jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm having a hard time evaluating this. Is there a member who can accurately explain the real differences in value between owning a .com and .co domain?

For example, I imagine that .com just being the socialized norm does not come close to telling the whole story. Thanks.
There is probably a lot of redundancy. It's like learning a new technology. Your first project will take a long time, then, once you've solved the meta-problem, it gets incrementally faster each iteration until it reaches some lower bound. But the knowledge you gain each iteration gets lower too, until it's marginal.
4chan is that dumbass kid who releases bees into the classroom just to laugh at everyone who doesn't want to get stung.

If there's a backstory, it's probably something that everyone else would shrug off and move on with their lives, but for whatever reason, the sociopaths at 4chan cannot.
Can't wait to see that get abused.
But would it do anything? Would the backscatter machine even see anything? What about something up the rectum. Knowing of these machines, terrorists will just find another place to stash the gear. If the backscatter machine doesn't protect against that, then what good is it, really? And, is that good sufficient for the invasion of privacy and health concerns?

I say it isn't.
Heaven forbid someone in a coffee shop posts something on your HN account…
anyone else think HTML5 minecraft?
Nothing special from a legal standpoint, but it's all about how easy they make it. I have bought from other online retailers, and whilst the experiences haven't been bad, they still aren't quite as slick compared to Amazon. I can't really point to anything in particular that will convince you, it's just that the whole process is painless and easy, not just for the basics (purchasing) but for everything.

Aside from the 'refund before the item was returned' example, I could also point to when I'd had to speak to Amazon customer support before, all done through instant messaging on the website with one of their team. Resolved within minutes. Contrast with other retailers where there's a back and forth with emails. Again, not horrible with other retailers, but the Amazon experience was more streamlined.
Yes, they game you and as much as you game them.

They try to get the most money out of you while you try to spend as little as you can.

Yes, its all very shocking.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, we just had a street name (which probably wasn't even required) and RFD #1 and the name of the adjacent town that handled rural delivery for the area. And this wasn't the back of beyond; it was just a couple miles outside one of the main Philadelphia suburban spokes. At some point they gave us a Box number to use although we didn't actually have a postal box and they continued to deliver in the usual manner at least until we moved around 1980.

In the US though, there was a real push to rationalize street addresses for emergency services in the late 90s or so. It may not be universal but I know of even summer camps at the end of dirt roads in Maine that have street addresses now.
I like the clean, uncluttered UI.

I have a few questions:

1. Where are you getting the specs for the products?

2. How current are the prices?

3. Could you add an 'LTE' filter for smartphones?

Also a few suggestions:

1. Have an option to view the list as a table, sortable by any parameter

2. Add the filters to the url, so you can bookmark it

3. Email users when a new product which meets the filters hits the market

4. Show the Amazon price history for a product (like camelcamelcamel), and email them when it hits a new low price.

Great work otherwise, I can see myself using it in future.
So it is. Even more interesting.

Although 1200 viewers with a front-page promo seems low.
Same on my ipad. I suspect this experiment fails to work on non-desktop browsers.
I'm not an extravert, I just understand basic social dynamics.
Study the history of other cults, such as Mormonism.

Not how the "witnesses" changed their beliefs and how they talked about what happened over time. Even though some of them came to distrust Joseph Smith or consider him on a wrong path, once they had convinced themselves they had seen something miraculous happen they had a hard time letting go.

They later made comments that suggested they had seen the things "in a vision" (yet most people assume an actual witnessing), the important consideration is to them it was real, and just as valid as actually seeing it. In their mind there was no difference - so they had no problem claiming they saw it first hand.

Faith is a type of insanity, so naturally you can't use the assumption of faithful people acting rationally (no motivation to die for a lie) to find truth.

As to how they came to believe it, again look at other religions, spiritual practices etc. It's quite common for followers/believers to come to believe something the leader is not saying - it has to be so, that's HOW IT WORKS.

It's similar to snake oil salespeople today like Deepak Chopra - you just make a lot of hand wavy claims about energy and quantum physics and people inject their own meaning.

Put these in a time period when education and access to information was low and et voila.
Ask anyone under 30 what they think a Phreaker is I bet they wouldn't have a clue, "phone freak" even the word freak these days may be misinterpreted too since it meant someone really into some hobby.

Maybe we should call this script kiddies "scriddies" since it seems the average Joe and TV/newspapers like a single catchy word.
Yet NYC doesn't have the perception of human poop plastered all over every available surface in the same way SF does.
There are very much prescriptive languages. French, for example, is prescriptively maintained by the Académie française and the Office québécois de la langue française.

English isn't one, and all the hurfing and durfing in the world won't change that because a techie doesn't like the word "hacker" being used in a way despite his...wait for it...proscription.
Why, specifically? You might be under the impression that they get something radically different than the standard SaaS app. In most cases, they just get the standard SaaS app. It looks quite similar to the SaaS app that you can buy for $500, except with a few knobs tweaked.

Customer/vendor is a very different relationship than employer/employee, even for consultants to say nothing of SaaS vendors. You don't have to run your vacation plans past them, you can moonlight at 10 jobs simultaneously without of running out of hours or having any of the jobs think this is odd, you can hire people to do the delivery in a way an employee cannot, you can sell your relationship, etc etc.

No lie: occasionally more stressful than working for W-2, and you largely don't get the option to just focus on delivery, but it's a very different beast.
I was a Software Engineering intern on an ads product team at Facebook last summer. My experience was almost exactly the opposite of what you assume here. Most people worked 7-8 hour days. I stayed plenty of late nights because I was dead-set on getting a full-time offer, but I was literally the only one on my entire floor most nights (including interns). On the off chance someone stopped in late and saw me, they were honestly shocked and insisted I go home.

The team working next to mine had a major product launch during the time I was there. A few of them (2 or 3) stayed in until 8 PM for the two nights immediate proceeding launch. That's it.

One of the biggest surprises to me coming from undergrad was just how little the engineers worked at a company like FB. There is a pride in efficiency in the Facebook culture, and an working effectively is more valued than putting in long hours.

Of course, that was my experience on one team. I'm sure some teams work longer hours than others. That said, I think you'd be hard pressed to find an engineering shop that had a healthier work-life balance than Facebook. The idea that its a 'meat grinder' is laughable. I saw another comment suggesting that FB employees leaving after 8-10 years is a sign of burn-out. Are you kidding? In this business 8-10 years is lifetimes.
that's what people were saying after WWI.
Moore's law is over. Pentium 4s reached 3GHZ 15 years ago. CPUs try things like parallelizing while the human brain thinks sequentially. CPUs are still getting faster but at an incrementally slower rate. A 4 year old Macbook Air is half as performant as the latest. In previous decades, the performance gains were 2-5X per year.

A paradigm shift (quantum computing?) needs to happen soon so computation can continue scaling.
> 3. New/delete will always be used in performance critical code but I think the point is that in general it's not a good practice.

There's zero runtime overhead to using std::unique_ptr - the compiler will inline the calls to delete you'd otherwise be writing by hand.
I'm not really interested in getting pulled into a 200 year old debate. For better or worse, most of the latent ambiguities in the Constitution were resolved in favor of the interpretation espoused by Hamilton and the Federalists. All I'm saying is that it's not the case that there was this clear Constitutional dictate in one direction that we callously ignored in modern times.
It's always interesting me to take the passion and fury of online discussions about politics and freedom and to reconcile that with the comparatively paltry amount of money donated to political organizations by people in silicon valley.

I think there's this feeling in Silicon Valley that "I'm changing the world through code" or "I believe the best ideas should win". And I wish that were the case. But in the meanwhile the Koch Brothers and hollywood quietly funnel bajillions of dollars into superpacs and get all the politicians in their pockets.

(I saw Lessig give this excellent talk at SCALE, and my take away from his talk is that we should remove the need for politicians to whore themselves out for money. And I strongly agree. But I guess I'm saying that in the meanwhile, if that's how the game is played, we need to put more skin in the game.)
drives me nuts!
Have you met Stephen Wolfram? He makes Donald Trump look humble.
It's been said in many ways by many authors, but this has helped me: "Imagine everyone is enlightened, except you. Then try to figure out what they were sent to teach you."
antirez -- looking good. But may I ask why the name 'redis-trib' -- what does the trib mean? Short for contrib? Tribune? All I see is the nsfw definition, but maybe that's just me.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trib
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Stated like that, the motivation is lottery-like, and I wouldn't be surprised if the odds of success in startups are comparable.
When they started. While the tech was good they had no business model. Was having trouble making money and tried to sell to various existing search engines, but no one bought. They eventually backed up and fell over into targeted search advertising... and the rest is history.

A less persistent set of founders may have closed up shop and simply said, "Great technology, but the business around search just isn't there outside the context of a portal".
wow, thanks

snipshot guys are at facebook kicking ass -- also relevant here I guess
The article fails to mention that the online storage space itself was considered quite competitive at the time. Yet Drew Houston was able to pull it off.
It's a bigger space than SAT prep, but given the right entrepreneur, either could have been successful.

Chris Dixon had thoughts on this in an earlier posting:
http://cdixon.posterous.com/dropbox-and-why-you-should-inves...
Probably the lack of a single sound format that is supported by all popular browsers on most platforms. And because animations can be easily done with JS/CSS, and that doesn't require all that much bandwidth or space, while good quality sound is considerably larger.
FYI my magic link went to spam. Dunno if it's the gmail spam filter or the one in Apple Mail. But that's where it ended up. There was also a typo in the onboarding process ("from thos[e] close to you").
Oh wow. You always see these occasional viral stories of small towns having such problems brought up, but it's still a little surreal to see one that hits so close to home. I grew up in Woodbridge, but went to a different high school in the township, JFK Memorial High. I have a ton of friends who went to Colonia and would often be there for track meets and other events. My parents and siblings still live there as well.

I expect the frequency of such stories to increase over the years. Who knows how many dangerous actions have been carried out (and continue to be carried out) with side-effects that only surface after a long delay.
Yeah alpine climbing is what I was thinking about. That sport is too expensive for 19 year olds.
The author is missing the bigger picture.

1) Generating electricity through coal and sending it over the power lines is WAY more efficient than transporting liquid gasoline to your local pump and burning it in your highly inefficient V6 engine. Electric cars do an equal amount of work with less fossil fuels burnt.

2) Given current technology, solar, wind, water, nuclear, etc. can only be practically harnessed on a large scale and can only be practically converted to a transportation energy as electricity to be piped to electric cars. Therefore this is a two-step process: (1) build renewable plants, (2) build electric cars. Tesla is working on 1/2 of the equation.
Indeed, 1. is a mystery. But, 2. is a consequence of 2nd law of thermo. Specifically, the lighter the mass of a decay product, the larger the number of possible final states in the kinematical phase space (in general). For instance, if there is just enough energy to make a pair of particles, then only one final state is possible: particles sitting at rest. On the other hand if energy is “left over” in addition to rest energy, then there are many possible final states corresponding to the pair flying outward in different directions. Hence, the decay to the lighter products are entropically preferred. This is mathematically encapsulated in Fermi’s Golden Rule.
I think most kids can learn basic programming and have different attitude towards software. Programs are going to determine their lives, from the tiktok feed algorithm to surveillance to filtering their CV for a job and even evaluating their job performance or paying their taxes.

There was a story recently where toasters were bricked because they received the microwave binary update. Can you imagine? You wont be able to make toast if you cant hack our toaster.

Not to mention the new scams, from NFTs to ransomwares, I have gotten to the point of asking my daughter to tell me for each app she installs 'how it makes money from you, especially if its free' .

What big tech has been doing for the last 20 years has successfully disconnected the user from the computer, the next generation was supposed to be the most 'technologically advanced' generation and yet for them technology is worse than magic. It is magic that controls their lives.. that is filled with exploits, bugs and crashes.

We must do all we can to break down the tech barrier and make them literate.

(this is my log of teaching my daughter https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids I have posted it in other comments so it looks weird, but I have gotten some feedback that it is a nice resource for other parents, so I will link to it again)
I stand by my initial wording though. Wiretaps were tolerated because they required a court order and we could trust in a process that seemed to work.

But what has happened since is that particularized search warrants have been replaced by 1772-style general warrants. People now know that this trust has been broken on a tremendous scale and we can't go back. That's the difference.

In other words the key change is in perception more than in substance.
Why would you get fired for freezing up in a meeting?
If other HNers Are anything like me, they perceive IBM as this massive, outdated company that's behind the times and only useful for supporting COBOL systems. This is obviously not true, but that's the perception. This makes people quick to upvote "news" that confirms the bias.
I've been in love with Japan since I was a anime-obsessed kid, and visiting Tokyo in high school was the best travel experience I've ever had.

Yet at the same time, I've heard it said that the software landscape in Japan is pretty rough -- bureaucratic, aged, and inefficient. I've found that really upsetting, because Japan has, of course, a reputation for being a technological wonderland.

People living in Japan -- natives or otherwise -- is this true? I've had a dream of living in Tokyo as a web developer since the day I came back from Tokyo, and it seems like the only way to make this happen as a non-Japanese speaking (though very interested), non-CS major American is to come already successful, or not come at all.
It doesn't. MongoDB is a dog, and I know this because I run hundreds of instances of it in a production environment. I need to use 10x as many hosts as I should to support less than 30K queries per second.

The second I can migrate to another data store, I will. Unfortunately that kind of refactor isn't possible right now, but all new projects are using different tools.
As this is a security fix I bet there will be an iOS 4.2.2
There's something to be said about focusing on one thing and doing it well. (Not to say Delicious didn't do any/all of those well.)
True, but I can create a word doc using Google Docs for free.
This bullet point from the article doesn't make _any_ sense:

Be a really big customer so Amazon will help you specifically with your problems. This seemed to help Heroku a lot. I noticed in the Amazon developer forums a lot of people forgot to do this and didn't get the personal help they needed.
I don't know about that. Outages don't really hurt your "cool factor" so much, whereas bending over for corporations (and thereby looking corporate yourself) really does.
in the redis community we have also discussed having a daemon sitting next to the server and doing localhost redis communication.
The downsides to doing this are it introduces an extra piece to break.
W/ luajit2, which is almost as fast as post-JITted Java, the speed of the scripts are amazingly fast (Salvatore's current method of calling the scripts is dead on, it requires no interpretation, it maps directly to lua_p* calls).

Disclaimer: I wrote AlchemyDB, embedded lua in redis a while back and have played w/ it constantly (it is robust and mind bogglingly flexible).

As for the speed differences of embedded lua vs a daemon sitting next to the server, Alchemy has its test suite in Lua and some tests I run via an external client, and some tests I run internally via embedded Lua.
The speed difference between client/daemon and embedded lua becomes VERY evident (10X faster) on large loops, where I/O and TCP kernel time are saved ... but as redis is single threaded server, scripts block the server during their execution, so it is just dangerous for novice programmers.

All in all, if redis embeds lua correctly, it will really open up the project and it is a very minimal bloat, lua is tiny, and it is just one command :)
Here is the Kickstarter project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1038658656/rdtnorg-radia...
Downloads, or just streams?
The following won't break (at least not in the bad way), I don't think:

$sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT document FROM table WHERE tag=? AND security_level=?");

$sth->bind_param(1,foo());

$sth->bind_param(2, $user_level);

$sth->execute();
I haven't had any of the ultra thin ultrabooks. I do have a netbook (slightly older Acer model), but the screen was too limiting on it. So now I use a Thinkpad X230. The differences between the X230 and my work laptop (HP Elitebook 8470) is night and day -- I have no problem carying the X230, but wouldn't dream of lugging around the 8470.
Is it just me, or does anybody else think that it's a problem that the world even needs this in the first place?

I agree. If you need this, go back and look at what you're loading. Do you really need all that CSS? Does that Javascript really need to be executed? Do you need it just to get started? Do you really need 15 tracking cookies and a Flash bug?
Built ins are not the same as the standard library. The standard library consists of packages written in normal go for things like networking, web servers, JSON, regular expressions, etc.
I guess this post deserves a productivity/self-assessment chart in the spirit of this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8802454
I do kinda like swift. Also, Kotlin was a revelation - particularly since the tools are so damn good.
It's complicated.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (secondary market) were ordered to buy more loans in economically depressed areas. Independent mortgage lenders and banks (primary market) expanded their lending in response, bringing in borrowers that had progressively higher risk profiles. They started falsifying documentation to meet the already-lowered standards of the major players in the secondary market. Those, in turn, fudged their accounting to make re-sales to the tertiary market more palatable. The tertiary market just leveraged the hell out of those repackaged mortgages, and sometimes just made up numbers to fill in the blanks.

Then that first guy that got a mortgage loan with no actual income missed a payment. That increasing leverage all the way up turned that little blip into an explosion. Mortgage businesses hit the ground or hit the brakes, and now fewer new buyers could afford homes without loans. That lowered property values across the board. Those trying to sell their homes to pay off their mortgage loans could no longer do so. The foreclosures started.

Financial businesses like to own liquid currency, not ugly real property. So they auction foreclosed homes at fire sale prices, often because pissed-off former homeowners commit waste prior to losing possession, and the new owner does not bother to even look at their new asset even once before selling it. This lowers values further. Renovation businesses that can afford to pay cash lowball the bank, because they know there might be concrete in the toilet drains now. If they can easily get as many foreclosures as they want, they don't buy regular, non-distressed properties.

That's the summary. There's a lot more to the story than that.

For a good time, read this: http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/npa-pr2011-267-fanniemae....
"Moral" is, at best, subjective. Personally, I think if two people agree to something, then sticking to the terms of that agreement is moral, and trying to change them after the fact when things don't work out in your favor is not. As long as there was nothing inherently immoral in the agreement to begin with, I don't see how sticking to it could possibly be immoral.
That can be avoided through productivity gains.

Germany's population essentially hasn't increased in 40 years. Their nominal GDP has increased by 15 fold in that time (even after accounting for inflation it's a significant expansion, all due to productivity gains).
I would never "yell" at anybody for using vi vs less, but I might curiously ask their reasoning behind it. I'm generally for less bikeshedding and cargo cultism when possible. Whatever works to get the job done.
This is correct. The consoles tend toward AMD APUs, though (at least in recent/current generations).

My understanding is that it's pretty much the same as a chip you could buy on your own, but soldered directly to the board and custom clocking/voltage.
> And I can't tell if Moxie really means to [...]

Not a fan of Moxie either but you got a source for that?