skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I put my name in a co-founder wish-list doc from HN [1] in 2010.

Many folks have reached out, some were pitching their ideas and others just wanted to get in touch.

One guy, Ev, said that he was going to write a new email server. I thought it was a bit funny (who wants a new email server in 2010?) but pretty cool at the same time so I decided to join.

That's how I ended up as a founding engineer at Mailgun (YC W11) and later on co-founded gravitational.com (YCS15) with same folks, Ev and Taylor, my best co-founders and friends from HN.

So thanks HN and YCombinator!

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Sygd1fhGYRS-ZvRP0IVV...
Usefull post indeed. Would be interested to read more about this..!!! - Mongro

https://mongrov.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120887 my estimate was 200% a long time ago
Quite ironic

"I didn't read the whole paper but..."

"I didn't read your whole comment but I got to that bit and I downvoted you!"
Thanks for that, interesting. Gee, that sounds awful. Well, it reminded me of the 'cultural' propaganda work the CIA did in the mid-to-late 20th C—the Congress for Cultural Freedom etc.
RescueTime.
It gives you a breakdown of every time sink, and does it using an efficiency metric. You can also set limits to specific websites; for example, I've set a time limit of 10 minutes per day for social networking websites. After 10 minutes, access to those sites are blocked for 24 hours.
Out of curiosity, have you found anywhere on the internet that is both tech-focused and does not have a liberal bias? I'm sure you could find places that lean libertarian, but I don't know of anywhere that I would consider traditionally conservative

To add to your point, I feel that the conservative views on this website are also generally intelligent and thoughtful, even though I mostly disagree with them.
Somewhat off topic, but still highly relevant:

Sir_Cmpwn, now that your stretch goal in your crowdfunding campaign has been reached, what will you do? Do you have ideas for a new goal?

I expect a fair portion of the traffic came from this post. So if you have ideas for them, comment below?
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Check out KCC, too, since the foundation is open-source, offers extra benefits for languages modeled in it, and has a commercial tool for C with either low or no false positives depending on how it measures up to claims. No affiliation. I just find the K framework plus an executable, formal semantics for C cool as heck. :)

https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics

https://runtimeverification.com/match/

They also have an article comparing it to Tis-interpreter here:

https://runtimeverification.com/blog/?p=307

Their K has been used for languages from Scheme to Prolog to C. More recently, they also did a semantics for a VM for smart contracts. They're doing a lot of interesting stuff. Builds on Maude and rewriting logic if anyone is curious.
"And that's when he saw a note from Peck via his website's contact form, offering to solve his problem." .. sounds like he could have used amazon turk. Still, this is all good, if probably sensationalized a bit.

The part where he like, saved a persons life is pretty cool. Shows the value of having very deep expertise in your startup is important.

Plus this is the future, which is great. My guess is that this write-up happened because of his investors trying to tell a story. I've been a part of startups, a huge part of the value add of the VC is their ability to plant these stories in MSM / Techcrunch / etc because they have cred with reporters.. Certain aspects will naturally get exaggerated to make the creation story sounds good.
I'll have to think about this further, but at first glance this seems like a better heuristic than what I wrote.

There's a little bit of opinion embedded in my original post, which is that PDF is an inappropriate format when intended for screens. It's okay if you're wanting to provide a primarily printed document on the web or in email, it's okay, but if your primary target is screens, PDF provides a pretty poor user experience.
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Show HN: ICO Watch – View ongoing, upcoming and finished ICO
Should be "Anatomy of Compromise", sorry for the error.
"The task of feeding that huge population has not been accomplished by the government, by charities or by foreign agricultural investors. It is the work of an army of ordinary Bangladeshis with an eye for making money."

probably because they have standards, as mentioned earlier in the article, these farmers have no standards.

Also, the website froze up on me, first time i ever seen that lmao. couldnt scroll or use the arrows or anything to move it but the tab was fine, just the page didnt scroll.

news sites are such ad whores, so much that it breaks their site.
There's a _lot_ of aspersions cast here with almost no substance. I've no love for PRC, but how is this meant to be any different from The British Council, rich countries' aid programs, and so on?
Guess I'm lucky then... I've lived in LA for about 28 years and I don't think I've ever seen a black widow. Actually I remember when I was ~3, I was sitting (legs crossed) on the patio, my neighbor came over and smashed a scorpion near me with a hammer. Remember it vividly, mostly because I didn't understand why he killed it (at the time). As an adult, I don't recall seeing scorpions, brown recluses, or black widows..
There's actually plenty of evidence that it's not.

What is the evidence? Even if you accept essentially any and all finding, however iffy, about gender-based cognitive differences, there is a huge leap from that to 'women are simply unsuitable for your typical programming job, to an 80/20 ratio'. I can't think of any actual scientists that make that argument, again, on the basis of any finding. It's not at all obvious how such a question could even be answered scientifically.
Other than the ability to argue, nothing much, a time waste feeding into our need for affirmation, like most social networking.
20 upvotes got me on the front page one time. It was the most views I've ever had on my blog. It got me a job interview! Nothing came of it, but still a wild ride.
HN gave The Tao of tmux a lot of valuable feedback, as well as readers.

Here is the Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13022062

That day, I got tons of pre-orders. The email notifications kept piling up. Book wasn't even done yet.

It's available online for free: https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read, and also in DRM-free ebook format: https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/
Good luck downloading 16 million records...
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Thank you!
This guy dismisses conventional UX as some sort of bad thing while starting out saying that everyone's unique experience was a huge headache in the early web.

And the a huge reason why Google even took off was because of how completely bland it's experience was.

I'm not saying there aren't things that need to be improved, but the sudden death of the website? Oh, cmon.
Should a person not be impressed by being able to travel through two miles of incredible urban density in just a few minutes?

I think vehicular traffic is far and away the most depressing aspect of NYC. All of the noise, pollution, bad attitudes, and danger to pedestrians and cyclists and it's not even close to being a timely and efficient way to get around. The subway is a damn miracle compared to any other current form of surface transportation.
I do meditate and it, like most things, has SOME beneficial effect, but not near enough and not near as much as the label on the tin says in my experience. No access to psychonaut stuff but I'd try in the right conditions with someone I could count on.

I have drafted the "last ditch Ask HN for ideas" post but not sure when to post it. I know if it goes badly or is ignored outright it will really affect me and bring me down hard.

I am so far beyond mind game stuff being able to help...I need Maslows bottom rungs stabilized before I can do the rest...people always expect you to do it backwards.
I'd much prefer HN's scarce supply of armchair commentary to reddit's endless supply of quickly triggered "meme" comments.
> Trump is very very different from a mainstream Republican.

The key part of merpnderp's quote is "or agrees with any of his policies". There are tons things that are perceived as "Trump's policies" (and some are in fact his policies) that are just mainstream Republican policies. Just don't confuse "policies" with rhetoric, because in the case of Trump he says one thing and does another all the time. Of course it's a bit odd to me that people who think he's a pathological liar (a viewpoint I can totally understand!) always act surprised when his words don't match his actions...
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Even easier: All Hacker News posts are ready to be analyzed in BigQuery.

- https://medium.com/@hoffa/hacker-news-on-bigquery-now-with-d...
Show HN: Shell Automation with JavaScript and Lazy Evaluation
Well, nothing you said is wrong, but the reason is wrong. Both St Petersburg and Moscow have a very well distributed and supported above ground public transit system as well, going back to the early years of the Soviet Union. Trams, trolleys, buses, and the pay vans (Marshrutki) are extremely prevalent and help people get around fast and relatively cheaply. I live in spb right now and am riding a tram where the placard lists the commissioned date as 1958. The wagon of the metro train I moved to while writing this post says 1972; point is this infrastructure has been around a long time.

So yeah, people had no say if a district shut your metro station down for 4 months for repairs (which still happens today), but you had and have many alternatives to get where you want to, so at best it's a minor inconvenience.

Compare this to where I grew up in the Midwest, if the buses there broke that was it. Hope you knew someone with a car who was home or liked walkjng (and I've done a few 7 mile walks home when buses broke down, since my choice was wait an hour in the cold for the next bus or just walk)

Deal with it now in russia and in the ussr basically meant "pick one of these other services".
Yeah, it's astroturfing for sure. But it's very well done astroturfing, which makes for entertaining reading. Anyone who doesn't realize this doesn't read very critically.
Yes, I’m curious what you switched to as well.
Oh my god dude... it's simple, you believe in responsibility or you do not believe in it.
Hacker News reminds me that there are lots of people much smarter I am.
People in China are in fact racist by Western definitions. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15745355 for details. As I said in that comment, it's not because they're _bad_ people; it's a natural outcome of the way humans stereotype.
Heh, not particularly accurate. The moon won't “eventually escape entirely”. It's orbit will keep increasing till the solar day = lunar month. At which points the tides stop and there's no more energy to increase the moon's orbit.

The fun part is because vacuum is not perfect and the incredibly small effects of gravitational waves the orbit will start decreasing.... till it hits the Roche limit and becomes a ring!

All that ignores the sun expanding and consuming the inner planets.
Likely either coils start melting or RF burns.
I was once on the front page too, but sadly, no HS internship or job of any kind came out of it :(
Title should be SF or San Francisco, those are more common in the search history.

"San Fran" should be removed from people's vocabulary.
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I would recommend Elixir on the backend and Elm on the front. Or better yet, fishing.
Sorry that’s not true on both accounts.

Yes the USSR has had women in combat (so did other allied nations, even the US it just didn’t sent them to the front lines) however in very small amounts and mainly for propaganda purposes and while some of them achieved great things as far as anyone can be great in a war these weren’t by any stretch of the imagination the norm.

In the post war economy women were locked out of many positions my mother had to fight tooth and nail to be allowed to teach in secondary education being both Jewish and a woman it took her nearly a decade to pass retarded committees and gain enough favors.

While the USSR might have been seen as a “feminist” heaven back in the day it was far from that it was and Russia is still is very old fashioned in some regards closer to 19th century court than to the bra burning days of the 1960s in the West.

And as far as women’s emancipation went it wasn’t as much emancipation as it was exploitation.

Lenin has seen women as part of the workforce and the USSR used them as such but delegated them to the most basic tasks and positions with progression and advancement near impossible regardless of their qualifications and effort.

Education was also seen by many as a way to escape having to work in the factories and fields.

I’m not entirely sure what your experience is with Russian culture and history but it seems we have quite different views of it.

But if you are willing to read then Wikipedia has decent articles about women and feminism in the USSR and I suggest a book called Gender in 20th century USSR.
...has an anti-procrastination setting which is so unique in our current economy of attention-grabbing!
Indeed. Where did react, cassandra, golang... come from?
372 ether bounty has been paid for building a Doge-Ethereum bridge
- high quality information & comments (including famous people that I'd never meet in person or have a direct conversation/discussion)
- passion for technology
- probably the current job plus an once in a lifetime IPO experience
- a lot more ;-)
I know you don't understand me but I'm basically saying that there is a religion that espouses responsibility, that has ancient relevance to the human race.

Then there is atheism which basically means follow nothing, do what you wish, which might mean that you're a great person nonetheless.
Dust is actually a big problem in low earth orbit, it’s far from clean and with orbital velocities even small specs can cause problems.
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I initially thought this has something to do with the concept of chirality in lifeforms...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral_life_concept
What are the challenges in bio like compared to tech industry interms of innovatation, opportunity, or otherwise? I'm considering transition in that direction.
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This is incredibly modest in comparison, but HN has given me a great understanding of just how smart people can be on any side of any issue, as well as a desire to try to contribute in some way to that dialogue.

For me, when IRL it's incredibly hard to find, this has been a much needed boon to my overall view of the world at large :)
No longer involved, but provided something of value in the past?
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Egypt went though several desertification periods some of which caused the collapse of the old kingdom this isn’t exactly a new discovery.

When the pyramids were built the Sahara has already existed but it didn’t creep that far up north as it did today.
Best version ever! Love the use of @ for Leia's cinnamon rolls.

But I had thought it might be an actual ascii rendering, like people used to do for photos. Essentially, regard the tty screen as an 80*25 set of 'pixels'. Then pick the closest match ASCII character and foreground/background color for each 'pixel'.
Imagine Congress fearing that a Chinese kid dressed in Supreme with a GT-R is a secret agent for spreading Communism to America.
Same story, but this is the only one with a decent picture.
Sci-fi has covered pretty much "everything", so it's not a surprise that there was a TV series in the 1970's that had this exact premise:

In the opening episode, set in the year 1999, nuclear waste stored on the Moon's far side explodes, knocking the Moon out of orbit and sending it, as well as the 311 inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha, hurtling uncontrollably into space.

I never could bring myself to watch it, because the premise was just too absurd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_1999
Ask HN: Can't code for hours since it became a job
I used to be able to code for hours in school.

Since I started working for money, this ability is gone.

The other day we played World of Warcraft in the office, and I realized I spent 4 hours in it without even noticing. It was perfectly easy.

Coding used to be like that. It's not anymore.

One thing that changed is that I was completely careless in school. It really didn't matter to me if I didn't do anything useful all week.

What do you think I should do? Try and change my perception of coding? Should I try and focus less on the reward?
What?

> From shell's point of view, the filters -- echo and cat -- are pure, referentially-transparent functions of their arguments

Yes, in this somewhat bizarre, contrived, tautological use of `cat`, maybe. But `cat` is more commonly used not as an identity function (the explicit identification of which would seem to strengthen the author's case, but isn't made), but as a way of pulling in data external to the command-line input, making it neither pure nor referentially transparent.

> Operator | (a pipe), "forces" a command, which is a promise of output, on its left producing a stream, an argument for a command on the right-hand side of the pipe

That seems to be more simply a description of function composition, rather `>>=`, which concatenates functions that have multiple output modes.

Indeed:

> UNIX filter is expected to sequentially consume its input and produce a single output stream

is suggestive that filters on the command line have no side-effects, which is not a typical usage of the term.
You can track movement on the ledger but you don't really know who is who once you get two hops from an exchange.

It's pretty simple to hide your tracks, especially if you're not concerned with moving back into fiat.

As adoption continues tracking will become murkier.
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On the other hand he was incredibly bad at actually stopping communists.
I should have been clearer. I actually don't doubt that conservatives are sometimes ostracized; I just don't think, based on my limited experience (and not being one of them), that it happens routinely.
Yup, this is about it really.
This should be the top comment. You can tell from the article that the WSJ is trying really, really hard to push the 'intolerant liberals' angle. From what I can tell, the only person cited who really left due to politics was Thiel.
"better ways to de-politicize 'news' sources"

There isn't a better way than free speech, which is why political speech is the most protected free speech. I've never even heard this mentioned in any of the news about the Russian propaganda, and it should be a central discussion point.
“Direct benefit to the nursing home”

That’s the problem with this in my mind. I saw the process that kicked into motion when my father had a stroke. Acute rehab is what patients need, but hospitals work hard to funnel patients into their in-network nursing facilities that offer half the therapy at higher margin.

Having doctors video into a patient home doesn’t sound like a recipie for success. Nursing homes are all about cheap CNAs and LPNs providing minimal services for minimal dollars. The doctor doesn’t really deliver care, that’s done by nurses, who don’t really exist in nursing facilities.

Frankly, this sounds like the kind of bullshit that prison medical providers do. Not patient focused at all.
Another one bites the dust. Heh.
Everytime
HN is an echo chamber, to some extent. For example, try making valid criticisms against Go or JavaScript and you will be downvoted without explanation. I think HN would be better if it required an explanation in order to downvote something. At least then it would be clear to everyone reading whether the negativity was legitimate or not.
I've lived in California all my life and was somehow ignorant of this fact. Apparently it does exist, although the bulk of the Urban Rail system is light rail, not grade separated. Daily ridership is somewhere around 360K (not bad honestly!) vs. SF Muni at 660K and NYC at 5.7MM.
Do you have links to any of these posts handy?
No worries! I appreciate you writing to me and do not wish to cause any trouble or problems in the system.

I think my comment is moreso reflective of the problems that persist in hiring today- massive candidate pipelines, subjective differences in candidates, ambitious growth targets vs a need to stay lean.

I wish GitLab and all startups the best in the future. I don't know where I fit into the startup world anymore, but I really support tech companies that make such awesome contributions to the world.

Thanks!
If you just want to record, you could also try the script command, which comes preinstalled with most Unices. Asciinema's file format is more convenient for sharing and other niceties, but you probably won't have it installed everywhere. If you want to automatically record all SSH sessions on your server, script is the tool of choice.

I've also used it to fool programs that refuse to go into interactive mode when their input is not a TTY, but that's more of an abuse of script's purpose.
"The last claim was outright untrue as the 'film' he alluded to in the advertisement is a naturally occurring membrane which cannot be removed by toothpaste"

Is that true? I think the outermost layer of a tooth is just enamel. Open to being wrong (not a dentist) but I think it somewhat detracts from credibility (even though toothpaste is not actually the thrust of the article).
When I joined Hacker News in 2012, it was after a lot of reservation, as I wasn't a uber-programmer with a CS degree and wasn't sure I could contribute properly to the community.

In the many years since, Hacker News gave me the motivation to improve both my writing and my technical skills, and gave me confidence in my work.
I believe it was sometime in 2008/09 I attended the first meeting of the NYC HN Meetup in Madison Square Park (pretty sure the meetup is now dead). I met a lot of amazing people from the NYC tech scene that I still keep in touch with. We've helped each other start companies, find jobs, build things, and create lasting friendships outside of work / tech. I miss those days...
F# records and tuples implement equality and comparison based on their members automatically, which handles the part that you mention that you're supported to do in C#. It's not reflection so much as at compile-time the compiler emits the correct implementation of these methods.
What's super clever about this is going after nursing homes rather than generaly avoidable ER admissions. Trying to aim at insurers would have been probably next to impossible, even though that's where the big market is.

If you're interested in the opportunity, good read here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/29/16906558/a...
Same here. HN is usually the site I go test my internet connection.
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After 15 years of software engineering, I started a math PhD at 36. Consider the opportunity cost, those can be productive years. When considering programs, see how the other students like it. Your experience is likely to be similar. I did a postdoc afterwards, but didn't stay in academia. It might have been overkill, but the credentials have unlocked some opportunities.