jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sexier name for sure.
We do still call the age before the current Nordic states were established the age of Vikings in Sweden.

The whole notion of Vikings being stupid and naive sounds very old fashioned. The whole idea that short seasons and snow would scare off any people from the Nordic countries is bullshit. Nuuk is at 64 degrees north, roughly similar to Reykjavík, Trondheim or the southern point of the northern third of Sweden. Which had been inhabited for much longer. The climate is slightly better in Scandinavia that far north, but Greenland would surely have been similar.
Well written. Good to see you writing again, Victor.
"My albeit limited experience suggests to me that there's a U-shaped curve with super-rich / powerful / "effective" people. One end of the curve is "pathological sociopath," and the other is "extremely benevolent.""

Time also changes people for better in many cases.

Want to add that something that I have noticed is that people may start out one way (assholes or very self centered) and then move toward "extremely benevolent" when money, fame or power is already "in the bag" and as they age. At that point they will become more generous and it's quite possible that people that they didn't treat nice are no longer around or visible to tell the story. Not taking a jab at Ronco here but do we really know what he was like in his 20's on the way up? (It's only a question for discussion so everyone keep calm..)

I can think of at least one person in the valley who is very well respected now and more or less a father figure that was viewed as quite the asshole back in the 90's when he actually was still working hard to make his mark on the world. (This isn't the only example actually the others were more or less meat and potatoes business people who wouldn't give anyone the time of day if there wasn't any benefit to them).
In that scenario you could make a pretty good argument that group B were not modern humans but instead a dead race. (Assuming they had all these unique genes that disappeared.)

I'm not sure the nitpick makes things more accurate.
Is having a "high performance culture" a subtle way of saying they fire people very quickly for not producing enough results?
The fear isn't that there will be competition, it is that there will be competition that sits on your back for the first 90% of the marathon and then outsprints you on the final 400m.

You are free to compete, but have run the whole marathon.
The post I was responding too makes it sound like PHP was some sort of fork of Perl, which is most certainly not the case.

You're right of course that there are some things that were borrowed.
Talk radio. Or newspaper columnist.
I interviewed for Apple a few months ago. I didn't get to the NDA signing part (I backed out because another opportunity came up during the process) but still wouldn't talk about the interviews I went through because I still hope to go back and try again someday (in the slim chance that our current venture doesn't work out).
Proverbs. It conveniently has 31 chapters (one for each day of the month) and is full of useful... well, proverbs. The mix of the painfully down to earth and strongly God centred is helpful sometimes as well.

Edit: this isn't so much a suggestion to founders/hackers in general, more to the Christian ones given your comment above. Plenty of good stuff in there for everyone, though.
Looks like I'll have to start using my vpn at home too.
Another good move is to present to yourself in front of a mirror and you should always do it out loud. Just going through your presentation in your head doesn't really help / add as much value as doing it right.
With the culture of secrecy they have, it's not out of this world for them to want to also establish the culture from the get go and get you to take it seriously. This alone may be reason enough.
Sure, but it can at least timeout, reutrn EIO, seamlessly reconnect when the connection is reestablished and few other remedies (you can't really do anything else, if this happens), something that I've never managed to make sshfs do properly.
Send him a thank you for defending freedom of speech on the internet:

http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/
Of course one could add a disclaimer identifying them as parody - but that response dodges the question of whether those videos should be illegal in the absence of such a disclaimer
Except that AMD doesn't have feature parity with Windows driver on open source version and has all the Nvidia driver headaches on closed source version.

I'm not sure what AMD really managed here.
Depends on what the project is and also doesn't change the fact that this doesn't happen.

Most solo bootstrapped projects are not popular enough initially for someone to spend money / effort to hack them. When they do become somewhat popular though (very small minority of course), I suspect most founders bring experts on board, as they absolutely should.

> just using HTTPOnly and DB backend is not a solution at all

My comment was not meant to be exhaustive and does not list all vulnerabilities. Just in context of some of the suggestions in the article. Using a mature framework like Django can protect you from other vulnerabilities CSRF, XSS, SQL Injection to some extent.
Might as well outlaw marketing then. Generally, business don’t advertise negative changes.

In this case, the relevant information for a buyer is clearly stated, and accurate, and no false information has been conveyed. The buyer simply has to check the unit price and ignore the other words.
this isn't about free speech anymore, but about freedom of association and communication
I used to think like this (and still do for movies and such), but recall reading that a driver under 4.6 or 4.7 rating will barely get any clients matched any more.
Being able to point my phone at a sign written in a foreign language and having it translated into English instantly is not only a killer app for me, it blows my mind that we've gone from no cellphones 20 years ago to this.

I can also point it at the sky and know which star I'm looking at, or at the cover a book, not the barcode, and have it tell me the lowest price nationally. It can tell me exactly where on Earth I am, for free.

I have SL4A on my phone also, so not only can I call anyone anywhere on earth at any time, I can solve ridiculously complex problems in a few moments that would've taken people years to do by hand less than a century ago.

It takes pictures of people, has a compass, an entire encyclopedia and set of maps without being connected to any cell or wifi network, and can tell me exchange rates, how far it is to the nearest Chinese restaurant and theater, and play complex, interactive, three dimensional games.

I don't know what other people consider a killer app, but I just can't get over the fact that I'm living in the future right now. This is so crazy. I can't believe all this crap fits in my pocket. It feels like between this and a multitool, I can accomplish pretty much anything.

The device itself is the killer app for me. I'm glad we as a species have made these ridiculous advances possible. 20 years ago, phones didn't have screens on them. If you had caller ID, you were pretty much on the cutting edge.
You can also support this charity by buying this Humble Weekly bundle (there's one day left): https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
There's a long way between "neutral" and "neutral in almost every case".
Same but without sarcasm. If the deal is known and people are completely aware of the terms... why not? As long as you can ensure nobody is streamed without permission, I'm sure there's a number of people who are cool with it (livestream channels like that existed decade(s?) ago). And on the other side, there's going to be quite a few people interested in watching (big-brother-style reality tv pretty much validated that). And you can be sure some people staying there will try to push the "lewd act" boundary for fun, bringing in more views.

Ultimately, this will be a better advertisement for that hotel than comparable money can buy online.
I wonder if it would be possible to make a whitelist blocker instead of just blacklist? I mean, if a certain domain is in the whitelisted list, you show only responses from whitelisted subdomains. If not, you fall back to blacklist.

By possible I do not mean technically possible, but feasible in the resources required maintaining the list as well as good enough user experience.
The minimum stake of 32 eth is probably going to require something like a laptop to run. Those with larger stakes are going to need to devote more computer resources to the network.
Actually, the web began dying in the late 90s.
Tbh I'm surprised an American didn't think of it first. I guess Big Brother was the first and now they're just letting every join Big Brother.
I'll just leave this here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-adds-104-5-billion-to-finan...
Yeah not caring about your product is a quick and easy way to make garbage and then be forced to work OT finishing/fixing your garbage.
EBT literally stands for electronic benefit transfer.

I believe actual stamps have been gone for over 20 years at this point.
The whole point of democracy is to limit the minorities to the whim of the majority. This is unfortunate when we're talking about harmless racial or social minorities. However, the alternate state of humanity, where the majority is subservient to minorities, such as warlords or hereditary feudal lords, is worse.

As for the super wealthy, in a democracy the manner in which they exert influence is very different. In a non-democratic system, minorities have direct power (they own the guns). In a democratic system, wealthy minorities can't beat the majority with firepower. This is a fundamental distinction. They have to rely on indirect power--usually by leveraging their ownership of the means of production. This is inevitable so long as capital resides in private hands. "My factory creates 10,000 jobs in your district, so you had better vote against that environmental legislation" will always be a disproportionately powerful argument, even in the total absence of direct exchange of money for political influence.
>barebones notifications from automated systems too

Could you please explain what you meant?
Not important, but could you please add some Terms of Service? I'd like to know who has ownership of the uploaded information, whether your servers are in the US (DMCA), etc.

As a suggestion: make a bookmarklet to quickly share highlighted text/images from a website. That'd be great.
I am not sure what OP had in mind about fasting, but I recall studies done on lab mouse related to this subject. Studies were about increasing average life expectancy. The results were that the only meaningful increase of life span was gained by limiting food ration. I don't think it was fasting, but amount of food consumed does seem to have significant effect. They claimed life expectancy increased up to 30%.
> We humans, Parfit argued, are not a consistent identity moving through time, but a chain of successive selves, each tangentially linked to, and yet distinct from, the previous and subsequent ones.

This describes my feelings lately.
Blender's .blend files are such memory dumps, too.
True, but equally not all browsers support images either (lynx, elinks, etc). Which is probably about the same market share as browsers that don't support custom typefaces these days. And at least custom typefaces would still leave you with a readable text on non-supported browsers - which is more than an image would (which also gives them added bonus of being easily programmatically parseable, eg by web crawlers).
Who was he?
Sahar Hashemi, founder of the Coffee Republic chain, said "When we tried to start up Coffee Republic, we were turned down by 19 bank managers. I was told we were a nation of tea drinkers and no one was going to want to spend more than 60p for a cup of coffee or use silly names such as skinny lattes."

This is from The Power of No: http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/the-power-of-no-1.746628

It's a great question, and could be an inspiring thread if we can get some more examples.
Yes. Thankyou. That's why I put in footnote 1. One of the biggest problems with this is we seem to have a spectrum of consent from the "I'll make them grope my sack before going like a sheep into the nudie-pic-machine" to the author of this article who had no foreknowledge or choice in the matter. The consent factor is very important here.
>>but there are many circumstances in life where we must suffer the same indignities which are not considered assault. A visit to the doctor for example.

This analogy makes very little sense.

The doctor cannot stop me from visiting a different doctor (who may not insist on the same tests) and the doctor cannot compel me to cancel a trip across the Atlantic if I refuse to submit to the tests. The government can.

The doctor has to convince the patient that the test is necessary. The TSA agent can ignore any evidence of the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of patdowns and doesn't need to obtain your consent.
This reminds me of John Gray's idea that idleness is a burden for most.
"Work fends off the heavier burden of idleness, and even the round of commuting keeps the self at bay." http://www.thedrawbridge.org.uk/issue_17/mostly_a_wise_leap_...
Any contractors out there care to comment?
Big huge [Citation Needed] there. Is there seriously any evidence presented to support this?

Nobody I know personally or work with daily uses Sublime Text. Therefore I could just as easily declare Sublime Text a "unknown and unused text editor relegated to obscurity".
It's a pity there aren't more Senior .NET developer positions for remote workers. The vast majority of them seem to be for Ruby on Rails.
By default, I don't have a problem with anybody trying to find a job...especially in this economy. Networking can be a powerful tool, and I can respect that.

But let's not lose sight of what a LinkedIn connection also entails: it means that all of your other connections are now visible to each other, and to some people that may imply a degree of exclusivity. To some, LinkedIn is not a contact-free-for-all like Facebook, where one can be "friended" casually.

A LinkedIn connection isn't like walking into a business and cold-calling on an owner or manager. It's the equivalent of walking in and demanding to see their address book of contacts.

Others in this thread have indicated that the best response would have been to ignore the request. I agree. But some people don't work like that, which is why I referenced a truncated response perhaps would have been ok.

Yes, the response was rude and insensitive....and so is the entire world outside of the comfy confines of white-collar America. The requestor made certain assumptions she should not have, and her follow-up approach to the situation seems to imply a sense of entitlement.
I feel like I am taking crazy pills with the amount of good sentiment to this design. This thing is absolutely fugly. The guys over at Rivian must be having a party right now.
I agree, I've been thinking about this too. Do you want to work together on this?
Ditto, it has to be organic for me. Usually holes with stuff in it.
This is from my American Constitutional History memory from 10+ years ago, so it could be very wrong, but I remember something about if they government sues you, they waive sovereign immunity for a counter suit. If that's the case, just withhold taxes owed in that state and see what happens.
You would prefer a different quote?

>According to a research paper published by Vanderbilt University's Professor Douglas Schmidt Aug. 15, Google’s Android phones are sucking information from your private life at a much higher rate than Apple’s iPhones — almost 10 times more, on average.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/android-privacy-vs-iphone,news-...
> The boy who cried wolf was eventually correct too. A broken clock is right twice a day. Etc.

Yes. That's what I said.

You said he was consistently wrong for 15 years.

I don't know who to believe regarding gold and bitcoin, but it doesn't help me trust your opinion when you go overboard in your criticism of Schiff.
I never understood why for albums like this they even bother splitting up the tracks.
The same idea, but somehow even worse. As well as the companies the law applies to having to pay people who have asked them to index and promote their websites...

a) The Minister will name a series of companies they deem the law will apply to, and it applies only to them. (Currently only Google & Facebook. The Minister recently spoke with Microsoft and decided not to add Bing to their hitlist.) The Minister can change this at any time, without Parliamentary oversight.

b) The companies it applies to have to both reveal the inner workings of their algorithms to selected news companies, and give 14 days notice of any changes that will happen.

c) The companies it applies to are not allowed to stop indexing or showing news content. They can't decide not to do business unless they stop being a business altogether.

d) The companies that will be paid under this scheme are selected by the Minister, and can change at any time without Parliamentary oversight. So it will have a net zero effect on independent journalism.
What's interesting (to me) about this stat is that retail sales are up, meaning mostly newly manufactured firearms, at a time when we're seeing a "rolling over" of one generation's possessions to another - baby boomers are actively passing their collections on (or selling) to the next generations in private transactions. So there are a lot of firearms changing hands to new owners now (for the last and next 5 years) that are unseen by these retail stats. Guns are a very durable good.
You know most American's can't cover a $400 unexpected bill. Try <$100, which is still a stretch for many.
+1

Thanks to codahale for writing this, r11t the HN user who originally posted this early this year, and the discussion by everyone on that HN thread which convinced me of the correctness of the bcrypt approach.

I've already shipped one project which I'm sure at least part of the reason we successfully pitched was our demonstrated indepth understanding of password security requirements.

(I also realised in retrospect that a project I'd designed and specced before reading that article/discussion was going to be wrong in it's password handling, I'm disappointed we never got to build that product, but I'm kinda glad I'm not sitting here thinking "Fuck, what am I gonna do if $project's database ever gets compromised? It'll be just as bad as Gawker...")
Does that setup handle gmail's concept of labeling? Such as archiving messages?
http://smugmug.com/ is a popular alternative to flickr.
I don't enjoy being a lone gunman. Being able to lean on other peoples' libraries and works on Github is an incredible boon and timesaver.

Reinventing everything yourself on F# is scarcely an option, especially if you're seeking a valuable community to collaborate with.

You might as well tell everyone who doesn't like the government to go buy a farm and live off the land.

When I am in the mood for being adventurous, I go with something that makes me feel truly transcendent in productivity, like Clojure. Plus, I still get an awesome community.

Hell, I've had Rich Hickey answer my questions before. Where else could I possibly have such a grin-inducing experience?
I thought FaceBook was #1 and Picasa was #3. Imgur also seems to be increasing a lot in popularity.
Different investors need a different approach :)

VCs do mostly require some sort of deck.
Could you explain a bit more about this?
Because when you miss a connecting train they have to pay for a freaking taxi to get you there. It happened to me, I payed like 20 pounds for a ticket and spent like 80 km in a taxi
> I mean, compare the poverty threshold is US$10000, wherein 15% of Americans fall in. Additionally, 6-7% fall in extreme poverty, where US citizens make less than 50% of the poverty threshold[2].

The poverty thresholds are different. (In addition, the US, the poverty numbers don't always count govt aid received.)

Would you rather be poor in Brazil or poor in the US?
> Running old code for an old service that no one remembers or use any longer...

which is why every two years, I switch the servers completely to fresh new machines, installing everything anew. Let those old things that we installed for who-knows-why die off.
I don't have much faith in the security of php.net. A while ago qa.php.net exposed the environment variables of thousands of users who had compiled php and run the test suite.
SQL injection = Bug-in-computer-code
poor API = Bug-in-thought-process

Bug owned by FB either way.
Amazon is in the category of companies that do business primarily in the US, and do not depend on global supply chains to bring its product to market (though they retail some). They are not competing with foreign companies to the extent that many manufacturers are. If you tax a US company that manufactures something easily manufactured in a lower-taxing country, you better not tax them at a higher rate than their competition, or you will eliminate them, and their jobs, and their stockholders equity.
I really wish people would stop seeing large companies paying low taxes as cheating and "loop holes". It is neither and it makes us blind to the cause of the problem.

The politicians we vote in deliberately create laws that allow large companies to pay little to no tax. It is not an accident or a sneaky corporation that outwitted a dumb politician, it is by design.
I have been using Clojure as a solo developer for about two years now, there is definitely a productivity increase. It always feels like the amount of time required to do the next thing is incrementally decreasing (like Ologn?)

While all that is fun, Clojure is still a very enterprise ecosystem, where participants don't share as much elementary code as in Python ecosystem. Participants are also quite experienced, thus I have to sit, read through and make architectural decisions for the entirety of the project. When we add this thinking time into the measurement, the time taken for a Clojure 'project' (not a piece of code) is definitely more than Python or Java (IMO).
Discussed at the time (of the article, not of von Neumann):

The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21542753 - Nov 2019 (319 comments)
>Sorry, but a negative reinforcement cycle of tensing up in a medium stress situation is exactly the kind of characteristic that I'm trying to screen out in an interview.

Then you're like the guy who punishes interviewees because they didn't estimate the number of sewer ducts in New York correctly. Interviews can cause anxiety and stress to an extent that a typical employee may never encounter in their work.
As a 30 inch Cinema Display owner, I did the math on it the other day, I think it's about 8000x5200 pixels at 326 ppi. I would pay whatever the cost for that.
> There's not enough info to figure out what's going on.

If you only look at the article this is true. However, the source code is freely available: https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s-blog/...
I would say it is quite up to date. First, it is using pyproject.toml which is now the standard way to define build requirements for Python packages. Second, its collection of additional (linting etc) tools is pretty solid; there are potential alternatives in few cases (e.g. I would personally use Poetry rather than flit, and wouldn't use make for development scripts) but that is pretty much it.
Instead it is controlled by Russians and has a history of dodgy security/crypto. Yeah, that is _much_ better.
That’s not at all the argument that was being made. I’m sure the grandparent poster would be more than happy for the content to stay up if they had the explicit consent of the people they’re collecting images of.
I loved the article. More people should devote to their passions.