jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I commented before going to bed (I'm on tokyo time) so I missed a lot of the developing commentary here. As I said, I think this could be useful to overcome a specific personality flaw. I think a lot of us here can probably identify with growing up with too many rules and boundaries. I definitely have to push myself to be less concerned with what people think of me.

I'm happy to have helped by rejecting your idea. :-) Although it was online so it's was far too easy on my part. To be frank, if you had told me your idea in person, I would have either picked up that you feel inhibited by your boundaries or I would have thought to myself "What a self-centered jerk" and said nothing.

Maybe my opinion of this is being colored by living in Japan. Most Japanese will never outright reject you and you have to pay close attention to make sure you're not overstepping social bounds. I've seen so many foreigners who live and work here completely oblivious to these cues and it only serves to ostracize them. On the other hand, they have a completely different startup culture and that strategy doesn't cut it in NYC.

I guess my advice is to practice letting go of inhibition but also practice the other side of the equation: empathy. You're probably already good at the empathy part. It would be too easy to deal with rejection by simply putting on blinders.

All of this talk of rejection, empathy, letting go, etc… reminds me of buddhism.

(P.S. my sister is a reliability test engineer at a forklift company and she had to get licensed to drive them)
If I was google, I would probably offer him a job...
I think he meant useability (by a newbie).
Not tried that script but this should be cool.
Would be nice to make some program based on this script to fetch full content of news posted on ycombinator :)
It's a single world state and the Savage Reservation where John was born is in New Mexico.
Many Japanese professionals who have call to be in the United States -- but not all of them! -- will write their name something like YAMASHITA Taro, which is your clue that you should be calling him Mr. Yamashita rather than Mr. Taro. Or Dr. Yamashita, in the case of my client who was not actually named that.

Some of them, including at least one prominent politician and several people I represented in a professional capacity, are adamant that reversing the order is incorrect.

(Unsurprisingly, many Americans are unaware of this convention. Sadly, many of them persist in being unaware of it even when it is written on the meeting briefing and explained verbally right before the meeting starts. sigh Twelve corrections in 3 days -- my client was not happy for that trip.)

Does your hotel, car rental service, university, etc, handle this case correctly? We blazed a path of frustration through Chicago and Michigan last time.

Further fun: a Taro Yamashita born and raised in the United States (or any other Taro, for that matter), and present at the same university for the same conference, might request the exact opposite treatment! And if you spell his name as YAMASHITA Taro on the meeting agenda in defiance of his preference, you're doing it wrong!
This sounds exactly how instruction sets evolve.

32 opcodes? That's plenty! We'll never run out. :)
I'm finding it absolutely amazing how well Walt Disney knew the field of animation. This letter could have been written last month with no modifications and still have been as applicable to animators as it was in 1935.
I think you're reaching. Obviously every inventor or discoverer affects the course of history in every country that uses that invention or discovery. We could put Marconi on as "critical to American history" because we never might not have the war without the radio. Or put Martin Luther on, because without him a bunch of protestants wouldn't have crossed over on the Mayflower. Or Mendel because without the understanding of genetics, our GMO companies wouldn't be making billions.

The only mention in the United States in Marie Curie's Wikipedia article is a brief tour she did of the US in her later years to raise money.
TL;DR Plant a huge variety of native plants in good soil. Seems like a good approach.
This is happening in some areas and it's a trend I hope will continue. For example, my hometown mall was dead (~3-4 open shops out of ~50 available) for the better part of the last decade but management has recently started renting out most of space to local colleges and other non-commercial entities.
Why? Isn't 240 zwei hundret vierzig?

Not trying to be difficult... from what little I remember of my 2 years of college German, zwei und vierzig is 42.
I am not sure if this will become a status symbol, but I 100% agree that that is the market it is going for.

I know three people who own a pickup (one in commercial construction, one who is a big animal vet, and one who has a horse farm). This does not appear to be designed for those people at all.

However, I think it could appeal to the same people who wanted a hummer. Driving it is just overtly confrontational. It will be fascinating to see whether there is a market for exactly this though, because Tesla is supposed to be environmentally friendly, and the people who bought hummers clearly didn't care about that (at the time, at least).
85 major versions ahead of Windows 10... and rightly so.
French is annoying but it is "in the right order" (and the Swiss did away with that foolishness ;) )
My wife used to own a Mercury Sable. I literally dodged a deer with it one day without rolling the vehicle. Ended up in the next lane over in less than half a second still going down the highway.

With my big pickups, I just try to center the deer on my massive grill guard so they don't dent the quarter panels.
Eh debatable. There are plenty of folks that go Google-free, Facebook-free, Twitter-free, etc. It's not hard to apply digital minimalism. SDC is right: outrage is what drives clicks and the recommendation algorithms are designed to maximize clicks. However, it really just comes down to education. You need to be an educated consumer to make an informed decision on your own. It really isn't the responsibility of the publisher, data broker, etc. if you form an opinion using their platform. If that were the case, then we'd filter every single website that touts anything false - it's just not possible. People need more critical thinking skills, not Facebook.
What's ownership? It's the right or ability how something is used and what happens to it. The term fits here.
Caesar and Augustus didn't insert those months, they were renamed from Quintilis and Sextilis in their honour.

The reason for the discrepancy in names is due to the fact that March used to be the first month of the year. It was changed to January hundreds of years before Caesar came along, so the naming scheme was already 2 months off by that point.
This is terrible advice, are you a lawyer?
Have you considered non dilutive funding like Pipe?
How generous of my government to let me spend years battling them in court, while they get to violate my rights for the duration with little consequence if they end up losing. Much like a corporation getting fined or sued by the government is often just a slap on the wrist and the “cost of doing business,” the FBI has demonstrated time and time again that it doesn’t mind breaking the law to serve its goals. When the recourse for most people when the government violates their rights is to hope that some org like the ACLU will step up and represent you pro-bono, and that the courts will actually rule in your favor, and that even if they do you’ll still have a long time of suffering while the case goes through the courts... it tells the FBI that they can basically do whatever they want, because most people don’t want to deal with that crap.
This looks like a random episode from "How to get away with murder"
In October last year, attorneys for American Muslims who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List in retaliation for refusing to spy on their communities argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the Court to uphold a ruling that the men may sue the FBI agents for interfering with their freedom to practice their religion. The men initially sued to be removed from the List. After years of being prevented from flying, and just days before the first major hearing in the case, the men each received a letter informing them they were no longer on the List. A judge then dismissed the remaining portion of their lawsuit, which sought damages for the emotional and financial harm the men had suffered. Still, a federal appeals court reinstated the case. The Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court.
It would be hilarious if the upshot of this is Murdoch press (sky news, etc) all ending up banned from Facebook and Google news.
That link seems suspect to me. India is rife with crime. Daily life, even for rich people, involves lots of activities that would be crimes in a Western country, particularly official corruption.

Anyway, you spoke in terms of "criminality in some American cultures", which sounds like a euphemism, since you neglected to name them. Although you followed it up with your hetereogenity thesis I (like many readers) was already lost.

I do agree that it is the rifts between groups that ultimately cause all the problems. However, who's really to blame for that? America's slave-descended population have been in the country for over 500 years. By any normal expectations, their original culture should have been completely blended with the mainstream culture hundreds of years ago. And a large extent this is true of those blacks that enter the middle class and beyond. But for those that are trapped in a ghetto lifestyle -- with ghetto attitudes -- I don't think you can attribute that up to cultural differences. That's circular reasoning again. Something else is keeping the cultures separate.

I think we should be open to the idea that the forces keeping the cultures separate are both external and internal to the black community in America. Still, anecdotally speaking, as a Canadian I find the racism in America to be pretty breathtaking. White Americans, whether liberal or conservative, take it as a given that there's always some part of the city dominated by blacks where gunfire is heard at night and the cops are afraid to go. If you probe even a little bit you find that most white Americans, even nominally liberal ones, think blacks have lower capacities than they do. This seems to me, with my Canadian attitudes, like a shocking abandonment of a large part of your citizenry.

In any case, heterogenity doesn't always lead to a higher crime rate. Toronto is over 38% immigrant [1] and yet has a low crime rate. Montreal has been riven by cultural heterogenity (between English, French, and others) ever since the 1700s, and yet has an even lower crime rate. [2] I'm not saying Canada is perfect in this regard, and it is a pretty universal rule that the newest immigrant population has a higher rate of crime and organized crime. But, unscientifically, it seems to me that the availability of better social services, less inequality, more equitable law enforcement, plus a very strong tradition that the norm of "Canadian" isn't any particular race [3], must all be factors in mitigating this.

[1] http://www.mta.ca/about_canada/multi/

[2] http://www.toronto.ca/quality_of_life/safety.htm

[3] Even the gangs in Canada are sometimes multiracial: the "United Nations" gang is famous for this. http://www.vancouversun.com/Gallery+gang/1350012/story.html
:-)

A) I started to say "best" but felt that would be more open to argument. So I used the phrase "most interesting" in hopes that it would be accepted that what an individual finds "most interesting" is personal.

B) I'm actually very fascinated by a lot of stuff having to do with human sexuality (though that is not really what this is about) and not terribly shy about discussing it. However, I have found that it is best to tread lightly in that regard as a woman in a male dominated forum. So I thought it best to leave out any references to testicles the article made. :-D (On previous occasions, making similar observations has resulted in downvotes here.)

I also refrained from speculating out loud about some of the causes of issues described in the article. I do have some thoughts and I read the article because it fits very nicely with my interests in getting myself well against very long odds, but what I believe to be true is very far from accepted/conventional wisdom on such topics. It often gets either ignored or downvoted here. :-/

But thank you for replying. Have an upvote. :-)
> other than because of a seriously fubared justice system?

I live in Brazil and I had two cars stolen. None was found, nobody was charged. A couple years back I had my backpack (with my laptop inside) robbed at gunpoint.

A friend of mine who lives in the US had his car stolen. It was returned that same afternoon. Another friend of mine had his home completely cleaned up (the thieves left the heavy furniture and the kitchen). All his stuff was returned by the police two days later.

The larger inmate population could also be, in some part, due to more efficient law enforcement.

That, of course, does not forgive the cops from breaking laws themselves. It's just that the issue is not that black and white.
"We may be able to build such a facility for about $50k, under drastic cost reduction assumptions of open source economic development."

Translation:
"We're assuming that the economic system we dreamed up, which hasn't actually been applied on a large scale anywhere in the world, will make the previously unaffordable suddenly cheap."
Second opinion (with stats) by Wikimedia Foundation Data Analyst Erik Zachte:

http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/12/new-editors-are-joining-e...
(addendum: http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/12/why-i-changed-the-title-o...)
I don't think it matters too much that java has non-objects in the language. That might be a symptom of a non-oo nature, but only the most anal would say that's proof it's not an oo language. However I still don't think java is an oo language.

I would argue it is a class-oriented language. Once you run your java program, its classes are somewhat set in stone. Yes you can make some changes at runtime, but for the most part an object is an instance of a class that does a certain thing and that's an end on it.

On the other hand, javascript, ruby and perl (iirc) all are more truely object-oriented in that a object's class is just part of the story. It is expected that methods will be added as needed.

With ruby the everything-is-an-object philosophy is taken to an extreme, and classes and modules (a cross between namespaces, interfaces and classes) are objects themselves. Not kinda-objects, but real objects capable of doing their own things.

And, in javascript your objects are created first and then afterwards given a class or prototype. Crazy stuff. Not a fan of js myself, but I do admire seeing a new form of oo.
NO WAY. First of all, with the lean startup its easier than ever to validate our idea. There are tons of ways to get feedback on your idea. VC's and "market experts" cant predict whether or not my product is going to be successful based upon the idea.

Why pay some bozo to give me feedback when I can have my customers, people who actually use my app and are passionate about the problem.
It looks like the paper was (and maybe still is) under constant revision, which isn't reflected in the publishing date. For example, on page 7 he mentions TSV 3D DDR3 memory by Samsung, which was announced on December,7 2010 (http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/newsVie...
), and it says December in the paper.

Though I'm really happy to discover that Kurzweil is keeping in touch with the latest developments in technology, I'm alarmed by the fact that he seems to be eager to cut corners to put his agenda. This particular memory is just announced in December, and it should be available in 2012, not now. Kurzweil is supposed to be talking about the situation in 2010, isn't he? And, while defending himself, he says that he means "commonly used", not "ubiquitous". Maybe it's because English isn't native language to me, but I thought it is more or less the same.

I'm worried by Kurzweil's ethics.
One thing I've found helpful when I don't already know someone for a referral is to try and find an internal recruiter on LinkedIn and message them. If you are actually a fit for an specific open role, they will 100% answer.
You've got good points, but I think you're sometimes over-equalizing "performing tasks" with "following a leader." You're right about managers not doing the same work, i.e. tasks and activities. However, at a higher, more abstract level of accomplishing the organization's goal, e.g. reliably performing a service, leadership connects everyone from the customer relations up to the CEO, down to the layers of task-doers. This leadership is less about everyone, e.g., debugging at the same time, and more about everyone _paying_attention_ to the same activity, customer, project, mega-task at the same time.

Bad managers do foment underlings. They don't care when or how a task is done as long as it is checked off. Good managers, however, keep everyone focused. They know how to direct people so that their work is more than an isolated task... it leverages the momentum of everyone else's activity, creating a continuous end-to-end flow of information and materials in, through people, and back out to customers. The care and dedication for the customer are communicated in parallel all the way from the customer to the last person to touch the code or material.

I like to think about a combustion engine as a useful metaphor. It will work a little bit if timing is within a certain tolerance. It works best when the timing is correct. And it can be optimized for excellent performance. The imcompetence and ego-boosting you're describing are EXACTLY the hallmarks of poor leadership described in the FA. We definitely all need to learn to recognize and refuse to yield to, false confidence.
The (extensive) wikipedia article[1] does not agree:
"There were two major winters in 1974–80 and 1987–93 and several smaller episodes..."
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
> If US can grow 159 bushels of corn per acre, and African countries are currently at 29, why is the 15 year goal for African countries only 48 bushels per acre instead of somewhere close to the US?

And getting yields to that point has come at the cost of an environmental and social catastrophe in the US. It's also uneconomically expensive - though it's easy not to notice because the government pays junk food companies to buy the excess and feed it to us at ultra-low prices.

Why on earth would you want to inflict that on Africa too?
I'm sure there is good perl and good perl programmers.

But, having spent a portion of the last several months going through 3000+ line perl scripts written by a person with no formal training who had figured out just enough to hack something together but not enough to efficiently use functions, nor to maintain the code they wrote, I'm feeling less then sympathetic with the OP and perl in general....
cord blood? Who buys ads around that, and for what?

Edit- Apparently cord blood banking is a thing.
> Have you ever done darkroom photography? (I have and have made money doing that).

Sure.

> And if so, just to be clear, you are claiming that there is no difference in results from someone with experience and someone "just following a recipe?".

Oh, definitely there can be a difference. But that difference will never amount to the person in the darkroom being able to supercede the copyright claim of the original photographer.
Does anybody know if there is a way to force Amazon to only show Prime products by default? Sometimes the cheapest is less than the prime price but the free shipping is like 2 weeks vs 2 days.

I know that I can click "Show prime only" after I've done the search, but for people like my wife, they typically just click the first cheap listing and see it is says free shipping. But then the order takes 2 weeks instead of 2 days to arrive.

Having to sift through all the listings is annoying.
"Where can I find a women's shelter?"

"Is it normal to be attracted to other boys?"

"Can I claim food stamps?"

"Is my employer allowed to deduct breakages from my pay?"

"How much is cassava selling for in Lagos?"

Knowledge changes lives. As technologists, we are at the forefront of a revolution that has the potential to banish ignorance forever, for everyone. We have a basic moral duty to honour that responsibility, to recognise the real risks of what we are doing, and to work for the benefit of humanity.

The fun of bullshitting is something I am happy to accept as a casualty of war. Frankly, I think it's rather bourgeois to gripe about it.

I'm far more concerned about personalised search results inadvertently working to intellectually ghettoise us and reinforce prejudices. I'm concerned about the effect that paywalled academic journals might be having on the spread of pseudoscience. I'm concerned that IT systems are being designed predominantly by middle-class Americans in liberal cities, who are often ignorant of how their design decisions might affect people who are living in more repressive environments.

Bullshit should die unmourned, because we've got more important things to worry about.
Yes, yes, yes. At my company we've been switching everything over to React for both client/server rendering using our own ExecJS rendering engine for Ruby on Rails. It certainly adds a bunch of complexity to the stack, but every improvement we make provides new benefits in terms of the ease with which we can keep the API stack we like while cranking out rich UI while worrying much less about the client/server distinction.

Needless to say, I am a React fan.

That said, here are some things you will run into as you build more complex applications with this architecture. Some are related to shared browser/server JavaScript and some are React in general:

* You will find that some JavaScript libraries you want to use should not be loaded into the server context.

* On occasion, you will need to add server-vs-browser conditionals. And creating components to deal with browser-focused JS libraries (think Google Maps) will require some liberal and sometimes awkward use of React component lifecycle methods.

* Until there's a nice, agreed-upon open-source layering library for React out there, or you make your own, things like click-based (not hover-based, which can work with just CSS) dropdowns and non-modal dialogs are weirder to get to dismiss (when clicking outside of them) than they should be. Just because of the way React events happen and are bound.

* Also because of the way events are bound, it's awkward to write nice reusable form components. Without some trickery, you can only bind events from the component you're writing to its descendents. You can't bind events from one descendent to another. You end up writing a new component for each form every time, which isn't necessarily terrible until you want to make a fancy form builder like Rails provides in ERB. I've tried every which way around this, and I've had some success, but the solution always feels wrong and ugly no matter how I do it.

* This is really more of a good thing, but it's so enabling that you'll never really be done adding convenience features. There are just so many "Wouldn't it be nice if ____ just worked?" scenarios that get you thinking about the next reusable tool you want. I spend a LOT of time trying to create the "perfect" browser-side data store abstraction and the "perfect" lazy loader/renderer component for not-yet-fetched models.

The tradeoffs thus far have been worth it, but we haven't yet found or built the holy grail. So many things are so much easier than the old ways, but sometimes they're harder.
None of that is bribery, though, which was the original question.
What you describe echoes with my experience.

I've had conversations with family members that confirmed I was somewhat unique in experiencing this way too. Most didn't relate, though one brother is waaaay more synesthetic than I am.