jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I find two things helpful:

1. Learn to make judgment calls in the face of uncertainty.

2. Don't mistake attention for success.

People are prone to liking something for reasons that benefit them. Their reasons for being interested may be actively hostile to your goals and welfare. So don't let crowd reaction be overly important to you.

It's information. But it's also incomplete information and you need to think about things like "Is this really serving my goals and interests?"
> You absolutely do not want to live through a period of history that's anything like that.

Perhaps a good rule of thumb might be “you don’t want to experience a deadly event where it’s difficult to say whether you’d rather be one of the early people to die or one of the survivors.”
you wouldn't prefer to have your incoming tweets organized by relevance? i certainly would. but it's tricky because sometimes really insightful people produce meaningless tweets, so it can't just be based on people, it also has to be based on tweet content.
"I'm not a racist, but..."
A simpler and a bit more elegant version - http://i52.tinypic.com/2daesf4.png
Nuclear weapons are just invasion insurance policy. Also, useful bargaining chips in exchange for foreign aid.

The solution would be just to halt all foreign aid and sign a peace treaty, or remove all options, including the nuclear one, from the table. This would give the NK leaders no foreign enemies, perhaps leaving lower ranked party members seeking to overthrow them.
Good to see you on hn.
If you got a cargo trailer for your bicycle you wouldn't need your car anymore.
The thing about human psychology is that if you tell someone not to do something, especially something that is not outright harmful to themselves or others, they will yearn to do it.

The answer to alcoholism is to de-glamorize it. Young impressionable minds are susceptible to such glamorization.

If governments around the world are seriously committed to reduce alcohol consumption, better shun it, rather than putting in laws to prohibit or restrict it.

Ultimately, if the people reject it, it will come down. And that is the only way it works.
But will all of Bezos’s risk-taking ultimately pay off?
"They make no money!" former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
exclaimed in a recent TV interview. "In my world,
[that’s] not a real business. I get it if you don’t make
money for two or three years, but Amazon is, what, 21
years old?"

I don't know many people who have made money betting against Jeff Bezos, or lost it betting against Steve Ballmer. (iPhone, anyone?)
Do you have example screenshots? How are user comments displayed on it? It seems like it might be difficult to see what users are talking about/frustrating for them to make it so that the text box doesn't cover what they want to describe.
Some phones tried the HDMI out (I bought my Droid Razr because of it), but I guess market research has shown that people don't really care. Most phones (including the iPhone) still support the HDMI out over USB in some form, and still next to nobody uses it.
The only differences are some Facebook-only extensions we use to interface with internal services, and a different build system. The code is exactly the same otherwise.
That and the price is pretty high for per-minute usage. Anyone doing anything "for real" would probably want lower cost over ease of development. Right now their prices are probably 30x more expensive than your standard voip termination company.
Indeed. And not only about this phase of the war, but also about Cholera and the dimensions of the Egyptian pyramids and much more.

(Now that I live in Cambridge, I should really go and try to mee T.W. Körner.)

From the author's website (http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~twk/):

"Next let me remind you that The Pleasures of Counting is still available from all good bookshops. Longer than `With Rod and Line Through the Gobi Desert', funnier than `The Wit and Wisdom of the German General Staff' and with more formulae than `A Brief History of Time' it was voted Book of the Year by a panel consisting of Mrs E. Körner, Mrs W. Körner, Miss K. Körner and Dr A. Altman (née Körner)."
I think you're just reacting to the name I chose. Obviously, plenty of companies large and small run labs staffed with people who do nothing but find flaws in other companies code. For, uh, all sorts of reasons.
Anyone else surprised that TechCrunch is hosted on Wordpress.com?
Back in the day, before the dot-bomb, there was a site that did something similar. A few sites, actually. I think one of them was iWon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IWon), which offered points for performing certain actions on various websites. Others followed a treasure hunting model. You had to find certain pieces of content, or perform certain actions, to get points. They monetized by signing up partners (since this generated visits) and advertising.

That being said, I think this is an interesting idea. With Foursquare, Gowalla, and others having popularized the "check-in" idea, the market could be ready for this kind of a service again. If you can build a system to prevent gaming, you'd have a good, defensible product on your hands.

I think it's definitely worth a try. You can even scoop up some of the previous ideas (treasure hunt, rewards for actions, etc) and incorporate them too.

Good luck!

[Edited & added some more info below]

Ah, I just recalled a few other attributes of the iWon system. They started with a portal page and rewarded you for clicking on certain links. This obviously is different than visiting a website whenever you wanted and checking in - and I think the latter model is better.

They also had a time restriction. You could only perform a certain number of clicks a day, and perhaps even a certain number for hour. Those may not stop people who write scripts to game your system, but it's an element you can consider.

I'm guessing you've already considered the social aspects of this too, yea? For example, check-ins could appear on Facebook, Twitter, etc. If your system included a friends concept, I could see which websites my friends like to visit, and perhaps go there too.

BTW, if you can pull this off, you'll also end up with a great database of user behavior. You'll know who the users are (Since they signed up on your site), you'll know which offers & sites they like to visit, and you'll know how frequently they do so. Not that I'm highly recommending this, but such a list of users could be very valuable to marketers.

As the website owner, I'd love to be able to contact my visitors. Some sites may want to offer visitors free content, free stuff, easter eggs, etc. As a marketer, I'd love to know who visits my competitors, or related sites, so I could offer them incentives to use my service instead.

P.S. I wonder who'd become the mayor of Hacker News ;-)
What exactly is your point? You have the same problem if you use virtual function tables in C.
Try: один, два, три, четыри, пять, шесть, семь, восемь, девять, десять.
Well, if that is the case, maybe the issue is that such a person works in a bad environment? If you have a boss foisting technical decisions on you that are not suitable for the project, I'd expect that is a messed up environment in a lot of other ways. Is that Node's--or it's practitioners'--fault?
Me 3... Was actually digging into the source to see if I can find a way to sort this 'thing'.
John Aaron saved the Apollo 12 mission with four words, "Try SCE to AUX". And entered the history books as the best controller of the Apollo era. http://www.universetoday.com/98484/this-day-in-space-history...
I'm pretty sure that vi hasn't been distributed for years. All the vi's in modern distros are just pointers to vim.
Long form journalism is not some new trend.

I'm not deeply interested in the water situation in California, so I probably won't read this, but I don't see a problem with someone bothering to do a detailed story on it.
This is actually a very good point. Other studies found the general damage done by sedentary lifestyles lived by lots of us is irreversible and I don't think thee are lots of studies showing negative effects of light excercise in general. So trying to cope with obesity by not moving but instead just sitting and having cold (not sure if the article literally suggests it but there were definitely hints towards it) certainly goes against that.
This article is from the January 2015 issue of The Atlantic. They publish their magazine slightly before the start of the month.
currently I don't have a win11 installation yet, well this is surely one of the reason not to upgrade, I wonder if Chrome gets shut down too
Apparently the weight makes it "feel" more premium/solid. The shiny steel and back glass give it a more premium feel as well(on top of the extra weight). I guess this follows the Watch Edition/gold strategy.
I wonder how a design like this stacks up when taking pedestrian safety into consideration. Of course, with self driving safety features you could argue it should never hit a pedestrian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_safety_through_vehi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_safety_through_vehi...
I couldn’t disagree more.

There’s nothing gimmicky or odd about this. It was demonstrated to behave exactly like standard laminated auto glass, which is everything short of required to meet FMVSS 226 standards required by 2017. Most all US cars now have laminated side glass.

And for good reason, they make curtain air bags stay in place and do their job correctly. Side impacts are way more common than fires or submersions.

Regardless, first responders have been dealing with laminated glass on windshields for many decades, they have tools to deal with it.

And the number of people who break out their own windows to save themselves is approaching zero. Tools are typically still required to break old-school safety glass.
If they are so dangerous, shouldn't they at the very least require a stricter driver's license?
In Europe instead of owning big trucks or trailers for occasional use, we just rent them when needed or hire someone (usually businesses) who also owns one of those to do it. Plus, almost every store will offer delivery for reasonable prices. It generally cheaper and easier this way.

But I guess in US this usually wouldn't be viable because of the big land and less population density.
So was I, but I couldn't wait for Revo to do it
> I am fearful that depending on experiments would lead to the same dire credibility issues that plague experimental psychology.

Economics already has huge credibility problems.
Thanks!
We want type safety for a banking app, don't we? :)
Can you explain why 'super strong windows' is a useful feature to have? I've never owned a pickup so I wouldn't know, but do the windows regularly break or something? Never happened to any of the cars I or anyone I know ever owned. Is it against car thieves or something? Because I imagine they would find a way around this anyway.

What I'm wondering about is personal safety in case of an accident (water, fire, etc). How do you get out? In some EU countries a safety hammer to break the glass in case you are trapped is actually mandatory on new cars, how does unbreakable glass deal with that?

Same goes for the sharp angles by the way, as demonstrated, this design will never be road-legal in the EU because new cars are not allowed to have sharp features for pedestrian safety.
Modern renderers typically draw scrollable content into a separate texture (or collection of smaller textures that tile the scrollable region) and use the GPU to scroll rather than bitblting on the CPU. You can use the same technique to render the scrollable part of the UI in an immediate mode system.
If you are a glass-half-full person (I am), it's fair to call it grade inflation. In the sense of an unfortunate (or natural) the-standards-keep-chaning-over-time and suddenly people have better grades than 10 years ago, but the same knowledge.

If you are glass-half-empty person, you can interpret is as a sort of implied "if you pick my school (which means I get money) I will make sure your kid get good grades".
> physics have always been wonky beyond 30fps

I suppose this is because the original developers knew exactly what hardware this would run on and the achievable framerate on the PS2 and so took lots of short-cuts in the code?

Edit: Incredible project by the way.
> We all here agree that finding talented developers is hard

When people say that they mean it is hard to find a talented developer who is looking for a job paying significantly below what he is worth.
I agree, but isn't that just a message bus (mentioned in the article)?
Excel is an amazing piece of software if you are disciplined enough to use it well. Hell, I've even solved some Advent of Code problems on it: it's really powerful when you enable iterative calculation
K-9 Mail is like, the _only_, sane e-Mail Android app out there. Pitching in for sure.
I think this has to come through a shift in power to employees. Hoping for execs to become enlightened will be a long wait. The way we got things like a 40-hour week and decent labor laws was through large-scale collective action. But in software, I think more local approaches work too.

For example, we recently had an emergency where part of my team had to work on the weekend. So I started the custom of "incident retros". Before the meeting I started an incident timeline and then asked others to contribute. In the meeting, we read through the timeline, queued up discussion topics, and voted on which ones to pursue. As we discussed, we listed possible action items. At the end we voted on those and people volunteered to pick up the ones they thought they could do.

On the one hand, this is a pretty normal technique for improving business processes. On the other, it helped train people that 1) weekend work is not normal and we should prevent it, 2) we as a team have authority over our work conditions, and 3) we can take frequent small action toward more healthy work conditions.

I don't think one of these will make a big difference. But over time I expect we can create a culture where employee health and worker productivity are seen as closely aligned, and where if managers try to order us to do something foolish, the team will feel empowered to push back. If in that push citing wellness pablum helps, I'm happy to do it. But lasting change comes from shifting organizational power.
> Terrorism is commonly defined as violent acts (or the threat of violent acts) intended to create fear (terror)

It depends on the motivation of the pilot i.e. Did he intend to create fear? At this point the motivations remain unclear, so it can't be termed an act of terrorism.
So long as we keep making more humans the index can keep growing.

Our current culture and economy is based on growth. If it were ever to stop, it would be a catastrophe worse than any Malthusian catastrophe.

It's a good thing the planet is so big. (And despite nay-sayers there is actually plenty of space and resources left.)
Why is it that no one ever does the same analysis for the 10 worst days?
The problem here is that this is not universal. If WikiLeaks is going to make a habit of this sort of leak, it will completely kneecap US foreign relations and make it impossible to speak to any of our foreign allies in confidence.

Meanwhile our allies and enemies alike will have no such handicap.

WikiLeaks can potentially shift the balance of diplomatic power drastically - and not in a particularly good way at that. It would be a difference story if they could get leaks out of every major government - but a few seem particularly problematic: China and Russia come to mind.

In the US, Pfc. Manning faces court martial and jail time for leaking this information. In China they'd just put a bullet in your head without any kind of process, and then in your families' too just for good measure. This is information asymmetry, and is downright dangerous.
I made a little change to the input box, let me know if it's more usable now!

(and thanks for the feedback)
this could be a case of demographical difference. programming culture and methods of approach is vastly different in europe, the americas, and asia as indeed often told by migrating workers in our field. consequently we can assert that it is equally likely that it is just you who have a narrow and selfserving perspective of your business, and that there is more diversity out there than what you specifically deal with for your living :-)
as guessed before reading the article, they are indeed the uygur people.
I think in the end it's how saturated the market is. If all your competitors have polished fronts, having one that's rough around the edges will certainly put you at a disadvantage, and vise versa.
Noise or silence. Work without music.
Can't speak highly enough of the Khan Academy internship experience--I interned with Kasra last summer and it was a pretty incredible few months. From the team to the mission to the culture to the work itself, it's A+ all around. If you're looking for a software internship, I highly recommend applying.

(By the way: the Khan Academy iPad app actually shipped _today_. Congrats to everyone back at Khan HQ!)
Shen is Lisp-NG. It's the infusion of Lisp with 30 years of _proper_ PLT research. It's a Lisp that learned from its successors; and for that, it's a Big Deal™.
There is a little more. I believe that in every firstworld country, there are legislative mandates that car makers must make proprietary information required for servicing their products available. This is colloquially known in the USA as 'right to repair' and the idea is to prevent a situation where independent mechanics, or owners themselves, will be unable to repair vehicles because the information and tools to do so are held only by the manufacturer or his agent (dealer.)

Some other carmakers have apparently decided that leaked/extracted information or software is not really a big problem for them. I know that one carmaker that I have worked with views that situation as a sales driver for car parts, and would rather be on friendly terms with its customers anyway. Ford Motor Company, on the other hand, simply refuses to support old cars. They seem to have a very efficient system to landfill old parts inventory as soon as they are no longer legally required to support the cars that those parts apply to. While other carmakers shift production of parts for old cars to secondary vendors, I have not seen any examples of Ford doing this.
I bought my T430 (N1T56PB) on August 2013. 10 months later "Tab" key fell off. 2 months later "A" key fell off and few months ago another one - "S". Currently "E" is the one that behaves a bit differently and surely will be the next one to fall off.

At the beginning I thought that these islandish keyboards aren't that bad, but after a year I'm sure they are total crap, which shouldn't be put in stuff that costs $1500+.

Previously I owned R61 (NF55WPB), which was surely lower-end laptop and I didn't have any problems with keyboard for 3 years that I spent using it (until NVS140m exhibited its factory problem and I have no longer seen anything on the screen).
DMCA was created to defend platforms not creative authors. And Ford cars and ecosphere is a platform the same way like for example Apple's iPhone/iOS/iTune/etc ecosphere. Independent auto-repair shops, after-market parts manufacturers and the likes have to be ready to start paying a "Ford(GM/Toyota/etc) tax" similar to the "Apple tax".
It's required to prevent the shell from interpreting and expanding special characters. e.g. in the example you provide, without quotes * will be expanded to a list of files in the current directory.
Awesome!

I remember when I first saw SEGA's Virtua Racer in the arcades back in the early/mid 1990s. It was the first impressive true polygon-based racing game I played:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3PcHBFsjxg

The other polygon-based racing game that was impressive, but it hard pretty horrible controls and not as beautiful, was Hard Drivin':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6JC-HCNcio

The cool thing about Hard Drivin' is you could go anywhere and do anything, where as with Virtua Racing you had to follow the track.
No wonder you make money: charlatans often do. Take homeopathy for example, magic shops, so-called "healers" who manipulate your aura to make your cancer go away. Not to mention all the churches which have a very long tradition of exploiting by promising impossible things, just as you do.

You really should add something like "WARNING: this is just a simulator, it doesn't work in real world at all".
> why do small startups choose to manufacture in China to begin with?

Poor pricing decisions.

Most Kickstarters can't get people to fund "Thingit X" if it costs over $100.

Hell, I'd be hard pressed to put a Beaglebone+wacky I/O thingy+software in a case and shove it out at a profit at $100. And I think I know what I'm doing after a couple decades at this.

And, electronics is NEVER the problem for me. I can generally spin 50 turnkey boards in a week for around $5K unless there is something amazingly exotic about the board. That's just not that expensive relative to business costs.

The things that kill are always the mechanicals. Injection molds are $15K plus for a single mold--and there is always something wrong with the first mold. And you probably need at least 2.

And that's just the case. If you need to mount a display or battery or something that's even more molds.

So, I'm above $50K for injection molds without blinking for even a VERY simple product.

The real solution is to make sure your product is above $100 (preferably significantly) so you can actually 3D print the required plastics (which will be around $10 per part). Now, you can tune your plastic parts and you don't have the NRE of molds. After you have everything tuned and have some volume, THEN you can cut a mold. And, you may never cut a mold--you can print over a thousand parts at $10 per part for $10K. How many Kickstarters ever ship more that a thousand of anything?
This is excellent, thanks BlackFinGolfin!
On the other hand, that which frightens elders which may hold the most promise for the youth.

Your comment is a bit closer to home. I've spent the last decade aiming my life at exactly those things which frighten George.
Thanks for the guide. Looks awesome! I've recently started working on a SPA in React and was desperately googling around information. Glad to see it in one document.

BTW - I can see that the section on Flux and Alt is still left to be written. Any idea when you'll have the drafts for those sections ready? Lastly, it would be nice if you could contrast Alt with Reflux and give us your recommendations on what to work with.

Thanks a lot, again!
Still, he was totalitarian and Singapore as a city feels like Disneyland. Phrases like "Move along citizen" and the work of Aldous Huxley came to mind when I visited. So only if you view the world in monetary terms only does this guy earn admiration.
Correct! The author has sections outlined for React-router / Flux[0] which, I believe, will be used to detail out the other parts of the app.

[0] - https://github.com/mikechau/react-primer-draft#react-router
Hey HN,

We just launched Scenery! I'm one of the developers, and happy to answer any questions. BTW, we wrote all of Scenery in Swift, and couldn't be happier about that.
If you run a mission critical server on Linux, then you need to engage your brain and understand the requirements of your workload. That's what system administrators are paid to do.

The question here is what are suitable defaults for non-critical desktop uses of Linux, given that there will always be limits on the amount of RAM we can put into a machine and/or badly behaving processes written by CADTs.
As others have noted: Cryptonomicon.

...but that basic idea did give me another one: electromagnets on a separate circuit inside the drive enclosure or laptop body.

Fail to pass a security check on schedule and the circuit is engaged, destroying the HDD.

I'm no hardware wizz although I did make a motor out of a nail and copper wire once.