jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I really can't imagine what would lead you or anyone else to think that's a good signal. I guess maybe it could possibly be good if you're hiring someone to do cold calls or something.
Nah, it always ends with Maxwell's equations.
"At the time Yahoo had fired all the staff working on Delicious"... "However it looks like nobody wrote down the blog password, or got it from the departing staff. So nobody can put new posts there"

Looks like they're running Wordpress 3.0.1 on the blog. If they have access to the database, should be easy to gain access...

IF they have access to the database :)
Indeed. Viewers beware of the cringe-factor.
You can tell as you're having conversations. The points you mentioned mirror my experience. One the one hand you'll have an investor who is well networked and introducing you to enthusiastic investors, someone who is interested in driving the process forward and who has made many investments and where amount isn't an issue. They're more interested in valuation and terms. In my experience they also add value before you even close. These folks are modest, extremely accomplished and wicked, wicked smart.

On the other you'll have someone who has made few investments, where the enthusiasm level is low and where there's a lot of nitpicking and low quality intros to people with little interest but who wear expensive wrist jewelry.
You are being downvoted, because your comment does not add anything worthwhile to the discuss/topic.

Kindly read the the community guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You may also find http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html by Paul Graham useful.
Perhaps you've just overstated your point, but could you provide any evidence supporting the statements that (1) stronger privacy laws would cause all innovation to stop, or (2) stronger privacy laws would cause us to revert to a 1200 AD level of technological development.

Edit: To make my point less pedantic: your argument, as you have currently phrased it, is every bit as alarmist as those you disagree with, just in the opposite direction. It's like appealing for calm by calling the people you disagree with whores. At best, such a tactic undermines itself.

Actual discussion:

It is self-evidently true that fines for data breaches would discourage companies from allowing more data breaches. You have countered this by saying such a policy would harm innovation. The snarky response would be that harming innovation in the realm of data breaches is exactly what we want to do. A less snarky response would be to ask you to provide any evidence that investing in proper network security would have made Sony less innovative in any measurable way.
Ah, my apologies; I would have linked to that if I'd have seen it (I thought I remembered seeing something similar from your feed, but must have missed it during my quick check), especially since it seems most here would rather read than watch.

(I'm one of those people, but you were particularly animated in this video. ;-)
Excellent series of articles, really enjoyed reading them.

I think the problem for a lot of people is coming up with that initial idea, that spark to get things moving. It's really difficult, I find, to come up with something that hasn't already been done before or is already better than what's in my head. I hope to reach your point some day, heh.
Snopes: FALSE
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/asteroid-hit-earth-on-chri...
That's awesome! Soo cool to see it in your product! About being nervous, I don't think you should be! I know it's intimidating moving to v7 from v6, but it's pretty simple given the examples that we have in the repo thus far. If you still are getting the jitters, then DM me on Twitter! I would love to work something out to help you feel better about it. I offer sponsorships for prioritized support and even private consultation if needed. Don't be shy, just reach out!
I own lots of Bitcoin and love the Blockchain, but the obvious cynical point is that this was written by a Techstars guy who is trying to pump the cause while its in a crisis state.

I really don't think Bitcoin has uses that people care about, e.g., privacy, micropayments for digital content, yada-yada.

Please I'd love to be wrong. Tell me how I'm wrong. I'm actually dead serious as I don't want to lose money and have my "baby" startup, Onarbor, in this space.
It'd be a really bad idea to just load your dogs up on meds. The risk of these parasites varies greatly by geographical region. For example, in the pacific northwest, there's no need to protect against heartworms.
I will be very interested if one day you write about it. How you "designed" the right battlestation (not too hard, but still challenging enough for their age), and how you get them interested while avoiding not to over push them.

Really cool!
You're welcome to email me at eric@trackif.com and I'd love to chat about it, but I'm not going to hijack this thread with my marketing schpeels ;-)
Believing that everything yet undisproven is somehow valid or worth study does not indicate open-mindedness, necessarily. The question you ask also presupposes that there has been no formal experimentation on his sort of thing before, which is not true. We know much that supports the old saw that, "the dose makes the poison," gleaned from years and years of study of environmental toxicology. One of my favorite musicians, Tim Minchin, once said that if you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out.
That's the problem, isn't it? What is directly harmful to health? Beyond those agents we've universally codified as people poison, "harmful" is a constantly shifting designation that will always be misappropriated by those with a cross to bear over their pet subject. Health is such a complex, nuanced subject that its hard to imagine anything different than the messy passions we're describing.
What do you think helicopter money looks like? The Treasury borrows a bunch of money from the Fed, and then sends it out. The Fed ends up owning large amounts of Treasuries. The only difference is that the Fed isn't waiting for the Treasury. If the Treasury starts writing checks tomorrow, it's effectively helicopter money.
As concerned as I am for my privacy and control over my information I don't know that I would accept a straight theory of "Advertising is bad".

1. I appreciate, in principle, the notion that I may be informed of opportunities, products, services that might interest me. I'm more focused on my ability to control a) Information you gather on me and b) How when and what it is presented to me - rather than its existence.

2. As another poster pointed out, why are we focusing on advertising part (the outcome) rather than tracking and profiling (the cause)?

3. How do you define advertising? What definition do you propose that would without ambiguity allow indexes, listings, reviews, and sponsorships? In a world without "advertising", how do I find a product or service I require?

In other words, is this an even remotely in any parallel universe a thought-out, feasible suggestion?
Ok. So we ban advertising. Now you have to spend your “attention tokens” earning money to purchase the content you were previously getting for free. Is that better?

How about we let people make this choice themselves, just as we do now?
it's not so our current president can get re-elected (Fed is largely independent of executive branch) but to prevent massive riots, social unrest, and ultimately a large amount of human suffering now at the cost of pushing it down the road
I'd rather see the government become employer of last resort, than investor of last resort. With some kind of 30 hrs of work and 10 hrs of skills/education training. And a couple hours week of mental health/addiction services optionally. With some kind of medical and other benefits.
Indeed, Rust and Go are different beasts with different target audiences.

I see it mostly as a debate between correctedness vs pragmatism. Granted these traits can be orthogonal but often aren't.
> "the ship turned towards the US and UK systems"

But which one? The US and the UK healthcare systems are polar opposites. US is entirely privatised with many gaps in coverage, and it's the most expensive healthcare system in the world. The UK (despite its general conservativeness) has an entirely socialised system that's the cheapest in Europe.
Others among us find copyright off-puting.
Wait, so you're sending the key in the url?

I thought urls weren't encrypted in HTTPS? Am I missing something?
If you dig through to the source reddit posting [1], you can see that the post only really puts 6 different individual taxi IDs out there for visualization. To me, only the first 4 seem like a good visual fit for the prayer times, and the overall trip heatmap [2] suggests that they may just be part of a larger pattern of eating/taking a break at sunrise, noon, and sunset for all cab drivers. While the blog posting is begging the question of whether or not the data release contains personal data as a result of these findings, much more invasive findings have already been published (and posted to HN) with this NYC Taxi data, like corroborating individual trips by high profile people. [3] Notwithstanding the privacy issues and questionable methods used to obfuscate the data, I personally think that the release is a great step in the right direction for open data.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/2t201h/ide...
[2] https://i.imgur.com/lyK0qTI.png
[3] http://research.neustar.biz/2014/09/15/riding-with-the-stars...

EDIT: For better or worse, deducing ethnicity, country of origin, and/or religion is probably much easier based on this data set [4]. People have come up with analyses like this [5]. The data analysis is great, but my fingers are crossed that tabloid newspapers and their ilk don't pick this up and run off xenophobic, fear-mongering articles.

[4] https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Transportation/Medallion-Drive...
[5] http://vizual-statistix.tumblr.com/image/107987401281
Developing on the BlackBerry 10 OS has actually been a pleasant experience, but that was for fun rather than profit, as the numbers do not add up in their store vs the rest of the market.
Their android runtime is very good and most apps run well on it, with the confidence of a modicum more sandboxing than a native android phone.
I think BlackBerry's only real hope now is to get the phone into the hands of people for little to no cost and hold developer events and contests. It will cost them to have a dev community, like Microsoft learnt, but without it, they will wither even more so.
I feel the same way, but there is a much more lucrative reason to use bitcoins: The lack of transaction fees. I don't know about you, but it really bothers me that you have to give up ≈3% of your revenue to the credit card companies if you want to do business online.
180k package makes a lot more sense. 140k base + 20% bonus target + 10k stock is what a lot of senior developers make.

In my experience "chief architects" do tend to get paid a lot, regardless of direct reports.

By the way - this discussion is very confusing since most people in this thread are talking about base salary, yet you seem to consistently talk about entire package.
That sounds like a seriously awesome course. I wish my school would do that...
If you think you can dominate your opponent then MAD is not the most desirable outcome.
I get that Apache and GPL are well-established (perhaps not GPL3 yet though?), and that encourages stability to use them.

But this new patent license is stronger. If it would make the industry safer from patent armageddon in the long term, it might be worth the effort to popularize yet another license.
TVL have the largest civilian database in the UK. They got into trouble for using that database to run billboard ads - "3 houses in this street do not have a TV licence".
The real killer feature of Photoshop is YouTube videos and books. I am learning it right now and it's extremely helpful to watch tutorial videos. There is almost nothing for GIMP so if you don't know exactly what you are looking for, you are out of luck.
You mean like in most every other launch? If this works that will end, I'll cut them a little slack.
You can start by googling Laurent Nkunda. To get a feel for what the Rwandan backed militias who loot these mines are like. Fair warning... that reading is really not for the timid though.

You can read background on the actual technical and logistical aspects of the mineral trade from Nest. The book is titled "Coltan".

http://www.amazon.com/Coltan-Michael-Nest/dp/0745649327

If you want the actual dry but raw data of the UN reports there are several which touch on the DRC mineral situation, and they are all at the UN's site. (They only go back to 2004... to go further you'd actually have to get it out of google cache. But obviously the UN has compiled reports going back much further for the purposes of future Crimes Against Humanity prosecutions.) In any case, you can find them here:

http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1533/egroup.shtml

Also, several lawsuits against American suppliers of conflict minerals related to the DRC morass. For example, here:

http://oecdwatch.org/files/raid-foe_vs-_us-companies_press-r...

And finally, if you want to get involved you can read information at Friends of the Congo here:

http://friendsofthecongo.org/resource-center/coltan.html
Say someone wealthy wants to escape the taxman and spends all their fiat buying things that "have value as long as people believe it has value", like land, stocks, jewelry, art works, antique cars.

When the taxman comes knocking on their door, do you think this person will escape by saying "sorry, I don't have fiat available to pay for the taxes, come back next year!"? No, the taxman will respond by either seizing their assets or forcing the person to liquidate into fiat.

What makes Bitcoin (or crypto) different in that regard?
It's a violation of the terms of use

>Disrupting the services by placing an undue burden on a Project website or the networks or servers connected with a Project website;
How do you mean? For both the left and right hand, you extend the fingers, pretty much symmetrically. It's not perfectly straight depending on how the staggering is done, but straight up is worse than all the alternatives.
A sidepoint, obviously irrelevant to the technical feats of Yuzu, is that one of the main draws for me about the Switch is that it allows me to leave the computer and desk at which I sit 90% of my waking life, especially these days. That alone is worth using the real hardware and not emulating it.
There was ”Hello to Hacker News” from one of the moderators, to which someone replied ”Hello from Hacker News”. No that much of a spam IMO. And it was from one person, not much all of ”guys” in HN
Their shop (https://shop.demetech.us) ships only to United States, Canada and Mexico... so I am unable to buy it the easy way...
If they have the logs in Elasticsearch or something similar it wouldn't be all that hard.
Normal AFAIK, myself I exercised and sold all my options the first moment possible just to hit the all time high of the company that only went down since then
I'd suggest making a single, clear call to action. Perhaps "Chat anonymously with a random partner" would be the best option to drive attention to first, since it requires the least effort and commitment from the user. I'd make the button say something like "Start a Chat Now!", with smaller subtext to the effect of "100% Anonymous and Fun".
wow! I never knew of this - although had noticed they serve up entire articles and not just headlines with their rss feeds.

A strategy almost exactly opposite to The Times.
I would like to see this design-tweak, if not on Twitter, then on a 3rd-party client: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1445955
To me (Safari 5/Mac) this site is a big blue screen with no content except an "About" link that doesn't work. I waited five to ten seconds before giving up.

I'm using a 3G connection which may be flaky, so maybe I'm just suffering from extreme latency. Nevertheless, you should probably try to show at least a sentence on initial page load to keep me curious enough to suffer through another few seconds...
Well, I guess that really depends on who you know and how you use social media.

Most of my Facebook "friends" really are personal friends or at least acquaintances that I know for non-professional reasons. They are nice and often interesting people and I enjoy staying in touch. But I won't do business through FB and would consider it an incredible waste of time to follow status updates 24/7.

On Twitter, I follow several loosely connected circles of people. Some I consider friends, others I don't know and have never met. Shared professional or cultural interests is common. Keeping an eye on my stream through a good client gives me a narrow, personal and often useful heads-up about things that interest me.
I've gotten good results from http://nanocrowd.com in the past.
I understand that Xmonad probably is engineered like a large project, but I don't think it really qualifies as a large project. I'd say it is mid-size at best.
But WPS PIN is the default, mandatory WPS method. WPS Push Button is an optional part of the spec.
would be interesting to hear what the distinction is between useless and core features.

Maybe I'm just not hitting core features with OSX 10.10, but the features I'm using seem fine. And not seeing stability issues with third-party software.
I will be specific about my complaints that started immediately after Yosemite upgrade: Graphic glitches in google voice and gmail, bizarre cpu usage out of nowhere, two-finger left swipe changed somehow to be more "sensitive", wifi randomly disconnecting and reconnecting out of the blue, shorter battery life, a "slowness" that is hard to describe but noticeable to me because I use my computer the same way every day, two full "grey screens of death", which I have never experienced in all my time using OSX, "slowness" on memory swapping to the point of beachballs, the list goes on. All of these started immediately after Yosemite upgrade. I have been a long-time OSX user, and have never had a full-blown systems stops until now on any machine I have ever owned from Apple.
Anything like this for Python? Any plug-in or built in macro?
Some thoughts:

1) Am I the only one thinking, that some of the terms used to describe introverts: "guarded," "loner," "reserved," "taciturn," "self-contained," "private", have since long been stopped to be considered as negatives?

2) Think, Introverts easily command more respect, on an average, than extroverts (no data to back this up. Just my perception). Even extroverts, based on my anecdotal experiences, regard introverts with a lot of respect, as high achievers often tend to be introverted.

3) I like the definition though: "introverts are people who find other people tiring"

4) Think, >=70% ppl on HN are introverts. [ A poll could confirm this ... or break this :) ]
Older WRT54G's handled BitTorrent traffic terribly. The router will go and kill itself once every 15 minutes or so, necessitating a power cycle. In fact, power cycling the router became a normal part of its use.

DD-WRT (and Tomato) were very, very good solutions to this. Still are - there are still a number of popular routers out there where the stock firmware will choke on BT.
Yes, bitcoin is much more mainstream this week than last week 
.

My experience is exactly the opposite, I think most people don't understand bitcoin at all (or monetary systems, for that matter).

For example, you say that bitcoin is polluting, but in reality it's the power generation companies that pollute, isn't it? The carbon-based power generation facilities, at least. Why don't you "need laws and regulations" for those, but you need them for bitcoin, huh?!

KYCs are abysmal? Clearly you've never used a serious bitcoin exchange with large sums, have you? Personally, I've faced more a lot more scrutiny and privacy invasion in bitcoin exchanges than banks.

The propaganda is mindboggling!
Unlucky I guess.

I would hazard a guess you find crypto overall to be useless.

https://www.mastercard.com/news/perspectives/2021/why-master...
>They could also sell big lots to banks which planned to immediately flip them to retail investors

No big bank would touch this. An ATM offering had potential, but the amount of exposure this incident had meant that this was a risky grey area - legally and ethically.
Learn how to type with two hands. It won't take long.

(Unless you actually only have one hand, of course.)
What separates this from continuous integration. As I understand it the article proposes testing the same build over and over again, well the same commit rebuilt and retested over and over again. Where do you benefit from this?

I could see a situation where tests running against a live system would be worthwhile, this is what I though when I saw the title.
For those interested, I got this browsing the Google Code Blog: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/edmunds-partners-with...
How do I change my password?

Also, I clicked a link before entering a password, and now I can't log in. Can't reregister; can't have login with an empty password.
In other words: if you're the current market leader (FB), then there's no reason to support other social graphs.
git-osx-installer package takes 4.3MB, but your git.bundle takes 150MB.

The problem is that the bundle contains exactly same binary 104 times (git, git-add, git-apply, etc. are identical files, 1.3MB each). These should be symlinks.

It might be ZIP's fault (doesn't support symlinks AFAIK). I distribute my apps as tar.bz2, and nobody complained yet.
The article is questions, not statements.
perl -pe'BEGIN { $x = quotemeta(shift) } s/$x//g;'

should do what you want. `quotemeta' is the function that does the escaping for your properly.

I was hoping to be able to use tr///, since it seems like it was built for this, but it creates its conversion tables at compile time, so there's no chance to interpolate the argument without some nasty nasty eval'ing.
Do you really believe I'm lying?

Like the frontpage ranking algorithm, the comment ranking algorithm also considers recency.
It happened to a 9 yo nephew of mine last weekend - he ended up with a fake antivirus + search engine hijacker on his laptop - reduced him to tears. Pretty disgraceful stuff.
Awesome advice.

Control is one of my biggest concerns with games. If the controls are bad, the game is dead to me. I can overlook bad plot, acting, graphics, audio, and many other things, but I can't overlook bad controls. I have actually played games that otherwise sucked, just because the controls were so awesome.
How, on earth, did this get 20 upvotes?

As others have pointed out the author clearly doesn't have a remote clue what he is talking about.

When you don't know the difference between an EC2 instance and an EC2 image then please refrain from writing articles about cloud providers...
Apparently he meant "(A implies B) does not imply (B implies A)". Affirming the consequent and all that.
To express my support, I will buy well-made Android games even if I don't need them that much.
I'm not the one who came up with an outrageous claim.
Did you read the post? He doesn't phrase it at all as an iOS is better than Android argument. He's saying it's interesting that as large as Android is, why there isn't any good 3rd party apps exclusively for it. There are no "I must get an Android phone so I can run this" apps.
I'm not sure which I'm more appalled at, the writer's practice, or the horrid jumble of mutated words the clients (students) attempt to pass for sentences.

When I first started using IM clients, I forced myself to retain proper grammar and punctuation (and spelling!), so that I wouldn't get lazy. I can't say this habit influenced my essay-writing abilities in any way, but at least I can keep my dignity in short emails and text messages.

RU serius?! lol i cnt belive tht colege kids type lik ths