jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm by no means a popular blogger by any stretch, but I love writing (even if I'm not great at it), so I collect ideas in a notebook, specifically a Moleskine notebook because they're made well (http://www.moleskine.com/catalogue/classic/soft/plain_soft_n...).

I'll save up about 10 potential blog entries and then start to write them out. Ones that flow naturally become posts, ones that I struggle to come up with a few sentences are just deleted.

To me, the hardest part is finding things to write about that haven't already been rehashed a million times before.
Great idea. You're solving a problem for quite a bunch of people. It looks pretty cool, too.

> Sorry, Windows and Linux users: we definitely have you in mind, but we want to get our Mac application perfect before we release for other platforms.

Only theoretically yet, though, since linux users probably feel the greatest pain there.

Anyways, best of luck! I'll be testing when a linux client is available :-)
Yesterday, to call someone who has been ignoring my calls.
And how exactly would the many inevitable civillian deaths and the gruelling guerrilla that are certainly going to happen if the US invades north korea help anything?

It's partly because of war-mongering articles like this from the NYT that americans are so intent on war as a universal tool to "help" other countries.

If it makes you any happier, as soon as some very precious natural resource is found in North Korea you can be sure there will be US troops.
It is also worth noting that the canon, such as it can be said to exist at all, has been a remarkably fluid list over the years. The works, topics, and authors that appeared in the putative canon 100 years ago have been significantly changed in today's putative canon. The same list from 200 years ago was different from the list 100 years ago, and so on. (Even the people we think of as historical mainstays, such as Shakespeare, have come in and out of fashion over the centuries.)

Cultures tend to reshape their canonical lists to suit current tastes, preferences, and philosophical goals. "The Canon" is a much less fixed and immovable object than people commonly imagine it to be. This, in and of itself, is another flaw in the argument that "The Canon" should be preserved at all costs. Which canon? Which version?
Keep in mind that cracked or loose tiles can be damaging to more than just cosmetics. If the surface is damaged, there is a higher risk of injuries (cuts, tripping, etc). If it's come loose entirely or in part you could slip on it, and so on.

The problem with ground coverings is that you generally expect it to be reliable and consistent if it looks like it should be. A single loose, chipped or cracked tile might be worse than an entire floor of them.
Great! Get that boat there (in the middle of an ocean) in less than 16 minutes, or everybody will be dead anyway.
Not every head gunshot wound is fatal or incapacitating. The WP entry should have a few links to studies where they find a small amount of suicides require multiple shots to work.
>the modern peasant class is chained inside the local capital flow network and dependent on its favours for survival.

This comment being posted on HN is quite ironic. Unless you are philosophically opposed to the Internet there have never been more options for capital access or less reliance on local "aristocracy". The contortions needed to make these kind of arguments should give some indication of their veracity.
This has been going on for some time now, I'm surprised it is being reported again now.

Rule of thumb.. if someone can work out what you are doing by launching Wireshark, so can a nation-scale IPS system a la Great Wall
The rest of that same article says in several different ways that stress is necessary stimulation. So much for that.

There have been observational studies (vs plain declarative opinion pieces like this one) that correlate clutter with intelligence, creativity, and productivity.

The mechanism probably doesn't work the same way for everyone, and so clutter probably isn't good for everyone, but that also means it isn't wrong for everyone either. So much for that.

The article is essentially garbage.
Yes, and if you look at evidence of how people ate in history, this was not always true. This is the modern way of doing things. I guess we eventually figured it out.
I honestly tought you were talking about the democrats
Didn't know about this ordering/sequencing thing, but as far as combining types of foods -- this effect can be seen in graphs from continuous glucose monitors -- I vaguely knew that you can reduce the impact of carbs by mixing in meat etc, but it's enlightening to see it visually.

Eg. here: https://neo.life/2019/01/personalized-health-advice-every-60...

Would be good to have insulin monitoring be as easy as glucose monitoring at home..

PS. I remember at a social event someone with diabetes eating ice cream a bit before the meal--I wonder if it was related (just to reduce the impact) or if there was some other insulin/glucose management technique going on there.
My guess is someone long ago decided to "be different" for whatever capricious reason, since I don't think the syntaxes for any other architectures are different from what's in the official manuals.

Related article: http://x86asm.net/articles/what-i-dislike-about-gas/
Oddly, I've just found this concept to be analogous to many other 'ills' we face as humans. And not just the physical ones.

Sometimes we just want to stop feeling pain.

Sometimes we feel the need to try and stop the cause of it.
Where would you learn about it? I've never seen an invite or an indication that any form of contribution is welcomed, or even possible.
I have seen this kind of thinking from Andreas Antopolous as well, but actually the investment analysis is critical to understand before deciding to buy or not to buy Bitcoin. I suggest everybody who is interested in Bitcoin to read the Bitcoin Standard book.

https://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Standard-Decentralized-Altern...
Yes. It could be done better in hardware.
Thanks Watsi for having a sense oh humor about it. I bought a shirt because I love your mission as a whole and the post have me a much needed smile yesterday. I wish more people were light hearted like this/ took themselves less seriously faced with situations like these!
>How an unlikely group of high-tech wizards revived Obama's troubled HealthCare.gov website

How? With another 14 million dollars... that is how. You can do a lot of things with 14 million dollars, this is not especially true when you are talking about the govt spending this kind of money, but still - it is not pocket change to the average company.

http://www.nextgov.com/cloud-computing/2014/02/cost-obamacar...
That depends on the attitude you go into the conversation with and whether your take-home test can be automatically scored well enough for a coarse filter to reject the people who obviously cannot do it. It also depends on how many applicants you have. Spending half an hour per candidate gets onerous when you have hundreds, so cutting to the chase in a semi-automated way may be a better means of whittling the pile down than having a recruiter, founder, or hiring manager filter it based on conscious or unconscious biases.

I was highlighting that line because I think it indicates a subtle bias towards people based on background and assumes people are not making reasoned decisions about what they are applying to. I understand that there are tons of unqualified resume blasters out there, but I figure nearly all of them will either ignore the take-home or submit such schlock that it will be easy to automatically reject them.
>Not sure what went wrong there :)

Google Maps uses a modified Mercator projection, which distorts distances.
It's legal, regulated and sometimes required if you are accessing production servers, with software like securelink. It's just considered as part of the audit trail.
Most of the hunter-gatherer parenting practices that get pushed on certain parenting blogs are pseudo-scientific and shouldn't be adopted. And some of claims that a baby crying is dumping enough cortisol into their bodies it will permanently damage their brains is NOT supported by science.

What does have a strong scientific basis: the importance of sleep hygiene.

Children don't need perfection or goofy hunter-gatherer hacks from their parents. They need love, support, and a measure of reasonable consistency[1] from them.

[1] This is why having alcoholic parents can be so disruptive... children get a different experience sober vs intoxicated.
>By now we were supposed to be living in an internet dystopia.

No, no we weren't. Like any hot political issue, the ramblings of enthusiastic dummies should not be the standard by which we judge a position.

The most cursory of sober analysis recognizes that business models do not change overnight. Even if they wanted to act as quickly as possible, established ISPs have tons of inertia.

Extending a slightly charitable take to proponents of net neutrality recognizes that ISPs would use their existing leverage to take inches here and there, skillfully massaging the messaging with expensive PR and marketing teams each step of the way. The question is whether the sum of those changes is just a business taking advantage of negotiation power, or if it sums into too anti-consumer of a business model.
It's still a good thing though. Better to be tracked by one company than a whole industry.
Pave the Bay 2021 --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reber_Plan
Don't go by a list of companies.

Look for a place that works on something you care about and allows you to apply and build your skills.

That's pretty much something a grown up has to figure out individually.
Becoming myopic with the only stakeholders that matter are the current residents has similar problems with corporations that place profits above all else.
FreeBASIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBASIC is a modern, GPL'd compiler that implements nearly all of Microsoft QuickBASIC along with a bunch of extensions. Runs on *nix and Windows.

QuickBASIC was a rather nice BASIC dialect for its era, and you can write well-structured and modular procedural code. Along with a bunch of 2450 GOTO 410 lines, if you really want.
I've tried quite a few window managers but I must say the automatic tiling wm actually make me prefer gnome, what really seems to do well with me is ratpoison or stumpwm. The control of tiling seems to work great and both are quite customizable (especially stumpwm). (I use C-, for my prefix and C-t in tmux) Recently I just use gnome though because my laptop just works there and have a full screen web browser and a full screen tmux (so I at least have some tiling).
Agreed. You don't know what you don't know. A mentor can help you learn the topics in the most effective order, offer suggestions that you wouldn't otherwise find, and motivate you on your bad days.
Drives me crazy, Apple is the _only_ company that sells a computer at 10w with this performance. Not one big manufacture has something that competes. They are all stuffing atoms and calling it a day. So I am going to buy a mini to run linux on...
Every awesome idea I had for using Twilio (and other such services) was shelved because of their 3cpm pricing.
Thanks for asking about this.

Ben's remarks on that were a reaction to a bunch of candidates for entry level position complaining loudly about entry level pay. He noticed that being hung up on pay was inversely proportional to perceived awesomeness (although some of this may be sour grapes and/or confirmation bias). It turned into a bit of a fiasco and I'm sure he regrets saying anything about it.

The truth is, people at Cheezburger are paid at competitive market rates. The entry level positions are entry level. Positions for experienced professionals with specialized technical skills and relevant education are not. I have no complaints about what I earn. Benefits could stand to be a little better, but that's always tough for small companies.
Probably not, but I'd guess even one supertanker would be more effective than one might expect. We're talking about vessels that are nearly half a kilometer long. Note that the tankers transiting the Strait have very limited maneuverability; it is difficult to turn on a dime when you're carrying half a million tons of cargo. Moreover, tanker captains are a very conservative lot: they will be reluctant to make a transit even if there is room if there are not sufficient margins of error for fear of further jamming the channel.
SQLite is so hardcore about being totally unbreakable that they have a section in their documentation dedicated to explaining all the horrible things the OS has to do just to get it to fail: http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html#how_to_corrupt

Reading about their testing process is also informative: http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
Which confirms what I said -- the issue you were complaining about was a problem with your configuration, not with the VPS provider. No provider guarantees 100% uptime, and you have to be able to handle things when there is an outage. The root domain going down was their problem, your subdomains not coming back afterward wasn't.
facepalm

It's kind of galling how such moronic things can make large amounts of money for one individual, whereas other folks (scientists, mathematicians, engineers) who are really striving to make a fundamental contribution to society barely make ends meet.

Perhaps a lobotomy is the way forward.
I don't think what you are talking about is 'culture'. Skateboarding in the offices or playing games is only a portion of the culture at start-ups. The Apple culture that gets talked about is the secrecy of their product development, their dedication to clean design (even to the detriment of product), etc. etc.

I was talking to a friend yesterday who used to work for Apple. I assumed he got discounts on all his Apple stuff, like former Microsoft and Adobe employees (among others). His words 'Apple doesn't do that stuff'. Very minor discounts for employees, no employee catering, dry cleaning, etc.

So I suspect the 'cultural cues' you are looking for don't exist at Apple.

Another thing that was said yesterday is that Apple's culture essentially boils down to 'You should be honored to be allowed to work here and create this stuff, so why should Apple bother catering to you'.

Still, my friend is a crazy Fanboy. I don't get it.
Google actually gives you the ability to revoke access. It's under your Google account settings.
I don't know how property taxation works in Colorado. I do know that the quirks of property taxation in California have contributed greatly to gentrification in the Bay.
Who was making the joke? The reporter lying to make the subject look bad? The subjects staging something to make themselves look bad?

I am very curious, I use that same journalistic technique in my writing. You don't editorialize, you report the subjects statements and report the facts and readers can see for themselves when the subject has said something foolish or dishonest.

I'm a bit concerned that this isn't a good tactic to use. A major theme of that article was the juxtaposition of the "Change the world", "He's a great guy" statements of the subject and the actual actions being only concerned with attention and money.
http://things.gnod.com/laptops/ has the metrics you are looking for.
Burger King has a burger with a Morningstar patty on the menu. It's pretty good. That & a side of onion rings used to be a monthly treat for me. Not sure how well it sells, but I'm sure McDonald's is aware of it & how (un)successful it's been.
But what doesn't make sense is that they would sign him on with an NDA that expired, knowing full well that he could then go on and tell people that the FBI had put a backdoor in something they helped to design.
I think you mean that is an apples to oranges comparison (or its not an apples to apples comparison).

In any case, fair enough. I tried to detangle the contributors, and while its easy to do for language, it's harder to for target. I suspect 90% of the commits are ARM or x86/AMD64, but w/o spending more time than I care to, it's hard to know.

With that said, you'd still expect, with GCC long history of being open source and open source being such a clearly superior dev model to have surpassed most commercial compilers, but that hasn't been the case in perf. Now maybe one might make the argument that perf has never been the metric for gcc, but it has always been portability. But that would also lend credence to why open source is not an ideal model for many companies -- your (the open source project's) metric of success is not the metric that we care about.
That's a nice setup but it's a multi-thousand dollar proposition if you want good optics. Perhaps a bit steep for a beginner.
Yellen's tone-deaf speech

Tone deaf in what sense? What tone should she strike? BTC is comically inefficient.
I mean, in this case, people are panicking even when it stays the same! People are just panicky.
Huh, funny. I think I notice this on my phone. But on my desktop it's always Ctrl-L so I never realized.
Where exactly do you live? In the US it's not common to have more than an aesthetic checkover of a car during inspection. There's not necessarily any reason to clear those lights, and in general you can avoid fixing relatively expensive things that do not prevent the car from running outright.

Contrast to my understanding of Germany's system, where your car must be aesthetically pleasing to the inspector.
He does look tired and sickly on his younger picture, that doesn't help either.
Downside risk being having to support adult children who can't support themselves?
I had a similar experience with their recruiting. Some interviews were cancelled and had to be rescheduled only after I inquired.

Many weeks to generate offer and paper work and then 24 hrs to accept with a "take or leave it" ultimatum.

Just a very poor taste and I know some fine people who work at Google. Its unfortunate they don't seem to value warmth and humaneness when communicating externally
There were studies which showed that DRM is likely to reduce sales. But it's rather self obvious. DRM cripples usability in some way. Worse product means less potential interest from the user. Not to mention that DRM is simply insulting, and insulting your own users sounds like a bad idea to increase sales.
After reading this article, I thought of gifting Dr. Wayne Hayes' ice vest to a friend. I googled Hayes and I found his website: http://coldshoulderweightloss.com.

I found his website shockingly bad. I wonder how anyone could buy a personal care product from a website that looks like that.

It's surprising how web presence can still be taken for granted. Especially when their website is a point of sale for their product.
So I can uninstall Windows.
My wife is a Chinese UI/UX designer, and the circle of colleagues is small in a big city like Beijing. Programmers are in demand and many now know C# and even Scala; their pay has definitely gone up a lot in the last 5 years.
Clickable links for your convenience:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794685
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8796591
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2217516
In the deep desert, temperatures change fast. I once spent some time in a desert environment that went from 120F (49C) to 50F (10C) in a matter of a couple weeks. Where I come from 50F is light jacket weather if it's windy at night. But in the desert, after having become accustomed to hair dryer temperatures all day, I was freezing.

I mean shivering, teeth chattering cold. It was the most bizarre feeling. I could feel the air temperature, and it was fine, but my body simply couldn't keep up with the sudden change and I didn't get used to the new temperature for a few weeks.
I've seen casual piracy in business environments before. Some people simply don't care.
Unless you are suggesting that the typical American pickup truck trip is across Lake Michigan and back your comparisons of scale are irrelevant.
>I assert that minimalism is directly at odds with self-sufficiency.

No, you've proven that it's not. Many people equate minimalism to just not having stuff. Minimalism means you have the minimum amount of stuff for the task at hand.

You have one set of ramps, one oil pan, one jug, one specialized filter wrench only for your car, and a ratchet that fits that filter. Exactly the tooling you need for the job, and nothing more. That is very minimalist.

A non minimalist person who changes their oil might have a half dozen old jugs half filled with oil in their garage, a drawer full of misc filter wrenches, and redundant ratchets.
The license to be a Barber or a Hair Dresser is a cartel, but you would never say the same thing about requiring doctors and civil engineers being licensed.

Being represented by an under-qualified attorney can ruin your life. You can go to jail because your attorney was incompetent. When the consequences are that high, we need the Bar.
Well, public transportation buses typically weigh even far more than that, at 25-35K pounds, yet society seems to agree they're better overall than the 20 or 40 cars they replace, despite their greater overall road wear.

I don't think anyone considers road wear to be a major deciding factor here. Congestion and pollution are.
The article mentions it is a blend of data from http://oxydata.io/ and https://www.peopledatalabs.com/

Both are aggregators that get data from many sources, correlate them, and sell it. The phone numbers and emails could have come from anywhere.

See this screenshot from PeopleDataLabs: https://d1ennknj6q36vm.cloudfront.net/images/cblead.png
Iowa has conservation measures that leave up to 10% uncultivated, which is important for ground-dwelling bee species. A decade ago it was only 2%.

But a bee exposed to even very low levels of pesticides is doomed. Its hard for a bee on 10% of the land to avoid the chemicals on the 90% - they range so far.

Its a tough problem.
> Hypothesis: the Bar Association is a cartel; limits supply, keeps prices high. The supply of lawyers is artificially constrained

The bar associations are actually trade unions. Restricting the supply of labor is the only mechanism unions have available to increase the wages of union members, and all unions do it, only the various lawyers, doctors and pilots unions are simply the most effective in this regard.
Epoch times is a fake news blog, FYI. They spread conspiracies like chemtrails and lizard people:

1. https://www.theepochtimes.com/nervous-system-damage-from-the...

2. https://www.theepochtimes.com/space-aliens-live-quietly-amon...
> VC's jizzed them

Please don't do this here. It's kind of gross. Also, please don't post overheated rants to HN. It lowers the signal/noise ratio, which is what we're hoping to optimize for.

Thoughtful critique is welcome. One method for turning overheated rants into thoughtful critiques is to (a) edit out name-calling and pejoratives and (b) add information, such as specific examples.
I don't think it's black and white; you can have an opinionated, simplified front end, and a back end that is wide open. The back-end makes some things easier, such as testing, and helping admins deploy to 100+ users.

A flexible back-end can even be used to create an opinionated front-end. Consider a "factory defaults" file; preset any behavior, whether or not it has a checkbox. Try every combination, and convince yourself that one is better. Even with these decisions made up front, the interface is there to let other people disagree with you.

Mac OS X has a nice balance, because the built-in "defaults" command line program can tweak any setting that would also be available in the application's code. Just because a program is a GUI, doesn't mean that it should rely exclusively on GUI elements for configuration.
Next week, on "Cold Case", "Who killed the iceman?"
At what point does Apple need to sue AT&T so they can break their exclusivity contract on iOS devices?
When you sign up for a 2GB per month plan with AT&T, they are counting on the fact that you won't actually use that 2GB

Maybe people just don't like being lied to?