jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

we also have a ruthlessly efficient feedback mechanism whereby users can indicate when they have received a negative value communication with just a single swipe.

That's helpful, though you've really got to recognize that a huge part of the problem is assessing indirect feedback.

If you've seen Derek "Veritasium" Muller's "The Problem with Facebook" videos, one of the challenges is that interactions with FB content are hard to gauge. Dating sites have a similar challenge, in that feedback on interactions ("how did the date go") are rarely collected. As opposed to YouTube where a huge signal is "did the user stay on the page for the duration of the entire video". If I watch 5 seconds of a 3 minute video (or 30 seconds of a 60 minute vid), odds are I wasn't very impressed.

There's also the challenge of sorting out abuse of moderation systems, particularly those trying to get legitimate (but unpopular) voices banned or restricted.

The good news is that there are some people whose interactions are so widely negative (spammers and trolls) that you can attack them head on and reduce the cost coefficient significantly (recognizing that the cost constant is constructed of both a specific value and the number of connections). Spam is as annoying as it is because a single spammer affects so many other users.

The flipside is that you can increase the network value by finding people others really want to connect with. Here I see G+ as being horribly naive (also YouTube) in repeatedly making recommendations that I'm absolutely not interested in, without offering me an opportunity to say "don't show me this person" or "don't show me this product / video / category" ever, ever again. One of my long-standing challenges to the "deep data" (snooping) perspective is: rather than compile a massive dossier on my and attempt to bother me by way of it, when you do find me in an intentional mood to find something, get really good at figuring out whether you're offering me what I want or not. Why Google should know my location to within 2 feet every 60 seconds of the past five years ... but not be able to tell me the dot pitch of the monitor I'm shopping for, strikes me as a stunningly obtuse mismatch of data focus.

That said: yes, the ability to dismiss stuff I don't want to see and be bothered with is absolutely useful. As I'd repeatedly said at G+: let me say "not now", "not this hour", "not today / this week / month" (essentially: timeouts). And of course "not ever". G+'s blocking feature is also grossly inadequate. Some people, yes, I simply don't want to deal with. For others, I just don't want to see their insipid posts, or deal with their insipid comments on my own posts.
You may try asking this at http://reddit.com/r/Games

As for me, I don't particularly mind Origin. I don't play EA games because they don't interest me; lots of eye candy, but mediocre gameplay.
Well the legal exposure you mention would be resolved by CISA, which provides blanket immunity for companies that give the government any user info it asks for (in the name of preventing "cyber threats"). But that's a whole other can of worms and another net negative for the U.S. tech industry.
We have cars navigating america autonomously as we speak. [1]

From a regulatory perspective, I think driver-less cars are making better progress than drones, because auto regulations are more relaxed than air.

[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3006700/Driverless-c...

... Oh god I just linked the daily mail. Sorry I'm at work and picked the first link when I googled.
> why do we find ourselves using web apps more and more and desktop apps less and less?

Do we?

> Web apps have won the desktop

Tell that to my text editor, photoshop or audio editor. Or my email client - or even the native Evernote application. For all of these there's no serious web version.

This comment might sound snarky but I'm honestly trying to think of what web apps I regularly use. And I can't come up with one.
Thanks.

As elsewhere on this thread, I'm doing
a startup.

What I've posted to HN in this thread
and otherwise is about the best I
can do for now.

For the history of FedEx, there are several books
already. Roger Frock wrote one.
I've seen none of them, but some
friends found me mentioned in
one of them. I was also mentioned,
with some errors,
in an article in Informs,
the popular magazine on
operations research
and management science.

No time to retire yet!

If I get rich, then I will have several
projects to consider. Sure,
several projects
of the kind *what I wish I'd known
when I was 8, 10, 12, 14, 18,
22, 30, 40" are candidates.
You can get some idea of the workflow here:
http://chaoticafractals.com/manual/tutorials/basic_gnarl

It's a combination of choosing the colour palette, selecting a set of mathematical transformations (and their associated weights), etc..

Chaotica is iterated function system software: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function_system
I agree that it's criminal but that doesn't make it a terrible offense, and far from an "act of war". The damages to GitHub are probably minor in the long run. Nobody will have died or have even been injured. Any one violent crime would rank above this in severity imho.
Sure, Emacs is nice, but there are a lot of smart people using vi. Or Textmate. Or...
"But how long is it going to take you to figure out that tab-completion is called hippie-expand in Emacs?"

I figured he must be joking, so I alt-tabed over to my Emacs session. To my surprise, there is actually a command called hippie-expand in Emacs!
Not with Ruby, but I recommend jEdit -- it has 80% of the power of emacs/vi with 20% of the learning curve, and you can write macros and plugins in Beanshell, a lightweight scripting language that feels somewhere between Java and JavaScript. Though honestly I've never even needed to -- the built-in commands, easily-recordable macros, and decent plugin selection have always done the job.
The graphics may not be honest, but they are indeed truthy.
totally, will do this asap.
Worst thing about learning Emacs is that newbies follow the wrong path, albeit you can't criticize them for not knowing better. Absolute newbies should start with an Emacs customized to follow common conventions of editors (CUA, etc.); Vi users should start with Viper mode (+ Vimpulse). And so on.
You're saying that being able to statically link a library into a commercial app has no business value to anybody because you are fortunate enough to have found a niche where you didn't need to. Your personal experience is enviable, but I don't see how it speaks to the general case.
Both enclojure (for NetBeans) and counterclockwise (Eclipse) are solid environments that are being used full-time by a bunch of people. I've used the former for a long time, and am on the bleeding edge most of the time. Check 'em out. :-)
What are the elements of a truly good cover letter? Stuff beyond the cliched advice you get such as showing interest in the company/position and so on.

Are good cover letters "from the heart" (so to speak)? Is semi-formal but well-written language better?
That's just wrong. If me and 10 other people buy things for 5 bucks from a vendor with taler, there is no way to trace it to us as I understand, and no way to distinguish which of us paid which 5 bucks. How is that isomorphic to full surveillance? It's more privacy than both traditional payment Systems and most cryptocurrencies
What might be really dangerous is I think they also run rpmforge (aka repoforge) and many people use them on servers for yum updates as they have newer packages sometimes.

If they start messing with the releases for servers, we've got big problems.

Wait, no I might be wrong about this, I really thought they were related but rpmforge might be a completely different project.

Yeah I am probably wrong based on this old page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060208035034/http://rpmforge.ne...

They just re-used the "forge" name which fine but confused me and I guess I assumed it was run by sourceforge awhile back.

Sourgeforge however is owned by Slashdot's parent company, of that I am virtually positive.
>I often wonder where these veracious vegans are.

Two words: The Internet.
A downward firing ejector seat is certainly an interesting feature of a plane you intend to fly at treetop height
Hypothesis: Thousands of people around the world mis-flag content for a variety of reasons every day. One of the outsourced content-reviewers working for a consultancy hired by facebook made a mistake in handling the copyright infringement flag, and blocked the site. It wasn't noticed by anyone until the TechCrunch story went up.
In that case, pat-down wouldn't have been an option!
It's only "not true" if you fork the protocol and create an independent currency.
Thanks! I'm glad to hear I was on target.
This is not the real systemD repository. This is just some random guy on the internet who snagged the GitHub username "systemdaemon".

Have a look here: https://github.com/systemdaemon

A profile created two weeks ago, with a single repository, 0 stars and 1 commit over its entire lifetime.

This is a transparant hoax, and I don't understand how Distrowatch (and the HN community) has not seen through it yet...
Need: not ugly as sin.
Versioning is only done on files that have changed, and a key file wouldn't change very often.
You pay income taxes on your income, not on the medium of exchange. Why do you think that if merchants recognize BitCoin as currency the IRS won't? If evading taxes were that simple you could just demand to be paid in gold dust or Swiss francs, and everyone in the US would work for foreign companies as a first preference. As it is the IRS is abundantly familiar with substitution schemes, as you can find out if you arrange to have yourself paid entirely in air miles or grocery coupons.

Do you want to save money on taxes? Then stop working for other people, start your own company or speculate on the markets, and take up philanthropy. Capital gains tax is a lot lower than income tax and charitable deductions are very generous.
If I have any social networking anxiety, it's not about friend count. It's anxiety over wasting my life catering to wannabe web personalities trying to build a following via attention-whoring or wasting precious moments of my life scrolling through every mundane update every idiot on my list posts when their new baby farts (or, worse, the ultra sound images and the nine months of constant uninteresting updates that follow).

Am I a snob for not giving a fuck about every single second of your life? Fine. Call me a snob, then. My time is too precious to waste stuffing it full of crap about your life. When you have something really important to say that will mean something significant to me, then you can come tell me. Or call me. Or email me directly. You're not the damn Daily News. You're not so important that you need to broadcast your every thought and action to a legion of followers. You can have direct interactions with me. One on one. And if you can't, then whatever it is probably isn't that important in the first place.

I have the decency not to bother with Facebook or Twitter. Why? Well, I am a writer. I'm also a bit of an entrepreneur. I also value other people's time and don't feel that every thought I have or action I take is worth sharing with the world. Inf act, I feel that very few are. And when I do have something of value to share, I'm not going to do it on Facebook or Twitter. I'll do it on a website, like we've done for fifteen years and it'll have more thought given to it than a 140 character spam of my new startup or a "so drunk lol!" followed by seventy-eight photos of me getting wasted at a bar, like a rookie.
"Code-as-data in Ruby, without the metaprogramming madness. — Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD4bn5pp32w

link is a rickroll. What was the point of that? I don't think we need to be super serious about everything, but at least don't be anti-productive. I was hoping to have a link to a talk or screen-cast demonstrating what Lispy was about. Instead, backwards rickroll.
I think the other desiderata mentioned in the original post are more important than choice of serialization format. SVG already exists, and we're kind of stuck with it. There are other applications where having a better-designed vector graphics format might pay off, and tying it to the browser all over again wouldn't be a win.

At that point, using an s-expression format (x-expression, EDN, I'm agnostic) should be the first choice. One of the first things that would have to be implemented, of course, is a translator to SVG.

My interest in vector graphics is such that, on the few occasions I need them, I just shrug and deal with the format we have.
Canadians and Australians also use the word “football” to refer to their national forms of football, which are called as such because they are more closely related to rugby, which separated from association football in the mid-19th century.

Ultimately, the word “soccer” is of English origin, broadly understood in England, and refers exclusively to association football. In any international context, the word “football” is ambiguous at best, and it’s chauvinistic for anyone to insist that the term must exclusively apply to their own country’s version of the game.
It is funny to read all the comments and see the dichotomy of coding:

On the one hand, everybody wants people who can write code and keep them at the highest productivity level and on the other hand, code writers seem to care about not writing too much code, because all that new code must be maintained and might create necessary problems in the future which need to be solved :-D
App-switching (multitasking) without LRU apps getting force-closed to make room for active apps. In other words, if you like to keep apps open, more RAM will reduce the chances of an app opened a while ago having to "start fresh" when you switch back to it, losing whatever state it had when you last used it.
Swimming and diving with orcas is not just regularly done, it's so common and safe that it's something which is offered as a guided tourist activity in Norway. (I personally know someone who went on such a trip.)
Very cool project!

It's on glitch.me. Is this open-source? If it is, where's the source code?
Sure took them long enough.
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/
"I'm building a new app.
I don't want to make my UI WCAG compliant"

Why?
I imagine he's interested in a bet with a big VC because they are the ones complaining about high, "bubble" valuations. I doubt Sam really cares one way or another if some random guy/the American public/whoever thinks we are in a bubble.
Like C# (and now ES7's) async/await?
For me, the Moto 360 was my equivalent - it's beautiful, and more closely tied in to my preferred platform, but the battery life and performance are quite bad.

And then I saw that Pebble has Android Wear integration (because Google is not-all-that-awful and made Wear an API that is easy to plug into) and I was sold.
I do well with the Toshiba Chromebook 2.

Intel Celeron N2840
Gorgeous IPS 1920x1080 screen.

It is a lovely machine.
"In 2010, Facebook acquired the FB.com domain name for $8.5 million."

Wow. And to think they only bought facebook.com for around $200k if I remember correctly.
I'm pretty sure it'll be good at that :)

For dashboards and kiosks, there might be of use:

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/3134673?hl=en

http://googleforwork.blogspot.com/2015/03/screens-go-Google-...
Some of the cloud-based IRC clients do a lot of this (I'm a big fan of IRCCloud). But it would be nice these kinds of features were baked into the protocol. When something like a majority of users want a feature, it should probably be part of the protocol.
§135.89 Pilot requirements: Use of oxygen.

(4) If one pilot leaves a pilot duty station of an aircraft when operating at altitudes above 25,000 feet MSL, the remaining pilot at the controls shall put on and use an approved oxygen mask until the other pilot returns to the pilot duty station of the aircraft.

Additionally, it's either US airline operating procedure (or perhaps FAA regulations, I couldn't find it though) for a second crew member to stay in the cockpit when one of the pilots has to leave.
If they had announced this before the Let's Encrypt[0] initiative it would have been more impressive, but still it is a nice gesture to offer these for the month or two that people are still buying them. I wonder if it is a preemptive move to keep customers from taking their certificates elsewhere, as you will be able to do with the Let's Encrypt certs?

Reading the rest of the announcement, It looks like they are slowly catching up to Gandi.net, who have offered free one year certs and other features (two-step verification and domain privacy) for a while now.

They are a bit behind the curve compared to better Registrars but still light years ahead of garbage like GoDaddy, etc, so good on them for offering this.

[0]https://letsencrypt.org/
Hi @dingaling, I'm working at EuroDNS and I confirm you that this is not only a promotion, but it will be free for the lifetime of your domain at EuroDNS.
According to their site, http://blog.eurodns.com/eurodns-ssl-certificates/, this is only for domains registered with them. So it's not really free.

StartCom/StarSSL has provided fully free certificates for some time: http://www.startssl.com/?app=1

edit: Title is now clearer, I believe the "to customers" portion wasn't initially there. Or I just suck at reading.
Using either still keeps you in the Lisp universe.

Also, Greg Hendershott's rackjure library emulates a few "Clojure-inspired" ideas in Racket
https://github.com/greghendershott/rackjure
I think we must be miscommunicating here, I'm genuinely not seeing where I said that (it would not be the first time I have been hilariously unobservant though).

The nearest I can see to that is where I said - "With fairly minimal training one can learn to use existing, secure constructions." - which I think I've qualified/explained now?
Was it actually less common before, or just less noticed?

Air travel used to be substantially less safe. Improvements in safety have all but eliminated crashes due to mechanical failure, weather, mid-air collisions, etc. They've done nothing to prevent crashes due to rogue pilots, though. If the rate were constant, they'd be much more visible now because they'd make up a much larger proportion of the much smaller number of crashes.
Thanks for the intel! This is super great to know. It definitely helped to put things into more perspective. So kudos for that! I saw an interview with Qi the other day (back when it was still YC China) and Qi mentioned about funding ambitious start-ups that play the long game and are in early stage but have little or no connections in China which mean these start-ups would otherwise be ignored by Chinese investors. Do you think Qi's MiraclePlus will continue to do that in the spirit of YC?

I saw an article coverage of YC China's last demoday (17 Nov) and noticed that most start-ups graduated this year have had their angel rounds before entering YC China, which could be due to the reason as you've described - YC China failing to establish a good network among early-stage VC funds in China, thus looking out more for post-angel companies. Or it could also be because there were just too few aspiring early-stage start-ups in China. Perhaps funding early-stage start-ups in China imposes a much higher risk than say in the Valley.

Anyway do you think it would be possible for someone who has okay track record but no direct connections with angels and VCs in China to get their early-stage start-up angel-funded? Will it change a thing if it is an early stage with MVP that has thousands of active users? What about an early stage in artsy-style (i.e. as a small self-publishing media company related to the tech/product being developed) with a self-media WeChat/Weibo account that has tens of thousands of visitors every week?

I'm one of those people that ended up moving back to China and looking to start a blue ocean project here. The early-stage investment landscape in China really is not looking good right now, just wondering how that will change over the next few years (especially in China where things are so fast-paced!) So would also love your opinions on that! Thanks!
In Sweden, like much of Europe, the police can (and routinely does) stop everybody for a breathalyzer test.

I understand that in the US the police can't do that; they need some reason (like swervy driving) to apply a breathalyzer test.
Cool, I run a pf firewall but this was news to me.

Anyone have any idea of the performance overhead? (Not that it really matters for me, just curious)
I made https://QuickMail.io for lead generation (making +$5,000/month)

This is the quick (1 min video) version of how I did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0y28HmcqUo&feature=youtu.be

This is the longer version: http://blog.quickmail.io/category/journey-to-1k-paying-custo...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8274084
Not even Deep Thought will be sufficient.
I saw your write-up on this before; very cool work. Could you talk a little about the programming side of things and what you had to do to go from your initial mock-up (what did you use for that?) to the Android app, and how that process went? I saw that you'd written it was your first time with Android/Java.
XML is horrendous. Especially to parse/scrape.
JSON on the over hand is a breeze.
I agree point 2 and 3 could be too challenging to overcome. But on point 1, a story could be important for a search query considering who has upvoted it.
They've already taken down the shortened link and blog, so they're definitely working on it. It's a major enough issue that they'll definitely work on it until it's fixed. Plus it seems quite likely that it's a random little exploit in blogspot, and I strongly suspect it's the kind of exploit that's impressive while a secret, and turns out to be some stupidly basic trick with a really easy fix.
Not trying to slay the giants yet, but I'll give it my best shot.
Can I buy you lunch in SF sometime? My email is rodguze@gmail.com
I am, but I'm taking my bare-minimum salary at this point (thank god for my lovely wife). We're actually doing quite well money-wise, but I just keep reinvesting everything we make.