jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Is a 20% tip the norm for cabs?

Not historically. It used to be 10% or 15%. But then they put a screen in the back of the cab whose software says, "How much would you like to tip? [20%] [25%] [30%]" and then in a less enticing spot, "[Other]".

The power of evil, manipulative UI design is being used to make riders think that 25% is the typical taxi tip, and in a short amount of time, they'll have managed to use this fake-it-till-ya-make-it strategy to turn that lie into the truth.
It's not that I want to understate the gravity of slavery, but to set the bar lower to what can be seen as slavery (which makes the common definition of slavery an even worse crime). You can get people to work without compensation in more deceitful ways than brute force.
I don't think it's the education that matters. It's as another commenter said, it's the ability to "visit the right clubs and (therefore) know the right people". Studying at Harvard isn't going to make you a millionaire. Being from a Harvard legacy family and already being a millionaire is going to make you a millionaire.

Your point about the value of owning land in the past was spot on. Several hundred years ago the primary occupation was subsistence farming, which requires a lot of fertile land. The most readily available source of energy was the photosynthetic energy from the sun stored in the trees of the forest, access to which also required lands. And the most healthful food sources were the animals who lived off of those lands. But today? We have a diversity of occupations, ample energy and plenty of food (in the developed western world at least). We have these things because of an increasingly complex web of progress and interdependence that's been enabled by technology. The resources that really matter in 2015 are human resources. The world is changing faster than any textbook can keep up with, faster than even the best teachers can understand and communicate to others. The only way to find and take advantage of the newest the rent seeking opportunities is to associate with the people who are creating them. Knowing a guy who knows a guy is the new nobility, and no amount of book learning can compete with being a member of the "in" crowd.

On the brighter side, society is exponentially more egalitarian than it was in the days of the landed aristocracy. If a man from Victorian England could observe the current level of social mobility (again, in the developed west) he would end up flat on his fainting couch. Unfortunately there is no way to prevent the wealthy from using their resources to give their kids a better life than everyone else has. Most people genuinely love their kids more than anything, who's to tell them that they can't spend money on what they hold most dear? The good news is that the long view paints a pretty picture. We're as far from aristocracy as we've ever been, and we're not going back any time soon.
The embedded video is not showing up for me. I believe this is the one though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clddb79LQcM
Reminds me of the movie "Her" about an invisible AI girlfriend. Worth watching!
Sad thing is that you no longer are the kind of elite talked in this article by just having a few millions. The real american elite has assets in the hundreds of millions or billions.
I'm living in Shanghai. Still connected fine over a IPSec tunnel. I run my own VPN server on Rackspace/AWS (only 2 public IPs), the connection is and has been relatively stable (about a year). 12MBit/s from Shanghai to the IPSec server in Hong Kong, 38ms consistent ping (100MBit/s connection). Using a Cisco SMB router, so the connection is pure IPSec and standard ports.
>Considering just how much Bitcoin the Winklevoss twins own, it is in their best interests to do right by Bitcoin holders and create a secure and accountable exchange.

The executives in pretty much every corporate scandal, ever, held vast numbers of company shares.
GP post was referring to retreats for 100% remote workers, which would be work with a f2f element rather than merely socializing during your free time.

These could happen during the week or (depending on the retreat) the weekend, with weekends probably being given comp time in lieu.

If you think that a modicum of face time throughout the year for a remote team has no value to a group or team, I’ve got news for you.

If you think GP was referring to additional face time in addition to face time at a workplace, then I think you may be projecting and selective quoting a bit. Note that employees at this small company can work when and where they want.
What are you referring to as "SQL"? As far as I know, ISO-standard SQL doesn't have variables outside of its procedural language. I'm also not aware of any SQL-wide naming conventions. But I haven't read any of the standards, so I could be missing something.
I suppose the question is what is “raising them right” mean to you?

As a boy I was raised to be inquisitive, open, masculine, physical and explorative.

I was also raised to be gentle and tolerant of those around me.

Those are not traits that are welcome in most schools for maybe the past 20 years. So more and more boys are indeed given medications to “calm down” what are really natural traits of masculinity.
> "By city ordinance, virtually no housing is allowed anywhere near where I work."

Must be specific to your suburb. I can look out the window of my downtown Seattle office straight into the windows of the condo complex across the street. As for the suburbs, having passed by innumerable times, the north edge of Microsoft's main campus is directly across the street from apartments and rowhomes.
Author here, thanks for posting this. Hope you all have some fun with it :)
Author doesn't understand the unstated point of standups, even though he does allude to it when describing his thought process.

> I start thinking about my update to prove I should keep my job

In non-contract-work development, the entirety of Agile is micro or maybe "mini" management so that less performant people are managed into average performance. (The downside is that high performance people are dragged down to average. This is acceptable because it's infinitely easier to hire average and below average people who don't live and breathe the product.) The standup specifically puts very public, social pressure, on people who would otherwise be happy to be the slack that others have to constantly take up.

As such, it serves a critical function and is not a waste of time at all. The author just isn't seeing the forest for the trees.
I'm easy enough to find elsewhere if you want to continue the debate. However:

Bad behavior tends to scale with size. I've run small community forums (I run one now), and beyond spammers, there hasn't been a moderation problem - it's just too small for people to bother making a nuisance of themselves, and they wouldn't be invited to stick around long anyway.

I would rather see a return to smaller, fragmented communities on the internet than the single centralized platforms we've settled on. They just work better. This would, sadly, require anti-monopoly agencies to do something other than sit around with their "Yes, sure, go ahead and buy that company out, whatever..." stamp.

As for some of the other stuff you're asking about, I'm not familiar enough with the details of the events to be able to offer an informed opinion - sorry.

I would like to think that the internet can self moderate in such a way that the governments are not forced to moderate things, and cannot do so even if they wish to do it, but... that seems a less likely future as time goes on.
I think most people still see Hackernews as a website for people in the software industry, where IC is common knowledge. Plus comments aren't written to educate or sell a subscription, rather they're to ask a question, continue a discussion, or contest some point, so it's natural for the writing style to lean towards the informal and be less patronizing. And of course the search you show is a great example of why this isn't too big a problem - since HN is a discussion board, if someone is confused and they can't find the answer on Google, they can just ask for clarification in the comments, often getting a reply from the person who made the original comment that confused them. With a newspaper you can't really do that - even in comment sections authors rarely answer questions, and other readers don't tend to engage with the comments unless they have reasons of their own.
Possible it's just the easiest model for establishment investors to understand.

Doesn't necessarily imply anything about future bitcoin business models, or even current ones that still fly beneath the mainstream investor radars.
hugged to death already
I was handed a Linux laptop and wasn’t put into sudoers or group wheel.

I had to point out that I already had root on all of production and this made no sense. They eventually fixed it.

Nobody else had this happen to them when they got a Linux laptop. Curious.
I think this is only half the story.

What you are missing in your detail is that ecuador actually got itself into a very serious currency bind precovid, and it seems to be staying that way.

So this would validate parent comment and actually negate your assertion that parent was incorrect.

That being said, this is half the story. And its the other part that matters. This is the first time ecuador gets in trouble post USD adoption. Where it goes from here will directly prove or disprove the very thesis, that parent comment assumed was a foregone conclusion.

Thus , your refutation may be correct after all, except for what i believe are different reasons.
On your subject of an online questionnaire for synesthesia, I'm almost certain there was a post on HN related to this, but I don't find it in my bookmark library. But I think I found the same article with a Google search. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... is a paper describing an online survey of colors versus letters, the url for the survey is in the paper, is still registered, but doesn't seem to be responding to me at the moment. Over 6500 people had taken the survey at that time. A strange correlation appeared when they looked at the data. They accidentally tracked down that that a Fisher Price toy with colored letters matched the correlation. And people who took the survey but were not the age where they would have been exposed to this toy did not show the correlation. You can find lots of related posts with a Google search for Fisher Price synesthesia or perhaps other plausible key words. If you could use similar methods and look for correlations between notes and colors then there might be some toy that young children experienced for many many hours that might explain some of this.
1M people viewed this cartoon ... This is scary.

The guys who did this clearly don't understand macro-economics. And yet many people will be convinced that QE2 "is bad" because "deflation is good, I can buy more stuff for less money" or "Bernanke didn't see the subprime crisis coming, therefor is incompetent".

QE2 might not be the right thing to do. But this movie doesn't educate people or make them understand why QE2 might be a bad idea (hyper-inflation is the main risk). It just make people angry and suspicious, while keeping them ignorant.
Indeed, the whole description was very unnerving. It appears the fellow was having a stroke and nobody was inclined to do anything about it. Scary.
Beautiful machine - like the Mac Cube. I wonder if the experience with NeXT, though, helped shape Jobs' ideas about pricing, interoperability, and backwards compatibility when he returned to Apple.
You can roll your own with Qt's Webkit module; load the page programmatically and then render the frame into a QImage and save that as a png/jpg etc.

You can use the Python bindings and hack something together in under 50 lines of code. Hook it up to a message queue or some kind of cron job and you're good to go.
I started using this app myself at about the time I started using Twitter, and it has helped me to understand Twitter a lot better. It's quite interesting how different types of tweets spread. E.g. this tweet

http://twitter.com/paulg/status/27959363780

got a large number of retweets but had a comparatively small total reach because it was retweeted mostly by hackers, who didn't have many followers. Whereas the retweets of this one

http://twitter.com/paulg/status/25998745559

generated a much larger total reach, presumably because it was about Twitter itself, and thus was retweeted by some community insiders who had lots of followers.

Maybe my experience is unusual because I happened to start using both at the same time, but I couldn't imagine using Twitter without Crowdbooster.
Congratulations Crowdbooster team!

These guys are awesome, they helped a lot of companies out already with their social media optimization.
Are you sure about that? http://www.google.com/#q=%22Expectations+are+high+that+this+...
Hmm, I had a different experience during my 3 years at MS. On my team, people definitely got fired. Having worked at companies where getting fired is unheard of, I really appreciated that the deadwood got shown the door.

Although I must admit my experience at MS really does not match up with a lot of what I'm reading in this thread. I suspect my team was quite an outlier.
Congrats to the Luma team - very useful stabilization that I've demo'd to others.
I didn't think that Xcode had an API that would allow this. To my knowledge the only thing the API allows is adding differ end ways to build things. For example, adding fortran support natively. I could be wrong though.

I agree this is the way that the code autocompletion should be though.
Yeah definitely be open about it, don't hide anything, and prove that it will never happen again
This reminds me of the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, a five level scale where you go from novice to expert.

The expert is completely engulfed in the knowledge she has acquired and has become one with it. She sees and thinks everything colored by her expertise.
And the one man goes right back to needing someone to pay for his lawnmowing.
God forbid that other kids on the winning team (who may not score often) get a chance to score.
They you'd suck at soccer but be good at game theory. Maybe that was their plan all along :-)
If you're in a youth soccer league and you spend your time trying to think of ways to game the rules to win... you would be far better off studying for your LSATs than playing soccer.
I would suggest Reagent as a good example of simple API on to p of React
Weiss is a strong advocate of value-based pricing. Instead of pricing yourself on some per-hour basis, you quote prices based on the value you provide. I think this makes a lot of sense, but Weiss is basing these ideas from management consulting, legal consulting, and other similar types of professional services.

I couldn't comment on the tech market, but many companies may be unwilling to commit to this type of pricing out of irrational discomfort. I think Patio11 has advocated for longer period pricing (weekly, monthly) which might be a good medium between hourly billing and value-based. You're going to get better prices for yourself and your clients will be more comfortable with more familiar pricing.

Personally, I wouldn't attempt to freelance without already establishing a real network outside of work farms like Elance / oDesk. You can still work on side projects and present at conferences while working another full-time job. You can build your presence and authority and if you do a good job, you'll get the type of industry recognition you need to get inbound requests, before you even start advertising your services.
You realize this is satire, I hope.
More online editors...

Check out Brackets (http://brackets.io/) and Eclipse Orion (http://eclipse.org/orion/) who both have been trying to build fully open editing experiences. There are more out there but those come to mind.

Would be nice if more people started working together on these things...
As I understand it, GitHub make the majority of their money from their on-premises 'Enterprise' product, which is sold with a 'contact us to discuss' price tag. Also they raised a huge sum of money while already being profitable. I wouldn't worry about them vanishing.
that's an interesting question! The thing is that there is so much "plumbing" to do that a lot of the value is in the backend. Since it cannot be used by many many projects (we won't build thousands of email clients)the market for this open source model seems too small. My 2 cents.
Newspapers From Around the World
http://www.covertimes.com
This is a website where you can see front pages of newspapers worldwide (+500) and, consult the news of the media in real time.
Feelspace belt
http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/category/400/Motors/2.html
These people should not have any trouble sending to Canada. I would like to build one of those belts too. I don't know the Arduino system though. I am interested in your project. Please contact me. Dingerma@juno.com
Got an offer (
Did not get an offer :(
Converting virtual drive VMDK or VDI in ISO image
http://www.previsioni.com.br/jailsonjan/?p=389
The problem: Transforming the drive of the virtual machine in the format “VMDK” in an “ISO” functional, to be replicated to other servers, ie, generate an iso “bootable” and installable. Remember that file “VMDK” is the “drive” of the virtual machine, you find it in the “hidden” from the VirtualBox and has the name “harddisks”...
Mondrian Generator with Processing.js
http://www.mondrianautomaton.com
I made a fun in-browser screensaver that generates Mondrian-esque works using exclusively client-side JavaScript built around Processing.js called Mondrian Automaton.
QuestLoop-Training Evaluation
http://questloop.com/feedback/index.php
QuestLoop is a new multi-platform surveying tool, designed to enable you to quickly and easily build a survey from a variety of quality templates, or to create your own unique surveys. Surveys are created using an easy to use drag and drop creator and can be easily shared with your audience.
Please,help DDOS site distributes separatism and terrorism
http://anti-maidan.com
Please,help DDOS http://anti-maidan.com This site distributes separatism and terrorism in Ukraine
National People's Congress of China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Peoples_Congress
The "Two Meetings" between the National People's Congress (something like a lower House) and the People's Political Consultative Conference (something a little like an upper House) are going on at the moment. I find the details of China's legislative body, and its evolution over time, pretty interesting.

Edit: I copied and pasted, but somehow the apostrophe disappeared http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People's_Congress
Tether for BlackBerry Changes the Name of The Game
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/01/tether-for-blackberry-changes-the-name-of-the-game/
The smartphone market is not what it used to be. Manufacturers and mobile software companies are facing a lot more competition then they used to.
Show HN: Loophook: Simpler Background Jobs
https://www.loophook.xyz
Hello HN! I have been a software engineer for a little while. Recently, when building software I've been really annoyed with scheduling cron style background jobs especially in a node environment. So, I built this little side project in the past few days and would love some thoughts and some feedback.

Loophook runs hooks which can be scheduled using a cron string or a simple timestamp.
Github is down
http://github.com/
It seems that Github is Down.
Mendeley group on Geoengineering IT
http://www.mendeley.com/groups/3210371/geoengineering-information-technology-geoengineering-it/members/
Mendeley group for sharing information about IT issues related to geoengineering.
What should be core in Perl 5.16?
http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2011/03/what-should-be-core-in-perl-516.html#comments
I find it interesting that Perl still doesn't have IPv6 support.
Github index page
http://4.hidemyass.com/ip-2/encoded/czovL2dpdGh1Yi5jb20v&f=norefer
So, here is how github main page look like without login. Looks weird, huh?
2011, My wishlist about Google Products
http://www.douban.com/note/126877860/
1) Google Apps for Business 服务能够集成 Google Buzz, 除了 Wave，我们的确需要一个协作工具，哪怕是消息通知也好；

2) Google Talk 升级一下功能，增加个 Group Chat 功能吧。尽管我个人很讨厌“群”这个功能；

3) Google Reader 能开放 API ，允许网志作者提取读者发布在 Google Reader 内的评论；

4) Google Code 修改一下页面 Title 页面风格；

5) Code Review 工具正式进入 Google Apps ；

6) Google Adsense 收入能够直接通过 Paypal 、Alipay 支付给用户；

7) 改进一下 Google Task 吧，这个产品真的很重要。

8) 期待这个列表能被Googler 看到，并且真的能就某个建议做出改进。

大家还有什么期望？不要太大，小处能改进就是最好的了。
Happy Birthday Alan Turing
http://www.sdtimes.com/blog/post/2009/06/23/Happy-Birthday-Alan-Turing.aspx
Everyone's favorite founding father of computing would have turned 97 today.
NASA and L. Ron Hubbard's Portal to Hell
http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/10/29/hunting-the-hell-portal-where-the-founder-of-nasa-s-jpl-divined-cosmic-rockets-with-l-ron
Hunting the Hell Portal Where the Founder of NASA's JPL Divined Cosmic Rockets With L. Ron
Carbonless forms, carbonless forms printing - PrintingFairy
http://www.printingfairy.com/carbonless-forms-printing
PrintingFairy offers carbonless forms printing. Cheap carbonless forms online. High quality carbonless paper at cheap price with guaranteed quality. Carbonless forms can be a great relief for the businesses. Carbonless forms can be a great relief for the businesses and organizations that provide some alternative method of photocopying, which is inexpensive, reliable and quicker as well. Carbonless forms are indeed among the hot favorite choices of any organization. PrintingFairy fully understands the requirement of the industries and businesses and has introduced the best quality and captivating custom carbonless forms packages for individuals as well as business customers according to their requirements.
Show HN: Live map of most mentioned Ukrainian cities on Telegram in the past 24h
https://intelligram.live/map
This is part of a broader tool which allows to analyze discourse on Telegram channels related to the Russo-Ukrainian war.

The map is based on the messages of the past 24 hours, which usually amounts to around 8-10k messages. These come from a list of around 200 Telegram channels in English, Ukrainian and Russian.

Click on a city to see the actual content. Keep in mind there's a margin of error due to the ambiguity between names: I'm working on it at the moment to minimize these kind of errors.

Any feedback is appreciated!
Ask HN: What are your recommendations for password managements for startups?
First recommendation I'm looking for is a password manager for an individual. Preference towards Mac/iOS.

Second recommendation I'm looking for is a password manager for an organization. Is there anything out there that would allow you to extend your credentials to another team member?
Murmuration, Necessary and Sufficient Packages
I have added mention of these packages to my home page:

https://djalbat.com

None are new, but recently refreshed and I thought worth a mention.
Aplocalsearchengine  
http://www.365to365.com
365to365.com its an ap local search engine innovative adportal service having A to Z categories.A middle man bringing awareness to the products by uploading on our 365to365.com.
Any holiday hacks planned?
I'm going to get background project indexing out for Redcar, I think. Anyone else got fun stuff they're hoping to work on?
Another Django vs Express HTTP benchmark
https://github.com/fadliawan/django-express-bench
As I'm in the process of choosing a framework for my next project, I did a little HTTP benchmark of Django+MySQL vs Express+MongoDB. Any comments or input will be appreciated!
Windows security 101
http://alisnic.net/blog/?p=56
First and the most essential advice for keeping your Windows secure.
Evidence of Everything Exploding
http://www.secrettechnology.com/explode/evidence.html
Paranoid/conspiracy art game using documents from historical sources for platform design.