bandwidth savings in the third world, that didn't even enter the consideration at any level.

If you want to save bandwidth at that level then you're better off reducing eye candy and using apps rather than websites and not shipping bloated pages with 100's of requests and 1/2 MB of javascript frameworks across to mobile devices.

Shaving a couple of bytes off a header is not going to move the needle there.

For the record, I ran my internet connection of one of those pre-paid SIM cards for a month and the big killers were websites that keep refreshing their pages, javascript frameworks and advertising.
I think "apex record" means the root domain name in a zone, and is unrelated to A records (except for the fact that you would usually make an A record for your apex so web browsers can reach your site even without a "www." subdomain/prefix)
Look who's interested in data all of a sudden.
It is actually possible to buy a car on credit without getting ripped off. The way I did it was, having already gotten agreement on the selling price, and having a good estimate of the likely interest rate, I decided what loan term I wanted and computed the corresponding monthly payment based on these variables -- all before sitting down to do the final negotiation. I declined all dealer add-ons and all financing offers that didn't match my precomputed numbers. Eventually they made one that did.

I'm not saying I got the best deal possible; I didn't shop dealerships. (OTOH I'm not sure that would have worked, as the model I was buying was in demand.) But basically, I think I did okay.
>It's silly that trademarks are able to be sold. That undoes the idea of consumer protection as the trademark name is now misleading consumers.

If companies could not sell trademarks, they would simply form a new corporation for each trademark and then sell the entire corporation.

There's no way to enforce that a certain trademark indicates products of a certain quality. Whoever owns the trademark can simply start making shitty products.

Trademarks don't exist to protect consumers; they exist to protect producers from knock-offs leeching off their reputation.
Any Idea how much this will cost?
I am a student in college and I was interested in going to PyCon since python was my first programming language -- and do Students have a different rate than regular tickets?
Very fluid on my phone too!

(Nexus 5 on lollipop)
I spent over 10 years in prisons, over two stretches. My first bit was 2.5 years long and I wasn't much into books during that. My second one got me thinking about what I really wanted for my life, and so I started educating myself and devoured hundreds of books. Also, books let you "escape", if only briefly, the stark reality of prison. Quite a few guys I knew loved to read romance novels.

What Imaginenore said, about having one TV for a group is very true for every prison I was in (6 state and 3 federal). That makes it difficult to find a program you like.

Usually, an ethnic group or gang takes over the TV and everyone else does their own thing. I DM'd D&D games for 4 different groups each week, and played in one.

Two things that disbelief stated above were absolutely untrue about things prisoners do: stare at walls and walk in circles. I believe he is trying to suggest boredom-coping mechanisms caused by a lack of activities. In prison, there is always something to do.

People can exercise with weight equipment. there is a yard you can walk a track in, play tennis in, play basketball in the courts, play soccer or touch football.

There is an indoor rec center with treadmills (usually), musical instruments, art room (for painting, drawing), and lots of tables for card (or D&D) playing.

As for book access, I found I could get any book I knew about. The library services in the prison education department allowed us to get inter-library loan books to read. Also, I purchased a lot of books by mail-order.

I subscribed to 20 different magazines of varying interest. I did that to keep abreast of my interests, and also to pass them on to others after I finished. I felt it important for the other inmates to expand their knowledge of subjects. There are inmate magazine subscription services where I could get magazines at $4 to $10 per year per subscription.

I had internet prior to my incarceration, high speed internet at a university. I thought I would die of boredom in prison, but it turned out to be far from the truth.
Popping back in the thread to say "thank you" to everyone who contributed so far - this has given me a lot to research and think about.

From a product management perspective, Laravel is tempting - I certainly get that it could seem bloated, but some of that seems quite useful for getting to MVP quickly - the user auth and billing especially.

I'm considering Postgres / Laravel / Bootstrap (already have a clickable HTML prototype underway) to be replaced by Angular post-MVP, but I'll probably noodle on that last bit some more when the time comes to make that call.
HN has always been rather intensively curated. You may be right about the statistical trend, but conscious intervention can and does reverse this "entropy" somewhat in our limited context. The question is how we can do this better.

Fascinatingly, the number of stories posted to HN has not been increasing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446750

It's a mistake to interpret that as saying anything about the site's growth. In fact, it's a good thing. The number of substantive HN-appropriate stories in the world is not growing by leaps and bounds; neither, therefore, should our story stream. We want quality, not quantity.

There's a lot we can do about story quality, because the front page is so limited, there are many fewer stories than comments, and because we manage the front page for quality in ways we would never manage the threads. However, there's no way we can scan the universe of stories to find all the best ones. We rely on /newest to be our universe of stories. If /newest is broken, we'll fix it. But we're going to focus on the problem of bad comments first.
I think it's because they didn't launch it yet, probably it's a private repo.
This is a really excellent article. Thanks!
Dude literally wrote an article criticizing sensationalizing journalists just to sensationalize. Seriously?
Please explain how my arms or legs won't be easily cut off when using one of these? I've always wondered about the safety issues with these types of lifts.
Reminder that Netflix was a big proponent for axing net neutrality laws.

Disagree with the premise though, Netflix has fast.com to make it transparent to customers that their NETFLIX volume is being throttled, and hence providers naturally do not throttle Netflix
Yep, I think this is universal. I was in China a few years ago and the dude was playing tetris with one hand on his cell phone and driving in the emergency lane at the same time.

Uber/Lyft/Didi/Ola is amazing. I really don't give a shit about these asshole taxi drivers and their union/monopoly grip. Glad it is wiped out.
So there is something to be said for keeping your savings in a stable currency or asset but that doesn't necessary protect you from negative government action. Some examples:

1. Many Russians held funds in currencies other than rubles. Faced with sanctions, Putin instituted forced conversion to rubles. So far the ruble hasn't been decimated but this could still go south;

2. Venezuela essentially prevents conversion of currencies. I mean it's complicated. There's a government rate and a black market rate and the country is under completely unjustifiable sanctions; and

3. Argentina is also currently restricting access to foreign currencies;

4. Years ago, Argentinians held funds in foreign currencies. Local banks held foreign currencies against those deposits. When things went south the banks basically packed up all their money, put it on a plane, flew it out and then declared bankruptcy or just threw up their hands; and

5. Some will even point to FDR's sovereign devaluation of the US dollar as another bad example. In the 1930s, the government forced purchase gold for $20/oz (the peg at the time) and then revalued the US dollar at $35/oz.

This last one is a constant point of consternation for gold bugs turned Crypto Andys.

And no crypto isn't the answer here.

My point here is that you cannot overstate the importance of multigenerational wealth creation in the developed world. The dark truth here is that the US has often had a hand in the above events that have essentiaally stolen accumulated wealth from ordinary citizens.
Why would a self driving Über be a "taxi", and not a "rental car"?
They have it on their main page, if you bothered to scroll down to the footer, you'd realize that this is not their main service, so it wouldn't make sense for them to have their information on every single page of their site.

https://www.strikingly.com/?ref=logo&permalink=snappic (footer)
This was a great read, thank you for the post. I recently purchased a La Pavoni, I am not pushing any particular brand, but these types of machines, the manual type, honestly make the best Espresso, which in my view is the best way to enjoy coffee. I have tried every contraption out there over the years, by far a manual pump machine is the best.
While cool, I'm betting a used mobile home + mods is cheaper. Of course you have to give the bus some points for the wow factor.
Watson in that article seems to be doing more than merely suggesting "that not every group in the world has exactly equal average IQ scores":

> In 2007, Dr. Watson, who shared a 1962 Nobel Prize for describing the double-helix structure of DNA, told a British journalist that he was “inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says, not really.”

> Moreover, he added, although he wished everyone were equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this not true.”
Are you saying that her wealth justifies her firing?
If they existed we would see the chips by now. They sell over $3 billion in hardware a year. I'm sure by now hundreds of individuals and companies have tried to find one and be the first with the teardown.
Cpython had 5 pull requests opened yesterday. 6 the day before that (from 10 total distinct contributors). That doesn’t seem like a project starving for contributors. If everyone with commit access up and quit, there’d be turmoil for several weeks and something reasonable would emerge.

People want to work on popular, useful things. Python is both of those.
It's interesting that nobody's really leaned into Excel as a RAD tool. Once you have your spreadsheet functioning how you'd like, feed it into a "despreadsheeter". This could be, at a basic level, locking and hiding every possible cell, to running it in an embeddable Excel-like runtime without a lot of UI clutter and foot-guns, up to parsing the formulas, providing a form editor to build the inputs into attractive screens, and spitting up Python/C#/Java/a native binary.
I've laid out my case for why Charles Murray is a white supremacist. Beyond that it's just a matter of free speech and free association.
Not really, that information gradually gets bit-rot and evaporates away to nothingness as website after website gets old and vanishes.

In the early days of the Internet, I often used to Google/AltaVista/Jeeves my own name. There used to be quite a few hits. Over the years, those old hits have just faded away.
Or get a standing desk.
There are a lot of quant funds that were started by professors. They hire a lot of PhDs in Math and Physics. And yes, a PhD in Math can make a lot of money if you end up working at a trading firm.
I've done a lot of scraping and parsing. Your best option is to fetch the SEC's RSS, then fetch the hard-to-parse XML/Free-form and parse it. XBRL is great in its own regard, but it's very difficult to relate XBRL fields with non-XBRL filings. You would do well to separate the two results.

SEC form 4 filings are in XBRL dating back to Jan 1, 2004 for every company. There are well over 1,000,000 forms filed between then and now... I know, I have them all locally right now.

You can scrape Google's Financial pages, obviously, and you can even get 2-minute data from a JSON "_5d" variable.

You can get fundamentals data from nasdaq pretty easily, too. Scraping it is a little difficult, but you can go 120 quarters back for many companies, and 5 years back for annual data.

I have a financial statements database populated with nasdaq scraped data right now. They update within a week or so after it's published to the SEC. You'll always be behind the curve, but you will have good information, and it is good information, albeit incomplete (missing things like the number of shares outstanding).
Yet another anti-SQL rant with precious little history (just enough to give a context to the rant).
How does Posterous authenticate a message in the absence of DKIM or SPF records in DNS? The domain dustincurtis.com does not have an SPF record and DKIM is not supported by the mail host for dustincurtis.com(Google Apps for your Domain).

I assumed that Posterous did something clever using the IP address of the SMTP peer or the headers in the message. Does Posterous fallback to just checking the sender email address?
I just submitted almost the same idea 20 minutes after you, without reading this post. I think it is a great idea!
EDIT: I took the troll's bait and got caught arguing with someone apparently arguing in the mirror, so apologies for adding to the noise. loewenskind has a long history on here for attacking strawmen instead of actual positions, polarizing their position (everyone not pro-Apple is a part of the anti-Apple hoardes, in loewenskind's opinion), and just generally acting as hero for the defenseless Apple. I didn't know that before being trolled.

>Again with the spin.

What spin? Are you for real?

I said that Apple is the largest tech company. Yes, the normal measure is market capitalization.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=apple+...

You then go off about how that just happened (so? Are we supposed to be talking about the past), but how it doesn't matter anyways. To which I mentioned that being so large allows them to throw their weight around. See the panic when there were worries that Apple would consume ARM.

Your whole argument is against nothing I've actually said, and you seem to be arguing for Apple of 2003. Well guess what, loewenskind, it's 2010. I'm here with reality, you're not.

And quit calling everything "spin" after you've thoroughly misrepresented the point.
At a minimum, earning a degree shows that you are capable of setting a goal and finishing a large project.

That will only help you later in life, and not just in terms of impressing prospective employers.
No, since the reply goes back to the real address.
It sounds like people have tunnel vision in regards to death statistics. Medical deaths are easy to count and record.

Partial "death" i.e. loss of limbs, senses, cognition, muscle control, emotion (happiness) is not as easy to capture in a single statistic.

The benefits a malaria net provides goes way beyond preventing death. The vast majority of people that have malaria do not die of that disease. They only have a significantly reduced quality of life which isn't as exciting as preventing medical death even though you could make the valid argument that a life without malaria counts as a saved life.
i give up, tell us why!
No you don't. Not in Europe, mostly anyway.
A targeted bad BIOS update is more plausible than a special chip hidden between layers of the motherboard. especially with the management BMC IPMI which is basically a second OS that acts as a KVM switch. But if this is all it is, this whole investigative thing is overblown to say the least. But why?
Public hospitals, for instance, are required to provide indigent/uncompensated care.