jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Honestly I was hoping this was going to be an article about optimal markup ordering and nesting for lightening quick rendering time and javascript event handling..

I'm curious if we will see actual packers that rename tags and rewrite css to drop markup size. HTML5 seems to make it easier to create your own tag soup. :)
20 years ago today people were very scared about what was about to happen to the Middle East. This was about two weeks before the first Gulf War erupted, and a lot of people thought (correctly) that Iraq would try to drag Israel into it.

I remember two technological developments that year: I saw email for the first time at the Boston public broadcaster WGBH, and one of the larger American airlines installed phones in the backs of economy seats (I still see them every now and then, but don't think they work anymore). The calls were expensive as hell.

Some people had car phones, and "beepers" had spread out from professional occupations to youth culture (the Tribe Called Quest song "Sky Pager" references this) but I did not know anyone who had a mobile phone in the US in 1990. I saw my first mobile phone in London in 1991.

GUIs were very widespread on campuses, but there were still a surprising amount of command-line based software being used in the workplace. At one of my first jobs at a UK record label in 1991 they had me using Word Perfect (?) which involved green text on a black screen, and lots of keyboard shortcuts. Aside from the email example mentioned earlier, every business I dealt with in 1990-1991 used faxes or the post to send documents.

EDIT: added beeper/mobile phone/GUI/fax recollections
Zzzzzz is for sleep and xxx for sex
I've recently finished reading Learn You A Haskell For Great Good!, and I think the author's approach to monads works well. I'd read various metaphorical explanations that only served to further cloud the issue, but thanks to LYAH I finally got it.

In short, he has you using monads long before you understand them (Maybe and IO in particular), then slowly introduces monads by first explaining functors and applicative functors.

In retrospect, the mystique seems crazy. Monads are just not that confusing: they're simply values with added context, along with functions that let you interact with those values without losing the context. It's a shame that this powerful idea is so obscured by its supposed difficulty.
A friend of mine worked for Google when that was introduced and said it was purely a rendering speed optimization. Someone did some tests and found the page pops a little faster if you leave out those closing tags. I can't seem to find any articles on it but it seems more reasonable than trying to save a couple bytes, given the other markup that's been mentioned here.
Connections (including that to the customer) are fine, but those are not skills that you can apply - They are more like something you've inherited from your past. A deep knowledge of domain is useful, but a developer could pick that up over time, given that he has access to customers. So while it works for the short term, you need to have something for the longer term as well. I would look at what you can actively do for the project. In particular, I would look for a genuine interest (from you) to partake in the product development - even some of th things that you may consider technical. Of course, if you can pay a salary, then it will make it easier to get someone on board.

The tax software industry is ripe for disruption. I've used many of the popular commercial programs and they are horrendous!

I believe that. Accounting is not something that most developers find sexy/interesting, so it's probably a rather underdeveloped field.

Just thought of something; a search of public code repos for tax related software might be a good place to look.

I would suggest that you look for a personality first, and specific technical skills second. Perhaps you could go to a http://startupweekend.org/ event, if there's one near your location? You don't have to pitch this particular idea, but it is a great opportunity to find a potential partner.
That is a tricky line, indeed. Assuming http://photos.appleinsider.com/App%20Store%20Review%20Guidel... is the real deal, Apple tries to do it with the following rules:

2.20: Developers "spamming" the App Store with many versions of similar apps will be removed from the iOS Developer Program

12.4: Apps that are simply web clippings, content aggregators, or a collection of links, may be
rejected

Notice the 'may' in that last clause.
There was this one russian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov#Podkletnov.27..., but nobody has yet managed to replicate his results.
BECODE - Front-end developer (Angular) | ONSITE (Sydney) or REMOTE | Full-time | https://becode.com.au/

BECODE is looking for a self-starter that can quickly hop on board and join our startup. The dev team currently has five people - two full-time developers and three part-time developers. We're looking to add a third full-time developer to the mix.

To make a long story short, we produce a series of products to serve the construction and engineering industry. One of the products, for example, takes the Building Code of Australia and filters it down to just the parts that are relevant for a client's building. Other products have internal staff as clients seeking to help them with their work. Under the one roof we are actually a group of three startups, two being engineering consulting firms and BECODE doing development.

* Well-funded with a roadmap to last a few years at least.

* Lots of interesting and diverse work across multiple products.

* Lots and lots of greenfield.

* Very flexible working hours.

* Management is very understanding, and you'll be sitting a few metres away the managing director (who is also the product owner).

The ideal candidate would be able to attend our Martin Place office, but we'd consider remote work and even international remote work from the right person.

The stack you'd be working with is Angular on the frontend, Django on the backend, Postgres as a database with our infrastructure on AWS. You would ideally have a strong understanding and familiarity with Angular, and familiarity with the others being a bonus.

If you're interested in the role, shoot me an email at steven.johns [at] company name [dot] com [dot] au with your resume, a cover letter (no fluff please) and salary expectations. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions too - happy to answer any queries you might have.
Yea I was just thinking about that.. And the fact I've definitely gotten people to work for me for free with no real agreement at all based entirely on hype...

Guess I've been on the receiving end more than the hype end these days :)
We came up with different results and some more interesting items in the top 25 (link is to our top 100): http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/wp-content/uploads/2010/1...

For instance, our #4 was lifehack with 861 results. We also came up with different counts.

It is probably worth comparing our methodologies and results: http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2010/12/gawker-des-crypt-... if you are interested in this.

edit: Amusingly, lifehack was the only password in our top100 missing from the linked top250. Given more time I am assuming lifehack would have dropped out during Duo's crack as a popular password since it is 8 characters and lower case.

Jeremy
Why?

Or, more specifically - how will racing China (and every other developing country) to the bottom in the manufacturing game be sufficient to maintain the middle class?
Every time I read something like this I think about Donald Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things", although it was first published in the 80s, we have yet to fully learn its lessons.
I appreciate it. Thanks.
I don't know if this is actually true, but I have heard that the short term limits in California's congress is a big part of why special interest groups have such outsized power in this state. The method of action is supposedly that inexperienced congresspeople do not know how to navigate the processes in Sacramento, and the lobbies come along to help them out.

Like I said, I don't know if it's true, but I don't really see a mechanism by which single term limits will help the situation. In fact, they may make it even worse by making it hard for politicians to distinguish themselves by a record of actually doing good. Instead, the public will have absolutely nothing to go on besides advertisements, which are paid for by guess who.

For the record, I have heard this said from both sides of the aisle. I'm not standing by its truthfulness because government brokenness is a complex issue, but it certainly seems like a valid explanation to me.
Aren't AdWords limited to $20/click now?

EDIT: I cannot find a reference to this anywhere. I thought they were capped, maybe it is just $50, and I am not yet fully awake.
I keep getting stuck on this point as well. One possible idea I keep coming back to: What about limiting campaign contributions to $1 per person/entity? I am guessing there would be quite a bit of backlash against this idea (Besides pols and lobbyists themselves, doesn't media get a lot of advertising dollars from campaigns?) but maybe if we can devalue the process significantly, it won't be quite so one-sided/game-able?
I often find that when I'm playing an old game in an emulator that supports these filters I don't use them...even if they look stunning with the filters on, they games look "wrong" somehow (perhaps they don't fit my grainy memory of them so they don't ping the nostalgia button the same way). Inevitably I feel like I'm playing a vector art/flash remake.
Please don't do this here. We're looking for thoughtful discussion, not extreme one-liners or snark.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11809297 and marked it off-topic.
> but POTS isn't used for mass media.

Yes. Still, also if one would measure the response curves of the sound reproductions of most of mass media available to most of the listeners, one would again find that the curves are never flat.

And there are indeed a lot of devices that behave worse in the range related to female voices than to some bass voice ranges. Even the so called Hi-Fi equipment is never "flat" (i.e. it never passes different frequencies the same). A lot of people claim to prefer stronger basses, a lot of products are made to amplify them more, and even relative expensive speakers can sound worse for female voice frequency ranges. Not to mention that most of the conditions where the sound is eventually heard are extremely far from the conditions under which the products are evaluated by the reviewers.
Which pronoun? “Tā”?
Me too. Loved it so much. Had to try every combination of pieces to see them all
Those 6K LEDs are super cheap, which is really unfortunate, because they are terrible for both animals and humans.
How can I use this? I see stuff like importing directly from a CDN? What does that mean? I could just call `import` in my source JavaScript without transpiling? I also see `npm install` stuff, so what's the difference?

I'm interested in importing packages directly instead of transpiling stuff in some cases, but I don't see how would that work.
It's the natural evolution. Everyone jumps on a great product, then it becomes heavily monetized and the user experience declines, and people run to the next firm's solution that has less ads, then once they have the eyeballs, they monetize it, it's cyclical.
It's not that complicated. Google indexes webpages. Webpages are identified by a URL. If, for any client, without any context or previous interaction, the URL results in anything other than the indexed content, it should not appear in search results.

If a webpage requires login credentials, which the crawler obviously does not have, the crawler should have received a login page.
> That's dedication to some seriously old hardware

If it ain't broke, don't fix it!

Glad you're enjoying the T450s.
I see no reason that bringing in simulation should be considered more reasonable than bringing in religion.

In fact, it pretty much boils down to the same thing, as far as I can tell. You have a simulation? Someone set it up. He/she/it is the creator of this universe.

[Edit: I should say that a simulation winds up being the same as a religion, but I'm not sure that a religion necessarily winds up being the same as a simulation.]
It seems like this is exactly the kind of thing that a government is useful for. Why not have more publicly funded research institutions that employ them, and put them to work on useful research without having them worry about grant considerations, teaching classes, or the publishing treadmill?
In general, wouldn't listening to any headphone/earphone at a very high volume (which happens very often when you're listening in a loud environment like in the subway) eventually cause tinnitus? I know on android there's actually a specific warning about this if you go above a certain volume. What specifically about AirPods would cause this that other earbuds wouldn't?
Does Microsoft have a stake in Postgres? I’m not aware of that if so (not that it would make me stop using it, anyway.)
I'm often reminded of Chernobyl by the Wuhan stuff.
Even in 2005, Chicago Booth GSB used to show their startup labs to prospective students.
Then we had CAPs overhead all day and avengers on highway overpasses. Now we have a few patriot(?) batteries and special flight rules. This thing might help early warning for both of those.
Maybe.

Hmmm, in general, very much not a "Maker" attitude. Think about how much fun it would be to recast it into that sort of upbeat "survival in style" ethos. Low power micro-controllers and ARM devices would be even more popular! One form of bragging rights would go to the teens who fashion the lowest power dissipation 1080p shelter media system ^_^.

I see from Dick's Wikipedia personal life section that he is almost certainly a city boy through and through, which would explain a lot of this story.

As for particulars, ignoring the arms-race part of it, really good basic fallout shelters are ridiculously low tech, the sort of thing people in flyover country are supremely competent to make without any fuss---and most of us don't get caught up in the next year model craziness (E.g. my parents bought a very high end Mercedes in ~1990 ... and sold it this year; they are, of course, members of the Silent Generation).

If you need blast protection, then the doors and vents require more serious stuff that's best produced in a factory to standard designs.

As for the new sophisticated threat from the Soviets in that story, no, I think not. Very much not in their style.
Stallman isn't quite right on a few points. For example, you can summon an Uber via SMS or a mobile site. No app or smartphone required.

But let's address the core of his argument instead of nitpicking. Yes, Uber's behavior has been pretty unethical. They track customers and drivers. They mine their data to figure out who had one-night stands. They shirk regulations so they can expand quickly. But all of those points are moot for one reason: Uber is incredibly convenient.

People rarely sacrifice quality of life for their ideals. If you want to sink Uber, the activism route is not effective. The only way to win is to make a more compelling product. If your open source, non-tracking version is worse than Uber, only the tiny population of die-hard idealists will use it. I don't think RMS understands this, since he is one of the die-hard idealists.
So, you must correlate advertisers.

But it's hard to design something that can not be gamed. As a user, there's no reason to adopt the more obvious possible solutions, because I wouldn't be able to verify that I'm not being tracked. (What means that I'd adblock it like any other source, and thus there's no reason for the site owner to use this one service.)
Some of my friends have written some fiction novels. I wish they'd started out with short stories before going for the novel.
"So what?"

The way of technology is to increasingly render people obsolete. This is great for some people for most its a threat to their ability to make a living.

The logical conclusion is not what you state but one conclusion his other is basic income and then you can automate away all you want.

There is an unfortunate tendency to think about technology replacing jobs as temporary until the workforce re-adjust yet the increasing reality is structural unemployment not just temporary.

This for instance is worrying
http://www.technologyreview.com/sites/default/files/images/d...

The luddite fallacy is well known by many yet there are an increasingly worrying trend that indicates that the fallacy is a fallacy itself.

The consequence is that as technology does what technology do, it will leave an increasingly larger and larger group of people unable to find new jobs.

The real competitors arent china, its automation and people really dont give it enough credit.
The mindset here is that financiers owe company founders financial security. Financiers are rich. But, relative to the economy, so are founders, even out-of-the-money founders. Why are they uniquely deserving of redistribution? Why aren't we instead arguing for a 95% tax on VCs that funds job training for people in the manufacturing economy?
that's more theoretical than practical. in many cases companies can work around that limitation to make such investments without (all of) those tax implications. money is typically returned to investors because the board and the executives want it to diversify themselves away, not because there are no npv positive projects to invest in. and there are plenty of ways to spend on protecting existing income streams, which is what we see companies doing regularly. there are lots of principle-agent problems and moral hazards in this realm that cloud the practical from the theoretical.
It's not in line with what people want in the app though. It's like using a text editor that all of the sudden implements a wiki on gardening preinstalled in the app. It's not relevant to the features you want in a chat app and there's no reason it couldn't be a separate app.
I also like personal projects as Show HW here. But we talked to the guys from YC. And it turned out, show HN works for all projects which can be interesting for HN community.
If you can't fulfill your duties as an employee/contractor due to a medical reason, you should be able to document that reason. If a driver can find a doctor to testify that they are allergic to dogs, the conversation ends there.
It seems to me that it is a basic survival adaptation. When resources are scarce (no food), you can't support offspring. If you can't support offspring, your species doesn't survive. It would make sense that evolutionary branches where aging processes slow down during a time of scarcity would have an adaptive advantage. They live to breed another day.
That was pretty depressing.

Having had both parents, all four grandparents, and 6 of my 8 great grandparents alive for the better part of my childhood, and then watching as 6 great grandparents and 2 grandparents passed away, I have to wonder if it's easier for them to pass when you're very young.

Obviously there is quite a difference between grand* and direct parents, but aren't children able to get over things more easily?

Then again - I can't imagine the additional life impact losing both parents as a child would have.

Very depressing :(
> > Success in business is rather like pregnancy.

> Because you get screwed a lot at the beginning?
Connectivity is only helped by your real name if you actually have a unique name, but for all the John and Jane Does in the world, a unique pseudonym is more likely to be (uniquely) "Googleable". (Then again, some of the John Does who share a name with someone more successful/famous might not mind the mix-up.)
Am I OCD when I cringe when I see 'p_rite' where he (I think) means 'p_write'? That alone would knock a few points off a candidate doing this test when he's interviewing with me. 'rite' can mean 'write' or 'right' or even 'allright' - why the unnecessary confusion?
Still better than 208.5 days. :)

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/68466
> Could IBM turn itself into a generic tech consultancy?

Not that anyone necessarily cares, per se, but if they do this, what happens to the companies invested in platforms like System z that only IBM can really support? Does "generic tech consultancy" include developing and supporting proprietary hardware and software?
Thanks for the response! Do you have a favorite vendor/gallery that sells?
Here's a log of the HN front page for 2016-11-24 (so far) in 10-second intervals. The first field is UTC seconds and the subsequent 30 fields are story ids: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/7a1e8916930cfdd...

Because it uses UTC, this file contains the entire lifecycle (so far) of the story we're talking about.

cut -d' ' -f1-31 gistfile1.txt | grep 13027031 | wc -l
3866

3866 10-second intervals means the story spent almost 11 hours on the front page. I posted that we'd reduced the penalty on the story at 1479955509. So by my calculation, it spent over 9 hours on the front page after we reduced the penalty. But perhaps I've made an error and you'll find it. Also, we don't "set" things to be on the front page for a given number of hours. If I say we reduced a penalty, that's what I mean: we reduced the penalty, and the usual software mechanisms (time decay, votes and flags) resumed their usual course.

Now I need to ask you for something in return. You frequently post comments making false insinuations about the moderation here. I'm fine with answering questions and dispelling doubts, but only for people who are asking in good faith. I'm losing that feeling in your case, because these comments of yours are both common and nasty. Would you please stop doing this? Apart from it being a bummer at our end, it undermines the integrity of the community. Good-faith users have a right to know that we don't do the things you routinely accuse us of, but the cost of replying to such accusations is orders of magnitude greater than that of slinging them in the first place, so there's a huge asymmetry here.
Are you actually suggesting that consumer protection laws should prevent businesses from cutting features and discontinuing products?

Of course not. But if, for example, you're paying for a deal where someone hosts your domain and e-mail for a year, and where the domain is to be held in your name so you can transfer it to another provider if you wish, you are obviously entitled to have that hosting for the year you paid for and to your escape mechanism with the domain name if either party chooses not to renew the deal later.

With a system like Facebook or Google Mail, you have little recourse if they decide arbitrarily to close the business down tomorrow, and you have no control over your identity on that system or what would happen to it after any changes.
Curious, what is the added value for you if it is on the App Store?
A lot of cities rely on tourism because it is so cheap to invest verses the amount of money it brings in. If you have good weather and beaches it might be the only natural resource you can exploit.