jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
tell the USPS to not do any bulk mail forward

the USPS will not forward bulk mail, and even magazines will not get forwarded. only mail carrying first class postage will get forwarded.

however, as soon as you submit a change of address, the USPS makes that information public, so many companies subscribe to those lists and will get your new address (like magazine companies). so your best bet is to just not forward any mail and submit the address changes manually to the companies that send you mail.
I'm more worried that expectations are simply too high for them to meet this time.

I have no doubt that they'll see an initial rush of sales. That's just to be expected based on hype. The real question is whether it has any staying power or not. I'm leaning towards the "it can't possibly meet expectations" side, but I could be wrong.
The femtocell range is extremely short. It wouldn't do your neighbors any good. (I have one.)
I wonder if we will ever get to read such transcripts in this age of private emails and ephemeral conversations.
I went to University of California - Santa Cruz for my undergraduate in physics. Around my year, the administration realized that a lot of the students were having trouble transitioning to non-academic jobs. So much so that they started an "applied physics" program which allowed more classes in electrical engineering and computer science, and made a required class called Physics in Industry that I have had the privilege of speaking in a few times to tell young physicists how and why they could transition into a career in software.
+1 for "I hope his mother fully shares his viewpoints".

That being said, it appears he also declined several great job offers. Some people just don't live for material things. Most people say they don't, but their actions (including mine) say differently.

This guy doesn't talk his philosophy, he acts it.
there's a difference between (not) caring about money, and rejecting it on principle
iOS 4 GM jailbreak, not iPhone 4 jailbreak.
Having a degree can make it easier to get a visa to work in the US, to governments credentials count, not real ability.

Trying to do the degree you're doing is dangerous, as you've noted (although it does allow you to maintain your lifestyle and keep current in real software development). Is there any possibility that you can change to another major or school where you can get a real CS degree?
http://www.couchsurfing.org is similar but free. If you're the social kind (or want to be) then it's the best way to travel on the cheap and fun.
Its cute, but its not a hack.
Evolution is just a way of explaining how someone came to be, not how they work. Being a good materialist I do think that people are reducible, but we certainly haven't been able to figure all of the steps out yet.
Yeah I forgot my sarcasm airquotes.
With my Australian accent I wouldn't pronounce an "r" sound in "car audio" either -- just switch straight from the "ahhh" sound of "car" to the "orrrr" sound of "audio".

Speaking of which, it wasn't until quite recently that I realised not all accents have so much trouble with the ambiguity of the Ford Ka.
shrug I knew people who didn't know about how to select text or even change the selection point until I showed it to them...
It is probably the modem honestly. The 386 is well capable of saturating a 38.4k modem many times over.
Yes, everyone uses this formula now. It's annoying.
I was born around the time the web was invented. However, linux was also born when I was also born.

We're in good company.
"Is there any evidence it was created in the US of A?"

No, not that I know. Then again I don't know if the Russians, Israelis, Chinese or whoever wrote it make their engineers disappear, either (well maybe if they're also secretly plotting a revolt or something, I mean for working on these things).

The others are not people who worked on secret things and were detained/killed/whatever for that fact alone, to cover up that they developed that. That's what I was saying.
Vanunu just confirmed what was public secret, and Israel doesn't seem to be doing too badly after that. Game theory 101 - if you have Doomsday Device, let the World know about it!

In fact there probably would have been less of a need for Stuxnet, were it not for Vanunu!
If you read the annotated xml spec, it really is quality work. I don't necessarily agree with every design decision, but I think a lot of people look at the complexity of xml applications and falsely blame xml itself.

Sadly there were some sensible early formats that were left behind. XML-RPC's serialization is a bit verbose but otherwise is quite similar to JSON. Somehow that got turned into SOAP and then eventually the WS- tar pit of complexity.

Likewise XML as a configuration file language can be quite elegant, almost like a literate coding version of common .ini or .conf files. But instead of this simple flat document littered with variables, xml config files in the wild end up with deeply nested structure that contributes dubious value and makes the files far less human friendly.

XML itself, with the possible exception of namespaces and a few other features, is quite simple. I totally agree it's the applications that have gotten out of hand, particularly in areas where XML is used as structured data exchange rather than document markup.
Iraq and Afghanistan. Both started by the USA.
isNaN() only exists because the real way to detect NaN is so counter intuitive. Lots of people will see "if (x !== x)" and will try to "optimize".
Seems extremely buggy.

I chose box-shadow, 5px horizontal, 5px vertical, 3px blur, #fff color, and it gave me invalid CSS:

-webkit-box-shadow: px 3px ;
-moz-box-shadow: px 3px ;
box-shadow: px 3px ;
it's definitely a mess (i distinctly recall recoiling from my keyboard when i realized an array of numbers was being sorted lexically), but what do you mean by boring?
I have to agree that threadreader is obviously better now: it actually shows you the thread. Twitter at some point in the past few months switched to showing unrelated tweets by the same user instead of the whole thread, requiring you to spot the link to expand it.
Yeah, I had almost exactly the same code. I'm sure most people did too. The only other "obvious" algorithm is the n^2 one.
Had the author of the article had responses that did not bruise his ego because of what people on the internet said to him - he would be writing an article about how awesome Hacker News was.

Posting another article explaining how you would change HN to your own benefit is adolescent behavior. Maybe, just maybe, the OP didn't have the correct view point. These types of people hop from job to job because everyone at the old company was "a bunch of idiots." Irony much?

Bluntness induced to make a point - suck it up, make a conscious effort to understand the true source of your emotions, and allow other people to have an opinion you may not like.
This underscores something that's been running around in my head for awhile. I'm almost certain that I had a previous worldview - one that was highly ordered and rational - was completely wrecked by the aesthetic experience. I wouldn't wish it on anyone, as re-writing your worldview is a scary process.

But I found a certain solace in the aesthetics: valuing individual moments more, breaking the spell of materialism, thinking deeply about rather abstract concepts, and not being afraid to embrace mystery when necessary. None of these require the aesthetic experience, they're just by-products of a mind that is being expanded. And they're quite similar to the insights of people on this thread who reported dropping acid.
I only meant "examine" as in "observe", "look at", "listen to", as opposed to "use", "run" or "execute". I never meant to make the universe seem cold or cruel. Sorry about that.
This misses the (in my opinion) most significant sentiment, and by far the most prevalent: "So fucking what?"
Right, but the idea is to outsource the computing power to clients for a given amount of money. Users are then paid small amounts of money for returned computing power from their inactive home PC. This would give more incentive for users to utilize these services, instead of the mere 527,880 active computers for BOINC. This would also provide a more affordable solution to owning/maintaining data centers.

I notice that the BOINC wiki mentions that users are attributed credits. "BOINC Credit System helps volunteers keep track of how much CPU time they have donated to various distributed computing projects." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOINC_Credit_System
With bike locks, you're not looking for tensile strength, you need to resist shearing & shock loads.

Carbon fiber, for example, may be considered to be almost as strong as steel, but it breaks pretty easily when subjected to shear and shock forces, i.e. a bolt cutter.

Quickly skimming the article, graphene is only twice as strong as steel in this regard. Although this is still great, you have to be careful.
These types of systems are now common in the market, and you need more sophisticated algorithms to make any money. They said that they picked 2005 because it had a lack of "unusual market activity." I bet they picked it because their system didn't work in later years, because there's too much competition to make money with their system now.
There are other drivers. You're on the road with cars that are substantially driven by software... You're still trusting your life to software.
Maybe https://scratch.mit.edu/
You don't owe them anything.

They don't show you the same level of trust that they expect from you. Nowhere close.

If it's important to you, and okay with your new company, give your current employer a little extra notice. But don;t feel obligated—only do it if it's important to you.
FYI- disconnects may be caused by USB-3 interference with bluetooth signal.
You not only got that backwards, but Godwin's law is not one that can ever be 'broken' — just because you haven't used Hitler in an analogy yet doesn't mean you aren't asymptotically approaching such a comparison.

Using der Fürher in an internet argument is a realization Godwin's law, not a violation of it.
I do like the idea, but there's one problem (though maybe not a big problem.) The user still has to be smart about making passwords. For example, if Alice puts in "password" and clicks SHA-1 (same with another algo), she would get "5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8". If Mallory is smart enough to think she'd choose "password" as her password, and sees "353e8061f2befecb6818ba0c034c632fb0bcae1b" (hash of the hash), he can easily figure it out. Basically, he just hashes all words in a dictionary before attacking via brute-force.

Of course, if Alice chooses "HeLlOWoRlD13485443&$%3" or similar, then it's harder for Mallory and even harder if she hashes it.
About twenty years ago I was trolling around the Internet explaining how Microsoft was going to screw over IBM and OS/2. I went by melling back then too:

http://www.skytel.co.cr/advocacy/research/1991/0817.html

And for hacking fun, I was enamored with Steve Jobs' NeXT computer. Among other things, I worked on the Tetris port:

http://www.artizia.com/tetris/contributors.html

A year later, I found my first developer job via the Internet and ended up in the NYC area. About a year out of college I bought a used 386 computer, got Linux running and a PPP connection, then I was back on the Internet.

Today, the Internet is just bigger and faster, while Steve's NeXT computer fits in your front shirt pocket.
Sorry for the tone I was just frustrated !
If you keep thinking that way, you're doing yourself a great disservice. No matter _how_ great your algorithms are, without letting people know about it, you won't sell anything.

Like everywhere else, 90% of everything is crap and "marketing" is no exception, but how many bingo cards do you suppose Patrick would have sold if he wasn't greatly skilled at some oft-disparaged disciplines like SEO and email marketing?

Marketing done wrong is just as useless as all the programming done wrong you laugh at on Daily WTF. If you think you can run a profitable startup while religiously _not_ doing "marketing", I think you're wrong. I'd love to hear how you pitch that philosophy to investors though....
I too am keen on both parties getting something, it just makes so much sense.

What do you think about the possible downsides of a two sided incentive? For example new users _always_ signing up with a referrer.

In Dropbox's case the reward is 250MB capped at 8GB, but if the same thing applied to the linode model of dollars in credit, it could spell trouble.
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A bit more detail would be nice... Did they build a true quantum computer? Are they running hashcat and hoping for the best? Are they targeting broken cryptos nobody uses anymore? Who knows?
"41. There's never enough time to do it right, but somehow, there's always enough time to do it over."

There are quite a lot of items on this list that applies to any kind of project management, software development.

This is too close to home, will enjoy responsibly.
Eh, you're speaking from a position of privilege that I can't comprehend. But I can assure you I'm not being offended theoretically for someone else's sake.
Haskell is fantastic for programming systems where types are not just a tool, but central to the goals of the program. E.g. a program for converting one type of markup files to another (from one type to another type), like pandoc [1], which indeed is written in Haskell.

[1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc
"09:00 PM" almost universally (is there any case or format or app that does it differently?) means 21:00 in 24-hour clock format. Not 09:00 (in 24-hour clock).
Utter nonsense to imply that Haskell would suddenly fix bad security.

Haskell code can have security issues too hidden inside some too clever for it's on good language extension ridden Haskell code.

Too be honest I think there is likely only a handful of people like Ed Knett who actually grok and write effective Haskell code, and guess what he'd also write good C++ code as well.
In a Wikipedia dive I learned the Milky Way has 59 known galaxies orbiting within 1.4 million light years. It's busy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_galaxies_of_the_Mi...
I really wanted Mastodon to take off, but none of the people who discuss anything of consequence moved there (because they didn't want to lose their reach). Instead, I only found people in the fediverse that post smalltalk about their daily lives. Which isn't bad! But these people will not be affected by section 230 either way.

Intuitively I expected political dissidents would move off Twitter first, but I can see how the opposite happened instead.
r/bitcoin is heavily censored, it's the reason for Bitcoin Cash fork and why the uncensored r/btc was made.

All the original Bitcoin adopters from the beginning moved discussion there.
Weirdly omitted from the cut options:

Medicaid: $290 billion
HUD Programs: $47.5 billion
Unemployment: $106 billion
Any part of the giant 'Other mandatory' block (~$600 billion) which makes up Food Stamps, WIC, Welfare, etc.
Read the title. It clearly says they'll call anyone that, not just customers.
This is exactly the sort of stuff I was looking for. Thanks!
fwiw, Cassandra automatically takes a snapshot (which is basically instantaneous -- see http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-066 for a brief explanation why) before truncating or dropping a column family, exactly because it makes recovering from a foot/gun incident like this so much less painful.
Ouch. I think we've all done this once or twice, in some fashion or another. I'm just happy they're so open about it. Learning experience == good thing.

From Chris' Twitter stream (http://twitter.com/#!/defunkt):

Seriously, I blame whoever wrote our crappy continuous integration software.

Oh that's me
think that Groupon and clones will go through the same strugles. I just fail to understand how "discount only" cn be a business. it just mean someone is paying for the service and giving up their profits and customer relations.
I ran about 100 performance benchmarks on this new cluster compute instance and published results on our blog. It uses Nehalem X5570 with 16 hyper-threaded cores (8 physical), HVM, and 10 Gbps non-blocking network for the EBS volume. Out of 134 different virtual and bare-metal cloud servers I've benchmarked from EC2, Linode, Rackspace and other vendors, the EC2 cluster instance is the fastest in almost every category (CPU, disk IO, encoding, database, others).

http://cloudharmony.com/b/2010/09/benchmarking-of-ec2s-new-c...
The hard part for Yelp: getting computers (or, similar to OpenTable, specialized appliance PCs) into the restaurants. That's why OpenTable took so long to take off -- they had to convince a critical mass of restaurants that it was worth it.

I have mixed feelings about OpenTable. I know three people who work there, including an executive. I wish them well. I am concerned that the company's prosperity is based on value to restaurants that does not always actually exist. I, and the OP, could be wrong.
Elixir/Erlang my next project (starting tomorrow) looks like it will really benefit from the things that the Erlang VM brings to the table, and Elixir is very promising, and rapidly maturing, way to write code for it.
We feel this because we think that surveillance leads you to self-censor.

In “The Chilling Effects of Surveillance," a study done by Stanford University psychologists Gregory White and Philip Zimbardo, participants were placed under varying levels of surveillance as they were asked their opinions on the severity of marijuana penalties. Those who were under surveillance (told that their answers would be shared with the police for training purposes) were more likely to denounce pot use.

This happens with writers too: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/01/how_surveilla...
There is a number of IM clients for iOS, that store your credential "in the cloud" (use their own infrastructure to terminate the XMPP connection and route push notifications to their clients). This is not ideal for your privacy, to put it into friendly words.
The spaceship <=> is actually a lot cooler than many PHP devs realize. Rails devs find it extremely handy. Now that my PHP apps are moving away from being big apps that render full web-pages, and towards being a thin application layer that just renders JSON, I'm finding a higher % of my code is just sorting operations. Closure has helped a lot with this, and nearly all my <=>s are almost certainly going to be in the form of `function($a, $b) { return $a->getThingy() <=> $b->getThingy(); }`

Scalar type hints are a bit of a no-brainer. Type-hinting classes is nice, but there's a lot of sloppiness out there because if you can't type hint as a scalar, not only do you need a separate check to see if it's int or string, you also specifically cannot say it's non-object/array in your function declaration. One of the biggest inconsistencies I see, especially on old CMSes, is where you'd have a method in one class like `function doThing(Page $page) {`, and elsewhere as `function differentThing($page) {`, and sometimes differentThing's $page is a Page, other times it's an int with that page's ID or name. Yes there are all kinds of ways to check for that today, but it benefits everyone if the easiest way to do something is also the right way.

Return type declaration has been in Hack for a while, and it's really handy there. Any C or Java programmers know how useful they are. My big hope here is that they encourage others to stop returning mixed-types, which is a pattern that inevitably just puts more control logic around every call to that function. I don't care too much about nullable type-hints on parameters (you can still set a default `= null` to allow nullable), but I'm _really_ hoping the nullable return-types passes. Having worked with this for a while in Hack, return types are far more useful if they're nullable. e.g. you say `function isUserActive(): bool`, that's totally fine since you're clearly expecting it to be true or false, but if you had `function getActiveUser(): User`, you'd want the option to return null if there is no active user, which could be done nicely as `function getActiveUser(): ?User` if this passes: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/nullable_types#return_types

Now that we're finally actually making a proper PHP spec, I'm not as excited about 4 and 5 as they'd like us to be. It's definitely faster, but if the Zend engine isn't the only game in town, it doesn't matter as much. All the HHVM benchmarks I've seen still put it way above PHP7.
Also Edward VIII was pretty controversial as a political figure. I think that this may have framed The Queens engagement with public life.
Quandl offers a nice API: https://www.quandl.com/tools/api
If customers value privacy then it respecting it will enhance their experience.

If they don't really care, and to a first approximation that's going to always be the case, then you're mostly distracting yourself from what your customers want/need to solve their actual problems.

And it's attractive because "respecting privacy" is easier than making something people want in the sense that it is vague and sounds good and unmeasurable. This makes "success" a moveable target..."we respected fifteen privacys a minute last quarter" doesn't mean anything.

If you're in business, be in business and do business things. Because that's what you will do if you stay in business. Good luck.
Thanks, I should have been more explicit making my point. Please see my other comment in that thread.
$15/hr is a living wage in the mountains of North Carolina where that datacenter is located. It is $30k/year. A house in that area costs about $100k. The median income in the area is $17/hr. Minimum wage is $7.25.
Chrome is obviously better than IE. Not just based on open source Chromium but generally easier to work with.

I use Firefox because the addons are superior but even if we traded a downright terrible browser dominating the web for a somewhat crappy browser dominating the web, it was still a good move.
It was upvoted often enough and quickly enough that the algorithm put it on the front page. Prince Philip is a public figure of some prominence, so I'm guessing the people who run the site (dang and maybe others?) let it be unless the comments turn to shit.

I, for one, am glad that it has lasted this long. I've learned a bunch of new things and added a book to my reading list.
> bass players aren't paid to play quickly, they are paid to hear quickly.

Stanley Clarke probably disagrees :)

Seriously: I think it's a great quip.