jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think there has never been more personal piece of technology than your full of important data hard drive, especially pre-cloud era, when now people just don't worry much of a dying hardware.

But back in the ole' days, every one of us have lost very personal data due to hardware failure at some point. And it's interesting how the opinion about brands are being formed.

For example, my first drive that died was Seagate. Surprise surprise my opinion about said company is very low now. But in most part, it's very bias opinion, especially given the fact I have never owned another Seagate for the reason of crash. I love WD and never had one failed, currently about 20 full of data. But I met bunch of folks who hate WD and had them crush and they lost important data. And they love Seagate.

It's interesting how opinions about hard drives are being formed throughout our lives.
Price.

Dumping something in the sea is far more economical that expending money properly disposing it.

Of course they did not solve the problem. They just make their grandchildren pay for it.
I use persp-mode (https://github.com/nex3/perspective-el), it solves nearly all my problems managing different projects, shells, code buffers, note-taking, dired, and just about everything else. The only slight wart is term.el performance, making shell output a bit slow sometimes, but I can live with it.
Completely irrelevant and time wasting comment.
> "Volume is hardly a good metric for valuation."

Right. Fashion is. This is a 'twitter is fashionable' valuation.
From the comments, it looks like it's up to around $3900 now.
are you sure? How much is MySpace worth, given that they probably are losing money? (not to mention, members)
Mot to mention storing the passwords in plaintext (or unsalted) to be able to query them.
"25% chance of nothing, and 75% chance of, say, a 3x exit. I dunno, that seems crazy risky to me"

If these are the odds, the expected outcome would be that you more then double your money. 25%0+75%3=2.25
The headline saddened me, but then I red the article and it takes the locksmith only a moment! You can't really fault people for not comprehending how much training went into that and how much more expensive it could be if he broke the lock.

Dare I suggest he spend some time telling his customers about his time as an apprentice, the broken locks, and how long it took to get good. Then after that pick the lock. Educate your customers.
Unless I'm hideously misremembering things, air-glass-air refraction will result in the same wavelength and frequency, just a change of direction.

It just seems to 'change' colours sometimes because its scattering white light.
Yeah this is how I do builds of Firefox Home. I have a script that is executed by Hudson when we check in new code. THe script then builds the project, makes all the .ipa, .html and .plist files, uploads them to a server and tweets a message to testers with a direct over-the-air install link.

People love it.
hi there, arash from dropbox here. all data is (as we state in the referenced help article) encrypted before it's stored on the backend.

all data on dropbox can be made shareable and is web viewable. as a consequence, we do need the ability to decrypt in the cloud.

re. employee access to files - there are controls to prevent this. for example, even drew (founder/CEO), doesn't have physical access to our storage servers anymore.

for very sensitive data, there's always the option to use truecrypt (we even offer this as a recommendation in our security documentation: https://www.dropbox.com/terms#security)
Found it: http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/verizon-wireles...

It was a settlement, rather than an outright adverse ruling, but the net effect was the same - someone had to tap them on the shoulder and tell them to cut it out, they did, and had to pay out for their trouble.
From what you're saying (and here we have only YOUR point of view and description) there's something poisonous in that company/position/sector/department and it's gonna end bad no matter what. I don't think any team can run a marathon successfully with that kind of attitude towards team-mates.

A couple of advises:

1) Since you had this experience, try not to be a dick on newcomers when your time comes. You said that you were a bit cocky. Now imagine how the other guy in the room must have felt.

2) Generally being kind and humble will get through lions or lambs equally unharmed. I've seen it happen. I'm talking about being humble even to the ones that are openly rude to you - that kind of thing - by giving them a second and third and forth chance.

3) IMHO it's better to stand your ground accept who you are and ask what you don't understand. Make them teach you one way or another. Since you're there try to take away whatever you can. Again try being humble and kind. Maybe there are others that feel exactly like you do but don't come forward because they lack the same strength of character that you do. It takes guts to say I don't know in a hostile environment. Stick to what you know, try to do your homework and when the time comes, state your arguments. The explanations might not as convincing as your first thought and as a result this might turn to be a more liberating change of attitude for the entire team.

4) Those guys that you call 'ninja' others call 'newbies'. There's no rock-star developer IMHO, except from prominent figures that have prove themselves over time (e.g. Wall, Torvalds, Thompson, etc.). But even with those guys, you first and foremost have to be yourself: If you feel that you need more detailed explanation ask for it. Politely but firmly, trying everything possible to avoid conflict, state your arguments and questions as best as you can.

5) As Socrates, Plato and Aristotle said, every man has to pursue one and only thing in his lifetime: Happiness. A series of wise choices could make you happy. If the current situation makes you unhappy, try to find out the real reason, make peace with yourself, accept who you are - by accepting who you are you should respect those with less or more knowledge than you at any domain - and if you can't change the environment around by changing yourself, leave. However keep in mind that 3 out of 5 times, the problem is within you.
How much time does it take?
There is actually no other word in literary language that conveys the full meanings of lol. It is here to stay!
Because Redis requires the entire dataset to reside in memory.

It doesn't: http://code.google.com/p/redis/wiki/VirtualMemorySpecificati... .. Well, in the classical "in memory" sense. Virtual memory is a sort of memory.. :-)
Will the use of the metric system be next?
Um, I posted a link to the lite version of the game here. At the end of the lite version the user is shown a link to the main game which is at http://pixza.com/league.

In the main game, we use Twitter's @Anywhere platform. We have a wiki at http://pixza.com/wiki. We have tutorials (even video) in there. Do you think we're missing something besides this?

And thanks for the pointer to Amazon Mechanical Turk. Will definitely look into it.
"I must get an Android phone so I can run this" apps, such as Swype (since the discussion only includes iOS and Android), are excluded from the argument by Gruber.
As I saw another poster do in the past I used the Archive.org indirection because JWZ really has a bias against what he perceives of this community and does not like links to his blog on this site.
Creating throwaways to post is a feature of HN. I didn't abuse it. I don't have a HN account.

It's not meant as slander. It's just to show others 'here is something that's true that you might not have thought of or have thought of but haven't thought of it in all it's 250 MB glory. Decide for yourself'.

Folks who wanna try something different might like 'Radio Paradise'. It's human curated music. Have wide platforms support [1] but also regular stream URLs [2]

[1] https://radioparadise.com/listen/options
[2] https://radioparadise.com/listen/stream-links
> Yeah for unlocking it within a host OS as a data disk, not for booting from it...

this is not true. you can configure bitlocker with or without TPMs.

just google it. also the doc for the powershell command talks about it in the establishing a key protector section

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/bitlocker...
That's what I'm expecting to learn, but I wonder what's going on inside regarding the kernel and dylibs (and other stuff I don't understand yet).
This has been one of the first utilities I install on new Ubuntu machines for some time. Really recommended and a huge improvement on the default!
> SpaceX wants to shuttle settlers to Mars for $500,000 a ticket, with loans available that could be worked off.

He forgot to mention it's $5M to fly back.
To explain further, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and Amazon would be happy if the open web died and people had to use apps instead. The only big player with self interest in ensuring the open web continues to exist and be a good user experience is Google.
Yeah, that part is pretty crazy. I wonder if that is just up to the game developers, or if they were given a limited compute budget and the current 1080p / 1440p base resolutions were the best they could get? Maybe Stadia can't deliver the needed latencies at full native 4k?

Unless I am misunderstanding, the 4k up-res is happening on Google's side, so it's not like they are skimping on bandwidth.
Looks like a case of we wanted to have official supported plugins, but keeping the microsoft one's up to date has proved difficult so we're removing the concept. Though our simpler plugins will remain updated.
I have a HN like site that I can put up (news.arc).

It's down right now, but if at least 5 - 10 people would use it (contribute) regularly for "business" news, I'll put it back up.

The site is http://forlue.com
I have been doing Objective-C development since 1991 and started with Java around late 95/early 96. I am still using both language almost on daily basis and honestly the GC is not something I really miss on iOS. In fact I like the fact on how I can fine control the memory deallocation as I want rather than decided by the OS.
Of course with close to 20 years of Obj-C dev it seems natural.

I would love rather an improved AppStore and even better access to some underlying part of iOS. I can't speak much for Android since I just started with it, but any developer learning iOS SDK should rather spend the appropriate amount of time to understand the simple concept of retain/release and how to use each framework to write stable application rather than apps that crash way to often.

What is really a bummer is that the iOS SDK provide some good tools to discover memory leaks when debugging the app (with Instruments) and even the great analysis tools now fully integrated with XCode 4. Unfortunately a good chunk of developers releasing apps in the AppStore do not necessary invest the time to learn the tools they are using.
since 99.9% of every language is in prefix notation i cant buy this.

when mathematicians type f(x,y) they are using prefix notations.

likewise when programmers type run(x, y);

Anecdotally, most advanced mathematicians prefer Lisp because it is more conducive to a mathematical way of thinking. I am a very mathematical programmer and I prefer lisp specifically because I don't have to deal with operator precedence. Everytime you use infix notation you introduce a bunch of unnecessary complexity and often you complicate the ability to use simple recursion.

Gregory Chaitin, eminent mathematician, writes his proofs in Lisp for a reason.

Is it truly easier to write

print(a + " " + b + " " + c + " ");

rather than

(print a " " b " " c " ")

?

I greatly prefer the latter. The first one is weighed down with unnecessary special cases, unnecessary complexity.

The benefits of Polish notation are apparent with math as well. You don't need to reformulate the entire calculation and figure out messy operator precedence rules when you want to add a term. I think RPN lends itself to bug free code and easy modifiability.

To each his own I suppose. C-syntax to me is completely nonsensical and I don't see what problem it is meant to solve. I'm sure Russians view the Latin alphabet in the same way though.
Very true, although I have no objection to the nickname "Ragan." Call me anything you like, as long as you don't call me late for dinner :-)
There are currently ~300,000 iOS apps and 99% of them are junk. As much as I would welcome simplified iOS development, its primary effect would be to attract simplified developers and that is the opposite of what Apple needs right now.

I don't like that arbitrary hoop-jumping is effectively used to weed out low-quality code, but I can appreciate why developer convenience is not a priority for Apple.
The post is pretty harmless, and here he's making just slightly brisk replies to being told that he has an inferiority complex and doesn't know "use strict", although I agree it's not worth bothering with.

If you don't read things that don't bend over backwards to avoid offending people, you'll be the worse for it.
Yes, I took the plunge one day and put a truecrypt volume on dropbox and then put my quicken files in that truecrypt volume, and, ....

Major lossage ensued when I found dropbox gave me multiple versions of that truecrypt volume.
This approach makes caching no longer invisible to the caller. Moreover, all callers, rather than the class, have complete control over the cache activation and expiration. Also, the caller needs to know which methods can safely be cached at all.

So for the whole application, this approach will probably cause more brittle code than caching "by hand", where caching was at least hidden behind well-defined interfaces.

Nevertheless, I think that meta-class magic is the right way to abstract away this caching code duplication. It just shouldn't change class interfaces.

For example, there could be a static attribute that contains the names of all methods that should be cached. And there could be an additional method for invalidating caches, probably with an array argument to facilitate invalidation multiple method caches at once. And, of course, this cache invalidation should mainly be used by the class itself, and ideally not be available to the caller at all.
O'Reilly's Safari has the first edition (volumes I and II). Within Safari, Volume I, 1st edition, is 26 tokens to download as a PDF.

No sign of the second edition, in Safari.

P.S. In addition to the X tokens per month that Safari members receive as part of whichever subscription plan, additional tokens are currently 5 for US$10.00, to give you a price point (so, $50 worth of tokens, with 4 tokens left over).

P.P.S. Whoops, just saw this on the Amazon page:

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (August 11, 2011)

So, maybe Safari will come through?
Bigger than Enron? Not even close: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/energy/2002-01-22-enron...
That's my biggest issue. The people who end up seeing the CC numbers are minimum wage receptionists.

I have a customer who told me that her manager's boyfriend was writing down customer's addresses to go rob them. The nature of the business indicates that the customer is not at their home for extended periods of time. We ended up building in user permissions to see name, address and phone number.
I thought PCI compliance wasn't necessarily legally required, just that it was a contractual agreement between your company and the payment processor?

Regardless, I still feel reporting is the ethical thing to do.
I hadn't thought of that. Very interesting insight. Thanks!
That is the order scotus considered it.
They seem to be trying to be nothing at all, and getting closer with each passing year!
Their messaging around this is so limited I wonder what they expect would happen.

It can’t be a good PR move…
> corporations aren't people. If something isn't advantageous to at least one individual decision maker, it won't happen.

By this logic, no collection of people can be considered "people". Indians aren't people, men aren't people, etc etc. As an Indian man, I find that idea absurd.

Unanimity isn't a prerequisite for personhood in the context of whether or not the rights extended to individuals disappear the moment those individuals act as an association/group. Corporations are people because they are groups of people.
A driver-for-hire has always been able to decide not to take a job, or to lie about the cost. That's literally the two biggest complaints against taxis: "I called and they never showed up" and "my meter is broken".

If you're advocating for drivers' "rights" to pull these kinds of shenanigans at the expense of riders, the market has some bad news for you.
Not it's not. Vegan is either or. People saying otherwise are inventing things. Look it up.
For the demo, the Final Versions didn't work for me, but the Dev Builds did: https://fms-cat.com/condition/pages/ Pretty impressive though!
> I'd be very curious to see HN's perspective on Biden's plan to scrap the LTCG tax (aka tax it the same as income.)

That’s not Biden’s plan. Biden’s plan is to limit the tax preference for capital gains by setting the top rate for LTCG equal to the top rate he has proposed for income taxes, with the top LTCG rate kicking in at $1 million+, while the same rate for normal income would at ~$400K.

> On the other hand, it disincentivizes long term investing.

Even if we assume an actual elimination of the preference, it would only “disincentivize” long teem investing to the same extent that taxes on normal income disincentivize income-producing activities generally, and still less than the even higher taxes on labor income (thanks to payroll/self-employment taxes) discourage labor and its employment.
P2P payments don't have to use the App Store payment processor, see: Venmo, cash.app, etc.
As a francophone, is informatique not supposed to be lexically close to other sciences in -ique to denote it being closer to Computer Science in meaning?

As the académie put it: "science du traitement de l'information"
Tell that to Pinterest.

Pinterest took off without "us".

Not all new tech needs to go through "us" to be successful.
It's easier to hold any fraudulant owners accountable if you are an American account holder, for one.

Also some clients feel safer knowing that financial regulators of some kind are overlooking the accounts and transactions of the business they are working with.
> "where my development machine can't be a Mac"? Seriously?

I'd actually agree with this. You want to give your employees the best possible machine to work with -- machines are cheap compared to salaries. If he wants a Mac, I'd buy him a Mac.
There's a PR for that ;) https://github.com/steeve/france.code-civil/pull/1/files
Not sure if this is what you mean, but while `foo.bar` tends to be "property access of the property `bar` of the record/object `foo`", in Haskell `foo . bar` is "the function `bar` followed by the function `foo`".

In the latter case it's written with spaces to look a bit more like the mathematical notation.
It was written at 3am as I was falling asleep on my keyboard...

I am french born and raised, btw.
Oh no, this kind of grammatical errors show that it's clearly a native French speaker. We French suck at our own language - partly because it is fairly complicated, and partly because people don't bother learning.
A bit ironic, no? That such a thing, almost exclusively useful for French people, has to come from a non-native speaker. And that the only obviously French comment so far is a critique about the style...

We sure do know how to complain. :)

(slightly unfair, of course---obviously the complaint about grammar had to come from a native speaker; who else would notice it in the first place..?)
It probably uses propriety data/code, making it difficult to share.

If not though, I second this request.
But has it forgotten who its creator is yet?
"Speed" is also too generic a term. Startup speed of the jvm is still abysmal, isn't it?

Once HotSpot kicks in, it's a different story.
Why do you require a reverse proxy, and are those requirements unique to SSE for some reason?

I guess I'm not seeing what the alternative setup would be, even with WebSockets.
Lack of consent - check (Nor even a warning, for that matter.) Touching of genitals by a stranger - check. What else needs to be there so that it constitutes real sexual assault?
Umm.... was just thinking, why can't someone set up a EC2 cluster (or a plain old home computer cluster) and get it cracking on this bitcoin generating program? I mean they are fast and if this thing ever gains some traction then it will be a huge win.

Edit: I would also like to see the list of people using this for actual selling and not donations.
I think part of the problem is that cars are getting bigger and roomier, and loaded with more features and safety equipment. I feel like, in general, larger vehicles are less attractive, and when you design bigger trunks, larger engine bays, thicker doors with higher walls, longer bodies for cabin space, and so on, cars just start looking less sleek. Completely generalizing and spitballing here, though.
I guess it's potentially a little more nuanced than that since people are ordering higher quantities with greater frequency.
+1 for printnode, except the last two months where a botched upgrade and some redundancy issues they had internally resorted in outages.
Keep in mind that humans only move radiation around, not generate it.

So sure if you mine uranium and concentrate it, you get a high peak source, but you are literally removing radiation from one place, and moving it to another.

So if you concentrate uranium out of ocean water and them spread the radioactive waste back into the ocean (at the same concentration) you are actually benefiting the ocean.
You wouldn't even need a cert for an IP address (which is hard to get). You could just resolve the CNAME and A records until you arrive at an address, do a reverse lookup on that address. Then use the resulting "primary" PTR hostname for the encryption certificate. No additional info for an attacker, no new weird RRs, in the best case just one additional DNS query (but SVCB would need that as well).
Thanks so much Derek. Same service, just changed the beta name from MeetLeet to Leet Resumes.

People were consistently mispronouncing it - MeetLeek, for example :) - so we simplified the name to Leet Resumes.
They should have stolen some sneakers and televisions, that's what a protest is as I understand from the MSM.
(1) what is the timeframe you look at? (I want LOTS of money THIS year, because I NEED a yacht THIS year to have a party with celebrities. How do you convince person like me to invest money in developing safety solutions?)

(2) profit = selling price - production\development cost - expected downsides of accidents(penalties, tarnished image).
"Expected downsides of accidents" can be reduced by reducing risk, but also in some other creative ways (blackmailing, lobying, promoting the right candidate, marketing, rebranding, migrating to different markets, insurance, coverups. And lets not forget deals with friends: If I can win 5billion, I can allow my self to split it 100 ways and still end up with a nice big yacht).
From the authors blog:

"A print-on-demand version will be available soon (link will follow)"
It actually saddens me to have 5 1/4 bays on my computer that are completely unused nowadays. There's not even any point having a dvd burner anymore.
If everyone's life was on the line, no amount of imaginary dollars would get you a ticket. It would be fixed by those in power. Don't fool yourself. The imaginary points are only there to motivate the working class.
So this means we should destroy the ozone layer to increase the amount of UV, right? /s