jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wearables could seem like a logical next step for Apple's long term roadmap, especially when considering early efforts like the Pebble and Google Glass by other companies. Maybe we'll look back and regard those in the same way we regard the Motorola Razr today.

I remember my graduate advisor, author to the most cited tangible interaction paper out there, musing on what Apple would be doing 10 years from now. His speculations were on the side of augmented jewelry– wearable, without being as large as a watch or glasses– and smart textiles. The industry examples are scarce, but the research in this field is extremely active (http://www.tei-conf.org/), with some very interesting prototypes being demo'd and work being published every year.

I'm looking forward to chatting about this with you all again in 10 years :)
Can confirm. Found my Boxee a couple months ago and Netflix worked. I honestly couldn't believe it.
What I mean is, typically, there are many layers between an end user's network request and reaching the server where it will be fulfilled. For example, you might have your site fronted by Cloudflare. They provide DDOS protection, etc. That Cloudflare server might accept HTTP/2 requests, and then open a new request to your load balancer server. Then, your load balancer opens another network request to the server fulfilling the request. The connections between these servers may only support HTTP/1.1. So you lose the benefits of HTTP/2 since you can't multiplex the network request end-to-end.
But the American companies would never sell your data to the government!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/oct/25/att-secretl...
The money quote:

"Nowhere is this more evident than in the United States, where in recent years more than 800 communities have established locally owned broadband networks (of which around 500 are publicly owned). This includes around 150 communities that have super-fast networks of at least 1Gbps and 20 that have 10Gbps networks. Publicly owned broadband networks are increasingly attractive because, like in the UK, wide swaths of the country – especially rural and low-income areas – remain unserved or underserved by the big corporate telecom companies. These corporations have little incentive to invest in improving networks in such areas, choosing instead to make profits for their shareholders by increasing rates for consumers in areas where they enjoy a monopoly or duopoly."
And what exactly is a "woke" crowd?

(put a link to a good definition if there is one)
Yeah, we datamine it to hell and use it to profile you to sell you more things!
e.g. the true state of AI today suffers from our pedestrian ability to actually specify what we're trying to do?
>Humans don't eat any of these animal parts

People don't eat liver where you're from?
About 25% of the time on Windows, this takes me to an internet search.
> we've had 4 spills in the gulf, two of which are major

And yet "we" are completely unprepared for oil spills, needing months to recover from worst-case scenarios (and decades if not centuries to recover from the long-term damage). That isn't "progressive".

> we've had 132 space shuttle launches, 2 of which killed everyone on board

It is hard for me to see in how far these incidents are comparable.

The damage of space shuttle launches was local to the "experimental room" and was under control in the sense that "just" the shuttles were destroyed and nothing else. The crews were informed about the risk of that experiment and accepted to take the risk.
What exactly is Greenwald's point?

I took away three main points:

(1) That we've heard only one side of the story so far, and that side has come from a man who seems obsessed with getting news coverage.

(2) Lamo has said contradictory things to different sources; that suggests that Lamo is lying.

(3) Lamo admits to lying to Manning in order to convince him to share this information with him. Specifically, he told Manning that he was a journalist and that their conversation would be confidential because of journalism shield laws. He also told Manning that he was ordained minister and their conversation would be held confidential because it was considered a confession. If you have to lie to people and abuse social trusts in order to get them to confess, then you have no scruples whatsoever. I can't see why we should trust anything that Lamo says at face value. I mean, do we have independent confirmation about the 15,000 cables? Or is that just another of Lamo's (many, many) lies?
Officially accepting nominations for blogs to aggregate.
Yes, remarkaby well!
I like App Engine, too, however, I always worry about the "hot cache" problem (or how to call it?): if your app doesn't get a request for a while, it will be cycled out of the "active" state, and the next quest will have a long delay for booting the app again. Especially people who used Java VM languages (ie Clojure, RoR) have complained about the issue.

I wonder if the situation has improved in the last couple of months? One proposed solution is to have a recurring task trigger requests, but that seems like a wasteful hack. Plus, it would be unreliable as it is not known how App Engine decided internally when to "unload" an app.
I don't see the point.

I get myself a new ThinkPad every 3-6 years. The devices are completely repairable, every part can be exchanged. After the warranty period though, a lot of repairs don't make sense any more.

After my usage period of a few years, nearly every part of the device is worn out. The case is scratched and sometimes broken. The screen too. The battery (probably the 2nd or 3rd) reached the end of its life. The logic board including CPU and GPU is not strong enough any more for the newest software. I don't want to continue using the SSD, because the wear level went up, and I don't want to lose my data.

Normally I give away the device as a present, for some one who has less demands in a laptop than I do. I probably could also sell it to a refurbishment company.

So what would be the benefit with that laptop?
Income taxes fail on the basics.

Income tax has nothing to do with raising money. It’s about releasing real resources for the public good - largely people to provide public services. Ideally the tax needs to be incident on the private sector entities that would otherwise hire the people the public sector needs to hire instead - military, judiciary, police, healthcare, education, etc.

Government has no need of private income, therefore it makes no sense to tax it. Expecting the incidence to end up in the correct place requires a faith in fungibility that just isn’t borne out in practice.

When the government uses income taxes to fund public infrastructure like a subway, it improves the land that is incident to that subway which raises the value of that land. The government created a lot of private value that could be taxed to pay for the infrastructure it built. As it stands right now, the government just takes your income with no incentive to actually deliver as it does not benefit directly from its own investments. This allows corruption to creep in as politicians would rather fund massive boondoggles that line up their pockets rather than small incremental improvements that increase government revenue in proportion to how much value it provides.

This scene gets the point across very clearly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL3n59wC8kk&t=1803s

The government invests in the commons. Access to the commons (proximity to infrastructure) is owned by private individuals who benefit from the investment. The government does not benefit from the investment it made. It's effectively running a charity for a handful of people.
I gave you an upvote to try and offset the flurry. I think you're both right. My sense was Marco did regret writing it not because of fear of a Black Apple planet but rather because it became a tool for people to attack Apple with "If Marco the fanboi is concerned then wow!" So the original author is misconstruing it by representing it as being fear of Apple. And I think you're right that Marco's exasperation wasn't with the "If Steve Jobs was alive" crowd. He was just taken aback because he unleashed a wave of pent up criticism against Apple from others in the tech community who like Marco are generally very positive towards Apple. It was like he signaled to others that it was time to air grievances that had been building.
Which would you prefer, a full page refresh that will refetch a large portion of the page that you're already looking at or an ajax call that will return far less bytes than a full page refresh would have and then replacing only the parts of the page that needs changing?

Also if its truly isomorphic, everything would still work as usual if javascript is off.
> Have a nice day, Andy!
> Nice days are made, not had!

#page/n79/mode/2up
So, I work a fair amount with the instagram API and have, for example, added Realtime support to the most popular golang Instagram library.

To the best of my knowledge, there are no bindings for getting realtime updates from any user which has not authorized your app. To me this seems quite silly but I believe it is the state of affairs. Consequently, you will have to poll for updates from selected users. Now, if someone adds a few hundred users, you'll essentially use all of that user's API calls to check those users for updates routinely.

My point is largely that it's hard for me to imagine a service like this scaling well while guaranteeing freshness, due to the API's limitations. I post this comment not to be a downer, but to hope to learn from the authors about how they plan to deal with these limitations.
We now also love our electric bikes! That seems to be a big factor for getting many people cycling around Oslo's suburbs.
Thanks, awesome materials!
Seems a bit late to market to me. There have been faster SoCs from multiple vendors on the market for several years.
Trump is a billionaire and apparently a very successful businessman, I am sure he is free to start his own Twitter alternative and compete with it.
The typeface on Conrad's page is pretty fucked up on Linux (CR-48)
or maybe because I live under a rock and don't have a Facebook account, with no desire to get one?
Sounds like slave labour :D
I can, but i'm curious as to why you wouldn't use facebook to log in.
Correct. I understand python/JS won't get me that pay. But I have 2 years I can learn and build experience in. I need to know what in.

I see MS-CRM, WebMethods, Tivoli etc. That's what I was looking for.
Because I don't trust you and I don't trust Facebook. (Nothing personal)
I made about 10k off sales from a WordPress theme over the course of about a year. Not that much money, but it's a GREAT feeling to wake up in the morning and see money in your account. I'd be walking through the mall with my girlfriend at the time and tell her, "just sold a premium copy! want ice cream?" Very, very motivating. It gets to the point that you get a "taking-candy-from-a-baby" feeling that leads you to really try and improve your product day-after-day, to keep your initial customers happy, and to get more sales.

So, I agree that a niche software product you're actually passionate about will help. I happened to be in a fortunate position where a demand existed for a one-off product I had created a while back, all I had to do was fill the void. Customers were already looking to me for it. I feel like a total fucking idiot for not doing it sooner. I could have made probably 3x the money, just guestimating. Find something that inspires you personally, because that is what will push you to completing it.

I got laid off from a startup position that was caving in. I had a small severance to live off of, and had always wanted to build this idea. Unfortunately while at the startup I was also working on a second one on the side (death, I know) so I never really had time to do anything but those two things. Getting laid off was perfect. I sprinted as hard as I possibly could for 3 weeks, designing, coding, and building a sale site with a mini activation server. It was loads of fun. It was also very exciting to look back on those three weeks and realize that I had done a great job making the right decision when hit with a small road block. Asking myself things like, "Where does this fit with the 80/20 rule? Can I launch this feature in a second update a week later? Do I need it at all? Oh, wait, these two features can easily be combined into one. The technology behind the two won't be nearly as cool, but users will probably prefer it." All of that, I feel, is what lead to my success. Getting the product out as soon as possible, without cutting any essential corners. We've all heard it before, but living it was great. I guess I pretty much built my own "nano" startup.

Damnit, now I want to do it again.
Wonder if something like the Google Native Client would be good for this in the future? (Don't know a whole heap about it so may be off the mark)
I just coded http://boog.me over the weekend hoping it may generate some revenue while running unattended.

If it brings at least $100 a month, I'll work on nine more sites like that to make a grand.
This is exactly why about 4 months ago I changed my settings so none of my connections are notified when I edit my details.
Very true. There are a lot of discussions, blog posts, etc. online where people seem to think that Android either is a Linux distribution of some sort, or that it's a Java JVM (like J2SE, etc). In reality it's neither.
I am not saying this is going to happen, I am just stating I fear it more than the disease if it does become an issue. Yes I too have direct relatives who survived German collapse at the end of the war. But they lived in a small rural town with lots of farming. Sometimes people forget the enormity of losses in bigger towns that were bombed but generally it did not affect food production (but did make transport hard). Japan was in even worse shape but again rural cities were not affected as much (and 150,000 people dying in Tokyo in one night makes food logistics less of an issue). But Germany was 1/10th the size of the current US population and not much bigger than an average state in the end. It's a much bigger challenge in some ways.
I love the initiative, but I disagree with the paragraph saying: "That’s obviously not the case with other sports." Esports cyclist racing is growing and it translates almost 1:1 real-life skills.
Maybe we should look at the state of Linux on mobile.

Android is based on Linux and has a marketshare of about 85 pct according to a quick internet search.
Well I had never heard of this before, but now I want to read the blog. So, I guess thanks NYTimes.
People lead to violence, FB is an internet tool. E.g. in Myanmar FB is used to plan genocide, in Germany, they didn’t need FB 90 years ago to do the same.
Java turing complete generics are an edge case though, and never hit during normal compilation.
You might be surprised by the number of developers who get really upset if their workplace doesn't allow "pull random containers off the Internet" as part of their workflow.
I remember JP Morgan putting on a very good show that year in Cardiff, and if memory serves you signed off a meaningful sponsorship sum (#) over coffee in Canary Wharf.

My takeaway from that surprisingly short deal was that with FOSS the real hard part (demonstrating value) is done and dusted long before any money conversations come up.

Most people I have had this conversation with in companies large and small are like Steve above - see the value of FoSS to their business and want to both give something back and more importantly support the producers of an important input to their business.

FOSS does not have and probably cannot have the "money for licenses" business model, but that's not to say there are not decent lines of funding that cannot be tapped.

It's a frustration, yes but both sides are aligned in this.

(#) For various definitions of meaningful I guess.
It is quite interesting to note that the author of this post, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, works as a principal engineer at a company named Hangar.

Take a look at their Team page at https://www.hangar.is/team and judge for yourself how "diverse" they currently are.
I've lost track of the rationale you're trying to give me for why the NYT is obligated to pretend Alexander's identity wasn't public, or why the NYT is somehow a party to Alexander's professional practice.
Submission title is a bit clickbaity and does not match the more modest actual article title, which is "8% Increase in reddit Account Registrations".
He could have reported this to the Information Commissioner's office in 2013, and then if either the company or the IC failed to do anything, then disclose, at this exact timeline.

Then, at least, the legal system would have also been given a chance to resolve this without full disclosure and potential doxxing.
I'm actually not sure what I prefer, to be honest. I am hoping web components show up in IE and Safari soon so we can start using them but for now I'm not sure which tech to fully invest in. The good news is they are all awesome in their own unique ways and it's sometimes easy to lose sight of that with all the flame wars.
I'll add my two cents a non-Brit: I have never heard of the ICO until this thread. Someone please correct me, but the closest thing we have in the states may be contacting the Attorney General?

I say this thinking of the argument the rest of the world makes when the DMCA threat is used against a non-US entity.
What program can open such file?
I suspect the comorbidity rate is nearly 100%. I suppose when I say "an unproductive economy causes violence," what I mean is that it's a better idea to spend resources bootstrapping a sustainable productive economy than just trying to stop violence.
That would be disturbing if you could hear more than one at a time, there will be variance in delay...
Well, there's Plex, but that's slightly different... I've been thinking of taking some of the work from mediacenterjs, and the chromecast stuff for node.js and coming up with a media center that outputs to a chromecast device, and controls via a phone/tablet.
Doesn't matter, if they're a UK based company they fall under the EU GDPR and can receive a fine of 5% of their worldwide turnover for any loss of personal data, blanked out credit card numbers or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulat...
I can't believe some of the comments I'm reading here on hacker news in response to this.

Yeah, society would have been much better off with the likes of Robert Morris Jr, Steve Wozniak, and Richard Feynman behind bars. We should not tolerate such criminals.

Be careful who you erase from history over something so damned ridiculous.

Relevant: http://paulgraham.com/gba.html
One way I as a creator can care about scarcity is it lets me build community with superfans. NFT holders of my work can have access to special events to meet me, or to see behind-the-scenes, or get other artifacts, like original sketches.

The utility of the enjoyment of my art is for regular fans. The utility of the ownership of my art is for super fans. And the value of superfans to me as a creator is to build long life-time value of customers, ready audience for my future work, an effective cheap distribution channel.

If I as a superfan has a creator that honors these NFTs, then I too will care about the scarcity--not of the digital artifact that lets me enjoy the work (the image), but of the digital artifact that lets me participate as a superfan (the NFT).
HAProxy is very light. We put it between nginx and our webservers for better failure handling, load-balancing, and some additional logging detail. On a small system (single AMD 1226) it's averaged 3% CPU over the last 15 days while handling ~300M requests.
This is terrible advice, easily the worst answer thus far.

Anyone who has any difficulty finding non-MS-bound openings is looking in the wrong places.
And yet Crimea and east Ukraine happened on Obama's watch and Kyiv will fall on Biden's watch. Cool eh?
He either has a memory leak he hasn't spotted, or is really low on disk space (so it can't create swap files.)
> 2. Watching myself for lifestyle creep.

I feel this all the time and haven't been able to quite formulate it. I like to think of this as convenience things like subscriptions or fancy items that we can live without.
Isn't this from Jared Diamond? I read this in The World until Yesterday I thought, from his time in New Guinea.
The old problem is solvable with a compass, a straightedge and a rope.

[You wrap the rope around the circle and straight it to get a segment of length 2πR, and take the middle point to get a segment of length πR. Then use the compass to continue it with a segment of length R. And then calculate the square root like in https://www.geogebra.org/m/edtecfcv to get a segment of length sqrt(π)R that is the side of your square. I'm sure this was known in ancient times.]

Using only compass and straightedge is more like a esthetics decision.

The old problem is difficult (impossible) because you have strong restrictions about which points you can draw. You have no rope and no magic rule to get any arbitrary length.

The new problem is difficult because you must cut one figure and rearrange the parts to get the other figure.

They have very different restrictions, in spite both are about a circle and a square with the same area.
Lol, sure, starting Universa after basically inventing tail-risk trading strategies is definitely "becoming irrelevant."
Well, in all fairness, Uber mostly killed the whole taxi industry by being really really illegal and not following any of the rules - including those meant for regulatory capture and those for safety. About 3000 women are sexually assaulted by Uber drivers every year - I'm not saying that doesn't happen with taxis too, just be careful about painting a too-rosy picture.
I would rather have the simple transaction that I give the company money and they give me stuff than buy a phone where the company makes money based on collecting personal data on everything I do on the phone.
I understand what it means, but I still don't like it.
We're well past having card slots on laptops in the Apple realm. Rumor mill suggested possibly getting ports back on a refreshed MacBookPro, but I am not holding my breath.

For those not using Apple laptops, this might be a thing, but I still doubt it's something manufactures will see a lot of demand.

My favorite has been the USB memory sticks that are the same physical size as a bluetooth dongle. Since they are so low profile, the chances of them coming unplugged are pretty damn slim. The only draw back was they are pretty small in capacity for trying to run an OS.
I think we have a lot of people having very different discussions about what "3D printed gun" means. This can be anything from a fully plastic weapon like the Liberator to what you're describing (more 3D components and home assembled traditional components coming together which really just feels like the "80% receiver" style ghost guns) to a fully metal 3D printed 1911 off a machine that itself costs at least half a million dollars to acquire.

Point being: Yes they do, but also no they don't, because you're having different conversations about different types of weapons. Are fully plastic weapons commonly used for anything? Doesn't seem to be, and I would suspect the reason is because they'd be inclined to blow up/warp after a single fire.
From github:

"There are no macOS port of flameshot now that can be easy installed. But you can build flameshot by yourself and use it. Please participate in the development of flameshot and help us make a macOS version."
I would probably fit the description of "typical West Coast liberal" were it not for the Colt 1991 factory customized we have in the gun locker (along with a couple other boom sticks). Reformed Midwesterner who didn't sell all of the guns after the conversion. Don't carry that Colt, and don't even shoot it much anymore, but the story does interest me because I can admire fine mechanical things, and it is good to know that Colt isn't going to some private equity firm like Remington.