jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There is no "best format". It's a matter of opinion.

Taste is something we cannot objectively agree, and in fact, people will end up arguing even about this very statement, offering what they think is an objective measure.

Bikesheding, yes. Hours lost in meeting, chat debates, documentation to write, linting configuration. To be redone for each project, team, etc. Worse even in FOSS where everybody will come in a ticket and complain. And after while, you do it again, because the debate is never settle even in the same team or project.

There is not way to take a team of 3 people, choose a style, and make it so that they are all 100% happy with it.

Black took the road of gofmt: you can't chose. And it won because of that: it saved people time and energy.

People realize the cost was not worth the satisfaction, which you are unlikely to get anyway. Let's just move on to what matters, it's good enough. Pareto.
This will be nice.

A few months ago a street vendor was selling a book he had written. He seemed like a nice guy and I wanted to support his initiative. The book was only $10.

He didn’t take cash, nor Venmo, nor PayPal. He took cash app, Apple Pay and a bunch of other things I had never heard of. I don’t use cash app and wouldn’t sign up just for him.

We tried to use Apple Pay but couldn’t figure out how to add his contact info and send money. I’m sure we could have eventually figured it out, but we gave up. He also had an android phone with some apps there but couldn’t work with my iPhone.

This sounds like it would have been really useful. I’ll settle with “just give $10 to this person who has an iPhone, I don’t care about anything else” as a step closer to “just give $10 to this person who has anything”
One important thing to keep in mind about the "10x engineer" is that it is a largely manufactured concept that originates with Steve McConnell, the author of Code Complete. He read a study from the 1960s that showed productivity variations between programmers and concluded that there was a 10x productivity difference "between the best and worst engineer."

Since popularizing the concept by naming his consulting company's blog "10x" (which he no longer does) he has had to defend this over and over again because there actually is only flimsy research (at best) to support the idea. For example, McConnell admits that the study he based the idea in "found no relationship between a programmer’s amount of experience and code quality or productivity." (See https://www.construx.com/blog/productivity-variations-among-...).

The book "Leprechauns of Silicon Valley" (https://leanpub.com/leprechauns) further undermines the idea.
Europe here, Netherlands actually: developers mostly using and preferring Zoom, rest of the organization using Teams.
I'm sitting here trying to understand their mindset.

They had to know what kind of scrutiny would be on those coins forever.

At the time of the theft, the coins are worth $100M+ and they can't touch them. Even worse, anything they do with them will be monitored, researched, dug into, and everything else from law enforcement, amateur detectives, and every major tech+crime group.

Fast forward to now and the coins are worth 50x that.. and now they try to move them? And all the keys are in cloud storage? But it had to be frustrating to be sitting on something so valuable without any way to use it. They had to be stressed and anxious about it.

A life of crime is stupid. A life of crime for something this high profile is far beyond stupid.
Genuinely curious about "had I known then what I know now." What recent information tipped your decision from getting the vaccine to refusing it?
It's hard to crash and/or die in bumper to bumper traffic.
> Depth of field, bokeh and perspective are things that aren't photographic

They are, though (unless you think I'm saying that relative physical distances literally do not exist outside of photography?). You can say our eyes operate as more sophisticated lenses and are likewise constrained by physics and light, to be sure, but the experience of seeing something is very, very different from viewing that thing in a photograph or film.

With your eyes, you cannot study or capture or examine the blurred areas on the periphery of your vision; photography enables that. Similarly, photography enables the capture and examination and artistic presentation of motion blur. Photography creates that apprehension of the world. Painting from or to mimic that apprehension is, I feel, limiting. Even when your subject is not abstract.

What I'm taking issue with isn't the basic principles of light; it's painting a scene the way a camera captures it, rather than the way a painting can. If you truly don't see any representative differences between the paintings of the 'old masters' and the current paintings-of-or-like-photos to which I'm referring, then I think we're just not on the same page here, or I'm simply doing a poor job of explaining what I mean.
Possession is probably a better word than ownership, sure.

In the same way that if someone takes your cash into their possession, they might not have legal ownership, but now they have to somehow be involved in its' future transfer (even if that's like, handcuffing them and forcing them to hand it over).

In a cryptographic system you need the key in order to do things. Whether you think it's good or bad to apply that principle to the concept of money is orthogonal to the ground reality of how it actually works.

The original Bitcoin whitepaper explicitly refers to itself as a peer to peer electronic cash system (https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf). It's the 7th word in. It's designed to operate in a cash-like manner as opposed to a referential (credit-like? not sure what the term is for this) as in a bank ledger or similar.
It's actually pretty interesting that small/lifestyle businesses get a lot of respect on Hacker News (pinboard, improvely, Appointment reminder and their creators are all very well revered here). In fact, a lot more than the general population (from my point of view) have for those businesses.
>> After all, creativity may be the key to Homo sapiens’ success.

Unlikely. Creativity in this context is only useful when it's about problem solving. Otherwise it's about art at most. And problem solving may or may not be creative. Point - problem is gone, everyone can move on.
> not sure if this is because they are unhappy at finding a party on what they were expecting to be a peaceful mountain top o

I may sound like a hater, but I would certainly understand the frustration of those having climbed Mont Blanc only to find a bunch of party-people in there (if that really was the case for their looks).

And a serious question: How do these people have money and especially free time for this?

Later edit: Before people start down-voting me, I found this comment of a guy who was among the "other" people on the top of Mont Blanc (meaning he was not invited to the jacuzzi party). He pretty much disapproves of it all, with quite good reasons (text is in French):

> Me trouvant avec mes deux clients au sommet du Mt Blanc ce 13 septembre, je ne peut que vous faire part de notre consternation devant la débauche de bruit et d'agitation ridicule qui polluait l'endroit ce jour-là. Est-ce paraître pisse froid que de ne pas partager votre enthousiasme pour cette réalisation qui contribue à rabaisser un sommet majeur au rang d'exutoire de nos névroses et théatre de nos délires les plus vains ? En a t-il subi, ce pauvre Mont Blanc, des idées absurdes : la tentative de descente en voiture, celle en poële à paella, une autre en VTT et j'en passe. Victime d'égos surdimmensionnés, les sommets phares sont chaque jour dévoyés par des personnes donnant de l'alpinisme une image aberrante (CF la tentative de l'ascension de l'Everest...en short ! Vous y verra-t-on bientôt en mailot de bain ?).Promotion dont nous nous passerions bien à l'heure ou nos effort tendent à rendre à ces montagnes leur véritable statut. Mes clients n'avaient-ils pas le droit de jouir au terme d'un effort que vous avez vécu, d'un sommet conforme ou presque à leur idéal ? Il me semble que cette façon de s'approprier un lieu au mépris des nuissances causées à l'égard des autres personnes qui le fréquente, celà sans autre objectif que de s'offrir un délire de potaches se situe à la limite del'incivilité. Salutations. Denis Crabieres, guide de montagne, secrétaire du syndicat national des guides de montagne
WhatsApp (and similar) will never make any of the invested money back though. Its value is purely in chance that it will grow and someone else will buy you out in a few months or years. Its only valuable asset are users, and they will be gone. So someone at the end of long chain on of rich people will weep.

With SpaceX, there is enormous value in the company as it is, even if it went bankrupt tomorrow.
Hard to tell from the site if the language is proprietary or if it's just the IDE they're flogging.

I have to say "what this needs is another proprietary component in the toolchain" is not something I've ever thought when working with FPGAs. Quite the contrary.
Exactly. As long as they can get usage under control by making them warrant only, sounds like a good way to start demilitarising the police. Hard to justify going all SWAT if you can see a house contains only two unarmed people in bed.
Author, please check your site for hacks. ESET Security detects malware and blocks connection, and bogus JS is returned after the </html> tag.

Edit: it's loading scripts and iframes from harpear.ru, which is on a lot of known malware domain blacklists.
I happen to agree with you, (and you may all of this,) but don't think that this position is widespread. There are droves of people who will challenge the idea of an objective, morality-free reality. For example many religious people are determined that what is just and what is not just is fixed.

This being said I don't even know the Catholic church's (in which I was nominally raised) dogma on this, let alone that most practitioner would be expected to know about the 'official' ideas on these issues. It would be interesting to haven an AMA with a theologist on here methinks :)
A Chinese cleaver replaces a set of knives, garlic choppers, tenderizer...

- use the blade to cut (obv!)

- use the flat to crush garlic/ginger (either by its weight, or safely using your other hand to press)

- use the back edge to tenderize

- or use the butt to tenderize

- use the flat to carry ingredients

- and because it's heavy, you use less strength and have more control

- chop through meat and bones (the weight of the cleaver helps)

- look like a badass

Use a cleaver and you'll never go back to a standard knife.
I've also heard this date given as the epistemological turn, and I think it's a fair one to choose.

But I don't know why this isn't as well known as 1492, 1066 and other important dates.
You are correct, I think. I'm not in the USA, I'm in europe? AT&T wows isn't an issue over here, though there are problems here as well, take T-mobile in the Netherlands.

I do think however that if Apple thought that there was a viable superior alternative then they would have taken it, which they have done in a few countries, I believe? Any operator would have difficulty supporting the iPhone, that's the whole point: The iPhone changes the game.

Maybe more competition would have been better? But then again, it might not. Data infrastructure is weird: The network is most valuable if it's cheap and stupid, all the value is added at its edges. http://www.worldofends.com/ This however means, as Davis Isenberg and others already understood many years ago, that the best network is the worst to make profitable. I would not want to be AT&T.
Off topic, but, why do all of losethos comments go dead? It was nice reading his perspective. Almost like I could see into his brain. Weird.
http://ytinstant.com/#Travie%20Mccoy%20-%20Billionaire
And regardless, if you want to send WebKit-specific markup to some browsers, do it by looking for "WebKit", not for "Android".
Yelp started by paying users to leave reviews and got a serious backlash for doing this.

The nature of the “items” being displayed/created also plays a major role in this, because unless you own a few dozens cars, starting a classified ads site for cars with only yours, is not going to get you far.

Several dating sites got in troubles for adding fake accounts with attractive pictures to lure people to sign up for their paid service. That is a line you do not want to cross…
...but hacking sure as hell is.
How do they make them available only to teachers? I don't know about the databases, but I know you can buy teacher's editions of textbooks online legitimately, like through Amazon. I also know that last time one of my (student edition) textbooks came with online material, access was restricted by requiring you to enter a code printed in the book.

Even if the teachers' resources are secured better than that, it must be nearly impossible to prevent all of their customers from posting those questions online -- most of my profs post assignments online rather than giving out hard copies because it is just more convenient for both them and us this way. Some of those questions come from the textbook; I don't know how many come from some other teachers' resource. I know I've stumbled upon other profs using some of the same questions, and sometimes even answer keys, because I Googled some terminology I didn't understand which was apparently unique to that publisher.
Not to nitpick, the Trans-Siberian Railrod was actully built before the Revolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway
I've had far too many high-school teachers allow students to study copies of tests. The teachers are so worried about grades that they're willing to sacrifice integrity (?) to inflate them. As I understand it, this is something of a nationwide issue.

When these students get to college, why should we expect them to expect any differently?

This argumentation is assuming that the students really did cheat, but I suspect that there is not yet enough conclusive evidence available to make that call.
>If anything is a serious danger to humans here, it's not Roundup, it's reporting like this.

What exactly is so horrible about Bloomberg's reporting in this instance?

Did you even read the article? Half of it is essentially defending Roundup.
Yeah, this made me think of a first step towards "Be Right Back"
Microsoft definitely has the most vocal fanboys among all the tech companies. I cant see this being a good news from any non-Microsoft perspective.
Ping me at spankthespam+hn at gmail.
It's unlikely because most people move to Colorado to enjoy the outdoors. If you're working 80 hours a week, good luck enjoying the mountain biking, hiking, snowboarding, etc that Colorado has to offer.

It never changed the culture in the 90s when Sun, IBM, and Qualcomm all opened offices in the area. And it's unlikely to change now.

However, the big downside is that if/when the tech sector has a crash, the Colorado offices are some of the most affected because it's tough for them to match the output of the Bay Area HQ.

The early 2000s were really rough on the area and many people left because of all the layoffs. I was living in Denver until 2003 when my company J.D. Edwards got acquired by Oracle (after our stock took a beating) and they reduced the workforce by around 70% through layoffs and attrition.
In Python, it's worth to optimize your algorithm, e.g. replace an O(n²) algorithm with a O(n log n) one, but trying to shave 0.1% of performance in a tight loop is a wrong approach. Instead, pick Numpy / Numba, Shedskin, etc down to plain C.
I just found www.diigo.com which I'm trying out.
I use specific gmail labels, so I can quickly go to those emails when I want to rewiew sites/ideas/things I've saved.
Why is a redirect not the same? Is it just the split second of time it takes? (I obviously don't know anything about this stuff.)
It would be fantastic to see Chaos Monkey open-sourced, but it's probably a very domain specific app that only works in the context of their infrastructure.

Some great ideas to be gleamed from the paper you've provided - thanks!
Ah, that is Zuckberg and Schrep embracing the open floor plan by commandeering a conference room for a small two person meeting.
Star Wars never made a profit, apparently: http://www.slashfilm.com/lucasfilm-tells-darth-vader-that-re...
Not for a couple of months - I need to get my startup in beta first, but the sysadmin tutorial site is next on my to-do list.

I read the "stracing ls" article (I think it was posted here), which was fascinating reading. I am planning to write higher-level tutorials rather than dissecting low-level commands, although now that I think about it a mix of the two would be better.

Thanks for the feedback - if there are any specific areas you would like to see covered do let me know, and I'll do my best to include them.
I have a border collie, and I've heard this story many times by other border collie owners. If I didn't love the urban lifestyle, I would get some sheep too. It would certainly be easier that trying to tire him out each day by going on walks and taking him to the dog park.
> The virus was first identified in late 2008

No. According to the document you link, the first known exploit of the vuln used later by Stuxnet was in Nov 2008, but by some other trojan. The oldest known Stuxnet is from June 2009, one year later it was already prominent. It had just a little over one year to "quietly do its magic." Results? Already one month ago:

http://www.iranlivenews.com/2010/11/20/stuxnet-worm-was-perf...

"Iran has experienced many problems keeping its centrifuges running, with hundreds removed from active service since summer 2009."

And that, compared to what? How often do you have to remove the centrifuges during the normal operation if you have 10 thousands of them on one location and you are just developing the process? Couldn't it be the normal rate of failure for that situation?

Note also that the latest brand new certificate used in the latest Stuxnet variant was from July 2010 (at the time it was already known by antivirus companies) which means that the authors still failed to have it at the target, otherwise they wouldn't need to make the new variant with the new certs! Doesn't it seem like they panicked because the goal was not reached at the time the antivirus companies started to actively detect it?
For me, there isn't much difference in friction between a <$5/month subscription and a <$20/year subscription. Both fall below the impulse-buy threshold for an interesting-looking service.

More than $20/year, however, and there has to be a compelling discount or a solid trial before I'll shell out for a whole year.
The GitHub README is pretty fleshed-out: https://github.com/ruboto/ruboto-core#readme

Also I worked on Ruboto for Ruby Summer of Code, so I can answer any questions you have.
Glad that helped :). But again this is from my point of view which I really want to hammer home -- the 'startup entreprenuer' archetype.

At one point he was saying that a particular data viz too him a better part of 1 month and it only occupied 2 pages in his book. Oh man, thats determination!
Clickable: http://www.hackerlunch.com
The big question is whether teens using it to settle debates on the respective merits of Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus will add to or destroy Quora's core value proposition...
I'm able to keep my two Collies in happy style without renting sheep. We play for two hours a day with a herding ball, have miles long walks and I referee indoor rope tug fights while I work. Back from our morning run/hike, both dogs are now sleeping peacefully on their day bed.

A wonderful breed, if you're physically strong and dedicated enough for them.
Story? There's no story in poetry!

But yes, this is still Baudelaire's poem, I would have recognized it (I know well the French version).
I got a Logitech Revue the other day and my impression so far is that the hardware isn't up to the task.

Oddly, one of the first sites I tested in the browser was youtube. I tested twice and each time the machine stopped responding and eventually rebooted itself.

Lightweight sites seem to work fine in the browser.

One other oddity is that I heard a strange buzzing noise coming from the TV and the hard drive in the Revue was spinning like crazy (I'm not using it as a DVR b/c I don't have a cable box, so I think it must have been malfunctioning). Normally one wouldn't expect a device like that to make noticeable noise.

So overall the Logitech Revue has mediocre build quality and seems underpowered. I'm very much looking forward to any future software updates that might improve usability on low powered hardware.

The only other annoyance is the position of the back button (it's right where the trackpad left button should be).

I actually really like the Google TV UI layout and design concept. With some strong TV oriented apps it can be a killer platform.
Thanks. Most I can get is You guys could have avoided this entire conversation by just defining what Apple created as something more than a smartphone. ... from google. can't get anymore from google cache, but probably because I've not used it before so I don't know what I'm doing

To clarify - there's now been several thousand words written across dozens (probably more) of sites and numerous comments all based upon a single deleted comment (id=24854573) by user Kentor on Shacknews.com

Whilst I think the (supposed) claim plausible, I do have a bit of a problem with the way we can take a single quote and turn it into news, which tends to become treated as fact down the track; "Everyone knows RIM thought the iPhone was impossible in 2007"
Try brewery/beer sites!
My Aunt ditched AOL this past summer she was still on dial-up! Now she is on DSL and a bit nervous it's such a change after ten or more years.

It's a powerful thing to have that support, AOL start page/"walled garden" instead of the wide open Internet.

I swear near the end AOL was offering more hours than existed in a month.
The other problem is going beyond, "hours of operation/location" + "menu" + "phone number" takes integration with on site software. So now your competing with all those Point Of Sale systems.

IMO, there is a huge opportunity for a unified website + POS + Back end software company. But, to step beyond what's out there would take a huge investment.
I know, and I want to provide a good interface for people to find exactly what they want, when they want. :) And the pictures will provide people with a view into what they're ordering. I think this is the major reason people aren't exploring with dining. :)
+1. An additional interface would be great. Looked at doing something similar a while back and quickly realized I would need multiple endpoints. One endpoint would be for trusted users who could automatically add to the stream, while a 2nd endpoint would require manual approvals. It would help prevent awkward moments when friends decide to have "fun" after a couple drinks.
I think people devalue art in many cases where the outcome is merely something beautiful.

Beauty and art are different things.

There are more beautiful things in the world than artful things.

I think people devalue art in many cases when they say, 'oh this code is so artful, it is full of art'

Could it make you cry?

That being said, although I think that "Art as communication" has some truth in that some kind of communication should happen, obviously there will be instances where that is not the case, but they are definitely something further away from the norm (and I argue the primary value) of art.
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Care to elaborate?
The Emperor Has No Clothes, now you will have a dark mode, but how about improving the actual search results that is overfilled with SEO garbage?
I have it. It’s fine, but the UI blends together more in dark mode than in light mode, so I don’t know if I’ll keep it long term.