jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's the problem I had with the article as well. You might as well ask the average person what his ideal LDL to HDL cholesterol ratio would be.

I'm not prepared to accept the importance of the intuition of the average person in society on wealth distribution any more than I am to accept it on belief in god or taste in music.
Fair enough. My apologies for how that was conveyed.
> I disagree, this is a "fallacy fallacy"

I disagree, this is a "fallacy fallacy fallacy". You seem to ignore the fact that I did not suggest that people can learn everything. I suggested that people learn enough logic to use it as a tool to make learning everything else unnecessary.

Also, the scarcity of time being used to justify the economically reasonable appeal to authority, in the context of global warming / scientific method consensus, may be the most unintentionally funny thing ever.
Back to the Future was slightly off :)

I love electric vehicles of all sorts, let's enjoy them to the fullest, the hoverboard will be there soon enough.
I've used linux since 2003, and windows before that, on PC hardware. In 2012, I was looking for a good laptop, and could not freaking find one that wasn't an Apple Macbook something. So I got a Macbook Air and installed linux on it.

Your case is extreme. But on every windows install I've seen at least one of these kind of inexplicable un-fixable problems you just have to re-install to fix or live with.

I like linux because every file is owned by a package, or it's a plain text config file in /etc, or it's in my home folder and has absolutely no effect on another user. It's just generally more under control. Files are not just modified by patch installers etc. So I love OS X app-folders, but many things for OS X use pkg installers, including stuff from Apple, so it's kinda the windows situation again, just a bit more transparent because it's mostly unix.

My tips for Windows: don't do what your mother would do. First things first, go into Programs and Software in the control panel, and uninstall stuff, even stuff you don't recognize. Check the Device Manager to see if you've accidentally uninstalled a driver, and if so re-install it (get it from the laptop manufacturer's support website). Don't install or run Microsoft or Adobe (or Apple) software, stick to the open-source windows software where possible, like 7-zip, sumatra-pdf, Libreoffice, Firefox or Chrome, etc. Also go ahead and disable System Recovery on all drives, to save disk space and performance, since if something goes wrong you'll have to re-install anyway.
I used Ubuntu exclusively from 2009 till Feb 2014, at which point I joined a startup, got a MBPr 15", and have been using it exclusively since. And I agree, OS X offers a few marginal benefits, and some drawbacks, but it's not much further ahead.

OS X advantages:

- Entertainment: OS X has better entertainment options and ecosystem, iTunes mainly, though Amazon MP3, Amazon Prime Video, and Netflix are negating this as advantage.

- 3rd party desktop apps: I find little gems in both OS X's app store and in Ubuntu's "store" and repo's, but the best on OS X are generally better than the best on Ubuntu. Notepads like Quiver which integrate Markdown and LaTeX, Slack's only native app (or native-wrapped web app) is on OS X, Kindle native app for OS X, etc. That said, Ubuntu's good enough that I wouldn't miss OS X in this respect.

- Overall better for lay people and non-techies. Gestures, etc. Still complex though, just as difficult as Windows for non-techies to learn. For example, I'd love to recommend to my almost 70yr old parents they switch from Windows to Mac, but the learning curve now is too steep. This is one of the disadvantages of adding lots of features to an OS - higher learning curve.

OS X disadvantages

- Stability:Price ratio: OS X is significantly worse. About the same stability as desktop linux but at a much higher price. I can crash both OS's by abusing memory (eg, too many apps open + too many browser tabs). A free OS I can forgive, an expensive one tailored to a single custom hardware configuration I can't.

- Lock in: little things like having to take your Mac to a service center to replace the battery, or the inability to copy your entire home partition over to a new computer, etc.

- FOSS: personal preference, like knowing my computer has the many eyeballs effect.

- Overall better for power users. Tiling window managers, ability to keybind everything to Vim keybinds (file manager, all browsers, even Emacs), means you can easily dispense with mice and gestures altogether and use a much faster and more powerful interface.
>The internet is essentially a big propaganda machine and you can't till what is what unless you are keen and aware.

Indeed.

Governments including those in the Five Eyes, Russia, China, Israel and more have been shown to have massive operations - JTRIG for one - that seek to disrupt and manipulate online discourse, create and spread false information, etc.

PR firms run rampant across social media sites, forums, etc. and disrupt and manipulate online discourse and the flow of information. Everything from the largest companies in the world to small local restaurants engage in manipulating how their company and its actions are perceived.

News entities, small and large, serve their corporate interests and promote whatever they want promoted, or rally against whatever they want rallied against.

And then people, with their inherent biases, buying into propaganda, toeing the party line, etc. do their own part in the same, whether it's in spreading purposely created disinformation that they believe to be true, trying to silence those that disagree with them and more. One of the most toxic things I've seen is the rise in very rapidly dismissing a statement that one disagrees with as being that of "trolling" or "shilling" in order to shut down the discussion.

With regards to Reddit, the fact that moderator accounts, accounts with large numbers of upvotes, etc. can be readily bought online says more than needs to be said about the bizarre behaviour on display on that site every day.

Wikipedia has been utterly bastardized.

And so it goes on.

It's a shame to see a tool that was created for sharing information being so heavily corrupted. Widespread propaganda from all sides, mass surveillance, the active actions of intelligence agencies such as the recent CIA attempt to inspire an uprising in Cuba, etc.

It has become very hard to know what to trust online now. It's sad, but not unexpected, and one can only wonder what the future holds for it.
My parents would tell me that one of our extended family's (my family had already emigrated to the US at this point) favorite economic reforms in Peru during the 90s was deregulating the cab industry so that anyone could simply put in a little sign that said "taxi" on their dashboard could operate as a cab driver.

From what I understand and vaguely remember from visits as a kid was that it wasn't uncommon to pay for a ride for someone on their way to or from work. The economy was so bad that cab drivers were frequently from all kinds of background, businessmen, lawyers, doctors, etc but all needed and appreciated the ability to make some extra untaxed income.
Not really. There's a clear difference between Meerkat and Viagra spam: it had a lot of unproven value. Once people starts to use it, it's usually not a waste of time.
I have personal experience with (4). I work for a company that creates systems that are used on oil rigs. I came about this job in a round about way. I used to work in SF at a big name tech company, but I'm from a small town with no tech community whatsoever. My parents got sick, and I wanted to live closer, so I made the move home to support them. Found this job though connections and here I am.

The systems we create are complicated and require automation (PLCs, embedded systems, PCs) to function, so the company requires programmers. The money is fantastic for two reasons: they have a really hard time finding people and money for oil companies shoots out of the ground (most of the time).

The work is different from most systems someone would deal with at a startup. The systems range in age from new to 20 years old. Object oriented is a new and scary thing. I write and debug a lot of pascal and C. Also do a lot of sysadmin work on ancient systems, token ring networks etc.

The biggest difference however is work environment. Most rigs have an absolutely awful (think dial up) satellite internet connection, so there is no remote work. Everything gets done on site. This leads to a lot of travel, which is where you make the big money if you are willing to do it. The work environment is a lot different from a startup: Folding chairs and a table in the corner of a room if you are lucky, sitting on the floor if not. You get to see some interesting and scary parts of the world, police escorts from the airport, body guards on the way to the rig in really bad places, which can be very isolating as well as traveling for months at a time.
I am on a Mac and don't have that problem. Did you try to trace the Dropbox process to see if anything weird is happening?
He surely must be getting headhunted a lot.
Love it! It's like writeroom / pyroom for the web. Except that I like your colors better, because they make me feel all peaceful inside.

It's not saving correctly right now though?
> .. and it's only with their (relatively recent) use in cryptography that prime numbers became "important".

A pair of mechanical gears with relatively prime numbers of teeth have a longer service life: a given tooth rubs the same amount against every tooth in the partner gear. If they are not relatively prime, the hardest tooth would hit only a few teeth on the partner gear, wearing them out many times faster.
> there is really only one usable channel.

Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm running all 802.11n hardware for my personal networks, but I troubleshoot g networks from time to time. I've never heard this assertion before.
I don't think dollars spent correlates with the prestige of teaching - perhaps not even with compensation, given the bureaucracy inherent in the system, though that's pure speculation.
As far as life expectancy, if you do three things to the data:

1. Normalize it to account for war and crime-related deaths, so you only get data that shows improvements to medical technology,

2. Look at worldwide life expectancy, not just US, and

3. Remove time people are kept artificially alive in hospitals or in inpatient care without the ability to live on their own...

you find the numbers are essentially flat, with very tiny increases that are barely statistically significant.

(I quickly looked for the papers I used to calculate this for lifepath.me, but I can't find them right now. I'll post them all to that site when it launches, though.)

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Interesting about airfare prices dropping. I didn't know it was by that much.
Well done. Great to see support for tabs. Only thing with this however is that canceling a key event in Safari breaks native textarea undo. Maybe you can let the tab event run through, which would focus another input element, and then have an event handler (or timeout) to set focus back to the textarea at the right position.
Thanks fookyong, haha I don't think that I've met an accountant that has been bitter and angry yet lol.

I'm definitely going to keep podcasting new content on a weekly basis as long as my schedule permits and I'm able to find content that's pertinent everyone here.

Hopefully, I can be of help to someone. Thanks, again!
They have had their chance to rename it to issue9 (http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=9). Unfortunately they didn't. They probably never googled for "go" when they chose the name.
I am a fan of Scott, but the last paragraph on Sinofsky is laughable. Online business and software are different beasts. With all his advocation of the dogmatic triad model, Sinofsky would for sure slow down online service division and sink the business even more.
I don't disagree with that, but I don't think it's relevant. We can encode purely in words the instructions for washing a potato. Monkeys can't.
If you're going to say that a missing garbage collector is a feature, you could be one of those guys who use C for string operations.

I don't do the latter. However, I do note that a lot of Mobile Web apps and a lot of Android phones have pauses and stutters when scrolling. From everything I've seen, not having GC on the iPhone is exactly the right contextual decision for its time and place, and this is from a long-time Smalltalker and GC advocate!
Thanks for publishing this. Just went to the top of my reading list.
At early stages you can simply blast it with chemo/radiation before it manifests into something intreatable though.
No hashify is not really a hash function. Since a hash function takes large data to small data it is implicitly not invertible. Hashify's URLs obviously are.
thanks for enlightening about the context surrounding it - that explains the emotions some folks have towards the report. I treated the name as just a name so the reactions were pretty hard to explain.

In context, together with this sentence, looks definitely way more stupid.
This is pretty neat to see the way Elias is thinking about the future of the community he built.
I've been using DreamPie recently, but I'll check out IPython. Thanks!

Edit: Checking it out now (actually already had it installed, thanks Ubuntu!), the ? and ?? things are just awesome.
verbosity creates messes.
I'll bite: I did.

My logic: almost everyone who succeeds did so with a trail of 'no' behind them and the only way to get those is to put yourself out there. YC's application was something I labored over for a couple weeks and feel I got a great deal of value from that process alone... this is no different and I would have hoped that everyone applied.
> That said, it's strange that the author's doctors didn't notice this earlier.

A number of medical professionals are shockingly unfamiliar with potential side effects of the drugs they prescribe.

My partner was prescribed Zoloft. The prescribing psychiatrist simply did not believe my partner when they told him that they were experiencing a lot of jaw-clenching / teeth grinding. He insisted it must be unrelated to the medication. There are studies going back at least 20 years documenting this side effect with SSRIs, affecting something like 1 in 6 patients.
If a small business owner happened to be that unlucky, how would you propose it be dealt with? If I were such a business owner, I would honestly attempt to arrange the customer be handled by a competitor, if it was legit a situation where everyone at my company happened to be seriously allergic to dogs.
Does oracle have any moves left to counter this decision? Or are we finally clear of this litigation that has been hanging over us for so long?
It still has American military bases. The war ended in 1945.

It didn't get a choice in receiving them, unlike other countries.
I am sure you'll end up retiring your pixel 4a far sooner than it will become unusable due to wear and tear due to Google's ridiculously short support term :/

I believe my next phone will be a glorious fruit device, probably a second hand one.
That's a strange worldview, corporations are typically seen as adding to the value of a society. They generally become profitable by providing people a better alternative than a competitor.
Does anybody claim copyright for ISA though? I think it is just patent minefield.
I'm not proposing anything since we talk "in principle", not about anything specific. What I say is that the current technology is not final and anything could be possible and it is an engineering problem unless it's restrained by the fundamental laws of physics. Could be hard or impossible with the current state of the art but that's why we do research and development, aren't we?

"single finger prick drop of blood at levels that consistently correlate with venous levels" is definitely not one of the fundamental laws of nature. They may not correlate but maybe it's possible to acquire the information about the body through some other channels. It's not like there's a single way of surveying the body, right?
A specific test can be impossible but another method can be develop for obtaining the same information.
Actually i was thinking a bit about philosophy and what is truth, but thats for another time.
But money is an issue for them. No matter what you bring to the table it takes time and resources on their part to get you integrated into the company. You impose a liability of sorts on the company just by showing up. Ideally, your contribution outweighs that liability and it's a net gain for everyone.

Working for free or a reduced rate can be a good strategy to get in the door, I've used it and advocated for it in the past on comments here. However, there still needs to be a bona-fide position and job you're fulfilling, otherwise you're ultimately just some guy hanging out and getting in the way.

I'm neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with your story. What I was pointing out is that it's not a unique experience. It happens to lots of people all the time, the underlying intent of my statement being don't get discouraged by it or dwell on it.
dear lord: please someone make a resource for immigration. it is baffling.
Hi, I am well aware of the matrix and a fan (have been a HTTPSB user and now test uMatrix sometimes). I am also a contributor to https://gngr.info which has a Request Manager inspired by the matrix.

I was referring to a few issues I encounter in uMatrix which are not present in HTTPSB. I probably should log them; was not sure if uMatrix is ready for full-time use yet.
I think we are arguing the same thing: It's the content owners decision, not Googles.

Considering that most (all?) fonts on Google Fonts are open (most I checked use SIL or Apache as license), downloading is most likely allowed.
"If you don’t experience an ounce of empathy there’s something wrong with you".

Really? Like stealing content should be forgiven as long as you're "sorry" for it and, especially, if you're not the target.

I remember TC's reaction against the company that "stole" them the CrunchPad idea or something like that. Isn't stealing content the same thing, after all? Maybe the dimensions are different, but the underlying truth is the same. Stealing is bad. Bad in general and bad for the Internet.
I think this is very interesting and important experiment for Google. I see it as their willing to answer recent "Google cant innovate", "Why google cant build X", "Why Google isnt social", etc challenges. Would be interesting to see if Google could actually build this "instagr.am" :)

If not about us page, one hardly could see that its a Google. Seems like users are even requested to create a new account on that site instead of using google's account.

Very interesting experiment, cant wait to see how it goes.
The glib response is "US scientists significantly more likely to get caught". (In related news, New York City's arrest rate for murder is likely higher than Kabul's.)

But, given that there is no attempt to adjust the numbers for the US' disproportionate representation in the universe of all published papers, even the glib response isn't correct.
Web and mobile apps seem to consume most of our days lately. It's nice to be reminded that there is still a lot of money in straight, simple ecommerce.

I like the way that Google is aggregating content into one shop. I've often wondered why the marketing geniuses at retail stores like Gap haven't recruited celebrities (or their stylists) to assemble groups of clothing and accessories. Brand celebrity specific micro sites, target trending celebrity keywords, show people clothes that popular people wear sort of thing.

In a different line, an interesting facebook app would allow those wacky kids to easily assemble groups of clothes that they own or want. Wrap those collections in customizable page templates (photos, colors, that sort of thing) and allow them to be shared with their friends.
Relating this to web startups, imagine the damage that would be done to a startup if private data being held on behalf of a customer were made public, accidentally or otherwise. Then a response stating the customer should be happy they are storing their data at all was given.

I've seen plenty of startup scandals on HN in the past where the founder has come out and defended what they did or admitted they did the wrong thing, but none as bad as the response for this magazine editor.
I wonder how many of the people involved have opinions on pirating movies/songs/other forms of IP, and what those opinions might be.

Somehow I can't see an internet mob ganging up on someone who remixed a song (of an indie artist) and refused to see anything wrong with it.

This also shows that there are very, very weird people out there on the Internet. Who would bother to send the editor personal hate mail?
No, what I suggested is that Golfman Sachs revenues do not make it or break it for him. The guy is very rich. Thus it is unlikely that mere 3.5 billion would affect his public statements, especially expressed in such an indirect and convoluted way as praising the U.S. government.
If you make the tour pausable and resumable, it could be great.

But there's hardly anything worse than a tour that flies by faster than one would like (for example, I often browse around while waiting for something to compile, boot, etc; but that's a reasonably narrow window, not enough for a full tour. But if I can pause, and continue later, I'm happy).
You're most often actually fighting a political battle masqueraded as something else, and a necessary shift is to recognize that early on.

Once you realize it, you can work on those obstacles. By-with-and-through: there will be friends, frenimeies, and enemies that you can use and be used by to advance whatever you set out to do. You can often play political factions against each other and ride between two or more to propel your own. If that sounds deviant, it's not - it's real leadership and starts at the lowest levels.

Set an aim point rather than specific criteria for success, so you may lose some battles but you can win you own long term campaigns.

As long as you are ethical and not simply an outright ass, the penalty for crossing the line is not really a penalty - maybe you get squeezed out of somewhere you don't want to be and are at least as valuable elsewhere. When you get some confidence, you'll find that the line is quite a bit farther than you expected once you enact this outcome based mindset that is in line with the real intent of the organization.

It will never be fun all the time. But you're there for some reason, and the alternative is at best purposeless mediocrity.

Some further sources of reading:
* http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/01/22/john-boyds-roll-cal...
* I stumbled across some interesting second hand stuff of a mainframer that brought Boyd inside Big Blue: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html. Some of it seems interesting.
Sure, as long as it's exactly what I prefer at the present time.
Would be great to have an rss feed ;)
Ladies and gentlemen, you are hereby urged NOT to download binaries from random links on the internet - this specific link may or may not be innocent (I have no idea). But how do you know it is not trojaned?
RPC is a low level API for which you have to set up and implement many parts that HTTP delivers out of the box. RPC probably not even has a significant performance advantage.
The point, to some extent, is that when you talk about a "hole" you need to specify what dimension you're referring to. Making that precise is hard, and is one of the things that makes serious topology difficult.

And useful. I've worked with robot arm systems with 9 degrees of freedom, and thinking of the configuration space as a 9 dimensional manifold with "holes" was the key point.

The terminology isn't misleading, it's technical.
How does becoming good at chess inform someone about how to think about corporate matters?