jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> However: in this case, the second point (downvoting) didn't prevent an uncivil (yet insightful) comment from becoming the highest ranked comment in the thread.

So? Does it happen often enough to worry about?

> still a lot lower than you'd find in most real-world situations.

It's not clear that that's true and even if it was, it's not relevant. The relevant comparison is with comparable real-world situations.

Which reminds me - there's an acceptable way to call someone an asshole in every situation. Are you measuring "civil" by whether the acceptable form is used or by whether any form is used?

If someone is being an asshole and pointing that out is useful, I don't have a problem with what form that takes so long as it doesn't draw unnecessary attention. In fact, failing to point out assholism in many cases is itself uncivil.

YMMV.
What's the control in this experiment? Obviously you can't know how the Cops guys behave off-camera.
I understand your viewpoint and opinion, as I've run into it before.

I'm going to disagree that gluten has had "no obvious ill effects" because I've seen the changes in my clients lives, experienced it my self (gluten-intolerant) and my mother (Celiac). And your argument that eating grains is not bad because they taste good is preposterous.

As for LSD, can you tell what appeals to you about the physique of a marathoner?

Changing peoples eating and exercise habits is like getting people to quit smoking, they need to have the impetus to start, outside advice/encouragement only goes so far.

"eat less junk, do more exercise." I guess we differ on what "junk" is.
Release but spend your money only on a < $100 per month VPS and skip the adwords. The initial launch is just about evaluating your idea. If you post on HN and a few other locations where there are a lot of developers, hopefully you can get a few takers. Then once you have money coming in and your idea is validated, you can take the plunge and invest in a dedicated server and spend some money on adwords.

A VPS may not support very many customers, but you can always migrate once you have a few and some money to help offset the cost.

As for Adwords, that's a whole different can of worms. I've heard stories of people throwing thousands of dollars down the drain, either because their idea wasn't validated or because they their site wasn't optimized for conversions or they didn't know how to select the right keywords, etc. There are lots of ways to do free advertising and let you hone your product and marketing message BEFORE you spend a time on paid traffic.

I recommend listening to the "Startups for the Rest of Us" podcast (all of the episodes).
Do you want to email me your reference number and I'll have a chat about it. It would be useful for me to clarify the next article on this point.
Seems a bit fluffy/spammy for HN.
If you're going to read one of Zed Shaw's rants, at least have a sense of humor.

The guy has a strong opinion on many things. Strong enough to piss off the people that agree with what he says. He also adds in a lot of "noise", because frankly, it gets people's attention. Case in point: This article.
I've never understood peoples concerns over this — the whole point of social news that it doesn't matter who submits it, people will just upvote what they like, so I see no problem what so ever with it.
I think a happy medium between those two is probably your best bet ;)

Seriously though, nothing improves health more than cutting out processed foods, eating farm-fresh meats and veggies, and getting a decent amount of exercise.
Google Ads uses Dart for their next-gen web interfaces. That's a good committed user for us to have as a partner. :)

[disclaimer: I work on the dart team]
>Its okay if you're bullheaded enough or within your means enough to walk away if your rights aren't given fair consideration and honoured, but if you're in a position where you're a prisoner to your job, i.e. can't afford to take time off to find another job/other income, or there are no other jobs in your area and you don't have the means to leave etc. you don't have any bargaining chip.

This is the core issue. Would a federal level solution work? Maybe then people won't feel like the only solution is to form a union.
I like knocking up JS to pump out some HTML and often it’s quicker than using a framework when you consider how much of a dead end they leave you in when there is something they can’t do with their DSL or whatever.

Another fine alternative is just use Wordpress!
Shorter TFA: "Why would you want a self-contained website for your business when there's so many different companies that probably won't squeeze you for money after you're totally dependent on them"
this is exactly what they have done in their new ids and the snowflake system. They have a timestamp, a sequence number and a system identifer, plus a few neat properties.

I don't think they can be blamed for using a trivial incremental key when they had 10 users, I am sure they were not expecting to have 200M :)
Thanks for the link; it doesn't help my impression of him, but I wouldn't use it for an ad hominem either. Being weird and demanding doesn't necessarily correlate with being wrong. "Not being able to do stuff" does, though.
The intent of that type of question is to see what questions the candidate asks in order to elucidate an appropriate design.

That being said, I can easily imagine it being misused by bad interviewers.
Some thoughts:

1) "Enough" by John Bogle is a decent read if you want more of the same:

> Two famous authors, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller are talking at a party hosted by a billionaire hedge fund manager. Kurt says to Joseph, “You know, this billionaire makes more money in one day than you made in your whole lifetime from your novel Catch-22“. Joe responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have… enough.”

2) There's a big difference between people wanting to give back and Picketty's proposal to tax the tits off the rich. I believe the difference is due to people's faith in government and the "buffer" they perceive they require. There is no shortage of people with an 8-figure net worth who just want to increase their wealth a little more, "just in case."

3) The "rich cancel each other out" argument may hold more for the US than for other countries. Not a criticism, just pointing it out.
Of course not, the fact that all known living things have DNA or RNA (and that this translates to proteins) is another universal biological concept for example.

Another is that the live is carbon based

Concepts like ecosystem or the nature of predation are also universal.
There are probably also 100X people - and they're mostly unemployable in any conventional sense. (Maybe Wolfram and Kurzweil?)

I think the bar for top talent is higher than is obvious, and it's lower than it used to be.

It's not at the level of 'smart and gets a lot of stuff done' - it's at the level of good as McCarthy and K&R and the guys (and occasionally the women) who invented coding in the 60s and 70s.

Most of them have been forgotten, but many of them had phenomenal skills - the kind of people who would work for a couple of months on a project, type in all the code on a single day, and have it work perfectly first time.

Or who would sketch out a fully functional timesharing OS for a new hardware architecture over a weekend and have it finished and working a couple of months later.

Or the small team at Xerox PARC led by Charles Thacker who decided to clone an entire DEC PDP-10 mainframe as a side project, because management wouldn't let them buy one and they wanted something nicer to code on.
Nathan Sprague has a mostly-working implementation at https://github.com/spragunr/deep_q_rl
i.e. https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman
a REST api for all sql databases using sqlalchemy.

The website http://www.sandman.io/ seems to be down - expired last November.
This is cool. If it could add random NATing between various VLANs and occasionally not open firewall ports as configured, it would be a simulation of my work environment!
Yeah, but your argument is kind of circular - we put behavior and data together because we need encapsulation and we need encapsulation because objects have an identity that needs protection, yet those objects need an identity because we are putting behavior and data together, in combination with mutability of course.

Also encapsulation happens quite well in languages that do not have the "private" or "protected" keywords. In Javascript encapsulation happens by closures and local scoping. In Python it happens by convention. Also, take most software developed ever in an OOP style and you'll find plenty of examples of leaky encapsulation (i.e. APIs that leak restricting implementation details), starting with the popular Iterator. IMHO, the best abstractions I know come from languages that are not OOP at all.

I'd also argue that the encapsulation you're talking about doesn't have much to do with OOP in general, only with a particular flavor of it. But that's the problem in all conversations about OOP - take any 2 random people and they'll have different opinions about what OOP is.

For me OOP is about subtyping or more specifically a form of ad-hoc polymorphism that's solved at runtime. It's very convenient for modeling certain kinds of problems for sure - graphical UIs are the best example, or a browser's DOM and even die-hard detractors would find it hard to argue that a Monoid isn't a Semigroup, or that a Set shouldn't be a Function. In fact, objects in OOP do not necessarily need an identity, in which case they are just values, yet you can still put that polymorphism to good use.

But then OOP as implemented and used in mainstream languages is truly awful, being no wonder that people still consider C with half-baked object systems as being something acceptable.
Its not like that actually. If you could read Italian you would understand that the area is extremely dangerous, anythnig can happen at any time. People get shot just by tresspassing, the people living in the area are desperate and the police does not care (probably bribed?). There are many corps found along syringes and so forth. Its not like a guy in college who sells pot in his dorm or something...

In some areas Athens is like that (e.g. Omonia Square at night).
I'll add one word of caution, I've looked into getting a product made that had a textile component and a separate product that had a leather component.

Precision, automated stitching is either totally absent or completely unaffordable in the US. There are great shops India and China that can do laser cutting and CNC stitching super cheaply and if you want to make an inexpensive product to tight tolerances this is exactly what you want.

Unfortunately much of the consumer level textile industry has completely left the US. Same with leather. You can find boutique manufacturers, luxury manufacturers, and aerospace type companies, but the sweet spot of high quality and a good price just doesn't exist here. (I actually hope I'm wrong about that but I did a lot of searching before abandoning a couple projects.)
Once we are a "swarm" we will no long be human. I think that is a nightmare vision you have put for there.
I've been using Deskdroid for this purpose. Works pretty well.
http://deskdroid.com
How well does that work on Linux?
If that is true, it's one way to legally enforce your own search relevance, but it sucks for everyone else involved.
So, how many of these algorithms do you think are covered by litigatable software patents?
How much of Google's revenue do you expect to be generated from Android OS? Further, Facebook apps are on apple and android products, giving them a larger market share than android alone could ever have. The OS alone will not be generating revenue.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2480141 - it has been suggested on HN that Sony can't keep hacked Playstations out of the dev channel. It's likely that GeoHotz is much more knowledgeable/better connected (on this topic, at least).
I thought part of geohot's settlement with Sony was that he wasn't allowed to discuss what happened? Maybe that was just with his case and not with the latest incident. Regardless, I like his attitude, and hope he continues honing his hacking skills. As he points out, at least they used a very strong XKCD style randomization algorithm.

It's a real shame that Sony alienates their customers with these kinds of acts while building a flimsy infrastructure for gaming. I'm one of those people who bought the PS3 just for OtherOS(and thankfully never got the removal patch) and honestly, given the lackluster performance it has and this move, I'm highly tempted to just sell it. The rootkit debacle of several years ago still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Today's Penny Arcade covers it quite nicely:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/4/29/
I always wonder that too. Then I think reality is just too messy for the nice dualistic explanation.

My current hypothesis is this. At one point in time, prior to the accepted exit date for the "Out of Africa" hypothesis, various populations of intermittently isolated but still interbreeding groups of descendants of Erectus existed. Their maximal range stretched from the Cape in Africa in the South to Europe and Asia in the North.

At some point, one of these groups got stuck in an isolated environment with a small population. Our genetics show that all modern humans are descended from a breeding population of a few thousand individuals. While in the midst of this "Great Pinch," this population evolved a "killer app," most likely making extreme use of our strong but tactile hands coupled to our (comparatively) massive glucose-gobbling brains.

Through chance event they then reintegrated with the breeding populations similar enough to them to produce fertile offspring. But those with more sapiens like genes received such a genetic advantage, that they were able to spread those genes far and wide, until all the human-like species were destroyed or submerged in H. Sapiens.

What was that killer app? I don't know. But some fundamental sea shift occurred when our population dwindling so low: perhaps true language, or maybe larger group size through religion. But its defining feature seemed to be that it enabled mass organization on a large scale, larger than was possible in simple hunter-gatherer bands.

The basic "tribal culture" of humanity, in which we can extend our imagined community of kin beyond the next mountain range, is the manifestation of that change. Even the most untouched hunter-gatherer bands we encounter have some sort of allegiance to a larger group, which was often termed "tribe."

Imagine hunter-gatherer warfare vs. tribal warfare. Your total numbers constrained by Dunbar's number while your enemy can call consistently call upon thousands of loosely allied bands to come to his aid.

It reconciles both "Out of Africa" with the increasingly bizarre findings that of human-like artifacts predate the theory's predicted exit time.

It's too bad, I would have rather liked to talk to a Denisovan or Neanderthal.

At this time, I'd like to note that I wish I was an evolutionary biologist, or that one would be kind enough correct me :)
Right now Windows 8.1 has some serious issues.

Got a USB 3.0 issue were unpluging certain devices forces a reset or shutdown. It seems to happen with VIA and Intel USB 3.0 drivers.

Amazon.com sold more Chromebooks than Windows 8.1 devices during Christmas.

I think people are considering buying iPads instead of Microsoft Surface 3 tablets as well.

I've been using the Windows 10 system in a virtual machine for a while now. It changes the way the Start menu works from the way it worked in Windows 7. It runs Modern Apps in a Window instead of the Modern UI screen.

I run Windows 8.1 and the Classic Start Menu software that puts back in the Classic Start Menu, so it looks like the one from Windows 7. So this FOSS software can do what Microsoft refuses to do.

I don't really see Windows 10 doing these three things. I predict another flop as corporations still cling to Windows XP even if Microsoft doesn't support it anymore. I think corporations would rather stick to XP and under and face the security issues of no more patches than buy the modern Windows that changes the way things work and force employees to be retrained.

If I had money, I'd short Microsoft stock, this is going to hurt them a lot.

Still if the Windows 10 Pro upgrade is only $40 like the Windows 8 Pro upgrade was, I'd buy it just to have it so when 10.1 comes out that fixes issues I can upgrade.
For now, but it did made me think about short lived certificates.
I think even WinXP had auto root update by default, and even Win7 don't have the StartCom root installed by default.
This is sort of off topic, but it is amusing.

I would guess that it is a combination of:

- A deemphasis of poetry and literary studies in the concept of being educated and cultured

- The rise of writing staff and PR professionals in the practice of engaging with the public

- The relative lack of importance writing has today compared to newer picture and video delivery (media is message, etc)

- Inherited nostalgia for forms associated with 'classic' art styles
I agree with you. I still believe that there must be some ways we can reduce the possibility. Thinking hard..
Fxxx GFW!
You are triggering my "maybe an elaborate troll" detector.

Especially as the GP has already referred to the intro, which you have supposedly already read.

So let me point it out for you again:
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/intro.html

He goes into great detail arguing why he thinks this is one of the best ways to learn something completely new quickly and efficiently.
Yes.. as far as I can tell most of this bindings are covered by native extension of 3rd parties. Not always free (but not that expensive), so u have to buy an extension for a quality FacebookSDK integration for example. Still far cheaper than for example Xamarin.

But considering that you do not necessarily have any costs in developing Air (you get the compiler, and also good editors, for free) it is not that bad at all.

I also do not write native extensions myself, but at least you know there is the option in case u need to access some native library. But yes, in that case it is not really "write it once" anymore.
for some reason the URL is messed up; remove the slash at the very end.
I have a very worn copy of the book in Cosmos that I got in '83 - it's an excellent book and I love it, but I wonder if that's because I also loved the TV series.
This is really cool!

Does anyone know why a similar project doesn't exist currently using the open source distribution of Apple's Darwin operating system? It has always seemed strange to me that their open source BSD OS does not have an official distribution channel with a built in package manager like macports, pkg-src, gentoo prefix, etc.

OpenDarwin and PureDarwin existed for awhile, but seem to have both been abandoned now.

X11 (including thousands of open source and graphical x11 programs), plan9port, and other open source software projects already compile and run fine on macOS, so this has always seemed like something that _should_ be possible but has never gained traction due to what I guess is lack of documentation and Apple's lackluster open source website.
> nuclear program

Objectively, why can't Iran have a nuclear program while Israel, India, and Pakistan can?

> Iran killing hundreds of American soldiers

They are a regional superpower and the United States invaded and destabilized their neighbor causing widespread chaos throughout the region. Civilian casualties from violence in Iraq following the destabilization of the '03 war have been estimated at around 200,000.

> would you support bombing a different country over something that happened 60 years ago

The US did shoot down an Irainian civilian airliner in 1988 and refuse to apologize about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

And then assassinated one of their generals earlier this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Qasem_Soleima...

> SA has nothing remotely comparable

They don't need them. They can do whatever they want in the region while the U.S. looks away and sells them the weapons to do it.

"The bomb dropped on a school bus in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition warplane was sold to Riyadh by the US, according to reports based on analysis of the debris.

The 9 August attack killed 40 boys aged from six to 11 who were being taken on a school trip. Eleven adults also died. Local authorities said that 79 people were wounded, 56 of them children. CNN reported that the weapon used was a 227kg laser-guided bomb made by Lockheed Martin, one of many thousands sold to Saudi Arabia as part of billions of dollars of weapons exports.

Saudi Arabia is the biggest single customer for both the US and UK arms industries. The US also supports the coalition with refuelling and intelligence."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/us-supplied-bo...
1) The parent post linked to charts which "compare benchmarks across several languages".

2) The home page (click the banner) has links which compare benchmarks across two language implementations.

3) Each of those comparison pages has links which compare all the programs, for all the language implementations, for each benchmark.
Boeing isn't really gaining much from this. The 767s Amazon is acquiring are ex-Westjet (previously Qantas) and Delta passenger aircraft, and likely last saw a Boeing factory somewhere around 15-25 years ago.

That said, Alaska just put in another order for MAXes, and Ryanair is buying more as well. Part of why these 767s were available for Amazon to purchase at all were due to the industry model shifting and airlines favoring single-aisle, fuel-efficient aircraft like the MAX. COVID-19 has only accelerated that, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more MAX orders unless it crashes again or Airbus ramps up their 320neo production.
> shareholders, who aren't responsible because they only have indirect control over the corporation

That's crime-laundering. Whether it should be punished by criminal prosecution is dubious, but whether it should be punished by investors losing money is not. Otherwise the system manifests a perverse incentive to invest in corporations which commit crimes.

Then again, facilitating criminality by the investor class is the whole point, isn't it?
Here is an image that plots the effective capital gains rate from the 1950s to recent years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_Uni...

Let's analyze three periods:

1953-1985: no significant trend in effective capital gains tax

1985-1996: upward trend and higher capital gains tax

1996-2020: downward trend

Now let's compare those periods to real median family income (which tracks to 1953). https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEFAINUSA672N

Annualized growth in real median income:

1953-1985: 1.8%

1985-1996: 0.8%

1996-2020: 2.0%

Real median income growth during lower capital gains tax policy was twice that of the period of higher capital gains tax policy.
The code is not an issue. Users shouldn't trust that their messaging app does not share their location when they ordered their messaging app to share their location, that makes no sense.
There is an old one from the same team: http://armorgames.com/play/2205/light-bot
Maybe it's our prehistoric roots. You could compare programming to hunting: no talking.
The hunter biden laptop story was true and yet it was forcefully removed from many media outlets, more than any story I've ever seen. Glenn Greenwald was working the story and got pushed out of the organization he founded, The Intercept, because of it. There were very powerful forces aligned to blacklist the story to protect Biden's candidacy.
That is one dedicated postal worker.