jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't have favourites I just go up on gutenberg and look for collections. This way I get to read essays from authors whom I hadn't read before.

For example couple of months back I found 'all things considered' [1] a collection of selected essays by GK Chesterton. While the entire collection is good my favourites were in no particular order:-

1. On running afters ones hat

2. The fallacy of success

3. The worship of the wealthy

These days I am reading Oxford book of American Essays[2]. I liked Benjamin Franklin's essays (The whistle was also in his autobiography). Consolation for the old bachelor (Francis Hopkinson) is very funny. Calvin a study of character (Charles Dudley Warner) is the strangest thing I have read in recent time, it is good though.

[1]http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11505

[2]http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40196/40196-h/40196-h.htm
A few mentions of Hopkins in this thread, but too few examples.

So, Heaven Haven:

I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail,
And a few lilies blow.

And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.

And then: "The Habit of Perfection":

ELECTED Silence, sing to me
And beat upon my whorlèd ear,
Pipe me to pastures still and be
The music that I care to hear.

Shape nothing, lips; be lovely-dumb:
It is the shut, the curfew sent
From there where all surrenders come
Which only makes you eloquent.

Be shellèd, eyes, with double dark
And find the uncreated light:
This ruck and reel which you remark
Coils, keeps, and teases simple sight.

Palate, the hutch of tasty lust,
Desire not to be rinsed with wine:
The can must be so sweet, the crust
So fresh that come in fasts divine!

Nostrils, your careless breath that spend
Upon the stir and keep of pride,
What relish shall the censers send
Along the sanctuary side!

O feel-of-primrose hands, O feet
That want the yield of plushy sward,
But you shall walk the golden street
And you unhouse and house the Lord.

And, Poverty, be thou the bride
And now the marriage feast begun,
And lily-coloured clothes provide
Your spouse not laboured-at nor spun.
A 3-person team in a small office works well for me. The other two people are working on the same project, and since they're also developers they are quiet -- if a phone rings they step outside with it. The room is quiet, so people that walk in tend to be quiet as well.
It's like reading an Ask HN from me. You sound like me about 3.5 years ago.

I was in the same situation, dev lead for 10 years. Bored. But I hated shuffling papers more than I hated being a drone...even if I was a senior drone.

What you need to do is start your own Startup.

What you're lacking in experience is only a problem if you need to actually manage people. You must likely have plenty of experience actually running a project... why not run your own project. Do consultancy on the side (even to your existing employer), but get out and do your own thing.

In time, you'll hire your first employee, then your second etc. There is far more career progression when you're growing a pyramid beneath you.
You are neglecting the fact that many hackers/nerds are highly concerned with how quickly they can share cat pictures.
"...overhead and red tape (grant proposals, teaching, committee work, etc.)..."

I feel like a professor shouldn't consider teaching "overhead". If you're teaching classes, you should be putting at least as much effort into research as teaching. Prof != post-doc.

If your passion is in research, then a move to industry (or post-doc) sounds like a good choice.
Economy of scale? Israel has far fewer people, far fewer flights and far fewer airports than the US.
Existing users will be locked in even more to Facebook. New users will sign up as many of their friends start to rely on the new service.
Nice human-readable summary here, too: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/11/15/as...
So according to their blog:

“All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you’ve discussed with each friend as a single conversation.

I’m intensely jealous of the next generation who will have something like Facebook for their whole lives. They will have the conversational history with the people in their lives all the way back to the beginning: From “hey nice to meet you” to “do you want to get coffee sometime” to “our kids have soccer practice at 6 pm tonight.” That’s a really cool idea.”

I bet advertisers (Facebook's true customers, let's not forget), overzealous law enforcement officials, not-so-honest-or-nice politicians, and identity thieves, are also intensely jealous of future generations with access to entire records of conversations.
Thanks for the update and quick reply. I'll be sure to keep an eye on this thread. Looking for the same issue.
https://www.imessageapp.org/
Then we go to war.

- USA, probably
My father has lung cancer, an outbreak scares the crap out of me.

Until we have widespread vaccination, I'm not comfortable with this.

That said the economy cant hold like this forever.
> The more those things are shared and become a common heritage the more they come to form a shared culture.

I only argue that we already had that kind of sharing.

I know about Monthy Python since late 80s, I was barely more thank a kid.

The article talks specifically about Netflix, an American paid subscription service whose primary objective is "growth" and "profit".

With less than 40 million accounts in Europe over a population of 700 million people it's barely relevant.

Maybe it's relevant among youngsters and parents using it as a nanny for their little children, but a large part of the population ignore it completely and, frankly, the catalogue does not contain anything barely resembling the cultural impact of Monthy Python.

I can speak about the Italian material: they are airing shows and movies made for the Italian TV (low quality, low budget, same old actors' faces everywhere, nothing that we haven't already seen somewhere else, it's basically recycling garbage) or recent cinema productions made buy the "usual suspects" to get the government's funds (that usually go to the same "usual suspect" aforementioned)

That's completely missing the point about what the "Italian culture" could look like.

There were a few gems before, but now that the big guys are in, forget about it, they are going to air only those things that they own the rights for, so now they are being paid two times.

There is no Fellini, Antonioni, Leone, Bertolucci, Fulci, Bava, Argento, but there is this shit

https://www.netflix.com/it/title/81304753

a movie so bad that even bad movies are ashamed of being in the same category.

The other scary phenomenon is that they are conflating the ratings, every movie on Netflix must be great according to Netflix, so "Piccolo grande amore" has rating around 90% even though Raoul Bova himself doesn't want to talk about it.

It was considered utter tash, off and online, until Netflix picked it up.

If everything is good, nothing is good.

That's the opposite of culture.

> you're never going to understand someone perfectly without sharing their cultural references, and they go all the way back to childhood

Exactly.

Hence my point about not completely getting the references in Southpark.

I've never heard of them as a kid, they mean nothing to me, even though I know what they are.

It's not Netflix that is going to do that, it's internet that did that.

Netflix is only one player and who knows for how much longer, now that major studios are creating their own platforms.

Wanna talk about shared cultural heritage?

Disney+ with all the Disney movies in catalog has much better chances of spreading it.
I know they might be busy and overworked but this attitude of not responding to criticisms or concerns is never a good look.

Meanwhile their twitter account is happily posting cheeky tweets:

https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1379284279163686913
> it is important to note that hotels inadvertently provided their Booking.com account login details to online scammers, there was no compromise of the code or databases that power the Booking.com platform.

Interesting precedent. The platform is responsible not just for their own security practices, but also their users' security practices.
Don’t forget “libpq”
If someone confides in you their private medical information, it is inappropriate to put that information in a press release without their permission, full stop, no exceptions. Certainly morally, and possibly even legally.

"Is it okay if I put your private medical information in our press release?"–many people would view that question as inappropriate to even ask.
As someone who is currently "In Love With Python", I'm curious what other languages you recommend? I'm always looking to learn new stuff.
I understand what you're saying to an extent, but personally I have only ever once had a 'boss' that I could truly consider as having enough autonomy for this to even make sense.

Unfortunately this was for a casual job alongside my undergrad (i.e. not enough to pay the bills in the real world).

Otherwise - 'The Boss' is not an actual person. They're not my manager, they're not the HR department. 'The Boss' is a nebulous set of policy documents. Or as you say, there's a boss above a boss above a boss, and no-one that can actually be reasoned with or respected.

One day perhaps I'll be lucky enough to work for a small company without these issues cropping up, but that's been my take on things so far.
Doesn't this sound a lot like DNS-SD over mDNS?
Yielding inside a callback isn't a problem. I was actually thinking of the other yield you would need, the equivalent of suspending the continuation - but I later realize that this is no harder than the continuation case. So I was just being dense, my apologies.

And it appears that Ilya (the OP) has been looking at this approach using fibers too http://www.igvita.com/2010/03/22/untangling-evented-code-wit... - and the comment thread on the OP suggests that this is in use at Postrank.
Or looked at a slightly different way. We should only build things that customers want, and they find it very difficult to explain what they want unless we give them an application to try. When we do give them an application we will receive conflicting requests, and we have to decide which fit the product, or whether we can meld them into a more encompassing or strategic form. Once the customers start giving feedback my thinking is that the "vision" you talk about should just be our interpretation of what the customers ask for rather than being independent of them. Or less absolute, perhaps the proportion of development effort expended on non-customer-requested changes should be small compared to things which address their currently stated requirements. I'll stop rambling now ...
Indeed, I think there are also quite a few engineers who have backgrounds in other sciences outside of comp sci / EE -- also I would think people would be interested in inspiration from other sources.

Crocs are like horseshoe crabs and other organisms that are extremely efficient and "[crocs] are an ancient lineage, and are believed to have changed little since the time of the dinosaurs. They are believed to be 200 million years old whereas dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago; crocodiles survived great extinction events" from wikipedia...

I'd think we should be spending an awful lot of time studying the croc imho.
They could also just give you a fitness test once a year at the IRS office and tack your unhealthy choices onto income taxes.

For the middle class, this would be more optimal than taxing soda, since it rewards the outputs rather than the inputs. For the poor (who mostly don't pay taxes anyway), this wouldn't work so effectively.
Fear of risk and years of mental training to expect big, government backed projects and funding.
Indeed. Any medium (regardless of dot size) will appear razor sharp when viewed from far enough (so that one can't see individual dots).

Of course, if there are enough dots in particular physical area, the human eye is incapable to see a single dot from the closest possible focusing distance. This is what I would call a "retinal diplay". Not sure if 326 DPI is enough for that, but is surely enough for the iPhone's screen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_HDTV_viewing_distance
I really hope your vision comes true - I spend too much time thinking that computers are actually going to end-up as the Romans - we'll be their slaves... (pets?)
I don't know how the sidebar ads work, but the featured links at the top of the page are run on a sort of auction system. Everybody that wants a piece pays however much they want (minimum of $20) for the day, then all the ads are totaled up and each ad gets a percentage of pageviews corresponding to the their percentage paid on that days revenues.

If that wasn't clear (and I'm not sure it was), assume you and I were both the only advertisers on reddit for a day. If I pay $20 and you pay $20, we would both have our ads displayed on 50% of pageviews for that day. If instead I paid $80 and you still only paid $20, then I would get 80% of pageviews to your 20%, regardless of the total pageviews for the day.
As popular as "cloud" solutions are becoming, I think it's more important than ever to consider these fallacies, especially fallacy number 1:

The network is reliable.
The Singularity. I'm not sure what the role of 'humans' as we traditionally define them will be; probably very small.
Android has nothing to do with it. It's just investors see where they are in relationship to other companies and think this can't be sustainable. So they keep discounting it's stock. I'm sure when it was trading at $60 no one thought it would get to $80, when it got to $100 no one believed it could get to $150, when it got to $200 it was inconceivable it would go any higher than that but here we are today and it's sitting around $350. Its P/E ratio is being intentionally depressed because analysts are hoping the chair gets kicked out from under them.

Why is that? Because to Wall Street they are unpredictable. Instead of chasing profits they chase customers. When others are firing employees in a down market they are vacuuming the good ones up. And they don't like to share information. Other OEMs announce products months in advance, Apple you get 1 day to 1 month of a heads up. This creates a lot of disruption for analysts. They hate disruptions. And they have a charismatic leader that a lot of people believe is going to kick the bucket any day now. Disruption.
We're moving away from the EBS product altogether. The hard part is dealing with the master databases. Normally I'd have a master database with a built in raid-10, but I can't do that on EC2, so I have to come up with another option.

So I guess that is the long way of saying that hopefully it won't happen again.
I wish I could check it out in more detail from my iPad... but what I can see looks nice! Have to look later from a Flash-compatible computer.
Is it just me or do most of the new IDEs tend to focus around front-end technology?

Would love to see some innovation on the Ruby editor front.
Okay! Scenario time! Same thing happens to you, or your family. A family member has cancer. It's going to cost $50k and a few months. What do you do?

Oh wait. Instead of $50k, it's more like $75k. Actually, make that $125k. But it's going to be $125k and no more.

Just kidding. In fact, because I'm playing the role of Life + Healthcare in this scenario, I'm going to lob a little bit more at you. In fact, it's going to be $1M. (Think this is implausible? Sorry, it's not. [1]) What are you going to do? Also, I may up that number a little bit more, just for kicks. What are your plans?

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/02/tim_a...
Well, if that's the case (Netflix taking advantage of the DRM built into the phones), then there's no reason Moonlight for Android can't take advantage of that, too.

Also, Microsoft has licensed their DRM for Linux on embedded devices in the past.
I am definitely not a dokku expert (for that I would recommend reaching out to their Slack channel[1] - a lot of great support for an open source project).

But in an attempt to answer your questions:

- Yes, you can host multiple sites on one server in dokku.

- That's a good point, I'm sure a lot of people like that about CPanel hosting. Maybe something like this poste.io implementation[2] would be what you are looking for?

- Dokku has the benefits of heroku but without the vendor lock in/pricing. Pick your preferred VPS host that runs for a few dollars a month and you are set.

[1] https://dokku.com/docs/getting-started/where-to-get-help/#th...

[2] https://github.com/D1ceWard/dokku-posteio
I have a desk that Ikea used to make called the "Jerker" (I have no idea what that translates to). The desk surface can be configured to be at any height allowed by the array of holes for the bolts along the two vertical sidebars. I had it configured as a standing station for several months while I was in a less active part of my life. When my life changed and I became more active, I configured it as a sitting desk.

There used to be a website where people would share pictures of their Jerker setups. I wonder why, with such a loyal fan-base, they stopped making it.

Edit: the Wikipedia entry for Ikea offers this explanation: "Because IKEA is a worldwide company working in several countries with several different languages, sometimes the Nordic naming leads to problems where the word means something completely different to the product. While exotic-sounding names draw attention, e.g., in anglophone countries, a number of them call for a snicker. Notable examples include "Jerker" desk, "Fukta" plant spray and "Fartfull" workbench. Also, the most recent new product, Lyckhem (meaning bliss)."

Coincidentally, I got a relevant web-advertisiment this morning. I like the idea of being able to easily reconfigure the desk more often:

http://www.geekdesk.com/
I'm always baffled when companies try to pass these issues off onto one of their sub-vendors - especially for critical issues like this.

I didn't choose YOUR sub-vendor. You did. It's your responsibility to ensure that sub-vendor is operating at your standards. Passing blame to a sub-vendor indicates an unwillingness to take accountability.
Also Uber. And Lyft.
Learning how to follow rules is exatly how to become rich. Entry level retail store now pays 15/hr. 60 hours at week equates to 48k/year. Hardly unfair
The way I usually meditate is just sitting in a quiet place and trying not to think, if a thought pops into my head I just let it float away.
What are these advanced meditation techniques for? Being able to raise your body temperature doesn't seem that useful compared to having a clear mind?
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Apparently the HN crowd is all-in on "the drugs I already enjoy/want to enjoy have scientific backing" even if they're being presented as a cure-all that should warrant skepticism. I also think that maybe looking at environmental factors for depression is common sense. Instead of drugging everyone, maybe we should take a look at how society is structured and make some changes there. It's not either-or.
> In my personal experiences with psychedelics, these drugs remove mental heuristics, they allow the mind to think unimpeded by usual thought patterns, and simply accept raw data as it comes in.

I like "removing mental heuristics" as a good way of describing what is happening at the physical level. Articulating (or, communicating with high fidelity) what happens at the experiential and emotional levels is much more tricky.

An analogy I would draw is, imagine or recall how you may have felt during a major event (usually negative), say the death of a loved one, or the ending of an important romantic relationship, or imagine how you might feel if you are on your death bed, reviewing your choices and actions throughout your life....do you have any regrets, would you have done anything different if you had it to do all over again, etc. Imagine the feeling of clarity of thought, and deep intellectual and emotional appreciation of the gravity of the situation involved in such experiences.

This is how (but only in part) I would describe my experiences with psychedelics. Of course each person experiences these things in different ways, but despite such differences, extremely deep profoundness is an extremely common takeaway.

A simpler explanation, I would say that it kind of "shocks me into reality". And you may think you know what that means, but if you haven't experienced it, you really don't. Even I don't fully appreciate the meaning of what I'm saying at this very moment; I am largely going on faith, based on a very low fidelity memory of the experiences - such is the strange, ineffable nature of these medicines.

Luckily, while it seems difficult to see into (remember) one's experiences in that world, the opposite is not true - when under the influence of psychedelics, my experience is that I can experience kind of a simultaneous existence of two states of mind: that of clarity of thought (normal biases due to heuristics largely removed), but also clear (if not clearer) memory of thoughts and emotions related to specific scenarios in the normal world. This seems to facilitate for a very productive self-help scneario, the so-called "five years of therapy or psychoanalysis in a few hours" effect that some people speak of.

I should also note that I am speaking of experimentation in the medium dose range of psilocybin. While there are other things to be discovered at the higher doses, for my purposes medium dose trips seem to be much more beneficial. YMMV.
I can attest to that. Micro-dosing is only a bonus. In fact, I regularly stop taking them when I don't feel like it, and I'm just back to my normal self, not lower. No negative side effect, no dependencies, and it helps taking care of yourself: eating better, sleeping more, etc.

But OP is right on one thing: it is not a substance the body needs. It's an artificially induced condition, and it's why it's important to take days off. Sometimes I take a week, not just the 1/2 days of the most popular protocols.

This way you can see if you are improving deep inside, and that it's not just the drug saying you are fine. Plus those substance allow it: no hard in stopping cold turkey. It's beautiful how positive this stuff is.

Up to now, I can attest than, yes, even when I'm not taking it, I'm better. Mostly because when I take it, I live a better life.