jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I do consulting work for a friend who has a surprisingly common problem:

He needs to do card processing but only certain times out of the year. He goes to conventions and sells merchandise, etc and wants to be able to take credit cards but the monthly & inactivity fees would wipe him out.

So far all I've seen that could fix this potentially is Square, but they have yet to ship out their swiping widgets to use to try it out.

If someone can find a way to make it affordable to process cards "When you need it" it might be huge.
Wow. I haven't experienced a tenth of what you have.

"Now we're 23 and smarter than the average person, technically and entreprenuerly aware, and impatient because we aren't where our 30+ year old friends are in life."

Yes, yes, yes! I am eternally grateful about being entreprenuerly aware. I keep telling myself to be thankful - many people only start thinking this way when they're ten years older. This is one of the major contributions of HN to my life: pulling back the curtain on entrepreneurship.

"We're not as old as you think man. I waste time on the weekends all the time. It's because we think we can handle 100+ hours a week and hate ourselves when we break down and veg out."

How did you know? Especially when I read so many stories of founders working 100+ hr weeks for three years, I'm ashamed to be finding it difficult to do it for a week! I really want to 'compress my working life,' as PG put it.

"Remind yourself that there is a world that doesn't give a shit what we think of ourselves or where we want to be, and the only thing that can get us farther in life is our own determination and willpower. Start thinking long term and tell yourself you are badass."

Willpower and Will To Power. Nietzsche FTW!

"Feel free to hit me up if you want to chat more, sounds like we have some stuff in common."

Email sent.
I'm still not sure it will have an effect. Those for whom lithium mining represents a commercial possibility almost certainly already new about it from before - so what stopped investment then?

I don't buy the concept that this fixes more problems than it causes.
Your bad habits are not so bad on the grand scale of things. A lot of working stiffs split the weekends into getting hammered and nursing a hangover.
Try the founders of midwestix.com.
Sign up, give my email address and information about my business before seeing ANYTHING?

Sorry, in today's world this just won't cut it ...
The refute the discovery by citing a report from 2007 that says "Afghanistan has significant amounts of undiscovered nonfuel mineral resources".

How does someone previously citing undiscovered resources contradict the idea of those resources now being discovered?
This isn't a thread for your general complaints about cars. This is a thread about the Culdesac's building project. As described in the article, the neighborhood is already going to have roads necessary for delivery vehicles, carshare vehicles (Uber, etc.), and the private vehicles of visitors. So your second and fifth points are off-topic. The other three points are easily covered by an already-mentioned road-usage charge.
My ISP (Orange) actually backed out and started giving IPv4 addresses to those of us who complained in their forums about their terrible CGN.
About Google: I really like their security approach for Chrome/V8, and NaCL looks amazing (in particular the upcoming LLVM version.) Chrome OS isn't here yet but the concept looks very interesting for security (not so much for privacy and other aspects, though.)

> what I think is happening is that you've once again bumped
> into someone on Hacker News that isn't simply going to concede
> the point to the person with the greater zeal for the issue.

I hold a very slightly different view from yours (e.g. I think Microsoft is doing a lot about security and other giants should take note, as in the original reply.)

It is sad people look for absolute right and wrong. Why can't we have both different views and not necessarily be wrong? In particular on a difference in opinion.

> I get it. You like OpenBSD. You prefer open source.

I like some things about OpenBSD, in particular their code auditing, but of course it's far from perfect. If I remember well, more than once Theo argued against something and later on it became a major feature of the project.

About projects, I consider myself a bit of a sad agnostic lately. In particular I haven't used OpenBSD in a long time.

> You prefer open source.

Yes. But I happen to use closed source everyday and don't have problem with that. I use iWork to create PDFs and slides, sometimes. Hah, I'm even OK with crappy proprietary software (iTues+iPod), nothing I can't handle.

Apple, and in particular OS X and Safari, in the security side are a disgrace. But I can live with it (e.g. use Chrome with JS/Flash disabled by default, use TrueCrypt and other encryption software as much as possible, and be very careful where I plug my notebook and what I authorize in it.)

> Unfortunately, your ideology doesn't change the facts on the ground.

What ideology? You just did a (bad) guess at my stance. And even if you were right, it was just ad-hominem.

Counter example: I hate Google's anti-privacy hypocrisy. Same for their server-side services, and [also for] removing power from the users. Microsoft always empowered users with tools, it's their business model. I liked them a lot [back then] when things changed from server-side borderline authoritarian systems [to empowered Wintel PCs]. And now the world is coming back to [centralized systems], sadly.
indeed!

Valencian (Valencià) is not a version of Spanish, but a different language. It's the same language that is spoken in Catalonia (and which there is called Catalan), and in the Balearic Islands (where it's called Balear).

It's amazing the amount of languages that are everywhere...
Legal costs of getting them sentenced to death. Apparently it takes $1.5-2 million to pay for the legal proceedings necessary to go beyond life in prison, while room & board & etc for life in prison costs about $500k.
Well, that would take a lawyer (or somebody skilled in reading patents) to say, after reading it carefully-- which isn't something you can do quickly.

This patent was filed in 2008, but it is a continuation of a patent filed in 2004, which was split off from another patent filed in 2004, which was a continuation of a patent filed in 1999, which was a continuation of a patent filed in 1997.

In other words, it is possible that there are claims here that predate any of Facebook's prior art-- but that would depend upon the specific claims in the prior patents.
If you don't store it you get to skip Req 3 basically. You still have most of the other 11 Requirements to worry about... Multi-key strong encryption and key rotation isn't that hard... The policies, documentation, and other areas are harder imho.
I'd be almost certain that this was discussed when renewing their exclusivity deal.

However, your phrasing implies that you think Apple is "stuck" and getting shafted by AT&T. Really, it is quite the opposite. Apple surely looooves the exclusivity deal because they can leverage it over AT&T to collect globs while AT&T eats the cost over the life of the subscription. The exclusivity deal is one of the key reasons that Apple is able to offer such fantastic hardware at their current price point.
With the amusing result that Wikipedia will cite newspaper articles that cite information from blogs, rather than directly citing the blog.

(Happened to me and my blog. And as a data point, out of some hundreds of newpaper etc articles about a blog post, the total number that seemed to involve any kind of value-added fact checking was 2.)
Creativity is often the result of great adversity. But in a roundabout way, you're right (but probably not in the way you think). See, by having fun, you're wasting time you should be spending solving the problem. Then just before the deadline, you miraculously solve the problem. Your fun beget your laziness,which beget your desperation,which beget your creativity.
by "chair" they meant wheel-chair
support the -10 for consulting + ibank + hedge fund. they're all smart guys, but watch out for the ones who have never built a product OR don't like getting hands dirty.
although there are always exceptions, jeff bezos came from de shaw.

if this sounds strange to west coast people, at startup networking events in the east coast it is pretty likely you'll run into the 'i've done my gig at mcK/harvard mba and the next step of my career is a CEO position so let me find my awesome tech cofounder' type of person.
This looks sick.Now all I need is a resizable monitor.
I think you should check out the math book he wrote, "Measurement," and you'll find in it that he does not teach in the style you describe (abstract to specific).
Preparing food slowly and eating it slowly together with other people and enjoying the entire process is psychologically healthy. Michael Pollan has written extensively about this. It's not just about the nutrients.
People who assume that the developing world is some kind of ad-free utopia are also in for a rude shock if they actually visit it for long enough to realize the only painted buildings in many villages are decorated with the branding of a mobile phone service provider, the fridges are all supplied by beverage companies and even the crummiest of market stalls are decorated with sponsored bunting. I don't think they'll be too upset if Bollywood banners follow them round the web and some analyst working with anonymised data sees an surge in searches for Hinduism.

Frankly, if anyone loses from adequate speed internet in remote locations in the underdeveloped world, it's Western corporations that aren't very good at targeting their ad spend...
I agree in principle that not everyone needs his entire algorithms curriculum resident in his head all the time. However, a DBA should understand the characteristics of the type of index he is implementing. B-tree isn't the only game in town.
I really recommend reading the whole thing, especially past page 15 (the first 15 pages are boring procedural history and heavily redacted). Interesting stuff starts at pages 27, 32, 35-40, 43, 49 (4th amendment analysis). If you read nothing else, read from the last paragraph of 71 to the first paragraph of 79. which contain a readable and un-redacted summary of the court's problem with the NSA's program.
Becoming human food is an evolutionary strategy for animals?
At least it loads quickly, unlike Medium which seems to get stuck for a few seconds before it renders the entire page.
We should chat. Feel free to shoot me an email listed on my profile.
This reminds me of when people argue that public funding should be reallocated from research in pure science to applied science. Just as it's hard to predict what the applications of any scientific finding will be, it's hard to tell from where the inspiration for your best work will come, which of your personal experiences will prove valuable, or who your lasting friends will be.
What you just described isn't a 'tech interview' though, it's a 'bad tech interview'.
I was a customer way back when they first started.

There were a number of issues which were eclipsed by Amazons offering when they began selling the same things:

Shipping was glacially slow.
Products were packaged poorly and would often arrive with opened and broken bottles which spilled contents over your other products ordered.

The prices were not competitive with purchasing from cvs or target with discounts.
Amazon subscriptions gives you discounts.

One advantage they had at the time was you didn't have to order 6 shampoos. Amazon now does the same with their add-on service.

The only way it made sense was their initial 50% off gift cards. After that the convenience factor didn't outweigh the price, especially compared to Amazons offering in the space shortly after.
I think you're overestimating the computation that the client side does. For the majority of web applications the biggest workload is in querying the database, which for any site of non-trivial complexity will tend to come from some kind of server-side API.

I also feel there is something to ownership of your tools and platform, and an application strung across several SaaS and a toolset that requires phoning out to different SaaS in order to work is anything but yours.
That would do nothing to help the 99% of users who don't use BEAM VM languages
A good example of a "complex" scheduling algorithm. Many others exist. Unfortunately there's no such thing as a "perfect" scheduler for all use cases.
Please fix typo in title to 'design'
> Are there any resources out there that teach developers weak on scaling/architecture how to manage this themselves?

The same resources that Sysadmins used to learn how to do it?

Or hire a sysadmin part-time.
Note: Users in Sweden and northern Europe are probably better served by http://www.bredbandskollen.se/
Isn't that what Cortana / indexing service is supposed to be?
of all the complaints to have...
>This is potentially wasted money, but it did not go to Foxconn, and presumably created infrastructure jobs.

If Foxconn tricked a local government into providing free "useful" infrastructure it could just rent that "useful" infrastructure out to a different company and thus capture the entire tax benefit. However, they didn't even do that... The money was fully wasted.
I wish it was that easy! There's so many mechanical parts to consider and CAD is not my strong suit.

That being said, if someone wants to miniturise the LalBoard and rework it, I could design a PCB/firmware :)
Now this is serverless.
I don't recall feeling any higher level of work-related stress than when about to send out the golden master for our Sony PSX (original, CD-based) title. One shot, no patches ever.
Hi, folks!

I felt the need for a directory of Clubhouse events where you can have some categories and the event spoken language. After 20 hours of playing (front-end isn't my love), this tool was born.

As always, I'm open for feedback, arrows, etc.

Thank you!
> In 1956, MIT electrical engineer Dudley Buck published a description of a superconducting computer switch called the cryotron. The device was little more than two superconducting wires: One was straight, and the other was coiled around it. The cryotron acts as a switch, because when current flows through the coiled wire, its magnetic field reduces the current flowing through the straight wire.

> [Karl Berggren] dubbed his superconducting nanowire device the nano-cryotron in tribute to Buck... The nano-cryotron uses heat to trigger a switch, rather than a magnetic field.

Dudley Buck's cryotron:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryotron
> FOSS isn't about providing other people whatever code they need for free.

That's true. But FOSS is also about cooperation and Rust in particular is marketing themselves as open and inclusive.

> If someone decides to do stuff in Rust they have every right to do so, and there's nothing their users can do except switch to something else or fork and maintain the code themselves.

And what would Rust developers think if LLVM decided to make such a radical change to their codebase that Rust would no longer be able to use LLVM as a backend? Would also be in favor of an LLVM fork?

> The thing that also annoys me is that the platforms that are going to lose support are either so old or so obscure I sincerely doubt there are more than a handful Gentoo installations running on those.

There is also just a handful of users running Haiku, Hurd, NetBSD as compared to Linux. Yet I have not seen that argument made anywhere.

The nice thing about FOSS is that also smaller voices and groups are being heard. And I think that's great.

> Damn Alpha has been dead for more than 25 years, if you care about it so much you don't want to switch to a still supported architecture you should start invest real money on supporting the software stack yourself.

The nice thing about these old architectures is that they often help expose bugs that remain hidden on main targets. We have fixed a lot of bugs that only became visible on architectures like SPARC and M68k.
In late 2016 HN tried for a week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404

It didn't even last for a few days and made things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25785191

In 2012, I wondered if HN could go 2 months as a meta comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3807875 I'm totally not still at least a little exasperated by the few downvotes at the time and the subsequent changes in the 10 years since.

Point is, it's not going to happen. Try to avoid looking at it (I don't even know what antiwork thread you're talking about), and if you look at it try to avoid engaging. If you do engage, do so with a persistent username to resist a throwaway troll (and if you get banned reflect on how you're making things worse) and also maybe things will be a bit better if you try to only engage from a history-looking perspective or even a meta perspective and not per se an arguing perspective.

I once collected a bunch of HN names of people I like reading and put them into some site that tried to intermingle them, sorta like twitter, but I think the site died and anyway without context it's hard to read all at once like a feed and there are other issues. Still, something like your own self-curated list of accounts to be your entry points to either comment trees or whole posts would probably be helpful to avoid seeing stuff you hate engaging in.
The fact the errors occur before the "reboot" part of the installation tells me it isn't a driver issue. The "unable to set startup disk, SDErrorDomain 104" suggests the error is a check in firmware preventing this.

It's probably simply unimplemented, and rather than try anyway there is a check somewhere in the firmware that the drive being marked bootable meets some criteria. Clearly the internal drive meets that, and some external drives do. Running a tracer on the commands sent to the drive would likely identify it.
Your chart takes all of Amazon into account, not just AWS. You'll have to actually dig into earnings to understand that.

Second thing is gross margin is not the same thing as net margin. Net margin is a far better indicator in the case of pure profitability / revenue. Just because a company shares $1.42B in revenue doesn't mean they have $1.42B in profits. If you look at NetApp net profit margin it's off 45% year over year. Latest net profit margin is 9.68%. So on that 1.42B we have $137M in profit. Not too hot.

The reality is hardware sales have thin margin (comparatively) and NetApp's software model is much weaker than comparative storage offerings in the cloud. It's very expensive to design, build, ship and house inventory of hardware for purchase. There's no way around this, which chews through that profit margin.
It's actually quite funny to see this "in the wild". My parents have a two-year-old Golden Retriever that they've had since he was eight weeks old. From a very young age, he mastered the "puppy face" that melts my mother's heart and compels her to do whatever he wants: giving him food, letting him outside, cuddling, sleeping on the couch, play time, sleeping on the bed, whatever.

He's a naughty puppy, but dammit if we don't love him unconditionally!
I would have preferred if this were a database leak. At least that would have shown some effort towards protecting user data. The fact that it was acquired through a public-facing API makes it much worse, in my opinion, as it shows Facebook isn’t that concerned about protecting sensitive data.
I'll take from the fact you dodged the question that Moxie does indeed have a financial interest
You have to be convicted first. Police don't even get indicted.
Funny coincidence that two days ago I rewatched James Cameron's 1989 movie The Abyss, in which perflourocarbon breathing features as a major plot device. Great movie!
The law is quite clear on this. You're granting Instagram a license to display the image, so they are allowed to do that. Other websites aren't, unless you grant them a license, too.

So the foot fetish website is infringing copyright. And the author of the image can sue them for damages.

They can also ask ISPs to blacklist the page if they don't comply.

Kind of all the stuff that the MPAA does when they find a movie rip on someone's server, the photographer could do here, too.
I just bought a new Roku Premiere, I've got no complaints with it so far. It's cheap, easy to use, and supports all the streaming services I use.
It's from 2019 is the stupid excuse they have.

The amount of laxity they have shown in this matter is appalling!!
The point being the difference between "innovation" and "prior art" is a tricky one, since all innovation builds upon previous knowledge of some kind.
It's easy to boost with specs when the competing products can be bought right now while your product exists only on a drawing board.
Going public involves giving up a lot more control, since private investments of qualified investors are basically a freely negotiable contract, while offering shares to the public is legally standardized. For example, once public there is very little you can do against some troublemaker acquiring a significant position in your company via the open market and then causing endless trouble via legally required minority shareholder rights...
Bloody hell. I want to do this. Good job, dude!
I thought it was just an authorisation on the card, I didn't think they took the actual money?
Well two mitigations:

1. Secure by default. The default windows configuration is not secure by default - it's a compromise that is used to make it usable for people. You can (with Group Policy) lock the machine down heavily then allow things as they are required. I do this.

2. Good hardware. They have a Dell Precision T3500 rather than some shitty disposable piece of crap. I expect this will last around 8-10 years.

Windows is perfectly fine if you understand it. We have 377 Windows machines and 205 Linux machines in total. Reliability statistics are approximately the same. The only issues we get is with hardware packing in occasionally (usually the HP mid-range stuff and their laptops).
one of those will definitively go down in price
>it is running actual concentration camps in which members of the Chinese Muslim minority are being tortured and mutilated

Are you unaware of what the US is doing to asylum-seekers at the US-Mexico border?
I'm looking at your document and it shows no such increase over the last 10 years.

I'm less interested in the 30 year timespan, because other huge changes have occurred in that timespan, from shifts in agriculture to the collapse of honey bee populations due to the Varroa mite.
what is popular is not necessarily without depth either.

Also consider propagation of danger alerts. the longer time it takes to consume the average piece of media, the longer it takes for people to become aware of dangers. There are, of course, shortcuts for authorities to spread information about dangers already identified, but danger is a gradient.

Maybe there is an inherent trade-off between quick, scanning behavior being good for safety and deep, thoughtful consumption being good for progress
That's precisely what it is. From[0]:

> Through our partnership with Troy Hunt’s “Have I Been Pwned,” your email address will be scanned against a database that serves as a library of data breaches. We’ll let you know if your email address and/or personal info was involved in a publicly known past data breach.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/09/25/introducing-firefox...