jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
“I just don’t really care” sums up why all well-meaning attempts I have seen to switch Web 2.0 (the social Web) to open source have failed.

Web 1.0 has Wordpress, Magento and a slew of other things. But for Web 2.0 people expect a growing number of real-time services, slick and easy to use, these days they all added audio chatrooms and video calls etc. Everything has to be super reliable, etc.

It would take years to build a suite of components (chatrooms, events, managing subscriptions and notifications etc.) that could rival Facebook / Telegram / WhatsApp.

I would like to think we did it at Qbix. But we are still playing catch-up to the big boys.

User adoption will only come when something is good enough to be used as what’s currently out there.

But once it comes, it has so many advantages: host where you want, configure components how you want.

If you’re interested, look at the links in my profile.
Consumption of alcohol seems to be trending down in the West -- the figures for adult males' consumption in the 19th and early 20th century is shocking compared to today. So, lifting prohibition doesn't necessarily lead to higher consumption forever, there are cultural factors (and legal ones like drunk driving being taken more seriously than it once was) that reduce usage.
I am incredibly thankful that you took the time to write all this. Thanks a million!
Not only multiple games, but also multiple viewpoints of the same game. Twitch added support for that use case for esports (I think as part of their deal with Overwatch League).
I think it only uses qemu if you attempt to execute on non-x86 architectures. So it’s not a build-time dependency.
I dread the day when Google/Youtube will start blocking accounts based on what their Speech to Text thinks someone is speaking.
I love Cal Newport's books.
However in this chapter he skips to mention that

with all it's flaws email is a 10 times better for productivity and relaxation than slack!
I agree with the other commentor, this is an important distinction. It has no hypervisor and is really just a normal process using standard kernel features: cgroups (resource limiting) and namespaces (resource isolation). It's really not so different to chroot.
Chromium EC. It's the part of Chromebooks that handles things like keypresses: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/ec/+/m...
That file only increased my questions on what happened to the audio on this vid. The song is quite recognizable. So why did the youtube one turn into garble?

And the jpg one is just incorrect. He kept increasing the compression ratio, which proves nothing at all. For a more accurate view see http://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/355-How-I-M... which shows that after a certain point the jpeg stops changing. (Which is what I expected the mp3 to do, but I guess it doesn't.)
I smell an opportunity for an escort service :)
The mail address is truncated, and the real information is hidden behind a captcha.
Good point. I guess by hacker I meant coder/programmer. Most of the articles here refer to programming or other similar complex problems.

Whilst BGP next-hops, OSPF neighbours and flapping spanning-tree can be a pain in the arse to debug, I just don't quite consider it on the same level as some of the stuff I read here.

Maybe it's just because I don't understand it, so it seems more complex than it really is?

I am proud of my work and I love my job, so I'm happy in that regard!
Agreed. While opening battery cases can be hard as long as you are careful to not impale the batteries inside it's often possible to service what's there. I'm not a soldering machine but I've managed to solder batteries without exploding them.

Electric tooth brushes are a classic example of a whole mechanism going in to the landfill just because they choose to make it non-servicable.
Since when has the word "sucks" evoked that?
You're describing SPF and DKIM. Both of which can be used by people sending legitimate mail, and people sending spam...

SPF and DKIM are good for preventing some false positives. They're not good for stopping spam.

I would bet that currently, well over 90% of spam that is rejected, is rejected because of blacklist lookups.
You cannot get 750K transactions/second with durability for writes, or for reads when they go out of RAM. An HDD drive operates at roughly 250 ops/second, an SDD at roughly 10k ops/second (huge oversimplification, but roughly correct). Even when you batch things and sacrifice a little bit of latency, you can't get even close to 750K QPS.

InnoDB is a great engine, but we need to know exactly what the benchmarking number means before we can start relying on it.
Empathy

some of us have the ability to recognize this and realize that our position is not everyones, or even most peoples, or even realize that one day we might have kids too, and all those older people that say that life is completely different post kids might be right.
An engineer on the Android Security Team objects to people claiming they've "rooted the Nexus S" by installing a custom ROM on it when all they've done is taken advantage of a feature named "fastboot_oem_unlock" which allows you to install a custom ROM.
That figure is laughable. Whatever survey it came from is also laughable. You are not laughable. But those factoids? Laughable. This is a silly argument.
Make that all four of them :)
No slight on the guy, because it's a common line, but I'm waiting another decade or two to see someone write this:

"For the first time in history, the current generation of Americans cannot be certain that the generation that comes next will be more prosperous."

for the third consecutive generation.
I think you're also missing some of the point though. You don't need a million dollars for any or all of those things you just listed.

Add it all up and you're barely breaking a few thousand dollars.

Sure you need money. He's not saying you don't need money. The point is that when people say they need to be arbitrarily wealthy because they want to eventually do Y, they can usually do Y for much, much less money than they think. In fact it is usually within their current means.

So stop agonizing about not being rich and figure out how much you really need already.
> It would be amazing if they could turn Flight Simulator into a "game engine", so that other developers can build specific scenarios/games on top of it!

That's already the case. There's a huge ecosystem of hand-crafted airports, airplanes that are true to every little switch, etc.

Microsoft's flight simulators are an open platform like Windows and are meant to be extended. Hundreds of products have been already released (example[1]) for the new Flight Simulator, and there's a thriving freeware scene[2]. You can of course only use Paint and Internet Explorer, but then you'd be missing out. This also negates criticism towards the simplicity of included airplanes. Not happy with the A320? Install open source A320 expansion[3] and enjoy the ridiculous level of detail[4] it brings.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPO5_ky0xJk

[2] https://flightsim.to/

[3] https://github.com/flybywiresim/a32nx

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rHtTwqel_A&t=1135s
"Stealing potential money"? Are you insane?
Well, at the time the article was written, cfront was still the C++ implementation, so this was a really long time ago. C++ was arguably as bad as the article said... then.

I'd say that C++ being fixed and becoming more popular took place in parallel. As it got used more, people saw more things that needed fixed, and as more things got fixed, it became more useful for more people.

Why did things get fixed nearly as fast as they got identified as problems? Because there was an arms race between Borland and Microsoft to have the best C++ compiler, primarily. That competition did wonders for the language (neglecting the horror of Microsoft's incompatible and ugly extensions...)
The double quotes does not work on MacOSX/Chrome?
Nice synopsis of Haskell as a language, but it doesn't touch on why they chose it for server side web application programming, specifically. I'd be interested in knowing if it's capable, scalable and stable enough to provide a platform to build on for the next few years. Based on its history to date, are there protections in place for backwards compatibility, or are they likely to end up pinning to an obsolete version? Does the standard library support web services (SSL, unicode, etc.), or will they need to turn to third parties or code essential building blocks from scratch?
Thanks for the tip. Just gave it a try, and it looks great so far.
I'm not saying that you should eat lunch with your coworkers. I actually rarely do.

It's just the case described by the original comment is one of someone who doesn't hate lunch, it's a case of someone who hates their job. There's a difference.
So in #8, you say you want to be able to bitch about your boss behind his back. But in #9 you call everyone else "phoneys" because they bitch about people only when they're not there.
I'd rather see flattr as a +1/Like economy where content can be anything from an NYT article to a Disqus comment. This way, the social buttons also actually make sense for people to use. On HN, I usually forget to upvote shared stories, and I basically only do it nowadays to save it as a HN bookmark. The HN upvote is very ambiguous that way.

Readability's subscription feels a little like buying absolution for blocking banner ads - and perhaps circumventing paywalls. Still, many people find it attractive.

I don't think having to find people worth donating to is the main problem; the problem is documenting that flattr can be an income model worth spending your time on. Success stories in other words. It's a little similar to YouTube partnerships that way - as I understand, some, maybe few, people earn a decent chunk of change, but Google seem to strong arm its partners into keeping their experiences to themselves. I'm sure this keeps a lot of people away from trying the model.
how did he ever acquire citizenship? he wasn't born here. he took an american superhero's job when he landed in that farm.
I am defending Facebook's right to deal with the stuff it publishes however it wishes. You don't have a contract with Facebook that they store and display your content, as you would a book publisher or private hosting service. With Facebook you voluntarily post your content, and they voluntarily publish it for free. They have no obligation to you to keep it up there for any reason whatsoever.

If you want to guarantee the stability of your content, you need to get a contract or host it yourself. Facebook doesn't owe you anything.
If you are a current customer your limits wont be affected.
>the intention was probably more to cast Bitcoin as a wild-west, do-at-your-own-risk, good-luck-to-ya type of asset to work with.

That's exactly what it is, and exactly what it should remain.
I didn't say it couldn't be regained. But it will be an increasingly uphill battle. Regulators and politicians have been sold to the highest bidders.
You already used your own notion of "ethical" in your original comment when you implied that stifling the creation of new knowledge is bad. Did you really think that just because you didn't use the word "ethical" in your comment, that it is devoid of ethical statements? That's not how it works. By suggesting that free speech has a "purpose", you are making an ethical statement.

>The point is we don’t know.

That's really not the point. Your whole thesis depends on your assumption that new knowledge is created. The contrapositive to your statement is that if no new knowledge is being created, then free speech doesn't matter; this is false.
> I wonder how many people here saying Amazon warehouse is a good job just because it pays 15/hr have actually worked there along with other jobs paying similar or better?

I have never even made $15 an hour. Also, in my area (also pretty cheap CoL), they pay $20/hr while fast food is ~10-12.
Billionaires yes, amazing discoveries, no.
As an introvert, a remote worker full time, and a traditional BS in CS from a state university, I am more and more convinced the needs of many for "face time" is just because anyone over the age of ~20-25 grew up without ubiquitous communication without faces.

I'd cite my brother (age 12) and his generation, who seem to have no problem basically never seeing their peers from class anymore, but will play video games with them endlessly online. During summer break last year he barely went outside, besides what physical activity his mother compelled him to, which was not very much different from what I did, the difference being that his entire peer group is behaving the same way and from my impressions by him it is the norm rather than the exception now.

I fully expect that generation to have no issue doing collaborative learning using MOOC resources and the Internet instead of brick and mortar buildings in front of lecture podiums. Throughout history we have learned many a time how adaptable the human psyche is to its environment, and how much of ones assumptions on human behavior can be challenged and changed by the world changing around them. I think this is another one of those cases - because articles like this one are talking about college ten years from now, for children born ten years later. And that makes a huge difference in the Internet age.
>Yandex set as default search provider for the Turkish locale

Interesting. Looks like Putin's relationship with Erdogan gets cozier all the time. Yandex has a very strong connection to Russian intelligence services:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-13274443
I know a gent working on e-ink tags for grocery store shelves. They have a similar energy usage, lots of sitting idle punctuated by doing something. He's gotten 5 years on a single coin cell. I can't imagine that this would be much different.
Scientists who speak publicly about racial / geographical correlations with almost anything "interesting" (e.g. athletics, intelligence) are swimming in extremely dangerous waters. We saw this in the past couple of years with the media tarring-and-feathering of Harvard psychologist Jason Richwine, and geneticist James Watson. Nobody wants to go near that area - it's the 3rd rail of biological and psychological science.
Certainly there are clear mechanisms for wealth transfer from both bottom to top and side to side. What is more interesting to consider is: What are the mechanisms for wealth transfer from top to bottom? From what I can tell, that sector is shrinking – as mass deployment of labor diminishes in importance – and has little prospect of recovery outside of government intervention. Would love to hear some different perspectives on that.
https://www.ovh.co.uk/aboutus/ovh-in-figures.xml

It's hard to get definite numbers from anyone, but they're all in about the same league.

My personal guess would be that EC2 is much bigger than OVH in the US, while OVH is almost certainly bigger than EC2 in Europe.
Fair point. What I wanted to get across is that when Apple releases a new product, I see the picture, and I just want it.

When Microsoft releases a product, it seems like their marketing department just wants to hammer a list of features into my head which just results in me not wanting anything.

Any marketer want to give their two cents?
Can't speak for NSA, but CIA bans all illegal substances in the last 365 days. That may have changed in the past 10 years though. If you have any history of substances, you'll have to do the waiver.
Yeah! This interview is great. Get to know bill gates and his take on microsoft strategy in the 80s and 90s.
Don't forget about the 'halo effect'. If a company is performing well, it tends to lead to better results in employee surveys, for no other reason than that.

I know this doesn't exactly explain why facebook does better in the surveys than google, but I think part of the reason facebookers feel more satisfied, is because they know they get paid more than googlers.
Let me disagree here. Although Opera is positioned itself as standard compliant, it has many issues with javascript. Some functions are working incorrectly, some just not working, some events firing, some not. Right click is disabled too..
I'm not against Opera, but we should think about stuffs above.
Regarding Google - google making their money from adverts, from people who using google. Do you really think that google could deliberately disable Opera support due to some internal polytics and renounce from money of many opera users? I think there were good reasons such as bad js support, because javascript is widely used by google in their services.
For what it is, I think it is a huge progress that one day will be a big deal. But too expensive for the average at home hobbyist at the moment.

For those wishing the article linked to the product... here you go.

Product: http://store.makerbot.com/digitizer.html

FAQ: https://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads-makerbot-com/digitizer/MB... [PDF]
Right, a link to the repo would've been fine.
This is what I find surprising about security checks, don't quite understand. When I entered Israel I was out hailing a cab within minutes of debarking my flight. When I was leaving, they had me detained and searched thoroughly. I couldn't understand why they let me enter in the first place if I was such a suspect personality.
My father was the grand-grad student of Kolmogorov. He (Kolmogorov) is a very impressive mathematician. My father's advisor, Yakov Sinai, is equally impressive and arguably one of the founders of Dynamical Systems, a very interesting subfield of mathematics (and, in some ways, probability theory) in its own right.
I use Pycharm but needed phpstorm for a project. I wrote asking if I should target IntelliJ or just go with the two.

There isn’t a clear order for feature introduction after stuff hits IntelliJ.

However, they mentioned a few times that people who need multiple tools often pick individual apps simply because they are much lighter weight than IntelliJ.
My best friend told me re: having to pee at night "you just gotta go man otherwise you will just lay there and suffer" since that day I've not had a full nights sleep. I'll never forgive him.
Yes, the absence of a high saturated fat diet leapt out right away. That's what wins the clinical trial equivalents of this.
It used to be hard to copy. This greatly limited the effect of copying. For example in the 18th and 19th centuries, books made almost all of their money on the first print run. By the time a copier could get a copy out, there wasn't much money left to be made from the book, and so it was hard for the copier to recoup his copying costs.

Justice Breyer, back when he was a law professor, not a Supreme Court justice, wrote an interesting article about this, arguing that copyright throughout most of its history was in fact unnecessary because of the delay and costs of copying.

From the latter half of the 20th century onward, copying technology has gotten cheaper and faster. That has shifted the balance. The copier can now, especially with digital goods, get their copy out to the market fast enough to reduce or eliminate the sales of the original.
They do go up. Wait 20 years and it will be worth more.
Would non-EV SSL do anything here? Once you have control over DNS for a domain, you own its mailboxes and can buy SSL certificates validated against that domain. So whether you're connecting to the original site or the new server some government pointed it to, you're getting a valid SSL certificate for that domain.
Insecurity: different issue entirely, though I generally agree. Mobile platforms are an extremely active battleground right now, though.

Not sure what the valid point would be. "Where this is going"? It's not going anywhere. A similar rule exists in the Mac App Store guidelines... both of which merely mean you can't cite other OSes in the app store. The app can internally / on their site advertise that they're also on Windows, just not in the store. It's not a very surprising requirement, as it's a locked-to-a-single-OS store, and it's easy to get around if your app has any purpose aside from advertising the competition.

Putting the magazine as an app on the store would be nigh-impossible, because you couldn't mention its primary purpose, but it'd likely get by with no issue if such a thing were achieved without being misleading.
Insert story about a kid born to a family with a long history of shortness, say all under 5'6", it is very, very doubtful he will get to be in the NBA on that factor alone.

Though in general I agree, we often overestimate the limits, that doesn't mean there are none, and I'd rather let the children explore than have a path set out for them before they're even teenagers.
http://geoipweather.com/ is the site if you'd like to give comparing GeoIP vs HTML5 Geolocation a spin.
I'm going to Andala. What should I order?
Mike, this is definitely true. You have to start somewhere, and we chose iPhone. You'll find Treehouse on every platform eventually, and we hope to see you there :)
Not contrived at all. That is really how Comic Sans thinks.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1658137/infographic-of-the-day-bp...

With such a flagrant history of safety violations, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.
If you are doing document processing, a document database is actually the right choice.

I disagree with your comment. I do machine learning and NLP, and I prefer mongodb as a data-store to RDBMs. SQLite would be overkill. MongoDB is a more convenient and simple choice than an RDBM.

Using a schema-less document database is natural in NLP, where you might add columns to your fields on the fly, e.g. you are experimenting with a new preprocessing step and want to cache the result.
Not sure if you needed the sarcasm tag, but the one-on-one discipleship, accountability group, and small group study have been part of Christianity since Jesus gathered his fishermen.

Some religions, like LDS, make these issues official in the sense you are talking about. Eg, a bishop must judge your purity and sign a form before you can do certain religious rites at the temple. I have not seen this in my Protestant experience, and I would be sad to hear about it.

I attend a somewhat large church. I hesitate to call it a megachurch, because it is not focused on production values and the prosperity gospel. But there are four services every week.

There is a problem for every large church in how to shrink the church you regularly interact with to an appropriate size. My church tends to stratify classes and outside groups by stage of life (think the seven ages of man) and geographical barea. There are still opportunities to mix, but the main point is to give church more continuity.
It would be impossible for Facebook to move into this space. The average Facebook user has 130 friends and the way lists has been implemented is flawed. Facebook is also focused on their effort to take over the web and making things more public and open, so they are not inclined to focus on making things more private.

When we conceived Treehouse, we didn't say "let's create something super innovative and blow the world away", we asked "what if you could see a simple stream of your friend's mobile photos". We then decided to make a prototype and test it with a group of < 50 people. The results were astounding. People used it feverishly, and we're seeing the same exact behavior from our new users since the app has been in the store. Our user activity is growing extremely rapidly and engagement is through the roof.

It's not about innovation, it's about taking what is so blatantly obvious and making it possible. It's about addressing what people want. There's no good way to easily share photos that you take with your phone with the people that matter to you in a more intimate context.

Twitter was also a subset of a single Facebook feature.