jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
very nice idea, I wonder how much money would be enough to make wikipedia run on its dividends only. Does anyone know how much wikipedia cost to operate ?
I'll go out on a limb and say this right now: Bruce Schneier almost certainly doesn't know much about OpenBSD security culture and history.

He is, as I am fond of saying lately, "many good things", but.
Yeah the NSA modified the DES S-Box in its development, they made the final tweeks to the GSM A5/1 algorithm, another person points out the Clipper Chip, etc. You are clueless if you didn't know these things, do you think the NSA just sits on their butt?
That's horrible if true (and I have no reason to doubt that). However, methinks you've been talking to the wrong Canadian VCs...we're doing our best @iNovia to change those perceptions. I think the reality is VCs who act like jerks are going feel it in their pocketbooks when their deal flow and returns dry up. That being said, congrats on the round - great syndicate, great team and a great product.

Between Well.ca, Shopify and Beyond the Rack, Canadian E-Commerce companies seem to be on the cusp of big things...exciting times indeed.
Photoshop has actually implemented this since CS4 (http://www.colblindor.com/2009/01/04/photoshop-cs4-accessibi...). I would imagine that it's probably in other parts of creative suite as well.
In this flat, rectangular world, I have liked your flat, but curvy rectangles in common card UI.
Do you have a link for that? I follow this kind of thing pretty closely and haven't heard anything like that, at least for private residences.
Wow. Mountain Dew stands out with 77g of sugar per 100g in the soda category.

http://world.openfoodfacts.org/cgi/search.pl?action=process&...
It would be nice if this database can also include halal, kosher, or vegetarian/vegan status for the products.
Not everyone lives your lifestyle. Most of the people who manufacturer your stuff are very poor and live in Asia.
Looks like it might be the basis of a nice DIY NAS.
even with just letters there are 26 times more passwords with 8 characters than there are passwords with less than 8 characters...
I read them. All of it including Novellas and stuff. They are awesome. Especially once you are used to the chapter by character thing GoT also does. But surprise, New Mexico connection :)
https://outline.com/ps2vTZ

https://web.archive.org/web/20191121134126/https://www.econo...
...so instead of a VPN provider you put your trust in (a vps hosted by) Amazon or Google?
That's exactly the reason. Ads can much more easily be camouflaged as real content this way.
Kindle has a loan feature that lets you loan the book to anyone for 14 days or so.
I'd be interested to know why I got DV'd for this, given that the top answer almost perfectly echoes this sentiment.
I love how everybody seems to have forgotten this one...

http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/rokr/
>> Try Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into Python.

I have to disagree with the book choice - for this case. The first sentence on the main site for the book[1]:

>> Dive Into Python is a Python book for experienced programmers.

It might be a great book, but not for someone who knows nothing about programming.

[1] http://diveintopython.org/
Exactly. That kind of comment is worse than useless.

I'd rather see tests than comments.
Should be "Things Hiring Managers Wish You Would Do Because It Would Make Their Jobs Easier, But Many Of Which May Hurt Your Chances Relative To People Who Don't Do Them."
The use of the word "hacker" in the title here is not meant to be a claim of superiority.
I understood everything about this awesome quote, just not the last part about the physician...can you please elaborate on that?
I think it's a great idea to be able to search a curated list of domains, but I'm not convinced that doing the curation yourself is the best way to go about it, especially when you consider the sheer volume of helpful but specialized websites that are now online.
US citizens aren't ok with their government, but that's not the issue. It's a risk management issue. Be reasonably comfortable and survive, versus die fighting while others watch on.
Should this deck deck be on the library page? http://ycombinator.com/lib.html
Once you've 'chosen' not to be free, it's very hard to get back to where you started, though.
Landing page has too much text. It's a simple concept that shouldn't need one line to explain. The product looks great, but the landing page can benefit from some good copy, starting with the headline. Something like, "Get great feedback and build a better business" may work better.
There are relatively painless workarounds for both situations.

For multiple outputs, you can just make sure that anybody who depends on %.c also depends on %.h. This is pretty easy in the case of yacc. Then the rule can just be one for creating the %.h and you'll still never be missing a build rule.

For the problem of multiple ways to generate the same file (eg. generating a .o from either a .c or a .cpp), you can solve that by simply putting the decision logic into the .do file. This is actually better than making it implicit, because you explicitly get to say exactly which priority order to use in case both .c and .cpp exist. Make would silently pick one or the other (after also wasting time evaluating a bunch of other irrelevant rules, like ones for .pas files), which is no fun when you're debugging.
> Einstein was an unpublished patents clerk with a rocky academic record when he developed and published the special theory of relativity.

Einstein had a physics qualification, a teaching diploma and had several published papers to his name before he became a patent clerk. He became a patent clerk because he was unable to find a position teaching physics. A few years later he was awarded his PhD. He published the theory of relativity while he was a full-time academic.
Well I lived in Delaware for 4 years, and sure a lot of companies are on paper headquartered there, but those companies are not actually there. Basically Delaware's economy is DuPont, Gore, and a bunch of financial companies. But my startup is "based" in Delaware even though not one of us still lives there. So that argument is really irrelevant.

I don't think breaking people into groups is a good idea either. I just think extrapolating from states to national policy might be a bad idea. I'm against higher taxes, but if you look at states with high taxes vs low taxes, the logical conclusion would be higher taxes. Why? Because NY, CT, CA, NJ, and MA have really high taxes but also really strong economies. Manhattan has high income, sales, and property tax, along with super high tolls and everything else, and it is one of the richest places in the country.

You can't recreate that in the middle of a tax haven even if you wanted to. At some point you make enough money that you'd rather live in downtown Manhattan and pay an extra 5% of your income in taxes than give up what you like about living in Manhattan to save 5%.
The last time I called a locksmith they told me it would be 100 dollars over the phone. When he came out he told me it would be 400. It wasn't even a deadbolt just a regular front door.

I'm still mad about that.
I thought C was really low level than C++. So if you are gonna implement a Low Level Virtual Machine, then C would have been good choice. Further they tried to compile the Linux Kernel with LLVM, the former completely written in C. If thats where they were heading then C would have been a better choice IMO.
Geographic location could fall out as a side-effect of increased use of passive radar. Whilst it hasn't happened yet, the UK is testing whether it can use passive radar for air-traffic control [1]. If a radar receiver can figure out the position of a target, it would be even easier (no losses due to reflection) for the target to receive the same signals and figure out its own position. With a wide-band receiver, using all available incidental sources, it would also be hard to jam, since an adversary would have to have control over the entire electromagnetic environment. It would be even harder to jam if the receiver was using a phased array to figure out directions to sources, allowing it to null interference.

[1] http://www.atc-network.com/atc-news/airbus-defence-and-space...
The music MIDI-to-CNC converter is open:-

http://hackaday.com/2013/04/21/3d-printing-some-sweet-music/

I have tested it, it works!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7Zben7GJcA
Well your post seems to be at odds with sibling comments. What is your source of information?
I'd like to see SVG favicons become a standard so we don't need to keep packing favicon files full of different sized bitmaps. Apparently Firefox supports it: http://caniuse.com/#feat=link-icon-svg
You can pay cash for a cab.
Probably Facecoin.
Thanks maxmcd for pointing out the obvious point of my comment for the others. :-)
Sponsored posts and affiliate offers seem like no-brainers if lifestyle / e-commerce is your goal. Depending on your ability to convert clicks > sales, you can formulate strategy around developing your own set of sites to benefit from the traffic.

There are definitely opportunities to think bigger (really, ANY idea can benefit from substantial / targeted eyeballs), but starting with sponsored posts / affiliate would give you an easy and instant monetization opportunity.

Just sign up to a few advertisers at CJ that align well with your niche to test it out.
Keep in mind, though, that Nokia still exists outside Microsoft and they still own the mapping business ("Here", as it's called now). So it's not a given that Microsoft's 'Nokia' phones will actually use Nokia maps.
That's not how AMAs work, though, right? I thought the whole point of AMA was that questions could address any topic.
I think it would be hilarious--and not entirely implausible--if nominally communist China ended up sponsoring Romer's first free-market-enterprise-zone charter city.

India and Brazil are also good candidates. They could try out such an experiment in their own borders.
Fuck unpaid internships

I disagree with the language but heartily approve of the message. Do. Not. Work. For. Free. For-profit corporations can pay you wages -- that is what they are for.

This goes triply for everyone here, since most of you have skills that the market actually needs rather than the collection of non-skill represented by your typical coffee gopher trying to break into publishing. However, people expect engineers to be congenitally incapable of negotiation and to work for free because they love their jobs, and they'll tell you that this is not merely permissable but morally praiseworthy and a good thing for your career. People who tell you this are lying to you. Do not listen to them, even if they are folks you otherwise respect, even if they are telling you that their OSS-using corporations are more morally deserving than e.g. Microsoft or Oracle.
I just put a few of those "Adam" URLs into Google Search and they show up in the results. The usual "some results have been removed due to DMCA" notice is not there either, so I think they haven't removed them - or did, and then put them back.

It is up to the harmed party (the owner of whatever was taken down) to challenge the DMCA takedown in a court. Once you win in court, Google will restore whatever was removed.

I doubt anyone has gone to court over the Adam URLs either. Some of those are personal pages (ironically enough, including a law professor: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/levitin-adam-j.cfm ) and it doesn't seem like whoever is responsible for them would even know that they were listed in a DMCA notice.
Compare oranges-to-oranges or it's a straw man: Using an equal fraction of an efficient server is undoubtedly.
You only have to send a counternotice and the content is restored after 10 business days. With most companies, you can just send a properly worded e-mail. Others, like Google, have a web form you fill in. The DMCA never forces content in dispute to remain offline indefinitely even if you have zero resources; the complaining party has to go to court to make that happen.
You can get around some of the captive portals by MAC-spoofing the stick of your choice through your laptop to authenticate (then switching back). It's a pain in the arse, but it works in a pinch.

Ad-hoc will make most of that pain go away.
At scale, compute boxes are rarely upgraded because it's TCO cheaper to invest in newer systems (or CPU, mb, RAM). IOW, it's cheaper to wait and refresh everything, that is unless you're adding RAM, CPUs or disks.

If form factors don't change, reusing the mounting hw, PSUs and enclosures can be doable. Some web shops wait until boxes die entirely before replacement while IT shops lifecycle out all gear (usually everything but racks) in 4-6 years.

These hotdog USB sticks aren't upgradable at all and they're limited to the processing power of 5-10W.
Well... the kindle was pretty much just a device "to get people to buy more stuff from Amazon." But there were no other competitors at the time. The fire phone was going up against a huge market of phone devices with many better features and ecosystems already.
Jeff Atwood had a blog post[1] containing a list of new programming jargon, although perhaps this is too 'programmer'-focused.

[1]: http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/
Ok... this seems pretty much out of place but I dont suppose I can get a better answer anywhere else, so here it goes.

I'm a student in India and in a dilemma about buying a Mac or buying a windows machine (dual booting with Ubuntu 11.04 ). At about 3/4th the price of a Mac I can purchase a more powerful windows laptop and boot up Ubuntu ( and thus avoid windows altogether ).

I need a workstation for Ruby on Rails/ Node development. Since my parents will be the one paying, I want to be sure if Mac is worth it. I've never worked on a Mac before but since I've read that most startups that are hiring offer Mac to developers, I'm guessing owning a Mac would really make development more enjoyable. Would love to hear your guys' thoughts on this.

Thanks a lot.
Well it would work if you disabled unity - since unity is rendering everything as 1 display and not multiple windows the way X Windows wants.
It's sad that it's considered "old school" because it doesn't use jQuery.
My only real complaint about Instapaper is that it often seems to strip out the byline, and sometimes even the name of the publication, leaving me without some of the context I like to have when reading an article. (Here's an example of missing byline: http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bookrags.c... (the article is written by Zadie Smith, which I find to be very important information.))
Thanks. Right you are, right after a reboot the prompt appeared. Maybe that's why my question was gathering (-1, Moron) downvotes. Remember people, there are no stupid questions only stupid users.
This diet is pretty much the standard in many poor parts of the world - rice, beans, and fresh vegetables (in season). Billions of people across the planet have figured out that it's cheap and nutritious. Glad he could figure it out on his own too.
For the record, I do not believe free speech is absolute, nor have I since I was taught that it is not absolute as a child. I think every item listed in the passage you cited is difficult and necessary and should exist in some form that comes after much spirited and reasoned debate.

With that said, if you want to see laws have any effect, enforcement is required.

Calls for both an increased number of laws and enforcement of said laws (which is implicit in the assumption that these new laws will have a positive effect on a bad situation) is cause for pause, as, again, that has historically been the means by which states have worked actively against things that many observers would reasonably consider to be essential inputs to securing fundamental human rights.
Looks like Seagate drives are at a very good price point for them, enough to compensate for the higher failure rates.

It looks like Blackblaze managed to build a system with good fault tolerance, such that they can control the $-price/failure-rate ratio as they need.

In summary:
- HGST, good
- WD, expensive (in bulk)
- Seagate, we buy them despite failures
Have you tried using Google Chrome?
Examples? Both companies use the same hardware manufacturers so I'm surprised to hear this - given PC manufacturers traditional approach to pricing vs. Mac
Relevant to this discussion: A startup job ad for $40k salary in SF.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8880544
Analytics fire | Remote | Full-time | Senior Embedded Linux Developer with C/C++ -- 100% Remote, Flexible hours
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1787277799?trk=cap_redire...

Analytics Fire builds custom software for the solar power industry. We’re looking for a senior embedded developer with deep experience developing, testing, and debugging embedded software in a Linux environment to help us expand our services to support manufacturers in clean energy and other high-tech sectors.

Analytics Fire is a small, distributed team working on a range of interesting projects. For example, we recently helped build a custom IoT platform for utility grade solar power plants, sales software for residential solar systems, and a machine-learning powered autonomous cleaning robot. We’re looking for a fun, reliable, and highly collaborative, senior developer to join our team.

This is a remote position. We’re flexible about location and hours, so long as your working hours are within a European or US-overlapping time zone. We’re a really great match for a senior developer who wants to work hard on interesting projects, while simultaneously having flexibility around time and geography.

Ideally, you should have 5+ years developing, testing, and debugging embedded software in a Linux environment. You should be comfortable autonomously driving your own high quality / high velocity contributions using a range of technologies.
You feel like this, because you are right :) Just search online for "google captcha self driving".
The very fact that this comment has to engage in a theatre of objectivity (I can't know if that's an honest misunderstanding or deception; the post in flagged on some technicality despite intuition) when it is very clear this post is outrage porn is PRECISELY why micro-aggressions are a problem without fully stating it: coded language.

Once coded language is on the table, there is absolutely no statement that can be decided as misunderstanding or deception, and thus the gaslighting retort of "you, the accuser, must be misunderstanding/projecting", but also, the prevalent fear amongst certain non-Black males that "people will just make something up to get me"/"I will be
unprotected".

There's no satisfactory resolution to coded language in the legal domain because it is a purely ethical problem. The real problem in America isn't "them/the other side", its that no one, as far as I can tell, actually values or can actually imagine a world where we can and do live together without hegemony.

I'm very reminded of Neil DeGrasse Tyson arguing with Rogan on JRE about tourist litter in the Himalayas: you either value ending and cleaning-up the pollution, and all other solutions flow from this, or you don't. But everyone's just hand-waving the elephant in the room.
A nice bumper sticker slogan... Indeed there are perceived no-win scenarios for which you can cheat or redefine the rules somehow or even redefine what winning means. In my opinion (and many others' as well) you can't lead anyone if you don't know how to lose right.

Death is a perfect example. Especially preventable death of a child. You can't even grieve properly if you can't accept loss.

But let's talk about infosec, the entired discipline of incident response is founded on the expectation of security incident,as in security in some way was compromised or reduced. The whole point is to lose well! As in you responded well so the loss in security was minimized. You still lost because your attacker was able to get past your defenses and reduce security. Or perhaps one might say it is only a loss if confidentiality of data was breached. Ok, you did everything right and due to human error 0day exploits that abused attack vectors outside your threat model, your crown jewels were lost. What then? If you accept loss, you communicatr the data breach effectively, follow your plan for such a no-win situation. You simply can't lose right if you can't accept loss and losing right is not winning. You lost what was important to you,that process cannot be reversed and it was not preventable.

I think as a philosophy murphy's law gives a better perspective.
They used to have this feature and removed it. Unlikely they'll bring it back.
I've never encountered this in the US.
I don't really think 5% error margin is really worth getting upset about for a rough visualization guide.
> "I did the calculation how many coins we needed to become the richest person on the planet," Igor says. "I said to Andreea, 'We need to build it up to 100 million coins, because when this coin goes to €100 and we have 100 million, we are richer than Bill Gates.' It's mathematic. It's easy as that."

There is an argument to be made here that someone who is that irresponsible, or frankly stupid, has only themselves to blame.
My reading of the Wikipedia is that equal temperament didn't originate in China (though it may have slightly predated the occurrance in the west). Rather, it was a synchronicity -- it occurred at the same time in the west (1584 and 1585), like Leibniz and Newton coinventing calculus independently or Darwin and Wallace inventing survival of the fittest.
Why doesn’t every site just dupe me into divulging more of my data and spam me with ads. That’s how I likes my internet.
It sounds like the "color of hat" is a metaphor here
Paracetamol certainly can have mental side-effects, which may be beneficial. Perhaps this could explain part of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/14/paracetamol-...

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/1440/20130418/tyleno...
There's whole business that run on Excel.

They shouldn't, but it's amazing.
Perhaps—and I respect your acknowledgment of the problem—but that is a false dichotomy.

A tremendous amount of opposition news was false and also propaganda, so perhaps you're just picking sides. But I'm of the opinion that there is one area in which both sides could unite for the benefit of the entire country: against propaganda in any form.
The problem itself is not new: you can only trust what you have seen with your own eyes. And, to a lesser extent, you can trust something a trusted party has seen with their own eyes.

However, the cost of lying on a large scale has dropped to almost nothing. While the cost of truth verification has remained about the same. (One could argue that with lockdown, it has actually increased.)

There is a ray of hope, however, and it's called web of trust. If I can trace my trusted parties to their trusted parties, to their trusted parties, and so on, all the way to the original information source, I'm able to ascertain, with strong mathematical certainty, that the original source of information is reasonably trustworthy. That is, of course, if I assigned my trust correctly, and so on. On the other hand, if the original source cannot be traced, then their information is worthless.

The challenge now, for us hackers like no one else, is to build this web-of-trust information system. When it's done, it will usher in a new age of clarity and light, truly a new Age of Enlightenment, and our old way will seem as old and archaic as unsanitary surgery and X-ray shoe fitters.

The good news is that all of the technology, mathematical proofs, etc., has already been done. We can build this resilient, trustworthy information system today, with today's technology. Actually, we could have built it 20 years ago. And I think it is inevitable that it will be built.
What do you know about the Julia ecosystem?