jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
America has pretty strict punishments. It locks up quite a lot of people and for long.

Another factor in murders is gun control - America has much bigger prevalence of guns. And most murders are in the moment escalation - impulsive acts, arguments that went out of hand and so on. When gun is present, people are more likely to pick them up and kill someone. If they are not present, the same thing does not end in death.
You can try using API Blueprint (https://apiblueprint.org) which is based on Markdown can host your API docs at http://apiary.io

Disclaimer: I work at Apiary
e.g. http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/#reference/collections/coll...
where TMDB use apiary, and with quick examples with the different inputs and outputs. So you can test it out right away WITHOUT needing to find ID's to use for test. This provides real response values, as to know what you get when you send some value.
Just like everything else, hence DNSSEC.
I find it interesting that no radical approaches were asked. I wonder, for instance, how people would feel about a VAT tax or flat income tax.
As a counterpoint (Canadian.. living in Toronto). There is a good chunk of people growing up (my age... university age) that just assumes every city with a significant non-white population will have some region where the poor of the non-white people end up shooting at each other. Toronto has/had these areas (Jane and Finch ring a bell?). Vancouver has these areas. Montreal does too. It's no where as bad as the crime rates you'll see in other North American cities (well, except Vancouver...), but that's the feel.

Also... if you leave Toronto/Vancouver/Montreal (and few other big urban centers), there actually is a very strong tradition of Canadian being a white christian.

You're painting everyone with overly broad stereotypical brushes. Nothing makes a Canadian look as lame as possible as going out trashing talking Americans armed with stereotypes and stuff they remembered from Rick Mercer's Talking to Americans.
Why would anyone want to run Apache and Node.js? What is so special about Apache? Use nginx.

And what do you mean by "with"? Just have Node listen on a different port, what's the big deal about this?
In any case, if you only have one IP, it would be wiser to have Node.JS proxy to Apache, not the other way around.
The answer to the problem of optimization by proxy is not no optimization at all.
I'm suggesting a much simpler concept. Article changes shouldn't "go live" until there is consensus that they've passed basic proofreading and quality checks. This would give editors time to review changes in batch rather than feeling like they must monitor everyone else's edits in real time.

(It's interesting to think about, but Wikipedia could never conceptualize distributed branching when they are currently doing the equivalent of developing right on the production server.)

This idea has been discussed many times over the years, but never adopted for whatever reason. My suspicion is the active Wikipedians have this system of scoring Wikipoints for quickly reverting vandalism and bad edits, and don't want a system which encourages actual editing.
"My headphones, they saved my life"

I work at a larger company, on a team with ~30 devs, my role is less about how much code I produce personally, and more about how I help the entire team produce code.

However, there are still days when what matters is me getting shit done - when those days come I pull on a pair of headphones (decent DJ cans) and put my entire music collection on random (which is less "random" than I'd like, but HN already knows that) - volume set to the lowest audible level.

This works for me: 1) the headphones are a subtle (and therefore more effective) Do-Not-Disturb sign; 2) the ambient conversations are eliminated (which is why DJ cans with high passive noise reduction are better); 3) It helps shrink the world down to the space of me and the problem to be solved.

Changing my environment also works: shutting an office door (if you have one); working in a conference room; cafeteria; coffee shop; park; library; at home at the kitchen counter - but all of those require that I _visibly_ isolate myself from the team, the headphones are more like a psychological invisibility cloak or SEP field.
I think its fair to say quicksilver is more powerful, you can really do almost anything in it. I however didn't use many of the power features (resizing images or composing e-mails).

Alfred is really just a launcher with a few nice bonus features (clipboard history & spell are my favourite) where as quicksilver is more like a command line power house.
I have enjoyed the fact that Alfred doesn't crash, but it seems much worse at interpreting abbreviations. For example, with no training QuickSilver took me to TextMate by typing "tm," where Alfred still has trouble with this. I also considered LaunchBar. It looks very nice, but I cannot justify the price for my use given the alternatives.
There really aren't many other monitors with "the same specs" as an ACD. The ones that do have the same specs (from Dell, NEC) are just as expensive, if not more. There are plenty of cheaper 24" monitors, but the resolutions do not compare.

Additionally, if you have an MBP, not having to use a mini-DP adapter and having a built in power adapter is pretty awesome.
We do something similar to this at Leanpub (http://leanpub.com): a blogger can enter their blog RSS feed URL, we import the blog, clean the HTML and put it into a Dropbox folder. The user can then click a button and we publish to PDF, MOBI and EPUB.

The part we don't do is the automatic scraping of related content, and the reason we don't do it is that chances are you don't own the copyright to it. (We don't even include blog comments, since we're not sure about the copyright issues there.)

We're bootstrapped and doing customer development, so any feedback would be welcome...
Both very good points, and we'll work on adding them in soon.
This is what I mean by a full-stack programmer.

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/the-full-...

At Performable, full-stack means being capable to build atop Hadoop, HBase, Python/Tornado and HTML/SASS/CoffeeScript.

Of course, you don't have to be the best at either end of the spectrum, but being able to visualize your feature through every layer would be great.
Opera Mobile (the "classic" one before they threw it all away) let you save pages for offline reading. Not perfect but better than nothing. Sadly it did not cache content through restarts which is annoying on mobile where apps get killed a lot. But if I recall correctly at least the navigation back and forward was instant, like on desktop, with no network traffic.
Ha, looks like my opinions hurt someone's feelings and got downvoted. Meh.

>SHIFT-PRNTSCN? It's got a labeled key on the keyboard!

Right. I meant it was less logical on OSX. Cmd-shift-3? Bizarre. And yeah, I had to google it again. http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361

>I actually hate what you like: nothing but the menu bar open indicating that the app is in focus and running. I've been confused by that a few times.

Haha, I'm glad we can civilly hate each other's preferences. To me, repeating the menu strip for each window is a waste of real-estate, but i'm a huge desktop space whore. I don't need "File, Edit, etc" on every program window. I know it's there, so I prefer it to be in a common area. Actually, I find myself getting confused the other way around. In Windows, if I step away from my desk, and come back, it's not clear to me which program is currently active because they're all showing their menu bars just like all the other programs (now that we discuss it, I feel like the root of our different workflows has as lot to do with the fact that I prefer to autohide my taskbars). This combined with the unified window/program closing has lead to gnashing of teeth more than once.

>Most Windows applications are MDI or tabbed so this seems like less of issue.Even a lot of OS X apps are tabbed.

I appreciate the shift with some programs, but it doesn't seem as prevalent as I feel it should be, or we're not talking about the same thing. IE and Office are definitely guilty of this. Ctrl+w your tabs enough, and it'll simply close out the program. Or if you choose to X out your windows via mouse, if it's the last window, it will exit out the program. "Window" and "program" seem to be synonymous, so this requires I do a time-wasting check whether it's the last instance or not. Whereas in OSX, exiting the program is a discrete cmd+q vs closing a window (cmd+w). As long as those two remain intertwined concepts in Windows, it's going to feel less logical to me (in my opinion of course).

So far, I feel pretty keyboard-warrior-y just as much as I was on Windows. Which probably comes back to workflows. As you pointed out, you use the mouse to rename files, whereas I don't. I figure if I'm renaming a file, I need to type a new name, so my hands can be in the classic "home" position instead of moving around to the mouse or F2.

I can see your point about the taskbar, but after a month of use (which admittedly was painful), I honestly stopped missing it. The OS X dock does show what apps are open as well with a lit up effect. Though in both OSes, I end up autohiding them. And worst case scenario, the OS X version of aero tab/Winkey+tab groups together all your active windows by program (though the feature kind of chugged when it first released, but I'd argue aero tab was pretty clunky on older machines when it first came out as well).

>For the longest time, OS X was missing some really obvious stuff though. Like resizing windows from any corner!

So true. And they finally ditched the bizarre "green" button behavior.
I find that, playing Ingress, I'm not actually taking in my surroundings at all. It doesn't feel like exploration. The game just absorbs everything.
It certainly can be. Theoretically your OS should be pretty good about caching files in memory, but in practice I've measured significant differences when compiling large C++ projects on a fast SSD.
It would make me happy if SublimeGit was better at showing merge conflicts. I feel like I only know they exist when I'm surprised that my build is now broken, and my only resolution is to Find in Project for `>>>>>` and hope I catch all of them.
I hate the ads, but otherwise the content was good enough for me to go back every so often
part of the encryption key: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=21c7520&s=7
you seem to spend so much time producing - what do you consume?

Time with family and friends. Trashy urban fantasy and science fiction novels (approximately fifty in 2010 -- they will take my Kindle from my cold, dead hands). Hacker News. Video games, though I find myself enjoying them less these days. Gym (for health, rather than enjoyment). Dates. Church.

I don't have any intention of dating a simple random sample of women, so A/B testing life would be kind of difficult. "Organized and methodical" is something that I have never been described as outside of work or school.
What would such a group look like? I'd really like to know how you would go about starting such a group to ensure net neutrality, but even your food example seems far-fetched: How would you coerce manufacturers to give you enough detail about the contents of their products and the production methods? It seems that any boycott-based group with standards significantly higher than the status quo would starve before it could get enough economic power to influence the mega-corporations they are trying to regulate.

It's an idea I really wish could work, but it commits the #1 libertarian fallacy of assuming that markets are free enough to be called capitalist.
Probably not going to happen. Writing is a lot of work. Promotion is a lot of work which I generally dislike. I rather prefer doing stuff as opposed to being a paid commentator about doing stuff: it means I get to post on HN without having the implicit disclaimer "Trying to sell you his get-rich-quick-in-only-half-a-decade-for-values-of-rich-which-are-not-quite-rich guide."

I also think, no offense, that HN is a terrible, terrible market to sell to. Among many other signs: if the price point a hypothetical customer goes to for "Actionable advice which stands to make my business a lot of money" is "thirty bucks", I have negative a billion desire to be in a business relationship with them. No offense intended to anybody here. Instead of spending six weeks writing and then a year wheedling people to part with their $50 as if that were a meaningful amount of money, I could pick up a phone tomorrow morning, call one of a couple CEOs, and say "So, still want my help?", and then do six weeks of consulting. There would be very little wheedling over $50 involved.
Is the rat aware he's being used for a scientific experiment for human entertainment and a stepping stone to the mass enslavement of other species?
This is all ultimately pointless because it's not like the video decoder checks the integrity of its own code or the CPU running it or the compiler that compiled it or that the OS it was tested against is actually running. (Reflections on trusting trust.) Nothing actually cares about secure boot or end-to-end code validation; Apple doesn't even include equipment on their mainboards to do this anymore. Meanwhile, if you're going to grab pixels to pirate video, that's easy: HDCP is broken, so just grab it at the link layer. The key you need is on Pastebin!

Consumer DRM has always been a hardware-selling maneuver as far as I can tell. "You need HDCP in order to watch this video." "I do? But HDCP is broken." "Just buy a new monitor anyway." The Management Engine sounds like a similar scheme. "You need an Intel Management Engine to watch this video." "I do?" "Yes, it's very convenient for us that you need to buy a new computer even though your current computer works fine otherwise."

Intel's just using Hollywood's fear of piracy to sell new computers, ignoring the fact that the pirates are still pirating movies without any problems. It's more funny than sad.
If the job is to increase productivity, constantly yelling is probably not a good way to do the job.
My second development laptop runs FreeBSD - switched away from Debian in 2012. I wanted to try OpenBSD, however the amount of labor required to simply upgrade the system (Google "openbsd upgrading") outweighed all benefits for me at the current point. Also, FreeBSD has pkg, which is a neat binary package manager - which is important on a desktop/laptop - and it looks like OpenBSD still uses the old, manual pkg_add way. Maybe I'll try it on the third laptop, curiosity grows bigger every day for sure.
Why would you automatically assume it's a mistake for him to turn down a job at Google (or Microsoft, or Apple, etc)?

A job with Google, Microsoft, etc probably looks better than average on your resume when you're job hunting again in the future, but other than that I'm not sure why you'd evaluate it any differently than you would an offer from any other company.
Why would you bash someone that doesn't share your desires?

Some people may not want to be a minor influence on a large machine. Perhaps he didn't think his position there would have any measurable (or notable) impact and that wasn't what he wanted.

Alternatively, ask him. He's the only one that knows the answer.
I am sorry, but these are very poor excuses! If even someone as technology and security aware as you reuses his password on various sites, what are the chances that there will be a few people who are not as aware (but still very interested in entrepreneurship), and they use the same password for banking, email etc? And what's the cost of providing SSL support anyway? Almost nil.

I know people sometimes try too hard to justify PG's actions. But, PG is a big believer in making products and services extremely simple for the users. It is surprising that he would expect users to be careful enough to not use their primary passwords on HN. The only excuse that I can believe is that he simply doesn't have time for it.
If you're actually interested in what happened (you may just be venting, can't really tell) there's an excellent talk called "Big Fat Fiasco" on youtube that goes into the history of the lipid hypothesis (fat makes you fat) and how it got hold: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exi7O1li_wA (it's about an hour long).

One of the most amazing parts for me was the video of the senate commission tasked with coming up with dietary guidelines (the commission that created the food pyramid) outright rejecting the majority consensus that it's foolish to publish guidelines at a time that so little is truly known and that, if anything, it's carbs, not fat that are the problem. (Yes, the scientific community back then was leaning towards carbs being the problem.) One of the senators has an amazing quote along the lines of: I don't have the luxury of waiting to make an informed decision like a scientist.

Anyway, long story short it was politicians blessing the lipid hypothesis and then later removing all funding from anyone with a contrary opinion. The nutrition "scientists" are almost all funded by the government and therefore started to self-censor and never publish anything contradicting the anointed hypothesis. If they did they were basically booted out and never funded again.

Finally it seems the breaking point has been reached and we might get actual scientific research done in nutrition science instead of the quack research that's been the norm for the past 40 years.
Original research on "First Mover advantage"

Did First-Mover Advantage Survive the Dot-Com Crash?* Marvin B. Lieberman
I've always been the "tell the truth because it is truth" type and I wish my startup had an advisor like Paul. It would be an invaluable asset to any startup that really cared about making it. I can see why YC was able to attract him.
I used Etherpad on http://piratepad.net all quarter for group write-ups. Any other workflow would have been cumbersome.

Google was foolish in killing Etherpad and would be smart to create a lite mode for Google Docs that emulates it closely.
This is linked in the article, but you can watch the author write this article here:
http://ietherpad.com/ep/pad/view/somers-atlantic/latest

It's really interesting to watch someone else's writing process and see how that compares to mine. (Especially when that someone does a lot more writing than I do.) I find that when I'm writing a mid-length essay like this I tend to get very disorganized very quickly. I think it'd be valuable to try to record myself and see what, exactly, I'm doing, and then try to use that to improve.
Entropy is what kills every one of us. Entropy is what makes us "run out" of rare metals. There are a lot of ways for entropy to kill us that don't involve the heat death of the universe.
So don't use a password that you use elsewhere. I logged in to HN once. When I signed up. I've never logged in again. I don't even remember what my password here is.
Yeah that document is up there with Gartner research in terms of integrity.

Ignoring the fact they used "predicted five-year residual values" for their real word data, and the fact they compare a telsa model 3 to an BMW/Audi/Lexus rather than a Camry or something in the same actual class, the operational costs are nowhere near "half" in their own table, eg.

A telsa model 3 over "lifetime" is $49,800 whereas a Lexus is $63,200 - significantly less than $99,600.

Oh and thats skipping the insurance and charger costs too.

Its a biased piece of toilet paper.
> Software developers don’t have this fear

We should. A software engineer was one of a handful of people sentenced in the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
This ^^

For decades, the two scandinavian car makers Volvo and Saab didn't even offer AWD cars. And it snows a lot up there.
Besides from talking about how young entrepreneurs like myself do not see Microsoft as a threat, a photo in the middle of the article links to my picture!

http://pieceofpaper.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/all_macs_and_all_writing.jpg
I think I’m picking a pimple on my cheek
Wow! I though nothing could be cornier than Neruda.
DDOS seems to be impacting me intermittently here in Rhode Island https://imgur.com/pW59MG3
At this point do they really have a option besides continue until Github caves because of mounting costs?

Admitting whoops, unauthorized sneaky hackers co-opted our national packet mangling infrastructure would be a LOT of egg on their face.
This is crazier than this article!
That would be madness, even "typical" users have more programs than could fit in the taskbar. You only want to pin your most important programs (the others can be launched by search), and it must be up to the user to decide which ones those are. (If you leave this to the application programmers, every application will declare itself super important.)
Let's just list "Europe" when Spain does something. Just like we all should think anything that happens in Alabama is descriptive of the whole of the United States.
Password managers such as Lastpass along with a 2-factor auth for each user should be pretty good (preferably not SMS-based as these can be relatively easily bypassed with SS7 access, but based on Yubikey-like hardware tokens or such).

Also, after these hacks I would hope most companies will be considering adopting end-to-end email and chat encryption policies ASAP, to protect sensitive information (such as the dealings between Sony and MPAA) from getting out in such a leak - even if that means the top execs not having access to everyone's emails and chats anymore. Right now most companies prefer to spy on their employees, which makes them highly vulnerable to this type of leak in case of a hack. It also proves the point that surveillance is a bad "cybersecurity" policy (NSA and most other "security" agencies believe it's the solution to hacking, somehow). They might want to reconsider that and encrypt everything end-to-end.

They also need to compartmentalize a lot more. You can't have a "network of 50,000 computers" in a company, like I think Sony had.

I also believe it's already quite common for large corporations to have employees access the Internet only through a VM along with solid whitelisting policies (although I'm pretty sure Sony didn't do that and there are probably many more like them).

So yeah, I think the main point would be to keep security as close to an individual employee as possible, as opposed to having everything accessed company-wide, with virtually no protections within the network itself, just outside of it.
Try transferring from an iOS phone to Android. Try transferring messages to a new desktop (you can't).

It's 2021, I don't want to be platform locked and none of the other popular messaging apps have that issue.
> I feel like AI is pointed AT us

This is not at all about "AI". This is about it becoming economically cheap for humans to fuck with one another in yet one more way.

Welcome to humans. They suck.
Not directly. It signals that the compiler does well when optimizing the [[likely]] path at the expense of making the other paths less optimized.
He can always get a regular programming job again, I doubt he'd have a hard time finding work if he needed it. But yes, once the money starts rolling, they can probably roll pretty fast... just ask MC Hammer. :)
This is not true. No amount of space suffices for exponential growth.

Hubble length is less than 10^24 km. Earth radius is more than 10^3 km. Therefore there's at most room for 10^21 growth in one dimension, 10^63 growth in three dimensions. 10^63 growth is less than 210 doublings. Doubling is less than 70 years of 1% growth per year. 210 * 70 is less than 20,000. Therefore, we can't grow more than 20,000 years, 1% growth per year.
Read the disclaimer ;)
And another generic landing page completely missing the point by omitting the "Octohub is a ... which ... for ..."-thing.
Would you feel ashamed of having $70million worth of stock in a company? Because it is the same thing, except you can't put a sofa in them.
That would be very interesting to see!