jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We do our best to apply it evenly.

> Do you think that some topics are more trouble than they are worth?

This is too generic a question to answer meaningfully. Probably, but it's more a question of whether a given submission is intellectually interesting and capable of supporting a substantive discussion.

> Some example topics being US/China geopolitics or the story about "men clamming up" around women.

You're conflating two different categories there. One (US/China geopolitics) is one of the most common flamewar topics that gets posted to HN, with discussions getting asymptotically worse, past the point where it's not clear that the forum can handle it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26643703

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26630159

The other was a specific article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26612918) on a specific topic that really hasn't had much attention. I spent the better part of a day moderating the latter. I don't know if that answers your question or not but from my perspective it's the same principles being applied in all cases.

One important thing to realize is that we're trying to optimize HN for just one thing, which is curiosity: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor.... A lot of moderation calls that might seem weird or inconsistent make a lot of sense once you understand the chain of derivation from that rule.
I did see that. I suppose my thinking is that both seem like prime targets, so they could easily both be high on the list.

I’m probably failing to recognize the number of “prime” targets in the really, really big world though. It’s in the territory of scales so huge that brains are bad at drawing useful conclusions. I also have no idea about war strategy, let alone of this variety.
Last year I bought a Garmin Forerunner 245 smartwatch. I have notifications totally disabled, I don’t really use it as an actual smartwatch. But I’ve found its measurements of my heart rate and stress levels (via heart rate variability) really interesting and useful for planning when to exercise, working out why I can’t get to sleep, and monitoring illness. I had an incident involving significant blood loss over a several week period and it was very useful having such detailed heart rate data throughout.
The subtle advertising:

> This is probably thanks to cheap hosting offerings from companies like Hetzner (insert link).

Conflicts with their own data:

- OVH 24,417

- QuadraNet 9,927

- GPORTAL 9,339

- GMO Internet 5,466

- Hetzner 5,327

For those not in the game server hosting scene, it's because OVH offers a robust DDOS system for free for their servers. The price is not much different either. OVH is by far the leader for ALL game servers due to DDOS protection, price, and value. Hetzner is good, but OVH is a league of it's own.
No offence but that is shocking that someone would even ask that. The entire point for the existence of Wikipedia is anyone can contribute or edit anything.

Wayback machine capture of Wikipedia from Mar 31 2001

> Welcome to Wikipedia, a collaborative project to produce a complete encyclopedia from scratch. We started in January 2001 and already have over 13,000 articles. We want to make over 100,000, so let's get to work--anyone can edit any page--copyedit, expand an article, write a little, write a lot. See the Wikipedia FAQ for information on how to edit pages and other questions.
After you see the four agreements make sense to me, you may not need the mystic nature of the book.
A 3-year-old could start learning to drive a car if the controls were adapted to their physical size. Driving a car is designed to be easy enough for anyone to do it, and kids routinely learn more difficult skills. The main reason we don’t have kids driving cars is because of poor decision making and impulse control, not poor reflexes or untrainable motor skills.

If you want to teach a kid to drive a car you should probably stick to video games or low-speed go karts though.
I see someone else was watching LGR

For context, the video by Lazy Game Reviews today showed some early snippets of Windows 95 VRML left on an old VAIO laptop: https://youtu.be/wPVIubVtdRY?t=1693

This video was the first I’d heard of the format, so it doesn’t surprise me to see others giving it a search and further share here on HN.
When I think of systems languages, I think of languages that are suitable for all of those use cases, but also for writing operating systems and code for embedded microcontrollers. Writing a kernel in a language with garbage collection is possible, but would it really be optimal compared to writing a kernel in other languages without it?
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-windows-wsl

https://dev.to/mrstardom/how-to-run-podman-on-windows-subsys...

https://dev.to/thangchung/start-podman-on-wsl2-in-4-steps-3j...
Don't worry; the full screencast course will be a factor of 10 cheaper.
I would recommend that you start by reading the site's guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Common Core is designed to break K-12 math's traditional focus on rote arithmetic and instead focus on learning math as abstract reasoning and multiple different solution strategies.

The fact that it is designed to do so does not mean that it succeeds in any way. What I see is the replacement of rote arithmetic with the rote repetition of formulaic statements that are not connected to actual understanding. This is not an improvement.

That you would include this barb in your comment shows that you're more arguing against the concept of changing standards, and not against Common Core itself. That's not an indefensible position, and you do consistently argue from that stance throughout your comment, but I fail to see how it's constructive. The US is ranked ~30th in math worldwide -- obviously things need to be changed. Perhaps there are better ways to change our standards: what would you propose?

I would suggest incremental improvement, not revolutionary change. The education establishment has a long history of revolutionary change, and knows exactly how to go about it. This always turns out badly. The much safer way to go is to incrementally improve, with constant feedback and repetition. It doesn't feel day by day like progress, but it has much higher odds of actually succeeding.

What our educational system has done is the equivalent of throwing out a major software system, and rolling out a new one. Such big bang upgrades seldom go well, and the larger the system the worse the disaster that follows. Even if you can wind up in a situation where success can be declared, huge amounts of damage are done.
> Given this I'm not particularly surprised to see Pivotal's decision here

Pivotal's decision is likely based not only on what you see, but on what else they see but you can't. They can see trends and revenues before the rest of us can, like former SpringSource CEO Rod Johnson who jumped ship over to Scala.

These are some concerns with Groovy I've blogged and commented about a lot over the past few years:

* the failure of static typing to take hold in any way. Groovy's a dynamically-typed scripting language for Grails, Gradle build scripts, and Java class manipulation. Virtually no-one uses Groovy to build systems, and even Gradle's codebase is virtually all Java. Groovy's a good scripting language for Java, like bash for Linux, and the project management should have stuck to their knitting and made it better instead of diversifying into static typing and now Android.

* their obsession with popularity rankings. Tiobe, Stack Overflow, and Github are gamed. The download numbers are fabricated. This goes far beyond what other programming language communities get up to. A year ago Groovy was number #18 in Tiobe (Oct 2003) but now they're not even in the top 50, and in April 2011, Groovy dropped from #25 to #65 in a single month, all this because of someone manipulating search engine results for some short-term marketing.

* the constant fight for control over the product. The original post is to a person's personal blog instead of one on Codehaus or Pivotal. This started happening a year ago, when that person also started soliciting for subscribers to a personal weekly mailout instead of supporting the community mailing list. No-one knows who controls the new Groovy website being promoted. One of the 5 despots in the official Codehaus despotry is trying to take over. This has been going on for the entire lifetime of Groovy when its creator was pushed out.

* the lack of documentation or any language standard designed to make people dependent on consulting and conferences. In the Groovy 1.x days, they even appeared to be changing things to shake off other independent documentation efforts or addon software like Groovy++. When the present management took over, they kept the JSR standard inactive to deliberately prevent anyone building another implementation.

I'm only talking about what happened to Groovy after its creator James Strachan left the project, not before. As for Grails, I don't know much about it except that Groovy's direction seems to be dictated by it. And Gradle seems to be on course for dropping Groovy as their sole scripting language if you read between the lines on their website.
Ocropus is fairly actively developed. Lots of commits in 2015: https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy/commits/master
We just wanted to make Nooot to feel super "clean" that was the main reason, also security. But we are super flexible and maybe going to add links later if we'll see that people don't feel some kind of distracted by the changed Url. Also it is possible that we are overthinking everything :D
Not allowed by Google Play's policy, that's why FooslerRob didn't add direct links to the apps.

"We don’t allow content or services that facilitate online gambling, including but not limited to, online casinos, sports betting and lotteries, or games of skill that offer prizes of cash or other value."
How do you know what the military is being put to? Any government power can be misused. Foreign intelligence isn't particularly dangerous.
I recommend the Numbers Book ( http://www.amazon.com/Numbers-Graduate-Texts-Mathematics-Rea... ):

I just did a construction of the integers assuming either sets or arrays. I could equally have used your list definition.

http://pastie.org/1397123 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030649

I've very tempted to combine your work with this and then go on to define rationals and then the reals. The reals would be very interesting since it would be a sequence that takes an epsilon and gets a rational number that is close enough. It's kind of crazy to think that all these real numbers are infinite cauchy sequences.

If I define a real as function(eps) { return some_rational; } then I could define it piece_wise and say function mult_real(a,b) { return function(eps) { return a(eps/2) * b(eps/2); } }
If people with sleep apnea uniformly thought they felt like hell, the diagnosis would be easy. People adjust to all kinds of crazy things, so it's not easy, but another person in bed with you telling you that you periodically stop breathing shouldn't be ignored.

There's a big difference between steady snoring and interrupted breathing, even if you're not noisily gasping for breath. I'd say my quality of sleep is only about 15% better since I started using CPAP, a meaningful difference if by no means night and day, but I'm also less likely to die of a heart attack in my fifties or sixties.
At least in the United States, pretty much all geographic information - at the local, state and federal levels - is now being remeasured and stored in GIS formats. I can say first-hand that governments and government contractors are constantly needing programmers that can talk to ArcGIS and properly visualize that information. This is true for any agency that needs to deal with official definitions of geography when calculating their statistics - I've seen law enforcement agencies, transportation agencies and housing agencies all need GIS applications developed, to name a few. And probably some sexier TLA agencies in Washington, although my experience with GIS for transportation didn't give me much exposure for those fields.

The nice thing about this sort of career is that you can do it in a wide variety of cities and states. Your girlfriend is moving to Florida? You can work for the state transportation department in Tallahassee. Oh, she's in Miami you say? Miami's almost certainly a big enough city to be creating its own municipal GIS data and needing programmers to work with it.
We're certainly not one of "the world's biggest brands", but at a certain level I just don't get Facebook either. We have a presence (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scream-Sorbet/51993914102) but I fear we're not really making good use of it. Unfortunately, the article seems to presume that one already knows the take-home message.

Could someone explain it more clearly? Is it just some form of "Facebook should feature your customers" like it seems, or is it more nuanced? I'm looking at the actual article now, and it seems a little better than the summary: http://www.atkearney.com/index.php/Publications/socially-awk...
via something like: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2030649
Maybe you'll like this interview www.lanacion.com.ar/1334798 it's in spanish, but Google does a nice job translating... and he's one of the finest chefs in Argentina right now.
> Natural selection is holding a gun to everyone's head, every day of their lives.

Natural selection gave rise to our (and every other species), but it is not a conscious entity capable of threatening us in any political sense. Calling bad genes a form of political force is to commit the same epistemological error as someone that maintains that the gravitational force of the earth of his body is a form of political force. See my other post(s).

> This is a sign that you're engaging in all-or nothing religious thinking

Developing and expressing thoughts clearly (which is what "all-or-nothing" thinking is) is antithetical to religious thought. When an engineer that says "yes, this bridge will stand, absolutely, for this amount of time, assuming the following conditions" is engaged in all-or-nothing thinking (Newton's laws are contextually absolute.) To call this religious thinking is absurd.
Have you seen the North Korea vs South Korea at night photo?

http://i.imgur.com/IsWh1.jpg

All the resources are going into their war machine.

If could/would build infrastructure, it would have been done long ago.

There won't be a coup, they are all brainwashed.
This is the third major airplane incident this year involving airlines from Malaysia. The first two from Malaysia Airlines and now AirAsia which is also based in Malaysia. I frequently fly with south east asian airlines but I think I will avoid malaysian ones in the near future.

My thoughts go out to the families of the missing passangers. They have a very hard time right now. I hope Singapores military can location the plane quickly.
What does clicking on the username do?
I don't understand. Am I supposed to accept the arguments I keep hearing for why I shouldn't be here? I'm just defending my right to be here, using the same self-serving attitude espoused in the rest of the comments I found here. What should I say: I am going to contribute to the American economy by paying taxes and being a good citizen, I am going to create value for my company, etc.? Well yes, I do think these things, but all the commenters here do not care, they just think I'm stealing their jobs.
Depends on the startup. I have a real estate startup. We have remote developers. We need an office.
Over the last 40M years, when CO2 was at current levels (400ppm), sea level was +9 to +31 meters higher. We need to reduce to 280ppm to start rebuilding ice.

https://www.pnas.org/content/110/4/1209

Coastal cities are going to move.
You think literally millions of people are sneaking across the southwest desert and risking having their children seized and put in cages[1] to be "abused and/or virtually enslaved"?. No, that's not how it works. Immigrant jobs tend to be poorly regulated (no taxes witheld, benefits delivered nor social services funded, etc...). But they're jobs and they pay what jobs pay, generally around minimum wage, because that's where the market chases.

I'll leave the both-sides-do-it argument. It's wrong, but there's no way to argue that on this site without getting myself banned.

[1] A policy very much not "supported by both major parties"...
> So now there is land in CA that is not federal or native-American land, but it is not subject to CA laws. That's the part that doesn't seem logical in this.

Just wanted to point out that this kind of arrangement exists already for things like embassies.

> Also maybe how CA could end this situation: pass a law that all current property rights are guaranteed, but only rights recognized under current CA law are conveyed at sale. Or maybe it needs to be a US law--or a treaty amendment with Mexico.

I don't sympathize with Khosla and admit that I haven't fully researched the impacts of the treaty but it does seem like something most easily resolved by the federal government.
Interesting documentary of a few others living on the web at the same time, with a huge budget. This film sticks with me. We live in public. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0498329/
Here is what you get some days with solar and wind: https://i.imgur.com/m2snJgg.png . Germany using a lot of standard gas and coal generators.
There are plenty of legal "ketamine clinics" in big cities. Might suggest looking for those.
Register in .ru and use VPN. That’s what we do on the other side of the globe to escape censorship.
So you agree with the original commenter, then, who said that there was large growth for the platform? Cool. Glad you agree. That was their point.
No, and I won't contribute further to that.
But the app is set up in such a way that even if you had two devices, he'd know it was still one user. The numbers could still be off, but knowing what the App is and what it entails, it's actually pretty easy to get a fairly accurate piracy rate.
To flattr the OP or HN? If it's the first one, that could be deeply controversial (see also: the squawk on Metafilter about the same thing).
Original Wall Street Journal article:

Yahoo Mulls Spinoff for Hadoop Software Unit
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870472930457628...
For the person who simply must have EVERYthing.
I think the brick-laying analogy is a lot more on target than John realises.

A lot of the below average programmers go out and start slapping down bricks at a great rate of knots. Planning? "Ha! You ain't gonna need it" they say. Design? "Pffftt, is this the bad old days of the PDP-11?" they scoff. "I do automated unit testing, why would I fire up the site in an actual browser? That's so 90s!"

The problem is that a lot of the time the bricks they are laying get torn down and rebuilt, and torn down and rebuilt, over and over and over. This gives the appearance of productivity, but gets you nowhere in the long run. Even if you could run at 50mph for hours on end you wouldn't win a marathon by running in the same small circle over and over again.

Examples of ways the bricks can go wrong:

Not building the right thing (they asked for a gazebo, you built a garage)

Not accounting for edge cases (the walls should meet)

Not doing proper testing, or leaving the testing until very late in the process

Not making the design flexible enough to account for likely changes during the project (no real world equivalent springs to mind)

Not building solidly enough (doesn't provide load bearing support in the right places) (closely related to the "catching exceptions is for wussies" school of thought)

Leaving odd holes and gaps in the brick wall (security issues)

etc. (Feel free to add your own, fun for the whole family! :D )
The continuous measuring of the temperature inside the mold cavity (without having to open the mold) distinguishes the Diehr patent from what we call a software patent. Actually, even the "using a computer to do it" part is different.

Most software patents are essentially an algorithm attached to a general-purpose computer. This relationship cannot be claimed to be novel. Diehr could at least claim that their device as a whole was novel and nonobvious (though the Supreme Court case didn't examine those questions).
I think they fit more into the Google Wave category than say the gmail. With gmail everyone could instantly gain value from having an account, with wave, people fired it up, had a quick look around and noticing none of their friends were there to talk to forgot about it.
Yes, you can have multiple accounts per console. And because it's free, I would think (based on a small sample, my friends who own PS3s), it's far more likely that there will be multiple PSN accounts, versus XBL accounts which cost money (to play online).

My PS3 has three PSN accounts on it, do three or four of my friends'. Everybody I know who has a 360 shares one Live account across everybody who uses the console.
ouch, it has subforums for paranormal and conspiracy theories
Lol. What is the lecture you are studying for? Who is the author?
Life has to be pretty great when people have to go to such extraordinary contortions to find something to complain about.
If it doesn’t work on Ubuntu that seems like a fault with Ubuntu. That’s where the breaking change is.
There are so many tools to help with this though? If you want to work with Github, there is an official Github CLI tool that makes forking easy peezy. Gitlab doesn't have an official one AFAIK, but there are unofficial ones. And if you want GUI there's a myriad of those as well. I don't understand this complaint at all.
You might even call that... infinitely improbable.
There is a lower limit; typically 18. I was talking about calls to lower that limit.
Child logic: we should help this person in need.

Adult Genius Thought Leader Logic: if you help this person, you'll just make them dependent!
What do you feeling is wrong with "the universe having won the lottery of all lotteries in order to exist at all"? Our existence seems consistent with some multiverse picture where we just end up observing one out of many universes that was capable of supporting life. After all, if any of a number of fundamental constants gets tweaked by a small amount, then we end up in situations like e.g. hydrogen being the only naturally occurring element.

(I'm purposely being a bit provocative here because I haven't heard an explanation for fine-tuning that doesn't rely on multiverses or divine intervention.)
Javascript, back in jQuery era. Dart and a million other things were going to replace it! Already having hit most of the basic language pitfalls was helpful while learning React and all the other fancy new things.

MongoDB. Plenty of reasons to not use it, but it is great for fast projects.

Some basic solidity and erc20, because that whole space is going nuts right now. I got to advise a founder against using a blockchain, which was kind of fun.

Deepfakes. Nothing nefarious, but if this is going to be the new pop culture I might as well at least know how they work, how hard they are, and what's actually doable as an individual vs a major corporate entity. I'm still convinced there's going to be value in customizing ad pictures or video as a service on top of a commoditized faceswap stack.

Caveat you haven't mentioned: sometimes a technology can come out and you've learned the wrong version. Java 1.0 (applets!) comes to mind.