jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Typewriter industry didn't continually have to be creative through those time periods. Hollywood did. It has to be creative and constantly come up with new "merchandise" in order to survive. IBM just had to come up with the "Selectric" or make slight improvements to satisfy what amounts to almost a cash cow type business in a more or less stable market.

Hollywood is in the entertainment business. They have adapted well to (as a business venture and to make money) the entertainment business over time. Movies aren't made the same way they were in the 30's, 50's or 70's.

While they certainly make their share of mistakes (with flops and not knowing necessarily what will be the next blockbuster) so do VC's and angels. They just try to match the best pattern they can and spread the money around. Hollywood does a version of the same. But Hollywood has been much more successful (at scale that is) than the "startup" industry has been. (Even taking into account VC investing prior to the Internet).

"Disrupt" hasn't been around that long. Hollywood has. People buy the product.
Nice work. Is the order of definitions supposed to be correct? The word "fast" has a first definition of "unrestrained by convention or morality", yet I would expect that to be lower down the list.
The part about inability to speed up authenticated page loads fails to take into consideration things like ESI.

If the majority of your page is still the same for logged-in users, but they see some pieces of content personalised for them, breaking them out into individually request-able components means you can let software like Varnish or a CDN rely on it's cache of the main page content, and make a very small (and ideally simple to process on the backend) request for the per-user content.

It took me some hunting to find it (no docs for v5 yet apparently) but if your stack already includes a caching layer (e.g. Varnish or a CDN) you may want to disable this extra cache using the config described here: http://blog.phusion.nl/2014/11/25/introducing-phusion-passen...
Instead of storing keys on a pendrive, consider using smart cards or some other crypto devices for that purpose. There are some tradeoffs involved, so research before acting.
> the Varnish HTTP cache has been used very successfully to speed up WordPress. But Varnish doesn’t help a lot with logged-in traffic
> This is caching that Varnish and other “normal” HTTP caches (including CloudFlare) could not have done

Varnish supports the ESI (Edge-Side Includes) standard, which allows it to cache fragments of a page, and for the cache server to build them again. It also allows you to completely bypass the cache for certain fragments. This is also supported by a number of CDNs (Fastly, Akamai). I've used the ESI technique several times and have been able to achieve a >98% cache hit rate on Fastly for a site with dynamic per-user content. Even the cache misses are only responsible for rendering a small component of the page
I always assumed you had to know how to make a compelling video to succeed at kickstarter. And as a correlate be charismatic and photogenic.
Too true about the troll-worthy title! I'm sure that helped.

We never got around to picking a more "academic" title, so we put it on arXiv under the working title.
You can do this with just about any site you want* right from the address bar of any modern browser.

* Dict.org, sadly not.
And HTML normalizer.
Almost everything I know about automata and formal languages I learned from Sipser's book or Wikipedia.
Yet you did. Remarkable that.
i'm actually curious, too. did a new version come out or something?
University of Mo., ROlla: It sounded cool.
University of Wi, Whitewater: Had family nearby
Praire State college: Convenient.
Indian River Community College: Convenient.
Florida Atlantic College: Convenient-Computer Engineering degree at age 36.
Recall how awful parking lots are in 2D.

Now add a dimension.

Scary, right?
I agree. Moreover, even if they choose to continue to do business with Netflix, any businessperson would see the potential for raising prices, and Netflix may make a big bruhaha now, but in the end, they'll pay it because they'll still make money.

Netflix' ridiculous profits and growth rate represents a demand unanticipated by the content providers that serve it. The only reason they didn't capitalize on this potential and raise prices is because of the length of the contract. As soon as it lapses, expect Netflix' profit margins to get a whole lot skinnier, and their growth to slow down. This looks like a classic case of a binding contract slowing down delaying the market response to unanticipated innovation. It's not the conglomerates shutting Netflix down with extreme malice and prejudice; it's the market adjusting and redistributing the newfound pie.
In my opinion, the worst thing a CEO can do is take a denialist approach to his competitors' successes. Microsoft is so large, and they compete on so many fronts, it is inevitable that they're going to face stiff competition from somebody. Today, this just happens to be Apple and Google. Ballmer has this terrible vacuum-cleaner-salesman approach to answering these questions. It's almost painful to watch.

I'd have a lot more respect for him if he spent less time being dismissive and had better answers about where his company is going in order to answer these successes.

Imagine the difference in the media/community response if Ballmer had come on stage at D8 with a (even somewhat) working Courier tablet. That's a moot point actually, because compared to the coverage of Google I/O and Steve Jobs' appearance at D8, Ballmer has received little coverage. Gee, I wonder why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptick_rule
I have been reading an unfortunately large amount of articles here on Hacker News seemingly deterring prospective students like myself from entering a university, especially from the field of Computer Science. They cite large tuition/living costs and "wastes of time" as not worth the potential four year education gained. These articles and blog posts claim that jumping straight into industry is an acceptable and perhaps even favorable alternative.

I don't think this viewpoint is credible, and you shouldn't listen to it. What is true is that, for many people going into college, it's a misuse (but a required one, often) of time because they're destined for non-college jobs. Widespread higher education is a waste of society's resources, and a lot of colleges out there aren't very good. But this decision isn't about society and its resources; it's about what's best for you.

What's best for you is probably to get a college education. It's very hard to get a decent job without one (and not so easy to get one if you have one, but that's another story).

Read every post on this thread. The advice here is great, and a good CS education will put you miles ahead (in terms of skill) of where you'd be without one. If, for some reason, you end up at a school that doesn't have a good CS program (a "Java school") then major in math and take the CS courses you like, plus independent studies.

As for which universities and colleges are decent, there are about 200 good universities and liberal arts colleges in the US, including most state flagships. You don't have to go to an Ivy or MIT to get a good education, and the drop off from Harvard to (for example) Penn State is measurable but not that steep; the academic job market is so rough that a lot of brilliant professors are ending up at middling universities. After you leave the top 200, the dropoff is much more severe.
Megaupload, for the uninitiated, allows one to download or stream via megavideo all sorts of pirated material. I know that when you stream the video, the player will stop after 72 minutes and the user is prompted to pay for megavideo premium service or wait 54 minutes until they can view more content.

Here's a question I've always had: Since most of the material on the site is pirated, can megavideo still legitimately charge for access to their content? Or a more interesting question, does paying for this content confer upon the user the right to view this copyrighted material?
Sorry, wasn't clear there: EPUB3 as a standard is theoretically OK, but real-world support of it on ebook readers just isn't there yet. And the update cycle is a lot slower than browsers or even mobile phones.

Also, do you know what is a great platform for "javascript and interactive stuff"? The web browser!
I wish more people knew this. The entire "chemical imbalance" shtick is a myth. If you are ever told this, your response should be, "What chemical? What level am I at? What level should I be at?".. But, alas, there is no blood test, or any other kind of test, which can yet determine this. That's not science.
Doing astronomy work in JS?
Spelling is hard on my cellphone. Would be nice to have a longer editing window.
Was this true pre IPO?
Interesting stuff as usual Netflix; but, the identifying and reporting of issues discovered under these conditions is really excellent for the community. Kudos to you all.
The end implementation sounds a lot like... Erlang. With the exception that this solution avoids allocations that Erlang probably makes due to immutability.
I don't understand why you're being so rude while trying to make a point.

The thing is technology companies, unlike pharmaceutical companies, automative companies, defence companies, or any other direct application of hard sciences, are more open to the idea of sharing their work with the rest of the community (academic or otherwise). People at Google for example has written highly cited papers about distributed systems, early compilers work has been largely influenced by industry (think FORTRAN). Even academics developed many ideas about their "academic" work while producing work in the industry. One example is the Norcroft compiler suite (first ARM compiler), is developed by two Cambridge academics and then lead to influential papers in compiler optimisations.

I think it is just the case that people in computer science do not look down on people who did not go through rigorous academic training. The barriers to entry for computer science in most areas is fairly low compared hard sciences because you do not need a fancy laboratory to get results.

Also you clearly have not even bothered to look through previous workshops more than half of the papers have university associations.

This science, unlike physics, or biology, is still at its infancy. People of all sort of backgrounds can contribute massively and they do so.
> The only (current) real remedy is the nuclear option

Blockchain-based solutions like Namecoin & DNSChain would have prevented this attack without forcing people to rely on untrusted third-parties (if Google stored their domain info in a blockchain).

We compare various mechanisms here:

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain/blob/master/docs/Compa...

EDIT: Not sure why this comment is getting downvoted. Maybe some folks don't want this problem to be fixed? :-\
By "stories about vampires" GP probably means Lukyanenko's "* Watch" series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Lukyanenko#Series

"Night Watch" the movie made some splashes even in the West, IIRC. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMHQsjgQDrA
"TL;DR: Women need emotional stimulation"

Bingo.
They use VLF/ELF to send "message pending" and/or some other very short predefined signals. Russian military transmitter (ZEVS) is still operating on 82Hz frequency and uses Earth as an antenna.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency
According to CTIA, text message usage in the US grew 50% between 2008 and 2009, and so far in 2010 the increase is even greater. Can you guess what's happened to prices?
No, they argue that this would lead to less demand for prostitutes, which would balance it out.

In effect they say that disease would spread more slowly in a graph with less highly connected hubs and more balanced number of connections per node. This is quite unsurprising.
Why don't firefox and chrome have such a warning then?

> If they're based in the US, maybe, but there is more to the Internet than just the US.

I just think it's Apple acting overly prude like banning US political cartoons etc. Being sued because your web browser has access to adult web sites doesn't make sense. Countries where those sites are illegal are already censoring those sites (China, Malaysia etc).
A severely misguided analogy. Every VNA made to this day supports a Smith chart display, and every credible course on RF engineering covers them.

Meanwhile, nobody who's not involved in running a computer museum uses punch cards for anything, and there's little or no pedagogical value in continuing to teach IT or CS students about them.
The general public just shrugs upon hearing such news. They still think there is nothing dangerous if their data gets leaked.
Hmmm, I’m starting to feel like you might be sympathetic to the kind of people that Cohen is satirizing. Perhaps you may even share their same viewpoints as well.

Did you feel personally attacked by ”Who Is America”?
Well, it does lower the barrier for entry.
Laws have changed over time. When we got our third our oldest was 6. She was still required to be in a kid seat.
Started coding in 1988. What I've learned, it seems, that there are many styles. That they are worth learning. They are part of the art we practice. There are rules that these styles bring. And compromises.

Zen of Python. The exceptional beauty of John Carmack. Rebases of Google Style. Dive into a Linux Kernel. Very Objective Apple Style. Infinite pains of TensorFlow. Simple magic of SQL. Clarity of PyTorch. Unique ways of Prolog. Formality of Antlr. Frictionless Microsoft Style. Completeness of Theano. Abstract Syntax Notation One. Eldritch style of Michael Abrash.
I am writing this with sadness and frustration in my heart.

The only issue I have found seriously limiting my ability to use my own self hosted email server is the deliberate decision of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to make it hard for me to do so.

Their decision is essentially un-appealable. I still get hotmail complaints about spam being sent from an IP I do not own anymore. For the life of me I could not find a way to solve this. Yes I did remove that address from their “responsible domain owner nonsense thingy” to no avail.

Often times I would send an email to a domain owned by one of the big three and that email would just disappear. No bounce back at all. The recipient would not even see it in their spam folder.

They tell you to implement various technical solution line DMARC and DKIM but in the end what really matters is the arbitrary and capricious decision of these three companies against which there is no recourse.

I agree that hosting your own email server is important but this is a battle that I gave up fighting.
Posting from a throwaway account.

I worked at one of the main TLDs for years and was on one of the ICANN boards and got to know the industry well.

It is well know amongst the domain name community that ICANN is a poorly run organization, whose directors have in recent years have used their position of leadership to lead decisions from which they are afterwards benefiting themselves economically, in many cases by rushing decisions such as in these case.

Peter Dengate Thrush was famous for pushing for the new domain extensions (.anything) as chief executive of ICANN and quitting a month later to become the CEO for a company that was the main bidder for a large number of extensions. Fadi Chehade is doing the same with .ORG by lifting the price cap on the prices of an established domain name and then gobbling up the company that sells those domains.

Sadly, ICANN has little oversight and since its kind of in the air and doesn’t report to anyone, the directors get away with what would be legally considered corruption in most of the world. The fact that the internet community and most Internet companies have never care about it makes doesn’t help, since a lot or times the “multistakeholder” model that they claim to use in reality doesn’t work.

Ultimately, this is why the DNS and domain name industry feels so shady in general and why for most companies getting a name on the internet is a tortuous process that feels very scammy, which is unfair and costs more than it probably should. But so far we don’t have any good alternatives to the current system.
Coffee is Switzerland biggest export in terms of foodstuff. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/international-coffee-day_most-c...
I kind of doubt anywhere that close to Italy, large portions of whom speak Italian, has uniformly bad coffee.
While your High School Civics class said a lot of things, the reality is (most of) The Founders got together because they saw where things were headed and they were terrified of mob violence that was breaking out in the colonies. They worried that either the Brits would arrive a crush things, or the locals would turn on them with tar and feather.

So they got together and engineered a very weak democracy, unsure which direction it would go in. They left a lot of messy bits unresolved.

Twitter is a platform without an editor or oversight. It is a platform for mobs. Our Founders would have been terrified of it.
I don't think you understand. Read it again. But sigh. I could explain it again.

Disallowing companies from banning users would be forcing those companies to carry content they disagree with, thereby removing their right to free speech.
Think about the second order effect of this one: Trump has lost a big megaphone using which he could have influenced 2024. He has had 4 years to clean up many of the things he has been doing but failed to do so. Kicking him off social media means at-least some of the fence-sitters won't be influenced anymore.
So much this. Drives me up the wall in somewhat scientific discussions, e.g. about climate change. A bogus statement is easily made, but disproving it, if you don't already know the answer, is really hard work - sometimes could take weeks of sincere research, if you want to use proper scientific thoroughness. And of course, there are statements which basically cannot be disproved as they are completely discoupled from reality.
Please don't copy-paste comments. It lowers signal/noise ratio and makes merging threads a pain. (I'm just about to merge the two threads in question.)

If you or anyone notices a duplicate discussion going on, letting us know at hn@ycombinator.com is super helpful. If you want to refer to something you posted elsewhere, please use a link.
Maybe Parler users can take a page from BLM's book and have some peaceful protests in front of Apple Stores all over the country.
Trump has caused real damage to our society and democracy through his social media accounts. It is about time. Having said that, these actions ring hollow to me. He could have been banned a long time ago; this week's events are a culmination of brainwashing the weak through social media that has gone on for over four years. All of these Republican senators and representatives falling over each other to denounce him this week had the opportunity to remove him from office in February (or at least call witnesses at his Senate trial). They chose to remain silent, hoping that the political capital they built by supporting a dictator wannabe could be used for their own personal agenda. This week, they realized that wasn't going to happen, so fled like rats from a sinking ship, praying that they should save their tarnished political career or at least emerge with a shred of dignity. The timing is incredibly depressing, and Twitter's action feels the same to me.

I am an advocate for free speech and I hate to see mobs forming around people hoping to deplatform and "cancel" their enemies... but I learned this week that I have a lot to think about. It is sad to me that a veteran who served four tours of duty in the Air Force was shot dead in the United States Capitol, ending up in that unfortunate spot because of a constant barrage of misleading information from social media; literally egged on by the President of the United States.

We all have a lot of soul searching to do. I wish we didn't let it escalate to this point just to get some engagement numbers up.
We used to start with Aglio (https://github.com/danielgtaylor/aglio) and the API Blueprint format 1A (https://github.com/apiaryio/api-blueprint) provided by Apiary.
We recently moved from Aglio to Apiary.
I believe everything you said is correct. This is still a non issue.

What the GP was complaining about is the political climate where it is natural for a scientist to openly state that women are better than men at X, while it would be career suicide to claim that men are better than women at Y.
It looks like there are some options out there for REST APIs.

Does anyone know of any API specs written for websocket APIs?

I am working on creating a websocket API and would like to at least look at a few other examples.
Well here is the shareholder list
http://oneradionetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/FrbNY_owners2....
Current Customers Sales + Potential Customer Demand = Value?
I agree, but the problem is that you don't ever want to do this whether those are three different variables (or is that two?) or whether all are alternative forms of the same case/underscore insensitive name. Nim is going out it's way to make the syntax you have about legal (will all of these equivalent), which strikes me as a bad move.

The best case for usability is that this "feature" never used, which makes it an odd design choice. The worst case is that the feature is used frequently, there is no clear language norm, visually scanning for variables is harder, search and replace requires dedicated tools, and subtle bugs abound. Far better (in my personal opinion) to make identifiers case sensitive and enforce consistency with style guidelines and code "prettifiers".

The current Nim approach is being called cs:partial (case sensitive partial) and makes the first letter case sensitive but all others insensitive. This like an awkward compromise, and needlessly complicated. The best proposal I've seen suggests making "_x" equivalant to "X" (underscore is an alias for "next letter is capital"). But I don't see it as better than case insensitive plus strong code conventions.
He probably doesn't, and any level of fine that would be reasonable to authorize in a general law would probably fail to deter him. Which is probably why a law passed last year empowers the State Land Commission to acquire a new access easement across the specific property at issue for public use, independent of whatever is already due to the public under state law, either by negotiation or condemnation if negotiation fails to secure an agreement by Jan. 1, 2016.