jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
[Assuming the purpose of this post was to point out how good the book is. It's a rather odd post.]

I liked this book. I wasn't as effusive about it as these reviewers, but it was a solid book. Well worth your time.

Aside from this one, if I had to pick a top-3 list of startup books, it'd probably be something like this: http://hn-books.com/AnswerQuestion.htm#B0=38&B1=50&B...

I think I might go back to Seven Steps, though. Somehow I think by giving it a little time it will make a difference -- get even better.
If multiple distinct writes to DB must be atomic (as in a transaction), an AP system is likely a poor choice. AP systems are designed for 'eventual consistency'. If EC is a poor fit for 'consistent object data and metadata' in your application, do not pick an AP system.

An AP system may be a reasonable choice for an ODB if your added layer of transactionality is exploiting a domain specific characteristics that allows for fast-path, efficient, distributed transactions on top of a bare object level AP system (such as Cassandra). Since this is all very niche and technically demanding, it is almost always a better choice for the general team to choose a mature CP database as backing for metadata-rich objects and/or domains that demand transactional support for systems of record.
> Here’s an honest question – would you be OK if the government reduced the posted speed limits by 50%, required all motorists to wear helmets, and outlawed all left turns? If not, why not? Doing so would save almost 40,000 lives a year.

Rhetorical devices like this one are always telling. Rowe expects -- assumes, really -- that the answer is "no". It's a foregone conclusion. My answer, even as a person who made a living driving at one point in my life, where timelier trips meant more money for me, is "yeah, that'd be fine". (Do I want to be forced to live in a world where I'm made to wear a helmet, have my speed capped, etc, while the rest of the world goes on as it does now? No, I don't, but that's both contrived and fails to deliver the value of safety baked into the premise, although I suspect that there's a non-zero chance that upon hearing my answer ("yes"), Rowe or at least some of the folks he entertains would resort to a dishonest retort in this vein.)

There's an ignored factor here, too. I've done plenty of work in the scope of Dirty Jobs. Another implicit assumption from the perspective of Rowe and the producers is that the pool of people willing to do a lot of these jobs is so small -- that things are the way they are because stuff has to get done, but so few are willing to do it (in comparison to the people who are okay sitting behind a desk in an admin role, for example). In fact, the induced lack of safety is one of the reasons why the pool is as small as it is.

Just look at policing for example, putting aside the matter of safety for a moment to focus on something broader. How many people are willing to be cops? How many people would be willing to be cops if it matched the picture of the noble job we put into kids' heads, instead of working in the police departments that exist in the US? My guess? Easily >2x. One of the main reasons not to be a cop comes from the set of people who'd be your colleagues, and the policies that your superiors carry out. (Who wants to be an enabler for a system that allows mediocrity to rise to positions of power and then claim that its' workforce's actions are almost always justified, even when they clearly miss the mark of justice?) Lots of the dirty jobs are like this, too. The things that make them "dirty" (unattractive) are often the result of the people not the the job, and are usually entirely avoidable.

(Just about the only situation I've seen where the working compromises to "safety" don't raise my hackles was building cabinets. Every nail gun in the shop was rigged to disable the safety, for speed reasons. This was avoidable to a degree that seems silly when compared to the compromises of other jobs. Even so, this is the one that was justified and reasonable, but I'll omit the explanation for why, because that's a topic in and of itself, and this comment is long enough already.)
here is a highly cited article: https://www.hw.ac.uk/services/docs/same-gender-role-models.p...

> In both
studies, results indicated that female participants were more inspired by outstanding female than male role models; in
contrast, gender did not determine the impact of role models on male participants.
To be fair, "more knowledgeable than Best Buy" is a pretty low bar. In desperation I went to a Best Buy looking for a SATA controller (circa 2004) and they said "The controllers are over here..." and took me to the game pads and joy sticks.
> while power generator who generated any power end up making bank

I.e. generators, who are well prepared for the adverse conditions, finally got paid for their investment?
Because this is not the site for the project. This is the site for a Mac 68k version of the project, where they keep taking the author's code and translating the comments to English and really not much else so far. When the author releases new versions they merge the new code and translate the new comments to English. It's weird to me because SCSI isn't really OS specific, so other than writing some client app talk over SCSI and ask for images to be mounted, I can't make sense of why they are making a "Mac 68k" version.

Here is the original site (translation required): http://retropc.net/gimons/rascsi/index.html
Hey, thanks for the list. I'm actually into "non-ergonomic" (traditional) full-size mechanical keyboards, and even there, I haven't really found one that does fully customizable work (keys, colors, switches - no manufacturer logos) and is wireless.
Do you have a recommendation for this, too? If so, I'd be grateful!
I approached this problem and decided to try and solve it for myself just over a year ago. Firstly, I decided that instead of knowledge being segregated by medium (notes -> evernote, bookmarks -> Chrome, etc), it should be organised by purpose.

The most important purpose, I decided, was personal goals. Knowledge/information which is relevant to helping me achieve my own goals is the most important thing I should be focusing on, and should be extremely well organised and easily accessible. Any other interesting info that falls outside that is a bit of a shame to lose, but ultimately just a distraction and clutter. For this purpose, I developed this tool: https://nachapp.com

I believe the next level of information down would be general learning/knowledge. Stuff that doesn't fall under any specific goals, but is still useful information to know and understand (and may in disparate ways tie into core goals). For this, I'm currently using https://pinboard.in, although it's not ideal as it's again limited to a single medium. I have a solution in mind, but haven't started developing yet. If you're interested, feel free to get in touch and I can keep you updated (contact info in profile).
My main aim with this list was to have a collection of lesser known (but awesome) courses. That's one reason why I stayed away from adding MIT's OCW or a MOOC on the list.
The reproducibility initiative and its supporters have been called "replication bullies."

http://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/sciencemagazine/23_may...

I kind of see their point, but in the end if your study can't be replicated, you have to take your lumps.
I don't think you understand; I'm agreeing with you.
That Linus' approach to disagreement over technical matters is counterproductive.
This link takes you to page 10. Annoying.
cool. do you eat the square service charge for these transactions, split it, or pass it all on?
In response to your second point, if there is a good BitCoin economy, a business might be able to earn BitCoins, and spend some of those BitCoins on costs to buy services from other BitCoin acceptors, and maybe even issue dividends in BitCoins. Shareholders could use those BitCoins to buy things directly.

These transactions require computational resources to get them into the block chain, so probably would cost money, but with low barriers of entry, they would tend towards the computational cost of getting a block into the chain.

However, unlike with a credit card, there is no requirement that amounts get converted back into a government-backed currency after every transaction.
>far fewer examples of taking down highly distributed networks like Bitcoin.

There are plenty of examples of the reverse, however. Bittorrent continues to thrive.
Am I the only one that feels that this will impede the adoption of NFC-style payments?
I didn't find immediately that the C was to jump. The keys should appear in the beginning.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)

I don't know why but this comment makes me feel old. I wonder if it would make Kevin Mitnick feel the same.
i love how everyone here latches onto bad pirates boarding a drone.

why would a drone ship have any human navigable rigging? drones do not have cockpits, life support systems, etc. a drone ship would have cargo containers all around, no bridge, no control room, etc.

how do you board something that has no surface meant for humans?
SGI still exists? Somehow they'd been filed away in my head in the "really cool tech companies that disappeared" like DEC and Hewlett Packard (I am aware there is a company called "HP", but it exhibits no evidence of being what was once known as Hewlett Packard). Maybe the fact that Google campus is former SGI campus made me assume all of SGI was gone.
You can have your whole server nuked just for having the name of a movie in a text file. It's the luck of the draw as to what your host does, and who decides to send a ridiculous DMCA request to them.
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The paper furthermore appears to rely on specific interpretations of quantum mechanics.

In the Many-Worlds Interpretation, the computing apparatus itself 'grows' exponentially over time.
> Besides, a patent just tells the world how to do what you are doing which makes it easy to rip-off or change slightly as the ability to cover every single use case/implementation in a patent is basically impossible.

For an actual example of this see the hair removal device that used a rolling spring to rip out hair. Competitors realised they could do the same by using a set of wedged discs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilator. (See the "rotating disc" section).
In my case I see this when I treat a class as a namespace and fail to follow the single responsibility principle.
"IN THE MEANTIME, PLEASE DO NOT MAKE DEPOSITS TO PREVIOUSLY ISSUED BITCOIN DEPOSIT ADDRESSES. THEY CANNOT BE HONORED!"

Shouldn't deposits go directly to cold storage addresses for exactly this reason, and in case someone makes a large deposit that exceeds their desired hot/cold wallet ratio?
Except it's not just $12/year for the domain name but also all the hassle of having to administrate it or dealing with someone who administrates it for you. Gmail does have a big convenience bonus.
> Have you changed jobs much, is this a recurring problem?

It's my third job so far, and it always is the same story. I quickly lose productivity and get frustrated by it, in a self-perpetuating cycle.

I also subcontracted once at another company, four weeks of fixing spaghetti PHP and JavaScript for a company that bought their system for cheap - and this was a very productive (5X+) and refreshing moment. I'm not sure what to attribute it to - the only thing that comes to my mind is clearly-defined and short (few hours tops) tickets to close, and zero personal responsibility for the project (i.e. of course I felt responsible, but it was my personal decision to care).

I shouldn't have trouble in changing jobs (I'm an experienced programmer after all), I usually worry only if I won't get fired in the first two weeks after the 0.1X mode kicks in. Anyway, while employed, low output keeps me in not good enough financial position to risk jumping (family to care about).

I agree with your sentiment about inventing challenges; I often feel that myself, and whenever I can I use the opportunity to learn something new while doing work tasks.
Oh. I sincerely thought that was a joke.
Where is your DC located?

Is that HDD space or SSD disk space? What will I be relying on for my storage and can you back it up?

What virtualization tech do you use?

Can you give me a months credit free? :)
I don't mean to say those guys aren't scumbags - I'm sure some of them are.

I just wanted to point out the opinion of the silk road presented in the article was not an opinion belonging to wired but instead it belongs to this Ver guy, who is in fact a criminal.
I have no idea what DB2 was. It's my understanding that every country in the world wants to know the criminal history of anyone asking for a visa for any reason (the host country may ignore that history, if it believes the crimes were politically motivated). And it's my understanding that INTERPOL allows countries to get at least some criminal records information. And there is clearly some system in place for countries to make extradition requests -- which would require some criminal history information.

So it's not clear to me that the US must have wholesale access to Guyana's criminal records system, or that it must be illegally gathering data to populate DB2.

Even without INTERPOL, I would expect countries to have treaties to share some criminal records information. If Guyana is trying to capture a criminal, clearly it's in Guyana's interest to ask countries to help prevent that criminal from fleeing.
Please remember to put the year in the title if a submission is old (in this case it's from 2007).
A hypothesis: Happiness and success are inversely correlated, because as people become more successful, their expectations of future success rise faster than the actual reality does. And, as James Hong (HotOrNot.com) famously pointed out, "happiness = reality - expectations". Middle-aged people are the least happy because they are the most outwardly successful, while children and old people are the most happy because (on a recent basis) they are the least outwardly successful.

A question: given all the positives to happiness that the article mentions - better health, higher productivity, etc. - how can we be happier before we get old? It'd suck to have to wait until I'm 70 and my body is falling apart before I'm happy.
"audiatur et altera pars"

First of all - there is no proof that Apple removed the app from sale (the same message that the developer showed to TechCrunch appears if author removes the app).

Second - the app was crap anyway. It contained a web browser that showed WikiLeaks mirror & twitter accounds. The reviews this app got were bad. The app shouldn've gotten through the review process in the first place due to the fact that it offers almost nothing to its users.

I wouldn't judge Apple yet.
What percent of the currently unfunded liabilities is estimated to be defaulted on, though, and what is the timeframe involved?
> it's because expressions separated by a comma can be evaluated in any order (I believe).

Expressions separated by the comma operator are always evaluated left to right. On the other hand function arguments (which are separated by comma) can be evaluated in any order.
That is an excellent essay, probably why the "artist" used a pencil in the first place. And Henry Petroski did a whole book on the evolution of the design of the pencil in the early 1990s: http://www.amazon.com/Pencil-History-Design-Circumstance/dp/...
> On the other hand I find it incredibly difficult to shut up when someone says something wrong about computing (or usually about some current affairs topic in computing). Don't be that guy.

I look it as an opportunity to see how many people outside the computing field see it. It's sometimes horrifying, but on the other hand, my most common reaction is "that explains so much".
Then yacht guy buys and registers said yacht in the barbados, avoiding the tax entirely...

Similarly, very few people pay attention to the "use tax" where that's in effect, and buy small, high price items like computers online where tax < shipping.
Time zones make sense, daylight savings time does not.
The short answer is that I don't :) I make real progress only when my boss is on one of his (thankfully fairly frequent) holidays around the world.
I want to see a comparison to other similar tools with longer history:
- Filter Forge
- Substance
Comedian Pete Holmes' take on this from a few years ago:

http://youtu.be/PQ4o1N4ksyQ
The story posted in the article provides a romanticized illustration of how finding knowledge in a world without easy access to it can produce an adventure. (I like that it doesn't directly say which of the 1994 or 2014 versions was better, though there's sure an implication from how they're painted.) On the other hand, access to information can produce an adventure, as well; so can many other things. In the end, the right group of friends can end up on wild adventures for any number of reasons.

That's leaving aside the implications of having easy access to information to answer more important questions.

Questions for which there's a known right answer should get resolved as quickly as possible. That leaves more time for the questions that the Internet and all the other resources we have available can help answer, but which still require work. (Whether those questions are useful or just amusingly absurd is up to you.)

Just look at XKCD's What If (https://what-if.xkcd.com/), which references online information but nonetheless puts it together in novel ways (density of seawater and approximate volume of a bowling ball gives the minimum weight required for a bowling ball to sink). In the future, that post (https://what-if.xkcd.com/125/) will show up on the other end of a very strange set of search terms, but there will always be many more questions where that came from, and there are myriad examples online of detailed reasoning from fictional premises. For instance, see http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ , http://physicswithportals.com/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize , or https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uG3_RgX9JA0/TboU21S9gNI/AAAAAAAAD... .
10 minutes outside in summer? Does that address our alledged reduced ability to make vitamin D with age? Does it address that vitamin D is made from cholesterol and lots of people are on an anti-cholesterol crusade? Does it address that UVA hinders the reaction which UVB encourages, and therefore sitting in the sun behind glass might undo some of the benefit? (hint: no).

Does the daily recommended amount for supplementation address which kinds of Vitamin D are useful and which aren't? Which kinds are more easily absorbed? That different people absorb different amounts? That it's possible to overdose? (hint: no).

These skirt around the real point which is to raise some particular blood level of a specific kind of Vitamin D. If you aren't getting that, specifically, measured then whatever else you do in terms of sunlight or supplementation is winging it and hoping for the best (and risking overdose) or merely assuaging some guilt that you should be healthier by doing "something".
While the concept is a noble one several questions come to mind...

They're going to build a network around a single satellite with no backup or (it appears) budget to build / launch a new one?

How do they intend to move this satellite? I know they talked to the owners and they say it's possible but I'd be curious to know the cost of the project. I am not an orbital mechanics engineer but it from my limited knowledge satellites only have enough fuel for minor course adjustments over their lifetime. Even if you could use much of it to completely reposition that would foreshorten the useful life of the satellite? And as of a few months from now the only current orbital recapture system (the shuttle) is being mothballed.

Just my initial quick thoughts. Sometimes great things come from seemingly grandiose plans though.
Methinks it would be "Trespassing", a subcategory of "Violation of Property Rights", not "Theft of Services".
At http://www.webpop.com we're using JSON Schema as the way to define custom content types behind the scenes.

This in combination with MongoDB works really well for us. When a user sets up a custom content type, he's actually setting up a JSON Schema for his content without knowing it. And each time a content is persisted we simply validate it against the schema.

For now it's just an internal implementation detail, but we plan to expose this through a public REST API at some point.
I really wish people would include transcripts if they're going to post a 48-minute long video. There's no way I'm going to sit through something like that without at least a bullet-point text summary.
What makes you think pirates are priced out of the market? If we're talking about, say, the U.S., your typical pirate doesn't seem to be "priced out of the market" for a variety of other leisure goods, like the electronics that they're using to pirate music and TV shows.

The difference is that they don't have a frictionless way of "pirating" electronics, so they are actually forced to choose between paying for the good and abstaining from it. With media, it's easy to rationalize that you wouldn't be giving the producer money anyway, but I'm skeptical of your ability to honestly evaluate that when you have the option to trivially enjoy the good for free.
My guess: Full Contact
Except apparently they do the opposite.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110425153602.ht...
Sorry to disagree, but the movie is kind of meh.

Read Marty Caidin's book instead. It's hard to put down, and contains a nice section concerning Jim Pruett's finishing school that makes you want to become a pilot yourself.
This has always been my view.

New developers (less than 10 years professional experience) seem to become fascinated by "cool" language features that let them do unintuitive things and then approach problem solving with a mindset of "What cool tricks can I do to solve this?"

Instead, the experienced developer will always approach a problem with "What is the simplest way to solve this problem?"
Why link to the blogspam and not the firstlook.org article it's sourced from?

Oh right, because it doesn't support what you're saying. Got it.
I think your attitude deserves the response I gave, if not something much harsher. You kill intellectual debate.
I already made an explicit exception for dependent type theory:

>Yes, in some cases deep math is applicable to CS, e.g. dependent type theory

Homotopy type theory is an extension/variation of dependent type theory.
I did http://tryruby.org/ with a friend. She understands better now what I do and what I mean by 'variables' but never touched code again.