jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think the first few years of ads really made a big difference - Facebook couldn't really figure out how to make advertising terribly profitable while not driving people off.

Like most things, it took a few years to really take off. They IPO'd in 2012, and then really had to prove they could turn a profit (and increase it over time). I've honestly not been a heavy enough Facebook user to be able to pin the transition to a particular point in time (and it was almost certainly a long period of time, pushing for more and more), but the transition of the "Like" widget on random pages from an image icon to a data collection tool was probably a good indication of the transition.

In any case, by... oh, 2014 or so at the latest, they'd definitely started showing their true colors. Engagement Uber Alles. Because ads.
Done.

https://www.thenewseachday.com/private-facebook-phone-number...
To the wealthy guys out there whom like nice watches.

Look down at that Rolex. It’s a mechanical work of art? You felt so good walking out the boutique. “I work hard, and now a treat?”

The minute that warranty ends, if the watch stops working, or needs a Service (clean, and oil usually), you don’t have many options other than sending that watch back to the factory for repair—-at factory prices.

Rolex, and The Swatch Group cut off parts/information to 99.99% of Independent Watchmakers in the last decade.

Rolex, and The Swatch Group, politely call it Vertical Integration with quality assurance as the reason. It’s a money grab after the sale.

The government looked into it under Obama, but decided it was a wealthy man’s problem, and they had bigger issues—which they did.

It seems to violate The Sherman Anti-trust Act?

My point is Right to Repair will help many of us bring some choice back to our lives. We can have stuff repaired reasonably, instead of tossing the item, storing it away in the dedicated closet of “I loved this item, and one day I’ll have it repaired”, or buying a new one.
Seems like those internal policies violate labor law.
exactly! They should be testing a hash of your phone number, not the number itself. Amateur hour here.
Thats fair. As long as its not serious (violent) or repeated crime.
What does the audience have to do with anything? Why are you mixing application layer concerns with data storage concerns? It’s like saying you want images for one audience served from Azure but another audience served from AWS. It makes no difference, it’s all just data and bits stored somewhere and served out. Might as well just put it all in the same place. Could easily be the same bucket.
Galileo was told not to spread his theory because the Church knew that the general public would have a hard time understanding that Galileo's theory didn't contradict Church teachings even though it would seem to to the untrained mind, so they wanted to wait until they could figure out how to make sure that it didn't lead to mass confusion.
Is it not possible that people are actually happier "dating within their attractiveness level?" It certainly seems like that might be the case, if (as you say) people do tend to do that when they find an app that enables doing that.
If you are a user sure. There are ways to bridge IPv6 to IPv4 (A router someplace translates for you, I suppose NAT but I'm not an expert on how this works), while going the reverse is harder because there is no way to bridge IPv4 to IPv6. There are a lot of people running IPv6 only who don't even know it. (most cell phones for example)

Only server administrators need to care, and there they have a problem. If you run real IPv4 only: then IPv6 only users can talk to your server no problem and won't even realize anything is happening. If you run IPv6 only there are a lot of IPv4 only users who cannot connect to you. Thus if you run a server it is critical to have a real IPv4 address.

Did you notice the "real" qualifier to IPv4 in that last paragraph? many (most?) IPv4 only users are behind a NAT system such that they cannot run a server anyway. If you are running a IPv4 Server you need an address of the type that RIPE just ran out of. If you are a user you can use a fake IPv4 address and keep on working.

If you are a server administrator you should ensure that all your servers have IPv6 addresses. You should then collect statistics on use. There may be a date in the future where you can suggest to your management that you can cut off [small number]% of your users by going IPv6 only and selling your existing IPv4 address to the highest bidder for $$$. That is a business decision, but once it starts happening it will make headlines, but I wouldn't want to be first. (if you wait too long enough others will have gone IPv6 only that there isn't a real customer cost to being IPv6 only and then the market for IPv4 will disappear - and interesting value maximization problem if you want to play that game)
What is GDS in this context?
I did not, but I will if this picks up.
>He's saying the fact that Illinois is gradually ramping to a $15 statewide minimum is not evidence that a $15 minimum is nationally appropriate, because the economy of Illinois is not the same as the economy of Kansas or Wyoming.

Plus, its not even $15 dollars yet. It's $8.25 right now. You can't even get illegal immigrants to work for that under the table in rural Illinois.

But I have doubts whether the entire state economy can handle $15 dollars. A lot of Illinois is poorer than Des Moines.
I see no difference between learning C++ and Java first. They both have equal ability to teach bad habits.
> If I have the same username and password on another service, should I be rushing off to change my password right now?

My answer to this question is completely unaffected by the potential data leak at Sony: Yes. Yes you should.

Do you know that all the places you use that password for hash it correctly? You seem to be unsure (as is everyone else) on whether or not Sony stores passwords in plaintext, so why risk it? The only way you'll find out for sure whether or not you are at risk is if one of your accounts is compromised, so rather than waiting to find out I would take preventative action now.
I have this pet hypothesis that matching delicious tags with actual words found on the web pages will make for a killer query expansion algorithm...
Here is a part story of what we learned from our YC interview, and how (thankfully) PG and team made us think hard about our assumptions. The rest of the post is about what came out.
I get really angry with this site. I signed up and paid for a premium membership to watch a TV series the same day it aired in Japan each week. When the series finished I cancelled my membership. Ever since then, I get almost twice daily "private messages" from fake people, which generate e-mails to me asking me to log in and read them. When I log in and open the PM, it's an ad from Crunchyroll offering me a discount on upgrading my account again.

I e-mailed customer service to let them know I was unhappy with the constant and deceptive advertising through PMs from fake personas and they essentially told me to bugger off. "Minor things like this" (being upset over deceptive emails) are just "an excuse to validate pirating anime"... they write this to someone who's never pirated anime and has paid them to watch it legally.
Actually it seems highly likely that it's purely coincidental, and I'm quite upset to see such fallacious reasoning on this website. You are a single data point, not to mention the inherent confirmation bias at play here.
It's been more than 24 hours - it's been at over a week since PSN went down due to this attack. That's when the intrusion happened, not once Sony released their announcement.
2 things -- (1) best way to keep your bookmarks organized, synced, available everywhere in any browser + (2) finding interesting links of other people.

(2) is very interesting because "rating" on Delicious is not a vanity contest (e.g. Facebook) and people aren't rating because they "agree" with an article (e.g. HN / Reddit).

Rating on Delicious is implicit, the action itself (bookmarking) serves another direct purpose to the user; people are bookmarking stuff when they want to return to that article -- much like how Google's ranking algorithm works. Yes, it could be gamed, but it's not a high-priority for spammers yet, and I still find Delicious to be a very low-noise source for interesting stuff (much, much more useful than HN; basically I come here for the comments only).

And as an example, searching for Ruby gives you plenty of tutorials in the very first results, searching for "Google" gives links to their interesting assets (like their Fonts directory) -- people are more unlikely to bookmark flames / yellow-journalism; as that pollutes their own database of links.

I saw a comment saying it's an app from 2006 -- well, if that's true, 2006 was a lot better than 2011.
I think that is one of the most insightful and meaningful (to me) interviews I've heard in a while. When he plays his old piece and completely lambasts it, I felt amazingly inspired that, maybe, in 10 years I will be able to look back and say the same about my own work. But at the same time be extremely happy about it because I'll know that I'm well beyond where I am used to be.

Never give up.
I thought it generally meant that it was less than the company's own predictions, not the analysts? In any event it shouldn't matter which estimate they're falling short of as long as it isn't the market's implicit estimate.
OMG it's not just me? The lack of street names both on desktop and mobile is so frustrating.
I had an ASUS tablet a year ago (sold it to my brother who loves it). I do a lot of coffeehouse meetups with fellow entrepreneurs and one thing I loved about the ASUS was the pen and being able to draw pictures easily in OneNote.

Having played with the Surface Pro 3 tablet at BestBuy a few times, it's a dream to use. I've wanted a Surface Pro 3, but the price is prohibitive and I already have a Yoga Pro 2 and a MacBook Pro. I don't really need a development laptop, but I want that OneNote pen-drawing capability to communicate.

So the Surface 3 looks about right. I'd need the 4GB model with 128GB and with the SD slot you should be able to add more. And that pen. That pen is simply a dream to write with...and I want one.

I just wish they'd make a better (metal) keyboard and include it in the price.
In regards to speaking out: "Ask yourself what you'll get out of it before you say it" if it's only to make yourself feel better its probably not worth it.

The advice I give constantly: "Be the squeaky wheel" in reference to the idiom "the squeaky wheel gets the grease". Let people know you exist and what you want and you'll be surprised how often you get it.

An interesting point an exec made to me about how to choose what to do with your career: "Find the biggest lever"
Rather than

#define LIST_FOREACH(list, index, value, code)

I'd prefer

#define LIST_FOREACH(list, index, value) \
for(index = 0, value = list->items[0]; \
index < list->size; \
index++, value=list->items[index])

It lets you treat a LIST_FOREACH(...) as a normal for(...) in terms of the other syntax.

edit: I did some looking around and determined that the following is probably BS

[1] If you're wondering why I didn't do

index++, value = list->items[index]

it's because expressions separated by a comma can be evaluated in any order (I believe). My friend ran up against it with a bug in jscore.
I guess it's just not very well known that C has functions which can also be passed as values.

Perhaps more interesting and newsworthy in this context are Apple's blocks, which are closures:

http://thirdcog.eu/pwcblocks/
It probably doesn't help RHEL that it's too slow-moving to leap into the cloud with the speed that Ubuntu had (in terms of packaged tools and such), and that the people who run RHEL already have a mess of servers of their own.

This is all rather amusing considering Amazon's EC2 machines are probably all running RHEL.
Maybe they can now start on some of these: http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/
German law enforcement already pays 3rd parties for services which break Skype encryption. Is the US far behind? I really, really doubt it.

Why should it be different for wireless carriers vs. wired? I guess the FBI needs to move their Carniv- um, DCS-1000 machines into Verizon, Sprint and ATT data centers, too. Actually, I'm sure they have that covered already. There's no need for different rules for wired carriers vs. wireless. Internet traffic is internet traffic. They'll decode it regardless of how you send it to your access point.
Seeing things like this make me wonder how long it will be until the US splits into two roughly equal-sized countries.
Python is beneficial in that everyone understands or can learn to understand basic Python in the time it takes to do an interview.

However, due to the whiteboard and performance focused aspect of the typical coding interview, Python is actually kinda an awful language to interview with. Plus, if you want to be terse with Python (whiteboard space is limited after all), it quickly becomes alphabet soup.

If I had to describe the perfect interviewing language, it'd be something with C/Java-like syntax, but without the cruft, that can optionally be typed, with easy fine grain control over looping. All the big-tech companies work with way too much Java, but Java is way too verbose for coding by hand. C# is about as close to Java as they come. Scala/Kotlin is excellent if you write it like Java.
Ok, fair enough. I overstated it. I'm just wondering why it's not being discussed here.
Execution and iterating in the real world more valuable than being smart inside your head at home over analyzing everything. TLDR; get out of your head and into the real world
I am curious if federal prison is worth the photo op?
Yeah, the unfortunate consequence of the widespread misunderstanding and demonization of finance is that everyone thinks its all "made up" or "rigged," and then when they see something that REALLY IS rigged they think it's normal.
My house normally uses 70kwh/day. We have an electric heater and with this cold weather we were on track to use 150-200kwh day. At $5/kwh for 5 days of 200kwh due to the cold puts me at $5,000.
"A Cedars-Sinai research team is in the pre-clinical stages of developing a technology that harnesses intermittent ultraviolet (UV) A light for treating viruses and bacteria."

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/cedars-sinai-statement...
Over the summer there were hundreds of thousands of people and they weren’t allowed close to any government buildings. Now there’s a few hundred and they just let them into the capital buildings with what seems like little resistance?
Yawn. A whiny, arrogant, grass-is-always-greener post with a bunch of hypotheticals about the filthy unwashed masses encroaching on "our" turf and how much greater it was "back in the day." Bonus points for laying out the criteria for a "true" hacker is (spoiler alert: it's anyone who spent their time almost identically as the author).
I think the biggest complaint he has, but doesn't realize what it really is, is the deterioration of the signal-to-noise ratio in his respective communities.

And he's right. When 3 of every 5 people you meet in the space has more buzzwords than lines of code written, it gets old.

For me, I've found that HN satisfies my need for a better quality forum of like minds. He doesn't seem to have found an acceptable community and is just telling the kids to get off his lawn instead of finding a good place and group of friends to discuss fun stuff with.

But, unlike him, I just can't be mad that that barrier to entry has been reduced. Sure, there's more wantrapreneurs around now. But it's also made life easier for those of us who are still willing to work hard for long amounts of time on something real -- something wantrapreneurs just can't seem to grasp.
The title was certainly provocative, but I don't see any justification for calling it "outrageous linkbait".

Actually, I think the term "linkbait" is thrown around far too freely here and should probably be banned.

It is a substantive article though, even if one happens to disagree with the author's conclusions. I'm glad it was resurrected from flagkilled state.
If you haven't read it yet this is the book you might enjoy: The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win.
Our initial paid offering is priced based on back-of-the-envelope estimates of how long it takes a full-time employee to manually create the reports we generate, and what these employees are typically paid. For these brands, the benefit they see from social media is quite large, as evidenced by their willingness to spend on dedicated headcount or equally expensive consultants.

It's true that not every business is investing this much in social media now; we think this will change dramatically over the next few years, in part because products like ours will make it more apparent what the ROI from effective social media campaigns can be.
Free market routes around political interference[1]. Footage at 11.

[1] Sort of, so far as Japanese mercantilism can be considered a free market.
+1 for domain name. I don't see any need myself for creating a longer URL, but I see the appeal of putting the f'word into some.
The thing the article is missing is that algorithms will hopefully improve along with storage capacity. That is, Google may be able to infer what is "Precious" nearly as well as you can. The question is whether Google will offer us that capability, or keep it for itself.
I believe it is still true. OpenSSL uses dirty stack bytes for randomness and it causes valgrind to warn for invalid access.
Zaidi has been convicted. He's awaiting sentencing.
Some people believe privacy will soon be a net negative for society (first link I googled)

https://www.businessinsider.com/nick-bostrom-mass-surveillan...
Ah the gamble of crowd funding on a platform who refuse to get involved, even when there has been violations of their terms of use. Some great examples spring to mind.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tangibleinstruments/arp...

'Tangible instruments' have a product 'ready to ship. Turns out to be an empty case. Essentially spent all the investment money, but didn't get ownership of the hardware design from the ee they contracted so had to start again. Still no product, and years after it was due to ship it's been superseded in terms of functionality by products available in the marketplace.
People protesting in DC is nothing new
I took the course this semester (and loved it--hope the materials can be helpful to all).

We had one assignment that focused on achieving consensus in the face of adversarial nodes, similar to the systems used in Stellar and Ripple, so those were included in the course, to a degree.
Ouch, that sounds bad. Stay positive, my man. Or lady. It's probably a zen thing to say but it is what it is and couldn't have happened any differently.

Remember to talk to your family and friends. If you simply need someone to talk to, just email me via my profile.
There is a confusion of terms here. Rx is reactive programming (aka dataflow). What this article talks about -- isn't (and indeed is better served by Erlang or other similar solutions).
What's the open source alternative to TrueSkill? It seems really interesting but it's patented by Microsoft.
I read it and I am like ... we already do this. This is common and obvious. Maybe I am missing something.

Before worker nodes had as much memory as they have now, almost everything needed to use small buffers and spill to disk. BDB (Berkeley DB) was an extremely common tool for doing out of core data operations. Because the ETL tools I was writing needed to run on machines with 512MB of ram, it required out of core algorithms. We easily had jobs processing 10-20GB with only 512M of ram.

I am sure I am missing something, reading the paper now.

http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1334587/FULLTEXT0...
Real calendar applications handle this by storing the scheduled time as GMT, and the UI adds an offset for where users are. This also solves the problem of you driving between time zones between the time that you schedule the meeting and the time that you attend it.
“ At least it goes back into the economy. ”

Actually no, at least 40 billion went to a Nigerian scammer group. That’s a national security issue and overrides concerns about charity and equity. It’s an existential threat.
> There’s all kinds of less-objectionable potential uses of the cages than the ones to which the Trump Administration has put them.

They were built to keep children separate from each other (gender segregated) and from adults: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/26/fac...
Email would have been a good choice too, my personal experience of ditching Chat in favor of non-real-time communication has resulted in more thoughtful communication, besides eliminates the need for converting your contacts from their favorite chat app.

End-to-End encryption is something which cannot be enforced for all communications(contacts) with email.
Except that isn't true. Sure they can do it, but the person can sue, and if the business can't come up with a reasonable argument to single out that person, they will lose.
>let someone else try carrying the mantle.

RMS isn't preventing you (or anybody else) from doing so.

And it's being done. There's even groups such as the OSI.
Do you trust DuckDuckGo?
Another anecdote. I'm someone who's made "sacrifices"[0], giving up alcohol, leave parties early to make sure I always go to bed at the same time (no exceptions), getting my diet in order, exercise etc etc. Literally prioritizing my sleep above everything.

I'm experiencing exactly what you describe. There's zero ramp-up time to get in the zone.
I've gone from having 4 productive hours on a really good day, to having 8, at work, and several after work.
I just get up in the morning (no alarm necessary), sit down with a clear mind, and start working.

I also do something similar to waking up twice. But it's more just lying down and staring at the ceiling for half an hour in the afternoon, if I feel it's necessary

[0]It's funny how the me of 3 years ago would consider these things huge sacrifices yet after I've done them it feels ridiculous to describe them as such
It seems that most of these startups are in the space of what I would call low-tech, i.e. smartphone apps and websites.
Actually, JavaScript often is not good for that either. Static sites compress really well, and static HTML typically renders orders of magnitude faster than running JavaScript to create commands to eventually do the same thing. In addition, running JavaScript is typically far more power draining on a client than rendering HTML. Web browsers are extremely optimized to render HTML. There is also the advantage of working correctly when people do not have JavaScript enabled.

On the other hand, if you need a site to work even with spotty internet access, JavaScript is probably your answer.

But these are generalities, you can probably find a thousand exceptions. It is hard to give truly general advice because there are so many exceptions.

That said, there are many good reasons to have static sites when you have to scale up big. They typically can handle very large scales, and caching them the super easy.

Whether or not that actually meets the requirements of a site is a completely different story.
There was a case of a military veteran recently in the States who lay dead on his kitchen floor for up to three years. He was still getting some sort of pension/payment and the rent was getting auto-paid from that. They only found him because of a check on tenants in a building/area who weren't drawing any water.

In a case like that, I suppose a debit card or credit card with an automatic transfer would stay active for some time.
Psilocybin has known physiological affects on the body and on the brain. We see very clearly differences in how the brain functions on psilocybin.

It's absolutely not a placebo. That, or the definition of the word is being stretched such that all meaning is lost.