jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Drug opponents aren't just some religious nuts though. Aside from marijuana, the overwhelming majority of the population supports keeping drugs illegal. Support for legalizing things like cocaine is under 10%. And the homosexuality reference above is a red-herring. Nobody ever broke into someone's house in a state of diminished cognition because of gay sex.
That's basically what Netflix does with its fast.com service.

This could be an interesting business model for a VPN service. Host a popular speedtest and VPN endpoints on the same IP's. The challenge is to make the speedtest popular enough so ISP's will optimize for it.
Sorry, I’m biased because I’ve literally never lived alone. Didn’t even cross my mind that one person’s salary can afford an apartment. When I say an entire studio apartment to yourself an entire studio apartment for you and your roommate or partner.
Hmm, https://www.tarsnap.com/ does this...
Pushups, situps and squats.

Next year I'm thinking of pushing my boss to get a barbell rack for the office.
I don't know what the exact scale is at UoM, but generally salaries at Canadian universities are determined mostly by seniority; considering his lack of seniority, Lukacs is probably fairly low on the scale. Also, Manitoba is a fairly cheap place to live, so I'd expect their salary scale to be somewhat lower than average.

I would have guessed $75-80k for Lukacs' salary; $60k isn't entirely unbelievable, but seems unlikely. My guess is that the "something like three times" $5k is either rounding down or based on his after-tax income.
I remember reading about releasing a "Half Product" rather than a "Half Assed Product" at 37Signals Get Real book. It made sense to me at that time, maybe you should give it a look too.
4/21/2011 is "Judgement Day" when Skynet becomes self aware and tries to kill us all. http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/2011/04/21

I am just a little freaked out right now.
Note that I've written "relying", not "hosting", meaning I'm well aware of the fact that using "the cloud" as an additional layer of capacity can be a good thing.

But relying on the cloud means that you're giving up control.

Power outage in your data center? Buy diesel generators next time!
Faulty network card? Put in two redundant ones!

AWS down? Wait and pray!
I just launched a site on Heroku yesterday and cranked up the dynos up in anticipation of some "launch" traffic. Now, I can't log in to switch them off. Thanks EC2, you owe me $$$s
Hmm.....the place where i studied cognitive science, one common theme of most experiments were global vs local be it on visual perception/language/etc......Wondering is local being extolled too much nowadays..... reminds me of the other post on "How not to scale?"
Easter

Royal Wedding

May Day
Easter, probably.
I like it! I got the highest scoring click of "all time" :)
Don't let AWS hear that, or they'll charge us for their failures by rebranding it as a feature.
In my opinion the above bug reports deserve a picodollar or two.
You are indeed correct, I'll leave my comment to stand as a testament to my wrongness.

The bunker doors were "fixed" with metal plates after it was shown they could be easily shimmied with a credit card.
It's not as simple as that. Eventually continued backwards compatibility hacks will cause non-negligible problems, and some of those same customers may start viewing the competition differently when they finally decide to rewrite or choose a new system to replace their aging one. It's a fine line.
This has been around for a few years and it's due for some major updates. The CSS questions are becoming very, very dated.

> Have you played around with the new CSS Flexbox or Grid specs?

Flexbox is well past the point where you should be "playing around" with it. It's time to straight-up learn it, if not start using it in production. It's ready. And if that leads you to the question of "well what about crappy old versions of IE?", well there's another interview question for you.

Only one question about preprocessors—and a vague one at that? Not even a mention of things like Grunt and Gulp, pattern libraries, style guides, or even the terminal?

This stuff is integral, not optional, these days.

I interviewed a lot of people last year for a senior front-end position that we never ended up hiring for. We made a few offers that fell through but for the rest, I would have ended up teaching them how to do the bulk of the job had we hired them.
There are often wars in places where resources like food and water are scarce. People fight over what little there is, or they see the weakened country as a target for an invasion. Somalia for example, has been in the grip of war for years but also has had significant droughts over the past few years. The two problems are related. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_East_Africa_drought
It certainly seems like Bitcoin is dead.
fizzbuzz isn't meant as a benchmark for good developers, it's meant to weed out the obviously bad.
>> "I'm 27, living in Toronto. Most of my acquaintances say things like "I have nothing to hide so it doesn't bother me", or "Dropbox is just so convenient, it doesn't matter about the NSA". It's upsetting."

I've been pretty angry about the revelations over the last year. I'm a private person and don't want the government violating that. However - even though I don't say the things your friends are saying I still use Dropbox because getting my clients to switch would be a pain. I still use Google because DuckDuckGo just isn't good enough for me. I don't want to give up my privacy to anyone but it's just so easy to do without thinking the consequences through.
The Christmas Truce is a fascinating subject. See eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce (I can recommend http://www.amazon.de/Der-kleine-Frieden-Gro%C3%9Fen-Krieg/dp... if you can read German.)
It counts up every solution, thus the "92" exit code. However, the non-pretty-printing version does take some shortcuts - it can't reconstruct the entire current board state in O(1) time from its actual register state. So I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "iterate over all solutions". (It certainly doesn't bail out when it finds the first solution, if that's your question.)
I'd just like to point out, this also gives an opportunity (or at least incentive) for different forms of internet transport (i.e. googles loon).
Actually, it is regulated. People like Andreessen and his portfolio companies (Coinbase, Dwolla) just like to pretend that it isn't.
We didn't need any stupid CSS borders, either, just nested tables with cellpadding=1 and a black background.
It's gone now. Something odd I noticed, though: I was testing to see if going to https://www.mtgox.com/img/ would serve up a directory listing and, while it doesn't, it redirects to https://www.mtgox.com/data/mtgox_off/img/ and displays a 404.

If you request https://www.mtgox.com/foobar, it doesn't redirect but displays the same 404.

If you request https://www.mtgox.com/data/mtgox_off/img/mtgox_logo_mail.png, it loads the image, so that's definitely a valid directory, and the shorter version (https://www.mtgox.com/img/mtgox_logo_mail.png) is probably just being rewritten.

I wonder if there's anything accessible in the / or /data dirs.
At various places and times throughout history, conditions of a largely free market have existed. It is not a "unicorn pony" (isn't that redundant and/or contradictory?). However, such conditions do not exist in most of the world now, and I don't see anywhere praxeologist or myself claimed otherwise.
Love that approach!
I do have a smartphone. Their web based check-in used to close 3 or 4 hours before flight. By that time, your only option was a hefty fee at the airport.
Is the performance better than Google Analytics?
Sure, but the point is that those were by all measures and accounts(at least I can't find any proof suggesting otherwise) free and democratic elections. A party consisting mostly of former communist politicians won, sure - but pre 1989 there was no democracy, there were elections but just like there are elections in the present-day Democratic Republic of Korea - the ruling party always wins with 99% of the votes. After 1989 we have managed to change the system into democracy where both the parliment and the president are chosen by the people - and well, the best proof of it working is that the SLD party both won and then lost the elections, all before the decade was out.
Yes, I know. The comment I am replying to states:

Anyone care to explain this to me?

So I am explaining it. If you want my own view: On this situation I don't care.
Yeah, Russia is getting a lot of criticism for this from locals, but nothing changes. The reason is that any large russian business is an international business. They are either a publicly trading company, or have a headquarter in Europe, or partially owned by an international company. For them getting sanctioned would mean multi-millions losses, losing investors, suppliers, and much more. Even the largest state-owned Russian bank cannot afford to open a branch in Crimea because (as they have publicly commented) this will result in mass loss of their investors and will crash their stock price.
With a lot more AI the smart people at Google, Amazon and Facebook may find out one day that there are products you buy rarely versus products you buy repeatedly. Like washing machines vs potato chips.

It makes sense to show ads for potato chips but with washing machines you should stop after purchase.

I much preferred the time when kiteboarding sites had static kiteboarding ads instead of the current situation where ads are totally out of context.
It's a good indicator of the market price on privacy.

I can always not use the loyalty card if I really want a purchase to be private, but that would only be really true if:

- I approached the store not using any type of vehicle with a government identifier that could be potientially observed or tracked,

- I paid cash,

- I wore a disguise to not show up on the store's security cameras or be recognizable to others,

- and I didn't bring a cell phone and/or any other device broadcasting a MAC address to a potential sniffer.
The trouble is that people flee California, but carry the basic ideas with them elsewhere.

It is not that different from Covid.
That is like saying if we make the punishment for any crime tortorous enough we won't need law enforcement. That only answers "what the punishment will theoretically be" not "How can it be found out when it is being broken? By whom? Will we able to take action against it?".
People go with what they know, the the LAMP stack was a classic for multiple years. And even today PostgreSQL's HA tooling isn't that great ( one can set up MySQL/MariaDB in active/active in a few minutes, and that's impossible with PgSQL, and even active/passive with easy failover requires more work and oftentimes external tooling).
What, you're joking surely? Yandex was founded by three Russians and the HQ is in Moscow, and they obviously target the Russian market. If Yandex is not Russian, what is?

Like saying Google is Irish because they have some center there for the EU business. Google is surely a US-based company.
Does anyone know why they split these into so many pages? Is it really just ad impressions? I still don't understand that.
I swear to God I remember hearing the opposite not long ago. That frequent, smaller,
meals are better as they more closely match the continual foraging of hunter-gatherers. Here's the first reference I could find: https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/health/mini-meals-food-drayer...

The older I get the more inconsistencies and instabilities I hear in dieting advice. I'm old enough to remember when fat was the bad guy and sugar was maybe ok
That's ridiculous. Neither unicorn, nor the american white eagle, nor even the albatross comes close to pork. Mmmmm, pork.
From the time we are little kids, we live in a world of no. No dessert until you finish your vegetables. No, you didn’t clean your room. There’s a lot of big frustration around such a little word.

Ironically, a lot of current parenting advice is to deal with children exactly how the OP proceeds to suggest one should deal with clients: Phrase the request in positive terms - as in "Yes, you can have dessert once you have finished your food" and "Yes, you can definitely go out and play once you have cleaned up your room - shall we figure out how to do this quickly?".
Asking "why wait for articles" is like saying why use tutorials or guides for anything at all? Why not just learn it all by doing it yourself? Besides, I think there's a bit of a strawman here. I'm not saying I'd like to avoid consulting to pay the bills.

There is a lot of value in learning from other people's experiences. Spencer Fry has a fantastic article on the topic of bootstrapping in general(http://spencerfry.com/how-to-bootstrap) but I'd really love to see somebody get down to the nitty gritty financial details of dollars in vs. dollars out - the holy crap, how are we going to pay rent in 2 months? stuff - in the stages of a startup that hasn't yet reached ramen profitability.
To pick nits, the iPod touch lacks the camera and GPS. An unlocked iPhone is more expensive than a locked iPhone. None of that makes the grandparent post correct, but it does bear pointing out that your alternatives are either inferior or cost more than $200.
Fascinating. Here's a talk in which he goes into some background on the technology and process behind some of his work: http://vimeo.com/78667444
"Go" wasn't a particularly bright name to begin with, when it comes to googleability.
Such a small yet significant achievement, and it only was realized by jumping over the corporate bureaucracy. It makes you think a about how much innovation has been lost in the gears.
After seeing this article the first time, I decided to try the 3 day fast as well. I too continued my normal morning 3 mile runs and noticed that if I couldn't push the pace for very long. I'm just an anecdote, but my immune system seems to be stronger this winter. With two little ones who've been sick a couple of times and a wife that had the flu, I've been able to get by with just minimal congestion.
As a heavy Photoshop user you should know that the Photoshop format has seen several backwards incompatible upgrades over the years. And Adobe probably had good business reasons for doing that. Since they were doing that anyway, they might as well have improved the format in the process, I have no idea why they did not do that.
For those following the topic, this is the article from 2014/08/19 and previously posted here at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8203876 . There's nothing new.
That is unfortunate WFH will not be common. I live in the bay area but I have health issues that require I get treatment at evening and night and its stressful to run through rush hour traffic to start my treatment. I am somewhat tethered to employers close to home to save on commute time. The current WFH at my employer helps me save a lot of travel time. Now I even get spare time to exercise every day. I hope more companies continue to do it. But I guess even flex hours will help me balance things better.
> I think it'd be a hard sell to smaller teams,

Yes, I suspect you are correct, which is my biggest misgiving about pursuing this product too much further. Unfortunately for me, new/small growing teams are my preferred niche!

> maybe_ to organizations that are a bit older or larger and have accumulated a lot of internal cruft

That's an interesting thought. That segment is a harder one to break into for a "solopreneur".

> On a different note - have you considered doing some content marketing by making a public jargonaut for common development terms?

Yes, I have actually. When trying to determine what other "glossary" solutions exists I found that there are quite a number glossaries that people appear to have put together as part of their content marketing play. One of the niches I could see Jargonaut fill is the place to go to publish a public glossary, although I am not sure the monetization angle there (apart from adverts).
The world needs something that is accessible.

"As of 23 March 2020, it seems that Japan and China have issued an export ban on the substance. Japan and China are the only countries in which favirapir is produced and approved as a medical compound." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favipiravir
> The U.S. likes to think of itself as the world leader.

Yeah, we in the rest of the world is very aware of that and frankly a bit tired of it. But my grief about that is nowhere as big as South American or countries in the middle east.

> the U.S. could and should have provided global leadership

Realistically, I don't don't think the US would be able to provide global leadership. Your leaders were denying that this outbreak was even real and the person responsible for the containment is a person who believes prayers can actually solve things. So I don't think anyone is expecting the US to have any real play on the world scene today.
> I think it’s ridiculous that questioning a political opinion with a well thought out, logically crafted counter opinion could ruin a relationship

People use a simplified mental model of your beliefs. You're either on one side or the other. Your argument flips you around to the other side. This is a problem. My hope is that this problem can be countered by explicitly labeling points of agreement, and by being very specific about points of disagreement.

This is what my project HowTruthful facilitates. This article caught my attention because flat earth was the issue I used in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXvU1h44jVw the introductory video. About 90 seconds in, I talk about how a presentation format that shows both agreement and disagreement helps preserve friendship.
Your point about this being a human problem above all is spot on, and I really enjoyed how you phrased your point about mirror problems.

My impression of the flat earth theorists or enthusiasts is that it's a reaction to a sense of oppression (similarly to what another top level comment said). An assertion of power by negating a "common" truth. I like this explanation because I can relate to it quite well. The ditch the mind jumps into is that it's not that your problems are too difficult for you, but that the whole setup (context that formulates the problem) is a lie. Combine that with a profound distrust of the mainstream, some naivete and some luck, and you'll get flat earth theory.
It might be, we don't know how the Italian system would cope without it. Due to increasing but low test numbers, we don't know how many infected patients there are in Italy. The situation in some hospitals is severe, but it has been for ~2 weeks.

I believe with the number of patients they have, they would've updated the guideline if it wasn't effective at all. But how effective it is we don't know. If a large percentage of some areas is already infected but the health system is still in the state it's in now, it could actually be a good sign. If the current numbers are realistic (which I don't believe at a positive test rate of >30%), it's probably not. We simply cannot know.
Thanks for this reference, it seems they are proposing 2 potential treatments (p. 13) for the more severe patients

> Il trattamento deve essere accompagnato da trattamento antivirale (lopinavir/ritonavir o remdesivir + clorochina/idrossiclorochina) e/o steorideo (desametasone)

This is from the 13th of March so I guess there will be still some days until we see results of this (either positive or negative)
> Rotate secrets automatically every few hours

How is this helpful? To automate it means there is another system that could be attacked and it‘s a valuable one as it manages all the secrets, or not? What‘s the story?
The round function is just 4 SLOC:

function q( state, val, numerator, denominator ) {
// Continued Fraction mixed with Egyptian fraction "Continued Egyptian Fraction"
// with denominator = val + pos / state[1]
state[0] += numerator / denominator;
state[0] = 1.0 / state[0];

// Standard Continued Fraction with a_i = val, b_i = (a_i-1) + i + 1
state[1] += val;
state[1] = numerator / state[1];
}
2256x1504 resolution

Finally, someone that knows about the sweet spot between fuzzy looking FHD and inevitably slow 4K. I'd buy this laptop just for that bit of (nowadays rare) common-sense thinking.

Webcam is just icing on the cake.

Hope the keyboard is more similar to a Thinkpad rather than a Macbook. Even if not, I'm sure that will become an option soon if the project is a success
Yes - don’t give police the fines. Tie their performance to bringing down accident numbers.
> Isn't "having a central authority" the very problem that Bitcoin solves? You can't just say Taler is better than BTC because it has a central authority. Central authority IS the problem. All central authorities are doomed to fail sooner or later BECAUSE they are centralized. Has a distributed authority ever failed? What am I not understanding?

I think the idea is that Bitcoin didn't actually solve that "problem" because its "solution" is still dependent on things controlled by central authorities (e.g. telecommunications and lots of electricity), but managed to misdirect many people's attention away from that failure.

I use scare quotes for "problem" because Bitcoin defining something as a problem doesn't make it one. For example, I could define seatbelts as a "problem" and "solve" that problem by making a car that omits them, but outside my idiosyncratic perspective I actually created more problems and didn't solve anything.
Quite interesting!

I'm curious about the use cases - I'd guess for distributed databases that rely on time synchronization? Or even for more general systems, accepting the time drift as a minor downside? (if the latter, is it planned to add external influence? it feels like it'd be possible to "smear" byztime to steer it closer to external time sources?)
So, if a company is small and unable to afford any security, they can just set the number at $0 which means it is the customer's problem.

And if a company is large and low margin, they can do this too so nothing changes. A few companies will be out there promising things, like today, and maybe they can deliver and maybe you can sue them if they don't, like today.
Link seems broken, hard to compare on mobile but google suggests this: https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Windows-XP-Bliss-Hill-...
> Parasitic investors have strangled cryptocurrency. If you think Bitcoin can currently serve any purpose other than making rich people more rich, you're a fool.

This is an inevitable result of deflationary currency.
I think this press release is sneaky great news as it's evidence that Bezos is shaking up Blue Origin's culture.

The announced delay was already baked in, everyone watching the space believed the delay, now announced, was already real. So there's little "news" here for an industry watcher. Many expect the first orbital launch might slip until 2023.

However, Blue operating in the open? Releasing announcements and working openly - that's the real news. And new! It's different and I certainly hope it's evidence that Bezos is brining Amazon's famous speed to his private space company.