jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Eh, in a high school setting, there's no better way to learn teamwork than being on a sports team, imo.
There are actually objective measures in evaluating a song or poem. Such concepts are rejected in the modern humanities and fine arts. The only thing wrong is to be "non-creative" (e.g. compose something in the baroque style, or paint realism: any form which has rules.) That is the real sin: to adhere to some obvious form which inherently demands the taboo of an objective evaluation of your work.
Thanks for the post! I like Readizer! Another good web tool that also removes adverts is noosfeer.com

Very easy user experience!
You're probably going to die from cancer or heart disease.

Even if you just look at environmental factors, we're more likely to die either from the bee population dying due to pesticides, or because of the massive increase in routine use of antibiotics in meat production. Neither of which really get much media attention, maybe because they're both issues caused by science, and people like cheap food.

But at the end of the day we're going to die from overcrowding . The population has doubled in the last 30 years. (Hence why science has to make horrible dangerous food to feed them all).

Whether your fellow man believes in global warming is pretty irrelevant, and whether he believes in evolution is even less relevant to anything that matters. You're certainly not going to die from global warming!

Your comment is the sort of "scientific fundamentalism" I was talking about.
Cloudflare is blocking tor exit nodes on your behalf. If that's intentional, what security issue is at stake? This is a serious question.
Apologies if I'm being dense, but is there some technical reason why it does not use the referrer to selectively block this traffic rather than blocking it for everyone?
The colour palette is selected by the artist.
The mathematical rules governing the fractal then uses those colours, mixing together different colours from the palette based on the mathematical transformation chosen.
"It was the ultimate procrastination device, of course, but also a tinkerer’s dream."

Reminds me of one of my favorites of Douglas' quotes: "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

I was also able to get Starship Titanic working a couple years ago... Had an old Compaq computer with Windows 95 as the starting basis. Much fun to revisit.
The people on the waiting list are already homeless, you are assuming? I would assume they are currently living somewhere which isn't as good or they are living with parents/sharing with friends, etc?

Lots of privately rented property is also sunsidised, btw.

I apologise for my dumb stereotyping, though I fail to see how I am making the problem worse? Do you have some experience yourself?
> Same can (will? Might?) happen with Matrix

When will this happen, if ever?
When did flagging comments become a feature? (Or has it just been in my blind spot?)
quick summary: after winning the identity war, launch a third-party ad service. if it happens, Ryan projects FB could be worth $100B
Their other commonality is that they are "new markets". As the article indicated, monopolies do tend to spring up in new markets. In new markets, what to do to be successful is not immediately obvious, so the difference between competitors is much greater.

As markets mature, the differentiation between competitors lessens. Does that mean that the competition will increase? In the case of Amazon or Google, it should. However, it's possible that Amazon or Google will gain governmental barriers to competitors (they're big enough to buy congressmen), or quasi-governmental barriers (a-la Paypal) or strong arm barriers (a-la Standard Oil). Let's hope that they don't gain those barriers.
Well, not all of us run a Mac. Python and Ruby are both advertised as 'interpreted' languages and most programmers realize that what you do with them is write a script, which you then feed into a Python or Ruby interpreter. Many Lisp implementations are advertised as compiled and when people think of compiled languages, they think of C, C++, Paschal, or any one of dozens of languages where you write a program, feed it to a compiler (either through a build tool or straight) and you end up with an executable file that you can double click on or type in at the command line. When I first started with Lisp I expected something similar, and was surprised.

Lisp isn't really designed with either the standard interpreted language workflow, or the standard compiled language workflow, in mind. It's workflow is actually superior in a low of ways, but it's non-obvious to non-lispers how to make a deliverable.

Actually, it's a huge problem in some ways, as there is no standard way of delivering OSS Lisp software on Linux, or Unix systems. The few OSS Lisp projects there are usually really on the presence of a specific Lisp implementation and bundle any Lisp dependencies in themselves, which when you are familiar with how the rest of the Linux/Unix OSS community is usually packaged and delivered, feels really inefficient. One case in point is StumpWM, a Lisp based Linux window manager that gained some interest a while back. It was actually pretty neat, but there were at least three or four ways to install it and none meshed completely with whatever packaging system your distro was using. I can tell you with some certainty that that hurt its adoption compared to tiled window managers written in C.

I could go on, And deal with everything you said, but I'll stop here. It think it's suffice to say, Lisp is different and people haven't figured out how to reconcile Lisp with their expectations (right or wrong) or the rest of the world.
The rake actually is taken at the end of the hand, once a winner is decided. So you won't get rakeback for hands you don't win.
What myspace did was a horrible implementation of customization and community features. It was an eyesore. They might have cleaned up some of their act now, but its too little too late.

Tumblr is more like blog+facebook+twitter, made ridiculously easy; minus the clutter and noise.
If the USPS dropped Saturday, it will have little effect on the back office side of business. Pretty much the mail volume will remain unchanged. The same number of printed bills will be handled, the same number of greeting cards, the same number of standard mail (what used to be called 3rd class or bulk/junk), and pretty much the same number of packages.

Due to the human interface issues, USPS will still have to maintain some semblance of Saturday retail window hours. In the small town where I live, retail hours have already been trimmed somewhat.

Removing Saturday delivery will save in manpower, and reimbursements for milage. To the best of my knowledge, rural carriers only work 5 days a week. So the 6th day (regardless of which day it is) is filled in via a substitute carrier. Those subs could see a drastic drop in hours of work.

But back to my original comment about back office operations... If you dumped Saturday, all the mail that would have been sorted on Saturday morning, will still be sitting there on Monday morning, waiting to be handled.

There may be savings here, but don't expect it to remove 1/6th the operating costs of the USPS.
about time someone in the press admitted to these LBS' (current) uselessness.

Potential for being big businesses (which is exciting for the companies) but personally useless for me at the moment.
There is a quote I like, "Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people."

Tumblr wins because it turns ideas into things and makes them easier to talk about. Not only this, but it also makes it really easy for your writing to get traction with others, assuming it's reasonably interesting. It's like training wheels for future intellectuals, a perfect match for intellectually curious kids in their late teens and early twenties. (In fact, it almost invents a new category of online interaction that I'd call 'intellectual sociability'.)

This was my analysis of Tumblr a year ago, and I think it still holds perfectly today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=961523
A lot of the stuff we eat would make us ill if we didn't cook it, I believe that's part of the point.
/dev/urandom is slow. So don't use it if you need lots of non secure random numbers. For example for game, or for a screensaver, etc.
Saw this on Product Hunt too. They're getting everywhere huh?
About five years ago I was going through airport security one morning after a healthy night of drinking. A metal buckled belt help up cargo pants that seemed to have every pocket full of some kind of metal debris from the night before. Barely thinking, I reasoned it would be easier to drop my pants into the bin going through the scanner, especially since I was wearing boxers and had to take my shoes off anyway. Of course, while I was putting my pants back on TSA pulled me aside, yelling in my face, almost keeping me off my flight. I never understood why they would get so upset when I was just making their job easier.

It was a work trip, after being released I got a kick out of my boss telling me while she was going through security she heard the lady next to her exclaim "that guy just took his pants off!" to look up and see it was me being pulled away by the TSA.
First off. I love what you're doing and would like to say thanks for such a great offer/deal.

I would just like to confirm the 500,000 data points as AppSumo now states that the offer is for only for 100,000 per month.
This presentation reminds me of the motivational self help books I see in Fedex. A lot of buzz words, but not much substance. The key requirement for landing any job is personal value. If you are not valuable to an organization, you are not going to be hired.
Great coupon! Just used it and got a good one tonight. BTW - it does not work for renewals. Renewed 2 .com's in the same cart purchase and did not get the promo.
I simply can't understand why eating meat is wrong, when eating plant is not wrong. I feel they are same.
http://avvo.com/legal-answers/can-i-trademark-a-similar-name... , just to yank something out of Google very quickly.

The law is not unfamiliar with your objection. In point of fact it has dealt with this question rather frequently. And no, your made up pathological case has no ground in the law, and no, I do not think the law would slice and dice Facebook and Lamebook into separate industries. Separate industries are, as the link says, things that can not possibly be confused for each other, like a tax service and a farming implement company, not "a web-based social network" and "a web site for satirizing social networks".

Taking your point to its logical conclusion, two companies always differ on some irrelevant dimension; the ability to find some trivial difference will not protect you. It's the usual thing I think we computer programmers tend to forget when arguing about law... you have to convince a judge you're not in the same industry. It's not a computer algorithm that can be gamed with a bit of pathological input and a loudly-yelled "TAKE THAT!", despite how it may sometimes appear.

Though your last paragraph entirely confuses me; you express doubt about the court case going in Facebook's favor, then cite an example that I think is actually sillier than the idea that Facebook might spin off a site or two?
I'll add to this his lengthy discussion of "free work" as opposed to "internship". I don't think that's something I would have even thought about right out of school and even if I did I would have blown it off as a silly idea. I think he made a reasonably compelling case for it, especially forcing potential job seekers to think about using prospective employers decision framing to their advantage.
If I ever got an applicant for a position I was interviewing for and they said, "So if you want to look at some of my code, it's available here.", and they gave me a link to a little project they work on, that ALONE would move them up near the top of the pile, even if the code was crap.

Maybe it's different because of the industry I work in, but nobody seems to want to show the goods.
The unstated phrase at the end of the sentence being “to finish in a reasonable amount of time.”

No one wants to wait two weeks while their r-pi converts a point cloud to a mesh.
> some nice UI improvements

Their responsive mobile design is for the most part, pretty good. It's a huge upgrade from the past when there was absolutely no mobile optimization. :)

Agreed on that though, there's so so many dark patterns that have come along with it.

The latest bummer for me was seeing usernames disappear from the landing page on mobile. Who cares about users anyways, not like they've ever contributed anything to the site…
> Plopping an entire VM into a zipfile and saying "here's your software" felt like lazy engineering to many of us at the time (and still today).

At the risk of nitpicking, docker images aren't the equivalent of VM images, as they don't include a kernel.
That reflects (supposedly) the official standard, but even on government forms DD-MM-YYYY or DD.MM.YYYY is used. I have never seen the ISO format used outside computer systems, unlike in Sweden where it's commonplace.

It's inconsistent with da_DK, which uses DD-MM-YYYY.

But there's already the decimal separator bug (writing English? dot, writing Danish? comma).

% en_DK is used outside Denmark, as some sort of generic continental
% European English locale.

And that's the nasty hack -- this should be defined in en_EU or similar.
WhatsApp just works also.
These laptops exist today, just vote with your wallet. I don't know, Lenovo's T-series is popular, e.g. the T14: Here's how to do it (page 72) [1], new keyboard costs around 50 bucks.

[1] https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14_gen1_p14s...
You big up the generous Marshall plan without even registering it was the Anglo-American loan agreement that ripped the wheels off the British economy following the war. The US had a choice at that point about whether it wanted to keep the British Empire alive and it chose not to, only the insight of the Marshall plan prevented it from sliding entirely into ruin but its effectively the "same" hand behind both acts and I believe any "thanks" is diplomatic drivel for the sake of a world of US hegemony.

> a British state that hadn't come to terms with the world as it was or would be.

Brexit demonstrates this still isn't the case among the boomers who were brought up on post-war culture that celebrated the victories and "glory" of war which avoiding the ugly non-PG-13 parts that provide the much needed context of those pyrrhic victories.
Removing ssh is stupid

They should remove the need for CONFIGURING ssh.

Now they have removed the entire control plane of the container. Hiw should a developer debug something then?
Both choices lead to “centralizing”. With the existing throughput of BTC, were it to be adopted by the entire world, each person would get one transaction per several decades. This means that virtually all transactions must be done off chain through hubs.

I think it is important to realize how these huge policy decisions are left in the hands of a few individuals too.
No. Gist is a service.
Yes, there are quite some logos there which aren't good looking and dont seem to mean much. But there also some logos which are quite alright for their purpose, and some which are funny, and some which are anti-logos (which I like).

Take bazaar for example, http://planet.bazaar-vcs.org/images/logo.png. Looks alright, includes a hint on the purpose of the software, is recognisable.

The DejaGnu thing is funny, given the font: https://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/images/logo.png

The one for emacs looks modern, though I have never seen it before, certainly not in emacs (which I used some years ago): http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/emacs/etc/imag...

GNU radio could look really good with a bit tweaking, it sure is recognicable. httptunnel works fine as well. Icecat is nice, and a clear nod to the firefox-logo. The mailman-logo I seriously like. And GNUparallels is a genious choice.

Not all of those programs target the average enduser, not even most of them. For someone invested into a topic stuff like logos don't matter.

The user-interface on the other hand... I had a few encounters with gnu-software as alternative to proprietary one, the last one I remember was with pspp. And while the logo may be shiny, the interface looked and felt very old and it was a drag to use (I managed to do what I wanted, but it wasn't easy - though I was still happy to have the option, thanks). And this is the important part of my experience with the project, not the logo.
>I know this first-hand because I grew up in poor Appalachia, in the US. There, property and ownership and rights were much differently understood than in metropolitan Virginia where I live now

This sounds fascinating, could you elaborate on some of these differences? Both from a real property (land) and object property (trinkets, devices, food, etc) perspective?
vi is still included in the arch linux base system
Not for me. It makes sense business wise but I need to come from the technology side and then find a problem to solve it. I'm a dabbler unfortunately. If I look at problems first I lose interest pretty fast.
>(...) this huge influx of climbers has left its once pristine slopes covered in garbage, discarded equipment, and human waste.

And dead human bodies. Over 200 of then. (http://sometimes-interesting.com/2011/06/29/over-200-dead-bo...) ATTENTION: GRAPHIC IMAGES!

The real challenge in life is not to conquer the innocent nature but issues you have in your self.
It doesn't sound to me like you know urban living all that well at all. In Somerville, MA, I can get anywhere I want to go--stores, work, play, downtown Boston--in thirty minutes by foot or bus or train. I do not worry about places to park, nor do I worry about traffic.

I can, on the other hand, speak to suburban living being as alienating as anything I've ever encountered. Sitting in a car, alone, for an hour a day to go to and from work--time I couldn't spend doing anything of use, be it reading or working or talking to a friend--was the most soul-killing time of my life.
We live in an era of sharing...so let's share those farts. (this was probably my worse HN comment ever :X)
"When I put the bubble hypothesis to Norton Grubb, professor of higher education at the University of California, Berkeley, his response in an email was that the bubble hypothesis was "ridiculous". He went on:

'The problem is that there are no other routes to better occupations and higher salaries anymore, except for those who have odd skills (athletes, rock stars, starlets willing to reveal all) - which most of us don't have.'"

Programing and start-up skills allow people to get better occupations and higher salaries without education. This is only going to continue to be more prevalent in the future; especially as these skills become more available to the masses through resources like HN and incubators like YC.

I think education is in trouble...
Perhaps to you. Perhaps not to someone who programmer exclusively in Java or VB.
This video shows only the methods Google has in place to protect the data from physical intrusion which I assume is pretty much done by every other company that hosts huge user data.
I was fortunate to see him in Manchester, England in February. As Manchester is the birthplace of the Small Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), someone asked him:

Q: What would you have done with the SSEM if you had access to it?

A: Given that I was about ten years old at the time, I would probably have used it to check Facebook.

A great man, with a great sense of humour. (He later gave his real answer: he would write a program to play music on it.)
Perhaps you could actually see a difference in current with a Kill-A-Watt or similar.
I think there's some reasonable stuff buried in here, I really do.

But... having actually spent some time in the trenches dealing with a hard problem on a massively parallel machine - more than once - I find it hard to believe that something like map/reduce or the like - or any given small-scale language feature is going to be particularly significant in terms of parallelizing any goddamn thing that's actually hard to do. I see a lot of fatuous claims that language feature X is the missing link in parallelism for the everyday working programmer but I don't see a lot of new solutions for anything hard as a proof of concept.

We've only had OpenMP and all sorts of other kludgy extensions for Fortran and C for what, about 15 years? I'm not saying that they're great or elegant or anything, but so many of the things that are hard about parallel programming are NOT FUCKING SOLVED BY MAP-REDUCE. Oops, sorry, shouty. But anything that can be solved by map-reduce wasn't enormously hard to begin with. Map-reduce was itself initially publicized in terms of 'less useful but easier for mere mortals than generalized parallel prefix' which made sense to me.

What doesn't make sense for me is all this frenzied enthusiasm for dragging parallel programming into the never-ending programmlng language abstraction wars; at least when the topics being discussed only touch on the very shallowest things needed by parallel programming. You want some respect, solve something hard.

Yes, you can do the same thing to each element of an array. Whaddya want, a cookie?
They may not necessarily change into Euros either, considering many of the European nations adopting the Euro are experiencing debt crises themselves.

This is why investors are flocking to precious metals like gold and silver and commodities, driving the values of these asset classes up.
The net results of many meetings could be summed up in E-mail threads or things like wiki documents. So often the first step is to prefer those mechanisms. (Bonus points if people in the organization can be trained to be brief, so that threads and documents are focused.)

The net contributions of many people in a one hour meeting could often be summed up in 30 seconds, and it's even worse when those people had no relation to anything else that was discussed (and therefore had no other reason to be there). So step 2 is to realize that either the meeting was meant for fewer people, or should have allowed attendees to speak for 30 seconds and then leave.

The very worst possible meeting is one that is at preset intervals, for preset lengths, with no agenda (e.g. weekly one-hour meetings with 20 people), that starts late with phone and projector problems. That is essentially telling your employees that you don't care about their time.
100% correct

the patented solution immediately came to mind
I use Karabiner to customize just two keys, does anyone know how can I make the enter key act as a control key when pressed simultaneously with another key and act as enter key when pressed alone? was thinking of a script that is called at startup.
I'd be interested in sources for these claims. Lots of hyperbole in this comment.
Better, non-gizmodo link:

http://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/superhydrophobic-metals-...
I think the peak number in the spreadsheet for the value of SR was $104M -- I can't remember the source, but that figure stood out.

edit for source:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/san-francisco-man...

The FBI had no problem finding his keys because he kept them in a folder called, "Keys" -- the kid was not an OpSec genius..

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/journal-and-chat-logs-from-...