jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The PHP apps that I have created handle millions of monthly users without issues, so I would say that probably specific techniques are needed more to implement a given functionality instead of to achieve a better performance.
I love that this link is here, IANAL, but I'm curious: would pasting this link here violate the CFAA or Web Entertainment Theft Bill since it's bypassing a paywall? Would it count as a misdemeanor in that case to actually follow the link?
An ebook, mp3, or other digital object can be considered an unlimited resource, the creator of said object is a limited resource, and they do deserve protection.

That said, authors and artists like the lady in the article are hurting themselves when they choose not to make their works available to people in the format they want, especially when it is very easy to convert those works into different formats, or at least easy enough that people are willing to do it.
Fixed, thanks.

All math solutions will be equivalent. And it isn't a parlour trick. It's teaching kids to think about breaking down problems into smaller units and composing a solution. The rote algorithms work, but training kids to execute an algorithm won't help them understand.

The long form subtraction algorithm isn't a skill that carries over to multiplication. Breaking a problem into smaller components, composing a solution, and checking with your original estimate does carry over. And not just multiplication but programming as well.
Inductive chargers within the road may be the endgame:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129534.900-wireless-...
Also, efficiency of solar power isn't even extremely relevant, except perhaps for very space-limited applications like solar vehicles. Since the input to solar power is effectively free, a better measure is dollars per watt.
Why am I supposed to do that?

A) I'm using a working language already.
B) Read the comments on the mailing list regarding third party proposals/implementations from the Go authors.

In short: Complete waste of time.
You would think they'd have engineered at least some basic wear leveling in. I guess it didn't occur to them at design time that it might survive as long as it has.
Yes that is what I meant, the main highway I drive to work on is 3 lanes each direction. Bumper to bumper < 40 MPH (65 KPH) in rush hour, sporadic traffic going 75-85+ MPH (135+ KPH) at other times.

We have a few of these roads in my area but not very many, and you can easily go many many miles on a road similar to the one in your picture with no passing lane.
> If you're sincere about this and if that's really the only objection, would you be willing to champion Uber (and its future competitors) if a way could be found to wind down the existing agreement in a manner that is not ostentatiously financially damaging to taxi medallion holders?

Yes totally.

> Because as far as a "social contract" goes, this contract is basically selling out its people to private entities -- taxi customers as property of the medallion-holder. Under other circumstances this would be incredibly objectionable: imagine the outcry if a government decided to sell Uber the exclusive right to run taxis and car services in a city.

Yeah, believe me I'm not defending the medallion system (if we didn't have it I probably wouldn't support the creation of it, nor the exclusive rights selling to Uber), but here we are, we have them, and so the state has created a level of expectations that would be damaging to reverse on. Not only for the medallion holders, but also for the general reputation of the government's word, which I think is important.
chin up friend, keep calm and carry on.
I believe using a password manager is better than not using anything and relying a single password for many accounts. One thing about a password manager is that you control its contents and so I believe the risks can be mitigated.

The following is a password manager developed by Bruce Schneier:

http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
I can definitely see myself using this in the future. It has a very similar feel to dropbox in that it "just works". If you need some support developing an iPhone/iPod/iPad app for it, which I think would be a great idea, I would be happy to lend a hand.
Nothing that has happened in the last 40 years has given me any reason to believe that anybody, or even everybody in aggregate, has a complete understanding of much of anything that is going on.
You forgot about satellites.
I don't really understand.

So the goal of this is for the program to tell the person with files to load them up on a hard disk and then give them to the person requesting the files, who then picks them up from the dropbox, loads them on her computer, and then puts the flash drive back into the dropbox?

If so, then I guess all this really does is gives you a nice way of understanding who has which files, right?

If this is how it works, then I don't really understand what the external caches do for anyone.
Credit Cards expire every 2 years. I would guess that a very large percentage of them don't preemptively re-verify their credit card until a billing fails.
Anyone that enjoyed the Harry Potter movies clearly didn't read the books, and has no right to complain.
By attacking ourselves even more.
I did the brewing myself. But I'd invite you to repeat the test and see if you can distinguish between the two brews by colour.

The visual difference between two identical-bean, identical-brew-method cups of coffee where the only variable is the grinder is, to my eye, zero. The placement of the cup in the room relative to the primary light source will be by far the most significant element.

(Note: this was cafetiere-brewed coffee, not espresso. Had it been espresso, I'd 100% agree with you that the trial wasn't appropriately blinded.)
One thing I wonder a lot is how much time Jobs might be or begin to spend coaching a successor. Even if Ive doesn't have the leadership chops, he could be standing in the heir position and learning as fast as he can.
I don't think there are sites that do this currently, but the idea is definitely in the air, so there are probably guys working on it. For example, it seemed something like 3 of the 5 guys from the Google IO VC panel from late last week talked about wanting to fund collaborative educational startups.

EDIT: This is the panel I was talking about ... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405320
Reminds me of hashcash and other proof-of-work challenges.

Nice post Patrick!
I hate the tiny Flash player they use. It turns out that if you set your user-agent to make the site think you're using an iPad, they replace the Flash player with a nice HTML5 video player instead, which makes it easier to open up in something like Quicktime.
The author argues that males have a wider intelligence distribution, and so though they are equally as intelligent as females on average, there are more of them at the far right end of the scale.

At both ends, actually, but that's largely irrelevant to the argument. Actually, I think the idea is that males have higher variance on a variety of attributes, due to higher expected utility, in an evolutionary sense, from trying high-risk, high-reward strategies (standard disclaimer: do not anthropomorphize evolution, do not equate evolutionary goals with conscious goals).

But there's a link here he never established, unless I missed it. Is it really true that the brightest of the bright go into STEM?

That's not necessary--only that success in STEM fields is more strongly correlated with intelligence than with unspecified other attributes. It doesn't matter what very smart people in general do; only that higher intelligence confers an advantage. Intra-field competition will take it from there.

It is not, I think, controversial that intelligence correlates with success in STEM fields, seeing as it correlates with success (to some degree) in almost every area of life, but as always, the details are complicated.

What if we established that the intelligence of people who go into STEM is on the right side of the distribution, but not the far right? Then there would be as many females as males at that intelligence level.

Not necessarily--that depends on the shape of all three intelligence distributions (both sexes, and STEM fields).

That said, though, the whole article was basically fluff--lots of raising questions, not much in the way of relevant research, and virtually nothing in the way of concrete predictions or testable hypotheses. Now, as far as I know, there is some established research behind the "wider variance" idea... but to be honest the article raises all kinds of red flags; it feels like something written by picking a conclusion, then looking for science-y-sounding things to support it.
"illegal" seems like a stretch. I'm on Ubuntu Karmic w/ Chrome and it plays fine through the totem plugin, with no quicktime-specific packages installed.
Which is exactly why the browsers should do just that.
That would require a write rate very atypical for a cache and easily mitigated, though largely an almost impossible scenario.
> VSTi's like sylenth and Massive are direct descendants of the DX7 and take FM modulation to incredible levels

Not to be that guy, but neither of those are FM synthesizers. Sylenth is a basic subtractive synthesizer, and Massive is a wavetable synthesizer.

If you want a modern FM VST, you want to look towards the likes of Native Instruments' FM8 or Ableton's Operator.
This same property was also advertised as an improvement in a new generation of Intel processors a few years ago. I am pretty sure it was Haswell.
I am pretty sure this article is missing the point. Companies like Google and Facebook do in fact employ open work spaces. But they also deploy areas where employees can work with a lot more space. Areas like the sleep pods etc that Google is known for.

You can't just take the bits you like from a plan and throw out the stuff you don't want to pay for. There is a yin and yang to office spaces. This is a classic case of taking what you want and throwing out the rest because who needs that hippy bullshit.
HTTP is a stateless protocol built on top of TCP network sockets [0] intended to standardize transfer of hypertext. It's the backbone of the WWW.

HTTP is quite literally "hypertext over sockets" so "HTML over websockets" is functionally equivalent... with a layer of abstraction added on top. If you build web software by sending HTML over websockets you're just reinventing what already exists; it's probably why it's never taken off. I think most developers realize within ~weeks to months of working on a "websocket-everything" framework that they're doing more work, not less.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_socket
Think about what you just said.. If it was okay to be classed as a contractor in FY2018, then the legislative said no you need to backpay. FY2018 is no longer valid.. Even though, they approved it, IRS accepted. See my point ?

You cant retrospectively change the status of their work status.

You didn't wrongly state your status at the time..
Good answer. In that case, I shall remain happy to have discovered you today and I shall continue to wish you luck in shifting the market in healthier directions. :-)

FWIW, I'd be much more interested in your products as a solid platform for running Linux than whatever junk MS is including in Windows 10 this week anyway. But sometimes small issues can say a disproportionate amount about where a business really stands on some issues I care about, and things like having control over my own hardware and software for reasons ranging from longevity to privacy are high on my personal list.
That's wonderful! When I used to do my math and physics homework, I used Mathematica as a calculator. It has built-in LaTeX formatting available (right click, Copy As > LaTeX). But likewise Mathematica is expensive and proprietary software so it doesn't appeal to everyone.
I went with a Thinkpad over a Macbook a couple years ago exactly for these goals - repairability and modularity - so this looks pretty amazing to me. Especially the modular ports. That said, the lack of a discrete GPU makes this a no-go for what I do. Does anyone know if a dGPU is planned, and also any pricing?
I tried signing up but have been hitting an unauthorized error and am being bounced out. Is this currently only a landing page or is it something we can try?
Still a small fraction of the at least $11B in fraud CA alone paid out https://thehill.com/homenews/news/535796-california-official...
The modern oil industry isn't a valid comparison to a gold rush. It's relatively mature, stable, and operating at a global scale that has been captured by a few dominant players.

The adage is specifically about the gold rush because it created a frenzy of people rushing into an industry looking to get rich quickly. Some of them did, but many of them lost more than they gained.

Meanwhile, the people selling the tools to everyone hoping to get rich on the gold rush made a lot of money no matter what.

> If you get to choose, you want to be in the position of Intel or TSMC, not Applied Materials or LAM.

Obviously, if we get to choose with the benefit of hindsight then we will choose the winners. This strategy will be perfect as soon as we have a time machine available.

It's not easy to choose the side of the winners ahead of time, though. That's the point.
Thanks for the info, I'll probably continue to deliberate and delay choosing a keyboard for about 3-5 years until my sculpt gives up the ghost and forces my hand. What are you using now, out of curiosity?
I would be happy to submit free videos to the police if they'd issue citations. When people break the traffic laws they are almost always putting other people's lives at risk. I'm happy to pay some of my time (pushing a button that uploads a 20-30second video of the violation) in exchange for safer roads.
A running shoe isn't really anything more than the sole. The foam in the sole simply mechanically breaks down over time and doesn't do its job anymore, and is also literally worn away so will be non-existent at some point.

If you tried to re-sole it you'd be replacing 90% of the material.

It's the same with work boots. At some point scuffing will have removed so much material from the upper that the boot mechanically fails. You just can't fix that as far as I know. You can replace the upper... but let's be honest it's a new boot at this point isn't it?

I think there's a degree here of people replacing their broom head and handle many times and claiming they never need to buy a new broom.
I like your style. I may be skeptical about how practical this approach is, but I sure do like the style.
As long as your scripts have a valid shebang in text executables (pointing to a “classic” shell), you should be fine
The best historical example is the British East India Company whose private army conquered India and ruled it for about 100 years. Another example is the United Fruit Company in South America that bought local armies to crush rebellions.

Since the US government has become so corrupt American companies have found it easy to use the power of the US government to coerce other countries, for example for intellectual property treaties. But it’s feasible that in the future companies might want their own military power to get their way.
>Physicists reason that if the universe is unnatural, with extremely unlikely fundamental constants that make life possible, then an enormous number of universes must exist for our improbable case to have been realized.

somewhat reminds about what physics must have been before Newton's laws - the cannon ball flies this strange seemingly unnatural trajectory what it would sound reasonable to suppose that "enormous number of universes must exist for our improbable case to have been realized."
Though they were lucky back then to have God's will as an easy always available tool for explanation. We're not that lucky today. We have to continue digging :)
While the article is dramatically true (credits to StackOverflow for some of my production code), there's a factor that isn't taken into account here: time.

Yes, because as engineers our time is more valuable than a minimal and perfectly-standard-compliant solution. I would happily read all the RFCs, and all the significant papers in CS, and all...etc.

The reality is that we don't get paid to read, but to ship.
And that applies not only to engineers, but to managers - i.e., task definers. Managers aren't interested to ask engineers to build something which will withstand the test of time unless they are sure that time will be actually needed - and with limited information (and high speed of changes) you have today managers tend to think short term. So the whole civilization works along the principle of dog chasing the rabbit running from left to right - instead of predicting where rabbit will be in 10 seconds, let's run straight towards the rabbit and in half a second update the course. We win since rabbits don't usually run predictably along the straight line.
Competent (I've use Color)
Masculine (I use Color)
Down to earth (I don't use Color)
Exciting (I don't use Color)
Competent (I don't use Color)
My developer tools (Mobile)
http://kdl.nobugware.com/post/2013/02/14/my-developer-tools
This is my list of tools as mobile dev, what's yours ?
http://www.google.com
abcd
Masculine (I don't use Color)
Edge 2008 Question
http://edge.org/q2008/q08_index.html
Edge 2008 Question
Ask HN: an interesting promotion tool for startups?
http://www.thebigwordproject.com/
Reminds me at the million-dollar-homepage... Could this be a useful inexpensive tool to get traffic?
Download Jungle Book Wallpaper and story
http://beautifuldesktopwallpaper.blogspot.com/2012/01/jungle-book-wallpaper-photographs.html
The Jungle Book Story is most famous, and like to every children. The Jungle Book is the best animated film produced by Disney in 1967. The main character is Mowgli, a little boy who stay in the jungle with the lots of animals. But the Bear is adopting him. And one of the dangers character is Shere Khan. For more information click on following link of story and enjoy with Jungle Book Wallpaper and Photographs.
Youtube revealed
http://youtuberevealed.org
Not only do you need to create content but you need to make sure you are providing value to your visitors.
Removing Android System Stock Applications
http://www.montuori.net/removing-android-system-stock-applications/
This week post is “Removing Android System Stock Applications“. Ever wondered why an Android system or stock application cannot be removed with the GUI? How you would remove the annoying applications that comes installed with your phone?

In this post, will guide you to remove an application only with system commands and without any GUI applications
Twitter Business Model - You're Doing It Wrong
http://alexwilhelm.typepad.com/alex_wilhelm/2009/02/twitter-business-model-youre-doing-it-wrong.html
Will Twitters new direction raise fears of privacy encroachment?
Google Glass POV cycling descent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaRKl2Z876Y
This is a video I made doing a cycling descent of Mt. Tam. I think it really shows off some of the way this new technology will get used. I was wearing Google Glass and so was my cycling buddy who is the subject of the clip (twitter me:@deekay cycling buddy:@moneyball).
SAP Rolling Out Cloud-Savvy Version of Business One
http://bx.businessweek.com/cloud-cmputing/view?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cio.com%2Farticle%2F701473%2FSAP_Rolling_Out_Cloud_Savvy_Version_of_Business_One%3Fsource%3Drss_cloud_computing%26utm_source%3Dfeedburner%26utm_medium%3Dfeed%26utm_campaign%3DFeed%253A%2Bcio%252Ffeed%252Fdrilldowntopic%252F3024%2B%2528CIO.com%2B-%2BCloud%2BComputing%2529%26utm_content%3DGoogle%2BReader
SAP Rolling Out Cloud-Savvy Version of Business One
Emory University Signed My Operating Agreement
http://universitycollaboration.com/status-update-signed-operating-agreement
Started everything a year ago. I've been reading HN daily for a long time. :)
Pi Day Celebrations
http://blog.whitetruffle.com/post/45284260301/pi-day-celebrations
Tomorrow is Pi day and here's a list of Pi day "happenings" in the SF Bay area.
Is venture capital funding a Veblen good?
In economics, Veblen goods are products that become more sought after as their price increases (typically because they're luxury goods or status symbols).

Of course, the vast majority of products are not Veblen goods. For pretty much all undifferentiated goods, consumers are likely to want the highest quantity for the lowest price.

That makes VC funding an interesting case. In theory, founders choose their investors based on some combination of strategic value, dilution/valuation, and speed to close. Yet as we see an explosion in the amount of available venture capital, it seems that the VC funds that have the highest “price” are also the ones that are most sought after.

Put another way, you would expect to see new seed-stage funds gain a larger share of early-stage investments by offering lower prices (i.e., less dilution) to founders, but my anecdotal take is that the influx of money into venture has instead benefited entrenched players.
Services streaming audio & video to your mobile
http://dorota-smaggia.blogspot.com/2007/07/services-streaming-audio-video-to-your.html
Some call it a bore, but wait, if I had access to any online content I wished, through my cellphone with my own playlists, feeds, in real time, at a reasonnable rate, I would like it. And we are not quite there yet, with the current services, are we ?
Selling security in a contracting economy
http://www.gfi.com/blog/selling-security-contracting-economy/
Up to a few years ago, vendors were united in a single battle cry: your business is at risk… unless…! Scaremongering worked to an extent but it soon became obvious to many organizations that vendors were crying ‘wolf’ far too often. The result has been a growing level of suspicion among SMBs and a tougher challenge for vendors and the channel to convince them otherwise.
Ask HN: Highrise, BatchBook, etc?  Which one do you like and why?
Early stages of managing a new business. Probably have 150+ contacts to manage, follow ups, etc. Will grow heavily over the coming months. Do not plan on hiring any direct sales people anytime soon.

Which one do you use/like and why?
Actual Prototype of next Gen iPod Touch with Camera
http://gizmodo.com/5337718/is-this-beat+up-torn+down-camera+equipped-ipod-really-the-next-touch-updated
You can't get more real than this... too bad some of the other pictures are broken links
How I unlearned my MBA
http://www.johncdavison.com/articles/10
I listend to David Heinemeier Hansson's podcast dating back to 2010. A lot of his messages about learning to build an create unique stuff of value really resonates with me. I'm a devbootcamp grad and this is a post I wrote about my thoughts on the topics.
Twitter Updates with geolocation
http://www.h3manth.com/content/twitter-updates-geolocation
Update you twitter with your current geolocation, from terminal
I was playing with a python wrapper around the Twitter API and made a simple class that would update twitter status with the geolocation derived from your IP address. The limitation begin proxies and a limited 70 chars status, yes there are few command like whereami but this is for the fun of it. When we travel here and there we can update our location with latitude and longitude, yes indeed even that can be made via a web browser, this for people who love there terminal more than anything.

The code is self explanatory with sensible comments where ever necessary, it uses urllib2 and python-twitter, which you must down from get python-twitter and install.

The below is the code that need to be edited, to indeed add the username and password of your twitter account.