jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting!

Closure don’t seem to be widely discussed outside of certain areas, so be it.

SOLID is rather surprising though. It seems to be quoted and (supposedly) adhered to religiously. Though I suspect it’s akin to people preaching TDD in public while we all know that’s rarely the case.
It took what, a few years for Tesla to get to what is hays now? You saying Hyundai and Toyota couldn't do that in the same amount of time or less. We're talking about Tesla competing with some of the largest industrial manufacturers in the world, and you think a few years heads start is a significant first move advantage?
I've got the same experience. It's weird how similar our experience in this interview process feels while we're literally years apart in work experience.
Attic equipment is mainly for low install costs. Easy to run the ducts. It's terribly inefficient.
FWIW:

I have a Powerwall and solar. My electric company offers no incentive for me to use my powerwall, or to feed into the grid during high demand.
Mmmh, here's my take: they are not infallible superheroes. They were fallible human beings.

Are there better people, today, who could lead the country? Of course. Will they ever actually be elected to do so? Sadly, no.

America in the late 1700s was a weird moment in history where educated, forward-thinking intellectuals (not nobility, not just the moneyed elite — actually a lot of men who (mostly) deserved to be called intellectual) actually had a chance to make the rules. They made pretty good ones. Some flawed rules, but good ones.

We're not going to get that again. The real-time feedback of TwitterDemocracy would prevent us from ever getting a document as general yet meaningful as the Bill of Rights, with basically unfettered rights to speech and assembly.

So until I see a viable path to put people in charge who actually surpass them in wisdom and foresight, I'm going to stick to what they put forward. It has aged and worked amazingly well, and have 0 confidence that the politicians of today, if starting from scratch, would do better.
> It is arguably a fantastic example of where nuclear power excels. Particularly if you had a nuclear plant which ran well below capacity most of the time and ramped up when we have extreme needs.

Right now that's awful, because most of the cost of nuclear plants is the capital costs. Paying a bunch of depreciation on something you don't use 24/7 is dubious.

Also nuclear tends not to ramp very quickly.

I'm pro-nuclear, but for nighttime base load + power-to-gas and filling other storage in the day.
I thought they got access through an update sever with a weak password?

Was the attack otherwise sophisticated and just relied on an easy entry point? So the breaking in was easy, but the plan to steal once inside was sophisticated?
I think you should try to be less of an autist and read into what people are trying to say.
Yup, but most pumped hydro is relatively short term power storage, too.

You really want something like power->gas->power to help fill in on the worst couple weeks per year.
The Founding Fathers intended the elimination of slavery, and banned it to a meaningful degree during establishment of the new nation, but had to compromise lest the fragile Union break before it could form.

Slavery eventually eliminated (before most other nations), at tremendous cost not appreciated by many benefiting from that payment.
"In an interview after his return to New York, Daszak said that the visit had provided some new clues, which ALL of the scientists, Chinese and international, agreed most likely pointed to an animal origin within China or Southeast Asia. The scientists have largely discounted claims that the virus originated in a lab, saying that possibility was so unlikely that it was not worth further investigation."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/14/health/WHO-covid-daszak-c...
Does anyone there get a battery system, like a Tesla Powerwall, to save up negative priced night electricity to use in the daytime?
The police must be held to a higher standard than the citizens they regulate. They should be subject to panopticon.
we used cufon for the last few years. looking to switch now since google preview doesn't support canvas and you end up with screenshots with no text
Coincidentally, I started writing a "What I learned from my first semester of grad school essay on Friday." HackerNews is psychic paper.
This is fun :D
I could see porn sites not legitimately making that page. First of all the categories are nearly all "Fastest Rising", you can easily imagine porn queries being less volatile. Also, despite porn's popularity, there are basically no porn stars famous enough to pull the same number of queries as a Katy Perry or a Shakira.
Or, we could pay attention to the 10th Ammendment:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Instead of randomly applying variations of a law, don't federalize it. Let the states pass their own variations, and see how that works out. Sure there are other variables at play, but they mostly revolve around how suitable the law is for the people it applies to, and that's a legitimate reason for the law to vary and part of the purpose of the 10th Ammendment: local self-governance.

I believe most federal laws should be repealed and replaced with guidelines for the states to follow when designing their own laws. These would be "Best Practices" for governments. Most of the world treated the US Constituion this way as they wrote their own constitutions, and I think that worked pretty well. It should work for State governments too.
Basically, we don't know what would happen. We might wipe out plankton-dependent species. That would obviously have serious ecological consequences.
Or, you know, you could move past both Scouting and high school football.
See my comment about 20 minutes before yours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21622722

HN is becoming an echo chamber of pro-DDG/anti-Google, which whatever, but these showing up on the front page almost every other day is starting to take a toll on the overall quality of the front page.

I’m not sure if the goal is to spread awareness, but not sure how effective that really is here (e.g. everyone here already hates Google).
There is nothing about Nosql databases that force you to have eventual consistency or lack Transactions. As far as forcing the correct schema, if you are using a statically typed language, it can enforce a “schema”. For instance with C#, LINQ and the standard Mongo driver, you work with strongly typed MongoCollection<T> and perform LINQ queries with IMongoQueryable<T>.

Amazon’s DynamoDB for instance supports transactions and optionally consistent reads. With Mongo you can set your WriteConcern to force strong consistency. Mongo also supports transactions.
This is the way it always will be.

Power law
It's a document, not an app. What were you expecting?
Nonetheless, when defending the CCP, one is often wrong. CCP literally has rape-and-torture camps where people die suspiciously and graciously donate their organs.

With regard to african countries, it kinda matters which ones you're talking about: there's a world of difference between the DRC and Ghana.
> it's possible for diligent researchers to reveal unpublicized policies through their research

It's possible to reveal __some__ policies (like trivial one with breastfeeding), but I think that reverse-engineering of non-trivial policies is really hard.

Like moving some type of content to the bottom of the feed for some category of users. It may not look like a ban, but who is gonna scroll to the bottom of the feed?
Or 25% bias in news priorities of one political party over another for some users.

Their non-trivial policies may also change over time, so it would be hard to prove any of them. They had years to optimize their news feed.

And who will have time and knowledge to do statistics? With millions of eyeballs we still have tons of trivial bugs in open source software.

> I haven't seen a reason to suspect that TikTok have been any more open about their moderation policies than Facebook or indeed any other social media platform have been.

I don't know any of big news players who have open editorial policy, but TikTok is new in the industry and I think they don't have knowledge and technologies to develop non-trivial policies like Facebook, Twitter, NYT or any other big player.
(Shrug) If Google can film public areas, then so can I.

See, that's kind of the whole idea behind public areas. You aren't entitled to any expectation of privacy there. That's why they're called public areas, and not private areas.

The distinction is remarkably easy to comprehend.
http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/al-franken-to-s...
No, speed up the orbital period too so we can have a 360-day year.
I think this could also be called 'can your brain think like this?'... Many programmers stray from thinking in a massive way and tend to problems with similar, familiar codebases.
Maybe he should reconsider his stance on microkernels. It would be interesting if the original GNU OS idea (Hurd) was revived. Splitting up the thing will into separate processes would certainly help against bloat.
And suffer from 5x slower development time. Yeah your deadline now has to be extended from 2012 to 2015 but at least the language is FAST and is technically excellent, right?
They're even working on a fully automated solution. That's a hell of a difference compared to 'download the original movie and upload it to youtube yourself'.
Perhaps, if you work on a team of peers. I'm not speaking from personal experience in terms of managerial problems, but I have often been the only person doing my sort of work, which makes peer review challenging.

And I don't think that Netflix shuffles, mentors or warns people -- I think they just bounce you out of the company. It's been put to me as "they pay top of market, so they shouldn't have to deal with any personnel issues."
I always loved the fact that matrices encode operation on matrices (see comment#1 http://betterexplained.com/articles/linear-algebra-guide/#co... ). Very meta-circular, Ycombinatorish. Would that mean Linear Algebra is homoiconic ?
I'm not even specifically talking about drugs: these so-called "wars" (drugs, terrorism, etc.) are just wars on citizens. I have a Polish passport, so if I ever need to go somewhere safe, I can. But Poland lacks the same opportunity that exists here. Y Combinator, Silicon Valley... everything's right here.

Portugal seems very interesting and I'd really like to hear what happens with their drug policy.

But in the end, it's all for naught if I can't get any opportunities there. Which is why I live in the US.
Yeah... this is what happens when the customer is not the end-user of the product. Markets break down because there's no feedback loops.

Kind of like those toilet paper dispensers in public bathrooms that require a key to open and make it as difficult as possible to unroll a few sheets of what feels like sandpaper. Georgia Pacific has no reason to care about the person sitting there, powerless, on the toilet. Terrible user experience!
Wow, I had nearly the exact same interview process. Super aggressive to nearly combative recruiter (felt like I was being argued with the whole time), fizzbuzz question, left in a conference room alone for an hour for lunch, a few more questions then done.

I got an offer but turned them down because their recruiter was so crazy aggressive it made me feel that Netflix would be a very unhappy place to work.

From what I've heard from ex-employees (one a recruiter) the hiring/salary/firing process there is not well organized. People often make more than managers or more senior employees and large layoffs every year for the 'bottom 10%' make for some weird social dynamics.

As much as I respect and admire their technical processes there I'm not convinced it's really a good place to work.
Greg Young did the same thing in .Net; he built a product out of it. In the end he figured out it wasn't a viable business, so he made it open source. You can download it here http://www.continuoustests.com/ and the code is OSS.
Disagree with this article. There was a rather good article on hacker news a few weeks ago which made a lot more sense as a reason for Microsoft/Google/et al dropping projects. Wish I could remember the name so I could link to it.

The essence though is that the Googles of this world have completely different sets of requirements to the startups of this world. Additionally the public has expectation of the Googles that are vastly different to their expectation on smaller, younger company's. This is not Google or Microsoft screwing up, but rather dropping products that don't meet their requirements or what they perceive are the requirements of the public/customers.

I am no fanboi, almost the opposite in fact as far as Microsoft is concerned, but I do respect the power of these companies to lead and to innovate.
It really depends on the manufacturer. Some don't want to deal with you unless you're in the 100s of thousands. We were very lucky to find a company that will make a quantity as low as 300, but there would be no reasonable price we could charge for the product without losing tons of money. A quantity of 3,000 would basically be a wash, and 30,000 would give us a decent margin.

Another point I forgot to mention above is assembly cost. I was surprised to learn that automating tasks isn't cost effective even when production is in the tens of thousands (depending on the task of course).
It worked for me around 10 AM EST. It said there was abou 250 or so remaining.
Wonderful. So let me guess this right.

Someone who's business is revealing information that others don't want revealed describes revealing information about him - that he wants hidden - as a "smear". What was that saying about heat and kitchens?
TL;DR: Denmark, Finland, Sweden and presumably others do it already.

I'm surprised if France and other supposedly civilized countries don't do it on behalf of the Justice Ministry or equivalent. I mean, the fundamental responsibility of citizens is to adhere to the law (ignorantia juris non excusat); the fundamental responsibility of government is to make the law available to citizens because it is not reasonable to require compliance with laws that are not practically available to citizens.

I'm in Finland, and the full content of law books has been in internet for almost 20 years, published first by the state-owned publishing house that gave out the print versions, and more recently by Ministry of Justice who has contracted the technical execution out. The database structure managing pieces of legislation dates back to 1980's, but until 1990's it was available only through a license payment.

Individual laws (and executive orders, state treaties and such) that are published by parliament or ministries have of course always been public information and published in the net since 1990's; the important thing is actually maintenance of "up-to-date" version because the parliament publishes its laws mostly as "patches" (i.e. only a changed section is reviewed, voted on, and published).

The database cross-links to published parliamentary process so that the official background work for each law, section and paragraph is available, including preparatory statements by parliamentary committees, any dissenting opinions and so on.

Also more significant precedent cases from high courts are available in database. (We have a so-called Roman law system where the code is primary source of law, unlike American/English common law where precedents are more important; nevertheless neither system is absolute of course, and precedents do matter in civil law systems as well.)

The database descriptions can be found:

Denmark: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/info/info_dk/index_en.htm

Finland: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/info/info_fi/index_en.htm

France: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/info/info_de/index_en.htm

Germany: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/info/info_de/index_en.htm

Sweden: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/n-lex/info/info_sv/index_en.htm
Don’t forget how Reagan told us that tax cuts would “trickle down” and busting unions would make us all more prosperous.
I was still hoping that someday support for standalone binary executables would be added. Maybe next century.
All genital mutilation is wrong.
Thank you for disparaging self taught engineers as less skilled. God forbid we have the mental fortitude to learn something on our own. Who taught Newton calculus again?

I do agree with the right to organize. Troubling times ahead.
We might solve some of these problems with a 3rd party reader that uses Twitter APIs but with a differently structured feed (focus on X people, ignore Y term, etc). Anybody else?
Moxie didn't say anything more than that his phone number was in Jacob Appelbaum's phone.

Jacob has a lot of telephone numbers, perhaps hundreds, including mine. He's a hyper-social guy who knows everybody.

If merely appearing in Jacob's address book was enough to cause serious suspicion the DHS would have confiscated all of our laptops by now.

Since I'm pretty sure that Moxie has nothing to do with Wikileaks, it's a bit of a mystery what this is really about.
Google is #7 worst web company?
http://www.groubalcsi.com/sector/web-based-services

BMW is the worst in motor vehicle?
http://www.groubalcsi.com/sector/motor-vehicles
From what I've seen, this ideal workflow is not near as much of a reality on cheap Android phones with not as great hardware. It is a reality on phones like most of the Droid series (I own a Droid 2) and the Nexus One, but most of the people I know with Droids have the cheaper phones like the LG Ally and Motorola Backflip which just don't work as nicely this way. You end up wanting to go back to the app paradigm on phones with smaller screens and slower processors.
I can't help feeling this guy is incredibly talented. $66,000 a year? Making a living with an English composition degree must be fantastically competitive and difficult if thats the best he can do.
The quick answer, bureaucracy. It has been several years since I have worked in the field. From what I recall, companies developing airborne software have to be indoctrinated, trained, and certified. Then every line of airborne software whether it is for engine controls or in flight entertainment has to be certified by the FAA. These are not quick, easy, or cheap to obtain.

http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/air_cert/design_approvals/air_so...
Right, i wouldnt give up control until i exited. i assumed two founders bringing in an investor who would take 1/3, so the two colluding founders would still have control.
"...lengthy internet battle with an obvious zealot which will probably end up in a Godwin law violation or a comparison of digital phalli or some such."

There should probably be some law about those who attempt to preemptively invoke Godwin's law.

"You've successfully demonstrated using a search engine for finding archived posts without demonstrating that those posts reached the front page."

Up until fairly recently in the history of HN, at least, pretty much any post with point count > 10 has been on the front page. Looking at the front page currently there's a couple at 3 or 6. I think most of the examples I linked were 20+ which means they were almost certainly on the front page for a while.

"Apple also has a lot to answer for."

You're the one who keeps trying to make this be about Apple. It's not, it's about a Flash exploit. Trying to force the relationship says far more then you then anything else.

"You may continue feeling slighted by even the slightest of finger-pointing at Apple even if it's not intended as Apple bashing."

I'm not slighted, I'm just pointing out that you're not really communicating in a relevant manner to the thread.

"Hanging off of every word Steve Jobs says as perfect and without flaw is not."

I agree with some things Apple does and not others. (No Flash on iPad/iPhone: agree, Adobe has yet to demonstrate the capability for Flash to run in a good manner on mobile devices, and if either of those were waiting for that neither would have been released yet. 3.3.1: sticks in my craw, even though I have a sneaking suspicion it may be best for the platform certainly not best for developers. App Store as only distribution channel: Again, good for the platform and endusers, not for developers, sideloading should be allowed.) Certainly the HN community as a whole, I'd say, has a few more vocal critics of Apple of late than vocal supporters.
Looks like either someone decided to play a prank or by some odd coincidence The Buzzer went offline just now: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/06/06/032235/Mysterious-Ra...
That is utter hyperbole. Google never had the "freedom of speech for ~1.3 billion people" to trade. They do not and probably never will have anything like that kind of power. I am far from a Google fanboy but if you're going to criticise them, please keep it reasonable.
Many sites’ articles’ addresses are only unique in the query string. For example, HN’s own discussion pages would all be considered http://news.ycombinator.com/item.
But if coins are [infinitely?] divisible, then the currency just undergoes deflation.
You can use putty and firefox to do sock proxy on windows. When configuring a connection in Putty add a port for dynamic forwarding (under connection -> ssh -> tunnels, put something like 4999 in the source port, select the Dynamic radio button and click add next to the source port)

Then in firefox you can setup a socket proxy (in options, under advanced settings -> connection settings select
manual proxy then add 127.0.0.1 and port 4999.) This should be enough to get around it. I use this to secure my connection while on other peoples laptop (work etc..)
Yeah, that line stuck out to me as particularly silly because, generally, there is only one endpoint for mail traffic with a unique port per protocol. When it comes to HTTP, there are often numerous services, many of which can not be reasonably called the "world wide web". I guess you could say that the www is the default and codify that to naked domain, but it seems preferable to just redirect from the naked domain to www in order to disambiguate while simultaneously declaring your default.
This app has been online since late 2009. It offers formats that the FB download did/does not (dot file, XML, CSV). It received a lot of attention last year (2010) http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/facebook-app-... possibly influencing FB to add the download service. Not sure if they would admit it, but its very possible the idea seeped-in somehow.

I am the developer.
Sadly, no, you can't. Facebook seems to offload older data to systems that are inaccessible to third-parties using the graph API. Their "Download Your Data" feature has access to this tier via async methods.

Reference: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10576#c7...
But why is the item selected in the first place? It's not like it's doing the same animation as when the item is actually clicked (at which point it turns blue).
I don't understand why all those product and marketing people don't form programmerless teams and cheaply outsource their initial programming needs.

Because most of them are too broke to do that.

Moreover, when they do have a little bit of money, they're likely to get taken to the cleaners because of their inability to evaluate and manage a technical team, especially a remote one.
Maybe so, maybe not - but this is Hacker news, not Hero News. Please don't use it as an outlet for political arguments, as there are many other more appropriate sites for that purpose.