jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> You both have good points but they really needn't conflict so harshly.

I disagree, lumberjack's point is essentially an appeal to authority - which is dark-age style thinking.

Just represent everything in a machine readable set of axioms, problem solved. You don't need to be an expert in every field, you just need to have a basic understanding of first order logic.
Seems promising. Plans for Android version?
Some of this article is well written however the attacks on innovations such as ABS an CDOs is tacky, yes they haven't done well, but that's the nature of innovation. You're always going to have some innovations that do well and other that do badly, the only way you'll find out is through execution. They were both designed to solve practical problems in liquidity and price discovery.

Picking through individual failures and saying the whole system is bad on that basis is like saying startups are worthless because WebVan failed.
I really struggled to keep the video short without feeling rushed. Statistics and reporting is a key feature but I hope those features will just appear if you start using it.
The authors are so brainwashed by the system, they don't even know that the policies they advocate for are the ones bringing the economy down. They recommend more government investment in education, and a massive push for government funded "Green Jobs". This seems ludicrous as government jobs tend not to go to young people.

How about using scaling government back a bit to encourage a better business climate? Look at the policy differences between Texas and California. It's no surprise where the jobs migrate to.

Government needs to step back temporarily and let business flourish. A lower corporate income tax and tax breaks for early stage startup investments seem like it would go way farther than a huge push to add more government employees.
1/ Listen

2/ ask open questions vs. "sell" your idea/product: to understand their pain points, the purchasing process, their objection (which you can answer 1 by 1)

3/ Ask hard questions "what's your budget", "what's our competition", "Why would you purchase from us vs Monster co.?"

4/ know how to shut up when you have asked a question (the 1st who speaks has lost)

5/ Be fair and confident in the value you are selling (otherwise it's a shitty job to sell crap)

+ check the related question "how to close a sale":
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897543

Deer vs rabbit or Elephant hunters:
http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/09/16/most-startups-...
The cynical side of me makes me think that this will go down the road of all other image hosting services that didn't suck: To cover the immense bandwidth costs, sooner or later, it will have to suck like everybody else.

At that point, a new service that "doesn't suck" will pop up.
It's got plenty of rounded corners! :)

A lot of people use Google Calendar to keep track meetings and birthdays and then use Excel to track time spent. DoneCal is an improvement on the Excel but with an appearance more like Google Calendar.
Being Nordic, I have no idea what you are talking about.
it's the best you've got out there. The framework is organized, there's an awesome map editor, and the community is growing.
Rails

Just kidding - no idea
Great game. Just played it again so I can beat it. One thing I found annoying was how the enemy bullets can go through cover. Also I would have liked it more if you added more boss fights like the one in the first level instead of just tanks.
I think Twitter could just be a management problem and can be easily fixed. MySpace was poor management and a poor website, Twitter is actual cool. You can talk about how Twitter shuts off alot and can be created better, but in reality normal users dont care what you created it with, if it looks cool and works most of the time, its good to go.
Fragmentation is my primary concern with Android development, and is something that I faced head on with much frustration with my own apps. But what exactly can Android do about this? It seems that Android's staggering success is at least partially based on its Windows-like approach to essentially go "broad spectrum" and get on as many devices as possible. How do you negate fragmentation without clearing out a large swath of your device base?
Hey, that's cool! Always better to have the choice. :)

Some remarks: well, first, I tried it and it works, so that's a good point. Although the message appear twice on the page (email: ilikethat@mailnesia).

Are the emails deleted after a certain time? There seem to be no option to delete them yourself, as there is in Mailinator IIRC.

Edit: just saw on the feature page that they're deleted after two months.

Edit 2: "The size of a message can be 10 kilobytes at most." Isn't that a bit small? What happens to the larger messages, do they get silently dropped?

I like the service name too. Clever!

(Oh and it's a bit meta but on HN, submissions with text take a lot more upvotes to get (and stay) in the front page — you should submit it with a link to Mailnesia instead, and add the background information in a comment afterwards.)
new levels by the end of next week!
- Fortran and Cobol

This is definitely the right general strategy: You want to ensure that compilers, libraries and a community are all available in 50 years. This depends, in turn, on having a huge community of users with high-value legacy systems that can't be feasibly rewritten.

So basically, you want to choose a boring, widely-adopted "enterprise" language, one used to implement a large number of critical back-office applications in Fortune 500 companies. You also want to choose a language which has a long history of backwards compatibility. In the 80s, Cobol would have been an excellent choice.

Today, I'd probably go with Java for this role. Sure, there's a lot of boilerplate (or whatever your personal complaint might be). But in 2064, there will absolutely be a huge quantity of ugly legacy code written in Java, and it will still be running critical systems somewhere. At a minimum, there will be a small market of specialists who can maintain it, and Oracle (or one of their successors) will be happy to sell you a JVM and enterprise consulting services at a hideous markup.
The Free Press had a long-form history about Detroit's mistakes and missed opportunities.

http://www.freep.com/interactive/article/20130915/NEWS01/130...

I like to point out "Pension officials handed out about $1 billion in bonuses from the city’s two pension funds to retirees and active city workers from 1985 to 2008" but there's a lot of other stuff in there.

Detroit had some trouble baked into the cards back in the 1950's, when they were a geographically big city with corresponding fixed costs that would have trouble dealing with any decline in population, but it didn't have to be anywhere near as bad as it was.
Oh, hi.

I'm also using uberspace, nice to see another uberspace-user here :)
Overstaying your visa is not a crime. The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) contains only civil penalties for an immigrant who overstays her visa. This means that immigrants with an expired visa will not be charged criminally or serve time in jail.

Entering country illegally however IS a crime.
Amazing. I've been tracking a delivery (Seiki 4k monitor incidentally) which I believe is currently on this flight: http://www.flightradar24.com/ABX2040

It always looks as though the course they take is unnecessarily far north. I have to consciously remind myself that the map projection and the prevailing winds play a factor. This really does beautifully illustrate why they take the route they do.
> there's a rotate button when you click through to the detail page.

When rotating some of the images (for example Img 999) it seems to cut the edges of the image off and clicking to zoom doesn't help.