jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm sure most people would happily work eight hours
less for the same pay, but I'm not sure how much
interest there is in 80% time for 80% pay.

I would gladly work 3 days a week for 60% of my "full time" pay. And plenty of leisure activities I'm interested in do not depend on my friends/family/others having free time in exactly the same time I do (reading book, playing computer games, watching movies, going on a bike ride, hiking).
1. hire a tv celebrity that all the hacking he ever did was write checks with fake signatures.

2. pay him a large sum to test your flawed security

3. ???

4. CTO get's a huge bonus for impenetrable security. 90's celebrity get's a fat check (with his name on it, for a change)
I don't disagree, I'm just pointing out that geography magnifies the early riser problem. Schedules set by early risers in the east in a timezone are "twice" as early for late risers in the west of that timezone. When the sun of your city is always 45-minutes to an hour behind the city that "leads" business in your timezone, even some of their late-risers start to look like early-risers with respect to sunlight hours.
Because it's like TLSA + SRV [which itself is basically CNAME + a port hint] + A + AAAA in one. (Because there's no "consistent multi querying" in DNS, so it had to be basically multiplexed into one RR type.)

https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-https-and-http-3-neg...
Keep in mind that Titanfall had to ship on the Xbox 360 and PS3.
Hi David, thank you!

Indeed, using frequency alone will lead to a suboptimal set of sentences. Our approach was to choose sentences that increase smoothly in complexity, where we estimate complexity through a combination of criteria: frequency of vocab, tenses, number of clauses, etc.
Bummed about this, but there seems to be a plethora of alternatives:

- Rho: https://rho.co/

- Mercury: https://mercury.com/

- Radius Bank: https://radiusbank.com/business/

- BlueVine: https://www.bluevine.com/

- Novo: https://banknovo.com

- Wave Money: https://www.waveapps.com/money

- Brex Cash: https://www.brex.com/product/cash-management-account/

- Wise: https://www.wise.us/

- Relay: https://relayfi.com

Now if only there were a clear way to choose one. If anyone has any tips, I'm all ears.
> I'd be more concerned about listening devices especially key committee Members and staff e.g. foreign relations LAs

Or better yet, placing an annoyatron on key offices of members of the party you don't like.
Realistically, you could support half a dozen DNS providers and get a LONG way towards making it easier to roll your own.

GoDaddy, GCP/google=domains, AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean and a couple others would provide enough for a LOT of people. Especially since godaddy and google domains include dns, and DO doesn't charge for it.

I've setup a script to make it easier to manage a handful of dev domains (commit to a repo, and it updates via build/event pipeline) with DO.. was surprisingly easy. I don't think doing similar for the biggest cloud/dns providers would be all that hard to integrate.
It's often times not worth it. They are like 20 core developers and alot of them have day jobs, they are not a manufacturing company and the price to have this stuff made by a third party often doesn't make it worth the cost after accounting for taxes.
There are more comments on your duplicate submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2017757
Seoul is just 20km south of the DMZ. Very likely, the North already has a couple of tunnels leading close to the city.

A nuclear war would be the end of South Korea too.
Although this submission was first, there's a comment on the later duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018130
BTW, here's a review of the product.

http://gigaom.com/mobile/augmented-reality-translations-word...

read the last line of the WordLens review... "A price cut would also help a lot." $5 is too much to pay for this app! A medium caramel frappucino from Starbucks is almost $5!

It just seems like over the past 20 years I've seen this evolution of programmers building intricate valuable product, to now it being generally viewed as disposable crap... even the best stuff. It only has value when coupled with HW or is a service.
"As an aside, the creator of pinboard, is the anti-PG, (or at least the anti-PG of 2005)"

That is an unfair and extremely misleading label to apply to the author:

- your selective quote is immediately followed by "Hee hee", which most readers would interpret to mean that said paragraph (or indeed the entire post, since those are the last two words) is a somewhat good-natured poke.

- the criticism in the post is scoped only to the hackers<=>painters analogy

- elsewhere in the post he says "Graham is an excellent author when he sticks to topics that he knows well"

Hardly anti-PG. He's just not a fan of the analogy PG used in some essays. Don't drum up conflict where there is none.
It's actually $30M -- TechCrunch has an update at http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/17/confirmed-tumblr-raises-25-...

Current investors Spark and Union Square went in for $5M each and Sequoia took $20M.
Let's hope they spend it on some well needed server infrastructure.

See: http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/17/ok-tumblr-this-is-getting-j...
I've got Piwik on a shared host (WebFaction tier 1) and while I like the software, I discovered its limit at one point last week with http://reasonstumblrwentdown.com. (The site had about 25k uniques and 250k actions total.)

It eventually recovered but I would definitely do some research and further configuration before running the package on a site with high traffic. One friend at a news site told me that they put Piwik on its own VPS before ditching it for performance issues.

Whatever you decide to do, I would run in parallel a backup system from a proven and trusted provider — I scrambled to do so with Google Analytics once Piwik died.
Google Chrome has a nice bookmark (and also preference) syncing feature.
Ouch ouch ouch. It hurts just looking at these.

Besides the obvious complaint of freeways cutting willy-nilly through established cities, literally demolishing everything in its path, even the buildings suffered.

The gross misuse of outdoor space might be the second-greatest crime in American urban planning (after freeway culture). So many tight-knit neighborhoods and communities - tight streets full of activity and business - replaced with megalithic buildings surrounded by "plazas" and "parks" that fit neither description and are massive black holes devoid of human activity.

That Pittsburgh picture hurts the most. Roads lined with buildings replaced with vast concrete emptiness.

Rochester too - there is more parking lot and roadway west of the river than there are buildings! Disgusting.

And that Providence picture - if I didn't know better I'd think the after picture is after a war given how much has been absolutely leveled into flat ground.

Agh I can't look at this.
Commercial Wifi routers already do retail traffic analysis.

https://meraki.cisco.com/blog/2013/12/get-a-visual-on-your-b...

So people are probably already being tracked... and no one has noticed.
"get(:member) do |id|" or "get "/api/v1/report/:id" do |id|" have the virtue of being pretty damn explicit.

As far as ensuring API consistency (a fine goal), it wouldn't be altogether difficult to have a rake task that prints the full set of routes to STDOUT for app's using such a framework. Load all of the controllers, make a route table, then emit said route table. This provides a holistic view of Sinatra-like routes similar to "rake routes".

Just the same, I can see how for apps with many types of resources, remembering the precise URL incantation would PROBABLY be more difficult than remembering Rails generated path/URL helpers.
Is the civility level on any site like this doomed to decrease over time as popularity grows?
I think the fact that one can go from doctor to doctor for 18 years and not get a proper diagnosis speaks volumes about medicine today. We collectively know so much about the human body and its afflictions, but yet so many doctors seem clueless.
I don't think "fucking asshole" is much worse than "trophy kid". They're about comparable in terms of incivility.
I agree. Hacker News has a lot great people on it.

Karma, however, is a joke because accounts are regularly nuked for no good reason, which necessitates starting over at zero. Hellbanning spammers and outright trolls makes sense. Hellbanning good posters who make one annoying comment is ridiculous. If you don't like what someone has to say, disagree with him. (This is also why I don't like downvoting without a reply; I think people who object to something should say why they object to it.)
Employment is to survive in life.
Entrepreneurship is to succeed in life.
I don't know how strongly I can express my agreement with this. I am not an all-out "doctors are kooks" type, but the ease with which kook-types can become doctors seems too high. I have had several bad experiences with doctors being fundamentally unscientific or ignoring what I'm actually saying or recommending treatments without logic/evidence. They are of course great if you have something simple and common like a broken leg but they are not special because they wear white coats. They don't have to get 100% on exams, they don't have to stay up to date with the literature, they don't have to be of a scientific mindset. It's a nicely paid job. There are budget/time pressures on what they can do with the endless stream of ill people.
If the cook discloses he is paid to promote a given brand, I'm ok with it - otherwise, it makes me second guess every suggestion the cook makes.
That depends on the integration between the web server and the test framework. In this case the framework is rolling back some in-memory database. If the session state is in that database, you're good to go. Otherwise the framework needs to track whatever else you're using for session state and roll it back like it does the database.
More like never trust anyone who says yes too quickly.
No one was fired as a consequence of what I did. They were fired because time passed and there were no results. If I had been able to convince my boss I think we would have been successful. At one moment I thought about going one level up in the organization, I decided to be loyal to my boss so I kept my mouth shut.
Additionally, your arms are free which is a big win, and at least in the video, it didn't require wearing a helmet. I think they've made leaps and bounds over the smug issue.

It looks like this only targets indoor super smooth surfaces, but I think it could definitely find a niche.
That works for me, nice job. You could improve it by faking a light source and having them cast shadows. Shooting 3D photos, I've found that shadows really enhance the feeling of depth.

Edit, kind of related, here's a "virtual" stereo where I only used shadows to create the effect: http://www.flickr.com/photos/miura-ori/294022551
It works best if you use the large version of the photo.
U-Haul has some right ideas when it comes to their website:

You Searched for: uhaulsucks.com
WHOIS results for uhaulsucks.com

Registrant:
U-Haul International
U-Haul International U-Haul International
2727 N. Central Ave. .
Phoenix, az 85004
US
Email: webteam@fc.uhaul.com

I had been burned badly by their awful pricing, trucks, and customer service about 4 times in a 1-year span back in 2001 and had the brilliant (to me at the time) idea of starting a site for posting U-Haul horror stories and warning people away. I just laughed when I saw this. Well played, U-Haul, well, played.

For what it's worth, rent their trailers but stay as far away from their trucks as you can. Go Penske or even Ryder if you have to.
The 'label' would have likely atrophied.

Kittens raised in an environment without vertical lines don't develop the ability to perceive vertical lines. These sensing cells would have developed in the retina, but it seems reasonable for the same effect to occur on any cells that are tightly connected with vision - such as colour qualia. Though I doubt that many neurobiologists take that philosophical term very seriously.
> The article is basically claiming that if a {knowledge} earns ${number} year, and costs, say, ${bigger_number} in funds to be able to complete his or her extended studies (that take many years), then creating that notfunh is not a worthwhile investment for parents or for society.

For a given value of {knowledge}, there are values of {number} and {bigger number} for which that statement is true. There are other values for which it is false.

Suppose, for example, it cost $1b to train a straw basketweaver and society was only willing to pay $10k for said basketweaver's output. That's not a worthwhile investment. And substituting doctor for basketweaver doesn't much change things.

Absent force, salary/compensation doesn't capture all of the value that society places on an occupation, but it isn't hugely wrong either.
Because you have multiple applications.
iOS 4, no?
There is compelling evidence that even within the US, we could cut a lot of medicine without any adverse health effects.

http://hanson.gmu.edu/CutMed.htm
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
Given the US are approximately 10 M square km, the radius you define is .5 mile. Let's say that 1% of the US is populated like the area where looking at.

PI * 0.5 * (0.5 (square miles)) = 2.03417191 square km. let say 2. That's the size of the disc around the plane where your house could be.

10000000 * 0.01 * 2 = 200000 That's the total number of those discs fitting in densely populated US.

So 1 chance out of 200000, that's in the same ballpark of the size of HN community, so it was likely to happen to someone, but it had to be YOU ;)
I respectfully disagree. Many of the programmers I respect have ego, some larger than others. That does not detract from their value.

I remember the movement for "egoless programming", an effort along the lines of your suggestion. I am still waiting for the "Egoless management" movement, but there doesn't seem to be much traction.
Shout out to PC-BASIC[1] which can be scripted across all three platforms in the style of GW-BASIC (as well, via SDL, supporting graphics and sound and all of those goodies).

[1] http://robhagemans.github.io/pcbasic/
There are certainly many to choose from, but no single dose first is up there as well.
These displays exist now. "Digital Information Displays".

Example search here: https://www.cdw.com/Search/computer-monitors-displays/large-...

Looks like you can't check out without an account, but I'm sure you could find a shop that would sell you one.

Here is a basic one: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1242029-REG/samsung_3...

It looks like since I last checked the "smart" is creeping in, but these are designed to "accept input, and display it" so it's as close as we can get without custom manufacturing.
Well, nothing like that even happened, so why are we talking about it? solarwinds123 was a password for a public ftp server. It did not let anyone sign anything and it didn’t push updates out. It isn’t even related to the solarwinds breach.
Hey, that's stunning. What a stellar experience Planetary was to play with when it came out. The collaboration between Robert Hodgin and Andrew Bell was quite something.

It's always fun to watch Robert talk about the Planetary app in his Eyeo 2012 talk [1] (begins around the 30 minute mark).

Is the updated/fixed code for Planetary available for reference anywhere?

[1] https://vimeo.com/45526286
Much like any programming language that supports generics: a function will operate upon a variable based on the data type of that variable.

With murex, data types are passed down the pipeline (albeit out of band). The data can be recast, reformatted, etc but by default processes that support multiple formats honour the data type received in STDOUT and thus output in the same format.

The Content-Type HTTP head is used to determine data type when the pipeline originates from the web. So there is some awareness there. Likewise file extensions are used if content originates from a file system.
> that's a violation of the App Store TOS.

not if the app still functions with deliberately reduced functionality. What i want to have is for the app to be unable to tell the difference between being denied permission, and having no data (or be sent fake data).
I was thinking. It could be possible with investment casting to utilize inexpensive stereo lithographic 3d printers to make cheap aluminum alloy combined cycle turbines. Software could create a turbine based on parameters you give it. Say you want a turbine that will have 35% efficiency and give you 1000 newton-meters of torque complete with a perfectly sized shaft. It could output some kind of object file like .obj to be sliced for 3d and printed on a cheap lcd resin printer. Use the form as an investment casting for an aluminum alloy. The design could introduce water injectors for lowering the temperature of the combustion gasses while expanding them.
They don't consistently fix it if it's slow, though. It takes about four seconds to search for a term you haven't previously searched for in Gmail (which I think requires having 10k+ emails, but I'm not sure), and it has for a long time.
You might as well say dollars suck because they're printed by the US Government and therefore favor the government.
You can buy bitcoins via Paypal if you want: http://coinpal.ndrix.com/

There's a lot of trading of fiat currencies against bitcoins. I suspect that the most often bought and sold commodity is the US dollar.
yup, without the music, it's not a game!
From a practical standpoint, the Dollar has other problems for using it in a real business -- mainly the fact that it is controlled by a centralized, and potentially incompetent, bureaucracy.

If you are a real, legal business, do you want your entire personal and business future contingent on the ability to exchange dollars with goods and services?
I'm in California. It says 1 AM to me.
So whether the porn industry wanted it, if the market wanted it, it would happen.

What do you mean by "if the market wanted it"? Unless people actually stopped paying for porn on non-.xxx domains, or they payed more for porn on .xxx domains, then there is no market force encouraging porn companies to change what they're already doing.

(Rant: The personification of "the market" to the point where it is capable of "wanting" things on its own initiative is a pet peeve of mine. It's not a person. It doesn't have desires. Market economics is a descriptive theory, not a theological statement.)
The number of bitcoins produced in a given time interval is kept close to constant, based on the quantity of resources used to produce them in the recent past. So throwing vast resources at mining should be conterproductive.

Serious miners use GPU hardware, so there are effectively two tiers of miners: Those who have a GPU and can dedicate it to bitcoin, and those who don't.
If you use an escrow service make sure you pick it, not the other side. If you go with a suggestion made by them (or anyone else) do plenty of background research before making any arrangements - there are some bad escrow companies out there and dodgy businesses (and individual scammers) are certainly not above creating a fake but official looking services.
Why is that inherently bad? The companies release a product with a target market; some content for the platform would be a deal-breaker for their positioning, so they disallow it. It's a free market and companies are allowed to make those kinds of decisions.

If there was huge pent-up demand for adult-themed games, wouldn't it stand to reason that some console manufacturer would buck the trend to collect the profits?

Incidentally, if the most lucrative part of the market is 13 year olds buying M-rated games, doesn't that sort of imply either that there isn't much money to be made from making AO games, or that the eventual audience for those games would be 13 year olds?
This is interesting. On one hand Facebook doesn't try to attempt to satisfy the email crowd (imagine Blackberry and corporate firewalls), on the other hand, they are looking squarely at the SMS crowd (imagine teens who send 500+ sms a month, and complain $10 a month for the privilege is too much).

The scale is much larger and the requirements less stringent, yet the market is ripe to be pried apart, as most sms providers and telcos are basically milking it.
With a name, you can use it to start looking for all sorts of other information.
At the very least, add a random salt added to each plaintext before you run it through the SHA1. This will at least defeat rainbow attacks fairly well.

That said, you need to do more and move beyond SHA1 since you can now reverse a SHA1 into plaintext with the computing power EC2 gives you.
It's a shame to see Google + Youtube fall into the same trap as Yahoo + (Geocities|Flickr|Delicious)
the fault is ultimately yours for not remembering the correct account.

Except I know my YouTube account and password. That account name is what YouTube displays on every page when I'm logged in. Why Google doesn't let me in is beyond me.

I usually go by the belief that blaming the user is the wrong attitude, no matter how "technically justified" you may be.
My name is Matt, so I feel qualified to reply.

My first joke thought was: "I bet Google will be happy to hire them too."

A moment later I realized it's probably true.
I've seen a lot of NC-17 equivalent movies here in Canada, in theatres, but that's likely because our ratings system is significantly more permissive than the MPAA's. It does involve going to smaller theatres a lot of the time, but that doesn't bother me at all.

But the cinema argument is also a bit of a red herring -- your DVD player doesn't refuse to play a DVD of an NC-17 film. Movies have two (or three, if you count TV) vectors for delivery, games do not (in that making different platform versions is often the equivalent to making different movies).
> So to restate, he's being held without charges and psychologically tortured, but it's okay because he's in the military and the rules of the military say that's okay.

That's not what I'm saying. It's not psychological torture against someone who's completely unprepared for it and never signed up for it. It's imprisonment under the terms of a contract he willingly signed up for. He is being charged with breaking that contract in a manner where the rules and consequences are clear. That's the call he had to make, that's the trade-off he had to make and that's something he must've known before he did what he did, otherwise he's taken a massive uncalculated risk without thinking about the potential consequences.
I think you raise some valid points and you articulate them very well.

To clarify, my points are that the on-topic nature is questionable (which you've responded to, thanks and I think you raise some points that challenge my view very well) but that I also think that reddit is a better outlet for this.

To expand, Reddit has a whole load of people who are in a better position to spread the word, evangelise and have a greater reach than HN. As PostOnce says, HN is like a single subreddit and while one post of this nature is fine, lots of them would devalue the site. Thankfully this doesn't appear to have happened.

I'm not sure I agree with your point about anger and frustration, someone vented at me earlier on another comment. It's clear this is an emotional issue for some, with facts that are less than clear.
> People also don't like positivity because ...

There's a third (and possibly many more) variation(s). People don't like positivity because it often triggers a prejudgement of naivety, which in turn leads to defeatism (since you can't connect with someone; you feel disconnected from them due to their positivity and your inability to empathise with their perspective).

That's a trickier one to overcome with pure hubris, and imo a much more common one than some may think.