jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
California is uniquely messed up because of Prop 13. There's way too much regulation to getting anything built, unless somehow less land starts to exist in States like Texas which don't cripple housing developers, it'll always be much cheaper to leave the Golden State.

From my time in LA I found there to be a very nasty spiral. Whereas young adults will never be able to get their own places to live, this impedes their maturing, and then you end up with 30 something year old brats who feel entitled to everything.

I don't even want these people as friends, nonetheless romantic partners. Once I left La I found it much easier to find amazing, hard-working folks.
I was being stalked for a while.. weeks, maybe? I suspected someone (or a few) with multiple shadow accounts operated by bots
According to Lester Bangs, Lou Reed wrote that story when he was in college.

(https://www.creemmag.com/blogs/journal/dead-lie-the-velvets-...)

Lou Reed went to Syracuse University starting in 1960. While Lou Reed was likely writing the great American novel, he didn’t tell many people the truth so who knows for sure?? My gut feeling is that you’re likely right.
X^2 is a weird way to describe it. A function f is idempotent if f(f(x)) = f(x).
Nice catch, thank you!
Not available as of 14:14 here in the UK (on GMT).

(Bloody Californians think their time zone is the centre of the universe. Grump.)
Improvements for iPhone:

- AirPlay

- The Find My iPhone feature is now free to use without a MobileMe℠ subscription

- AirPrint ("a next-generation Wi-Fi print architecture that dramatically simplifies printing by completely eliminating printer drivers") (thanks, rufo)

The free Find feature is only for "iPhone 4, iPad or new iPod touch (4th generation)"
What an odd thing for them to say. "I" is one of the most common words in the English language. I very much doubt even grammar purists would recommend against it. What's next? "'The' is considered harmful"?
Hrm. What benefit does this bring to iPhone and iPod touch users? I don't really see any.

It seems largely like an iPad release, but they're updating the version numbers for everyone.
I think the same can be said of western developers who just code enterprise software and leave it at that.

I'm stuck in the enterprise rut at the moment, but I have personal projects on the side.
You are way off the mark about WWII. That was almost a human lifetime ago. Sure, there are many problems here, but WWII is definitely not it.
> Following is NOT directed at F. Pohl, I know nothing about him

It might be interesting to note that Pohl's Heechee books are exactly about repairing and reusing complex old junk left over by highly intelligent aliens in way that is far from scientific or systematic, more based on random experimentation and pure luck.
Fortunately, we get asymmetric security through laws and criminal punishment rather than machine gun bunkers.

Also, MR=MC doesn’t imply that wealth is never created, it just means that it can’t be created purely through exchanging commodities.
I think HN is gradually, gradually warming to SEO. I remember way back when I was lurking here someone had a comment along the lines of they would be a hired assassin prior to doing SEO consulting. These days folks discuss SEO strategy here with some regularity, and it generally doesn't cause vitriolic reactions when it is perceived as non-manipulative.

I think it is a matter of continuing to demonstrate very basic things such as "SEO works", "SEO will make your business money", and "SEO is not black magic voodoo practiced by a bunch of ebook selling charlatans who will teaching you to Make Money Online".

If I were trying to get a bunch of savvy startups on board with SEO, I'd be banging the drum on how SEO is an absurdly effective force multiplier for startups, small businesses, and other resource-constrained entities who have agility, deep technical knowledge, personality, a story to tell, and all the other unfair advantages that warm me to my blackened SEO heart. If you're doing business on the Internet, you're almost certainly critically dependent on SEO these days. (Some businesses more critically than others: I could imagine B2B with horrifically long sales cycles that get very little accomplished online not worrying about SEO too much, and Facebook/iPhone apps get a pass in today's market. But for selling B2C or B2SmallBusiness web applications? Crikey, SEO is about as important as issues get.)

Oh, and educating people about what SEOs actually do for a living helps. (I mentioned at the time, too, but I really liked the presentation to YC about it.) Except, don't mention the roasted baby parties. I don't think they're ready for roasted baby. We'll start with kitty milkshakes and work our way up gradually.
I notice the author mentioned "leave-behind Powerpoint decks." I had a short stint in consulting after getting my MBA, working with enterprise software clients. Within that job I've never once seen a Powerpoint deck that was useful after the fact unless you were in the room when the talk was given.

All it took for me to forget nearly everything I learned in business school communication classes was a seminar led by Edward Tufte, where it dawned on me that Powerpoint is no substitute for an appropriate executive summary of your content that can be passed around and referred to long after your talk is over.
Kudos for actually checking, but of course this only proves it for lame with certain flags. There are several popular compressors and many many options. As someone mentioned, YouTube doesn’t say what it uses, but it may be possible to figure it out.

Learning how to do for loops in shell was a big Unix productivity breakthrough for me. I just wish the syntax were cleaner – silly things like quoting rules and not using $ on variables on the LHS keep tripping me up. I’m probably wasting my own time in the long run by not getting good with something like http://www.scsh.net/ .
I really enjoyed reading this. I've considered an MBA on and off for the past few years and I'm still leaning away from it. An MBA seems to serve a very specific function and I'm not sure if I want to be that person.

I wonder how this is at more entrepreneurial programs like Sloan.
No, they leaked IP addresses of people I never communicated with. See my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1330041

I still have these mails in my inbox. People who I've never met nor conversed with online in my life.

And whether it's sensitive depends on the context. Revealing one's IP reveals their location, and I can think of many cases in which this is sensitive information.
SEO makes it harder for people to find useful information on the web instead of what someone spent time and money to "optimize" for Google. Developers know this, and so generally dislike SEO.
It's definitely better. You might want something longer to type than 4 in the example, though.

Explaining the let syntax only after the user has had to use it once felt a bit funny to me, though I guess that's the pattern of the rest of the tutorial. I'm one of those people who tends to learn more from references than tutorials, so that might be saying more about my learning style than your tutorial.
This reminds me of the effect computerized ranking schemes for playoff berths had on the sportsmanship of high school coaches. When it became possible for a team with an N-0 record to miss making the playoffs because it had not beaten its opponents by a sufficiently high score, winning coaches had an incentive to keep their starting players in blowout games in an attempt to maximize the score differential. Without this rule, there was a tacit agreement that, after some threshold, lesser players would be substituted by both sides. As I'm no athlete, I don't know what the convention (or signaling mechanism) was, but the result was usually a swapping out of players on both sides within just a few plays.
I wrestled in college so my knees and back are terrible. I swear that the one thing is that has kept my posture and back from degrading while I live life in terminal is the barbell. I highly recommend 5x5 and after a few weeks adding in complex olympic lifts.

https://stronglifts.com/5x5/

Complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqZ_ol0piKM
If you ignore all the research and development into creating the software then sure every camera is the same.
A common phrase of politicians and commentators objecting to some policy with which they disagree is "That is not who we are as a people!"

Unless backed up with really good polling data, the phrase is total nonsense.
Uncover the theft of hundreds of thousands will get you a bonus.

Uncover the theft of millions will get you a big promotion.

Uncover the theft of billions by corrupt state actors and international crime syndicates is only ever going to get you dead.

Perhaps I have a different mindset, but if I had been looking into this, I think I would have stopped digging as soon as I got a hint of how deep this rabbit hole actually was. Risk vs Reward.
But that is not "trying to subvert it internally".
How much did an energy company pay for you to write this garbage?
we're working on another version fixing the folds issue on Urbansound8k and will update the article asap.
This is probably the dumbest take on a topic I've seen on HN. TikTok is not 'for' kids anymore than YouTube. They are both 13+.
These blimps have been used for well over a decade in the southern US border to detect low flying drug smuggling aircraft.
You haven't met a Farmville addict, I take it?
Can anyone explain to me why I couldn't write

n.forEach(console.log);

Just tested on Chrome, it gives me an error

TypeError: Illegal invocation
> I decided to write a program that clicked on things.

I cringed a little. I'm glad he's learned enough to know now that this is not the right approach.
A few quick comments:

- First of all, I think the title of this submission might want to imply that it could be NSFW (see some comments below re: porn), and that it could be in a strange grey-area legally (especially if you actually connect to these machines)

- On one hand, there's nothing revelatory about this project. VNC, RDP, web cams, etc. are frequently found on the Internet because sysadmins don't secure them correctly. See something like Shodan, for example, to get a really realistic view of this.

On the other hand, though, bringing attention to it is a great way to get people to stop being idiots in this way.

Unfortunately, I doubt that the sysadmins in question will actually see this site.
>And until humans on the red planet can construct an equivalent laser array for the incoming craft to use its reflector and plasma chamber to provide reverse thrust, aerocapture is the only way to decelerate the payload at Mars.

Why not use the same laser that provided the original input?

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.10...

(figure 4)
So a database gets hacked, they add MFA and people are arguing about peppering passwords. What about the part on how the hackers got access to the database in the first place?

Passwords are not the only sensitive info that can be stored in a database and most of the time, that info isn't hashed.
(Author, but not submitter, here. A few friends on Twitter asked for a writeup of what I was doing with retargeting, and the guys at Perfect Audience ended up submitting it to HN. Not sure how I'm "growth hacking".)
The perceived injustice of the election only exists thanks to a massive, baseless propaganda campaign led by President Trump himself.

The courts have "listened" to the "claims of injustice". They found nothing of merit. It's over. Trump lost, fair and square. His inability to handle the loss and his disregard for our democracy has wreaked havoc across the nation.
I meant 'no real effect' in terms of modifying the results of the election itself, or loss of life.

You're absolutely right that the symbolic effect is huge and will likely be long-lasting - both inside the US and outside.
> you can use the desktop client with your phone off, which is a major + imho

Indeed, if it has to go through my phone it's nigh unusable in my opinion. Wire and Element/Matrix handle this properly since they don't depend on a phone number in the first place (so no need to tie it to your phone), only Signal and Threema are somewhat of a pain in this regard since you need to link it, and only Threema absolutely requires your phone to be online all the time.
> Those that won't respect your ethics are not your friends.

Yeah right. I am not RMS, with lock-downs, curfews, social distancing etc I'm already isolated enough so I'm not losing my remaining contacts for some moral high-ground.
Delaware does have personal income tax. It doesn't have Sales tax.
I'm a storage engineer.

There's a huge difference bewtween theory and practise.

- rebuilds can timeout

- load can really cause timeouts

- raid controllers can have tested modes that work, and some that don't

- batches of drives can all fail at the same time, esp. during rebuilds

- the nvram might not be portable across controllers.
Are we watching the same news channels? They were called "terrorists" on several cable news channels, and (fairly) "insurrectionists" on just about every news channel. I also heard "thugs" more than once. I heard the event as a whole called a "sacrilege".
I disagree. Facebook, Twitter and Google are ephemeral utilities. They will probably be replaced by another company.

Privatizing them will just let someone else come along and Embrace, extend, extinguish them.
Signal, for a long time. I see myself responsible for spreading the message, educating my inner circle, family and friends, helping them migrate if they are willing to. This became a duty for me, as I've been saved from FB products for a long-time ago, thanks to people enlighten me. And life is pretty much the same without them. Don't care what others say, I'm not old school, even I'm pretty old. I can message people one way or another, sms or Signal currently. But none of them matters, the psychological trap that they put us, life is hard, even not possible without any of the products they (we) are producing, is just absurd.

I never blamed technology or any algorithms, people was evil before and still the same. I'm so glad, the folks here that I find brilliant, is having this conversation. Just keep the dialogue going, it is working. Change happens in small steps, one people, one family, one neighbourhood at a time.
At least with BTC, if previous data is any decent indicator of future value (big IF), I think the price will come crashing down and land at probably $12k-$15k or so.

My personal opinion is that the prices are driven by FOMO / hype / speculation, just like they were in 2014 and 2018. Big spikes in price that last a couple of months, then back to the trend-line. That line is growing with time, even a bit more than linear - a very slow exponential growth.

From the people I speak with in the BTC camp, you seem to have two parties:

1) Those that believe crypto will replace fiat, and sincerely believe that there's no point in trading crypto for fiat - so they only purchase, and never sell.

2) The vast majority: Those that wait for some magic number, and will sell as soon as it's been crossed.

edit: with that said, I think fundamentally a lot of institutional investors are getting in on the game because of zero interest rates, uncertainty around COVID, and in general trying crypto out for alternative risky / high-yield investments.
> Only reason computers were ever designed to use "traditional" ordering is because business mainframes loved BCD and they loved to code GUIs that just blit'd raw fixed memory onto the display driver.

Hah, so it's literally because we write numbers with most significant digit on the left, which is the opposite to logical ordering?

I presume the only advantage to BE today is compatibility then...
Why authors of these blog posts assume that everyone know what the context is? Even if one assume the term is related to computing and technology, there's 4 different things named SPA. Is it that hard to expand the term in the title or in the beginning of the blog to help people quickly decide if they are interested in it or not?

Sorry for the rant, but this is not the first time the article forced me to read it before I could decide if I'm interested in it.
Don't you think your mocking the parent's words is petty? That's the kind of attitude I was criticizing.
No one inciting violence is a company's ally, unless that company sells guns, ammo, etc.

Twitter, same as every other corporate entity, benefited from Trump's tax cuts. They went years without silencing him, despite cries that his posts were dangerous. They -wanted- to keep him on their platform; he kept millions engaged with it. They even created 'world leader' exceptions -just so they wouldn't have to apply their own terms of service against him-.

It is disgusting how people act like this is bias against Trump/the GOP, when it's so obvious that the bias flows the other way, and it took an actual armed invasion of the US Capitol for these companies to finally step up and do something.
It's also very nice when you're moving some markup from one file to another and not having to worry about where certain styles are coming from and copying those over too
And what sort of incitement is coming from the left? is it "socialize healthcare" or "we should throw molotovs at protests", because the latter isn't allowed on Twitch either.
Hands down... Best comment ever!
I would like to see the SDK and the 'Authoring Tools' working on Linux.
I recognized this would be inflammatory and should have qualified that it doesn't scale downward well and I know this is a startup-focused community. In larger teams, and my own case -- directing a group of 60 -- I firmly believe this to be true.
To your last question, they did: http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=8...
I think I'd rather get this information from economists than joe sixpacks.... Not that I think they're necessarily wrong, just that they don't actually have the education required to know.
Thank you, really appreciate the link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdftOloAH9Q

Nice to get an idea of how exactly it's done.
Funny. I have this exact comic printed and pinned to my office wall. For those of you that haven't seen it: http://xkcd.com/221/
If that's your goal, the languages need to be from different paradigms (maybe C + Assembly, Ruby/Python, and Haskell/Clojure, and then maybe Prolog and Factor).

If your goal is just to get someone to minimum competence so they can build something, it's better to stick with one language (or, at worst, just a web stack), at the very least so they don't get bogged down installing a bunch of tools for relatively little benefit. PHP and Ruby are both Algol derivatives, so having a person solve Project Euler problems in both and compare them won't likely reveal much more than trivial differences.

Also, unless they have a decent math background, 100 Project Euler problems is just going to frustrate and scare off people - some of those problems are pretty much intractable without Dynamic Programming; anyone who hasn't taken an algorithms course would probably take a long time to figure that out.
Hmmm, that could be interesting actually. It might be possible to replicate that with source code checkins on a project.
I have a friend who has a huge apartment on W 47th street, complete with a good sized backyard, but because of the location, the rent is surprisingly reasonable. That's obviously an exceptional case, but there are also pretty good restaurants on 9th ave, and great access to all the subway lines.
It's not poor logic, I don't see how women are more likely to be victims of assault then men. I would expect men to get assaulted at bars than women.
Stopped reading at "lebensraum." The author should be ashamed.
I am so tired of this phrase. Please stop citing it as if it is some kind of knockdown argument.

Evidence for causation consists of a correlation and a proposed causal mechanism. Presenting us with random correlations does not disprove anything.
> In the world outside of Twitter, though, it is still “the number sign.”

Or, increasingly commonly, "hashtag":

"What is the use of the hashtag(#) on a telephone?" https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130329025332A...

"How to play C hashtag minor" http://i.stack.imgur.com/S4pcU.jpg (via http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/62190/)
I've never read/listened to 99pi before. At first, I didn't even realize it was a podcast. Then, I hit Play for curiosity's sake, and was impressed to see that the radio script and the article present the same information differently. (As opposed to NPR, which just publishes transcripts as articles.)
you have to wonder why they didn't correct the pressure.

AFAIK, teams are not allowed to reinstall balls during the game, refs can, but they obviously didn't detect it until they measured the pressure at halftime.

Quarterbacks are surely able to detect the lower pressure

Everyone seems to be taking this as a given when it's not at all. There are qb's who can detect it, and others who can't.
The reason that they didn't correct the pressure at game-time is that after the Patriots give the balls to the referees 2 hours and 15 minutes before game time, they are not allowed to touch them, and the refs do not have the procedure of re-checking them and correcting them. I imagine that there might be a rules or procedure change so that they do, and as early as the Super Bowl.

The "evidence" for my explanation is the ideal gas law and what Belichick said his team did in his press conference today. If the Patriots followed that procedure, which there is no reason to believe they didn't, and which is legal, one expects from the ideal gas law that their balls would seem under-inflated at half-time. It's basic physics and easy to understand theoretically and reproduce experimentally.

My speculation for what the Colts did rests on the reports that their balls did not deflate. For that to hold, given the laws of physics, something like the balls equilibrating to the outdoors temperatures before giving them to the refs must have happened.
This appears to have been fixed since the posting. Links in the search results work again in lynx.
His whole deal is about the 2016 election. While it exposed legitimate issues, I suspect a lot of anti-Zuck/'techlash' sentiment will die down if a Dem is elected next year.

In fact I suspect even now the Techlash is overstated. Elizabeth Warren spent the month of October going after Zuckerberg and meanwhile lost her front-runner status in the polls. Anti-Big-Tech talking points may be red meat for journalists, but average Americans don't care all that much. (Based on this survey, Tech is still the most trusted industry sector: https://www.edelman.com/trust-barometer)

PS. An article about this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/opinion/tech-backlash.htm...
That has only been an issue around the Dec '17 congestion. I can have my transaction mined in the next block for the satoshi equivalent of $0.61 today.