jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's definitely not the direction taken by society... Pandemic, convenience, online businessew ( yeah, I know we could physically mail cash for online purchases but, come on... )
my strategy would be diversification: link + archive.org + archive.is + local copy + github/gitlab copy

worrying about linkrot, some years ago I wrote a little local webserver that took a link via a bookmarklet and saved a page in multiple formats:

- html with wget -archive | tar.gz
- pdf with wkhtmltopdf
- txt with links
- png with firefox --screenshot
So, OK basically? Indecent things are allowed. You can criticize them, of course, but they are still allowed.

People have the right to write non-nice things about you (as long as it's not libel). They can write that they don't like you for whatever reason, or they can write that they get off thinking about you. There's freedom of expression to do stupid, non-nice and indecent shit.
Our galaxy is "only" 50,000 lightyears across. 50k years is an eyeblink in cosmological terms. Behaviourally modern humans have been around about that long and it's too short a time for fossils to even form, except in extraordinary conditions. It's a thousandth of the time to the dinosaurs. I think that's reasonably up to date in evolutionary terms.

Andromeda at 2.5m ly is a bit more of a stretch, but it's still a fairly short period in the history of life on Earth. It all depends on how long we think technological civilizations last on average. If they can reach sustainability it could be at least as long as their solar systems remains habitable, maybe hundreds of millions of years, even without interstellar travel.
That is correct, but the issue that the Texas Senate is trying to solve is 'How to best protect the profits of their fossil fuel sponsors.'

In that sense, this is exactly the solution they need.
> Yes, there definitely is. Food and shelter are vital to life. I seem to recall something about life liberty and happiness in some obscure little read part of the constitution. Let me know if you see it on a re-read.

You are mistaken, and have confused the US declaration of independence (not a legal document, more of a philosophical one) with the US constitution (a binding legal document).

I did a re-read to be sure, as you suggested. I saw it in the declaration, not the constitution.

GP is right, however: you have a right to life, but nowhere in there do you have a right to not be kicked out of grocery stores and restaurants, or to be provided food by any second party.

I think perhaps you should tone down the condescension in your comment. :(
For me it has not. But it all depends on what sites one is interested in. Generally I do not tend to find much value in SPAs when I come across them. If there is some data accessed through the page that I really am interested in, I just fnd the endpoint and bypass the Javascript. Most sites posted to HN are not SPAs, do not require Javascript to read, and work perfectly for me. I can glean the information no problem, and fast. However I am interesting reading text not viewing graphics. Not every user has the same sensibilities.
But some of those sites are going to be Comcast customers, who serve customers from other places.

I'm not saying that an average consumer is sending as much as they receive, but Comcast doesn't only have consumers, they also serve websites. That should balance out for small websites in and out of their network.
> who eats their rice ice-cold

Ummm, you could heat it up. I don't think the article implied you had to eat it cold to get the benefit.

Totally agree with you on the cooking method, though. I read that bit and shook my head.
Sorry, as you can see that is just what I believe.

Of course I don't force anybody, it is just my opinion, I believe that I have the right to have an opinion...

Anyway, I would like to suggest you to use a language a little more cordial.
It'll be difficult for you to sell the platform.

Follow your own gut, but investors/buyers don't care how great your platform is. You have no IP so they can pay someone to build another version. Investors and buyers purchase users.

Get a lot of users on your platform and then consider selling.

That being said, codecademy and code school are both model templates that you could use to turn this into a business if you'd like that route.

You can also find hacker schools teaching data science (such as iron yard - http://theironyard.com/academy/python-engineering/) and see if they'll be willing to add your curriculum to their pre-course requirements. You might be able to get them to have students help build our your curriculum as part of their course projects.

Any kind of media coverage (such as fast co, popular science, etc) will help garner attention and users.

If you are able to get access to current sports data (nba, nfl, baseball, etc) and are able to help teach data science around those data sets you could probably get a lot of motivated but non-cs educated users and media coverage. That is also a feature you could probably charge a subscription for. I'm shooting ideas from the hip, so take them and turn them into something that is more familiar with your background.

Whatever direction you choose to take dataQuest, talk with your potential users and get their feel. Make a decision to move in a direction that'll have minimum push-back with maximum achievement of your desired goals.

Focus on user growth and you'll garner the attention of affluent individuals.

Good-Luck and let me know if you need any help or someone to bounce idea's off of!
Congratulations! Great job! You could change the link of an user. Instead http://1r7.net/people/4d0c18ee1e62882c6d00058b think http://1r7.net/people/andycds.
Extraordinary claims require sufficient empirical evidence as proof; proof that need not be extraordinary.
Password is too long (maximum is 20 characters)

:(

Looks good otherwise, especially for a overnight hack.
I think he is serious
Any plans to open source it so we can run it on our own Heroku instance?
This is really great. But - http://blog.delicious.com/ Delicious is not shutting down.
http://1r7.net/
You can - in settings.
If once one of your password leaked, all sites with the secure level are unsafe then.
Where does referring to non-entrepreneurs as "plebians" fit in the list?
Stabilizing online ratings is difficult problem.

In the game of Go, online ratings are general subject to deflation. New players appear, are given the lowest possible ratings and then rise to some higher ranking, knocking down the ratings of other players. Also, players who only play each other can improve together without any improvement in rating.
<i>Especially if a group of your close friends are also using it.</i>

I think a lot of the value is there. Unfortunately only a small subset of my friends use iPhones. All of them use Facebook however.
What company? Contemplating making the same move myself early next year ;)
Yeah, thanks. That's what I get for trying to type code on my phone.
Even the commercial versions shouldn't be used outside the lab? A friend is on the board of a commercial tDCS medical company. They don't make the hardware, they just do the stim on patients. I haven't seen the machines, but he says they look like an old school hair helmet from a salon in the 60s.
Isolating an ant from its colony for 12 hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74xygxN7h_Q
I am not going to debate this topic, but one thing I will say is that I constantly think about how ridiculously long it takes to make a GUI application compared to a CLI application. It takes at least 10x as long. Large companies can just hire more people, but as a single full-stack person, I just hate the fact that I could make 10 CLI applications in the same amount of time as I could make 1 GUI application.

Surely this has to be discussed at some point.
Interesting point. I hadn't thought of a SkyTrain to Oakridge from Metrotown. Oakridge is apparently getting a massive redevelopment and that could increase demand, but is it currently busy enough? I guess with the development happening ta Metrotown as well, it would be good to just connect all major centres. I did used to live in Burnaby, and it sucked getting to the airport from there.
That can work, although the paper should be acid-free, and there are probably considerations for the ink that I am ignorant of.

Even better if the paper and ink can be made onsite, and the printer can is repairable by someone within the nearby geographical region.
I think you're saying minorities are better off with a justice system than without. Maybe everyone is technically better off with a justice system, than with something like vigilante justice, but the US has always had some level of justice system even during slavery. Was it really to their benefit at that time? Can we say things have improved, yes, very slowly, but systemic racism still exists.

>You can't use that stat in that way, presumably they picked the most egregious cases which would be the poorest, etc.

No, you cannot just ignore ingrained racism within the judicial system from day one as simply being a class issue. You can read more from the National Registry of Exonerations about racial bias in exonerated cases[1].

1. http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Race_...
As I clearly stated above, "it's not a myth to us". I never made a claim about what the overall flows of people are.

But now that you've made me think about it a little bit more, I can tell you it cost me 4X more to rent a 16' Penske truck from California to Tennessee than it would have to do that trip from Tennessee to California.
This will be live streamed later today.
You should commit your translation
Do we even have another recent law that everybody in France remembers?

And seriously, every single new law is pushing somebody's agenda. The author could've chosen the "animals are human being" change and we'd have another you yelling not being fond of developers pushing their love for animals.
I have to disagree on the Steve Jobs advice. People liked his presentations because they buy into the whole product image and they'd be on the edge of their seat to see what he was announcing.

If your audience actually wants get useful in-depth technical information (e.g., to evaluate an app development framework) or new skills, don't try to come off like Jobs.
It also seems to allow some illegal moves. The computer moved its bishop like a rook.
I fink u freeky and I like you a lot.

There's the stuff we wish we could have done 50 years ago but couldn't. There's the stuff we could have done 50 years ago but only one person could do it by making a $1m multi-user computer not so multi-user. Then there's the stuff we didn't even know about. They're all awesome.

Yes, Javascript has genital warts, but I don't have to care. I can write sorta-lisp, which means I can layer my own stuff on top, and it magically works. I mean, emscripten!

The things that I miss, like automatic image-based persistence, are coming back anyway, and they'll be fast, probably open source, and can be integrated in a hazy, drunken, weekend.
It's a certainly a difficult problem, but people moving freely from industry to regulator and back means almost inevitable regulatory capture.
For those saying that the density of college campuses simply isn't suitable when many different types of lifestyle converge, I urge you to look at Japan or Europe for an example of density working at scale.

Density doesn't mean everyone is forced to live in a studio apartment either. I live in Tokyo in a 3-story house paying less in rent than I ever did in Atlanta, Seattle, or Ann Arbor. The biggest difference is the expansive train systems, allowing for clusters of shops and restaurants that are accessible without a car. And not a parking lot in sight (good riddance)!
Nope, wrong mentality.

Humans are by nature pro-growth. Any policy which works against that needs to account for it, which they never do.

Also populations stabilize when you reach a certain standard of living, which is exactly why the environmental mentality should be pro-growth – get to that point as soon as possible, and use that extra manpower to get to carbon neutral as soon as possible with the three things I listed. You don't need 4, 5, and 6. Simpler plans are always better.
So you have a separate account for your rent, for your utilities, for your insurance, etc?

If these are all roughly fixed costs, I have trouble understanding what you're gaining from this rather than having them all in one account, except additional headaches.
Great article, although they missed (IMO) Catullus at his best on infatuation:

Miser Catulle, dēsinās ineptīre,

et quod vidēs perīsse perditum dūcās.

Fulsēre quondam candidī tibī sōlēs,

cum ventitābās quō puella dūcēbat

amāta nōbīs quantum amābitur nūlla.

Ibi illa multa cum iocōsa fīēbant,

quae tū volēbās nec puella nōlēbat,

fulsēre vērē candidī tibī sōlēs.

Nunc iam illa nōn vult: tū quoque impotēns nōlī,

nec quae fugit sectāre, nec miser vīve,

sed obstinātā mente perfer, obdūrā.

Valē puella. Iam Catullus obdūrat,

nec tē requīret nec rogābit invītam.

At tū dolēbis, cum rogāberis nūllā.

Scelesta, vae tē! quae tibī manet vīta?

Quis nunc tē adībit? Cui vidēberis bella?

Quem nunc amābis? Cuius esse dīcēris?

Quem bāsiābis? Cui labella mordēbis?

At tū, Catulle, dēstinātus obdūrā.

I haven't found a great translation for this one, but the meter belies how perfect it is in terms of balancing the humor and pain of lost love[1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-zvIICQvkg
It's possible car companies have dropped the ball, but I don't think we can outright declare it yet. VW's timing, I think, has actually been excellent.

The ID3 is a good car for a good price they can sell profitably. The program commenced in the fallout of dieselgate roughly around the same time as the Model 3.

If they went all in just a few years earlier, it would have been on something like the E-Golf, not fit to be a mainstream car, and it would have ruined the company.

Now, if they had the R&D strength of Tesla, the E-Golf could have been as good as the ID.3. But Tesla is unique.

Car companies that achieve volume production over the next couple of years probably won't suffer terribly for the delay - but it will be less ideal than VW. Car companies that haven't ramped volume production by some cutoff (say 2025) will die without question. It's too late today to start that program, so the fate is already sealed for anyone without an iron in the fire.

And it wouldn't have made sense for any company to try to compete with the Model S/X without amortizing the R&D over mainstream cars, similar to Intel's high margin Xeon chips which probably wouldn't exist in a vacuum. Tesla doesn't break out the finances enough to clearly tell, but they very likely lost money on the Model S/X program as a whole, although maybe they've turned it around in recent years. And that's with Tesla's unique R&D advantage which may have reduced costs by as much as an order of magnitude.

Even if you build that car, you have to sell it to Tesla fans, at best splitting a small market, and at worse being ignored because of Tesla's impressive mindshare.

(I'm not writing this as a direct argument to what you're saying, I think we probably broadly agree)
I was intending to argue back 'yes but who started that in Australia' - and on a quick look it appears that was Kia.

I know Hyundai and Kia have a crazy amount of engineering overlap, but regardless you are correct.
What is Gumroad? Its not very clear why I should sign up. It says I can possibly make money...doing what?
mbux responds pretty quickly for me, it's carplay that seems to be really fiddly for some reason.
Normally I edit when I realize I forgot a point, but this one deserves another comment. When us leftists realize we’re being systematically excluded on a platform, yes we also make a stink. But then we go build new platforms and fucking get on with it. Because we’re not crybabies who expect to be amplified even though no one tolerates us.
> There's no real "need" to budget

You just described your ... budget.
So what about data migrations? In the docs I couldn't find something about it. And it's pretty important for a complete migration tool, isn't it?
Is this because of their CCP affiliations? Makes me feel like I made a good decision not adopting Ant-D on a greenfield project, despite it being one of the better UI kits out there. My primary concern was the code swapping Christmas Easter egg incident, along with the main backers being CCP companies like Alipay.
I thought there were a few interesting thoughts in that interview. While I like Eric Weinstein I don’t know that he brings out the best of the people he interviews. Compare to say Fridman, or even Rogan. A number of Eric’s guests have been really interesting people but the interviews were ho hum, maybe because Eric likes his own, often complicated, ideas too much.
I know you’re joking around but does the universe seem hacked together to you?

I feel like it’s incredibly elegant. All these low level rules are able to create such complex structures with beautiful order to it.

It’s so orderly, we can play things backwards billions of years. We can look back to how things were just a fraction of a second after this version of the universe began.

It’s astonishing.
Don’t store data you can’t protect. Because something is ‘hard’ doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done.
Ahh, the boogeyman....
This water containstraces of various contaminants. Most of which are substantial dimensionally. If you chose a dense ion exchange membrane (sea water desalination membranes are low density to maximise water throughput) - this denser membrane will allow all the water to be stripped of contamination. You will get a clean stream and a dirty stream and with cascaded membranes you will separate the contaninated water into a releasable stream and a contaminated stream that is .001% of the volume of the clean stream. This contaminated stream is very small and can be stored for 1000+ years in less space than it now consumes. The clean stream is releasable.
the container that runs the simulation is extremely hard to escape from
I have seen a recent interview (last few years) with him where he still refers to himself as a libertarian, but I agree that in practice he does not seem that way. He is heavily influenced by Leo Strauss[0] however, so he may be taking an "esoteric" view of what libertarianism means.

[0]: Strauss was a political philosopher who advocated reading the "esoteric" meaning in works of literature. I.e. he thought that thinkers did not write what the actually thought but wrote in a veiled way so that their true meaning was apparent by those in the know, but not to casual readers.
That might explain why some manufacturers don't invest at all in Linux drivers. However in an alternate reality where they sell Linux laptops and Windows turned into a fringe desktop OS for some 2% people (I'm one of those 2% Linux desktop users), hibernation would work very well on Linux and with some luck on Windows. That despite any possible architecture of the Linux kernel: manufacturers would make it work even with a kernel written in COBOL and drivers written in BASIC in a sandboxed DOS virtual machine. /s
To piggy back of what @mooreds said, here's a big list of community writing programs that pay software engineers to write blog posts: https://github.com/malgamves/CommunityWriterPrograms

Depending on your expertise and writing skills, they can pay pretty well.
I see it as a feature of Euro English, like writing "XIV century" instead of "19th" or saying "actual" with the meaning of "current". Language change caused by an influx of non-native speakers is not a new thing for English.
Yeah, that's true. Although I think it's more likely that Lamo would falsify/misrepresent the chat logs because of his sketchy political views or because he lives off of media attention. His public defense of his actions seems too enthusiastic to be coming from someone who made up a story just to avoid jail time. We don't know what other evidence the government has against Manning, if any. If they only have Lamo's chat logs and testimony, that's pretty flimsy. (Not that the government needs evidence of a crime to keep someone in jail indefinitely. You know, see above.)
Has there been an official explanation?
Sorry my bad for confusing Google with SM. Wufoo was a direct threat to SM, so it applies in this case, kind of like if a better search came along Google should make a move, but going back to the a,b, c, d I listed above, what would you say for PushLife?
correct -- fixed this distinction in my reply, thanks
This was the most surprising part to me. I've read through a handful of the files and only a few of them seem to have any connection to anything useful; most were just caught up in "wrong place, wrong time" happenstances, like crossing the border into Pakistan on the heels of some "suspicious Arabs".

Most of these guys end up being recommended for release, but from my sample it was at least the better part of a year and often ~2 years before that would happen. Think of the wives and children left at home, almost definitely without any means wherewith to support themselves, while their father was black bagged for some frivolous reason.
I regret not being able to comment much on this issue, but it seems to me that the Obama Administration's continued secrecy on this matter was a necessary enabler for those opposed to the use of the US court system.
I see. So the comment on the razorfast.com site:

I forked Dropship, just in case, and my GitHub repo of it was deleted. I was not notified of this. NOT happy with DropBox, and ESPECIALLY not happy with GitHub.

Is perhaps not accurate then.
Asking people to remove stuff from HN? That's utter bullshit, and if true, I'm basically done with Dropbox. Asking people not to talk about something (with access to your service as the gun to their heads) is not something I will tolerate in someone I do business with.

I don't actually use Dropbox for anything, though, so perhaps my thoughts don't matter.
No, this is a complete rewrite and a different way of doing migrations than South currently does. There should also be a South 2 eventually that is mostly compatible with this new migration design, for those stuck on older Django.
As a matter of fact, some Linux distros use /etc/rc.conf as well (Arch linux). The way Linux is designed and works is that everything is configurable and rather easily done. This is almost definitely true for *BSD as well, but probably not as easy.

In the case of BSD VS Linux I prefer the model of "Shooting at all directions until you hit" kind of philosophy.
BSD is a "Like it or not" kind of OS. While Linux is more of a "Everyone can find a flavor he likes" kind.
So as more people join the bitcoin community, and as computing power generally increases, the value of each bitcoin approaches zero?

Doesn't sound like a huge benefit to taking time to generate a lot of bitcoins now, as there isn't a stable commodity to index it to.

Very interesting idea, nonetheless.
Nice idea. Would be better if it filters by your city
It was a trolling title. The EPA has been working out how they would rate electric vehicles, and by the original criteria the LEAF would have been rated at something like 367 mpg. The Volt hasn't suddenly become less efficient -- the rating criteria changed.
those are the two books I bought :)
I remember that too; it was great. That feature disappeared at some point though - it's not in Lineage OS these days as far as I've found. I recall it made some apps crash, but only as far as I could tell those that weren't robust enough to handle being fed junk data. I'm not sure why that feature disappeared.

EDIT: my guess is that a later Android update broke the existing Cyanogenmod code and no one was maintaining it.
Because the market is finite in size, so nothing can outperform the market forever. It's the same thing as a company not being able to grow faster than the economy forever.
You talk too much. Just say to yourself "I am the rouge 1 leader" and proceed..