jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One other point, which you may already be aware of, is that the font size on the image next to the phone number, as well as the links for "about", "contact us", and "legal & privacy" is quite small, and I had trouble reading it. Given your audience is elderly people, it might be good to increase the size of these items -- having to search for a small link to find the phone number mostly negated the effect of seeing a real 888 number for me.
No, no no. If you're guessing wildly like that, don't bother.

In this case, "woo" refers to the "softer" attributes often associated with women - nurturing, caring, feeling.
Not from the "public" page though. If I click on the typography demo I get the message that I MUST download Safari, even though we can see that that demo runs fine in Chrome.

OK, so it's an advert, but it's a misleading one.
http://Techzinglive.com 2 guys with startups and still keeping their real jobs just talking about almost anything. Once in a while an awesome guest.
www.econtalk.org
Interesting. Thanks. What did the Catholic Church have to say about that? Is it that Easter Monday is still on Monday, but the holiday is on Tuesday?
I remember hearing this on reddit but the post is mirrored at http://www.volnation.com/forum/pub/127425-iphone-bug-2.html#...

'Look at the video for session 115, "Using Core Location in iOS". Skip to around 13:45 for the discussion of "Course Cell Positioning" where they discuss the cache in detail.'
One would hope that a technically savvy mob would just disable location services on their iPhones in the Settings app and not track this information to begin with.
[1990]

The 2010 followup on compressed sensing: http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/cleves...
Quite close.:) I've read that book when I was a child.:) I've had some math influence, and I had the luck to be the student of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lajos_P%C3%B3sa_(mathematician) when I was 13 years old.
Thank you for correcting the spelling.
Oh, I agree for sure that we shouldn't taunt or bait other users, in ways that would hurt them emotionally and tempt them to attack in turn. That's just as bad as an overt attack - it destroys the spirit of a robust debate. But this all falls under a proper understanding of respect and decorum, at least as far as I'm concerned. These words just feel more precise and accurate when referencing these things. Which helps making the norm stick.
License-wise, Garage is AGPLv3 like many similar software projects such as MinIO and MongoDB. We are not lawyers, but in the spirit, this should not preclude from using it in commercial software as long as it is not modified. In the case where you are modifying it, like e.g. adding a nice administration GUI, we kindly ask that you publish your modifications as open source so that we can incorporate them back in the main product if we want.
> it is more like supporting the most common import/export file type in Photoshop/Blender

I understand the rationale, but Photoshop/Blender files are very common in their respective space. In comparison, the proportion of people using S3 protocol vs NFS/FTP/SFTP is insignificant (i don't have stats).

> If you have existing running processes in place and all you need to update is connection string and auth to save a ton of money then you are much more likely to do so.

Good point! But do companies using cloud storage really want to save on costs? If they did, there were already much cheaper storage solutions long before Amazon S3 existed so why go with S3 in the first place? Amazon's pricing is confusing for storage costs, but for sure 0.09$/GB egress is a much higher cost than most providers (90$/TB ?! that's very much the price of an entire 1TB hard drive!).

Amazon "cloud" is just vendor lock-in and i'm personally a little uneasy to encourage anyone to support their tooling because who's gonna benefit from that apart from Amazon? Certainly not the hundreds of maintainers who'll have to spend countless hours to implement/maintain these new protocols who from my understanding don't bring any new useful feature.
Do they like Facebook/Instagram specifically, or do they like having a social network where their friends are? Because the former disappearing doesn't mean that there won't be the latter.
I suggest not throwing out the baby (the monolith) with the bathwater (dependency hell). Some languages are better than others at managing dependencies. You might like Rust in this regard; it has no global namespace, so IIUC, that minimizes dependency conflicts.
Facebook recently lost 10% of their market cap because Apple put up some simple anti-tracking features. It’s very obvious that Facebook’s business is very sensitive to minor privacy improvements and restrictions on what Facebook can do with data. Presumably Facebook knows a lot more about how much its revenue depends on what it does with user data server-side than anyone else does, and is therefore in a good position to predict how much upcoming regulatory actions could affect its business.
> Do people really do that?

Yes, though true trolling is actually pretty rare. But yes, trolls try to completely disrupt an otherwise functioning forum by keeping a fake "discussion" going.

The most obvious one I know of is Mike Vandeman who has been trolling mountain bikers online since the 90s:
http://www.bicycling.com/blogs/thehub/anti-mountain-bike-vig...
I copied and pasted Traffic Beat on http://ltsun.com/
Purely illegal and unconstitutional. I admire the spirit, but this is the sort of thing that wouldn't make it past a District Court judge.
I was thinking '720 to 768? That's not such a big deal...' until I actually read the chart.

That's great! My 720 just went to a 1024. Thanks, Linode!
I agree with you based on my intuition. I want to make a point that's not even a quibble with what you're doing (since you're working within fixed constraints) but I feel is worth raising anyways.

The BLS data that I'm familiar with are not granular enough to decisively reach the conclusion that a college degree is still worth it. For example, the BLS data do not allow you to even begin to guess if colleges are merely admitting people who could have directly entered High Paying Job X even had they not attended college.

Take Princeton, for example. Does a Princeton degree add income potential, or is it simply the case that people who get into Princeton are so smart that they have lots of income potential? The only way to conclusively know this is to identify people who were admitted to Princeton (and thus met their entry criteria) but decided not to go to college at all. (Even then, there would be selection bias here, since those choosing not to attend probably differ qualitatively from those who attended.) Then, look at standardized lifetime earnings of both cohorts. Do Princeton grads do better than Princeton admits who decided to forgo college?

The best test would be a randomized controlled trial but... heh... that's just not going to happen since there's likely harm without likely benefit if you're in the no-college cohort.
Exactly, the bigger difference is that free users will always be using your resources (servers, bandwidth, support) while trial people after 30 days is out.
Their API is good aside from going down for a couple hours every once in awhile.

I'm using yahoo's yql to get weather by lat/lon:

$req = "GET /v1/public/yql?q=";

$req .= urlencode("use 'http://github.com/yql/yql-tables/raw/master/weather/weather.... as we;select * from we where w in (select place.woeid from flickr.places where lat=\"$lat\" and lon=\"$lon\") and
u='c'");

$data = $this->http_request("query.yahooapis.com
", $req);
It's possible iChat will get this feature sometime in the future or that Qik for the iPhone will be able to use the front facing camera and offer that level of interoperability you're looking for. Who knows? It's a bit early to jump to conclusions I think.
There are a few very directly related things that are worth looking at, but even those tend to not be some of "HN's finer moments". Other stuff is tangential and really degrades rapidly.
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll but I had to google to find it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1413335

Similar story from AllThingsD, and HNs discussion
To know you are right when you are right doesn't require ego.

Usually, when people go with the opposition even when they think they are right, it is so to protect their egos by placing the responsibility for being right or wrong with their opposer. They became followers.
Bigger than China?
I could equally well believe that they got rid of it because it affected the quarterly earnings report and there was maybe one customer who was "incandescent with rage" that the caps they put in place worked exactly as advertised.
I checked someone who was part of the leak and the correct initials came up so unless that is by chance, it does seem to be querying the database. You can also read the source code [1] where it does an api call to get the data.

We can be pretty sure the results are legit but yes of course it could be running malicious code and stealing phone numbers. Check the raw data if you are worried[2].

[1] https://github.com/Fumaz/haveibeenfacebooked-api
[2] https://archive.is/MZqak
Everything leads to kidney stones, it seems.
Revived with Unicode support[0], but nobody ported it to Rust yet.

[0]: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
I have used bare repos managed by gitolite for close to a decade. Works great, and I never touch the config because I set up wildcard repos long ago.
The UK health regulator now is apparently also considering restricting the usage for younger recipients.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britai...
Elsewhere in thread, they say they used a DJI Spreading Wings S900, which has a flight time of 18 minutes. Using the fully automated remotes, there's a claimed range of 11-32 km depending on antennae, etc. Navigation, etc, could either be done with binoculars, or using the avionics package you can get for the drone, with gps, radio beacons, etc.

If found by the feds, identifying could be tricky; you'd have to do the old fashioned footwork of knocking on doors, asking if they saw any suspicious people. Given that a good amount of Mexico, including Tijuana, is in the midst of a hardcore drug war, finding witnesses could be more than a bit tough.
The thing that bothers me is he's being sentenced for "aiding" LulzSec and "obstruction" of justice by reporting on and re-tweeting information about their hacking spree.

This is the same LulzSec that was being secretly run by the FBI via their turncoat, Sabu, during some of LulzSec's highest profile hacks (such as the Stratfor hack)

Also, in addition to his 5 year imprisonment, he's been ordered to pay nearly $900,000 in fines.
This or, these are companies where managers need people to "look busy", which in a "remote allowed" environment will not be possible or will mean surveillance software.
(throwaway because I don't like to mix discussions of my relationships with professional discussions)

I was in a situation freakishly similar to yours for over 10 years. In late 2019 I left her, and while it was one of the hardest decisions of my life, definitely the hardest day of my life, and the road to a mentally healthy(er) position has been ongoing, it has proved to be a wise decision. I spend far less of my day feeling resentful, unvalued, and unvalidated, both individually and in my new relationship. In my own time and in counseling with a professional, I have learned many lessons about myself, what I want out of life and in a partner, and how to be my own advocate.

I deeply empathize with your position and you deserve to be happier. I hope this experience of mine might give you some vicarious experience to draw from, and I encourage you to consider making a change.
That linked nature paper seems to indicate 10g/cm^2 for a 50% reduction. A standard shopping bag is about 5g, so you would need roughly 20k bags/m^2, or ~2k bags/ft^2. At 0.9g/cm^3, that would be roughly 11cm of solid polyethylene
add a #4, which should be #1 in your list: people trying to pirate netflix (The app is a fake service that claims to allow users to view Netflix content from all around the world on their mobiles).
yes, finding a job where not much real work is done is easy. find one where there's also not much busy work too is much much harder.
And if you have a datacenter with 200 machines, that's roughly once a month.
Got a source for matrix group encryption issues?

EDIT:

From their [FAQ](https://matrix.org/faq/)

> End-to-End Encryption is fully supported in Matrix. New rooms have encryption enabled by default, and all existing rooms can optionally have End-to-End Encryption turned on.

What exactly do you think is broken here?
Are you thinking of VR? AR merges the virtual environment with the physical one. One fun example was that I played a Finnish board game sort of like Pictionary with a Finnish friend. All the cards were in Finnish which I don't know, but I could use my phone's AR translation app to "read" the cards in effectively real time.

AR glasses could hypothetically share a networked virtual environment, so I don't see why they couldn't be collaborative.
Out of curiosity, why was May ‘68 a “betrayal of our youth”?
They don't let you buy dogecoin. I sleep.
I wish new laptops would follow the form factor of the old Thinkpads instead of Macbooks. I realize that most people like trackpads and can't stand the trackpoint, but as someone who has used one for so long it would be fantastic if something like this existed.

That being said, this is a great project and it looks like it should be successful - having a laptop that is built to last with interchangable parts is a great idea and should've been done long ago.
There are few tools that are both geared to mainstream programming languages and reasonable to work with. But probably the best place to start is Infer [1]. It's marketed as a static analyzer, in other words a way to prove some properties, but the separation logic at its heart is a powerful and general program proof technique.

In time, I hope and expect that the RustBelt project[2] will become a practical tool to prove Rust programs correct. It's already found some bugs in the standard library, and the main focus is currently to firm up the semantics of the language. Its separation logic engine (Iris) builds on work from Infer.

Lastly, there are less mainstream languages that are better adapted to formal proving. To pick one, I'd probably go with Idris, as it is probably best at being a general purpose programming language in addition to a mathematical tool. But there are others. Lean is exciting because it is being used as the basis of an ambitious project to formalize mathematics, and its latest version (Lean 4) is trying to be a better programming language. Coq is mature and has been used for a lot of formal proving work (it underlies Iris, mentioned above), but is not a great executable programming language. ATS 2 generates extremely efficient code (it often wins benchmarks) but is inscrutable - probably only a handful of people in the world can write nontrivial programs in it.

[1]: https://fbinfer.com/

[2]: https://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/
I dig the concept, just hope the utilization pans out.

I’m holding out for an arm based Linux laptop which can handle Blender without too much fan noise... I would love to get a system76 laptop but I have doubts about the build quality. But they say that they are on tract to manufacture their own laptops this year. How does a framework laptop compare to System76? (Let alone a Lenovo or Asus.)

Any chance you guys could make your own distro in the future and brand it Lapdance?
Wow - really? I use both Linode and DO extensively and Linode is better on almost all fronts in my experience. Faster servers, better network, Linode's Object Storage is way better than DO's "spaces" and Linode's support is hands down the better of the two. If you're going to spend $5 on a server why would you go with DO unless you're already there?
I never thought people would pay for a color scheme too. That's why, I tried to position in a way where you'd not only get the actual themes, but also a bunch of other resources to make you more productive.
As a moderator of a wiki-project, I can confirm Aaron Swartz's results. After we had gained enough popularity, most of the articles were written by outsiders and core community was there only to maintain -- categorize, wikify, create interlinks here and there, delete garbage and, last but not least, have flamewars in the discussion pages.
Oddly, I have always received absolutely excellent customer service from Bank of America, except for the guy who half-threatened me that I was going to ruin my life the second I canceled my credit monitoring service. They were very helpful for all my card misplacements as well as the time I had to dispute a charge.

However, I do not think their web/ATM interface comes close to others (like Wells Fargo, have you seen that shit? Their ATM UI is beautiful) and I do not support them locking my money from WikiLeaks. I've been looking at Electric Orange and Schwab, both of which are free and have the same APR.
I disagree. It's not the domain registration fee, it's the executive time spent considering this strategy. If they don't have better things to do then they aren't earning their salaries.

Defensive domain registration does nothing (because there are infinitely many negative domain names) except signal that you are trying to cover up serious PR problems.
"If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse."
Attributed to Henry Ford
If your .Net codebase is crufty, get some unit-tests in place and start refactoring to make it better. It could be a lot worse - you could be maintaining a legacy spaghetti classic asp system. At least with .Net you'll have the ability to make some incremental improvements. Personally I find this kind of re-working of poorly written software enjoyable, but I may be in the minority.
FriendBinder does, I remember fixing it for the http://tinyarro.ws link shortner
Thundering herd is an efficiency problem on certain implementations of UNIX servers.

The accept()-issue you're referring to is merely a popular manifestation of the thundering herd problem.

The term is nowadays also used in a broader sense to describe similar situations in distributed systems.

It's not a common reason why servers crash when overloaded.

Again, nobody is talking about servers crashing here.

We are talking about web applications (which usually consist of multiple servers talking to each other) degrading to the point of not serving a meaningful rate of requests anymore.

In that context the role of the "thundering herd" is often taken by your own users, who will furiously smash their reload-buttons to get past those 500-errors.

It's an extra conditional in the event loop. Am I serving N or more clients right now?

You're talking about implementation details of a socket server. I was talking about entire applications.
Interesting that no-one has mentioned HTML5 yet. If everyone programmed web apps for this platform then "app neutrality" would not be an issue. Assuming the devices all implemented the spec consistently.
I wouldn't call it the plug pulled so much as the Grails project manager taking over from the Groovy project manager.
the alternative to a warning is: when your app becomes popular they shut it down, it's arguable that is not what you want either.
Any idea if the talk will be recorded?
I'd love to listen to a full talk but some space and time restrictions prevent me from attending in person.
I didn't have an IPTables rule allowing the VPN traffic (UDP port 1194) and so OpenVPN falls back to using 443, which triggered the problem. I looked at the workaround and decided not to bother as I didn't really need a VPN, I was intending to use the machine as an Nginx server only.
Perhaps you missed this part:

(They also almost always help out or completely forgive someone that accidentally ran up a massive bill in a short period of time.)
A current generation Hawsell chip can easily manage terabytes per second in on-chip cache and by manipulating registers.

Eight or more virtual cores plus SIMD operations that can smash against large chunks of data per cycle adds up awfully fast on a 4GHz chip.

They're also probably counting the fact that data flows from one system to another in sequence, but adding up each sequence. Eight streams of 150 gigabytes per second for example.

This doesn't count information that's captured but discarded at the source, processed away before it's transmitted downstream.
Hey! That's the OP's own summary! I didn't make that up.
Good question!

It is optional to store the UTC offset. The reason to store the UTC offset is to avoid ambiguity there might be when the timezone rules do not change.

If the timezone rules don't change and you happen to be storing a datetime that is during changing from DST to non-DST, you specify which specific time you are talking about. In autumn, clocks could be set back from 3:00 to 2:00. 2:30 happens twice. When you schedule the time you can ask the user "2:30 summer time or 2:30 winter time"?

So you only use the offset for anything in rare case there is an ambiguity (usually because of going off of DST), otherwise you just ignore it. In most cases even if the rules change like in the Chile example you would ignore it as well and use the offset provided by the timezone database.
That isn't quite right. With a sufficiently powerful formal system, you're forced to either have inconsistency or incompleteness - you're describing a system that is inconsistent. It's usually much better to have consistency and to sacrifice completeness. Then you'll have Ps that are true but unprovable, but at least you won't have P=~P which makes the system rather useless.
It's not excellent research. All they did is create a naive NN without any feature recognition and noted that it has a high rate of false positives when presented with random imagery. Duh.
About 9 years ago I had a small site where both page content and some large PDF files were stored in the same SQLite database. Nothing extravagant: about 20 pages and 10 PDF files, each PDF file averaging 2-3 MBs. The website was extremely and consistently slow: it would take several seconds to load any page. I eventually figured out that the problem was the binary blobs. After moving the PDF files from the database to the filesystem the load times went below 0.1s.

Since then I have not put large binary blobs in a database but I wonder if I would get reasonable performance by putting them in a _separate_ database instead of mixing them with other small-size rows.
I guess it depends who she signed with iTunes through? If it was herself then it seems like it would be covered by the "provided by COMPANY" clause, if not, then it seems like it would be readily covered by the "any other distributor" clause.
I still don't understand how that kind of feature is even remotely legal under the data protection laws in most if not all EU countries. I suspect that it isn't, but the under-staffed and under-budgeted privacy regulators don't want to pick that fight with an organisation as powerful as Facebook, even though it is exactly the kind of fight they should be picking.
You're confused. 27 states allow paying nothing. 23 states allow agency fees. Federal law prohibits charging non members for political activities.
So the files are uploaded to your service?
I find it interesting (sad, actually) that most other S-1 posts on here are congratulatory for the most part, giving kudos to the teams (look at the DO one today).

However, when it comes to anything crypto related, the emotions really come out. It's all "bitcoin/crypto is useless, doesn't solve any problem, waste of talent."

For a community of hackers, there really seems to be a lack of vision when it comes to crypto specifically.
Freedom to modify is also not the same as a renewable 7-day licence to run up to 3 custom apps, as long as you maintain a $99/year subscription and a device that can run Xcode.