jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting concept, I'd never think of anyone to do such a thing, and I suppose Tesla is the only one poised to do so.
And it reports data to Google... http://atom.io/packages/metrics
You can already buy several different kinds of algae-derived omega-3 DHA supplements on Amazon. But the best deal there is Ovega-3, which at $0.29 per pill is about twice as expensive as fish oil.
At first glance the UI seems 'inspired' by Sublime
> Existing financial system is perhaps suboptimal in terms of transferring money, but it has pretty good tools of ensuring the expected goods and services flow back

In what way is physical money different from bitcoint in this aspect? Is there an implied statement here than for all the ages where we did not have electronic banking, money was inherently insecure and built on crumbling bride pillars?

Treat bitcoin like physical money, and most issues goes away. I don't post thousands of money to a strange in a different country to hold them for me, nor do I give physical money to a store before I have the product in my hand.
Dismissing this argument with "because women are undervalued" amounts to saying that every company thus far has been too obtuse to manage their biases and collect 23% in discounts.

Say people do have widespread, subconscious biases against women. 23% in savings is enormous. If it really exists, someone out there is going to try super, super hard to exploit it while all the other suckers are stupidly paying 100/77 times more than they have to. Are you saying that despite this opportunity, no one has succeeded, because we're all too stupid to view women equally—every last one of us? If not, where is that clever company?

A more likely explanation is that the people already tried doing this, and found that the opportunity they were trying to exploit didn't exist.
EDIT:

Wow. An innocent question turns into a downvote madness here. Oh boy. So much hate...

What is up with the bull logo? what's the significance of it?

- c-graph, the guy must love trumpet

- classpathx, doesn't even look like a logo

- clisp, this looks like some icon from the 1990s website that I used to see a lot as a kid :)

- dejagnu, oh i know this. this was the lovely MS Office Word's Word Art! They generated from that. I used to make powerpoint and documents with word art when I was a kid.

- emms, this looks quite normal to me

- gcc, I never knew gcc has a logo

- gdb, fish as logo, what's the reason behind it?

- guix, wow, that looks like Chrome logo

- httptunnel, that looks like a tunnel to hell

- gnowsys, This one is little cute

- parallel, with a massive logo but I don't see anything resembles parallel. I am definitely not mathematician or geometry expert

- pspp, looks awesome. dat pie chart though

- a few don't actually have a logo, but a text logo

and finally

- wb, this is the most impressive one; looks like someone just crop something off a photo using photoshop.

But then again, neither I nor most people are designer and expectations of how a logo supposed to look might be quite different back then.
It's not a loss of art, it's a loss of political will. Given the same budget as in the Apollo years, I have no doubt NASA could produce something better than the Saturn V. But its current funding is a tiny fraction of that. (I mean, Apollo 18 was a complete mission that was scrapped, more-or-less to save the cost of the fuel).
I am guessing not Full Contact, as a friend built a rapportive-atyle widget by just scraping info himself: http://falcon.io/
It's not really about the product, it's about the person. That's what is getting funded. You can build a fart app, create a little drama around it and get 100k downloads.

I've heard Dalton speak twice. The first was at "WorkataStartup". I had never met him, or heard of him, but after hearing his pitch that day, I said to myself, "I'd almost be willing to sign up with PicPlz just to work along side Dalton". But, I have my own startup.

I heard Dalton speak at startup school, and what impressed me was his command over the financial and legal ramifications of music startups. I've come across a number of people doing music startups via Hackers and Founders, and I've never met anyone so well versed or educated about the business end of music, licensing, etc...

The, I met Dalton at this party at Andreesen Horowitz last month[1], and I made a point of talking with Dalton for 15-20 minutes. Once again came away quite impressed by the man. And, in the Q&A with Michael Ovitz[2], Dalton made one of the best points about the future of the music industry and media business that I've heard in a long time.

I think I have a halfway decent nose for founder talent. I run one of the largest startup/tech meetups in Silicon Valley[3], and I've seen a lot of founders come and go over the last 3 years. If I were a VC, I'd be tripping over myself to have Dalton take money from me. If it's not photo sharing, it will be something else, but either way, I'd lay money on Dalton having a good exit on one of his startups.

ref:

[1] http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_46/b42030000...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ovitz

[3] http://www.hackersandfounders.com
Took a closer look at the numbers. In general our traffic goes down by about 20% on the weekend. For IE6 it goes down by 63% on the weekend. For IE as a whole it goes down by 30% on the weekend.
I conceive that it might be for ambiance purposes. Main street looks more attractive to people coming out at night to go to the restaraunt or similar if it is lit up.
> If you're passionate about what you do, you'll find another.

it's vanishingly rare for people to be able to make a living doing something that are passionate about.
>Not much real advice on the behavioral side, to the point that people often take trainings for behavioral interviews and memorize “leadership principles” and other nonsense.

This is what FAANG interview generally look for so why is it a surprise that potential hires focus on it? Amazon literally says that you need to highlight all the leadership principles in the stories you tell when answering behavioral questions. Granted, FAANG barely asks behavioral questions for senior engineers (and then it's like 90% project and bureaucracy management) much less junior engineers.
That approach would work for a startup, but not when you’re hiring 100s of engineers on a weekly basis. Not to mention the amount of bias that approach will introduce. At least with the current approach, you know exactly what the criteria is to land the gig.
Why do you have to make work fun, shouldn't you already be enjoying it if you are doing what you want to do? Are you not doing what you want to do? See, that's the kind of problem that creates the infantilisation.
I like the book Refactoring too.

But I don't think the book, in itself, can cited as evidence that he's built large, real-world systems.

There's a big step between "no experience" and "major experience with large scale, distributed systems".

When I had six months of programming experience, I could do a fine rendition of the standard OO doctrines. With far more experience now, I can mostly describe how they fail to operate in the real world.
We actually were #1 on Product Hunt. We launched on it couple of weeks ago :)
The prevailing attitude in this community is work hard in your day job, your side hustle and try to solve inequality and the environment in your spare time.

As such I found this discussion an interesting diversion. Slightly awkward comic relief perhaps.

There is a lot to of work in industries which have a predominantly negative effect on the world around us. Slacking off while working in one of those companies might even be a net positive.
Facebook and Twitter have already shown they're willing to suppress the distribution of news that doesn't fit their political agenda, as we saw with the Hunter Biden story. It's not really a "conspiracy theory" when they're doing it in the open in full view of everybody.
Broadly agree with the article, but I don't understand the Diem comparison. Isn't Diem a stable coin? No premining is possible, right? Am I missing something?
Work at an org where you think you could be considered at least a 4x engineer. Even better a 10x. I could be a 4x/10x/100x engineer someplace, and a 0.25x at another.

Learn to automate stuff at your job. It works at programming jobs too.

Prefer the workplace is a product or SaaS/product company. My experience with it shows that it has a lower cognitive load after the initial 6 months to 1 year of hard work. Yes, you have to put in extra effort early on to reap the benefits later on. This does not mean programming more, but understanding the product in depth and in domain.

On top of that prefer an established product which has sizeable management and team size. Things move slowly here.

Stay away from lead/architect/management roles - it would be unethical to take up any of those.

Prefer a development (programming) role. Over the years, I have realised that "time is elastic" with programming roles.

Keep away from consulting companies/consultant roles. Some of those pay well, but then you are not looking to earn more.

In ideal situation I would recommend leaving toxic places - but embrace and learn to manipulate workplaces that give more importance to "visibility" than "actual work".

And the last piece: All of the above should be temporary for few years - it will hurt your psyche the longer you keep doing it. Explore and change your earnings to something that will work for you long term.
It starts quickly because everything is lazy loaded, if you open project it will start language server, start indexing etc, It's definitely not much faster than IntelliJ, but functionality is still behind.
> Should that be illegal?

That would be acceptable collateral damage, if it couldn't be permitted without opening the door for the creation of systems that used the information against the analyzed people's interests.

I'd be willing to at least consider a carefully crafted exception. The problem being that when you write such an exception, it tends to be awfully easy to introduce loopholes that, in practice, allow using uninformed pseudo-consent, or false consent with no real alternative available, to use information against people.
It's fun to see articles like that being posted on HN; it's reassuring, in a way: I've been building my own SSG ( https://github.com/hexanal/fredmercy-blog ) to be "simple but powerful", and by my own admission it's already a bloated mess, understandable only by its insane creator. At some point, just like John here, I once wondered if I should go back to straight HTML.

If we're talking about "Developer Experience", it's cool: I can edit everything with ease in my IDE of choice. To be honest, what I'm missing most with these solutions is a Content Management part: the ability to add content to the website from a mobile device, for example, would be killer.

Now all I need is an awesome WYSIWYG HTML editor for mobile...
Don't apologize. Quality hardware is an underrated boost to basically everything in life, as long as you can afford to buy it.
Super sad. I played a major part in getting a lot of people I know onto Signal and felt vindicated by the masses switching recently, and now this.

So how do I adjust my filter for who I trust now? Are all American organisations corrupt, not just big tech? Why would I ever support any app again if even Signal is corrupt?
Copy and paste on linux when using multiple apps and remote vms/vnc/rdp etc, is a pain. Depending on what app you use, its looking for which clipboard buffer and what commands to copy/paste. Mixing Os's and apps, is a clusterfuck on a multiheaded desktop with excel in a windows rdp session and libre office in another, then throw google sheet in because work decided to switch to google office at 1/2 the price of office 365 per user.

Sigh.
>> Maybe, but if this plan is so good, can’t the GOP just copy it?

Your answer here is good but it could be stronger.

1: the right has already tried this strategy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project

2: movement will help bridge the red-blue divide, so we might explicitly encourage the GOP to copy this strategy.
Of course, if you wait for people to commit acts of terror before you start spying on them, you've kinda missed the point of spying.

The fix here is access control. When we have a problem like terror, civil liberties are the first thing to get thrown under the bus - and trying to fight that will generally end badly. Too many people complain that the NSA has these unconstitutional wire tapping programs - where they have next to no chance of making even the smallest difference to the existence of those programs.

What people should actually be doing is meeting half way and attempting to put up firewalls on the data, to make sure it can't be abused where possible. So no giving the data to other agencies without a warrant - monitor the people who have access, and make sure that if they do searches for specific people, that's logged and audited.

Most reasonable people would probably be fine with having some of their communications monitored, were it in some way guaranteed that their data would only ever to be considered in any detail (i.e. by a human) if they were seriously accused of being a terrorist. Personally, I can easily accept that there are certain cases in which I'd have to give up some of my freedoms in the interest of the nation.

My concern is that this data might made more widely available - for example in the DEA's parallel construction cases (or with RIPA in the UK) - where it's clearly being used in ways against the spirit of the law. Were the NSA clearly told - yes, you can collect this data, but you can't share it with other branches of the government and you may only use it for finding terrorists, that's fine in my opinion - unless I'm a terrorist I'm never even going to find out that I've been monitored, and no one will be able to use the data against me.
I am the bad guy who blocks mixpanel with adblock and the page is blank for me because of that. Not sure if this is intentional or just was never considered?
> Maybe it's that football attracts a certain type of male.

Um, DUH. Most boys play sports to stand out. Mostly with girls. Sometimes against other boys. Sometimes in the hope of getting a scholarship.

Game it out. What's the point of being a team player on a mediocre team? Better to be the guy who makes the big play that people remember.

In addition, most high school coaches suck by simple Darwinian mechanics. The good ones get pulled up to much bigger schools REALLY quickly. The poor ones get left behind.
That sounded like a fun course. Has anyone taken that and say Andrew Ng's or Yaser's courses? How did they compare?
Let's state the facts: There are biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons that can kill millions of people today owned by state organizations. Some of these states have questionable long-term motives whether driven by power or resources.

There are stateless organizations that would use those weapons in a moment's notice against the entire population of the United States.

What you are suggesting is that there is no current evidence of weapons of mass destruction being moved or the knowledge and capital required to make such weapons being from a state to a state-less organization. I disagree:

Number of terrorist groups that have demonstrated interest in acquiring a nuclear weapon: 4

Al Qaeda, Chechnya-based separatists, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Aum Shinrikyo

Number of terrorist groups that may be capable of acquiring and using nuclear weapons: 5

Al Qaeda, North Caucasus-based separatists, Lashkar-e-Tayyib, Hezbollah, Taliban

Number of known groups that have attempted to buy nuclear material on the black market: 2

Aum Shinrikyo and Al Qaeda

Even if so, there is evidence of weapons of such scale in questionable states such as Syria. In addition there is evidence of weapons transfer, albeit not chemical, biological, or nuclear, to stateless organizations.

Millions of people do not have to die to have a substantial impact on a nation. For you what is that number? Is it in a nominal amount of deaths that reach above the amount of second hand smoke or car crashes?

Regardless, from a perspective of economic cost giving up the civil liberty of driving as a result of deaths is not parallel to giving up the civil liberty of someone checking your phone records.

For now you will not be willing to give up your civil liberty since the probability of you being hit by a terrorist attack is low ( I would be willing to wager you to do not live in major metropolitan city). Given the current pace it is a function of time before a stateless organization increases its death count. At that point you will be willing to give up some of your civil liberties.
What key are you referring to here? The CA’s root certificate?
There already is, actually. I read the paper a while back. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWxFI3NHtT8
Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2598248
This is something I am looking for as well. In my case I'd like to integrate a REST API with a Push Notifications API in a unified API specification.
Today I have resorted to using JSON schemas/hyperschemas with custom templating using the Heroku's prmd tool. Works ok but has the drawback that it relies on my custom made templates...
I'm surprised he chose a 1TB drive for backup over a year of online backup - a physical drive fails a lot more easily than a company whose sole purpose is backing up your data, and if he/she already has a computer that has a disk of a size close to 1TB, the drive is going to fill with backups.
I'm sorta the opposite way - when I write fiction, I really want something that remembers everything I wrote before, because then I can forget about what I just wrote.

I used to have a real problem with deleting code, because I worked hard on it, damnit, and a non-trivial number of times the stuff I thought was the wrong approach turns out to be the right one. That fear went away once I started using version control, because I know that if I ever need the code, it's a rollback away.

The same goes for fiction. I find it hard to discard ideas and whole pages of prose, because damnit, I worked hard on that, and the story might shift again in the future to require it. If I'm using a word processor with revision history, I can just trust the computer to keep the old stuff, and if I ever need it again, I can pull it up.
I'd like to see the same thing done with math.
I don't think customers would notice, and if they noticed, I'm not sure they would believe it, and if they believed it, they might act delusional about it. In other words, I agree with hugh3 that it may have been wise for them to do it this way.

I also think there's a certain elegance in delivering news that is actionable without news that isn't actionable. It's kind of like the [ANN] messages in user group mailing lists.

Sometimes I put on my action hat and am likely to see things as being action-related even when they aren't. I doubt I'm the only one.
"The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn't write."
I gave up on contacts a long time ago. But some of my co-workers wear them. You need eye drops to keep your eyes from drying out (blame it on air-con and your eyes moving less due to looking at the monitor). Personally, I prefer glasses, but even then I sometimes need eye drops by mid-afternoon.
> I want my code to say what I mean, not just evaluate to what I mean.

This is an awesome rule of thumb. A more succinct version of Knuth's "Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute"

> the first makes my intent clearer than the second:

I really think the beauty of list comprehensions may be in the eye of the beholder.

I personally find the list comprehension syntax easier to read than equivalent map syntax most of the time, especially (as you point out) for cases where you want an anonymous function (ie quite often), but even for simple ones like your example.

Doubly so when you start chaining map & filter functionality to do one thing. Statements like [ f(x) for x in xs if g(x) > 3 ] seem to read quite nicely for me. You only need to change two words and you have a pseudocode description: "f(x) for all x in xs where g(x) > 3".

This is obviously subjective, though, and maybe I'm in the minority. I knew list comprehensions before I knew Python, so I'll accept that makes me suspect.

(Edited for clarity)
I used to have incomplete projects, but now I set goals and work on the project until that goal is met.

I've worked with many other programmers on side projects and many times, unless someone is getting paid, they get bored and lose interest when they have to start working on something that's not cool or interesting.

I learned the hard way that these are also the same types of developers I don't want to start a company with.
Given that in the mobile field, Android is perceived as the leader, this line of thinking doesn't really seem to hold.
My respect for Wirth only grows over time. He has this philosophy that strikes me as Bauhaus, a focus on futurism w/o complexity, clean lines and modern technology.
I don't think the problem is curiosity around computers. Back in the day, computers were just a novelty and weren't yet essential to most jobs. It's fine if people didn't care then.

Nowadays however most white-collar jobs and daily life tasks involve computers at some point, and knowing how to use & program them would make these tasks more efficient - almost too efficient, to the point where it goes against corporate interests (turns out society normalized and encourages business models that bank on artificially created or maintained inefficiency) which is partly why general-purpose computing is on the decline now.
What is the "mean native accent" for English? Would it be possible to somehow synthesise that? I'd love to hear what it sounds like!
China imports a lot of food but hey, they have 1.4B people. They already produce most of the food on their own and that "lots of food" is just foreign products for more variety. It is not critical in any way. Most people don't buy those anyway.
I think it is pertinent to highlight that this question was posed to 13 and 14 year olds. I don’t think anyone at that age can properly address this question.
Public schools are representative of politics: it's all about special interests. People have deeply held-beliefs that their special interests are more important than someone else's.

In my state, we had state history class, I believe this to be utterly unimportant to be a functioning human. How do I know this? Literally every other place on the planet doesn't teach the history of my particular state and gets along just fine.

Same with Literature, it's culturally focused, and seems to be self-perpetuating. Why don't we spend as much time focusing on, say, Japanese culture as we do on Shakespeare? Well, that's because some self-entitled, rich rulers of ours decided we should learn about Shakespeare.

I think it's a perfectly suitable system to maintain the status quo of the world. Public education's format is believed in so dogmatically that the only choice is to defect and choose home school or private school.
I agree that any organization can, but I don't know of any. I'm vaguely aware of orgs that certify organic/non-GMO/etc and presumably someone certifies kosher food and conflict free diamonds and the like, but I'm not sure of any that certify labor conditions or that a given company operates with some baseline of ethics and is subject to accountability.
Ironically, that's the opposite effect that it is supposed to have.
Water cool it, maybe? Moving that kind of heat out of a regular heatsink is going to be extremely noisy and you'll be blowing a lot of hot air through your machine.

Personally I'm not that interested in extreme power at the cost of extreme heat. I'm more interested in enough power with as little heat as possible. I find it hard to figure out which processor is the best fit for that these days, but I guess this one isn't it.