jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I disagree, I like the idea of the federation, of a ship on a mission of peace equipped with heavy weapons. Of Data, an AI, and his struggles to become human. Of Picard who solves ethical dilemma's. The Borg, who are the antithesis of individuals and both scary and fascinating. Of Spock, wrestling with logic vs emotion. Kira who becomes more wise over time.

Sure it helps that the setting is futuristic, I wonder if I'd still like it if it were set on a seaship in the 1700's or something... But that would rule out time travel for example, which I also always enjoy. Sure, Janeway will rotate the shield frequency and sure the Burg will adapt in 3 shots (there’s room for a lot of automation in the captains commands in response to threats ;)), but it's just what they do, like Harry Potter will try Expelliarmus every time. Things get more interesting when a species joins the scene that easily wipes out the Borg (8472) and they have to decide if they want to wipe them out. They always wanted to... but what do you do when you actually can?

In the end, the tech the tech with the tech is just a side effect if you ask me. Same as magic the magic beam with magic. But it's the setting that make Data possible, and time travel, and godlike powers in the face of primitive cultures, and interesting dilemma's for cultures that don't exist on earth (but arguably could very well and one could write a story around that).
> Also, stop meditation and trying to optimize your mental and physical performance. Has anyone who’s ever had a miracle year cared about any of this shit?

I’d say Lex Fridman is in his equivalent of a miracle year, or was last year anyway. Keeping the body tuned is important for mental ability which is important if you’re trying to be productive at all, much more to achieve a miracle year.
Yeah, it's so funny to see that people who believe a domestic manufacturing base is important have been so utterly defeated that there's not a single US-made phone they can buy. Well, except the niche Librem 5, but the leaders of the "conservative" movement are mostly swindlers, so they picked a cheap phone they can mark up more.

They lost what they valued, their leaders are selling them out, everybody laugh.
I actually had the crazy shaped Gauntlet game as a kid. Managed to get to the final boss once but never with the full password.
Yes, that’s what the pitch was, since Wagon Train was a popular series at the time. But, IIRC, the series developers themselves called it more like Horatio Hornblower.
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Some really inspiring versification in here, and it would be difficult to surpass the aesthetic and philosophic achievements already mentioned.

However, for sheer technical brilliance, perhaps a word should be said for the ElectroBard from Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiad, whose verbal virtuosity was such that when challenged:

“compose a poem- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter S!!"

the response was instant:

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide."

... and if you think that's good, just imagine how great it was before being translated into English! (By Michael Kandel iirc)
I believe this is precisely the method GCHQ used to compromise Belgacom, for the purposes of spying on the EU. They used QUANTUMINSERT to inject an exploit payload into connections from belgacom employees to LinkedIn and slashdot.
This is just another example of Sen­sa­ti­o­na­lis­mus.
Agreed - the barriers to entry are so much lower than they used to be. I think, overall, it's a good thing, but the companies that have to really grind to get where they are usually end up in a better position I think.
In fairness "this guy" has a reputation at having made excellent space sims before.
The US law where homosexuals were locked in cages less than 15 years ago, where their are still homosexuals in cages and under other punishments for actions that would have been legal if they had been heterosexuals (one example a child molester in Georgia who would have been protected under Romeo and Juliet laws had the young party been a girl instead of a boy). We still have a justice system where owning certain plants can get you years if not decades locked in a cage. If you smell any BS around here, I'd think the natural source would be the legal system.
Most people may not realize what's coming now but they will soon enough. When they do, expect Universal Basic Income (UBI) to become a very popular topic.

Here's a quick take: http://io9.com/how-universal-basic-income-will-save-us-from-...

The Wikipedia article goes much further in-depth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

And of course, there's an ongoing conversation on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/
I think this is a very deep question. There are three prize's that Wikipedia could merit; Nobel Peace prize, Nobel price in Literature, and the Economics Prize.

The Peace prize is one of the easier arguments. The beneficial affect on the lives of everyone, and the egalitarian nature of editorial review is clear.

The Literature prize could be awarded for creating one of the most important literary works in history. The prize itself was to be awarded to the "person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction." The committee has almost always given this as a lifetime achievement award in fiction and poetry, but there have been notable exceptions. Both Winston Churchill and Theodor Mommsem were awarded for their historical works. The artistic community which controls the prize is perhaps too elitist to award the egalitarian work of Wikipedia.

The Economics prize is the most interesting. I do not know of any precedent for non-theoretical work. But the value of Wikipeida to the economics field is in creating an entirely open, non-monetary market. This should be a great tool for economics, and is ripe for discovery.
If you send yourself more than 10k messages, you'll have to pay for slack if you want to search. Grep is free.
That is an historical accident of UNIX widespread into the industry.

I am old enough to remember C wasn't even an option unless the customer was willing to shell out money for UNIX systems.
> Gates believes that the tax codes are going to need to change to encourage companies to hire employees, including, perhaps, eliminating income and payroll taxes altogether.

If we want to go down that road, basic income is the future in my opinion.
No big. Probably just a case of "Mz talks like Elle Woods* yet again" anyway. (I say this based on the low number of upvotes for my first remark and the much higher number of upvotes for my second one.)

* A la the scene in Legally Blonde that goes something like this: "He's gay! -- what kind of shoes do I have on?" ..."Uh, black?" ..."See! He's gay!"
> Soft Skills from the development teams perspective is assertiveness.

It's also "not being a dick to your fellow team members". One asshole can poison an entire team's culture. Besides, if you're doing Scrum remotely close to how it was intended, the only person who needs to be able to tell the product owner to fuck off nicely is the scrum master.
Yes, finding time to work on large items that require uninterrupted thought would be tough given OP's parameters. If we had more context, might be easier to offer useful suggestions.
A total fluff piece for someone pushing their new book.
In the example scenario, wouldn't the doctor be able to get tax deductions for college loan payments as well as dependent care of seniors? The mortgage underwater scenario sucks, but is he losing his home because it's not worth what he paid? I no tax expert, but wouldn't the increased taxes only apply to income that isn't covered by the deductions? If he's still making $250K+ per year beyond the deductions for those expenses, then I don't see that the sob story of the poor doctor just trying to get by with all the uncontrollable expenses is really valid.
Quick note, so nobody else has to convert:

850° F = 454° C
800° F = 426° C
500° F = 260° C
They were the first thing I thought of when I saw this. Seems a direct competitor with Meta more than it is with Google Glass.
This is from 1993, see http://mikkipedia.net/?page_id=150 it was expanded into a book see http://www.amazon.com/Geek-Handbook-User-Guide-Documentation...
Preliminary results: holding sex drive and promiscuity constant, decreasing societal shyness (i.e. making single people more likely to go out and meet someone to fuck) seems to increase population infection rates rather than decreasing them. This is true if shyness is independent from promiscuity. (My simulation tends to send more promiscuous people out to meet someone to fuck more often by increasing their partner-switching rate, so shyness is indeed independent.)

Don't just take my word for it, run my code: http://github.com/philwelch/SexSim

If anyone's interested, let me know and I can work up a blog post and improve my code. (Also, if my code is wrong, let me know or send me a patch.)

EDIT: I have a bug which may invalidate my results. Stand by for fix.

EDIT 2: No, results still valid. Possible fix pushed.
Up until this point at least, I think you're correct. I certainly would have liked to have purchased an iPhone since long before Android was ever released, but AT&T's reception in my area is abysmal.

However, even if Apple can get out of their exclusive arrangement with AT&T, it may be too little too late.
Why not become a contract killer? For the price of a handgun, you can make over 50 grand a day! Why bet on bad guys when you can be the bad guy?

Interestingly, this half-sarcastic rant has brought up a question in my mind. Why not charge betters on crime for the crime? Why not charge shareholders for the crimes corporations commit?
I don't know if I agree 100% with the second part of your comment. A CS degree is by no means a requirement, but in general (geek or not) I'd like to be able to share what excites me with a girlfriend.

That said, I don't expect a girl to study Star Trek or anything (and, btw, was this article written 15 years ago? I don't think I know anyone who watches Star Trek.) just in order to get references to it. This is really a pretty stupid article that seems to have been written by someone whose greatest exposure to geeks is watching The Big Bang Theory.
The food thing is the biggest WTF. Maybe once a month I'll have KFC/McD's after a heavy night out, and regret it.

If you're still harbouring resentments about shit that happened at high school at the age of 30, the problem is you.

As a geek, you're not special or deserving of different treatment, you're just another guy. If a little smarter than the mean.

People peddling this bullshit annoy me.

I like tinkering with autos. Driving 160-180mph is fun. Sky-diving is fun. Traveling to off-the-track places is fun. Kicking the shit out of, and getting the shit kicked out of you in sparring, is fun. Yes, I'm a gamer too.

My hobby which became my job doesn't define me.
A Google Reader session:

http://imgur.com/DwzzH.jpg
Well, there's not really any mathematical field comparable to software engineering. A better comparison to math would be theoretical CS, in which case I think you'd get things like "the conflation of NP-hardness with NP-completeness".
Pretty much.

Imagine if China (used for population reasons) managed to send 300 million spies to the US to socially-engineer their way into all US citizens' personal lives. Now imagine India (again, for population reasons) simultaneously trying the same thing: now, one half of the time, the Chinese are just spying on "American citizens" who are really Indian spies, the Indians are just spying on Chinese spies, and one half of Americans go unmonitored.

It's sort of the same game-theoretic advantage you get from participating in a battle royale competition over participating in a 1v1 competition: for each new adversary you face, that adversary is also dragged down by all the other adversaries and becomes that much easier to deal with.

This really only applies specifically to Sybil attacks, though.
Here's a reason.

My fiancee has had her PC updated to windows 8. Now she can't play solitare on one side of the screen in a window with a video playing in a window on the other side of the screen.

She's forced to 'split' the screen in half, with solitare taking up a full 50% of the monitor.

Now if she wants to bring up a web page, it only loads up in the 'desktop' half of the screen.

This type of interaction is infuriating for someone used to XP, 7, etc.
A fast look at that does indicate that some Oracle copyrighted code may have been copied verbatim. As a long-time open source advocate this is clearly wrong. All the open source licenses are based on the fundamental copyright laws.

The sad part about it is that, in the court of public opinion none of this matters and that is the court that will in the end decide the direction of the tech industry. It is becoming increasingly obvious the days of the corps playing nice is over. We are going back to the verticals and developers will have to chose their vertical.

What I think Oracle, Apple and the other underestimate is the mindshare that Google, Apache and Redhat have. They may force more developers than they think onto a vertical provided by the Open Source community. The problem is going to be Java and Oracle knows that, they think if they can pull Java out from under them that it will set them back to the point that developers will have no choice but to go onto a corporate vertical provides stack. Time will tell, but it is a high stakes game that is being played right now that is for sure.
> These people are burning down some of the richest cities in America

"Burning areas" would be the extent, if one is being accurate.

We're not talking 1968 Washington riots.
We have a more fundamental disagreement than tweets in that case. If anyone should be allowed to post anything, what about images of child pornography?
>outside of people physically overwhelming guards

Sure, perfectly non-violent except for the violence. And the occupation of a federal building for a few hours. Smash a few windows, jump a few barricades, fight a few cops, but no real violence.
Well in modern times today, eye witness testimony still carries much weight, and still being used to determine truth in a court of law. So therefore, the eye witness testimony of hundreds of commoners, including the inner circle of disciples and apostles who saw Jesus Christ in flesh and blood and attest to his miracles in person, plus the third party accounts by roman and jewish independent observers and historians alike.
Hmm, fair point. I think "forced" is very loaded in this situation, however.
Talk Python To Me is a really good tech podcast. It manages to almost always have a really interesting guest.

https://talkpython.fm/
Why did he think Mark wanted to pay 19 billion for whatsapp? To not make any money.
I'm curious: what's the line between Terms of Service and editorial authority?

I don't know the exact wording of section 230. Even if I knew it, it wouldn't help, because I'm not a lawyer.

That's why I don't understand where the line is drawn and why. If the idea is to "protect open platforms from liability from user content", why is it okay to have policies that remove child porn, but not those that remove incitement to hate crimes?
A lot of international news just repeats the american MSM with regard to domestic news.
Some days ago I posted this: http://scalgo.com/live/global

It's modelling all the water flow levels in the world using very detailed GPS data. I mean, you can model a sea raise or a river level raise.

I didn't even get 1 point. OK, design isn't as cool as this wind one, but I think it deserved a bit more love since they process a crap ton of terrain data for the water flow modelling...
Living in The Netherlands it's easy to forget that these countries are not actually separated from Europe in any way. The distance between Amsterdam and Pakistan is comparable (a bit longer) to the distance between L.A. and New York.

A cool story that was recently in the Dutch news reduces that perceived distance, when an independent car rental business owner pursues and retrieves one of his cars all the way in Iraq:

http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_...

The thieves just rented a car, and drove there. Possibly to fight Jihad.
You can say some things anonymously, but I'm not sure how far does it extend. Anonymity is tested not by posting under an alias, but when somebody tries to break it. If you get into the middle of real controversy - how far would HN willing to go before they wipe your account and possibly give the details they have (IPs, email, etc.) to the law enforcement, from where they'd immediately be leaked to the press? Was this ever tested in practice - i.e. somebody anonymous on HN was attacked and kept their anonymity?
I think it's worth considering the post WW2 period as possibly exceptional in the planet's history, and understanding why that may have been, and what can be done policy wise to extend the best parts of it.
On the same topic is this post from a bit over a month ago. "Ex‐FBI operative says he worked to disrupt political activities up to '74 (1975)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25595897
The last one was basically a governance project where we redesigned the processes around enterprise decision making.
I interpreted OP's comment to mean Zuckerberg could change Facebook but that then Facebook would wither and die.
I am not a marine biologist, but worked in VFX: Of course this is sped up, watching those ships travel their routes in realtime would be a bit like watching paint dry.

Certain aspects/patterns of movement will only become visible when the playback speed is changed (early 20th century theorist Walter Benjamin called this the Optical-Unconscious). So e.g. it is easier to judge patterns in the traffic flow of vehicles in a sped up video than in real time footage. Both display the same movement but something else becomes visible.
Create a better one and own the world.
> This is obviously about as far from the argument that Nazis want to make as you can imagine

Without wading in too far here, I want to point out that picking a slightly different "master race" is no better.
Thanks a lot for the input. Yes. I completely agree with you
They're more focused on medical research, not health broadly (life sciences, services, insurance, etc.).
So you're saying the bricks that are close enough to an actual (not teensy) fire will melt/spill/spread? Why is that such a big deal?

I mean, yes, it's nowhere near western building codes, and if there is a non-trivial fire, you need to get out, fast. Much faster than with most typical building materials, though the bricks won't come loose instantly, and that has to do with thermal mass, conductivity, temperature and amount of heat.

Note, a match will not do, if painted. A blast furnace will, but I do not see the relevance.

Yes, I may have overestimated how much fire the bricks might survive, in my first comment, but I'm not saying the building would withstand a fire - the main point is, that it's more resistant than EPS cladding, couches and PVC flooring, so not as dangerous as it might seem.
It's true, nobody wants to be left behind with a bunch of skills that aren't attractive to desirable employers.

There's also very much a tendency to make things complicated in many workplaces as a form of job security and gatekeeping. But it doesn't last forever. Today's hot-shit is tomorrow's ball-and-chain.

10+ years from now, many k8s monsters will still be running and kept alive by stressed-out teams in India. Much like the "Oracle Enterprise Business Suite" giant-shit-ball from the late 90's is still working in many corporations doing absolute critical stuff with tentacles in every part of the org. Changes in these systems are nearly impossible because of the cost and nightmarish complexity, and _everyone_ is _forced_ to use it.
I haven't used SQLite in production, but I've used a single installation of Postgres for some surprisingly high traffic websites, and it works amazingly well with essentially no tweaking. I agree that the vast majority of people using anything more complex very likely don't need to be.
Ey thanks for taking the time to write this, very helpful during this stressful time :)
I’m the post author. If people are deciding what the article is about based on its title (and the title is nothing more or less than the name of the article’s subject), they aren’t people I want as readers. The title stays as it is.
Won't somebody think of the government contracts... er... I mean... the children!
In the post, Demedes relates his recent experience in choosing Ruby on Rails instead of using his normal go-to, a React-based single-page application framework.
Do eeeetttt!

I want to see the collateral calls cascade from people that borrowed against their shares

Any bankers or employees got insight on where large numbers of insider liquidations would be at?

How about when their revenue is cut by a third alongside the market no longer accepting such high revenue multiples for the shares.
Awesome. I used to run a similar service, but almost got banned from AdSense by users who received emails with adult content. What do you do to account for content in emails that users receive that may be objectionable to your advertisers?
The grass is always greener.

Whatever you have, someone else has a better version of it. Whatever you have, someone else would kill to have it themselves.

The only way to step outside of the cycle is to start comparing yourself to yourself. Whatever it is that you do, be better at it. Be the best at it. Don't focus on improving, focus on straight up dominating. It's counter intuitive, but the best way to get to the next level is to acknowledge that you aren't very good right now. It's difficult, most successful people refuse to admit any kind of fault or regret. That's fine for the merely successful. But you should be trying to become godlike. When you aspire to that level, how much money other people raise or how often they appear in the press won't matter to you any more than the business of ants on the ground. If you want to transcend envy[0], you must transcend yourself and your current level of ambition.

It doesn't matter what anyone else is doing, or what people think of them. It doesn't matter what anyone thinks of you. Show the world something wonderful and amazing, do things that people didn't think were possible. Solve a real problem for millions of people, or just impress yourself with how cool what you've made is. Do whatever is necessary to make your name shine, whatever the cost. Everything else will take care of itself.

[0] pedantry: "envy" is the desire for what others have, "jealousy" is the fear that someone else will take what you have.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=fernvale#!/story/forever/0/fernval...
Add congestion, higher speed limits, more high-powered cars, and on and on.
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Actually that tweet was not from government official. It was from ruling political party IT cell here. Government officials from DOT and IT ministry are still silent on this issue.