jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
People being people, they can use any medium they can find to make acquaintances.

Tools being tools, some of them are better than others.

Here's a list of subjects that I know people have bonded over:

- fandom of specific works
- generic fandom
- fish aquaria
- genre literature
- a period of history
- games (video, board, role-playing, LARP...)
- sports
- watches
- cars
- appliance repair
- carpentry

You need strict enough moderation that firefights and trolls are quashed immediately, and loose enough moderation that the occasional side-conversation or on-topic rant is allowed through. Proper threading and the ability to know what you've already seen and what is new: those are also necessary.

The internet is what you make of it.
You're welcome! Thanks for saying that.

The shed has been a ton of work, but I imagine it pales in comparison to the amount of work that's ahead of my wife and I :D
Buena suerte y todo el éxito del mundo!! =)
This is a coincidence. I had a funny experience with Linode just today!

I´ve been in South America for a few months, and I found out that my bank card (visa) expired a little over a month ago.

"Hmm," I thought. "I sure hope that my linode is all right. But it´s been less than two months. They will turn it off, but that is all."

So I checked my email. Part of the joy of my style of travelling is not checking email for a month at a stretch.

They deleted my linode. It´s completely gone.

I feel a little sick ... it was just for personal use (for now), and I have all of the git repos on my local machine as well, but I´m not yet to the point where everything I do on the server is in a repo somewhere. Poof, hundreds of hours of server mangling, gone forever.

Literally, if you forget to check your email, they delete it in 20 days. If your bank card expires while you´re out of touch ... for some strange reason ... anyway, instead of warehousing your data for even a few months, they kill you.

I like linode. I just feel sick right now.

On the one hand, I´m an idiot.

On the other hand, 20 days?!?!?! When you know how precious a customers´data is in this context, and it´s purely a question of temporary storage, why?!?

I need a drink. Oh, yeah, Go Linode!

edit: okay, I´m over it now. Leaving the original, melodramatic writing because, darn it linode, someone from Slicehost posted that Slicehost did it differently, and my reaction is relevant to your business.
I don't see how this is related. I know people who are lot smarter than me and I would call "hackers" who regularly consume cocaine. It's a (quite dangerous) lifestyle decision with disastrous long-term effects but very little, if any short-term effects on their intelligence or creativity.
Reminds of this great graphic ("The AOL- Bebo Value transfer equation"): http://www.broadstuff.com/archives/790-The-AOL-Bebo-Value-tr...
Interesting points, so I would suggest emphasizing those more. Right now your page jumps right into API level stuff like URL's and curl commands. If I'm just glancing at your site nothing stands out as to why it's different than S3. I need to be sold on it before I ever get to the point of using those commands.
Seem to be some hateful themes there. Is he just doing that for the heck of it or is it real?
There is a difference between a college degree and a college education.

While I can say with a degree of confidence that experience has given me enough of a skillset to hold my own against most college grads, there are things that I wish I'd learned in an academic setting.
Why the hell wouldn’t you use a CDN? Throwing up files on S3 and then putting your site behind a CDN has to be way cheaper and more available than serving it out of some EC2 server running Nginx 24/7.
What about all the link here on HN that link to websites like the New York Times that block content if your in incognito mode
(standard disclaimers above generic advice that may or may not apply...) Trust your intuition, but not completely, when it comes to work and challenge. We are all lazy because we have very strong instincts to save energy and avoid risks -- that probably makes much sense in nature (where significant risks can mean death to natural causes or conflict). Even today, if you have life set at a boring job, there's not much to be gained, naively and from a naturalistic perspective, from constantly picking difficult topics to learn and stay out of your comfort zone. I think I can call it naive because of course cognitive flexibility and keeping learning may prove its worth if situations change and your safe occupation isn't so safe anymore. But in the end, as another person called, I think the primary motivator is some hunger, some desire to produce great things, to stay sharp/awesome, to beauty, that goes beyond pure individualistic safeguarding.

If you want to avoid mental atrophy, my advice is to find that hunger, find some sense of intense beauty, and pursue it even if it goes against your instincts sometimes.

(also as others noted: you need to be in a position where you can plausibly even find and satisfy this hunger; if your work and commute occupies all your time that's not going to happen of course)
It's not pronounceable and it's not even a standard. Note how they say "some" activists, it's not a settled matter even in activist circles.
This is a fascinating article historically, but I find it hard to believe it has much relevance to how women speak or are perceived today.

I've done a lot of voice coaching, and a lot of people -- men and women -- don't speak at the pitch that is healthiest and most relaxed for their vocal apparatus. Some are higher, some are lower.

Because pitch is often very cultural and emotional. People's pitch varies when they speak different languages, or even dialects/accents. And everyone's pitch increases when they're more emotional, and decreases when they're more relaxed -- a deeper, more relaxed voice relative to your normal pitch conveys confidence and control in both men and women. Actors learn to change their pitch (and breathing, volume, resonance, etc.) to whatever is called for in the part.

I appreciate that early telephones may have clipped consonants for women, being designed for men's voices -- but if anything that's the opposite of "shrill". In any case, audio quality today is spectacular so it's certainly no longer the case.

So while pitch is a fascinating subject, I don't really find myself buying into the notion that female speech patterns are a result of pressure from male norms, whether technological or otherwise.
Agreed, but Google does have UX Signals. In a perfect world, you'd think Google would be able to identify the "wall" as part of their signals they measure from a site & rank accordingly.
Works for me as well
What a crap fluff piece. The wikipedia is much more informative. Like explaining why it took 8 years to open Suez https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet
Again, we'll have to agree to disagree.

I respect that you have this point of view, though. In that I'm glad there are people out there fighting this fight. It needs to be fought, and we need to be questioning these boundaries.

Thank you for forcing me to question mine.
Yeah, but maybe if people were more selective in applying, they would get a higher percentage of responses and waste less of everyone's time. I don't think I'm a particularly good candidate, it's just that it seems easier to read a hundred ads and apply to one or two that are the best suited than applying to dozens.
Website now says "SOON". Response from #atom irc channel:

> Would the editor itself be open-source?

> yes

> a non-opensource editor from GitHub would be ludicrous

> seems like the source code will be up today
That's a very cherry-picked list of problems.

* Drugs are addictive and expensive. Not all of this expense is due to costs of avoiding enforcement. This can and does drive users to poverty, which has its own correlation with crime outside of drug enforcement itself

* Not all overdosing is due to "no proper information available about dosages". I'd wager that few overdoses are from first-time users, so the overdoser has some information about their own previous dosages at the very least.

> Drug users are denied jobs and treatment, so they cannot get their lives on track even if they want to.

If the only problem with drugs is that they are illegal, why do they need treatment? Can we agree that an addict that wants treatment would need it whether the drug is legal or not? And that some people don't do it, or can't afford it, regardless of its legality (see: alcohol)?

I'm pro-legalisation, but you're hardly making a good case here by picking strawmen and showing how easy it is to beat them down.
Slack was nice enough to point this out too. Works perfectly with the QRCode.
this is probably how most journalism is done today
How is it "obvious" when the unit is rounds? Ten was an example, round to 16 if you like. The point is still the same, using few rounds is a risk.
As an active member of the tech community here, I find it interesting to read about how big the pie is for province.

Also, hiring qualified developers/operations staff is virtually impossible with the number of companies competing. How did California solve this problem, if at all?
ircmaxell makes a good point in that comment -- not that the concept of a pepper doesn't work, but that a two-way encryption function is a better choice than a hash function for applying the pepper.

Your pepper will be a long, random key that is known to your app server but not your database server. If you store passwords as:

bcrypt(bcrypt(password, salt), pepper)

then you spend a lot of cycles bcrypting your long, random key, which is pointless (it should already be long enough to be un-brute-forceable), and you lose the ability to rotate keys or ever stop using this scheme in the future. There's also (in theory) some risk that nested bcrypt() doesn't work predictably.

If you store passwords instead as:

encrypt(bcrypt(password, salt), pepper)

then you can routinely rotate peppers through a simple one-time decrypt-and-encrypt step on your app server, instead of endlessly nesting peppers as suggested in the filippo.io blog post.

The rest of it is more of a qualitative question -- what's the risk that someone gains access to your DB but not your app server, vs. the risk that in implementing the pepper, you somehow screw up and store something easily crackable?
I think that's basically what the Chrome guys proposed.
You can change your pepper by double-peppering your existing password database:

scrypt(scrypt(scrypt(scrypt(password, salt), pepper2013), pepper2014), pepper2015)

https://blog.filippo.io/salt-and-pepper/
Very good point about performers hiding the mundane method of their grind. But the actual performance shows the skill. Magic hides the skill.
PGP encrypted email.
It was a sad day when UIQ closed down.

Really wish i had bought that Motorola Z8 (the Z10 never reached my part of the world).

Frankly it seems the major thing Apple did to the mobile world was to make everything into slabs of glass.
I think part of the reason for this is that his audience hardly need convincing at this point. If you're a software-security-enthusiast you'll want to know how security is being broken regardless if it's ethical or not. If for no other reason than to know how to make stronger security in the future. If you are a Snowden-supporter you don't need convincing. If you're just a security-aware "regular" person, you'll also be interested in what is and isn't broken in the world of encryption. If you don't care about any of this, like most of my family, you won't be reading this article. If you're still anti-Snowden and/or pro-NSA after all the stuff that has come out then you're probably hardcore/immovable in your position and you believe deep down that foreign terrorists are plentiful and out to destroy USA - in which case, this author can do nothing to convince you otherwise.
This guy seems to have a vendetta against Pike & Co:

> Unsurprisingly, Plan9 is a colossal failure, and one look at the golang toolchain will satisfy even the casual observer as to why; it was clearly written by people who wasted the last 30 years. There are plenty of other problems with Mr. Pike and his language runtime, but I’ve covered those elsewhere.

From http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/fin/
Think of a computer game. 60 FPS. So 16 ms time per frame. Assume you're running comfortably within 14 ms per frame, so you get nice and smooth 60 FPS. A 10 ms GC here means you'll definitely miss at least 1 frame, a good chance you'll miss more, because the simulation code (or something else that needs to run whether or not a frame was on time) will need to catch up.

For interactive desktop applications, the pause should be adjustable or at most a few milliseconds. Say, maximum 5 ms.

For hardware devices... well, you just don't use GC there in the first place. Microsecond is a pretty long time in that area.
The real question is, what happens if you flash a custom BIOS that just ignores the ME?

Intel chips up to (I think) 2006 would happily boot without the ME enabled ("ME optional").

Intel's newer chipsets have a watchdog in the ME hardware which will reset the main CPU if the ME is not initialized by the BIOS ("ME mandatory").

Combined with the as-of-yet unbroken RSA signature on any ME firmware, this has some pretty astounding implications.
I would guess most are either "burrito", "password", "1234" or similar with the remainder being forgotten by the person who set it the instant they entered it. I am curious what percentage have a reasonably strong password that they can actually remember for their burrito account.
> I'm curious to hear the additional monetization Apple plans to get for this.

I don't think there will be any extra monetization - this is presumably just an API in a future iOS 15.x that can be enabled via entitlements Apple assigns, so unless Stripe says "extra 0.3% fee for iPhone PoS payments" they likely won't make any money from it. Think of it as a funnel for getting the last 20% of businesses to accept Apple Pay.
Yes, they are moving out of the server those pieces that benefits the most from being client side (scrolling, cursor, selection) but the document rendering/editing is still done by a LibreOfficeKit process on the server.

Reimplementing the whole LibreOffice in JS/CSS/HTML is totally another beast (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9263233 about WebODF).
you are thinking of SpaCy.

https://honnibal.github.io/spaCy/
Maths maths maths. Come on, it's a nice skill but not very practical by itself.

How about an intro to IOS/android programming?
I don't trust Amazon from a privacy point of view so I'm certainly not going to be hosting private files on their servers.

I like Dropbox because it does basically one thing and does it well. I don't need to edit docs, collaborate, etc. with it - I've Google Drive for those purposes - but it suits me perfectly for my core backup requirements and at a price I'm not too bothered by.
And this is the nonuseful advice that the crypto experts need to stop giving. Joe Developer sees this advice and decides not to write crypto software.

That's unambiguously bad, because the software industry thrives on failing a lot until a good solution is found.

There needs to be a way to develop crypto software that falls in a land of, "Don't use this yet, but maybe someday after we're done testing it, you can start using it and be secure" rather than "nope, just scrap the whole thing".
Sorry but the evidence doesn't stand up to this AT ALL.

Americans are much, MUCH more entrepreneurial than anyone in Europe. I'm American, I live in Europe, I know this very, very well. (Yes, anecdotally speaking, of course!)

Americans simply embrace risk, and embrace potential failure, far better than anyone else in the world, taken as a whole. Europeans meanwhile are a more gloomy bunch, more risk-averse, and far less likely to strike out on their own. Notable slight exceptions being the Dutch to some degree.

America is so far from a "welfare state" - it is about as far away as you can get. America is a "if you're going to fall, you are going to fall all the way down, and no one is going to save you, no matter what". And somehow, a huge part of the world's entrepreneurs and innovation come from there. I don't know why.

And don't take me as some kind of patriotic jingoist champion of the US of A - I am just about as far as you can get from the "Yeah Murica" kind of ultra patriots - heck, I live in Europe because I prefer the slower pace, the old world, the semblance of an actual culture, the environment that has not eaten itself from capitalism taken to the extreme.

Nice linkbait headline though. :)
This is amazing. The first time I used excel was to play the Stock Market Game (http://www.stockmarketgame.org/) in elementary school. The public markets were as bubbly then as private markets are today... I wonder if in 15 years it will be as common to invest privately as it has become to invest publicly.
In the Technical part :
I'm learning full stack web development with Ruby/Rails for my personal projects, and Android Development for my job.

Also I'm doing English Classes and I'm thinking about starting German on Duolinguo, and there is the Aikido lessons too.
> 1. People are unwilling to make changes that they perceive as being a net negative to their quality of life.

I don't think that's the case. It's a coordination problem. People don't want to reduce their quality of life if they don't know for sure that others won't do that as well. Most things in life and in human psychology are relative, in constant comparison to our peers.
it read somewhere that it can keep up to 10 different connection/devices, I think over CEC.

There are various comm protocols

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Communication_channel_pro...
"Co-founders make you stronger" is a questionable generalization. Cofounders add a lot of things, both positive and negative, and as long as you and (each of) your cofounder(s) have vital skills/resources that are unique in the group, you now have multiple "single points of failure."

Yes, cofounders can contribute bandwidth, skills, connections, and all sorts of other positive things. They can also contribute friction, disagreement, and various other negative things. It's not a cut and dry benefit.
Your point is true, but unrelated to mine. I was talking about price manipulation and arbitrage in a scenario where there is no delay on withdraws/deposits.

To put it another way, if price manipulation is happening, you typically won't notice a price discrepancy. The reason is because of arbitrage. Since price discrepancies are lucrative, people will use arbitrage to take advantage (and hence eliminate) any price discrepancy. The end result is that the price was manipulated across all exchanges, even though only one exchange is being shady.
Interesting is that the dystopian movies are more in the good years of the economy ...
Had the inverse of that happen. Co-founder applied to YC behind our backs, lied in literally every field and still managed to somehow get an interview (even though basic googling would reveal massive red flags). We tried to make that person withdraw the application to no avail. They went to the interview, luckily didn't get in. So it ended at that.
Interested. Can you send the link and rates?
"Like what?"

Like the article mentioned "informant names" seems pretty nuts.
Anyone else remember when Google offered a free public VPN service to solve this problem a few years back? They shut it down in weeks. Awesome but I expect they had way too much traffic.
John Gruber speculates that SEO-style titles don't work for SEO, and goes on to state that they're useless. This author reads a Google starter guide that says search engines read titles and that you should come up with good ones, and states "I think it's safe to say" that SEO-style titles actually do work.

There's little to no science happening here. It's amazing that despite search engines being such an important part of our lives, we still aren't sure about this basic question.

In a more ideal version of the world (that is, better for all of us except black-hat SEOs), Google's relevance and anti-gaming algorithms would be strong enough to withstand being opened up. But in reality, Google warns [1] that full knowledge would open the floodgates to search-engine spam, while the black-hat SEO industry already thrives on the meager number of flaws they stumble upon themselves.

So barring openness from the inside, the next best thing would be for scientific experiments to figure out what matters, attacking the problem from the outside. Though some SEO experts try to do this, many of their articles just retell folklore, or micro-analyze offhand gospel from Google employees, or run worthless experiments that end with the author reasserting a hunch. (To be fair, setting up a valid experiment is difficult. Algorithms change without notice, different data centers return different results, the rest of the Internet changes constantly, and there's no control Google. Physics, at least, runs the same from different locations.)

The best, most rigorous way I can think of to test hypotheses would be a set of carefully controlled pages with no outside competition (Googlewhacks). Something like this must have been tried before. If it has, can anyone point to it?

[1] http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html
I had sleep apnea for years, which a study eventually categorized as "moderate to severe", and while I wasn't operating on four hours of sleep, I didn't feel too bad either. I didn't even drink coffee.

When the brain notices it's starting to suffocate and jolts one into waking up enough to recover from an apnea event, it releases a small amount of cortisol, dozens or hundreds of times per night. That's the source of the long-term cardio risk, as I understand it.
The funny thing about Google Buzz is it's so simple that it can't die. It can always be integrated into any other Google service. For example, you can view geo-tagged Buzz messages in Maps for Android.
A language is not only letters and words and syntax. It is also a cultural heritage. It is a way of thinking and a way of life codified.

> I was wondering recently if it would be interesting to argue that forcibly teaching children a globally useless language for the sake of pleasing the adults who arbitrarily want it saved is a weak form of child abuse.

Actually, killing the language and the culture of a child because it is "useless globally" is cultural genocide.

And it has happened way too much.

Now for people conditioned to think that "evolution" should be applied to human matters, culture, this might not seem much.

But go read the experiences of smaller cultures oppressed and eliminated by "global" or local mightier forces, and you can plainly see it's a different kind of holocaust.

I want ways of life to change, die and whither organically, by their own cultural momentum. Not by "global forces" and market influence. And surely not by cultural imperialism.
This implicitly means Facebook does count. You don't have to answer this one.

In light of YC's recent tie-up with Facebook, it's good to see that there might very well be a voice of caution within the organization.
I'd take off the Vibram Five Fingers, unless you caution your running geek to take it easy in them.

In a marathon I did on Sunday there was a lady wearing VFFs who already had two stress fractures, but was still determined to run in them. We questioned that decision....

I think some people might be reading "Born to Run" and jumping full on into barefoot running and VFFs without taking the time to get their feet used to the minimalist style! That said, they do work for a lot of people.