jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There is a link to change the URL below the notepad. It validates and confirms that the name isn't taken and then renames your notepad and redirects you.

Alternately, you can just visit any URL you want and (as long as it's available) start using it.
If you missed it in the group, the location's changed! It's now at CoLoft: http://groups.google.com/group/los-angeles-hners-hacker-news...
Cool. I has to type something and reload to see if it saved automatically. I like that it does, I just didn't trust it.

Some basic formatting support would be awesome too.
The majority of the file details what happened to the documents locked in Tesla's safe at the New Yorker Hotel. His closest US relative, soon to inherent his effects, was considered to be a communist by the US Department of War.

In order to protect the government from the potential outcome of those documents (wireless power, death-ray), the US Alien Property Custodian seized the documents where they were eventually scanned into microform by the Navy. Once it was declared there was no potential harm in these documents, they were returned to the Tesla museum. When they were received, Tesla's golden Edison medal was missing.

(Interestingly, it is noted the man who scrutinized Tesla's safe belongings was humiliated by Tesla earlier when he reduced the man's design of two 34-foot towers to two 2-foot of Tesla's own. Maybe it is not coincidence it is missing?)

The rest of the documents are mostly just rejections of requests for details or sources of materials which people thought the FBI had under confidentiality, when really Alien Property had them. There are some interesting letters such as EE students looking to reproduce his experiments, biographers requesting more information and one guy linking series of unexplained plane crashers to Tesla's death-ray.

This part in particular was probably the most exciting, leaving much of the interpretation of the censored parts to the reader:

"This individual mentioned the FBI at length in these communications, pointing out that Mr. Foxtrot had been called in on the Tesla case but was killed shortly thereafter."

"He stated that the FBI investigated this matter but their hands were tied, that there was nothing the FBI could do as they had been stopped from a higher level, that -------- the FBI Agent he dealt with, resigned and requested -------- never to discuss the matter with him again, that he had a wife and family to consider and that the last hope was Congress."

[Insert permanent marker here]

"We did have an Agent, --------- who entered on duty -------- resigned [black]. The file does not indicate that we have ever interviewed ---- on the basis of -------- allegations."

Anyway, save yourself an hour or two.
Politicians aren't the only ones spreading dangerous misinformation and conspiracy theories. They also aren't uniformly doing it; what prominent left-wing politicians are doing so? This is just a lazy both-sides position but this isn't something that both sides are guilty of.
I am convinced the perceptions of division are directly proportional to to the isolation of people claiming such division. It’s very easy to think absurd exaggerated things about some class of other people when you never talk to them.
Search for BLM and go through pages 25 through 30. I found multiple comments/posts calling or implying violence against left-leaning politics and black people.
But all the calls for violence that the left made are still there. Even from elected officials and journalists who encouraged those who were acting violently.

There's a double standard and it shouldn't be that hard to condemn violence no matter what side it comes from.
Religious flamewars are not ok on Hacker News. Please don't do this here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10588101 and marked it off-topic.
british BTU or american BTU? please use SI standard measures for those who don't happen to live in America :-)
One of the reasons that ad supported models work is that the marginal cost of providing software is near zero. The marginal cost of providing rides is decidedly non-zero. I would argue that the marginal cost of a ride is going to increase from its present cost.

* There is a price war going on and some of the providers are losing money. In the short term this will continue, but long term it will correct itself.

* I believe the regulations on company -> contractors a la Uber will increase and that will cost Uber more per ride.

* Even if you think the drivers will be replaced with self driving cars, those cars will be more expensive than present day cars.

I don't think any of that is a problem for Uber as a business charging money. I do think it precludes ad-supported rides.
What about the ratio on this one?

https://www.wetheweb.org/post/cancel-we-the-web
I currently work in an office space in Japan that is shared with another company and, I have to say, I cannot stand all of the chatter. It has gotten to the point that I often wear earplugs just so that I can get something done.
The main benefits of Clojure compared to Elixir?

I can create

- Desktop apps
- Server-side apps
- Mobile apps
- Unity games
- Live coding music performance
- AI apps
- C libraries
- Native apps

I can use libraries with low friction from the following ecosystems:

- JavaScript
- Java
- .NET
- Python

Runtimes include but limited to:

- JavaScript
- JVM
- CLR
- Erlang
- SubstrateVM

Clojure specific advantages:

- Datomic
- Crux
- Datascript
- Datahike

Most "functional" languages bottom out into some highly mutable SQL thing and it's gross

Then there are the cultural things, so as you grew as a programmer you probably went imperative, OO to FP, well with Clojure you go another step: imperative, OO, FP, Data-driven: https://youtu.be/vK1DazRK_a0

Technologies like this: https://unity.com/dots, machine learning etc are showing that data and data processing is likely to yield the next frontiers in computer programming

The next things on the near horizon are data-driven declarative layers to raise the bar of abstraction like https://youtu.be/jkx9F-RIFiY
The atmosphere is totally opaque to X-rays[0], so this wouldn't work from the ground.

[0] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atmospheric_electroma...
And still most of current Russian territory is colonian expansion, with subjugation of native cultures and people continuing well into present day.

Have you tried renting an apartment in Moscow without “Slavic” looks?
CBC IV does not in general have to be unpredictable.

But my main point is that there is no significant difference between block cipher modes in regards to requirement for IV as even CTR mode requires IV when used with repeated keys (and arguably repeated IV is more severe concern for CTR mode than for CBC) and conversely, you can just use constant IV for CBC when you can guarantee that used keys are unique.
SEEKING WORK - Remote Only

Technologies: iOS development (Objective-C, Swift)

Email: noman7k at icloud com

I am a skilled iOS developer based out of Toronto with over 5 years of experience. Throughout my career, I have developed various mobile applications ranging from tiny prototypes to epic systems and have always maintained the highest performance standards while staying up-to-date with the latest tools and techniques. I have worked as a freelance / full-time for entrepreneurs, startups and fortune 500 companies.
Adversary?
I think (though I'm too lazy to confirm) that the Google Toolbar browser plugin also reports URLs back to Google
And how do they do that (scan a web site directory tree) without following links? You are describing the same "following links" procedure I think.

Maybe somebody accessed those pages using the Google toolbar, in that case Google could have known about those pages even if they were not linked from any other pages elsewhere.
When we did our beta invites, we had about 30% signup. Of course, we were working with a small sample (about 100 invites), all of whom were personal / culled contacts. We used the "beta" label in the old fashioned sense, which I guess is now more appropriate to call an alpha.

I would suggest that rather than comparing to other groups, you really focus on that as your baseline metric. Look at it as a time-series, not inter-company. So you have 7% and 15%; what can you do to raise the 7% to 15? Realize that it'll always be more difficult to get people to return to signup, versus when you have their attention on your page, so I would expect on-page signups to be higher.

What's your product? Just curious.
Google has multiple ways of indexing, and following links is only one of them.

I suspect Google found these pages by scanning the directory structure of facebook, indexing all pages in these subdirectorys, and finding more subdirectories to drill in to.
He could work on something else during that month. Automation!
His pixel-by-pixel criticisms are also great.

http://emberapp.com/bwalkin
I work with a lot of entrepreneurs, and the ones I try to avoid are those who think they're doing a favor to everyone they grace with their message. Like street preachers, their zeal makes them blind to the general public's disinterest in their noise, but they're sure their excitement about their social gifting platform will spread like wildfire if they can just. Tell. More. People.

If your heart doesn't cry a little bit every time you ask for a favor from a stranger, or email someone who you know only has a 1 in 10 chance of being interested, then you're probably the guy people avoid sitting next to at Tech Breakfasts.
As opposed to Debian, the distro which chooses to break tomcat (a program which unzips into a single folder and is thereby completely self-contained) up into a million different pieces and scatter them randomly all over your hard drive?
> in the past licensing wasn't really compatible with these kinds of scenarios, and you'd often have to purchase the software 5 times.

That is only because of greed. During the 80s and 90s, Borland for example had a "no-nonsense license agreement" that told you to treat the software as a book: make as many copies as you want, have as many users as you want and even resell it as long as - like a book - only one person at a time is using it.

They did change it at some point in the 2000s, probably around the time when they stopped selling Delphi for $99 as the cheapest option, introduced online DRM and prices skyrocketed to the thousands.
You are responsible for malicious code insertion either way.

If you delegate trust in any way, you are responsible for how that trust was (mis)used.
Does this has something to do with all the operations being linear?
M&P are workers also and any one who works in tech is by definition are in "the professional managerial class"

I think you are confusing stunts with long term sustained lobbying.

For example I got several k people a substantial improvement to their pensions, passed a motion at a union conference got it put on bargaining agenda and successfully changed the companies mind.
Wholesome internet people unwilling to say the word "fucking"

It's: The Fucking Article
There is also Emit Cloud which I don't see mentioned in that link http://www.emitcloud.com
There's nothing morally neutral in exploitation.
Government positions are even cushier. Things move slowly, they value consistency, and the hiring process is such a pain that you won't be fired for anything short of malicious or criminal behavior.

And if you automate a government task, there's a good chance you won't need to update it for at least a decade.
Regular reminder that rare earths aren't especially rare, just .. diluted: https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2019/08/01/extracting-tr...
Not looking to divorce since we have a kid.
Some folks at Apple made the same argument in favor of giving Dylan a non-Lisp syntax. In fact, I was one of them.

In hindsight, I think we were wrong. The infix syntax didn't serve its purpose of growing Dylan's user base, and it made the surface language clumsier to work with. I strongly prefer its original s-expression syntax.
You'd think I was an expert, given that I gave that segment of the talk, but I haven't yet dived that deep into Genera's internals.

As I understand it though, you don't have the concept of page faults at the image level; IIRC, Genera doesn't have any form of virtual memory, or if it does, it's all in microcode. Task switches are, iirc, handled in the image, but in the same way that it's done in Smalltalk: there's a function in the "kernel" to decide what task to switch to next, but the actual context switch is handled in microcode.

Also, there's no such thing as privilege separation; everything's running in a single address space and namespacing is handled using Common Lisp's package system.
Signal (messenger, not foundation)’s plan for cryptocurrency was in news 4 years ago already. It can feel like a betrayal but can we put others responsible others for our feelings?

How can we expect a company to provide us what we want for free? Robots running on solar power will build them?

How about this: stop approaching a monetization problem as if it's a choice being evil vs. not evil.
Maybe I missed it from your post but have any of the docs seen your thing in action yet?

Make up a story for your pitch that demonstrates how your product will make your client`s life easier (Betty came in with her Griff, her dog and the receptionist took info down on the iPad then handed the iPad to the doc who blah blah blah ipad blah dog blah blah symptom blah...everything was so easy...happy Griff, happy Betty, annnnnd happy doc!)

of course you can replace by ipad by `computer with internet with your site`

see what im sayin?
These aren't "real". They're "simple". It's right there in the title. You're suggesting making it a good five or ten times more complicated, and you'll still be left with problems like how not a single one of the other things there is "real" even after you've fixed tail. I'm not even sure why you chose that one in particular to focus on when grep is useless, tr only allows on substitution, uniq is bounded by memory... but the point is they are simple.
I agree, as long as you're talking about YCombinator posts, not HN posts in general.

I check out the /newest list every time I visit HN, and I flag spam (which is surprisingly common). These are value-less submissions, so they normally don't have any comments. Not having a flag option for these posts would defeat the purpose of flagging.
Hershey Ice Cream and Hershey Chocolate as well.
It's her name ... she gets to decide how it's spelled.
Respectfully, the premise of this question is incorrect. You are essentially saying "Superman can fly on TV, so it doesn't seem so insane that I could fly in real life does it?"

There are several ways to measure value. For example, the stock market value of a company is based on its perceived future value. The value I prescribe to is a measure of how efficiently the business turn its capital/revenues into profit.

Businesses are about profit, and little else.
According to wikipedia, they also manufacture under Technics.
The problem is that any country, if you wait long enough, has endless social problems, unrest, civil wars, and then they break up. So it's hard to find an exception.
Well that's for sure. What I am is responsible for the site guidelines. It's my job to ask people to follow them, and to try to prevent HN from poisoning itself, as internet forums historically have—or at least to stave that off a little longer: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

In this case, I commented more harshly than I usually do because it's important for authors to be able to come here to contribute and not be met with garden-variety, albeit highbrow, toxicity. That makes HN strictly worse: it disincentivizes thoughtful people to participate and encourages hostility and snark. Feedback loops like that are all too easy to get going and they're an existential threat to this place.

michaelfeathers has been a good HN contributor in the past, as well as a distinguished author on software topics. Who cares if his blog post was "shallow, informal"? That's what blog posts are for. If someone else has deeper and more formal knowledge of a topic, that's wonderful: it puts them in a position to teach something to the rest of us here, which is obviously in the spirit of this site. If people want to play the intellectual bully, though, they should find another place to do that.
I looked closely at Browserless a while ago, for a 15 - dev company it would be a good tool. I would have recommended it but circumstances (particularly a lot of effort put into a container setup that could already run these kinds of tests) means it made sense to keep everything working the same way in our k8s. But definitely this is a good offering for small businesses.

The only downside to using a lot of IaaS type stuff like this is almost every month something goes down - Github or Azure or Appveyor etc, and this is another thing that could go down, even for a few minutes, and basically the CI is stuffed, or pingdom goes heywire. But this is a more general problem with cloudifying all the things, not with this particular service.
I guess I never thought of it in a gaming-oriented way, although it totally makes sense.

Ryzen also sounds like "rising", and even like "horizon", which are both pretty positive and non-gamer-y.

Ripping has other meanings too. It can mean going really fast or energetically, like "the driver ripped right past the race leader on that corner" or "let her rip" when you launch something at full speed. And a sawmill or woodworker uses a circular saw, band saw, etc. to rip wood, which means dividing it along the grain, the natural direction it wants to split. Which I suppose makes a good analogy for embarrassingly parallel compute problems.
My guess is that the burden must be worse for the person who commmits suicide. Or they wouldn't bother, would they? And similarly, if the burden is so great for those around them, why don't they kill themselves too?

It comes down to the fact that most people don't want to acknowledge their incredible privilege in being relatively unburdened by depression, I think.

I happen to know attempting suicide can be quite severely painful. Most people who try do not risk it lightly. And much of the time, in my experience, it's those "people around you" who are to blame for the person wanting to die in the first place. If we're being honest, most of us don't truly do everything we reasonably can to help those with aspirations towards suicide. Many people act as some of those in this comment section are, telling people they're being selfish and weak. How the fuck on Earth does that help matters? And before you assume I only care about myself or something, my best friend just killed himself a few months ago and I cried nonstop for days. I still support his right to do what he did.

It becomes blindingly obvious to me when a person has no idea what it's like living with chronic treatment resistant depression as soon as they open their mouths. It's just ignorance and priviliege and a total misunderstanding of the problem to blame someone who is suicidal for wanting to end their own suffering.
A Virtual Private Network is only private when you, the user, controls both ends of the connection. It is not private otherwise.
Be sure and read about Geel, where people with mental disorders live as guests in ordinary peoples homes. They treat them by just accepting their delusions as real.
Without context, it was likely painful as they need that information to have any chance of fixing the bug.
Well, the question was what had changed since 2004. FB gained more than a billion users since then.

Electric cars and reusable rockets are niche now, but picking up steam quickly. Seems pretty safe to say that those were watershed moments.

Remote work might be taking off, but I haven't seen the evidence of it accelerating. Seems like most companies like it more in theory than in practice. I'd love to be wrong about that, though.
This is very true, I learned this yesterday when I accidentally picked up a Sharpie instead of a whiteboard marker. Colouring over the mistake with a whiteboard marker worked like a charm!
Why do you believe synchronous I/O is better for building web apps? Certainly it is worse for utilizing resources. The problem seems to be that most of the internet is about 20 years behind when it comes to performing I/O well. Erlang, Haskell, Mozart/Oz all do it superior to something like Node, people just haven't realized it yet so a language that people want to use can be built.
This is a goldmine. Thanks for posting this. Interesting to see how much Prolog and Lisp texts dominate the programming section :)
Traffic violations are mostly civil matters, not criminal matters.
Just to clarify, I'm not talking about event-driven programming, errbacks and callbacks, but rather how they've done all of the abstraction of the different protocols and subsystems. It's one of the few times where I've considered inheritance absolutely essential.
I run openbsd on the servers, I run ubuntu on the desktops. Best of both worlds really. The rest is chasing hair out of the soup.
Is it costing you any midmorning mental energy not to have that initial dose of caffeine?
I've telecommuted for 8 years now and I'm looking for a new gig. I'm really surprised how difficult it is to to find good companies who are really in to telecommuting and are looking for my skill set (web, cms, mobile). While it can be isolating if you don't force yourself to get out once in a while the flexibility and productivity sure can't be beat.
> Censorship: the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.

And this was indeed done because it was considered politically unacceptable and a threat to security.

> A private business not distributing a product because it doesn’t represent their or their customers values isn’t censorship, it’s a marketing decision.

The problem is your thinking that those two are some exclusionary.

The censorship that most company practice is of course for financial gain.

> The advocates for Parlours right of distribution don’t actually believe in individual rights, or they would argue it has to be imposed on the App Stores.

Nor does their believing in free speech or not have anything to do with whether this is censorship.
Ok, Can businesses refuse gays, lesbians and transgenders now ? Can one refuse to serve depending on whether customers are republicans or democrats, white or blacks ?

Surely, this should all be just OK by your logic ?
> There are plenty of bad arguments one could make on this very site which would get your post hidden or removed or even your account banned

Popularity doesn't imply correctness or legitimacy.
> it seems like you are attempting to justify the insurrection on Capitol Hill

What mental gymnastics led you to this conclusion? It's obvious that the comment was pointing out the double standard and hypocrisy that pervades this discussion.
Thanks for sharing. Some thoughts/rebuttals:

- what if “society just keeps putting along” only until it stops? I heard somewhere that complex empires historically have a life expectancy of ca. 300 years.

- I also heard somewhere that the Arab Srping revolutions took off in full only when the panicked government shut down social media. True or not, it’s an insteresting “what if”. The “panem et circenses” government should maybe think twice about turning off Twitter (in practice) for these subjects, no?

- life looks to be getting less comfy, with COVID. A year ago I would feel more at home in the comfy prosperity argument but today that rings hollow
Declining to enforce the borders by deporting those not authorized to be here is de facto pretty similar to "open borders".
But 11,780! If you can just find 11,780!
Does anyone know if this has BeOS DNA (since Palm bought out BeInc)?