jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm just young enough to have missed the time where muds or Ultima online were most popular.

In the late nineties, I distinctly remember internet cafes and the rise of Everquest which was inspired by diku mud. You had a bunch of young people playing console games, some mtg players, some pc players, etc.

Good times, it makes me sad for kids these days where mobile games are mostly gacha p2w slot machines.
I agree. I played GTA online for a bit and quite enjoyed it but I haven't touched it in a while and the insane loading times are a big reason why.

It kind of baffles me that they haven't bothered to fix this trivial issue when the result is to cut 4 entire minutes of loading time.
I think they are just trying to promote the two links near the end of the article.
My pleasure. Don’t let these Rust justice warriors discourage you.
>Turkey is a key player in protection of status quo surrounding the region shaped heavily by western influence.

It's interesting that you think its in the west's best interest to continue being blackmailed by Turkey indefinitely. That's the status quo. It won't go on indefinitely no matter what.

>Turkey siding with Russia/China

Everyone is aware that turkey is playing the powers off each other, but I really doubt Turkey will really side with China or Russia who both hate the islamic religion.

>Turkey siding with Russia/China, leaving NATO would be end of any US influence in mideast + eastern mediterranean.

Edrogan thinks to forge anew turkish superpower by blackmailing the west and playing the powers off each other. Everyone knows.

>Any all out war or a civilian war, will be 4 times worse than Syria, 2 times worse than Iraq.

It won't come to that. The west will sanction Turkey into nothing, and Turkey will have the option of becoming 1/100th of its current economy or sell itself to china or russia and become a client state, something erdogan won't stand.

>And if that happens, CCP won't look so bad to most of the world.

Nobody with an sense in their head sees the political orientation of china and the way Xi can disappear its billionaires and thinks "I should sign up for that, that's the system for me".

The CCP system looks terrible, and being a client of theirs is just to be under a boot.
> Email sending between addresses utlizing Handshake domains has been demonstrated.

Which fails to solve the problem of being able to interoperate with normal people on normal email servers.

> Concerning security certificates, this is possibly via DANE

DANE is dead. Nothing supports it, and there are no meaningful plans for that to change. Given that DNSSEC is still often dependent on RSA-1024 for security, it's not clear that DANE would even provide an adequate level of security.

> It is for this reason that the Alexa top sites aren't available for bidding on Namebase.

This is a bizarre assertion, given that Handshake is selling access to what are effectively TLDs, not domain names. A more believable explanation is simply that Handshake was attempting to avoid selling trademarked names associated with companies that would object to this.
Yep this was me about 4 years ago. I distinctly remember sitting through the loading screen and being absolutely astonished at how long it took. I never fired it up again because I just couldn’t be bothered to wait that long.
Absolutely. Bitcoin is just of store of value that has some marginally better aspects than many other stores of value.

It won't inflate aways like fiat.

It requires no upkeep like buildings and other property.

It requires less intuition and research than fine art.

It is more portable and storable than gold.

It is more readily accessible than most things.

It is less dependent on products, market fit and changes, executive changes, etc. than companies.

It will take some value from each of the other stores of value based on investors' preferences and abilities.
'We feel the need to beat the USSR' wasn't mentioned in the letter to the nun - perhaps because being able to boast about winning a race might appear to be less important than people suffering in Africa.

Let me ask you this: Given the scientific advances made due to the first moon landing, do you think that the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth moon landings also added tremendous scientific value? Do you think there should have been a seventh?
And many people, including those who made this website, consider Javascript to be an integral part of what a web browser should do.

Would you complain about a free video game if it only worked on playstation, and you had only an xbox but still refused a free playstation?
Graham didn't write that some programmers are merely worth 100x more than other programmers. He wrote:

A great programmer will invent things an ordinary programmer would never even think of. This doesn't mean a great programmer is infinitely more valuable, because any invention has a finite market value. But it's easy to imagine cases where a great programmer might invent things worth 100x or even 1000x an average programmer's salary.

The job of someone trying to rebut this statement is to foreclose on the idea of imagining that a great programmer might invent something worth $10,000,000 (or that an "ordinary" programmer could do that while leaving their "ordinary" status intact). Graham didn't say this happens every day; he said "it's easy to imagine cases". And, obviously, it is.

Scale the hyperbolic 100x down to Fred Brooks' 10x. The rebuttal is still wrong. It compares ordinary programmers to Zuckerberg and Andreesen, on the premise that those are two programmers worth >100x. But nobody, including Graham, has said those two are worth more as programmers.

The telling comparison is to John Carmack. "Nobody would ever hire John Carmack instead of 100 programmers". OK. But they might hire Carmack instead of 10 developers. That's because there probably is such a thing as a 10x developer.

I do not like or for the most part agree with Paul Graham's immigration essay. I think regional labor stickiness is a much more reasonable problem to solve than immigration. Our industry should get better at sourcing talent from Tulsa before lobbying to let more talent in from Krakow. Sadly, I haven't yet read a lot of strong rebuttals to Graham.
It just says my patience will be rewarded with tea... I'm on an iPhone. I'm going to have to be patient for a very long time to get this tea. And I'm thirsty now.

Is this how marketing is supposed to work?
I would make a chart and break it down by task / procrastination time. Then work backwards to find patterns. I find your generalization suspect.
Touche.

OTOH, this is wired we are talking about. Until the drones hunt me down and eliminate me with impossible, ruthless efficiency, I remain skeptical. And I'll die screaming "Yeah, but it was a SYSTEMS GUY who made you ACTUALLY work!"
This:

I wasn't looking for a connection between bees and the
flag manifold," she says. "I was just doing my research.
The curves were nothing special in themselves, except
that the dance patterns kept emerging.

reminds me of that great quote from Issac Asimov:

The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries,
is not 'Eureka!' I found it!
but '... That's funny ...
Maybe procrastination is just another word for planning for a programer.
@noachc. Ya, that's true. Right now, I only have 2 apps existing, hope to increase the portfolio to 5 apps.
I think that extensions are sort of badly named in mercurial, but you're making them out to be much more difficult to work with/install than they actually are.

Mercurial ships with a bunch of features ("extensions") turned off by default so that beginner users aren't confused with stuff before they're ready. Turning the bookmark extension on is as easy as putting "bookmarks=" in your ~/.hgrc file. So the bookmark branching model, which is equivalent to the git branching model and something I use every day, is a built-in part of mercurial. You just have to enable it to work that way.

The "transplant" extension (similar to cherry picking in git) also comes with mercurial and is just a one liner in a config file to enable.
1 website, 1 item?
The whole thing reads like a tragic waste to me. Too bad you couldn't code assembly on a C64/Amiga out of the box properly either. Now with the Raspberry 4 we finally after 40 years of corporate shenanigans have something where kids could make their own games and instead they are playing mobile games.

I'm making an open 3D action MMO engine to sort this out. If your computer does not have a keyboard/mouse it's useless for eternity.
Some poor people have families.
Brave has a new search engine.
And DOW Corning made a huge settlement over breast implants--but the science eventually showed the whole issue was a complete bust--the women with implants had fewer cases of the reported problems that women without.

Deep pockets + obviously hurting "victim" ends up being guilty until proven innocent and rarely can innocence be proven in the courtroom.
Luck wished.

For the next couple of months, if you're not independently wealthy, you're going to need a job to support yourself so start looking right away and make that your main priority. I cannot stress that enough.

Concurrently, but at a lesser degree of urgency, organize your thoughts, skills and personal projects to focus on what you think you'll be doing six months to a year from now so that when the time comes to advance onto your next big thing, you'll be readily prepared.

Network extensively. If possible, find a co-working space or jelly group with whom you can work with, maybe just on a part time basis, in order to get out of the house and keep up on your work/research discipline. You'll need that, and it's better than sitting at home all day. Plus, you might meet some people in the same boat and find a collaborator, mentor or partner.
In answer to her question ("what does it mean to be educated"), Robin Hanson, an economist/blogger, suggests:

The claim I’m most confident of: school is mostly not about the material taught in classes. I’m less sure to what extent it is about learning-to-learn, coming-to-obey, bonding with other kids, and signaling these features as well as intelligence and conscientiousness. I’m pretty sure signaling of various sorts is at least 30% of the average private value of school, and it could go as high as 80%.

More interesting discussion can be found here:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2010/08/functions-of-school.ht...

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2011/04/kling-on-school.html

Also, an interesting post by economist Bryan Caplan:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2010/08/bill_dickens_ve....
That is what the article focuses on, but the actual suit includes the Android operating system itself. Passing reference in the article to Android as "core technology".

Edit: Case in point, the Nexus S is named in the suit despite being pure Android and having a fairly unique design.
Chatting with friends all day correlates with low NFC. I wouldn't use the word "dullards", which is one reason I could probably not get a job writing attention-grabbing headlines.

By "dig into deep issues" I just meant activities associated with high NFC. I think such activities are correlated with intelligence, but I wouldn't hazard a guess as to how good a predictor of intelligence they are.
Now you're just molding the facts to your argument. The issue at hand in OP's case is a claim of copyright infringement – something anyone with half a clue can defend for themselves. And no, by "defend" I don't mean "posting a snotty response online".
You're right -- she skips the discussion of her personal experiences and jumps straight into the generalizations.

"Our higher education system largely fails to educate... It’s nothing less than a deep institutional, cultural, societal and indeed humanitarian crisis."

Really? I could have sworn that I learned a bunch of stuff about physics and pure mathematics in my four years of intensively studying physics and pure mathematics, but maybe I'm just crazy.
True, but I get the feeling someone at Google knows how many copies of their software (the official Google apps) are out there. I just don't trust activations as any real metric.
You mean their "own" users?
Yes, it's become a poster child for "bad game" and so it's rated worse than it deserves and lower than games that are (i my opinion) worse because so many people have heard that it's solved.
I wouldn't say that throughput is the priority. The typical speed limits on interstates were optimal for fuel efficiency. Convenience highways are revenue generating through the use of automatic toll collection, but in my experience, only have higher speed limits when they have more limited access (read: fewer exits/on-ramps).
except the Samsung Wave, running on Bada and similary looking to the iPhone is not cited in the lawsuit...
I'm approaching it from the business perspective. If sipport staff are getting calls for poor performance then the product isn't working. End of story. Business units don't care about shades of gray and degraded service. It's binary for them. It's either working or it isn't. Couple that with financial penalties for latency and degraded service means even less. Either you're meeting your SLA or you aren't.
I'm really perplexed by this common attitude.

Employees are sometimes happy. Sometimes they're miserable. Sometimes they're in-between — for complicated reasons, that may lie outside of work.

Firing any employee that asks for a raise is so unbelievably short-sighted, binary, sociopathic, and potentially bad for business (morale, replacement costs, unknown costs), it's cartoonishly villainous.

You sir, appear to have authoritarian tendencies.
Can you message me at {myusername}@gmail.com? I want to gather your info for a potential upcoming project.
BORING. Seriously. The hype led to THAT?
you know what I would like to see, is the ability to list a users valuable skills I meet a lot of good business contacts on HN. as well as a lot of interesting people working on interesting projects that offer advice to as well as get advice from. Having a structured format to see people skills and projects that they are working on would be valuable to find interesting people. if a social media format would be best for that, I do not know, but it is interesting concept.
Has Apple ever made a major announcement via website update? I mean, it seemed kind of silly to expect major changes from this...
I should have figured as much, but part of me was hoping it was something like the official release of iOS 4.2.

I figured it was November, and we already knew what the features were going to be, so no need for Jobs to give a presentation. I just couldn't figure out what would make it a day I'd never forget. I guess I'm still wondering what about this is something I'd never forget.
and try to always use the same ATM.
The media has no vested interest in maintaining skepticism anymore, on any event, in any context.

People keep coming back to the respective sites no matter how many times they blow minor things out of proportion. No matter how many times they construct huge stories around zero facts. No matter how many times they skew things into a false dichotomy to rile up bases. No matter how many times they ignore the important in favor of the soundbite.

So, yeah, of course it was blown out of proportion. They had nothing else easy to write about that would garner half as much attention as veiled promises of magic from Cupertino on an otherwise quiet Monday.
for #2, we're simply in the woods. Android has support for some basic transitions, but because of the nature of the OS, you can't use them to create screen/tab transitions. So, the usual process for this is:
1. move object X pixels
2. wait Y milis
3. go back to 1 until you're done.

on #6 Android has support for a limited range of display setups, making it fairly easy to provide different UI resources for small, medium and large screens. If you want to start supporting different aspect ratios (the Droid is a good example), you have to either start detecting resolution at runtime and modify layout accordingly, or make sure you build your layout in such a way that it will adapt itself to the aspect ratio. The later is preferred, but always needs extensive testing (hopefully on real devices) because every minor OS version messes up something (1.5 has problems with PNG transparency, 1.6 with 'center' positionings, etc...).
It's a sad day when even on Hacker News, a product that doesn't run on Linux is referred to as "runs on everything".

If it doesn't run on Ubuntu and RedHat, it doesn't run on everything.
> So protectionism is now the next cool thing?

It looks like countries have been doing subsidies for a long time, so protectionism is an old thing. Slapping a tariff on those imports is one way to neutralize that kind of protectionism.
B2B stuff is typically far more streamlined. "press 1 to reach sales, or 2 for support, if you know your party's extension dial it now"
Moral judgement aside, what makes this "dirty work" in your estimation?
This is a good way to teach hens that "eggs are food" and they may start eating their own eggs before you can get to them.
You buy 25 dozen eggs per month? How are you spending a few hundred a month on eggs even if they're $8/dozen
I believe it's the choline. It tastes fishy and eggs have a very large content of it.

I don't know that backyard eggs would have more of it but the slight fishy taste in eggs is (and liver) is due to it.
you only need to do it for enough time to eventually acquire twitter lol
He should prove Twitter engineers incompetent by doing it.

Hubris of some people …
Umm, can't just Twitter disallow this in their EULA and delete all users who engage in this behavior? Besides, doesn't Twitter have some kind of intellectual ownership of tweets posted there, so a competitor can't just scrape the site and display the results as their own?
You can certainly botch entrepreneurship with business-unfriendly policies, but they are not the ones right wingers always harp on about.

High-ish taxes are okay as long as they are not punitively high. Regulations are okay as long as they are easy to follow and simple to understand, and as long as they aren't over the top ideologically-driven stop-everything sorts of things. Keep fear mongers, authoritarians, and ideologues away from the regulatory pen.

Complexity is death. Regulations that categorically stop you from acting are death. Things that encumber agility are death. Anything that saps your time is death, since time is often worth more than money. As a founder I'd rather pay more in taxes on profit as long as the government stays the F out of the way of my time and my executive decisions.

The ideal setup for maximum entrepreneurship would probably be some kind of libertarian socialism: moderate and moderately progressive taxation, health coverage, guaranteed minimum income or negative income tax, and a simple regulatory structure that makes it easy to form new ventures, hire and fire, etc. Other than that the governments gets out of the way and lets people try new things.

One caveat on progressive income taxes: they should not be too progressive and there probably should be lower taxes on capital gains. Investing in long-sighted things should be a form of tax shelter. That's a good thing.

The best would probably be a progressive tax curve but where the curve doesn't start to increase until you get really, really up there. Another rationale here is diminishing marginal utility of money-- eventually you get to the point where more money does not materially alter your circumstance in any perceptible way. That's the point at which taxation should become more progressive. At that point you are as rich -- as subjectively experienced -- as a human being can possibly be, and the rest is "savings beyond planned investment" as Keynes would say.
>> Piracy is not theft.

No, some piracy is not theft. And some is.
>Although the app targets HTML publishing, the compositing core doesn't actually use any kind of browser engine like WebKit. Instead, it's a node-based GPU-accelerated compositing system of my own devising. Layers and effects are rendered using OpenGL. ...private implementation of the [DOM javascript API] etc.

http://i.imgur.com/6BC1o.png Recoil/long-neck guy, a meme. Pardon the banality, but it's what I actually did when I was reading this.

You are one ridiculously industrious individual. Congrats, I can't wait to find an excuse to tinker with Radi. :)
The first time I listened to Aphex Twin on magic mushrooms was, well, magic. I still get goosebumps listening to his music due to that experience. Aphex Twin has been a large influence for tons of well-known artists today. There is just something special in how his songs convey different moods and feelings, with one of my favorites being Avril 14th, which reminds me of playing Minecraft as a young lad, although I think 180db_ [130] is my all-time favorite.
I think the point of GP is that astrophotography as demonstrated here is mostly implementable in software. If Google wanted, they could very well produce an app for iPhone that does all of the above.
I think many countries assessed that they were capable of it, but many would think this was a casus belli. Had Clinton been elected instead, she probably would have sought additional sanctions and a firmer stance against Russia because of this.
All the consolidated feeds, CTS, CQS, UTDF, UQDF are consumed for options, but they are a secondary thing and not used for pricing in real time.

Raw feeds are used. That said, Nasdaq is the most important underlier for many things in options, and that could be why some options trading stopped.
In many US cities, you can get UberX for about the price of a cab, Uber about 1.25-1.5 that. However, when you call a cab, it often takes 5-20 minutes, you have no idea who is picking you up, and often times they wont even show up if you aren't at a hotel. Uber you know exactly how long and who will be picking you up, and you can track them.
It uses Fibers (https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers). I don't know much about it, but you have to wrap all your code in a call to `Fiber()`, which is written in C++.
I find that pattern makes navigation harder, particularly in untyped languages: because the particular implementation is now no longer statically resolvable, now I have to walk up a call tree to find which implementation (or even, which type, in an untyped language) corresponds to each of those constructor arguments, rather than just looking at the top of the file.
If you just don't lie, then you're already ahead of half the companies out there in my book.
[worldle] https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
It's all been tried and people know the tradeoffs, and there are tradeoffs no matter what you might think. The drive and culture that can develop when a small focused team spends every waking hour together can become almost cult-like. This culture is what VCs want to foment. It's also why they like hiring 22 year olds that can be more impressionable.
This seems appropriate for bomb shelters and Christmas --
Weird Al's "Christmas at Ground Zero:"
http://youtu.be/t039p6xqutU
Call me what you like, but I look forward to a day when nobody's hard work is discounted as "privilege" because they were born in group X, and nobody assumes that they know everything about you because of your superficial phenotype.
Also, why limit special characters? I've run into several websites not let me use characters like exclamation marks.