jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Good article. Booth's Precious Nonsense: The Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's Epitaphs on His Children, and Twelfth Night sounds intriguing, too.

"Why do we value literature so? Many would say for the experience it brings us. But what is it about that experience that makes us treasure certain writings above others? Stephen Booth suggests that the greatest appeal of our most valued works may be that they are, in one way or another, nonsensical. He uses three disparate texts—the Gettysburg Address, Ben Jonson's epitaphs on his children, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night—to demonstrate how poetics triumphs over logic in the invigorating mental activity that enriches our experience of reading. Booth presents his case in a book that is crisply playful while at the same time thoroughly analytical. He demonstrates the lapses in logic and the irrational connections in examples of very different types of literature, showing how they come close to incoherence yet maintain for the reader a reliable order and purpose. Ultimately, Booth argues, literature gives us the capacity to cope effortlessly with, and even to transcend, the complicated and demanding mental experiences it generates for us.

"This book is in part a witty critique of the trends—old and new—of literary criticism, written by an accomplished and gifted scholar. But it is also a testimony to the power of the process of reading itself. Precious Nonsense is certain to bring pleasure to anyone interested in language and its beguiling possibilities."
Sorry for not adding anything to the discussion but I really resonated with this comment, thanks!
I mean art and other not easily evaluated assets are used for drug trafficking and money laundering.

Auction houses are known to be on the trick -- that is passively mainly/ they don't care and work to "pump" the prices of artwork. But of course law enforcement agencies know about it too.

It shouldn't be illegal: people should be free to buy what they want. But let's not hide behind our noses.
It's where fans can submit their own creations. At 10k supporters Lego takes a closer look (fitness for the Ideas series, cost of production, IP rights etc.).

If Lego decides to build it, the fan gets a share of the profit from the set.

Lego Ideas is the premier adult Lego series, with lots of cool sets at high price points.
It's not "news" as such but HN allows for anything that may be interesting to tech people. I posted this because it was interesting to me that MDN which is supposed to be an authoritative source of web standards information is linking to an answer on SO for more information on a topic. It seems to be a curious break in character AFAIK.
This is what Nassim Nicholas Taleb has been writing books about. He calls them black swan events, because if you took a sample of 1000 swans, chances are you'd conclude that all swans are white, but it just isn't so. People tend to round down the probability of very rare events to zero, even when the upside of them is small and the downside is catastrophically bad. Examples: the 2008 housing crisis, Fukushima, and our current supply chain problems.
https://ideas.lego.com/
I am not at all saying that authority can be depoliticized, I am simply pointing out that the underlying politics are what guides adherence to or rejection of a particular authority, depending on whether the authority's politics are in alignment with the recipient's or not. So I feel that statement that 'people just don't trust authority anymore' is not accurate, as people seem perfectly willing, in fact sometimes overly-willing to trust authority, with the caveat being that that authority must align with them politically.

To clarify: I am talking about the reception of authority, not the innate linkage of authority itself to the authority figure's politics, but the linkage of the authority figure's politics to the politics of the people deciding whether to be receptive or not to that authority.
Good question. I had posted a "Tell HN" when I started it, but it just didn't get much traction. My thinking was that a lot of HN "meta" type projects die off after a month or so, and one that requires an email is even a tougher sell. So I waited and tried other things to gain traction. I had wanted to do this earlier, but wanted to get somethings in place before and just never got to it. Glad I posted it now though! I need to do some other write-ups based on what I've learned (thanks peterc for that idea) as I'm sure that will help too.
Does anyone know what is meant by "Stalemate is a win, not a draw." Who wins on a stalemate?
A few other tools I use are atop (more detailed top info, with logging), iostat (harddrive io) and vmstat (memory and cpu details).
There seems to be a major divide between two-syllable non-meaningful words and three+ syllable ones. Etsy, Zynga, and Google don't sound that hard to remember compared to Wesabe or Geezeo. I suggest a simple test for domain name desirability: the value of a domain name is inversely related to its score in Scrabble.

How do people feel about longer combinations of meaningful words, like BingoCardCreator, SecondMarket, or AppointmentReminder? I see a tradeoff between the number of total words and the complexity of each individual word, e.g. CreditKarma vs. HotOrNot.
Also my personal notes on the same, running Ubuntu instead of OS X: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/11-macbook_air-the_best_computer_i...
For consumers that can afford it, tablets may replace a lot of what a desktop computer does for those people, but there are many people who are lower income who will still depend on very inexpensive desktop computers, either ones the own individually or (more likely) ones that they can access at their local library. I think Ubuntu is heading in a direction where it will replace Windows for users that only need an office suite and a web browser but need to use a cheaper desktop machine.
It's pronounced pah-ster-ous? I've been saying it wrong for awhile.
Jupyter already let you run shell so at least have a look for inspiration - and limitations that would be nice to lift (e.g faster output)
This could be one of the reasons why tech interviews are awkward. Most of them are "optimised" for tall and fat engineers but what you actually get is "luck of the draw" T shaped engineers on random specialties that you may not even need, with the assumption that the T shaped engineer can be transformed on demand to a short and fat or tall and skinny.
Index funds are a good, safe set and forget option. In boring times, the performance is not much worse and even sometimes better. In times of upheaval though, the high volatility makes active trading MUCH more profitable.
I've been looking for a month I think the Logitech g915 is the only low profile tactile UK layout in existence. It has been sold out all month.

I'm tempted to change the kicad on this to just take the low profile switches but I can't do the layout change
Ha! Exactly
Even without germ theory Europe still used diseased blankets for attempted genocide on at least one documented instance in 1763. https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smal...

Excerpts: Amherst wrote on July 16, 1763, "P.S. You will Do well to try to Inocculate the Indians by means of Blankets, as well as to try Every other method that can serve to Extirpate this Execrable Race. I should be very glad your Scheme for Hunting them Down by Dogs could take Effect,..." Bouquet replied on July 26, 1763, "I received yesterday your Excellency's letters of 16th with their Inclosures. The signal for Indian Messengers, and all your directions will be observed." Smallpox was highly contagious among the Native Americans, and — together with measles, influenza, chicken pox, and other Old World diseases — was a major cause of death since the arrival of Europeans and their animals.[27][28][29] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_biological_warfare

What’s interesting about this is it wasn’t clear it actually worked. However, the approach suggests a better understanding of disease spread than a lack of germ theory would suggest. Plenty of evidence suggests biological warfare was common across European history. The last known incident of using plague corpses for biological warfare occurred in 1710, when Russian forces attacked the Swedes by flinging plague-infected corpses over the city walls of Reval (Tallinn).[18] However, during the 1785 siege of La Calle, Tunisian forces flung diseased clothing into the city.[17]
This is one reason I like zsh - they are extremely compatible. I also have a different prompt so I immediately notice if I’m inside zsh.
> people who engage in social dominance games view them as all-encompassing and all-important

This is because the value derived from the fact that almost everyone is playing, and therefore the rewards for "winning" are high.

I think it's a natural form of a network effect. Status is valuable because many people (Unconsciously) agree on what it constitutes, and participate in the game.
I signed up for hubiC a while back with the intention of using their touted OpenStack compatibility with Duplicity for encrypted backups (using the Swift backend) - only to discover they have placed their own authentication mechanism on top of OpenStack, breaking compatibility with all OpenStack clients. The only solutions available seem to be running a proxy between your client and hubiC.
You do know the history of those terms and the replacement of one by the other, right?
You bet. The stack is something like this (in no particular order):
Django
Postgres
Memcached
RabbitMQ
Gunicorn
Supervisord
Celery
Nginx
Solr
Ec2/EBS

I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff...but, that's most of it.
Wait a second.

It's probably true that the average age at which female engineers start programming is higher, and they haven't been programming as long. You are correct that this is not a matter of talent. It's a matter of experience. However, given that all other attributes are equal, why should anyone pick a less experienced person over a more experienced one? The circumstances that lead to that don't matter.
the point is that what might take 1mil LOC in Java may take only 100k LOC in Python.
There are many different ways to define what constitutes a separate species. The inability to produce viable offspring is just one.
People are way too quick to compete rather than collaborate. Rather than writing their own shell, a shell that certainly hardly anyone was going to use and was certainly going to end up in the abandon-ware bin, they should of manned up and worked with bash/zsh to add some of these features, syntax highlighting for example, to a project where everyone could have benefited.
Hey, you have a gold name! That's funky, is that because you're a YC company or something else? I've never seen that before!

Edit: now it's gone... that was strange. I'm sure I saw a gold name!
As a developer struggling to also be a sysadmin I find this very interesting. We were just about to start looking for a sysadmin to manage what we're doing, so it will be interesting to see how DotCloud works. We're Python focused, so this looks to be right up our street. Curious to know what others do in terms of managing the servers etc - do you think that it could be dangerous to rely on a service like this? Do you think its better to understand from end-to-end what you're using and why?
I let my 3 year old play with my laptop at times, by giving her a full screen xterm running bash in a separate tab on my tiling window manager. She mostly likes to type the letters she knows (her initial, my initial, uncle's initial etc) but it's surprising how often she manages to Ctrl-R or Windows-Shift-3 or some other combo that makes things go haywire.
Yeah, that was kind of lame on Freenode's part. There are plenty of fairly accessible IRC clients though.
There is a free 32bit version of kdb available (http://kx.com/software-download.php). For the commercial version, pricing information is not publically available.
Just write proper markup, and you won't have this problem. It's 2015, different browsers don't need "ports" anymore for things like this.

Validator: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwantrepreneu...
A lot of things are basically internet fora I think.

If it was a stupid concept to start with I'd understand sceptism. But new takes on top of IRC seems a good idea, and from the time I spend chatting on my projects, I'd welcome a solution that would bring even 10% more efficiency to the current process.
> I'm not sure why the victim complex about Apple in your comment, he said too few companies do it

Sure it's all good when companies fund projects they use, but that does not mean they should instantly get a board seat.

It makes sense why Jane Street sponsors OCaml, does not mean they instantly get a board seat. I don't see Jane Street sponsoring RISC-V and getting a board seat do I?

And it doesn't make sense to do so.

I find is suspicious for companies to join or create a foundation and get automatically propped up on the board, especially Google.

It's going to be much harder to remove them if your values are not aligned with theirs or you dare criticise them.
It is highly unlikely (I hope I'm not wrong). The way Jetbrains is financed and managed, they don't need that and they don't have pressure from any venture capitalists to go anywhere near that. That would also really likely harm their reputation really badly (but I said that of github as well and it was not as bad as I feared, so don't believe everything/anything I say).
I saw it too there.

Another commented suggested that it actually might be following to these points/paths as the ship stirs krill or used as distance markers or something. I don't really know if I believe that and haven't had a chance to read the associated study. To be fair, the ocean is a big place so I am a bit skeptical overall.

I do know though, anything from the independent.co.uk URL is almost guarenteed to be heavily sensationalized. Always the most outlandish and emotional headlines. So if it's running here, my first instinct is to just move along.
That thing to which all symbolic systems with sufficient complexity are equivalent, discovered or invented?

(Yours is a "turtles all the way down" argument, I think.)
The trouble with digitizing analog mediums (especially vinyl) is how much your equipment can alter the sound. Given a different tonearm, cartridge, amp, etc, the same record can sound very different.

I’ve had some luck digitizing some of my collection with a DP-450 [0] and Ortofon Blue [1], but had higher end stuff end up sounding less interesting to my ears.

This is the trouble with audio in general: people not only prefer different sound profiles but also perceive sound differently, which makes it difficult to get rips (at least in my limited experience).

There is a lot of sibilance in the recordings I sampled from the OP link, whoever did the digitization would have benefitted from cleaner records, probably an anti-static brush, a fresh cartridge, and possibly some post-processing since they’re already digital. It’s better than nothing, of course, but it could be a lot better.

[0] https://www.denon.com/en-us/product/turntables/dp-450usb

[1] https://www.ortofon.com/ortofon-2m-blue-p-333
I think the next version, Shitplate, should have this improvement. Space complexity is worse, though.
The thing is, there are millions of people who are vegetarians and also have not committed genocide. So why compare yourself to Hitler as opposed to Gandhi, Jane Goodall, etc?

Obviously, saying “I agree with Hitler on vegetarianism” does not mean also supporting Nazism or the Holocaust or whatever. But it does invite pretty reasonable suspicion as to why, out of all the vegetarians in the world, you decided to compare yourself to that particular one.
Noticed that too. I just signed up and added a few points of interest here in North America. Was surprised that I could create an account and see my updates appear on the realtime map moments later.
There is a corollary to this - having a career of sideways moves and simply not progressing even in ways that are positive and to your liking because each move effectively puts you back to zero and companies taking advantage of the 'flat structure' myth to avoid having to provide career progression.
Now it's working. The images were overscanning on left and right like I've never been seeing before.
The main general thing I don't like about this is the continued and increasing conflation of rationalism with stuff like libertarianism, alt-right, or that weird paragraph about rationalists being a bunch of polyamorous hippies. The general thinking behind Bayesianism - being honest about where you're coming from, listening to counterpoints, and allowing your beliefs to change from evidence - is hardly partisan.

Same with free speech. You'd think the W.H. Auden branch of free speech defenders were an endangered species, when they're really not - they're just not reading alt-right blogs and screaming about being canceled.
"It's not like locking your money in a safe, where you can feel the heaviness of the door and hear the clank of the lock."

I think the perfect is being the enemy of the good here.

Personally I would pay for a really good UI for doing that -- just encrypting files so I can stash them safely in cloud storage or transfer really sensitive stuff. I'd love to be able to right-click and encrypt/decrypt with a GPG public key or symmetric passphrase.

I have full disk encryption, but that's very coarse-grained. Unlock the machine and it's defeated. My hack right now is to use encrypted OS X .sparseimage files, but that's OS-specific and clunky. I also have these scripts:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/maste...

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/maste...

They kind of suck but do the job in a platform-independent way. They could be made slightly better by trying to secure-erase the original source file, etc., but they work.

The other problem with invisible omnipresent encryption is that it lacks a quality that I call "situational awareness." I like knowing that something has in fact been encrypted. Seeing a file extension change, like gzipping a file, tells me that yes in fact something has happened.

A classic example I use of poor situational awareness in security is IPSec encryption setup between two boxes. The only way I know of to verify that the traffic is actually encrypted is to tcpdump the raw interface and look. The (piss-poor) IPSec tools do not really tell you this in a non-confusing straightforward way.
Groupon itself was the one pushing poor metrics for valuation and hiring a bunch of salespeople they never intended to keep more than a year past IPO. They artificially pumped their price, and should be derided for that even if they made money doing so.
but in highly leveraged FX markets even 1% can wipe people out

The CHF spike did wipe people out.

For example the world's largest currency broker FXCM; http://uk.businessinsider.com/fxcm-currency-broker-news-2015...

(okay they're not entirely wiped out, only $300MM in the red...)
Why the future of work will look like a video game?

- because if you work remotely, in the virtual workplace you will be able to design your avatar;

- with flexible schedule, you will be able to come and go whenever you want... just like gamers;

- it will be easier to share screens and documents... like in Minecraft;

- people will communicate by typing in chat, instead of dominating meetings by loud voice;

...yep, that's all. Totally like playing a video game.
Haha fair enough! Retro term definitely looks cool.

(Of course could then use Evil in Emacs for Vim keys, or just run vim in a terminal inside Emacs...)
It looks interesting. Since you say the book is for folks 'as untechnical as my Mom', I'll get a copy for my young niece that is trying to get into programming.

You have a minor typo on the page - 'enthrawled' should be 'enthralled'
Yes, my wife had so many problems in the beginning. The newborn had to stay in the hospital for a week to treat an infection and there it was bottle fed. The milk wasn't going so the breasts needed massaging to clear the ducts and get it started. Then the baby wouldn't latch properly, she was also weak and sleepy from jaundice. We had to buy those little silicone nipple shields and that helped. It was a lot of struggle and my wife almost gave up on several occasions. But now after 11 months she's still breastfeeding and hasn't even used her breast pump or given formula ever. There is a friend of hers who pretty much gave up immediately and started using formula. It seems to be a trend, since we always get praised by our pediatrician and other doctors for continuing breastfeeding.
How does this work? Is it a small group of federated servers? One big server? A WAN?

Seems like a good demonstration of why a distributed technology like a "real" central bank digital currency would be an improvement.
Co-founder of Tines here. This is exactly why we built Tines - I spent years working in security, and tried nearly a dozen different SOAR/SOAR-like solutions and felt the all were too complicated and the "connector" model was way too hard - the integrations were all quirky and limited.

Tines is completely different - we don't rely on any prebuilt integrations - similar to postman, if you have a curl command then you can paste it into Tines, and the response is simply the json from the API you're hitting - makes it a million times easier to do exactly what you want. You can then use that response in the next action. If the API is terrible (it frequently is) we've a ton of templates to help get the relevant data, and a community with experience connecting to most tools.

Would love to talk about the challenges and see if anything we're doing (or could do) which would have made it easier? I hope you're in a better job now anyway!
The difference between a space launch and an intercontinental ballistic missile is basically intent. Internal processes and methods are definitely a factor here.
The small Intuos tablet?

https://store.wacom.com/us/en/product/CTL480/

Which tablet is most effective as a mouse replacement?
Example: consider an application including the following microservices: "newsletter service" and "email gateway service".

The newsletter service doesn't need to load email libraries, handle the protocol, failures, bounces, retries. It doesn't need to maintain state on this. Nor does it necessarily need to know if an email address is opted out. It can concern itself with building newsletter templates, A/B testing, feedback/analytics, scheduling, triggers, etc.

Consider how different teams may accumulate specialized knowledge. Now the boundaries of this knowledge are finely delineated. Service responsibilities are clear.

As the company and app grows, you can pull stuff out of the newsletter app. You may want analytics and A/B testing as a service.

Consider all of the possible service boundaries. If you can group 4-10 tables in a relational database into a cluster, that might constitute a valid service boundary. Does it model a particular business function / flow that can be wrapped up and exposed as a service? Will that grow with company and with changing needs?

I don't know how this really helps with RAM. If you're worried about that, you probably shouldn't be considering a microservice. There are operational costs that trump hardware costs.
i am also studying japanese - i'm on a similar level i would say. i know around 150 kanji and forgotten about the same amount. my problem is finding someone on a similar level to learn alongside - i've heard it's wise to have not only someone above your skill level, but also someone at your equal, to compete and learn with. if you're interested, i'd like to study together - send me an email.