jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My roommate is a USAA account holder. They are a bank that is willing to tell PayPal to pound sand when necessary, and they gain a ton of respect for that.

Unfortunately though, they have some kind of inane limitation on debit cards that don't let you have more than a certain number of pending transactions. And given that you generally won't know and never can control when a place that runs your card actually captures, it's led to some nasty surprises.
That is, assuming anyone in law enforcement actually cares about identifying these people. Given that they could have simply not let them out and arrested them as was done with black protestors instead of politely showing them the door, that seems a bit unlikely.
The person called me a liar. I think it is fair to demand a retraction.

They did edit their response to post a video, here:

https://mobile.twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1347174957613199...

as evidence that the police let them in. But I don't think that that video supports his contention that police just let these people into the capitol building. Do you?
I would guess because 3.5” disks were prominent in PCs for much longer than 5.25” disks. When USB was introduced, it would be common for the PC to include a 3.5” disk drive but 5.25” had been out of favor for some time by then.

On top of that it was common for drivers to be included on 3.5” that came with hardware, even for server grade hardware, this persisted for a long time. It was not uncommon even in the late 2000s for rack mount servers to include floppy drives for this reason.

Lastly, because of their size 5.25” disks were rarely included in laptops and portables once 3.5” disks became available. Having 3.5” disks being prominent in laptops led to many miniaturized versions of the 3.5” mechanisms which translate well into a USB peripheral form factor.
And/or to have fewer people overall.
They did this recently:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/11/18/whatsapp_...
What's the purpose of putting the company name on there. If it's to solely to allow people to find it then that's not advertising - if it's to say "look how awesome this building is and it's our companies" then that's advertising IMO.
We can't ignore the potential collateral damage. Even the attempt, due to its inherently indiscriminate nature, is a violation of citizens' fourth amendment rights.

By your reasoning we should expect that they can kick in every door in a city looking for a suspect, then blame the doors for being too weak.
Nonsense. You are claiming it is ineffective and your proof is an op-ed written by one FBI interrogator.

Did you actually read the original article [1]? Nowhere does Ali Soufan really make a case that torture is actually ineffective. Soufan makes claims that digging through receipts and conventional methods were more effective than whatever "torture" the CIA actually did but nowhere is the claim "torture is not effective" substantiated.

You are showing your emotions by claiming that anyone that could think torture could be effective (setting aside the decision to use it based on moral grounds) must only be doing so because of emotions. Is thinking that digging through someone's receipts during an investigation also an emotional position? What you have made is a non sequitur.

Take the emotion out of it. Where is the actual evidence or theory of why it cannot possibly work? The problem you have is that any example of torture yielding the intending information disproves your position entirely. You will really make that claim? As well, I asked what is the delineation because everyday parents as well as police use the tactics on the spectrum of discomfort to yield results often-times (nothing is perfect) the results are obtained. So where is this magical line of delineation? I don't think it exists. You are only proving the point that the fact based decision of whether or not torture can be effective in yielding information is being made based on emotion rather than reality. The Mexican military have used the tactics of torture to discover information that they were trying to find and in instances they did yield that information. [2] Again, any instance that shows that it "works" disputes directly your claim. Now, again, this is separate from our decision not to use such tactics because they are wholly disgusting and morally despicable but we are being coy if we claim it does not work because we want to make ourselves feel better.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/opinion/06soufan.html?_r=2...
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07...
I don't know enough about holography to agree or disagree, I was under the impression that the "lightfield" has a 3D structure that e.g. the light coming from a movie screen doesn't.

In any event I don't think that the "holographic" goggles are actually projecting a complete lightfield. I'm pretty sure they just shine two more-or-less normal images into your eyes although the math to compute those images might, uh, be holographic.
This is neat. What practical applications does it have?
This is a really common refrain, and I was going to write a sarcastic remark (since these are obviously not specialized positions) but then I figured I would read a bit more first. Even at a prior employer, I remember hearing about how the application had to be written a certain way to demonstrate only the immigrant was qualified, and that it was a role that couldn't be filled by an American.

But upon reading the USCIS requirements, DOL, and even Wikipedia, I actually don't see anything about having to offer the job to an American first, or having to demonstrate the job can't be filled by an American. The only requirement is the job has to be "specialized" (as-in not menial), and you have to pay the "prevailing wage".

Did there used to be a requirement to post the position and disqualify American applicants? Because that's certainly the lore around H1B, but it doesn't seem to be actually specified as a requirement on the official sites.
I'm seeing corrupted 'r's in the section headings. http://i.imgur.com/v7HZcQI.png (Firefox 36, Win 7 x64, AMD Radeon HD 7770)
How does it compare to let's say Blazor?
I don't get any spam in my inbox, but I do get non-spam messages marked as spam all the time, to the point where I have to check my spam folder once or twice a day.
> Coinbase's trading fees are outrageous compared to what we're used to in the world of normal equity/option/future/fx trading.

I'm guessing their fees draw heavy inspiration from price skimming [0] (which is used heavily by AWS), as it allows them to maximize revenue while consumer demand is high in cryptocurrencies.

0: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/priceskimming.asp
If it's destroyed, another retailer will take it's place. I worked at Target back in the day, and I still remember the onboarding videos they showed us. Half of it was ridiculous drivel about how much they love employees and support LGBT and minorities, and the other half was literal anti-union propaganda and fear-mongering. When it came right down to it, Target is just as happy to treat human workers as disposable tools as anyone else. Most every succesful retail company treats workers as unworthy of decent pay, benefits, or even human friendly scheduling.
Imagine if the person who was assigned or in charge to do the printing and distribution of these instruction leaflets was pro union.
There is an odd aversion to unions in the US. I find the "do not book that dinner" metaphor fitting. Bezos and Musk will book it for you instead. How do people not see a pattern that some of the richest people out there exploit the workforce the most(urinate in bottle at Amazon, safety and hours at tesla etc) are fiercely opposing unions?

You know who has pretty good unions? The police departments, ask them about it.
I have a $20pm droplet with ubuntu with auto updates (Including major release) from 2014. So it has done 14->18. DB with web app. I have never had anything more stable since.
They should feel guilty for pushing kids.
It is, but the question is why ? Who does all this really serve? I feel that the usual explanation along the lines of "avoid bad engineers at all costs!" is a bit of a smokescreen.
The perl developers greatly underestimated the importance of syntactic sugar and familiarity. (Java was helped a lot by looking like C).

PHP was much more friendly towards new programmers than Perl 5, it was so much easier to make simple web pages. So it took over. It didn't matter that Perl 5 was more advanced.

(oh, you uploaded module to same dir and didn't remember to add something to @INC)
On a tangent, does this usually affect everyone in the same way? i ask this b/c right now i'm debating w/ my co-founder over some pricing and he wants to do the $0.99 thing and I want to do flat. The argument is that it sounds more enticing if you knock off the 100th percent, psychologically, which I can see that POV.
All the major news companies? Don't see that on their page. I don't find any screenshots of it in-use, could you help me with that?
It's generally not that hard to make it work well... though the datastore issues over the past few months were a real nightmare and could have (and probably did) sink a few businesses.

That said, it's a beta product.
My first guess is that he's smart enough to realise the somewhat greater competition for all the good keywords you'd be facing if your product was "SEO tools" compared to "bingo cards"...

If you had to choose _one_ vertical to be in, would _you_ chose one where every competitor in it knew all the dirty SEO tricks in the book?
I don't mean to be a jerk, and I'm going to be downvoted into oblivion for this, but I don't think Patrick is the brilliant SEO wizard some people on here make him out to be, certainly not anywhere near a Rand Fishkin type level.

He's an excellent writer and marketer, but it's not like he's privy to some magical SEO techniques that would explode SEO traffic.

I would be surprised if he uses SEO tools much himself. From what I've seen, he's very good at identifying small niches, creating good content, etc. Basically good SEO fundamentals, not cutting edge trickery.
+1. Sure I am wondering about historio.us vs Instapaper but congrats on the interview! +1 on the design + Like the feature 'search any word appearing on the page'. Really cool URL.
This is from HN's own @icey
I'm curious how the billing breaks down for your app. Is it mostly CPU quota? Or bandwidth? etc.
Ah, via Ruby. RUBY?!??! Ah. Delightful.

YECCH

So, uh, can't we just make an efficient, well-designed, C library for accessing those data structures, write BSD-licensed wrappers as consenting adults, and get on with our lives? I'm speechless.

Is writing an append-only log data-structure system really that hard? Ok, then.
Are you productive using only the laptop or do you use a external monitor with it?
The link is helpful for background, but is it really useful to tell a programmer who is worried about i-cache contention to be guided by an automatic profiler rather than forcing the compiler to do what they want and then profiling that? I'm intrigued --- what prompts you to give this advice? It's the opposite of my instinct. Have you personally experienced issues with this?
I think the stats are that suicide by gun shows far more successful percentage than most other attempts. And I believe there's evidence that thwarted attempts often work out for the better. Essentially, if the only options for suicide fundamentally required a persistent decision over time to carry out rather than a spur-of-the-moment decision, there's an argument that it would be better for society and for suicidal people overall.
If you get a set of basic adjustable dumbells you can quickly work all the major muscle groups at home, which helps fire up your body for the entire day.
I understand Scoble point of view, but Allmyapps seems to be a pretty decent app, i'll give it a try
Netflix is responsible for about 1/5 of peak internet traffic in the US, and it's growing much faster than TV viewership. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out how that equation ends up.
The other huge advantage to the elliptical machine is your body works far harder than a bike while feeling like it's doing a lot less - I checked this with a heart rate monitor and an all-out effort on a bike did the same as what felt like only medium effort on the elliptical.
Although a later duplicate, this submission has more traction:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010016
Lean Gains is pretty good. I can also recommend Rob Wolf's Podcast - http://robbwolf.com/ he also explains when to be careful with IF.
touche, i bit.
From OP:

> They also noted that AWS is largely run separately from the rest of the company.

So this maybe isn't surprising. One deals with mere customers, the other with businesses that have money and lawyers. AWS is also newer than Amazon, right?
You can buy art for example: https://opensea.io
It's a good question I'll think about it.

If it is any consolation, the suggested AWS policy only allows view only access - I.E. doesn't give access to any data, nor to the ability to change anything. As you can see when you go to SinglePageCloud.com I'm sufficiently confident in it to publicly hand out my keys.

All I'm saying is I understand your concern, although the worst that could happen is what I am already doing, if you use the view only policy.
I mean, why though? I haven't played around much with other languages within Postgres, and mainly stick to pl/pgsql, so real question.

Is it performance related? Not requiring another language to be installed?
I realize that, at best, this is only tangentially related to security, but nginx's logging is quite frustrating. It'll log something that's completely out of your control (like invalid SSL requests) as a [crit]

You end up having patterns in your log ingestion to drop errors. Or, and this is the security concern, you start to ignore nginx errors.
All this digital cash nonsense seems to be crypto people shouting "blockchain!" in the general direction of people who don't get it at all, but look around and feel like they need to do something. And yet neither party really grasps the other side.

Cash is a specific form of money. There is no such thing as digital cash (or maybe, all digital money is "digital cash"). Digital money on the other hand is all around us. I can't remember the last time I paid for something with cash. But I spend digital money every day. I get paid with digital money each month, I sit on the couch and spend digital money on Amazon, and I routinely tap my iPhone to use Apple Pay to spend digital money in shops. It's just moving bits around a database.

Reading between the lines of what Central Bankers mean is that they want national accounts (i.e. wallets) and using crypto/blockchain/whatever as justification. The reason being that Central Banks have unleashed interventions that 20 years ago were unfathomable. And yet, deflation is everywhere and money velocity barely has a pulse. The transmission mechanisms for monetary policy are broken...well, CB'ers broke them. So now they are looking elsewhere. Direct payments are the final frontier, and it's a lot easier to do by giving everyone an account with the CB (i.e. "wallet") and just print money there.

TL;DR - money is already digital, what central banks really want is centralized accounts that they can helicopter money into
Thanks for the detailed answers, though I am not the one who asked.
For one thing, that statement you quoted is completely unsourced. Sentences on either side of it are sourced to a book called "Chinese Whispers" [0]. It's a book about China, not about the etymology of English phrases. The author only discusses the possible origins of the phrase briefly in the introduction, where he explains why he chose that title for his book. He suggests the "Great Wall of China" explanation and the "mutual unintelligibility" explanation, but not the racist one(s). And he doesn't cite any sources anyway. It's just what he heard somewhere.

So we're left with just the fact that some anonymous wikipedia contributer says that this explanation of racist 19th century Britons has been proposed. By who? Based on what? Apparently not much. A different source I found points out that the earliest known use of the phrase in print is from March, 1964 [1]. Before that, it was known as "Russian Scandal" or "Russian Gossip". So it could hardly be the result 19th century attitudes towards the Chinese. If you're aware of any contradicting evidence, I'm happy to hear it.

Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if someone came up with the racism explanation based on simply hearing the phrase and backsolving from their gut feeling that it was obviously due to racism. Then someone put it in a Wikipedia article without checking and now you're singling out that quote as an authority that vindicates your own initial gut feeling.

[0] https://archive.org/details/chinesewhispersw0000chub/page/18...

[1] https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/chinese-whispers.html
If the subset you're talking about is blacks and maybe other racial minorities, I have to disagree with you.
This subset is far from being "mostly absent" from Spain, UK, Portugal, Italy, France, Netherlands, and Germany for example.
A lot sounded Japanese to me.
Most games are bad, but there are plenty of good old games. Tic-tac-toe, soccer, chess, go, nine men's morris, fanorona, alquerque, checkers, truco, canasta, gin rummy, pool, the numerous variations of mancala (wari, kalah, and dozens of others), shogi, gomoku ("Pente"), reversi ("Othello"), chinese checkers, and on and on.

So I think your statement, "It's only really in the late 80's early 90's stuff really developed in the board game world," really misses the mark. It's true that the US had a deeply impoverished board-game culture for decades, especially with regard to kids' boardgames. And it's true that we're in the middle of an unprecedented explosion of excellent boardgames. But there were already a number of excellent boardgames in existence.
1). Ah, if that's the goal then...great I guess. I personally don't think moving back to a commodity currency is a good idea, but that is perhaps another discussion.

2). I've heard a number of Bitcoin enthusiasts state this as an advantage/goal (even in this discussion), who perhaps have started developing their own ideas about what bc should be used for.

3). But an alternative to what purpose? Say that I believe strongly enough in the ideals of BC that I want to use it (privacy, accountability, etc). Do I convert part of my monthly paycheck into BCs? Do I convert all of it? This isn't terribly practical if my national currency is still popular. Perhaps I want to even-up with friends or acquaintances? Is transferring BCs easier than writing a check?

Now imagine that I don't believe strongly in the idealistic angles of BC (which, sadly, will be the vast majority of your potential users). I want immediate pay-offs for my efforts (this may sound petty, but isn't. Most peoples' time is extremely valuable to them - if you have a product, even a free one, you must compete for their time). What benefit to I gain from converting my money to BCs?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2346338 <- Over 100 comments.

http://searchyc.com/what+it+feels+like+to+be+rich
I don't know if these qualify as brand names so much as 4-5 character alphabetic permutations run through a pronouncability filter.
I'm aware of its use as a courtesy to the readers. I was amused to see it on something that got posted here multiple times and hoped to let everyone else in on the joke.
Evan Czaplicki.

He created the Elm language. While other people ported Haskell-like languages to the web (Purescript, GHCJS, Fay, ... ), Evan found a way to tame the complexity of the web with an evolving architecture that start with something like FRP / Rx and ended up with the Elm Architecture, which hits a sweet spot. You can even use T.E.A. without using Elm! Although it's best using a functional language that supports immutability, otherwise there is more work trying to not mutate things.

T.E.A. has been copied to a number of different languages and is manifested inside the Redux pattern. I think time will hopefully tell that his work will have big influence on UI and Web development in the 2020's, whether we are directly using Elm or something based on those ideas.

T.E.A. is:

A global state.

A set of defined messages that can be sent to update the global state.

An update function - given a message, and the global state returns a new global state and any asynchronous "commands" to execute. Commands go off and do something then post a message once done.

A view function - given a global state returns a representation of how to render the UI. This representation includes messages to send on events such as "onclick".

Subscriptions - these produce messages when things happen in the real world, for example local storage state changes.
And this is why rust is not going to succeed.
I has not a great compatibility with c++.
You are correct and that is true.
None of those are part of the Android platform. They are clients to Google services. Many products including those from Amazon have been produced using the Android platform without access to any of them.

If Microsoft open sourced Windows would you complain that it wasn't really open sourced because they didn't open source Microsoft Office?
First reaction (after looking up that this is 8 million addresses): wow, nice!

Second reaction (after the "$10/IP" part clicked): oooh, this person is going to have a lot of money soon o.o

But you don't have any contact info in your bio!

(I'm in no position to seriously respond - I'd only want one or two addresses to play with)
> standing in as SRE for 24×7 hour shifts… for over a year.

1. Should that be 7x24 since it is followed by hour?

2. Hero worship is toxic. It like the ultra thin models used for advertising. This just perpetuates unhealthy attitudes toward work.

Edit: changed phrasing of 1
If there were ever a reason to become cynical about grandiose marketing claims, this is it.
Wow, never thought I'd meet ME in hackernews.
This is exactly what I do. I have a domain with a few services running and upload everything to that, then get a hyperlink to it to embed/raw post everywhere.
As someone who just recently started learning Rust, I'd love to see a book like this that uses it as the implementation language instead.
I use a lot of burner phones cuz I'm paranoid, and when you sign up for fb/google/whatever they treat a burner phone you just turned on completely different from your regular, existing phone number.
Example: if you activate a burner phone and sign up for tinder with the number, it pauses after you enter the code and then asks for your email address. You have to sepetately login and verify your email. On the other hand, if you sign up for tinder with your normal number you're verified; it doesn't request an email address.
They get some kind of information packet about your account that I would guess includes activation date, your approximate age, whether your service is prepaid etc.
I should say, I use the term "burner" for a cheap Android phone you insert a bring your own SIM into. Don't worry, it's not that anonymous because they also track/correlate your device IMEI with the services you use.
I had an interesting experience the other day. The burner phone service expired, and tinder knew within 24 hours the number was no longer active......
Creepy.

2010-2019 has been the smart phone decade and now it's coming to an end. I'm celebrating by letting my cell service expire. My smart phones leak way too much data. I'll be using my too-smart phones like an ipad, making and receiving calls and texts only when I'm connected to WiFi at home.