jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Why do I care about how a site keeps records of payments?

I think you might want to care because that's a basic requirement of any legal business (or non-profit) pretty much anywhere.

The service is also time-limited. Would you pay some amount for images to be hosted for a limited time? That seems like a perfectly valid decision.

It may not be feasible to accept anonymous payments or accept credit card payments without at least an email address.

Also, services like this must necessarily 'bundle' their specific products, e.g. hosting individual images in the case of this site. The transaction costs, e.g. credit card payment processing fees, preclude charging too small amounts.

Maybe it would be possible to avoid requiring an email address, but then I'd expect they'd have to use your credit card 'fingerprint' as an account/user identifier. But I'm skeptical that any credit card processors would allow that, especially given the possibility (and likelihood) that people will upload illegal images like child pornography.
It's interesting that you say that. Are you talkign about the hosted offerings then? If I spin up my own k8s "on metal" in GCP, would there still be something GCP specific to it?..
I am for 0% corporate rates as well, I personally think we should just raise the taxes on higher earners and rethink cap gains for people that sell large amounts of assets, but cut corporate taxes to 0%.
Even the telephone company could decline to service customers, and often did - or if it did service them, put their use of the service under heightened scrutiny.
That they of detection in AV is really rare, because AV (rightfully) optimizes to an extreme for low false positives. Instead you just have slightly more complex signatures that look at syscall ordering or whatever. It's not nearly as powerful as it sounds.
Obvious phish. That would never have even made it past our prescreening algos and if it did it would have thrown a flag and the next person to look at would have nuked it and closed your account.

File under "so don't do that, then".
> Blimps are more difficult to raid by organize crime elements and move slowly enough to make autonomous piloting a possibility.

for now...

perhaps if blimp shipping becomes common we will see the development of pirate blimps. one can hope anyway :)
>a wrongful termination lawsuit is expensive (think 7 figures)

When you're a company that makes 11 figures, spending 7 figures for a 1% increase in profits is a hundredfold ROI. They're not expensive, they're a bargain.
We can't even get ISPs regulated as utilities.
"One driver allegedly cut her trip short after falsely claiming to have arrived at her destination."

What is wrong with people?

I can understand something like this maybe happening once?

But that this happened 14 times makes me lose faith in people.

Civilization is built on the little things if they go, it stops.
Happy you found it helpful! The final section (imposters) of this [1] simplified exploration of “green beard altruism” might be of interest to you if you want to explore this further. If you’re interested in thinking about things like this generally, these are Nash equilibrium problems and the field is called game theory.

In answer: if we do discard the assumptions of game theory and we imagine nobody would ever think to “cheat,” it could work. But in reality it wouldn’t be just that some countries have huge advantages in some industries— they would have huge advantages in every industry. People and companies looking to maximize their opportunities would flee to the country with the lowest effective (nominal doesn’t matter) tax rate which could also guarantee their safety.

This is actually part of how the US ended up burying the Soviet Union/eastern Bloc with economic productivity— we kept poaching all their best engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and entrepreneurs.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=goePYJ74Ydg
I think you are giving service providers way too much leeway.

Service providers should offer their service to everyone, not just to "easy" customers. Service providers should not reject you because you are disabled, because you have a child, because you have a certain religion, or whatever else is the problem.

If someone is in the business of transporting people, they shouldn't be allowed to just pick the most profitable customers. Because if you allow that, everyone will try to undercut the competitors prices to get the "good" customers, and nobody will bother to offer services to the not so profitable customers.

There's nothing wrong with needing some special accomodations, and you shouldn't have to apologise to the driver for taking two minutes to fasten a child seat.
The latency kills the videos.
For a documentary covering history and current research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14WtwJTwuWg
Because in practice it's impossible to do what is being asked. Maybe if your class size was six students, but that's the case basically nowhere. I believe that learning is best achieved when people struggle greatly. If someone is cautiously guided through every problem in life, or in education, they will possess a sense that they know how to do something because they have seen it done by others and they were guided through it a few times. However, when it comes time to actually do the thing they often do not recall it. It's what the article is about. Did you read it?

When I studied physics in college I learned at a much faster rate than I had in the past because I had to often teach myself. I have heard this from others as well. Coddling students and handing them information, letting them climb without falling, seems to yield pretty pathetic results.
I really have to wonder about the amount of time to setup your own servers. I like to setup and tweak hardware for fun. But the time and starting costs seems way too much compared to spinning up a few instances to get something going quickly. Looking around here, San Francisco bay area, I can't find any way to host a server as inexpensively and as quickly as I can on the cloud. Plus there are lots of alternatives to AWS which promise better performance.

BTW, tweaking around with servers can also be a major time sink.
I used to be a Flash developer, now a Javascript developer. Everything that was raised as an issue with flash (except web's open nature) is now an issue with Javascript development today. Preloaders, skip intros, single page apps, browser back button issues, SEO incompatibility. all of it. loving this.
If you write it right, you should even be able to cache the state of the whole execution right until your code sees the first byte that depends on the user request or the environment. Sort of like a copy-on-write, but it's copy-on-read.
That code ended up turning into term.js which forked into xterm.js (which I maintain). It's quite a mature project at this point https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js, you can combine it with https://www.npmjs.com/package/xterm-local-echo to make implementing something like this website much easier.
I skimmed that book to figure out how to convert formulas to procedures in Scheme for learning Spivaks Calculus and a few OCW math courses. Also picked up Doing Math w/Python from NoStarch press to see how other people do this, and to learn Python since I've never really used it. It was definitely awesome to debug logic errors in emacs of formulas I translated, it really does give you a structural interpretation of the material you are trying to learn by coding it all. End result is a library with clear procedures I can use for reference whereas I've already forgotten most of the notation I've learned over the years (SICM uses Spivak's Calculus on Manifolds similar notation)
I have heard about search engine spam before and sort of discounted it - but you know, if you search on something that's not a technical topic or something equally specific like a band name, that is, you're searching on a general topic that is of interest to the mundanes, then there really is a whole lot of spam on Google.

My case from this week was that I wanted plans for a bookcase. I searched, therefore, on "build a bookcase". There was exactly one useful link on Google's front page (a Popular Mechanics link), and the rest were regurgitated spam that I could improve on with a Markov chain algorithm.

I've read that as long as people click on ads, Google has no motivation to clean up spam, but surely this can't be the best even for Google?
You're right, though at that point there would be quite a bit of demand for a solution. I already pay for unlimited calling w/ Skype and I'd be happy to move that $ to any solution that meets my needs.
Burundi and Rwanda are both located in eastern Africa and Congo is in central Africa.
You are the Master of Modern Payments and the billing code is the only thing it lacks??

Just kidding! ;) Smart move and good luck!
Cameras aren't limited to impossibly thin lenses, so optical zoom is a lot more practical.
I don't need to copy ANYTHING to tailgate.
The bigger problem is that Netflix doesn't have much of a selection, so you either have a service that isn't useful or you have to use multiple services, with multiple logins, multiple clients, multiple ecosystems, which is a bad situation. The fact that some of those services have decent dvice support isn't a consolation.
If I set bcrypt cost to 11, hashing takes 0.1 seconds. At 12, it takes 1 second roughly. Setting it to anything higher leaves my service open to Denial-of-Service attacks, so I'm very hesitant to increase the cost factor.

To you have a credible source for the "10..12 is too low for 2015" claim?

HHVM 3.6 on a small Ubuntu server
My wife went through 3 for her Macbook Pro with the l shaped plug - I attribute it to her not caring / being careful enough to ensure she doesn't crimp the cable when she puts it down on the table.

I've been a Macbook Pro user with the mag safe adaptor for a decade now? Never broke a single one.
A direct quote from Rognlie's article:

"Land does not depreciate; all its income is net."

This is the worst kind of internet debate: a group of people who haven't read Piketty's book arguing with a group of people who haven't read an article which claims to find problems with it.
http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ is the book being held up by the fellow introducing him. (That page also has a collection of links to resources; not sure how up-to-date.)
Ciao Filippo!

That's a nice trick, I've read about it elsewhere but never used, will do for sure in the future!

Are you sure that the intruder did not had server access? I mean the info: "We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile information." is not enough to deduce that this was an SQL injection (although might very well be).

Stay strong :-)
Large does not mean you have better security, as I understand. (see Sony)
The US government should prohibit US companies from complying with censorship demands from China. It already does something like that to prevent US companies from complying with the Arab League boycott of Israel.[1]

[1] https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/enforcement/oac#whatsprohi...
The popularity of InspIRCd mostly comes from its modularity and out-of-the-box modules [1]. If you're looking for an ircd to replace Slack in terms of feature-parity, InspIRCd would probably give you the best start.

I used ircu until a few years ago, but these days it has mostly rot (maintenance, git/release tarballs code not matching, ...), and InspIRCd is pretty great if you need the customization.

[1] https://wiki.inspircd.org/2.0/Modules
The multi-thousand dollar tax credits that made purchasing one cost-effective certainly drove its initial popularity (it's the only reason my sister bought one).

Even after the credits shrank to a level where a prius is no longer a cost-effective purchase, there are still U.S. laws (state and federal) which incentivise purchase of a prius (or other hybrid).

For example, a disproportionate number of hybrids are driven in the greater DC area. A big reason for this is because the state of Virginia allows hybrids to drive in carpool lanes with only one person (this may have changed--last I read there were lawsuits underway to challenge this policy). For people who live in the DC area, deciding where to live can involve some serious number crunching: the farther you get from the beltway, the less you will need to pay for housing, but the more you will need to pay (in time and money) for your commute. Buying a hybrid gave you a free pass to cut your commute time almost in half, allowing you to live farther away and save on housing.
Facebook is AOL.
Actually, articles like this do mean something -- at least to the journalists that the software is already beginning to make fear for their jobs.

As a full-time journalist who has also written some "robot reporter" code -- see "I wrote this article with one mouse click," http://coding.pressbin.com/60/I-wrote-this-article-with-one-... -- I know first-hand that even though it takes a creative human to code the software, once the software is written, it's "set it and forget it" ... which means you no longer need to pay a journalist to write the article, which means bye-bye journalism jobs. (Of course, it also means hello-hello journalist-programmer jobs.)
Agreed. Much of the problem I see is that people can fall down a rabbit hole of polarization without realizing it; no matter how far into the fringes the recommendation algorithm gets, it'll always feel like "oh everyone's saying this" to you as a viewer.
There is no bias towards specific domains on HN, but it is required that users post intellectually stimulating resources. A lot of nytimes posts are actually really well written and have new information in there, and so it's not frowned upon.

If the article requires a subscription - I am sure there is shared accounts knocking around somewhere to circumvent this...In the true hacker way
The Intel 8088 has an 8 bit bus, and 8 bit registers. The size of an integer is 16 bits.
I would assume from one of the handful of companies that provide this data. Requests aren't cheap, and he probably needs to make multiple request to figure it out.
Ita is one such company, purchased by google a few years ago.
I doubt he is scrapping, as it seems orbitz's issue is he provides a link to them
"It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools."

This is a common saying because it is a common occurrence.

People who use the language effectively know all about the complaints. Those people live with their complaints knowing no other language even comes close to meeting their needs. No language on the horizon is even trying to meet their needs.

C++ usage is still growing by leaps and bounds. Attendance at ISO Standard meetings is soaring; until Covid19 killed f2f meetings, each had more than any meeting before; similarly, at conventions. Even the number of C++ conventions held grows every year, with new national ones arising all the time.

Rust is having a go at part of the problem space, and making some headway. But more people pick up C++ for the first time in any given week than the total who have ever tried Rust. It is still way too early to tell whether that will ever not be true.

So the HN trend is very much an echo-chamber phenomenon, with no analog in the wider world.
Its bad reasoning to shoot the messenger even when its a bot!
Pretty darned valuable, especially when you move it into other assets

Isis may have taken over parts of Iraq and Syria, but that did not mean that the oil stopped flowing
Well the Magazine calls itself "[__] Review of Journalism" and many of the articles seem to start with a story about a specific journalist that is exemplary for the topic. It's a brand thing. If you really dislike it, then this magazine is not for you.

Personally this narrative oriented style has me on edge about rhetoric subterfuge. It feels like a sleight of hand, like a Kansas City shuffle, like a trick to fly fiction, an advertorial, or opinion below the radar.
Thank you for clarifying. Have a great night
Stripe Connect.
The best story was when some kids called up to his center, asked him why his Macbook are not booting. Louise was very amazed by the fact that this kid gave him a full step-by-step of what diagnosis he has done so far, showing technical adept and the will to put in the work himself. In context: Lots of the time people just call Louise saying they have a problem and expect him to guide them for free over the phone.

He then invited the kid to his workshop and personally guide the kid through the reparation of his Macbook ( under parent’s supervision of course ).
Wikipedia seems to indicate that the Girls Gone Wild folks survived the lawsuit that you're talking about and were eventually driven out of business due to other legal problems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_Gone_Wild_(franchise)#Le...
Getting rickrolled in a terminal. Future is today.
Are you saying advertising, marketing and PR have no effect? Because if so, I'll notify those billion dollar industries they've been made redundant.
While I’m glad that this addressed the issue for your family, it certainly doesn’t indicate that other children who struggle with ADHD have parents who are unwilling or unable to be involved with their life.
This can be used to monitor someone's breathing in a non-invasive way, which would be good. Here's a startup that has been working on it: https://www.originwirelessai.com/technology
There's a scene in Blackhawk Down where a similar thing happens. Aided has a kid sitting around near the airport with a cellphone who calls in when he sees all the helicopters take off. I can't find any references if this actually happened or not.

Of course, this type of situation is kind of hard to avoid. Making sure that there's no one within line of sight of the take off path of an airport is kind of hard if it's anywhere close to a populated area.
They're applying for a trademark on FACE in the context of "Telecommunication services, namely, providing online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users in the field of general interest and concerning social and entertainment subject matter, none primarily featuring or relating to motoring or to cars".

The two things that immediately jump out at me from that are:

1. What about FaceTime? Seems like that would fall under the category they're applying for, unless Apple makes an argument that one-to-one video chat isn't a type of "online chat [room] and electronic bulletin [board]" - although it seems like that'd be splitting hairs and setting up for a whole bunch of suits.

2. What's the deal with the motoring/cars exception - is there already an online chat forum about cars that's named Face-something?
There is not going to be a law requiring a company wipe an employee's personal phone.

To the extent that this is covered by law, and I am not a lawyer, it will be under something like "a company covered by this regulation will use industry standard practices to protect customer data on mobile devices".

One of the industry standard practises is remote wipe of the whole device in the event of theft. Personal or not, the distinction is idealistic and not realistic.
I was just lying on the couch thinking about this idea. Well, I have much larger, grander idea that is a mix of Palm/HP's new Mocha platform and some play at ubiquitous interfaces and data powering apps on many devices simultaneously. I was thinking though, that some of the frontends for rtorrent look neat, but still fail to look native.

What if the browser exposed the GTK resources and allowed web applications to render using the same visual components as native applications on the platform. That'd be sweeet.
Is there a possibility that you could establish a partnership instead? It sounds like this "someone" simply wants to offer your app as a bonus of sorts to their market. You could provide a special free version of your app to their customers, and reap the benefits of those who upgrade to your normal paid version.

This path would limit your potential loss of income, keep your code under wraps, and provide you with an incentive to support the free app users (make them happy = profit!). Theres risks and rewards associated with any integration strategy; weigh them out carefully and hopefully that will at least point you in the direction of your magic number
What you REALLY want to know are things that you're not likely to find out in your offer:

* How does your share allocation compare to your peers, superiors and subordinates? In other words, are you getting an equitable share in the company for your position?

* What is the board's strategy for maintaining employee ownership in the face of dilution? Regardless of what you start with, it can be made irrelevant as the number of outstanding shares goes up in future financing rounds. It is natural to expect your ownership share to go down over time as the company grows, but additional share grants can mitigate that effect.
http://www.lavasa.com/
is somewhat similar and I have been to this city, it is just amazing.
Is it normal for founders to have preferred shares? In our case the founders all have common stock (albeit a lot of it), and in fact it came with more restrictions than normal common stock, namely a 3-year restricted stock period similar to an option vesting period.
I think you're more likely to stick to and maintain todos on a mobile device that syncs to the cloud.

Maybe that's just how I'm wired, but I never could stick to any one system until I got a smartphone, now I run my life out of it.
First error of this user is trying to run mongodb on a single node instance. One note about his paragraph regarding replication ... just make sure to not use the autoresync flag if that's your data recovery plan or you'll simply replicate bad data to the slaves. If your really serious about the data, cycle a couple slaves down every X minutes so that they completely write to disk so that you can perform proper backups then have them come back up and resync.

Here's a rewrite of the article: Don't use monogdb unless you know what your doing and have the hardware to do it right.
Pointing to a technical distinction that makes no real difference to a user's experience is just geek-wanking. Whether from a 3rd-party server or from Apple itself, if adult content ends up on a kid's screen, a parent somewhere is getting pissed, and if there's any company in the world that's going to be aware of this, it's Apple. They're obviously fine with the idea that age warnings and parental controls are sufficient for apps that can display 3rd-party-server content, and because they are, it's prima facie ridiculous that they would censor the same or similar content from their own servers that passes through the same age warning and parental controls.
great! Shame it is "unfinished"...
A little more than a decade ago I ordered a bag of 2C-I, shipped to me via snail mail from China. One of the most enjoyable psychedelics I've ever tried. At the time 2C-B was already harder to get and I was a little bummed out I had to settle for something less known.
I think people are more trying to outline the difference in response, not calling for escalation. I think most people would want to see de-escalation in both cases. The point is more that the responses are clearly unequal.
Absolutely not! without presenters there is no draw. It is a two way street, you get exposure and they get valuable content. Most conferences make there money of admission fees as well as booth space for vendors, to then try to squeeze margins by charging the people that are providing the content and draw, is not, in my opinion, a solution to get the best content, but rather it will attract sales oriented speakers, in which, the audience will feel like they are being pitch to the entire time. When money is involved, the highest bidder gets the floor and they are not always going to provide the best content, because in some way they have to make up that out of pocket money. It creates an agenda beyond disseminating information.