jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What do you think the pension is doing with your money? At least you're gambling it in low-fee index fund. The pension is paying someone 2 and 20 to underperform.
Last time this topic came up, I asked about the idea of a company producing dumb TV. I know a number of “normal” people who don’t particularly care for internet connectivity in anything so I was curious why no one was doing it, at least not with the sizes and resolutions you see on top of the line TVs.

Apparently the margins on commodity hardware like TVs are too small. Someone did bring up and interesting idea of running a batch released product based on something like a Kickstarter though.
I wonder if your account got hijacked.

My private account was hijacked on Wednesday — username changed, email changed, password changed, and through a friend working at Twitter, I found out that my account was suspended.

After a few escalated tickets, I somehow managed to get back my account (thanks, Twitter support!), and finally got around to putting 2FA on it.

When I first logged in again, Twitter showed me some tweets of a death threat that the hijacker posted using my account, and asked me to delete them. Those tweets caused me to get suspended — but I didn't get a full suspension, just the limiting of posting/retweeting/liking features.

I've since deleted those tweets, and my account seems to be in good standing.

Anyway, to address your case specifically, it'll help to open a ticket with Twitter support, and possibly find friends working at Twitter to validate your identity and help vouch for you.
Fantastic, and great on gas. I would keep it around for city driving but as I live in a downtown core it just doesn’t make sense.
Not sure if you help maintain these links but the link to Planetary here is dead:
https://libcinder.org/gallery
> Facebook said it was "ready to work with local authorities", but indicated it would not take independent action of its own to halt the trade.

Huh? If the ads were for firearms or child slaves, would Facebook's response also be that it was ready to work with local authorities, but would not take independent action?

So how can Facebook take this kind of flippant approach to this, but not on other items? The, not even hypocrisy, but just complete lack of fundamental human decency and respect is revolting.
https://archive.ph/51ZdS
> The ability to generate thrust without having to carry the parasitic mass of fuel would be a game-changer in space

This is poor phrasing. You can already do this with lasers. You just cannot do it sustainably.
I don't know what who was asking for this either, especially when what I consider to be core features are still missing.

Signal for iOS still doesn't support message backup like the Android version.

And Telegram introduced a feature to import old Whatsapp chats into new Telegram conversations, a form of "backup". This was great when I was migrating away from Whatsapp, and made the decision between Signal and Telegram easy for casual conversations where encryption wasn't a priority.
My impression is that many more people join Google to work with Dean than don’t join wanting to avoid him. Hard to measure though and be certain.
+1
Have been using it for a few months and it's given me great insights on how I use (waste) my time. I especially like the fact that it's practically out-of-the-box zero-configuration tracking. Highly recommended.
In your console, enter:

$ traceroute thepiratebay.se

Wait until it's done, then compare the last IP with one given here.
It's unfortunate that such blatant corruption on the local level is allowed to fester. One would hope a court somewhere up the chain in the state would come down the right side.
Level 2. But it's rapidly evolving opensource software.
Yeah and I simply don't see 51% attacks working or going on for long periods of time due to adoption and game theory. Nation states simply can't afford gain 51% because it would mean they're already losing legitimacy of their currency IMO.
nice! how do you manage that?

I have a system that tracks how long I use my work machine for, and visualizes it in a bar that is 10 units long.

I got by doing this for about 15 months before they started somewhat catching on. Productivity is still the same, but some things are leaky.

I'm nowhere near your TC though. I feel like you are a smarter, more optimized version of me, but I hope to get there someday and that's the path I'm currently on.
Something which everyone so far has failed to mention is corruption. Tanzania is hardly the model of democracy. Putting some foreigners into the mix brings some extra certainty on how the money gets spent, even if the foreigners have their own perverse incentives.
Comments like these are why I tend to read the HN comments before (or in lieu of) the posted articles. Thanks for such an excellent synopsis.
The problem here isn't ecosystems, it's standards. Standards that allow us to move MP3s, emails, books, etc. between providers.

I'd like to believe that HTML5 will eventually be the standard for video delivery, but this may never happen. There's no incentive to standardize streaming content delivery because it would increase competition and take power away from the corporations.
Wanting to kill humans - can it get any stupider?
DJ Hero has a great feature where after you beat a song, you can "Challenge a friend" and it sends a message to them that says something along the lines of "Steve just scored 200,000 points on $SONG_NAME. Can you do better? OK/CANCEL/ABORT"
My son really loves video games but he spends way more time playing outside, including playing in the dirt with action figures (more often Mario figures than Star Wars, though).

There are no doubt kids who don't play in the dirt because of video games, but in my experience they're few and far between. Having watched my kids with lots of neighborhood friends, I'm inclined to think that if modern kids don't play outside as much, that's more likely to be because of lack of freedom (due to hysteria over child predators) than because of video games.

Many adults these days have very fond childhood memories both of playing outside and of video games — it makes me sad to think of a child missing out on either.
That was mean. I had hope, for just a moment..
Googling turned up something called Pathcal from 30 years ago that allowed you to do incremental development in Pascal, that would catch errors on the fly. You were even able to modify the environment from within itself.

I know nothing about it and so don't know how interactive it actually was.
"I hope the approver overlooks our egregiously violating app" isn't a very good business plan.
Has anyone written an HTML mode for Emacs that approaches TextMate? I'm an Emacs user but TextMate is so nice for web pages that I bought it for a project I was working on.
There are dozens of businesses more successful than Google which don't matter in the online or offline life for an average person.
One comment talks about "rewinding cassette tapes".
Yeah, cause everyone knew Google was going to be worth 200 billion or whatever after they were 18 months in.

And the amount people spend on local commerce absolutely dwarfs all online spending, let alone online advertising.
Broken binary drivers was also one of the main causes of the "blue screen of death" which gave certain versions of Windows such a bad reputation.
I don't think that is his main point. I think it is far more about the fact that just the surface layers aren't enough to build good solutions to problems, that's good enough for demos and mock-ups but not good enough for production. For that you need some deeper level of insight.
That doesn't make sense to me at all. You're telling me the plant-based meat market in America is 57% of the size of real-meat, and that the average spend on meat in the US is only 20$ per person per year?
I’ve always felt understanding the broader context of technologies is one of the hardest things.
That's true for the average person, but you cannot avoid these plastics in the same way that you can avoid sugar.

Packaging materials are not disclosed on the ingredients list, for example. Few people would know that the insides of drink cans or food tins are coated with plastic.
Could it also relate to ketosis perhaps?
(Water) fasting and calorie restriction seem to have favorable effects on living organisms.
Man, just coming back to this thread. Thank you for saying this. To add a slight bit more color, I didn’t think of myself as fat and depressed in that moment, more that I had been feeling gorged on the emotions of life and had metaphorically eaten my sorrows.

To me, kummerspeck is the feeling of being unable to distinguish between the tears running down your face or the grease on your chin. It’s a feeling of relishing in the grief of burying someone who would want you to eat a ton of bacon at their funeral to celebrate their life.

Emotions are rarely simple or easy to explain. It’s still worth the effort to try though.
If you ever head back, check out 'Koh Andet Eco Resort'

After the Angkor Wat trip, I moved to Vietnam and then bought a motorbike and drove across the border, all over Cambodia. I found that resort also by zooming in on areas of google maps.

The whole resort is floating off a small island in the middle of a river. It is amazing.
Previous discussions of this article and related ones, if you're curious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12480733

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444941

As a side note, I recently remembered the existence of SnackWell's (they're still around a bit, I just haven't seen them in stores lately) - which were sold as "healthy" because they had no fat. But they were cookies! And full of sugar!
But your idea that science is a company is a grossly inadequate metaphor. That's not what science is!
> Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion - I don't like it. I support all three, even without the business bonuses. However, the jargon in that community is vast and quickly changing. There's also potential for unintentional landmines. Worse, no sane person on Earth today is going to walk into an interview and tell you they hate those things.

It's not necessary about "target demographics". A non-"diverse" team (depending on your definition of "diverse") can still be extremely inclusive. Just look at how well they onboard new hires.

The Weakness Question is a hard one because it'll be interpreted very differently in different cultures. Some will happily give you a list of areas they want to improve while others will consider answering the question an admission of failure (losing face).
I'm the Node platform owner at Heroku.

Great timing on reliability questions - I just finished writing an incident report for Node! All apps were up, but about 44% of deploys failed for 1 hour on the 18th this month. That's the only incident report I've had to do in the past six months:

https://status.heroku.com/

Our support team is amazing; we have several node devs on the front lines and anything they're not sure about gets quickly escalated to me. One of my favorite things about Heroku is that all customers - paying or not - get real support from full-time staff with deep experience.

Heroku also works great with non-node apps, as you mentioned. We have hundreds of customers running PhantomJS and doing some pretty incredible things with it (like spinning up temporary dynos to walk their content and pre-generate server-side data for client-rendered single-page apps). PHP, Java, Ruby, etc are all first-class and with official buildpacks - plus, since a buildpack is a simple bash script, you can write one for just about anything:

https://github.com/hone/heroku-buildpack-jsnes

The biggest reason I see folks hacking on less solid services is price. I think we could do a better job of making clear just how far you can go, for how cheap, on Heroku (I didn't realize myself until I worked here). Unverified accounts can run 5 free apps... and verified accounts can run 100! Each app gets 750 free dyno hours each month (there's only 744 hours in a month), and each dyno can handle really amazing throughput with node. To test for yourself, you can write a 'hello world' app, add the free blitz:250 addon, and then slam the app with 250 concurrent users to see how it holds up with nearly a million requests an hour (hint: linear scale without a flinch). You get free rabbitmq, mongodb, postgres, redis, https, etc. All of Toyota Europe is run on node on Heroku, and they only use a couple of dynos per country.

Anyway, I'll end this novel with the conclusion I came to after seeing how the sausage is made: Heroku grows with you. It starts free and becomes cheap once you're pulling non-trivial traffic, and it surpasses everything else in terms of app (vs ops) focus. If you'd like to learn more, I'm happy to nerd out.

Cheers,
Hunter
This has a range from DC to Boston. If it saw an ICBM, it would be the reentry vehicle, and it would be too late.
RMS has an extreme stance, but it's actually quite refreshing that he just puts it out there in an easily digestable form.

Taxis run "non free" software to process credit cards.

And I think RMS cares less about that. No doubt he will be unhappy about the taxi driver's/company's choice to run non-free software; however, regular taxi companies are willing to do business with free software users - Uber refuses to do so. That's a pretty significant difference.

Taxi destinations can be subpoenaed by local LEO and the government, along with credit card receipts, just like Uber.

Taxis can be paid in cash, unlike Uber.

The medallion issues are oddities of a few (not even all!) cities particularly in the US. You are right to complain about them as that system is ridiculous; however, the comparison with Uber is unfair because Uber is trying to take over the world.
>But I saw studies to the opposite however.

Well, we are running in circles in here, are not we? These studies do not seem to be able to explain why the console DRM is not reducing sales. So you come with some other explanations instead of DRM. Which is something I expected because the whole premise seems very unnatural to me. Some intrusive and complicated DRM schemes might be able to affect sales negatively but there are just not that many people who have emotional reaction to DRM. I would not buy a game that required me to enter code from manual myself. I would not buy a game that depends on some central server verification. Not because I am religiously opposed to DRM but because it's asking for too much of my attention. I am just fine with console games - they just work.

On the other hand, the PS2 modchips required 20+ wires soldering and expensive at the time DVD-R technology. A lot of people went for that. So, while there are some people who infringe just because it's free, there are also people who infringe just because it's somewhat cheaper. The later category is converted to paying customers with the DRM.
I don't know about the above commenter, but I have a complex relationship with ads and adblock. I installed it to get around some particularly nauseating behavior of some sites long ago, and largely forgot about it and browsed blissfully unaware of how much it was helping. Then I realized that someone else's Pandora was playing ads, and mine wasn't, it just plays song after song. I felt rather bad about that. This is a well established transactional structure which we are all used to on the radio, songs interspersed with the occasional ad to generate revenue. I feel like I've been stealing from Pandora for a few months now, especially because I've been on the cusp of paying for it for a few months even without the ads.

Visual content with visual ads isn't really that different, except that some sites vastly overshoot the expected norm for the ad-inconvenience to content ratio. I think those few bad-actors are to blame for most the current online ad-climate.
But how do you know that Boulder real estate won't get more expensive if Google moves in? Seems like they'd be adding at least a couple percentage points to the higher income working population, which would have that effect.
This used to be true in the old days. These days both India and China are extremely hot markets for good software engineers. Europe always had a shortage of developers. They are also not markets where people from other countries can go and work.

So, that means all things being equal, when really good developers leave their countries they are depriving the local market of their talent.

If you think of the equation this way -- when engineers immigrate to the US they are bringing with them the investments that their own countries had made. Outside the US many countries subsidize higher education, especially engineering.

It used to be that the money that these engineers sent back would more than offset the local productivity gains. Given the growth in China and India and the salaries there it is hard to argue that the remittance is a good compensation for this "brain drain".
working backwards from your goals is the best advice i've heard in a while. in the particular case where you've raised a lot of outside capital it can be pretty easy to forget how big you are supposed to get and how quickly you are supposed to get there to put yourself solidly in the success category.

+1 on dramatic!
Just as a forewarning, I lost a few pictures and a couple apps that I downloaded when the beta 4 expired and would not let me backup/transfer anything from the phone until I did a restore. I would advise to upgrade to this just in case it has an expiration date built in too.
My understanding is that the water will come up through the ground once Florida is below sea level. The geology will make it very difficult to prevent water from encroaching.

> The Floridian peninsula is a porous plateau of karst limestone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Florida
From article by the op:

> …products owned by publicly traded companies who have a legally binding responsibility to maximize financial return on investment to their shareholders.

Can someone enlighten me to this particular detail? How come legally? I believed it was free market?
This is also part of Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me 2. Which I didn't realise existed until last week. I found it and an enjoyable/uncomfortable watch although The Guardian were less keen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me_2:_Holy_Chicke...!

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/09/super-size-me-2...

Edit: I've just discovered I probably didn't know about it because the distributor (youtube) pulled it just before release following Spurlock's #MeToo confession.
Tree shaking isn't data removal, it's dead code removal.

And assuming he doesn't want what he wants is kind of in bad taste. You don't know his requirements.
Wondering if I should be worried about the little DoD diagram of a reactor being transported to a war zone that looks a lot like China.
It always feels weird when I pull a chicken breast out for dinner and it is bigger than my own breast muscle; I grew up with chickens and long intuited something was up but didn't know the numbers were that striking. Parallels to what has happened over the past several decades in the vegetable crop; nutrition, flavor and quality vs. sheer quantity.
California won't do anything drastic to increase the water supply. It's been ignoring water shortages for decades.

It will just export less food. There aren't enough farmers to influence Sacramento, and the farmers use the vast majority of the water.
No idea about loss rates on rail vs. trucks. Not sure why containers on rail would be more secure than containers on trucks.

But I assume most high value cargo, e.g. an iPhone, goes by air except locally.
The current nature of information flow made it easy for them to lie to each other. It isolated them from opposing viewpoints, so they went into an echo chamber of their own.

This is always the problem with suppressed speech. Nonsense will still be spewed, but no one reasonable gets a chance to counter it with analysis and cool it down.

Zeitgeist is broken.
What makes you think they didn't think hard about it? Your elected officials are under siege.
Did the court rule to investigate the claims made in the affidavits and to check the paper trails and if they match and, based on the results of the investigation, prosecuted one party or the other? Or did they dissmiss them under technicalities not related to the sworn affidavits? That's the due process to follow.
>hurting our iddly-widdly-fweelings

This is irrational and hostile. Regardless, what's unfolding is not a result of people more frequently experiencing normal social reactions to their public statements and actions, nor a result of the exceptional and justly criticized cases where those reactions are based on error. That line of criticism is usually just a dishonest way to excuse other behaviors, like we are witnessing here, that are dangerous to society and poisonous to discourse.
> People glancing at a Russian Newspaper see sentences, words, stories.

Of course they do. That's because a Russian newspaper is using the same design language as an English newspaper. But the semantic language itself isn't legible. You can't tell that яблоко is a kind of fruit by "glancing" at it, unless you know Russian.
It has a full Terms of Service, but I still refuse to believe this is real.
Wealth transfer is the natural result of any system that rewards the deployment of capital with more capital.

That's not what capitalism does, otherwise the Webvan investors would be massively wealthy.

It rewards effective deployment of capital with more capital. And it often rewards ineffective deployment of capital with less of it. So you can have massive transfers of wealth from "side to side", not necessarily from bottom to top.
- What were your successes this year?

I finally worked up the courage to leave the PhD program that had been making me miserable for the past two years (of the three I'd been pursuing the degree), and look for something better. I joined a supercomputing-services company which is doing some really exciting work, and has a very startup-ish feel. And I've built a fun, happy life with my awesome girlfriend, who supported all of the above.

- What did you learn?

There is no reason to keep doing something that makes you feel horrible, and if the end result holds no appeal any more. There are a lot of exciting things to do out there, especially if you're willing to leave your comfort zone.

- What do you hope to achieve next year?

Build some awesome things at work, and learn more about high-performance computing. Get back into fencing. And enjoy life.
By "lost a lot of friends" do you mean you fell out, they died, you just lost touch with them? If falling out, how?

I'm interested because one of my friends fell out with me this year sufficiently that he said "I don't want us to be friends any more". I was shocked and didn't know why. From what he told me it was the result of me making a few comments about his life in a flippant manner that I thought he was amused by, but actually he took it very very badly over the following few days and decided to not be friends any more. It's the only time I'd say I'd "lost" a friend.

If I worked in startups and business I think the chances of losing friends would explode though. It seems there's huge potential for making rational, business-motivated decisions that others perceive as immoral or backstabbing etc. Is that what happened to you?
If you're ever in Pittsburgh, send me an email.

And thanks; I really do need to learn more about Slovak culture someday...
I've removed some of the fluff from the tracking page to try to make it easier to use. I hope you agree!
To me, this gives the lie to MPAA. I like things like that. ;)
Most of Playtomic, which looks like it's going to end the year with an awesome 10 billion events for December.
Victims? Did you mean vitamins?
How does this relate to mqtt?
70% wasted in the transmission line, eh? Where did you get that number?

http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=105&t=3