jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Please don't do this here.

You may not feel you owe your political enemies better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There was another one of these stories saying that it looks suspicious if you've never been convicted of a crime or done anything illegal, so if that's the case just say you tried weed once.
WebEssentials extension for this. I use it with CoffeeScript and LESS.
As there have been quite a few incidences of a pilot intentionally crashing a plane, It would be interesting to see if the ratio of mass-murdering pilots to pilots is larger than mass-murderers vs the adult population.
Blue links on bright orange background. Nicely done.
It looks more like a mix of disbelief, surprise, and astonishment to me.
I am sorry to say but you're so wrong... human interaction is not only accoustic and touch-based, but also visual, which takes most of sensory signal feed to brain (correct me if I am wrong here).

If you shun away from human interaction, that's fine. But be honest to yourself and don't say few clicks/strokes of keyboard are similar to having a decent talk with anybody. Heck, even video conf call is miles away from real world experience. I am an introvert myself, but this is simply not true.
The sad thing is that really cool, potentially world changing, crypto has been created in the past few years but its not the crypto that gets media coverage. Concepts like Fully Homomorphic Encryption and Secure Obfuscation may revolutionize security in the coming years, but nobody has heard of them precisely because they were published in scholarly journals instead of popular science magazines. Maybe cryptographers should create useless apps that claim to solve all security problems whenever they come up with actually important crypto :)
The co-pilot was breathing normally for ten minutes while the door was being hammered repeatedly. Interpreting this as 'deliberate' inaction is hardly 'stray speculation'.
full disclosure - i work on Twilio, which I used for this
You don't go to the store to buy detergent. You go to the store to buy a whole bundle of items, and you go regardless of whether or not you need detergent. 10 seconds is IMO a decent approximation of the marginal cost of time for adding detergent to the stuff you buy.

As for the big gain being that it's right there, I figured everybody's phones are right there too. Apparently not everybody does that. Seems like if you really find this to be a problem, you could just keep your phone in your pocket.
Serious question - what sort of information can be gleaned from a sales candidate by asking them how messy their room is on a scale from 1-10?

Ability to answer random questions? Ability to compose a narrative? Ability to deal with seemingly arbitrary BS?
Sad. I saw the screenshot and imagined a modern vim of sorts.
"why isn't anyone taking advantage of the millions of student debtors?"

I'd say many lenders already are.
"I don't want to make anything"

Not sure what you meant by that. Make a service? Make money?

You seemed to be suggesting this was a market that needs a service to help people get less disorganized. There are loads of free debt calculators that will show you that by adding $X/month to a payment you'll be out of debt Y months earlier. There's no real magic or rocket science to this.

Having a service that visualized all of it might be a bit motivational for some people, but doing anything that speaks to student loans is going to require work. Which is going to requirement payment, meaning the service would need to charge money or show ads. Neither of those sit well with me with respect to the audience - they're already self-identifying as being in debt - sometimes massively. It just doesn't feel like a good market to try to make money from.

It sounds like you're looking for something that can automatically send payments on your behalf, check that they were received, and suggest when to send extra payments. Or was there something else?
I don't know what was the programming like in the early days of java, but none of the original featurs of java is unique to java anymore - whereas lisp has some unique features. C is pretty bad language to compare Java to - they are designed to write different kinds of programs actually. It shouldn't be surprise that doing stuff with sockets is much harder in low level language as C. Also, threads and semaphores are two different things, (by the way, there is some threads support in C), so point (5) is simply invalid.

Considering lisp - I don't see what is wrong with indentation - they actually have something to do with logical structure of code, (also I don't get whats wrong with their usability - for me this 'random indented code' is readable). Speaking of too many lisps - one could as well say that there are too many C-like languages : C, C++, C#, Objective-C. They are all different languages, no some forks of 'The Lisp'. Considering books - well, I've read few of them and none mentions lambda calculus (unfortunately, I'd eagerly learn something about that) - e.g. PCL, 'On lisp'. Also, I think you completely miss the point with lambdas - they are necessary when you are using higher-order functions and naming them would be pointless.
Consider the flip side, which is an argument that (unlike your straw man) actually happens on this site: people who take pride in being successful "self-made men" denigrate those who are not as successful and either imply or outright say that those less-successful people deserve their lot on account of some inferiority or failing of character.

Which, when you think about it, isn't too far off from the old notion of the "nobleman" -- all we've done is shift nobility from something granted by God to something granted by monetary wealth.

(also, since the article contrasts the modern era with the old hereditary aristocracies, take a look sometime at how many prominent Europeans today are descended from or associated with descendants of the Habsburgs and the Bourbons, or just how incestuous US government has been over the past fifty years)
Woohoo! Finally support for implementing the One True Color Scheme: http://io9.com/5100481/
You are being incredibly naive to think that the people in question are capable of changing their minds on this particular topic at this particular time.
We put our children's savings (money for good school results, birthday money, eid money, etc.) into 3 separate envelops, equally: SPEND, SAVE, CHARITY.

SPEND:
They are encouraged to spend 1/3rd of the money. Whatever they want to buy. They have become online discount shopping experts, whether getting rubiks cubes, roller blades or harry potter merchandise.

SAVE:
1/3rd goes into savings, which we will let them tap once they need it. Not sure when: once they are 17/18 perhaps? In all cases, it will be a big payout compared to the amounts they are used to "spend".

CHARITY:
And 1/3rd goes to charity envelop. So whenever an opportunity comes up, they can use that towards any charity event. Good thing is that they usually spend it all in one go. Great!
This is probably because Kagi uses Google and Bing indexes.
In fact it is „more stable than some national currencies“
Tomato potato. If you make policy that lowers the cost of living then the living wage goes down and vice versa. I don’t think we’re at all in disagreement.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why net neutrality is important.
> “If we find evidence of a terrorist plot… and despite having a phone number, despite having a social media address or email address, we can’t penetrate that, that’s a problem,” Obama said.

Yes, it's the kind of problem you get when a patriot whistleblower exposes rampant corruption and unlawful behavior at the NSA; behavior that, above and beyond civil liberties, hurts American commercial interests, and then you do nothing about it.

> He said he believes Silicon Valley companies also want to solve the problem. “They’re patriots.”

He's right about them being patriots. He might be wrong about what patriotism means in this case.
Thanks for reminding me why I'm an iPhone/Apple Maps/Firefox/DuckDuckGo user.
I started thinking about the sensory transduction in the right pinky that culminates in the prediction of a class of visual gestalt in the temporoparietal junction.
Can something that's not self-aware - and most likely not even aware at all - be highly intelligent?
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FWIW You may be interested in an app I'm building which allows people who work remotely (or in remote places) to socialize with other people who work remotely. The idea is to allow people such as yourself who are interested in tech to have "water cooler"-style conversations even if they are removed from the tech scene.

Feel free to give it a go: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/water-cooler-chat/id94476300...

You might find some interesting people on there to talk to, it's still early days and currently only my friends are using it so far, but we're a friendly, interesting bunch of people :)
Well, I'm working on something real right now. It's a web application that works now but it's a total hack. I want to actually make it into something usable by others so a couple days ago I black holed Reddit in /etc/hosts. It worked so well I'm considering the same for Hacker News, too.

There's the comment by "AgentConundrum" who argues that any method of limiting access to an addiction such as HN can be circumvented -- the simple truth is that you can't outsmart yourself. However, I see it differently.

When I open a browser window and click the Reddit bookmark, it gives me an error. While I'm staring at that error message, my higher thought processes have a chance to kick in and argue about what to do next. I think, "Editing my hosts file would be an admission of defeat. I'm better than that."

It's like the "brush your teeth" diet. You know, the one where you brush your teeth after you've had enough to eat. Whenever you want to have a snack, you think, "I can't... I just brushed my teeth. Snacking would undo my progress with dental hygeine."

Both of these tricks are flat-out illogical. A hypothetical rational person would not be affected by these tricks. However, if you were a hypothetical rational person, you wouldn't need to change your behavior in the first place.
Sorry. I am an engineer. I got it as "not solid", "wrong", "flaky". I appears all three apply perfectly to the optimizer at hand. Being it both unsound (as it optimizes too much of a benchmark) and incomplete (as it doesn't recognize the invalidity of the code being optimized - the Angles thing - and fails to optimize too much when a no-op is added) we could just be more concise and settle for "broken".
I would think the same - that it doesn't fit into their current offerings and that the offer was made so they can get the talent and use the userbase to feed into a future web-os offering.

Did that happen?

edit: Just read some of your comment history. So why do you think the offer was made?

edit2: I mean, ok, say I'm google and I'm thinking about buying dropbox:

We can index the user's documents and provide a kick-ass search interface as a product feature, as well as pushing existing products like google docs. Indexing will also feed into advertising across the board, if the user's logged in to their Gbox we can make any adverts they see relevant based on the contents of their own files, which will potentially create an awesome relevance to the user thus increasing CTR and revenue.

I guess that's a pretty convincing argument actually...
May I suggest my noprocrast gem? Designed to solve exactly this problem.

http://github.com/rfwatson/noprocrast
If you missed this, it might be helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1677013
I routinely save HTML markup as S-expressions (S-XML) which is almost as readable (and slightly easier to parse) as JSON, yet markup in it does not look as weird and ugly.
Djshah:

Thanks for posting this on Hacker News. Both of Dallas's books are simply wonderful and his blog is amazing.
"Hacking the mind for fun and profit" is highly recommended... I haven't laughed that hard in months. Not with the author, unfortunately, but there you go.
It may be a guilty pleasure like junk food. McDonald's may not be worse for you than lots of other food, but it sure does feel bad.
I have never seen anything that implements validating XML parser as intended by specification and is actually used in production code. Half of XML consumers I've seen in production implement namespaces in various broken ways (like depend on exact values of prefixes)
It is at the bottom because it is a new account, it is a new account because HN ghosts accounts at the drop of a hat. Oh well.

My problem with the CDBaby/Youtube relationship is that CDBaby was essentially created to take advantage of blanket claims. Youtube's algos create a set of hashes or something of track audio. This is fine. The first to make a copyrighted claim, even if non-copyrighted uploads already exist, get precedence. This is not fine.

So the hundreds of copies of the man singing his heart out matter nothing once CDBaby uploads one copyrighted track that includes a part that matches. Copyrighted claims override the others for some horrific reason.

Leaving me to defend a dead man. Thanks to @ioerror, Telecomix and others for keeping it real respecting the dead's rights.
What I said elsewhere in the thread:

IMHO, one of the employers responsibility is to pay their staff. I don't think that's really arbitrary, it's commonly accepted across the world.

If you're in the service industry, it's your job to be nice. That's what their employer (hopefully) pays them for.

If I have a good or bad experience, I exercise my discretion by choosing whether to go there again. If the employer notices a trend downwards in customers, it's their responsibility to assess what that is - hopefully their in touch enough with their business to identify if it's because of their employees service and 'apply pressure' if need be.

I guess ultimately it comes down to culture. I (and the large majority of the non-US world) isn't accustom to paying 10%+ extra for bad or rude service and it would be very hard for us to understand why that happens.
You can store months of dry rice and canned food under your bed alone. You're talking about survival planning, not glamping. Most adult humans can survive upwards of 2 months without any food whatsoever if you've got adequate access to water.
Living room is a bad analogy. Store is better.

And, outsourcing unconstitutional restrictions to private companies who have achieved near monopoly control of the space is almost worse.
I over-rounded on the 5% number (since fixed), real stats are 4.3% for men and 4% for women and with an 18% increase that brings it to <5.07%, not 5.9%.

I've included the source in the comment as well.
I'll repost my comment on this from 15 days ago. Not well received at the time (in the middle of the frenzy). Not sure why...I always assumed that HN has an audience that is decent at math and analytical thinking. Here it is:

What nobody is talking about yet are the thousands (tens of thousands? hundreds of thousands? millions?) of people who got hurt and will get hurt by this event.
Sure, it's neat to see stories of people making from tens of thousands to millions of dollars due to the short squeeze. And yet it is easy to forget that those who played the game were buying GME all the way up to $500 one day, $420 the next day and $300-something the next. People also bought puts at different levels.

All of this will come crashing down on top of them. It's a Ponzi scheme (or whatever the appropriate analogy might be). The people who, through hubris and ignorance, bought these stocks chasing them up the price scale to "Help our brothers who bought at $350 get positive" and other encouragement found on r/wallstreetbets are going to get shafted (if they haven't already).

In other words, the institutional short sellers are not the only ones who lost money. The difference is, they KNOW they can win.

Why?

Because there is no way GME is worth $200, $300, $400, $500 or $1,000. At some point in the future gravity will do its thing and this stock will suffer a violent crash. And you can bet there will be short sellers there to profit from it. And you can bet a large number of people who are hoping to get rich quickly are going to lose unimaginable amounts of money.

Today's addition to this 15-day old comment:

We already know at least one fund made $700 million on this fiasco. For some strange reason the stock is holding around $50 these days. Here's a company that lost four billion dollars in the past four or five quarters with a stock that might not even be worth 1/10 of current levels. And people are still playing the game (or being played). As I said two weeks ago: Gravity will eventually do what gravity does. I don't know why people think they can magically violate the laws of physics.
They need to spend billions suing Apple for every single possible antitrust and anticompetitive lawsuit they can. They need to fund spotify's case against apple music and how ridiculously unfair it is.

In fact, why don't they release their own version of spotify for the sole reason to prove how anticompetitive apple is with pricing.

If someone has the financial resources to do that, and the actual shareholder interest, it's Facebook.
> privilege as you've never experience this kind of oppression.

it is weird to see how the cryptocurrency nerds, with their massively polluting, "I got mine" high-tech get rich quick schemes, grab ahold of the mantle of champion of the oppressed and poverty-stricken.

It's disgusting, phony and hypocritical. It's either acting in bad faith or delusion - I can't tell which, perhaps they blend into each other.
Christians. You’re on their time.
Both sounded like me.
I don't think this is fair, and I generally am not a fan of the community either.

I don't think they are trying to impress each other, or are contrarian for the sake of it. I think it's a fair amount of legitimately smart people who don't have much in the way of life experience, may be in part on the autism spectrum, and tend to be engineer/rational types who think systematically more than intuitively. I mean they construct and deal with systems.

This leads to sort of a naivety that tends to look for elegant explanations of a sort and is vulnerable to them. The all-explaining system of thought that in general intellectuals tend to get ensnared by, but is self-contained and self-perpetuating. The idea of the messiness or stickiness or even corrosiveness of life on these systems tends to not be entertained much, as it reduces the power of rationality.

So the rationalists get really vulnerable to these kind of left-field ideas like AI risk, or neo-reaction. These ideas are often rationally elegant in the way many negative systems are; they are a novel way of explaining things. The red pill/manosphere stuff was similar; as a system of thought it's a lot more elegant and explanatory to its audience than the alternatives, and even criticized actual things as well as its own untrue things.

I guess I'm saying is that it's more the rationalists are vulnerable to getting captured by those contrarian ideas you describe than they are malicious or doing it to flex. It's not really unique to them, academia goes through it, philosophers go through it, artists go through it, etc.

As for the cultish stuff, its apparent to me that a lot of rationalists are kind of adrift in real life due to the great unpersoning of religion and its replacement with woke or trumpian politics. Thats part of why the grey tribe was coined, neither left nor right. They need meaning as well as anyone.
Speaking from personal experience, being a passive-aggressive asshole doesn't solve any problems.
But the last piece of content to load for me.
Nice design work. Just checked out VideoLAN's website, though, and they have a bunch of broken images. Know anything about that?
The article totally contradicts you:

Among computer forensics specialists, those location logs--which record nearby cell tower coordinates and time stamps and cannot easily be disabled by someone who wants to use location services

And worse still, the article clearly shows this data is already being used by law enforcement for unmonitored tracking.
There's significant risk (the potential permanent departure of an iconoclastic chief executive) that is being incorporated into their stock price.

Also, analysis of the cash per share at a large technology company should generally be viewed differently than it might be at a manufacturing company or somewhere else. Tech companies are subject to violent earnings fluctuations based on changes in consumer demand. Cash stockpiles are a hedge against that eventuality in addition to an asset.
Actually, Racket and Clojure share very little in terms of syntax and semantics. Lisps are like that: they all have parens and frequently that's the end of similarities. Semantics of Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, newLISP - not to mention Shen - are very different. You should treat them as separate languages, especially when learning. So, in short (I went Racket->Clojure), there are no problems if you remember not to write Racket in Clojure and vice versa :)
Easier to remember: https://wa.me/<number>

Where `<number>` contains the international prefix without the `+` sign. Has worked for me in Firefox and everywhere else I've tried. This is a fb-owned domain btw.
> My 98 year old grandma was the first person in my family to catch the coronavirus. Since then I've an aunt and uncle both catch it. All three have recovered just fine

There you go. All your old people are dead or immune. Yours are no longer threatened, so bugger everyone else.

> without visitors for the past nine months and the whole place still caught the virus.

That's not possible. Somebody with the virus had to to have visited in order for it to have spread.

Did all the other grandmas in the nursing home survive as well?
They were not asking for consent in the meaning used by the GDPR. They are merely "asking" you to agree to updated terms, i.e. their contract with you.

GDPR allows processing of data under various legal bases. They use consent (opt-in) only for things like accessing your camera. For sharing data with other Facebook services, they rely on a "legitimate interest" (opt-out) instead. In theory, you might be able to object to processing under a legitimate interest, but they make it rather cumbersome. Which processing activities they perform under which legal basis is actually well-explained in the privacy policy, if you manage to find the correct section (it has a rather labyrinthine structure).
cool i look into that some time.
> I do not expect security personnel to desert their posts in their own capital city.

Surely that was out of concern for their own safety (to retreat can be a valid strategy) and / or not willing to open fire on US civilians in such a symbolic place.
Wait til WhatsApp gets ads. The only reason Facebook hasn't introduced them yet is because they are terrified we will leave.
Perhaps the president wants a more direct mode of communication? I bet that has better response with the public.
You have to discuss with them diplomatically instead of say "haha, dumb trumper" or something similar. There are left-wing trolls that basically do that lol and the right-wing people just leave to go to the alt-right websites instead. Why do you think there are so many of these right-wing "talk shows" on places like youtube?
Can it stay down?
Yea, a truly great economics troll would reach for something like the money multiplier, law of diminishing marginal returns, or loanable funds to make such an argument.