skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
List: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/n... (there are some surprising domains in there, it's not just a who's who of major sites)

Submit your domains: https://hstspreload.appspot.com/
Guinness has quite a long ngram history, and I suspect that most of it is due to the stout. It goes down during Prohibition, though if you switch to British English it continues upwards during that era.

FWIW, http://www.pre-pro.com/midacore/snyder.php says there wasn't a national trademark protection before 1905. That would have given only 15 years for a national brand to assert itself before prohibition.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/18/what-every-president-drank/ says that Wilson's campaign song "Wilson's. That's all" came from a then popular whiskey brand. That would have been before prohibition. The brand was: Wilson "That's All" Old Label Blended Whiskey. There's a picture of a bottle at https://www.pinterest.com/engraver26/beer-booze-bottles-labe... , but that's a post-prohibition bottle.

There are some pre-prohibition brands at https://www.sweeney-emporium.com/cgi-bin/go.pl?session=a2bjr... .

Apparently there were plenty of brands pre-prohibition. So I think what you're seeing is that the most popular drinks now don't have a long history, not that brands are a result of prohibition.
Does it worry anyone else that China is starting to review code before allowing it to be released? I can definitely see the US doing some thing like this, especially if companies continue to get hacked.

Imagine having to wait 3 months before you can launch your start up because you have to get the corresponding permits and have your code reviewed.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/02/obama-imposes...
Once it needs to communicate via network, it needs a gateway into normal user software somehow.

Ditto for accessing the file system.
We long for permanence, but death comes anyway.

We long for a real basis for morals, but if all we are is matter obeying the laws of physics, morals cannot be anything more than arbitrarily-made-up rules.

We long for meaning, but that's hard to come by too. It usually comes down to randomly picking something and assigning meaning to it, and claiming that now you have meaning. But if all you are is a machine made of atoms that is headed for death, what kind of real meaning is possible?

Here is a deeper level of absurdity. Humans have randomly evolved to have these aspirations (immortality, morals, meaning), but those aspirations can't be fulfilled because all we are is collections of atoms randomly evolved by an uncaring universe. This is a sick cosmic joke. If the materialist starting point is correct, then our persistent aspirations cannot be fulfilled in the universe that exists.

Or else the materialist view of the universe is incorrect. Then our aspirations are not a sick cosmic joke - they are evidence that we are more than the materialist view says we are.
What you do to level up depends on your level now.

Novice: Keep the scope small. Try not to get confused. Concentrate on small successes and learning the basic "rules".

Beginner: After building a base, branch out and expose yourself to areas where the "rules" are different.

Intermediate: You have a base and you also have some idea that there is more to the world than your base. Write a lot of code. No, really a lot. Read a lot of code -- twice as much as you write. Become an "expert" in an area and create an understanding of why the "rules" are the way they are.

Advanced: You are an expert at something, but you realize that you have only scratched the surface. Question all the "rules". Throw them away. Make new ones. Explore the world searching for abstractions that you missed before. Write a ridiculous amount of code. No, I mean epic amounts. Read 4 times as much code as you write. (My negative alter-ego adds: Despair as you realize that you aren't so much looking for a needle in a haystack as a needle in a dung heap. Despair even more when you realize that the dung heap was made by you).

Novice Again: You have mastered a few subjects. You have rewritten the rules. You now have reached a state where you can clearly see that you understand nothing of consequence. Keep the scope small. Try not to get confused. Concentrate on small successes and learning the basic "rules".

Note that it may take a lifetime to reach the final stage and I would say that the vast majority of programmers don't reach it. Scale your expectations accordingly.

Finally, to comment on your question about whether your should review your Coursera course or dive deeper in your Python / Django stack: Write a lot of code. Doesn't matter what. Hey, how about implementing something in Python on the topic of your Coursera course? But not a toy -- write at least 10,000 lines.
If we didn't had this absurdity we might just have a more absurd life than we have currently.
As far as superpowers in history go, the United States post WWII is downright benevolent

I'm not sure the citizens of Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, D.R., Honduras, Panama, the Philippines, Vietnam, or any of the other sovereign nations the US has invaded, would agree with this statement.
Pure capitalism does not care about people.
This is pretty spot on. My view is that everyone has a cool story. Something they have done, somewhere they have been, something they know or something they are thinking that is really cool. I set a goal for myself to ask the questions that will uncover this one cool thing about them. It is pretty fascinating to see someone's eyes light up when you lead the conversation towards something they really care about. Makes every conversation an adventure.
Short lived? What a wierd opening considering shoegaze is still going strong. For example, My Bloody Valentine finally released their long overdue follow up to Loveless to critical acclaim in 2013.
While the question of the existence of god as "creator of all things" is a interesting one, anything related to religion can be easily dismissed as a fairy tale or failed philosophy, as the three religions of the book tell virtually nothing about the nature of creation but are more concerned about which "prophet" did what and that mankind should basically blindly follow teachings that cannot be questioned under penalty of death.

"thought provoking piece" ? no Plato is though provoking, Kant is thought provoking. Descartes is thought provoking. Islam and the rest are barbaric and thrive on ignorance, not enlightenment. They are hate pieces that are contextual to the era they were written,not by "a creator" but by men.

But I must admit, Islam is a little more perfect than the other two, as the ethnocentrism of Judaism and the gross absurdity of trinity will not stand that longer. The fact that it tries,however to build up on the other two doesn't save it, from a meta-physical point of view.

Logic teaches us than building something on absurdity only leads to more absurdity.
It occurs to me that you could formalize the requirement by saying that there must be a provably terminating algorithm that produces precisely the decimal representation of the integer. That way, numbers like Graham's number can be submitted despite there being no physical way to represent the number in decimal (in the observable Universe).
I've also heard that in some cities it increased the number of people who were unfed since many bars offered a free lunch (think bowl of today's stew) with the purchase of a drink. When you get rid of the alcohol subsidizing the food cost, suddenly finding dirt cheap food was harder.
"Hype" could just be a confounding variable - a side effect of just generally being an attractive place to work at. Perhaps they aren't over-valuing hype per se, but instead valuing companies they think will be successful. Many companies that will succeed happen to have a lot of hype (although obviously hype isn't the best indicator).
I am serious about one thing: there is no such thing as bad idea. Any of the Google's discontinued products weren't a failure. It's Google's product management who failed, not the products.
Pretty much everyone is going to carry on plugging in US-sourced media just as they did before, and be happy and unconcerned about it.

To borrow from James Mickens [1] the vast majority of people's thread modelling falls into the 'NOT-MOSSAD' category. People with a 'MOSSAD' threat model should not have been inserting arbitrary removable media into their secure computers in the first place, so their habits don't need to change. Although obviously some people either incorrectly assessed their threats, and need to upgrade them, or were careless and need to be more careful...

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thisworld...
Who do you sell to?
The only absurd thing about life, is that through the process, something was created that understood the absurdity of it all.
What is 'bit rot' and is Vint Cerf right to be worried?
The historical problem is too many children surviving childhood. The oldest son gets the farm, the youngest gets nothing.

The solutions have been things like:

- subdivide the property (not sustainable)

- The younger son goes to the military, or the frontier, or...

- The younger son courts a daughter in a family with no sons
Most of the slides show the effect of devastation of the Greek economy and social net.

Slides 5 and 6 can be a bit misleading since it only shows that in Greece the monthly minimum wage is 586 Euros. This number is still higher than some countries of the Euro Zone, and people may think that it is pretty fine.

In order to understand the crisis you have to consider that the minimum wage in 2008 was 794.02. In addition to that some people settle with salaries as low as 300-400 out of fear to lose the jobs they have in struggling small businesses. 25% unemployment is really an underestimate since people who have lost their short-temp jobs or never had any job or are in some kind of educational program are not counted as unemployed.

Now take into consideration that salaries were pretty predictable for decades and people made their plans, mortgages etc, and you get a taste of what is happening...
>I find it difficult to imagine "assembly lines" for software, creating coding jobs within the reach of a 50 year old truck driver, but as the tools improve, who knows.

I see Mechanical Turk as pretty close to this idea.
Every revolution has its downsides. But i think this revolution might just give us a break through from boring tasks and create opportunities for creative exploration one that we currently have in very small quantity.
"Yourself. If you transform yourself from a serf that works for money into a key contributor in an enterprise, then the quality of your engagement with your employer changes to a level where you feel responsible and accountable for both your own success and that of the company."

If this is the case, will "key contributors" also take the risk as well? So if a company starts losing profits, will they have a variable monthly income? My guess is no, which is why we don't have more business owners.
So if this idea gains popularity and the chilling effect results in a decline in new ideas being presented for discussion and debate in the public sphere which then results in stagnation ... what consequences can I impose on you?
effective military

Huh? What wars has the US won recently?

Unless "effective" means "effectively redistributing wealth to shareholders of defense contractors", in which case I agree 100%.
Many people have sensory perception issues where loud, noisy environments can be difficult to cope with. I personally can feel quite stressed and burnt out after a couple of hours in a noisy restaurant, trying to hold a conversation. I even try and avoid shopping centres at busy times, or cubicle farms for that matter for similar reasons.
Austerity for the sake of austerity must end.
To define identity in such a way that it rejects something as fundamental to a culture as names is certainly racist against that culture. I'm curious what you would call it instead. I'm sure you can understand on your own why saying something is racist is not literally the same as comparing it to the KKK/Nazis, so I won't delve further into that topic.
So the competition is not really to name the biggest number but rather to write the deepest iterator in 1000 characters and apply it to the highest paradigm function. More like a programmer's challenge.

Let A = {fastest published sequence}. # This is a macro for BB, Ackermann's, etc.

Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^Iterate^10(A, 10)
> it seems very difficult to explain why de Sade was wrong.

If we can't prove unambiguously whether or not God exists (and we can't), much less what the actual Will of that God is (even the religions which more or less agree on the same God can't agree on that), then ethics in the presence of God are in practice no different than ethics in the absence of God.

I think it's difficult to prove the Marquis wrong because it's impossible to prove him right.

Edit: let's just pretend I wrote this from an alternate mirror universe where what I said here made sense in context. I'm not deleting this comment because that's the coward's way out....
Elysium has 5 Nobel Laureates on their board[0]! Their Chief Scientist is Leonard Guarente of MIT.

Novartis[1], the pharmaceutical company, who ranked number one in world-wide sales in 2013 is working on a longevity drug based on rapamycin.

Elizabeth Blackburn got a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, in 2009, for her work on telomeres!

Quite frankly: lulz!

[0] http://www.elysiumhealth.com/team
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis
Sadly, neither are on the west coast!
Ask HN: Law firm targeting Startup Community
Hi All,

My friend and I are considering starting a law firm in the Bay Area that would target the startup community. Both of us are young lawyers in our early 30s with experience in patent law and business law. My personal background is with business law, business entity formation, and real estate law. My friend is a member of the patent bar with a CS Bachelor's Degree. Both of us have extensive tech background. We are also thinking about bringing a partner on board to handle immigration cases.

So, basically, the law firm would offer 1) patent services, 2) business entity formation services, and 3) immigration services. We think that immigration practice would fit in well because many tech companies are looking to bring in foreign talent on work visas.

This would be a big move for both of us, so I wanted to see if the HN community could give us some feedback. Assuming that we can provide competent and reasonably priced service to the tech community, would this be something start up companies would be interested in? Our network in the startup community isn’t very broad either. We believe that we can provide excellent service that would generate referrals, but at the beginning, do you have any suggestions on how to generate clients?

Any ideas would help. Also, if you guys think that this is a really dumb idea that would never work for some reason, please let us know as well. My main concern is that the kind of companies we would like to target wouldn’t consider us because they would rather go with a more prestigious, larger firm. I fervently believe that we can provide the same, and probably higher level of service, to our clients because of our small size and our tech backgrounds. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that other people will see it that way.

Thanks for reading!
Hi guys, author here. I'll be monitoring this thread for the rest of the evening. Happy to answer any questions.
Nice! I wrote one called maths a while back. It's in Ruby but I use it pretty regularly and it does the trick:

https://github.com/commondream/maths
"Unread copy in perfect condition." and it is $39.56 instead of $29.99.

My guess is this is just a drop shipper. This seller doesn't actually have a copy of the book and will instead automatically order it for you if you choose to buy from them.
We had the same problem with WD Greens. We'd write a backup to the drive in a dock each week, then store the drives as monthly backups. About 6% of the drives failed when we plugged them back in.
wcalc is pretty much the best terminal-mode calculator anywhere. It handles significant digits very well and knows about a bunch of mathematical constants in unicode form!

-> √7×2÷π−ε0×σ+α+γ+R∞×Mτ-Φ0
= 2.26885

http://w-calc.sourceforge.net/download.php
There are two photos showing a wooden building between two newer structures. In the first the neighboring buildings are brick. The architect there decorated the buildings so they matched the wood next door. The other shows concrete buildings. They wood house in that photo looks out of place.
I do not believe in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution - Jibbers Crabst
Thanks, we will have a better front/landing page soon. If you're interested, go ahead and register to be notified when we launch a public beta. Right now we have a Wordpress-like-but-cleaner CMS with import capabilities, user management, and extensible admin. There are a few more pieces in the pipeline to complete before launch and much more in the works for later in the year.
We definitely throw our weight around and interfere with Iran's domestic affairs. But this is definitely a case of "we think our morals are better than yours" (and we have bigger guns so we're gonna enforce those morals).

The Iranian government funds terrorist groups around the world, and has called for the destruction of certain other countries. So yeah, if we have the ability to stifle them (particularly their nuclear ambitions) I say we go for it.

I do feel bad for many of the Iranian people. Many of them do not like their government and are therefore held hostage by the events around them, which they have no control over, and may disagree with.
Not sure about the UK scene, but I know hackathons for high schoolers in the US can also be challenging. I'm listing a few resources that have helped me below:

* CodeDay - These happen around the US multiple times a year, there's likely one near you. I've helped organize a few of Austin's and they're a great organization. I would reach out to them to see about possibly getting an event in London going, don't know if they're able to expand internationally though. http://codeday.org/

* HS Hackers - This is a Facebook group that was made a couple of years back at PennApps. It's now a community of 3,000+ young hackers. https://www.facebook.com/groups/PennAppsHS/

* A handful of HS-focussed hackathons: SoHacks (http://sohacks.com/), HSHacks (http://www.hshacks.com/), HackBCA (http://www.hackbca.com/), HackGenY (had international participants this year)(http://hackgeny.com/)

* HackEDU - Nonprofit started by @zachlatta that's starting hack clubs all around the country. I led ours in Austin and will lead it again next year: https://hackedu.us/
> This wasn't a case of needing to reach up, but to slog through.

Is there a distinction?

Once I read a book that was partly about the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The author included a short quotation from one of his works translated into English, which I struggled to fully grasp. The original French version had been included as a footnote, so I decided to give that a shot with my limited high school French.

With the help of a dictionary and a lot of struggle, I was finally able to understand. But going back to the translation, I couldn't find anything wrong with it. It seemed like a perfectly good interpretation. I understood because I made something hard to understand even harder, not by making it easier. Increasing the difficulty forced me to slow down and focus.

You're free to define mastery of language as writing which feels effortless to read. But in my experience, the brain is a muscle which grows by putting it under strain. It may be beautiful, but for me that kind of writing is a waste of time.
The logical conclusion of this is considering all general computations that can be done with a BB calculator in hand, which leads you to the hyper BB numbers that he refers to, or BB_2.
I was just thinking to myself the other day that the danger of actually taking the time to write something thoughtful and cogent the days is that once you have convinced the intelligent, open-minded readers, that leaves everyone else to write comments. Which means when people come to look at the article in the future, and skip to the comments to get a sense of what kind of reaction people had, they get precisely the wrong impression.

This is an interesting article. It's not a "think piece" about writing "these days". It's a serious attempt to understand just what "public intellectuals" were in the first place, what conditions made them possible, and what part of that, if any, can be revived, or is worth reviving.

He might be completely wrong. But he deserves a little better than TL;DR because he dared to write above the eighth grade level.
Does the algorithm need to terminate? It seems like convergence would be sufficient. For example, we have no terminating algorithm to produce pi, but we have plenty of ways to precisly express it.

Of course, given the nature of this problem, you can define your converging algorithm to terminate when it is withing a certain error of what the "pure" answer would be. Of course, it is possible you would underestimate the number, and if someone could beet you by using the same method with a slightly different termination condition, so you may want to add 1...
Can someone explain to me if and why I'm wrong to think of Greece as a deadbeat? I understand the point that they were forced to make cuts in exchange for loans, and this only further depressed their economy, but where did that money go and shouldn't the government and people be accountable for it?

Also, even if they were wrong to do so, something must have caused creditors to demand austerity, have those issues been solved? If Greece was given a clean slate, would it be a healthy, productive and growing economy?

There are a lot of places in the world where people have horrible social support. I don't wish it for anyone, but that's the reality for a lot of places. Maybe that ought to be the reality for Greece? Work until you die, third rate health care and infrastructure. I'm not happy to see it, but if you can afford more, energy is something that must be produced.
Thebroken – Kevin Rose (2003)
If the U.S. can do it, other entities can do it too.

I'd rather that the NSA were disclosing the vulnerabilities they discover to vendors, so they can be fixed.

Failing that, we rely on white hat researchers like those here (not to mention Snowden). They're doing really important, socially valuable, work. I wonder where they get their funding, we need a lot more of them. It's our job as software/hardware engineers to create secure software.
It is a necessary truism at every abstraction layer there is at least one developer (dead or alive) who has the ability to rebuild the abstraction layer from one layer down. Speaking from a society point of view: The meme thrown around ensures developers learn to do exactly that and keeps the developer work force well trained and skilled, to rebuild things where necessary.