jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oh, there was a bug in the script, i've merged gutworth's latest code that fixes it (And the weird green tick when the TCP connection just gets reset).

Page has been updated :)
About this:

"You are mixing two concepts."

You have no idea what you are talking about. This creates deflationary pressure:

x > y + z

So long as x is greater than y plus z, then it is cheaper for the Swiss to import their croissants from Italy or Germany or Austria, or anywhere else. And also their microtechnology, hitech, biotechnology and pharmaceutical goods. That is why every article written about this so far says that dropping the peg is bad for Swiss industry, and therefore bad for the Swiss economy. So long as this is true:

x > y + z

then it is easier for the Swiss to import things, because everything outside of Switzerland appears to be cheaper. And that, of course, puts downward pressure on prices from domestic producers as well. Thus, the pressure is deflationary, not inflationary -- the problem is that prices will fall, not that prices will rise.
> He's empowering others to destroy their lives, which very often leads to more crime as addicts will steal or even kill for their next fix.

What do you think about state organized lotteries then?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PK-netuhHA
They're doing about $10b / yr in revenue, so this is only a 4.5x multiple, which is small for a company growing this fast.

It's true that they have little defendable IP or innovative products. However, their scale, brand, and direct-to-consumer distribution are all significant barriers to competition.

Their model is basically to use their scale and product design process (ie, copy existing products) to make devices cheaper and then rely on their strong brand (in Asia anyway) and direct-to-consumer model to market and sell them cheaper than anyone else is able to.

This is why they're now the largest phone maker in China and the 5th largest in the world.
Probably the fact that it was announced last April
> "A knowledgeable government source claims that
the NSA has concluded agreements with Microsoft, Lotus and Netscape to
permit the introduction of the means to prevent the anonymity of Internet
electronic mail, the use of cryptographic key-escrow, as well as software
industry acceptance of the NSA-developed Digital Signature Standard (DSS)."

Nice. Microsoft has been collaborating with the NSA to make their spying easier for its own products and services for at least two decades now, something the Snowden docs confirmed in 2013 [1], but we didn't know it went back that far then.

But that was the old Microsoft (up until 1-2 years ago). The new Microsoft could never possibly.

[1] - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...
I think it's think of past on new projects, but old and intranet project still use Web Forms. For me it's (unluckily) still most of my work.
Exactly, and if you actually look at the numbers on Alexa:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/scribd.com
The Pageviews/User and Time on Site went down since they released it in May. It's all PR BS.
That's like saying men are bad because men are responsible for most wars.

You can't ignore the benefits created by investment banks. Without them we wouldn't have had the financial meltdown; but neither would we have had the rapid growth of the last century which has largely been fuelled by financial markets enabling huge amounts of investment. Without the investment banking sector you would have no IPOs, no financed takeovers, no VCs, even bank lending to small business would be close to non-existent. If you want to see the impact of financing, have a look at places which have introduced microfinance in recent decades. It has a transformational impact.
This is a bit along the lines of Patrick's marvelous post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438472
I use linode, with Apache installed, since it's the default stack. Would it be a better idea to spend a day or two installing nginx? At the moment, Apache runs okay, is there an advantage to my installing nginx now?
I have to agree with those who disagree. While there are those of us who are genetically predispositions to become techies, anyone with the drive and will can be a great programmer. It's hard work and usually takes much more effort but I have known some ubertechies who weren't born to it. Never underestimate the power of determination and desire.
My target market so far is indeed people without smartphones, as well as couples - that's why I've got the little 'members' tab for keeping track of a budget collaboratively.

When I first set out to build it, I had to consider whether to make it something you hook up to your bank accounts, or something you manage yourself - I went the self managed route, because it lets you track things like cash on hand in addition to money in your bank account.
This is a fantastic article. How many people are aware of this distinction, and the idea that you have to be comfortable with who someone really is rather than your vision of them?

Hopefully it's rather high :-/
On the last one, private benefits are only cheap in certain cases. If you have kids, the cost goes up a lot, and if you or your family has used the health insurance in the past 12 months, the cost skyrockets (and many insurers won't take you). You don't even have to have leukemia or AIDS or anything to be disqualified or get charged really high rates; it could be as simple as, your kid has gotten two antibiotic courses in the past year, or you had a kidney stone.

As for the suggestion in the article, pooling among small businesses, it's been floated a number of times, and some states have tried to set up those kinds of pools, but so far it hasn't really worked: http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/26/smallbusiness/healthcare_poo...
What happened to the letter S? Isn't it after T in frequency?
> http://stackoverflow.com/tags/go - 2697. Not so good.

No one's asking questions because it's too easy and well documented.
They were mainframes, PCs and Operating Systems. Now they're out of PCs and home operating systems.

They've gotten much bigger on corporate services: They compete with Accenture on large software implementations, and do big EDS style outsourcing projects. In doing this they've shifted away from hardware preferences.

They've also bought many enterprise software packages which lend themselves to implementations and ongoing support.

From a shareholders perspective Gerstner was very aggressive about share repurchases, or giving money back. One problem with big companies is they get so much money that they start wasting it. A company can appear very large and strong, but do nothing for the shareholders, if they're just pissing away retained earnings. (One could argue that Microsoft was guilty of this)
The headline is quite ambiguous to say the least.
Wow, that sounds incredible to have been involved with the Higgs discovery and to now be working at NASA. You must be very satisfied with your career so far!
KeePass plus multiple supported clients have allowed me (and my wife) to manage a unique password per account without too much effort. My eyes really opened when my linkedin leak happened and I realised how many accounts shared that same password.
Are you talking about a word processor produced in 1985 that had a type ahead feature? This is very different. Not a word processor, but a psychometric tool.
> For some reason, many sites, including amazon recommendations, fail to support 256 bit ciphers. I don't understand why.

I assume you mean AES-256 vs AES-128. If a site is preferring AES-128 ciphers (particularly in combination with other modern cipher suite choices (ECHDE, SHA2, etc)) that's actually a pretty good indication they know what they are doing.

AES-256 offers no practical advantage over AES-128. There are no known practical attacks against AES-128, and stretching the key to 256 bits just wastes CPU cycles.

In fact, most of the attacks out there that weaken AES to any meaningful degree are those that attack the key schedule used in the 192 and 256 bit versions.

tl;dr; Save the planet. Use AES-128.
If you're travelling in a pair, and you're staying for a reasonable length of time (say, a week) then the hotel cost shouldn't dominate. 7 nights * $100 a night / 2 people is only $350 -- less than the airfare to most places.

Besides, saving money on a hotel is mostly a matter of deciding how awful a place you're willing to put up with. You don't get that option with airfares.
In my work experience I've noticed a positive correlation between employers that told me what their company culture was (especially via folders of documents, and wall signs) and employers that had an unpleasant, stiff, and hypocritical company culture.

The employers that didn't have an HR department, and/or didn't tell me what their culture was beforehand tended to end up having nicer cultures. Go figure.
Half a century--two human generations--is not nearly enough time for evolutionary pressures to have the sort of effect you are talking about. Least of all in a society of abundance in which the majority of members reproduce.

Instead, I'd suggest you look at the various changing environmental factors for an explanation of these phenomena: BPA in plastics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisphenol_A), the growing use of soy in human diets (with its attendant phyto-estrogens), and the growing quantities of synthetic human estrogen in the environment (already known to have effects on fish, see for instance http://www.seattlepi.com/local/124939_estrogen04.html).
Ah, it is nice to see the licensing issue is directly addressed -- http://wiki.github.com/behlendorf/zfs/faq

> The CDDL does not restrict modification and release of the ZFS source code which is publicly available as part of OpenSolaris. The ZFS code can be modified to build as a CDDL licensed kernel module which is not distributed as part of the Linux kernel. This makes a Native ZFS on Linux implementation possible if you are willing to download and build it yourself.
I almost feel like I should do a separate 'Ask HN' for this but..

Does anyone else really want a netbook equivalent in a laptop sized model? When it comes to my development environment, especially with dynamic languages, I don't really NEED Core i7s and high end video cards. RAM size seems to matter much more as does HD speed.. But really, if I am using the computer for work I only really need it to run Chrome, Vim, and maybe Eclipse. My little EeePC netbook hand handle that quite easily.

The problem for me is the form factor. I love my EeePC to death for it's battery life and portability. It was a life safer for me on my vacation to S.Korea last year (small enough to easily slip into my day pack for regular access at Wifi hotspots). But I simply CAN NOT program on it. The screen is too small, the resolution is too small, and the keyboard is too small for me to type easily.

What I REALLY want is a super light laptop with a gorgeous 15/17 inch screen and a netbook-like 10+ hour battery life. The closest thing I know of toward my ideal is the Macbook Air, but even that seems to have a different design goal in mind (and is far too pricey).

Does anyone know any manufactures or models that fit this profile? I feel like there isn't anyone really focusing on providing a good "hacker's laptop"
I would like to hear Linus opinion on Go.
because mobs act impulsively and blindly follow the leaders
I think the management point is a good one. A valuable generalist role is working at the interface between management and the specialists in the team. As an engineer I was much more of a generalist which lead me into product management.
so good ! http://michaelyingling.com/random/calvin_and_hobbes/search.p...
Posterizing is fine but dithering is an art unto itself.
How is luxembourg not "in europe" by any definition?
Only interviews for Python related jobs.

I am not asking anyone to write Python when it isn't part of the job.
> The Python Steering Council and Python Software Foundation will work together to contract a developer

This would represent a significant increase in the number of people paid to work on the Python language. Two years ago it was estimated that it only had (the equivalent of) two full-time employees working on it.

https://discuss.python.org/t/official-list-of-core-developer...
This sets a great example for other cloud providers to emulate. I'm really proud of Ewa Jodlowska (PSF Executive Director) and her team for making this happen for the Python community.
Same here. Left and right shifts are my reference and from that I can locate every key on the keyboard.
I don’t know. An (not well known) artist took his life and allegations about child abuse came up. I now have a hard time enjoying his music.
Please no, NO MORE STUPID SENSORS.
All manufacturer did it right 15 years ago, thus why I won't buy any vehicle made after 2010'ish.
My mazda 3 has a touchscreen too - but its disabled while the car is moving. Every function is quite accessible from the physical controls, and they're in a good location, good tactile feedback and different sizes of buttons to knobs etc.

It is clearly designed away from "touchscreen", but if you are parked it functions fine with touch.
Two minute papers has many fun examples of AIs with unexpected behavior, OpenAI's hide and seek is one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu56xVlZ40M
I just wanted to extend word that no matter how comments go on this website, there is a sizable fraction of the US that understand the deal was about creating an imperfect detente to limit the hardliners on various sides, to create space for progress. We'll see how things shake out, but I just wanted to say that there are plenty of people over here to see this in that way.
That sounds like the AI equivalent of 'flipping the table'!
Very cool! Maybe I should give Zig a try too.

Also hats off to you @jart!

Is this a one time thing or are you thinking of something bigger going with this project?
The 10^6$ question is whether Richard Stallman[1] would use this?

[1]http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/
> It is expensive to drive for a living - so expensive, in fact, that it was not a living until monopoly pricing was forced by government regulation.

This was done in exchange for stability in price, stability of service and other benefits i.e. we're getting something for our money.

> The excess capacity of vehicles owned for personal transportation is huge. I don't want to repeat myself, so I'll link to another thread discussing Uber (and friends) where I participated that makes my position very clear[0].

I glanced through it, I don't find the argument convincing.

> They are providing significant competition in an industry which has seen consumer-harming regulation for a century.

#1 Is it consumer-harming? #2 if it is, does it harm consumers more than it benefits society at large?

The medallion system has limited the number of cabs on the road which minimizes the pollution and congestion they cause, it also makes sure they pay their fair share for things like road repairs since they're using a public good for commercial use. Because the cars are generally awful shades of yellow or orange pedestrians, cyclists and other cars are safer as well. These are things that benefit society as a whole.

Believe it or not, many people like to know ahead of time how much a cab ride is going to cost so they can plan accordingly.

At the end of the day Uber is going to regulate the market using their market power to whatever extent they can. They simply aren't going to bring an efficient, competitive market place where everybody wins. You don't get valued at $40 billion when all you have are easily substituted assets (it's an app, a brand, and some logistic management software) unless you have a long term angle of somehow making massive profits which according to basic economics are assumed to be impossible in healthy markets.
None of this matters much to me since I'm often staying someplace close to Paddington and/or Mayfair. If I'm not staying there, I'm off to Canary Wharf and it's a taxi ride no matter what.

If you're fine with lugging baggage up and down the tube stairwells, then fine by you, but I prefer the Express for any number of reasons and time of travel/distance traveled isn't the sole determinant of my choice.
I might be able to hire you. Email me your stack, u/n @ gmail.
those damn vaccine deniers like the cdc. http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/should-not-vacc.htm

I'm pointing out that the issue is more complicated than most people make it.
So, maybe a naive question, why does a manager need a pager?
That's a great story.

"In general I don't do brand loyalty, but I fucking love thorlabs."
- I think that sentiment is representative of the vast majority of companies. Brand loyalty is earned when companies go above and beyond to help you, when human attention is thrown at you.
The first thing that came to mind when reading the title of this post was Google Fonts. Maybe this is validation that I need to write that Chrome extension that comes to mind every time I'm copying that snippet.
So now our legal economic activities depend on the say-so of a shadowy, unelected cabal. I guess we're "destroying the village to save it."
From http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001679:

‘Now you want to go about finding an apartment. You want to get a place on the red line [the local subway] because then you can go see people and people can go see you. The best place to go is Davis Square, because it’s cheap, fun, and on the red line. Harvard is fun and on the red line but not cheap, Porter is cheap and on the red line but not fun, so I recommend Davis, Inman, and Central, in that order.’ Underneath the table I sneak my notebook and pencil out of my pocket and begin secretly taking notes.

‘Now the thing you want to get is one of these triple-decker houses converted into apartments, where the top floor is slightly smaller than the other two. And then you’ll be in exactly the same place as VisiCalc when they started it — in the top floor of a triple-decker in Davis Square.’ (Actually, Paul later told me VisiCalc was started in the neighboring town of Arlington.) ‘Yeah, but you don’t want to code like VisiCalc,’ Trevor says, ‘that stuff was rotten.’ ‘Well, it made money, didn’t it?’ Paul replies.
Indeed. Very frustrating.

"Lamo is the most famous computer hacker in the world at the moment"

If he's so famous, then why have I never heard of him? Get to the point.
True. When you buy IBM on margin, you're shorting USD.

So if they reinstate the uptick rule for short selling, shouldn't they add a downtick rule for margin buying? :)
I think about making a similar move all the time - every company out there has bits of data in different systems that need to be pulled together without a multi-million $$ business intelligence effort.

If I was making a change in this direction, here is what I would look for:

1 - contract job listings or small consulting firms that do data warehousing, ETL dev, and reporting.
2 - Mid-size companies in a specific industry that need this type of custom reporting. Financial services companies are immediate targets.

One caveat - my personal search has indicated that many companies are tightly (very tightly) bound to using a report solution from a big vendor (Sas, Cognos, MS, or Microstrateg) and will probably NOT deviate from that platform. These types of places view reports using a specific provider as a very good thing seeing how they can hire report devs with that exact skillset when they need new reports or additional data sources added in.

This vendor tie-in extends into ETL tools (eg, you'll see lots of job requests for Informatica or AbInitio skills)
iirc, ObjC now has garbage collection. Unless, I'm going crazy.
Ok. Exposure equiv to 1 banana. Sounds innocuous. But, is that 1 banana per day, hour, minute, per walk by the contaminated creak? And, for folks living near/in contaminated area with say 2 beqs a day. Has there been any studies of radiological health effects of "eating" 2beqs a day for 365 days over 10 years.

This measurement unit swings too far in the other direction of making radiation sound safe and tasty.

Radiation exposure is cumulative, every bit damages dna/cells even if only a little. I stopped eating Brazil nuts as a kid due to radiation amount. Now considering limiting banana to 1-2week instead of 1-2 day I eat now.
No, I was pointing out that this wasn't something that was invented by Apple and revealed to the world last month and wasn't incompatible with plastic, a key component of basically all the portable devices I listed.

The post I responded to called a phone "cheap plastic" as if this was somehow unusual, and a fatal flaw, yet my iPhone has a plastic back and seems to be doing fine in durability and popularity.
I run Ubuntu off of 512M of ram, and it has always performed well for me, I don't think it is a miracle to run off that amount of memory, for most people's needs they could deal with a lot less memory. Most people just want more memory for more eye candy.
Boiled down, isn't this just, "Choose the right sample size"? The article does not point to ways to solve the real problem.

How do I know that 1000 coin flips is the right number? It seems like an arbitrary round number; how do I derive the right number of coin flips to get the 50% probability? Or maybe a better way of asking it would be: How many coin flips do I need in order to guarantee 50% heads with 4% deviation?

It was good to point out the fallacy. I just want the second step of how to avoid the fallacy.
The very definition of hacking is using something in a way it was not meant to be used. Last time I checked, the top left of this site still said 'Hacker News'. If you find hacks stupid, why are you here?
Another way of saying:

"if you want something to get done, ask a busy person".
I have a sports drawer: t-shirts, shorts, ankle braces.

Other t-shirts hung in wardrobe and a separate drawer for other shorts.

Paper files: chucked into a tray haphazardly after being attended to. Sorted into filling cabinet once tray is full (which it is now and arguably has been for a month or two).
Really appreciated this breakdown, thanks!
The GPA is an interesting system when you sit down to think about it. I came into college with almost 30 general education credit hours. I received the International Baccalaureate diploma in high school. I only needed 1 more gen ed course to fulfill my requirements.

So imagine me, a 18 year old jumping immediately into fairly difficult courses my freshman year...adapting to college. Whilst my peers are taking English 101 and inflating their GPA. I did not receive internships offers my early years in college and I feel this had a big part of it.
I agree. I used Linux exclusively from 2006 up until this year. In that period I ran Slackware, Fedora, Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, SuSE, Mandrake/Mandriva, Gentoo for at least 3-4 months each, but mostly stick to Slackware. I got tired of problems when compiling some basic software. For example getting Workrave and Inkscape to work on Slackware always took me 1-2 days to figure out which exact version of which package to install. So I finally switched to Ubuntu (14.04) once again, got almost bitten by automatic update which seemed like it got stuck, but actually did not and was upgrading kernel and Grub. Luckily I ran "ps ax" trying to reboot and noticed the grub install command. I imagine average user would not be so lucky.

Some other stuff also randomly would not work, like wifi or printer and reboot would fix that, but I got so tired of it. Doing other stuff like screencasts, simple video editing, etc. is cumbersome or almost impossible on Linux.

About a month ago I got MBP, planned to install Linux on it, but got stuff I need working easily in OSX and discovered that I'm way more productive than before (hello Brackets and iMovie). I just decided to postpone Linux install for now (maybe permanently). I still got some confusion with MacPorts vs Homebrew for example, but I'm already up and running faster than I was ever on Linux.

After 8 years of tinkering with Linux I decided there's better use of my time.

I still use Linux for servers and never plan to change that.