jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is fundamentally different pre-1989, after the existential threat to the world went away (mostly), than now.

I honestly would have been happy with current NSA monitoring (if disclosed) if it were effective to reduce the odds of nuclear war with the USSR. As it is, it would have been ineffective then, is clearly ineffective now, and is worse for genuinely uninvolved people than the McCarthy period was for most people (who were never targeted).

I probably would have tried to work for NSA or CIA or SAC during the Cold War, as a way to reduce the odds of nuclear war by a tiny percent. Fighting shoeless jihadi fucks in caves who just want to make life hell for their own countrymen on the other side of the world isn't worth any amour of money, civil liberties, or US casualties beyond the minimum required to keep oil and lines of communication open. We don't need to sacrifice to help them, except voluntarily as private citizens.

Most of our problems are due to the Baby Boomers (IMO the most worthless generation to walk the earth) not recognizing that 1989 was a sufficiently large change to completely recast how the US should approach security. Until 2008 (and then 2010, and clearly 2012 and especially now), the Boomers (and older) were the only political force in the US.
> I happen to disagree with the theory.

That's great. You disagree with it... without any counterarguments. What's the sand smell like that your head is buried in? :)

> How much of the value of ... webvan

Webvan? Dude... Webvan?

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

Webvan died because its expenses VASTLY outstripped its earnings at the time.

But oddly, you didn't mention Flooz at all, which would have been a better (though still failing) argument than all of the dotcom bust stocks you mentioned.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com

Flooz was killed first by a lack of adoption, and second by an FBI case due to a Russian crime syndicate using them for money laundering. And of course, it was centralized, which means it could be shut down.

Bitcoin is growing in adoption, suffers from no central authority, cannot ever be shut down, may facilitate money laundering although the US government seems to only be prosecuting obviously nefarious cases such as the Liberty Reserve case and the Ponzi scheme guy and leaving bitcoin itself alone due to its potential economic value. Cash also facilitates money laundering, and I don't see that getting shut down anytime soon.

> if people realize Bitcoin is worthless, they'll stop trading with it

And if people realize the US Dollar is worthless, they'll stop trading in it too. If you're saying that the value of something is what people believe it is, then this argument holds for anything of any value, which is always subjective.
That was an unnecessary and uncivil remark about anigbrowl.

I'm saying this despite the fact that I probably agree with you about Manning. I was once much like the descriptions of him, possessed by a combination of high intelligence, arrogance, emotional confusion, and moral naivete, and frequently in denial about very obvious realities before me. In as much as I can forgive myself for being a bit of a messed up kid, I can forgive Manning.
I admit I expressed myself terribly. What I meant is "systematically allowing people to die of non-natural causes". This excludes dying of illness or old age.
Yep. That adds more keystrokes to optimize a query that didn't give the best results the first time.

It'd be nice if there were an option to revert the behavior.
Yes, but it's a PITA.
For works created after Berne (1988), it is 100% worthless, except in this one little edge case that has, to my knowledge, never occurred in practice.
This edge case is:

You have no notice on your work

A person thinks they bought rights to your work from someone who is not you, AND has been reasonably misled by the lack of notice into believing they have rights to your work.

They did not actually get rights, they just think they did, because of the missing notice that would have informed them that you owned the rights.

You sue them.

In this case, you can stop them in the future, but you may get no past damages. Anything they do after the point that they receive notice, they owe damages for.

As I mentioned, i'm aware of zero cases this has occurred around internet websites. I'd love to hear of one.

(claims of innocent infringement defense are common. It's almost always asserted. I'm saying i'm not aware of a valid or successful claim around a website due to a missing copyright notice).
Second that. I grabbed a couple of shares from Gandi a few months ago and they have been great so far. Cheap as anything.

Also the first month share is free :) which was nice.
Thrilled to see my blog on HN, thanks to the submitter.
The openfund is one of the many initiatives that is changing the seed financing ecosystem in Europe. It's a very good time to be an unexperienced entrepreneur.
Because the hosting was illimited, it's good to have some revenues to finance it...
Ah that sounds unfortunate. I certainly have given up for similar sums in the past (not on payment gateways, but on things like tickets to cancelled gigs and junk).

The honest truth is that we stick with PayPal because we're an Australian company who, as a business decision, take US dollars for our products. Setting up a merchant account in Australia that can take US dollars seems to be unheard of and practically impossible.

Though I'm sure you've heard of the Internet Filter and more recently the full recording of internet history at ISP levels for all customers. Australia has some catching up to do in general in regards to the internet and internet business.
In the Elo system, losing against a lower ranked opponent is most certainly not free. But when you are Harvard and you win ~80% of cross-admit battles, losing only to Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and MIT (other high-Elo-point schools) then battles against lower ranked schools end up being free points. Contrast this with MIT, which, as pointed out above, does lose against lower ranked schools from time to time, bringing down it's ranking despite beating higher ranked schools frequently.

In other words, the features that you suggest are critical, and the system already has those features.
I'm more curious about why a new hire with 20 years of experience starts at T3.
That describes my motivation for writing documentation perfectly.

In my last job, I wrote documentation so I could quickly get back into the context of the different problems I was working on. Context switching was a real challenge in that environment and I referred to my own documentation frequently. And sometimes, writing documentation helped me better understand the problem I was working similar to the idea that teaching a topic is a great way to learn.
Only if every ISP cooperate and there is no single one bad actors (eg. individuals) boosting their own transmit power for their own good.

Also, TX power is not all about interference: attenuation, there is very good reason to transmit at max power for best wall penetration / range. Even in a suburban/rural setting, with more and more devices connected remotely, you need the range. It's not in a manufacturer best interest to decrease the range of their routers. Only a small fraction of user will look at setting the TX power / investing in a better antenna / setup mesh network. The first reflex will always be "buy a new router".

So once again, max legal transmit power is the best overall bet.
Not to mention the price of nickel and iron would become negative...
It most certainly does bother me, and while there are various ongoing efforts to at least mitigate the problem (e.g. coinjoin), I don't know if Bitoin is actually "fixable" in that regard save a major hard fork.

But Bitcoin was designed in '09 and paved the way, that buys it some slack in my book: you can't expect it to be perfect on first iteration.

Bitcoin also has also some other properties that have been amply demonstrated thus far, such as resistance to attackers and forgery, and for which it is rather easy to convince oneself that the chain is solid just by reading the white paper.

As for nano, I'm honestly skeptical. I read the various white papers on the site and haven't found anything yet that looks like a justification that the "block lattice" data structure is in any way resistant to attacks.
...every day of my life!
RevenueCat without doubt!
thats fair, but this is also the purpose of the flagging. we've seen it before, with some of the stuff around election time. high-voted stuff that is was "hacker relevant" got flagged away because it wasn't topical.
Corporate media allows both the incentive of manipulating people to increase views and the prospective of buying good press.
This isn't a deduction. A deduction is when you offset taxable income with deductible expenses. I also resent the fact that anyone would refer to these returns as "shady".

My accountant tells me that the reasonable salary requirement is typically interpreted as anywhere between a 60/40 and 80/20 ratio of salary to distribution income. "Abuse" in this case is when someone takes the vast majority of their income as a distribution in order to avoid paying SS and FICA tax.

The reason S-corps get a break here is because of the unique niche they occupy. A well capitalized business is a good business. The intended operation of an S-corp, and what is currently incentivized through the tax structures in place, is this: an S-corp owner takes a "reasonable salary" (as defined above), but enjoys pass-through tax status on the remainder of the income. They pay federal withholding on this amount, but benefit from a lack of SS or FICA taxes. The primary source of capitalization in a small business is the primary shareholder. That is, in tough times, the owner will have to contribute money back in to the business in order to sustain it. This is because the corporation itself cannot hold any assets.

Without this benefit, there's really no point in filing an S-corp election. You might as well just file as a C-corp. The tax differences are negligible.
I'd like to see the "Soviet relics"
I don't mind the idea other than the fact that it's yet another volume control, and I have a pet peeve about software volume controls because most of them are projected linearly, which forces you to do all your tuning in fractional amounts at the bottom end of the bar.
well, the stay & work bits for the Surf Office at least are on their website around 40 euro a day for accommodation & office space :)
Which blackberry do you have?
I am becoming concerned about these comments on articles that seek to discredit them without putting in effort commensurate with the article itself. I saw another earlier today where someone claimed that a statistical test used in an article was not correct, but provided little rationale other than the claim. Perhaps the commenter was right, but it strikes me that I must be more careful in believing off the cuff remarks, especially when comparing them with research papers that have been written only through much effort and care.

I suppose this is just another variant on cheap criticism that lacks the kind of expertise and context as the author of the thing criticized. You have to treat it with even more skepticism than the original.
The core of tyranny is Orwellian because there are people out to get power for its own sake. Still, Orwell's bitter pill has to be sugared with some Huxley before people are tricked into taking it.

Even in a Huxley's world, there would still be a shadowy elite running things. Hedonism was not an end (or an evil) in itself, but a tool to pacify the masses.
Physical things aren't copyable (though their brand logos are, but product imitation is another story). Perhaps currency is the only thing that really needs to be protected against copying for an economy to function, and many governments are the main culprits in "copying" (i.e. inflating) currency.
I blogged earlier this year about companies that try to copy the beanbags, but miss the point (cargo cult startups)

http://blog.thinkst.com/2010/04/cargo-cult-startups.html
How did UNIX lose out to NT, when market forces coerced Microsoft to include a shoddy copycat version of UNIX named GNU/Linux inside of NT? That is almost the ultimate punishment for Dave "Gettabyte" Cutler, the father of NT and a notorious UNIX hater.
Samsung TVs will forcibly connect to any open AP to get internet access...

There was a story in a similar subreddit where the owner of the TV intentionally didn't connect the TV to any networks. But a neighbour set up an unprotected WiFi network and the TV connected to it automatically without any prompt.

And there is no way to tell it NOT to connect anywhere.
"We now live in an environment where the idea that there may be a deeper, more unified theory has become completely discredited"

how so? can anybody elaborate on this for a non physicist? how can we have multiple incompatible theories?
Do you mean when comparing per-unit, or as a whole?
This paper by Taylor & Berbee [1] describes one attempt at dating the divergence of clades on the evolutionary tree. Figure 2 shows the evolutionary tree inferred from analyzing the similarity of gene sequences between species. Table 1 shows estimates of the age of last common ancestors.

[1]: https://taylorlab.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/taylorlab...
You’re confusing getting a job at a company with starting a company w vc funding.
Because saying "I'll wait until the pandemic is over" is a reliable way of putting off doing something you're afraid of doing.
Idea generator? Yes. Good? Hmm...
I expect to hear about how Amazon’s propaganda was too effective. Or questions asking “why are these workers voting against their own self interest?”.

Everything but these workers just choosing what’s best for them.
Have you requested your records yet?
Yes, the UK had all of those 4 different aircraft. But the F-35 is primarily a US aircraft, designed primarily for US purposes, and only bought by other nations as fitting their purposes close enough. The F-35B fits UK RN FAA requirements close enough, so they're buying it. The UK RAF has requirements that are better met by the F-35A, so they're doing that.

The F-35B is explicitly the replacement for the Harrier (Sea or regular). The F-35A is designed for both interdiction/strike (it is a "strike fighter"), as well as being able to swing role[0] into air defense. The F-35C is explicitly only for USN requirements. No one else is going to be buying them, because the only allied country that operates CATOBAR aircraft is France, who likes their Rafales.

For all of the F135 being literally the most powerful low bypass turbofan in the world, it's still not enough power to be able to adequetely lift the F-35B without the B being lightened compared to the A. It's not just parts they left off, like the arresting hook, but different parts to shave weight. For example, the weapons bays are smaller. Tails are smaller. Airframe structure is lighter, which reduces durability, and also limits the maximum g-load (22% lower! than the A model). They also had to make the attachment of the wings more difficult compared to earlier plans, because the easier wing attachments weighed too much. The left shoulder of the aircraft are different, because the A model has a gun there that the others don't. These limitations are baked in, and unbaking them would make it too heavy to be able to perform the required role.

[0]: Swing role is more than just being able to do more than one role, but being able to do both of them during the same flight.
Here in the UK the most common volume for beer cans is 440ml. There are also pint-sized cans (568ml). Bottles tend to be 500ml. 330ml cans are mostly for soft drinks.

On the other hand, in France 330ml for beer is more common, indeed.
I go from the account of Flash Boys where an HFT firm manager claimed they lose only once in four years - due to a human error.
> It is no accident that all the remaining first-world nations have a very similar setup: a healthy free-market nucleus operating inside of a strong pro-social shell.

It depends how you define "first-world nation".

A lot of the EU members had to cook their books to gain admittance, since they're close to being failed states economically. Goldman Sachs made billions off creative financing during their appication processes. (Germany's reponses to EU bailout requests told volumes.)

So I don't lump the US into any group of other states since the US has a real economy (at least before the 2020 election.)

Puerto Rico is a microcosm for how Europe ruined itself. The PR governor said, "If I don't provide handouts, they won't vote for me in the next election."

Admittedly, the US health care system is a failure in terms of cost and access, so joining civilization in that respect makes sense. It will take another doubling of premiums for widespread support, so give it 24-36 months.
Line heights are still a pain for consistent spacing in the browser. I'm really hoping for more progress on CSS Inline Layout Module Level 3 and the `leading-trim` property.

https://css-tricks.com/leading-trim-the-future-of-digital-ty...
Perfectly common this side of the pond. It's how I've always signed off on letters and emails
More stuff like this needs to exist, but this product really looks like it's optimized for responding to job ads or going cold into standard recruiting funnels, which is probably not how you want to optimize your job search. A job prospect where a resume parser is make-or-break is probably not a serious opportunity.

This kind of value prop ("email is clickable, job description is parseable by random job parsers") is probably not what I'd lead with.
According to that principle, you can do anything you want under the umbrella that you find it ethical. Who made you the arbiter of ethics or morals? That's why there are laws. Laws provide objectivity.
Hmm, I should rephrase. That was, not so ironically, an over-simplification of what I mean.

When I say basics, I mean you guys get to core CS principles and notions, not basic in the simpleton sense. I see Racket as a very impressive extension of SICP wizardry, and not just the #lang/sicp. I mean building an extensible series of interoperable Lisp and non-Lisp languages for so many disciplines and domain-specific requirements is a ridiculous, daunting. PLT/Scheme Racket is something I stumbled upon when I started to research "Scheme, but modern and coherent" and "natively compiling Clojure."

I have been nothing but impressed with the return to basics means building blocks for everything, from advanced GUI toolkit and continuation based web servers. I wish more people were in the Racket community to light my way with more libraries, but that is really just my laziness.
agree, figma and sketch have fairly good and interesting articles. used both of them, love their products and vision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrastination#Health
I'm not really sure it is a valid security concern. Putting any application in debug mode is going to expose a lot of information (even decrypted) to users. It's kind of assumed that you'll never be using debug mode in production.

A notification is warranted, though, "Hey you should probably not use this in production."
To me engineering in general has a lot in common with art. Most customers never see the inside of a gearbox or a PCB. They don't marvel at the design of the lens or touchscreen in their cellphone. The difference between an "artist" and "engineer" is just the intent of the product and even that's a sliding scale.
I still remember, vividly, the reaction of my professor in a graduate-level CS course at UTD upon realizing no one (myself included) had ever used a debugger.

Needless to say, it was a real wake up call for me.
You don't say?

The most appalling aspect of this whole thing was the response of gawker as it was happening. Had they been the victim of people with malicious intent rather than merely a group of pranksters things could have turned out far, far worse.
This reminds me of how some government redacted .doc files by using a virtual "black marker", which of course leaves the text in tact.
First thing that come to my mind after reading that blog post. I guess that kind of light is pretty standard for dishwashers.
Here's an interesting presentation on the nosql dbs you might enjoy. I'm not the author but I'm working with CouchDB right now and this came across the mailing list yesterday. The mailing list is actually quite good.

http://www.slideshare.net/danglbl/schemaless-databases
E J Graff's "What is marriage for?" is beautiful book by a lesbian author that comes close to making this argument. While not exactly arguing that government needs to get out of marriage, it's a solid argument that government's involvement in marriage is a relatively new thing. It's also a good history of marriage from a heterosexual direction. Interview with the author here:
http://www.uuworld.org/life/articles/24266.shtml
This is inspired by the recent Wikileaks censoring, however it doesn't solve the problem they had. This scheme seems to make it hard for someone to interstate another site, however that wasn't wikileaks' problem, their problem was that people were able to shut down their hosting.
I'm not sure having people pay would give good results, in the french newspaper "lemonde.fr" for instance you have to have to be a subscriber to be able to comment. There are less comments than on other big new sites, but I can't say the quality is significantly higher. Better grammar, maybe.
Thanks for this. I have similar requirements (back-end already provided), which is why it was natural to choose Angular. But with the work done in Meteor 0.6.5 and guides like yours, I would have chosen Meteor.

For those curious as to why I would choose Meteor over Angular: reason #1 is existing familiarity with Meteor, but a close #2 is that I would have to write much less code to accomplish the same things.
As far as classical literature goes, if you're read Balzac, Stendhal and Tolstoy then you've read them all. Problem solved :)
They might be valuable, but I'd rather take a single solid, thought-out method over the reports of a hundred random, failed attempts.
"basic" and "discounted", as in:

"My basic hourly rate is $100/hr. Or, you can pay me a $400/month retainer, and then pay a discounted rate of $80/hr"
I wonder how many of those people thought they were donating to Leo Laporte, due to the sleazy use of the "This Week In . . . " branding for a similar network doing similar content in a similar medium.
Speaking of screen scraping, can someone recommend good libraries for accessing information on GUI widgets with integrated OCR capabilities?
one good thing, one bad thing - ruled out ?
> but those shares still represent the same company plus the new investment money raised by raising the shares.

No. Your shares were _diluted_ by the company issuing new shares. Now your 100 shares are worth half as much. Shares have predicted forward value embedded in their valuation. When you buy a share, you're betting that company will continue to grow. If it's having to raise money and issue new stock, odds are it's struggling with cash on hand. Maybe the bet will work out for you. Maybe not. Stocks are gambling, though, don't let yourself believe otherwise.
> This might be an unpopular opinion, but Apple is a company, not a charity. They shouldn't be held high moral standards

Reminds me of Charlie Stross' talk about predicting the future of sociopathic AI's by comparing them to corporations. I think it's a huge issue in modern society that we have these powerful entities treated on a similar footing to people, but that are expected not to have moral standards.