jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The article is great, but one attempting to duplicate such achievement has to be aware of survivorship bias.

What I mean, author picked writing nginx extensions as his area of expertise. At the time of his first contract nginx was just gaining ground. If nginx didn't become popular, all that positive notoriety in nginx world would have been for naught.

Working on different projects with different toolchains, I have come across many people who are experts in their niche. They do not get contracted as experts often.
I created a part-time jobs board: https://parttime.careers/

I hope it will be useful for people in this thread.
Leaving the legal issues out of it, if you were acting in the role of a parent, would you just abandon a child if you found out you're not biologically the father? Like one day you're taking them to sports, reading them bedtime stories, cuddling, all that stuff, the next day you just have nothing to do with them?
>It makes sense that a toxic environment will turn off people in the long run, and most well intentioned people (ie the majority of Reddit, Google, or FB employees) want to run a platform that adds value and is not a cesspool.

I don't think this is supported by the evidence.

The evidence: the current state of Twitter, Facebook, etc. None of them have the necessary level of moderation and until they do, they will continue to be cesspools.
It was a big mistake banning it from Reddit. Their own platform is way more radical and informally and in practice allows incitement to violence.
It's irrelevant, but it's quite apparent that the establishment is using what's relatively a minor event* to put into motion the crack downs they've wanted to do for years.

Seeing the Twitter mob, composed not only of the usual subjects, but also major media members, celebrities, and politicians outright push for restrictions and "punishments" for anyone who has ever shown support for Trump is terrifying. The left has become the true fascists they've always pretended they were fighting. It's a small step from here to the Bolshevik purges and Chinese Cultural Revolution. Exact same playbook being enacted.

* Congress has been "stormed" many times in US history, as recent as Kavanaugh hearings.
Yep. The type of person who gets a high-paying enough job (and has the discipline) to save $1M usually doesn't have trouble getting extra work if they want. But now there's no pressure, they can take "fun" gigs that couldn't have supported them previously (musician, librarian, teacher, etc.).
> ISPs don't want to host speech they feel is abhorrent

But where does this end? Does the phone company want to allow conversations they find morally reprehensible? Does apple want to send iMessages that denigrate their company?

After all, they are private companies! /s
Because I've already done this for so many other people that I'm exhausted. Go f*cking read the speech yourself. What did he think would happen when he asked his supporters to "talk to their representatives" literally as they are voting? Go have a nice cup of tea?
Is there a more convenient way to pre-populate form fields, not via URL? What if I have a form with 50 questions and long answers, and I want the user to be able to go back the form and update their responses?
On the one hand, by (interpreter compile-time) default, all numeric values in Lua are floats, and xor on floats doesn't make a lot of sense. On the other hand, given the popularity of embedded Lua (in which case the numeric type is probably int) the lack of bitwise operators gets frustrating. Actually I can attest to this, having used Lua in an embedded context.
Were the patents issued for using that form of electricity, or rather for the contraption built to harness that electricity?
Lol... exactly.
> Years later Y solves that task with a clever hack and lots of computation, but no general intelligence.

While that is true the set that contains instances of Y is only growing and the members are each becoming less narrow.

Deepblue was only chess with many handcrafted parts. AlphaZero does chess, shogi and go with no prior knowledge. Then they went from perfect information, turn-based games to RTS with fog of war.

It's not general intelligence, but at least further down the road in behavioral complexity than jellyfish, despite some crippling limitations (e.g. separation of training and inference)
What about most compensated tech skill. Highly doubt SQL and Java rank highly there.
My mistake, I did misinterpreted you.
Too bad they couldn't even tell him what set it off, since he clearly did not remember:

"I can’t think of anything. What does it say is triggering the alarm?" I asked.

"I’m not going to tell you! It’s right here on my sheet, but I don’t have to tell you what it is!" he exclaimed, pointing at his clipboard.

''EDIT: formatting''
This is an interesting case, however its important to point out that the legal debate around this is ongoing. This ruling only applies to the 2nd Circuit at this point. It's looking like a Supreme Court case will be necessary to ultimately decided this issue, given the murkiness around it.

Until then, however, off-label drug marketing is not something companies get away with without a substantial legal battle (often not worth it), and the FDA has so far collected billions of dollars in settlements and fines through successful off-label drug marketing suits.
I'm sure people thought like that when agriculture got automated and didn't need as many people any more. Higher productivity shifts people from industry to industry. There's often a lag between the death of one industry and the rise of another.
I'd love to hear PG chime in about the chairs. He's been negative on them in an article or two. I think I agree with Joel here. I'm a frugal bootstrapper - I always turn off the heat before I leave my apartment. But cheap chairs can be bad for your back in the long-run. Long-term back problems are a pretty bad trade-off for a thousand bucks. And from looking at the market, it seems like a bit of an either/or scenario: you either get something super cheap, which is bad for your back, you get something mid-range, which falls apart quickly (what Joel was talking about), or you go with something expensive, which lasts for a long time. Either you go all out, or you get a bad solution. I think the pricey option is a pretty sane purchase here.
palo alto doesnt even have a good movie theater. you gotta drive to mountain view.

mountain view has the movie theater, which is basically next to google. mountain view also castro street, with the red rock cafe, lots of good little restaurants, and some night life.
What do you propose instead? A link is fine.
I hate it when people buy into this 'government is a business' mentality and that it should have a 'balanced budget'. Government is not a business and people shouldn't expect to run it like one. The money spent on social services circulates within the US economy but corporate tax cuts get funneled to off shore accounts never to see the light of day within US borders. So what the politicians should be fixing are corporate finance rules and not social security, medicaid or some other social service.
Nobody ever says, "Ted Bundy didn't kill me. End of story." There's a definite bias in that only bad news ever gets reported.

One killing is not an indictment of the whole person.

Just because something works OK (not great, but OK) in the average case doesn't absolve it of terrible behavior in less common cases.
Laffer Curve is the more general concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_Curve
Nothing is perfect. If you go on Amazon or Yelp and look up reviews for high-end products or restaurants, there is always that one reviewer that complains the service is one millisecond to slow, the temperature is one hundredth of a degree short, and the experience isn't quite like the insane ideal they've built up in their head. But for most pragmatic people, a good high end product passes all reasonable standards of quality, so they don't bother going out of their way to find quirks and then complain about them.

YC is full of pragmatic people, by virtue of the interview process. This set is disjoint from the set of people that would give a BMW 7 series a one star review, because in order to build a successful business you need the types of people that focus on the right things. If someone held a gun to my head and asked me to list everything I was dissatisfied with at YC, I could probably find some quirks, but I'd really be grasping at straws. After they offered us investment without a single line of code or a single customer, welcomed us as if they knew us for years and not once questioned our decisions, gave us advice and introductions necessary to get the company off the ground, guided us to find additional investment when the country was in the worst recession since the Great Depression, after all these things, complaining that the quality of free food at dinners doesn't quite live up to a meal at Peter Luger would be... just plain strange.
DNS blocking works quite well. It's also very effective if you can set it up on your gateway so that it blocks ads/malware for all devices (PCs, phones, tablets ... even your guests will get adblocking for free!). However, while the /etc/hosts trick works I don't think it's the best way. The reason is that while parsing a plaintext file is easy and generally fast, it doesn't scale well especially when you have to traverse several megabytes of it for _every_ DNS request.

The way I have done it is by installing unbound[0]. If you aren't using something else like dnsmasq, you will notice a speedup from the DNS caching alone. While unbound isn't supposed to serve authoritative answers (i.e.: don't use it to manage your zone) the possibility is there. The unbound-block-hosts script[1] can be used to convert Dan Pollocks' hosts file to the appropriate unbound syntax.

To avoid the timeout from localhost, my first approach was to setup a firewall rules that discards the request (the browser receives a connection refused message _immediately_)

Another way of proceeding is to setup nginx to serve a 1*1 transparent GIF for every request it receives. If you find nginx to be too big a dependency, there are alternatives such as pixelserv[2].

The issue is that you can't block a specific element, but you still catch a fair share of ads.

I have explored the possibility of running a http proxy to address this, but I haven't got around to it yet. (In addition, I'll probably need to MITM myself if I want to block elements in HTTPS; still needs some thinking :)).

[0] https://unbound.net/
[1] https://github.com/jodrell/unbound-block-hosts
[2] https://github.com/h0tw1r3/pixelserv
Though that same $100 is less than $80 USD right now (sigh).

I find that I can get groceries, without skimping, for less than $100/person, it just takes some optimizing and sometimes deciding what to make based on what's on sale. Also, buying products lower down the processing chain generally makes things cheaper as well.
The money, of course. He's a Managing Director.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Morgan-Stanley-Managing-Dire...
> Does she see these messages you are writing?

Nope, unless she tries to find it. HN is in my favorites and it auto-logins. But she's really not the type for that. I think it'd be pretty painful to read although she knows the bulk of it.

> It's a bit of an odd suggestions, but consider having kids.

Still 24, so that'd be really early for us, not something I'd love to have so early in my life (although I can imagine how nice it'd be to still be 44 with an adult kid!).

Beyond that though it's also not something I'd feel is appropriate. It's definitely true that if I'd have kids right now I'd probably solve the symptoms of whatever problem I have, completely agree with you there. I'm that type of person, as most people are, to my girlfriend for example. If she needs me I'll be there, if she has stuff planned for a birthday, or is going to graduate or needs a running partner for motivation, I'll suddenly be up for going out with her. And it's certainly true that people have had kids for less. But this issue is not something I'd ever want to use as a reason to have kids in and of itself, despite any of that.
The web 'began dying'? What does that mean, Boomer?

If you were to ask when it began being corrupted that would be more to the point. How are children corrupted? What is the cure? After PCs came along it was all fun and games until people noticed there was gold involved. Stir in some greed and ego. Old forumula.
In fact, any organization can do this. In the vegan/vegetarian/organic/non-GMO food space there are multiple competing certification programs. The LSD Avengers used to fulfill this role on the old Silk Road. It seems there is at least one NGO that specifically certifies goods as made in the USA, though I have no idea how legit they are: https://madeinusacertified.wordpress.com/
You... don’t? There is a reason that Elon etc are the ones with bootstrapped space companies and very few others.
In short, infrastructure. Where would you start?
Rich hobbyists - like the businesses that specialize in model trains
It takes courage to articulate something so intimate and authentic. Thanks for sharing.

> Or those taking away that I’m not doing something that I like or following my passions, I am. I still do the things I like to do, but I don’t sacrifice everything else in life to focus on them exclusively. It remains to this day that that has its costs and benefits.

Do you still have such creative intellectual pursuits? Do you think you’ll be able to write a follow-up post describing the equilibrium you’ve settled into now (and the associated trade-offs) and how you got there?
PHP/MySQL and React/Redux. We also used Electron for the front-end desktop software. Electron certainly comes with a ton of baggage but upon evaluating all other options, we decided to go with it because it was the best fit for our team´s experience.

Other than that, there were actually very few tech pieces involved. I am an extreme minimalist by nature so I kept things as simple as possible in order to minimize the surface and complexity of the code base.

Overall, it took us 9 Months in total to build the application from a prototype phase to a full blown trading system. We did it so fast because we kept things simple and low in complexity.
Chase the extreme pleasures by experiencing much pain.

Or be an Epicurean and enjoy the neutral state most, pleasures but not at the expense of pain.

Or be a Stoic and find comfort in realizing you aren't invading Russia in the winter.
There is fairly strong evidence of broad complicity among police officers in each other's misconduct, to the point that there are dozens of stories out there of new police officers joining some of the most prominent police forces in the country, seeing bad things happening, and trying to get them to stop—only to be told, persuaded, coerced, and threatened into shutting up or quitting.
I like going out shopping the essentials, i like to pick up my own coffee and maybe check what else is on the shelve...this product looks a bit depressing "just stay home and order from amazon"
Good point. Boole boosted logic the same way.

a ∧ (a → ¬b) → ¬b

is easier to reason with than

Socrates is a man, no man is immortal, therefore Socrate is not immortal.
Really? You're going to vote me down for saying you should stand up for your rights?
Apple requires all their suppliers to sign statements that the source materials (such as minerals) they're selling are 'conflict free'.

However, according to Steve Jobs, there's no way to be 100% sure that the materials aren't from the Congo or other war zones. Apple has no technique to inspect minerals and find out which mine they came from.

Source:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/jobs-no-way-to-be-sure-iphon...
They've got a pretty impressive setup there at Voda. This is a video of their scrum wallboard in action for a sprint. They use physical cards to represent stories and have task completion tied into their PM system, allowing them to project a burn-down chart across the board.

There are some other neat wallboards in the contest, but I found this one particularly cool.
This is amusing, more so because I could almost see Apple itself attempting to use this concept. But, it's less cutting than several of the past Yes Men campaigns, possibly because of the congruence between the satirized and the satirical premise. Apple is not particularly egregious in sourcing their materials, nor are they particularly hypocritical about their use of rare-earth elements.
Thanks a lot, that looks like it's along the same lines as what I'm trying to do. How did you test this locally? Does Sqlite support this? Or did you set up PostgreSQL on your development machine?
Do something that sounds like fun to you. Seriously, if keep wondering about novelty, you already lost before you started. Almost every idea has already been done in some way. And if it hasn't been done, chances are your innovative project will live in obscurity while others come to the game later with the same functionality will and suddenly really take off. Given those mechanics, it also makes no sense to plan for popularity. Life (and the web) is unfair that way.

But having said all that, the upside is, once you freed yourself from these pressures and expectations, you can devote your energy to projects that really motivate you with their intrinsic qualities. Doing them can be a great reward in of itself, and it can push you to make something stunning, bold, and truly beautiful. And sometimes, though very rarely, from these qualities there comes popularity and the trappings of success that we all secretly hope for.
um.. Are you using the right version of IE 9? The current version is IE 9 PP7 (1.9.8023.6000), which produced a Sunspider result of 216ms. You are testing the beta version of IE 9, which was released in back in September. Of course the old version of IE 9 will have a much slower speed. By the way the Sunspider result for IE 9 beta was about 340 ms
http://www.linkedin.com/search/fpsearch?companyId=830630&...
And whether the seal around the HEPA filter that the HEPA filter is put inside is airtight.

E.g. I've seen some vacuum cleaners which have HEPA filters reviewed as a bit useless at filtering because the particles flow through small gaps around the filter.
I think it’s a term for any kind of unconditional stimulus; everyone getting automatically it as if it was cash dropped from helicopters.
I just roll with a T Rex suit, have the fan in the tail with an embedded pipe that shoots air past a uvc light.
The "tokens" you're thinking of are "grapheme clusters" in Unicode.

Unfortunately just reversing by grapheme clusters doesn't solve the problem because of directional formatting codes; if you have e.g. a right-to-left embedding followed by a pop directional formatting you can't naively reverse them.
It just needs flair. Here's a positive pressure suit that's sure to put a smile on your face, just add a HEPA filter.

https://smile.amazon.com/Rubies-Adult-Jurassic-Inflatable-Co...
Just FYI, there are ARM versions of both Linux and Windows these days. There are also high end ARM server CPUs, [1] and Amazon even offers EC2 instances backed by a custom ARM CPU. [2] (While we're at it Linux also supports POWER9. [3])

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-a...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/

[3] https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
In Android there's an option to lock orientation.
I did most of my testing of Ansible roles with Molecule 2.22 (and Vagrant/VirtualBox) which made it soooo much easier to test roles.

Molecule 3.x was recently released but there's been some major changes which "broke" my existing setup and I haven't yet gotten around to "fixing" it.

It takes a bit to learn how to use Molecule but, if you do much role development at all, it's definitely worth it!
The 4th paragraph on the 29th page names the students involved with the Euler effort in alphabetical order, giving the incorrect impression that I made a significant contribution. All credit goes to the others listed.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13911239 and marked it off-topic.
I really don't think that's true. I'd be happy to look at past data to check that, if you have any links that you recall giving you this impression, but in my memory, the Tailscale people did basically nothing to promote themselves on HN and the user reaction (including from whatever high-karma users) was completely organic.

I do think the pedigree of the founders helps them a lot, but that's a different issue and also counts as completely organic. It's just harder to pull off if you haven't put in 20 years of hard work beforehand.

It's so soul- and bone-crushingly difficult for most startups to get attention on HN that I understand why it seems like these 'darling' successes must be pulling strings or knobs or levers, but it's really not like that. It's actually the other way around: if anyone does try to pull strings or knobs or levers, but without doing work and writing content that the community is genuinely excited by, the result would be a community backlash.

The other side is that the 'darling' phenomenon is interesting and contains lessons for people who do hope to get attention for their work on HN.
I agree for many people diets don't work.

For me, I don't buy ready made food and typically my own laziness is the reason I don't eat much.
It also doesn't help that until recently, the Dutch freight trains weren't well coordinated with the commuter trains, sometimes leading to unnecessary delays.

Standardization seems like the easiest first step to pull off. For a given route, a train should always stop at the same platforms, be the same length at a given point in the day (that is, morning trains might be longer to deal with more traffic, but then they should always be equally long) and should stop so as to align its doors with painted cues on the platform.
> Last time I opened this site, I received thirteen design requests within the first 20 minutes or so. I had to close the submission form, or I wouldn't be able to keep up with the number of requests coming in as this went viral.

Seems like a perfect opportunity to raise the price until demand levels off enough that he could keep up with it. I imagine he could find a sweet spot between being affordable, and having enough requests to keep him busy.
Blogspam. Original article: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...
While the link is down I'm going to rant about the british rail system :)

Can anyone suggest any reason why it costs me upwards of £25 if I want to take the train from Edinburgh to visit my parents in Montrose (distance is 59 miles), while I can fly to Stockholm, Berlin, Paris (ie completely different countries, thousand miles or more) for the same price or less?

This is including the weird charges tacked on at the end by Ryanair, easyjet and the like.
Not remotely true. /r/ChapoTrapHouse was banned a while back too. If anything, they target the left more.
A Capitol police officer died from injuries during attempts to control the mob.
4chan has survived the wannabe-stasi deplatform mob all these years simply by hosting the servers in the admin's basement.
Yeah it basically acts like a ski mask for a good portion of your face.
Does anyone use it as their daily driver office suite? How is it holding up?
Aren't patents supposed to expire?

Isn't that the idea, you have a patent for 10-20 years, build your business (which AMD/nVidia did, very successfully) then everyone is free to use it, possibly leading to innovation?

I'm poorly versed in this, so if anyone with more knowledge could share some thoughts, that would be appreciated.
You really feel this effect when sleeping alone in the wilderness. You can hear every mouse or rabbit for hundreds of feet in any direction, even while asleep. If you know there are other apex predators in the area, you'll feel some primal instincts come back to life. It's worth experiencing at least a few times in your life.