jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are comments about this in (at least) two other places:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357390

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782171
Cool example. Interested in doing a guest post about it?
As a native speaker of English from the US, my goal is to do the opposite :)
Original title is "A Bold Phone Fades a Bit in the Details" - copied that link from Alley Insider . . .
Ahem.

http://www.flickr.com/people/noahkagan/
http://twitter.com/ramit/status/16404714989

Conclusion: this is your site. Probably worth mentioning.
We're starting to market our salon software (about to release v1!) and are running into the same trap. Salon owners aren't savvy, generally don't read blogs, and rely on word of mouth/print marketing. Adwords keywords are also VERY competitive by the 'juggernauts' of the space.

Thus far we've relied on word of mouth and trying to make our product 'discoverable' but there's not much social stuff happening in the salon industry. We haven't solved this yet so I'd love to see what you guys come up with.

We're actually considering taking out a magazine ad.
It was a senior level, right to hire contract so I felt it was appropriate to the context of the article.
You can be a youth member and be gay as long as you're willing to live as a second class citizen, i.e. not avow that you're homosexual or hold a youth leadership position. They don't specifically bar homosexuals:

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

Because, you know, nothing is better for our youth than making them deny who they are and teaching them they aren't worthy of being in a leadership position because of their sexual orientation or religious beliefs.
Can you define "lots"? I realize it'll be situation specific, but if we're at 10-ish miles on dirt road from the nearest town, are we talking 1k, 10k or 100k+?
Love this quote, a great reminder:

> Remember: being too early is the same as being wrong.
This is still a distinctly minority view among moral philosophers. I believe (I can't find the survey at the moment) that most think the is-ought gap is fundamental.
I started writing a response, but then moved it here, since this seems such a common discussion:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2015/01/22/when-to-use-aws-and-wh...

tl;dr: I would not use AWS unless you know that you need what it offers.
> This is how outside parking in Northern Europe during the winter looks like: https://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-78137918/stock-photo-blo...

Only the fancy ones, most people don’t have parking spots like these.

The building I used to live in Finland had outlets for maybe 20% of the parking spaces. Mostly people wanted the pole if they wanted to run an interior heater so their windows wouldn’t be frozen in the morning.
Yeah this could make putting Ikea furniture together alot easier.
You're either naive or ignorant.

You're personally fine, until your transactions are posted to the internet along with the address to where you live. Period.

As for the regulation, things like the recent GDPR helped a little - if you are an EU citizen, you can now legally request them to provide a list of the time someone accessed your details. I recently did that with a financial provider and had a very unpleasant experience when I found out who they share the data with - basically companies and institutions I've never heard of, like credit score providers & other financial information data mining companies.
It's a brilliant example of doublethink you did there.
"You can write <strike>FORTRAN</strike>Prolog in any language."

When I first started at Google, the 1440 Broadway office in Times Square was pretty crowded and they stuck me in where there was a desk, and I ended up sitting next to a guy (let's call him <strike>Mel</strike>Jeremy, because that's his name) who did "1% experiment" analysis. One day, I asked Jeremy what he was working on, and he said he was writing some Prolog to check some hypothesis, and he invited me over to have a look.

Really, he was writing a complex rule matching engine (behind the scenes lazily constructing a DFA that operated over experiment observations instead of characters) in Python, to be able to sort sets of observations and contexts into those that fit a hypothesis and those that didn't, as part of some Bayesian inference.

But, it was easiest to think of the experiments observations as a facts database and his complex hypotheses and complex contexts as Prolog rules. So, in this case, Prolog was a mental tool, not a programming tool, and he ended up implementing a tiny tiny subset of a Prolog engine that used Python object constructors instead of Prolog syntax.
True wealth is how long you can maintain your preferred lifestyle without working. While most of us won't become rich [1], we can become wealthier [2]. As Robert Kiyosaki says, most people trade time for money (job) [3]. We are lucky as software entrepreneurs to have the ability to make some money without working (e.g. working for yourself is not scalable but a revenue-generating website can be multiplied - example: http://rejectiontherapy.com)

> But it's important to note that for the rich, most of that income does not come from "working": in 2008, only 19% of the income reported by the 13,480 individuals or families making over $10 million came from wages and salaries. See Norris, 2010, for more details.)

[1] http://www.unschooled.org/2010/11/first-know-thyself/

[2] "Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772224

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kiyosaki
You may want to tell us which netbook it is. There is a big difference between the original Eee PC and netbooks with the latest Atom CPU.
Nice, how often is it updated?
Depending on the volume of submissions we receive, it is updated throughout the day.
I don't understand why they need OS support to build DRM into their app. Amazon has a Kindle reader for Android that handles their DRM'd books. Apple sold music on Windows for years with the DRM system built into their app rather than provided by the OS.
I was thinking of doing something like this. I'm glad to see the idea being nicely implemented. If I may, I'd offer a few suggestions which would make this fit more exactly with the vision I had. Let me know if you need any help.

1. The homepage looks great, but I'd add two things: comments, and voting.

2. I was thinking of having the top of the page devoted to a "top voted for the week" startup. This gives that startup added exposure, along with increasing audience interest in your site.

3. Make it easy to receive the top voted startup each week by email. This increases reach and audience of your site, and I'd certainly sign up my email for that.

Good luck!
But Microsoft got sued and lost hard on that one. They created C# and .Net as competition, but they hardly extinguished Java.
I don't understand the downvotes.

"Also, an alternative cost-cutter to triple bunking prisoners is to incarcerate fewer people, by decriminalizing victim-less acts (cough cough)."

That's what most of the prisoners are guilty of anyway.

"I believe prisoners do have minimal rights, and to the extent feasible, should get a decent meal and perhaps reading material. Weights and playgrounds? Not so much. They should be busting rocks or chopping wood, or something else that is not fun."

The prison system is too much geared toward either punishment or rehabilitation. The prime concern should be restitution toward the victims, to the fullest extent possible. Then, if possible, prisoners should work to offset the cost of their own incarceration (excluding victimless offenders). So, if the prisoner is able to perform valuable work for that purpose, he should be allowed to, if possible from the confines of the prison.

That said, punishment for punishment's sake is pure sadism. It only breeds hardier criminals. While it gives a victim some temporary relief, it creates future problems and future victims.
I took a peek through the site and I really don't see a way to scrape everything, or even most stuff off of their site. You can get the 200 pages of the most recent bookmarks for any particular tag, but that seems to be about it.
"6. Students who master skills they love, will become much more successful and happy than those who mastered their grades."

I was #20 in my high school class of 450 students, yet was accepted to Caltech, in part because I was into grinding my own telescope mirrors, and in part because I was so heavily into the theatre.

The valedictorian of the other high school in my town had a 4.0 GPA, yet was not even interviewed. The valedictorian of my high school didn't even apply to Caltech, despite going on to do well as an applied mathematician.
This is a concrete step in taking the fight to Microsoft's turf - corporate networks.

Now, all they need to do is allow someone to build a sandboxed IE6 instance inside Chrome so those networks still on IE6 for 'enterprise compatibility' can make the switch too.
(of course, I'm jokingly referring to those companies that have critical internal sites, that depend on IE6 and custom plugins and other heresy)
This is about as likely as it is for people to stop submitting posts telling the entire community what to post, how to vote, how to behave, etc. I'll take the occasional repost over the increase in high-horse posts telling me what I can and can't do (instead of just letting the system determine what makes it to the front page and what doesn't which, in general, has worked just fine).
It can be tricky to find purposefully subtle bugs: http://underhanded.xcott.com/
Cool. I was unfamiliar with this command. Looks useful.
I get enforcement is basically impossible on this/people throw around the word "traumatized" way too much - but I knew a girl who was attacked by a dog as a child and would have panic attacks if a large dog got anywhere near her. I'm not sure if you've ever seen a real panic attack but these are legitimate physical symptoms that can be very difficult to control, and would be extremely non-ideal to occur while driving.

If you want to argue that this condition should mean she can't be an Uber driver I can see your point, but the comparison to race or sexual orientation is pretty absurd. I'm not aware of anyone who has panic attacks when seeing a human of another race or orientation.
By the same token, apple entered the cut-n-paste enabled, multi-tasking smartphone market. There is a word for slicing and dicing definitions until they come out just right for your predetermined conclusion: Casuistry. It is usually seen in religious debates, although we may not be very far from one with this article.
Disclaimer: I wrote mostly Java for 10 years, and Go for about 5.

Go straddles an interesting space. Currently I work on a back-end data crunching software, distributed (running on hundreds or sometimes thousands of nodes), each node running 64 or 128 cores with 128 or 256GB RAM. The problem we solve is both IO, CPU, and memory bound. Anyway to look at it, it's a hard problem.

The old version of this program was written in C. Then it was rewritten in Go.

The people who decided to switch to Go was looking for the following features:
- Be able to manually lay out memory for performance. So not Java.
- Mmap binding to file system, for performance.
- More abstractions than C, for adding software features.
- Cross platform. The program sometimes runs on Android and IOs.
- Easy to learn for beginners. It's not possible to only hire PhDs or C++ gurus. - Easy to dig down into assembly, for performance.
- GC doesn't get in the way, for performance as well as adding features.

Maybe these days, C# might work? May Rust? But 6-8 years ago, Go fit the bill and it worked out very well. And the language doesn't feel "limited" in any way. Yeah, I miss generics sometimes. Maybe error handling could be better? Sometimes I need to work around the GC. But day-to-day, I think I focus more on solving actual problems (performance bottlenecks, adding features), instead of pondering if I need to create another AbstractFactory, or tuning GC knobs, or figuring out which pointer type to use.

To me, Go feels very balanced. I can write python or Java like code and get decent performance. If I need more performance, I can dig down pretty deep make CPU work faster. The abstractions are light enough that a new person can figure out what's going on and add features, fix bugs, or improve performance.

I like Go.
Yes, it's a point of HN case law:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Indeed, I'm awful at that. :)
The parent was talking about UI, and he's right, the Win7 Aero and its Start Menu are superior to everything since. They could certainly bring back that UI with better internals, including Search.

However, Search Everything is the absolute best search tool for Windows, regardless of version.
> If a sufficient enforcement/punishment was laid on a company you can bet the employee responsible will feel it.

The fine was likely less than the cost of the C-Suites annual bonus package.
The ultimate goal of Purism is to expand the market, but (opinion me) when I look at Purism's products in general I don't see them ever themselves moving out of niche categories.

If you buy a Purism laptop today, you'll already pay a premium over companies like Dell. I suspect that Purism is happy to see companies like Pine existing, and I know that they want Linux smartphones in general to be a broader market, I don't know that they're seriously thinking about trying to launch $100-200 competitors. To me, it just doesn't match their other products, I don't see anything else they're offering that would fall into that same category.

And while people would like to see Linux completely take over the desktop/mobile space, I think there's a much broader category of people who just want the market to be big enough for us and to be big enough that it is able to meet our needs. Past that it's not the end of the world if it doesn't get larger.

This is also part of what's frustrating about stuff like the "year of the Linux desktop" joke -- in many ways, the year of the Linux desktop already happened a while ago. Linux got good enough that you can pretty easily mainline it instead of Windows without serious issues or downsides. I have not booted into a Windows computer in multiple years, I don't even have a backup install anywhere. It just doesn't come up anymore. In terms of software, Linux support is something that a sizable portion of the indie games market now talks about, and between Steam/Proton and the recent architectural/policy changes happening on Mac you're now about as likely to be able to run a game on Linux (if not more likely) than you are to be able to run it on a modern Mac device. Meanwhile, 'mainstream' Linux OSes finally got polished enough that it's completely reasonable to put a tech-unfriendly kid or parent on a Linux machine without worrying that you'll get tech support requests every week. There's still a little ways to go with some legacy/holdout software in more niche professional fields like graphic design, but if you're a relatively normal user, then at some point Linux stopped being a struggle to run.

So in the same way, when I talk about the success of the Linux phone market in general, I'm not necessarily aiming for "we monopolize the entire space and nothing else exists." I think it's completely plausible that the Linux phone market might grow, not put Apple out of business, but still grow enough that there is a reasonably priced, usable alternative for people who value privacy and freedom.

In them meantime, it's niche. As far as I know, the front camera on the recent Pinephones still doesn't have software support. So yeah, it's currently a niche market for people who have very specific wants and needs. It seems kind of premature to me for people to be complaining about price and hardware when we're still celebrating things like camera support; commoditization is something that happens to mature markets, not new ones -- and that all takes time.
so fun fact: I was recently curious how the RasPi4 compared to my 15-year old Dell Precision M65 (Intel Core Duo T2400).

I ran the sysbench CPU test on each, and the M65 trounced the RasPi4, being over 3x as fast in single-core (and about 1.5x as fast in multicore, which makes sense with the T2400 being 2-core to the RasPi's 4-core).

So the RasPi4 (a cheap-class SoC) remains slower than a performance-class PC from 14 years prior. Moore's law certainly helped in peformance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar, but if pure perfomance is what you want... I don't think there's anything available to consumers outside of Apple's offerings.
Plot twist 2: Unknown to the kids, all three "old/lame parents" are actually super hackers, hiding from the government.
So is it just a matter of soldering a new chip on?

Or do you also need to flash on hacked firmware?
gentrification: to renovate and improve (especially a house or district) so that it conforms to middle-class taste.

classist?
On Apple keyboards Alt+m prints µ.
Google's actually testing this out - http://consumerist.com/2014/11/20/googles-new-contributor-fe...
Couldn't you just take a picture with the same camera and then hash it? The probability of getting the exact same set of pixels is small and it's certainly not predictable.
Having your frame of reference defined by your own circumstances and the standards of the society you live in is not "out of touch." People in other parts of the world might have it worse — that is completely irrelevant when it comes to personal happiness.
I expect one aspect of this is that fancy printing has gotten dirt cheap. You're not saving much money anymore slapping the black CORN on a white can vs. a full color full spread. It's a lot easier for an attractive design to pay for itself since it's cheaper to print.
> From the essay: But it is dishonest of the anti-immigration people to claim that companies like Google and Facebook are driven by the same motives. An influx of inexpensive but mediocre programmers is the last thing they'd want; it would destroy them.

Eric Schmidt not only illegally colluded in a conspiracy to drive down programmer salaries, his e-mails say things like "this may be illegal so delete this e-mail".

I guess I'm one of those "dishonest" wealth-creating worker bees who read these subpoenaed e-mails where I spin the "dishonest" narrative that I actually believe what Eric Schmidt said about his attempts to secretly and illegally drive down his programmer's salaries.
HN Contractors - https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AlD_6iEb8Ed9dGs3clV...
We had an in-and-out built in Redwood City in about 30 days. I thought that was a world-class amazing feat of engineering, project management, and construction. I'm somewhat in awe of the 15-story hotel project. I wonder if the process/margins/tools they used are repeatable, or whether it made sense just as a stunt.
Making it 'raw fast' is what compilers/JITs are for.

You still need to pick the right algorithms, but I've personally been really focusing on elegancy. Maintenance and Operation of code is the major costs of software, not writing new stuff -- so when you write new stuff, I believe that decreasing those other costs should be the first priority.
Reduce delivery to 3 days a week. Would anyone complain about this?

Netflix addicts. I might only receive a Netflix 2-3 days a week, but making sure those days line up with 3 days of delivery per week would drop throughput to maybe once a week.

Netflix is seriously the only killer app left for the mail system. Everything else I get is either spam or bad news--before Netflix I only checked once a week.
We only hear about the ones that get acquired, not the 1000s that go nowhere. If you're banking on a FB talent acquisition, that's a pretty risky game.
I don't see any point in the parent's comment that indicates he didn't read the original messages. He's making clear that he doesn't like the new trend of calling the NoSQL term marketing bullshit, as the term actually serves to differentiate one type of store from another. I'm pretty sure this has to do with the original post.
Also, that feed has no pubDates or GUIDs
This isn't especially surprising considering that education students have the second lowest GRE scores of any academic field. (The lowest being public administrators.)
I can't seriously be the only one who read this review and was amazingly frustrated by the lack of detail. I have not read the book but, to the author's credit, this review made me want to read it because there is so little information about the book and so much attention to cheerleading for it.

"One of the first things I learned was that ... [Stoicism is] just another way to lead one's life"

This doesn't tell me anything about it except that it's different. Give me some detail! Something to grab onto, to pique my interest! A few paragraphs later:

"Several times while reading I was amazed at the insight the Stoics had.

Okay so if it happened a lot, just give me some tidbit. Anything. I don't mean to be intentionally negative but this is a book review and the author has included nothing but a buzz-wordy sounding definition of the purpose of Stoicism: "to have a joyous, happy, fun-filled life by better learning the art of living". I understand the "you have to read it man!" kind of attitude about books that lead to huge paradigm shifts but there's a middle ground where one or two ideas can be explained, an outline of content can be created, modern ideas and these ideas can be contrasted.
I believe we made a misstep with the password. I learned a long time ago that how you frame something for the user changes how they will interact with it. A common example I refer to is a small textarea on a website, and some clients wanting to see that textarea larger to encourage their users to write more in the box, or witnessing a user stopping and editing their post to frame it inside of the available area without going over.

The same with passwords, they imply a word. A much better solution is a pass phrase. As far as the system is concerned, functionally identical. But to the human mind, a completely different animal. A word is a word, but a phrase is limitless. With proper punctuation and capitalization, it has everything that makes a good password good: A-z, symbols, length. Except, being a phrase, it has an edge to a long complex password: you can remember it. A phrase has a beginning, middle, and an end.
You’ve basically just described an Eternal September which pre-dates Facebook by about a decade.

Taking away the platform doesn’t change the inherent nature of these people, who could easily educate themselves with actual facts if they chose to do so.
200% club aswell
I have been on SSRI's and on the 'normal' dose I would be sleeping around 14 to 16 hours a day. On the half dose I can get away with 12 hours, but then anxiety would flare up.
We used it a lot some years ago when we built a chatbot for FB Messenger. It was a great surprise. FB analytics was very hidden, but once you got there their product was quite good. Simple to use and gave us 95% of everything we needed to know.

The problem was that you obviously needed to use it with Facebook. As we started building a FB chatbot, that was not an issue, but for any other product it didn't make sense.

We considered:

- Mixpanel was way too expensive for us.

- Google analytics is definitely not a product analytics tool.

- Game Analytics was a good tool, but too much focused on games.

Analytics tools can be very expensive and there weren't many good free alternatives that we were aware of.
so far clubhouse has been great for weeding out contacts who use clubhouse.
Besides, he may just have friends that are not on whatsapp or messenger. What is he gonna do, ghost them?
Using the same time to just lift a small weight or do a few squats in place will probably have 1000x the benefit in Quality Adjusted Life Years.
I'm really impressed at how many people have come back with critiques or suggestions about your architecture without actually even knowing what your app does!

So, what does it do?