jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can tell you one thing: it gets much easier later because when you're older you'll think less about what other people think about you and more about what you think about other people. The other side of the coin is that you'll become much more picky about who you would consider an interesting person.

Another great divider that I've observed is that there are two kinds of people: emotional and analytic. The trick is to know (at least at the time) which one you are and which one the other person is, as they don't mix very well. Between an emotional and an analytic personality there's very little to talk about really because the world looks so different when seen mostly through emotions versus mostly through analytic cognition.

For example, if we have even an excuse for a common interest I hit it off easily with the same kind of a person yet despite the fact that I do have some social skills it's a fucking deadend with the other kind of a person. There's just nothing to share and nothing to tell that resonates at all with the other. Not even the weather actually.
I've become a big fan of the AirTrain + LIRR combo since moving into Manhattan from Brooklyn. Almost always consistently 45-50 minutes from terminal to my apartment in Chelsea. Perfect for rush hour to/from JFK.
Yes you are right, there are limitations in API, but these limitations are(5000 req/hour) far enough for normal users. Next feature will be the multi account support, and this feature will expand these limitations much more.
Regards,
Emre
Dumb phones typically don't need to use their radio to do things like check mail though.
Well, I'm a woman and I use my pockets.
Most of these scenarios are mitigated by knowing what types of data are coming into your functions. If you're defending against a string being compared to a number, I'd sooner wonder why you don't know whether you have a string or a number in your variable in the first place. What could cause you to attempt to use `[1]`(array containing number 1 as an element) as a boolean? Seems like you should know if a variable contains an array and not true/false, and if you don't then that's a better place to focus your attention.

Happy to hear counterexamples though.
> They're certified, and it costs way too much to certify a new design or process

That buckle is a standard UI across every commercial aircraft in the World. That is very important in emergency situations. Billions of people know pull-to-release.

There is really no advantage to changing the design unless we also change to three-point harnesses as in cars. But that won't happen for cost reasons ( ' safety is our number one priority, profit is our zeroth' ).
I haven't spent that much time here and never heard of opencourseware. Looks perfect. Thank you.
It would be fairly easy to create a bot that makes random corporations. Legally I don't think there is anything that would separate them from actual corporations.

Granted, their corporate officers would presumably need to be people. But, HFT demonstrates bot's can make legally binding decisions so that might be a grey area.
I'm sure there is a "responsible adult" out there who "cleans up" after this person. Resenting it while doing it too, I'm sure.

This isn't the impression I got. She gets her stuff done, goes to the bank and responds to emails, but not in a timely and organised way and she's unhappy with that. You're right, this is a very lucky and privileged situation in the grand scheme of things, but her situation is not the same as yours.

What do you think would happen if she had a couple of kids? Would she a) Spend all day on Facebook and let them starve or b) Become a more organised person through her new responsibility?

Also bear in mind (from the FAQ):
Yes. Aside from the odd exaggeration for comic effect, the vast majority of my stories are completely true to life.
I did - but the IdeaPad only has an Atom processor, so the apps ran really sluggishly - also, it doesn't add any multitouch additions to the main Windows UI that I noticed. That said, I didn't realize MS had released the Surface stuff, so it was still fun to play with.

-Russ
So would I. Some anecdotes about his interactions with MSR researchers would have been nice instead of seemingly random dissing of academics.
A related problem is that people rarely follow the FAQ guidelines for headline editing. In this case, there's even a specific example: 'translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X,"'. In other words, we shouldn't even know it's a "top 10 list" per se, the subject matter should be interesting on its own.
Perhaps older/retired engineers simply have more time and patience to put on hobby projects like this. I don't think there's such a large emphasis on software engineering; at least in the universities I've been to, software engineering is small compared to mechanical or electrical. There's also computer engineering, a fairly hardware-heavy program.
Also, it's shocking that a post like this can get more hits that some of the interviews where I go into heavy depth and do a lot of research.
Do you have ten reasons why you're disappointed?
Yes, I've been thinking about this and it was my mistake, it doesn't make sense to call it Game in English nor in Spanish (original article).

Game (juego) is often used here as a synonym of toy like in "board game". I call it "juego de construcción".
It looks like 'no bullshit' in the sense of a heavily compressed primer using a lot of notation. I think that is very useful if you're in the right frame of mind. i.e. if you're happy with notation, and you want to refresh, or pick up something just directly from the undiluted concepts. Say, if you haven't looked at linear algebra for 5 years but suddenly need to use it for something, a text like this is going to be great. Or maybe as almost a syllabus/framework for connecting together concepts while you're doing a course.

But I'm not sure it justifies the level of branding/rhetoric on the webpage. If you think mathematics is hard, an introduction to a linear algebra section which starts like this isn't going to change your mind:

> Linear algebra is the math of vectors and matrices. Let n be a positive integer and let R denote the set of real numbers, then R^n is the set of all n-tuples of real numbers. A vector v E R^n is an n-tuple of real numbers. The notation “E” is read “element of S”...
This is tripe.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1217/
The trolls are winning.
Um, let's try to keep things in perspective, please. This is very bad for the people that are near the plant, no question. But in global terms, the total amount of contaminated water that could potentially leak is miniscule. The Pacific Ocean is really, really big.

The article says that 400 metric tons of contaminated water are being added every day. Let's say that leakage rate goes on for 5 years. That's about a million metric tons of contaminated water.

The volume of the Pacific Ocean is about 660 million cubic kilometers. One cubic kilometer of water weighs about a billion metric tons; so the a million metric tons of radioactive water is one 660 billionth of the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

Now let's talk about the fuel rods. An accident involving those could potentially have effects similar to Chernobyl in terms of spreading radiation; but since there are four reactors at risk at Fukushima, we would expect the global effects to be about four times the global effect of Chernobyl. While the global effects of Chernobyl were certainly measurable, they hardly amounted to "an apocalyptic disaster", or even one fourth of one.
I believe the Chromebook uses TPM quite well.
Sorry, I got my articles confused. According to http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/22/convict... Leavenworth provides psychiatric therapy but not hormone therapy. I'm not sure where Manning is hoping to get it, but it's not clear that it's going to be taxpayer-funded.
It's not free if the content we upload becomes content Google offers to other users for entertainment, which advertisers pay Google to be a part of. It's not free if Google offers advertisers inroads into our "mandatory unified profiles and connected personal data streams".

The OP is merely expressing what a lot of people are experiencing, and not just technical people. I know plenty of non-technical people who avoid mainstream Google because it's like "getting a passport" and "signing over your life" just to upload a video.

The user experience of being part of YouTube is crap. The barrier to entry is too heavily weighted towards "registration" and "validation" rather than just having fun and joining something fun.

Email is NOT related to Youtube, not by any stretch. So you get emamiled when someone posts a video? Wow, that really is lame. That notification could happen a million different ways, including an email to your Yahoo email address.

Google forces completely different services to be connected. It's no longer possible to rate a video out of 5 unless you have a Google+ account. It's no longer possible to have a Google+ account unless you provide Google your mobile phone number and access to all your contacts, etc etc.

Youtube was once a cool service for YOU, US. Now it's a service for "content partners" and YOU/WE are permitted to join in, provided that certain commercially motivated conditions are met. That's crap. It's like a movie cinema denying entry unless you wear a (free) t-shirt advertising their cinema. VikingCoder would say "hey, it's a free t-shirt, what are you complaining about". Well, I just want to watch a film, I do not want to be locked into the Cinema's desperate social media marketing eco-system.
Regulatory capture is a big problem. One of the more bizarre twists in the Japanese nuclear story is that a program to develop robots that could remotely work inside damaged nuclear generating stations was canceled out of fear that it would send a message that nuclear power isn't safe.
He’s essentially doing the same with the recent Twitter saga. Yet, he will face almost no consequences.
Yup. When it becomes clear that it's not helping anyone actually get work done, companies just stick to their guns and refuse to change.

Which helps illustrate that point that its never been about increased productivity and collaboration-its always been about cutting the cost of office space and increasing the supervisor's ability to monitor what you're doing every second of the day.
I can't edit my code on the internet. Mozilla bespin isn't good enough, I need a web git client.
If I could downvote, which I cannot at this point in time, I think I'd only downvote people who state false facts (not opinion) or "flamers" and those that do not contribute to the discussion at hand.

I've no objection to people expressing their opinion in a decent manner, even if I disagree. I upvote those that I agree with and leave those that I don't.
I've been running a program with some similar goals that is currently focused on Ruby but will hopefully expand into other areas. ( http://university.rubymendicant.com )

I'm really excited to see similar efforts, especially from folks like Mozilla who have considerable resources available to back something like this. But I sort of wonder how well the peer to peer model works, and whether it produces consistent enough results to be able to have a certification system that means anything. Personally, I don't think certification is important, but it seems to be one of the key goals of this project.

Has anyone been involved with the parent project, P2PU? I'd be very interested in hearing what sort of experiences folks have had with that. (http://p2pu.org)
I think WiFi on airplanes is the solution to The Airplane Problem :)
Now this is something whose time has come.

The journal itself is (well be) at http://www.openresearchcomputation.com/ - the articles will also be open-access (I checked that first thing).
This is the wrong place to ask this question. The HN style audience is one which has been combed over many times before for "hair on fire" problems. You might happen to gain some additional insight but it's unlikely.

IMO, it's far better to talk to people that fewer entrepreneurs are already targeting.
Were you trying to sell web subscriptions before you turned to mobile apps?
In the US (and other places I assume), the endpoint of your PhD is determined by two things: successful completion of your research and your advisor's approval. (You could argue that your advisor's approval is the only thing). That means that the time to completion is an unknown.

This is a such a different feeling to what students I have met from the the UK/Europe experience, that it's almost like a different degree. They typically have 3 years to complete their projects, but I have no idea what "completion" means in that context.

The other one is funding, in that American PhD students could potentially be funded indefinitely, but that's a different issue...
Did your supervisor think your work was good enough to attach his name to?

We did co-author a paper later, but it wasn't about anything in my thesis. I certainly didn't hear any indication from him that he disapproved of my thesis, though -- he was just happy to let me work independently, and it would have been entirely improper for his name to appear on work he hadn't contributed to.
This is simple and clean. Why dont you add score and no of moves/rotation player did?
My conceptual art piece for the day is thinking you're wrong.

And I'm not going to explain, because that would deprive everyone of the opportunity to co-create the work.
"maximum entrepreneurship would probably be some kind of libertarian socialism"

Yes, but your libertarian socialism is neither libertarian nor socialist.

Socialism is the central control and planning of the means of production while libertarianism is the limitation of central power to maintenance of peace and property. Your proposal involves essentially no central planning and plenty of state activity beyond the night watchman libertarian limits.

In fact, you propose the welfare state. The government provides or funds basic social insurance for everyone by taxing mildly progressively everyone with income and property. Health care, education, basic income in case of misfortune, and pensions are arranged for everyone, but the economy is not tightly regulated, monopolized, planned, or centrally administrated.

Welfare statism works very well in practice if socialism can be kept out of it. Note that socialism actually does not require any redistribution of income and the implicit redistribution from social insurance actually accomplishes more redistribution than mid-twentieth century socialism did in practice.
Super cool. Love legos. Just backed it!
What I think I can get while still being fair.
Isn't there something you want to see and not touch, or touch less often you can put in the top? The top of almost all my screens is usually occupied by a weather/calendar/email/news/etc. widget up top
> It's too bad that Apple evidently doesn't have any intention of continuing the 4" form factor.

It is in Apple's interest to keep the product marketing of the iPhone 6 focused on "it is bigger" and leverage the iPhone 5s manufacturing process as much as possible. My guess is that for the iPhone 6s they will release a iPhone 6s mini.
I found the very subjective attitude to selecting talent interesting. I imagine this is because soccer is a sport that doesn't really lend itself to collecting metrics. Nor is it a sport where physical attributes are decisive.

The case of the 5-year-old was also interesting. It makes me wonder: how young is too young to meaningfully identify ability?
1. If you are writing self-admittedly inflammatory material, and you get inflammatory responses, you should try stopping doing that and see what happens before suggesting changes in HN. People are mirrors.

2. You can flag inappropriate comments (click on their link or parent link for the flag link to appear). [EDIT maybe there's a karma threshold to see the flag link.]

I think swearing and meanness is very rare on HN. I would say there is a fair bit of "scrappiness" - argumentativeness/combativeness - which sometimes undermines the productivity of the discussion. But although annoying, it's quite different from mean spiritedness.
Arguably true, but only the U.S. government has the ability to drop a bomb on you in many (if not most) countries.
>"!!" is rarely used

We just finished the lists chapter in Haskell Programming and we never even mentioned that operator. It's a silly function ^_^
unless...
Also, element-desktop 1.7.21 SEGFAULTs during startup on my Debian machine. Would rather it didn't. Wow:

$ ldd `which element-desktop` | wc -l
102
I just moved over to iOS from android, trying to use chrome mostly because of sync. I see that's already been requested, but my biggest gripe right now are tab management. Why does chrome have such a bad tab manager, it's much better on android. I like your way of doing this, but why not mimic the way safari does tabs, it's much easier to close tabs, especially after I noticed on iOS where every new search opens up a new tab, and persists. On andorid, if I did a search there was no tab once I searched something else
Here's how I want encryption to work: it should be unbreakable when it's used to encrypt communication between journalists and their sources, but it should be breakable when used to encrypt communications between terrorists. I really "want [this thing] to be true". So why doesn't it work like this?
Criticism, sure. But upstaging? That is something I would find seriously deflating. Enough so that it suppresses a lot of interest I might have to post my own Show HN one day -- why bother if some other schmuck is going to upstage me and drive discussion towards their work?
There's also the issue that it's New Richland, Minnesota, not Montana.
Certain orders are grammatically more convenient in certain languages, but that's not the same sense of practical as the one referenced above: cf. "inches are more practical than meters because they have the same spelling in American and British English", vs. "inches are more practical than meters because they're human-scale units".

Sure, date order may be decided based on accidental grammatical features of the target language. But that just reaffirms that "practicality for the common man" is rationalization.

Naturally, the written convention need not affect pronunciation: in the case of numbers, the world standardized on decimals with place values increasing from right to left, but most languages retain their own idiosyncratic ways of naming/reading them This causes negligible friction in practice.
I don't really get this tracking thing. It seems like they should be able to use some kind of super AI to predict what I'm most likely to buy next, and that would actually be useful for me. Sounds great but I never or very rarely see ads that even remotely match my preferences.

Also, I think markets have changed so that those companies who have great products don't need to advertise at all. Those companies who have the worst products will spend most on advertising. So, when I see an ad for an product, I know that it's likely to be a bad product.
Yes, that's it. I was mostly thinking about its use on humans. A friend of mine has a white patch on his chin and I mentioned he can even it out with dry ice.
I wonder about the different character of fulltime versus part time jobs. In most countries I know, part time equals boring. Maybe that's a little different in the Netherlands but I doubt that it's massively different, otherwise Dutch boardrooms would be full of part time executives.

Since I firmly believe that women are just as eager and capable of taking on intellectual challenges as men are, I do indeed regard it as a problem if so many women do not make full use of their potential. Of course, that doesn't mean working more than 12 hours a day under extremely high pressure is the only or even the best way to use that potential.
If you use 'we', better have a good answer when someone asks who else works with you or you'll seem douchy. I don't see anything wrong in using 'we' if you have coworkers, even if they're remote or work occasionally on demand. If you're completely on your own, use 'I'.

However, I've heard anectodes about one-man/woman businesses where a person fakes there's more people in the office. Seems dumb but sometimes it's needed and they had success with it, I don't think it suits your case though :)
What gets you headhunted is posting intelligent answers to tech questions on Linkedin Answers. Because that's where the HR people and recruiters hangout.
Very small point of feedback - the back arrow at the top left is not in my character set in Chrome on OS X Snow Leopard.

Screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/yU00o.png
It would certainly solve a lot of the problems associated with the files. Requiring JavaScript should only be allowed if a sufficient justification is provided. Simple things could be done to solve a lot of these problems, but alas, we love our Internet calling functions.
The internet, one of the world's most powerful emerging resources, is largely routed through and controlled by US companies.
It seems trivially obvious (in hindsight) that intelligence agencies would seek to leverage this to further US interests globally. One might argue that this is what the intelligence agencies were created for...

(as a non-US citizen, I'm not praising or defending this state of affairs, but instead I recognise this as the nature of things)
especially in the company of the people who usually inhabit this website.

It gets easier to understand when you realize most of us were bullied as kids. It becomes a natural instinct to herd together and protect our own. It's less because some of those people have media connections and more because those media connections happen to be people they consider friends and loved ones. At that point, emotional bias takes over.

Or, to put it another way, if somebody told you your mother was a murderer, would you believe him, no matter what evidence he presented? Even if he had a video of the event, it would be easier for you to believe that the tape had been doctored than for you to believe this person you loved could do something so terrible. At least it would be for me.

I'm not excusing it, mind you, just explaining it.
Yeah, if you set the buffer-local variable "word-wrap". As noted in the docs for that variable, you probably just want to use "visual-line-mode", as that sets it and also adjusts some navigation keybindings to account for the soft wrapping. Works pretty well, overall.
Great episode - I highly recommend it.
I want the Jetsons' car sound. My bother wants a Star Wars TIE fighter and my father in law would like the sound of a B-17, please.
If I recall correctly, Microsoft licensed java and Sun sued them for violating the terms of the license. Google never had a license; they were sued for violating copyright. Neither lawsuit determined that embrace/extend/extinguish is illegal/unethical/immoral; they were concerned with the means, not the ends.
> There is a fundamental rule in programming, it relates to absolutely any technology or language, this rule says that explicit is always better that implicit.

Is this a fundamental rule? I thought it was something highly valued by python culture but not by, say, ruby on rails.