jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>In other words, Pinterest’s busy design may create an information-overload for men. “If this was a magazine, they’d turn the page,” Ms. Meyers-Levy said. “It works for females because they like detail, they like more complexity.”

Not sure who they studied here, but I love high information density. Sparse metro interfaces and blank pages with one thing on them are far, FAR more likely to make me move on to something else. I've stopped reading more than one site when they suddenly went from high to low information density. Of everyone I know, male and female, not one has a good thing to say about low information density.

Not a Pinterest user because I always had the perception it was recipes and fashion, but might be more interested to look now.
This is awesome advice. I think among other things, it helps you focus on what you really want out of your career and where you want to go.

I know that for some, this resume idea will work brilliantly, for others, a blog post or just a list in a notebook will suffice :)
I used to think it an astonishing coincidence that Bernays was Freud's nephew. But then I learned that Bernays was involved in making Freud's reputation so high in the US while it lasted (a reputation which was odd in the extreme if you think of, say, Dale Carnegie as a native species of American popular psychology). So the two variables weren't independent; Bernays helped make Freud Freud in the first place.
AOL shareholders didn't get fleeced, but certainly were done a huge disservice by AOL mgt. NO way in hell that Bebo was EVER worth $750m.
From the educational documentary Hackers:

JOEY
That was me. That was me. I did that.

DADE
You did this from your house.

Joey takes a drag from his cigarette and just
nods, with a big grin on his face.

PHREAK
What are you, stoned or stupid? You don't
hack a bank across state lines from your
house, you'll get nailed by the FBI. Where
are your brains, in your ass? Don't you know
anything?

CEREAL
Stupid, man. It's universally stupid.
Though, admittedly, the question does arise regarding just why AT&T would publicly publish a web page if they didn't want anyone to see it. "I thought it was private" might be a legitimate excuse for a middle-aged woman on Facebook. I have less sympathy for a telecom, somehow.
Not a computer hacker, but applicable I think: Paul Erdös. http://www.amphetamines.com/paul-erdos.html
Both actually, but the Belgian example is really helpful. -- note to self - be more clear. :-)
thanks. good point on the pro end user. I'm not looking so much for advice on "tiers", but if I should split out the premium services into multiple premium services.

eg: evernote could split their premium service into two services:
- supersized uploads ($2.50/mo)
- advanced collaboration ($2.50/mo)
AIUI == As I understand it
> How would you feel were someone to follow you around everywhere you went?

On the Web, this happens already (try a browser add-on such as RequestPolicy which will show you the numerous sites that track you all over the Web - often 20 or more per page).
Edit 2: Well then, I see now why that user is shadowbanned. My mistake.
I've encountered this in my work as a contractor. Depends on the company.
While this could be the case, it was not always the case for landlines.
Some of my most productive colleagues work 4/5th. They are often more productive than fulltimers.

In most European countries this is normal and not frowned upon. Some countries even protect this option for employees by law.
Unfortunately Signal is just a poor application. There are frequent bugs and after a while push notifications stopped working for me. (Pixel 3a, Android).

I eventaully switched to iMessage.
I briefly used Simple when they first launched (and so were lacking some important features). Eventually I switched back to Schwab and I’ve yet to find a better bank. I even banked with Schwab when I worked at a bank that wasn’t Schwab. Their customer service was much better.
Yeah! Just saw that! fuck.
Movie theaters get remarkably little income from box office sales. It's why they push concessions so hard, and why you typically only see minimum wagers staffing them. The studio is effectively renting the theater the movie, and the theater has to pay for that privilege by dedicating most of the ticket sales to go back to the studio.

http://themovieblog.com/2007/economics-of-the-movie-theater-...
Please don't do this here? If you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.
Sorry, my bad. I should read up on the latest changes in CoreNLP.
The interesting thing to me is that in mathematics journals, the universal pronoun is "we." The reason (I've been told) is that "we" represents the collaboration of the author and the reader to understand the results and proofs in the paper. This makes sense to me, because reading and writing mathematics is a skill entirely apart from most other types of discourse. (Of course, when I say "mathematics," I mean to include fields like theoretical computer science and others in which discourse is of the "theorem, proof, discussion" form.)
Thanks - here's another one that I use often that's similar: http://cheat-sheets.org

Always super-helpful whenever you decide to pick up something new
"It seems to me (as a non-American) that America's default response to terrorism is to deprive itself of ever-more civil liberties. This is why I believe some on HN deem TSA articles HN-worthy material."

It's not just how America would respond. Almost any country would up security measures and, as a byproduct, deprive itself of civil liberties.
> I seem to have noticed...

Confirmation bias. The end.
the marketplace doesn't need the government

This is also stupid on its face. The market needs the government if only to ensure that bad actors don't corrupt it.
Very well put. Especially B.
Arguing with facts, good. Using terminology for the police that an angsty teenager would use, bad. Moreover, the target of your animosity is misguided. Baring obvious ethical problems, I expect our law enforcement to enforce a law to the fullest extent. And as determined by the nation as a whole, Marijuana laws are not an obvious ethical problem. It's not a police officers prerogative to ignore the law, even when it will probably change in the next decade or two.
Don't miss:

a) His other video of the system where he shows that measurements of 3d objects exactly match real counterparts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ieKe_ts0k

b) His homepage of other experiments: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/index.html
If you create an S-Corp then you wouldn't pay corporate tax since an S-Corporation is a passthrough entity. Legally you are protected and tax-wise you only pay on the 1040, but you avoid SE Tax.

I could point you to a number of resources to clarify the issue, if your interested?
In the same way that people could switch from Gmail or Facebook "at any time with no effort and loss"? Don't underestimate the network factor here.
I guess the part I should have emphasized better in my original comment was "in theory"...
Agree with all of this, and I've made the same arguments myself. That's one reason code coverage metrics are of limited use -- they can't measure the quality of the tests.

I wasn't intending to diminish the role of QA (essential) or assert that TDD cures all (doesn't), just that The Black Team weren't doing TDD.
Correct, for now. We're currently evaluating a dump method as well, but haven't been able to put much time on it as we've been busy working on our API :)
You can add PDFs to iTunes. I add them in iTunes and hit Get Info and apply titles, authors, dates, tags, notes, etc. It's not perfect, but iTunes makes fairly decent PDF library thingy for me.
yeh, then norm is .com
anything besides that will just hinder users from getting to your site simply due to confusion.
i highly recommend simply doing .com
online dating seems pretty ripe for disruption, but FB integration is not the way to do it.

for better or worse, there is still some social stigma attached to finding people to date online. the crowd who decides that's not enough to stop them is on match and okc. the new-comers that the article wants won't come, at least in part, due to that social stigma.

grubwith.us is the right answer here: make dating not about dating, but only one instance of what the product does: help people find other people to hang out with in a cool, non-committal way. i'm sure there are other concepts similar to grubwith.us worth exploring.
Also of interest is how this number relates to the non-members. Is the 100k 1/10th, 1/100th, 1/1000th their unpaid readership?
A cursory inspection indicates that their ngix box at least is running on EC2 NoVA. It takes a particular kind of person to want to tempt fate to such a degree by posting something like that while running on top of what can be best described as "a fluid situation"
If it works for you (and for your team, if you have or will have one) then you're doing just fine. Many, many ASP.NET developers are wonderfully productive with ASP.NET WebForms and Visual Basic .NET.

That said, I love C#, I like ASP.NET MVC, and I absolutely loathe WebForms and VB.NET. Everything about those technologies feels clunky and wrong-headed to me, as if I have been forced to run a race with my arms strapped to my sides. Having learned about HTTP, HTML, and core JavaScript a long time ago, WebForms seems an awkward, highly annoying abstraction that hides the knobs I want to turn while presenting me with hundreds of different knobs about which I don't want to learn.

While not quite so bad, the syntax of VB.NET fills me with unease... everything seems cleaner, clearer, smarter in C#. VB.NET shouts "the author of this code doesn't really like to write code" in the same way that a Prius announces "the owner of this car doesn't like motorsports."
> In China, the Party runs the show and corporations fall into line.

The corporations can always bribe into the party, and many of the corporations are owned by princelings (or say Wen Jiaobao mom's jewelry empire that got NYT blocked). I would say that China is much worse in that regard.

> China at least has aspirations to lift the living standards of all its citizens.

Income inequality is only getting worse, not better. All boats are lifting right now, just those with guangxi get lifted much faster, while those at the bottom barely keep pace with inflation. If the economy falters this year, it could get very interesting.
That reminds me of the classic "Headless Body in Topless Bar" headline: https://nypost.com/2015/06/09/new-york-post-editor-and-film-...
The great ethereum meta-scam is continuing to perform exactly as designed.
Any source on that? I just searched both "youtube-dl" and "pirate bay" and got reasonable-looking results.
Recent demo upload on uputube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z3t94ceMHJo
It's nothing without health care. Not to mention time off for new parents or much better compensation for being laid off etc.
How long do they keep producing eggs and what do you do with the chickens after?
I'll try to find it.
It’s a variant of the old “Would you bet your career on this?”:

https://dilbert.com/strip/1992-09-06
That could become a health issue if this is longterm.
> They are invasive species that exploded in Australia due to a lack of natural predators. How you can cite their existence as a refutation of anything I've said baffles me.

I wasn't 'citing their existence', so much as declaring an eagerness to remove them.

The context was you started by saying:

> You kill one thing or change one thing and there are always myriad knock on effects. Always. Anytime you do anything that's actually at all effective, there is hell to pay.

I said that sounded alarmist, as there were plenty of contra examples - such as removing a dozen or so named non-indigenous pests from Australia.

You said:

> Australia is like the poster child for unintended ecological consequences. All those introduced species you cite to refute my opinion I would cite to support it.

I asked how that could sit alongside your claim that 'you kill one thing ... there is hell to pay'.

And here we are.

My point stands -- removing these introduced pests via a terminator gene or similar that targets precisely those organisms would be a fantastic result, and almost definitely have no negative effects, though of course I'd want that to be thoroughly evaluated.

An easy fallback option exists (re-introduction).
Even outside of primary motor/somatosensory areas, 2D cursor control is a pretty standard BMI paradigm.

Not exactly “Hello, World” but maybe “ToDo List App”.
This is closely related to commutativity, which is another useful property of a system, especially a distributed one, where events commonly arrive out of order.
It was one of several problems I have had with bhyve. When I tried, bhyve would fail to run about half of the linux distributions I thew at it.

Also, the more worry thing is that the project don’t appear to have any QA testing for linux guests. How is it that a bug which caused ubuntu and redhat guests to deadlock on boot got through the release cycle?

If there was any sort of QA testing for linux guests the bug would have been caught.

So my problem wasn’t necessarily the bug, but the apparent lack of QA processes.
from the article: “Overall, the component shortage remains a supply chain issue for Apple and has not yet had an impact on product availability for consumers, Nikkei has learned.”
We _know_ it doesn’t just come from Coquand’s name, because Gérard Huet very clearly said so.
Thanks, both features we have on our to-do list already, be sure to vote them up in http://feedback.min.us , we're doing our best to prioritize them.
Wow, unabashed apple fluffer arstechnica finds and reviews cheapest example of shenzhen style knockoff tech with expectations of terribleness, and confirms they don't like it a bit, no sir, not at all.

In other news, there is a lot of water in the pacific ocean.
Thanks, we're just waiting for it to happen :)
I updated my 3G to the GM seed a week ago. So far, the only things I have noticed are icon tweaks in Safari, and the fact that textareas now don't lag quite as badly when they aren't getting a bloom-filter hit on what you've typed so far (I.e. Words not in dictionary/misspellings.) Oddly enough, the 3G doesn't even get the new set of SMS chimes.
Thanks for the advice, we will definitely look into it!
The problem with introducing traffic-rationed zones is that the areas surrounding those areas are going to be swamped with cars not allowed in (e.g. carsharing meetups as close to the border as possible).

That happened in Munich when areas in the inner city first got parking restrictions (before, parking was free, and now you have to pay iirc 20ct/10min) and then the entire area surrounded by the Mittlerer Ring got caught up in "Umweltzone" (environment protection area, where cars with too bad emission values are locked out; this only affects diesel cars, as petrol engines don't have fine-particulate problems)...

The entire border areas to those with pay-parking as well as anything outside the Mittlerer Ring is essentially so much swamped with outside cars that the locals don't get a parking spot any more.

Edit: The solution of Munich is to just put more and more border zones under parking restriction too (and the locals have to pay for their parking spots which used to be free, and it's anything but cheap). And the Umweltzone... well, if you manage to avoid parking anywhere in public, then cops don't really care.
As a cofounder you should let your fellow cofounders know as soon as possible - eg. now. It's the obvious and right thing to do. Help them find your replacement.
if academic libraries had never existed, and you were designing a space for scholars to congregate . . . Would you, as at Oxford, build over 120 of them?

Yes. At least, in a university that was structured similarly to Oxford.

I think an important point is that Oxford and Cambridge are collegiate universities: undergraduates spend a lot of time in their college, which provides accommodation, catering and libraries; if academic libraries had never existed and I were deciding how many study/congregation spaces to create, I would definitely have one in each college, and in each department.

Oxford has 38 Colleges and 6 Permanent Private Halls, which this accounts for a significant proportion of the libraries. As most colleges and departments have some kind of hall/cafeteria, the number of places in the university serving food may also seem excessive to you.
I have earlier tried the Oralux Linux distribution, as a non-blind user but not looking at the screen, to see how far I could get.

It was slow going, but I managed to follow the instructions at boot to start an emacs tutorial and get to the point of being able to open, edit and save a text file.

It looks like it's not developed anymore, but hopefully there are still active distros that come with out-of-the-box usability for the blind.

http://cd.oralux.net/
Meh. Arduino have rested on their laurels for too long. mBed is far better these days.

For example the NUCLEO-F411RE is less than half the price of an Arduino (£7 vs £17) and far higher spec (100 MHz vs 16 MHz, FPU, more pins, etc. etc. etc.) Also mBed's code is much much better.

mBed boards: http://developer.mbed.org/platforms/

NUCLEO-F411RE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=g3p6iX_RpEc
* Yep, another "better than ever"/"last one you'll ever need" IDE. Thank you facebook. (see you soon for the next one)

* A DVCS that rely on a central server for merging (sandcastle) is no longer.. distributed... (and you cannot have distributed team work here, this is wrong in multiple way)

* I think i'll never let a centralized, monolithic repository to be set up in my company. All great stuffs/talent i ever learned came from differents sources, differents independant projets (from git, hg or SVN). Loose that and i think i'll get narrow minded.

* All those fancy stuffs make facebookers better "facebook developers" but less prone to share with others (we don't share the same language, culture or tools anymore, even the design of the monolithic repo cannot help here)

* This is more a lesson on "how we made X thousands lambda devs work together" than actual tools i might need to use someday.

* I'll bet that facebook "infra" developers are less likely to use the tools they describe, and that is ironic. Those tools mostly apply to some hidden mass (100k commit / week.. ) of uniform developers that I'll never meet.
I would venture to guess that 100k over a few years in Indonesia is pretty good money. Especially since it was part time too.
Our future will pretty closely mirror what's going on in Europe right now. Greece's debt is some 115% of it's GDP and Italy has around 110%. What happens to Europe, and particularly the PIIGS nations in the next few months will be very important to pretty much the rest of the developed world.

And besides that, we can look to history to show us that most major empires (e.g. Roman, Ottoman, British) that ended up collapsing did so partly because of rampant over-spending and a very broken debt-to-gdp ratio.
I know it's OT, but I have a PC that is behind a firewall that I have no control over. I have a public server that I run/control. Can I use SSH to create a tunnel so that I can hit publicserver.com:port and have it route through a ssh tunnel initiated from my firewall'ed private computer?
Are there carriers in the US that didn't offer blackberries? All the carriers in Canada did, and have for years before the iPhone announcement.
Late last year, Browder’s attorney in Russia died after apparently being tortured while being held in jail by Russian authorities.

For more on this story and on how doing business in Russia can be hazardous to your health:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/22/they_killed...
I don't think anyone wants to discount the work of the engineers but using the Microsoft Courier as a counter example we can see how engineers alone cannot force a product out the door. I remember reading an article a year or two ago about the iPhone development process and at some stage early in the game Jobs had to make the choice between what we know the iPhone to be today or what was a lot closer to an iPod Classic that could make phone calls. Obviously he made the right choice.
Well, I guess it depends on how tough the art courses are. My point was just that becoming a good artist is as hard as becoming a good electronic engineer. But if the art courses aren't rigorous then I guess that fact isn't relevant.
Please do, as your story would truly be fascinating.
As far as I can see, there are two tar pits that Digg and now Reddit are stuck in:

1. A lack of focus and quality in the content.
2. No troll guards.

1. Lack of focus and quality
In my experience, users frequent a site because it has quality content and they leave when the quality of the content declines. Digg and more recently Reddit, are experiencing a loss of focus and quality and as a result are losing their initial users. Digg’s quality is so bad it is now pointless to read and much to my chagrin, Reddit seems to be following suit.

Reddit seems to be drowning in a rising tide of noobs. Apparently, there aren’t enough old users around to down-vote the crap posted by the noobal hoard. From a quick read of comments, it seems many long-time users are angry and feel disenfranchised. It’s because of this that those users whose content made Digg and Reddit popular in the first place are now leaving those sites and taking their great ideas with them.

2. No troll guards:
Nothing poisons an online community quicker than a few nasty trolls. Another one of the reasons that I’m pulling away from Reddit is because it is getting mean. Both the links that are posted and the article forums are being destroyed by trolls stomping around unchecked. I hope Reddit can fix this problem. If not, I’m going to stop spending my time there.

The impression that I get, Paul, is that your goal is to make this YC News a start-up news site and a community of potential founders; not simply another social news site. The only way that I can see to maintain quality content and to filter out the trolls is to institute some form of moderation. Straight democracy leads to anarchy; that’s why I think a news site needs to be a republic.

I don’t think, by any stretch of the imagination, that Slashdot is perfect, but they do have a system where moderators are selected from heavy and moderate users on a rotating basis. The system filters out new and spam accounts and gives preference to high karma users. It seems to keep the trolls in check. It also encourages people to take more ownership and to participate in the community.

Slashdot’s FAQ explains their moderation system here:
http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm520

There is also a brief discussion of their anti-troll rules here:
http://slashdot.org/faq/com-mod.shtml#cm2000

Thanks for setting up the site. It scratches an itch that I’ve had for a while.
These aren't difficult questions, nor are they new questions that our country hasn't answered before.

The government is the ultimate arbiter of speech in the US, and their actions are limited by the 1st amendment as interpreted and implemented by our judiciary and legislatures respectively.

When groups gather on private property, we respect the property rights of those who own it.
As much as I would like to use signal no one I know are using it.

I just installed signal on my wife's phone and she doesn't have anyone using signal as well.

How can we build the network effect when the network effect is so strong for WhatsApp!
Well, I never read Gödel, Escher, Bach, but Metamagical Themas by the same author had some interesting ideas.