jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The lack of standing is pretty obvious for the supreme Court isn't it? Texas has no say in how Pennsylvania votes. There's other things that are ridiculous about that case, like wanting throw out unrelated Texan votes.

No it's not though. Texas is asking the Supreme Court to answer the question of whether the constitution allows the governor to make up election rules or whether it's just the state legislature. The Supreme Court has ruled that how other states conduct their elections affects other states. By precedent, they should have answered it.

Moreover, similar challenges to PA law by PA voters, PA candidates, and Trump himself were dismissed also for standing. Perhaps you can argue Texas has no standing to tell PA what to do. But shouldn't a PA voter have standing to question whether his governor can make up rules? How come absolutely no one has standing?

> I'm not sure you can argue they're bad actors when the clear and obvious reasoning for those measures across the country are to limit the spread of a deadly pandemic.

But they violated a court order. Sure, it's to stop a pandemic. But a judge ordered that order to be violated. Court orders supersede gubernatorial edicts.

> The governor's in charge of enforcement

I'm sorry... that's not good enough for an election. Can a governor allow votes to be made up even though it's against the law, because the governor is 'in charge of enforcement'. Can Trump use the national guard to stop the Biden electors from meeting because he's 'in charge of enforcement'.

At some point, the government needs to be held responsible for lack of enforcement of basic civil rights -- election integrity is a governmental duty. You can't just choose not to enforce it.
2 bottles of beer on the wall, 2 bottles of beer.

Take one down and pass it around, __1 bottles__ of beer on the wall.

Oops.
This bug is more to do with not taking enough care over the problem, rather than the language. I do like pattern matching for arguments - it's a great feature of Haskell, but I suspect writing tables makes it more trouble to express than some other notation.
My worst fear comes alive, people; they walk among us, suspending our search projects.
I have Comcast for both business (at 2 locations) and for personal home use.

To clarify, I only use Comcast for data, and I am reticent to call it an Internet Service Provider.

Their business class service becomes saturated at the same time each day. They cannot guarantee any upload capacity. Clients are very hesistant to pay your hourly rate onsite while you wait for the Comcast guy to show up, so you can tell him to check the signal at the tap and run a new drop and new ground block and check every coax connection and splice (which should have been done during the original install).

I do not watch ESPN or Nickelodeon, but you could probably spend less using medication to zombify yourself.

Also, I was at a friend's house this Easter and was watching some Comcast using their DVR channel guide, and guess what? The channel guide now has banner ads on each page of the channel listings.

You pay to rent a DVR that has banner ads? WTF?

Is this what Stockholm Syndrome looks like?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
I was going to show that link as well. His explanation of instant runoff convinced me.
It's not hard to understand how it works. It is harder to understand how it's fair.

Of all the voting systems that will never see the light of day, I think I like this one most of all. However I would say despite its similarity to the status quo it would completely change the nature of government when parties couldn't count on who would get elected despite the safeness of their constituency.
Yes, that's impressive. Our largest plan here has 30GB of transfers per month... (Canada)
There is less feedback this way. Somebody could find a way to game the system, and all the statistics in the world couldn't prove he cheated.

Plus, randomness is a lot more random and a lot less uniform then people usually give it credit for.
The problem is that basically everyone has a channel or two that they like that's only carried because of bundling.
A more correct title would be "a short introduction to the waterfall methodology".

Seems to be an essay written with the sole purpose of promoting the author's company. Googling some of the more unique sentences shows that the text has been posted several places on the net.
Not to mention the numerous forms to fill out during ones life that ask it. (Or is that a US thing?)
It's true that using aerobraking alone for an incoming vessel from Earth landing on Mars would be infeasible. Landing with thrust, like we did on the Moon forty years ago, but also using assistance from aerobraking and parachutes, is not an issue.
Steve Yegge has a different view -- "Business Requirements Are Bullshit" (http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirement...)
How modular is the keyboard? I can see a replacement sat next to the case in the photo, but is the layout cut in to the case?

If you can make an alternative case with an (e.g.) 12x5 1u grid layout keyboard that lets me put my thumbs to use and stop contorting my fingers, I will more of less open my wallet and let you take what you fancy!
Here we can see the vicious beast hunting its prey. It's getting desperate now.
Plain text protocols, unless they can be expressed in, say, 3 grammar rules are almost always more pain than they're worth.

These days just go and use a flexible binary option like protobufs, flatbuffers, avro, etc.
Our Embedded Controller firmware is fully open source. We're using a proprietary BIOS solution at launch, but that is something we'd like to fix in the future.
It’s tongue in cheek. We know the TU isn’t shy about which party they want their members to vote for.

I’m also not surprised how Amazon wants their members to vote either.
Oh no offense taken. I definitely hear you loud and clear. :) I appreciate you taking the time to chime in here.
Anyone trying to send money using ACH. Maybe that doesn’t include you, but many regular people use it on an everyday basis.
Alpaca is primarily for trading.

They were using Polygon for data, but if I recall correctly, I believe seeing an email or such that they're going to roll out their own data and discontinue the Polygon "bridge".
I didn't get the idea of a touchscreen laptop until I got an iPad recently, now I'm constantly trying to touch my laptop screen and then getting confused when I doesn't do anything.
Okay, so I'm basically seeing that 9am is a pretty good time to wake up; and if you like to wake up earlier, that's good too?

This is still a very small sample of people.
When someone takes way too long to get a first draft out because they’re being perfectionists and you praise them for their quality craftsmanship

Does that ever happen in real life? I don't think people need any more encouragement to praise speed. Speed is already valued an order of magnitude more than quality to the point where it is the only thing that's looked at. (In part that's because speed is easier to measure and show on a chart.)
This is a great post. There is alot of value added to getting feedback before the "proof-reading" stage. What is harder perhaps in this equation is finding the time, the person, and the structure to provide you this feedback. But it is in the "30% done stage" when even a small amount of astute input can have a huge productivity benefit. There is a real art to getting something in "good enough shape" to be interesting for the reviewer (ie, not wasting their time), and thought through enough so that the important tensions & dynamics are able to be shown in rough-hewn relief (ie, so the analysis is also useful to you). I'm a firm believer that this is a great place to have a mentor (or, if it fits your fancy better... a muse). And also successful people are often blessed with having this type of support infrastructure in place. It really helps to build depth into the work, in a way which is different from pure "hyper-focus". The can counter the trend toward narcissism and lessen the tendency to attribution error.
Please be aware of the issue of rancidity before taking any fish oil supplements.

http://blog.omega3innovations.com/blog/bid/215649/Is-Your-Fi...
If I enter Starbucks I indeed expect that everyone around knows about it. I don't expect that some system will store this information and will be able to associate it with my other activities.
It just gives me "Not Found" when I press any of the subreddit buttons.
> I-JSON doesn't appear to solve this problem

It's not within the scope of what I-JSON is intended to address. This is a more formally specified and slightly more constrained variation of the existing JSON spec. Adding new datatypes would mean that it would no longer be JSON.
This is a more complicated version of the 2015 Fukuoka Ruby Award winner Git Reflow:

http://github.com/reenhanced/gitreflow
Yes. The comments are more informally written and often more tl;dr friendly. It's much faster to skim the comments than to read a whole article.
Thanks, will check out quora links.
Follow up question: is it advisable to get application feedback from other YC companies? In my head this only makes sense if the product made by applicant can be used by the startup you want feedback from, but not sure if this is the best kind of feedback.
Yes. My workflow is similar to yours.

Also, I have noticed I bookmark the HN item, not the actual story link.

For some reason, reading the articles seem like a waste of time in a way that reading the comments on the article on HN does not.
This isn't someone speaking on background for the figurehead. It's a coworker injecting their own opinion/advocacy.
How can people afford these increasingly expensive smart phones?!
I think translation isn't an isolated problem. I mean by that that we might not be able to solve translation alone, and probably will need an almost exact machine reproduction of the human thinking process to correctly translate something.

For any mildly complex concept, heuristics, context analysis, pattern matching and word databases won't be enough to match two exact sentences in different languages. Even a sentence like 'I felt sick watching him treating his partner this way' will need an extreme lot of intelligence to correctly parse and convey in a different language.

If in 100 years AI really reaches the holy grail and we have actual artifical intelligence, translation will be a solved problem. Now, will we be able to reach that goal in 100 years ? I hope, but that's not a given I think.
I think they did it to try and take advantage of Google's cache, and failed.
A long overdue step in the right direction.

Some historical perspective on the history of what I like to think of as the "Cookie Licker Laws" [a].

A middle-of-the-road option for both investors and entrepreneurs in this space has been desperately needed for quite some time. The path from modest wealth to the truly lucrative risk-reward based ROI that comes from being to invest intelligently in emerging ideas and trends ... this path has been littered with roadblocks and land mines for way too long.

On the investor side ... a ~couple years ago I remember being pretty upset that Lending Club didn't publish their "investor income / net worth requirements" straightaway transparently their site. Rather, they first send investigators on the wild goose chase through their idiotic application process.

As far as the entrepreneur side goes: YC has become a less and less attractive option for companies that might not (at least not obviously) quite make it to the $10B potential breakout point that they're looking for: I always tell my partners that our job is to fund all the companies we can that can be worth $10 billion or more. That’s such a difficult constraint we can’t have any other constraints. [b]

Not every business idea should have to be that "big" to be given a fair shot at the route from small-time garage venture to IPO.

[a] http://ink.hackeress.com/2013/09/what-title-ii-of-jobs-act-m...
[b] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/03/25/sam-altman-why-hardwa...
> WebMD is the Internet's most important source of medical information. [WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise"]

I had no idea WebMD was taken this seriously. Can I recommend to HNers especially across the pond to use the excellent NHS.UK instead, for level-headed and concise medical info.
> The Times has a long history.

Some of it is featured in Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

"The film presents and illustrates Chomsky and Herman's propaganda model thesis that corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas and interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. A centerpiece of the film is a long examination of the history of The New York Times' coverage of the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, which Chomsky says exemplifies the media's unwillingness to criticize an ally of the elite."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent_(film)
This seems pretty crazy to me - you're saying that if I happen to enjoy anything that also happens to be enjoyed by racists/sexists, you would be concerned? Guess what? Racists and sexists like Harry Potter, and Star Wars, and Marvel movies, and Coca-Cola, and everything else that people who aren't racists and sexists like. I guarantee that you enjoy many, many things that are also enjoyed by people who have detestable beliefs, because people with detestable beliefs sometimes like things that have nothing to do with those detestable beliefs. Racists don't spend all their time reading Mein Kampf and watching Birth of a Nation, they also read the same books you read, watch the same movies and television shows you watch, and, yes, read the same blogs you read.

If the blog has sexist/racist content that attracts sexists and racists, sure, that's a problem, but if the blog had such content, the NYT article wouldn't have resorted to pointing out the commenters, they would have linked the content.

> As to the feminism issue, in the full context, he criticizes feminism with respect to specific points and texts from feminists (which he is 100% entitled to), but then ends with the sentence in question that to me whichever angle you look at it from says, feminism and pure evil are not too distant. As I noted, he could have backed away from the statement easily by saying his statement is wrong (if he thinks so), but claiming it's out of context is dishonest and a diversion.

Specifically, in context, he said "People who go out of their way to be horrifically mean to other people who are pretty unfortunate and unhappy and don't understand why, just for asking why, are pretty much pure evil", it wasn't an attack on all feminists ever, it was an attack on people who he specifically thinks are doing something extremely terrible. That's the context.
I love keeping Sublime Text installed even for iOS work for just this reason -- no (smart) autocomplete and debugger make it hard to use day-to-day, but the raw speed at which it can navigate code is just awesome.
Can you elaborate a bit on the first issue?
I have rarely seen Slate Star Codex articles being discussed heavily on HN until recently. Find it hard to believe that it is a silicon valley subculture if it's not being discussed here.
I don’t understand why people believe that anonymity is a right guaranteed to all people making content on the internet.
Regarding the difference between a blog and reddit I would say that the comment section harbors people with many different views. Some of the comments may be objectionable (again: I didn't see examples) but so what? That's got to be true of everywhere with a comments section. Why make that a focus?

You write "if the claim is indeed true that racists/sexists think the blog is great" - but this isn't even the kind of thing that could be true. Imagine how you would prove this claim, do you go to the National Association of Racists and ask for their stance on SSC? Is there a poll of racists and their opinion on niche blogs somewhere?

"Racists" is ill defined by itself. People aren't racist or not the way they are right or left handed. Racism is a spectrum and much of it is debatable and nuanced and affected by context and all that. This is like saying "Some number of an undefined group like something. Prove me wrong." That's not a legitimate claim and there is no need to try and rebut it.

I have no doubt that some racists like the blog and other racists don't like it. Do more racists (proportionally) like and read SSC or the NYT? I don't think you can answer that.

Regarding the feminist issue I'll have to go back and read that post before writing more.
> He took delivery in 1921 in Hawaii

I'm amazed the car wasn't destroyed by rust (ocean air).
That still requires you to have Photoshop to do the initial export, at least until your new export format is an accepted standard (Photoshop files are de-facto exchange format in many areas, since everybody uses Adobe products anyways)
If you already know that your workflow will leave Photoshop at some point and you control it fully I agree, that would be a solution (and might already be possible, depending on your exact needs)
Heart disease isn't contagious
All good design is intentional by definition.
Thanks for the feedback! Re #3, what do you mean by "in a search".
In addition to reading archives of comp.lang.lisp, I recommend exploring Lispforum.com, planet.lisp.org, common-lisp.net/pipermail/pro, and searches such as https://github.com/search?q=common+lisp.

As a new lisper coming from Python, my impression is that while there is a ton of good reference material going way back, it's also important to find where the contemporary work and discussion happens, what the current best practices are, and so on.

For books for the beginner to intermediate programmer, I would go with PCL and Successful Lisp in tandem; for cross-platform implementations SBCL and Clozure (formerly OpenMCL).

And of course, this: http://abhishek.geek.nz/docs/lisp-answers/.
It's a rule I called 'Processed Cheddar Cheese Food'.

When I worked at McDonalds (1st year of university) the cheese slices for the burgers were delivered in a box marked 'Processed Cheddar Cheese Food Product'. I built the rule then and there: If you have to say it's food, it probably isn't.

I now apply that in the business world. Got a slogan that says 'We're the best' or 'Fair and Balanced'? Processed Cheddar Cheese Food.

There is a fine line. Sometimes you need to make a statement of this nature. A sniff test (bs detector) usually helps in borderline cases. If you even have to ask whether the rule applies, it probably does.
whoosh

The article is claiming that it looks like the site that is using Paypal (as opposed to Paypal itself) is the one that is calling Paypal "The safer, easier way to pay." To build on your analogy, if there was an independent site that provided links to news stories, and the Fox logo was designed to look as follows:

"Upcoming Political Race Heating Up"
Read about it on:
___ __ __
| / \ \ / / \ |\ | |\ |
+--- | | X | | \ | | \ |
| \__/ / \ | | \ | | \ |
fair & balanced \__/ | \| | \|

which one is the average visitor more likely to click? In this case, Fox has designed its logo to look as though the independent site is saying that Fox is "fair and balanced." If someone else appears to be endorsing Fox, it's much more likely to sway opinion. That's the whole point of the article.
For your information (from Google Chrome for a Cause's Terms of Service):

Terms of Service
[...]
The Charitable Donation
Google has set a maximum contribution of $1,000,000 associated
with the Google Chrome for a Cause extension.
[...]
Limit on tabs submitted
Google Chrome for a Cause sets a daily maximum for the number of
tabs you may submit, presently equal to 250 tabs per day. You are
also limited to accruing one tab per second towards your daily maximum.

tl;dr:

1) maximum contribution of $1,000,000
2) maximum 250 tabs per day
3) you get only one tab per second
As a lawyer, I can tell you that if you are getting a letter a week from lawyers threatening you with legal action, you are doing it wrong. Most likely, the lawyers in this article are dropping the case because the author has no money. Without "deep pockets", it's not worth it to sue.

If you do get a letter from a lawyer, the first rule is never telephone. Do everything in writing.

You basically have three choices: ignore the letter, respond to the letter in writing, or hire your own attorney to respond. A letter from a lawyer is usually a shot across the bow. Sometimes it ends there. If you get sued, you must hire an attorney right away.

You can try writing your own letter, but it is better to hire an attorney. If you think the letter has no merits, ignore it and wait to see if they sue.
Nope...pretty sure its not a question of diesel OR petrol. I don't know the chemical details, but thats what I deduce by the pricing and availability of diesel everywhere else.
It is still mixing presentation with logic if you use a template file. So why do you think it is alright to violate SoC in that case?

They have been very detailed with what you get with React and their first presentation was even called "Rethinking best practices".

It does not violate separation of concerns. For me it is the opposite and you actually have real separation of concerns instead of separation of technologies. And even if my project is pretty young it feels like it will be easier to maintain.

How often don't you have DOM manipulation (hiding or showing a div) in the same Javascript file as some actual logic. How is that separated concerns?
"Dynamically typed" doesn't mean "refuses to give any type errors, ever".
I think it is the opposite. BECAUSE less steel frames were used, they could hire lots of unskilled labor.

Steel was strictly state-controlled. It had a status of "strategy" material. So it was "scarce". The first generation of uber-rich families were created because these families (of highest government officials) could get their hands on these strictly controlled materials. They simply sold the rights of these materials, not the materials themselves, to the manufacturers at a hefty price.
Sure. I do know that my address and name are out there. But security isn't about perfect protection. If there was such a thing as perfect defenses, we wouldn't need security. Shredding documents with my personal details is about stopping low-hanging vulnerabilities. Thieves who are picking through garbage to find identity theft victims are not the type who are going to pay money for corporate database access.
Your example is actually quite good: Are there people who think they are better informed than the chairman of the Federal Reserve?

And to amplify: This was Ben Bernanke's assessment as late as March 28, 2007

> At this juncture, however, the impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/bernanke2...

Bear Sterns went to firesale less than a year later. To actually make money off of the market situation then (both on the long and short side), you had to also recognize the Keynesian wisdom: Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

I don't begrudge Sam for talking his book, but pretending to have knowledge about what constitutes "bubble valuations" is tricky at best.
What if instead of using or in conjunction with using vehicle mounted cameras, you also utilized traffic cameras and street cameras. Many are accessible online.
The Pandora is awesome .. I have two! The controls are superlative - like nothing I've seen on any other hardware, anywhere, and the community is just kickass!

Plus, you can put a compiler on it and use the thing to develop software for itself. No cross-compiling required, its just a complete, awesome games/hacking system.
All I can hope right now is that Intel will develop GPUs to encourage competition and reduce the GPUs to competitive prices.