jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
do you have a github repo I can watch?

https://github.com/dwwoelfel

My github repo is pretty barren. I probably won't put any updates there.

However, I have your email from your profile. If I make a decent improvement to the output size, I'll send you an email. I won't forget. I put a reminder in my gmail drafts folder and my calender prompts me to check it once a month.

You have me more excited about this then I was when I released the app, but I'm still not certain that a market exists. My hypothesis is that the people who make the email newsletters include extra external images on purpose so that the recipient will think he's missing something. Then he'll be motivated to click the "display all images from this sender" link, enabling the tracking image in the process.
In case anyone is wondering, Brooks uses the 2.13ghz model.
> Hard-to-implement NIST curves suck, whereas GCM and Poly1305 are recommended.

I've always wondered this about DJB - he preaches the gospel of ease-of-implementation with Curve25519 and Salsa/Chacha20, but then for a MAC he has... Poly1305. I guess speed trumps everything?
>"will be able to afford a better phone with Android which won't cost him more than 3k."

You are assuming that a cheap Android would offer a good experience. I won't have another Android precisely because I had a poor experience with 2 cheap Android phones.
"I think there's something about Lisp that makes collaboration too difficult, and I suspect it's the expressiveness itself."

That goes back to the point of the essay. The expressiveness of Lisp encourages, among other things, the creation of a "little language" for each project. This makes collaboration more difficult. Ergo, it's a social issue rather than a technical issue.
Upvotes for a team that actually wants to do something politically and socially beneficial.
If constitutionality can't be deduced by the constitution, then what deduces it? The opinion of some judges?

If our fate is in the hands of a few judges (it is), doesn't this void our "democratic principles"?

I can't help but feel our understanding of government isn't much more than catch phrases and sentiment. Patriotism, we the people, one nation under god, the greater good, public servants, all total bs. If we criticized the processes of government like we did start-ups (such as the costs of value added), we'd be a whole lot wealthier. /rant
Nobody has mentioned the effect of cloud syncing on battery life. Apple's devices have strong media creation features, and the data they create (photos, videos, and audio recordings) can be quite large. Syncing this data immediately to the cloud requires juice to power the processor and the network, even while using Wi-Fi. Even existing cloud sync of push-based email, which is relatively little data, has an appreciable effect on battery life. I wouldn't be surprised if cloud-sync increased the power cost of photo and video creation by 10x over 3G. USB sync is faster, but more importantly, requires much less power. In fact, for some devices there can be a net gain of charge through USB power. I suspect Apple is pushing off cloud sync until it can deal with this issue without compromising its high standards of battery life. Cloud sync. is quite useful for email, but for other things, most non-geeks would probably prefer better battery life at this point. Apple is excellent at making these kinds of hard choices.

Carriers may also be prohibiting Apple from adopting cloud-sync over 3G and EDGE out of fear it will crash their networks. Android, while outselling Apple, doesn't nearly have the same effect on data rates, because a lot of Android phones are sold as "free/discounted feature phones"--users aren't using them as smartphones, they're just the neatest phone they could get for cheap at the store.
What is it with HN and its continual, deathless drive to prove higher education is worthless? Christ, OK, some of you dropped out of college, that's fine, you're doing alright these days. You all don't need to keep posting this kind of shit to make up for your own feelings of inadequacy.
One obvious solution: Don't use english, and don't use standard word order.
Note to self: all future domains I buy won't have a .com extension.
I think it's been said enough here but Varnish can certainly do almost everything that they are saying it can't do, including some other storage optimizations like storing the gzipped response and serving a non-gzipped when requested (as of Varnish 3.0).

You can use Vary for tons of caching optimizations via varnish, such as caching mobile web-pages vs non-mobile web pages or just a particular header. It's all about just flexing a little bit of VCL (which I'll admit sometimes can throw people off).

They had me until this part:

> This is an HTTP cache built directly in Passenger so that it can achieve much higher performance than external HTTP caches like Varnish.

And since they have no benchmarks to really back up these claims, I'm skeptical they did much research against Varnish to tune or set it up. I'd love to see the numbers on varnish vs their turbocache. Without numbers, I have to take a lot of it with a grain of salt.

Either way, seems like it could be an extra handy thing to have in your toolbox, as long as it fits your stack.
Agreed. Even Reuters News is high quality in comparison to CNN and Fox News.
Thank you very much for taking the time to think about this -- and even more for taking the time to also write.

I agree with your feedback. On the one hand, the deck is meant to be short and to invite conversation -- which it has done. On the other, it is hard to come up with stuff like "customer validation" and "monetary size of opportunity" in this particular case.

What I want to tackle is contracts in general, not any one particular type of contract. I know that this goes slightly against the general product mindset of focusing on a niche. But, to me, in this case, the niche is contracts -- agreements made formal. And, in my mind, the solution is fundamentally the same across the board, and should be approached as such.

There are many products trying to make contracts "easier". Large B2B contract management players like Ironclad; small Freelance-dashboards like HelloBonsai. All of them are using templates, basically, that you edit through some sort of classic WYSIWYG editor -- which is very far away from what I'm trying to do.

With regards to customer validation in particular: I have put this in front of people and asked if it makes sense; and I've gotten very positive responses. I have not, however, done any formal user interviews: to me, the problem seems clear; and whether or not this is truly a solution isn't something that you can find out from just a few interviews -- especially not when what you can show is far from the finished/polished experience.

In conclusion: yes, this is still a tech oriented idea; turning into a usable product is why I'm trying to do -- but, to do it well, I need to raise money.
For me it seems like the 40 hr work week was constructed not for productivity but as the max amount of workable time where a worker would feel like they still have some sort of life outside of work (weekend + 2-3 hrs a weekday of free time). Even then you can be constantly exhausted.

Anything higher and you basically accept you have no life.
Made the same observations a month or so ago! The app store scam is a known issue, found this techcrunch article from 2018 https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/15/sneaky-subscriptions-are-p...

It was out of my imagination that these apps not only pass it through the review, but also get pushed by apple. Can't decide if they look away to get the bucks, if it is an algorithm problem that pushes high revenue apps or if there are just too many apps to control.

The more I think about it - in times of machine learning it should not be a problem to figure out scam apps at least after some negative comments. The fact that it is a known problem for over two years also does not look good on apple.

I also cannot blame users who fall for these scams because it is really easy to start a subscription, especially if you confirm with your fingerprint while trying to exit the sh*itty app.
only if you insist on having employees and not contractors. there is absolutely no problem to send someone money and have them do work for you. taxes is the contractors responsibility
I guess it's often much simpler and cheaper to not try to hide it.

The CNAME practice is becoming more and more common. See https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/04/characterizing-cname-cloak... or https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disg... or https://www.laquadrature.net/2020/10/05/le-deguisement-des-t...

I think proxying or doing it server side only will be implemented later when these people will be forced to hide to save their shitty business model.
Interesting. In the time between our posts I was thinking of other examples and wondering if perhaps the idea is simply a weak trope. My own ignorance hadn't allowed me to consider it was simply a stronger reflection of cultures I'm unfamiliar with.

Plus, thanks to you and pjc50 for restocking the reading list ;)
Note that this is a bit of an exaggeration:

> The same holds true of Google, which the FTC had dead to rights for manipulating their search results in favor of their homegrown services and AGAINST their own partners. When Google works against its own partners covertly, what would a reasonable person call it?

Or at least seems to me that way[1]. "works against its own partners covertly" it a bit presumptuous as well - certainly implies malice and intent.

To be entirely honest, I'm not sure how this article ties in with reality. Right now if you are a "content creator" you would actually be the one paying Facebook in order to simply be able to reach your own fans (Pages). Or, you simply ignore it and let your users do the Facebook-promoting for you.

While I'm not saying that the current status quo is good, how did we get from that, to Facebook paying content creators to link to their (freely available) content?

> These [content creating] companies do not need Facebook, Yahoo, Google, or Twitter — in fact, the opposite!

How so? Facebook has "the global audience" - of certain age groups, at least. It is the closest thing to an online passport. Content creators get traffic from Facebook. Facebook gets traffic because of interesting content shared. They don't "need" Facebook, but it certainly doesn't hurt them that people have a quick way to share their content with tons of people.

[1] http://nypost.com/2015/03/30/senate-may-probe-ftc-decision-t...

> The FTC’s competition staff in 2012 recommended suing Google over three practices deemed harmful to consumers and rivals, including “scraping” content illegally from other sites and restricting advertisers from placing ads with rivals.

> Instead of suing, however, the FTC reached an agreement with Google in January 2013, in which the search giant voluntarily agreed to change its practices to appease regulators.

> It is not unusual for FTC commissioners to vote against taking legal action when different divisions of the agency’s staff fail to reach a consensus, a DC source said.
I see very biased moderation when it comes to mentioning Microsoft under anything but the most favorable light. Do they pay for this?
Semi-related, I want a feature for driving directions where I can specify that I'm familiar with either the origin or destination. If I print out directions, half the page is taken up with turn-by-turn instructions on how to get from my house to the nearest interstate highway. These should go away and be replaced with a simple "goal" instruction ("Get on I-71 North").
Well it was introduced as "absolute value uses lines on each side. It means you drop the negative if there is one". I asked what the point of it was, cause it sounded sorta useless. Instead of saying "OK, well, how would you express distance, x1-x2?", she was just stuck.

I suppose that's what happens when you have general teachers that don't really know maths or science, don't really feel that it's interesting and offers amazing ways to look at the world. In fact, I'd be surprised if she actually knew beyond what she was teaching. It's not like middle grade teachers have to take advanced courses, and they do have a wide workload.
That isn't a "misconception", at least not wrt the US. As others have pointed out, a VAT is being suggested by some people as a way for the government to raise additional revenue. A typical argument (this from a libertarian-oriented economist) might be something like:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/02...
Sorry, non-native English speaker here... Never heard the term "limerence before". Seems to be a kinda-sorta synonym of "infatuation", no? Why everybody in this thread is using it instead of just "infatuation" -- some Internet meme that I'm not aware of?
Fix the title:
1. 5, not 7, mice listening to Prodigy while on Meth died.
2. 4 mice listening to Bach while on Meth also died.
Hmmm... I posted the exact same link 12 days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1412740

Weird that it allowed it to be created again.
It's misleading to compare china to russia like this[1], commercial law in general (IP rights being an exception) is paid more respected in China than in Russia. As a businessman in the former you don't face the risk of "shakedown by government under threat of extreme lack of liberty, torture, or death" in Russia the risk to both your property (apart from IP) and personal safety is considerably larger (and less predictable).

[1]http://books.google.com/books?id=YlKYLRjcoi0C&pg=PA39...
Ah, thanks. So that's the mechanism to upvote. So I guess the karma comes from participation and having comments and/or submissions upvoted?
The problem is that the discussion is nowhere near as good as HN's.
>> during those events that price increase is what encourages generators to bring on more supply to capture that revenue.

True, in a perfect theoretical world where infinite capacities can be achieved through price increases. In the real world, there are only so many operational power producers. Raising the prices does literally nothing for powerplants physically incapable of coming online soon enough to enjoy those prices. And as this was such a short-term boom, there is no incentive to weatherize in anticipation of the next boom as the potential yields still outweigh immediate costs. Despite the bluster, Texas's power grid is not a free market utopia where supply and demand solves all problems. Texas simply isn't big enough for such principals to act before running up against hard practical realities.
Also, running on a CPU you didn't hand-solder.
> Why do America (The only country to actually use a nuke) get to decided who gets national security and who gets "freedom and democracy" delivered by a predator drone.

I believe the moral principle you're looking for is "ad baculum".
I'm going to guess that the US government wouldn't have appreciated the external pressure going public about it would've added onto their review process.
> why do people continue to do their work in one?
Most nb users don't use vscode. I'd say main reason is you can't open a notebook without starting a kernel which takes >1 second. It also is harder to setup.

In terms of a flat file formats, there is actually a mark down extension which I would say is better than vscode's format because it is more standardised:

https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
You should try Aiva (http://aiva.ai). At some point I was mostly listening to compositions I generated through that platform. Now I'm back to Spotify, but AI music is definitely on my radar.
Union rep? What do you think this is, Google?
I really appreciate you openly talking about these struggles. I built an app back in 2012 called iFeelio for emotional micro-journaling and one of the goals I set for it was for me (and then others) to get better at expressing how I felt so I didn't have to use the app anymore. As you expressed on Quirk's Github readme, that doesn't jive with a subscription-based model: if people improve, they stop paying. I also didn't want to make the app addictive, another thing that seems to clash with the subscription model.

One thing I contemplated but didn't have the courage to do was to charge a very high initial price to use the app. It was on Android at the time and I wanted to charge the max price, which I think was like ~$200, to download the app, one time.

Did you think about doing something similar? What alternatives did you contemplate to the subscription model? Is there a way to price it with an anticipated 3-month retention or other time-limited retention?

Would love to hear any thoughts you have on this!
If you have a $1 million mortgage with 5% interest you are paying $50k interest per year. Meaning you are paying most of your interest at the beginning of the loan. If you are down to $750k after 10 years and refinance to 2% you have already paid around $350k in interest . The bank has already gotten the biggest chunk of the profits but takes a "loss" on the remaining portion.
When your application breaks because of scheduler ordering, You're Doing It Wrong.
I used to type in the code from books/magazines to create games on my ZX Spectrum. Unfortunately I was never interested in the programming aspect, just in getting the game they showed in the picture to work. I think I grasped some of the basic principles like GoTo though. I recall an amusing-in-retrospect my 8 year old self had with a classmate:

"I have loads of games for my Amiga."

"Yeah, well I program games myself on my Spectrum."

"So do I! I know how to write in programming language." /bluffing

"Me too. I know BASIC." /massive bluff, expecting opponent to fold

"Yeah, BASIC is quite easy." /poker face
It depends a lot on how complicated your life is. I use parts of GTD, along with a to-do list and a synced calendar, but then I have a day job, two or three quasi-entrepreneurial side projects, a house, pets, and a significant other.

What having some kind of a written/electronic system does is that it frees you from having thoughts of "crap, that's another thing I need to remember to do" interrupting your creative work. When you have a thought like that, you should quickly get it out of your head and into a trusted system (your "outboard brain").

Then every so often (it has to be often enough that you learn to trust your system), you go back and look at your list and see what you can and/or must do. Slightly less often (GTD suggests weekly), you go through your projects and, in an organized way, ask "What am I missing?", and write the answers down.

In short, once your life gets moderately complicated you'd be silly to try and keep all the stuff you have to do in your head. That's what computers and paper are for.
Funny timing: I just got around to downloading my facebook data last night, and was looking back nostalgically at the first comments on my wall.

- Facebook doesn't actually export data going all the way back.
I'm pretty sure the first couple of attempts at North America colonisation either failed completely or the colonisers were absorbed into native american populations.

The first colony in Australia nearly perished through hunger but was saved by the arrival of a second fleet of ships, but who themselves had suffered the loss of a supply ship in bad weather. It wasn't until the 3rd or 4th fleet of ships that the colony even started to move away from borderline starving.
I took a screenshot of contract guy!
I also do the "trick yourself into doing things" technique.

That may not be a good long-term strategy.

If someone is in a slump, then he already can't trust himself to do what he knows is in his best interest. I don't think someone in that state should do anything that might degrade his trust in himself even further.
Pelican, Specter, Silvrback...I'm starting to get really confused. Is building your own blogging engine the new rite of passage for the web age, supplanting the practice of building your own text editor?

Is it okay if I keep writing post in HTML, rather than REST? Or am I missing out on some awesome set of features? I'd love to know if anyone actually converted to one of these platforms and found themselves writing more. I definitely have some trouble finishing the posts that I start, but I get the distinct impression that using one of these would be akin to getting a gym membership: if I'm not finishing blog posts now I won't magically start finishing blog posts just because of this new tool.
Interestingly enough, all of the Strads in playable condition have been modernized to some extent. They have changed the shape of the bass bar, the neck length, and steel / synthetic strings. Meanwhile, the bow has changed as well.

There is a growing sentiment among violinists that the Strads and their ilk are being surpassed by new fiddles, and are possibly also in decline.
With the new Edge Zdnet articles like this one maybe will be more readable without garbage all over the page.
I don't care!

I've seen this in HN a million times before. Someone ditches Google or Facebook and proceed to tell you why they made that decision and how. I don't care!

This feels like the new Instagram food pics. I don't care!

But I feel alone here. Like how every time this same topic gets posted hundreds of comments validate it. Saying how this is too hard because Google is an evil monopoly or how it's not too hard because a random person also did it, and then proceeds to tell you a better way to ditch the evil corps. I don't care!

Am I crazy? Are all online communities destined to become an echo chamber pushing incessantly the same ideas and types of news?

At this point I wish I could drop Hacker News and replace with something less evil. Maybe I'll write an article on Wired when I do it.
Exponential in what?
> usually indicates that my query is freaking arcane and specific

Exactly this. (That's what I meant with "Quora often shows up when the other results look unreliable or ad farms", but I didn't phrase that quite right.)
They do make a point of saying that they are answering only the very specific argument of "geniuses can solve NP problems with greater efficiency than muggles". Apparently they intend to argue against muggles thinking at n^2 and geniuses thinking at n^3 in future essays.
Medium has to be downgraded, it's become total rubbish behind a paywall.
> Chargebacks? Reversing accidental payments? Theft? Fraud?

Cash wasn't solving this either, yet lot of people prefer it to digital money owned by banks. And bitcoin is sometimes called digital cash, because it behaves like cash in that way. One could argue that it makes people more cautious on what they spend money on.
Love these types of projects! Very neat. Does the API use actual LEGO pieces? If so, could you render something and output a count of the pieces necessary so as to actually build it IRL? That’d be slick.
I agree.

I often enough search for stuff with no useful answers except for something on quora that can point me in the right direction.