jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was just thinking of this yesterday. It's as if there isn't any kind of symbolism on the web. AFK, if I want to talk about apples, I can use the word "apples" and people will know pretty much what I'm talking about. But on the internet, if I want to talk about something, I'll just link to some other webpage that says what I want to say. It's as if, every time I wanted to talk about apples, I had to bring an apple to show people. Where did the meta go?
Isn't Heroku supposed to auto-scale EC2?

So we have Heroscale autoscaling Heroku which autoscales EC2??

Am I missing something?
I get a bad ssl cert warning.
What does "Google-style" mean? How are these numbers calculated and what do they mean?
I'm sorry: where's the "why"? All I see is "Data: kids don't blog..."
A little context may be required. I'm assuming that a bigger number means that it's higher linked? More important?
I think this is just going to mean that Bitbucket attracts a lot of junky, abandoned private hacks. $7-$12 a month is peanuts for anything serious.
For people who have no self control without resorting to playing tricks on themselves I guess. I can't empathize at all, all I need is a spreadsheet at most, but I guess it works for some people.
I still don't get the option to use whatsapp web. Any idea?
> And until android has fake permissions I won't install messenger.

Cyanogenmod has Privacy Guard, which is pretty much that.
The ribbon was specifically designed for programs that have so many functions and features that the traditional menu+toolbar would be nigh-unusable (as evident in older Office versions where users often didn't even know that certain features existed). So I guess indeed, Notepad with probably ten different functions that could be exposed, can live just fine with a menu bar.
Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp etc. are all used to plan violent attacks, murders, burglaries and so on - all communication tools are used to do harmful acts, should we ban them all?

Crazy that people are ok with what's been happening in the last few hours
Private companies with more power and influence than governments, and little serious competition.
Evidence has not been presented but it has been solicited. When the courts asked for evidence the President’s lawyers have reduced their claims from fraud or illegal voting to irregularities unsupported by evidence which was asked for. E.g. the case where they said R observers were kept out and then they had to admit that R observers where present. The judge confirmed that and then found for the defense.
Unless you do it to a privileged group. Then it’s discrimination.
This is a strange comment to make, are you making an investigation of sorts or do you frequently go on websites of people you politically despise?
Such a system is based on "capabilities" and many research OSes such as Barrelfish<https://barrelfish.org/>, Hydra, Mach, and EROS explored these.

The overall question is to decide who (user, process, ...) has which permissions (read, write, execute, share, revoke,...) on which resources (processes, memory, files,...). Capability based systems provide a finer grained solution to this problem than the classical UNIX access control list with interesting trade-offs.

As an example, privilege escalation exploits can be avoided with a capability based OS. This is also known as the "confused deputy problem". Imagine you're on a server and get billed for each ms of runtime that a compiler uses. You provide an input (e.g. main.c) to the compiler, and an output location (e.g. out.a). The compiler runs, writes out.a, and appends a line to a bookkeeping file. The problem is that the compiler has privileged access to the bookkeeping file and every write it does is in this privileged mode. Therefore, you can provide as output file the location of the bookkeeping file and overwrite it with the compiled binary.

On a capability based system, the compiler has one (privileged) capability to write to the bookkeeping file, and the user not only provides an output location, but also a capability to write to the requested location. The compiler then uses the corresponding capability for each write and this guarantees that it'll never escalate privileges.

It is not trivial to design a sound (and efficient) capability based system, nor to implement it. I wonder when they appear in modern OSes as they can solve many privacy-related problems.
Mozilla actually had a really impressive one about 5 years ago... but it was shutdown by Adobe lawyers.
True, but that's a weird point as you can use free shared hosting (like Netlify) then as an example that you don't need any paid resources at all to take a website live, but the point of this submission seems to have been about taking a website live with your very own hardware, so mentioning CDNs feels weird.
Here is a fantastic archive of old flash and other proprietary browser plugins games, short clips, and other content.

https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/
A slideshow of all your most upvoted comments
This is one of the big upsides of languages like C# or Java that have a lower-level virtual machine runtime that can be shared across different languages. In fact it was the suffering endured by the Gnome team trying to support different languages on top of C that eventually led to the Mono project.

Unfortunately there are also some downsides to the virtual machine approach but I still think there's a window of opportunity open here for Microsoft if they make the CLR robust and reliable on Mac and Linux.
That could make some sense if that exchange happened in Karachi, for example, and his flash cards had the words fertilizer, kerosene, explosion, supremacy, etc. It could, not that it does.
"What changed!"= Blood Diamonds in my world, and the realization that certification means nothing in most instances, and I still remember the microscopic stone my brother was talked into under the stress of shotgun wedding.(Brother I still feel your pain) As to gold jewelry, I don't
know, but I think younger people will realize the value in a
gold mechanical watch--that with the right care will last a lifetime. I didn't appreciate fine mechanical watches until
I was 40. With a lot of diligence it is possible(some people) to do your own repair, cleaning and oiling of their
own watches. It's a good feeling looking down at your
wrist knowing you can repair it if it breaks down. If women
are interested in mechanical watches they are practically giving them away in the used market market. The gold ones are literally selling for scrap value.
An advantage of this one is that you can use it with https://github.com/progrium/dokku. I've deployed a few haskell apps on Digital Ocean using heroku-buildpack-ghc + dokku and it worked without a hitch.
Older than Perl, Python and Ruby, at least
How do you avoid language familiarity bias? I've had one interview like this and am sure I did much worse just because the language was Javascript, which I have limited experience with.

Intuitively I'd expect that not to make much difference since most mainstream languages are pretty similar, and the interview wasn't syntax oriented. But that's not what I experienced. Signal to noise ratio was there and definitely affected speed of processing the code.

(To answer my own question, for coding interview style algorithmic questions, it should be easy for the company to translate the questions to the applicant's preferred language before the interview. (if not then it's probably not a good interview question). Hopefully this company does that.)

Obviously if the company explicitly wants the candidate to be familiar with deep aspects of whatever language you use, then this doesn't matter. I can imagine hypothetical cases where this would hold, but I'd think it relatively rare.
Andy Grove was "privileged" - he had about 200 iq points and had some weird genetic mutation which made him like working a lot.
What is the problem with that east Texas district?
Google has always copied and almost never innovated. They've done so well because they can build better technical applications than their competitors (e.g. Gmail).

That strategy doesn't work with social, though. They can rip off an idea and build a more technically sound product, but social needs more than just a good product, and google can't deliver.
Obviously you haven't been around my wife when she loses the last 5 minutes of a show. SLA or no, services will get cancelled.
> Except it's not tracking your location, it's tracking cell towers.

That's true in the sense that mercury thermometers do not measure temperature -- they measure the height of a column of mercury.
Clickable: http://www.healpay.com
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most of that list look like they're in the betaworks/lerer-ventures family

http://lererventures.com/companies.html
http://betaworks.com/investments.php

then again it could just be because kenny has money in everything in the city
iPhones get sold in lots of places, but on launch day of a new model they are apparently banned from advertising that they have stock.

I read that at the last launch in London, the queue for the Apple store went past several independant stores that had iPhones in stock.

It's all a tacky PR stunt which you would think was beneath them. Why Gruber has recenty become fixated on this as an indicator of platform health I have no idea, it's like reviewing a movie based on how long some geek in a costume is prepared to wait outside a theatre.
I didn't understand the part where Wikileaks and Tor are supposed to have different goals. I thought the point of Wikileaks was to publish information anonymously - surely Tor would be suitable to help with that (Tor as it is supposed to work)?

I must admit that I am simply too chicken to use Tor. In Germany I think it can actually get you in trouble if some pedophile exits through your node.

Also last I checked, there really were some issues with the security model. That was quite a long time ago, not sure if they have been fixed now.
"Your compensation will include meaningful equity ownership"

That should be added to Joel Spolsky's list.
The headers are included only in test code which is usually in separate compilation units, so the compile times shouldn't be a problem
Companies still doing AOLserver/OpenACS/dotLRN stuff:

http://solutiongrove.com

http://acspropel.com

OpenACS.org and dotLRN.org are the sites for the OpenACS and .LRN (education oriented) toolkits that run on top of AOLserver.
Fired my only steady client due to personal problems with their business model,

Hired 6 developers and started a much more serious consulting company (with new clients),

Launched inboxSEO and got over 100 paying customers (when the trials run out),

Formed an Argentine SRL to pay those devs (like a US LLC but much harder to start)
The best web platform is haskell and postgres, or ocaml-java/yeti and mysql on appengine. Phpers and rubyers are missing out on the most delightful and least error-prone ways to use functional and relational programming.
It's an animal welfare nightmare. Many of these animals are growing too fast to support their own body weight and can barely move by the time they're sent to their deaths.
This was a nice little side tangent. Thanks for sharing.
>Flash I could not understand. I couldnt find good tutorials online either.

You were probably trying to learn in the late AS2 or AS3 era. The tutorials all became too high level and driven by Flash dev ideas of grown up processes that sure are what you want for building professional work but all raised the roof and the floor at the same time cutting off what was the entry point for teenagers to start creating in Flash.

Earlier days there were great resources for getting started.
There are two approaches for hotel Wifi.

One is to make a network that's so good people will pay to use it.

The other is to make a network that's average, but intentionally make other networks worse, so that people will pay to use yours.

Since you're reading HN, I imagine your strategy is the first. Hence, you don't see the need to interfere with other users of the spectrum.
EC2 and S3 are't trivial to replicate. Moreover, consider the entire platform and the dominant position of Amazon. Amazon is the Microsoft of yore- they actively cannibalize any profitable service on their platform. How many products is AWS, now? Perhaps 50, or 100? Can anyone reasonably migrate off AWS after integrating with even 5 or 6 of them? Did the profits of Office go to zero as it was copied and handed out for free a dozen times over? Amazon will be making bundles of money with AWS for a long time to come.
You're quite right. Node.js is more like a trap for inexperienced developers who probably won't even understand why Node.js is an awful tool when used to solve the wrong problem because they have no real experience (I believe Node.js is the wrong answer to the wrong problem in all but a very few exceptional circumstances).
This looks useful. HostGator will host a web site for $3.96 a month. You can't have any long-running processes. You're limited to CGI, PHP, and static pages. For low-traffic web sites that need some modest amount of host-side processing, that's an effective solution. There's nothing wrong with running a Javascript engine instead of the usual Perl or Python engines under CGI.

If your e-commerce site does one sale a minute, you don't need Docker containers running on AWS instances behind a content delivery network.
This should absolutely be an end of this company.

1. They did not just give unauthorized access, they gave admin access.

2. It’s been going on for 6 years.

3. It seems very basic.

4. Not using HTTPS is another big red flag

5. Having this secure access feature is one of their selling points, by not providing it they essentially defrauded the public.

Mistakes happen, and it worse when it happens in security field. But this is not an honest mistake, this is negligence.
> Correlation doesn't imply causation.

And it doesn't not imply it.

And did you not pay any attention in the 00s? Bush was a white supremacists and made racism federal policy in airports.
The link is broken, but I just read similar about Apple. Eventually I hope people will realise why computer platforms need to be free (and why this election was both fair, transparent, embarrassing and pathetic)
> have grown up as a kid in Ceausescu's one-party state Romania and I have to tell you that this doesn't look good.

As an American, I can tell you that unfortunately nobody on either side will be willing to heed your warning here. In our polarized climate, everyone seems to think that they can do autocracy better.

I've grown up around a lot immigrants from Romania and other former-dictatorships and they're all shouting to anyone who will listen right now about how dangerous this all is. My ex-Soviet coworkers are discussing where in Europe they're going to relocate to this year.
Samsung is burning money to produce chips a node behind TSMC. They are a leading-edge fab right now like Intel is a leading-edge fab right now. You're right that they are a contender, but the fab market is always going to be this way: one player will be the best, the others won't be. If you design CPUs but don't manufacture them, your supplier will always have a natural monopoly, meanwhile your customers have more options every day. Ditching the monopoly market to focus on the competitive market is not a good long-term strategy.
I wont even bother to read that. you disagree I got it have a nice day.
Great choice, seeing as how I'm a Portland resident. How many people stormed the courthouse with gun and zipties, and which politicians did they want to murder?

The closest you're going to get is something about protestors chanting "fuck Ted Wheeler" in response to being tear gassed during a peaceful protest.

P.S. Black lives matter.
Reddit seems to have just as much illegal content. All of this just seems like empty virtue signaling by tech companies way too late to actually change anything.
my understanding is that there were numerous occasions where Rudy Guiliani himself went to court and had opportunity to present evidence and presented nothing. Are you being disingenuous when you say "no court has tried evidence" because none was presented to them?
You realise that it’s possible for entities outside of the government to censor things, right?

That word isn’t only applicable to state actions, and nor should it be.
Try it out! I’ve been building with Java for about 13 years and just started playing around with Kotlin last year, and I must say that I fell in love immediately.
The second cell looks a section title ("Imports and Notebook Utilities"), but contains the definitions of these functions and the imports. Run this cell and I suspect things should work.
>He appears to agree with Murray that some class differences reduce to heredity.

Yes, and the way to attack this is not to insist that there are zero heritable differences in people's talents for various economically renumerable activities. There are lots of heritable differences. There are also lots of environmental effects.

The way to attack it is to do the thing the NYT cannot do, and attack meritocracy as the basis of our political economy. For instance, plainly the Trump children got where they are due to heredity! Their whole damn family is coasting off Donald's father, who made the money. But as we all saw, their "very good genes" made them, well, terrifically incompetent, feckless morons.
The blogroll is all wordplay based on Borges' Celestial Emporium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...).

He needed links to categorise as 'those belonging to the Emperor' so I guess linking to the neo-monarchists was too good an opportunity to pass up.
FTA: “ The voices also included white supremacists and neo-fascists. The only people who struggled to be heard, Dr. Friedman said, were “social justice warriors.” ”

This is a disingenuous take but it does fit the current NYT narrative of opposing speech (and venues) the editors disapprove of.
I have no idea why laptop keyboards are so important to people; they’re all terrible. Use a better, external keyboard when you’re stationary, your wrists will thank you.

Especially since it seems like even pre-pandemic laptops operated 80% of the time from a fixed position anyways.
Why did you revert? It would seem to me that they were in the wrong for being possessive, and assuming your efforts were in good faith, perhaps one could take delight in watching them running and squirming in anger. I would have probably just ignored the message and kept making contributions, but I understand the turn-off.
Thank you for this! I had never heard of these and I hate Bezier curves. I can never figure out how to manipulate them. The history in this Wikipedia article is fascinating, too, and how "splines" came to be from wood models. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-uniform_rational_B-spline
I read the first few pages but it so dense with references to other works/philosophers it felt unreadable to me (and I've read a decent bit of philosophy but not a ton).
love seeing sites like this showcasing local startups. will need to use this as inspiration for south florida.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004082

... where there are many comments.
I read an article back a few years, about how when they do a normal organ transplant (like a kidney) the patient benefits enormously from also getting a bone marrow transplant from the same donor. For a transplant you shut down the immune system completely, and keep it in a subdued state forever afterwards. With the matching bone marrow they could re-start the immune system to a mixed state afterwards, that accepted the original organs and the donation.

Anybody remember that article? I'd like to find it again.
My parents, my in-laws, and to some degree my wife and kids.
I was lucky enough to receive a Cr-48 and it's been in constant use for the small time we've had it. Some of that is the 'new' factor but my wife has a regular laptop that she uses on the couch occasionally. Now she asks "Where is the Google laptop?" It is partially form factor but the boot/wakeup speed is addicting. Also the fast user switching makes it very easy to trade around. Last night I was using it for Google reader and my wife asked when she could use it. I was just messing around so I closed the lid and handed it to her. She lifted the lid, it was on instantly, she signed me out and signed herself in and was reading her mail in probably about 10 seconds.

Even with the problems with the trackpad and the stuttering flash I can see the potential. I would buy at least 2 Cr-48's today if they were for sale. Another one for my family to share and the other for my parents. I would set up a gmail account for my parents and ship it to them and be safe in the knowledge that I would only be doing application support for them, not system support.
For most people a $600+ dollar purchase with highly depreciating value is not something you can just walk away from.
We used my arduino to build an intervalometer to trigger my camera recently.

Was the point of this triggering the camera, or was the point of this building the circuit?
I wrote this thread explaining why this stuff is nonsense

https://twitter.com/MoonbaseOtago/status/1370922507146985478
If the drug is granting people willpower, then it really is miraculous.
Perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html is worth a read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftICE

>"An open source kernel debugger similar to SoftICE named Rasta Ring 0 Debugger (RR0D) is available.[4][5] It provides low-level debugging for Microsoft Windows, Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. This project does not seem to be actively maintained. As of June 2016, the last change in its GitHub source code repository occurred in December 2008.[6]"

PDS: The lack of maintenance of a codebase, to me at least, is not a dealbreaker... I'm interested in techniques used in source code -- not the age or the maintenance or the lack of maintenance -- of a given codebase...

As the source code to SoftICE seems unavailable -- this looks like the next best thing to look at, to learn similar techniques (similar functionality should imply similar code techniques) -- to the ones SoftICE used, to do what it did...

Related:

BugChecker: https://bugchecker.com

LinICE: https://sites.google.com/site/linicetool

HyperDBG: https://github.com/HyperDbg/HyperDbg
Willpower is exactly why they eat more. They feel a pang of hunger in their grossly stretched out stomach and can't resist eating.

The drug does not remove fat. It removes the feeling of hunger. Assume both groups have little willpower (they are fat after all). The control group feels hunger and continues satisfying that hunger with food as they have no will power. The group with suppressed hunger from the drug also have no willpower, but since they feel no hunger they eat normal amounts.
It's like your local VSCode was running on the remote box from a functionality perspective but the local box from a UI perspective. It's pretty straightforward to get going https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview
I don't agree with your argument. Salaries are paid largely from a finite pool. If a group of people gets a larger slice of that pie, for any reason, legitimate or not, then that leaves less money for raises and salaries of other groups.
You're mad because your Raspberry Pi offers you the possibility to install a piece of software you have no interest in? Microsoft can't track you if you just simply... don't install vscode. It's that simple.