jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is interesting. I feel like saying "Facebook is geared to stupid people" is offensive and inaccurate, but I've definitely felt like "social" applications have a fatal flaw, which is that they can't succeed without getting progressively dumber over time. The early adopters of services like Facebook and Twitter are smart, curious, technologically-adept people like HN posters. But if the product isn't "dumbed down" a bit, it can't appeal to the masses and can't really grow, and if it stops innovating (which is hard to do while not growing, because VCs aren't likely to fund a product that only 5% of the population is smart enough to use) then the smart people get bored. So, a "social" application feels intense pressure to grow and inevitably becomes stupider (in terms of its users) over time. Add to this the fact that dumb people have more free time and lower standards regarding the use of it, and the usage-weighted average IQ can easily drop below 100. Then you become Myspace.

Facebook was built to dumb down harmlessly. It started at Harvard, then the Ivy League, then the top 100 (or so) colleges, then all colleges, then everyone. This was a great strategy for marketing while scaling and it worked. How it will progress from here is unclear.

For non-"social" counterexamples, Google and Wikipedia have managed to avoid this by taking what "social" views as a contrarian strategy: instead of trying to suck people in and get them to spend hours on the site (which creates the low time-weighted IQ problem) they try to get people to the information they want as quickly as possible. Google's ideology is, "You're smart enough to know where you want to go, we're just going to get you there." Facebook's is, "We're going to try to suck you in to our space as long as we can."
Would be MUCH more useful if he detailed what he ate, even if it was just one or two days worth of meals.

I mean, there's a ton of good food out there, especially if you look in vegan friendly ethnic cuisine (Indian especially), but I'd rather get a menu than a "I felt ill after meat" diatribe.
I tried using a cheap webcam CCD to make a true RNG a while back, but I had the same problem. After a while I got permanent damaged elements and it ruined the randomness.

http://pics.brizzly.com/1P3J.jpg
Almost everyone uses it, but I'm guessing that dumb people spend more time on it. Smart people use it to get in touch with people they haven't seen in a while, whereas dumb people spend 25 hours per week throwing sheep.
Please don't do this here either.
There isn't an argument for the general case in what you've said.

Do you like sugary / high calorie foods? [Let's say your ancestors evolved in an environment without high concentration sources of energy, "yes"] So, sugary / high calorie foods make you happy.

But technological advances making such foods widely available have made you obese, suffer from disease, etc. You really do enjoy your 2 liters of coke a day, but over all your quality of life has diminished.

etc.
I said at the time that the redesign would hurt Gawker, especially when they responded to the backlash with "well, everybody complains when Facebook changes" - not realizing the power of Facebook's social stickiness. But that's quite shocking even to me. Their own stats show visitors cut to a third of what they were in January.

I guess UI matters, huh?
Wouldn't it be a bit worrisome for a company to bargain to be purchased by Facebook when that company is in the position that Facebook could put them out of business at any point by cloning their stuff?

Creating an app as a "talent-acquisition play" seems reasonable but wouldn't you want to position yourself for multiple offers? If Facebook buying for talent, it doesn't have to restrict itself to the creators of Facebook apps.
I found Project Euler and Topcoder to be easy ways to get into C (although nothing beats learning on the job).
I don't really mind the redesign since I usually get linked to individual articles instead of browsing around their sites, but that grey line at the "fold" really bugs me. Anyone else get that?
They've F-ed them up worse than that, a few months ago I got a full feed of Fleshbot in the place of my Gizmodo feed. Fortunately I closed my laptop in time, or it could have been a much more interesting meeting at work (No doubt followed by one with HR)
/etc/init.d/httpd start

Though the real challenge this product solves is in getting around firewall restrictions. Let's say you're at the airport on free wifi. How are you going to share localhost then?
That's a bizarre thing to say. Do you think the K&R book is a great way to learn French?
How could Uber possibly be described as a monopoly when they have multiple competitions in every market they operate in?
Right on, thanks a lot!
This could not be more wrong. Current central bank rates are high compared to market rates for stores of value, otherwise people, banks and businesses would not be keeping so much of their savings in idle excess fiat.

I keep some musings about this here if you are curious:
http://bessiambre.tumblr.com/
For TOC, see http://minireference.com/static/noBSguide_v5_TOC.pdf

Note: the aim of the book is to cover mechanics (Physics 101) and calculus (I and II). There is a second tome in the works that will cover optics, waves, E&M, and vector calculus.
Thank! Yes the calculations are based on what is currently in the shoe. Setting the shoe is an easy task.
> Science is important, but science reporting (especially medical reporting) seems awful.

I don't think it's limited to science reporting. The more I learn, the easier is is to see the numerous errors made by journalists across all areas. Take Vox, it's an older link but they have been criticized for poor accuracy in reporting (and failing to prominently note corrections).[1]

The Royal Society has it right with their motto, nullius in verba: the news media, much like Wikipedia, is not a reliable source for facts.

[1]: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked...
I think on a macro level, teams don't always want to sell every single ticket for maximum dollar. They really want to ensure a year over year constant revenue stream. So they contract with ticketmaster to sell all of their tickets at fairly set rates. The "Market Price" for an event for 6-8 months from now is going to swing up and down a lot.

There's also the perceived unfairness (think what would happen if a popular restaurant doubled its price on Friday and Saturday, people would flip out).

After a while, they realized that a pretty large secondary market had formed for tickets (teams get hot, rival team in town on a Saturday night, etc, etc) and the team / venue wants in on the action. So Ticketmaster created an "official scalper" marketplace to compete with StubHub and friends.
These are all interesting points. However, I recently used Uber Premier twice in Miami, after not using any car service for two years, and the experience was excellent. It was fast, friendly, the car was nice, and I was happy with the price. For my use case, I am happy to pay more to get a better service, but it didn’t really seem that expensive. Both drivers had been doing Uber for a long time, which would be surprising if they were getting ripped off. So, as much as these points are interesting, I’m not sure they fully capture the situation.
* Improve how? Isn't that the whole discussion?

* That will just amplify the effect of featured apps and then you lose all meaningful organic app discovery and a large chunk of the meritocracy of the store.

* Great but that will probably not make a huge difference.
War and diplomacy are just different instances of state policy. The same arguments for/against transparency apply to both.
The winner managed it with a 3-char injection: http://blog.nibbles.fr/2039
Thanks for the encouragement and tips. Agree that's difficult to get something out there. We picked the project for its narrow scope, and even then it seems like there is a never ending list of things to do.
>It seems to consist mostly of accusations of guilt by association

your TL;DR doesn't match the article, seems you didn't read to the point there Stratfor docs mentioned.
n = 2 => don't make conclusions
We had one of these at school, I don't remember much apart from the fact the teacher didn't have a clue what to do with it. It was about the same time I got a TI programmable calculator which was my real introduction to programming.
> The purpose of a promise is to allow an asynchronous operation to be cancelled.

It's not, and the javascript Promise/A spec has no such facility.

Promises — at least in javascript which is the language observed here — are used to return asynchronous results and be able to combine them in various manners (chain, multiplex, select), but not to cancel them.

The purpose of promises in javascript is very much to improve upon callbacks-based systems in order to make them easier to understand and reason about, and more composable.
Would suggest a 15th - Drumup.io (web app) - they have a Android version too. simple and neat
Here's a presentation from Notcon '04 which shows FMV on the ZX Spectrum, arguably even more limited than the original PC/XT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhpN0vcHH9c

You can see the video itself around 6:30 in.
I doubt even 1% of the people installing Hotspot shield through this offer want it on their PC.

No, nobody wants it, that's why it's there. Your optimism presupposes that there has ever been a such thing as a person who wouldn't mind more commercials on TV. These people aren't out there, people only tolerate the advertising they do see, and software like this only exists to inflict itself on the user.
For the vast majority of people, S3 means cheap, mass storage.

For the majority of those people, a simple SFTP/rsync/NFS/whatever endpoint (potentially with replication to provide redundancy) would more than fit the bill, and would actually be simpler to use than the S3 API.
You need some margin for error to assure that you have enough fuel during the last fuel seconds to hit the marge at a safe speed, this means that there will likely be some fuel left over. In terms of a rocket exploding, that explosion seemed tiny. Compare it to the Antares [1], which exploded just a few seconds after launch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHMmMgdcOSU
Spain and Italy are Western Europe by post-WW2 geo-politics, but a better definition would be to say they are Southern Europe which, by developer pay, is even worse than Eastern Europe that most devs there have long moved north to the point where I doubt they're many left there.
> start coming back to work.

Hint: they won't. When the office is half-empty, it's useless, people might as well go back home. Remote is a self-reinforcing loop, office isn't
Isn't the vaccination distribution a zero sum game between nation states? Supply is limited. Some countries will get it sooner than others. Europe lost the bit against several other powers. Not to my surprise, I must say.
Research = determining a candidate compound, e.g. a new antibiotic, (e.g. by taking and tweaking an existing compound, by basing off of the actual viral/bacterial genetic code such as with the Biontech/Moderna CoV vaccines or by isolating a compound found in a plant, fungus or other natural agent which has been determined to have the effect you want), and initial checking against cell cultures and/or lab animals for effectivity.

Development = taking a lot of candidate compounds and evaluating them in the classic three-stage procedure - phase 1: determine how the compound is processed in actual human bodies to check if it is actually safe to ingest and what side effects can already be observed (n ~ 20-80), phase 2: determine effective dosage (n ~ 100-500), phase 3: check effectivity in a double-blind trial (n ~ 1k-10k), as well as the fourth phase (after-license monitoring) [1][2].

The more a compound progresses, the more expensive the trials get to conduct, not just because the participants usually get some compensation for their risk, but also because all the data has to be tracked and processed. And a lot of candidate compounds fail somewhere along the path (either because they are ineffective or because the side effects are too severe), which makes the money invested effectively wasted (from a capitalist point of view, not from a scientific!).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial

[2]: https://studienteilnehmergesucht.de/ratgeber/die-vier-phasen...
Zuck the PHP dev thinks he's Emperor.
Genuinely curious to know why you think Telegram is sketchy in many ways?
This reminds me of "I will Fear No Evil" by Robert A Heinlein. The billionaire with a brain transplant into his secretary remarked something along the lines of "Once you get rich enough you can't help making more money than you can spend."

It seems from a distance, Elon tried to spend all his money on a Mars exploration, solar power, and to force automakers to start building electric cars. But then he just made more money. I can only imagine how rich he'll be after Starlink gets going in earnest.
> publicizes the ones FB most agrees with

Change this to

> publicizes the ones expected to make FB the most money

and I agree with you. Either way, they should not be an arbiter of public discourse.
Are you taking issue with the use of "suspends"? What do you mean it doesn't say that?
I’m sorry and I’m being serious.

Why is he banned then?
Partisan Gamesmanship
As of now, for Python 3 it does not work, but it seams that fixes are not hard: https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder/issues/2
The title is such a turn off. Early stage startups hardly think about management. You will never see them running around trying to do a management thing. (though they manage a lot - but not the classic way)

Nice points there in blog post. But just nice. One sentence was enough and not-much thought provoking.

Your own suggestion to you: "Simplicity is the key"
even when it comes to preaching startup people (one thing they don't like)
For now, yes: https://www.23andme.com/you/download/

A great resource for that sort of analysis is SNPedia (check out the main page as well): http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/23andMe
Not necessarily. China at the very least pays lip-service to the idea that they are cracking down on piracy. Most Chinese piracy is small time or organized crime, so they can just bust a few people and say that they have 'cracked down.' With something as open as a webserver, it would be hard for them to not take it down to save face in international diplomacy.
It seems to me C to K is affine as well. True, it's somewhat special in that the factor is exactly one, but if there's an offset it's not linear in the sense of the sentence under discussion.
> Most of the successful startups are based on a pure, authentic vision of a founder who is absolutely convinced about their vision for the future.

Is this that different from how film studios work? Many successful films are based on a pure, authentic vision of an auteur after all?

I also don't know if your assertion is necessarily true either. I've been at a modestly successful startup and I have to say most of our early successes came from all the people around our Founder who pushed back against, and checked his more impetuous and self-destructive tendencies. I think the Founder story is, as often as not, an act of self-aggrandizing myth-making. In my company's case, our Founder's best skill was having a nose for talent, but his notions of how to build good software were wildly off-base.

It is akin to the "Great Man" theory of history or even the auteurship theory around filmmaking that erases all the surrounding actors and the interplay of forces that drive the eventual outcome.
They might be able to beat lifestyle startups.
Gonna be great when Congress gets word of this
Not to mention small businesses that are being sacrificed to appease the Gods of infection rates.
Has your job become gamified yet?
> nonlinear conversions such as Fahrenheit to Celsius

The heck? "y = ax + b" is linear; just not homogeneous linear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#Definition_and_conv...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_function
Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22659159
A/C knows no barriers.
No snide. The fact that most here don't get it makes me think this project will be, at least, moderately successful.
"I highlighted a ton of things".

I haven't read Founders at Work, but I really enjoyed Coders at Work by Peter Seibel in the same series. I had the same feeling with that book - I scribbled down a lot of notes on interesting things to follow up on. My conclusion (from my review on Amazon[1]):

If you are seriously interested in programming, this is definitely one of the books you should read. Highly recommended.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/review/R2OV0TG7MJGXGL/
So as someone who cooks a lot, and gets frustrated by long blog like posts that lots of recipes have this day, this website is probably even less useful for me.
The tagging system isn't being used correctly, Ham Sandwich is tagged with Banana for some reason. Speaking of Ham sandwich some of the recipes are just way too simple, this just tells me how to assemble a sandwich which I don't think anyone really needs.
Those are issues that can be solved long term, the other thing that will cause a problem long term is once this site starts getting repeat recipes. The blog like start to recipes may be annoying, but at least it sometimes helps you understand the decisions different people make for their recipes, or suggest substitutions/modifications.

Edit: The Spaghetti Carbonara recipe actually has multiple mistakes. it says the cook time is 0 minutes, it tells you to add the beaten eggs but never tells you to beat them, the recipe includes butter as an ingredient but the recipe tells you to heat the oil, and never says to grate the cheese. If this was a wiki or something I could try to fix those issues, but as it currently is I don't see any way to even flag it. It's also tagged as Banana and Greasy.
I guess I'm screwed either way. I have an office currently but I still use my headphones as much as when I didn't have one.
Marketing bullshit, 0 technical information. "More Details" = "First, be an amazing browser .."
I think you're the one being short sighted here. You pull out the very few area where the rich still have an edge, but the fact is that in the vast majority of areas, the rich have lost insane ground.

First, these physical, tangible standard of living factors you so arrogantly dismiss. Cheap, ubiquitous travel means freedom to live where you want, even if that's more than a few hundred miles away, without sacrificing your family and friends. That was rare 20 years ago and almost unheard of 50 years ago. Except if you were rich, of course. Today, the rich can buy somewhat more comfortable and convenient flights, at extreme expense, but not faster ones.

As for refrigerators in every home? The alternative is shopping for fresh ingredients daily, or doing without them. You can't save leftovers for very long, so you need to cook daily. And speaking of cooling? 100 years ago, the king of England couldn't get an A/C unit at any cost, today they're perfectly ubiquitous.

Education? Yeah, there is some real differences here, but the bottom has gone up tremendously: in living memory, kids were pulled from school to help in the fields. Poor kids, obviously, the rich didn't go in the fields. Today, thanks to the mechanisation of agriculture, all kids can stay in school uninterrupted. And even the poorest kids can read by almost free electrical lights. Even 100 years ago, the rich would have to read by candlelight.

The rich can buy marginally better cars than you and I, but not by a lot. Fancier, but not really better clothes. Their houses might be bigger and fancier, but not more capable at keeping you and your family warm (or cool) and dry. Certainly, the rich have more luxurious options, but not really a lot better.

The richest man on earth can't buy a better smartphone than me or get a better signal than me - that's why those ghastly diamond-encrusted phones exist. But their text messages don't arrive faster than mine and they like the exact same cat videos as me on the exact same Facebook.

Still too vulgar and consumerist? How about the environment? Once, the rich enjoyed clean air, clean water and safe disposal of sewage by living in the country. But do you know why they dusted all the time in old books? Indoor coalfires are messy affairs. If you lived in the city (rich or poor), there would be no clean water, smoggy, dirty air and literally shit flowing in the streets. Today, even the worst tenements in the densest cities have clean, running water, flushing toilets and smogless radiators. The air might not be quite as clean as it could be, but it's a far cry from the smog-hell it once was - and a lot cleaner than just a few decades ago, thanks to better cars.

The perks you list were always perks of the nobility, they are not recent gains - but you're making the perfect an enemy of the extremely good. The much more interesting point is all the perks they've lost and are losing, and those are extremely numerous.
wow looking at that video you'd think software is no longer a male dominated field. problem solved.
OK, so rule zero really should be "don't work for idiots, assholes, or idiot assholes" -- that covers a lot of things.
apologies - I shouldn't have to click on your blog-spam to get the full breadth of your comment's intentions.
Does someone know how to set this up serverside? Does apache support this? I skimmed through the mod_spdy docs, but found nothing about opportunistic encrypion.

This, together with TACK or Certificate Transparency could be a CA killer.
Yes, I have no problem entering my credit card data directly on the forms available on random websites.

Credit card payments online are so ludicrously insecure that it baffles me it's even legal. I only use them when dealing with the US (although some of the major retailers like Apple have finally started accepting 21st century payment methods), and I simply assume my credit card info has been leaking all over the place for ages.

The whole basic premise of credit cards is "we know it's totally broken, we'll just refund you the money because it's cheaper than fixing the problem".
According to Google:

> hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral
> standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior
> does not conform;

> cynicism: an inclination to believe that people
> are motivated purely by self-interest;

You comment (kind of) implies that there's no point in doing anything because we've lost anyway. That's hypocrisy, not cynicism (because we're all doing something to protect our privacy).

Anyway, I figure your original comment wasn't entirely serious which is why I'm not actually accusing you of anything. It's just that I've heard these kind of comments way too often.
Tempting, but the system's only covered by end-to-end tests that take years to run. I'm afraid to change it!
hahaha, you're spot on. It's a good read for motivation and inspirational purposes, but it won't teach you any mad scientist tricks.

I don't think I know a single person that's more self-promotional than Tim. I'm not sure whether to congratulate or hate him for it.
Stop using the S word! Seriously. When you steal something, the rightful owner no longer has the item. You cannot by definition steal digital content. You can merely copy it. Does that result in damages to the original owner? Maybe. Is it stealing? No.
Yup, I didn't anchor it. Can I suggest adding that to the generated regex, as it really is part of it? And I fully approve of non-special-casing it, it's just amazing how big it is for such a "simple" case :)

It's too bad this didn't get up higher, it's quite interesting. Good job, in any case!
I agree, there should be a streaming service in Europe -- It's a huge untapped market, and I wouldn't mind a service like that.