jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Would people contribute as much if the site was supported by advertising?

Would people use and trust the content as much if the site was supported by advertising?

I think the answer to both of these questions is 'no'.

When I talk about the Wikipedia brand losing power, this is what I'm thinking about.
Quora has become hugely significant in the startup community, it's probably now the largest online community of startup people.
Please add NSFW to the title ..
Given the scale of Wikipedia, the fact that they can run it on only $10M/year is rather impressive.

Glancing at the docs you reference, roughly $6M of their spending goes to straight operating expenses (servers, bandwidth, travel, etc). I don't think anyone would disagree that is completely reasonable for an organization Wikimedia's size with the amount of traffic they have (it seems quite lean, even compared to most startups).

The other big chunk ($3.5M) is salary for people.

There you have to take into account that they have ~70M unique users a month. Assuming $150K/engineer/year all told (office space, computers, salary, benefits, etc) and that all the salary were just going to engineering, that's only enough cash to hire about 23 engineers (or about 1 engineer for every 3M users). In practice, not all their employees are engineers, so it's probably closer to 5M users per engineer. As a point of comparison, Facebook brags about having only 1 engineer per million users.

Wikipedia is being laudably frugal and efficient. I can't imagine running a site their size with much fewer resources.
Daniel W. Dobberpuhl (the founder of PA Semi) was also the architect for StrongARM (when he was at Digital).

Intel only got involved because DEC sued Intel for patent infringement (over the Pentium processor), and lost. Intel grabbed a lot of DEC's technology in the settlement, including StrongARM (which became XScale).
Even more accurately, they still DO build ARM chips. They only sold the PXA processors to Marvell.

Could you maybe read the Wikipedia article next time?
Here's what I use instead of Facebook:

Google calendar for events - Anyone with any email address can be invited to an event. Google calendar also emails out standard format .ics files with it's invites so participants are free to use whatever calendar app they choose and just import the ics files. (This also hooks up nicely with my android calendar). I'm looking forward to when everyone on Facebook gets an @facebook email address and then I'm going to start sending them all Google calendar invites ;-) Seriously, I think Google calendar is a seriously under recognised service.

Twitter for a news feed equivalent - You don't need an account to read so it is open enough. (There is also status.net or identi.ca if you want even more openness). I embed a feed of the most recent posts in my webpage. If you want to subscribe, you can use RSS so you don't have to use twitter to follow me.

Photos - I use a combination of FlickR and my own custom image gallery on my website. On FlickR you can set the photos to be public so viewers don't need to have an account.

Messages - Obviously I just use email.

When I meet people I want to connect with, I ask for their email address rather than ask if they are on Facebook. I occasionally use Facebook to find people and then ask for their email address via Fb message.

I can't think of anything else I really miss out on from Fb.
So if Facebook is so bad, someone please come up with a compelling high level vision of what could replace it and why the replacement would be better?

Preferably something as compelling as Sir Tim's original vision for the Web...
Translation is a lot harder for language pairs that are less related. Most of the European languages are fairly close cousins, so translation between, say, English and French isn't that hard.

That said, it's generally true that for most NLP tasks, we're doing much better on languages similar to English.
I like it that the "best ever" rating is limited to 10 (will possibly be dynamic over time), so trigger-happy folk who tend to hyperbole will actually have to think before going "BEST EVAR!!" indiscriminately.
Inflation benefits debtors while it penalizes savers but the poorest segment of society is neither savers (as they have no disposable income) or debtors (as nobody will lend to them) and are hurt the most from inflation.

A high net worth individual may lose expected future income due to inflation but someone that is poor may not eat today because of inflation.

Eventually when inflation gets bad enough and real rates are negative producers will simply sit on commodities rather then distribute them. Leaving the oil in the ground maybe a better looking term wealth preservation strategy then pumping and selling the oil.
Funnily enough the stock doesnt seem to have moved at all as a result of this news - http://www.google.com/finance?q=sne
Thanks for waiting a week to tell me my credit card info has been stolen Sony.

I am not a big fan of MSFT usually, but the next time I am buying a console I'm not buying a PS4.
I wonder how many times a company can install trojans on your computer, destroy your OS's security, secretly watch all your actions, then proceed to not properly protect your data when you voluntarily give it to them...before going out of business.

Sony's size and momentum must be pretty crazy. Or maybe it's our society. I just can't imagine a small record store in the 1960s, after being caught spying through the bedroom windows of its customers, ever staying in business.

I feel terrible for anyone caught in this. But maybe, just maybe, Sony isn't the company to do business with anymore?
A brilliant anecdote, yet I am curious how you can still believe in the dreaded "lisp curse," after experiencing so much success with it.

Is it an attribute of Lisp that there exists a mythical lone-wolf that seeks to produce software so pure and elegant that no mere mortal can possibly understand it? Is it an attribute of Lisp that this lone-wolf, like a by-gone action hero, prefers to work alone?

Lisp, like any sufficiently useful language, simply gives you enough rope. It's good, sturdy, and well-tested rope. You could probably climb a mountain with it. Or hang yourself. Your pick. The rope has very little to do with it.
If someone has had their data stolen, are there any steps that they can take to ensure that they are not fleeced or does this mean that it's only a matter of time (or perhaps luck)?
Has anyone tried to buy the book: "Innovators Delimma" http://bop.ly/DgRF1 from the site? I just wanted to make sure if you did all was working ok.
Please always remember that you can learn anything you want. All it takes is some blood, sweat, and tears.
Yeah, they ought to put it on GitHub and accept pull requests.
I recently discovered that, when working with a PDF in Acrobat, I can specify that the bookmarks panel is displayed to the user when the file is opened.
Most anti-virus software is the worst of both worlds: 1) it fails to block virus, trojans and rootkits, 2) it messes up your operating system (infecting file system hooks). Firewall software can be useful- but less so anti-virus (though you do need to turn off some auto-run/auto-open facilities even on a Mac).
I rarely visit either, and I don't download DMG from them. The only DMG files I install are from tusted sites: Apple, Adobe, Sourceforge, etc..
"Running a compiler in the browser in production will never be a good idea."

Well, it's way too late for that. You need to send that statement back to mid-1990s.

Or does your processor natively execute Javascript text?

That dogmatic declaration is nonsense. Compilers are just code. Certain programming language compilers are very slow due to the immense complexity of their task but there's nothing intrinsically slow about compilers/interpreters next to any number of other normal tasks. I've even sped code up by replacing large swathes of ad-hoc hard-coded crap code with a nice small interpreter that was small enough to be feasibly optimized, rather than the mass of code that was previously there that everybody was afraid to touch.

The really slow part would be the parsing, really, and if Less.js doesn't already have a "straight from JSON" mode, it would be easy enough to add one, then you could actually use the "native" Javascript parser and compiler.
I guess that's why he got BP to put $20 billion into an escrow fund. What is it you want him to do, exactly?

Back when he was talking about the need for more alternative fuels etc. I kept hearing about how he was interfering too much with markets and was a closet statist/socialist/Communist. Of course a few months ago otherwise sane people were still chanting 'drill baby drill' at political rallies.
"Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth."
Archimedes. Said to be his assertion in demonstrating the principle of the lever.
You're right, "what happened to google" was neither unpredictable nor unavoidable. The decision to stop cooperating with the CCP was commendable (and probably good for the shareholders too) but they were not forced out.
See here, exercise #3:
http://osalrex.110mb.com/HTML/5BX_chart1.html

The variations get harder on higher-numbered charts.
It works fine indeed. I'm using it all the time.
Would be interesting to hear feedback from folks actually working in that building in a good 6 months, let us know how it turns out.
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Special projects such as Target Audience Analysis, if you want to know exactly how your audience decides;

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And at the same time Apple pretends not to do this themselves since they can harvest the data in other ways so iMessage doesn't have to show as many warnings. Very disingenuous and pure PR (that clearly is working as intended even on HN). With cloud, iMessage and a unique advertising id Apple knows way more about its users than Facebook does. Great that Facebook gets exposed, but naïve that people believe Apple collect less.
The article is incoherent.

In any case, if the early adopters of Apple products are getting a bad deal as the author seems to be saying, where are these unhappy customers? Shouldn't such unhappyness show up in customer satisfaction surveys, where Apple leads by a wide margin?

On the other hand, the author's central point that early adopters often don't make out so well generally is probably true. Experienced tech customers understand the risks, others may not.
Yeah, this is pretty relevant to hacking and startups.
I'd say I don't have a wife, but there's a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that ;)

Seriously, people use the wife or parents scapegoat all the time. In high school my mother told me if I was at a party and being peer-pressured into something I didn't want to do, to blame her in order to get out.
False. From the FAQ:

In my profile, what does showdead do?

If you turn it on, you'll see all the submissions and comments that have been killed by the editors. They're mostly spam and duplicates.
Avast Personal also detects a bunch of javascript trojans.
Dupe, sorry.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1413214
Apache with worker mpm to serve the site.
Nginx for static content
This is simply untenable for most people, and certainly impossible if we all lived like this.
> It doesn't bother me to force her to internalize some of the costs she is inflicting on me.

She's not inflicting those costs on you. You're offering to pay. That offer doesn't obligate her to make things cheap for you.

If you don't like what it costs for you to feel good about yourself, that's your problem.
Their home page loads fine for me.
I try to give short simple examples because when I try to tell people the truth their eyes glaze over and their brain turns off while the nerd talks his techno jumble.

Non technical people only have the patience to learn / listen to very basic concepts.

> but usually back fires as other people ask you multiple questions, arising from their own point of view.

I don't think this is back firing its just giving the non technical person the time to take in whats been said and then they ask follow up questions to confirm their understanding. I have had people get frustrated that I was talking down to them, when that happens I stop and talk to them as if they have my knowledge and they immediately regret that and ask me to go back to explaining like they are a child. Its not me trying to fluff my ego by talking down, I just legitimately know more about the topic than them, thats why they are paying me, I guess some times they just need reminded of that.
> No, I do not let either game idle, as I consider it cheating.

that's a bit weird to me, because both games are all about automation... do you insert materials into machines and remove smelted or manufactured items by hand? no? then you're idling as far as those machines are concerned, anyway. you're only ever working on a tiny fraction of a percent of the factory at any time, so all of the rest is? ... idling, that's right. running without you.

does it really matter if the percentage of machines working without you is 99.5% or a full 100%? I'd vote "no."

besides, if you fail to automate correctly, your factory performance will slow or even halt without you, exposing any flaws whether you're there or not.

automation and player idling are core gameplay mechanisms in these games.
I see that this is your previous submission, but is there any point in linking to a previous submission with 0 comments?
>Custom application specific databases

Not doing COBOL but am working with an ancient application supporting business operations and this is my hell. Also, the databases are likely ancient, outdated, and poorly documented (at least according to my PTSD).

"Oh it uses an oracle db? What version? 10? FML - you know that versioncan legally drink in Canada, and the EOL for that product is going to have a bar mitzvah in a couple years, right?"
What you just described is one of the biggest downsides of accepting a security clearance - and, happily, the First Amendment prevents such consequences for those of us (like me) who have never done so.

I very much respect my friends and colleagues who have made the other choice, but it's a lifelong sacrifice of liberties that are otherwise present.
But how often does your concern meet their eyes/ears/etc? I seem to only get form letters, some of which aren't even appropriate responses to my concerns.

If it's a form letter, you're just going to be lumped in with the others of similar concerns.
Although I think you’re being sarcastic, I’m sort of in the same camp. We started doing code reviews a few years ago after years of informal releases, and I found they acted like a sieve; I reckon we halved our deployed bug count, at reasonably low cost, but also code style and knowledge improved across the board.

Code reviews are not a silver bullet, and we still released some whoppers, but halving the deployed bug count and improving the code base is a worthwhile outcome.

We’ve recently started doing CD with E2E tests and I reckon E2E has halved the deployed bug count again. It’s definitely stopped bugs from entering production.

There always seems to be a trade off between the cost of action (in resources, time to release, flexibility) and quality, there is no right answer (despite what people will tell you), and it’s up to you to set the acceptable bar for released bugs, and to deal with the consequences.

For me, code reviews improved bug counts less than I’d expected but had other quality benefits that I felt more than made up for the modest cost of the additional ceremony.
> but I do know that a programming language is just a tool.

So I take it you write all your *nix programs in C?
So an even better alternative title would be "The Author of This Essay Does Not Understand Engineering, Software, Technology, Medicine, Or Any of the Other Practical Arts Which Have Always Involved Shipping Imperfectly Understood Machines".
Perhaps. One could argue that one of these init file templates is just a base class with parts of the implementation overridden. :D
As disclaimed, it turns out there were holes in my understanding. :)

The Ars article being discussed is actually where I read that. However, upon attempting to find the original case it looks like SCOTUS hasn't yet heard such. From this Lawfare post, (https://www.lawfareblog.com/fifth-amendment-decryption-and-b...), SCOTUS Fisher v. United States is relevant but doesn't actually involve passwords. Also from that page, the Eleventh Circuit seems to think that government knowledge of incriminating device contents permits forced decryption while the Third Circuit argues that merely knowing you possess the password is sufficient.

In both cases the precedent is that you can be forced to turn over a password; it's only the details of the prerequisite government knowledge that are under debate. As far as I can tell, the current PA case goes against that.

Referenced PA Supreme Court case: https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/2019...

Related PA Superior Court case that was appealed: https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/201...
Are you suggesting that the police reports are false? Or?

+1 to the below comment, I don't know enough about Tripp, but from the description given by the police it doesn't sound (on face value) like Tripp was being manipulative as you insinuate?
I am so excited by the Cybertruck. I drive a Toyota minivan now and my lease is up in the fall of 2021 so the timing is perfect. To me this is the perfect minivan alternative and my husband is thrilled with the hauling capacity, plus the specs. Fun to drive, big range and looks cool (but I could not care less what it looks like since I drive a minivan now!)and the price is the real hook. No gas needed six seater electric truck that drives like a Porsche? Sold. So you can get the truck market but also the minivan market. That’s huge. And my family skis and snowboards so it’s perfect for going to the mountains. Total all purpose vehicle for an active family. What is not to love?
Same problem here, had to restart the browser (Firefox/Windows). Ate all memory.
Who else is in your "many" other than the one person (polling at absurdly low numbers) offering handouts, Andrew Yang? It's not even clear whether his offer is legal.
I'm not conflating. Just like Julia, Swift can JIT... after all both are built on top of the inventor of Swift's LLVM compilation environment.

That is not what I'm talking about. Nor am I talking about dynamic dispatch. Swift supports 4 different dispatch models from static to dynamic, depending on how the compiler optimizes.

What I'm talking about is a static type system. From Julia's documentation: "dynamic type systems, where nothing is known about types until run time".

What is fascinating, is ML/AI developers develop deep infrastructure to support ontologies for their target problems, but then forget to adopt the same for their code tooling. You can go though a series of proofs to demonstrate that you can't extract intent from a language that doesn't enforce it. And what is possible in a language's future can be expressed by how much intent can be extracted.

Like Julia, Swifts scientific computing ecosystem is still evolving. But keep in mind that Swift can call Python, C, objC & C++ directly, works in Jupyter notebooks, has already large general purpose open source library ecosystem.
Facebook used Onavo security app to recognise WhatsApp as a growing and valuable platform to buy, for 19 billion though.
There is no offer of money for votes. In fact, many of the poorest areas of the country are more likely to vote Republican.
Good extension of that analogy :) The real issue isn't scraping the data (which is very hard to prevent unless you put in some sort of access control), but what you do with it once you have it. This is where I can sympathize with CL's complaint. It comes down to ownership of the information in a particular listing and whether you can prove that it is yours or not.
I'm boycotting Jet Blue.
> Well, whatever the actual reason for the surrender, any claims about it one way or the other are totally unfalsifiable.

Fair enough. But the people with the best understanding of events as they were happening, were those actually making the decisions at the time.... and they decided to drop the bomb.

For years after that it's been 'backseat drivers' second-guessing that decision despite their own claims being totally unfalsifiable. While it might be nice to be able to look back on hindsight, no one had a crystal ball at the time, which is why it's inappropriate to pin decisions made in 1945 with the moral qualms of a generation that has never seen world-wide total war.
I assumed it was about CCTV cameras based on the corrected title. Wearable cameras is a much more interesting story - glad I hit the comments to figure that out.
This is a manifestation of the US institutionalized xenophobia.

Good manners and taste should keep me from using this submission as another soapbox against how the US views foreigners, but when you see foreigners as enemies, a citizen who looks or acts vaguely "foreign"— I can't offer a precise definition of what "looking foreign" entails, but it's a combination of being a part of a small demographic group, and being a part of an ethnicity that is regularly caricatured in the media and in public discourse—will be treated with the same respect and care dispensed to a real foreigner.
Agreed, but it would also vary by the nature of the hackers' intent. With the current global economy, taking down Wall Street would create an immediate impact worldwide and would have long term rippling effects. Hacking into and disrupting a power grid could do the same, but is heavily dependent upon location and timing, no? Maybe I just don't know enough about how the power grid works.

Granted, if we're talking about physically destroying infrastructure as opposed to just hacking, then I'd have to agree with you.
Contrarian perspective:
He fits a certain profile. Triggered a bunch of attributes (address move, chemicals on him, etc.).

The 9/11 attackers walked through the scanners with knifes.

The Boston bombers were flagged, but still traveled freely.

After both attacks people were laughing at the stupidity of the enforcement agencies, uselessness of the TSA, etc.

Here, the process worked.

His account is subjective, everyone else is an idiot, he's way smarter than them, gets offended by simple questions about religion, etc. OK, good for him. The more you push back, the more self righteous and arrogant you are during security checks, the deeper you're digging yourself in. Those people are doing their jobs. Same with how you should be treating waiters, etc.

JetBlue has the right to deny you a flight. ElAl does this all the time, incl. racial profiling. Good security track record.