jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Four years ago, my best friend and I were paying 1850 for a two bedroom, one bath in Astoria. It had cockroaches, the power would go out if we plugged too many things in, and it was four avenue blocks from the train.

I'm not saying living in New York is bad, especially if you're single in your 20's, but financially it made no sense to me and I'm glad I moved.
What about those of us who aren't 100% perfect in our spelling and/or typing of command names?
I think original and real meaning of term "design" is somehow lost to many people. It was coined for a reason long long after term art existed. The reason was that it was a process of creating something with aesthetic value but for business/utilitarian purpose and within certain constrains. Things like market, engineering, mass production requirements and so on. And designer is someone who has to understand these things in order to do his job well as opposed to artist who can make a car with a huge butterfly wings on it and it can still be a masterpiece as an artwork thou he has no idea what people want, how engineers work and it's absurd as a new model...
That could have been a good list if it didn't have so many errors. There are some where the attributed person never said anything remotely like the quote (e.g., Bill Gates and 640k), and many where it looks like what is quoted is some second hand or third hand or worse retelling from memory of the original quote, so the wording has drifted significantly.
I reckon they are just doing it so in a couple of days they can post one of those "We're being transparent by giving you way too much information about what went wrong" articles that are so popular these days.

Actually, I'm just making jokes on Hacker News because GitHub is down. I can't believe how much I rely on that thing.
> Why have we never seen a blog post saying that it's not worth it?

I can think of some reasons.

1) If your company doesn't make it, then you got investment and owe nothing, so complaining seems a little silly.

2) If your company DOES make it, chances are it's because of introductions via YC networking. If you somehow got funded and it wasn't YC-related, YC didn't hurt.

3) It's a self-selected group. There are those that are NOT a good fit for YC, and they don't apply in the first place.

4) Other-selection. Maybe YC only picks people who seem to have drunk all the kool-aid already.

5) Even if you felt screwed over, badmouthing YC would likely burn bridges. So it would just compound your problems.

6) Would a dissenting opinion be trumpeted or quashed by the editors here? Not being aware of any examples doesn't mean they aren't out there.

7) People don't want to do postmortems on their failures in general, and blaming others is generally seen as bad form, even if they really ARE to blame.

8) Brainwashing. Even people who join street gangs would almost never blame them for messing up the member's life. It becomes an in-group identity. YC ain't no street gang, and the social ties alone can be a huge thing for people who otherwise feel quite isolated, even if YC per se isn't their cup of tea.

9) There are so many difficulties that a million other things are more likely to screw up a startup than anything YC does.

10) Since focus is key, if YC gets you to focus obsessively for 3 months, that alone probably outweighs any negatives that may pop up. If your personal trainer or drill sergeant whips you into shape, then you got in shape, even if you think the process wasn't 100% optimal. The real tiger beats the paper one.

A big part of it is just psychologically "giving yourself permission" to make something THE priority. If you are doing a formal program, WITH A TIME LIMIT, friends and family understand that in a way they don't understand you just doing it by yourself, and won't bother you with distractions. And due to social conditioning, you have a LOT of psychological tweaks making YOU prioritize your own project over surfing and wasting time.

Note every term how few comments there are on this site from people doing the program. They don't have time to read "OMG Steve Jobs replied to my e-mail" and "37 ways I am better than you" posts or argue about them.
I think that increasing eligibility for social security to 70 is dumb. It should be linked to something, like life expectancy. Without a formula we have to face the same upheaval every time people live longer.
i'm not able to dig it up right away - but just a couple of days back there was a blog post by someone who gave a long, very comprehensive listing of topics that take you all the way from basic to postgraduate level math.

It was organized in a dependency graph kind of way.
> 100m/s = 0km/s

yeah that's not supposed to happen. I'm not completely sure what's up there but thanks for the report

km/h doesn't work but km/hour does. I haven't added h as an alias for hour since it's also the SI prefix for hecto.
I'm really interested in finding full-stack dev talent in Portugal, but not sure where to look. I've tried LinkedIn, Indeed, etc. but /shrug. Any ideas?

We need to make a few hires, but sourcing talent is either more time consuming or more expensive (head hunters) than it feels like it should be.
Japan in 2007 on a fairly high floor the list went off the end of my mac's screen. And my bluetooth mouse did not function.

2007.
You might want to not invite your sockpuppets to vote and comment, it leaves this post in a very bad light for me. Close to flagging as spam but seeing as there are already other good comments and discussion, I did not.
Matteo,
thanks for your thoughts. As always, deep and great.

What surprises me is that there is so much written about flirting, courting, having a successful relationship or marriage, and so on, and so little about friendship (I am referring to things of value. Otherwise, plenty of trash around).

On one side, everybody wishes he/she had more friends. On the other, it seems so hard to keep friendships, to nurture them, to let them survive moves, changes of habit, etc.

Also, after moving, it seems that I am always the one that needs to search for my friends, to call them, to email them, to tell them that I'm back and want to meet. Very few of them, and not often, want to know how's life in Luxembourg, in Singapore, in San Francisco, or watch pictures, or listen to me telling them stories.

Strange. After a while, you start thinking "I shouldn't be putting so much effort to keep it alive. Let it be.", and then they start fading away.
Although, I agree with you, the strongest ones really stay pretty much the same through the years...

Unless you change too much, which is what I believe is happening to me, and might happen to people that travel and move too much.
Is $10 the magic number for 'orgs'? Say the PE raised it to $20, how bad would that be? If it were $5 and doubled to $10 still as bad? Why is $10 the just amount? What about orgs that can't afford that?

How high is it ok for the PE to go on fees? Why? (Tone is to point out how arbitrary this all is, genuinely curious otherwise)
Yeah, so installing Cygwin and/or gnuwin is just a lot faster than learning how to invoke "CLR objects" from the command line...
The netflix app is very good. I was stunned to see the Disney+ app at 5Mb. So webOS apps have merrit.
You can't browse the site without being signed up; every time I hit it from a google image search the content I want to see is teased behind a registration wall. Does that keep men out disproportionately? Probably not but it does hurt when you're trying to catch up on users and those users might be more skeptical consumers than your existing customers. How on earth do you convince someone to use your product if you won't let them use your product?
> It said examples of this “severe misconduct” include terrorist activities, child sexual exploitation, violent extremism, credible threats of mass violence, carrying out or deliberately acting as an accomplice to sexual assault and threatening Twitch or its staff.

The thing is, most of these are crimes. If there is credible evidence that you engaged in terrorist activities, you should be in jail, making a ban from Twitch moot because you wouldn't be able to access it anyway. Why does Twitch feel they have to form a vigilante justice system that is outside of normal due process and has no right to a fair trial?
That's the best explanation I've ever heard. I'd like to know if it really is mathematically rigorous. If so, bravo.
That is a great point. Never show your hand. Letting an employer know that you are planning to leave often does not end well. Its hard when you have good, family like, relationships at the office. Best to keep major changes under wrap until you are fully committed.
Why not just switch body parts?

I always do my push exercises separated by my pull exercises, and rarely rest more than a minute. Super time efficient.
"Almost everyone who has ever appeared in front of a court has claimed their rights were violated to the point where it's practically a meme. It's almost never the case."

A trooper knowingly held an incorrect charge, resulting in pretrial restrictions specific to that charge. It's a violation of of both the federal and state constitution to deprive anyone of liberty or property except by the law of the land, and there's nothing in the law allowing one to knowingly hold an incorrect charge. The ADA on the case had this information too and allowed the charge to continue - a violation of the Bar's professional standards. The trooper eventually amended the charge, but lied to the judge, saying it was out of leniency when I even have an IAD report saying it was because he had an incorrect charge and knew it. But they determined it was just a "misunderstanding". Even the rules of criminal procedure prohibits the amending of the charge at that point due to the circumstances.

"Misapplication of law is exactly what the appeals process is for."

That may be, but I think it's negligence to put an unknowlegable person in a position of power like that. States have laws about those practicing law needing to have a degree and pass the Bar, yet they don't care if a judge understands basic legal terminology. How dumb does one have to be to think that a request to dismiss with prejudice is the person calling you prejudiced? This system design flaw results in delays and costs to innocent people, not to mention undermining the integrity of the system. I'm my state the filing fee for an appeal is non-refundable, so you can be "fined" just to get a trial with a real judge even if you're innocent.

"What's more likely? 1. Every police officer, attorney, and court house, as well as every politician and all the media, doesn't care about widespread systemic violations of basic rights, documented wrongdoing, and misapplication of the law. 2. You're misinformed about the law."

Considering that an investigative journalist is pitching this story to their editor, that a civil rights lawyer says we have a case but the system doesn't view it favorably unless there's a lot of money involved, and that the statutes and case law supports my interpretation, then I'm leaning towards #1 (but your choices are flawed due to the use of absolutes. It should say that the system will protect the bad members as a means of protecting itself and because they don't want to deal with issues they see to be small).

"'even yell at you'
My goodness!"

That is a violation of judicial ethics and conduct...

"'There's zero accountability for the police, DA's office, and the courts.'
Simply not true."

This case seems to demonstrate a lack of accountability.
On the contrary, I'd say the ability to become educated is more accessible than ever before.

Consider the example of foreign language immersion. I picked up conversational Portuguese this year from Duolingo (a free app, admittedly requiring a 249rs/month data connection). Duolingo just released English for Hindi a few months ago which will do more to make English language education accessible than even the Catholic Church did [1]. Or consider coding - again, free from codeacademy.com or learnXthehardway. Same for math from Khan Academy and Wikipedia.

Lets distinguish access to education from access to certification. Access to education has never been more available than it is now.

[1] For those unfamiliar, many (non-Christian) Indian parents pay way too much money to send their kids to Catholic school for English language education. Secular English education is ridiculously expensive.
Because if you create 3000 TOR relays in an hour it's easy for everyone to notice them and not use them.
The H1B visa already guarantees:

1. You can take up any job related to your major (in college).

2. You are required by law to be paid the same or higher wages as Americans, for your job position/title.

Almost every H1 worker I know has switched jobs at some point. The whole idea of the "indentured H1 worker" is completely fabricated. My suspicion is that it's a cover-up that allows anti-immigration people cloak their hatred for immigrants as concern.

Basically, during the first 6 years (or until a greencard application is filed), H1 workers can work for any employer in their field of study. After the greencard application, they're job choices are slightly narrowed down to jobs that are substantially similar to their previous one. However, recent executive action by Obama will make it easier for workers with pending greencard applications to change jobs.
>I wouldn't be surprised if there is someone with a 3D printer trying to design a printable modular motorized construction kit.

Seems like 3D printing would only solve a tiny part of the problem. Some of those Capsela capsules have some pretty complex assemblies inside, which would still be a lot of manual work.
Use a cron job to delete all the generated graphs every minute.

That doesn't strike me as all that great of a solution, since (at least naively) this is going to result in a small (but presumably non-trivial) number of 404s on initial load.

I guess if it's just a stopgap until a better solution could be implemented then it's fine.
'Cd is a coefficient. It reflects the aerodynamic efficiency of the car relative to an equivalent frontal area oriented vertically [i.e. a brick]. An F1 car achieves efficiency by having a small frontal area and effectively directing drag forces. 0,5 square meters with a 'Cd of 1.0 creates less force than 2.0 square meters with a 'Cd of 0.3.
Lizard Squad has access to a large botnet which they used to DDoS Sony and Microsoft and now to create a large number of TOR relays. It's not hacking. It's not even being a script kiddie.
Exactly. Wall St. is where you can get paid proportional to performance -- and that's where you see people earning $100M/yr. With software, employers are happy to capture the value of the 1000x programmer and pay them marginally more than the 1x one.
> You are incorrect, modern clients are fast and requests typically reside in buffers by the time event driven webservers decide to read them.

Hmm. Not sure if that's universally true. I've heard that in some cases HTTP requests can be quite large due to having several cookies, long strings of Accept: garbage, etc. My impression was that this could make them not only exceed the MSS (thus be in multiple packets) but also the congestion window (thus be in multiple round trips). It doesn't matter then how fast the client code is.

On looking a little now, my information may be old. Apparently Linux increased the default initial congestion window back in 2011: https://www.igvita.com/2011/10/20/faster-web-vs-tcp-slow-sta... . Is the same true for all the widely-deployed versions of iOS, Windows, and OS X?

> Instead, accept filters were used and to this day are advised in such situations by nginx people.

Hadn't seen that before: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=accf_http&sektion=9...

Interesting feature, and certainly would the initial congestion window problem, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent on Linux.
I love this kind of projects which people receive with much skepticism, but after some years will bring interesting improvements to us.
Besides tachions, it's very interesting to hear somebody talk about the exact mass of a neutrino.
Twenty years ago you could have said the same of C. I guess that's progress!
As noted in the article, plausible deniability is a key criterion for thinking of this as a possible NSA insertion.

In other words, it's only possible that it's an NSA job if it's also possible that it isn't. Something tells me therefore that we're unlikely ever to know for sure.
The BBC reported on this last night - saying something along the lines of there being a 72 hour recovery window (not sure if that means from being thrown into the lake or from being surfaced).

Quite a good report actually, they showed the drying and scanning. Apparently some documents were burned before being thrown into the lake also. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26361455
If you don't have a six month emergency fund, regardless of whether or not you're a freelancer, one of your top priorities should be building a six month emergency fund.
Yes, and therefore, as a Wikipedia contributor I've paid for other's "lunch". I feel they owe me nothing, so from their perspective that "lunch" was free.
This is cool. Flask is awesome for Web APIs in general. Either rolling your own, using this, or Flask RESTful.
For the ones who have hard time remembering how to spell it:

http://c.gg/yl
It's good that it dulls the bad side of human interaction, but the converse is also true; and therein lies the rub.
Spend less time with friends and more time on programming and playing games.
As somebody who loved Ruby, THEN got into Rails, and now really hates Rails, I've made an intentional effort to not to have a meaningful opinion about Ruby itself until I have a good year between me and any rails work. Rails just infects ruby with so many terrible ideas. I suspect going back to pure ruby I won't feel the same way, as I've now reached a point where I see the whole "everything is an object!" design is a huge fail, but that aside I could see rediscovering the fun in the expressiveness of straight ruby code.

But yes, it really is a shame that Rails seems more parasitic on Ruby than not and hasn't lead to a larger general purpose Ruby community.
that's a manifestation of the power and perspective of wealthy residents more than sexiness or virtue signaling. it's the same reason why it's so hard to aggressively internalize the costs of sprawl, to in turn lay the groundwork of incentives to move cities in a meaningfully more sustainable direction (rather than the weak appearance of it).
Waiting for the bakfiets crowd to show up.
I used Markdown for recipes for more than a decade, where UL were ingredients, OL were steps, and you could use as many sets of both as needed. With some CSS and JS it worked pretty well, but wasn't super accessible for family members to add recipes to (but was great for me).
How will good be moved? How will the infirm get around? I admire the cyclist ideal that they are fixing the problems of the world by not driving/owning cars... but it seems like a very superficial, quasi-moralistic solution that's really not likely to have the impact that is desired/needed.
uhh, I tried cycling in Phoenix in Summer. When the heat from the sun above, the heat from the cement below, and the heat from the cars beside me, I quickly realized this is dumb. My commute was only 6 miles, and I arrived at home fully consumed 3 Liters of water with what appeared to be 3 Liters of sweat collected in my shirt and shorts. It also took an hour to cool down.
how many potheads did you have in your quantum mechanics class?
Let's leave aside the fact that it's no business of the government whether we are disrespectful to each other's religions, as well as Justice Charron's call for schools to indoctrinate children.

Schools have to indoctrinate children. They're freaking _children_. It's normal childish behavior to lie when they're afraid of getting in trouble, hit other children or destroy their property when they get angry, disrupt lessons when they're bored, and ridicule others when they sense weakness. Discipline and indoctrination about proper behavior can't stop when parents drop their children off at school. If you don't want your kid indoctrinated by someone else, if you can't handle the idea of your kid being partly raised by people who may have different ideas from you, then school just isn't going to work. Forget about school, and forget about tee ball, summer camp, piano lessons, hell, forget about church, because you don't know the exact behavioral standards the Sunday school teachers might enforce. Just keep your child at home and you never have to worry about anyone indoctrinating your kid except you.
the courts should defend atheist headgear too
I can totally relate. I spend way too much time helping my Mom which aggravates the hell out of me because she has been using a PC since Win 3.1 and she still can't remember the easiest of tasks. Thankfully she has friends to help her with her financial reporting (she is treasurer for 2 non-profits) and her desktop publishing, but no matter how many times I tell her to stop installing free cursors and such it seems I need to clean her system out regularly. She is like the lady who calls tech support only to discover that her PC isn't even turned on lol But I could never charge her. She is my Mom. Now my sister on the other hand pays too many consultants too much but only wants free advice from me which I give casually. The few times she has asked me to do serious work she has balked even when I low balled her on the price. So she continues to spend too much for too little because she won't hire her little brother.

Friends ask for help all the time and I just dispense advice. I am not creating anything for free unless I have an emotional investment in the project and honestly I have always been uncomfortable charging friends. The friendship is what matters and a formal biz relationship can really stress it out at times. If I were you I would make it a policy to not work for family and friends and then make exceptions on a case by case basis if you feel inclined.
I have never used this part, but it is cheap, and supposedly supported by the OpenWRT project.

http://usa.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=8el2DcrRjLoHNdQ8
Where's the innovation? Why is an exciting
new desktop just another imitation?

Where does this obsession with innovation comes from?
I will choose the thing that just works without getting
into way over the innovation for the sake of innovation anytime.

I'd argue, that there is little left to innovate within desktop,
there is only room for relatively small improvements — and that's
natural course of thing in maturing media.

Take paper books: there was almost no innovation for hundreds of years:
I say that's because their current form is optimal within constrains
imposed by media.

With computers we have less mature media and different set of constrains,
but eventually it will settle down and the only innovation will be
possible outside the desktop, like some next big thing that will replace
it.
You have a point, but what I'm most concerned with is balancing these two things:

1. I don't want to inconvenience people with "weird" names.

2. I don't want to burden application programmers too much.

Requiring everybody to have a simple ASCII name would be convenient for programmers, but would be a big hassle for people whose names don't meet those requirements. "Be in the Basic Multilingual Plane or get a nickname" is a policy that, I think, provides a reasonable balance. Of course, supporting all of unicode isn't really that much harder, so I think that's a better balance.