skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beautifully done! I wanted to build something like this for so long. No more ...! :-) (It's already there now.)

Edit: And why doesn't Google find the good stuff when I am looking for it ...?! :-)
My God, that hit a little close to home. :P
SixCalifornias - initiative to create six states
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The reasons:

1. It is about time California was properly represented with Senators in Washington. Now our number of Senators per person will be about average.

2. Competition is good, monopolies are bad. This initiative encourages more competition and less monopolistic power. Like all competitive systems, costs will be lower and service will be better.

3. Each new state can start fresh. From a new crowd sourced state flower to a more relevant constitution.

4. Decisions can be more relevant to the population. The regulations in one new state are not appropriate for another.

5. Individuals can move between states more freely.
I once emailed Derek. He went out of his way to answer my questions. I can vouch for his character. Legit dude. Much respect.
During University, my professors routinely called this "The bus scenario", are harped it on us every project.

Luckily, nobody got hit by a bus, but we all wound up very diligent at source control.
I was waiting for the conclusion "just like HN", but I guess they carry the same delusions about HN not being a trite hivemind that they once did for reddit.
I guess this will come off as snarky given the huge amount of time that obviously went into this. But what kind of person states up front that this is basically the first time he has ever given a talk - and then writes a several thousand word treatise on how to give talks? Again, I don't mean to sound snobbish or grumpy (but I'm sure I do), but there must be something really interesting about the psychology of someone who does something once for the first time ever and then sets about writing a comprehensive guide on it.

I've given quite a number of talks to decent size audiences and there are some giant smoking turds of BS in here that I hope nobody giving a talk ever reads. Take for example this:

"Depending on the length of your talk, the memorization needed, and your speaking time, you can either start practicing the day before or the day of your engagement."

What the hell are you smoking? Practising a talk for the first time the day before you deliver it (let alone the actual day) is just about the worst advice I ever heard. Unless you are a certified egomaniac, this will probably destroy your confidence as you realise you can barely stutter your way through even the first two slides in the time alotted.

I guess I have to apologise to the author for sounding negative about something he has clearly put huge amounts of work into in an attempt to be helpful, but this kind of post just rubs me the wrong way.
Have you seen a <insert something that for some reason it will be different this time thing here> is generally a poor argument. But one speculators cling to and try to convince others of adamantly.
The ACLU for one. It's a hugely challenging problem these days however, for a group like the ACLU they're like a dinghy boat floating around in a hurricane.
> "The object’s composition and provenance remain unknown almost two weeks after first contact"

Anyone else thought "Arthur C. Clarke" when reading this part?
Let me answer.

"Chris Dixon, the project manager at Seattle Tunnel Partners [...] said he felt pretty confident that the blockage will turn out to be nothing more or less romantic than a giant boulder, perhaps left over from the Ice Age glaciers that scoured and crushed this corner of the continent 17,000 years ago. " ~ The article.
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A while back I found a website (or article?) that interviewed elderly people who where essentially on their deathbeds. What do you regret, what would you do differently, etc. etc.

Without fail, every single person said they wish they went to work less, and spent more time with their loved ones.

I personally, am not good at learning lessons from other people, usually I have to learn "the hard way". I hope I can learn this one from others.
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I don't think you were specifically accusing me of it, but I didn't set out looking for anything. I read the text, and I found their wording to be jarring. I don't think anyone is trying to push an agenda with their wording — they probably didn't even notice it. I slip up sometimes too, and I appreciate a helpful reminder when it happens.
So you can't stand any and all programming languages? Because you can do anything in more than one way in all languages. And that's the whole point in 'programmability'.

And secondly its extremely rare that you will run into some obscure feature which indulges in the whole parsing thing you mentioned.
> No. I'm saying that because the employees know all the salaries, the employer has less control.

How does the employer have less control when he is unilaterally deciding what the formula is and he can stonewall any request to discuss salary by hiding behind that formula?

"You know what, Dave, I know you want more money but I just decided to add a negative 'is disrepectful of superiors' factor' and your salary just went down $5k. Isn't transparency great?".
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That's a non-sequitur. No one claimed there is a conspiracy or willful neglect.

Why would you even make that argument? What possible help could that be?

It doesn't matter WHY governments are causing the extinction of the human species. All that matters is that THEY ARE. If some institution, system, person, class, group is accidentally causing the extinction of the species, it matters not what their motive is. Any violence toward them that could be successful is morally obligatory. Even killing 90% of the human species is preferable to extinction--destroying all technology for instance is preferable to extinction.

Why are you making dumb arguments that we should do nothing in the face of scientifically proven extinction threat? Do you WANT the species to end?!
So do you think harassment is a male problem?
A variant I really like is gothic chess. It basically adds two pieces to the board. While traditional chess only has a bishop-rook piece (the queen), gothic chess adds a bishop-knight and a rook-knight.

When I was younger I picked up a set at the USCF youth nationals chess tournament, it is a fun break from regular chess because it gets you back to thinking on your feet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_chess
We play for keeps, mother fuckers.

Did you not know God was listening?

God says...
jealousy vote conservative mine I_veto_that middle_class
strip King_Midas it's_my_world bank praise this_might_end_badly
wazz_up_with_that dude_such_a_scoffer home petty what_the_heck
lying now_you_tell_me stuff not_good not_good I_see_nothing
huh Is_that_your_final_answer sing goods Mission_Accomplished
you_talkin'_to_me
I agree with you, but I guess it is interesting seeing how someone who hasn't done talks before would approach the issue. I certainly imagine that if he does another writeup after doing lots of talks it would be very different.
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White knight? Why are you assuming I'm not a woman?

I think people can simultaneously have two goals. You might as well argue that school bus drivers are more worried about getting into an accident than the job they were hired to do; transporting children to and from school. Any competent driver should be able to manage both, just as any competent developer should be able to write good code while also not alienating people without reason.
I have found that once you grasp that they are not all biblical literalists you can get along fine with Christians. The literalists are noisier but I think a minority. I married into a Christian family and they value science and logic as much as anyone.
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That's only for a Macbook. You can't say the same is done for these X60 computers.
http://swannodette.github.io/todomvc/labs/architecture-examp... has "//# sourceMappingURL=app.js.map" but the file is missing.
The author, Clifford Stoll, owns up to it in 2010:

Of my many mistakes, flubs, and howlers, few have been as public as my 1995 howler.

Wrong? Yep.

At the time, I was trying to speak against the tide of futuristic commentary on how The Internet Will Solve Our Problems.

Gives me pause. Most of my screwups have had limited publicity: Forgetting my lines in my 4th grade play. Misidentifying a Gilbert and Sullivan song while suddenly drafted to fill in as announcer on a classical radio station. Wasting a week hunting for planets interior to Mercury’s orbit using an infrared system with a noise level so high that it couldn’t possibly detect ‘em. Heck – trying to dry my sneakers in a microwave oven (a quarter century later, there’s still a smudge on the kitchen ceiling)

And, as I’ve laughed at others’ foibles, I think back to some of my own cringeworthy contributions.

Now, whenever I think I know what’s happening, I temper my thoughts: Might be wrong, Cliff…

Warm cheers to all,
-Cliff Stoll on a rainy Friday afternoon in Oakland

http://boingboing.net/2010/02/26/curmudgeony-essay-on.html#c...
I see your point. And... I had to escalate to a very senior person of that sort (full stack, or full picture -- in detail) in order to get that particular problem paid attention to and resolved.

(Such a perspective is also how I determined the problem in the first place -- which actually resulted from a botched fix to a prior problem that I'd identified.)

However, despite the variance -- or risk of same -- that I described, in general we had some very capable and dedicated devops people who put a lot of effort and care into our environments. I get rather uncomfortable considering how things would have been had that not been the case.

It's been a while, and maybe I'm mixing my stories a bit. But I left that role and product mix -- which had very significant security requirements and ramifications -- quite impressed with the role those devops folks played in keeping us safe.

Perhaps what I meant by "strong" goes somewhat in the direction of your description of "full stack". Our senior devops people tended to trend in that direction.

And we didn't have "turf wars". Instead, devops was a partner often throughout the development lifecycle. It helped make sure that the final destination was appropriate, safely, and consistently configured. (My "locale" situation aside; and in such an instance, the setting would subsequently receive heightened and sustained scrutiny, putting a curb on unintended variance of the setting as well as fixing the code that such variance would impact.)

Strong in knowledge and ability, as opposed to simply or foremost in an authority to dictate.
Oh, wow. I went and checked, my machine had T2600 CPU and indeed the whole series is a 32bit architecture.

I know that these CPU's are supposedly dual Pentium M processors in single package.
Which is why there will never be a followup.

"Mystery Object Found to be Benign, Everyday Rock" does not make for a great headline.

Edit: I may be underestimating NYT's ingenuity a bit. I suppose "Big Bertha Resumes Drilling After Penetrating Ancient Glacial Super Rock" would serve the purpose.
> Why would you think your free speech rights should give you immunity from deportation if you're not actually here legally?

You are implying that only people who follow the laws in the US have the right of free speech. That's a very, very sad way to look at things, as it means anyone trying to actually change anything has no basic rights.

i.e. same sex couples, people smoking weed, etc. etc. These people are breaking the law (in most of the country) but they absolutely must be allowed free speech to talk about it. If not, how can anything ever change or get better?

Taking away free speech from people that don't follow the current laws of the US means a very bleak future.
"I'll tell you what, God is the ultimate programmer."

Do you have a peer reviewed source for this?
> If you plan to have kids, be ready for corporal punishment in most schools and even some junior colleges, and (far more burdensome and soul crushing for an individualistic soul) military conscription

For US expats raising their kids in Singapore, there is the option of sending them to the American international school (http://www.sais.edu.sg/) instead of the public Singaporean school system. As for military conscription, that only applies to citizens, so if your children take US citizenship instead of Singaporean citizenship (US practices Jus Sanguinis, so I think this is possible), they wouldn't have to worry about military service (I'm not Singaporean or an immigration lawyer, so don't take my word on that). In short, expats can totally avoid having that reality hit them. Expats tend to live in a totally different world than the natives of the countries in which they settle.
FWIW: This YogaGlo company posted a NEW defense of itself today. Does it hold any water? http://www.yogaglo.com/blog/2013/12/yogaglo-update/
Aren't share save scheme's more like employee stock option programs? Most large companies offer them and they are usually pure profit for the employee since you buy the stock at a discount.

If its like equity/option grants in tech companies, I assume it can vary significantly on how much you are given and is pretty customized to your compensation package? i.e. junior dev only gets $10K in shares (over 4 years) vs a senior dev that gets $50K.
HN is what reddit was like 8 years ago.
What if the entire staff at both data centers are so captivated by the shower that they ignore a real disaster? ;)
This will never happen. Those in power will not allow it.
Or the word "decimation". How often do we round up a group of people and kill every tenth?
MD and CS
I'm currently in medical school and picking up CS through online courses and personal projects. I was wondering if anyone can provide examples of how a background in CS/programming has played a part in his/her medical careers.
Crowdsourcing new state flowers is at the forefront of my political concerns right now.
Please explain how my criticism of those people's behavior can't substantiate itself.
It will usually last 30 days.
The area that Bertha is digging in right now is glacial till, so it wouldn't be even a little surprising if it ran into a big glacial erratic. It should be able to chew through those even so, but if it ends up loose and just bounces around in front of the cutting head then it would be a problem, which is probably what's happening.
I find it fascinating that the pressure is so high in their (relatively shallow) drilling area that the people doing the inspection have to go through decompression chambers. I'm trying to visualize how that could be, but I'm not sure what's going on - is there basically a "perfect seal" in the front of the drill head they don't want to break? And if so, won't the bore holes they are drilling do just that?

That's the most interesting part of the article for me.
I heard a choir of discordant voices, and pictured something smooth, rectangular and black.
Both you and your parent comment are incorrect. Self-defense vs first strike becomes a gradient very quickly. And the biggest issue is that the person interpreting what happened is usually the one that used the violence.

But back to the main point, there is a world of difference between "self-defense" and "violence used to prevent additional violence". Self-defense is immediate: someone is punching you, so you punch back. The other thing... it doesn't have to be. In my mind, self-defense is justified. But self-defense is defined as "have no other reasonable option", and thus is fairly narrow. If you can negotiate, if you can protect your interests by deterring the enemy, if you can eliminate the enemy without violence, by say sanctions, etc. then you have options and it's not self-defense. Also, self-defense is not the condition where violence is the best option. It's only self-defense when violence is the only option.

Perhaps violence is justified when it's not self-defense, but I don't think you can call any first-strike "self-defense" in order to gain the high moral ground.
> The amount of the raise can be less in nominal dollars but the employee gets the same real purchasing power.

1. 99% of people out there have no idea what purchasing power is.

2. The 1% that do either lack the ability or the will to calculate it.

3. It's entirely irrelevant, because in a deflationary environment you will be receiving a pay cut. Remember, most people do not experience productivity gains which necessitates a pay cut. If you're flipping burgers, you're flipping the same amount of burgers you did last year. If your productivity didn't increase and your boss gave you a raise or even kept your salary the same, he's taking money out of his pocket for you. Very nice boss you have there ... also, a very rare creature.

4. Now that you're cutting people's wages ... you've seriously pissed them off.

> Price doesn't signal that there is demand for their goods, demand signals that there is demand. Price is a reflection of demand / supply, not the other way around.

I'm glad you know what a demand curve is. I actually know how to calculate one since I have a formal education in economics and actually took econometrics.

I also ran a pretty successful retail outfit that had revenue in the millions.

Do you know how many times I calculated a demand curve? Zero.

It would have been a waste of time. Because I'm not the only player in the market. I don't have the data.

What data do I have? More people are buying my shit. I'm running out of stock. Let me increase my prices. My prices increased, now people are buying the same amount of shit they did before. I am making more money. I feel good. Oh crap, my supplier increased his prices. My supplier is an asshole. But people are buying my stuff, I just increased prices, things are good!

99% of merchants operate in this way. Yes, I knew the changes were nominal. They still made me feel good. Inflation wins.

> But don't they, similarly, feel bad when they see everybody elses' prices also increase? They know that their paycheck gets less and less at other stores.

No normal human being makes the connection between prices and their paycheck. Not even economists. Yes, that's the rational conclusion. The world doesn't work that way.

When I get a raise, I'm happy with my boss and about my work. When I see prices rise at the store, I'm pissed at the store. There is zero connection there, even though it's obviously all connected.

People aren't computers.

> I'd argue that such debt isn't all that healthy for the long-term growth of an economy.

While I would probably agree with you, the inverse of saving is not debt. It's the lack of saving. You can skip saving a single dollar and still be debt free.
or "tim draper and i want your attention"
I'm more reminded of the Indrema (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indrema). I was so ready for an open console back in 2001. We only had to wait 12 years for someone to sort-of do it for real.
How does that work if you are a consultant for example? Or, not sure how common they are in Sweden, a salesperson paid only on commission?

I guess I'm curious how it deals with extremely variable salaries or is it just last year's that's public?
Don't forget impostor syndrome! It sounds as if you're hard on yourself, possibly for that reason.
So basically, disable javascript.
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Completely true. But it is an interesting thought experiment and provides some insight into our current system and some changes we may want to make.
1. All senators now have diluted power.

2. Competition isn't always good. Sometimes competition overrides other values or incentives unfair tactics.

3. Disruption is painful and expensive.

4. More regulations, more laws, more systems.

5. Individuals will now have to show more papers to move about the country.
As a front end web developer, my hardest bug is Internet Explorer.

Most recently, trying to get Javascript to run correctly when images that have been cached already (issue described here: http://mir.aculo.us/2005/08/28/internet-explorer-and-ajax-im...)

That was a fun 2 days of troubleshooting, I think I 'solved' the problem 3 times before it was actually solved cross-browser.
Reddit 8 years ago was like HN now. I would learn a lot from discussions, and there was no concept of subreddits.

Later, I remember being shocked to hear some co-workers who I considered kind of dumb, discussing reddit-this, reddit-that a few years ago.

I occasionally visit reddit these days, but it's more as a reminder that I live in a bubble and that there's all kinds of people. It's fascinating. People are just tragically stupid, and yet the world sort of works.

I wonder whether this is what the Eternal September felt like.
Interesting. bluekitten seems to have been hellbanned after posting only two comments. Is that all it takes?

Edit: And in the time it took me to post this, the comment appears!
"Competition is good, monopolies are bad" is a blanket statement about one mechanism of cooperative benefit, gain from trade in competitive markets, against another mechanism of cooperative benefit, namely economies of scale. It is not self evident at all that competition is always good: there are necessarily diminishing returns along all the dimensions of cooperative benefit, and they trade off against each other non-linearly. Risk pools benefit from economies of scale. Breaking up CA requires an analysis of the social services affected. This is much, much more involved than the proposal indicates.
Competition between states often leads to a race to the bottom. Corporations take advantage of this. Convince some idiots running one state to offer you non-sensical tax breaks and either take them and bleed the state dry in the name of "jobs," or use it as a bargaining chip to put political pressure on another state to offer a similar bargain.
Here's Cliff Edwards telling us in 2001 that Apple Stores will fail.

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2001-05-20/commentary-so...

We should create one list with all these predictions.
Well if I were Google, I would make sure that the Incognito mode of Chrome prevents targeting except for adwords/adsense.
Pretty easy to do when you control the browser...
We would have to change the American flag. Think about that for a second. There won't be citizen driven state changes in America, ever, without some form of revolt.
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Maybe some of the US's underrepresented territories should get a shot at statehood first.
You could try building a custom PC into a hard-shell travel case. I believe there are also ITX or micro ATX cases that can accommodate a 400+ watt PSU for powering a GPU in that range.
Paranoia is the wrong word as it implies that there is no real danger. Hysteria describes the current situation far better.
I want to know what the category is for someone like me where the process goes:

1) Code

2) Ask people why their methods are broken

3) Code some more

4) Realise what they had worked perfectly and I suck

5) Repeat