jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree with this to an extent. However, I think it's equally important not to over-value his effort.

[Edit: This is coming from someone who's gone through this and later had many people tell me I was far too generous with the buy-out]

If only the world were fair enough that we could all be compensated every time we exert effort. Unfortunately, the world often does not reward us for effort, but rather for outcome.

I'll illustrate my point with a slightly exaggerated example: You could say that if it weren't for my tenth-grade English teacher, I would never have gained the insight to question things widely believed to be true. Then I would have never grown to question my own unhappiness in a white-collar job. Then I never would have never quit and started my own companies. In a very real way, if it weren't for the things I learned from my tenth-grade English teacher, I would have never seen the success I have. Should I track my teacher down and give here X% of every one of my companies?

Of course, in this example, I've almost convinced myself that I should. But my point is that every person in your life contributes in some way. If you go out trying to compensate every person who helped get you to where you are, there will be nothing left for yourself.

Now, this co-founder may deserve to be well-compensated. But don't do it based purely on the idea that they helped contribute in some intangible way to your product's current success. Do it if it was tangible and significant.
I caution people against buying MP3s from iTunes because they stamp your email address and name into the metadata. Amazon does not do this.
Change the command on the sending computer to

curl -X POST --data-binary "@test.txt" https://patchbay.pub/test.txt

The command on the other computer remains the same as what you had

curl https://patchbay.pub/test.txt
What if someone used no samples at all but used all of the stylistic choices of the artist and made something that sounds like the original artist made it despite no part being directly copied?
OTOH - I never lug laptops around if I can avoid it - even for work meetings nowadays with things like Dex or USB C video cables, you can just project from the phone. Also since I can get to my emails, messenger, conferencing software and files from cloud storage on my mobile, I can say leave to attend my child's school performance in middle of the workday and still get work done during the commute (public transport or cab/ride-sharing) or run some necessary errand or make a presentation on my way to a meeting. Sophisticated apps becoming available on mobile has freed me from having to be chained to my workdesk, find more time for my personal life or risk bad posture by working with a laptop on my lap during commute etc.

Lots of companies in this business make reasonably easy to use mobile interfaces - so if some company like this chooses not to support mobile, it's a non-starter for me.
I had a tweet from 2006, right after launch. It just said "this is dumb".

It's gone now.
Please don't use that as an insult.
Who is "we?" Almost every human alive will not willingly accept a quality of life reduction on the scale most people here seem to assume can just... happen. The only way it happens is via brutal dictatorship.
A year ago? People have been making this prediction for decades.
I worked in an office once that had exactly this problem. The sink in the second floor lunch room was fine generally but if you filled it and then pulled the plug, the vacuum behind the water filling the drain pipe was enough to suck the water out of the u-bend and leave the pipe open, after which all of the vapours of Hades issued forth until you ran the tap again for a few seconds.
Seems like they could avoid this problem, keep old accounts, and still free up the namespace by just renaming all these accounts @_archived_originalname (or something better).

Maybe with some kind of process to re-activate the account under the original name (or a new one if it has since been taken). And some kind of hands-on resolution process for people who accidentally got deactivated. Feels tractable.
Btw, we've just set up this form to get quick feedback which operating system we should support next - please help us prioritize!
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Brilliant work — my only suggestion would be to add a few more sections for "modern" tools like Git, Mercurial, Nginx, Redis, OpenVPN, Python easy_install, Ruby gems, LXC, etc.

And perhaps also a section on ancient, but widely used, systems like autotools — even something as simple as ./configure --prefix would be useful to have known...

Hmz, I wonder if the author is aware of this thread on HN?
> People don't respond to homelessness when they've convinced themselves that homeless people deserve it.

Stereotype much?

"Deserve" is a loaded term.

Homelessness is often a consequence of choices made by the homeless person. For example, SF has both homeless and shelters that go unused. In other words, there are folks who prefer to be homeless to living in those shelters.

Is it really unreasonable/wrong/immoral for folks to respond with "okay - I've done enough" wrt those homeless? If it is U/W/I, what do you want said folks to do? Build nicer shelters? Force those homeless into the shelters? Be precise - what will it take for you to be happy with the response to those homeless?
Does this use lazy or eager evaluation?
yay .. except I have '40Mbps' now which works fine as long as I connect to a server here in NZ. Soon as its offshore (ie just about anything on the net) I'm back to nasty old half meg connections. I can barely stream the daily show.

I far prefer the experience of a 2Mbps connection when traveling in NYC to the sorry ass excuse for '40Mbps' I have at home in NZ.
Hopefully the plan also includes beefing up the connections to the outside by 2020.
but i've always thought "y combinator is entrepreneurship"...
(yelled as in "soylent green ...")
Interesting move here. Apple is essentially providing a baked-in capability to "skip" ads within Safari on the desktop while simultaneously preparing to launch their own Mobile ad service.
I want to know where the dinner table is (no joke, I really don't know a good resource for an "honest" version of the same material). Any sites you know of? :-)
Its good they are sounding the alarm, for example, Crypto AG had their cryptographer employees continually find security flaws only to have upper management tell them to work on something else, only to find out after 50 years that it was a CIA operation selling backdoored products to nation states.

With nothing being outside the realm of possibility, removing the need for trust should be priority number one.
This would solve a large problem I have, if it could be taught how to click on a few well-named #ids my dynamic page has. It's not obvious whether it can do this.
It was pointed out that it's been free since 2009, through SkyDrive, now OneDrive. This is just a new cover page/interface to the apps.
I don't know about countries exporting grass fed meat, but in the US there is a growing movement for raising grass-fed cattle and pastured chickens (for meat and eggs) usually within 100 miles of major cities, as opposed to grain-fed livestock raised in large factory farms.

The Omega 3 to 6 ratios of the resulting meat (and eggs) is better than the grain-fed ones. It seems that a lot of these inflammation problems are not only caused by the diet of the average person but also caused by the diet of the average livestock that we're consuming.
How my mom caught a virus that encrypted her personal files - would be a more appropriate title imho.

But anyway after reading the article it's clear what happened. Evil mail attachement --> infection.
At the PDC conference 2008 Jeff Atwood RDP'd into the live production webserver that was Stackoverflow as a guest speaker in the presentation by Phil Haack on the then-new ASP.NET MVC framework, see http://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/pdc2008/pc21 ca 49:40 into the presentation.
> “Whoever these yahoos are, they have some little shred of humanity.”

Not really. Their "business model" is extremely restricted. 99.99 of their victims cannot handle the Bitcoin thingy.
I'm sorry, but I do exactly what you say is impossible.

> Putting backups into the cloud is a terrible idea
> and transferring large data collection over a
> residential Internet connection makes little sense.

I work with video, music and large images. So my home backup is 3.6 TB. I now use CrashPlan: a cloud backup, who have no problem with the capacity. It took ~ 6 months to store everything, but now it just sends the deltas quietly behind the scenes.

I lost a 1TB drive the other day, and the restore worked well after a bit of jiggerypokery.

Previously I used an LTO2 tape system involving Bacula, a VMWare linux instance and a lot of changing tapes. Cloud backup is so much better
BNF can specify the syntax, but not the semantics ie the meaning. There are several methods of specifying the semantics[1], it's known to be notoriously difficult to completely specify the semantics of a language, with some languages more suited to a formal definition than others. I believe Haskell is the most commonly used language today with the best formal definition.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics_(computer_science)#Ap...
Thanks for clarifying. That's exactly what I think whenever I see a headline like that and skip the article.
Well, the system is kind of over-dimensioned, but this is just good engineering, isn't it?

If they are capable of rendering any question page in 33ms, it stands to reason they could use just 3 web servers and still serve content in roughly 100ms (which is fast enough that most people wouldn't notice).

My point is, without knowing what is the bottleneck for the web servers (we only know it's not CPU - I suspect it should be I/O) it's hard to make this kind of point.

Aside from that, I think I remember the original development team was already familiar with C#/.NET, and this drove the decision for the original stack.
Oh, but they are caught!

Along with the money, the enterprises issue a payslip, with a duplicate sent to the IRS, and then the IRS falls down on the poor hacker and taxes this income.

As for crackers, I don't have any idea how they do it.
Wikipedia contributions are also not something you “created”. In fact, you’re discouraged from adding information you have not taken from somewhere else. Archival, compilation, curation, categorization, making information legible and accessible and persistent is still work. See also archive.org. Whether the specific topic makes some people uncomfortable is beside the point. The question was “why do you try to help a website you like prosper without anything in return”. The reward is a more complete foot database and the good feeling of having helped.
Bizarrely, this works fine in WSL (only missing max frequency), but doesn't work on Ubuntu Server running on bare metal. It identifies the CPU as Intel, but that's it.
I'm doing that with a cronjob calling mbsync. This gives me offline mail access with mutt or even grep.
No no! I'm very aware of what E2E means, etc., I'm asking if you have supporting evidence for this statement:

> the Find My app itself or other device features almost certainly leack this information to Apple

I asked if there was any evidence pointing to this leakage, I'd like to know if it's happened before and I'm unaware of it.
WSL1:

$ ./cpufetch -s legacy

################
####### #######
#### ####
### #### Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4710MQ CPU @ 2.50GHz
### ### Hypervisor: Microsoft Hyper-V
### ### Microarchitecture: Haswell
# ### ### ### Technology: 22nm
## ### ######### ###### ###### ### ### Max Frequency: 2.501 GHz
## ### ### ### ### #### #### ### ### Cores: 8 cores (HT disabled)
## ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### AVX: AVX,AVX2
## ### ### ### ### ########## ### #### FMA: FMA3
## ### ### ### ### ### ### ##### L1i Size: 32KB
## ## ### ### ##### ######### ## ### L1d Size: 32KB
### L2 Size: 256KB
### L3 Size: 6MB
#### #### Peak Performance: 640.26 GFLOP/s
##### ##########
########## ################
###############################

For those interested, neofetch output on the same system:

$ neofetch --ascii

.-/+oossssoo+/-. tijdreiziger@machine
`:+ssssssssssssssssss+:` ------------
-+ssssssssssssssssssyyssss+- OS: Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS on Windows 10 x86_64
.ossssssssssssssssssdMMMNysssso. Kernel: 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft
/ssssssssssshdmmNNmmyNMMMMhssssss/ Uptime: 35 mins
+ssssssssshmydMMMMMMMNddddyssssssss+ Shell: bash 4.4.20
/sssssssshNMMMyhhyyyyhmNMMMNhssssssss/ Terminal: /dev/tty2
.ssssssssdMMMNhsssssssssshNMMMdssssssss. CPU: Intel i7-4710MQ (8) @ 2.5GHz
+sssshhhyNMMNyssssssssssssyNMMMysssssss+ Memory: 6750MiB / 8073MiB
ossyNMMMNyMMhsssssssssssssshmmmhssssssso Disk (/): 201G / 221G (93%)
ossyNMMMNyMMhsssssssssssssshmmmhssssssso
+sssshhhyNMMNyssssssssssssyNMMMysssssss+
.ssssssssdMMMNhsssssssssshNMMMdssssssss.
/sssssssshNMMMyhhyyyyhdNMMMNhssssssss/
+sssssssssdmydMMMMMMMMddddyssssssss+
/ssssssssssshdmNNNNmyNMMMMhssssss/
.ossssssssssssssssssdMMMNysssso.
-+sssssssssssssssssyyyssss+-
`:+ssssssssssssssssss+:`
.-/+oossssoo+/-.
I think we should take a moment to appreciate how great UTF-8 is, and how it well it worked out. It's easy to get disillusioned with internet standards when IPv6 is taking forever and messaging is all proprietary locked down protocols. Yet character encodings used to be a horrible mess and now it's not. In the 90's the only practical solution was for everyone to use the same OS, same word processor, same web browser, and who cares about talking with foreigners anyway?

I don't think it was always guaranteed to turn out well. China and Japan could have stayed with their own encodings. Microsoft and Apple could have done incompatible things. The tech world is full of bad things we're stuck with because there's no way to coordinate a change.

Unicode has it's flaws, UTF-16 is still lurking here and there, everyone loves to argue about emoji, but overall text just works now.
"Popular" among public is not the same thing academic seeks. Afaik, there are not that many historical books in small sub-specializations historians typically work coming out all the time.
Qualified immunity does not shield police from wrongful detention or arrest. An arrest must be valid according to a given charge and evidence even if those do not survive to trial.
I so often wonder with pieces like this: what am I missing? I mean, it’s hard to believe this was so one-sided and that he was a little angel through it all.

It could be, I suppose. And I am outraged if it is. But the question that keeps nagging me... is it?
I'd wage false flag operations on local soil and insist that Oceania did it, and Oceania is bad so we have to invade them to spread democracy and "freedom".

Rinse and repeat.
> Uber is 15% cheaper than cabs in the market's their in.

This is just false in NYC. Yellow cabs are 1/3-1/2 the price.
There are great things in other languages and they are not so hyped like in the JS world. JS is more like a language used to say average (or below) things.
Show them something cool but simple like a game, and say "by the end of the week, you will have made this."
Lighten up, a joke here and there is okay. I thought it was funny, but it didn't diminish my ability to resume serious business, and it didn't push me to be witty in return. The echo chamber needs a stronger boost than that.
> You could provide a different meal replacement powder and compare the results

Yeah, you could at least do that.
You have a very valid point. But until the law is changed significantly so that you say "we, the people" have our freedom, do you think technology should be used to protect against government? Or do you recommend citizens abandoning their fences and working to change the law?
I've found that Python is quite often available in Vims out there.
I've seen only three ways to make decent money in a still-technical position:

1. management (deciding what gets done and supervising it), in this case being the interface between the pure managers with MBAs and the developers, like the gearing mechanism between the stick and the engine (this is pretty much where I sit);

2. specialization, your unix-bearded database sysadmins who can do wonders with the most constrained resources, think someone who actually worked on building Postgres/Ingres since the 80s, because some institutions like banks do need that kind of talent and they can name their price; I mention beards because when I did look for such a profile, every applicant with one exception was in his 40s or 50s and wore a large grey beard;

3. crossing over to "data science" (which is the bubble word of the day, and where a lot of the fast money is), i.e. picking up skills in statistical learning and applying them to company datasets. It's still 90% getting the data into the shape you want. I used to think this field was the preserve of the PhDs, but most companies I talked to at least in Asia have almost no capability on that side of things (not even for questioning the assumptions and significance of their financial models). I also saw that Andrew Ng said much the same thing in his Coursera lectures, something along the lines of "by the time you finish this course you'll be more competent at machine learning than most data scientists I've met in the Valley" so I suspect this extends to the US.

They're sort of related: you want to know about things like the innards of database engines anyway for anything beyond trivial select operations (2.); you need to be aware of what upstairs wants in order to do a good job as an analyst (1.) and you'll naturally start questioning the requests that come to you ("why are you asking me for this data, what problem are you trying to solve, what assumptions are you making") which is where 3. comes in. That's the most valuable part to the company, but also the hardest politically.

I think mixing these things in an SME setting where you can have a fast impact is where you have the highest ROI as an employee (and thus highest likelihood of good money). Big corps, despite being able to offer great salaries, are so slow and bureaucratic that it is very hard to make a meaningful impact - cue in stories of no company email account for months, datasets shared in Excel because database access can't be given for "security reasons", and the utter lack of accountability that comes from 7-layer middle management structures. Startups (pre-revenue/profitability) are too small to be able to afford, or get much return, on a data scientist type.
Did you try:

Menu -> Whats App Web?
You definitely should put a date on everything. Without a date, your post loses much of its context: http://www.observationalhazard.com/2014/09/put-date-on-your-...
Reading German biographies you often stumble across accounts of people being threatened with a stint on The Eastern Front or discussing how to avoid going east. The Germans certainly disliked the Eastern Front most.
It seriously took me several minutes to realize this wasn't a joke. Even Peter Bright on the Ars live blog had to stop and say "wat".
If I don't care about gui I always pick Debian or something derived. No competition there.

I have another computer with Linux Mint KDE if Microsoft does something horrible at the end of tech preview.

And this tech preview os so far was more stable than Maverics, same Maverics upgraded to Yosemite, and fresh install of Yosemite which I still could use as a form of last resort solution if two my other computes go belly up.

If you are windows dev I recommend it even stronger. 10 sec boot and shutdown on almost 4 years old desktop (with SSD though). None of this flashing Start Screen crap.
I have no clue what it would do. My guess was that you'd want to not just disrupt production, but preferably damage the equipment. Since the centrifuge is such a delicately built device (see wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zippe-type_centrifuge), exciting a resonance or causing a bearing rub would be a productive hack.

Maybe flipping the motor drive frequency from 1200Hz to 2Hz and back could act like an impulse to excite any high-Q resonance in the centrifuge structure?
pretty cool. too bad about that rally though, they had a bunch of dildos and communists and a killer on stage singing about peace.
The two things in computer programming are automation and abstraction. That is all.
I can confirm from recent personal experience that on U.S. domestic flights, luggage can and will be carried on the flight without the passenger on board.

1. Flying back to SF from the east coast on AA - got to JFK a trifle late and just missed the check-in deadline - mainly because the lady at the counter took an inordinate time and appeared to be flirting with the guy just ahead of us in line - yes I tried to check-in online but that wasn't possible because my outbound flight was on a different airline. Go figure. In any event, we were put on standby for the next flight but didn't get into the flight. I was resigned to take my luggage back and find a place to stay overnight in NYC when the gate attendant informed me that our bags were going with the flight and I could collect them at the SFO AA office ! We finally got back that night to LAX (after not making it through a wait on another flight) and then managed a Southwest flight back to SFO the next morning and sure enough our bags were waiting for us.

2. Last weekend, we were on a SW flight from SAN to SFO. Flight was delayed because of bad weather, and there was an additional delay close to the destination where we were not cleared for descent. By the time we were allowed to land, they had run out of fuel (!!) and landed the plane in SJC. Unbelievably they fueled up and took off and landed in SFO - about 3 hours later. Thankfully they let anyone who wanted to get off at SJC deplane and that's what we did. Gave us the time to get home, pick up my car from SFO, have lunch, etc. and went back to SFO to pick up our bags soon after the flight eventually landed. So in this case too, the flight took off with our bags and without us.
Tumblr hardly needs any help in being slow in my experience.
And while we wait for pg to tell us the amount, I propose a game of HN Predictions. The rules:

* You must make your prediction before the event is determined.

* You can't edit your prediction afterwards.

* As a participant, you commit to going through the winner's past comments on HN and giving them at least 3 karma points. The winner would therefore need to have made at least 3 comments...

Let whoever is the closest to the actual amount, win! At the very least this should make for an entertaining Sunday morning =)

Here's my prediction: $2,400
$1050
No, but the parent article did:
"I felt what they were doing was a sexual assault."
As mentioned, it is helpful for import from Outlook where nested folders are translated into longer folder names. This is a feature directly targeted at making GAFYD more attractive to the enterprise customer. As such it shows that Google is continuing its emphasis on competing directly for the market dominated by Microsoft.
prediction on top of prediction. There'll be multiple players, in multiple niches and a few larger players in the general market.

prediction on top of prediction on top of prediction: Market forces and economics will come to play. (nature abhors a vacuum, where there's money people will flock).
Newly created accounts.
Funny, I think Paul Erdős.
sorry, couldn't find any other watchable links, looked like Fox had DMCAed the others .

Hulu used to be cool, but the networks crippled it.