jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it's more likely due to the echo chamber of the media/pollsters and big cities who didn't count of all the 'fly over' areas actually coming together.

I remember working a temp job at a polling call center and although I was just doing grunt work of calling people, it was clearly obvious they were doing polls to hear what they wanted. There was only 1 survey out of maybe 200 that was what I would consider unbiased and didn't have any leading questions or pre-picked answers.

You would screen out people in the beginning of the survey that were obviously not interested in whoever candidate you were calling in regards to, and more often than not the survey itself would have leading questions to get the answers they want so they can take the results and be like, "See our Candidate is winning!!!" - yet they only called people and did the survey with those who were already willing to vote for said candidate.

Polls are literally circle jerking people who were voting democrat and those regarding republican candidate were always negative.

It also could be that the particular call center I was working out of only had contracts with Democratic parties/PACS but from my time there it was clear that polls are a racket.
I have been using Emacs for about 20 years, and I love that you can use it on Windows and Linux and character mode and GUI. Love the programmability and the keyboard shortcuts.

Where it sucks though is programming language smarts such as "intellisense" completion. Even something basic such as syntax coloring doesn't work reliably--depends on the mode implementation and most of them are buggy.

I get by in other editors such as Visual Studio and VSCode by downloading emacs emulators.
In my experience it depends on the blog/article. You aren't always able to see the full article without logging in and you get a limited number of free articles when signed in.
This is literally like asking why no biotechs have come in and disrupted, say, the CPAP machine market with lower cost alternatives.

Calculators used in university entrance examinations must be approved and certified by THE COLLEGE BOARD™, who will only approve specific models and not workalikes. The stated reason for this is to prevent cheating, but as usual the creation of monopolies who can then charge what they like is a nice side benefit, if not the primary benefit.
If I were Google's CEO, I would quit hiring a bunch of pretensious blow-hard phd's. Seriously. The problem with Google is that Google doesn't attract creative talent. Google attracts stuck-up phd's that don't want to be told that their ideas are goofy and un-cool.

The vibe around Google, with its goofy pretensious phd's is one major reason why all the real creative talent is leaving the googleplex.

On a related note, the thing about Mark Zuckerberg, whether you like Facebook or not, is that he's the exact type of person that if he went to Google looking for a job, Google would tell him "you're not a fancy phd" and tell him to go online and fill out a request to be an intern. Think about it.
As someone seriously considering giving this a go (our consulting business is about to complete it's first year, we have built up a good war chest in the bank without any investment, and we're planning our web app right now), I would be foolish not to listen to the advice and experience (with a grain of salt) of those who have come before me and succeeded. Anything that helps me avoid mistakes that others have figured out is a good thing.

The comment above - while maybe tongue in cheek - is short-sighted to say the least.

Thanks for putting these together!
I'm shocked and ashamed that Russ Feingold appears on this list. I thought him to be an upstanding senator until now.
http://blog.dexy.it/247 should be ready soon. The product allows your documenation to be ran like normal code, no matter the language, therefore you will always have working docs(if regularly running it against a vm)
>What they can't deal with as well is a sudden burst of many errors.

Actually that is false, as far as low doses:

>When you are asked whether there is a critical time period over which 1 rem of dose may have a greater biological impact than it might otherwise have, the answer is "No." One rem of dose is sufficiently low that whether it was delivered within one second or spread over a year or more, we would not expect any difference in biological effects.

https://hps.org/publicinformation/ate/q8325.html

(For comparison, 1 uSv = 0.1 mrem).

>The risk of cancer is caused by DNA errors. Your cells are constantly checking and repairing your DNA for mutations and damage. They can usually repair or detect a low error rate

But in this dose regime, ionization events are so rare, that they are so far apart that no cell experiences more than one. There is no variation in error rate.
WSJ, Owned by News Corp, who ownes Fox, who recently blocked Google TV.

Not exactly an unbiased source.
The php docs are also nice in that it's really easy to work out a url to the document you need; it's almost always just php.net/functionname, and if it's not then you still get something useful.
What’s the problem with God?
Conventionally, at least in Britain, you just say "Peace in our time" (or more correctly "Peace for our time") to invoke this idea. That's what Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain said after he landed in Britain with signed agreement from Hitler that there would be no war.

But I suppose that might be unfamiliar to American readers as they did not enter the war at the beginning, and "Peace for our time" was invoked in a different context by JFK.
This is actually the much less known flip side of the Dunning–Kruger effect [1].

> Moreover, competent students tended to underestimate their own competence, because they erroneously presumed that tasks easy for them to perform were also easy for other people to perform.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...
It was well noticed when WhatsApp changed hands to Facebook, and yet the vast majority of users didn't move to anything else because of network effects.

Once users are in an ecosystem it takes years to convince them to change and only after they hit a high discomfort tipping point.

If Signal ran short on funding and got bought by Google or Facebook all the tracking would kick in and most users would stay.

We must stop herding people into walled gardens. It is unethical and always backfires.
Maybe someone trying out a badly trained GPT-3 generator
as I watch this, I need to point out the amazing Harvard commencement speech from Conan in 2000

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFY0-IFcwc
Transcript: http://www.allowe.com/Humor/book/COBspeech2k.htm

edit: watched it. The harvard one was much better, imo. highly recommended.
Examples of a situation where you don't want a resource associated with a variable/storage location?

Global variables exist and can be used to hold resources. If you have a resource that's not associated with any single function context you can move it into the global variable.
Au contraire!

Check out my post on the front page of HN just a couple days ago (before this was written) ;)

The exact same reference, but relating to Clojure.

http://copperthoughts.com/p/clojure-io-p1/

That's not to say I don't appreciate it, though :)
LHC's main problem has more to do with massive amounts of I/O rather than processing. It'd be better to set up a distributed database torrent than processing.
Dude, that defence went out of style over 60 years ago.
I'm surprised that google is really slow to move on this. Our organisation has already been using Google Apps for a year or so and want to replace our network shares. With all our user accounts and email groups, Google is in the best position to do execute yet the lack of good solutions means we're likely to look elsewhere.

There's a couple of third parties that integrate with Google Docs, but none of them fit the bill from some quick internal tests. Gladinet - unreliable with certain functions. Insync - still very much "beta" mode; no folders, no business plan options.
Another complaint I have with HAML is its treatment of whitespace. Consider:

%p
%span.underlinedText this is underlined
\.

This will underline " this is underlined ", with the spaces, which looks messy. You can extrapolate this behavior to even messier cases, but you get my point. HAML's solution is:

%p
%span.underlinedText><
this is underlined
%span><
\.

Fun, right? However, I still consider HAML to be a beautiful replacement for raw HTML.
There are possibly some good reasons for that. If your employee sits most of the day, and you are covering his medical expenses, perhaps it is a good idea to get him a chair that doesn't screw up his body.
Some of the big ones - like receiving calls - don't.
Indeed.

So hey, to make something of this discussion: Am I correct in thinking HAML is fairly closely tied to Ruby? I'm quite familiar with Markdown* , but don't use Ruby. As long as we're committing to a given language for an ersatz HTML syntax, I prefer CL-WHO (http://weitz.de/cl-who/) or a similar approach in Lua, JSON, etc.

Also, it doesn't look like there's cross-language support, which is a major advantage for Markdown, JSON, and other such formats.

* My favorite implementation is discount (http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/), which is written in C, quite fast, and has a good test suite and pretty clean API.
This event "Incubate 2.0" here is real, and sold out. Some of my friends are speaking =P http://startupcause.eventbrite.com/
Much more importantly, however, the OpenTable software can be hugely
valuable to restaurants’ own bottom line, even if they would be sold
out every night without it. Dan Simons of Founding Fathers, a restaurant
which spends $6,000 per month on OpenTable, says in response to Pastore
that once he started taking advantage of its software capabilities,
he managed to increase sales by 15%.

It would have been nice if they had elaborated a bit on this point.
This is great - but you still have to be in the app to make a phone call (doesn't integrate with the native iPhone phone app well). Does anyone know if the Android version has tighter integration?

I'd like to not have to remember to launch the app to return a call and use the native SMS app to send from my GV number. Is this possible with the Android version?
The Rise of the Hacker News Eco System!
This article should be titled "I don't understand Haml".

Simple tags for ya buddy:

:plain

:textile

:javascript
Hell, yea.
Lenovo/Thinkpad are usually more expensive than the others. However, I bought the cheap version of Lenovo ($350 after rebates) last xmas as a replacement laptop. It's one of the best laptops I got over the year. The specs can't be beaten, and screen and build quality are superb.
I second that. I'm a vim lover anyway, but vimperator has been awesome for me. I had RSI problems and this really helped me to reduce my usage of the mouse. Like vim, there's a learning curve, but there are very useful corners to explore.
Well, I ordered a 15" MBP about a month before this year's line came out. It was my first one, so I was unaware of their typical upgrade cycle, macrumors, etc. I was well past the return date and feeling like shit. I called them up and they RMA'd it, waived the restocking fee and paid the return shipping, no questions asked. I got a significantly better machine for about $300 cheaper. I was giddy like a schoolgirl.
I like it, and I think others will say so once the "OMG it changed!" response goes away.
Crappy rotating background images are not a feature. I always remove them from every product, desktop, tool I have. I will NOT be "wondering what the fuss was" in a month.
If you contact your local universities, they put you in touch with interested students.

Interviewing the interns is the tricky part.
Reading on the toilet is actually bad for your lower intestines. It can lead to health problems. You want to minimize (within reason) the time spent sitting over a hole like that.
Are they more pompous or less pompous than the articles that show up every so often claiming that Tech is a bubble that's about to pop any moment now?
Relatively equal, or close enough to not be measurable by casual observation influenced by the variances of long-term memory.
So is the UI 100% core Ios or does some widgets live in a Webview ie html widgets ?
Depression has certain criteria, for example things like you don't enjoy anything, you feel tired all the time, you consider that you shouldn't live, and so on. I had a mild depression, and I know this is not it. I am happy, I like to meet people from time to time, etc.

It's not addiction either - I spend my days on the Internet (or in computer games) a lot, but if I had to spend a week without it, it wouldn't be a problem. I don't have to be connected 24x7 either. I also sometimes abandon the game for no reason.

It's really just you don't feel so motivated by the things in the real world compared to virtual possibilities. Let me reiterate, I think parent was spot on when he talked about the "artificial Skinner box of instant rewards", and I don't think there is a psychiatric category describing this.

It's not a mental disorder, just like overeating (and being overweight due to that) isn't (usually) a disorder. But yeah, it may be a mental health issue. It's mentally unhealthy behavior, just like eating too much is unhealthy.
Pretty confident Sam will win, given the current track record, and baring a complete market collapse.
2) and 3) seem like a given, but looking at the companies in 1), I think Sam might have his work cut out for him...
Because I'd prefer not to help distribute the leaked information? If you want the information, nothing stopping you from getting it, true. However, me throwing up an entire list of e-mails just adds to the problem.
Hmm, this doesn't work in Opera. It won't play anything.
Consolas / Lucida Console (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolas)
Perhaps it should be required that the net income from this lottery be 0.
As of at least my morning, yes.
Excluding tools you use at work - Reuters Eikon, Bloomberg, Factset.
Let's make this a thread that adds value to everyone reading it. Reader's Digest also seems to be a decent resource according to these reviews https://readers-digest.pissedconsumer.com/review.html

1: Barrons
2: Financial Times
3: Economist
4: Bloomberg
5: Foreign Policy
6: Foreign Affairs
7: WSJ/NY Times (switch off every now and then so essentially interchangeable, NY Times has a broader focus, WSJ is more focused on the markets and business. I get a lot of business and markets news elsewhere, so the NY Times is usually my preferred option.)
I mean it’s just digits in a database.

Price discovery sounds useful until you realize that the important thing is to just make enough food and meds for everyone, and the rest are mostly details.
I think 'illegal' isn't the best word here. In the US and the other 'five eyes' nations, it seems to me, agencies have a much broader scope than that. Things you say aren't strictly illegal (after all there's the first amendment, and similar laws in the other countries), but they are classed as threatening in other ways.
Also, anything we say might not get us in trouble today, but since it's hard to predict what the future holds -- laws may become harsher for example --, it might indeed get us in trouble two or even five years from now, (possibly after it no longer represents our current opinions even) since it's all recorded.

About China I agree, and think they and other similar nations stayed competitive because they have where to 'borrow' innovation from (i.e. the freer nations). If we ever get to a place where the whole world is totalitarian/authoritarian this will stifle innovation everywhere.
AFAICT Fitness+ is more of a competitor to an app like Shred, which I just found less sticky. I'll pay more for a service I'll actually use.
>Hackers Move $3.55B Worth of Bitcoin from 2016 Bitfinex Hack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30162085

So government was moving bitcoins not hackers. Like I said in that thread it is easier to launder cash than bitcoins because bitcoins are on chain forever and cold cash can be laundered in numerous ways.
> What makes hacking illegal?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/4409500570381-Stop...

It's the first result for "disable Zoom incoming video".
Amounts are not public with Monero outputs created within the last few years.
I don't understand all technicalities of cryptocurrencies, however you make it illegal to mix with known stolen cryptocurrencies - and then it won't get mixed; else yes, it's a problem if your ethics make you okay with rewarding criminal behaviour by allowing stolen money to be spent.
The vast majority of the semiconductor market doesn't use bleeding edge nodes, even at TSMC which only has something like 20% of their current production on industry leading nodes. Even if Intel never catches up to TSMC and remains a year or two behind, that still leaves them a huge percentage of the market that they can potentially serve. There is a lot of money and volume in boring, unsexy chips like automotive and industrial microcontrollers and the like.
I think given the severity and potential criminal lawsuits for this nobody will step out right away, however I'm pretty sure the geohot story pissed off some good hackers who found something to do in their spare time...
Don't read this as a defense of the company, but there hasn't really been a single, monolithic Sony for decades. Sony Music Entertainment, perpetrators of 2005's rootkit debacle, is pretty far removed from Sony Computer Entertainment, the division responsible for Playstation. Sony Electronics, makers of TVs, home theater systems, and Walkmans, is another silo, as is Sony Pictures.

Of course, every act of incompetence under the Sony name tarnishes that name, and in the marketplace, that's ultimately all that matters.
I'd advocate calculating the statistical margin of error [1] before the election (which might, in fact, be +/-2% if the election is small enough) and doing the coin flip if it's within that margin.

[1] Technically margin_of_error(votes_cast).
Good stuff.

In terms of UX I'd propose one small change. Creating a new post-it by a simple click is too easy and becomes too accidental. An alternative way might be best.

Also ideally, implementing ctrl+z/y for undo/redo would be a big plus.

But good stuff.
So the actual process management stuff is built on top of runit?

Is this a Linuxey only sort of thing or are FreeBSD/OpenBSD/OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana invited to the party?
I can understand where she is coming from: if you can't survive doing what you love, what is the point of being a master carpenter if you can't support your family with it?

Now this contradiction is probably more applicable outside the western developed nations, where making a living income is a much more difficult task than most of us here will think.

I think a read of Maslow comes to mind. You can only start thinking about higher needs in his pyramid when the lower ones are met. I have yet to meet anyone who can cut out food and shelter from that base level.
I think alot of this makes sense, in a certain context. It comes from a person writing about alot of people who don't actually have a passion, just a "moderate interest".

A passion makes one get out of bed to do it, or research/study it, or talk incessantly about it, or practice it. They can't help but evangelize their passion, they would continue doing it even if they had to pay money to do it.

When your passion is a loss-leader for you in a personal finance sense, then you could be ready to make it your living.

In other words, make what you're living your living. Some people claim to love sitting around watching television, but in actuality they are lulled into it through boredom or exhaustion. If they had more energy, they perhaps wouldn't do 50% of those "loves" and do other things.

I talk to guys in the workforce who say "man if I could just make money boatin' n' fishin', boy I'd be set." No, that's your weekend escape hatch. Get on that boat every day after work if you really want to get paid. See the pain points in the "want to boat recreationally" industry/market and then serve it. If you can't do it, then you're just one of those "weekend warriors" adrift with a couple sixers whittling time away.

That's not a passion, that's not what you love. It's a pastime, like carving wood on the porch or reading romance novels before bedtime. Now, writing a romance novel in any professional capacity (yes even romance novels) takes a dedication that likely 90% of romance novel readers (or any other reading enthusiast who dreams wistfully of writing for a living) have the time, training, dedication, or inclination of doing. Of the remaining 10%, only a handful will have the amount of talent, perseverance, immunity to rejection and ridicule, and plain luck it takes to make a living out of it.

If you don't like the odds, odds are you don't like the career. Don't do it. But don't listen to people who say you can't do your passion as a career. I refuse to believe your only choices in life is either be infinitely talented, connected, and lucky or to work for a corporation. There is in-between, and just because there are Zuckerbergs and JK Rowlings out there making everyone else in their field look bad with their embarrassment of successes, not everyone has or even needs that insane gobs of drive and dedication and luck. You just need to push at it every day like you did when you first started doing it. Consistence and persistence unlocks doors.
Github is really doing an excellent job of presenting the power of git via a web interface. So now they've condensed the process of fork, change, recommit (and possibly pull request?) to one Edit button. Imagine a new workflow for wikis, where github's patchset approval and merge process is used to allow other people to fix a page in a controlled manner, and you don't need git to do this--just a github account and a web browser.
That sounds positively luxurious... I recently worked on a project where the microcontroller had 768 bytes of RAM and around 32k flash. The hardware team were really pushing for a slightly cheaper version of the microcontroller with only 512 bytes RAM but as we software folks were feeling pinched even at 768, they got overruled.
Science on the tv and radio works this way (also, sadly Science as a career as well) but Science proper doesn't. You could do a study that showed candy causing acne, but if I falsified your hypothesis with a single cheap study showing that I fed the candy to another group of people and saw no effect (double blind etc), and other people reproduced that - then Science would move on (chewing the sweeties and spot free!) The trouble is that nothing like enough of this behaviour (checking, falsifying) goes on - because it doesn't make a career.
> stick out visually like a black man in Sweden

You haven't been to Sweden lately. Demographics have changed. A snapshot from Sergels square, Stockholm : http://thegambia.nu/files/2012/06/IMG_0514.jpg
When I've sketched out designs for similar systems, I've dealt with that problem by having it acceptable to hire reviewers. Me expectation is that high karma reviewers would be in high enough demand that they could make a living as reviewers.

I'd also expect that there would be science writers who would serve as reviewers to get the earliest possible access to research that might be interesting to write articles about. (I'm assuming most researchers would want to get at least some reviewer feedback before putting their paper out on some public site).
Darn, as much as I hate editing posts that old I do wish I could correct that.
Expanded this into a post: https://www.jefftk.com/p/effect-of-advertising