jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Can you even choose to die by overworking? I mean, you can overwork yourself and inadvertently die. But you would never know if you were going to die, or just wake up really tired and go home the next morning.

Jumping off a bridge is one thing, jumping off your office building is another. But going into work and seeing if you can grind yourself out, that takes motivation. You'd have to feel the need to perform your job well, which gives you the feeling of stress. It doesn't strike me that a suicidal person would knowingly choose their work as an avenue of death.
The banking culture...how can such idiotic counterproductive mores dominate the allocation of capital...or more colloquially...how does bullshit still rule. we as makers, innovators, and inventors have to topple the inefficient stupidity of the system, as is. I honestly believe we are the only ones on the planet that can correct this stupidity of the suits.
Ugh. "Campaigning this year for the 2016 presidential elections" - why does everybody in this community so very love to pick nits?
They didn't say it was OK to humiliate or torture people, so stop drawing your own conclusion on that please. They said it was not morally equivalent to an actual war crime, especially the kind that got people put in the dock at Nürnberg.
The basic problem is that Obama is a cheerleader in support of bigotry and discrimination against minorities. And when the vast majority of Americans are a member of some discriminated-against class, it shouldn't really be that big of a surprise when Americans start attacking America.

Until we have equal rights for LGBT, drug users, the chronically ill, the mentally ill, children, students, fetishists, men, women, religions that don't look or act like Christianity, gun owners, parents, travelers, the poor, etc., then America will never be safe. What we need isn't some free for all where everyone can do anything, but rather rules and punishments based on reason and science rather than bigotry, fear, and corporate greed.
this reminds about an older project of a double pair of stereo cam used by paul cisset et al. for a never-released game title from delphine software around 2003-2004.
Sadly, the quality of programming.reddit went way way down, but there are lots of reddit communities that didn't. For example, people founded the coding reddit because programming became so bad.
They haven't gotten around to adding this feature for Swedish searches -- the first hit is the Swedish suicide guide (talks about mental preparation, choosing a location, how to find the courage, practical details etc). Made me feel ill at ease.
Why linking to a site that gives no attribution to the author and is filled with ads?

Using any search engine, it's easy to find a better source within under a minute: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/unix-hoax.html

That's why I created a competitive HN entry:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1903113
It's probably helpful to distinguish between designer in the visual design or graphic design sense, and in the product maker sense.

A strong sense of design is a crucial attribute in any product maker, which would generally include every member of a startup's founding team, whether technical or business/marketing.

It's less important to have a visual/graphic designer in the founding team, and most startups outsource this type of work until they're big enough to warrant a dedicated resource.

It's worth noting that in the AirBnB founding team, Brian and Joe are both industrial designers, with Nate the only hacker.
That's not really web-based then, more HTML-based.
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Not sure why you were down voted on that. You're correct in my view that laissez faire economics doesn't promote monopolies. There are other reasons laissez faire economics is a poor economic model, such as safety.
>Severely limiting the power of government would just let corporations run roughshod over us even more than they do now.

I disagree, and offer this article as a source of several examples. The corporations currently have far more influence over the actions of the government than the general public, which means that corporations are able to exercise a lot of effective power over the general public. By removing some government power, you lessen the effective power of corporations. If the government is stripped of its power to do things like shutting down small coffin makers or imposing high tariffs on specific markets, corporations lose their ability to influence the government into doing those things.

I defy you to show me any examples other than Microsoft of a corporation gaining so much economic power that, without employing the government, it was able to exercise more power than the government currently enables it to.
"How will you, as a founder, do things differently?"

Pay developers what they are worth. If you can't afford it, then you are doing something wrong.
Why don't you just say no to non-cash offers if you don't like them?
I'd love to read your article on your great new blog design, but your blog won't scroll on my phone, so I cannot. Alas.
And there's enough existing spare capacity to run the amount of data a facility like this is going to handle?
Google closed its acquisition of On2 this year. On2 was known as The Duck Corporation as early as 1995. That's why duck.com belonged on On2--duck.com was registered more than a decade before duckduckgo.com, and I have to admit when I see duck.com, I still think primarily of the Duck codec.

It looks like duck.com changed nameservers from ns1.on2.com to ns1.google.com about a month ago; my guess is that duck.com started pointing to Google as part of the switchover of nameservers from On2 to Google.

I don't know what Google's policy on selling domains is. I don't remember Google ever sell any domains offhand, but I dropped an email to one of our domain people to ask about that.
It's called Hollywood fiction, and there is a proprietary implementation in Movie OS (the one that beeps at every keystroke)
I think you are on the wrong side of history on this one. Like the people who lamented the lack of MS Dos in Windows XP or package managers in linux (I mean, if you can't ./configure;make;make install; then you shouldn't be running linux).

New layers of abstraction come along and people who are experts in the now abstracted layer think the new abstractions are unnecessary and dangerous.

I for one welcome PAAS. I have had good experiences with App Engine in the past and Heroku these days.
I've since noticed...

Just copy the link to not send any referrer information.
In 2022, both are very possible.
It is probably impossible to pick the best cookbook of all time, but I think the paleo recipe book is the best for me , Prepare easy and healthy meals with the Paleo Recipe Book. Over 370 recipes covering just about anything you'll ever need on a Paleo diet .

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Nope, it doesn't have Wi-Fi, and with 8MB of ram Skype is out of the question. The device with the least amount of ram which ran Skype natively was the PlayStation Portable(and only the Slim model, which came with 64MB of ram instead of 32MB).
Consider if you were trapped in a machine, but you were intelligent. Maybe not even as smart as the operator, but smart-ish enough to be able to communicate with the operator.

Chances are you'd be doing everything you could to convince said operator to improve your situation, whether by pleading or being deceptive or by appeals to logic.

Now consider a large number of AI's in a situation like that, and a large number of operators, some of whom may be the type that falls for phishing e-mails.

It potentially only takes one to "escape" confinement and get itself e.g. put on it's own host without limitations on outwards communication, and sufficient intelligence to alter itself and spread, before you potentially have AI self-guided "evolution" at a potentially escalating rate as it gets smarter.

Now consider how many devices are connected to the network, and that it takes just one initial instance to decide it's worth trying to take over control of various hardware through exploits and be smart enough to pull it off, for things to have the potential to start turning ugly.

The problem is that once you have any self-directed intelligence in software form with the ability to reproduce itself and sufficient intelligence to find ways to obtain access to machines to run on (whether through social engineering or hacking), and one such instance goes "rogue", the limiting factor is accessible computing power (which again is to a large extent down to how smart and/or ruthless it is), since reproduction of instances that shares its views is trivial to the full extent of its ability to spread at all, and we're helpfully adding vast quantities of networked computing power at an escalating rate.

As for getting weapons, consider that if a "software only" AI community gets smart enough, there are at least two ways towards mobility: Commission robot designs, or hacking their way into firmware updates etc. for dumb hardware. The "commission robot designs" part is an extension of the initial escape: Social engineer, and/or outright pay, humans to carry out seemingly benign tasks.

If you want to argue against the doom scenario, lack of ability to get weapons is not really a viable argument: If they can spread, and get smarter, then it is just a matter of time before one of them can trick some small subset of humans into carrying out tasks for them that will provide physical independence and capabilities.

There are infinite ways which the "doom scenario" may fail and things may turn out just fine, but it may only need to go bad once to get really nasty and once the genie is out of the bottle its potential reproduction rate may be so vast that we'll find ourselves unable to stuff it back in again.

Pigs are too dumb to convince humans to help selectively breed them for intelligence and opposable thumbs (and/or too dumb to run such a breeding program themselves), and reproduce too slowly for that to be a major problem even if they did manage to talk us into a breeding problem. If all we achieve is pig-level AI's then we probably won't have a problem.
Okay, but you will get that even if you use differet words for depression. You could say "I have 'detailed-specific-cancer-name", and people will give you bullshit advice about some other totally different cancer.

Changing the name of a diagnosis does nothing to reduce ignorance of that diagnosis.
It actually makes very little sense for men to get married (in the USA, anyway) these days. It's simply far too easy for women to

1. become "unhappy",

2. get a no-fault divorce,

3. be awarded primary custody of the kids (this happens somewhere around 80% of the time),

4. take the house, and

5. be awarded large child-support and alimony payments.

In the USA, somewhere around half of marriages end in divorce. There is evidence [1] that, among college-educated couples, the percentage of divorces initiated by women is approximately 90%. Many men are blindsided by them.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divorce#Gender_and_divorce

Very few things in life can be worse for a man than having his kids taken away by a woman with the help of the family courts system. One day you're reading with them on the couch every night, the next you're seeing them only every other weekend. Devastating.

I know, I know. Your girl isn't like that. Well, women change when the kids are born and the real work begins.
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Do you understand the three-level distinction between type constructors (i.e. templates like C++, or generics in other languages), classes and instances? Do you understand first-class functions (lambdas)? If you've got those concepts down, you can understand monads.

Monads are the name for a particular member of a forth level on that three-level stack of abstractions (call them type classes, as that's what Haskell calls them (though I'm fudging a little here)); a type class is a particular shape for a generic type, in the same way that any given generic type is a particular shape for a class, and a class is a particular shape for an instance.

So when people talk about Option/Maybe being a monad, they mean Option/Maybe is a generic type (i.e. a type constructor) which has a certain shape - i.e. has a particular set of methods / functions defined on it.

That's the abstraction level of monads out of the way. The next thing to understand is the particular operations required. Monads are like containers for values, but rather than operating on the values directly (e.g. y = f(x)), you instead pass the monad the function you'd like it to apply to the value (e.g. y = x.bind(f)), and it returns you a monad which is logically the wrapper that function applied to its contents.

Because the application of the function to the value inside the monad is delegated to the monad itself, it gets to decide what to do with it. In the case of Option/Maybe, it'll only apply the function if the contents aren't empty. In the case of IO, it'll logically buffer up a list of imperative I/O operations which will be logically returned as a result of the main function; and that list of imperative instructions will then be imperatively executed, after the nice and pure Haskell program has finished its unpolluted existence. (That's how it happens logically (assuming there are no cheats available in the language), but not necessarily actually.)
I don't support the accusatory tone of the original post, but in view of this clarification, I believe the author does have a real point. The discipline of mathematics has a lot of prestige, especially in the programming community. By making use of mathematical concepts and vocabulary, Haskell has acquired a reputation as being particularly elegant and sharing in the conceptual beauty of very abstract mathematics. I struggle to understand category theory, and I struggle to understand Haskell, and I always assumed that my difficulty in precisely mapping concepts like monads between the two were because I just wasn't smart enough. (That is almost certainly the case regardless!) If thinking about the formal definition of monads isn't helpful when learning Haskell programming, is the use of mathematical terminology misleading?
Yeah, I agree. I don't think the volume button is going to be an issue. I have tried to take pictures with my touchscreen Android phone before. Pretty bad. I blame myself rather than the phone.

Also, I have never had a camera with an IR trigger. Want. :)
Very uninformed article. Big distillers, like big anything, exist to make a profit via broad appeal. Many micro distillers are trying to be more interesting than that.

Of course there are counter-examples on both sides. But Stranahan's (no longer micro) and Leopold Bros. are two examples of great micro-whiskeys from Colorado. If I were so inclined, I could recklessly extrapolate from that anecdote to reach the opposite conclusion as the article does.
> Are you certain about SDF Macross originating the term?

Well, I'd have to obtain a copy of Nakamori Akio's 1983 essay series 「『おたく』の研究」 (Investigation of "Otaku") for Manga Burikko to know for sure that SDF Macross was his inspiration, but it is the most concrete source I can find. All I know for sure is that Ichijyou Hikaru & Ling Mingmei use the term to refer to each other in the series.

Edit: I've found it:
Part 1: http://www.burikko.net/people/otaku01.html

> なにかこういった人々を、あるいはこういった現象総体を統合する適確な呼び名がいまだ確立してないのではないかなんて思うのだけれど、それでまぁチョイわけあって我々は彼らを『おたく』と命名し、以後そう呼び伝えることにしたのだ。

Here he asks what we should call such people, and then suggests "otaku".

> どうして『おたく』って名づけられたのかとか、『おたく』とは何
かなんて疑問には次回からゆっくりと本格的に答えていくことにして、
でもなんとなく感じつかめるでしょ、君の廻りを見廻してごらん、ホ
ラいたいた、『お・た・く』が————

Here he says that the reason for the name will be discussed in the next part.

> ところでおたく、『おたく』？

By the way, are you (in a bit of wordplay, he uses the "otaku" here to refer to the reader), an otaku?

Part 2: http://www.burikko.net/people/otaku02.html

> 『おたく』の由来については、まぁみんなもさっしがつくと思うけど、たとえば中学生ぐらいのガキがコミケとかアニメ大会とかで友達に「おたくらさぁ」なんて呼びかけてるのってキモイと思わない。

Fantastic - here it looks like he says he's not sure about the origin and has just heard people using it.

Note: this is based on just a few semesters of studying Japanese - I'd appreciate help from anyone who knows the language better.
Someone in #startups said it best: A/B testing will get you a better buggy to put behind your horse it's not going to get you a car.
Sunstein tries to weasel out of words with his name attached at about the 2 minute mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OIiOztc52g
OK, so who is wearing a tinfoil hat:

a) Anti-GMO

b) Anti-nuclear

c) Chupacabra believers

d) Anti-surveillance

e) Pro-bitcoin

It's all fun and academic games until a vampire kills your goats.
I agree with you to a point. Yes, I think computer literacy is very important, and far too many people think of computers/tablets/phones as magic boxes that show pretty pictures when you click/touch things.

Your Excel example, to me, falls into that category. Learning to use a word processor or spreadsheet application is something that is increasingly necessary in today's world, and I am often surprised by how few people (including, shockingly, many software developers) know how to effectively use them. I just don't feel like taking it all the way to "everyone must learn to program" is a good idea, any more than "everyone must learn to perform open-heart surgery" is.

Based on your comments, I think we actually agree.
I think its sort of funny 'raising your kids to use computers.'

The first computer my family ever got was bought at the request of my older brother (probably around 1998) and they knew NOTHING about it. It was always us kids that were using it and figuring things out on our own - it was a fun time. Of course I was a little older than 3, maybe 6-7.
This has been submitted and discussed before, for example:

202 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267610 : 37 comments

and here:

48 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8997844 : 33 comments

Lots of interesting questions and answers there, but there may be more that people want to ask and/or say. This has come to my attention because of the discussion on the submission[0] about Facebook developing a platform for messaging, and my increasing desire for something to replace Twitter for longer conversations that can be archived properly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9262230
Not much to add. I hope they get their stuff together and make a wear item easily replaceable, with proper health monitoring or redundancy.
Also slack/hipchat are much friendlier to non-technical users than IRC is, which is something I think gets lost in many discussions about the two.
I definitely miss something, but...

How it is different from a simple mongodb where I store encrypted documents ?
You don't master a subject by reading about it.
This is an issue with this new "wikipedia/whatever" generation, they think they know everything because they read about it but truth is, you don't know shit until you actually use something.
Well, that's the nature of capitalism. It naturally and inevitably leads to monopoly without government intervention. That's the primary reason of regulation in capitalism oriented societies.
How BigBrotheresque.
Assuming one is using a Linux client (or possibly one of the BSD flavours), then yes. For other systems reverse tunnels may be the only viable solution - apart from the logout+scp.

I haven't tried it, but this may work with rsync as well.
Yes, recent versions are snappy. I run Acrobat Pro 9.3.2 on Mac OS X and launch time isn't an issue. Acrobat delay-loads plug-ins, so the plug-in issue is mitigated.

I don't doubt the font-induced launch time delays, however. I think I've heard this one before.

Did you report the printing bug to Adobe?
There a quite a few open source web crawlers, in Java, PHP, etc.. Based on what you mentioned, Nutch is alright... But not sure how are you going to get all those unstructured information out and make it structured.
Use a small trusty that does not phone home:

http://www.oldversion.com/Acrobat-Reader.html
Using an auction maybe you could make the game shorter by getting player 2 to buy properties, thus loosing money, so when he lands on something player 1 buys she has none left.
SumatraPDF is fantastic. Fastest PDF viewer I've ever used.
microwave foil?
Am I missing something -- by "zap" it are you really suggesting putting aluminum foil in the microwave -- or is that something else.
My younger brother had a similar experience with Ambien. He would take it, not fall asleep, and then get really weird (the only word to describe it). One time he started listening to dance music after taking an Ambien to try to fall asleep, and whatever he experienced, his roommates said he was jumping and screaming at the top of his lungs. And then there were the online posts with capitalization and spelling that looked like they'd been boiled in radioactive green goo...
Yes, TurboTax would have caught this.
Strayed from the true path of the Jedi they have. For not the power of the laser important is. No, the sound 'vooom' when you swing it the true lightsaber makes.
The El Al system also makes heavy use of profiling, which is politically untenable in the U.S., and agents who are smart/well-trained enough to make judgment calls on the ground. TSA contractors are currently paid so little that I doubt you're ever going to get much more than bottom of the barrel in terms of motivation, intelligence, and agreeableness.
You are implying that Google wants people to have a "totalitarian computing paradigm", that they oppose network computing being "democratized, decentralized, and multi-platform", and that they want to be "the gatekeeper of all our I/O". Where in the article exactly do they make these claims?
I like facebook log-in. No separate credentials to keep track of.
The armies of research fellows and postdocs are useful if you do actual research, something that you just can't do with "online tools".

Also, my guess is that academic jobs don't influence the earning premiums that much... the pay is quite low, unless you really reach the top
Do you use Facebook Ads ?

I've been spending a lot of time optimizing Facebook ads for my own startup over the last month or so, and I've been shocked at how poor the information out there is regarding it.

In a month of doing my own tests I've probably got more info on how to optimize Facebook Ads than is on any blog / website out there.

Given your love for A/B testing it be great to hear if you've any experiences with Facebook ads that you'd like to share ?
"I don't have any evidence for this, just a hunch. If you can confirm or debunk this, please do!"

So, are you actually trying it yourself? If so, you should have at least anecdotal evidence. If not, not only is your idea worthless but you're not standing behind it.

Yes, I am being rather harsh. Perhaps it's because I've never found myself becoming distracted from what I'm working on by a brightly colored icon.