jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
From -
comscore.com/Insights/Press_Releases/2009/5/comScore_Announced_Media_Metrix_360

"The new approach combines person-level measurement from comScore's proprietary 2 million person global panel with Web site server metrics in order to account for 100 percent of a Web site's audience."

It's possible that Yahoo and Google are providing server metrics via javascript tagging to comScore. That would give them direct access to the traffic data. I believe that Quantcast and maybe Nielsen both offer something similar as well.
Unless americans are willing to do anything abuot it, which, so far, they haven't been, what more do you need to know right now?

As a country, we have already made clear that the majority are okay with roughly anything that is justified on the alter of terrorism.

Do you really think there is something they can reveal that will change this?

If so, what is it?
IE What do you think is the galvanizing thing they could ever reveal that would make the tradeoff you suggest worth it.
We should shove our NSA rejection letters (mine was signed LOL) in their faces and make them give us our box loads of data along with out analytics scores.
It was never your country. You are just now filling the full oppression that minorities have been suffering since this country's inception.

In the 80's it wasn't the country for gays. In the 50's it wasn't the country for non-whites. In the 1900's it wasn't the country for women. Before the 1900's it was only old white land owners.

The ruling class has just expanded to not be exclusively old white men. And the oppressed class has expanded in the same way.
They don't work, they have never worked, and there's plenty of people who tried to make them work who have been testifying that they don't work, as loudly as possible, for years. I'm sure someone somewhere had idealistic purposes in mind when they drafted them, but in practice the primary purpose of whistleblower procedures in the military is to let the brass know who the troublemakers are.
That's not entirely fair; standards are full of hard coded values.
Thanks (both for the reply and for redo! oh, and for bup and sshuttle!)

The multiple-output solution is not very painful, but is kind of error prone, which stands out as redo is otherwise extremely clean, simple and robust. Perhaps something like "yytab.h_and_yytab.c.do" in the filename could work?

Quoting myself:
> it's actually better than redo doesn't try.

This was a type. I mean tot say "actually better that redo doesn't try", which is what you were saying too.
There's http://www.usucan.org/ but it's not clear if or how that will help get broadband into homes.
As much as I support making it happen over making excuses, I sometimes find it a difficult distinction to make.

Jason's story hits home for me in many ways. I was also an overachiever in high school who came home at 10pm from gymnastics, did homework, slept 4 hours and did it all over again. I went to a super-competitive high school, stressed over my GPA to two decimal places, got into the top schools etc.

Looking back, I did it out of something that I can only describe as pure competitive drive. I did it because I had to do well. I was concerned far more often about being a winner than about identifying and achieving a particular thing that I really care about.

But winning felt good!

I seem to have forgotten that since I came to college. My mindset for the past three or so years has been "I don't compete with others. I'll figure out what's really important to me and I'll work hard to achieve that." The result? I haven't figured out what's important to me. I don't feel like I've been a winner in many things because I've allowed myself to think I don't care about winning at those things. For example, I have allowed myself to say "I don't really care about algorithms" and gotten Bs and Cs in algorithms.

I tell myself that blindly winning at the wrong thing for the sake of winning could make me unhappy in the long run, that I should slow down and explore and figure out some real goals first. Yet it sounds a lot like a lame excuse, and it's even more difficult to do when one feels that one is "falling behind" compared to one's peers.

My conclusion is still that simply making it happen may be too superficial. It was for me. A substantial question is what you want to make happen and why.
ICQ had low valuation because it was not popular in US.
It had 2 reason for discount:

1. Users mostly international: Europe and Russia

2. Israeli-based - for two absolutely identical companies one in SFBA and one in Israel - the Israeli will have ~ 30% discount.
Ahh dang it.. this was going to be my answer for hacking the system if I ever needed to apply to YC:)
I can see this is sort of tongue-in-cheek, but I really have to agree. I find there's just no better way to do it.

That said, for slightly esoteric techniques like Suckerfish menus, http://htmldog.com/ helps a lot.
Winning isn't normal, but also I don't like to think grinding yourself through life is winning or normal either.

The author describes a one strategy to win in a simple environment with clear rules and way of progress (school, sports). I admire the discipline but I would like to see that energy to be channeled to building something valuable.

What I like think is a life where you think hard about things that are worth doing, and not mix motion(doing something) with action(getting tanglible results).
Seems like an idea that's overdue.

I wonder how long until someone invents some glasses that refract just certain wavelengths to be a little higher? Could be very lucrative.
I think it's been a long time in the making but the real spark that lit the fire was the media's (and general population's) passive treatment of Trump's lying in the 2016 election period. During that time he was already telling whoppers, and the media sort of humoured it. You can see now four year's later that his version of reality is deeply embedded in a way that is nearly impossible to correct for - this make take a generation now to pass. Simply calmly stating that his words are "without evidence" or "unsupported by facts" etc etc isn't enough. When figures of authority depart from objective reality you have to stop it right there. He should never have been given another interview question other than to question his lies. But that was perceived as partisan at the time so they just let these things slide by.
Oh I wasn't thinking of selfishness in this situation (I didn't use that word, but i was thinking of how purely rational economic actors would act), merely that there is a subconscious incentive to act one way.
Of course you are right, interviews serve as a filter, one wants the newcomer to increase the output of the team, not decrease it ;-)
> and it was quite peaceful

and also quite illegal and a complete breakdown of rule of law
Hm - it's been almost 20 years, so my memory is a bit hazy, but I seem to recall that there were (relatively infrequent) writes. But definitely no transactions: just grab a connection, insert/update some data, return it to the pool.
You can't call code a spec. Saying you're defining Ruby by coding it just means you don't have a spec.
We are going to live in a low rate world for a long, long time. Cheap money means time horizons get expanded. This is the perfect environment for "moonshot" stocks because investors don't care if you say it'll take 8 years to make your first dollar (looking at you, QuantumScape)
I totally agree - but don't you think there are bigger fish to fry than Splunk, i.e. mixpanel?
Can I buy it now, and create an account some time in the future and will I still get the lifetime startup plan?
Cool - look forward to hearing from you : )
True, but the base requirement is still some kind of scarce skill set. If it weren't scarce it wouldn't be an economy.
If the US economy tanks, everybody else tanks.
Yeah we actually just posted on that. The problem with stack overflow is that it seems to be overwhelmed by the HR department of ginormous firms (Adobe, Facebook, etc).

The "ambiance" of the place is more like a formal recruiting board versus a place to get talented hackers. Read through the other posts and then look at ours, it really seems out of place: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/Jobs/9293/

(Note: just want to show a point, if i'm not supposed to post specific info please tell me).

Actually, come to speak of it, the authentic jobs post by zaveri (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1932313) seems a lot more promising. Maybe I made a mistake with stack overflow -- the costs of authenticjobs seems lower too.
I flew Sydney-LAX last month and no extra security at the SYD gate. In past years doing the same flight there has been extra security, liquid checks, and random pat downs at the gate, and only for US bound flights.

It seems as though the other countries/airlines/airports are either ignoring the TSA requests or there has been a change in policy, given the amount of people who have been saying the same thing.
Yes, full time with iPhone apps, including SimplyTweet (app store link: http://motionobj.com/simplytweet$).
is it available for public?
You beat me to it. The UN is a nice idea, but the current implementation is ineffective in the places it's honest, and corrupt in the places it's effective.

If you've never seen the UN resolution that kicked Taiwan out of the UN, you owe it to yourself to read it -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly...

Definitely check out the Wikipedia link if you've never seen it - totally against everything the UN supposedly stands for.
I've found I don't need top flight hardware, just well designed hardware that has driver support. I'm using an old Thinkpad X41 with ubuntu 10.04 netbook edition. The drivers have been working flawlessly. I get the best suspend/resume battery time I've ever had on a laptop. I'm sure the latest macbook air tops it, but I get a good five days of letting my laptop sit in my travel case unused and I open the lid and resume it goes.
It might be true random numbers as opposed to pseudo-random numbers. Likely created in a similar way to http://random.org
cal5k, Investors who invest money in your startup don't want to travel 3 hours (to Vancouver) 8-12 hours (to toronto) to manage their investment.

That is one important factor that makes startups in Toronto and Vancouver very unattractive. Most Silicon Valley investor invest money in your startup based on the fact that you are going to be within an hour distance away. It is easier for them to manage, especially when they have multiple investments. And that is why Brian can't easily just take the funding and move to Vancouver or Toronto and set up shop.

And I haven't even started talking about the difference between Canada - SFO/Mountain View with regards to talent pool and networking.

The point is, in general and this applies to 'most' companies (although not all), if you want your startup to be successful, you move to Silicon Valley. The difference is absolutely unbelievable.
Seems like an interesting concept, how can it be social though?
I'm pretty sure it's the other way around, and Microsoft has similar agreements with most of its partners.

Ubuntu's however, is a free OS, so any cloud hosting can use it without major repercussions even without any support contract with Canonical. Any cloud provider that doesn't like this agreement, doesn't have to make it.
Even more uncomfortable: most of us are using them - even knowing all the dangers and even knowing how much we are giving control to others - because we find the tools useful.
"For all the claims of devil worship lobbed at Led Zeppelin, Satan doesn’t make a single appearance in their lyrics."

Well sure, not if you play them forwards...
So you think a $31,000 fine matters more than a $200,000,000 paint shop? That isn't even counting the cost of painting the cars (paint, labor…).

Source: https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-electric-pi...
It’s unfortunate that Cloud Print will be shutting down. It was a convenient and useful utility. It couldn’t have cost that much to run.

Perhaps the shutdown has something to do with the product possibly being based on Google Talk? The port requirements for the print server include: “5222 TCP (XMPP, using STARTTLS), with a persistent connection to: talk.google.com.” [1]

[1]: https://support.google.com/a/answer/3179170

(Note: I also posted this comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21600206 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21598815)
A CEO gets to take credit for anything good that happens during his tenure? MSFT succeeded in areas where it already had a foothold through inertia, in spite of Ballmer, not because of him. Meanwhile, it completely failed in areas like mobile where it was initiating its presence. As recently as 2011, Wall Street was calling for him to be replaced [1], and I imagine now they're all breathing a cautious sigh of relief.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-20075745-75/microsofts-bal...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-27/einhorn-adds-to-dru...
Whatsapp has an option to change your number.
> you as an individual can interact with, audit, and build technology within the world of finance without going through the traditional gatekeepers of our current financial system.

A big reason there are gatekeepers is the regulation. I get the appeal of framing it as if the little guy can now participate, but isn't it irresponsible to not even ask oneself why financial markets are regulated in the first place?
Exactly, and without equalising between languages. PHP is verbose, elixir is elegant.
It's a copy of the game Helicopter from Ebaumsworld. You don't need to be a genius to copy a game.
While I agree with his point about ecosystems (I strongly avoid them), these examples are a bit weak. Android is not an "open standard", it's a code-dumped open source touch OS controlled by 1 company. Amazon should make an Android app, but by doing so they are contributing to an ecosystem.

What's not widely known is that, unlike smartphones, HTML5 is the dominant platform for TV-based apps. That's why every TV has Netflix, not because Netflix is employing an army of engineers to make a new app for each TV model.

However, TV based apps are still apps that are installed and controlled by the TV vendor. Which means Amazon has to strike a deal with Panasonic to get their generic HTML5 app on Panasonic TVs.

If HTML5 DRM (which, to clarify, I am opposed to) becomes a standard this whole mess could be avoided and Amazon could serve their videos on any TV with a modern browser.
I'm inclined to agree. Implemented a Lisp in a Lisp always feels like a certain amount of hand-waving without feeling like I've really made something. Look, here's how to implement a JavaScript interpreter in JavaScript:

eval(someCode);

What I like is seeing all of the steps a typical real-world language implementation goes through, just in minimal form. To that end, a while back I wrote an interpreter for a BASIC-like language in a single Java source file. It tokenizes, parses, and interprets. It uses common real-world techniques for all of those:

It uses a hand-rolled state machine for tokenizing. Recursive descent for parsing. And the interpreter uses the visitor pattern to walk the AST.

Mine also, strangely unlike many of these so-called "teaching" toy languages, has documentation. I don't understand the point of a tiny language for people to learn from if you made it tiny by removing all of the comments. :(

And, to try to avoid leading the reader astray, it calls out any shortcuts it makes. Those are hints where you'd want to do something more robust if you weren't trying to be minimal.

It's here:

https://github.com/munificent/jasic

If you work your way through that, you'll be a long way towards being able to find your way around a real-world interpreter.

The main things it doesn't do is:

1. GC. It leans on Java for that.

2. Compile to bytecode or some other representation. It's a simple tree walker, like Ruby 1.8.

If you want to learn more about those, take a look at:

https://github.com/munificent/wren
That's why "Haskell avoids success at all costs".
Is it pushed to 2020 now or just until 2015? If the weak typing is still there it's an loosely-interpretable text rather than a language anyway.
With that much/many valuable metals there, there would have to be plenty of gold, too. I have no doubt that gold will be mined and retrieved, because it has industrial value. Not to mention its incredible economic value, and because gold.
California's main water problems stem from the fact the government subsidizes, heavily at that, water usage and much of that went towards irrigation. By doing so they continuously increase demand which in turns makes the problem worse. Look into the operations of the Bureau of Reclamation

As for Hood, I would agree with the residents, I would not trust that the promises made today will be kept.
Google Docs requires an export step. This lives in git.
The main problem is that most consumers don't really care about openness, functionality and anything that requires a bit of brain power to understand.

They get a TV, smartphone, PC - it works, cool. That feature is missing - oh, shucks, whatcha gonna do? It was probably too hard to implement anyway, right?

Which is why ecosystems exist - once people learn how to use that one simple system, they'll tend to buy stuff from the same company for convenience's sake. Most poeple don't want to figure out how to install apps, why this web page isn't displaying correctly, or how to make those mp3 files smaller.
What about content push? Will CloudFlare only do passthrough of pushes from HTTP/2 servers, will it support extended HTTP/1.1 headers as described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9296526, or will it add content pushes based on parsing the HTML if optimizations are turned on?
I would like to see comparison of Surface 3 and new Macbook... at least Surface has more ports.
also thank the component manufacturers for finally selling their chips super cheap!
Just checked out your suggestion, i agree that the aggregation is nice, but $40/month for something i won't actively use but a few times a year is quite expensive.
Please don't do this here.

Edit: actually we've had to ask you not to do this so many times that I've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439986

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14435711

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13206873

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13199294
I went to Carleton for engineering which isn't exactly the highest ranking school. 6 years in the workforce, I found I am no less capable than any Waterloo graduate. In fact, I have hired as many bad Waterloo co-op students as I have good ones.

Make the effort to learn, and it can't be as bad as you think it is. Coming from a brand name school certainly helps, but it's not the end of the world if you don't.
artspeak vs geekspeak?
Perhaps, someone should start a "technology" party.

I can't believe how crazy the Australian federal government has gotten. I could never vote for this ass-backwards internet and technology policy.
Not that it's small money, or not important. They are just so refreshing, and from what I've seen of them, I wish we had teams like that in places such as our government.

I'm not insulting their business. It is pretty perfect for collecting some of the data they have found.
Globalization and modern business practices have unfortunately made global finance markets a very real core part of the way a society functions.

That's why a market crash in the US throws the world into a financial depression: small businesses cannot get loans, governments and consumers lose confidence, jobs are lost, people starve.
I truly feel sorry for people who have this little sense of humor, and am glad that we haven't had much of that reaction (e.g. taking at all, even mildly seriously) to the signs and The Zone.

Taking the High Five Zone seriously is like taking seriously a sign in the mens bathroom proclaiming "Please follow the International Choice of Urinal Protocol" (c.f. http://blog.xkcd.com/2009/09/02/urinal-protocol-vulnerabilit... ).
But not so much that they let them go. Quite often there is a very fast hearing within 1-2 weeks where a Judge decides to lock them up for 2 years without parole awaiting trial, because it's pretty damn clear they're probably guilty - enough initial evidence not to let them back out into society at least.
In fact you can't do it with a Blockchain, there's too much data to store. You can only point to a third party hosted record of the data. The Blockchain only makes it more expensive.
what's the best black scholes tutorial?
I have Chromium set to delete browsing data on close. The HSTS Cookie survives that. Manually deleting browsing data kills it.
The only way to resolve the dissonance is to read Scott's work and the NYTimes article and see if they are talking about the same thing. Looks for things taken out of context, look for discussion at different levels etc...
Motivation is a complex topic to be sure. An argument that has always resonated with me (and I bring up mostly to see if we can find a good rebuttal here) is that if I’m paying someone wildly more than their second-best alternative, they are in part motivated (to keep the gravy train rolling) and in part trapped (“I better learn to deal with this, because I can’t go anywhere else without massive sacrifice for my family”).

The latter can lead to “I’ll quit mentally but not actually” which is horrible for all parties. (I’m not saying that’s an excuse to underpay people “for their own good”, but I think anchoring pay to an employee’s actual market makes some non-zero amount of sense.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26130104
To me it's a contrived argument to support racism without looking like it's supporting racism. A veneer of misdirection and logic doesn't make something less racist if the end goal is a more racist society.
No, that supposition is absolutely wrong. You can lose your head for that in China, and Bitcoin is very trackable. Nobody is doing that.
Any developer relying on OS provided rust installation is just making life needlessly complicated for himself.
Hmmm, I'll give it a try, though I'm quite happy with mosh. Having to open up only one extra port is nice. I use remote tmux sessions, and so I've never had a scrolling issue before.
Bjarne Stroustrup.

Alexander Stepanov. (I once pointed out to him a bug in the first version of the STL. Me, a nobody that he had never heard of before. He emailed me three generations of bug fixes in the next two hours.)
If this is a real thing then it's something I'd want to take advantage of if I started a start up.

American age discrimination laws only protect people over 40 from discrimination, they don't protect people under 40 from being discriminated against.

This means you could advertise roles only for people over 40. If these people are being excluded for age and not for real reasons like ability then they are undervalued by the market.

It'd be interesting to have roles that are explicitly only for people 40+. I'd want to do this and pair them with younger kids out of college who are just learning how to be effective SWEs as part of the role.

Seems like a big potential hiring advantage if the ageism is a real thing.
I don't draw broad software trends from just my own perspective though, espcially when my own perspective is directly contradicted by the op
Quantum computing is sortof like... destructively interfering all the non-solutions so the only likely measurement results are solutions.

The state of the computer is a vector of complex amplitudes (one entry per possible answer, n qubits -> 2^n possible answers). The operations of the computer correspond to unitary matrix multiplications against the state vector. An entry's probability of being the result is the squared length of its final amplitude.

I try to explain it better here: http://twistedoakstudios.com/blog/Post2644_grovers-quantum-s...