jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Is the purpose of Hacker News to "Act as a PR tool for forcing corporations to do what we want rather than doing what they feel is in their self interest?"

If so, I'm ready to write a blog post whining about how HN doesn't do what I want and why I'm going to stop participating. I read HN to find articles that "Gratify my intellectual curiosity." That especially includes "Posts about new and interesting phenomena."

Proprietary platform vendors doing stuff that is not in the best interests of one, a few, or even many of their symbiotic developers is not a new and interesting phenomenon, and I find nothing in this post that adds value to any discussion about the relative risks and rewards of sharecropping in the iOS ecosystem.

Nor do I consider "data" to be the plural of "anecdote." Seeing one, a few, or many such posts doesn't add value to a decision I might make about developing for iOS. The dynamics of business are such that people are far more likely to whine about how unfair Apple is than to publish how much money they're making. Likewise, a whine is far more likely to attract votes on a site like HN because of the emotional dynamics of link bait.

I have nothing against the post or the fact that it may be interesting to many people on this site. But that doesn't make it Hacker News as described in the guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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I was under the impression that this sort of information is already publicly available. Cops are already uniformed, they have badge numbers, their names are on the police reports, and their names show up if it goes to court since the accused has a right to confront witnesses under the 6th amendment.
Of course, but my daily gripings deserve incineration.
That's cool. If you had any interest in a banner exchange let me know. One of my several side projects is a climbing related site. Perhaps we can help each other out? If you have any interest hit me up at the e-mail in my profile.
Awful, awful manipulation of statistics. I'm not even sure what subcategory of military spending Military Construction represents. How about we just consider all defense related expenditures instead of just the slice that fits your preconceived notions? Take a nice, hard look at this graph: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/PerCapita.... None how every single measure that is not interest being paid on past debt goes WAY DOWN when Obama becomes President. You're trying to claim that Obama is playing "super nice with the MIC" when the fact is he has instituted massive reductions compared to the last decade.

Your partisanism and preconceived notations are blinding you in this case, and I will say, it makes a conversation with you quite unenjoyable.
The relevant text is halfway down the page, highlighted in yellow.

The Guardian's writeup is here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/20/wikileaks-cables...
And if he wasn't tiptoeing around? How might the criticism have been? This to me is a review that shouldn't have been written as Cooper seems to have some issues sep. the person from the book when it comes to this one.
The talk is ostensibly about game design, but there is so much more here. I really enjoyed this.
I'm more of a WSJournal reader myself, but I think "NYTimes is more neutral than HuffPost" is self-evident to all but a few.

I'm a pretty free market guy, but I'm pretty sure I support net neutrality regulation. Somebody please help me play it out. I'd like to think that there'd be a market for content neutral plans from ISPs, and that I'd be able to buy one, but isn't the fact that cable television has commercials evidence that people will do anything to save a buck? That is, I'd also like to think there would be a plan offering commercial free television programming, but with the exception of movie channels like HBO, I can buy no such service at any price (at least none that I know of)

I'd sincerely appreciate this community's thoughts on the issue.
His record is pretty good actually. See: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/

They've compiled a pretty good list of promises kept vs broken since he took office.
Be very, very careful when you're using PHP as an example of the proper way to do something, because you're probably at least partially wrong. Semicolons are optional when followed by a closing tag (and likewise, closing tags are optional when the last statement ends with a semicolon -- in this case, whitespace at the end of the file is valid, as well)
With its paparazzi industry, California probably has one of the more restrictive Peeping Tom Laws, and that law requires the peeper to be looking into a door or a window while on private property. I infer from a little extra googling that most/all of the states' laws are similar in this way.

As you imply, none of this prevents the police from arresting you and taking you downtown anyway. They can even say they thought it violated peeping tom laws (Heien vs. North Carolina). Beyond that, "you can beat the charge but you can't beat the ride" is an old truism among abusive police.

Kyllo is almost 20 years old, so the likelihood of a city having a law contravening it is probably low (IANAL).
Polarization has been happening everywhere not just HN and not just in the US. Othering is a related term.

See also: https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/partisanship/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/ideology/
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted.

Should Amazon have an intern filtering through every listing to decide what makes it essential or not, then block non-essential?

A comment above made it clear, they went by category, which is a very reasonable approach. It treats pet supplies as important (which makes sense, my dog's food comes from Amazon for example).

It’s not unreasonable that people also show some discretion when Amazon has made it very public that they’re dealing with an unprecedented situation.

I needed a new phone case and a few random odds and ends recently but hit save for later because I’m not going to die if I wait a few weeks to order these things.
I switch off between things I'm passionate about to be more productive. If I'm tired of coding, I write some music.
This advice is a bit misguided:

> get it down to static HTML and CSS and maybe a tiny bit of enhancing JS, and pare away every byte you can.

HTML is a language used for building your DOM. CSS is a language used for styling. JavaScript is also a language that can do those things, and focusing on the language used isn't going to help.

If the goal is to save space and power you can do it much better with JS. A lot of server side rendering, html caches, and static content is focused on good SEO and low latency, not small download size and power consumption.

You can fit a much smaller download into a stripped-down Gatsby site if you have a nontrivial amount of content. It also makes things like serving only much smaller versions of any images way easier. You can go even smaller with vanilla JS if you want.
Had to look this up, neat: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/scanbox-turn-...

Bonus points if someone can sell this feature within a notebook/tablet stand. Modifying a tiny tower stand (https://tinytowerstand.com/) comes to mind.
At the time, no one knew that. There was mass panic and surgical masks were also being bought out.
Because the storage group refused to sign off on a cheaper solution with lower specs (I don't know why) and acquisitions in the government is a mess so going outside would have tied up one of our primary constraints (the tech lead) more than it was worth.

The overall system ended up with worse capabilities than it should have had, but it did ship.
So as a Prime subscriber, I'm curious if they will be offering prorated refunds for this time when most things are not under 2 day shipping policies. Spoiler alert, they won't.
Absolutley. This is a non-obvious but simple idea executed well and the creator deserves to make buckets of money.
What's wrong with IntelliJ?
A great exercise for Web developers is to build a minimal web-server. You can choose your definition of 'minimal' but essentially it should receive some request and return a response (from and to a web browser). As a webdev I found even the very, very minimal web server in Land of Lisp to be really insightful to build. If you wanted to flesh out the actual handling of http verbs better that would be even more awesome. Minimal webservers should be the minimal lisps of web developers
Make an iPhone app to connect to your web apps? That way you'll have a need to use it, even if your mostly typing objective-c.
Regarding #4, and in particular "If it’s more of a product role, build something!"

How would that work for a non-developer?

By paying someone to do it? (not necessarily easy. Not everyone has enough entrepreneurial spirit to invest in their own idea, while still being valuable to a startup) By making mock-ups, specs and publishing them somewhere? It would seem fine to me, but I wonder if some could see that as being an "idea guy" for not having something tangible and working to show.
I see they both use the same fake hand for holding the product during photo shoots.
It was popular before Google started championing it.
Yale's Six America's study is a great companion read to this article.

http://environment.yale.edu/climate/

It demonstrates six different types of attitudes towards Global Warming and helps to explain the social dynamics associated with each opinion with a bit more nuance than the Republican/Democrat divide in the decidedly fascinating polling research in the arstechnica link.
If you host your code on this "free" service and you cause a DDos because someone doesn't like what you are doing, are you going to pay for the mitigation costs to the free provider?
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Man, I used Remedy 20 years ago. I can't believe it still exists. If I saw that in an IT stack today, I'd be running the other direction too!
Slippery slope arguments aren't inherently fallacious. If you can justify one more climb on the grounds that probability of injury or death is very low then you will be able to justify every subsequent climb on the same basis.
You can see the results in states that have no tipped minimum wage, such as WA/CA/OR.

Generally, restaurant prices are higher (minimum $25 per meal per person without alcoholic drinks), but tipping is still expected by the waiters for waited service. Bottom line is waiters earn more money, but possibly fewer people can afford to eat out and maybe there are fewer waiters overall.

I dislike waited food service anyway, I much prefer to just buy at the counter and bus my own table, and it might result in more restaurants like that.
I am just wondering what skydivers must think every time they do it ... given so many trials, the odds of nothing happening are going down exponentially right?
I hope so. It's a real pain to switch gems when the auth of the week is left for dead.
It's not blaming the author to notice that he doesn't appear very interested in this essay with communicating with most people in terms they'll understand. Sure, it's just his style, but it's hard to be optimistic about how much buy-in he'll get for his plan "to re-do the introductory curriculum in Computer Science to modernize it".
I'm all for anything killing Electron
SoftBank and their investors deserve this. SoftBank wanted to take wework and jam it on the stock market, then pull their money out. They knew this company was trash, they are no better than Adam Neumann. Congrats to Adam for exposing and exploiting softbanks attempts to exploit the USA stock market. In the end this will stop future cases of investors trying to jam garbage companies into the public markets, essentially stealing money from retail investors who don’t know better
I’m not so sure. As Elon said “We’re going to be using the same alloy in the Starship rocket and in the Cybertruck”. The Tesla truck itself might be a way to subsidize the SpaceX rocket development (or vice versa). It sounds like technology between the two entities is being shared already.
I am a Capitalist but I approve this message. There has to be a sense of morality somewhere even when running a company. I truly believe that a company can make great profits while taking care of its people. I also believe that it is ok for the initial risk takers like founders/CEO to make a hell lot more money BUT not by destroying other people's lives.

I don't think any private company should have any interference by the Govt. BUT every founder/owner/CEO should think about their people first. Is this even possible ? I really hope so. "Moral Capitalism" anyone ?

Disclaimer: I run a small private company of 12 of us and I struggle with this everyday.
> cheer for the censorship of politicians

This is almost willfully in bad faith. They didn't "cheer for the censorship of politicians", they want something done about lies that are eroding our democracy.

If politicians are a part of that, well, okay!

Are they "cheering for the censorship" of nation-state actors?

Maybe!

And that's…maybe not bad?

> I just don't trust people like the above to know where the slope is, and so I don't trust them with tools for censorship.

I mean, should they not remove child pornography, rape video, snuff films, or cruelty to animals? That is censorship and those things are on some part of the slope!

Will there be edge cases and mistakes? Absolutely. Guaranteed.

Are the risks of those edge or ambiguous cases sometimes going the "wrong" way worth so much to us that we throw up our hands and say, "Ah, shit, can't do anything about this. Literally any change at all would be treason to freedom."?

I don't know.

It just seems…
Not to nitpick too hard, but I'm pretty confident we know that was Pascal. The rest are misattributions.
I think the bigger problem is it provides deniability and removes accountability. The "I never said that" kind.
> Out of the box it does not even bind to a public internet address.

Bind to all interfaces used to be the default in 1.x - it changed pretty much because people were footgunning themselves.

Coupled with lack of security in the base/free distribution, that made for a dangerous pitfall. At least now security is finally part of the free offering, but the OSS version still comes with no access control at all.
One thing that puzzles me, and that is also a big reason for me being sceptical towards Musk, is that almost of his ideas are stuff I phantasized about in my teens because they were "cool". But with all cool things from your teens, they turn ridiculous when you grow up. And unprofessional in the industries SpaceX and Tesla are in. A remote controlled Cybertruck on Mars? Technically already now feasible but expensive and pointless to get there. Not sure what Musk being able to finance all that is good thing.
Unless you have a Brother printer. It's been a year so maybe this information is outdated, but last I looked they had absolutely no support/drivers for ARM.
Agreed, you worded it much more clearly than I did :)
The guy stole my answer :(
Yep, that's exactly what a tag manager is. It lets the marketing department make changes, without the IT department getting involved and slowing things down with non-money-generating activities like code reviews or testing.

It's used to add tracking and advertising. But I've also seen it used for chat bots and chat agents. I've even seen it used for bug fixes that designers wanted to get out the door quickly.
Ah I see. I thought the taxes would be taken out before the BTC is sent.
You see that with Google and Alphabet. “Alphabet who?” “the google people”.

It’s Google Maps, not Alphabet Maps. Isn’t that a similar situation?

And it doesn’t dilute the Google brand, if anything I’d argue it strengthens it and makes it even more well known.
Have you seen those things in an accident? I can easily afford the Uber with seatbelts and I am not going to trust my life to a three wheeler.
I think this video will encourage you. Well actually maybe it will discourage you, but the follow up video will encourage you :D

Corruption is Legal in America: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
> Is this more due to FB dragnet network analytics that they can put enough data together that it doesn't matter if you isolate the app?

Exactly this.
lead is a great analogy here because its a sweetener.
I'm just doing rough numbers here and I claim to know basically nothing about mining outside of a simple calculator off google. Hardware wise (more my knowledge base), I imagine the older hardware might have interesting economic characteristics - like if you could stock a fleet of company vehicles with really super great 20 year old Toyotas versus newer Toyotas. Problem is, finding that many 20 year old Toyotas of that reasonable quality, etc.

Edit - "quality" not "quantity"!
It depends on what his assumptions are. Currently a 3080 produces $7.71/day in revenue[1]. If you extrapolate that out for a year you can break-even on your investment in less than a year, even if you pay scalped prices. However, this doesn't factor in difficulty increases, and depending on your forecasts it can vary from never breaking even to breaking even in less than two years.

[1] https://whattomine.com/coins
I am hoping for a future-proof solution. Something that steps outside the DNS-level infrastructure and acts as a regular web service. If in some time the service becomes moot due to something more useful, it would be better to just use it as a database for bootstraping the better system (if applicable). I just wanted something we can use fast.
I disagree. There is a bill on the horizon to make this a concern yet again. Even if the uses are legitimate, the US government does not have world-wide governing powers.
I'd suggest looking into what would be required to get started technically yourself, and in the ensuing learning process you'd not only educate yourself so that conversations with your future co-founder would have some decent merit, but you might find someone along the way ;)
As an FYI, ACM's Queue magazine is much better than it used to be, and people are talking about it:

http://everythingsysadmin.com/2010/11/acm-queue-magazine-add...

I've been an ACM member for a while, and they've come a long way. With recent political noise from the IEEE (in the wrong direction IMHO) I'm tempted to drop that membership...
This is about things like path resolution, directory permissions, file permissions, directory iterators, etc.
'A) and B) are NOT mutually exclusive.'

That's correct. B is a subset of A. The TSA, bees, and wikileaks are undoubtably interesting to many people, not specifically hackers.
Thank you very much! Lots of great food for thought here. I'm thinking the same as you; I'm planning on writing tech-centric books, aimed at a general audience but with eBooks that are priced much better than the average tech eBook for normal readers. At any rate, at least for my first one, I really think blogging the book a chapter at a time (or hey, parts of a chapter at a time) would be a good way to do it.

Thanks again for your time, thoughts, and info! Greatly appreciated :)
also see:

http://survey.io/
http://startup-marketing.com/
Splendid idea. The Foundry / McCoy's in Westport? I'll be happy to meet just about anywhere though.
$495 a report?? Moreover many of them are unavailable for individual purchase - not that I was interested at the price anyway.
Let me clarify (I'm being down-voted for stating my honest opinion which is in itself quite sad. I did not troll, nor was I disrespectful): I never said we should talk about the whole scope.

I certainly do not want to read news that would be to the far right of that diagram. But there are a number of soft skills you do acquire from sometimes leaning on the intersection between "hacker news" and just "news". I don't believe we should limit HN just to the very left because we'd miss those. That being said, this is HN and I don't ever want to come here for CNN content - that's why CNN.com exists.
this was also the case in the election cycle. tons of political stuff that got popular and highly voted didn't go anywhere until (i think) a mod made an executive decision
These days I think that's like asking what hosting provider you use and why. There are so many out there which have some sort of cloud elements these days. If going the dedicated server route, Softlayer is among the best. If going VPS, then Rackspace / Slicehost can give you great flexibility with pricing options (and some of the cheapest VPS options if you have low traffic.) EC2 is among the best if you need a well developed swiss army knife / kitchen sink API and wide assortment of services to work with. Heroku is among the best if you work with Ruby and don't want to be bothered with system administration (Lot's of others rising up in this space, and GAE for Python / Java.) Joyent is great if you would rather work in Solaris rather than Linux.

Edit: Forgot to mention Azure for the MS world, though EC2 also offers Windows servers. I should have known to mention Linode since that service is so popular with the HN community. Though the Rackspace options provide more cloud services last I checked.
Class is about whether or not you own all the tools necessary to produce a useful product and send it to market. If you own the means of production, you're a capitalist. If you must hire yourself out because you don't own the means of production, you're working-class.
Is it anything like Microsoft Word where the PSD file is basically a dump of what Photoshop uses to represent the document in RAM? Could cause for some interesting differences between files created on a Macintosh vs Windows.
You can install Homebrew in a different place if you want. I have an install inside my home directory.
I know that the Nokia Map people in Berlin use clojure.
Wait, what's 'Aurora'? I'm using Nightly, which is the new name for Minefield. It's sporting a spiffy new logo which looks a lot like the Aurora logo.
(I work at Mozilla)

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I'm curious about this myself. I'm trying to pick one to go with, it's a toss up between rails and django right now.
Firefox is in the process of being made multi-process; they've successfully achieved that for Fennec, the mobile version, and will eventually port that code back to the desktop Firefox.
More like TAI vs UT1, if I read jtwb correctly.
It isn't just me then, huh? I tried to bisect my way to a precise patch but it's really hard when you have ~15 steps, it's hard to tell if it "works" or not in anything less than an hour, and if you're wrong once you're guaranteed not to find the correct one. And the results I got almost make me think it's actually more than one patch combining together such that it has actually gotten gradually worse over time, which makes it even harder to finger.
> An amazing creation for a ~2 MHz 8 bit cpu.

I ran it on an Apple II. It had a 1 MHz 6502. And yet, it felt more responsive than my first IBM PC... Odd times.