jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Did you think this was a bribe to ensure speedier "service" by the Police if the need arose?

Not to enter the argument about whether it's a protection racket (i.e. whether it shares many characteristics with the racket of the 1920s), but I think the problem is apparent. Absent incentives, the police would be present evenly according to their estimate of which places they should be at. If incentives did not increase a policeman's desire to be at a store, then providing the incentive would be pointless (and indeed the GGGP comment implies that the purpose of the incentive is to get a couple of cruisers in the parking lot in order to deter crime).

The only reasonable conclusion is that these incentives are provided in order to skew the locations at which police would be present. So the issue isn't speedier service. It looks like he's implying that they'd get more frequent visits as a consequence of providing preferential treatment.
> They wouldn't have even noticed unless articles like this continued to circulate.

We should clearly find a way to squash and punish the infidels from voicing their opinion.

I feel there is a bit of dissonance here between:

> should switch to Ubuntu and discover how much further ahead OS X is.

> People just like to complain.

I've used Ubuntu for some time. Now on 14.10. Can you point out how ahead OS X is? Not saying it isn't. Just there is nothing I lack or wish I had in Ubuntu 14.10 that I don't already have. I like the interface. The ecosystem of packages. All hardware I want to work works. Also I paid $0 for the OS, (But donated to it before, you can too here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute if you feel like it is lacking major functionality)
To clarify my previous post, I'm totally fine with server-logs. As the 2nd-party to the conversation, the server has to know who the request is from, and can log it. These logs can certainly provide a lot of value.

As you mention, I'm more concerned with tracking as a 3rd-party[1]. There is, obviously, at least some real benefit in these cases that would not be possible when only using server logs. It's probably a lot less than most people think. A lot of that data (or similar-enough data when measured in e.g. how much it benefits sales or makes marketing cheaper) can probably be found elsewhere.

If we knew what the core benefits (needs, not wants), we might (in an ideal world) even be able to have some sort of social negotiation where the data can be provided in some form (or an alternative, or by making sure the real social cost is covered properly).

[1] While the law currently doesn't work this way, involving a 3rd-party unauthorized should really be considered some new type of (criminal) wiretapping in states that require 2-party consent.
The stats that would be hit the most obviously would be bandwidth, followed by RAM.

Storage requirements would change of course, but
bandwidth would be absorbed by whatever CDN they're using, so traffic quantity stat would be different.

Also, with images/videos, they're now sending more URLs/embeds/etc. along with data, so more characters = more RAM for caching and/or serving up on web servers. In theory, shouldn't be much more of a hit.
"If you have thoughtful investors in your company, hopefully they’ll provide useful feedback about how to deal with a difficult situation. And it’s okay if you as the CEO don’t have all the answers when confronting a challenge. But you have to be prepared to map out the options of how to move the company forward, and it behooves you to have a strong recommendation and rationale for your plan."

This doesn't just apply to startupland. In almost any management situation if you're having to point out a problem it will always go better if you have at least one solution ready. This is quite literally how you turn crisis into opportunity.
Indeed. But not on the Treo ;)
They aren't "evergreen" by nature though, right? Many of the models you list will probably be gone in a handful of years, and the reliability numbers on different companies and different disk sizes could have done a complete 180. Why, just contrast the great numbers out of Hitachi with the Hitachi DeathStar of old...
I can't load this site because blackblaze only supports 2 TLS ciphers. TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA, TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
Taxi services are a classic case of monopoly through regulation. The canonical example is the medallion in NYC (and other places). These medallions are required to legally provide a traditional taxi service. They can cost $1M[0] (or can be leased for $1000s/month). The supply of taxis is limited by the restrictions on medallions - already leading to a movement along the demand curve to a point above market-clearing equilibrium (higher cost, lower quantity of transactions). In addition to the decreased supply, there is also a huge fixed cost in the medallion, which forces fares higher still.

The primary benefit of Uber, in my mind is that it allows for the elimination of this deadweight loss, and allows taxi-service to be provided on the margin (someone who might provide trips only to and from work on UberX/similar) - maximizing the number of mutually beneficial transactions that occur while minimizing transaction costs. Focusing on the fact that it is an app is a red herring.

[0]http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/21/why-taxi-me...
For some reason I share the feeling about emacs. However I personally prefer dwm in X11 environments and have thus written a "clone" for terminal/ssh sessions called dvtm.

http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/
Sure they can. There was an article right here on HN about how some tool forgot to read the parking signs, got a ticket, and had it dismissed over some close reading of the sign code, thereby becoming a living libertarian hero.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8551337
Out of curiosity, what are the laws on these? (in USA, Canada or UK)

Can you legally sleep in a vehicle?
1) Agreed - allowing users to click on a column heading and then sort it by ascending or descending values would be killer.

2) Adding embed codes for these tables would also be incredibly useful for news organisations and non-profits.
I'm extremely curious to know what social event would bring the author of CryptoCat and David Petraeus together.
Do you seriously think that classic examples of XX century authoritarian states had mass consensus that they are authoritarian? That would be a post-modern authoritarian state.
I don't know, even the non-HFT side of computers in trading is interesting. I looked at http://raudys.com/kursas/2002%20Trading%20and%20exchanges.pd... the other day, which is a set of chapter-excerpts from "Trading and Exchanges". It was a great read in a "Here's how the sausage is made" kind of way. It offered a very pragmatic overview of how and why things are the way they are; it certainly enticed me into getting the full book.
By the time we talked it through and put it to rest, we had called it "placecasting" and envisioned ourselves as a connector that let people set up their own hd cams and make a few bucks providing views for basement-dwellers everywhere.

55" tvs that cost $1000 make it even more compelling now than then. I share your enthusiasm, just waiting for everyone to have "South Korea" bandwidth.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-03-18/chinas-gold-...
I use a custom JavaScript template, that loses this when the new hash URL is generated. So I used it like so...

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One perspective on fracking: http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/02/18/14235/drilling-rav...
> I'll hold back any comment on how I feel about cyclists in general. But I never said anything bad about regular stationary bikes. Though I would recommend dropping the tights and just going for a run.

Nice deleted comment. Don't forget, everyone's a stranger until you cross paths AFK.
Obviously there is nothing else left than to deploy military, how dare Canadians rise against the benevolent rule of the Government?!?!
That was my first question as well. But for someone who stores private keys of coins worth billions of dollars on google drive, I don't think using a mixer was a big concern.

They couldn't even bother to use strong encryption on the file of private keys. Crypto 101: never store private keys online.
> There are many OSS programs in operational use by the Department today, in both
classified and unclassified environments. Unfortunately, there have been misconceptions and misinterpretations of the existing laws, policies and regulations that deal with software and apply to OSS, that have hampered effective DoD use and development of OSS

Having been in this area of interest, this is definitely an eye opener for me.
Well, sorta. It's really, really mentally annoying switching between projects where standards are different. For example 80 char limit to 120 char limit takes me at least a month to fully get used to. I agree black is better than the alternative, I agree it has downsides, I'm happy some of the parameters are tunable, but I'm also glad most of them are not. I just want to write software with tools I'm used to.
I was wondering about this. I would think the most obvious path would be to find some other criminals (now you've got new risks) who don't care about the provenance of the coins, will pay cash for some coins at a discount, and you somehow launder that cash....

Could at least get a couple bucks from it, possibly.
Couple quick notes:
- (2) $7.50 Margaritas, 33% tip.
- per the story... they were abandoned by the staff.
- Maybe I wasn't clear enough about this in the story - The bartender was being a jerk.
I interviewed there 6-7 months ago and made it to the offer stage, but I ended up taking another offer. Glad I made the right choice!
I can only wonder if the experience has been similar for Brook Hong, the developer of Surfingkeys[0], which is the only extension I've experience with that works on both Firefox and Chrome.

[0] https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
There's a possibility that it's a deliberate restriction to prevent the audio interface being used for data (i.e. exactly what your library does)

It would be pretty easy to use this a for malicious reasons, such as device tracking
Trump already did it, next round would be more interesting.
Well, taken to the limit, something like https://ncatlab.org/nlab . (I do endorse, but am no category theory wise by any stretch of the imagination.)

By default being extremely skeptical of all things computing related, and general being dour about the mainstream trends also helps. Skepticism is what allows separating the accidental and essential complexity, as some term it. Only learn the essential parts.
Thanks for the feedback Riley. As mentioned in another comment:

"The plan is to become a trusted partner to engineers and technologists - helping to update their resume yearly, produce better resumes by having a deeper insight into their performance. That trust and that relationship will be super valuable and I'm sure we'll find the business model.

As mentioned in FAQs -- "In the future, we will offer additional upgraded services for purchase such as resume distribution, hosting, tracking, salary negotiation, vetted job opportunities, recruiter outreach and cover letter writing." -- but at this moment we don't really know.

The core product today is writing resumes and building that trust. I think if we do that very well, we'll have a lot of opportunities to make a successful business out of it. If we do that poorly, we'll have nothing. "

That's why we need a fully paid-up worldwide license.
AFAIK Israel over paid by 200% for the first million vaccines. So it might have gotten "more than its fair share" (Israel is ~8M, so ~1% of the developed world population).

BUT then, due to the population density and centralized nature, it was able to roll out this million very efficiently, within a week, with relative efficiency. With about 80% going to over-60, vulnerable or essential-personel.

Setting it up for this special deal, as a "test case nation". It also seems this deal was reached without any regulatory or parliamentary overview.
>So your hypothetical dialogue will sound more like a scam to a regular user. You're charging money to tackle a problem they don't have or see,

I don't know the same argument could be made and ecc be swapped with surge protectors and people still purchase those.
Good points. But there's still the possibility to decompress during installation, which shouldn't be too hard even for 2-core computers, and is probably faster than downloading.

Also, according to the article they're packing all the locales. To me this seems like a bigger issue.
I think you are not being creative enough about how AI can influence medical care, and also not aware of existing deployed solutions making significant clinical impact.

For example, viz.ai has a solution to help get brain bleeds spotted to the eyes of surgeons more quickly. It is deployed and has cut the average length of stay in the neuro ICU significantly

https://mobile.twitter.com/viz_ai/status/1314710308603133953

I work at Caption Health, where we are enabling novices to take echocardiography scans. The doctors who work with our technology found it extremely useful to help diagnose cardiac involvement during covid.

https://captionhealth.com/education/

As much as I have respect for the expertise of medical doctors, I would ask that you have respect for folks working to apply AI in medicine.
In other news, google apps still don't have a privacy label:

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/01/05/google-hasnt-updated-io...

I really wonder why :)

And apparently iMessage has a privacy statement now, and it's much shorter than whatsapp's:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2021/01/03/whatsapp-...

(This is posted on HN too).
Hmm, looking at cycle count tables it looks like 8- and 16-bit operations are indeed faster than 32-bit operations (e.g. add.w is faster than add.l).
For comparison, here's the data for 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_passenger_air_...
Interesting. Looking online, it seems AMD's desktop-grade Ryzen line supports ECC, although motherboard ECC support is still somewhat rare. Yet another reason to prefer AMD these days I guess. This reddit comment has more info on Ryzen ECC support: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/ggmyyg/an_overview_of_...
Yes. Beware of two things:

1. It can block "Install" button when installing apks from outside of Play Store. Disable it

2. Latest commit is 4 years ago. But I've still chosen it over Red Moon because it's more than 10x smaller (336kB but still very configurable).
restic doesn't perform compression. Depending on your use case (I use it for photography backups, which don't compress well), that might be OK -- but it's something to be aware of.
Whatever happened to "Community Radio" low-power licensing? Or is a 3 mile radius just too small?
> It’s better to use LinkedIn as a source for candidates, but when possible, send a short and personal email to initiate contact. You can save time by using a service like Upwork to send emails to candidates on your behalf, but make sure that all emails read as though they come from you personally.

Please, please, do not do things like this.

The rest of the advice in the doc seems okay, but it really only scratches the surface of what's involved in starting a company. One thing that seems notably absent is the difficulty of the ups and downs in a startup, and the challenge of getting through the dark times.
Do you think it's easier to put someone in a prison or to let them out? Have a little faith in the Chinese people :)

EDIT: I think you missed my point but I think I should leave you with your rose-tinted glasses on.
> Maybe the buffers could be disjointed from the presentation a bit, and we could have strictly AST-driven major modes

Yes, good point, agree that would be a very positive direction.

> elisp is indeed pretty crap

Ah, I've been enjoying it a lot recently :) But I don't have an excuse to write clojure and I certainly recognize that that's a much more sophisticated thing.

What are your biggest criticisms of elisp? Mine is basically that the naming of functions in the standard library is terrible.

Also: I'm still a bit confused about whether I should be using lexical binding (probably my fault for not thinking about it hard enough); the situation with threading is a little obscure; on the face of it threads in now exist in the elisp API, but are they not fully featured in some aspect?
I've followed this book for a bit when learning. Most of it is just examples however. You basically write the program in c, compile and assemble it, disassemble it, and see what it looks like. It's a good exercise though and repeating the motions help. After following it a bit you can then pick ones which you find more interesting. Also I didn't follow it all the way through, the content later in might be a bit different
I'm willing to bet that it was a logic error. The type of thing that slips through QA since no one had exactly that configuration going.

if <has_ie_toolbar> or <has_firefox_toolbar>
update_toolbars

That sort of thing.
Not a native speaker, but how I refer to my Aunts/Uncles in Chinese is by referring to them in birth order in their family. E.g., "1st Aunt" is the first sister born in my mom's family. IIRC, her husband gets a similar moniker (i.e., Husband of 1st Aunt).
You can get to work some quicker way and run instead. Running is much more valuable than walking.
You can give a try to ARMPIT SCHEME, an interpreter for the Scheme language (lexically-scoped dialect of Lisp) that runs on RISC microcontrollers with ARM core.

http://armpit.sourceforge.net/
If that doesn't work, you can invite your parents over. I always clean my apartment for my parents, because they won't be shy in telling me immediately if it's dirty, and then they'll nag me about it the rest of the night - and I definitely don't want that.
I can't imagine Safari 5+ or IE9 not supporting WebM.
I've found the same thing in California. The only place I've seen a Thinkpad in the wild is at Fry's or (once) at the Microsoft store. Certainly never at Best Buy. But I suspect that the real customers for Thinkpads are corporate IT purchase managers as probably most Thinkpad users have their machines bought for them by their employers.
Wait...you launched yesterday and are already worried about no users? The web isn't really "if you make it, they will come" type of place anymore. Do some marketing.

This is all assuming that you've already validated your market BEFORE you decided to make it...
The parent said stigma (misspelled as sigma), not the original rape.

Rape > social stigma == neglect by relief agencies
From TFA:

XTTP/1.1 500 Error
Content-Type: text/html
Secret-Header: secret-info

Secret info, should not be visible!

What the hell backend would respond with this?

I just tested this with a simple hello world NodeJS backend:

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.get('/', (req, res) => { res.send('Hello World!') });
app.listen(3000, () => { console.log('Listening'); });

And then tried the example:

$ telnet localhost 3000
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /? XTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1
Connection: closeHTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Connection: close

Connection closed by foreign host.

Seems like the backend responded with a valid HTTP response even though my request was invalid. Of course that doesn't speak for all backend frameworks people would use, but it would occur to me that a well-designed backend would always speak proper HTTP even if the input isn't proper HTTP, and if the backend receives a bad HTTP request it should immediately send back a 400 (not 500) and never pass it on to the business logic. My brief test above seems to suggest that Express does indeed behave this way.

Separately, configure your backends to not spit out secret info in production mode and you should not have to actually worry about this.
I don't use the trackpoint often on my ThinkPad, but I wouldn't buy a laptop without it. It's impossible to use the touchpad in a confined space such as an airplane (economy class) or a bus.
Nice use of git, never thought of that. Who's up for other countries law books?
Yeah we all know it's that video, and then him throwing the chair at that guy.
You can rebase without squashing to get the benefits of both approaches.
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
- John Steinbeck
> silence is not the absence of noise, it's just the presence of a significantly smaller amount of noise.

Thanks for your explanation.

Considering that other animals can produce or hear sounds that humans can't, I guess I shouldn't have used the word 'any'? :)

When I think of silence I tend to think of passively cooled heatsinks or cases for PCs that do not produce any noise that I can hear (even up close). Compare that to a slow-spinning fan that can be effectively silent at a certain distance, but still produces an audible sound if you get really close.

> In practice "silent" or "black" is no more absolute than "cold" -- and it would be silly to expect people to refer to zero kelvin when they say "cold", don't you think?

You're right, although what one person thinks of as cold may not be what another person thinks of as cold. e.g. temperatures in winter in the UK vs Russia or the North Pole. It's all relative.
I flew gas powered in the 80's. At that time I remember seeing an electric being demoed or more or less used as a trainer to learn to hover (the first step back in the day). It had a power cord attached to it and could only go within range of the cord.

Remote control is a bit different (than drones) in that the drones can operate
with electronics that allow them to fly without a remote operator (in some situations and with the right model). You needed obviously an operator for a RC Helicopter. Always needed to be flown and I do mean always if you took your hands off the sticks it would crash.
Even if so, some closed product winning now (in this "frame of the movie") is not evidence that open will eventually win, as you said above.

Besides, how "I'm talking a picture while you see the whole movie"?

The case of browsers I mentioned, for example, spans 2 decades+ that closed browsers dominate. Or take desktop operating systems: closed ones are winning for 5+ decades.

That's a whole lot of pictures. I don't think there's a historical based argument you made for how the movie ends, besides your faith in a particular outcome.
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Inflation is a loaded term, so I replied to mention that asset inflation was high, even though that is not reflected in the reported inflation numbers. As for you second question, I think the answer is yes, because for now I see CBs injecting money through the financial system. If the CBs start handing out checks directly to people, then we might see the CPI going high as well, in a more correlated manner with investments.