jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That is not buying a career. That's making a deal. The guy said:

> rich people can literally buy a career

I'm not being sarcastic here. It used to be possible to purchase a commission in the military. That is speaking historically.

I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't careers today you can literally purchase. Franchising comes kind of close, and running a taxi in NYC comes close. In ancient times, you could purchase the position of tax collector.

Anyway, that person should not have said "literally" unless he meant it.
America, land of the free.

If a person is not sovereign over their own body, aren't they the most wretched slave imaginable? Certainly he hurt those around him, but ultimately I believe that it was his right to die in the way he chose.
WHY! I mean... why?

Why would you need Flash to use a VPN? Is it some weird web-login? How do you write a VPN client in Flash? Who thought that requiring Flash for a VPN would be a good idea?

Your comment raises so many questions.
I was regularly posting to several groups as late as 2014.

But setting up access is no different than configuring a mail client.
Original article in the screenshot: http://avherald.com/h?article=4e2fd449&opt=0
>The claim is: in a given group of a thousand people, eating the same food and having the same execesise, some will be obese and some will not due to genetics. That distribution is very wide, and well studied.

This was not the same claim.
Yes, it is well understood that individuals are different. some people have a harder time and some have an easier time, for sure. This does not negate that personal choice plays a much greater role than genetics.

OP
>> hunger and fullness are very much genetically determined and that that dictates to a large degree how fat you'll be

Genentech influences are only significant if you intentionally exclude dietary choice providing the "same food and exercise" to each person.

>Thus, when you encounter a random obese person in the wild you cant conclude this is just because they eat bigmacs all day

Im not sure when or why I would need to make conclusions about a specific random obese person in the wild. I'm fine with the understanding that 90+% of obesity is personal diet. This is sufficient for talking in generalities about obesity in society. If for some weird reason, I need to do a root cause assessment on a random individual's obesity, yes, this is not sufficient.

If I encounter another random obese person in the wild, I have no reason to care if the reason IS their bigmac consumption. It is their life and their choice. Lots of people value food consumption over their weight.

Lastly, I totally agree that the genetics was a footnote to the original point, but think there is value in correcting incorrect facts. If someone else wants to engage with the crux of the message, they are still free to do so. What I don't like is when people erroneously claiming that science backs up their position when it doesn't.
How do you differentiate between a troll and someone who is misinformed?
Definitely we'd need a db for that :)
Looks like an arbitrage opportunity! Buy 64MB server, sell 8MB servers.
In other words, enforced by an overarching party, regardless how you imagine the enforcement taking place.

And there are many situations where a collective 'reputation' system isn't an appropriate tool - such as when a party has the resources for self-sufficiency (or simply considers the reputation drop 'worth' it), or no contract is being undertaken in the first place. You essentially ignored the tragedy of the commons. >And< the sale of the market.

I want to thank you for your response, but with all due respect, this sounds like exactly the dogmatic handwaving I was referring to. Perhaps things aren't being explained to me in a way I am able to understand? Aside from the fact that a governing body is a government, exactly how does a reputation system prevent the tragedy of the commons? How does it prevent the sale of the market - ie - it's own co-option?

Again, with all due respect, I can't help feeling that libertarianism is inherently short-sighted and hypocritical political view, driven more by cognitive dissonance and the effect of desire on perception inherent to human psychology. I very open to being disabused of this perception, if someone can address the two issues I have brought up.

You simply can't have, and also not have, a government, no matter how enforcement is performed.
Two things are interesting in this story. One is that this guy is doing extraordinarily well, much better than the vast majority of traditionally published writers. He is, indeed, an outlier. The other interesting thing about this is how much more money this outlier can make by self-publishing. If that is true for other outliers, that should strike fear in the hearts of traditional publishers, who make most of their money from these outliers.
It is not so much discomfort (although I do hate phone calls), but rather an unwillingness to give up somewhere between a half hour and 2 hours of prime daytime hours waiting on hold.
It must be used with care. Excessive vouching for undeserving comments results in a loss of the privilege.
Seems that you are correct, as they saw the writing on the wall.
What books are you reading that have pure white pages with pure black text on them? At best they are eggshell or an off-white page. Also... books are nature now?
Good article. My comment might be off topic in which case, please ignore.

If you have a one-person SaaS company, how do you get past customers’ resistance to a single point of failure, namely you?

Do you pretend you’re not just one person? Do you only have customers who could handle losing the service when you, say, run away to meditate on the mountaintop? (Or get run over by a beer truck, or whatever.) Is there some non-obvious solution?

And — back on topic — is the architecture part of that sales pitch? “I’m just one dude, but look how simple this is, it can run itself if I am devoured by mice!”
Not sure why you're being downvoted.

Per TFA:

"A transgender woman at a men’s prison, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, said that she knows at least five inmates who have applied to transfer under false pretenses and that staffers have asked her to help identify such inmates." <subsequent paragraphs address the issue in greater detail>
Obviously fisheries are not important. If such things mattered to anyone, competition would have forced the oil company to be safer and cleaner. Or at least thats how people claim pure capitalism works.
He probably doesn't refresh HN that often.
I see two posts already.
Google, for whatever reason, thinks that a very light touch with regard to spam sites is appropriate. (Although Cutts is right that an inurl: or site: query doesn't show anything - he's saying, "Show me a real-world query that has nothing but spammy results and then I'll do something").

I think and have thought that a Google competitor could come along and beat them by having a heavy hand against spam sites. If it's designed to attract search engines, NewGoog doesn't index it, period. Any business generating datafog for search engine consumption gets deindexed entirely and permanently.

Go ahead, type any question you want into Google. ANY question at all. You get a list of 500 search engine question spam sites, most of which are written in broken English and contain more or less nonsense strings of words thrown together. NewGoog would wipe all that shit out.

Attention Google: offer an option (like SafeSearch) that applies a HEAVY HAND to spam sites. We will love you for it.
Wait, what? I think the author is just ignorant of Greek and Latin roots (it's ok, most native speakers are too).

iso-tope is literally "at the same place"

commun-ism is literally "share-ism"
It seems, from the later demonstrations in the article, that the content is at least somewhat unique on these sites. I think that alone would keep it from being penalized on G.
And like many other bad things that have occurred quite naturally in the past, we'll suffer no matter what or who's causing the disaster.

So la-de-da let's go around doing things that might cause more of these things to happen, after all it's natural? Sounds a lot like the "everything natural=goodness" fuzzy thinking certain people are guilty of. Lots of bad things are "natural" yet it's still a very smart policy to prevent them. Contracting STDs is natural. Tooth decay and abscesses are natural. Breaking your neck in a fall is natural. I'm still going to practice safe sex, brush and floss my teeth, and use a safety harness while climbing.

A good many resources just don't make the cost/benefit cut. Self destructively promiscuous people are a readily available resource for getting sex, but they are also a good way to irreversibly get stuck with herpes.
Look: either they're going to control spam or they're not. But they can't reasonably own all of Internet search and navigation and be capricious about enforcing their intentionally obscure ranking rules. Google demands the benefit of the doubt from the entire Internet. They set this high standard for themselves, and they profit e n o r m o u s l y from the perception that they live up to it.
Which seems like it just gave Posterous publicity.
Trendiness + Reinventing the wheel = Success?
IE is to Windows as Webkit is to iOS; it's componentised HTML rendering.

The whole browser choice lawsuit business was strange; it was far from the worst bit of anti-competitive behaviour, and has been superceded by closed platforms on phones. The "halloween" documents and funding of SCO were more objectionable to me.
Skip the link, but know it's out there.
This is the best argument for not doing this imo.

"Classic UNIX behavior was that environment variables were public (any user could see them with the right flags to "ps") so it was well-known not to put anything secret there."

The same logic applies to Windows environments and modern *nix too...

Storing private data in a public location is obviously a bad idea.
Possibly because he knows JS+CSS, but not C, C++ or C#.

Or possibly because the API's microsoft proposes are pretty horrible; I've worked on FF and chrome extensions, and I investigated IE support - but IE's extension model is truly terrible. Just take a look at that stackoverflow link you posted. What a mess. I wouldn't mind a clean C++ or .NET api, but the current API certainly isn't that.
lets hope they make it windows version agnostic, that way we can all start supporting ie12, instead of being shackled to ie9
I think the problem here, that will catch other online providers, is that snapchat's success is still based on the flawed presumption that it's actually private (by any of your definitions).

Hopefully the realization that these services aren't as private as advertized will have a ripple effect in the "younger markets", but I doubt it.
After the sarin attacks, they did a good job. I'm referring to the multiple times they dropped the ball prior to that point, which among other things allowed the sarin attacks to happen. Their screwup on the Matsumoto attack is an obvious example; they they harmed an innocent in an incorrect focus on him is in a way much less important than letting the culprits later do much worse.
He said 1st vs 2nd gen, not 3rd. The iPhone 3G gets this updates, and it has the same amount of ram as the first generation iPhone / iPod touch. Same CPU too.

There may be a technical reason, but that isn't it.
"It would be trivial for Microsoft to provide a version of BASIC that kids could use, whenever they wanted, to type in all those textbook examples."

They do, it's called Small Basic.

Although this was written in 2006, before Small Basic existed.
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Ive owned EU domains in the past but i live in Switzerland. Did they miss to form an agreement or was i just lucky?
Berlin isn't representative. It has comparatively and surprisingly low prices on housing.

Don't know if prices doubled, but it is increasingly difficult for younger people to acquire a home.

People said the Euro helped Germany, and maybe that is correct, but that would be restricted to exporters. For almost everyone else it was a net loss.

Electronics got pretty cheap I guess...
I don't want to be the spoilsport, but yes, they very much can and it's not even that difficult.

Case in point: I moved to Finland as an immigrant 9 years ago, with nothing but a backpack, girlfriend and $12k in my bank account. Within 7 years, we paid down the mortgage for 100 m2 house in the capital area, while raising two children, with one above average and one below average income. And I don't feel like we were materially deprived in any way.

I think the main culprit is couples settling down way too late in their lives. Instead of settling down at the age of ~25 and combining two incomes to pay off the mortgage principle, we have two adults, each paying ~$700/month rents. When they finally move together at the age of ~30, that's almost $100k that went down the drain. The baby-boomer generation used to move together at even earlier ages, 19-22.
I'm confident that Google's legal counsel has advised that lying has little risk, when the gov't has made it illegal to tell the truth.
How is that true? I accept we don't have the tools so no one actually works this way, but if I am say pair programming we don't literally edit at the same time - it's a you go, I go, you go situation - and that's the same way to do it. Even collaborative white boarding is "handing over the pen" - because we are not trying to teach the whiteboard our ideas, we are trying to teach each other - and one of us needs to be listening ..
This is a very good point. I do the same.
They have Minecraft-- wonder if they will be able to use it to introduce the product to the huge young generation who grew up on the game.
Read this article and tell me how this is overblown.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/09/17/exposed-the-secre...
This is the longterm perspective thats rarely seen here, thank you.
Your district has two buses? We never did growing up, and I don't think it's too common.
Love his channel. This may be what initially caused me to think it would be cool to own a whole town.
Dunno. We're just the repair shop that wound up installing win7 instead, because the CNC only supported windows.
Dang that is true I didn't think of that. good observation.
You can already have that with pkgsrc for osx - joyent maintains the osx binary packages see http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/

(pkgsrc is the NetBSD version of FreeBSD ports, but its always been portable to other systems).
It's not clear to me how SSH differs from SSL/TLS conceptually. It seems to me both achieve similar goals (encrypted tunnel, client/server authentication). Perhaps we should take the best bits of both protocols and create a new one? But then, I am reminded of http://xkcd.com/927/.
The bar is pretty low. When there are tens of millions of unpatched machines floating around on the internet, and hundreds of weaponized exploits already written by other people, all it takes is patience and lack of good judgement.
Both brew and macports provide that nowadays. I still see an advantage in using a package manager that is used for a full distro, allowing for easier management of packages. I am aware that this benefit might never materialize, but it's good some people try.
Lots of downvoting on my comment above but no related feedback as to why?

Maybe I'll just leave this here and people can judge for themselves:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-secret-cia-mission-in-ben...
The CTO talks a bit about the rebuild at his talk on using Node:

http://youtu.be/HGH66JhUkis?t=8m59s

The old system was 155,000 lines of Java and similar. The team before him tried to rebuild using J2EE and XSLT and failed to get anything working in 8 months of trying. They then reorganised and rebuilt the system in about 4000 lines of Clojure:

http://youtu.be/HGH66JhUkis?t=16m3s
Probably not yet. Clojure's greatest selling point to management is still that you can just drop in a jar.

But Clojure has a strong opinion on immutability and functional programming. I'm not sure those Schemes do.

In any case, if you were to introduce a Scheme, I would do Racket for it's significant community within the larger Scheme ecosystem.
(RL) Real Life in (VR) Virtual Reality,... poppycock.
You're literally against people making a living developing software for Linux...
Let’s be honest here, the two aren’t complaining about the same thing. One side is complaining about lax enforcement of TOS violations, while the other is trying to claim that a private actor enforcing rules on their private property is violating their rights. One is pointing out preferential treatment, and the other is complaining that they aren’t getting enough preferential treatment.
Aspiring to pay your bills by whatever legal means you deem appropriate is a fantastic model though, and I thoroughly commend OP for trying.
“Wages” (or prices) should be determined by supply and demand curves. If the government wants minimum wages to rise, then it should lower supply of labor and/or increase demand for labor.

The government can lower the supply of labor willing to work for low wages by offering a basic income, pay for people’s education, etc.

The government can increase the demand for labor by decreasing the number of hours needed to reach overtime (per day and per week), mandating vacation time and parental leave, etc.

All of this, however, very explicitly increases government expenditures requiring tax increases and clearly shows the wealth transfer, so it’s politically less popular than trying to foist it onto select businesses.
>>I posit that the problem is that an overwhelming volume of our national speech (and indeed international speech) is completely at the mercy of a tiny handful of corporations. Further, these corporations have demonstrated an ability to steer public opinion and credibly even unilaterally influence elections.

How is any of this fundamentally different from how television operates? Anyone with a camera and a broadcast license can do same things (and already have). On TV, if you don't like what your seeing, the solution has been to change the channel. On the Internet, if you don't like a website, find another one.

>>This is simply too much power and these companies' rights to regulate their own platforms must yield to the greater need to secure our democracy. Effectively, I think it's an antitrust problem in that the power of these corporations is so great that it threatens our national sovereignty, as the large trusts of the 20s did (although I don't think the large social media companies have flexed that power as egregiously).

Anyone can start a forum or website for near-zero in seed money. In the 1920's, the same couldn't be said for an oil company. Facebook's privacy violations threaten personal liberty but I fail to see how you reconcile that issue with antitrust law. Making them utilities or breaking them up doesn't solve the underlying issues of what you're trying to accomplish. In other words, it's wrong tool for the wrong job.
Toshiba datasheet says 8.1W under Q1 4k random R/W, I did my testing with streaming writes and queue depth around 10, so my write figure seems reasonable.

For idle the datasheet says 4.53W typical, however I admit my disks were idle only for a few minutes when I did my readings as dinner was almost ready, so possible they would go lower after longer idle periods.
There are all sorts of limitations on carrying forward corporate losses.

There was a 20-year cap on corporations carrying forward losses.I had clients that actually timed-out on using carried-forward losses because they had insufficient profits to use their losses against. However, since 2017, losses can be carried forward indefinitely, but in any given year may only offset up to 80% of taxable income. (As a result of the CARES Act, losses between 2018 and 2021 are not subject to the 80% limitation.)

There are section 382 limitations on losses of acquired companies. (In a nutshell, the idea is to discourage a company from being acquired so that the acquirer can use those losses to offset their own taxable profits.)

There are other limitations on loss carrying as well but they tend to be pretty esoteric.

Yes, individuals can save on taxes, but can most of us get an effective tax rate of 1%?

Yes, you can get a 0% (combined tax rate) as an individual if your income is primarily municipal bonds or other tax-free government bonds, even before taking into account deductions. And wage-earners can get single-digit combined tax rates if they are below the poverty line (the exact threshold varies from state to state).
APIs and most code is copyrightable, they are original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium, all that is required by he Copyright Act of 1976. It doesn't look like either party in this case claimed the code was not eligible for copyright either

If they shouldn't be copyrightable because the world would be better off, interoperability between business is harmed, it is up to congress to change the law. Historically legislation like this harms smaller companies mostly, larger companies can better afford to deal with the requirement to license or the cost/work required to stick to fair use or litigate over it, so the larger companies that can afford to lobby to change the law aren't going to want them changed.

This case certainly sets precedent that API re-implementation can be fair use, not that it always is. Fair use is very fact specific, based on a four part test where having one part in favor can be fair use, and having three parts in your favor can still be infringement. A future case with products that would have a more substantial effect on the market of the original work, or had more of the original work reused than was strictly necessary could very well be infringement. With regards to "the amount and substantiality of the portion used" in this case less than 1% of the original code was copied just measuring the lines of code. Substantiality is harder to put a number on, but arguably it was only a small portion of the original product. This is a very low and for many other APIs a more substantial portion would need to be copied to be useful. The precedential value of this case is unclear without either the law changing, or further litigation.
Alas, that doesn’t respond to the point that I haven’t seen people framing this as an entitlement on the part of Scott, rather the framing has been that this is an example of powerful institutions pursing self-interested goals to the detriment of the rest of us.
As far as I can see only his Donkey Kong records were disputed.

"on July 3, Mitchell achieved the perfect score at an arcade in Laconia, New Hampshire, and set the game's world record as recorded by Funspot and Twin Galaxies". So no MAME involved in that one.

"With a camcorder supplied by Funspot bearing down over his shoulder, Mitchell’s every last move was taped for posterity -- if not, at least, for irrefutable proof of the achievement. "

https://www.funspotnh.com/-Articles/pc-billymitchell.htm