jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So what do you do when people are gathering here to be fearful because others are being greedy?
You only write source code once. You read and edit it many times, and your colleagues, users of your library, etc, read it many more times.

The longer the piece of code one has to read, the easier it is to read it incorrectly, miss a bug, or introduce a bug.
+1. My collegues and I dream that one day browsers will accept some language-agnostic byte code, to which your favorite language could compile.
It's a strawman in the sense that it doesn't characterize my position correctly: in this case, I'm not pushing for "banning all the things", or even the things under discussion. Furthermore, I don't see how you can call mass murders "accidental deaths". They are all quite deliberate.

As for the rest, I'm afraid that being from the other side of the pond prevents me from being familiar with the various US gun laws...
Perhaps he was mentioning that not to disparage them, but to explain why trying to communicate with them would be somewhat more difficult than a shop located in the same time zone?

Certainly, many EB programmers are very highly-skilled.
Yes, libraries get used. That's their point. My point was, that very little of application code ever gets reused, although we somehow always think it will.
Highly unlikely. Boulder's incentive is also to keep the prices reasonable so that there is enough affordable student housing for the 31,000 students that live in the town. Students make up 30% of the population of the entire town. The student population doesn't care much for things like public school and property taxes that tend to drive housing prices up or down. For them, it's purely about cheap rent, good access to the bus system, and walkability.
Well, I was just about to publish my first library to npm but just changed my mind. I have enough performance anxiety as it is and when I know people think I'm destroying the scene with my "sub-par code" I definitely won't publish.
The need for such rating system is evident when you see all the closed questions on stackoverflow: "what is the best library to do X"?
I unfortunately spent a good deal of time in hospitals from last Christmas (yes, literally Christmas) to mid-March. I noticed no hall monitor even at the university hospital, and having read The Checklist Manifesto, out of curiosity I was paying attention to hand washing. As I recall, most if not all washed hands as one would hope.
Perhaps we should explain that for all those hitting the link and being confused: The launch was aborted in – literally – the last second. Maybe they can try again today, maybe not.

– edit: They will try again today. Reason for the abort was “an out-of-limit startup parameter.”
They begin by explaining that "food insecurity" means periodic reduction in quality and variety of food, then several paragraphs later they're accusing "food insecure" people of going hungry in one part of the month because they gorged in another part of the month.

Unless you believe fat people are perpetual motion machines, this is obviously a true statement.

Regarding healthier food, anyone with access to a Big Mac also has access to a "Premium Southwest Salad", or a number of other fairly healthy options. If they choose to eat so many big macs that they get fat, and ignore the "Premium Caesar Salad", that's the very definition of gluttony.

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food.html
My initial reaction to the title was that winning a professional level soccer game by more than five points does cause a loss of sorts: the physiological taxation that such effort causes could easily decrease the chances of winning games in the near future. Taking this physical side effect of over-effort into account in finding the optimal strategy would be interesting.
Apple had one point had read/write support for ZFS, but it was pulled because Sun at the time was not able to provide certain guarantees. There was an email by one of the main guys in ZFS that said something to that effect.

As such ZFS on Mac OS X is a dead project.
If the patents were a big issue I don't think we would have ZFS in FreeBSD.
Based on some valuable input from some generous HNers, I have put together an RFP http://bit.ly/cOLvkm and some basic wireframes http://bit.ly/9VytJl

I am interested in feedback and proposals.

Thanks very much.
I wouldn't consider Gruber a journalist, but of course journalist should be held to a standard. The problem is when a majority of what journalist do is comment or report on what other journalist say.

I think there's a parallel in today's popular "news" shows. It seems like Olbermann spends most of his time mad at what Beck said and Beck is mad at what Olbermann said, ad nausium.
ZFS is released under the CDDL 1.0. The terms of the CDDL (§2.1) grant a "a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license" for any patent claims "infringed by the making, using or selling of" ZFS now owned or later aqcuired by Sun/Oracle.

Thus, typical ZFS users cannot be sued for infringing on the patents that Oracle holds on ZFS technology. However, this does not preclude third-parties (e.g., NetApp) from pursuing patent claims that they believe are infringed by ZFS -- but this is just as true with any other technology (think MS suing Garmin over FAT in Linux).

Liability for infringement on Oracle's ZFS patents is possible if a user does not comply with the terms of the CDDL. For example, modifying the ZFS source code and distributing it using a license other than the CDDL would be a breach of the license terms (§3.1), and thus forgo any patent license. The Apache 2.0 license has similar terms regarding patent rights.
I think this is a fine option to provide, but I don't buy the argument that inserting a superscripted number is any less cognitively disruptive than underlining the text of a link. It's still distracting from the flow of reading.
What's you side project? Maybe you can get enough traction from Hacker news and leave your company to work on your project full time.
opening a sports game stream and keeping it on top in the corner while doing something else (my use case)
It stepped noticeably away from the specifics of the article and noticeably into generic flamewar topics. Other commenters predictably responded in kind, just with more indignation and lower-quality comments. This is how flamewars get started and it's clearly traceable to this root. If you want more explanation, I've written more in a sibling (cousin?) comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26255991

The general principles are repeated (ad nauseum, I'm afraid) here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Very cool, just a pity about the name
If we ever have a government which cares about people, the founders, employees and lobbyists for Palantir will be imprisoned for crimes against humanity.
I think it does its job perfectly; gives them candidates who are willing to put up with 10 hour study sessions for weeks OR people who are naturally brilliant (and don't break under pressure while being watched). It filters out a lot of insanely good candidates by doing so, but who cares when you have 100,000+ job applications?
Not exactly... and it's most definitely not an apples-to-apples comparison.

That $200k house in Austin is in a suburb. All of those nice walks to the grocery store? Gone. All of those nice close local eateries? Gone.

You can find that in Austin, but the price jumps up pretty significantly.
"Hacker News - Hovering Over the Shark"
Other private companies have been building rockets for over 50 years. Currently, Boeing builds Delta. Lockheed builds Atlas. ATK builds motors used by other commercial firms. Orbital builds rockets based on decommissioned ICBM motors, built by private companies. SpaceX is selling to the same commercial and government customers as these other firms.

The main difference between them and SpaceX is that SpaceX offers it products & services at fixed price contracts rather than the cost plus contracts used by the competition. That and SpaceX is developing the rocket with its own money rather than on contract.

Cost plus contracts guarantee a fixed profit above whatever cost the contractor incurs building and flying the rocket. SpaceX profit is not guaranteed, but if they do their job well their profit margins could be greater than their competitors margins -- or worse if things go badly. It's that risk/reward balance.
I have lived in SV, and I currently live in Austin. The $1M for a house is not completely out of line, It does depend on how far you're willing to drive and if public school quality is a factor.

I think is $200k for Austin is a little low. It is possible to buy a home in Austin for $200k. Like all things housing, location is very important as is public school quality. If you don't care about the quality of the schools and don't mind a commute, then it is possible.
No need to laugh. But you should seriously adjust your expectations.

For a US firm, $1k will get you a website with around a dozen pages. Probably from a template. Maybe with a contact form or email signup.

If you outsource, $1k will get you the above with maybe a single database interaction. E.g., you could probably expect to make a to-do list, with user login and password updating. Maybe it would even email out the tasks when they're due. But not much more than that.

Figure it this way -- a kick ass US programmer will charge about $1k for a day's work. You can't get much built in a day.

And for outsourcing, I can only speak to my experience, but they tend to take 4-5x longer (per hour basis) than I do. So the hourly is much cheaper, but the quality and efficiency are much worse (note: that's an obvious generalization... but the parent comment is exactly the type that will tend to get screwed on outsourcing due to lack of domain expertise.)
I wonder if this vulnerability is in some way related to the Gigya.com domain takeover by the SEA happened in November.
They're not mutually contradictory; perhaps feeling strong emotions, in general, gets people more creative?
are you a member of a swiss business angel network ? any preferred way to contact you ?
You can give my web tracker Scriptracker a try at http://scriptracker.cheerful.nl
Bisqwit is an absolutely amazing coder and he explains what he does so well. Most of his videos are a delight to watch.
Diaspora has solved this fairly well ... I can't see anyones posts unless I am friends with them, and only then if they post in a certain "Aspect".

Makes it easy to separate work from friends and from family.
Half of the progress was UI improvements that made it more natural, half of it was just making it fast enough. I'm starting to come to the conclusion that a lot of what we mistake for UI confusion in general is really just UI slowness. Very complicated things can become intuitive when you have instant feedback.
Well, considering that red teams are routinely able to smuggle weapons and simulated explosive devices on aircraft fairly routinely, the current procedures are shit. Security theater at its finest.

And you can't detain someone without reasonable suspicion which gives you the authority to investigate whether a crime has occurred. This detention can't be indefinite, and can't even come close to lasting 24 hours. Once your investigation exceeds around 30 minutes, you have to either arrest the person (assuming probable cause) or release them.
Hi Lukas.

Thanks for making this.

I will ask the obvious question: how is this different from the sensitivity analysis provided in the built in data table functionality?

I'll say a little more: I've seen people typically take a datatable and run it over a range of variables and then make some tornado plots.

I just googled around and there is a lot of noise but this one seems to have a clear explanation of what I mean:

https://www.f1f9.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/F1F9_Tornado...
Fastest way is to check whether it exists in the nightly zone file, and then a DNS lookup, and whois query.
Funny how most of those controversial opinions would be pretty much non controversial on HN.
Just to be fair his point is valid on the browser (though I agree with you that everything else he said is utterly false). But I'd defend Google on even that. The browser is the core of ChromeOS so I don't think they can allow it to be replaced. But what they can do is make Chrome the most standards compliant browser out there and that's exactly what they've been doing.

So while you are locked into the Chrome browser in ChromeOS you could easily go back to Windows and Mozilla and take anything you created there with you

(not to mention the Chrome browser is built on an open source browser engine)
I read a much longer article about this, and I wish I knew where it was, but the oversupply problem is far more pronounced in the humanities, where the average time to graduate is peaking towards 10 years, yet all the PhD confers is the ability to teach, where we know there are few jobs. I think that such a system is, in essence, exploitative.

The problem is far less in Computer Science, where your skills transfer over to The Real World relatively easily, and companies like Microsoft and Google value them. This means the potential job pool is much bigger.

As a CS PhD student, of course I feel underpaid. Universities have reached a point where they can convince students that what they are doing is being paid for being taught, which must be a great deal, right? However, everyone else calls this "on the job training" or "starting at the bottom of the ladder" and they get paid better for it. However, I think about the benefits I get (work when/where I like, use whatever language I like, nap when I like, release all my work as open-source, never feel like I'm waking up to "work", don't have to worry about mundane but potentially catastrophic life things like health insurance), and it does even out somewhat.
I'll give you a selfish (and self-promotional) example.

I just posted a review on HN of a really great startup book, Do More Faster: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019914

Now if 5 or 6 of you guys upvote it in the "golden hour" -- the initial hour after entry -- it hits the front page and 20x more people see it, creating a small bit of a cascade reaction. Depending on how many votes it gets in the first hour, there is a somewhat exponential relationship to the eventual total number of votes.

Small groups of people can have large impacts. Knowing this, I sent an email to a few of my friends telling them about my post after I wrote it.

I know to do this because I've been on HN for a while. A voting ring is one thing (and bad), but simply knowing how to work the site is something else. That's the difference between cheating and just making the right moves at the right time. There are a few folks that like my writing, and pointing out to them that I posted something is in both of our best interests. So I think I'm okay doing this.

All sites are like this -- small numbers control larger numbers. There's a lot of theory, and I've read a lot of articles that almost describe what we're talking about, but my experiences with HN was I just had to spend time here and get to know folks.

I can't believe that there aren't shortcuts, but from where I'm sitting not many people are sharing them. And if you think about it, that's probably a good thing. If there were a magic formula, everybody would use it and it would stop working. Then there would be some new magic formula.

No easy answers, but I sure would like some more help on how the things I've learned at HN apply to other places like kickstarter.
Kind of sobering to realize that in 1996 I was building duplo doll houses with my daughter while Larry and Sergey and were building a duplo server housing that grew into a $190 billion company.

I had always heard that the Google logo's color scheme was derived from the duplo colors. Seems to be the case.
Copy and paste (with slight modifications) is unavoidable in certain situations with lots of boilerplate overhead.
A shot in the dark will sometimes hit something. This doesn't make shooting in the dark a viable strategy.
Also significantly more than 4 years later than the MS students, since a lot of people in Stanford CS do the 5 year BS/MS co-term.
I write Go at work I thought I would use it for a recent side project to avoid stumbling around another language, but I just couldn’t do it. Testing err != nil branches is excruciating. I have no will to do it except for money, and low test coverage makes me feel too dirty to be happy with my work if I skip it.
I think this is a fantasy (that many of us have).

"I run this magical tool, and voila! a satellite view of the code!

It clearly shows this river runs into this bay, and there's a dam over there!
Now I'm miles ahead of everyone!

Lookie, this river runs in circles..."

Ha.

What really happens is you run some tool and what comes out looks and smells like hair you pulled out of your clogged drain.

I've tried this. Anything graphing shows ... well...

It will look like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Social_N...

I think the thing is - the code that gets thing done will confound automated visualization tools.

It's basically like expecting decompiler output to be super helpful. It may help your understanding a little bit, but much will be lost. Yes there are heroic decompiler stories, but time is involved.

Also, most code has macros or helper functions or automatic code generation or something that obfuscates what you're really looking for. You will have to develop a system to unblock this organically.

What will help:

Peruse the source code. Try to follow the flow. if you have tools to jump back and forth between a function call and definition use it.

fix some bugs. Follow the stack traces up and down.

ask people how stuff works. put in the time. and the other stuff mentioned in this article. The osmosis method is really how you'll get it.
> A std::string in C++ makes mincemeat

Using bit-shift operators for input/output is a heinous crime against human dignity, basic decency and social order. Every use of it should be punished with 10 lashings, and the promoters of this atrocity should be tarred and feathered.
It’s a great language to use instead of Java...especially for things that have to run on the JVM, or Android.
> "The trouble with the NYT piece is not that it makes any false statements, but just that it constantly insinuates nefarious beliefs and motives, via strategic word choices and omission of relevant facts that change the emotional coloration of the facts that it does present."

Seems like projection to me (but I'm not the shrink).

I read the article, I'm unfamiliar with SSC outside this affair. Alexander sounds like a thoughtful, friendly, guy with some interesting and quirky beliefs. Some of which I think are pretty great, others I disagree with.

That's a pretty normal newspaper article. This is not a PR piece, which seems to be a continuous point of confusion for SV.
https://github.com/ifreund/river

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=124wdTckHNY
So Kotlin is useless without Java then, unable to stand on its own.
Unnecessarily and forcefully removing Trump from office prior to Biden's inauguration will only decrease the ability of the US government to function. After a few hours and only a feeble attempt to control the situation? It could be the final whimper of disgruntled Trump supporters who go home the next day. Now if we get to day three of this crap with no signs of it letting up, the National Guard unable to control the situation, and Trump actively supporting them, definitely throw him out.
"Would you hire a convicted pedophile to work at a day care center?"

No, but I would consider contracting them to give advice on a child protection policy for a day care.
The 17" Dell XPS were just as good in terms of design as Apple, just with different goals. They are also fairly easy to maintain. I saved money by buying the "multimedia" model Inspiron with the same chassis. (And yes, I've replaced the keyboard and screen on my Dell. Straightforward and quick operations. I also own a Macbook, and let me tell you, the take apart is a lot more complicated.)

You will get good value, solid build, and maintainability at the expense of aesthetics and portability.

EDIT: FWIW, Dell have had a history of using standard parts, so Linux compatibility has been very high as well.
1. I understand sleep is important, but how in the world do you guys get 9-10 hours of sleep?

Between a full time job (8-10 hrs, salary so when a client needs help, off I go!) and trying to hack the latest and greatest of my ideas in my spare time, family, friends, chores, and relaxing for a moment at the end... I don't have 9 hours left before I have to be at work the next morning.

3. Am I missing something, can someone enlighten me about this eat like a bird? If anything I need to gain weight.

5. I live a block from the office :)
HTML5 apps are inferior due to lack of an iTunes-integrated payment system for them.
> I bought a Thinkpad not too long ago. Thinkpads have a good reputation, their new cheap(-ish) "SL" models are very affordable, and their website makes sense

I did, too! Only I didn't realize that the SL models are basically plain black ideapads. It is a good laptop, but it is not a thinkpad. :/
The design is inspired by the Japanese bento box. There's an interesting note on it here: http://lenovoblogs.com/designmatters/?p=72
Thankfully, I hardly ever see the Google homepage. I initiate all of my searches from Chrome/Chromium's address bar.
>> 5) don't commute more than 20mins each way

I walk to work. Free 1.5 hr of exercise every day and I don't have to spend money on transportation.
I completely agree as a bimodal sleeper myself. If I sleep over 7 hours in one session I feel terrible, much worse even than if I would have only gotten 5 hours of sleep that night. I usually sleep 5 hours a night and take 2 and half hour nap. You just have to figure out what works for you.
Julian Assange has some interesting things to say about Jared Cohen:

Later that year the two co-wrote a policy piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ journal Foreign Affairs, praising the reformative potential of Silicon Valley technologies as an instrument of US foreign policy. Describing what they called “coalitions of the connected,” Schmidt and Cohen claimed that

Democratic states that have built coalitions of their militaries have the capacity to do the same with their connection technologies. . . . They offer a new way to exercise the duty to protect citizens around the world.

In the same piece they argued that “this technology is overwhelmingly provided by the private sector.” Shortly afterwards, Tunisia. then Egypt, and then the rest of the Middle East, erupted in revolution.

Of course, you have to take Assange's word with a pinch of salt, but he does a good job of explaining how Cohen links the State Department to Google senior management. So much for "Don't be evil."

https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Yes, exactly, and that's why I was asking for recommendations and suggestions. I have been largely unable to find anything that gives a sensible overview of the technology and the various trade-offs.

Hence my question, although it seems like this is the wrong audience/forum.