jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Krugman loves science fiction. He said that he wanted to stydy psycohistory described in the Foundation series, but chose economics because it was the closest thing you can actually study.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_%28fictional%29
Either term is appropriate, and understandable by all.
I'm not really familiar with the chicken/monkey metaphor, but it seems to be about "making an example out of someone in order to threaten others". So, if I understand you correctly, you're saying that Scott was made an example of in order for the NYT to scare him and stop his writing, with the end goal of preserving their authority?

Honestly, it sounds very broad and rather conspiratorial. I'm really not clear on the scope of your statements. Maybe I could believe that it's a clash of cultures thing, where a qualitative culture (typified by, say, Liberal Arts/English majors) is in conflict with quantitative STEM/Engineering culture. But I don't think that's what you mean. Am I wrong?
That's a short term solution with DoH becoming more widespread... I'm curious how we're going to block DoH in the future since it can be packed into any iot device
The idea of living in a converted van has certainly appealed to me many times. However, vehicles need maintenance and consumables, to the point that their natural life is quite short compared to a building (which also needs maintenance and consumables). Is the “freedom” that the mobility buys you worth it over, say, 10 years; at which point, your van is nearing the end of its life? A middle ground might be a boat, but I am aware of the adage: “The two happiest days of a boat owner’s life are the day he buys a boat and the day he sells it!”
Because NASA isn't full of idiots.
This has been posted a few times before, some of the more active previous discussions.

4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24849452

~3 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16862925
There's 2 potential issues. The first is familiarity. Many Americans have never had a passport, and have no idea what they look like. You can train around that. The second is that driver's licenses are scannable, so you don't have to argue with the CC company about whether or not your worker correctly validated the passport.

I also would not be surprised if bars occasionally turn down passports as ID, because they don't have anyone around that's comfortable saying it's real. I've often seen bartenders get the manager to check a passport or an uncommon out of state ID (if they don't have a scanner).
I had not missed it, but it really is back now.
Anyone successfully done this?
Why is it people think Ethereum mining is what's driving this?

The mass mining farms don't give a shit about Ethereum. They literally mine whatever coin is most profitable to then be exchanged into Bitcoin. Everyone's going after BTC. There's a Bitcoin ATM in a service station convenience store near my house.

No one is going to give a shit when Ethereum moves to proof of stake, because they'll just switch to some other coin that still uses proof of work and thereby mines easily on their GPU farm and can then be exchanged for BTC.
Well for one thing grown people play with all sorts of things. Boats are also quite popular, not just real ones but model ones.

Also there were more "group" activities in those days (consider Moose and Elk lodges and other societies, of which only a few really survive any more).

As far as trains specifically: For a long time trains were the definitional high tech artifacts; my dad bought me a train set (I was born in the early 60s) and though I thought it was merely OK, he, being from the 1930s, remembered trains as super exciting.

Plus it's one of those activities with a gajillion degrees of freedom (mechanical, artistic, electrical, mathematical) which encourages groups of people to work together on the pieces that appeal to them.
They've shown they can land on a fixed pad with their rockets. I think the critical factor will be what the wave action will be like. If the barge comes up at the exact time one of the landing legs is coming down -- things could go badly.
I get the point, but its not obvious how he sees things in that photo by what looks like, looking behind a door or around a corner. I guess he does some kind of perspective shift that shouldn't be possible with a plain-jane 2D photo. Maybe the idea is that futuristic cameras capture multiple angles and his tool allows him to see it?
Back in the sixties, they had the Grey Panthers.

The woman who said "Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind, even if your voice shakes" was one such.
Syntax limits everything, it only becomes more important as you're doing hard things. Being able to fit 10% more code on screen is a lot like being 10% smarter, which is the kind of thing you need to make the hard problems even possible.
When you are reusing symmetric keys, both CBC and CTR require unique IV (as do all reasonable block cipher modes).
I left my full-time job back in February 2013 (coming up on 2 years). I currently split my time between consulting and growing my products (a downloadable and a SaaS). Revenue from my oldest app is still > $1000/month. Been a fun ride so far.
Here's a special version just for you:

> I get the point, but that's not entirely true; improvements in car design have also reduced accidents in ways other than forcing people to slow down.
Most major frameworks include something like this but it's usually harder to use, 'partials' caching as it is called is a pretty effective way to speed up the server side of things when you need that.

Varnish has a similar facility (which allows you to abstract it out of the framework code entirely).

A dependencies ('make') like automatic approach to this would be quite nice to have, maybe your approach could be retro-fitted onto one of the existing CMSs?
With this, the updated rankings are in:

new JavaScript frameworks this month: 24

new CSS frameworks this month: 21

Will front-end developers be able to catch up to JavaScript's score or is it going to be the third month in row JavaScript gets more frameworks out there than CSS? With less than 10 days left on the clock, avid front-enders will have to give everything they have to release at least 3 more frameworks. And as you know, unless it is a MAJOR update according to the semver standard, current framework updates don't count!

.satire {}
> "Right then, give me your laptop" and set them up on the spot.

This article just makes me miss the pre-pandemic times when touching someone else's laptop didn't feel like a huge health violation.

> things that don't scale

Some things that don't scale (i.e. super personal interactions) do have non-linear returns. An email blast can hit 1000 users. But talking to 10 people can generate recommendations. Which hold way more value than marketing emails.

I launched a product earlier this year and it has been much harder to get this level of personal interaction over email / digital platforms. It's a lot easier to ignore an email than someone in the same room.

Very excited to return to a world of human > human interactions.
Or the study was just not adequately powered to discover a difference. Haven't actually read it so just throwing it out there.
I'm surprised Donald Knuth's Art of Computer Programming only got 1 upvote. I've never considered the series a good fit for beginning programmers but for someone with 7 years under their belt who is looking for depth of knowledge I really can't think of a better choice of reading material (Plus there's a nifty box set coming out next year:http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxe...)
I agree - showing the original form is a big part of the WOW factor.
I hate to get too far off topic, but when it comes to cables, you should know about Monoprice: http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102...
Selective sync is huge and was the last big hurdle between me paying for Dropbox.

My machines have different storage sizes and yes I do want to sync my 65GB of MP3s between some of them -- but not all.
That was the fastest $10 I've ever spent in the App Store. I'll echo most people's sentiments, this is seriously cool (although I must look like an idiot walking around my apartment pointing my phone at everything).
Rainbow Shell edition! http://www.chronocompendium.com/Term/Rainbow_Shell.html
I'll make this quick, and monitor to see if interest demands me go into more detail (personal experience).

We do not rehabilitate prisoners. We have a ridiculous recidivism rate (60%+ depending on your data, demographic, etc).

We have the highest amount of citizens in prison then any Western country.

If the Mandatory Minimum Federal laws for drugs were flipped with actual State Violent crimes, we would have a much better society.

I would love to see inmates having the ability to pursue a trade, learn programming, learn a skill which Trumps their felony..which is incredibly difficult. Felon's are obligated by law to note if they have been Charged with a Felony (depending on the wording, for example: "convicted in the last 7 years" you may mark NO if, it has in fact, been 8).

Something that may be of interest.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2008/02/getting_out_life_after...
I'm a freelancer.. I develop stuff that interests me, facebook applications and integration. I love it because a lot of the time my friends get to see what i work on instead of me just doing some backend coding that they wouldnt know anything about, i can normally go.. "yes, that is my work"

Most of my business comes from agencies who outsource such skills, maybe design agencies who don't have coding skills or facebook expertise. But I do gather work from the odd startup.

How I landed into contracting? I downloaded wordpress, setup a trivial website and optimised the site for adwords.

Adwords has been my biggest source of work from the start but its only a starting point. I have built up relationships with guys who will pass me work over and over. I use twitter and facebook to connect with the agencies to constantly update changes within facebook and the new work that I do.

Most of the agencies that I work with have multiple clients from different sectors and what works for one of my clients may work for a client of theirs completely different to whom they originally contacted me about.
It's a shame that most of this interview was derailed into a political conversation.
what does the big download arrow actually download?
Yes, but in a shockingly poor UI decision, if you click the X to banish the huge white balloon that covers a quarter of the map and obscures the el line you want to look at, the balloon does go away but it takes the route line with it! How perfectly ridiculous.
Home emergencies. Large parts of the country do not have E911.

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/wireless911srvc.html
Excellent points. Are there any good books on the LPC/LPSW perspective?
I have a phone line for this reason (cheaper) at the moment.
Shouldn't all mechanical areas be able to be sealed off from the living area, given enough insulation at the windows? I could see the driver area not being sealed off, but still having the living area be absolutely safe.
Not 100% apparently.

> “If a company comes in the door and it looks like something important for Google to acquire,” says Maris, “we will defer to Google’s corporate development department to take a look.”

http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/04/the-google-ventures-cheat-s...
When people say "portable" they don't usually have 1997 computers in mind. Following the old spec is good to have broad support on today's machines but is not in itself a target.

A script written for Python 3.5 (which was released 7 years ago) is very portable and will even work on non-Unix platforms like Windows. If it's not there, it is easier to compile than the entire suite of Unix tools. In addition, it has proper error handling...
Because on-going treatment for a terminally-ill patient is not something the hospital will continue to do without being paid. They would cut her off.
I've never heard of this. If someone is making you take a two hour test, you should probably just walk away from the interview. They clearly have no value of your time.
I have the same issue. I don't want a presence on G+. Why can't the unifying account mechanism be like a Microsoft account, that exists on a database without a public front?
Also, Youtube is now looking like a social network, it has lost it's identity.
Hi this is Manny, CEO of GroupTalent. I wanted to add context to the pivot comment. More than a pivot, we expanded our offerings to include try outs and full time opportunities. It turns out that there is demand for all, and someone may do freelancing for a while until they find the right fit. We strive to provide all the options for the entire career life-cycle. We still connect developers with contracts and short term projects - however we see the majority of the demand on both ends for try outs at the moment
This young man had the courage to expose the war crimes committed by America, and now will essentially spend the rest of his life rotting in prison. More than anything this is an indictment of America as a nation, and the American people who could tolerate this and allow it to happen, under a President who won the Nobel "peace" prize.

As Orwell wrote: "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it".
But what if the latest version simply isn't something you want?

Exactly. Even worse, what if the old version was what you wanted, and now it's gone?

For example, Google's book reader on Android. I started using it frequently about 6 months ago. Since then, every UI change they have made has made the experience worse for me. The only reason I still use it is that it does have one big advantage over the other readers I use (the main ones are Aldiko Premium and the Kindle app): it senses and handles page turns really well, and the other readers suck at it. (And I suspect that even that advantage is because Google is using some kind of back door in the Android OS that other readers can't access, to be able to sense swipes with greater accuracy.)
Not sure if the author is around here, but the style sheet on this seems to be broken on an iPad 2 in landscape mode. It seems to be right on the edge of a CSS breakpoint, and flips back and forth between two different layouts every time I scroll. Makes it very very hard to read...
Ooh it really grinds my gears imagining how much Intel might charge for mobile chips if they hypothetically had more market share. Oh that imaginary Intel really will stop at nothing!

Like the way they illegally sell their Atom chips cheaply and get away with it! They probably do it legally somehow but don't let that stop you hating them! Grr! Grr!

Come on, look how the competitive Atom chips are made with better technology! Why can't Intel use worse technology like Arm does and then we'd see how ... worse their chips are after forcing them to be worse!
The first major mathematical calculation, which is augmented by information, as babies, is the taking of our first step. The math and physics the brain must use to control what is essentially a fall is massive for such a young being. But, as noted by others, our minds are always taking in information. It is, as we get older, more of our choice in what we take in and what we find as "good" information.

I found that when my God Daughter, now 21, was but 4, she wanted to sit on my shoulders and walk around outside so she could feel the different colors on the signs. It makes so much sense, her mind was looking for more information to better understand what she saw. Though, when she did not feel a difference between the red on the stop sign and the yellow of the yield sign, her mind took in more information and she moved on to the shapes of the signs. Yes, as was said, our minds are always taking things in and working with them to see how they fit with our understanding of the world we find ourselves in. And, for me, and for my God Daughter, I pray the day never comes when I am not interested in information of any form.
Suggest HN: Ignore any query strings on the end of URLs when working out what links are unique on HN. This would cut down on dupes containing tracking portions like this.
presents readers with the intellectual challenge of figuring out what's really authoritative or just good versus what's throwaway

Call me a pessimistic optimist. I think the proliferation of even throwaway writing is a good thing but I judiciously use the domain name of a page to determine whether it's throwaway or not ;-)
I missed the initial thread, so thanks for bringing this up. It's interesting stuff. I'd say I'm definitely an information addict. :-(
Confusing wording, but I think they mean games you download and install, as opposed to online games. Not sure, though.
> This age limit only matters if parental controls are enabled. You can then pick which apps can be used, based on their age limit (all of them, only 17+, …). Some OS apps like Safari get extra switches – you can explicitly decide whether Safari and a few other things can be used or not.

Thanks I know how it works, no matter how you put it, limiting browsing the net to +17 year old is ridiculous and actually bad, the internet is the greatest resource for students.

> By the way, how do parental controls work on Android? I’m really curious!

There is none, and that's the way it should be, parental control should be done by... parents, not Steve Jobs. If you have porn addictions like this guy you can still remove the browser, youtube and marketplace apps though: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?...

Edit: parental control is password protected on the iPhone, but it can be undone by a reset of the phone, which any kid can do, so it's pretty useless anyway.
Yes, the community is overwhelmingly male.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=591309
I would not agree with you, and I think you can't compare programming and math in this regard. The "beliefs" they are talking about are rather trivial: strictly formal abstract logical statements which look very hard from intuitive point of view, but they are relatively easy to construct and relatively easy to disprove (provide a counterexample for). An attempt to base your work on one would instantly lead to an error in a proof, which will be found upon review.

On the other hand, programming is actually a branch of engineering, a much less formal discipline. TIMTOWTDI, and not just in Perl. Everything in programming is subjective. Results of programmer's work aren't simply "correct" or "erroneous". Basing your work on a "false belief" will just require spending more effort on it, or lead to a lower quality product.

You can imagine an objective false belief, but it would be some kind of triviality, like wrong understanding of initialization order for base classes in C++, or behavior of modulus operator for negative numbers. Nobody is discussing this kind of stuff with any grandeur.

edit: tl;dr: in math it may be hard to understand whether you're objectively wrong. In programming it is usually as trivial as a compile-time or runtime error, so programmers will usually discuss subjective issues.
First, as long as I am living a healthy life and following through with my responsibilities, I fail to see how being a major purveyor of information is a negative trait.

At this time, as a great team has finally gotten my cancer, after six years of work, into remission, I find that I have to be on disability for a number of years. It is time to fix all that we damaged on my body over the past years.

Well, with this time I have really jumped into gathering and wanting to absorb more information. And, I want to understand how the information affects my life, this world, or those I love. I use Evernote (www.evernote.com) to collect so much data, then find the back-up data that I had no choice but to find such a system to manage it all. And, I now enjoy finding the information which can help others. So, I have designed Evernote notebooks for them. They can just access it, and they will find a very well organized "notebook" of information which they may be able to use now or later, or they may be able to add to and come up with a solution to some issue they were working on.

Now, when I am in the hospital, as I was last week, and I did not have my computer with me, I was a bit testy. However, my phone has an Evernote phone program on it and I was able to do just enough gathering and learning (I never add something to a notebook without first reading it through, top to bottom.). Sure, a nurse or two thought I was a might over the top, but, I did what I was supposed to do, heal from a surgery, and, then, was released with no medical issues. The information I gathered helped make the stay just a bit better.
I did not sufficiently explain what I mean above by including "traditional Unix shells" in the list of things over which using Emacs is preferred.

In my .emacs are calls to such Unix "command line" programs as Rscript, OS X's open, sudo, rm, gzip, chown, chmod, /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox, OS X's screencapture, fetchmail, OS X's system_profiler, shutdown, ping, ps and growlnotify.

A popular and very much traditional way to call such programs (even in languages like Ruby) is via a traditional Unix shell (invoked usually in languages like C, Perl and Ruby by the "system" function), but there is no need to do that. In emacs for example, one can bypass the Unix shells by writing something like (call-process "sudo" "mv" "-i" "/foo" "/bar"). call-process in turn does a fork and exec and the exec gets the command name (in this case "sudo") and the command's arguments (here, "mv" "-i" "/foo" "/bar").

Actually, "sudo" might have been a bad example because for all it know is implemented by calling out to a traditional Unix shell (though one can certainly implement it without doing so). I'm not a purist striving to eliminate every use of a traditional Unix shell on my machine -- that would be a waste of my time.

Point is, I do not write shell functions and shell scripts anymore -- I write Emacs Lisp code instead.

I used to make heavy use of traditional Unix shells and other parts of "TTY world": from 1997 to 2005 or so, my only interaction with my computer, a Linux box, was via the Linux console. For the 5 years before that my only interaction with Unix and with the internet was through an old-school actual terminal and (later) and IBM PC XT running a terminal-emulation app and almost no other apps. But I've discovered, slowly over the years, that I'm happier writing Emacs Lisp even for things that are traditionally done with shell scripts and with shell functions defined in ~/.bashrc.

For many experienced Emacs users, Emacs is just another component of "TTY world". these users typically use Emacs in "text mode" or in "-nw mode" (i.e., without a windowing system) and perhaps they use shell mode, eshell mode or ANSI-Term mode, all of which pretty much require the use of a traditional Unix shell. But it's not difficult to use Emacs without making constant use of the components of TTY world.
Early days? Still happens for me with odd terminal apps here and there on things like Windows.
> Vast majority of people dont face any unknown effects.

Can this be known?
hey whats wrong with tom clancy now? (except all that jack ryan trash)
I don't recognize NewSpeak
This is exactly the opposite of what is the case. Anselm implicitly assumed that it was possible for God to exist, but Gödel proves it as a theorem (theorem 2 on the Wikipedia page).
This is up for debate but this[0], IMHO, is pretty much the gold standard of explaining distributed algorithms.

[0] - http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/