skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some bold claims here that you don't even make an attempt to back up with evidence.

On chaos, you seem to be arguing that a few select simple systems are chaotic, therefore a much larger system must also be chaotic. This doesn't make any sense, complexity != chaos. Think of something like an ant colony, millions of ants in an incredibly complex system, but the system as a whole tends toward very consistent behavior. Killing some of the ants or cutting off on supply of food makes no difference.

It's also incredibly vague to talk about this when there are billions or more inputs to a system like the US economy. Some variables might exhibit chaotic behavior, but that doesn't mean anything you do to the system has a completely unpredictable outcome.

> Now the State pushes thousands of policy changes per year into the system without ever really monitoring the response to a single change.

What? They monitor changes all the time. For instance, the white house is happy to tell you exactly how many more people have health insurance now thanks to obamacare. Many (maybe most?) of the policy changes are close to independent and effect only a small subset of people. And it is usually possible to statistically account for other factors that might be interfering with what you're trying to measure.

> have caused vast displacement, pain, and suffering in the form of economic turmoil and war.

Yet somehow we're living in the safest time in human history [1]

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_viole...
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Um...how did this get upvoted so much? I mean, it's sometimes fun to watch the popcorn fly, but this was kind of tepid...I stopped at the explanation of what a VC-funded startup is. Too much telling, not enough showing (I didn't read pg's essay).

However, I was surprised that the author was offered $500 from a friend to write a post on Medium. Is writing-as-a-career back in style? I'm all for that.
Author seems unaware that Apple is already in the streaming space also.

Otherwise, yea Concast et. al. Seem to have their heads in the sand.
Conversely, maybe this could be used as an extremely lightweight CRM?
I'm a bit sad about this. Whatever its faults. This would surely have driven down the cost to send a messages between people, low enough that very poor people could do it also.

There are plenty of poor people who cant afford to make mobile phone calls or send sms messages. With this they would at least had some way to do so.

Say there is one mobile phone in the village (powered by say a solar panel). A person could just borrow that or rent it for a moment, to send some important message. Say to find out what the price of milk is today at the market in the next village. (If they cant read or write then they could get that one kid that can, to do it for them)

Small thing like this could create all kinds of new opportunities.
Not really. It's just a crappy / flashy exposition of some very routine psychological research.
Although your take away may have been that everyone should enable it in production. I think every developer should use common sense and practical knowledge when implementing a feature in their application. If you want to use it you should know that having this available for all users is not a great idea, and use it accordingly.
I think it's possible to vehemently disagree ( as I do ) with Paul Graham on his inequality thesis, and still be logical and coherent. This article is neither. It's patent nonsense.
I was thinking exactly this. How many articles are we reading about extreme VC preferred stock, raising such high valuations that the only option is to go public after the first months. Raising so much money on terms that you require a big exit.
Cart protection on 6502 was tough to hide. I personally never reversed one, but a friend and I did a couple for the 6809. That thing was tough! Lots of options, addressing modes, etc... Took weeks, and it was on cassette.

I've often wondered about your last bit there.

The way it was in my little home town is a lot of people copied stuff. But, they barely could afford the computers too. Those who did have the bucks bought most of the stuff that ended up copied. You might be right, at least early on.

Later in the 80's, disk copying was massive. The C64 scene seemed to have buyers, but nearly everyone was on copied media in the Atari scene. Fewer machines, more copies, and it seemed like easier copies too... Some schemes were bad sector ones, and frankly, one could just count the beeps, open the door, wait for the error and continue. Not everyone checked the nature of the error, it seems.
Marco Polo — 92% (Fun Fact: Critics rated it 24%. How’s that for incongruity?)

Narcos — 94% (Another crazy disconnect as critics only rated it 78%)

The author preaches shows produced by data driven companies, then when a rating data driven company has results he judges abnormal to his taste he insinuates something is wrong.

Personally, I found Marco Polo okay, the visuals are good, but the plot got boring after a while. I would not give it more than 50%. As for Narcos, 78% seems legit, I found the whole traditional drama show mixed with documentary interventions awkward. And would not give it more than 75%.

As for the article, of course linear TV is going to get disrupt. But I doubt Amazon or Netflix will get a monopoly. AMC and HBO will simply put their content online, and TV providers will make their revenue loss from linear TV on higher internet consumption.
I think it very much belongs here. I would agree that it has an aggressive tone but not of a thoughtless insulting nature. I think challenging others views is just what smart people do. Its especially healthy to challenge cultural icons that may have options accepted as truth simply because of their impressive reputation.
African here: I'm really really glad more and more counties are seeing behind the facade Facebook is putting.

(Earlier post) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10816991
> Social is the weapons-grade plutonium of online design; you can use it as part of a stable fuel source, or as the components of a weapon, but it's most likely to end up carelessly scattered around your community poisoning it for generations to come.

That right there is sheer genius, ladies & gentlemen!

It's interesting to compare sites with healthy social components (e.g. HN & reddit), to those whose social component has died off (e.g. /.), to those which use it unhealthily, if profitably (Instagram?).
A proper response might be worth reading, but this is a bunch of insults attacking a poorly-constructed strawman made out of words stuffed into PG's mouth.
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I agree that it's very unlikely engineers are more sensitive than the average person, but engineers can also be highly sensitive and perhaps it's useful to provide some advice for handling career-specific situations.
> Even if you were right, the point remains that limiting the upside of risk-taking also reduces the incentives for middle-class people to innovate.

No, it doesn't: relative to middle-class net worth, hitting it big makes you orders of magnitude richer. Even if you taxed that level of wealth at 95%, it would still be absurdly rich compared to the mean.
skybrian, not everyone thinks about pussy the way you or some others do. Pussy = scared cat or uncertain cat. Insert the word vagina into the author's sentence and see if he meant he took the easy way like a prolapsed vagina. Over-sensitive, usually wrong, pussy.
Mark is a great straight-talker. He says very simply and clearly some great truths.
Build a snappy web-ui, attach it to tinder, sell it to people who juggle several tinder-based relationships.
Two things here:

We were not anywhere near as connected as we are today. So yes, there were a fair number of people able to do this kind of thing, but they were well distributed and not always motivated to do it.

In my little town, a few of us reached that level. Together. All we had was the usual books, and a massive amount of time. After cracking one or two, we moved on to doing other things. It was about getting some of those skills, then putting them to use. It's my perception that the hardcore types were, in fact, pretty rare because of this.
People can feel free to respond to posts on PG's personal blog however they like, but their incoherent nonsense can stay on Medium where it belongs.
one of the last tweets from @_why said: if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.
My metric for why "manned up" and "pussied out" is the kind of language I don't want to use, is "will this make someone, particularly someone in the extreme minority in my community, feel unwelcome or unwanted or unappreciated in my community?"

So, of course, my first amendment rights mean I can say those kinds of things, without fear of police knocking down my door and dragging me off to a gulag. But, I don't want to say them, because it makes some people feel unwelcome in the conversation. Who do you believe I've made to feel unwelcome in saying that those phrases are stupid? (If the answer is, "People who enjoy saying shit that contributes to a culture of misogyny and sexism, with no one ever calling them on it." Then, I'm OK with it. It there's some other answer, I'd sincerely like to hear it.)
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I don't know how elevated that is, you are an artist if you make art and art might be really simple.
Because it is the moderator's opinion that such content is not very relevant to HN and gets disproportionality upvoted. Basically they disagree with the enthusiasm of privacy advocates.
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Why is GP being flagged?
Yeah, the emotional life is part and parcel of human experience. But this article is talking about a heightened sensitivity, take all of the above and multiply it a few times over. Not everyone needs to sleep for a week after going on vacation, cries during movies, or spends the rest of the weekend alone after going to a party Friday evening. Those are the sorts of personality traits the article is talking about.
A consistent point of view, but you'll have to apply it to newspapers, book publishers, and television too, just for starters. Money in politics is going to migrate towards any method of advertising that it isn't completely banned from.

I'm not convinced that content-based restrictions can be easily applied, either, even putting aside one's confidence in the regulators. To take the above example of a documentary attacking Reagan, it would be easy for it to have the subtext of "and don't vote for Mitt Romney this year, he's just like that Reagan jerk."
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I wonder how much of Netflix's success is that its show are good, and how much is that they are easy to watch.

Anytime I want to, I can go to Netflix and watch any episode of their shows. I ca watch the first season; I can watch the intervening seasons; I can watch the current season. There are no blackouts; there are no embargoes.

I can binge-watch if I want, or I can pace myself, at my pace.

Compare that to the big companies' offerings, where I may be able to watch every episode this season, but not get started by catching up on previous seasons (I know that they hope I'll pay up for boxed sets of those early seasons, but I'll just skip their shows altogether instead), or I may be able to wath previous seasons but not the current one, or (my favourite) I can watch previous seasons and recent episodes but not early episodes this season.

Why would I want to get involved with a show which is such a pain to watch?
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I love HN as much as the next person but suggesting that the people who hang out here are somehow representative of anything except for the most lucky, wealthy, and privileged members of our society seems a bit strange.

The point you're making about tech startup costs is true, of course, although it looks like statistically speaking the chances of hitting it big are only slightly better than 'will become a famous singer' or 'will play for the NBA.'

But even if we assume that an average human with a laptop and AWS can now make it big, it seems like in the meantime so much of the other things that working-class people had going for them in the 1960s -- being able to support a family on construction wages, for example -- are gone.
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I know a former dean who essentially had a system like this custom made for himself 20 years ago. He said it saved his skin several times, and may have saved the school itself on more than one occasion. This is not for tinder kids. This for CEOs.
Right, it's the "ad hominem" logical fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
While I agree with much of what you are getting at, cigarettes are available in socialist countries. (Cuba is famous for cigars).
The laws of game theory, which underlie economics, are just as real as calculus.
Egypt’s mobile penetration is over 100%, poor have mobile phones that can access internet.
I like how the whole piece is just one big ad for their upcoming book.

"Read more from the upcoming book here: This Science-Backed Trick Can Unlock Your Creativity In Just 5 Minutes"
What's more, we have good Python style, too :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10831045
I've been reading through your own comment history and I can honestly say that your posts are among the shittiest simply due to the fact that it's really obvious how hard you are always trying to appear intelligent, but you don't quite hit the mark so it ends up just being a bunch of bothersome noise.
Yes and I have at times, but its living a little dangerously. Even if it returns a non-null pointer it does not mean you can write there safely.
Mind if I ask how you usually access HN? Mobile? A mac you own? An internet cafe? Do you know anyone who would consider something like free basic? What's their story? I've heard basically nothing from anyone who might use facebook-basics (unless they are being used as a propaganda tool), and I'd love to.
That's because you misread the units as metres when they are actualy given as feet.
Basically it's a principle argument around the role of government companies. Should government companies compete directly with local private companies in non-essential sectors? There are already lots of british companies producing popular entertainment shows, why should they have to compete against the government that is also supposed to support them. How would you feel if your taxes went to finance your direct competitor?

Furthermore it creates a potential conflict of interest. Do you pass a law that benefits 'your' company over private companies? What about passing a law levels the playing field in a sector but will take profits away from the government?
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The BBC will get to charge a license or subscription fee for non live, it is an accident of history and will change within a couple of years (along with charging for access to iplayer from abroad).
Well, in good news, it seems Linode's billing system was unharmed during this outage. ;)
So we're now allowed to provide inferior service to the poor as long as it's called free?

What happened to Net Neutrality?

If the Internet is really so beneficial and necessary to these people, they should be given the actual Internet. Accept no substitutions.

(Also, this is more than just "ad supported." This is a bundle of specific sites with their own biases and opinions, not real access to the Internet.)
HN becomes really unpleasant to use when you get enough downvotes, daily post throttling, etc.
This is actually not a problem today, see e.g. the ipf image format and hardware such as KryoFlux:

http://info-coach.fr/atari/documents/_mydoc/IPF-Documentatio...
http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Rescuing_Floppy_D...
> Wouldn't water just dissipate the energy and waste it?

Right there in the article:

"The idea is, if you build a big enough bomb and blow it off in coastal waters, it will create a 1000 foot high nuclear tidal wave that will physically wipe out coastal cities and Naval installations, as well as pollute them with radioactive fallout."

"Worse still: blowing up a 1-100 megaton device in coastal mud will make lots of nasty fallout. Sodium-24 (from the salt in the water) is deadly."
Yeah I read through his Wikipedia page...granted, it was before I had coffee, but I didn't see anything where it was said he did it out of conscience. The Wikipedia entry claims he couldn't get a job in U.S. government so he ended up working for the Canadians.

I felt as if the article was trying to make it sound like it's unfair that Yardley is in the NSA hall of heroes while Snowden is in exile. First of all, Yardley was inducted decades after his death; we don't know how things will change with Snowden.

Second, Yardley actually contributed to "the cause"...that is, codebreaking for World War II...in fact, according to the OP, he led it. The problem was when he decided to write a book for it to make some money. And of course, he did it during a time when giving up cryptography secrets was not seen as treasonous (was it still too new?), which is a big factor.
Mylio seems to have the same problem as iTunes (and a lot of OS X software frankly). Why does a cataloguing app feel the need to screw around with the source material? Every other media app I've ever used from Windows Media Player to Winamp to Amarok builds it's catalog in a local DB and links to the relevant files, yet iTunes (and I'm pretty sure iPhoto) move by default or copy if you make them to a new directory where they proceed to screw around with your files without making clear what they're doing.

Sod off the lot of you and leave my files where you found them.
This is a classic text and an absolute must for anyone starting out on a programming career, IMHO. Any idea what the context of it appearing right now is?
Me neither.

It was called machine language, or assembly language. References to the hardware were common in pretty much all language contexts. Since very little didn't involve the hardware directly, "bare metal" didn't even have the context yet.

Perhaps it would in some academic circles, but not for the general population of microcomputer users.
Network effects. Even if these people don't have cash, their presence on facebook may encourage wealthier friends/relatives to participate more.

[and even poor people may be advertising targets, for the right customer. Loan sharks? Political parties? Religious groups?]
The description of the torpedoed from the leaked Russian document, when translated, says: "destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time".
Yes, exactly this. We choose the rules, so we can push to have rules that don't have those people on food stamps. Unfortunately when you bring this up, most people can't countenance it.
> But I have also seen close up situations where tech executives (although it’s not specific to tech) have laid off large amounts of people to try and move a company close to profitability in order to quickly sell the company reaping the executive team with a large payout – again in lower taxes – while junior employees are made unemployed.

This only works if you manage to trick the people buying the company that that is not what you did. Buyers do "due diligence" when they buy a company, meaning they carefully look over the books. A recent large layoff is a huge red flag that the company's situation may be misrepresented.
I think you underestimate how affordable and widespread mobile communication is.

From my observations in Kumasi, Ghana and Kabul, Afghanistan (where I worked for a telco) having a basic cellphone and a cheap top-up plan is nearly universal. Prepaid SIM cards are sold on almost every street corner and the Facebook-enabled bundles are extremely popular.

After food, water, and clothing, family and business communications are the next most important need.
Indeed I already have sorted enough caps to seed my own radroach farm when the day comes....
I have implemented and used a similar thing for many years. I think a very great virtue of such a system is that you can run a cronjob pretty easily to email you reminders to contact any friends you haven't poked at much.
Wow, that's insane. Hopefully they won't enter that sort of deal in the future, since it basically destroys their entire value proposition.
I would not identify Reddit as having a healthy social component. Everything that has been said here about Instagram is also largely true of Reddit, and then you can add in the Neo-nazis, fatpeoplehaters and so on on top of that.
"If the international community could at least settle for an standard approach to digital distribution over the internet, the world would be a happier place for consumers"

"The international community" does get together and try to hammer out frameworks of copyright and tariffs which harmonize regulation globally. That's where large chunks of things like the TPP and the TTIP come from, and all the internet-melting complaints about the harmonization of copyright laws and the ability of american corporations to enforce copyright laws on australians and the like. But that's what you're asking for - 'why can't everyone just get together and sort out international copyright law so the media industry can come out of the 90s.' They're trying, but you won't like it when they do.
He said 1000 feet, which makes it about ten times as tall as that big Tsunami in Alaska in 1958. If you look at the description of the wave created by the Baker shot at Bikini Atoll, it wasn't nearly that high:

"The disturbance created by the underwater burst caused a series of waves to move outward from the center of the explosion across the surface of Bikini lagoon. At 11 seconds after the detonation, the first wave had a maximum height of 94 feet and was about 1,000 feet from surface zero. This moved outward at high speed and was followed by a series of other waves. At 22,000 feet from surface zero, the ninth wave in the series was the highest with a height of 6 feet."

I think the 1000 feet mentioned in this article might come from a misinterpretation of "1000 feet from surface zero" which just means 1000 feet from the center of the explosion.

http://www.abomb1.org/nukeffct/enw77b2.html

[Edited because I can't read and was off by an order of magnitude on my first try.]
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It's neat how "political views" is missing from that list up there. I wonder why that is.
It says feet, not meters, which makes it a lot more possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Lituya_Bay_megatsunami