jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nice point. I guess learning means experimenting, in which failure is information. I have not failed 1000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 1000 ways do not work. The buzz comes from the transition from not knowing to knowing. A sensation of progress.

Maybe it's similar to users having more satisfaction from bugs fixed in a later version than there never being bugs in the first place.

The very clear error messages in Java made it more game-like, and were unusual at the time (compared with eg. C memory management problems). The Java development team apparently played nintendo games to study what made them fun to use. Though out of fashion these days, it wasn't always the case. The popular scripting languages of today often have a REPL, which is more game-like. Do they have other game-like qualities?
Thank you kindly for for the detailed and thoughtful comment. We definitely need to do a lot better job explaining our USP. The biggest differentiator is that that you can start tracking conversions (and attribution) in 2 minutes in an intuitive way. We also allow you to tie individual customers to referrers, pages and specific ads.
I've spent way too much time following this and I agree with your thoughts as well. Karpeles seems to personify the phrase we know in software development - that he knows just enough to be dangerous but not enough to be competent.

I was stunned at this blog post (http://antonopoulos.com/2014/02/25/statement-on-mt-gox/) where Andreas Antonopolous said:

"During this time, Mark Karpeles was active on the forums and developer boards and appeared to be implementing fixes to Gox software to address Tx-Mal."

He really should not have been looking for solutions himself.
Yes. Modi is coming into office with the same enthusiasm behind him that Obama had. 6 months in and Modi is already disappointing.
There are lots of things that are posted on HN that are purely to advertise, though. Most products that appear are advertising.

I posted this because I found it interesting. Partly because I like the page's design, and also because of the work some people have achieved using purely mobile (admittedly, Apple) products.
That's on the list separately (#23).
I am not into gaming/modding/minecraft, but just wanted to share a project I came across:

https://github.com/MovingBlocks/Terasology

It's an open-source minecraft-clone designed in a very modular way; many game components are just modules and players can easily add their own. I haven't actually tried modding, so no idea how easy it is. But this seems like a better project to build upon, since it is explicitly designed that way.
I don't think they're just refering to this specific study though, they're asking it in a more general term.
Articles like this drive panic and speculation among those who don't have enough scientific competency to ascertain the significance of differences between mice and men.(humans)

https://www.quora.com/What-are-examples-of-drugs-that-showed...

The problem with the word 'cancer' and 'consumption' in biology is that it is a combinatorially complex issue.

There are many different types of cancer and many more types of gut bacteria for 'consumption.'
https://www.quora.com/How-many-types-of-gut-bacteria-exist-i...
I agree completely. Rogers (or whoever the consortium that bought the Canadian broadcast rights) has added a number of new camera angles to their broadcast this year. Some are gimmicky. But others really let you experience the game in a new way. For instance, because they have a wire cam, they now have an angle that chases an offensive play down the ice. You appreciate a lot of the nuances more when you're not stuck in the nosebleeds at center. And you appreciate the pace a lot more.
Lots of proprietary software in the music industry too. Even if you want to create music as a hobby on your computer, things like samples are all in proprietary formats.
Can the title still be edited? Over $11.5M at the present moment.

There's so little supply that to buy even just a few thousand bitcoins at this point runs the price up 10% or more.
The benefit that you don't need a git server and can have the code running on different machines! :)
For my High School final solo project I made a few computer vision applications, using OpenCV and C.
Using the webcam you can "play", you can draw, etc. using the color tracking method; I made a simple head tracking and motion detector too.
You can find it here: https://github.com/dlion/ExamProject
This is exactly why I came up with the idea of the Pirate License. http://retromocha.com/pirate-license.html

Not everything makes sense to put out as Creative Commons. Sometimes you want to actually sell something like software or an ebook, but you don't think it makes sense to go after people torrenting your stuff and giving it away for free.

My philosophy is there can still be an exchange of value. So, with the Pirate License, you make a version of your product explicitly licensed under the Pirate License which calls those who steal your product pirates, and asks them to pass it along to other pirates or potential customers.

I think it makes the expectations for piracy much more clear and should lead to better outcomes.
Do you mean <blink> is no longer implemented in blink?
I think the better analogy is: all the parts are brightly colored, and if you try to put a red part in a blue hole the compiler won't let you. Okay I guess that's not really an analogy anymore, but, you get the point.
I think you're disagreeing with something I never said. From what I understand, you're asking me for a source stating that drivers can hit someone and not be at fault, while your argument is that drivers are never at fault? I guess I still don't get what kind of source you're asking me for.

But apparently you believe there is such a thing as a speed so low that you cannot hit a pedestrian. Have you ever watched some Russian dashboard camera footage where pedestrians throw themselves at cars that are sometimes completely stopped? Or my previous example of someone walking into the side of your car? I've had that happen, where a bicyclist ran through an intersection without looking and ended up in the back of my pickup truck. Tell me that's my fault. The responding officer sure didn't.
Read "steal this book" and don't get caught. (Ignore the militancy anarchist cookbook stuff and addresses which are mostly outdated... It's a practical urban survival guide overall. It's a pdf that's widely available.)

If you want a simple business model that works, sell t-shirts on a high pedestrian traffic area or tourist trap area (pier 39 sf). You may even clean people's car windows for tips and pay at gas stations if you ask the owner|manager & explain (many gas stations are independently owned.. Expect to have to visit 10-15 stations to get approval and be super sincere). It's generic hard work, but it's doable without skill or funding. Also sign up for TaskRabbit for more skilled jobs that could pay more. (See a pattern.. Try lots of things and hustle to get to higher paying gigs.). Btw playing up youth leads to money... Stay clean, shave, youthful attire and get a haircut if needed... You're the product if you offer a service. (Either look professional or super pathetic, in between leads to less cash.)

Some religious organizations will help you, others like most of those in Silicon Valley, only do happy-clappy and no social service volunteering as do others in poorer areas. In fact if you ever had to bet outright, don't bother begging from rich people, beg from lower/middle class areas.

If it's a super emergency in the US, apply for food stamps and general assistance at your local social services agency. They'll usually give it to you the same day in the form of an EBT card that works at Costco, grocery stores and pharmacies. It's a pittance, but it will keep you alive if you budget it very carefully. (Beware: massive fees at almost every ATM. Always get cash back at stores instead.) They may even throw in medical insurance if you're broke enough. (I was a teacher in a minority area and had to help emancipated students get food and get to school... I've seen almost everything. :( ). Rationalize going on the dole as a buffer that you will pay back through taxes many times over later, or to wealth and minimal taxes and let the middle class handle that.

Cut your expenses (don't eat out) and travel as least as possible. Maybe buy a cheapish van and live in it instead of paying rent. Cancel all those monthly Internet services (games, Netflix, Hulu, spotify), perhaps even phone service. Use coffee shops for power and data, maybe go Skype / google voice only. Cut luxury prepared foods too. Shelter, food and transportation (gas) are the actual necessities... Everthing else is a choice to rationalize excessive consumerism. (Stop smoking, drinking and latte habits if present... This is where most poor people hemorrhage money and may harm their health too. For blanks sake don't drink or do drugs but do get good sleep, your judgement (wits) needs to be perfect or one mistake on the street will kill you... You need to be making the best possible decisions as often as possible to bootstrap yourself back to where you want to be.)

Don't count on a startup for income... It's always a long shot / crapshoot and most stories are pure survivor bias hiding the work, pain and luck involved.
Usually this is a problem, of what can you do for them more than what can they do for you. Your biggest issue as you pointed out is adoption by retailers, and if really they have a problem with giving out coupons.
Anyone else notice they didn't realize this requirement was in the bill until months later? I wonder what else is in there.
That would be an earth shattering announcement if there was one. :-)
That's a pretty impressive prediction.

For those of us who don't do industrial process control, what would that do to the plant?

Supposedly more than 30 programmers worked on Stuxnet. That seems like a big investment just to increase the wear rate on a few motors, however critical they might be.
I guess that's a little like saying: i jumped off a cliff into the sea and didn't get hurt, countless people do and don't get hurt. At the same time though, there's a great risk of me hitting something on the way down if it's very windy or me drowning because I landed awkwardly in the water(I've experinced this one jumping from about 10ft as a child).
Go find me a significant number of highly voted posts, or ANY, that gloat about how much they've raised. I remember those posts where they were driving. The closest thing imaginable to what you're describing was "we're almost to $xxx,xxx dollars everyone" posts. I've seen OTHER websites talk about it. I've seen Colbert talk about it, but NEVER have I seen a submission, let alone a post, that even remotely read "We're so awesome, go us!". If you think that is the style of comments on reddit, then honestly, I question your actual participation there. You're blindlyand prooflessly questioning their intentions and I find that offensive on their behalf.

Their acts of vengence are terrible and misplaced. Even just now I read a post about the Gizmodo jerk responding and making fun of reddit in a tweet. Someone commented to torment his flickr photos and someone immediately replied back that it would be a dick move.

You forget that reddit is made up of people. When it reaches the size it is, you're guaranteed to have the idiots that do vigilante stuff. But when one of the ADMINS who rarely condemn the community SHREDS into everyone about stopping the vigilantism... I think you're missing the forest for the few rotten trees (and I think it's because you want to).

I still think you are COMPLETELY wrong about the relevancy of posts in the good subreddits. You're doing a poor job of cultivating your subreddits frankly if you can't find a good combo resulting in quality links. Again, you bring up this sense of "self-righteousness" that is COMPLETELY unsubstantiated and not for you to say.

I think you've made your mind up without giving them a chance, and even when pressed for details, you make the same vague claims about their motives and intentions without any more substantiation than the first time you said it.
Whenever I hear these proclamations, I always wonder what a 'source tree' would look like in a non-hierarchical file system.
People tend to be fascinated when a system does things it is not created to do.

Reddit's primary purpose is to share and comment on links whereas churches are founded to spread goodwill in a community.
I guess I've never bothered wondering about the implications of (the lack of) restrictions on giving your money away. Part of me thinks that Loyola could never put out a want ad saying men need not apply. However, since the money is from a philanthropic program, that somehow sidesteps the process and makes it acceptable. I can see starting an endowment to open up a position, but what are the ethical and moral implications of putting restrictions on the position that run contrary to our societal norms? Could this mechanism be (ab)used by organizations that wish to be within the law but also be prejudicial about their hiring? Is this comparable to making an endowment to hire underprivileged white men only, or is this something else entirely?

I think in academia, everybody is so quick to accept money that some important questions are tossed aside and controversial conversations are avoided. This may not have been thought through, or it may have been stewed over by some people in a back room. I don't know. What I do know is that I don't hear a whole lot of talking about prejudicial philanthropy these days. I'm not sure what this means. Is anybody else aware of a running (decent/scholarly/well-thought-out) conversation on this topic?
Thanks for relaying that -- really appreciate it! Marketers, designers, and copywriters are definitely frequent users of Milled, so I'm building some new features for them in the coming months. If she has any ideas or requests, please let her know that she can email me any time: [my hn username]@milled.com
Honestly, I see it as more of an FJ Cruiser or a Wrangler that happens to have a very, very large trunk.

I think a lot of buyers will be people who would normally buy a large, 2-row SUV, or truck owners who keep a cap on their bed.
Using amoral implies there is at least a consensus on what is moral and they are acting opposite to it. This is an entire conversation on what is even moral to begin with. It is smearing someone by associating your "morality" to a particularly grey area.
> Are you suggesting that the only language that should get to use KVM is C

What I'm asking is why Rust can't read the C header. I know that sounds like a ridiculous question, but I'm asking it honestly and seriously.
Back in the late 90's, for me anyway, buying a Ford Ranger strictly dominated just about any other choice. I didn't have a family/girlfriend so I didn't need the extra seats. 20mpg was pretty darn good compared to most trucks. The smaller cab meant I could heat/ac the interior pretty quickly. Easy to drive and maintain, and finally I had all that utility for when I needed it, which was rare but often enough to solve a lot of infrequent problems. It just seemed like the most practical choice. (I still have that truck, my family's other vehicle is a CRV.)
I think it is more about the targeting. Anyone can see what Fox, CNN or MSNBC are saying but Facebook ads can be targeted practically to the individual and few know what messages are being shown to others.
What I find fascinating is how strong my negative visceral reaction to that thing is. It's a car. Who gives a shit whether it looks "good"? What even is my internal metric for "looks good"? I have no idea, but, God, this thing is revolting.

My hunch is that this is because we use some of the same mental wiring for processing human faces to process the front of a car. (Automotive designers refer to the front of a car as its "face".) So we think it's ugly because some of the same wiring that recoils to disfiguring human faces is kicking in.

I just stumbled onto: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26181746
Recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21589719
As you put it, validation requires that you ask the right questions, which is half the ball game.
I love the NHS (UK National Health Service) information "Behind the Headlines" site that your link comes from.

http://www.nhs.uk/news/Pages/NewsIndex.aspx
>>My niece, on the other hand, averages over 20%.

Were you able to figure out why?
And what places are those? And how much?
There are more egregious examples of data protection violation here, and the fines look pretty small:

https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/
What about a chrome extension that notified you how many points a link in the wild got on hn, reddit or similar? Seems like that would be simple to make, and very resilient to gaming or noise.
I met the engineering editor of Bicycling magazine a while back. He used to design helicopters.

He told me that their control systems are hard, because helicopters want to be upside-down.
The belief that money is 'speech' is a modern form of collective delusion - like the children's crusades back in the Dark Ages.

Later generations will look at it and will go "how was that even possible?"
https://ico.org.uk/concerns/handling/
I don't know about the episodes you're referring to, but it appears she wrote the log-structured filesystem for BSD (which builds on UFS, that was created by McKusick, a great filesystem for its day, but ultimate needed improvements). Also looks like she founded Sleepycat, and knew a bunch about Berkeley DB, which hammered the filesystem.

"""She is the author of several widely-used software packages including database and transaction libraries and the 4.4BSD log-structured file system. Dr. Seltzer was a founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB and is now an Architect for Oracle Corporation."""

So, frankly, I think she probably is qualified to tell McVoy (not one of my heros) and McKusick (one of my heros) how to up their game.
Yes, if I did not make it clear, what was actually demonstrated here was not the sort of scarybad mathematical weakness that can only be extracted from a long proof that I was talking about, it's basically just a bug in Coq, and in the long term has little consequence other than providing a bit of fun.
Yeah, I get that, but a lot of people use Windows for some reason or another. I'm not really interested in trying to get the masses to use Linux.

A lot of open source projects at least start out running on Linux and OS X, because they have a lot more in common, and then if someone has the time and desire, they'll port it to Windows. I'm not really happy with that.

This is not as much about technical challenges, since there are obviously Unix layers for Windows, it's more about consumer perception.
Your description of what matters to many customers doesn't get enough appreciation. Its faster too often trumps it lets me sleep at night in the battle for attention.
It's true if you're not one of the regular contributors. Even small patches for things like syntax highlighting seem to languish[1][2]. For stuff that requires feedback from Bram, sometimes there's just no response[3].

Sometimes it just takes a bunch of prodding from multiple users to get a patch merged[4]. Sometimes even that isn't effective[5].

I didn't have to look hard to find these examples. I just scrolled through vim-dev looking for "patch" next to an unfamiliar name. This is a common problem with mailing lists: old things fade into oblivion whether or not they've been dealt with. Not so with GitHub's pull requests. PRs stick around until someone closes or merges them. That one difference makes it much harder for contributions to slip through the cracks.

1. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/iB2YYel67io/SBHYHpSM...

2. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/UTOY6V6UCkk/-0lqupnc...

3. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/0It1ZTos_QY/63Xc9NrT...

4. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/WeBBjkXE8H8/MRLPPMjV...

5. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/kG3Qaz8M9kw/YyZDzwkc...
His creativity is amazing: founder of a number of database companies, including Ingres, Illustra, Cohera, StreamBase Systems, Vertica, VoltDB, and Paradigm4...at MIT, where he has been involved in the development of the Aurora, C-Store, H-Store, Morpheus, and SciDB systems [1]

And his students:

-Daniel Abadi (co-founder and Chief Scientist of Hadapt)

-Michael J. Carey (faculty at UC Irvine, formerly at U. Wisconsin Madison, NAE Member and ACM Fellow)

-Robert Epstein (founder and former VP of Engineering of Sybase)

-Diane Greene (co-founder and former CEO of VMWare)

-Paula Hawthorn (founder of Britton-Lee, formerly VP of Engineering of Informix)

-Marti Hearst (Professor at UC Berkeley)

-Gerald Held (former VP of Engineering of Oracle)

-Joseph M. Hellerstein (faculty at UC Berkeley)

-Anant Jhingran (VP and CTO for IBM's Information Management Division)

-Curt Kolovson (Sr. Staff Research Scientist at VMware)

-Clifford A. Lynch (executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information)

-Mike Olson (former CEO of Sleepycat Software and founding CEO of Cloudera)

-Margo Seltzer (Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, founder and former CTO of Sleepycat Software)

-Dale Skeen (founder of Tibco, founder and CEO of Vitria)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stonebraker
The average American watches 34 hours of TV a week. Keep in mind: the HN audience is not representative of your average American. I don't think the media companies are too worried about a natural dry out.
On a site by and for programmers, it makes sense to discourage GPL in favor of permissive licenses.
I use f-droid more than google play. F-droid would not ne posible without sideloading.
How about, user is using a screen reader or some other accessibility aid.
You can read about the lobbying operation Google conducted to avoid the FTC from pursuing their case here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-google-is-transfo...
lol love this idea... but my target audience is teenage Asian girls who like anime. If OP's current thing is successful, will you be willing to do a theuserisajapaneseschoolgirl.com ?
Don't you have to be in Developer mode (which Netflix refuses to run in, or at least used to) to run Linux?
Thanks for the feedback!

The name was inspired by a post that gave us the idea, not to say it'll stay as this.
I'm not too sure about this issue you're having, I can't replicate it.

If you go to http://lolbtn.co.uk/YOUR_HASH/stats you can use this as an API.
Here is an example: http://lolbtn.co.uk/65h8r9/stats
Edit: We just created this for you as our first reviewer, as thanks!
English version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKxj-Jh9pmY
To add to this, some things can be tinted with racism while also being motivated by other -- sometimes even legitimate -- things.

It's easy to throw out the baby with the bathwater. It takes effort to throw away the bad and keep the good.

As stated in another thread: it's not a bad idea to prevent apartments from being built such that they overlook a single-family dwelling's back-yard.

EDIT: in all fairness, I should point out that others seem to know something about the historical origins of zoning policy that I do not. It's possible that I'm underestimating the degree to which racism played a role in shaping the legal landscape. Nevertheless, I can imagine a handful of legitimate reasons for single-family zoning...
Honestly given how good BigQuery is, I don't blame the sales rep for keeping their eye on their wallet. I know a lot of companies who are primarily AWS but use Google Cloud exclusively for BigQuery analysis.

(no, I'm not and have never been a Google employee)
There were more than 60 million Native Americans in 1492.
You're the one making a claim that there's a difference, then offering a page that doesn't mention SOA as evidence. So 1) it's your responsibility to prove your own case, and 2) if you just googled SOA and microservice architecture and came up with that page, the strategy you're suggesting has failed.
Or an army of marketers