jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I broadly agree with you, but think there’s a danger there of going too far in reducing culture and belief systems to simple “customs”.

Bret Devereaux, for one, constantly reiterates on his (awesome) blog you linked that people in the past really did often act, relate, and believe very differently than we do.

Anachronism is a trap just as much as romanticism, only from the opposite extreme.
I always assume birthdays on social networks are lies like mine is and never wish happy birthday or I ask in person.
The blind trust in apples ability to build a car is not well reasoned as it appears.

If the story from Apple was true, I.e., they actually designed almost all parts of the phone, and give out instructions to implement, then they'll need to be able to design a car as if they were build them, to match iPhone's legendary quality.

Can apple do that? With enough time, sure. But can they catch up Tesla in a meaningful time frame, say 5 years? I doubt it.
> YouTube doesn't seem to let you create more than one personality.

It actually does, you can create channels there : https://www.youtube.com/channel_switcher

There is an opensource p2p project called peertube, https://joinpeertube.org/ I never used and the numbers are very low and the frontpage contains some porn but it may also do what you want.
Well, GitHub is already returning a special response for those URLs.
There are chairs that tall they're often referred to as "office stools."
Every single item you list has significant "catches" that basically void the entire reality of itself, they are all meaningless - off the top of my head:

0) simply renewed a republican tax plan that was proven not to work since they helped put us into recession and caved on the idea of people making over $250k actually paying proportional taxes to help pay back their incredible gains

1) allows people to still be imprisoned forever without being charged and/or in solitary confinement with inhumane conditions - refuses to prosecute Valarie Plame leaks that got informants killed but now wants to go after non-citizens that republish leaks that only make his administration look bad

2) allowed insurance companies to drop children entirely before policy applied

3) allowed insurance companies to radically raise rates to compensate for imaginary loss of future profits - made the IRS an (even more powerful) enforcement agency that everyone will literally have to fear for their lives

4) allowed student loans to be "recovered" far more aggressively

5) insists on "partnerships" being "good enough" refuses to recognize gay marriage, setting a national tone that it's okay to discriminate like that

6) this won't be likely be signed because it's too late and democratic led congress is over - he let it drag out since April

7) allowed credit card companies to max out rates months before policy went into effect

8) asked courts to keep DADT on the books, setting national tone, allowed massive caveats in replacing DADT, 60 day nonsense waiting period from a dead-senator - military dishonorably discharged have to apply all over again and get all records reviewed without compensation

I like to consider myself very progressive but I cannot wait for Obama to be gone in 2012 so we can endure the dumbfounding insanity of 16 more years of far right rule, so FINALLY, FINALLY in 2038 when all these ancient a-holes finally die off and the young progressives will take over for a more enlightened country.

I just hope I live long enough to see it.
>history's first self-sustaining post-nationalist identity

I am not a historian, but wouldn't that honor go to religion? Regardless, religion is certainly older than the Internet.
Not a parody, but it did actually start out as a joke!
True. A useful question to ask is this: what's the minimal parametric type design that would allow writing "map" and "chan" within Go? (Ignoring, of course, that "map" and "chan" both have special syntax; map has a "[]" operator, and "chan" has "select')

If we needed to write, say, "thread-safe map", or "network chan", with type parameterization, that should be possible.
One-time pads only work if you already have a secure way to transmit the pads, and if you have that, you could probably use it to transmit your actual data.
It depends on language. In node, you can set environment variables in the code with process.env and Python with os.environ and then use those to specify the values on the command line. In fact, even services like Heroku will let you edit these from their web-based client.
Right; short term pain while the money is redistributed to somewhere it can be of more efficient use. The parent made it sound like the loss of jobs was going to collapse the economy.
What is wrong with jabber group chat?

You don't like the jabber priority based method of dealing with multiple connections. What would be better?
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+100.

I was continually frustrated until I finally settled down with a glass of hot chocolate, some romantic mood lighting, and started getting... intimate... with the source code. Even then, with GXT, it would be some nasty fights with a mediating debugger when it would stop talking to me and I had to pry out the reasons why. Usually, it was because some event wasn't being listened to.

A bad library is much like a bad relationship. When it's good, it's really good, but you forget that far too much.
I use Linode from their Atlanta DC. I have their Linode 360 option and it runs 12 websites with mysql and mongodb very very smoothly.
Not sure I would have used that image to illustrate the story. Good news is that there seem to be plenty more available on the site and they have a world cup underwear section.
Is this the email that states:

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You bailed out because of that?
My end goal would be to find a new job and move to a completely new place. I like learning for the sake of learning, but learning as a means to an end (new job) is my goal in this instance.

Thanks for the reading recommendation, it definitely looks interesting.
I'm not actually sure. This reads discs, but Apple's never been much into discs anyway. Also I know a low of underspeced devices have trouble with decoding HD content at acceptable speed, but I;m not sure if that applies to the AppleTV or not.
It didn't catch on in France during The Revolution either.
The training video is even more interesting - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ59dXOo63o
"tripcodes". NSFW: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Tripcode

> It works like this: In the name field, type a name, followed by #, followed by a password (or phrase, whatever). Then send a message as usual. You'll then see your name, followed by said 'gook. You should then promptly close your browser and GTFO the internets for wanting recognition on an anonymous message board.

They've been allowed and disallowed on /b/ at various points in time.
Can you use it for LOB though?
What makes it tripe? Seems like interesting bio-trivia to me? And from the Smithsonian of all places, it's definitely got some authority behind it.
Just a poor idea
As far as I can tell, there is no anotherstartup list in either hesiod or the MIT mailman system. (See http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/anotherstartup to verify the latter. Verification of the former requires an MIT account.)
> There is _always_ going to be a better tool for any job, but the criteria for said 'right tool' I think needs to be perfectly spelled out.

It is difficult to perfectly spell out and continue innovating at the same time. Just look at W3C. They're so far behind standardizing, that the industry in the current state has moved so for ahead ahead. Like I said, there are different motivations for people picking certain technologies, and when those motivations fall outside of picking the right tool for the right job, it's probably a bad idea.
You can't really standardize this industry because it's evolving so fast. just look at technology 10 years ago. It's a totally different landscape. This couldn't have happend with standardization.

> Is it a tool that is the most conceptually pure? Is it the one that we can hire developers for easily?

I think it's a mistake to hire people based on a skill set and not the capabilities or potential. Technologies come and go, and as a business, you mind end up at a point where you realize you need to switch technologies, for a good reason (either the one that you're using isn't appropriate or your business model has changed and you need a different tool, or whatever reason). If you're left with developers who only know how to do one thing and can't switch technologies, you're probably going to have a hard time.

> Software developers are amazingly good at coming up with a plethora of rhetoric why they should or shouldn't do anything. Look at their motives closely and you'll discover some interesting driving factors...

I agree. Just like there are competent and incompetent developers, you have developers making choices for the right or wrong reasons. That's why hiring is a difficult process, because distinguishing between these types is not straightforward. That's why there's a fight right now for talent. That's why there's a huge gap between the professionals. Because it's not a standard, and things move too fast to set things in stone.
You might want to take a look at this page. These are some links I've collected in regards to Stanford and their CS classes.

http://www.cancelbubble.com/search.php?q=stanford&catego...
Look, I explained what I thought the patent system was designed to do. You explain a completely different thing. If I'm wrong about my underlying premise, I'm wrong and I appreciate the correction. I'll look into it.

But when you say that my argument is "absurdity that borders on embarrassing," you take an otherwise interesting discussion and ruin it with ad hominems. I can't find the strength to get into anything further on the topic.

Good day to you, sir.
It's unfortunate that by hiding the symbol because it might offend and increase support issues (the latter of these I actually find to be a legit reason), it doesn't help strip the symbol of its offensive connotation to westerners. It ends up further retarding progress in reducing ignorance.

If the Nazis used a big capital N as their logo, no one would consider the letter N to be offensive. The main reason it has such strong Nazi association is because that symbol is used in few other contexts in western culture, it's relatively rare (which may be a strong reason why it was chosen by the Nazis, it had little modern western cultural baggage, so they could define it). In contrast, one of the major western religion symbols is the t-shaped cross.
Video game consoles are generally subsidized, yet their customers have no guaranteed video game subscription.
Imagine you're the brand manager for a new new brand of ketchup. How much would you pay to advertise to a customer who's standing in a supermarket looking to buy ketchup ?

That's why it's worth so much.
I just bought the first edition... I need to sell it quickly to some other sap!
> the cost of medicare.. is basically a combination of demographics and the cost of medical care, with the cost of medical care being the driving factor. Doesn't that sound like an arena ripe for disruption by startups?

Honestly, not particularly to me. As far as I can tell, this is a largely social issue. The idea that we might not give the best care possible to someone, that we might let someone die when we could keep them alive, that we might put a dollar figure on a person's life is an anathema to many people. I'm not really sure how a startup is going to disrupt that.
Conversely, I've found that a lot of women have pushed me to meet early. They tell me that a lot of men just want to talk, and they're not interested in pen pals.

That never worked out well for me: I'm a person of words, and while I really do want to meet, I'm unlikely to click with somebody who doesn't love conversation enough to chat before that. So I stopped meeting women who weren't interesting online; it seemed that the hope that they might be interesting in person never panned out. I hope they met somebody more to their taste.

Meeting strangers is dangerous, but if you arrange it in a public place, that's reasonably safe. And probably at least as good as trying to feel out whether they're dangerous via chat.
I’ve had the good fortune to get to the DMV before it opened to meet an already snaking line and then have the privilege to wait in line about 4.5 hours and then take a half hour to complete my appointment.

That’s the DMV in San Francisco —Daly City in this case because I can at least find parking.
Japan is a pretty good cautionary tale for Britain (and to a lesser extent to the US) on how shutting yourself off from immigration tends to go.

Japan was expected to become the next global superpower in the 1980s, and instead has seen closing in on three lost decades.

It’s only now trying to catch up, politically, culturally and economically.
There's more to life then money. Being able to provide others with a fair and better platform would make me accept a paycut.
Played Archon to death with my coder friends on the Atari. The games became so intense that friendships were sometimes be tested. The instant response from killing a unicorn was a sudden punch to the thigh. Sometimes this could even done with a goblin for greatest upset.
Making cabinets and speaking the language of a culture that is necessary to succeed are not the same thing at all. Yes they are both skills but the similarity ends there.

Do you think a Japanese person who doesn’t speak English could build a successful company in the US without the help of someone who speaks English? It would be impossible.
The author is very friendly and responsive. I'm sure he'll respond to your concerns if you reach out to him.
Right, and there must be competitors to compare with. This is why a federal job guarantee makes sense.
History repeats itself. Same thing happened for Java..
This announcement eclipsed the previously-announced Bollinger Motors products (https://bollingermotors.com/). These were intriguing but the price ($125k) is a bit eye popping.
Rich text editors are a nightmare to implement, especially on the web, mainly because formatting a substring requires creating a new nested element, so you have to constantly synchronize a flat string with a tree structure. It's possible that they dodged this problem by storing the in-progress message as a tree and just intercepting keyboard events to directly manipulate that. If so, the core data structure would've changed and it might not be a clean swap between two different widgets that both just operate on a string.

That's just a guess though; I don't work at Slack.
It's certainly a less desirable part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopped_liver#Chopped_liver_as...

I'm aware that stomachs are used in haggis, or intestines in sausage. That doesn't represent the majority of human meat consumption though.
The counter example would be Google Maps. They really care about this product. I think they even support Palm OS.
Phone numbers are not required for credit card processing. Address, yes. Phone, no.
> You'd need charging stations

A lot of work trucks drive less than 200 miles per day. Being able to keep them plugged in at night and start every day at 100% charge is likely more convenient than having to stop at a gas station and fuel up for most plumbers/ electricians/ framers.

> The other part is that work trucks need good integration with tools and tool storage.

This is a much bigger issue and it fully depends on use. There are bed sliders which would help a bunch.

Also, lifting things out through the side of the truck bed is very much a thing and it's basically impossible with this design.

> I think the idea of this being a work truck is a silly idea.

For some jobs it would work fine, but for a large chunk of professionals the design is too out there to be useful.
As I understand it, a successful product launch is a strong addition to a "promo packet". What we are seeing is the inevitable result of a system that prioritizes new products above all else. If google wanted to combat the stigma that they kill 3 out of every 4 products they launch, they could just start rewarding promo packets that demonstrate maintenance and growth. I still have Reader bookmarked as a reminder to not get to invested. Show people that they are committed to the longevity of their products and you might just get more early adopters for you next big launch.
How would you articulate "the protobuf problem" to a gRPC novice like me?

Also re http/rest docs -- check out my open source project -- it's sort of like Git but for Rest APIs https://github.com/opticdev/optic
Turnarounds are unlikely with such a short time constraint and what sounds like a desperate situation. This is probably where life moves on and you go elsewhere soon.

If you don't have too much to lose, this is where you could conceivably try some short term growth hacking strategies/gaming Google in a last ditch effort to boost your search ranking. Go nuts with buying links and doing all of the stuff Google doesn't want you to do. In the long run that will fail without other changes but you might be able to squeeze a bit more life out of this and maybe learn something in the process. Odds are against it though.

If you're just an employee rather than an owner, your limited remaining time at work is probably better used applying for jobs and brushing up on technical stuff for your upcoming interviews.
Hmmm...Redundant Array of Inexpensive Daves...I feel inspired to write a short story...
The volt is a great car. Almost every brand has a PHEV now.
> There is an old finding in political science that Americans are “symbolically conservative” but “operationally liberal.” Americans talk like conservatives but want to be governed like liberals. In California, the same split political personality exists, but in reverse: We’re often symbolically liberal, but operationally conservative. Renaming closed schools is an almost novelistically on-point example, but it is not the most consequential.
Why would you ever hook that shit up to computers that are online? The purpose of the utility fees is to employ people at those sites to govern the operation of those resources.
At least to me, a footgun goes beyond a mere performance gotcha. There's a whole category difference between, "If you do this, the compiler may not be able to optimize your code as well," and, "If you do this, your code may produce incorrect results."
I have enough imagination to be a professional writer. You still do not convince me. Life extension is desired by too many people to be kept in billionaire's circle forever, or even for too long. As soon as the details of any procedure leak out, you can bet that someone in Brazil or India will set up a clinic to run the treatments for reasonable price.

> What about a 250 years old Jeff Bezos ? 250 years old Putin ? The only limit to these people is literally ageing and being mortal

I can imagine that very well and frankly, this seems to me the only downside to the whole process. Yes, this is troubling.

> Do you think people who aren't able to live decently and afford food at every meal in 2021's America would be offered a "longer and healthier life" pill ? Do you think people dying in 2021's America of diabetes because they can't afford insulin would be offered a "longer and healthier life" pill ?

Not everywhere is America, in fact, 95 per cent of the world is not America. Single payer systems might do just the thing you consider absurd.

How Americans respond to that is up to them. Also, looking at Americans in general, their general problem is not lack of food, but excess thereof. Most American health problems are caused by overeating.

> If you fail to see the moral difference between typing on a computer and "curing ageing"...

This is Hacker news, not Preacher news, and I haven't addressed the morality of the intervention at all. You are shifting the goalposts, it is fairly clear that I addressed your "trickle down" argument in my rebuttal. Technologies that are expensive in the beginning tend to become cheaper over time and "trickle down" to the less wealthy precisely in the way that you denied. Look around the very room you are sitting in, most things there would be way less affordable to your grandfather.
This is a valid point. Without the context, the “everything is an expression” forces one to look for a line without a semicolon to see the expression result. In a 5 line function, that’s easy, but in a nested match, it can be hard.
So, that’s you. There’s a lot of people who will upgrade every year, and there’s an obvious signal that they’ve done so - that camera array on the back. People can tell at a glance whether you have the latest (and highest spec) version of the iPhone.
I'm in the same boat as you. I thought there was built in ways of searching things like that so I started to think of some ideas for an entry. Was disappointed when I realized I'd have to sit down and scrape and populate a ton of data. Though I'll still probably wind up doing this.
Complaining about proper punctuation in web page titles seems a little pedantic. Using colons and other strange "punctuation" is a substitute for graphics and styling since these are not available in title bars. For those cases where it is meant to be sort-of punctuation, I'd say titles on the internet simply follow a different set of rules and conventions than prose, or anything else prior, because they serve a different purpose.
Interesting that the free calls are only for US-based users. They don't want to give too much away, and maybe Google figures the US-based folks will get their friends and family abroad hooked on the service and then they'll be willing to pony up real dough in the future.
The Dojo Foundation is sort of similar to what you're talking about: http://dojofoundation.org/
They do, actually. If the public user url is http://365.io/u/2fe9781736, you can access the 20th image by going to http://365.io/u/2fe9781736/20. The link to individual images are shown in the private index view.

Flickr's terms won't allow that type of use of their api. Also, flickr has a 200 photo limit on free accounts that makes project 365 impossible unless you upgrade, and even less so if you use flickr for something else.
There is a meta pattern I recognise in my tab bar sometimes - I get pairs of unfamiliarfavicon:hackernewsfavicon.

That it actually quite useful when I flick back to a random browser window after being distracted... ("Ahhh, that's my timewasting window!")
Maybe in basketball and soccer, where you just need a ball.

In sports like golf, gymnastics, figure skating, hockey, gridiron football, tennis, skiing and snowboarding it's another story.
Create your own database, let the users submit barcodes.