jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I found this after a little bit of scrolling. It was not obvious at first, but this is a self-hosted personal social CMS of some kind......

> Socialhome is best described as a #federated personal profile with social networking functionality. Users can create rich content using #Markdown. All content can be pinned to the user profile and all content will federate to contacts in the federated social web. Federation happens using the #ActivityPub and #Diaspora protocols.
I'm very intrigued by that list. Any recommendations on where to read technical, internal details?
Please don't do this here. We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11922131 and marked it off-topic.
I can grant you that the technical skill and all around.... I dunno what a good word is... lack of the paralyzing fear that I'd feel in a similar situation: that's _amazing_.

However, the fact that it was done quickly makes a lot of sense if you think about how much goes into doing stuff like that safely. A lot of things that might take a long time take less time if you have the technical ability to pull them off with a lot of safeguards removed.

Moving is much, much faster when you can get rid of a partner, not drag a rope or set pro, and especially not have to carry equipment for spending a night on the rock.

I don't know if these safeguards would be good for most people to remove, but it is a neat case where there is a massive gain by changing the system.
I think it's helpful to look at a reviewer's review history. Urbanspoon prominently displays the reviewer's number of reviews next to each review. I generally ignore reviews from people with fewer than ten. A similar system could be helpful on other sites.

It can still be gamed, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
It does not cost us anything resembling $66,000/yr (no, wait: 2 kids - $120k/year [?!]) to provide two school-age children with an absurdly privileged upbringing. I suspect college tuition is queering those numbers.
ChromeOS is zero maintenance. As a technical person with a few gadgets, that's one less thing to worry about. For non-technical people I can only imagine it as revolutionary.

Android, by comparison, is the Microsoft Windows of mobile operating systems. It requires customization, maintenance, and care. If I recommended an Android device to someone I am certain I would be paid regular visits as the designated mechanic. And I'm certain I'd have a checklist of stuff I'd have to do before even handing it over. I've used one. I see how people here are constantly fiddling on their significant other's behalf.

I think people here discount ChromeOS because they can work around Android's quirks and are happy hackers. They can't see how software maintenance is more like incomprehensible house chores than playing with Legos.
I find it rich (no pun intended) that a bunch of single folk can somehow assume it's easy to live these type of lifestyles if you have a wife and 2 kids.

Sorry, but I'd rather have a million.
Fun Fact: Kevin Smith was toiling away for years at the very convenience store in which he filmed Clerks. He used the stuck shutters at the beginning of the film as a plot device as well as to hide the fact that they had to shoot almost entirely at night while the actual store was closed.

You can do both. You SHOULD do both. Something is obviously holding you back, and there's no way we can pretend what that is. I've found wives and SOs are really flexible if you lay it out that it's something you NEED to do.
Maybe it'd be a one time fee for somebody like Cisco that can afford the intermediate CA process, but I've looked into this for my own company and there's no way we can afford this. Nor is there any affordable option to prepurchase device certificates that I can find. If anybody actually has an idea on how to ship devices with unique certificates signed by a CA accepted by the majority of browsers, I'd love to hear it.
That's what DHT's like Kademlia were invented for, used by P2P systems such as ed2k (eMule), BitTorrent decentralized tracking, and "web-scale" software such as memcached and friends.
But is it financially a good idea? Is it safe? What if you want to have a family?
The difference is a person is born gay, they don't need an operation to become gay. The Ed reflects this process. Hence you cannot be gayed, but you can become educated, indoctrinated, experienced, and transgendered.
Dropbox has an obvious problem and it's not that. Their pricing has not kept up with the times. If you're willing to pay for a full year in one shot, the minimum you'll pay is $120. That's just too much for most of their potential customers. Maybe if the pricing was in the neighborhood of competitive those other things would matter.
Just the user interface. It's a lot easier to fuck up during a rebase. MQ is a lot like git stash on steroids. Super easy to flit between multiple patches that I'm working on and put a change in the appropriate one. Wasn't uncommon for me to touch 3-4 patches in a random order over the course of a few minutes.

Let's say I'm working on patches 1, 2, and 3.

--

Situation: Currently on 3. I write some code and decide it should be in patch 1.

Git: Can't interactively rebase with uncommitted changes. Some sort of stash juggling.

MQ: Go down two patches. Commit the changes to the patch.

--

Situation: I'd like to introduce a new intermediate patch 1.5.

Git: Make a new commit on top of patch 1, rebase the other patches on top of it. If there's potentially conflicting merge errors they need to be addressed immediately—or I'm stuck leaving an alternate history of commit 1 around until I'm ready to deal with merge issues.

MQ: Go down two patches. Make a new patch. Deal with the merge errors whenever I go up/apply patches 2 and 3.
F.E.A.R.'s AI is often cited as an example to follow for FPS/TPS games, so this PDF is going to be an interesting read for many players and enthusiasts.

Also, I cannot but think of the A-Life of the Stalker series, as a similarly exceptional thing. I wonder if that one also has a PDF about it.
I agree that ln is a little confusing. I've often explained it to people that it's the same order as if you were copying the file, but it creates a link instead.

Also, in sections 1 and 8 (shell), data typically flows from left-to-right across the line. The filename on the left flows into the link on the right. Data flows from the left of the pipe to the right.

Whereas in section 3 (C), data typically flows from right-to-left across the line. Variable assignment, memcpy, ...

There are of course exceptions (dup2, bcopy), but that's the general style for the order of arguments in *nix.
Has anyone lost weight on this? I'd also be curious if it lowered your blood pressure [1] if it was high, and if it helped with any other health issues.

[1] I'm thinking the high potassium, and low sodium could lower high blood pressure?
iOS Webkit still has the 300ms click event delay even though Android released a simple fix over a year ago.

To work around this, you'll have to use a library like FastClick (which is not perfect) or write some Javascript to hijack touch events.

I've also run into a number of CSS animation issues which are just bizzare. For example, "position: fixed" doesn't apply when a CSS transform is also applied to an element.
Me. I'd stop them. If basic income ever became a reality, my first startup business would be factory-manufactured housing units that fit inside intermodal shipping containers.

The per-area costs of site-built homes are nearly double those for factory-built homes. Making additional concessions for trans-pacific transport and re-shipment from low-occupancy sites to low-vacancy sites should approach the minimum marginal cost for housing one additional person in any place that a regular shipping truck can reach.

Then I ship the first units to the city with the highest low-end housing costs.

It's really too bad that I can't afford to fail even once...
There's a lot of fear surrounding in-hardware crypto primitives. See for example:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12/we-cannot-trust-inte...

I personally would be very leery of OpenSSL relying on RdRand or AES-NI.
I've teetered on the brink of homelessness for a few years now due to very poor life choices and an overbearing legal systems that convicted me, for all practical purposes, for the act of doing drugs in private.

I am firmly convinced that homelessness and living that life of rejecting convention has to do with deep-seated emotional scarring that should be much more akin to brain damage than a failure of "will power" (whatever that really means in a neuroscience way)

Cutting edge NS research[0] is proving again and again that we simply do not make decisions the way we all (most?) want to believe we do, in a rational and self-interested way.

This research has deep implications for all sorts of anti-social behaviours, and, especially for me at least, addiction.

I feel this hard emotional tug to escape into oblivion almost every-time I see others so easily create emotionally and sexually meaningful relationships, where I seem to fail at it miserably and have for my whole life.

Recently, I commented upon an Autism post where some of the symptoms of this disease (the inability to create and/or maintain social connections) shocked me to the point of tears, and have been pondering the connections between addiction and it ever since.

We can talk about habits and chances and everything, but if a person is just tired of hurting internally and has the choice between another night of lonely pain and escape, I'm hard pressed to blame them for escaping.

But hey, that's just me.

[0] http://www.kavlifoundation.org/science-spotlights/neuroscien...
I think the brutality must have been intentional. To the Romans, a "good death" was quick and painless. For example, if you were a citizen of Rome, then even if you were sentenced to death, you were guaranteed a beheading instead of something slower. To the Greeks, keeping the body intact was very important. That's why they gave Socrates hemlock to drink; even though it must have been agonizing, it was respectful because it maintained the integrity of his body. Jesus' death mixed the worst kind of death to both Greeks and Romans, and also fit in the curse that the Jews had against anyone who died hanging on a tree. This offensiveness is called out explicitly in 1 Corinthians 1 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1...
I really hate the fact that you can't just straight up pay for more things and am deeply suspicious of free services. What benefit do you get from me using your service if I'm not paying you? In some cases, like Google, the benefit is that I can be sold to advertisers. Nothing is really free, and it's better, cleaner, and less scammy feeling to know and pay the cost up front.

If there's a free vs. paid app that I want I will always go for the paid app. I never tried Instapaper free.
+1 for this idea, I think "eventually updated" should be largely sufficient for a generally one-way change like repository updates.

I'm "live updating" right now, and the time estimates jump between 2 hours and four days depending (I believe, given the stability of my schools internet connection) on the load on the ubuntu repositories.
Do you have a landline phone? Do you know anyone under 50 who does? Is there any reason to have a landline phone nowadays when you can make VoIP calls from home for free with Google Voice? I think the writing is on the wall for that industry.
Forgive my ignorance, but that seems like insanity. Security 0.1 stuff, below even 101. Why is it still like this?
The best way to deal with pathological customers is to ignore them, not to let them drive your decisions.

Though, I have to admit, I sometimes enjoy enraging pathological customers. On the phone, I have told them they are fired, and not welcome to come back to my website ever again. I sometimes pretend to be a nearly deaf old man when dealing with their complaints. It makes my day when a pathological customer calls now. Unfortunately, I only get a call from a pathological customers every other month or so.
I can't even say that my macbook sleeps reliably. There are some times where closing the lid fails to put my computer to sleep and manages to kill it's battery while it's in my bag. Occasionally, I'll open the lid and my macbook will not come out of sleep mode.
I think Joel's article glosses over a point that most of the con arguments here don't notice: in order for this to work, you have to set up a group of coworkers who mesh spectacularly well.

Fog Creek has pretty obviously done that; it's one of their top priorities. I've worked at companies where lunch is communal and companies where it isn't, and it seems to me that the difference has less to do with personality types and more to do with cohesion.

Put differently, the types of teams who want to eat lunch together are the types of teams you should want to be on. The company shouldn't need to enforce it; they should just help to facilitate it.
Regarding item 10 - assuming you have friends at work, would you go out of your way to avoid eating lunch with them because of items 1-9?
Yeah absolutely. Even when I had a great lunch group, A) They were people I considered friends and would hang out with outside of work, and B) We only ever ate quality food outside of the office itself.

I don't agree with all your points but being constrained to a work environment for a social lunch is ridiculous.
That's ridiculous. I have a couple large plastic containers for beans and rice, each holds about ten pounds, about the size of a milk jug.
Great points! I've made some minor edits to the article to reflect them:

* Description of "ln" is more general

* "Tape ARchive" is now described correctly

* No longer uses the arguments in "dash-less" mode
Rackspace support leaves much to be desired but it's 100x better than even Premium EC2 support (in my experience).
Amazingly well written replies everyone! Wonderful community!

I agree that the economy might not be "big enough" yet. And yes I agree that we need more progress and probably more growth. But do we need to be in a hurry?

It surprises me that none of the commenters has mentioned global warming - a side effect of economic growth.

So, what do HN readers think about the correlation between economic growth and global warming? Should monetary policy not bother about including global warming side effects due to increased co2 pollution due to economic growth into their economics equations?
Already has a thread going on HN (and was currently at spot #1):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9296857
Remember what I was saying yesterday about Amazon throwing things against the wall?

Can you see how this idea is ill considered? IT doesn't make much sense.

I predict in 5 years nobody will remember this and it will be gone from Amazon's site.

But for this press cycle it's PR that makes Amazon look "innovative" and like a "tech company".

Just like the Amazon fire phone did... for a little while. How much was wasted on that idea?
I just can image kids clicking on it over and over again...
No it's not. That was Goat Grazer.

Hum, wait a minute...
Anything under DoD should be considered military, as it falls under the jurisdiction of the Pentagon, which is military.
My reading of it is that the app on the phone is used to configure the button, and the button from then on operates independently (which would be good in that it would allows others to use it when the original person isn't around). It's ambiguous, though, and could go either way.

Given that it would literally only have to connect to the wifi and do the API calls when the button is pressed, the power usage would be minuscule.
Thanks. I've never used referrals, though. Usually I prefer cheap display ads, donating services, or community participation. I have used discounts for certain low-risk groups; I guess that's a little like a referral.
It is always reason to celebrate when one engineer successfully communicates with another of different specialty. Big kudos to Intel for actually encouraging them to do so!
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They are all free to broadcast in Russia... if they adhere to Russias censorship rules.
How would a browser proxy do anything aside from hiding from tracking, and maybe a tiny bit of protection from sites that use browser exploits(Not that it matters much since the only relevant ones are 0days that might not be in blocklists)?

It doesn't seem like it would do much against a device compromise.
It's subtle but them working together late at night on something technical in a quiet office really nailed it for me. It wasn't always the over the top extreme compensation driven atmosphere it is today.
Good thing the article even says Samsung is a well oiled machine in many areas outside of the ones with issues discussed in this article. Almost like large companies can have varrying success and culture.
Is this one of the https://domcomp.com affiliates or do you actually scrape the data yourself from the registrars? DomComp has been running since September and monitizes itself through affiliate links to the registrars but also allows other sites to use their system for a cut of the affiliate dollars.

Just a note, your affiliate link to NameCheap returns a 404 error.
Side point, but I have heard shielding proposals for dealing with the matter collision problem.

Basically you could create a plasma cloud ahead of yourself and hold it there magnetically. It would take a ton of energy to generate and maintain, but if you're doing this at all then you're already pretty good at generating a whole lot of energy.

Anything impacting your plasma shield would itself become plasma. Plasma can be controlled by a magnetic field, so as soon as this happens your magnetic field grabs it and it becomes part of your shield mass.

Many potential relativistic propulsion systems such as fusion or antimatter rockets have exhaust that is partly plasma, so maybe a simple way to engineer such a shield would be to just waste a little bit of your propulsion output by facing it forward combined with a massive electromagnetic field generator.

Seems like generating the energy required to accelerate to these velocities is like 90% of the problem. But it's possible. There are already paper designs like Project Orion (thermonuclear pulse rocket) that could achieve as much as 10-20% the speed of light, which is sufficient for close interstellar flights in a human lifetime.
>We should think on our own and figure what works for us and not blindly follow

But doesn't your last comment rail against all these "fanbois" not blindly following "best practices" and actually attempting to find out what works best?

In fact, your next sentence in this comment:

>please don't attempt to reinterpret/bend the rules that are well established in the industry

You seem to be contradicting yourself.
I wonder how much was used to build their ghost cities:
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-ghost-cities-in-2014-2...
I know that Google bought a fiber build in Provo. Did they also/just now buy an existing one for SLC? When I was at Neumont, I was sad that the fiber in Sandy didn't come across I-15 to South Jordan.
I read that same sentence "abandon all shame" and it is where I have had reservations and probably holding me back in making connections.

I know I am busy and don't feel like I should be wasting other people's time with trivial pursuits when in reality they are probably thinking the same.

I would take a engineer / scientific approach. Adopt one methodology at some events and use flattery / shamelessness at another. Compare results.
Mine bitcoins, help solve complex puzzles etc, charge batteries or the grid..
B2B is not B2C. It's easy for Google to have multiple equivalent customers with their mass market software. When you're making specialized hardware, not so much.
Software patents are a disaster. If you see someone make something, you can just patent it and steal it from them, because you can afford a patent and they can't.
I nominate the syntax

goto function(parameter1, parameter2);

Also, may I suggest that it runs destructors prior to the jump rather than throwing up it's hands and saying you can't TCO because you have destructors?
Security products are sold for security rather than other useful stuff like messaging, so it's really useless if it's insecure.
More time spent on roads does not mean more economic activity occurs. Time spent in traffic is unproductive.

Also, land used for roads cannot be used for other economic activities.
Ya same here. The name issues, the killing of the ability to auto mail paper checks (bills), and seemingly over time extremely strict policies on everything from deposits, to addresses, Simple has already been going down hill for awhile.

Personally I have gone out of my way to submit polite and concise feedback, as I really wanted them to win. I used to be so happy here as a customer but inch by inch it had just become overwhelmingly unpleasant.

So over the last year I have slowly moved most of my banking to a competitor, and which as a whole is bigger and does have as smooth of a UX, but has been flawless with actual banking features. The support has made me feel like they actually want my business rather than being a nuisance to them.

It was good while it was good simple, I imagine running a bank is not easy, best of luck to everyone that was a part of it in their next venture.
I don’t have that experience.
As others have mentioned if you have the touchscreen, (2015+) you can get carplay/android auto added on. I did and having google maps with traffic is a huge upgrade to their built-in nav. I can't speak to android auto, but for carplay, the rotary knob, while it works, isn't as intuitive or reliable as the built in-OS. I actually find myself thinking that I have become less safe of a driver when interacting with it, as the finickiness prevents muscle memory from developing.
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Wow what sort of business ideas do you think could come of this?
and 9 days ago :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26029181
The temptation is great and common to go cold turkey or gung ho and I don't claim to know anything about your particular protocol, but my own observations lead me to believe that the body can adapt to some unusual regiments quite nicely, if you allow it time and space.
And then a neighbor call the police after seeing a shadow doing something highly suspicious activity that probably involve a corpse in the lakeside at night. So torching newts turns into being torched by two policemen. True history.