jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Existentialism

I sing as the bird sings,
That on the bough alights,
The song that from me springs,
Is pay that well requites.

From the Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner. An obscure but amazingly original work - published the year Nietzsche was born!

Generally, Karma in the popular sense.
I'm still trying to find myself. Being quite young, I can get away with that.

For other people in this position, I suggest reading some posts from http://lesswrong.com . Their Harry Potter fanfiction ( http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_M... ), regardless of how bad it sounds, is extremely well-written and a fun way to learn this things.
Where did GP say anything about the government?
What other systems exist that provide distributed trust architecture?
To me the value of Haskell comes from its being an extreme point in the language design space: that of a pure, lazy, strictly-typed language. I think that Haskell provides a very nice syntax and GHC a very nice implementation for exploring this extreme point. The primary benefit of this exploration is that it enriches our understanding as a community regarding language design and program design. I think that is a worthwhile enough contribution.

I think that Haskell's strangeness harms it in two ways. One it puts off people because the superficial strangeness takes some getting used to. More dangerously it makes a small fraction of Haskell programmers dangerously arrogant. They feel that just because they are now familiar with this strange jargon they have become superior to the users of other languages. Depending on temperament this turns them into snobs or evangelists.

I don't think there is any concrete evidence of Haskell's superiority as a practical tool. Programs like pandoc, darcs or xmonad are great but there is no proof (and as far as I know neither have their authors claimed) that they were easier to develop than comparable programs in imperative languages (TeX, git?).

Much better is the attitude of Haskell leaders like Simon Peyton Jones who present Haskell as a ongoing research project with its set of successes and unsolved problems:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...
Author here - would love to hear your comments, as I think this is an interesting area of debate, especially with digital obsolescence waiting to bite us all.
Rather than focus on artificial metrics like GPA you should focus on who you want to become. If you model yourself after the kinds of people who would flunk a student for pulling a prank that both demonstrates a sense of humor and great command of the subject matter, you will lose in the long run. In that way it is useful to identify such people so you can stay away from them, and more importantly, so you can warn your fellow students about them.

Who you look up to and learn from matters a lot.

If you want a life in academia, you need to conform and be obedient. At least until you have established yourself as sufficiently brilliant to be able to behave more rationally. Personally I don't really understand why one would want a career in academia, but hey, for some people merit badges and titles are really important and I'm not judging.

When you are young you think getting a degree and getting good grades matters more than it really does. It matters for those initial few years of your career, but once that phase is over it doesn't matter. And it matters more if you are unremarkable.

What really matters is the people you get to know at university. That's a really big deal because you will run into these people for decades to come. And you will meet people you can learn from, with whom you can collaborate etc.

As for companies like Google, Microsoft etc: there's myth and then there is reality. If you come in the front door, your alma mater and GPA will matter if you are a new graduate. If you spent your career worrying about becoming good at what you do and to collaborate with other people who are good at what they do, you won't be "coming in the front door".

I never finished a degree, but I did get a job at Google. And yahoo before that. And so on.

I got in the door because they knew I worked on things that were very relevant to them and that I probably wasn't a total fuckup. I still had to make it through the interviews though. And I did.

Of course, it should be mentioned that the hiring process at Google at the time put undue emphasis on GPA and what your alma mater was. I saw lots of people get rejected due to the university they went to or even really minor blips in their academic record. I found this disturbing. At the time Google had lots of data showing that certain metrics are not predictors of later performance. Among them GPA and alma mater. But they needed some way of cutting the sheer influx of applications down to a managable size.

If I had focused on getting a degree rather than work on interesting problems I doubt I would have gotten a job at Google. I would have been compared to a much, much larger population of unknowns and I doubt that I would have managed to stand out. Are you aware of how many people out there have good grades and good looking CVs? I do, because as an engineer at Google at the time I spent a lot of my time reading applications and interviewing candidates.

What is important is who you become. You want to find something you love to do and something you have a talent for, and then become good at that.
I would love to know more about this, but AFAIK OS secret stores are mostly a desktop-concept that requires a logged-in user (whose login password is used to decrypt the secret store). On a deployment server, you don't have those.
Honestly, if iTunes is Apple's Trojan horse, they really need to improve it. It is, without exaggeration, one of the worst programs I've used. I've heard it's much better on Mac, but the experience of having used it daily for years really put me off of Apple in general.
I fail to see the point to this, Silverlight was deprecated by Microsoft in favor of HTML5, end of story.
1. Ask them.
2. Organize an optional "do your own stuff"-saturday (or perhaps "lets do a cool project together in one day"-saturday) and see who participates.
> I don't see how "Numbers" is any more intuitive than "Calc"

In an office, ask a bookkeeper, sales manager, whomever, "Hey, show me the numbers!", and you're going to see a spreadsheet. If you ask, "Hey, show me the calc!", you'll get a blank look.

Evidence suggests "Numbers" is a perfectly cromulent word.
Most merchants who accept Bitcoin do so through Coinbase, which sells on Bitstamp. Coinbase only holds a working float of Bitcoins. When Coinbase can't unload incoming Bitcoins, they start refusing transactions. So most Bitcoin e-commerce will stop within hours if this isn't fixed rapidly.

Most? Source? Bitpay seems to be bigger than Coinbase

And wouldn't Coinbase just sell somewhere else, instead of shutting down their entire business?

Your claim that most Bitcoin e-commerce will stop within hours seems implausible
Thank you for the details, and I agree that what you describe includes plenty of creative effort.

I guess my scenario was much more narrow, as I was thinking about doing an exact copy of a photo that you didn't take yourself. Doing an exact copy limits greatly the number of artistic choices you could make as most of the choices were made by the photographer.

Just found out this is actually a thing called photorealism where the artist is expected to also take the original photo. Feels good to read about something else than software and politics for a change :).
Other than the obvious tribute to the sadness of his parents, the thing I took away from the article is how spare the room was. As an officer, one would presume he was from the upper classes, and yet his room is very plain. We really do live in the lap of luxury nowadays!
This is where the semantics of GNU/Linux become important, instead of just 'linux'. I doubt there's much linux (kernel) code in OSX...
Again, a response from someone who doesn't understand meditation. It does increase learning and self improvement to a greater level than virtually any other task. Why? Because it develops metacognition. You can find many resources and videos documenting the benefits of meditation, the brain structures it changes, improvements to executive functions, self control, motivation, etc.
Wait. Did I wake up in 1988? Isn't this Hypercard?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_breakfast

"It is traditional in Bavaria, in Poland, and in Hungary. In Bavaria or Poland, special dishes are made exclusively to be eaten during second breakfast."
It's not useful on its own.
It's been my experience that when someone says "reasonable" terms, in regards to a contract or license, the meaning of "reasonable" is largely skewed in their favor.
I think the point is that if we were able to instantaneously transport ourselves there we would be observing a 50 million + 30 year old black hole. Nobody talks about things from the the perspective of a photon (in casual conversation, at least).
Exactly, the true rival seems to the Samsung Tab.

Not sure why the Apple sites are so fixated on the Slate.
In a field where (at the rosiest count) 25% of the practitioners are female, and an economy where women get paid (again, optimistically) 75% of what men are, how is it that repugnant to hire one CS prof who must be a woman? If these things matter (pay equity, gender parity) don't we have to do something about it?

How many of us take direct action to, say, reduce carbon emissions? I think we ought to also be taking action to be a more inclusive group - and it's very easy when you're being welcomed in the door to recognize the ways in which other people are being turned away.
made to be computationally annoying to brute force

I think the word "annoying" here wins you the understatement-of-the-day award.
I sorta disagree. Sometimes being CTO is about instituting technical leadership from scratch. There have been a couple times where i've worked with a company (as a contractor) and helped them in a CTO role. This has ended up with a need to scrap everything and start again.

That decision was acceptable because of the complete lack of any technical experience in house (100% outsourced, multiple vendors) who had very different patterns of development. Couple this with no tests, no process and no patterns, you're stuck trying to work against something that's unpredictable.

The way forward then is to hire a team (even if it's just one guy) internally who can have ownership of code. Then instituting good practice and a sensible method of rebuild and rediscovery. Obviously this hinges on having enough runway to get into it properly.

tl;dr: sometimes it's ok to scrap it all and start again when your goal isn't about preserving code but instead is about building a better product and technical culture inside a company.

Getting downvotes - I wanted to add something: There's a real risk of making problems worse when you don't have any ability to stop and change. Working with existing code is great but when you have existing customers running into bugs on a daily basis, and fixing them would change the business logic that others are relying on, you either choose to build more technical debt or you swallow it and start again. Obviously this depends on runway, position, etc.

There are many times when companies go through their proto and raise seed only to find that their original hypotheses aren't working, and to change requires a significant re-architecture. Bolting this on to existing codebases can end up with code so complex that it won't stay up, and you end up spending six months in pure fire-fighting ops mode to keep the thing alive. Knowing when to recognize this and acting accordingly is the right approach, even if that sometimes means calling it a day on the existing code and starting again.
Join a startup?
Misinterpreted the parent post. Thanks for the correction.
Who has time to train their own inbox?
Here's one:

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

It's giving me 72.7% 1913-1929.
yapf is configurable, and that's why it never won.
From the article, they aren't necessarily being charged with the hack itself
There is no database, except in the very general sense. Hacker News stores data as Arc lisp tables in flat files or in memory - in fact, the forum is meant to serve as a MVP for the language itself.

See my previous comment in this thread or search "Arc Lisp" and you can find the current distribution of the code and forum software HN is based on. But bear in mind Hacker News itself is somewhat proprietary for business reasons.
Morning before everyone in the family gets up. Otherwise it tends to get bumped off the priority list. I've learned to really enjoy the morning stars and the rising sun as well. Venus is particularly spectacular right now. It also sets the tone for the day as other have mentioned. I'm much less angry, more able to manage stress and emotions throughout the day.
The PCI Security Standards Council has been working on the Secure PIN on COTS (SPoC) standard for a few years: https://blog.pcisecuritystandards.org/new-pci-software-pin-e...
I believe that ancient geometry was used for governance and engineering. However the compass and straightedge had an element of abstractness or deliberate simplified impracticality even back then: they had rulers and strings, and could have practically used them as well.
For those that wish to judge for themselves:
https://mymodernmet.com/picasso-early-work/
https://www.pablo-ruiz-picasso.net/period-first.php

As to whether his early or late works were great or mediocre, that's not something that can be pronounced from on high, but I do think it's fair to say he was proficient in the techniques of his era before branching out.
The degree (no pun intended) changes, but the kind of actions you engage with are more or less the same.

This, from a business point of view, if we talk about things like "the entire city will flood in 20 years" (which is what would happen to some places on the 5ºC pathway), then there's not really much to do, honestly.
This is completely personal preference and I would never enforce it, but I hate when people dial in to a video conference or other meeting. Even when the camera is off, having 10 people on a call but 15 attendees that include a bunch of random phone numbers, combined with not having any idea who is speaking if you don't know everyone's voice by heart, makes it a very suboptimal experience.

If everyone had a nice camera, nice microphone, and nice headphones (I think all three of these should be provided by employers to remote workers), and just used the video conferencing software the way it was designed, a lot of the friction and annoyances would go away.
Of course, It is more than a "Youtube video" who are part of Peloton cult.

It would be rather normal if cult members never describe cult as "Oh it is just a typical cult with some suspicious ideology, providing dubious benefits and led by a charismatic charlatan"
It matches up with other customer satisfaction indexes like Net Promoter, but does not share the reasoning net promoter has.. It's pretty common to have the positive scores be a smaller band than the negative. For example, with Net Promoter, 9 and 10 are positive, 6,7,8 are neutral and 0-5 are negative. In the case of Net Promoter, 6,7 and 8 are neutral because mild satisfaction does not correleate with being willing to recommend a business.
No, the point of the search engine is to help the searcher find what they are looking for. It should be easy for Google to figure out that searchers are NOT looking for what Quora and Pinterest are providing.
No that there is anything wrong with that. I just spent 20 minutes reading insightful comments from 8 months ago.
Thanks! Even as someone from team hipmunk, I must confess that I gave my upvote to Groupon :) But 2011 is going to be a big year for us. Don't ever hesitate to drop us a note (contact@hipmunk.com) with any & all feedback. And if any of you would like something special for being superhuman early adopters, email me (alexis@hipmunk.com) with your shipping address.
Thanks! This looks like an excellent way to ground the concepts in more concrete terms.
Yes, I think we're not active enough in developer communities in general. Whereas facebook, 37 signals & co must have no problem finding software developers, it's harder for companies that didn't make a name in the developer community yet.

However, the focus of my blog post was more to identify what things a startup could do to help software companies finding talent. Easing the workflow or adding some screening steps are examples of what a startup could do to solve this problem, which is a major one for tech companies and where a lot of money is spent.
This is a clear example of the communication system highlighted in Assange's own writings. :http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf:
from :http://zunguzungu.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/julian-assange-an...:

_if the conspiracy must operate in secrecy, how is it to communicate, plan, make decisions, discipline itself, and transform itself to meet new challenges? The answer is: by controlling information flows._
A knockoff.

Eames original here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0
A cynical view on this could be the following: Numenta sells licenses, cortical.io sells api requests, they benefit from more developers using their tools. Commercial companies which fund deep learning research (like Microsoft and Google ) develop their own products which are based on machine learning, they benefit from advancing state of the arts, from better algorithms. So we have quality publications and algorithms from Microsoft or Google and quality marketing from Numenta or cortical.io.
Looks more like Dancer took the vision from Mojolicious and butchered it.
That's hardly their fault though is it? Most enterprise shops won't use the latest and greatest technology because it's 'unknown', unproven' and so on. Heck, a lot of places haven't even bothered upgrading from java 1.4.2
That's pretty cool, provided you use it from the start, and only want to track a single number.

But it's cool - thanks. I'll probably be able to use that for something later.

Problem is, I don't want to log in to it with any of the options. I don't want to hand over my credentials. Shame I can't create my own login specifically for that page.

I guess I could create, say, a fake twitter account and use that, but it seems odd.

Hmm. Something to think about.
Oh, and I forgot mine ;)

http://slides.perldancer.org/
China is positively prosperous compared to DPRK.

Key issue here is whether the influx of cheap unqualified labor will outweigh the necessary investments into infrastructure, reeducation, integration and peacemaking for the territories.
This is all topical economics. Example:

The result is a heavy dose of heavily concentrated industries--and while that's good for beancounters, it's terrible for innovation, basic quality standards, customer service, and, of course, investors.

Wait. So large companies like Apple, GE, GM, Google, and Boeing aren't developing new and exciting technology? Also, if something is good for "beancounters" (like, say, an increase in the company's book value or cash flow), well, isn't that good for investors too?

More: he reads the NY Times, sees that Chinese IPOs > US IPOs, and concludes America is broken? China's GDP is growing 3-4 times as fast as ours, so 3-4 times as many IPOs seems about right. He also misunderstands how savings flow through our economy. We don't need to "shift savings into investments." The moment banks receive consumer savings, they're lent out to small businesses so they can purchase equipment. That's investment.

He also trots out the "oh woe is our net trade situation" without mentioning that any trade rebalancing will decrease China's GDP by billions. So there's that.

He's complicating our economic problems. The bottom line: we were overleveraged as a country. Now our economy is (drastically) adjusting. We'll be fine.
Someone beat you to it: http://jsonip.appspot.com/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/391979/get-client-ip-usin...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/102605/can-i-lookup-the-i... (2 years ago)

Quick googling returned this, unless you are Zach?
I honestly don't see what the big fuss about Comic Sans MS is. I read the original page just fine.
"I really do not understand people."

Indeed.
10.14.5 is Mojave, and we're still waiting for the latest 10.14.6 Mojave source. Their open source repo seems to be about 6 months behind at any time.
>Is that anything besides whataboutism?

Sure! The way you worded your initial response was so broad that it implied that non-Western search engines aren't censored, and all I did was seek to clarify whether or not that was what you were saying. There's no "whataboutism" to simply seeking to understand a statement someone is making, nor do I disagree with the broader sentiment that you make at the end of the post I'm replying to now.
I think our healthcare system sucks because it sucked before the pandemic, not because of misinformation. I remember thinking COVID would really show the gaping cracks in our healthcare system, but instead, the system blamed their deficiencies on the unvaccinated.

Our healthcare system, for the population as a whole, was awful before COVID. Hospitals that weren't at peak operating (read financial) capacity were shut down all over the country, which forced their patients to go to already overcrowded hospitals. The costs are/were off the charts. I don't think misinformation was the cause of it.

We've been dealing with this for over two years now, yet our healthcare system hasn't increased even temporary capacity in a meaningful way to account for it.
> the value was always between 40-50%

Those are the raw data from polls (an estimate of the popular vote), not the predictions from them ("who will win" - which is what the original commenter refers to).

Fivethirtyeight had Clinton at 88% less than a month out from election day: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/...
I'm currently working on https://seeme.ai, the AI marketplace: easily create, use and share AI models.

After talking to a lot of companies and engineers, it was crazy to see how long it takes them to create and deploy AI solutions.

I initially added it as an extension to my computer vision training, but am working on sharing it with everyone: https://www.seeme.ai/blog/seeme-ai-marketplace/
Really like what you did with little red enemy ships starting as 1 whole and then splitting, very cool.
Ink[1] is pretty great, and has a nice editor you can download to get started quickly. I found it really interesting to learn. It is unlike any other language I know, because it deals with such a specific problem.

1: https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
it helps you catch infected people

It helps you know that infected people exist, but in a "free" state, that's all. Unless you both require verifiable ID and have the power to quarantine someone against her will, you haven't "caught" anybody.
As unemployment is about to skyrocket during this pandemic, America's tight coupling of healthcare with purchasing power is going to be revealed as a poor design for keeping maximal citizens healthy. Spain has nationalised all its private hospitals.
Physical separation doesn't suggest a lack of mutual cooperation. I'm interacting with my friends as much as if not more than ever despite never seeing them in person.
"Mentally ill" is not an insult you throw at people you don't like. It's a medical term.
> account the geographical location of servers, and ensures that copies of your data are located at different locations when possible for maximal redundancy, a unique feature in the landscape of distributed storage systems.

Azure already does this, so claiming it's unique seems untrue.
Hmm ?

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

> If a license does not permit users to make copies and sell them, it is a nonfree license.

And it's because of misunderstandings like these that "free" should be renamed to "libre".