jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are quite a lot of options out there: https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/
> This was strongly suspected at the time but never by any official sources

I guess the Turkish state reports were official enough.
I think of a community as sort of the inverse of a mob. A mob shares a space for a short time, unifies around a single shared idea or emotion, and destroys the awareness of the individual. A community shares a space for a prolonged time, unifies around a hodgepodge collection of ideas, and maintains the level of individual thought and awareness.

The quality and persistence of the space is critical. Online communities certainly do exist, but the space is ephemeral and lower fidelity than shared physical space because the range of possible forms of communication is constrained.
Besides the idea that finance (i.e., ROI) is relevant at all to the decision to read a book, this doesn't even work as an ROI analogy. You're comparing the investment by one person (the person who writes the work) with the "return" that someone else gets (the person who reads it, though calling the fact that they can read it in less time than it took to someone to write it is hardly a "return").

All this has nothing to do ROI, which measures the return that a single entity gets from an investment they make. If you want to make the ROI analogy work (which I don't think you should) one way to do it would perhaps be to compare the time invested with the amount of people the writer reaches. In that case the "ROI" of any method of writing could be super low (if nobody reads it) or super high (if everyone reads it).

Another way to look at it would be that the time to read something you cite is actually the amount of "investment" by a reader. In that case I expect that many readers experience zero return (or even negative return) on their investment of 30s to read an internet post, while they may experience incalculable, life-changing return from 8 hours spent reading a book. Or, probably less often, vice versa.
I've seen a surprising number of resumes that are listing it come across my desk recently. I don't think it will occupy the same place in the tool stack that say, Linux does for IT, but adoption is definitely on the uptick. I suspect that this has a lot to do with rendering tech moving more towards the realtime side of things for many applications these days. Blender has a very good realtime viewport, so if you are delivering content into that sort of an environment, it's a natural fit for some things.
Perhaps some of us feel that the new government is happy to do the right thing even when it isn't economically advantageous
We should simulate it to research it.
It is a capitalist plot with a time machine, given that the convention goes back for millennia.
This article was on the home page for a while with the title "Immersion scanning", a pretty dull one. Thanks to whoever changed it to "I just poured water on my scanner"! Makes a much more intriguing and appropriate title.
Yeah, that was my gut reaction, too.
On either side of the "validate" button at the bottom are controls to rotate the puzzle to this end.
For lazy people out there:

There is also the command `tailf` which is quite similar to 'tail -f'.

2 characters make so much difference :)
So... a social credit score?
That is exactly our experience with the development of Metric Mail.

Yes, there are limitations. And most of them might get you upset first, but if you "work with the rules" it is a fantastic platform.

Metric Mail has been running absolutely fine since its launch in August, it has never failed us. Even under severe traffic it scaled without any problems.

We knew from the beginning what the limitations are and this way there were no big suprises during the development.
Thanks for bringing that up. We are exploring many monetization strategies and business models but we will definitely keep that in mind.

We may implement few different models but in the end our mission is to keep Minus free, simple and minimal in making sharing easy and fast :)
I'm not in the business for money alone. I want to do things that change the world for better.
Also, it never supported federation. Which is the email equivalent of gmail users only being able to email other gmail users.
If you got it sharp enough would you share it?
The harder problem: How does one overcome such a mentality?
Enhance!

Sorry, just had to say that. :)
There's a chapter about Sierra On-Line in "Hackers" by Steven Levy -- a fascinating book.
I am using Sublime for programming and here is why i use it over Vim or Emacs or an IDE.

Vim is "way to go" editor for me on remote connections to server. But on my local machine, vim requires lots of configuration in order to let me be productive (at least for me). For example, Vim's regex engine is slow comparing to Sublime, which will be freezing for 2-3 seconds when you are doing some complex search and replace. This can be fixed by some config, but Sublime doesn't have this problem at all.

Sublime is easy to use from dummy programmers to experts. Not Emacs or Vim.

IDEs are mostly specific to a programming language, if not, they are memory hog to handle everything and takes around a minute to get ready for me to start typing code.

One of the best features of Sublime is that, it lets to decide if you want a text editor or a IDE like experience from it. Customise it however you want.

Of course it is not for everyone, I guess the best is to give it a try and see yourself.
For those curious, escherize means:

[1] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider

[2] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el

The examples in [3] showcase the features of clj-refactor rather neatly.

[3] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el/tree/master...
> The world is then better off.

This conclusion doesn't follow from your premises, unless you include the hidden premise that more wealth in the world is the only criterion you're using.

Once you begin looking at things like wealth distribution or the like as measures of "better", your argument doesn't reach that conclusion.
When I read the title, I thought it actually referred to an enterprise version of python. Something along the lines of ActivePython, where certain versions of the language and packages are supported. It's strange that the post doesn't meant versioning or packaging at all. This is a hugely important for enterprise software. Hopefully the work Nick Coghlan is doing around packaging will address this to some degree.
I agree.

I know we can get picky about the exact characteristics of a languages type-system, but for me they fall into two camps: "Typeful" languages and "(effectively) Typeless" languages.

The former have a "good" typesystem, and expose it as a tool the programmer can use to help themselves solve problems. In the latter case, there may or may not be a type system lurking in the language somewhere, but the language either doesn't expose that system as a tool for the programmer to use, or it does so inconsistently.

Personally I think python is in the later camp, it has types but it doesn't really give the programmer much help when solving problems.

Clojure is another example. The Java type-system is down there somewhere in the murk, but idiomatic Clojure code doesn't use it, and it's not really a tool for the programmer to use, more an accident of the platform.
From a systems engineering perspective:

Any marketing, at all, in documentation really complicates my research.

I was already interested in the product, and I'm trying to solve a problem with it. I understand the use case. I don't need to know how this saved X company $XXX,XXX dollars per second over the past billion years.

Obscuring the meat-and-potatoes technical specifications behind phrases like, "cloud ready" and "virtualization optimized" just makes it harder to evaluate the product.
While the image is anti-Semitic it does ring back to the Classic Image of Standard Oil [1]. Which is easily applicable to Google and Facebook today.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Standard...
It's an idiomatic expression.
That's too proprietary for me. Too much could go wrong.

If someone has enough Bitcoins to bother with offline wallets, knowing how to use VMs isn't too much to expect.
it looks like the scheduler is saying tasks with low priority QoS will only run on the ecores. The high end M1's have half the ecores, apparently clocked faster, but at half the cores it would need them to be more than twice the clock.

Thus sadness ensues :D
> It is like you have a history of you and your ancestors abusing your children and you don't want to stop because the new neighbor is also abusing his children too

This is a poor metaphor. It's more akin to having a family history of child abuse, trying to stop the cycle, explaining to your neighbor why it's bad, and then your neighbor saying "well, your grandpa beat the shit out of your dad, so we get to beat our kids too!"

And of course, the largest producer of CO2 isn't the US as you imply, it's China.
Your gut bacteria are already getting plenty of food, but to digest the food efficiently, they also need something to hold on to. This is the function of the insoluble fibers.
> And lots of arbitrarily software locking features to extract more money from different market segments.

To be fair, AMD does super annoying lock in/binning things too, though not with software locking.

For example, there was a Radeon that would have been a crazy awesome server rack mounted GPU for Deep learning 4U blades. You couldn't put it in a server because it was mounted on a chassis that was 4mm too large for PCI spec.

(Btw I hate hate hate Nvidia so this is not pointless whataboutism)
He seems to be at parliament, doing his job, among other things:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-protest-parliament-1...
YAPO? "Yet another public offering"
If it would allow to stream that without needing an account with Netflix + 7 others and paying like 150 bucks for all, then it would be useful.

Do someone really want to have a ubiquitous tool for searching movies and series?

Can't understand, that one can't do google and have all the sources with reviews, streaming/airing times, and all the other Infos at fingertips..

For me, it serves a need which isn a need at all.
I love MAME brings so many back from my childhood
-1, this is ridiculous and shouldn't be necessary.
It's a good point, without spending a lot of time looking into it myself I always get the impression that nearly everything I can make is considered unhealthy in some way. I know there are so many recipes and cookbooks out there but it is hard to know what attributes you should be aiming for in food.
I'm not talking about how we build them. I'm talking about what they are, and what they are is as they would be whether they were built by humans or computers or nature. That the theorems follow from their axioms is not a human invention, nor could it be. There is a difference between discovering something and inventing it. Man could not invent mathematics any more than man could invent electricity. When I say physics exists, I mean that the physical world exists and follows rules. If we discover those rules, it does not mean we have invented them.
Our solution to that is to always rebase & push right before you run through ci & merge. As well as updating the PR diff to be against the master it was actually merged against, this also has the advantage of making your git history a lot more linear[0], which has various other upsides (e.g. makes it a lot more sane when using fugitive or something to navigate backwards & forwards through the history of a file).

[0] i.e. looks like http://blog.carbonfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/multip...
That's cool, but do you have any arguments for gatekeeping except for "for the sake of gatekeeping"?
Speaking of stealth, how well will self driving autonomous cars be able to detect a Cybertruck on the road?
People data labs's data is pretty accurate. Here is mine:
https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v4/person?api_key=9c6a1382204...

You can try it for yourself by changing the email. All of the information is public, so I don't mind. They are basically doing data integration.
Yeah, maybe “to hell and back” was strong, but it was used as the setting for “The Lab”, one of Valve’s first VR demos, and there’s a mod called “Portal Stories VR” which is one of the most developed and popular VR mods currently.
Is this really a better user experience?

On a Mac or any iOS device you just connect to a network and all of the printers just show up. You don’t need an app. I have a newer iPad but even my old first generation iPad that hasn’t seen an operating system update since 2011 will print to any of my three AirPrint printers.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the last time I had an Android device in my house (my son’s) don’t you still have to install separate printer drivers for printers if they don’t support Google Cloud Print?
They should just sell their dead products. I know they don't need money, but someone could probably maintain the Cloud Print codebase and add value to the world.
If by "controlling what information you're allowed to access" you mean removing hate speech, then yeah they have the right and the duty to do that. I really wonder why you're against that.
Applying a bumper sticker is absolutely vandalism. It mars the paint finish. Paint on cars is surprisingly delicate, and is easily damaged by mechanical means, such as by setting objects on the roof. The bumper sticker itself won't hurt the paint, unless you leave it there for a long time, but trying to remove it is very likely to.
You can actually. Friends of mine rented one for a group camping trip a couple years back. Worked pretty well. A quick google search shows that Enterprise and Avis will both rent you one.
This is something that our team has relegated to a product development problem not a software development problem. As a product manager/technical lead you have to realize it's your job to make it as easy as possible for developers to do their job. When you set them up for HUGE merge conflicts - that only makes life harder. If you're really good about constructing discrete, small stories, you can avoid SO many pull request headaches. If you don't allow master to get miles ahead by merging small changes frequently, this is a non-issue. It's hard to do though and requires changing the mindset of your team.
Is it a project (something you make) or paper?

Paper ideas:
- The ethics and legal issue regarding the recent Dropship news.
- Whether or not Bitcoin can replace real currency.

Project ideas:
- Artificial Neural Network
- Any mobile app
See kristofferR's comment above. He got downvoted for saying "I agree." This may have worked if implemented in the beginning of HN, but now the community has pretty strong norms against simple "I agree" or "I disagree" comments. Either eliminate voting completely or show the results, this in-between situation is foolish, bordering on stupid.
That was my first idea, but the comment I'm replying to included

> This would remove a lot of tactical debate if you're vasting your vote on candidates/parties who don't have huge chances for success.

which doesn't work if you give each party 1/#number_of_parties_voted_for votes (voting for CoolGuy gives your vote on EstablishedAndNotTooBad less weight, after all.)
If you are referring to understanding weather better, or tracking it better, or using it in "big problems" like air traffic control better, then sure. But I think its pretty clear that what's being talked about by the author is the casual consumer space, specifically because he cites the iPhone weather app as one of the better examples of a weather app, and lists "casually checking it every day" as a primary use case. And in the consumer space, I highly doubt that 10 years from now we'll look and say "wow, iPad really changed the way I check the weather in the morning, and thus, the world."
They take an interesting approach to UI design: let the user design the layout himself. I'm sure some people really appreciate this.

Frustrated by what was available, I created a weather app for Android which did what I want from a weather app: smart alerts about tomorrow's weather. In talking with people about it, I learned there are many different ideas about how the perfect weather app would behave for different people. This is not surprising; weather information is only useful in the context of how it would change your behavior. Since everyone has a different schedule, a consistent and simple interface is not likely to be possible.

The name of the app I created is "Anticipates (Weather)". comments are welcome!
Didn't know Ruby (and Perl?) had BEGIN and END...

Along with BEGIN & END there is also UNITCHECK, CHECK & INIT in Perl: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlmod.html#BEGIN%2c-UNITCHECK%2c-C...

These named blocks are used under the hood in Perl all the time. For eg.

foo(); # => bar
sub foo { say "bar" }

The above works because the last line is interpreted as:

BEGIN { *foo = sub { say "bar" } }

And so is compiled before the foo() line is reached/run.

PS. Perl6 goes even further and calls them Phasers: http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/S04.html#Phasers
A coin flip is simple, decisive, and immune to political machinations. A proper probability estimate is not.

Further, if you truly believe in democracy, then a candidate with 49.9999% of the vote is probably nearly as good as one with 50.0001%, right? So the cost of an error is low as well.
This is brilliant Idea, very innovative....
The "you" in this case is the author.

Is it still good for the reader?
I can never find the Far Side that I want to find. There's one where one cave man is holding his hands up really far apart, and the other cave man is shaking his head in doubt, and it's captioned something like "Early fishermen"
news.ycombinator.com/leaders may prove enlightening. [EDIT: he really did make this argument, but it seems to have disappeared.]

What happened? Did you have a stroke? Are you actually jrockway's brother-in-law, "borrowing" his handle?
There is no mass exodus.
A few companies moved, but they are late stage and very established.

If you have a startup - SV is still the best place in the world.

It's funny to see how much of the world is hoping that SV would fall. Maybe it's just morbid curiosity or paranoia but theres still 10 developers who want to move to the bay area for every developer that wants to move away.
You are getting a one sided view from DI.fm, it's very centered around the continental europe based trance scene.

Try listening to some http://rinse.fm shows, particularly the Dusk and Blackdown show. Rinse is the top dog of london pirate radio.

Blackdown's blog is here: http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/

For more about the UK scene, see the writings of Simon Reynolds: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2009/
There are 4 seasons, although I agree that season 2 is worth skipping.
Spacing after the end of a sentence is pushing things a bit, but I did say that typos were worth $1 each, and these are indeed typos.
Chrome 10.0.648 certainly does better than Firefox 4.0.1, when running on Ubuntu, for the example you gave.

This has also been my experience; I don't know what these benchmarks are doing, but Chrome is still the fastest in my perception.

Also, the article doesn't mention OS used for the tests. It is certainly of importance since the performance on Firefox 4.0.1 certainly suffers on Linux and Win XP, versus Windows 7 -- which makes the comparison unfair, and a good benchmark would certainly mention results on multiple OSes.
Aaaaahhhhhhh. What would you suggest for people setting up startups setup as a general structure before everything getting properly started to avoid things like the 6 million dollar domain name headache after your MVP has some traction, but not 'too much' traction. Assume it's the typical SaaS/software business.
We probably agree but are perhaps looking at it from two different angles.

I guess I took the implication of your sharing this list of fallacies to be, "A buncha suckers got duped by all the cloud services hype."

As an actual AWS customer, I'm just sharing my perspective -- namely, that I never expected to be immune to unpredictable service outages like these, and that this is not at all a reason why I signed up for AWS. Maybe other did, but I am not personally acquainted with any of them if so.

I do slightly disagree with your assertion that building in redundancy and failover mechanism is by definition "important." Important is a relative term and is probably more meaningfully looked at from a business or cost/benefit perspective. For a company like Netflix it's clearly massively important to have a fully functioning failover plan in place. For startups like Quora, it probably suffices to have a simple service outage message.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to hitting refresh over and over on the AWS Status page.
That doesn't fly. It's missing an explanation of the characteristics of JSLint, and how those characteristics are often shared with other large JavaScript applications. My own personal intuition is that JSLint is not representative of typical web applications, so I need convincing.

To get an idea of where I come from regarding this, check out "The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley": http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-18... They systematically classified several different kinds of computational patterns, and explained how those patterns appear in application areas. I don't expect a blog post to have that level of rigor, but I expect something at least in that form.
Should Google release a calendar along the lines of Gmail, they would be the competitor we would fear most by far.

Wow, that was prescient.

I'm curious whether this kind of application would stand a chance these days. It's hard to say obviously, as you'd have to ignore the product-specific answers.
I review roughly 1 cryptosystem per quarter in my practice, have been doing so for several years, and I can't think of a single system that survived as far as "I'd have to mount a side channel attack to break this". If your biggest problem is timing leaks, you win.

The stuff that breaks most cryptosystems is much more basic than "side channels" and "key management". It's using ECB mode, encrypting without a MAC, inventing your own SHA1 MAC, leaking errors, colliding IVs or nonces, failure modes that collide session keys, not checking parameters; I could go on and on.

I'd hate for people to think that side channels is the thing they have to be on the lookout for. Writing their own crypto constructions is what they need to be on the lookout for.
Yeah, I remember that they were based on valuations. I'm almost positive the valuation you gave us was 300k (can't remember if that was pre or post though), so the 12k was 4%.

I knew the demo cinched in for us (remember, this was back when people didn't know if it was possible to write fancy web apps with things like calendar appointment dragging). Looking back on the emails and our application (thanks, Gmail) I was surprised how much better our application was than I had remembered.
I never had a kindle before, but this sounds like a rather bad deal. I mean, for how much could they sell the Kindle 2 now on a normal day?
Who cares if it's a placebo if it works.

We're hackers here. There is no magic behind the scenes.