jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, i think there is many Einsteins and Mendels that weren't rediscovered after their time.

Some because their ideas were wrong, but some also with innovative and correct ideas, many of which were reinvented and some probably even never reinvented and lost to obscurity.
Wouldn't the proper status code be "410 Gone" in that case?
I think this is overlooking how faster is to develop for command line interfaces, as well as to how widespread command line software is.

What are the numbers considered when making these assessments? With visual software, we got way more adoption, but this doesn't mean the amount of software necessary increased. I'm pretty sure the majority of the software out there is made of command line tools. The amount of software a developer uses is very large and entirely made of small command line tools, there are entire O. S. made purely for command line usage (any server distribution really).

Finally, there is another giant elephant being overlooked. Software is written in text because in the hands of a skilled professional, text can be VERY visual. I don't have to prove this, there is extensive amount of poetry written to confirm this.
Effectively a piece of software written by a skilled professional will greatly benefit every reader, and readers of software are way more than writers of software even in the software development world.

Your example about HTML and CSS is also a very special example. Effectively HTML and CSS are tools to build UIs, not "generic software". There is a lot of software out there that doesn't involves humans at all. I mean, cron is on the majority of the servers out there, it has no UI.
There is a lot of value in learning how not to do something. The shuttle is a valuable (albeit costly) lesson on why you should keep committees out of a design process, on focusing on doing one thing well instead of many things badly, on why graceful degradation is important and so on. Likewise, I don't think the ISS is a complete failure - it teaches us every day how you can (and can't) build huge structures in LEO.

And it's not that the ISS is horridly expensive - it's shipping its parts to its final location that's expensive. I wonder how much would it cost if we had the Falcon-9 Heavy, a couple Saturn V's or a shuttle-derived expendable cargo pod available in 1980.

Could the money be better spent? Could politics be less of a problem? Probably. It's a shame we still rely on chemical rockets and solar panels. It's a shame we never deployed a deep space probe with a large solar sail and that there is no Aldrin Cycler station in place yet.

OTOH, we still don't have flying cars.
But if you have specific companies as target customers, check what their IE policy is. I know my previous employer is still on IE6 due to a bug tracking system that only works on IE6. And I know other companies are in similar situations.

Otherwise, I would suggest supporting IE7-9.
Unfortunately I took Music 'A' Level at school (age 16-18). It was pretty much all music theory - history of composers, analyzing music, etc. Pretty much no playing music at all. Boring as hell.
One could add:

The Barking Dog

Barks at everything all the time, people learn to ignore it. Then, when there's real danger, no one cares, providing literally no value and becoming only an annoyance.

It's kind of like a dual for the security guard one.
It would be wise to have a strategy for social media. I like the phrase "joy of missing out" ― as it turns the well worn phrase "fear of missing out" on its head.

There are a few ways to deal with the barrage of 'feels' on these networks, and one technique I'm using are multiple accounts that follow a multitude of different topics. I don't interact with what I digest in the stream, just observe from a distance. The reason I do this, is because Twitter streams are a mix of different viewpoints, ranging from fear to love, and everything in between. So we can have one account that is positive stuff only, and another about wars, and another about technology, and another about politics - then we can choose what one we decide to watch, rather than let the info 'happen' to us by accident as that article likes to point out
Because printing more money is just another form of stealing.

And more government spending is just running up debt that must eventually be stolen from future taxpayers for some piece of infrastructure that people are, apparently, unwilling to pay for. If we need another airport (in a free market anyway), prices for using an airport would increase until its clear a new airport would be profitable.

Government destroys that ability to know if things make sense. Instead, its completely politically driven and waste and unnecessary debt is the result.

The gold standard makes inflation impossible in the long run. The deflation back then was simply a correction of the inflation created by the Fed with its low rates since 1913. A situation made worse by creating industry cartels that prevented any recovery until they were dismantled and many other bad policies.

Now there is no mechanism preventing government from stealing your money. That is not a good thing. And the final removal of the gold standard by Nixon allowed inflation to destroy a great deal of wealth.

The deferral of consequences Keynesian enables, coupled with a corruptible currency, only allows those consequences to build and build. You can respond to each bubble collapse with a bigger bubble, but eventually you can't.

All of these things are just tools for making government's destructive impact larger, and for deferring and confusing the causal relationships. Its all just a sophisticated way of doing what the Seven Samarai were hired to put a stop to. And a whole bandit class has evolved as a result.

Its this requirement for confusion that makes it hard to apply Keynesian to a simple small group situation. It always requires a large economy with decision removed to a special class and bodies that operate in secret so that people can't discern whats happening.

A group of 20 people could readily detect inherently dumb things, such as borrowing large amounts of money from the neighbors to build things that the people aren't willing to spend money on so cronies of the decision maker can have more money at everyone's future expense.

I wonder at what population Keynesianism magically starts to work in his theory. I suspect it is simply whatever size enables obfuscation.

It most definitely cannot operate without some group of industrious people that prepare for the future and who are also dumb enough to lend to people who don't prepare.
I think the problem is that it's a question of definition... A lot of people here who say that it's possible to travel, define a startup as a smaller "lifestyle" business... If you find a good niche it can bring good money while taking less hours. See for example patio11 for an example of someone in that camp, as a result of his experience and way of thinking he wrote http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/10/04/work-smarter-not-harder/

Now paraschopra's definition of a startup is closer to the traditional VC backed, big payoff definition. He hopes to make it big, become a leader in the field of A/B testing and get FU money...

None of those two ways of thinking are bad. It's essentially a question of risk and reward... The first can lead to financial independence with a nice recurring revenue (for example letsfreckle.com or one of my customer who earns 20 000$/month profit with his website while delegating all the work) and is usually less riskier and less stressful.

The second type of company is more of a high risk high reward scenario where if you get bought or IPO, you get enough FU money to truly have financial independence...

So, it depends on where you stand on the risk/work reward scale... I don't want to look back in a few years and feel that I've wasted my life trying to earn it. So, while I do work long hours, I take breaks, I go on holidays and I travel and use Wifi connections to do any urgent work that comes up. I don't expect my business to be the next google, facebook or flickr but if it's profitable and allow me to support a comfortable lifetime while eventually not taking too much of my time I'll be happy..
Susprisingly well explained for something that involves math, biology and physics.

Made me laugh:

The flag manifold, she notes, in addition to providing mathematicians with pure joy, also happens to be useful to physicists (...)
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I don't even need eBay. As long as my friends and relatives keep switching to smartphones, I have an endless supply of dumb ones.
That phone might be doing what I think is a much more obvious solution: Upscaling the actual measurement (clipping at 100% of course)
Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers...

I was just thinking that all of these Windows vs. Mac comparisons are focused on market share and end-user-y things, but what really enabled Windows to dominate for so long was it's appeal to developers. I have dabbled in iPhone development, and not done any android development, so I'm not qualified to judge -- but from the outside it seems that there is a lot more interest in iPhone than android for developers (based on what I read on HN and elsewhere, and the kinds of freelance jobs I've been offered over the past year). Also, seems that it's easier (well, more straightforward anyway) to make money selling apps on the iPhone vs. android.

I'd love to hear thoughts on this matter from people who have actually developed for both platforms (or made an informed decision to work with one over the other).
I am biting my tongue here to keep myself from making references to recent episodes of Doctor Who.
The guys at Voxel are a class act and have a great network.
Regardless of his reasons, I think the result of not trusting tor is warranted, at least for most of the traditional reasons one might seek out tor.

The EFF themselves present many of the problems: http://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en#warning

On top of that, the EFF has demonstrated that they are worried (reasonably) about the trust given to the global CA structure: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/researchers-reveal-like...

In terms of protecting your anonymity, even when correctly managing cookies you may be uniquely identifiable by browser fingerprinting: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

At least the last time I looked, the network appeared quite thin, with much of your traffic by default traveling through a small collection (perhaps as low as one) of exit nodes.

TOR also represents a juicy target for eavesdropping by its nature as a concentrator for people trying to avoid it. If you were a burglar, it would make sense to stay the hell away from a place the cops had identified as a hotbed of burglary since they'll probably be concentrating their efforts there.

And, of course, there is the issue that it's been used in the past to publicly out users traffic: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/10/misuse_of_tor_led_to...

Most of these things apply to other possible solutions, but at least there you may get the advantage of most users of those services "having nothing to hide" making them not as juicy a target.

If I was super, super concerned about my privacy and anonymity when sending a specific few documents or such, I'd most likely take a page out of the black hat handbook and compromise a few lightly administered servers and use a not commonly used covert channel.
Oops, almost forgot...I met Steve Klabnik this year!
I've reworked the search functionality somewhat - I hope it feels easier/clearer to use now.
Yeah, AWS 32% and Azure 20% doesn't look right.

As I recall Azure reports consulting together with PaaS/IaaS so may be over-represented when discussing PaaS/IaaS providers.
You are at the wrong address. The PSF has nothing to do with Python core.

The proper way is to hire devs with proven track record and let them work 100% on the project.
> Not everyone is a rich socialite looking to be viewed well at the finest private dinner parties.

These social morays have applied to everyone, everywhere, forever. One does not need to be rich to have social capital.

> You know the Senate will vote to acquit Trump today, right?

This just in: two things can be bad at the same time. Perhaps more than two! Details at 11.
Maybe viewing print news outlets as group-think hive-minds is part of the problem? Stories are written and edited by individuals with different views, styles of writing, agendas, ethics, etc.
comprehensive collection of resources:

https://github.com/Xel/Blockchain-stuff
I only started using LinkedIn a year ago, because for the longest time I had an extremely low opinion of it. I had SMTP-level filtering rules to keep the LinkedIn spam out.

It's not so bad now. The nice thing is re-connecting with people you haven't seen in 20+ years. It helped land my current job.
> I love the diffusion of responsibility via the passive voice. Oh it "just disappeared."

Yeah, that also made me throw up in my mouth a little.

"And suddenly, all this cash was handed to me"

"What happened before?"

"I threatened everyone at gunpoint to hand over their cash"
I subscribed to Glenn Greenwald the day he left The Intercept. I don’t really read his writings nor do I necessarily agree with what he say to say all the time. But, I really like the idea of supporting individual journalists with $. Hopefully others can see Glenn’s success in this model and try it out themselves.
Right, I think it's that last sentence that bothers me too. Up to that point I pretty much agree with you (despite the fact you were responding so rudely to what I said). The TSA are a bunch of not very smart people doing a stupid, boring, ineffective job, but they aren't terrorists.
Why not? It's for my home lab to play around and gives me a chance to mess around with some lower level TLS stuff.

(Also acme.sh has soured me a bit on multi-thousand line shell scripts)
This is well laid out, but it absolutely freaks me out that we even have to explain to very smart people why free expression of ideas is important. I know it's human nature to persecute, but I hate being reminded of it so often.
> There's a whole field to simulate PDEs that you can't solve exactly.

There are whole fields to simulate one particular PDE: Computational fluid mechanics for the Navier-Stokes equation. Computational electromagnetics for Maxwell's equations. Computational chemistry for the Schrödinger equation. Mathematical finance ...probably does also other things than just simulates the Black-Scholes equation.
> I just find it strange that people with the skills

people in Tech will yak-shave choosing the "correct" cypher. Then get pwned by an implementation detail like a bug in enigmail.

1) Hacking, 2) opsec and 3) tradecraft are totally different skills. The most dangerous people (to themselves) are the ones who cover only one of 3. The more advanced among them _know_ they lack in the other areas, but think they can compensate going even deeper on whatever they already know.
To be fair, they didn't really understand how ZFS works and failed to set up bitrot detection.

A "clean" setup would include those, as well as either a messaging system or a regular checkup on how your FS is doing.
I'm surprised how many people are just nitpicking the examples like they are supposed to be rigorous analogies.

The point that I walked away with is that oftentimes experts use these same heuristics even when people assume they are not. People think that experts don't have to use them because they have better tools and skills at their disposal. However, for reasons involving human factors, they oftentimes do use them. Finally, these opinions then get thrown into the body of evidence as if they are ground truth values.
good point, thanks for sharing
Makes you wonder if he left because he realized he could hack $70m in Bitcoin, or he hacked $70m in Bitcoin because he had left and had nothing else to do (the hack happened in August and he left in May).
Tarsnap - for home and work. Fantastic service.
On the contrary. But it's not reasonable to expect to bring them up without consequences, and specifically in the case of Popper's paradox, those consequences are healthy and those specific ideas should remain unacceptable.
If anywhere near "most people" don't want to listen to Donald Trump, then why was he elected President? So if 51% of Americans don't want to hear about climate change should Twitter ban anyone who brings it up? I don't think so.
Google and Apple just radicalized millions of people.
I knew someone would bring this up. YMMV but I do not believe that if Trump, as POTUS, called a press conference and did not say stuff that was demonstrably and immediately verifiable as untrue, no network would cut him off. Even today. Or tomorrow.
I posted some of his recent Twitter activity in response to another comment.

I'll allow you to make up your own mind as to whether a reasonable person could determine there was a proximate cause between his tweeting and the violent acts on 6 January.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25693620
I grew up in Cincinnati, and this story seems strange to me, because getting around Cincinnati seems pretty easy, actually.

It isn't just my opinion - statistics generally say that commute times in Cincinnati are lower than average for the US. https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/10/23/see-h...

And they are way better than European cities like London for example - https://www.google.com/search?q=average+london+commute+times

Cities like San Francisco and Washington DC are worse for getting around, despite having better public transportation. It's faster to drive 20 miles in Cincinnati than to travel four miles from the Haight to SOMA in San Francisco. Sure, there is sometimes traffic in Cincinnati, but there just isn't as much as the more densely populated cities. I think so much of the population lives further out near I-275, it doesn't make as much sense to build public transportation there.
It is an important point - especially if you've ever worked in the government contracting industry.
I'd like to see export.
http://imgur.com/9dMGz.png

What is this crap? I'm running Fedora 14 with Opera 10.63. I guarantee you my computer has no "malware". And if it does, you sure can't detect it from an HTTP request.

Just a guess: I am on a university network shared by lots of humanities majors, many of whom probably browse porn websites on unsecured Windows XP boxes. The company that provides this "service" for Jason sees that many of the computers on this network have been infected by a bot net, and then decides that it's a great idea to block the whole sub net. Now over 5000 people can't read Jason's blog. Is this really effective security? If you want to be really safe, I recommend you block 0.0.0.0/0.
And yet I know people who refused to shop at WinCo because they didn't want to bag their own groceries despite it being significantly cheaper. So there is some value in the cashier/bagger.
Merlin Mann's comment seems so fitting:

http://twitter.com/#!/hotdogsladies/status/12525667593752576
I've done it before on bikes with coaster/drum brakes and on the rear wheel of a fixed gear, they do actually give you a bit more traction in snow.

You can put the heads on the tread side for studdedness but then they break right the hell off the second you hit clean pavement. You can also put the heads on the rim side for a plain paddlewheel effect. They still like to break off easy, especially with cheaper zipties.

Overall it's not worth it at all, since they don't last and don't help on ice where it would actually matter. Even true carbide-studded tires from Nokia or Schwalbe aren't really worth it unless you live somewhere with ice on the ground from freeze-thaw cycles for months out of the year.

If it's just slush, relatively narrow normal tires will cut through to the pavement just fine. If it's snow, larger volume tires at lower pressures helps more than anything, and knobs are relatively pointless (much less studs) — you just want to float on top of it like sand.
I agree, attacking this from a gay rights angle will probably be the best approach. If he can get a major publication to run with this, PayPal will have to respond.
Wow good find. It sure sounds like it was.
As a matter of math, if the pre-money valuation is $3.7B, and the investors put in $200M (for 5.1% of the company at a $3.9B post-money valuation), then any subsequent sales (in secondary markets or IPO or as an eventual public company) at any valuation higher than $3.9B would be a gain.

With liquidation preferences, it's possible that even an immediate sale to an acquirer for $3.9B might give these latest investors some guaranteed return.
"I have to understand the differences between a Box, an Rc and an Arc"

That's actually a problem I would say, most web dev use Java/C#/Go/Ruby/Python/Node/PHP etc... which all have a GC, so it's a big shift for 99% of people. It completely change the way that you design your app.
Interesting that the parliament went ahead with a vote, from which the 'leadership' (cabinet) abstained; I wonder what's going on behind the scenes.

>"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and almost all of his cabinet colleagues were absent for the vote. Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau was the only cabinet minister present. When it was his turn, he said he abstained "on behalf of the Government of Canada." "
What I would really like is an editor where I can fix the cursor line on the screen and have the document move around that line. I hate looking at the bottom of the window all the time when writing long documents.
Good question. It may be hard to quantify. The only thing that's clear is you wouldn't want to physically live near any of those areas.
As a theoretical physics student who can actually write good code, this is the kind of thing I want to work on - unfortunately where I live you basically have a choice of making things and making money
What is this for? Why can't you see your own messages in FB ?
Interesting! I'll have to look more into that.

Chinese internal alchemy is a bit different though; it's more like the martial art is the alchemical process itself, with the practitioners body being the reagent/substance. This looks more like alchemy being used in creating weapons.
On the other side, if you ask a lot of good questions and give a quote that's within budget, the client is going to be suspicious of another quote where similar insightful questions weren't asked first.

If another quote is very cheap, the client will probably question if that's going to reflect the quality of the work.

There's also risk that the developer they take the requirements + design doesn't really understand what they're getting into and can't execute.

I don't think there's any easy answers, but generally you want to work on attracting clients that are more interested in high quality work over the cheapest price where shopping around like this isn't a good use of their time. Chatting about rough budgets first and making sure the client is going to profit from the work helps too.

It's great when you get to charge for the planning phase though because you're not feeling rushed into committing to a quote with too many unknowns that might not really solve their problem. If you explain why it's risky to quote with so little information, some clients will listen and aren't going to go with someone asking nothing and offering a cheap price.
It's going to be quite some time before the public at large trusts crypto over a centralized finance system backed by the full faith and trust in the US government (if ever). Currencies aren't about technology, they are an expression of power and trust.

Less than two hours of downtime is nothing to write home about, and the Fed is down less frequently than major cloud providers and others those in technology would be familiar with and consider critical services. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, and it doesn't get much more simple than message queues and worker processes.