jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When I have this conversation with myself, here's what I come up with:

Shouldn't we be allowed to everything into account when determining credit worthiness? Even if it's socially uncomfortable?

We get locally more accurate pricing / risk assessment that way, but we also create feedback loops that we as a society have decided we want to not contribute to. The cost for this is the pricing inaccuracy which we collectively eat.

So, I don't think you're wrong, but maybe consider if what we're socializing the cost of is worth the price?
Yea, censorship is great if it aligns with your message. Politics have forced big tech to censor a lot as of late.
I had this idea so many years ago, cheers for the execution!
In the middle of the address _space_, I should say.
At, OSCON, the Eclipse "ecosystem guy" (I think it was Donald Smith) had a nice overview of what he was up to, and how he measured "ecosystem strength". It gave me pause, because that was the first thing that really nailed why tech like Java takes off. Productivity, robustness, and niche creation.

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/schedule/detail/13307

I figured I'd just drop a link to it, because it's interesting to compare with "hacker instinct". Java got the ecosystem rolling really quickly; it would be interesting to compare that kind of growth across different tech.
What's the "hacker acceptance factor"? Is that "what do 22yo kids writing webapps and shopping for sailboats to buy after their big idea takes off think about this?" I mean, why should I care about that?

Basically for the niche that Java fits in (networked, multi-threaded data-center applications where performance is important), it hits a sweet spot of ease-of-development compared to performance. C++ is a nightmare to code in, comparatively, and the scripting languages are either dog slow, have poor concurrency support or both. YMMV I guess.
the data used is not based on IPs, but on user-submitted "current cities" instead, as mentioned in the blog post
As someone who runs a developer recruitment startup and is busy buying up ads targeting staff Yahoo I appreciate it :-)
Agreed. I think the author should have just written it as "learn to date". I think learning to date is harder than any programming language and saying it that way leaves it open to the readers sexual preferences.
"Why be stuck in two dimensions when you can fly in three!". I don't know about the rest of you, but given how awful people drive while constrained to two dimensions, I'd be truly terrified to see the state of things if travel like this became ubiquitous.
I'd suspect it's because people in China use proxies to evade the filter, and hence have non-Chinese IPs.
I was about to say. THANKS!
"SkyFly is infinitely more stable than any helicopter. Because it is so stable, SkyFly makes flying much easier for everyone!"

Says the designer about an unbuilt prototype.

You know the V-22 Osprey is "just" two helicopter motors mounted on pins on the end of a winged prop plane. Freaking simple.

And a rocket motor is just two tanks of propellant pumped through a big blast proof cone.

Dual counter rotating prop has lower efficiency than a single big prop, it just doesn't have a net torque on the overall vehicle. I just can't see a 6' diameter rotor being strong enough to get far off the ground cushion, much less 2x6' with all the turbulence that comes with it.
To clarify, this Monday is ANZAC Day, a commemorative holiday for troops who fought for Australia. Because that's also Easter Monday, the ANZAC Day holiday is moved to Tuesday, despite commemorative services being held on Monday.
Good move for Loopt, but as I understand it it's a closed system for their users. The better approach is from Localmind, which just won the startup competition at Where2.0 yesterday, and can use checkins from not just Loopt but Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places, and others to be created to do the same job. See Scoble's video reviews from SXSW, or just download the app. This is the first iteration of Location which gets me juiced.
I have been debating where to put the servers for our startup -- Rackspace is looking better and better.
As an advertiser on Reddit, you guys better be cutting me a check too :)

(although my app is also dead right now so not as if the advertising would do me any good...)
If "multi-region" means North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, doing so would also improve world-wide latency (e.g. here in Australia...).

Could you use this outage to justify switching to multi-region?
This is exactly what we need in our startup. We use Clojure, so Java is a perfect fit. We would be able to contribute quite a bit, we have already done some work in those areas. So — I was very happy while reading the description…

…until the "GPLv3" part.

People need to understand that a library project which is under GPLv2 or GPLv3 gets immediately rejected in most commercial settings. Note that I'm not judging here — just stating a fact. We reject a lot of interesting options because of licenses.

Of course, the authors of the library are free to choose whichever license they like. But choosing invasive licenses such as the GPL means that they will not benefit from our contributions and they will restrict the user base for their libraries to experimenters and academics. Less users, less contributions, less development, less popularity. Again, I'm not being judgmental — I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing, I just want the authors to be aware of this.

EDIT: I actually realized I need to write an article/blogpost about this, as many people are unaware of how software gets rejected upfront in a commercial setting because of the license. Will explain.
I read the headline and actually laughed out loud at the thought of it.

In my mind* North American Startups probably have the work hours of regular Japanese corporations. So a Japanese startup must be some order of magnitude higher than that... they probably manage to squeeze a 25th hour out of you every single work-day or something.

*completely ignorant mind that is, I've never worked in Japan, just from what I've read.

Hmm... sadly the article has very little substance in terms of the Japanese culture in a startup environment. Disappointing.

Is this just keyword spam for myGengo or something?
I haven't, sorry. I'm almost through Complexity and I can only say it works for me. It's non technical but I agree with the statement In general, he makes the emerging nature of complexity theory accessible to the general reader from the Editorial Reviews. It has given me a good overview and a conceptual framework for digging deeper.
I would assume the LA City one was chosen because it’s still shorter than Los Angeles and it also differentiates from LA County. Much of the LA metropolitan area is within the county limits but not part of the city of LA.
> Contrary to what some people think, Emacs does not require constant tweaking and wasting time on configuration.

Hear hear. I've been using Emacs since the late 70s when my int file was a compiled TECO library that other people also used.

Nowadays my init file is only a few dozen lines and when I log into some random machine (with no init file) most things simply work without surprising me.

It is highly customizable but it doesn't mean it must be customized.
I started using Joplin recently - https://joplinapp.org/ - it has a browser plugin. It can store things locally and then you can use the search engine to look up your bookmarks, together with your notes, tags.
If we could distill some of that into a simpler and more concrete form, I could see it being helpful.
It's interesting (and sad to me) how popular this article is on here when it exclusively describes our current political climate in terms of economics.

It seems like social issues are front and center more than ever at the moment. I think economics can largely explain the divide, but it's interesting for the author to talk at length about the top 10% and leave this out -- as if the top 10% is filled with Econs who vote solely on what they think is best for them economically, and not based on how they feel about social issues.

I think the reason the current climate feels so "divided" is because it's more of a social divide than before.

I think it's easier when it's just a class war. But this is a human rights war. When your basic rights feel threatened, it gives you a little more skin in the game.
Found as a solo! You are the business guy making partnerships, so if you have nothing to code it is no ones fault but your own!
> design a programming language around debugging

I would like if existing languages allowed you to "level up" your code.

examples that have worked for me: "use strict" in perl, "tainting" in perl, assertions in C (runtime and compile time), -Wall -Werror in shared codebases, and similar.

the idea would be to incrementally make everybody's code a little better in manageable increments.
Visual Studio lets you do some of this in a clunky way with ‘Edit and continue’, where you can edit code after a breakpoint in the same method. I believe most browser JS debuggers let you edit the JavaScript, though it can be quite buggy.
> LA gov doesn't belong to CA gov, federalism, etc.

Federalism does not exist within states but between states and the federal government. Los Angeles (whether county or city) is an administrative subdivision of the State of California, not an separate sovereignty.

OTOH, Los Angeles isn't getting a .ca.gov domain because the state government doesn't want to dilute it's brand with local government websites, but that's about branding, not Federalism.
I am guessing the 500k compensation number is due to stock growth, not something that is given as part of a promotion. I know a few SD2s that make more than SD3s because they vested back in the day at $700 a share and due to how Amazon does total comp, the final number is over 300k a year currently.
I thought so too after reading the article. Different type of fuzzing is fuzzing the tests, messing around with assumptions while making sure they do not hold when they shouldnt
Well maybe Wittgenstein would take bronze or silver in an "impossible on audiobook" contest? But Plato is a brilliant listen, unsurprisingly.
Hi, I think we have similar interests in travel (80 countries, many visits to Iran!).

I lead tours in Iran, you may find this interesting: at the end of each tour, I warn my guests that when they return to their own countries, a large proportion of their friends/families just won't believe any of their Iran stories.

Personally, it took my mother several years to believe me that Iran was safe for tourists. Each time I returned, she would say something like "well, you were lucky because I heard on the news that Iran was dangerous". People still don't believe me, and I've been coming and going to Iran for about 8 years.

Iran does really attract the best tourists: people with a sense of adventure, no crippling fear of the unknown, and a love of humanity.
Still not taking the bait. :)
The idea that using your state-given name online is beneficial.
> They can all be made at home, with 3 or 4 ingredients.

I've done a few experiments with home made saponification in the past but I never really considered this for other cleaning products.

Can you share some resources or experience on this?
Same password, yes. But you can alter the SSID, on WEP at least, last time I checked.
If you’re not using the so-called “smart” features do you even need a firmware update?
It absolutely isn’t. The loser pays system is extremely uncommon in American civil practice.
Any background info/links to this? The Wyze forum comes up empty, only some discussions on WebRTC being complex to add.
Helping the company and helping the harassed are not exclusive. If there is someone who is truly harassing employees, it behooves the company to get rid of them as quickly as possible because people like that are a tremendous liability.

I know a number of people who work in employment law and I hear stories all of the time how getting accused of sexual harassment will get you rail-roaded out of any modern workplace.

I'm sure there are some totally degenerate companies which will try to cover it up and discredit the accuser, but I can't imagine a place look google is one of them.

Besides all of which, sexual harassment suits are civil suits so I'm not sure what you expect the police to do.
I'm not sure the grandparent ever claimed there was an evolutionary advantage to religion.

Humans do many things "naturally" which were never really selected for. Stubbing our toes, becoming alcoholic, dying during childbirth... these are things which are just incidental consequences of how our bodies are built.

I suspect religion is "natural" in the same sense. We're born with a sense of cause and effect, so when we see effects we hypothesise causes. Our brains have a pretty good sense of human psychology, so we wind up ascribing human psychological motivations to non-human objects too. Pretty soon we've attributed everything in the universe to invisible, powerful and psychologically human beings acting out of some kind of comprehensible motive.

Again, Aboriginal mythology gives us good examples. It seems that every major geographical feature is actually the consequence of some kind of nice comprehensible family drama, eg. http://www.bluemts.com.au/tourist/thingsToDo/threeSisters.as...
RethinkDB gets my vote. Their openness about compensation is more counter-cultural than all the office nerf wars you can imagine. http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/
But who's really doing it wrong? If someone expects another culture to conform to their own culture's preferences when a guest there, perhaps they're the ones making the error. I actually attended a conference in Japan that wrote all names, including mine, as "FAMILYNAME Givenname" on the program. I personally write and prefer "Givenname Familyname", but I don't see it as a cause for offense. As a guest in their country, I consider it their prerogative to go by their local conventions.

I mean, wouldn't it be pretty chauvinist for me to get offended at it or demand that they follow Western name ordering? It feels like it'd be in the same category as complaining that they don't serve my favorite American food at the conference, or that the cars are driving on the wrong side of the road.
The way I explain it is pretty simple. I tell the person:

"There's this thing called The Programmer's Law of Project Estimation. You take your best guess, double it, and add a zero. That's how long it will take. And it's always right."

You have to be dead serious when you say it, though.
No hard feelings? I'd switch to android.
There's also plenty of design related posts or "snaps".
Most pathetic downmodding I've seen on HN. This isn't even passive aggressive, this is just being a shitty human being. Fuck you all.

It's really cool that HN is going the reddit route of downmodding comments that they disagree with. Although I don't even think my comments would have been downmodded over there. Because we're all hip and "hackers" at HN we just tolerate and expect people to be shitty to each other in the business world. Real cool guys.
The article refers to a 2013 paper by David Autor of MIT... http://economics.mit.edu/files/9014

The Nissan anecdote starts on page 3.
It's the same as in the real world.

E.g., even if you wear a burqa, you can still be tracked by the color of your sandals, the speed by which you move, the perfume that you use, etc.

Hence, the problem is probably best attacked by making appropriate laws that prohibit use of tracking information.
Specifically, Bob and Joe need oil (energy) to produce anything and it's expensive. If they create less value than oil they spent, they're a net loss for society.
The weather sucks in Chicago and SF is about a hundred times 'cooler', so of course it'll be cheaper.
They bought Intrinsity too :).

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/technology/28apple.html
It's meant for the type of parent or boss who wants to have more control over what the person with the phone does. In some cases, like "17 year old pizza delivery driver" then a parent might require the teenager to have that installed and enabled on the phone before leaving for work. It's not meant for purchase by the actual user of the phone.

That's going to appeal to only a small number of people, but the company must certainly hope there are enough to be profitable.
> If you'd like to journey down this road and do not want the large ghci dependency look into dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org/) (~28KB binary), wmii or awesome.

If you don't like the GHC dependency, then install xmonad & GHC, customize Xmonad to your liking, and then compile your xmonad.hs to a static binary (in the same way you would any other Haskell program). There, now you don't need GHC anymore and can remove it.

(What's that? You lose the ability to customize/recompile your xmonad.hs? But this is exactly true if you replace 'dwm' for 'xmonad' and 'gcc' for 'ghc'. And I'm not sure how one would make a static awesome binary, because of the Lua stuff.)
College books on e-readers aren't amazing yet. This isn't very surprising at all.

Novel style ebooks are a great fit for the Kindle reader. Technical books are not so great. I don't think there is a big push to get technical book reading experiences to be super amazing, even with the iPad being so popular.
>after comparing activities of human rights organizations in countries all over the world.

Is this comparison available for us to view?
How is the cloth demo done? Is it with partial differential equations
I don't see how even an exceptional quarterback can be effective if the offensive line and other backs don't block consistently well, or if the receivers don't consistently run the right routes, escape their coverage, actually catch the ball, and run well with it after the catch, or if the running backs don't find the holes the line must create, make good cuts, deflect tackles, and never fumble, or if the place kicker and/or punter don't consistently deliver when one of those things goes wrong, or if despite doing all that stuff right the defense never makes a stop.
Wow this is a really insightful article. Great read! I highly recommend.
Yeah. No phone; I’m glad about that.

Two hands on the wheel? That’s not necessary and also not possible in some legal scenarios (using car central console, shifting)
My favourite was Bitomat.pl's loss of 17k bitcoins in 2011 because they restarted their EC2 instance.

I understand that the "ephemeral" nature of EC2 was in the documentation, but ESL speakers may have glossed over the significance of a word they didn't fully comprehend.

https://siliconangle.com/2011/08/01/third-largest-bitcoin-ex...
Sure they are. If the price you calculated and the price in the market is significantly different, the law of no arbitrage is violated and therefore you have can fulfill your sworn duty as a market participant and arbitrage it away until everything is hunkydory again.
SameSite cookies are never sent on CORS requests (not even when the server explicitly allows CORS requests with credentials [1]).

In other words: yes, it would have mitigated Bluehost's problems. It would also have broken their sites (or otherwise they would not be needing to use CORS requests at all).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
Congrats on shipping! Would you mind adding https://luadigest.immortalin.com?
Countless emoji-laden instant messages were misinterpreted this morning alone, along with countless emails.
That makes sense. It refocuses the engineering talent.

We don't really need any more technical breakthroughs for electric cars. Just volume. Batteries are getting cheaper as production volume increases, and faster than expected. Down 80% in the last decade.

What the world needs is a $20,000 electric car comparable to the Toyota Corolla, the best selling car. VW might be able to do it.
Your DNS (lots of threads/comments on HN, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317).

tl;dr: Don't use 1.1.1.1
Growing and improving yes. Do any of those products help Google’s bottom line or to diversify where their profits come from?

I can see Docs with GSuite especially in education and maybe Drive.
The vast majority of trusted exchanges won't even let you get an account without multiple forms of identification, meaning you're still traceable if you don't use some shady unknown exchange/tumbler (which could also be a honeypot).
I am somewhat disappointed that they don’t do an ICO.
Why don't people ever recommend suing Paypal in small claims court? It takes time, but won't that force the issue?
Bullshit:
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2010/12/14/tests-show-that-i...
Some eye opening tidbits in here:

"The 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 1997"

"Several scientists said the most remarkable thing about the 2014 record was that it occurred in a year that did not feature El Niño"

Of course all of this is in relation to a history starting only in the late 1800s, so we are looking at a blip on geological time scales, but still even micro-cycles within macro-cycles can be instructive and meaningful. Would like to hear from the experts on the macro view.
I would like to chime in and say that if there is story, any story (or even no story) at all - there is manga about it. And interesting thing is, according to https://www.mangaupdates.com/genres.html - there is more series targeted at girls than boys: shoujo - ~17K, shounen - almost 9K.
Though it's almost reversed for 18-30 age group: josei - ~7K, seinen - ~12K. In sum female oriented works trump male oriented (24 vs 21).

If only Japanese publishers (or it's laws?) were not so narrow minded and hired fans that translate those mangas to fill something like iTunes/Steam library, any human being of any age and sex would have something to read their whole life.
I've read every comment on this page until this one so far, and you are the only one making this political. Who are you arguing with?
> “But tech journalism is overwhelmingly negative!” I hear
> a self-described empiricist whining somewhere on Twitter.
> No it is not, my friends. You just don’t notice it when
> it isn’t. This is a cognitive bias: your brain is wired
> to perceive threats in a way that it does not perceive
> neutral or positive information.

This is a self-serving assertion by a deeply complicit person presented entirely without evidence, and in ignorance of existing evidence in plain view. The entire world of mainstream tech journalism is founded on the business model of converting hate clicks into ad revenue. The more lurid and distorted a worldview they depict, the more their readers salivate to see their biases vindicated. It is best to ignore journalism completely, but if you can't avoid being the subject of a hit-and-run, you should at least treat them with utmost suspicion and skepticism and do exactly what SA has done.
New VAL code is still being written today. The programming language for Omron robots, eV+ (acquired through acquisition of a splinter company off Unimation called Adept) is basically VAL II with some minor syntax changes and new keywords. It's had amazing longevity.
Yeah but 80% of the people writing Java and think they're good aren't as well. And plenty of companies support Java.

The answer isn't "don't use it", it's "train your programmers in the languages they use".
That doesn't answer the question. To clarify, what I meant was that Red Hat doesn't run a public IaaS cloud to which people can "move their servers".
Maybe a good approach would be to use a format that somehow fits 99% of the addresses and a link on the bottom of the form with the text "Problems fitting your address in that form?". When the user clicks the link, all the fields of the form would be substituted by just a multi-line input field. Then you have a solution for the 1%.
Maybe one of those alarm clocks that make you solve some challenge/puzzle would wake you up a bit more.
> Unity: failed

unity failed because they abadoned it, but it was way better than wayland+gnome.
the problem was that it was based on gnome2 and had mir under its belt, so it would've been really really hard to somehow upgrade it