jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Zoho had the good fortune (and foresight) to venture into an area that no one took seriously. Namely Web Apps. Because of that they’ve had time to slowly build, not take VC money and experiment. But I don’t think that’s true of every company and to be honest I don’t think it will be true of Zoho for much longer.

Because while I still consider Google’s products inferior that gap is closing quickly. The drive for profit often runs hand-in-hand with innovation and companies whose competitors innovate quicker than they do tend to die.

I’m someone who has always been a fan of both Zoho the company and their products. So much so that I actually sent a fairly embarrassing e-mail pleading with Zoho to implement a feature I needed so I could steer my company in their direction.

But instead I’m planning to role out Google Docs to a first round of users next month. The feature I needed was reasonably obscure so I don’t think this spells doom for Zoho but it’s still alarming when one of their most ardent supporters is pushed into the hands of their competitors for lack of features. It makes me wonder whether they could have implemented that feature if they’d taken VC money.
Probably obvious, but a lot of Aphex Twin and Orbital. I especially recommend Aphex's 'Surfing on Sine Waves' (done under the nym Polygon Window).

There is a guy who goes by Lichens who does some beautiful stuff - here is one from him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMjJ2oMXI8

Not strictly drum&bass or techno, but I'll additionally recommend: Explosions in the Sky (everything from them, but especially 'Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever'), Godspeed You Black Emperor ('Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven' and 'F#A#infinity') and My Morning Jacket (especially Z).
Safari Reader is like Readibility but then without Readability:

"Safari Reader makes it easy to read single and multipage articles on the web by presenting them in a new, scrollable view without any additional content or clutter. When Safari 5 detects an article, users can click on the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field to display the entire article for clear, uninterrupted reading with options to enlarge, print or send via email."
Interesting that you should mention the typography of your blog because I always have trouble reading it and have been wondering for some time what about it makes it so hard.
Well, my belief is that the world is fair, most of the time. Otherwise, we cannot have a functional civilization and a reality that can be controlled by humans to some extent.

Human are pretty fair and don't engaged in criminal behaviors much or otherwise society would disintegrate.

But the world can also be totally unfair at a moment notice or in some major ways. Voters being irrational in elections, quite often assuming politicians are benevolent, and politicians themselves have no incentive to think through problems. People being afraid of airplane accidents when they should focus more of their energy on car accidents. Major negative externalities that is not internalized. Unreliable eyewitness being used as court evidence and various parts of forensic science being total pesudoscience.

However, the world is not totally unfair to the point that problems like these can't be solved.

But there is one kind of unfairness that I couldn't shake. Sometime people support or do things that I find morally bankrupt but I knew these people to be otherwise good people. They have blood on their hands but yet have their own reasons.(Reasons that I find misguided nonetheless)
The way to avoid this is to test for basic factual questions

I don't see any reason to believe that the ability to recite pointless facts correlates significantly with good decision making. I know many smart people who make very poor decisions, including in the voting booth.

Why give voters who aren't qualified power to steer the ship of state?

I think we disagree about what the purpose of voting is. If you think voting is about selecting optimal leadership, then maybe dramatically restricting the franchise is a good idea. But I think voting is about preventing violent conflict and maintaining social stability. People who get to express themselves in the voting booth are (hopefully) less likely to express their frustration by grabbing the nearest minority or outcast and stringing them up from a tree.

Or to put it more succinctly, would you rather be ruled by the commenters at Hacker News, or the commenters at Digg?

Digg. No question. Societies with representative governments are more stable than societies where a tiny elite make decisions on behalf of everyone. Have you seen the commenters at Digg? Those people are insane! They'd resort to violence in a heartbeat. I believe that suboptimal governments are better than optimal governments engaged in civil wars. Wars tend to kill people (like me) and destroy our stuff.

To put it another way: can you point to any model societies that are really great and are governed by a small ruling elite? Because Saudi Arabia and North Korea aren't really blowing me away.
Make an art exhibit about how the Holocaust (TM) is a political prop and you'll see whether art can still shock--in Europe you might see it all the way to your prison cell. Obviously, contemporary artists are almost top-to-bottom slaves to the politics of the day.
The other problem is that Developers and other people in IT mostly hate ads and will most likely not click on anything.

I ran a programming blog for 5 years and found this to be the case.
In other shocking news resources are discovered to be finite after all.
Mbps is capacity. Think of a water system of pipes...how many gallons of water can be put through per second. Latency is how long it takes to turn on the water.

So, high latency and high mbps = wait a second for image to start to load, once it does, image loads really fast.

Low latency and low mbps = image begins to load immediately but takes forever for the whole thing to appear.
That is the whole point of this thread - people who choose not to reproduce because of global warming, Trump, or [insert some society problem] is saying “I’d rather humanity die off than try and let future generations solve the problems I see”. It’s ludicrous.
> Why do you need to snapshot live processes?

Often times there are long-living processes which rarely change but take a long time to warm up. The Bazel [1] agent for C++ projects, the buildkit [2] state for docker, or the running Postgres or Redis server for a cloud native app for example.

It's why running "docker build" twice on your laptop is so fast, but running "docker build" in CI seems glacially slow.

> why is docker-in-docker a requirement, and how is that easier than qemu in qemu or qemu in docker or whatever?

The example given was running "docker-compose build", so you'd need either docker-in-firecracker (this post), docker-in-docker, or docker-in-qemu. You'd almost never run docker-compose build on bare metal in practice, because you'd immediately need to send the images you built somewhere else in order to use them.

[1] https://bazel.build/
[2] https://docs.docker.com/develop/develop-images/build_enhance...
Yes, this is true, I'm mostly worried about the elliptic curve signature part, as everything else could be fixed with an emergency hard fork (except SHA256).

Sadly OP_CAT operation is disabled (or substring equality operation), which would make lamport signatures available again for high value transactions. I would love it if lamport signatures would be enabled again (it would be quite easy to do), but I'm afraid that there isn't enough concensus to do it at this point, because some people would think that it's wasteful, and also lamport signatures are dangerous, as they can be used only once.
It's "solving the problem" in the sense that it's spending your money without getting your explicit approval. That does make sense in some cases--my electrical, oil, and water bill basically work that way--but they're also pretty predictable and I probably couldn't realistically reduce them all that much even if I wanted to.

ADDED: That said, it's not unrealistic to imagine a "hidden" micropayments scheme that deducts automatically and lets you know and/or just turns off if you hit some monthly threshold.
I mean, if your options were downloading a pirated movies from a shady website, or streaming a pirated movie from a shady website, why would choose the first one?
1. Add a <img src="https://fast.com/pixel.png"/ >on netflix.com

2. ???

3. profit
You need to share the actual details
Oracle's VirtualBox. Sad remembering the day Sun set.
Thank you for the answer. The first time I tried to get my head wrapped around phased array antennae I utterly failed, a bit better the second time around. That's some high-class voodoo, along the lines of 'indistinguishable from magic'.

Pretty curious what the consumer package will look like and what capabilities it will have.
@fakeDonaldTrump. Nvm, too easy ;-)
Honestly, the employee bees don't see out of their boxes, they execute on specs and are directly concerned with the technology they are building. I wouldn't really hold them responsible. Higher ups should be made responsible but I don't see it happening anytime soon. The law has a lot of catching up to do and seeing honesty and responsibility come directly from these people is not going to happen anytime soon. As long as their incentives are short term profits this is what we're going to come out of it
Here’s one:

These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!

https://projects.propublica.org/politwoops/user/realDonaldTr...
>we should be learning to turn every coastal city to Venice

This sounds simpler than reducing greenhouse gasses
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The headline is inaccurate; according to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1921848, he cracked SHA1 14 times in 49 minutes.
For monochrome icons, using font-face seems like a better idea than CSS. You get a ton of icons in one cacheable packet and can easily change the color, drop-shadow, opacity, etc using standard css.

http://somerandomdude.com/articles/design-technology/font-em...
I learned this trick when I first picked up Python, too. I came from Java and, naturally, started writing Python code in the style I had learned to write Java: Heavily object-oriented, with getters and setters everywhere.

Eventually, though, I stopped trying to program in Java in Python. Once you relax and stop trying to hide your precious instance variables from all of the potentially pernicious or incompetent programmers who might be using your code (usually, in my case, just me), you no longer need tricks like this. And you realize that you never really needed them to begin with.
I'd be willing to pitch in but I'm definitely one the non-technical type. I know basic html and css, learning php but nowhere near a point where its considered usable.

My skills would probably be related to the "biz" lol. My background is in tax, accounting, legal and sales.
More importantly, though, this has absolutely nothing to do with the 8 hour workday.

Unless virtually everyone wants to clock-in at 9 and check-out at 5, makes the commute much less fun ;).
As someone who's just moving from an iPhone 3G, I know all about the pain of stuff not working well, or not working at all, on lower end hardware.

If Rovio had said that it didn't work on each of those devices for a different reason then that would be a good example of the android fragmentation bogeyman. Since they're all just lower specced devices, presumably struggling for basically same reason, it's not really a great example.

Regarding iAds, I've seen a few folk claiming they're game changers, but my point was that Apple are jumping heavily into the free/ad supported arena which reduces the impact of any contrast with Android on that point.
would a task based tracking system not be sufficient ? define a quantifiable high level abstract goal e.g. say implement high performance dhcp server. have an overall plan, with weekly (or some other granularity) checkpoints to assess progress etc. etc.

you get the idea right ? or am i just being too naive ?
Everyone in BNW is effectively programmed at birth. The system seems designed to suppress innovation, which many value highly. It could be argued that unhappiness drives innovation, productivity and progress, in much the same way profit motive does.

My desire to be a productive person stems from my experiences with short term happiness. No matter how many movies, video games or hobbies I enjoy in the short term, I will eventually feel a lack of deeper fulfillment if I don't accomplish something significant.

The happiness offered by the system in BNW seems to provide only this fleeting happiness without addressing the longer term "contented" style of happiness. I think this is what people react negatively to. It is hard to imagine a "cheat" to fulfillment because so many people spend their lives searching for it unsuccessfully.

The characters in BNW have apparently been modified or conditioned to lack this drive. Or their drive has been subverted to meet the goals of society. Whether you think this type of happiness can or should be provided artificially is up to you.
It turns out the 10 passwords he 'hacked' were in the range of 1-6 characters.

More details here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/18/amazon_cloud_sha_pas...
If your primary business is trust, you have to commit contractually to back it. Not just make "claims".
> As a truck guy who has owned a lot of trucks and currently owns a 2017 Ram 2500 CTD 4x4 and a Land Rover Defender 110, I'm telling you right now: this is going to kill it.

We'll see.

If it does kill, the looks won't be a problem, they'll be an asset - a more extreme version of the Prius.

But if it doesn't, a lot of people will blame the look.
Android handles this decently well it allows you to install whatever you want to the device but to unlock the device for custom firmware the device is first wiped so user data is perfectly safe.
This is a good perspective. Though I doubt there’s enough demand to warrant the heavy focus on that. This is a PR stunt, not some data driven product feature.
The design looks like a prepper's wet dream. But the pricing is incredible. Like $3k more than the Model Y's base model. And half as much as Rivian's base model, with the top end model costing the same as Rivian' base. Cybertruck wins in every spot but design against the Rivian, IMO. Frankly, some people I know that buy trucks would buy the Cybertruck because it looks badass (to some), like a stealth fighter.

I kept waiting for the sledgehammer guy to hit it and the walls to fall off, with a real truck inside.
Yeah, it doesn’t matter in the end, we have learned something important. But there is some context to all this - (macro)economics has had a huge influence on the world through monetary policy. This influence is waning due to financial crises and the apparent failure of neoliberalism among other things.
Getting dropped in medias res without knowing 100% of what is going on is just an ancient trope of story-telling.

It's certainly a trope. But is it ancient? I'm trying to think of ancient examples of this but I can't. Are you sure it's not a modern trope?
It seems like you're admitting to critiquing something you've no experience or understanding of in an effort to diminish the experiences of those of us who claim to experience the world differently. It's entirely possible and even probable that your VR experience simply comes nowhere close to mimicking gender dysphoria.
I grew up with GMC and Ford trucks in the mountains and in Texas (Texans love their trucks), and am in need of a truck (for towing, of which this has amazing specs with the mid and high end models) at the moment. I've been looking and looking not wanting to get taken advantage of, and had mostly settled on a few years old Tundra... but I love this thing, and also love the ATV, and so I am seriously considering this as my next vehicle purchase.

As a very security and privacy conscious person, my main quibble has been that I don't like drive by wire products. I don't want to get Michael Hastings'ed... but the fact is even the big truck companies are starting to get rid of mechanical throttle, so I might as well give up on that is how it feels.

What better way to merge my mountain man and hacker sides than with a Tesla truck. Now if I only had the money laying around... and I do think many of you underestimate how much in truck culture having something that looks different can be the biggest part of being "cool". I got more compliments on my Suzuki Samurai with a lift and 36ers than you would ever imagine. I blacked out a 91 YJ and also got nothing but compliments. This thing is going to do well, mark my words.

I prob won't go get a cord of wood in it, (I might) but that's what the old 84 beat up GMC camper special is for.
But that “not a professional app developer” has to be able to afford a decent computer to run one of the god awful Java IDEs, the resource intensive Android emulators, a phone, internet access etc.

If it’s an open source project that’s not going to be on the App Store, you can get XCode for free to run an app on your own device and give others the source code.
A lot of tiling window managers also support tabbing or stacking of windows within tiles. That's always how I used ion and wmii, off the top of my head.
My parents immigrated to America in the 80's from China, and they simply thought that a college degree was the gateway to social mobility. They never thought that the skills learned in college would matter that much. Most parents in my community thought the same way. Most parents didn't speak English, so my generation was further isolated from the job market demands. Going to college, my friends and I had little idea of what we wanted to, not because we were indecisive but because we simply didn't know what jobs we could do. I saw many friends study history, music and foreign languages, and they struggled after graduating because they realized that their degrees aren't guarantees for good jobs.

The struggles weren't due to lack of desires or efforts. In my opinion, it's the disconnect between the perceived value in education and the actual skills needed for the work place. Raising awareness, such as vocational classes in high school and required internships as a prerequisite for college graduation, would have been tremendous for my generation. At the very least, it would have helped us realize that there's this gap between what we're learning in school versus what's actually needed in the work force.
Yeah, another comment said this is “unreadable” if you don’t do FP... I have done a little lisp + Elixir, but 99% of my coding has been in C-descendant languages and this was definitely readable.
Rest assured, if you slap a "Punisher" sticker on this thing, it will be welcome at any roadside bar in Texas. It looks like the sort of thing the SEALs would roll up in.
Can I ask where you are located, or what kind of truck owners you know? I can't see anyone, like 0% of the rural owners I know, thinking this truck looks good. It's crazy, I would be embarrassed to be seen in it.

There are other electrified truck companies bringing up their models. Maybe even faster than Tesla can get this thing out. Ford is already testing their electrified F150's. Current owners will just buy their same brand when it becomes electrified.
Is the normal truck crowd going to latch onto a $70k truck?

I think this is going to resonate really well with techies. Not a huge demographic, but one that can afford it.

The market for sci-fi/cyberpunk cars won't be huge, but in exchange, this looks like it'll capture _all_ of that market, as opposed to a small slice of a more conventional one.
I think this area is super interesting!

I am a regular software engineer with a background in math and CS. The most relevant experience I have is some tinkering with Haskell.

Do you have any suggestions for how a full time employee can engage in this world and possibly start doing research?
I am not "ok to be white". This specific sentence is a dog whistle to show acceptance of white supremacy. I would instead say that the privilege associated with my whiteness is maddening, and must be decried.

What I don't like is a corporation including training material telling its employees to "be less white". This is confrontational, and in my point of view could cause more harm to minority groups. When you can, it is better to focus on teaching someone to reinforce positive aspects than to teach them to stop negative behaviours.

But as a general point of view of Western society in general, I do think it should be less white.
I no AML/KYC expert but I have written software systems for fraud purposes before and with that in mind such systems, founded in data collection, are used every hour of every day to link people to activities, legal or not. Given the prolific prosecutorial proof available online as it relates to the value of "who took the money", "who was paid", "who has the money" in such legal cases clearly the institutions tasked with 'security' see a great threat in not being able to follow it.
Bitcoin will have to adapt in a big way before inflation stops. It needs to crank transaction volume way up, or otherwise collect fees (for example smart contracts) in order to keep mining profitable.

Scaling only the price of transactions is NOT going to work, but it has quite a bit of runway to figure this out.
I hope they'll be partnering with an EU distributor so it's easier to reclaim VAT and to avoid having to pay import taxes.
>if that's something that happens for a simple hose

But it didn't happen...
Contrast Walmart and Costco, in terms of employee happiness and turnover.
This seams really optimistic and kind of glosses over the subject of scaling out websocket connections apart from this.

Anecdotally, the typical single Rails server process seems to be perfectly happy supporting nearly 4,000 active connections. And you can easily swap in the excellent AnyCable to bump that up to around 10,000+ connections per node by not relying on the built-in Ruby WebSocket server.

That's not a lot of connections on it's own. If you are implementing a chat service you'll still need some form of pub/sub (or something) to glue all of that together when users connect to disparate nodes.

Also

How about client-side validations? Easy. On every input change, round up the form values and send ’em down the WebSocket.

That's just server side validation.

As a disclaimer, I haven't used any of the HTML over WS frameworks the author discusses, but I've spent a fair amount of time dealing with scaling socket connections. It definitely makes the question of scaling horizontally more challenging. I feel like this article really glosses over that aspect.
Simply prefer? That's a rug under which you can sweep quite a bit.

Suppose that 200 years ago you took a poll and most women "simply preferred" not to vote. What does that tell you about whether the womens' suffrage movement was right or wrong?
Here is one suggestion for sites that pain us with password requirements: So the next time I login, instead of telling me how to reset my password, JUST SHOW ME THE CONDITIONS YOU HAD ON THE PASSWORD WHEN I SIGNED UP, RIGHT WHEN I STRUGGLE TO REMEMBER MY PASSWORD.

explained here: http://firespotting.com/item?id=2140
What we know is there's a lot of unfair factors pushing jobs away from being demographically evenly distributed. We have no evidence that something other than that is "natural", so until then, yes, I think we should assume the correct percentage is demographically even. Especially given the centuries of history where we ignored the opposite and were totally, ridiculously, hideously wrong about all sorts of things.