jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had such a system to hand (my brother's old netbook).

Turns out a bios flash can in some cases enable the 64bit functionality.

Its not a particularly fast system though...
That's not the full picture.

Electricity prices are dominated by supply vs. demand. There are many sources of electricity available, some of them being very cheap (hydro) some of them expensive (currently gas).

When demand for electricity goes up, the cheap power sources are going to be running at capacity, and utilities will need to buy more expensive power. This increases the marginal cost of electricity for everyone.

So just because Bitcoin miners pay for electricity, doesn't mean we aren't subsidising them. We are subsidising them by paying more for imported power even though our needs could easily be covered by cheap, local power sources.

The way to fix this would be to charge progressive prices depending on usage, ie. every person gets to use 1000kWh at the cheap local hydro power price, then the price increases gradually, and any electricity usage beyond 10000kWh/person/year you need to pay the full market price of electricity.
What makes this a great question? I feel the article is missing that discussion.
Interesting re:OrioleDB, but the project seems to be targeting a number of additional major features vs. just query hints which would "in theory" seem to be do-able with relatively minor changes (eg. mostly parser tweaks). The project might win a few more stars if they mentioned query hints in the readme!
Threema is amazing. I love the voice chat, it's great for field work because it seems to prefer picture quality over frame rate, a great tool for remote support of physical things.

Also dedicate a browser to the web client and it's like having iMessage on Linux, Mac and Windows with notifications.
The three most common $reasons I see are:
1) They believe it will help them attract engineering talent, assuming many want to work in a micro services architecture.
2) They believe it will impress investors that they use micro services or be be a red flag to tell investors that their architecture is a monolith.
3) They believe their company will be HUGE one day and that it is therefore wise to prepare for scale now.

But as you can see in the comments in this thread. The coolness of micro services seems to be slowly fading. Feels a bit like the state of noSQL in 2014.
Which earths in which chemistries? Or are you saying they're used during production, but but don't end up in the batteries?
Not to get political, but Matt is anything but random. He’s one of the rising stars of his party. Without much actual track record of actually getting stuff done and direct power, but very popular among certain group of voters.
Polyethylene is supposedly good at blocking cosmic rays. It would be funny to me if the fix was just a drop ceiling full of old grocery bags.
Margin on rent is always higher for several reasons: risk (the landlord remains hamstrung by a mortgage regardless of whether they have a tenant or not), privilege (not everyone can afford the downpayment, have good enough income history to convince the bank) or convenience (not everyone is interested in settling 10-20-30 years and bother with the hassle and costs of buying.)
You know that’s what apocryphal means right?
You don't understand. Nothing is free. Systems that guarantee access have to make the same choice. They have to chose not to treat some people with expensive conditions too. The thing the US gets right is a mixed private/public healthcare system, the issue is that the balance is wrong, not that the system is wrong.
But the environment matters a lot less than the fact that when I get home from work—which is a two hour commute each way (sorry, I can’t afford to live in downtown San Francisco)—I just feel like being mentally incapacitated.

This person spends 4 hours commuting each day. I would suffer from mental atrophy as well. If you work full-time, that's at least 8 additional hours per day down the drain, and that doesn't even include groceries, cooking, eating, taking a shower, etc. Barely any time is left if you want to get 7-8 hours of sleep. I think the soul-crushing reality here is that a commute like this is very unhealthy, and that he should change this by moving or getting another job.
I think geeks overestimate their influence. Google’s end user products were not successful because of a few nerds.

1. Chrome was successful because it was hawked on Google’s home page.

2. Android was successful because Apple never played in the lowend market.

3. Gmail was successful because it was better than the alternatives and had more storage space.
Similar to how email works and has various options to secure it but the reality is no end users were benefiting from it. How many OSs have enabled by default encrypted DNS? Browsers should primarily focus on providing the most secure and private browsing experience.

DNS is also not decentralized. It's centralised on ICANN and whatever company owns your TLD which is why this thread is here.
That's not a vast oversimplification, it's completely unrelated to reality
Like Windows 95?
Spot on. A friend in Poland, fairly high up in politics there visited Yugoslavia a few months before war broke out. Afterwards we spoke and he said he had absolutely no indication that anything was brewing at all. It was well known that Tito kept a tight lid on the factions, it took about 10 years until Croatia started to stir and another year for Slovenia to secede and that set the stage for the largest war on European soil in decades.
Agreed, Quora answers these days consist of mostly advertisements and copies of (often stolen) blog posts. I personally try to avoid the platform whenever I can.
Compositing was a hardware change, though. Modern GPU's (including GPU chipsets that are integrated as part of a CPU chip) basically accelerate 2D rendering by managing arbitrary surfaces as glorified sprites, which the hardware can "project" or "render" into other surfaces or on the screen in all sorts of ways, including occlusion, alpha blending, arbitrary 3D transforms etc. Hardware of the Win95 era didn't have anything like this; even moving and resizing windows only "animated" a wireframe rendition of the window, as with twm today.
It's a bit more complicated than that given that attribution looks at the past 30+ days of data (120 in NextRoll's case) to determine if any marketing activity happened and allows the customer to adjust the attribution window to whatever they want.

There are 150B+ auctions each day, of those we participate in at least 80B and in those 80B there are at least 5 separate predictions, to determine the type of auction (1st price v 2nd price for example), determine the price likely to win, determine the likelihood of the placement being viewable, determine the likelihood of the user to click, determine the likelihood of the user to convert given that they click, and then we run these last 2 for each candidate (campaign, creative) that is eligible for the current auction. We obviously don't analyse the stuff we didn't buy but 80B IS the number of top level ML-generated prices from our system.

The budgeting and targeting rules don't apply to the 80B number and they are slightly different systems.
Or I could carry a cell phone?

A very neat idea but, way over engineered.
you lose points for not having forward compatibility. think of the future!
Both the Freemium model and the Free Trial model require a lot of people at the top of the funnel. Speaking from what I've heard from friends (Squarespace, Harvest, etc.) who use the Free Trial is that they require the same amount of users at the top of the funnel as the Freemium model. The main difference is that they only have to support 1 version of their web app instead of a segmented free and paid version. This means you don't have to think about segmenting features, supporting free users, etc.
You realize that it is possible that someone might like a CMS because of its features, not the language it was implemented in, right?
As long as you feel important I suppose that is all that matters. Self-aggrandizing for the win.

The funny thing about your presumption is that you don't realize how much web traffic I control, or that I was able to grow a similar sized traffic stream without bilking investors & without looting third party content without permission or opt out & without cybersquatting.

You take the low road & I'll take the high one.

No matter how many times you use the word troll it won't change the facts. ;)
Don't forget, you're not off the hook if your home is heated with natural gas or electricity. This post makes the great point that energy is energy... No matter what it's made from (at least among the fossil fuels). The less coal and gas we use, the lower the demand for oil there will be.
working in certain areas of finance can be very fun interesting and excellent money wise. its a very rare combination where technology collides with money in such a direct and measurable way. think of how sales guys performance is quantifiably measured but replace sales with coding. you wont find such a directly quantifiable measure in any other field... yes the quality of your code/product isnt that important for startups.

so if you think your code/models/you are top shit... then its really easy to get a reality check on your percived abilities. its what makes it fun. all the bullshit and hand waving in the world is FUD against your PnL
There's a lot of nay-saying here. I think the idea is great and the name is fine. (By the way, I would just ignore the advice here. Paul may love the name/idea or even simply not care. Until you hear otherwise, don't assume either way.)

HN has been hobbled by small restaurant syndrome. Paul has been loathe to add basic features, let alone extend it, for the same reason a restaurateur will maintain a small number of tables: because he or she likes the client base and extending it will jeopardize that. That's a completely valid reason.

But there's a huge opportunity here to extend this to really assist in driving innovation. Add to your site the missing basic features such as search, then extend it with free startup job listings, co-founder matching, etc. (All those HN spreadsheets? Implement them.) You would be doing a huge service to the Indian startup community, and that means a huge service to innovation in general.
That's a ridiculous interpretation. People don't have an obligation to uncritically pass on any and all messages. That a publisher only publishes certain books is not censorship of all the other books. That you promote your own views without simultaneously mentioning all other views is not censorship.

Freedom of speech means that you can put up your own lawn signs in your lawn. It doesn't mean that you get to put your lawn signs in other people's yards. It certainly doesn't mean that they are obligated to print and put up your signs in their yard.
Care to tell us which articles?
HN has a penalty for post with more comments than upvotes. I guess it was the main cause of the drop in the rank of that post.
Just look at how many foreigners the US has abducted to be locked up or tortured, often even without a fair trial. At least the ICC guarantees a fair trial.

The US is making it very explicit that they are above rules. They have the right to commit war crimes, while holding other countries accountable for their war crimes, and even for things that aren't even crimes at all. The US is a bully, and is very explicit about it.
Modern behavioral genetic research as described, for example, in Robert Plomin's "Blueprint", seems to make some people uncomfortable. I suppose it could qualify as "heresy" as it challenges a number of widely held beliefs.
I think that the problem is most often something along the lines of: we have a house, it took 5 years to build and the family is very happy with it. But now, they also want a chip fab, and there are many common parts useful to both, so we don't think it's worth it to start from scratch - we need to modify the home to also house their chip fab, but make sure it's also still a good house to live in.
It's a very tricky problem. My awareness of false consciousness is more from feminism.

So what if a woman aspires to being nothing more than a good housewife? But what if she's been brought up in a culture where she has been told from early childhood that being a good housewife is all she every should aspire to? I don't think you can tell that person that their desires are wrong but you can point out what other options they have. It's up to them how they personally live.

Voting and public life are different, however, because they have an impact on wider society. I think is then reasonable to critique others' decisions because those decisions impact us. On the big, high-level stuff there will always be disagreement about objectives, their relative importance, the best way to get there and so on. I don't think you can do too much there.

But on more focused things you absolutely can question someone's rationale, their evidence base and how their vote or political activity will achieve their stated objectives.

Take Brexit as an example. If you just don't want foreign people around then voting for Brexit probably makes sense. I disagree with your objective but there's a consistency to what you're doing. If you're voting for Brexit because you think the NHS needs more money then it's absolutely incumbent on you to explain what kind of economic impact you expect Brexit to have, how that'll affect tax receipts and the evidence for all of those expectations because I'm not aware of any informed analysis that says Brexit is consistent with increased NHS funding. It's not sufficient to just say "well they said on the bus that we give £350m a week to the EU and now that's going to go to the NHS".

You're entitled to have whatever concerns you want, relate to your own life however you like. You're not entitled to have inaccurate beliefs based on a poor understanding of how things work.
I like this. There is strength in having many different species of operating system. Monocultures are vulnerable to all kinds of diseases, one way to combat that is to have a (much) larger variety of operating systems so that infecting any of them has a very low return-on-investment.

So any new operating system that is far from the beaten path should be very much welcomed, this one is more interesting than most since it is written using a high level language.

Looking forward to an eventual release.
I would definitely recommend How to Win Friends and Influence People as an addition to the list. I'd say that learning how to deal with people and communicate ideas effectively is at least as important as learning how to think.

This is also a book I recommend reading, re-reading, and then re-reading again for people of all ages.

Edit: I'd also probably recommend Innumeracy[0] which is a fun book about dealing with numbers. It has some pretty great strategies for coming up with good back-of-napkin estimations which is a pretty useful skill.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Innumeracy-Mathematical-Illiteracy-Its...
I didn't say it couldn't be done. But I deal every day with cashiers who can't count money and there are tons of people who have no idea how to use Google maps. I spend a lot of a time at a library where I routinely watch library staff assist people who can't figure out how to get online -- by which I mean they are logged in and the browser has auto-opened for them and it isn't on the page they want and they have no idea how to get to what they want. And I see endless other examples of lack of basic computer literacy where library staff have to explain very basic things.

I am sure there are people who can do this. I just don't think it's all that many people in the grand scheme of things.
With hundreds of thousands of followers?
It's a generally accepted language wart, just like input() and raw_input().

/ for float division, // for integer division.
>There's a hatred of mathematics in mainstream American culture that runs very, very deep

Completely agreed. As an immigrant, I can say it is very much a US thing. Haven't seen this much math-hate, but more importantly, math-utilitarianism, as in the US. In Asian countries & in Europe ( UK, France especially), people don't constantly fixate on stupid questions like "what is it good for ? ", which is ultimately a proxy for "how do I make money with this thing ?". But when I taught math here in the US as a graduate student TA, the majority of questions focussed on this single metric - usefulness.

So math texts here are forced to invent bogus problems like "You want to house pigs with 500 feet of fencing. What dimensions of your rectangular pen will house the most hogs ?". Then the American kid says, Ah! Now I see the point of all this! Let l be the length of my pen and b its breadth. You want me to maximize the area of my pen lb subject to 2l+2b=500 so I can house the most pigs! Ok so I see that b = 250-l, so lb is 250l - l^2, so I take its derivative & equate to zero & l=125, b=125, and that's the biggest pen that can house the most pigs. Very nice!

In other countries, you simple wouldn't come up with all these sort of bogus utilitarian problems in animal husbandry. Students here learn exponentials & Taylor expansion as part of "how do I compute compound interest on my bank account", because that's supposedly the only legitimate use of e^x !

I honestly found teaching pre-calc, calc-1 & calc-2 a complete travesty, because the theorems & the entire courseware was essentially perverted - it was all in service of how to make use of the math for some bogus application, rather than learn it for its own good. The worst was when I had to teach how the horizontal range of parabolic trajectories varied - the textbook had examples of the US bombing Japan, & the students went to work computing the best possible angle for firing the missile, so that it would fly across in a parabolic trajectory and land the farthest thus maximizing its horizontal range & kill the most number of Japanese! There was no thought given to how violent & nasty this was.

I actually have very radical ideas about how things should be taught - like you must learn Rolle's theorem before learning shit like pre-calc. Learn as much of undergrad real analysis before you get into application oriented shit like calc-1, calc-2 etc. Don't bring in garbage like LCR circuitry into pde's, even though yes, you can use a third order differential equation to compute current through an LCR circuit.

Applications have their place, but such an overemphasis on application is simply not healthy. It actively distorts the culture & the body politic. Note that American students don'r ask "what use is rock and roll ? otr what use is hbo ? or what use is literature ?" all those things are given a free pass. But when it comes to math, suddenly use becomes the primary criterion. Read pages 6-7, & especially 12 of Lockhart's lament, where he chooses to parody this point of view via Simplicio.
Use `fake' in speech, where you can convey more context, and `synthetic' in writing?
How did you build the is_a relationships (eg, Person is_a Animal)?

Ontology engine? If so, what's your source?
I would be surprised. In fact, Bezos was personally responsible for making sure that the very scenario you describe absolutely did not happen in AWS.

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12ld3fwhlnexv5b004...
Look at the flash video on the side. Its arguments are much more compelling. Too bad they put it where you usually see unrelated ads.
Hi,

Something similar, from big guys in the online travel business: Amadeus Affinity - http://www.amadeus.com/amadeus/x163551.html
- accurate prices
- choice per price range, comparison of prices on date range
- destination per type of activity (beach, golf, whatever)
- etc.

The URL for a major air travel company using it is - wait for it - ...

http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/de/booking/affinit...

(Lufthansa Germany home page > Trip Finder)
What? I'm serious--you can't compare Firefox and Chrome users to IE users on how many of them keep their browsers up to date, because FF and Chrome users by definition are people who take an active role in downloading and installing web browsers. It's a selection bias, not a slam against IE or IE users.
For what its worth in my experience in enterprise administration for a 10,000+ computer network at one company, and a 4,000+ computer network at another, computer crime is _never_ reported, rarely receives a cursory investigation, and a full investigation is forbidden by policy.

I define computer crime as a successful network intrusion where an attacker gains access to the internal network, which occurs at a frighteningly high level.
A bit of back-story; during my second year of university I picked up C# after a summer internship at a local company. I was purely taught Java at university, but was keen to learn other languages as I wanted to expand my knowledge past what Java would offer me. Sure, Java to C# isn't a huge paradigm shift, but after playing with LINQ I was sold on .NET.

For my final-year project, I built a search engine from scratch using C# that would rank websites based on "how they looked". This involved looking at the various data structures required to store and retrieve this information, alongside figuring out how to rank pages on both content and their looks. To handle the looks, I took a screenshot of each page, reduced the size to around 100x100 and scanned the colours of each pixel to see if text would contrast. Alongside this I scanned the CSS of the page to check text colour and see if it matched the pixels; if it did, do a comparison against this. I can't remember the exact algorithms I used, but if you used dark text on a dark background you'd get ranked down, and vice versa, alongside some other metrics.

The result was very crude, and looking back on it now the code was terrible. I had implemented the data structures myself, had a semi-decent crawler set up, and could sit all the tools alongside each other to crawl the Internet. Most importantly, it worked so I ended up getting decent marks! While the code makes me cringe, my write-up was fairly impressive, and I felt that writing 40k words over a year helped my writing ability considerably.
Something like https://idealo.de/ (and .at .es .fr .it .co.uk)?
Having staff who research the topic, e.g

https://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Flow-C...
Depends on where you live and what the local laws are. Where I live (Melbourne, Victoria) most people drive _under_ the speed limit on the highway I take to work each day.

Our local police fine us for doing 2-3km over the limit, and the fines are steep. Most of us here wouldn't notice cars driving at the speed limit.
I once named a deployment system "Parachute".

Because, as with a parachute... we were f*cked if it didn't deploy properly.

A tenuous link, but we still laugh about it now. And because of that, you would never forget what it actually does.

I can't believe no body has made this quote yet either...

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Phil Karlton
To make things clearer, change it from oil to a lake that you own. Access to the privately owned lake is scarce for artificial reasons. Property means control over something, and if you cannot maintain control then in many cases there is no benefit in possession/creation. In this respect property is always the same, whether physical or intellectual: owning the land or copyright only works if you control access/distribution.

Of course with a limited thing like oil there's also the fact that not only would you be unable to capitalise, you would be unable to even be the end-user of the resource, when people steal it. But that's just an extra dimension to consider, not relevant to the core ethical issue, as the grandparent poster was trying to say.
Do you really think NSA has compromised AES-CTR? That would have to be a pretty fundamental attack, wouldn't it?