jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> While Google might have strayed from their original "Don't be evil" mantra a little bit

I don't know. I'm getting more and more the impression that Page is cut from the same cloth like Elon Musk. Both seem to be balls-to-the-walls visionaries who accept nothing less than the utmost limits of what's possible - and then aim a bit higher than that.

I'm starting to think that, for Page, "evil" means "anything less than the greatest possible good for the largest number of people, over a very long term".
News is about as static as it gets.
I'm sure you're right that the information is getting used by DoubleClick.

To the other point about this information not being appropriate for the purposes Albright mentioned: Isn't this exactly the information that a health insurance company wants to know for outreach? If I know that all the pregnant women in Tuscon are signing up but none from Pheonix, I suddenly know where to put my next billboard or field office.

If this was a private sector company, nobody would be surprised at collecting this data. It would also be a different story if the data was being stored and analyzed in house or even if the doubleclick request happened on the server side instead of the client.

I agree with the general sentiment that this is a privacy violation, but that's because of the way that the data is collected and who processes it, not the collection and use of the data generally.
> there are plenty of other cases where they will change (e.g. precomposed characters that don't have a precomposed upper case).

Just curious, is there still some cases if you only consider NFKD strings/characters?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_%28web_browser%29

(and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELinks )

=)
The government does not have the right to make me submit to a dose of penetrating ionizing radiation, no matter how small the dose!

This is invasive. I don't know how a court could find this to be "routine."
i'm a defense attorney -- in my opinion, judges have a better grasp on the law because of their training, but juries have a much better grasp of the real world. judges have been insulated from the typical criminal case lifestyle and demographic -- they tend to come from wealthy, stable, upper middle class backgrounds. they don't know how things are on the streets trailer parks, and ghettos, and they don't know why people lie, and the shenanigans people pull. they tend to base their decisions on the theory they know well, rather than the street smarts they lack.

i always go with a jury, except with cases like child porn. In CP cases, the jury is much more likely to get emotionally fired up and send your guy to the gallows, because probably half of them have been molested or know somebody who has. judges are again insulated from this, and they'll tend to look at it as a "mere possession" case, and go easier on you.
Agreed. I may come across as xenophobic, or uber-patriotic, or whatever, but I think the laws regarding eligibility for presidency should be changed, not relaxed.

For example: Required to be a citizen and resident of the USA for the majority of his/her life (>50%). Required to renounce all other citizenship. Required to have spent the last 10 years of his/her life in the US.

Something like that seems fair(er) to me.

EDIT: Clarification.
Can someone provide clarification on this step? You pay them; you get to that page; and now what? sign up for a free account and send off an email?
"It's not a goal to try to prevent someone from doing this again. That's simply not possible. The goal is to make its success as unlikely as possible without causing too great a burden." - agreed

"Groping and virtual strip searches go too far in my opinion." - Understood. Personally, I'm ok with the virtual strip search. If the physical search is a "professionally executed" pat down, I'm also ok with it. My wife and I fly multiple times/month and so far this has been our experience. If the search turned into "groping", I would have a different view.

"Zero people have died in the U.S. from terrorism on airplanes since 9/11. It's extremely unlikely that a terrorist will blow up a plane with the security measures that were in place 1 year ago." - We just had a few close calls. The terrorists appear to be adapting.

"The next place to hide explosives are vaginas and anal regions. Do you think those should be probed as well? If a terrorist blows himself up at a TSA checkpoint should we have a checkpoint in order to get to the checkpoint?" - This is indeed the rub. Where do you "draw the line?" - is always the issue when discussing giving up/forcing people to give up personal liberties for the good of others. Nevertheless, we do it all the time. For me the scanners/searches have not crossed the line. For you, they have.
You could pretty much substitute Ruby for Python in this post and it wouldn't change much. I mean, right down to the http modules being outdated and non-idiomatic (especially urllib and urllib2). I seem to recall reading somewhere that they were written by Guido himself and were some of the first pieces of the python standard library.
Your comment loses value through the unmitigated bias showing through. You had me until 'Psychotic Right' as though viewing the problems through a left/right filter is the explanation.

The fact is we'll never know what would have happened if large companies were allowed to fail, because they weren't. It might have been worse, it might have been better. For sure it would have been worse in the short term, but these issues should be measured over the medium to long term. One of the messages that has been sent out with the current handling is that there is a Fed put on any high risk adventure, and that's not good.

Personally I think that there is something to be said for the 'bandaid' approach. Not sticking something over the top to cover the problems, but a short sharp shock of pulling it off and let the problems be.

The problem with the bailouts is that they cover over the fact that some companies were allowed to fail. Lehman, for one. And the world didn't stop turning. Sure, this caused liquidity problems and risk premiums to escalate dramatically, to the detriment of employment and the real economy. But it's foolish to pretend that this isn't going to happen anyway. The problem with Krugman and others is that they believe a lack of demand is the problem. They view the problem through this prism, and as such they come up with solutions that match their world view.

Others (including me) say that perhaps the problem is excessive debt. And until that excessive debt is eliminated from the system, productive companies are unable to make use of the resources tied up in the unproductive ones currently taking shelter with public money. You say the institutions should be kept alive, I say that they should be destroyed and the buildings and staff and infrastructure released to new institutions who can find a way to be competitive.

I believe you shouldn't look at the problem in terms of a company or bank failing. That's just the symptom. Once the debt had built up excessively, it was only a matter of time and method for the companies to fail. The problem was watering down of regulation that had stood the test of time for 70 years, and regulators becoming toothless. So far, this hasn't been fixed.

This is a not a left/right blue/red debate. It is a debate as to the level that central governments should take in directing and manipulating markets. Neither 'side' is debating this. Nobody will try and defend central planning and a command economy, because it is comprehensively proven as a failed model, yet we seem to be reversing backwards into this situation on the say-so of a bunch of people who couldn't see the problems headed their way. They don't seem to realise that controlling the fundamentals of money (supply and price) causes wrong investment choices through inappropriate price signalling. And then they try and correct those choices by further fiddling with central control instead of letting the chips fall where they will fall. Because they're going to do this eventually - no amount of bailing out will fix a fundamentally out-of-date business model.
Inspired by this post, I built http://hacklikeme.heroku.com/ this afternoon.

More details here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1931985
Problem: a lot of those items/techniques were exclusively available to the very rich in 1915.

The UK still had slums with limited indoor plumbing during the 1950s. It wasn't until the slum clearances of the 1960s that the standard became an indoor bathroom in a house with central heating.

The big change between 1915 and 2015 is that the technological GINI coefficient has shrunk so much.

Being rich gets you few technological perks. You can buy a supercar or a private jet, but that's a difference of degree, not a difference in absolute access.

Most people have cars, and almost everyone can afford to fly. And all but the very poorest have Internet and electronic media access.

Likewise for cultural differences. Sexual morality - at least as publicly presented - is completely different now.

Work culture is somewhat different. Politics and finance have probably changed least of all.

The point being that someone from 1915 may just about be able to understand the Internet and computing. But they're going to have a really tough time learning how to parse Buzzfeed or TechCrunch or Reddit. Never mind what happens when they find PornHub or Tinder.

There are three things to learn, not one. The first is what the technology does. The second is the vocabulary of new names and the new concepts used to describe. The last is the social scripting that defines appropriate and inappropriate behaviour.

Those last two will take longest and be hardest.

I'd expect similar challenges in 2115, with the difference that there's likely to be much more social and political change, and not less.

It would surprise me if the definition of "human" hadn't changed fundamentally by then, together with almost everything we think we know today about culture, politics, and economics.
This would be big news, only in the sense that it'd make it more likely to be able to have FPGAs on the latest silicon process node.
The stupidity we want to avoid on HN is subsecond internet reflexiveness, which is what you get when putting pre-processed information directly into the reader like a mother bird dropping pre-chewed worms into baby birds' mouths.

Here we want reflective reactions, not reflexive ones. For that, it's good if the reader has to work a little. We're not talking about anything hard—anybody willing to work the tiniest amount, such as clicking two links instead of one, or one instead of zero, could, for instance, trivially figure out the OP.

It's good for the front page to have a mild timing-attack effect on the brain. The slight pause that induces is an opening for more reflective thought to enter. Maybe it won't, but if the door snaps shut in a second, it certainly won't.

The anger that flares up when an internet thing doesn't immediately present itself for a sugar hit is, in my opinion, the reaction of an addict. We all have this. It's necessary to catch it and inhibit it in order for the subtler reactions, like curiosity, to emerge. If you don't want to do that, plenty of other places on the internet will oblige.
SolidWorks has a powerful API that allows you to script almost all aspects of the program: http://help.solidworks.com/2014/English/api/sldworksapiprogg...
IF is not necessarily calorie restriction, it's more caloric timing. You can use IF to optimize gaining lean weight (muscle mass) just as you can use it to aid weight-loss.

IF is about managing appetite mostly, as the hormone that plays a large role in driving hunger (ghrelin) is highly habitual; the more often you eat, the more often you're going to be hungry. So by reducing the time-window in which you eat, you reduce the window when you'll feel hungry, which can dramatically aid diet adherence.

But that's more the everyday form of IF. If you're on a eat-stop-eat type protocol and fast once or twice a week, you're probably using it to ensure you maintain a caloric deficit each week. You're bundling all your reduction in food consumption into one day a week instead of ensuring you're at TDEE-400 calories every day.
There are plenty of developers out there like me who think the React hooks API is an abomination and want no part of it.
Blue Apron at one point had a similar cancellation flow. For a year I'd login and cancel the next week's shipment -- one time I missed that, and got a surprise delivery -- and that caused me to fully bounce. They got one more sale out of me, good for them.
> What's worse is that I fear there are incentives (mostly political/security interests)

Nah its mostly just a mix of laziness, rigor, and salesfolk.

Most people don't want nor can properly design a hash algorithm (which works well). Public ones like SHA have received so much scrutiny, they are extremely well vetted...and then there's the mostly valid attitude of "never roll your own crypto" - Don't, not in production or anything that could become production. Unless you are a group of highly skilled cross domain career cryptographers/mathematicians...

Which leads to the last bit, people build whole business out of selling "security products" out of publically available crypto, then make the argument you shouldn't do it yourself, buy theirs. Which sometimes makes sense - often it is a shill/marketing ploy. Rarely do these products provide much on top of the core freely available code...and they probably shouldn't, or else there is probably untrustworthy nonsense inside.

So yeah, don't assume malice where first incompetence is possible.
Haha. Yes, OPEC is basically a 40 year old global oil price fixing conspiracy.
I've always called them 'curly brackets' which, on reflection, is a little like calling a keyboard a 'typey box'. Funny how long you can do something without really questioning what you're doing!
If your heart tells you too, then you won't feel fear.

If you do feel fear, don't do a startup :-)
Lifehacker,
Signal vs Noise,
Minimally Minimal,
ma.tt (for the once-in-a-year brilliant post),
the Guardian (for general news and liveblogs)
This is the only name for it I've heard here in the Netherlands.
It's also in (and probably a copy of) the Jargon File:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/ASCII.html
Hear hear! Almost every company tries to inflict crap like this on users at some stage. It's a prime case of marketing trumping all other factors.
> without fear true motivation and commitment are far from commonplace.

This is an alien mindset to me. Fear has never motivated any of my longer term planning or actions. Maybe if I had a family whose life and welfare depended utterly on my success in a risky endeavor, it would be different. But people in that position rarely found startups. Lost opportunities is the larger if more abstract issue for younger would-be founders, who often enjoy a surplus of appealing options.
I wonder if Richard Branson will be listing his Necker Islands anytime soon ;-)
Well, I'm running a startup, so im thinking what I can do. I can't change what Google does.
Speaking as a Euro who works in the arts, I certainly prefer that art take priority over profitability if push comes to shove, but I'm also keenly aware that if there's no profit there won't be as much funding for the art. Subsidies are sort of a nice idea and I think there's a role for them in production financing, but they're a double-edged sword - they may help some deserving projects get made, but only at the whim of the subsidy-dispensers, which gets you back to a patronage system.

As well as working in film, I also enjoy opera, and I'm struck by how the San Francisco Opera does Tosca almost every damn season, presumably because someone on the board or high up on the donor list really loves it. Yeah, it's a great opera, but there are hundreds of operas and even a moderately large and well-financed company like the SF Opera only does about 12 productions in a year. They aim for a mix of reliable favorites and interesting new works/productions, but the near-permanent presence of Tosca on their calendar is a reminder of how badly patronage can skew things. By rights, it ought to be staged every 5-6 years; having it on stage almost every year means proportionally fewer productions of other great Verdi operas such as La Traviata.
I've found that keeping one of your own projects going is hard work. All of my own open source projects have died off, but yes, I understand where you are coming from.

I've looked into a few open source projects before, but most of my time has been spent on various game ideas and such that weren't really open source.

I claim to be a Lua expert but there doesn't seem to be any jobs out there for that (and it's simple, but according to some articles I haven't used it long enough). I should have listened to a couple mentors when they told me to master something else. I can't really dislike the experience though because I've learned a ton, and got to meet some interesting people in several communities.
Google is playing the open card for sure. Anyone who believe that a corporation as big as Google can do no evil must be xxxx. People and politics are what the evil made. It only make sense that they are open only where it doesn't hurt.
http://ThinkCode.TV is the first project of my startup and it's not a web application, but feel free to get in touch. My IM is acangiano@gmail.com.
The first two have already been solved by WebGL:

https://cvs.khronos.org/svn/repos/registry/trunk/public/webg...

The last one is capable of being run in WebGL shaders (using the GPU).

Now, I don't think HTML5 solves everything (manipulating binary data, for example) but the above are all solved by WebGL.
I find this theory really hard to discount and of all the dissent against the app store, it is the most damning to me.

The other things - delays, rejections, draconian rules - those were just risks. I can live with risk. I don't think I can live with a glass ceiling.
If you have a big enough order, it has to be made across multiple trades. If people start seeing one buyer chasing a bunch of shares across multiple trades, they'll start hoarding and drive the price up. That's how a lot of these algorithms make their money, by noticing these large buys more accurately and quickly than anyone else and stepping in the middle.
My gmail account is fast. Even old messages (that I haven't accessed in weeks) load quickly.

Gmail supports IMAP, so you could use some IMAP client on whatever machine(s) you use most often, and then use the Gmail interface when you need to access it from elsewhere. Many e-mail programs with locally cache the messages, so even if Gmail's IMAP server were slow, you could still have a responsive UI.
I am banning the phrase "reach out". Call or email me if you object. Tweeting is ok too, if I am following you (unlikely), but please don't reach out to me.
edit grammar
I'm working on a project, bringing front end code to unsavvy designers, I've got the guy who designed SimpleGeo's site doing design work, but I'm looking for a technical co-founder

AIM: lachygroomgle (don't ask!)
gTalk: lachygroom@gmail.com
That last comment is pretty prophetic:

"Like it or hate it, there is a sea change happening in how governments treat cryptocurrency. "

Wonder how he feels about that sea change now.
Me too bud. Glad you found a good place to work.
I don't talk about authority at all, that doesn't interests me. Just to be sure, by authority I mean people who hold authority over something due to their appointment.

For example, the mask thing is an USA issue as the people who said that had no authority outside of the USA. Our right wingers often import American propaganda and it's death giveaway when they start talking about something that some American politician like dr. Fauci said.

In the case of authority, there's close to 0 trust in what they say where I live currenly, no one cares about the authority, Therefore we here don't have a case of "We trusted the authorities but we were misled" because we always assume that they are corrupt and incompetent. In fact, the health ministry showed better than the average competence and just as they start building some trust, they were exposed to be lying shamelessly.

Seriously, who cares about what the authorities says? I thought that ship sailed long ago? Governments lying and people trusting them is a myth, trust diminishes extremely quickly. Politicians constantly rank at the bottom of the most polls about trustworthiness, everywhere.

Besides the outright lying politicians, the misinformation happens when people try to digest very complex information beyond their capacity to understand it and when a person who is actually in control of the complex information tries to simplify things to the layman.

If physics were more mainstream, we would have people misunderstanding science and data. Oh wait, we have those. It's just that those people are not marching on the streets(yet). We have flat Earthers , we have perpetuum mobile builders, we have all kind if ridicilous stuff build around layman misunderstanding things and building alternative realities over oversimplified scientific topics. We also have the sharlatans, sure but when people say "authority in physics", that said only colloquially and when they speak publicly they commit the sin of oversimplifications and best guesses presented as clairvoyance due to their god-like understanding of the universe.
This story has been told a thousand times. It was an annual tradition for Bear Sterns to threaten to leave the city over taxes. They went out of business before they could do it.

If you've been here 18 years, crime is still way below what it was when you arrived. We're at about the level we were 10 years ago. Not great but not the worst we've seen. I've been here since the 90s and it was pretty bonkers then but people flooded in anyway.

Also I'm hoping this tax rise is a prelude to statewide single-payer healthcare which is also on the legislative agenda. You can move your business to Florida or Texas and you'll be sending your tax dollars to Covid-deniers and insurrectionists.
That's great. Connection scalability is my biggest issue with Postgres currently. It sounds like they work on it in by commiting directly to Postgres and not only to CitusData.
At least with pip and env, you'd have a hard time doing general tasks in python without getting to know them anyway.

You can also shortcut a lot of that with a hosting service like Heroku, which takes on a lot of the mental overhead for you.

You've made me curious to ask, what programming environments don't have a significant learning curve when you get to the hosting portion, short of a "no-code" hosting solution?
Thank you for your post! Your description matches what I've read, that dopaminergic function is like a bell curve. If you're already in the center of the curve, stimulants will push you over into dysfunction; whereas, if you're at the left tail of the curve, stimulants will push you to typical.

If 5 college freshmen take Ritalin together, four may be bouncing off the walls and struggling to direct their attention, whereas the fifth may be having a revelation: is this what normal thinking is like? Did I have ADHD this whole time?

I've heard a few personal accounts of people sobbing their eyes out once their medication actually works...they think of all the times they struggled with ADHD, and that this pill could've helped them chart their desired course more smoothly.
More than goog or FB? Held yeah.

FB is like. Creepy stalker sways hiding upside every window and spying on you when it’s completely unrelated to your relationship with FB.

Goog is more like the gestapo eavesdropping on every phone call you have and visit to the library you make

DuckDuckGo is like asking a stranger for directions who’s going to forget they ever met you in a few minutes.