jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's a great life! I just wish I'd been in a position to do it earlier. (I'm in my late 40s now.) I do a bit of IT, but nothing like before. Very basic. It amounts to desktop support and basic networking. I do other stuff too. I sold solar power systems for a while, for example. We have a solar power system and a Tesla Powerwall 2. That has almost totally eliminated the electricity bill. We produce a lot of our own food and we have no debt, so we don't need much money to survive.

People I know who are still in California tell me I wouldn't believe how bad things have gotten there. But the thing is, it was already "that" bad to me back in the early 2000s. I feel very lucky to have gotten out of there.
Thank you, that's a very cogent reply to my rather flippant remark. Now I understand the reasoning behind not standardizing on WebSQL.
This is a really fun library, it'd be great for a blog or personal website. A business site? maybe not so much...
If it's impossible to live in New York and retain racist beliefs, why are so many cops and taxi drivers in New York biased against black people?
Would that really make a difference? Interesting idea.
I must echo this sentiment and also mention a few non-books that were instrumental for me.

For my new job (first out of college) I have read ~5 javascript books cover to cover and flipped through a few more.

Crockford's book was by far the most enlightening and made the most immediate impact on my understanding and methods of coding.

Second, for me, was John Resig's blog (http://ejohn.org/blog)

And third I suppose might be looking through the way people have written things on github:

https://github.com/nzakas

https://github.com/jquery/jquery
How about flagging it?
It sounds like you have a great idea for a startup to bring some competition to this area.
From Wikipedia:

'...both the pagan historian Ammianus Marcellinus and the Christian historian Orosius wrote that the Bibliotheca Alexandrina had been destroyed by Caesar's fire. The anonymous author of the Alexandrian Wars writes that the fires Caesar's soldiers had set to burn the Egyptian navy in the port of Alexandria went as far as burning a store full of papyri located near the port. However, the geographical study of the location of the historical Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the neighborhood of Bruchion suggests that this store cannot have been the Great Library. It is most probable here that these historians confused the two Greek words bibliothekas, which means “set of books”, with bibliotheka, which means library. As a result, they thought that what had been recorded earlier concerning the burning of some books stored near the port constituted the burning of the famous Alexandrian Library.'
I’m a huge user of delicious, with 2906 bookmarks and 3100 tags. In fact, if I were to pick one Web 2.0 site, it would be this simple straightforward one. I use to organize new lines of research (into an intellectual matter or something as inane as a hotel) and to keep track of anything I find interesting or useful on the web, particularly those things which took more than a few minutes of googling to discover. It's a huge supplement to my memory.

Really sad to see it go.... If yahoo had asked me to pay I'd happily have done so (I pay for Flickr, Spotify, Last.fm, RTM and many other oft-used services happily)
To me, this story was interesting to HN not because Google was commenting, but because Vint Cerf was. When he writes about Internet governance, I listen. The UN forms committees and working groups all the time; I'm not going to sign a petition to one of them unless someone I trust on the matter feels so strongly about it.
Problem with that comparison (seeing Virgin Mary in toast = seeing brain in painting) is only that Michelangelo’s paintings are most definitely a product of intelligent design – no surprise there.

If those who see Virgin Mary in a toast would claim that the toaster manufacturer made the toaster so that Virgin Mary would be burnt into toasts I would have no problem with that. That would be a testable hypothesis. It’s just that they don’t. They claim a miracle happened and no amount of evidence could convince them that isn’t the case.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/
It has never occurred to me to take a screenshot of anything on my Android phone...
Works pretty well in PuTTY, but you lose your local mouse support since clicks/drags are now passed straight to the server rather than selecting/copying/pasting text from PuTTY to the Windows clipboard. It's a tradeoff between easier text manipulation in vim, vs easier text transfer between the PuTTY window and other local windows (and vice versa).

However, PuTTY only switches on XTerm mouse reporting when an app needs it, so it should be easy enough to bind ":set mouse=a"/":set mouse-=a" to a hot key, and toggle mouse support on and off depending on the required operation.
Right now, most carriers are offering 5GB for $30 and AT&T just made it 2GB for $25. That said, I can't see that pricing sticking around for long. […] Usage fees aren't bad when they're modest. Most of us pay for heat and electricity that way.

2GB for $25 is pretty modest for current wireless devices; most users (including tech industry journalists[1]) don't hit it at all. Therefore, for an average month of usage, 2GB for $25 is cheaper than 5GB or unlimited for $30, simply because it's not pro-rated if you use less.

The only real problem is selling it to the non-nerd set.

[1]: http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/06/iphone-data-usag...
The menus are only drawn in gvim. It doesn't draw them in the terminal like Emacs. The colorscheme command is ":colorscheme <scheme>" or ":colors <scheme>". It tab-completes to the scheme names that it has accessible to it, so you don't really need the menu. This is useful even in the terminal due to 256-color support (":set t_Co=256" if it doesn't auto-detect this for you). There are also a couple of plugins that will auto-convert gvim-only (aka fullcolor) colorschemes into 256-color schemes when you are in a 256-color terminal.
Agreed. This is very true of many wannabe SVs. I worke in the Bay Area (Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Redwood City) for 10 years. I then moved to Europe following a trail of jobs (London, Lyon, Paris) and I now live and work still in software in Portland Oregon. There is nothing like the Silicon Valley. Every city or metro area who tries to mimic its unique ecosystem is better off charting its own trail with a different approach I think. There is only room for one Silicon Valley but other metros can create a unique distinctive environment for very focused types of industries (Open source in Portland for instance - Linus T. even chose to live here ;-) Also, not every senior software person wants to deal with the Bay Area's urban and suburban environment ; and the lack of diversity (non-tech industries) it certainly features.
Nice bait - you pull me out of lurker mode to respond. I remember most jobs I have had that were paid - including that one kelly temp services job I had that I drove 1.5 hours out into the middle of no where to stand on the start of a one way bridge with a stop sign on a pole and wear a hard hat in the hot sun to 'help' direct truck traffic to a quarry. I was only there 4 hours, but still remember why I was so determined to complete an education.
Thank you!

Context here - before we started working on the current software, we planned to do a opaque marketplace for post-production video work. To vet the idea, we reached out to companies with webinars and manually edited their videos.

In the process, one finding was that its hard to make styled word-by-word highlighted captions. This resulted in a small utility app that turned SRT and VTT caption files into a dynamically sized/styled caption videos, and later evolved into todays product.
> There's literally no context where attributing qualities to people based on their skin color is OK.

Strongly disagree. Talking about likelihood of having sickle cell anemia without talking about race would be absurd.

This probably sounds pedantic, but my point is that we should stop all of these emotionally charged over reactions, on both sides. Saying "attributing any characteristic based on skin color is racist" is almost as absurd as what you're arguing against. There has to be room for nuance.
There's no point trying to look "younger" than you actually are. They will know, no matter what.
> "There is an alternative approach. Facebook is more than willing to partner with news publishers."

That isn't an "alternative" approach. That's what Facebook has always been asked to do. That's what the media bargaining code enforces. It's the point of it.

> "The internet needs new rules that work for everyone, not just for big media corporations."

You mean big media corporations like Facebook? You can take Nick Clegg out of politics but you plainly can't take the politics out of Nick Clegg.
I have the opposite experience. I have pretty long hair for a guy, and it's extremely wavy and full, and it attracts women all the time when I'm out. They love to braid it, and style it.
But it rapidly became the haircut of the working class, especially factory workers. It's really nice to have very short hair in dirty, greasy environments.
“The F-35 has failed” is a strong statement that depends on what your definition of success is. Did it fail because it couldn’t replace the F-16? Did it fail because it’s expensive and bloated?

Do those things even matter?

I’m not defending the F-35 but anyone deeply and intimately familiar with the platform knows and understands that it is a Ferrari. You don’t bring your Acura TSX to a Formula 1 race track to win a race. Just like you don’t bring your Ferrari to the farm to haul material (not anymore anyways).

The F-35 may be a Ferrari; but the thing about Ferraris is that their technology trickles down. Now we have electric cars with carbon fiber shells. The same is true for the F-35. The technology inside it has and will lead to the resurrection and long standing use of older planes like the B1 and U2. Where the airframe is solid but the tech and stealth is not. It will also lead to revolutionary new planes which are cheaper to make and build.

Through the F35s use of distributed computing and treating hardware components and their software as services, we’re not going to be doomed to the same fate as the F16 where we can’t find hardware. Instead, we’ll have more component oriented aircraft systems where each aircraft is no bespoke and can use from a menu of technologies.

So did the F35 fail because we spent too much? Depends on how much it saves us later.

Did it fail because it didn’t replace the F16? What if it makes the F16 viable again? Did it still fail?

Some may see this as a slippery slope. What matters is the objective outcome that comes from this project. Not the success criteria some folks have perpetuated or thrust upon the project.
> I think you misunderstand the nature of authority by thinking that they would recognize this as an exception.

This is not the exception, this is the rule.

> and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.

Prisoners are constitutionally required to have "reasonable" access to counsel. I'm sure there's heaps of case law on what exactly is "reasonable", and there's always a risk that the guards won't allow it. If they don't, and you can prove it, you have a very good constitutional case. Kansas had to release like 70 inmates because it was discovered guards were recording inmate phone calls with counsel and releasing the tapes to prosecutors.
I think the reason is quite simple (it was for me): The alternatives are to let your hair grow wild, go to the barber and risk getting COVID, or have someone in your family trim it with the risk of looking terrible.
Given that it’s parsing from a textarea, can TeXMe be used as an editor? I think some contenteditable editors have the rendering from markdown as well.
> Looks just like PDF.

It's better than PDF. Text in PDF is not reflowable. This demo is by virtue of being HTML under the hood. Looks good even after resizing the browser.

I wish PDFs had a reflowable mode. What would it take to add such a mode to the PDF spec without breaking backward compatibility?

PDF's fixed layout is a real problem when we try to convert PDF books containing math to EPUB or MOBI with Calibre. It really messes up the beautifully typeset math in the PDF during the conversion. What's a good solution for this?
If you'd watched the demonstration video, by 0:34 in you'd have seen that Inoreader is indeed Web-based. I've never used any phone app for it.
Disgusting abuse of power manages to catch a criminal. Is that our only metric for success now? Putting people in prison? Might as well shred the constitution, apparently we're ready to burn everything it stood for to prevent people from getting high.

I know I sound dramatic but it is honestly impossible to overstate how damaging to privacy rights and how much horrific police militarization can be directly and indirectly laid at the feet of the war on drugs.
What kind of economic critique do you have about Bloomberg?
The stream is unlisted on YT - so if you don't feel like volunteering a (fake) email address to watch a commercial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcROXiN_cdE
Doesn't rust solve this by including abi versions in the mangle?
dont no why the world (EURO) does not see that US is a big bully to other nations.
What? When Linux was first released, the FSF had already written and released a ton of free software under the GPL, including Emacs (first release 1985), gcc (first release 1987), free versions of the unix command line utilities, etc.
A really beautiful explanation! Here I was going to suggest you to try ayahuasca (since you came up with that from LSD, aya makes it so much more obvious and intense) but then I looked at your username and realized "ah he gets it".

Always nice to find other people with the same views regarding these substances and how they act on us! Specially since I never thought I'd find such interests on HN.
Because the sweatshops destroyed their agrarian culture, by selling a lie about economic opportunity.
Exactly the same reason professionals in auto racing use filtered/pure nitrogen to fill tires, instead of traditional compressed atmospheric air.
I agree with this. For instance there's already one for Racket, another Lisp (Scheme), see here: http://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/index.html
This is silly. You can programatically detect e.g. anomalous keyframes from traffic today. Anything you do to try and embed messages in any rich media format (audio, lossy images, video, &c) can be reversed and turned into a filter. The filters won't even need to be accurate; they'll baseline, wait for you to trip a threshold, and then send people to your door to collect your machine.

I'm particularly amused by the comment about using complicated images of ocean waves and trees, as if computers were just mechanical humans trying to make sense of the shapes in the picture.
Yeah I keep hearing this too, but it's not accurate now and probably hasn't for some time.
I run Gnome/Debian on a Toshiba Laptop Satellite 1600 with 384 Mb of SDRam with Gnome running and Chromium WebBrowser v10, HTop shows 267/384 Mb being used. This is with Gnome/Metacity. With Gnome/Openbox it's even less.
I'm be interested in a KC meetup.
That's exactly right. And that was ultimately my point. The industry advanced past this person. I think the vitriol he displayed was because he--at least subconsciously--knew it would, rendering his then-current skill-set largely obsolete.

But that's the nature of our job. We have to constantly be learning new things. If we don't, we end up wasting time screaming at newbies in their sputtering jalopies for "doing things wrong" as they pass us by.
One thing you could do would be to have the purchaser choose from three options (e.g., a bouquet of flowers, a chocolate box + teddy bear, or a wine glass set). While this would make logistics more complex, the end result would be more tailored gifts -- for example, many people are allergic to flowers. If they get a bouquet, they'll question why it was purchased.

And if you solicit feedback after the gift is received, you can start doing some sorts of recommendations. If this user's significant other really liked the wine glasses, maybe next time you have one of the options be a picnic accessories set. If not, you offer more chocolate.

Also, letting the purchaser choose the gift means it's not a surprise to the purchaser when it shows up. This eliminates possible awkwardness where the purchaser doesn't know about the gift.
There is also a Finnish indie movie based on (or inspired by) it, called Vyöhyke (the zone) [1]. Nowhere near as good as Stalker, but it was published on Youtube [2], so it's easy&free to watch if you have the time to spare.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2627842/

[2] http://youtube.com/watch?v=EwkIaJX3hmg
The big lesson from demos is that procedures are the ultimate form of data compression. Minutes of video in 64kb often seems to be off people's radar these days, somewhat unfortunately, because some problems are amenable to the approach.
> US President Obama was not elected, either. He was appointed by majority vote of the Electoral College.

Except in the U.S., electors are required to vote for the candidate that won the majority of the popular vote in their state. They're honorary officials and rarely have any autonomy, though that is governed by state laws, not national laws.

http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/e...
> The terms would be useful if people agreed on their meaning (they do not)

Most people agree on the meaning (read the JSL - it says Java is pass-by-value. Read Wikipedia too. Or really any other real reference that isn't some confused people in a forum.)

> If you wish to accurately speak about what will happen, then speak about it

That's what the article does. That's what the JSL does. People in these forums who still don't get it need something more. That's what I'm giving them.
Do we have any indication how big the attack is? If the attack volume isn't very big, this isn't news.
Some of the tech press is covering it.

Gizmodo, slashdot, the register.

WashPo also had a blog, as did a few other non-tech sites.

The reason they don't show as Github specifically is because it is reported as "Anti-censorship group is under DDOS"
Warren Buffett has said many times that being so large (and eg able to buy billion dolar companies) actually makes it more difficult for them to make money - because there aren't many companies large enough to make a difference, and everybody already knows about those companies.

He's also been quoted as saying that if he only had a million dollars, he could double it in a year. I haven't seen him explain this specifically, but the idea seems to be to research companies that are not well known, because that's where you're more likely to find stocks that whose price are mis-valued. And this is the work side: you have to research all those stocks (not just the top 300 or so that have analysts following them), and you have to be sure (within a margin of safety) of your evaluation of their value (especially in terms of enduring competitive advantage). If they're selling cheap, with respect to your evaluation, you buy. It takes a lot of work, and self-confidence.
Ya know what bugs me most about those card-swipes?

Two or three brands make nearly all of them in my area. And even within the brand, buttons / locations / workflow changes. WTF?
Commonly held but incorrect beliefs about programming don't exist because we're not all taught it at school from ages 5 to 18.
The answer may come from other places than neuropsychology. We as carriers of values live and evolve in an ecosystem where the values of those around us and how they fit with ours matters. Maybe we can derive some evolutionary stable strategies representing moral laws from a swarm of agents constantly playing Prisoner's dillema and games with other rewards against each other.
I'm hoping there will be some additional customisability of the search box, I want to use google.com.au, not google.com, and I'd really prefer not to install more Safari addons (had some issues with memory leaks in the past).
I live in MTV. I'll buy you a beer.

We should do a HN meetup (doesn't have to be startup-specific).
I keep hearing this, but I see no reason to justify paying exorbitant amounts of money for it. Why couldn't you get the same opportunities just by living on/near a university campus and actively meeting people? Universities are not matchmaking services; if they were, they wouldn't hire professors, just staff TAs to teach undergraduate classes from material composed by corporate research labs (where all the actual Ph.Ds would work).
That would be a good idea and keep you from implementing all device requests!
Thanks, should be fixed now. Seems like a caching issue on Atom's end (probably github-pages related).
The idea that parking fines are a source of significant revenue is pretty bogus. NYC for example collects around $500m in fines while spending about $200m for the NYPD division of traffic control and another $270m for the Department of Finance (which collects the fines) and while these costs are not entirely dedicated to the purpose of issuing tickets, it gives you a sense of the scale of net revenues from parking tickets (low hundreds of millions at most) compared to a city budget of over $75 billion.

Parking tickets exist because public property in urban areas is extremely valuable and the opportunity cost of letting some scofflaw waste the space is enormous.
The thing is, most people you meet on a daily basis are generally good people (well the ones I meet are). Its the that arseholes seem to aspire to have power and control over everyone else.
It depends on how far below market you will get, but you're right, for plenty of the offers out there 1% would be (way) low. But 0.05% is to be laughed at (politely, of course), no more than that and then simply counter with an offer that you'd be happy with.
I tend to share the general HN opinion here. But I do feel obligated to point out that this is probably just about the most hostile environment you could possibly announce this into. Our hatred of it doesn't mean there's no market here.

...

Stupid honesty.
> You have obviously never been to an actual city.

Your post would have been just fine without this.
I recently switched to Mac after two decades on Win simply because decent Win ultrabook costs 50% more than comparable MacBook Pro. In other words it's not only software problem that Microsoft is facing.
>Cows are pretty stupid

True, but they do make other cow friends and have social lives [1]. Now sheep.. they are stupid. And chickens, don't get me started.

[1] http://threegablesfarm.com/2013/02/natural-cattle-behaviour/

I've been vegetarian for over 20 years because of industrialization, but I have absolutely zero issues with small farm killing or hunting.
It's a new name for spam. Renaming things has limited potential to change how we think about them.
For business purposes, chopping up templates gets the job done. I personally have accepted the fact I do not have the "aesthetic eye" for design.

If I wanted to get that "eye" I guess I would look at successful websites, learn about design and what catches/pleases readers. How readers see websites in general and what is appealing, then just try things.

I cant recommend taking my advice but that's what I would do if I wanted to increase my design knowledge.
What would be the point? You may as well just target LLVM.
I'm a proud cargo culter.

Truth of the matter is you can't just stare at a man page or textbook all day and try to understand, then code. You'll code some mess you don't fully understand, sure, but later on you'll come back and either realize it was wrong and fix it, or you'll understand why it was right. But you will eventually understand.

The people trying to understand it will have gotten nowhere in the mean time.