jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This article isn't so much about individuals and their decisions but society. The claim isn't that "hard work doesn't pay off". The claim is that "hard work pays of more for some than others based on non-merit factors."

Even if they are correct, this shouldn't affect our behavior. We should still try to climb to the peak of our local maxima. Even if hard work pays off more for others, it makes sense economically for me to work hard if it pays off some.

This doesn't mean we should ignore the study either. It is important as a society to continually self-evaluate to ensure that the systems we have in place are moving us toward our ideals. The purpose of a paper like this isn't (necessarily) to push a set of ideals, but to help us self-evaluate.
Yes, but this isn't about a trial, this is about the court of public opinion. Getting civilian charges filed and then thrown out on "technical grounds" is almost the best case scenario if you're Pentagon PR. You get to indicit Assange (with loads of press coverage of him in chains to drive home the idea that he's evil and to scare off other whistleblowers and/or journalists) and then you get to blast the inadequacy of civilian courts for national security trials when (a year later) they throw out the case of a guy "everybody knows is guilty" on technical grounds which are far to complex to fit in a sound bite.
The tip about recording the audio first is a gem
I disagree with your analogy; branches of math/stats/CS are not subject to natural selection. They have quite the pantheon of "designers" (academia) deciding for what to use them and to what to apply them.
Just to be clear, it doesn't sound like this will make it into any sort of consumer product for a couple of years, at least.
Launch a product every month.

And, if I'm lucky, figure out how to support each one.
Another solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist. If your viewer has a small screen REDUCE YOUR CONTENT. You probably have lots of waffle you don't need anyway. Conversely if they have more screen real estate than brain cells and expand their window to 2000px+ they are stupid. Don't encourage them.
Serious question: Do you also disagree with movie classifications (G, PG, PG-13, R, etc) being prominently published?
More specifically, it is expanded on the shell

Example:

$ echo /*

/bin /boot /dev /etc /home (...)
* Benchmarks:
https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Benchmarks

* Design:
https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine/wiki/Design

This is an evolution of two previously successful caching libraries:

* ConcurrentLinkedHashMap:
https://code.google.com/p/concurrentlinkedhashmap/

* Google Guava's Cache:
https://github.com/google/guava
Coal has an energy density of about (depending on type) 24 MJ/kg, which is a shade under 7 kWh per kg, so your final number is off by a factor of 7 or so [EDIT: I think? Or you're saying that coal creates 1 kg CO2 per kWh? Ok... Yeah, I think that's right!]
> I wouldn't say that education is the antidote to war; rather, I'd say that education is the vaccine for war.

Based on what? Education doesn't seem to have reduced the incidence of war.

Since education made large scale war possible....
Can I use this app to report people who text while driving?
I think the article could have benefited from having Ben's observations grafted onto more structured models of individual preference such as Myers Briggs Typology and the Merrill-Reid Four Quadrant Model, rather than having him create his own limited and incomplete model.

I could compare this to someone trying to write for the first time without ever having been taught to write. So the person creates his/her own alphabet and starts writing. This alphabet seems great, so much more so because the person does not know anything about the other alphabets out there. But if we were to compare his alphabet with those that have benefited from hundreds of years of improvement by many different individuals, then we would see that his alphabet is quite incomplete, unexpressive and limiting.

I think in much the same way the Ones / Twos "alphabet" is less expressive and much more limiting compared to existing preference models such as MBTI and the four quadrant models. Over many years, a lot of people have done a lot of work in order to create models that describe personal preferences -- so I think it would make sense to re-use rather than build from scratch. That is so much more true given that the other models look at more dimensions and have more categories and are thus able to categorize variability much more accurately.
Do you really think that employee is going to give their best efforts after you just cheated them out of $800k?

Probably not. But you've just saved enough for ~3->5 person years of work. Hire new employees!
Yes, but we don't know what that labeling will be in the future.
MT does not disclose many security issues and instead slips fixes quietly into new releases.
revolves around being a fan of a product (in his case Apple products)

How did you pull that from this article? He basically says, "I like things that are fully-baked," not, "I like Apple products."

I have been a "Mac Fanboy" for about 15 years, and it has always been about execution. I have no loyalty to Apple, but insomuch as they make better products than anyone else, I will unabashedly say that the competition is crap. If another company stepped up and made better products, I would start using those (and competition is great for the consumer).

Which is basically what you just said, except that you (as many people do) treat Apple as somehow special. I don't fully understand it, but I think that Jobs' often smug attitude turns people off to the entire company and their offerings. They see Apple as elitist-in-a-bad-way, and even if they are popular now they are somehow a fad. Which is fine, but in that case it would be more correct to say "I dislike elitist CEOs," than "(HP|Dell|Compaq)/(Windows|Linux)/(Android|Wince) is just as good as Mac/MacOS/iPhone." Because really, they're not and never have been (software compatibility complicates the Windows/MacOS comparison).

Cheaper maybe, but never just as good. (You can often spot the weaker competition by their extensive "feature" lists.)
You also need to go to chrome://plugins and enable the experimental PDF plugin.
This article was extremely interesting. I remeber wired reporting on a system which would allow doctors to give a list of symptoms and have the most likely diagnostics listed by probability. Not sure of the name but technology like that has incredible potential. I also remember the article mentioning the reluctance of doctors to use it.

This kind of problem seems more widespread than only in the medical field. This stuff just reminds me of what Doug Englebart was trying to do with his NLS system. Augmenting Human intelligence. Were reaching the limits of what single humans are cable of retaining and processing in their daily jobs. I think that it's time for stuff Englebart did in the 60s to be rediscovered. While the internet is great, it's potential hasn't been maximised in area like this. Englebart's vision went much further than just google. Wolfram alpha is getting close to this in a way but still not far enough. I'm sure someone is already starting to develop this stuff (post some links if you have any).

I can just imagine an iPad application (preferably android table app ;p) for doctors which implements the system I talked about at the beginning of this post. Giving doctors on the go access to a database of diseases and medical records of the patients and a way for the computer to anylisze the data and return the info right there (powered by a huge hadoop cluster). Typing a few symptoms, getting the list of possible diagnostics and viewing some checklist of things to do. This would in no way replace doctors, I don't believe that we have reached a point where you don't need a human person to judge the validity of the computer guesses. In fact, assessing the symptoms is probably going to require a trained professional for ages but, at the same time I think there is massive potential for this kind of AI in these information intensive fields.

There is definitively lots of startup potential in all this.

I see a lot of startups solving easy problems (for good reasons) but this is worth a 10 twitters in value.

If I wasn't doing stuff in the medical imaging field (Brain imaging specifically) I'd go out and build this.
This is tangentially related, but when I lived in Palo Alto I'd walk past the Permuto ("The Shopper Connect Network") offices every day (the corner of College Ave and Staunton Ct) and always wondered what they did, exactly.

Some sort of B2B e-commerce and analytics company?
I would like to know how google compares with Apple rather than Microsoft. Apple is a different culture both from google and Microsoft yet it is a dynamic corporation that designs and markets new successful products efficiently and for profit. How does engineering culture in Apple differ from Google?
Legitimate question, does any other country use the "jury of your peers" model? Afaik most european countries don't
We're actually pursuing a similar model at Reaction (http://www.reactionhousing.com), convincing commercial customers who buy units to also buy units to donate.

We'll see how it works in the long run, but initial results have been encouraging.
> Cool, so whats the point here?

Well it's right in the single paragraph written by the author:

People might be interested.

I certainly am, I remembered this from the last time, and am just as fascinated now.

Seeing how people I look up to, who has created tools I use, work themselves is really interesting and could certainly be educational.

Nobody is trying to "prove" anything?
Mapy.cz (https://apps.apple.com/ch/app/mapy-cz/id411411020?l=en) does collect some data (see App Privacy in the App Store), but is not linked to „your identity“.
Yes I hope my tone was fair, I didn't want to be too cynical. There is definitely a spectrum between "overworked, burning out" and "love my job and sometimes I think about it at home too".
> I certainly think they could withdraw Google Search

Why would they go that far? At worst, shut down google.com.au or redirect to google.com (ie, a Non-Australian site).

It's hardly their fault if people persist in using Google even when they don't operate in the country any more, surely? If the Australia government wants to create a great firewall of Australia to ban Google, surely they should do it at their expense, not Googles?
Even more impressive is their HTML5, WebGL, audio and video demo linked to in the post:

http://videos-cdn.mozilla.net/serv/mozhacks/flight-of-the-na...
At less than half of what I would be charged for my regular landline for calls to China, the UK, and NA I think it's fair to give them some slack and let them have a few hours to repair things.
The example is the most simple way I could think of. It should only show that is is possible not what is the perfect solution (if there is any).

Of course you could throw in some runtime reflection and variable function calls to make it more maintainable. However for me it needs to pay of… I don't want to maintain such a system for just a hand full of properties. I like to keep complexity "flat" and so I often stick to the direct language features. But on large projects the code you linked could really come in handy. Thanks. :)
Riiiiiiiiiight. Although it sure would be nice to see if Snow Leopard becomes easier to hack into Vbox under 4.0.
Comment threads on HN aren't always about exactly what the article was about. I tend to see the article as a conversation starter, not a rigid, immutable topic. Sure, some people might disagree with what I wrote, but I don't think expressing a thought I had while reading the comments that isn't precisely about the article counts as trolling. Your opinion may differ.
Oh wow, that makes a lot of sense actually. Sorry for my bias, snobby iphone user here.
If there's one person on HN who doesn't think drug prohibition is an ongoing tragedy, I'd be surprised to see them say it. If everyone is just going to find different (and prickly) ways to agree with the thesis of an article, and it's not directly germane to HN, I don't think it belongs here.

"Illustrating the true dimensions of a tragedy" is not a back door for political/public-policy issues.

Here is, I think, a valid acid test:

* Does the story generate genuine debate in the comments about the core idea in the story? (Not really.)

* Do the story itself mention Obama? (No.)

* Do the comments mention Obama? (Yes.)

... then something's wrong with the story for HN. Not every good story has a home here.
Good time to be woman in tech.
My company has a special program to identify and promote specifically women to management roles. Not meritocracy. Even a male in a team works and performs better, he loses because the policy is to get some percentage of women into leadership. Let the down voting begin.
I don't really follow your reasoning, we probably have quite different outlooks on the subject.

No he doesn't come from a rich background. That's the point. A lot of people that end of rich come from a background where vanity is very important. They then have to spend a large part of their life trying to achieve that goal. That's why I don't care about "captains of industry". I don't expect any better, they've already "sold their soul".

I don't necessarily dislike people like that, because it can be very hard to opt-out of that life. The classic case is where you father works to much and neglects your mother, which self medicates a bit to much and in turn neglects you. So the only thing you know is trying to be your father to rationalize your sense of abandonment.

When people who doesn't have that background become rich and can do whatever they want, but instead opts-in to those values I think it's sad. Maybe he has personal problems of his own, or he just don't care anymore or whatever, I'm not going to be first in line to celebrate the guy. Because buying the most expensive house in the most vain place in the world is just not something I value.

Minecraft is still pretty cool though.
And why do they think they're getting cheated?
*...# is at least in Europe is used for many functions when you call it (e.g. topping up your prepaid phone, showing your balance)
Excellent point, back when I was writing my project, EFI wasn't a viable alternative.

Do you know how is the tooling with EFI these days? Can you boot EFI-bootable images using QEMU or Bochs? How about debugging, etc?
I am starting my own religion!

If that doesn't sound crazy enough, see its commandments:
1. You should know that God doesn't exist.
2. But you may ask god to help you do things that you think are somewhat out of your control. Eg: Please God, give me a good GPA this semester.
3. You have to acknowledge that just saying stuff won't actually make it happen, but doing it might.
4. You may or may not fight self righteous wars in favor of this religion.
This is a parable about whether you really understand the nature of the problem, or not. If you do then you can produce a concise definition (i.e. a better program in fewer LOC) and if you don't then it can get much more complex. It's like the difference between trying to make a machine fly by making wings out of feathers and having it flap, or understanding the principles of aerodynamics and making a fixed wing out of canvas.

However, for most non-trivial problems understanding everything up front isn't possible. To know what works you may need to create prototypes and iterate, abandoning things which don't work or which end in a hairball of complexity and getting opinions from testers. In that situation just intuiting a solution and then typing in the code won't work and the more formalised process might work better.
Personally I am still open to persuasion. However I am greatly disappointed when people say they have found God when all they have done is join a religion.

Finding God seems more of a life's work rather than "read this, wear these and you are good to go"
This might explain the 'we repurposed npm to manage go deployment' articles I saw recently ..
No, you're not being greedy. They are being greedy. Being reasonable in return and walking away when you don't get what you want are the valid responses. Lots of good advise elsewhere in this thread regarding vesting and making sure that you don't end up with 'B' class shares.
I do the same using jrnl (http://maebert.github.io/jrnl), which lets you do things like star, tag, and view entries from specific days - while still keeping everything in a plain text file.
So if these are zero-volume, can you take them as carry-on on US flights?
Nope, try again. ;p
While it’s incredible that a lawyer like Fabrizio would be so bold (and foolish) to use such language in discoverable emails, what he is proposing is even more incredible. A deliberate attempt to circumvent the DMCA. Ironic, right?

It's not incredible at all. He has an alternative legal theory that he thinks might stand up in court and lead to issuance of a court order. That's exactly the job a lawyer is paid to do - come up with legal strategy that advance the interests of clients, including employers.

I don't know whether this legal theory would prevail and I hope it doesn't, but going to court and asking for what they want is the appropriate way to go about things.

the MPAA should be finding ways to reduce piracy by enabling access to content via methods that reward creators.

But people torrent things anyway, even when they are instantly available. I mentioned to someone the other day that The Master (a film that did rather poorly at the box office in 2012 but has maintained a good level of audience interest over the longer term, like many art films) has been available on Netflix streaming since July and is also available on other services like Amazon Instant Video, but you can see 25-30k people torrenting it on popular trackers. You can always invent another excuse for why it's more convenient to Torrent something than pay the paltry $8 or $10/month for Netflix, ie the cost of a few cups of coffee or about an hour's wages in a low-paying job. This method rewards creators and is clearly affordable.

Without endorsing the MPAA, how much more should they be doing in this case? Imagine that I worked for them and you were about to torrent this film, exactly what is it you would want me to do for you that would change your mind?
I don't understand how "suitability for teaching" and "suitability for industry" differ, except that industry naturally wants to stick with whatever it already has.

But if you can design a language that serves as an excellent medium for teaching all of the important ideas in Computer Science, why wouldn't you go on to build the libraries and infrastructure you need to make it viable in industry?
I found it useful because I use site-specific email addresses (as in username+domain@example.com). I didn't know if I had a gawker login, so I searched for my domain. If I hadn't found it, I could've saved myself digging through my saved email.
I can't see how it's unethical, unless even looking at the data is unethical, and you'll have to convince me of that. I'd be more concerned about the ramifications than the ethics. The least bad thing that could happen here is winding up on some big ISP's blacklist because enough of their users marked this unsolicited mail as spam. Once that happens, good luck communicating with your customers.

I'm sure you can imagine the worst that could happen. Courtrooms are not happy fun places.
Oh come on its not destroyed - the site is still up. They are hardly a news organization. If anything they are a tabloid.

They were making incredibly stupid mistakes while convincing people they were a responsible and knowledgeable. I was hearing their bullshit on NPR like it was tech gospel.

Now they are exposed for the frauds they are.
I can't see your e-mail on your profile. Feel free to e-mail me directly and I'll look - jed@<username>.org.
It wasn't debt, it was savings!
Not really. In 2014 the average in Europe was 103 euro per day, making that 37,595 euro per year per inmate. The variance is quite high since Sweden for example pays on average 226,665 euro per year, while Bulgaria pays 1,095 on average per year.

Interestingly, Norway which is famous for its rehabilitation focused prison system is cheaper than the one in Sweden, with around half the cost.
Wait people subvocalise each word once they've learned to read?
This was a counter argument that wouldn’t even cut it in high school.
A war with Russia doesn't make sense. The US would have everything to lose and almost nothing to gain. Most literature I see is squarely focused on China, and specifically Taiwan.
I avoid phishing with some basic rules:

1. Never give passwords to a third party (so, for example, no Mint).

2. Never give anything more than an email address to someone you wouldn't also give your credit card number to. I only give an address or phone number when I'm planning on buying something.

3. Never log in after following a link. Always log in by manually (either through typing the URL or a bookmark) visiting the site.
Racist policing and racist sentencing seem like they could easily make up for the proportion.

Most white people don't get charged when they are caught commiting a crime, and the ones that do get light sentences that can keep them out of the correctional system
there are no literal feet on the moon for resources to be under, which removes much of the need for fighting.

By the time we have large scale industry on the moon, is this going to be the case? Probably not. Also, not all lunar resources are distributed evenly.

Maybe you're right, which would actually be a very good thing for the human race.
Yup. See the "Maginot line" discussion above.
The last time I've had such a plethora of quality engagement was at BurningMan ( circa early 2000's )
You're welcome! and likewise.

I feel like we probably shouldn't add a block/hide/killfile feature because it would be a step back into the siloed style of forum (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). That would feel easier in the short term but would perhaps be a retreat from the hard problem of building a community that actually works. The thing about that task is that it's always deeply unsatisfying and frustrating. One can only fall short. Yet it seems like the right task to be working on. Perhaps in the end, as Bob Dylan put it, we win the war after losing every battle. Or perhaps it just falls back into the swamp. The ambition of HN has always been to maybe stave off doom a while longer (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), or as pg put it years ago, "make a conscious effort to resist decline" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html).
Looks like it doesn't pick up repos owned by organizations that have their location listed. That would be nice.
Maybe I am not in the right demographic category to appreciate this. I like using cash for small purchases. I like the anonymity, the convenience and easy availability ( I typically carry some in my wallet). Most of all , I would not feel comfortable handing out my card to small shops or vendors that I hardly ever visit. For large purchases, like the couch example, most such stores already have cash registers that support Credit cards. I don't see them as using this service.

Please note that I am not saying this is a bad idea. I am saying that it is positioned as an alternative to small cash transactions for small businesses. That would be hard to beat.
your hands need to be near the tool in a mill for a couple of reasons, including clearing chips and applying oil/coolant.

also when you zero out a mill, you need to touch off a tool (don't know the name) to define your origin spot. it's not sharp and you should spin it at low RPM, but it's still moving, and you shouldn't have gloves anywhere near it.