jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Explore Wikipedia edits made by institutions, companies and governments
https://ailef.tech/2020/04/18/discovering-wikipedia-edits-made-by-institutions-companies-and-government-agencies/
Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did
http://www.arcfn.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html
The New Funding Landscape
http://paulgraham.com/superangels.html
Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
https://www.darkcoding.net/software/facebooks-code-quality-problem/
Today you, tomorrow me 
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/have_you_ever_picked_up_a_hitchhiker/c18z0z2
Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/
GHunt – An OSINT tool to extract information about a Google account
https://github.com/mxrch/GHunt
Why I Haven’t Fixed Your Issue Yet
http://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/blog/529/why-i-havent-fixed-your-issue-yet
Stuxnet is now on GitHub
https://github.com/Laurelai/decompile-dump
Duck Duck Go: Illusion of Privacy (2013)
http://etherrag.blogspot.com/2013/07/duck-duck-go-illusion-of-privacy.html
Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads
https://trungdq88.github.io/hn-big-threads/index.html
Three of the Hundred Falsehoods CS Students Believe
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2019-11.html#e2019-11-10T11_06_39.htm
ZFS 128 bit storage: Are you high? (2004)
https://blogs.oracle.com/bonwick/128-bit-storage:-are-you-high
Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/09/opinion/sunday/loneliness-health.html
About the security content of iOS 14.7.1 and iPadOS 14.7.1
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212623
Zerg Rush Google Easter Egg
https://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=zerg+rush
Internet addiction and the habit of book reading
https://benwajdi.com/2021/12/18/is-internet-addiction-eradicating-the-habit-of-reading/
The Q Language
https://code.kx.com/q/tutorials/startingq/language/
SurveyMonkey to buy Wufoo (YC W06) for $35m
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20110425/surveymonkey-buys-online-forms-start-up-wufoo-for-35-million/
Reviving the Pakon film scanner
https://ktkaufman03.github.io/blog/2022/09/04/pakon-reverse-engineering/
OS X app in plain C
https://github.com/jimon/osx_app_in_plain_c
Self-driving cars in the browser
http://janhuenermann.com/projects/learning-to-drive
Signifier – a Brutalist response to 17th century typefaces
https://klim.co.nz/blog/signifier-design-information/
California’s new law bans schools from starting before 8am
https://qz.com/1727790/californias-new-law-bans-schools-from-starting-before-8am/
Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/major-uk-science-funder-require-grantees-make-papers-immediately-free-all
Hackers used SolarWinds' dominance against it in sprawling spy campaign
https://in.reuters.com/article/global-cyber-solarwinds-idINKBN28P2N8
Show HN: Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid
https://rysolv.com/issues
BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf]
https://ia902603.us.archive.org/30/items/byte-magazine-1979-08/1979_08_BYTE_04-08_LISP.pdf
Show HN: ChessCoach – A neural chess engine that comments on each player's moves
https://chrisbutner.github.io/ChessCoach/
The secret call to Andy Grove that may have helped Apple buy NeXT
https://www.cake.co/conversations/g4CP6zJ/the-secret-call-to-andy-grove-that-may-have-helped-steve-jobs-change-the-world
Tim Armstrong: We Got TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/28/tim-armstrong-we-got-techcrunch/
This Year in Matrix
https://matrix.org/blog/2021/12/22/the-mega-matrix-holiday-special-2021/
Amazon Machine Learning – Make Data-Driven Decisions at Scale
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-machine-learning-make-data-driven-decisions-at-scale/
Little Alchemy 2
https://littlealchemy2.com/
Show HN: A WebAssembly game demo
https://www.funkykarts.rocks/demo.html
Forestry.io
https://forestry.io/
Rise of the Scientific Programmer
http://byterot.blogspot.com/2015/01/future-of-programming-rise-of-the-scientific-developer-bigdata-datascience-machine-learning-and-fall-of-the-craftsman.html
19 Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection
http://www.securityweek.com/19-groups-sue-nsa-over-data-collection
Simultaneous AP and Client Mode Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W
https://github.com/lukicdarkoo/rpi-wifi
Facebook and How UIs Twist Your Words
https://medium.com/user-experience-design-1/facebook-and-how-uis-twist-your-words-4ceedc5fd93#.uyy3wr30p
How a car works (2012)
http://www.howacarworks.com/
Whistleblower uncovers London police hacking of journalists and protestors
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/15/hack-a15.html
California jury says Bayer must pay $2B to couple in Roundup cancer trial
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayer-glyphosate-lawsuit/california-jury-says-bayer-must-pay-2-billion-to-couple-in-roundup-cancer-trial-idUSKCN1SJ29F
Flowcharts of programming language constructs
https://www.progsbase.com/blog/flow-charts-of-programming-language-constructs/
Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/google-backslides-on-federated-instant-messaging-on-purpose
Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (2015)
http://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/index.html
Make Hacker News Your Facebook Newsfeed
https://github.com/yczeng/hackernews-newsfeed?
Asdf – language tool version manager
https://asdf-vm.com/guide/introduction.html
Why no Roman industrial revolution?
https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/
Stop using tail -f (mostly)
http://www.brianstorti.com/stop-using-tail/?utm_content=buffer13c97&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Goodbye Microservices: From 100s of problem children to 1 superstar
https://segment.com/blog/goodbye-microservices/
Wayland misconceptions debunked
https://drewdevault.com/2019/02/10/Wayland-misconceptions-debunked.html
Kaspersky: SSL interception differentiates certificates with a 32bit hash
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=978
Alphabet’s Wing begins making commercial drone deliveries in the US
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/18/alphabets-wing-begins-making-first-commercial-drone-deliveries-in-the-u-s/
Things Paul Graham is wrong about
http://rondam.blogspot.com/2010/10/five-things-paul-graham-is-wrong-about.html
US oil prices turn negative as demand dries up
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52350082
There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs
https://almad.blog/essays/no-bugs-just-todos/
Elimination of HIV-1 Genomes by CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep22555
The first congressman to battle the NSA has died
http://pando.com/2014/02/04/the-first-congressman-to-battle-the-nsa-is-dead-no-one-noticed-no-one-cares/
Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf]
https://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/solutions.pdf
All 104 amendments to the Constitution of India as Git commits
https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india
Reimagining the future of routers
https://medium.com/@HannesGredler/the-end-of-the-router-e4d769aea60f
Startup Puts Everything You Need for a Two-Acre Farm in a Shipping Container
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/san-francisco-startup-puts-everything-you-need-two-acre-farm-shipping-container-180961567/?no-ist
Eloquent JavaScript 3rd Edition (2018)
https://eloquentjavascript.net/
I use the Getting Things Done methodology using todoist.
Fair enough, but that's like saying "intergalactic travel is a bounded problem"
But we have working examples of that machine.

The problem is in completely understanding it. If we completely understand it, then it shouldn't be hard to simulate.
Just the opposite. The free software movement has led to apps and programs where the users are the product, not the customer, and companies bend over backwards for advertisers. The companies have no incentive to care about your privacy, just your data.

Paid messaging apps, however (at least until they get acquired by advertising companies like Facebook), give companies incentives to service their customers first, and the users are actually the customers. That's why Slack and WhatsApp and HipChat and Basecamp have taken off--because they offer the security and paid customer/company relationship.

This article's title is woefully non-conclusive. Sure it would be wonderful if ALL messaging apps could by built and funded by Russian billionaires such they were private and free for the end user, but the fact is that to support the infrastructure of a billion+ user messaging app, you need to make money. And if you can't make money from the users to whom you are promising security and privacy (and thus to whom you owe allegiance), you have to make money elsewhere. And the alternative is arguably what has caused so many security and privacy problems in the first place.
Just so people know, I'm not talking Rails magic here - more the idea that there's stuff we don't understand that's going on that to all intents and purposes is magic. In other words:

> anything below your current level of abstraction that you don’t understand
I bought an xbox and a game for it at the same time from amazon. The xbox was fine the game disk was defective. I contacted amazon via my account, got a call from a human in less than a half hour (mainly I'd say to confirm the xbox itself was OK), received the new game a couple of days later and a refund of my return costs for the game itself.
The only (very) slight quibble I'd have was that the postage on the return exceeded what they refunded. They made the return process itself simple by emailing me barcoded return labels and frequent reminders. I feel very confident buying off amazon a lot more so than ebay for example
3rd party URL shorteners are a horrible idea. Why would we add an extra point of failure to links, the very fabric of the WWW?

Sites that maintain their own shorteners for their own content are really the only acceptable exception, and even then it's still an extra thing that can break.
ERI -> PHL -> NYC is half price of ERI -> PHL last time I looked.

Maybe the tool works best from smaller airports.
Still relevant: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BionicOffice.html
anti-nuclear power activists achieved during the 1970s

.. before Chernobyl and Fukushima. I think we need to be careful about claiming the safety of nuclear power in a thread about the dangers of radium.
>Are generics really that important?

For the kind of work we do in 2014, yes.
My company, Augmate, is hiring Android developers that have a passion to drive the adoption of wearables in the workplace. Smart Eyewear is in the early stages of its lifecycle, and there are many companies working on evolving the hardware. We are working with large industrial partners/customers in providing their deskless workforce a frictionless experience with technology. We are pushing forward in developing software for wearable devices and if engineers have an interest in facilitating a future wearable workplace, we would love to speak to you.

http://www.augmate.com/careers
The point is that everyone assumes you need generics to reuse code. And that's simply not true. For some very specific problems that can be true, but in many many cases it's not. My point is not that you never need anything outside the standard library, just that the standard library does a hell of a lot and it is by definition reusable.
How can:

> the contracts say that you are expected to use all legs of the tickets

and

> There are no legal repercussions for the passenger not using all legs of the flights

both be true?

In other words, I as the customer have no obligation to use all legs of the flight. I did not promise the airline I would fly all the way to my destination (as far as I know); I do not promise that I even get on the flight at all. How can there be a conspiracy to defraud?
They should mention that most of the functions they use and recommend using don't exist in IE8 and crappier.
Open offices are type A/extroverted personality wet dreams. Everybody they need is within earshot and they can see EVERYTHING so they can properly control everything. However for introverts, people with noise sensitivity, or people with ADD this is an absolute nightmare. I find a lot of engineers tend to be either introverts or have some type of manageable ADD so it doesn't surprise me that many people would be negatively affected by an office layout like this.
Credit cards are not easy to use for users or for merchants; especially for merchants who have to conform to PCI requirements. They are extremely bothersome when fraud becomes an issue, require trust in the merchant and loss of personal information, charge-backs are very hard on merchants and they would much prefer not playing this game at all. Merchants accept cards because they have to, not because they want to, they despise the fees associated with them and the inherent fraud and risk of doing business with them.

So no, Visa doesn't have a better story than Bitcoin.

Credit cards are quite simply the wrong solution to online money, they pull instead of push and are rampant with fraud and risk. Bitcoin fixes all of that.
True. But, really, in the end, money. The Air Force could have contracted its own shuttle that was optimized for its needs, given enough budget.
I imagine HN would just scrape the title automatically if that's the low standard that's been set for headlines here. The "title" field is presumably there so that people can enter something more descriptive.
This is the best article I've read in a long time - wonderful read on such an incredible and yet tragic topic.
Is there any chance for an actual device? (Except for flashing it onto a Nexus phone?)
That device is more useful for firefighters than for cops. Firefighters need to find people inside burning buildings. Looking for trapped people is one of the more dangerous jobs in firefighting. The fact that it's being sold more to cops than firefighters indicates that cops are getting too much money for tactical gear.

The device is a fairly basic Doppler radar, although the sensitivity is impressive. Someone might want to look up the FCC approval data for it to get the full technical specs.
Whoa. You don't even have actual facebook or twitter integration requiring authentication. You just pull the photo by username, which means no identity validation. Facebook/twitter should show the username along with the photo to indicate a verified connection. Plus after picking someone else's account, I can't delete the photo due to an error. Oh, and then refreshing the page gives an nginx error. This service is far from ideal, sorry. And at this price? Another get-rich-quick personal project deployed by someone who hasn't managed to write a scaleable or truly useful service. Now that probably offends :/
Logic systems can have bugs in them that make them inconsistent, which means that you can prove false (or bottom or whatever), which means that you can prove anything in this logic. And that, in turn, makes the logic system useless since for any given formula, it is provable in that logic. And being able to prove everything is not fun.

Then you have to patch your logic and make sure that none of your proofs relied on that inconsistency. Or something like that.
Exactly. There is room in this world for closed and open source products.

Enterprise companies will trade technology for stability and supportability. Most of us will flip the other way.
Thanks -- scratch that theory then.
A citizen can't be deported for any reason, ever. And I'm sure there are other differences.
That's a really good point - the student subscription route does not work internationally. I don't really know if there is any way around that.

One thing I'll note is that often, if you subscribe to WSJ or Foreign Affairs they also throw in a online log in. Presumably, if your billing information is accepted you could have the print subscriptions mailed somewhere random while you use the online login information. But I've never tried it myself.
The Python jobs are web-related only though. While Python is used inside Live itself, it's not enough to justify a pure-Python coder position for that.

But the web-team is large enough to also offer more back-end related work, which is the reason we advertise Python-developers instead of Web-developers only.

I fear though that this is not really that much different from another spin on social networking in the end.
I was expecting something more along the lines of: articulating your thoughts and discoveries benefits you personally. That's why I blog. Nobody ever reads my programming blog - although I do have 14 followers on my old-house blog.

You could write stuff on paper - God knows I've filled a few reams in my lifetime - but a blog will be easily found even if you're on vacation. I really like blogging my notes.
I'm one of the developers of CUDA at NVIDIA, so if anyone has any questions about that or GPUs in general that they'd like answered, feel free to post it here and I'll do my best.

However, answers might be a bit delayed--I'm at SC10 this week (or if you're at SC10, I'm an easy person to find at the NVIDIA booth).
I was thinking that it will be a Beatles announcement too. It seems like nobody will care, but at this point it has been scrutinized by so many folks that it has become a bigger deal.
I wish we had had more time to A/B test the signup - but we only implemented it on day 2. I will certainly know better if it ever happens again!
I don't disagree with jordanpg's reply, but it's even deeper than that.

Physicists think about theories and talk about theories as if they were reality. It's a huge convenience. Remember, we can only keep five or ten things in focus at once (the "magic number seven, plus or minus two). By adopting the trick of treating a theory as reality we gain a huge cognitive convenience.

The problem comes when we talk to non-scientists about this, who want to maintain a far less contingent view of the world. Knowledge isn't like that, though. Knowledge is contingent and uncertain (faith is certain.)

The situation is far more complex than you suggest, in fact. "Dark Matter" is a name for a range of diverse phenomena that don't necessarily have anything to do with each other. We keep this in mind when talking amongst ourselves, but have never been able to get it clear to journalists.

Galactic dark matter is what we use to explain rotation curves of spiral galaxies. It may be baryonic. As we go to larger scales there are different kinds of dark matter required--we know the baryon density of the universe and it isn't enough to explain what we see. We don't know if there is just one kind of exotic particle or many, and don't get me started on the cosmological constant.

We talk about all this stuff as if it was real--and keeping in our heads models that are far more complex than the rough sketch of the idea you've presented as "the current definition"--because there's no reason not to. <em>We</em> know that it may be wrong. <em>We</em> know how radically contingent it all is.

It's only when it gets to the general public, who have a very distorted view of how contingent our understanding of the world is, that people get upset, because they take the scientific discourse for something that it is not.

In any case, this is absolutely not about funding. It's about epistemology and psychology.
I was a math + physics double major in college, plus I was also deeply into programming, electronics, and music.

In my view, the starting point for physics is a deep curiosity about how things work. But I'm not sure that aspect of it is ever taught. Rather, it's assumed that good physics students arrive at college, having developed that instinct on their own as kids -- taking things apart, breaking things, asking questions, maybe having curious parents.

Instead, the emphasis in teaching physics is almost purely on the math. Certainly, what defines physics as a unique discipline is the interest in studying problems that lend themselves to mathematical analysis. Solving the textbook problems involves identifying the equations corresponding to the wording of the problem, then solving the equations. That's a skill, but it's not really physics.

I got through my physics courses on the strength of my math skills, but was extremely fortunate to have picked up the empirical half of physics on my own, through my hobbies, and from the curiosity about nature that my parents encouraged. But if someone lacks that background, I could see them being good at math, and maybe getting a good way through school physics, but never really getting physics as an end unto itself.
Read the link in my comment, it goes into great detail about what FISA leaves to be desired. An NSA analyst sums it up as: "Kangaroo court[1] with a rubber stamp".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_court
Think of how precious responsible employees that have read the documentation are to any company. Having teams of dedicated, capable, honest people who are working for a government on malware is absolutely a new development.
It is inevitable that US venture funding eventually rose to Y2K levels, and I would argue that it will likely continue to grow.

There were only 361 million Internet users in 2000, in the entire world. For perspective, that’s 40% of Facebook's daily active users. As global smartphone penetration continues to grow, market sizes only get bigger.

This idea of a high water mark of venture funding that indicates the presence of a bubble is nonsense. I'm not making a comment on the current funding environment but am wholly rejecting the idea of using historic venture funding levels as an indicator.
I think it would be more helpful if you actually said what you think, rather than making vague objections to something I didn't say. It would make for a much better conversation.
Ask and ye shall receive: http://help.agile.ws/1Password3/google_chrome_logins_bookmar...
Except I do the same thing with my desktop. It's actually much faster than any iPhone or iPad at coming back to life after not using it.
Why don't you apply to work for a software company that intersects with the health industry. I really think they need all the help they can get from smart tech people.

First one that came to mind:
http://www.pictureofhealth.com/
I interpret your comments as coming from a concern that I'm putting the cart before the horse in worrying about such details too far in advance of a product. I assure you that I'm not a douchebag with an idea that's setting up a company around nothing. I have a minimal viable product and what I'm learning is that customers want to see that I'm charging for the service and that there's a TOS that protects their data. That's the only reason I'm worried about incorporating at the moment. I guarantee you I'd rather ignore it, but I don't have confidence that I can. Maybe you can help me gain that confidence.

In setting up a terms of service without a corporation, who do I structure the agreement with? In examples I've seen, it's with a corporate entity, like 37signals, LLC in the case of Basecamp. It seems strange to make it an agreement with me personally, and potentially legally unwise. As far as accepting payments, those can presumably go directly to me, but again doesn't it make more sense to vector them to an independent entity? But maybe my thinking is wrong about this. I'd love to hear your thoughts.