jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It still seems to me like something is very strange about your MIT ranking; there is probably a bug of some sort. Your own head-to-head MIT vs. Other College pages seem to give results that are inconsistent with your MIT rating of 1688.
Assuming a 50% result means insufficient data, here are your results for your top 15; MIT systematically wins significantly more than expected according to your rating.

1. Harvard (Elo 2009) wins 78% (would be expected to win 90+%)
2. Yale -- insufficient data
3. Stanford (Elo 1834) wins 56% (would be expected to win 70+%)
4. Princeton (Elo 1788) wins 44% (would be expected to win 60+%)
5. Dartmouth -- insufficient data
6. Penn (Elo 1757) wins 57% (about right)
7. Notre Dame -- insufficient data
8. Columbia (Elo 1742) wins 33% (would be expected to win 55+%)
9. Georgetown (Elo 1715) wins 40% (would be expected to win 50+%)
10. Berkeley (Elo 1711) wins 20% (would be expected to win 50+%)
11. Brown (Elo 1691) wins 40% (would be expected to win 50+%)
12. MIT
13. Amherst (Elo 1687) wins 40% (would be expected to win 50%)
14. Duke (Elo 1682) wins 33% (would be expected to win nearly 50%)
15. Cornell (Elo 1670) wins 24% (would be expected to win nearly 50%)
I agree with Peter Cooper. That is all.
To love what you do.
- Orange County, CA is pretty interesting. There is a lot of migration inwards from the East Coast/Upper Midwest (e.g. PA, MI), but lots of migration outwards throughout the country. [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...]

- Oakland County [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] (Ann Arbor, U of M, Slashdot) and Wayne County (Detroit) [link:http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] in Michigan have mass flight.

- Multnomah County, OR [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] is a bunch of solid black lines from throughout the country. Everyone wants to be in Portland, but the Oregon unemployment numbers are comparable to Michigan, IIRC.

- Polk County, FL [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] seems to have mass migration from the East Coast, while leaking people the the west.

- Erie [http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/04/migration-moving-wealthy-in...] (Buffalo, NY/Niagara Falls, NY) County in upstate New York seems to have seen a mass flight too.

[update] On re-reading my comments, you might take the numbers from Oakland County with a grain of salt. Ann Arbor is a college town to a large university, so some of that flight may just be people taking jobs after graduating (or dropping out of university and moving home).

[update] Added links
This is poorly related, however: Knowing that I've been to this page ages ago, but without a sense of how long, I am reminded that pages without a datestamp are annoying. Even the comments are missing them. Am I alone here? [To justify the age somewhat, he comments on the release of firefox 3, where I believe 3.6 is current.]

More to the point, I was surprised that you can right-click-save the drawn output without any overhead on his part.

And [paraphrasing,] I equally miss being able to boot into an interpretor or programming environment when a machine has no boot devices. I imagine the overhead is low, so it's likely just licensing + apathy [irrelevance more likely].
The last issue that you raised (new players donating ranking) has long made sense to me. However, I had not considered inflationary pressure due to players leaving before. Is the inflation really from their departure, or is it purely explained by their entrance, and loss of points while still playing?
I signed-up, but then they sent me a verification email asking me to send them a photocopy of my id and credit card. I'm a little bit worried. Did I get suckered?
Absolutely. What you're describing is basically an interaction effect. Looking at all the data, A may be better than B by virtue of the fact that A is better than X, Y, and Z, while B is worse than them. But A has a specific weakness (an unprotected heel) and B has a rarely useful strength (ability to shoot arrows into the heel) that leads to B defeating A.
I don't mean to be that guy who interjects quotations into HN discussions with plenty enough original insight, but Malcolm X makes a similar observation in his autobiography:

"I have less patience with someone who doesn't wear a watch than with anyone else, for this type is not time-conscious. In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure."
This is just your regular puberty story, displaced a few years. I fail to understand the alarmist responses of the medical professionals. Why would they worry about pregnancy with someone age 9, but not age 11? The parents seem to suffer from a 'we are so special; our problems were so different' syndrome. Why would allowing someone aged 11 to watch porn be a larger issue than allowing your child aged 14 to watch porn? Since when is a child hitting his dad at 15 different from one hitting his dad at 17?
Personally I found Geoff Hinton's Coursera course [1] to be a great, detailed, and reasonably challenging introduction to neural nets.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets
Just to state something a bit different from the herd: I use Amazon Payments (not FPS) for LiberWriter, and I'm happy with it. It makes particular sense since our customers have to have an Amazon account in any case.
Verizon has some interesting content deals, like the rights to NFL on mobile devices.
Yeah, it seems like he could make much, much more.
I have backed a half dozen Kickstarters and Indigogos that were hardware based (consumer electronics) and chose to manufacture in China. Seeing the time and money they spend in order to fly someone over to China to troubleshoot and issue with manufacturing or testing has left me wondering - why do small startups choose to manufacture in China to begin with?

> Is it because they assume that despite the initial cost over local manufacturing the investment will be worth it if their product takes off?

> Is it because everyone else seems to do it?

> Or maybe because there aren't any good local places to have electronics manufactured? This I would find a little hard to believe given the concentration of hardware startups in SF, NYC, SEA, which have local hardware manufacturers.
> It looks to me like this is an issue rooted in friction between those folks who spend a great deal of time here and those folks who spend less time here. Those folks who are here a great deal see all the duplicate submissions and find them annoying

Yeah I think that's a lot to do with it. I've noticed time and time again with online communities that the longer you use it, the more likely you are to start complaining that it's not as good as it used to be. It happens everywhere, and the problem is almost invariably you not it.
It's legal, as long as you fill out the adequate paperwork. It might be as simple as filling out a W-8 instead of a W-9 (for taxes).
A few rules for you.

1. Never keep only one ball in the air.

2. Don't make yourself look desperate. People get suspicious when you want to work for free.

3. If you have a ball in the air, follow up on it. Don't let it sit for 10 weeks.
I'm absolutely with you here; this isn't surprising (or really interesting, either).

Just a reminder, from the HN Guidelines (in the footer of this page): "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."

Though I agreed with the sentiment of your post, inviting me to downvote you really puts a bad taste in my mouth. As long as you're contributing to the conversation, hell if I'd downvote you. People who use the down arrow as an expression of mere disagreement make this site a little less valuable.

Cheers!
This depends very much where you live. In some places with very expensive property markets the structure can be as low as 20% of the cost of a home (a typical downpayment amount) -- conversely, with low property/land values, the quality of the building itself can be most of the value.

A side effect of high land values is that the relative cost of teardowns/rebuilds is much lower, so you tend to see more replacement of the buildings themselves unless there are other regulations in place blocking that.
IIRC, Haskell has a well-defined mapping of whitespace to explicit braces and semicolons -- I suppose one could perform that transform first to desugar, then parse the resulting token stream normally...
And now you can combine them onto one AOLrizon bill!
Read some Eric Berne books. Human interactions are practically built on pretense and games (and it is not always bad - actually, unless you are caught up in a self-destructive game, it often is good). Unless you're communicating with robots all day, truth is not exactly the primary factor here. Otherwise morning greeting would look like:

- I notice you! Here's some meaningless words acknowledging the fact.
- I noticed you too. Please don't tell me anything about your life unless it's exciting but not making me envy you in any way.
- Same to you, and please don't waste my time anymore now unless you are going to benefit me in some way.
- I'm going to depart now, and I don't care how the rest of you day goes.
- Neither do I for you.

I would submit a world like this would be perceived as utterly bizarre by most of us.
You need a Mac, git, and XCode

in terminal type: 'git clone https://github.com/petewarden/iPhoneTracker.git

open that new iPhoneTracker folder, and load up the xcodeproj ( iPhoneTracking.xcodeproj )

in there go to iPhoneTrackingAppDelegate.m on the left sidebar

from that look at line 179 for changing the time inbetween registering, and look at line 149 for the locational precision

with those changed, hit the play button in the top left corner and the app should build and run
Looking at the "Closer to what today’s typical studio looks like" picture, it appears this setup is sans speakers, and I don't think the two Apple Macs compensate for this...
Had our blog go down. Didn't realize it was AWS wide..did a reboot. Now I am in reboot limbo. Put an urgent ticket into Amazon. They just said they are working urgently to fix the issues. Let's see how long this goes.
Except that when you use TrueCrypt most of the functionality of DropBox stops working; you can't access your files through the web interface anymore (duh), but most importantly, you can't use the volume on two machines at the same time.
Thanks for the explanation on the individual level. Sounds reasonable.

On your second point, yes, you can say of any cultural group that there are people who do X and people who do non-X, but that doesn't proves that there are no global traits and that all cultural stereotypes exists for no reason.

But I understand your point as "you are wrong to try to attribute the behavior of an individual to a stereotype, since they can only be used at a very broad level", and I think you're probably right.
So I was half right? Awesome!
why all the fuss, a solution would be just 2,4 , they didnt even get to that
Ruh Roh. The service I'm using to acquire accommodation seems to be dependent on AWS. Guess I'm going to be homeless tomorrow if it doesn't get fixed. :X

Note to self. Don't ever build a service reliant on AWS.
It’s possible to use "arguments.length" to “change” the function signature and execute different code for different parameter counts. It’s a hack, but it works.
Why? The human species and relatives have organized into heirarchies since their dawn.

You start as a child, and go forth and develop your place in the world.

If everyone is the same, no one is unique.

Different desires lead to different contributions which have different levels of value to society which lead to different levels of social status.
I've only heard of one of them in passing, and the part I remember is that it was known from the start to be a limited-duration experiment. So yeah, not a good example.

If anything, I see this as the good example of "trust the science" used as a thought-terminating cliche - a way to shut down questioning without having to provide answers.
It's a known quantity, sure, but IIRC hard drive manufacture was not necessarily a very "clean" process.
"What I will tell you is that they had a disproportionate number of abuse reports that went unprocessed. And as a result, they left themselves wide open to people using their platform for purposes that maybe weren't the original intention of the people who manage it. Does that necessarily mean that we not only take that site offline, but we burn it to the ground?" Monster said. "I don't know, but I think the site can be rehabilitated so it could be more self-governing."

Just to note that Rob Monster does have certain criteria for allowing sites to use his services, as well.

"It's one thing to be sent to detention. It's another thing to get a suspension. It's another thing to be sent to a penal colony for the rest of your life," Monster said.

Getting kicked off of a provider is not "being sent to a penal colony". Nobody is forced to host your site. This is partly how free market capitalism works, last I recall. Allow me to play a sad song for parler on the world's smallest violin.
"As of" doesn't mean they raised the previous round in December. Pretty sure their previous round was like a year ago.
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> I believe that there are substantially more effective ways to deter crime and punish offenders than the lengthy prison sentences that his office pushes for in most cases

... like fines? The fines we end up seeing are paltry compared to the profits of the activity, effectively incentivizing illicit practices
Bing has affiliate agreements with them. It is not FUD. You can believe it or not.
And for missing search. And for missing social. And for insulting OEMs. And for his failed Windows Vista launch, and Windows 7, and Windows 8.

For one man, he sure has a lot of failures on his plate.
I'm all for libraries that do one thing and do it well. But again, that's not what I was complaining about. Consider:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/isarray

Compare with:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

And again, for browser stuff, sure--but this is a controlled runtime on the server. This shouldn't even be a question.

What I've also noticed is the tendency to use lodash and underscore in places where there are completely reasonable standard language features, like _.forEach().

Again, the Javascript language is a bit weird, and lacking perhaps in a lot of functionality that a default Ruby installation (say) might get you, but this is just silly.
The vulnerability in the talk is not in Perl. It is in the CGI module.
I wonder how big of an impact such passengers have on environment. Imagine if half of the people who bought tickets on A->B->C flight decided to stay in B->C. They leave the airline in a position where they can't resell the empty seats, so the jet flies half-full while still using the pretty much the same amount of fuel (the impact of passengers is marginal). If you scale this behaviour up, an airline ends up flying 2x as many B->C flights as needed, thus literally wasting half of the fuel on that route.

I don't think it's very ethical to deliberately introduce inefficiencies to a system for personal gain, especially if it leads to wasting scarce resources. Being a responsible human being means caring about other things than just money.

Also, it's hard for me to feel compassion for passengers exploiting this trick - air travel is totally underpriced already, casual passengers pay much less than they should actually pay to cover the operating costs (not to mention externalities). People complain about algorithmic pricing, but that actually makes air travel affordable for a typical person, where a fixed pricing scheme would not.
That's not true. Being the first few people means that the tools are not developed, common questions aren't answered, books aren't written, getting help is difficult, etc.

There are only 18 questions on StackOverFlow, for example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/nim

People don't want to burn too many cycles discovering how the language works.
> I am looking for a replacement programming language to solve small problems for which Python/Ruby would have traditionally been used, good file system, stream and networking APIs, but concurrency as a first class citizen, garbage collected, fast startup time.

You may want to have a look at ClojureScript, which has come a long way in the last few years. While the tooling is still not as nice as Clojure-on-the-JVM in my opinion, it continues to get better everyday--this week support for a better REPL via NodeJS[1] was introduced, for instance. A lot of smart people are putting good effort into the compiler and ecosystem and I suspect we'll see a continued uptrend in cljs adoption. Anyway, it may be just what you want: an elegant, productive, pragmatic language with first-class support for concurrency (atoms, core.async) and well-suited to short-lived and scripting-domain problems. (Bonus you can write your frontend and backend in the same language if you want!)

[1] http://swannodette.github.io/2014/12/29/nodejs-of-my-dreams/
I found ocaml to be a more flexible alternative -- I can sprinkle printf for quick debugging without having to alter types. (I think this is what you mean by "having to use the IO monad". I didn't work with haskell much, so it's possible there's an easy way around this there.) And stack traces in ocaml are reasonable, though not quite as verbose as python's.

But your point about needing to install extra packages stands for either language.
You're looking at it differently than a business does...

the drop in real estate costs shows up in the ledger...

the drop in productivity... not so much. Even if it did, it would take data that is typically not tracked to prove that the real estate change was the cause of it.
As reasonable as that is, "if you build it, they will come", is a myth. Say you have an excellent product, and I would absolutely say Nim is excellent. With priority #1 out of the way, you have to speak up for yourself.
I don't think it is the culture of 'speed' necessarily, but rather one of 'feedback loops'. With javascript in the browser you can see and experience code-reload after an F5†. There is no compilation time; no real detriment to importing another non-used library if it's not compiled into your code.

Opposed to using a JVM language, where everything is statically compiled into a single container, including another library (or upversioning one) will impact compilation times and oftentimes trigger a complete re-build, often taking minutes before you can see the output of your code.

Minutes versus seconds when dealing with code correctness really helps, and is what is needed most when trying to 'hack it together'.

† Note: This is the same with test suites: karma tests are often instantaneous and spock/junit tests sometimes take 30-40 seconds before they start to run, depending on environment.
You must have a very different definition of "collapse" then. (Compare http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/06/21/12_degrees_..., and note that lots of people there would happily trade with you.)
Sure and Ford never promised cars that wouldn't explode on a rear-end collision

Telcos have a very poor service for the extortionate prices they charge. At some point your phone number is tied to your identity and should be secured as such (ah but nobody cares about that right?)
I agree, it's seems there's too much edge in the design of this vehicle.
Indeed, I was reading through his tab completion examples noting that I can already do much of this in my Ubuntu environment. Now, that doesn't mean it's not a pain to accomplish this in Bash, I just don't know. It's rather transparent to this end-user though.
So you're telling me there was more thoughtfulness in the risk assessment for the Area 51 Alien Raid meme from 2019 [0], than real threats on the U.S. Capitol? Fascinating.

The FBI was knocking on people's door for that joke. [1]

[0] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/07/15/air-force-war...

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49667295
So, what I said then. You were making it sound like the same people jumped ship as implemented those policies, and in fact they were the opposite sides. And restricted mode isn't locking; everyone can still comment, there's just a whitelist of who can make new top level posts.
Do any checking accounts offer and API? I love Simple and I think I could easily recreate the Safe to Spend and Budgeting functionality easily with a lightweight rails app for myself.
>I also think the guy who shot that unarmed woman has no business wearing a uniform and carrying a weapon.

I don't know what you are basing this on. He was apparently the last line of defense between the mob and some of the politicians the mob was trying to attack. Who knows what would have happened if they got through that door and he didn't act. There could have easily been a serious hostage situation.

>And if it wasn't 100 people spilling over a barrier (actually, the police pulled the barriers away and literally waved them in - explain that one to me) and entering a government building and disrupting an important session... then what was it?

Cops aren't apolitical. I guarantee there were plenty of people involved in security that sided with the insurrectionists. And that is exactly what it was, insurrection. They were trying to and were temporarily able to disrupt the function of the government recognizing the rightful next president.
There was a story about a lady tweeting something like "kill all white men" on Twitter. She got cancelled, but Twitter is still here obviously.
> protected by unfriendly looking men standing behind heavy machine guns

Just a few months ago that is exactly what the steps of the US Capitol looked like [1].

Even when disabled people try to protest there they are removed by force [2]

They have no trouble keeping people out they really don't want inside, it seems.

But when people show up wearing body armour and carrying weapons, for some reason they are not stopped.

[1] https://twitter.com/oliviamunn/status/1346933669869481986

[2] https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12466578/disabled-pro...
You’re almost close at the end there. The echo chamber of the MSM is worse because it has an air of legitimacy afforded by a history of journalism that doesn’t exist anymore. Once great institutions like NYT and NPR are scant more than propaganda arms for the left’s authoritarian communist regime. And you guys don’t realize you’re part of the echo. IMO the left is no different from us, we’re all trying to navigate this strange post truth world.

Neither accepts that it’s not just the other side distorting reality; both are oblivious to their own distortion.
Math is good for explaining some logic, but I wish it was more verbose and used less global scope.
It's a shame there's no way to run a double-blind test. I remember my dad telling me how he was reading some mediocre sci-fi and then discovered that it was "actually" award-winning literary fiction (Margaret Atwood), and "caught his brain" in the middle of revising his opinion upwards.
For the casual reader, in case other comments don't make this clear - this is not a general-purpose translation library, and probably will not work for whatever C codebase you have. It is a one-off tool built to migrate the specific subset of C used in the original go compilers, as part of the process of making the go toolchain self-hosting (go compilers written in go).

This translator produces a VERY literal translation, as the intention is for future human passes to clean it up and convert it to more idiomatic go.

See here for the full plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P3BLR31VA8cvLJLfMibSuTdw...
Maybe: Extremes of feeling make us more creative? (just a guess, mind)