jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Personally, I only pirate your software.

Seriously though, you could be making the same case for slavery prior to the 13th amendment.
agreed. Years ago I bought a camera from just such a company and they called me claiming that I also needed to buy a special case to get that price. Very pushy and rude. But I had a coupon for a free case right from the manufacturer and the ad made no mention of such a requirement.

A more thorough investigation would have saved me the trouble. If you've never heard of a company, a significantly lower price from a high cost location is a definite warning sign.
"The story of DecorMyEyes suggests that 15 years after the birth of online commerce..."

I'm curious what caused them to choose 1995 as the birth of online commerce. It wasn't paypal's founding. That was in 98.
In the short term possibly, but in the long term refusing to pay a debt such as that would make it impossible for America to source credit.
On the theft topic - engraving makes it less likely to be resold, but not less likely to be stolen. Opportunistic theft with such a small time window doesn't lend itself to reviewing the item.
Oooh, I can spend a few bucks on mechanicalturk (or some botnet cycles) to promote my shady site to the top of search results. Sweet!
I've been here for a while, and I already went through my six-month noob HN-is-reddit phase. That being said, in what possible way is this within the HN guidelines?
No, jrd79 wants his software licenses enforced via the barrel of a gun.
rsync.net

Not cheap, ($.80gb/month) but bulletproof, and about as hacker-friendly as it gets. As you may be entirely unsurprised to hear, you can use rsync with it, as well as sftp, webdav, etc, etc, etc.
For what it's worth....

I really liked Inside the Black Box.

I didn't find I learned or enjoyed High-Frequency trading that much though.
You could even say "The Fourth" and almost all Americans would understand. I think that's why; [begin speculation] it's such an exceptional date it necessitates saying it differently.
You misunderstand the purpose - it's not intentional obfuscation. Its the lingua franca of the field. A technical term can define in one phrase an entire concept that would be tedious to spell out each and every time. It can define one 'chunk' that you can then combine with other chunks to develop deeper understanding. Surely you can agree with that?

While I fully agree that ability to communicate science to the general public is incredibly important, the thesis is not necessary the place for this. Plenty of other places are (blogs, twitter, etc) and this ability is crucial for a publicly funded scientist. General large conferences that I am aware of often encourage non-technical translations of abstracts.
Pandoc + Makefile

https://gist.github.com/hcarvalhoalves/27c3c43f21cd7c7df04ce...
OECD is a common list for developed countries. But did you ever really look at it? It includes included Mexico and Turkey with a ~10k per capita GDP. Even Latvia, Chile and Hungary @ 15k USD seem a bit underdeveloped. Czech Republic and Slovenia at 20k per capital are borderline but probably fine. Granted things change somewhat when you look at PPP, but large PPP differences generally mean an underdeveloped economy.

https://www.oecd.org/about/document/list-oecd-member-countri...
I went to an Amazon Go store for the first time recently. I grabbed some sushi and a wrap, and it was surprisingly tasty and inexpensive. For the location and quality, it made me think they have to be taking a loss (or just breaking even) on the products.

The store itself was nice enough. But it was small, and felt like a novelty, like a lab experiment and not an actual convenience store. As a software engineer, I was also keenly aware of the massive array of tracking technology all around me, and that didn't feel great.

I don't really have any complaints. It was convenient, but not "oh wow this changes my life" convenient. If this kind of technology pushes down the prices (though that's honestly hard for me to see how), that will be a benefit.
I had the same first thought. The book is called _Notes on the Collection of Transfers_, and is available for free on the Sidis archives:

https://www.sidis.net/TransfersContents.htm
Why is moving to Cloudflare dangerous?
I have friends who work in medium sized architecture firms. They all say the office culture is for very long hours, led by the architects.

You don't get to iterate much on a building design once construction has begun.
"Sorry, that promotion code is no longer valid."

Move along folks, move along now.
"no DRM solution is available on Linux"

DRM is basically digital signing w/encryption right ?
Linux doesn't have that ?
Now promo code invalid
If it is your assumption that every firm/organization in India follows nepotism and doesn't value true merit, it would be simply a wrong assumption...

If you read my post, you'd clearly see that I don't believe every local firm does this: "...I mean both western companies and local companies like Reliance/Infosys..."

My belief, based on my experiences living here, is that this is far more common than in the US, Canada or UK. Admittedly, my experiences are biased - I spend most of my time in bigger cities, and in IT circles. So if you want to claim that your experience disagrees, all we have is our own dueling personal experiences (unless you know where to get data on this). Do you claim I'm wrong on this point?

'Managing by output' isn't really a copyright of the West...

Using the term "western" brought up unnecessary emotional baggage and was not strictly correct. I should have used a different term, perhaps "modern" or "MNC-style" (I think economists have a precise term for it, but I forget what it is).

I have no idea what the relevance of mortgage underwriting standards is, but I think you might be arguing against some claims that I didn't make. I'm not asserting some sort of vague cultural/moral/racial superiority.

I'm claiming that certain modern business practices are not widely used here, but are common in the west[1]. And I'm claiming India will be a better (i.e. richer, happier) place when it adopts them more widely. This is no different than coming up with a list of plumbing devices and saying that they will benefit India's water supply when they are more commonly used. The only difference between business practices and plumbing devices is that business is a bit more abstract - as a result, I didn't even recognize it until someone carefully explained it to me after the fact.

[1] And I've stated elsewhere that they are not as common as they should be, even in the west. For all Michael O. Church likes to rant about it, VC-istan is a lot better than many other parts of the US.
Wow, I remember this guy from the Flappy Bird Typing Tutor (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7210459) that was all the rage last week. He must be one smart and handsome cookie!
What free software is and why it is important
So really, they have no clue how much they need/or what to do with the money then. The difference between 40 and 900 Million is quite staggering.
One way to think about it is that the extra steps allow you to pack solar energy into a much more compact, rapidly transferred energy storage medium. Batteries are expensive, comparatively low energy density, and either take a while to charge or require battery swap stations. Liquid fuel is high energy density and can be pumped rapidly, shipped via tanker to remote locations without any connection to the electric grid, or even carried in a really cheap container such as a plastic bottle.
The question that made at least two recruiters sweat in my last interviews:

"Why do you like to work for this company?"

I was quite surprised. One would assume, that they have a perfectly prepared answer for a question like that.
Is it more efficient than deriving ethanol from corn over the same land size?
> no TSA pre-check for most int’l flights.

Wait, really? I've yet to not get pre-check when flying internationally since I signed up for Global Entry, but I don't know if that's just luck.
Many things that came out of freedesktop.org are pure garbage. The most prominent example is dbus. Personally I hope they have no success in standardizing anything further.
I'm wondering if the copyright and year are accurate...I recall reading something like this a few years ago, complete with pictures of sample checks.
I do. I went for a few years without a watch, but then digging out for my phone just to know the time felt stupid, so I got one nice piece.
I must admit, there are not of places you'd need one: if I am in front of a computer I have a clock available, same if I am in a car or at home. Still having a watch comes handy often enough to miss if if I forget to put it on when leaving.
I'm interested in understanding why this is being upvoted so aggressively, if someone who upvoted this could share their thoughts. (This really is a serious query- i don't see anything in the content that warrants an upvote).
I wear a watch daily, and own a fair few. For me they're about 50% fashion and 50% function (as I don't carry my mobile phone when not on-call for work, to get away from it all).

I was also an early backer for this iPod watch band. It's something i've wanted since the Nano first came out, and none of the available bands are of the quality/style I like. I preordered the LunaTik because it's the only band i've seen that doesn't make me feel like the Nano will fall out, and it just looks awesome too :)
wow, i left vim for emacs 3 years ago solely because of org-mode. If this matures i might go back
> I would also be very interested to know what the private uptake of solar is among the people why own tesla cars. I would suspect a reasonable amount of them are already being charged off rooftop solar.

The article also conveniently overlooks the fact that, even when powered by fossil-fueled power plants, electric cars create substantially less pollution than gas-powered cars.
You know that DuckDuckGo is a US company, right? And thus subject to the same exact laws as a company like Google (and the same NSA snooping). It's true that they don't log your search queries, but if the NSA has access to the root CAs they can snoop on you anyway. And what do you think happens if the government subpoenas DuckDuckGo and tells them to log your traffic? They will of course do so. And they have a MUCH smaller legal budget with which to fight such government requests than, say, Google.

DuckDuckGo is a cool company, and I think they have a neat product. But if you're worried about the NSA, then you're kidding yourself if you think DDG is safer than any other search engine. Just use Tor and be done with it.
Cute concept.
In the other article from WaPo about Manning sentencing, there was this quote:

"Manning will receive a credit of 1,293 days for the time he has been confined prior to the sentence, including 112 days of credit for abusive treatment he was subjected to in the brig at the Quantico Marine Base."[1]

The math isn't clear, but it seems to confirm he was somehow compensated for the horrible treatment. I would call it psychological abuse, not sure if it equates to torture. Given that it's a sort of admission of wrongdoing, I suspect the days of credit were part of the plea deal--otherwise he'd be persuing further actions over it.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-...
Dammit, too late to get in on the ground floor :S
Will you also work on providing a better Windows package? I don't understand why you don't just bundle all the dependencies, given that they all seem to be open source and redistributable.

Call me spoiled but I expect a one-click installer in this day and age. I still haven't tried to actually use Rust because of that and I am sure I am not the only one.
Terrible article in that it does not supply actual facts about the U.S. energy grid:

Electricity generation by source 2012 [1]

Coal - 37%

Natural Gas - 30%

Nuclear - 19%

Renewables - 12%

So, it's only 37% correct to call the Tesla a "coal car."

[1] http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/tables/?tableNumber=22#
Funny thing, just yesterday happened to use these for React, for the first time.

Initially I tried react-spring, but couldn't get it work its transition without triggering rendering of the enclosing component way too many times, and what baffled me nondeterministically.
I tried to minimize the problem but it just seemed to be part of it. (native attribute didn't work even with animated.div wrapper). Otherwise seemed like a nice animation package.

Ended up using (previously?) official react-transition-group and voila it worked very nicely with a list of tens of items.

Animation can make the UI much more easy to grok for the user.
The point being made here is that if I run an xterm on your machine (forwarded to the X server on my machine), then you can now access everything happening in the X server on my machine.
I did the same thing, but in Go.

Tried using Hugo but it was full of magic and silly naming and conventions that I really didn't like.

I even created my own little language which I used the Go parser to parse (but the syntax was closer to Lisp - the Go parser is just for the expressions after the commands - e.g. `(cmd expr)`).

After I made it, I discovered that this is one of the most popular projects for programmers to embark on and actually pull off something usable (it's both useful and interesting, while not being too overwhelming)...

Here's a full list with 100s of static site generators (mine included haha) : https://www.staticgen.com/
Serious question: what is the benefit of Twitter? I never understood it. Since you’ve found a utility niche, would you expand on the statement?
I think you are going in the right direction. Society needs to recognize that suicide must be some evolutionarily advantageous adaptation. Many people when pressed will say they think an individual has value, but that individual often sees no actions come from that sentiment. And if someone thinks they provide no value and are not wanted, it seems logical to unburden everyone else.

It would be similar to how cats go off alone to die when they are sick.
My problem is I like coding but can’t come up with projects I’m interested in. Everything that comes up exists or can be solved in a much simpler way (often a spreadsheet or an Apple note) that requires no software.
I use Pelican with github pages.
Came here to find that.
> We're already at a point where machines do most of the work.

This premise is false on its face, given how aggressively western countries are trying to encourage working age immigration. The entire developed world is facing shortages of construction workers, nurses, daycare workers, doctors, engineers, etc.

Jobs aren’t being automated away for you look at the labor force participation rate: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-particip...

From 1998 to 2028, there will have been a sharp drop in the 16-24 age group. But there will have been only a few points drop among 24-55, and sharp increases among 55+ (which mostly happened from 1998 to 2008).
What a thought!

Billions of billions of stars, with planets and civilizations, pushing technology to new heights, but ultimately realizing that the best way to leave your handprint on the galactic cave wall is a Universe-wide message in a bottle.

I’m afraid we have more chances of making ourselves known by randomly throwing these bottles, than by answering back to where it came from.
Imperialism is often done for capitalism. Look at Hawaii for imperialism done for basically purely capitalist reasons.
You can also make things tough on competitors by filing a new patent that’s different enough from the original to get approved, but close enough to the original that it would be difficult to use the older patent without infringing on the new one.
>You're making a mistake. There is no 1 ton helicopters with 12 kW power on shaft. Even with 24 or 36 kW. I'm on iPhone so can't say exactly what thrust 12kw would produce on 6m prop. Around 300kg I'd estimate.

Based on what, please provide at least some reference to an equation or calculator.

>And another thing. 8 60in props aren't equivalent to 1 300 in wrt power loading. You need 16 of 60in to get equivalent of 1 240in prop.
>Anyway, you've just calculated an octocopter with 700kg+ thrust on 60kw power. Is it bad? My neighbor's 400kg single-seater has 100kw gas turbine and it isn't 4x excessive power.

Can you give me an example than using some kind of calculations from a reliable source, not the "my neighbor" anecdotes. For instance, what makes you think that equivalent for a 240in prop would be 16 x 60 inch props? I understand that 16 60 inch props would have roughly the same area, but you do realize that 16 props arranges in such a way as not to create interference with each other would take up significantly more area? This is the main problem of a multirotor, you wither have to use smaller, less efficient props, or you have to make it much larger to accommodate the props.

In any case, when you are at your computer, if you feel like it, please do calculate, with references, a single prop machine lifting 1 ton vs an octo lifting the same 1 ton. I understand that a machine that lifts 1 ton would need to provide more than a ton of thrust, of course, but let's make it simple. Just a simple calculation. One prop producing 1 ton of thrust vs 8 props which can be arranged in such a way at to take up no more then 150% as much area as the original 1 prop, producing the same 1 ton of thrust.

If you really can show me that 8 props can be as efficient as 1 prop, please, by all means, prove me, and every one else who designs flying machines, wrong. But please do so with calculations I can verify.
Unfortunately it seems that, especially in US, most problems end up an "us vs them" problem. People pick sides and do whatever it takes to win battles.

For example I'm baffled to know that in US, some "pet forbidden" apartment buildings exist. Come on, people not allowed to have pets at their own house??
They work better with filtered and double/triple boiled water.

Or you could go for a pricier option such as http://www.wintersmiths.com/ (which uses directional freezing).
I also did this. Helps remember the order of the colours (red, green, blue) in the hexadecimal notation if it doesn't come naturally. FWIW, I've been using this notation in CSS for over 10 years and I still couldn't visualise most of the colours except the most obvious ones (e.g. FF0000). I wonder if it comes naturally to some people.
I wonder whether they use the bluetooth device logging purely to develop their social graph. A person streaming music to their own bluetooth headphone using a friend's computer and Spotify account can be detected this way. I can't really come up with another purpose for it.

Other than that, I'm not surprised by what they log. Virtually every company stores search queries, oauth grants, play history, ad interactions etc. Doesn't make it right of course.
Talk to people about it. Get continuous feedback. I find that by discussing it with friends or family I get re-energized
Find something interesting. If you find something interesting, you'll find a way to keep picking at them.
Well based on what they did, they obviously can't advertise their work. They also won't have any interest in working for SV companies. The only kind of job they are after is in the black market (organized crime and intelligence).
How is it that every time someone makes this argument, they do it in such a superficial, arrogant and ignorant way that makes me not want to work with them, remotely or otherwise?

The bandwidth of personal IRL interaction adds enormous value. Yes, in many scenario's that value is not strictly necessary, or can be compensated.

But if you think it's bullshit, or something for "dinosaurs", you have a serious problem. Not just as a programmer, but as a human being.
That sounds like it would be satire to me.
The muon was the first non-standard matter particle and second transient particle discovered in 1937. It lead to much new physics in mid-20th century. And continues to suggest new physics.
> Approximately 56% of Israel’s 9.2 million citizens are vaccinated and another 15% (approximately 700,000 people)

How do those numbers work, now? 15% of 9.2 million is 1.38 million, not 700k. Even NYT's tracking which has 835k positive cases for Israel falls far short of that number.

(If you instead look at people with at least one shot, and people who've tested positive, then 70% makes more sense. But even that's an overestimate that doesn't account for overlaps between those groups.)
You could probably do something like (for django):

python manage.py migrate

on pod startup. If there are no changes, it'll do nothing. If there are changes, it'll do the migration.
You don't need to guess. The CDC is making daily estimates. As of right now:

* 33% of the US population has had at least one dose (19% are fully vaccinated).

* 42% (25%) of the population over 18.

* 76% (57%) of the population over 65 (who are, not incidentally, by far the most likely to experience mortality):

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations

These numbers are rapidly increasing, and on top of the ~100-120M that have been infected in the US already (current CDC estimates are that actual cases are around 4x the number reported [1]). And of course, as I said, it's not as if "herd immunity" is a single number that is the same everywhere in the US.

Nobody claimed that we're there yet, but given all current data, pessimism is unwarranted.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/geog...
Again, what?? Schools in Sweden had no special restrictions other than washing hands and desks and making sure to have recess outside. 16 is not pre-teen either. Check out this article that shows students hugging and socializing during the pandemic: https://www.thelocal.se/20201210/how-does-a-swedish-school-d...

Also you didn’t read the report: “Closing of schools had no measurable effect on the number of cases of covid- 19 among children”. They are not major vectors of transmission for COVID.
You have my full agreement. Disallowing website-chosen fonts (or enforcing minimum font size) can break some things slightly, but is worth it in my eyes. But with colors, there are way too many sites blindly assuming a black-on-white browser stylesheet not just for textarea, but for the entire website, making everything unreadable. And you can't win there: Turning of color overriding entirely makes for a calmer, more unified experience, but utterly breaks the usability of a number of interfaces (not the fault of the website).
Is it really worse it though? Today (and for a number of years now) RAM is cheap enough to stuff even low-end laptops with multiple GiB. Unless you have a very fast storage subsystem, hibernating and restoring from the frozen image takes an awful long time. These days many applications, including web browsers (which for many is the only application they ever need), offer to restore the last state, hence you get mostly the same benefit (plus garbage collection).
You can have this in an office setting too, just a matter of not having a stigma around it, and perhaps some dedicated spaces.

In my office, nobody really bats an eye if someone decides that they're too sleepy to be productive and just takes a short nap.
> Wait, so you could actually do all of that and then let it interact with APIs as well?

With epub? I hope not!

> I guess it depends on what reader you're targetting then. A quick cursory search shows that not all of them support JS. Makes sense to me.

Any epub reader supporting javascript would very much be an antifeature.
The ISS has the benefit of more jobs and pork that Congress can farm out to various different congressional districts. The SSC would have resulted in jobs primarily in Texas, and mostly in short term construction instead of ongoing contracts.