jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> There is no electoral system and no elections are held on a national level. Elections are limited to municipal elections (ie. the less important issues).

Sorry, but it's been shown time and time again that if you're going to vote you're better off voting municipally than nationally. A national vote today is largely irrelevant. The left and right are so closely in the middle that they might as well just spoon each other and get it over with.

Voting municipally allows people to control things that effect their daily lives. Like is there street parking on your street, or how high your privacy fence can go. A 5ft privacy fence means shit if everyones got a deck 3ft off the ground. What by-laws get enforced.

You want rid of CCTV cameras everywhere in the UK? Well the London municipal government got them in the city, that's where you'll get them out.

I'm not saying the lack of national elections is a good thing, however only having municipal elections is very far from the worst - if municipalities are allowed to enforce their own rules.
what, just in case I happen to be looking for one?
But, if for some reason, he doesn't sleep during the night - he is forcibly woken should he fall asleep during the day?
Google themselves most likely
One of the most interesting comments in this blog post: "The haters will hate. But it’s minimal. As usual, the minority is often vocal."
I remember coming across a scam a couple of months ago. I won't describe it in detail but let's just say that it was an easy way to pick up a $10 recurring charge from an unsuspecting visitor to a web site. It was so sneaky it almost got me, and I'm a web programmer and pretty skeptical guy. I imagine it would get most people.

Once I figured it out I was amazed at the ingenuity.

I would never do that, but hell, I have to admit it was tempting. If you had a 1% conversion rate, and then you used other dark patterns to drive 100K users to the site? It could run into a million or more dollars easily.

I'm not a perfect angel. I just don't want to live with being the type of person that had to do that. I'd rather be poorer and have less emotional baggage. After all, in life you end up doing a lot of stuff you don't like anyway. No point adding to it yourself just for a few bucks. As long as you're able to eat, live, grow, and survive, the extra money isn't worth the guilt.

So yes, I can understand why some folks do this. Hell, I know people that do things like this. I've just decided I'm not one of them.

Ethics, morality, and the law aside, I think this is a personal choice about who you are more than anything else.

Having said all of that, remember that it's easy to say things like I just said. Makes you look good. Makes you feel all moral and superior. Many times it's a lot harder to actually live it. I can say it basically because it's just inaction on my part. If somebody set it all up and asked me to push the big red button and nobody would know it was me? Not as easy.
I'm sorry, but this notion that a company can be made by a leveraged media event is stupid. Companies are made by having great products.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. A company could be made by a leveraged media event and by having a great product.
Rework

Getting Real

Delivering Happiness

4-Hour Workweek
Could anyone provide a tl;dr summary of the talk?
Hmm...that's interesting. But that would also mean the start-up is not allowed to make money in the time of this "vacation".
She's also the Senator of Hollywood, though, and traditionally the LA-based media industry has had more clout in California politics than the Bay-Area-based tech industry has.
You're right. I hadn't noticed.
The last estimate I seem to find on the subject said that the population should level off at 10 billion in 2200. Granted, this is from 1999: http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/six...
I can fluently read Cyrillic. I learned it as a child in a few minutes for fun. It's fluently reading any actual language written in Cyrillic that gets me :P
I agree that industrialised farming is very upsetting. (I am a life-long vegetarian, by the way!) Have you watched the film Samsara? To quote Jason Kottke, some of the scenes give a "full visual meaning to the mass production of food."

But the analogy holds. On any sort of farm (even a vegetable farm) units of production are fungible commodities. And it turns out that this notion of fungibility is very important in post-virtualisation architectures.
But at the time, without robust mathematical concepts of inertia, forces, etc there were some reasonable arguments against heliocentrism. Plus, Galileo ignored Kepler's elliptical orbits, which are closer to reality.
It seems to be in the typical range for a medium to strong dose. A simple glance at the wikipedia page suggests that Psilocybe cubensis is ~1% pysoactive ingrediants (psilocin and psilocybin) so, working backwords, 25mg psilocybin would be about 2.5g worth of mushrooms.

I haven't taken into account how psilocin & psilocybin are different or if there is typically degredation of the psychoactive compounds typically prior to ingestion (during transportation, handeling, etc.)
I think I might agree with the author in a more limited context, that on an institution by institution basis there is a fair amount of power that is outside the reach of voting and hence outside the influence of the working class.

An example here is the federal reserve. Interest rate decisions and quantitative easing decisions are vastly influential, and famously independent of the president.

I don't subscribe to any conspiracy theories that the federal reserve is being controlled by the rich. However, I think there's no doubt that both the individuals at the top of the fed, and their professional circles, have no overlap with the working class, and in the long run this shows.

For example, when the fed did their last interest rate increase near the end of 2018, the stock market essentially revolted, with a "huge" correction (to about august 2017 values). The federal reserve acquiesced to pressure and proceeded to take a much more dovish tone, following with 3 rate cuts the next year.

There's another story there about a trade war, low inflation, and sustaining an expansion. But if you take a look at a long term graph of interest rates over time from 1980 to present, you see a trend of going down, down, down. It just so happens that interest rates going down also inflates asset values.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the asset-owning class that populates the federal reserve often makes decision that benefit those who own assets.
My 6-year old version of Word 2008 has an option to always make a backup of the previous version when saving, which (unfortunately in this case) is off by default.
The manual actually stated that there's a "separate, lower capacity, backup ECU is embedded inside the ECU in a case where the main one is damaged and unable to operate the car. That ECU can keep engine synchronization up to 60KM/h and 3000 RPM".

In one case, my parent's car's ECU (we drive the same make/model) blown one of its coil signalization lines. In that case the car has no backup for example. You need to tow it, because it can't understand that it's output is gone, and can't get into proper limp mode. You need to tow the car.

Cylinder disable on overheat and other modes are proper "limp modes" which keeps car operational when other systems get damaged, but not the ECU.

The automatic transmission has its own limp mode too, which is activated by selecting the 3rd gear and making some other internal pressure adjustments.
I'm sorry, your line of thought annoys me. I'll bow out of this conversation before I say something I'll regret.

Good luck telling the parent of a child who died horribly "were you suffering before the doctors told you, or were the doctors themselves the cause of your suffering?".

I've no patience for this.
> reasonable doubt

I think you mean reasonable suspicion & probable cause.

Reasonable doubt is the threshold prosecutors must appear to exceed for a successful finding of guilt with a jury (elimination of reasonable doubt).
What is the point of the post?
haha right! I would have bridged them to the Ethereum network and sent it to everyone with an ENS registered
Wait until small businesses discover that Stripe keeps the full 3-4% fee even when issuing refunds. This makes Stripe unsuitable for many types of small business, like clothing or electronics stores where customers are accustomed to be able to purchase items with the intention of returning all or a portion of the order. Square does NOT charge this fee, which makes it a much better option.
Sure, but criticism comes in different flavors.
“This software is difficult for me to use because of X” is a valid and fair take.
“This software/development team sucks” is uninformed criticism if someone doesn’t know the full context.
For all I know, the developer may very well be aware of my situation, but there’s some reason that X must exist.

I worked for a very large financial services company, and when I told people this, they would commonly bring up something to the tune of “your app/website sucks because of X!”
And the response was very commonly: “we know, but we’re legally required to do this.”

I also worked on film projects, and occasionally someone would catch some goof (e.g. continuity error) and say “I can’t believe you missed this!” My (internal) response would be: “I didn’t overlook this. I have seen this film hundreds of time in slow motion during editing. We just didn’t have the budget to correct it, and it drives me nuts every time I see it. I could point out 70 other minor errors that YOU missed.”

It always reminded me how often we (myself included) mistake our own mental models and experiences for a comprehensive-enough understanding that we can pass judgement.
> can AI actually determine female vs male nipples?

Yes, through context. A bearded woman holding a chainsaw would probably fail the test.
hackers need not apply. I'm sure retailers will happily sell your transaction data to a third party aggregator, and that transaction data is more fine grained than what Visa gets to know about you (spending at Walmart vs specifically buying diapers).

So now Apple gets to know what Visa knows. Still, for the time being, they don't seem to know individual items. And many here seem to think Apple is more trustworthy than random anonymous data broker.
I think Hetzner has also some datacenters in Hamburg.
Strongly disagree. This is the epitome of the hacker mentality. Just because it's not being applied toward building a company doesn't mean it's not worthy of discussion.
Can't be every day she gets to choreograph for a quadruped.
> > This maybe leads to the question of why we should favor any business to continue operating in a space that may be a net negative contribution to our society
> What does the minimum wage have to do with contribution to society?

Seven years ago, the McDonalds corporation issued memos to employees instructing on how to file for SNAP (food stamps). Rather than paying employees what they need to survive, McDonalds was effectively shifting that cost onto taxpayers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/10/instead...

A system where jobs provide money to consumers who participate in the economy, pay into social security, etc. is one that makes a "positive contribution" to societal balance sheet. One that hoards its income and doesn't pay into the system costs society money, hence "a net negative".

"Some businesses cannot be profitable and therefore will not exist at certain minimum wages, though." Right, but some businesses can pay minimum-wage-or-higher and be profitable, but the CEOs figured out that they can just keep that money for themselves and shift it onto the welfare system.

This is why a lot of critics of modern capitalism claim that we already have socialism, we're just not doing it efficiently.
Is this a joke?

That's rendering bullet points of text as images...
The point I think is that the anti-increase people would have predicted that raising the minimum wage would be such a dire threat to business that it would decrease employment regardless of the wider economy.
A lot of the narrative structure reminded me of child musician almost-prodigies. People who are feted, but sigh, and in the mid & late teens, move on to other things.

The obsessiveness of the skill acquisition makes me link late childhood with hyper-ability to acquire skills.

Anyway, just musings. Be interesting to see a development psychologist weigh in here on the variety of normal childhood progressions.
> 2990WX will probably stay at the same level as there is no other choice for x399 owners anyway.

2990WX is pretty bad for most use cases. Its only good for rendering.

The 24-core 3960x probably is better due to lower latency, and better balanced I/O.
Is there any particular PostgreSQL or ZFS configuration that is necessary?

I vaguely remember something about turning off the ZIL for the data files, because the WAL provides the integrity. Or the other way round. Or something else.
My experience has been kind of like this. The owners are pretty smart people but don't have the time/energy to figure out website tech.
Everybody has a USB port. Not all laptops these days have optical drives. Also, USB drives are a lot smaller, and can be just as thin (eg Crucial's Gizmo Jr.: http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT8GBUFD...)
I think this all depends on how far along are you? And how replace-able is your co-founder?
Pretty much what I expected. Still concerning though that these insecurities don't seem to phase that many people.

I think colloquially it is called being severely butthurt. Not a phenomenon restricted to the US.
> I think it's reasonable to stop support for a particular device after something like 4 years.

Right, because 4 year old electronics might just as well go into the landfill and if someone is dumb enough to use them still we don't care if they have a security liability in their pocket.

Of course you need to support your devices longer than 4 years. You need to support them as long as their design life, and if your design life is only 4 years then you're not aware of the trickle-down effect of hardware once bought.
> making it impossible to kill the ad layer

Use the context menu. There is an option to "hide" (delete) the ad there.

Another option is this bookmarklet (only works if the element that should be deleted isn't in an iframe):

javascript:(function(){var e=document.body.style.cursor;document.body.style.cursor="crosshair";var t=document.createElement("div");var n="border:1px solid #3280FF;background-color:rgba(50,128,255,0.5);position:absolute;z-index:2147483647;display:none;";var r="pointer-events:none;";var i="transition:width 60ms,height 60ms,left 60ms,top 60ms;";n+=r+"-webkit-"+r+"-moz-"+r;n+=i+"-webkit-"+i+"-moz-"+i;t.setAttribute("style",n);document.body.appendChild(t);var s=null;var o=function(e){var n=e.target;if(n!==s&&n.parentNode){var r=n.getBoundingClientRect();var i=document.documentElement;var o=document.body;var u=i.clientTop||o.clientTop||0;var a=i.clientLeft||o.clientLeft||0;var f=window.pageYOffset||i.scrollTop||o.scrollTop;var l=window.pageXOffset||i.scrollLeft||o.scrollLeft;var c=l-a+r.left-1;var h=f-u+r.top-1;t.style.display="block";t.style.left=c+"px";t.style.top=h+"px";t.style.width=r.width+"px";t.style.height=r.height+"px";s=n}};var u=function(n){document.body.style.cursor=e;if(n.target.parentNode)n.target.parentNode.removeChild(n.target);if(t.parentNode)t.parentNode.removeChild(t);window.removeEventListener("click",u,false);window.removeEventListener("mouseover",o,false);n.stopPropagation();n.preventDefault()};window.addEventListener("mouseover",o,false);window.addEventListener("click",u,false)})();void(0)
i think you got this completely backwards
I have. Quitting smoking is a little bit harder because smoking is a binary state. You either smoke or you don't. Where as with gaining the lost weight, it doesn't happen over night and thus easier to maintain. At any rate both are long time struggles that are hard to hack.

James' blog post about losing weight was somewhat of an inspiration and validation of the diet I was following at the time and its effectiveness. One advice that I still follow is when I'm pressured into food that may contain flour or sugar I just say I'm allergic which works great.
The current process has the advantage of being (somewhat) simple, but it clearly gets gamed in ways that lead to far-from-optimal outcomes.

Maybe figuring out a better alternative system would be a bit complicated, but it seems like it should be possible.
True that I don't have any citation, like you only going off my own experience. My own experience in hiring has been that short of consultant positions ex-CEOs don't have specific enough skillsets to be put to work in many places in a company. When I have worked with them they have been unmitigated disasters.

I'm curious about your experiences because, correct me if I'm wrong, I think you were pretty successful early on in your career. I'm sure you've had failures, but having a win behind you tends to temper failures quite a bit.

Regardless, the entrepreneur will have to either change careers (go back to being a programmer - which is not difficult in this market), or negotiate successfully for much rarer positions than the programmer. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just saying the concept that there is a risk for entrepreneurs, and more so than their employees (at least the engineers).

Edit: And I'm curious what your thoughts on the comment I was replying to are as well.
Sharding helps with only the connection limit at the expense of extra redundant DNS delays and poor scheduling of the total available network capacity. It cannot help with the need to request resources sequentially and has no equivalent to something like server push avoiding extra round-trips + client delays before even issuing requests for related resources.
I do have a Facebook account. I just choose to ensure that my content is published publicly so others who don't have an account can still access it.
"Ever get nervous leaving iPad around with your email account logged in?"

Please don't use Apple's insufferable house style of ditching articles and possessives when mentioning the physical device.

Thankfully you use "an iPad" and "your iPad" elsewhere, you just need to be consistent.
I would prefer the money to go to http://www.wikinfo.org at https://secure.ibiblio.org/gift/ because:

* Original Research - Wikipedia does not allow any. Wikinfo's solution: Allow original research with editor registration.

* Wikipedia only allows certain types of information, as it is purely an encyclopedia. Wikinfo's solution: All types of information are allowed
wow, two posts with the "is it too late" theme. looks like a meme in the making.

it's worth reading but i'm not sure i agree with this article's basic framing:

"The real question is how Diaspora might seek to monetize itself, without creating the privacy trips that some say tripped up Facebook."

well they raised $200K early this year and i'm sure they could raise more easily enough so i'm not convinced that monetization is the most important question right how. what i'm looking at is more things like will it be usable enough for a broad population of users? have they hit a sweet spot in functionality or at least a MVP? can they make progress on security? how will they interact with the community? focusing too much on monetization prematurely could get in the way of addressing those issues.
> pretty much everyone is on one of the IM networks.

I know a lot of people who have ditched their previous IM accounts in favour of the Fb IM platform.
How can you tell how many users there are?
A removal of a fee cap, I believe, so Universities can charge up to 9000 p.a. rather than 3000 p.a.
There was a version of this with PG's comment that was even more interesting to read.
Edit: found here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801503
That's because there's no advanced and simple in evolution.
WiTricity is a pretty interesting project being worked on by some smart cookies from MIT - needs smartening up a bit, but the basics are there. Definitely worth a look if the growth of wireless charging interests you - http://witricity.com/
This book is for people who don't know any programming. So let's catalog your claims in that light:

1. "no use of context managers when working with files" - I teach files early on, before they even know how to make a block. After my book they can easily learn this.

2. "no use of format when working with text formatting and output" - Which format? At the time I was writing this there were what seemed like 10 changes to it and how it worked. The % format syntax works all the time, and it's something found everywhere. Learning it is useful, and doesn't prevent them from using format later.

3. "Avoid any project that mentions "Python 3"" - They should, Python 3 is not ready and is simply frustrating. Python 2 is on all of their computers already for many people, so that's the better one for a beginner. Also after learning 2, they can learn 3 if they need, but if they learn 3, they have to learn 2.

3. "Every if-statement must have an else" - This is for training their ability to think of the entire set of possible boolean results in an if-statement. It's also the cause of many logic bugs and you should consider it as a good way to check your own logic constructs.

4. "no list|dict|generator|set comprehensions." - The book is for beginners who can't even figure out how to run a python script on their own. You think they'll get comprehensions? That's insane. Later they can easily learn this, and I think a theme in your comments is that you think once someone reads one book they are done learning, which is a bizarre idea.

5. "no idiomatic hints" - Which idiom would that be? The early Python that's like JavaWithCamelCase or the new Python that's like c_with_underscores? The problem with Python idioms is they warp fairly regularly depending on what's in vogue at the time, so I just teach the simplest thing that seems to be common among all of them. And again, they will whatever "idiom" you think is important later when someone like you who thinks they're important yells at them about it. Brains are not made of stone.

6. "no gotchas." -- The book has loads of gotchas, AND I have videos that go with it where I show people the gotchas, AND there's additional problems for them to solve at the end of every exercise, AND I encourage them to break their scripts to see how Python gives them errors.

You would do well to ditch the idea that people cannot relearn things. Maybe this is holding you back as well, and it's simply false. Heroin and smoking are "bad habits". Playing a guitar scale wrong is a "bad habit". Whether you use CamelCase or loads_of_underscores is just easily updated information.
Existence of process does not mean the process is correct. Process failure was a big part of the shuttle crashes.
>"This seems like a really big argument for never allowing your data to be stored by a 3rd party."

iTunes comes to mind:

http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9136

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1488956

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=948757
I think corporate ass-covering is pretty pan-cultural. See RSA's recent "we're answering every question other than the one that everyone is asking" PR about the SecurID thing.
The market seems to have taken this into account over the past few days: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SNE#chart5:symbol=sne;ran...
I don't think he's reporting passwords are secure. He's just saying for people (like me) who forgot what their PSN password was have no way of figuring out.