jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Before I say anything, I did read everything you wrote. That being said...

The birther movement pains me every time I hear it. It is the worse logic I have ever heard, and I immediately lose respect for any person that mentions it like it's possibly true. It pains me not just to see this stuff here rather than reddit, but the fact that enough people upvoted this so that it would get to the top of the 'Ask' section of HN. I wish the government never would have released Obama's birth certificate, because it only serves to somehow validate that the birther's claim "might" be true and thus must be disproved.

To the original poster: Don't take this personally. I actually enjoyed hearing you breakdown how this pdf was composed. Not only would pdf composition/hacking articles be interesting, but they would also be appropriate for HN. Write a blog, I'd check it out...
$25 discount seems kind of ridiculous. Book/magazine/etc advertising alone would be worth > $25 over the year(s) someone's got one.
Meat is overrated as a source of iron, unless we're talking liver or blood sausage.

Most contemporary diets are low in iron because people don't eat their dark leafy greens, which are, far and away, the best source of bioavailable iron. The OP diet, which is heavy on broccoli, neatly avoids this.
This has the potential to accelerate the blocking of spam and troll accounts.

Is anyone already implementing such a service?
> I also read somewhere recently a theory that big cars are a way of protecting (even just psychologically) wealthy people from reality as they have to travel through areas of poverty to get from one wealthy pocket to another.

That theory seems to arise from a disgust for the wealthy (rightly or wrongly) as opposed to an earnest evaluation.

I would put money on the theory that big cars can have more nice things in them and are safer, so the rich buy them.
Explain? I think OP is right. The energy to melt the ice has to come from the whiskey. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_heat
Yeah, that is my main worry about their strategy as well. A public key server and visibility into the keys selected for a conversation could solve this, but the usability cost would be gigantic.

I think it's pretty tough to make something elegant and simple without centralization, but hopefully it will happen some day.
>They would have much more credibility if they were to have equal representation from both sides of the political spectrum, and also include equally represented opposing views in articles for controversial subjects.

Would you expand on who, exactly these "both sides" might be?

In the US, the "sides" are a center-right party (the Democratic Party) and a far-right party (the Republican Party). Focusing on two right-wing parties isn't "equal representation."

In a broader context, "equal representation" would include the far left (Anarchists, hard-core Communists, left Libertarians like myself, etc.) the center (Social Democrats, US Democratic Party, UK Tories, etc.) and the far right (US Republican Party, the Polish Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , French National Front, Hungary's Fidesz, actual Nazis, etc.)

There are examples of parties from the broader political spectrum in most countries, including the US (Green Party, American Socialist Party, American Nazi Party, etc.). Ignoring them is one of the issues with the US's two party system.

Pretending that the major US political parties represent the breadth of the political spectrum is self-delusion at best, and willful deception at worst.
No, you're really not.
Compared to the US almost every country has lax immigration policies. Specifically for Sweden, I would say that it doesn't have significantly more strict immigration policies (language, job skills that are required) than any other EU country that someone would actually want to emigrate to.
Yes that is what i meant. The curves aren't copyrightable since those aren't code, but the bytecode is copyrightable.
Mental note : before your next hold up, remember to turn off your smartphone ...
Bummer. Apple said that it was going to be ready by the end of the week, and I got an email notification at the end of the day Friday saying that it was "Pending an Apple release". This is a really cruddy situation.
Cutting cheese (start with a 3x3x3 cube of cheese and a knife, how many straight cuts at minimum are needed to turn it into 27 1x1x1 cubes?):

The obvious answer is 6, by cutting it the obvious way (2 parallel slices along each dimension at the appropriate locations), so that seems almost certainly wrong.

If the cheese remains convex, any straight cut can at most double the number of pieces of cheese, so it would be impossible to do in less than 5 cuts (2^4 = 16, which just can't give us enough pieces, whereas 2^5 = 32 does). That holds only if we can assume convexity, but for the purposes of the problem, I assume the cheese isn't bendable or anything like that, in which case any set of straight slices you could do to make cheese non-convex would be "wasting" cuts (to maximize cheese-block count, you should always cut all the way through along a plane, and you'll only end up with convex pieces that way).

We might be tempted to go out on a limb and say that it must take 5 cuts, otherwise the problem isn't very interesting.

Unfortunately, we'd be wrong.

Think about the center piece of cheese in the 3x3x3 block. None of its faces are exposed in the original block, and there are six faces, none of which are coplanar. Unless we cheat pretty seriously (bending cheese), we cannot expose more than one of those faces with each cut, so there's no way to do it in less than six slices.
Living full time off 2 startups, but they are 6 and 2 years old so I'm not sure if they still qualify as "startups".
If your 1.0 version is in the store, what's the problem? A few members of your audience will download the 1.0, then a day or so later they'll get an update.

Is there anything stopping you from showing the 1.1 version, and telling people that it's a free upgrade if they buy the 1.0 version?
These elevators are still present in older buildings of the Czech Technical University in Prague. Riding through the top and bottom is a pretty fun experience. And, honestly, they're often faster than "smart" elevators which can take a long time to arrive..
You misread me, and put words in my mouth. I'm not objecting to getting or giving a hand.

Consider two families. One makes $100k/year and has $750k saved. They drive modest cars, live in a modest home, take modest vacations and drive their kid across town every day to the public (free to them) magnet school. The other family lives very well, has nothing saved, a house that they can't afford, and debt from paying for private school. Which one should get the free ride at Stanford? Which one will?

With real interest rates below zero and a bailout culture, which family is living the modern version of the American dream?
Hey missed this comment, sorry, the course I am referring to is Principles of Computing. Great course.
"Violent extremism" in the era of "speech is violence" can mean anything at all.
> But it didn't work for other tutorial video .zip packages in that same site.

It sounds like OP had multiple separate zip files that all had different passwords.
Also, that 6 miles probably would be a bit less in a city with less space allotted to on-street parking and car lanes.
Well yeh but the author is wrong.

Most children think that school isnt necessary. But from a social stand point, we don't need some ace students. We just need all students to be good enough to finish certain simple tasks.

So yeh, agile and standups are necessary social constructs, like taxes and insurance.
So, I get that then argument against Washington is that he was a man who kept slaves during a time when half of the US had already begun its abolishment, and most of Europe had banned the importation of slaves and was moving towards total abolishment. In his case, he could have done the moral thing. He simply chose not to because he wanted to maintain the wealth that owning slaves brought him.

One could certainly say that he does not represent current social mores, or even past ones.

However argument against Lincoln is that he signed various acts like the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 which took land away from the tribes that previously held it. Obviously the tribes which are now mere protectorates of the US would rather be independent nations... but unlike with slavery, this course of history isn’t one that people generally support reversing.

We could generally give back land to the Native American nations. They continue to exist in the present day. However if we won’t do that, then changing a name of a school is just paying lip service to their views. If what Lincoln did is an injustice then it is one that is ongoing and perpetrated by the existing US Government, and all the politicians we elect.
like Heroku, but better

Somehow I doubt that, but the service looks interesting. I wonder if there is a market for high quality PHP hosting.
1. The limits of charlatanism are sooner reached in STEM than in the humanities (or, a fortiori, in newspaper op-ed writing). Yet having said that, I think the humanities are very much worth studying.

2. Do the student tours emphasize labs? I was on a a few tours in 2006 and 2007, and I'm fairly sure we saw all the libraries, but I don't remember labs.

3. Could the proportional decline of the humanities owe something to the multiplication of majors?

4. Ah, analogies. The use of bad analogies from the 1930s (late for the right, early for the left) has had a very bad influence on all sorts of thinking since. It's not just finding analogies, it's finding ones that make sense.
I added it pretty soon after, so not many I think
I'm renting and probably paying the landlord's mortgage. But I know that I will live here a specific period of time and then move. So by renting, I'm buying peace of mind: I don't have to sell a house or worry about getting stuck with it, and I don't have to add a mortgage to my other debt.

When I'm going to be somewhere long-term, or at least have a flexible schedule for moving away, I'll want to buy.
Doesn't this lend itself to analysis paralysis?

I floundered for a bit trying to figure out the next language I wanted to learn because I wanted it to be the most RIGHT language for my next experiments. I bounced from Lisp, to Python, to Java, to .NET framework, and finally gave up (no, had not even glanced at Ruby, sorry).

I grabbed a copy of web2py to have at least a framework to build my next group of apps on. I am backtracking a little at a time and learning the rudimentaries of Python, but had I not just bit the bullet, I'd probably still be wondering in a digital daze.

Once I get a few projects done, I may THEN be able to focus on reinventing the web2py wheel, but for now, I am settling for some accomplishments under my belt just to get a sense of some progress.

Am I alone in this? Or is this commonplace for a certain subgroup?
So what I'm getting from this is that US taxes are lower than Austrian taxes (you say it right there). Which doesn't exactly disprove my statement that US taxes are low. It doesn't matter that you claim Americans are getting a bad deal on their taxes.
If i was Apple, I'd release a new version of Pulse identical to the last, except that the NYT RSS feed was missing. Then the NYT would have no legitimate grounds for suing Apple.
You don't have to be on the _same_ wifi network, you just both have to be on wifi somewhere. It's like video chatting on the desktop (Skype, iChat) but on the iPhone instead. I'm sure they were forced to make it wifi for now because the 3G carriers couldn't handle all the extra traffic (AT&T at least).
It's not about ego. It's about getting your fair share. I think he's saying he doesn't get his fair share.
Toss me an invite and I'll much more feedback to give! Just signed up with cullenw at gmail dot com
> than the threat of communism, which is rather dead.

Huh? The largest nation on the planet is literally a Communist nation and has its eyes set on being the global seat of power while simulatenously bribing half the world to look the other way.

The internment camps should be a clue.
Sure, but my point is that -Werror is not always a good thing. You have a struct with 3 ints and then you add a bool and the compiler decides to pad the struct up to the size of 4 ints. When you have twelve of those structs obeying the -Werror is basically saying "stop the train! There's 36 bytes of wasted memory on the tracks", which is kinda ridiculous. I think it should be a note, not a warning, but until then -Werror is kinda broken for me.
There doesn't seem to be much drawbacks to this strategy.

I can think of very few startups that failed because of shady early tactics, as long as it stayed only a way to get to traction, and wasn't a decisive part of the business model. If you're small, nobody will care enough about you to learn about your tactics. If you're big, you should have enough money to rebuy a reputation with marketing/PR.
I started with php and never used a framework quite some time ago. Every web site/app I've built had different file structures and my own little twists on how to abstract away certain things. I rarely used any third party php code too but my code slowly improved on its own.

Now a days I use rails and prior to that I used node/express for a year or so. I think working with php made me a better developer because you need to learn from your mistakes and using bare bones php is the best way to ensure you make mistakes.

You don't really understand why things are done a certain way until you've experienced first hand at how horrible it is to maintain a 6,500 line php file that's mixed with sql, php, html and a ton of inline css in a project that has about 500kb of mixed php/html/css files and like 30 different dynamic pages.
Note that the master branch is actually still 1 patch from passing: https://github.com/mozilla/servo/pull/764.
You'd probably want something more like a BeagleBoard then, although at that price point a traditional NAS would be cheaper.
.... so?

So some suspects had their data stolen by chinese hackers from a government agency.

The intentions behind it matter very little for those whose data is now in someone else's hands.
Just include everything possible in the language. What could go wrong?

Although we already have C++.
May I ask: Who is we?
"I just want someone to tell me what I want to eat!"

"Sure, there's 50 restaurants near me that I can order from, but all I really know is that I'm hungry right now. Some help choosing would be nice."

We just linked to your comment on our YC application because we're solving this exact problem. Contact me (see profile) if you're interested in being part of the private beta.
Air travel is subsidized by every country every year. For example airliners don't pay fuel taxes.

Generally any travel subsidy should be implemented as direct ticket subsidy, not as company subsidy or fuel subsidy. This way companies can go bankrupt and be acquired without government interventions. Only exception is to arrange uninterrupted service from bankrupted companies. Government ensure provide that with laws and regulations and emergency loans.

As US is more business capitalist than market capitalist system, there is tendency to make decisions where government helps companies directly instead of using market mechanisms to implement these things.
For some things, it is not that simple. Let's take for example the Push API.

While there are very few web sites where you want them to send you notifications straight to your desktop, that API is also used to wake up your Service Workers, to let them receive information when they are not the currently active website and are therefore quite important to build things like chats or apps that sync over multiple devices.

AFAIK that Push API for Service Workers is not available on iOS yet, which is a major show stopper for Progressive Web Apps as there are many use cases where you would need something like that.
Even in mildly packed trains people are basically breathing all over each other.
> You're also discounting all the additional deaths caused by a healthcare system that runs way over capacity.

This hypothetical situation people keep referring to hasn’t happened in Wuhan or Italy.

Young people didn’t die there in large numbers, despite a strained healthcare system.
Are you referring to early testing for the virus, ie to take care of these patients well before they show up at hospitals with respiratory problems?
The premise of Homefront is completely ridiculous! We're expected to believe that North Korea ... a nation of 25 million with limited resources and a half-starved population takes over the pacific rim and then pushes its way into North America?
I don't know if it's fair to compare him to Mao, as Mao's reputation is pretty bad in the west. The general feel of this article is like: oh, he's pretty cool, well, anti-corruption, but controlling, and take his job really seriously, just like HITLER! Whut...

But this article has very good details though. I enjoyed reading it.
I have. Not uncommon in Backbone development for instance to keep templates in separate files from the views. If the templates are short you can inline them, but sometimes its easier to just be consistent and give every template its own file. It definitely does add friction compared to React though.
For this I would go with some J2EE or clustered framework. Erlang is nice, but is outdated and does not handle clustering that well. It is about migrating clients and threads, while multiple versions of the same library exist within system.

> The size of the code deployed matters

And I disagree with this. The hardest deployment I ever seen was 2KB of code. Sim toolkit is impossible to modify once it is flashed into 2 million SIM cards. :-)
Pretty slick trick I must say...
Huh? It's reckless to guide economic policy by economic theory? How else do you propose the Fed sets interest rates, a Ouija board?
Why do you have to spend only a couple days at each location?

My rule of thumb is I need to stay about a month at each location, so that I don't feel rushed and it's worth the time to setup a temporary base.

A week-long vacation, trying to cram everything in the shortest amount of time, is not real "traveling" for me.
This is a good article by Charles Krauthammer on that topic: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12...

The gist is that President Obama really cut a fantastic deal for liberals yet many were still livid because it also contained an extension of the tax cuts. Hence they want to punish the rich above or equal to achieving their own goals.

Personally I think the left is a sliding scale that goes from Moderate to Marx. Marx's famous quote "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is in line with the comment you quoted and I think people on the far left believe just that. I think the further you get away from the far left on the sliding scale the less that becomes true.
I think this line of dialogue is a way to demonize liberals (which is such a loaded/confused term to begin with), or to align traditionally socialist/communist ideas of equality of outcome with them.
The US sabotaged some parts for a gas pipeline that were stolen by the Russians from a Canadian company.

The sabotage caused the pipeline to explode - fortunately in an uninhabited area. I wonder where the first casualty will be?
Not necessarily; let's not use the term "Conservative" as a synonym for "The Republican Party" and "Liberal" to mean "The Democratic Party."

If we look at conservative libertarianism vs liberalism, the comment is pretty spot on; especially in its conclusion as to how both sides view the purpose of taxation.
No this does NOT have to do with sample size.

It's about picking a theory, then testing that theory only, rather than trying to seek a theory in data that already exists.

At the end of the article it explicitly says this and gives three specific ways to solve the problem.
"If you torture your data long enough they will confess to anything"
I believe there has been research taking these sorts of molecule imprinted polymers beyond strictly steric interactions. I'm fairly certain it was Nicholas Peppas that I saw talking about it at a conference; sorry I don't recall a more specific name closely connected to it. Iirc, they were first binding several other molecules to the target molecule, then enveloping the target plus extras in the polymer, and then getting rid of the target molecule but not the others. So not only is the shape of the target imprinted in the polymer, but also, around the target-shaped hole are several molecules that would bind to the target were it to get in the hole again.

Now that I think about it, I don't recall if it helped with the kind of selectivity wanted for this "antibody". They were more concerned, I think, with using the binding of the target to the extra molecules around the hole as a trigger for degrading the polymer.
I think the media's exaggerated response to tiny nuclear leaks is, however, one case where I'd prefer media hype to put the pressure on the industry to over-engineer their containers.

The consequences of breaking open (not just a tiny crack) a crate of bananas and a container of industrial nuclear material are probably many many multitudes apart.
If you disagree, then say why, don't suppress something you simply don't like. The fact is that few Arab and African cultures have ever seen much industrial success, and then only for short times. Moreover, the best known way of turning a civilized city into a demilitarized zone is to import Arabs or Africans into it, and this has been demonstrated by numerous experiments.
If it is that way, then it's a zero-sum game

No, because the amount of value in the system trends up over time. There is not a fixed amount of wealth in the world.
I have to agree with the summation here, it will be a hard sell. The only way that I can see that you would be able to sell this service in the 30 second window of open ear time, would be to offer the service for free, with a contract in place that time expenditures will be measured before and after and you will be payed x for the amount of hours you save the company post-results. It is a big risk on your part, but if you can actually provide the service and prove the results, you would never want for clients again. It is just too exotic for the average decision maker to "get" in the 30 second window of interest.
Companies are often aggressive in frowning upon relationships. It's hard for two people attracted to each other to fast forward 12 months and say "What if I hate this person after a bad breakup? How will I feel coming to this place for 8 - 10 hours a day?" as that's usually the most negative outcome of workplace romance (vs discrimination or retribution)
The font-family list in the stylesheet is both too long and weirdly specific, yet incomplete. I don't have any of these very specific Windows, Apple, or Android fonts installed on my machine, so it picks the first one it can find which is "Noto Color Emoji" and uses that as the main font. The end result that all the space characters are about two miles wide, and the rest is rendered using the browser default "sans-serif".

You list 13 different sans-serif fonts, and two emoji fonts. The browser is perfectly capable of picking its own Emoji font for emoji characters so this is all completely unnecessary.

Please just use "font-family: sans-serif" if that's what you want, otherwise use web fonts. There's no need for this level of complicated font family micro-management, that doesn't even work.
I think they get a bad rap. Good scrum masters are worth their weight in gold at scale. The solve all inter-team comms, the bat away distractions, and they generally find the answers, or the people with the answers and get them solved and batted out.

Bad scrum masters take up space with reporting meetings that aren't reporting - but who are we kidding. I've been privileged to work with both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WejTV7r3tkU