jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sounds a lot like Facemash, which certainly got Zuckerberg into trouble.

Aaron Greenspan might have a few things to say about Harvard's lack of tolerance towards student startups too...
There's no actual evidence of those short positions actually being closed, other than vague language indicating that it would happen.
"Currently, we don't know if Facebook has fixed the vulnerability since the company hasn't released any statement regarding the breach."

"This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019" - FB
> Freedom isn't about being free of the consequences of what you're doing, it's about the law not forbidding you from doing it in the first place.

I've always found that definition useless. Imagine a restaurant where a black person can legally sit-down and order food, but where the townsfolk will beat them up if they do. They are legally not forbidden, there are just consequences! They are free!

Sorry, but freedom from consequences is really an integral part of freedom. Some consequences are unavoidable, but most of them time "consequences" are just oppression through social means as opposed to government means and are not nobler for it.
Definitely Zipcar.
I just use GPG and Emacs:

- I have a text file encrypted with GPG that contains my list of passwords.

- I open it in Emacs like any normal file.

- GPG is integrated to Gnome so I get a nice askpass dialog even from inside Emacs.

- I've configured Gnome to store the decrypted key for a few hours (or until suspend) and ask me anytime the cached passphrase will be reused, to avoid typing my long passphrase everytime I need to look up a password.

- Emacs also knows how to encrypt the file transparently when I've made changes and just save the buffer in Emacs.

- My swap partition is encrypted via TrueCrypt and so is my /home.
how odd, it's a blank page.
Can't read German, but this sounds like the DirectTV(right company?) updates to stop hackers from getting free TV. Pretty ingenious if you ask me.

/offtopic
Yeah, we were planning apps for it too... Sigh.
For those wondering, what OP quoted was a response to the author:

> In defense of Apple, I once asked an engineer at a WWDC Lab why it took so long for iOS to support JSON. Their answer made a lot of sense.

However, I'm not sure that it makes much sense to me... I guess I may be missing something essential?
Someone giving you a gun doesn't absolve you of the crime of shooting someone with it or of keeping the gun.

edit: The data doesn't just magically show up in Canonical's CRM. They spent time and effort establish an integration with Microsoft and then building processes on top of that data.
Firstly, write scaling is a hard problem. Secondly, secret to write scaling is in read scaling. That is, cache reads as much as possible, so that the writes get all the throughput.

Having said that, there are a bunch of things one can do:

1) Start with the data model. Design a data model so that you do not ever delete or update a table. Only operation is an insert. Use Effective Date, Effective Sequence and Effective Status to implement Insert, Update and Delete operations using just the Insert Command. This concept is called Append Only model. Checkout RethinkDB..

2) Set the Concurrent Insert flag to 1. This makes sure that the tables keep inserting while reads are in progress.

3) When you have only Inserts at the tail, you may not need row-level locks. So, use MyISAM (this is not to take anything away from InnoDB, which I will come to later).

4) If all this does not do much, create a replica table in Memory Engine. If you have a table called MY_DATA, create a table called MY_DATA_MEM in memory table.

5) Redirect all Inserts to the MEM table. Create a View that UNIONS both tables and use that view as your Read Source.

6) Write a daemon that periodically moves MEM contents to the Main table and deletes from the Mem table. It may be ideal to implement the MOVE operation as a Delete trigger on the Mem table (I am hoping triggers are possible on Memory Engine, not entirely sure).

7) Do not do any deletes or Updates on the MEM table (they are slow) also pay attention to the cardinality of the keys in your table (HASH vs B-Tree : Low Card -> Hash, High Card-> B-Tree)

8) Even if all the above does not work, ditch jdbc/odbc. Move to InnoDB and use Handler Socket interface to do the direct inserts (Google for Yoshinori-San MySQL)

I have not used the HS myself, but the benchmarks are impressive. There is a even Java HS Project on Google Code.

Hope that helps..
If those are the prices then you're obviously not an economy-class flyer, so AA may indeed work out nicely for you. :)
Like this write-up by Wesabi's cofounder as to why they lost to mint much beter:
http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint
>What has been lost, apart from a bit of irreplacable time out of the lives of everyone involved (including me writing this comment and you reading it)?

Short answer, we've gained entropy. Over time, entropy will be the end of us, and therefore it is our responsibility as lifeforms to hold it back wherever we can. Otherwise what's the point? May as well just give up on the whole spontaneously emergent complexity deal altogether if you're just going to go wrecking up the place.
It seems to be part of the definition of a startup that the end goal is either acquisition or IPO. PG has said (in an interview, might have been on Mixergy) that YC can't make a profit on a startup unless it has an exit.
Sadly, not the same. A more literal translation is "the road will be overcome by the walker". There is a sense of a struggle in it, but also a sense of an achievement in the end. And the walker is he who walks rather than stand still, that is he who exerts effort towards the goal.

You suggestion does not deliver the same emotional load for me.

The phrase itself is a grossly inaccurate translation of a biblical verse into Russian, and using the original is not much help either.
So very true, I'm annoyed how people always compare their lower-power phones with my HTC Desire (and previous android phones). They said they can last 3-5 days without charging and I need to charge everyday. Unless you sleep every 3-4 days, charge it when you sleep, d-uh.
Uh, well I wanted to test my application on a Cr-48, and they did send me one...

Microsoft has never given me anything except excruciating IE 6/7/8/9 bugs.
Yes, my post was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. The article is about putting the laptop in a blender; comments should be read with that in mind.
They didn't in New Zealand; Casio did. Then students come to university and stop using them much - too limited and primitive compared to computers and smartphones, too powerful for the courses where we're trying to teach and assess analytical maths skills.
Done thx
there are test kits you can buy - buying on the darknet is similar to ebay - there are reviews and seller ratings etc

if you are really struggling, cost is prohibitive, and you think this might be an option then trying it once or twice at home is reasonable risk reward tradeoff, speaking from personal experience.
They aren't marginalised as people, they're marginalised because the world does not have to adjust to people's arbitrary diet restrictions.

If I decided that I only wanted to eat blue M&Ms and took offense at getting a packet with them mixed with the other colours (sorry, cross contaminated), it would be unreasonable to expect the manufacturer to make blue only packs to suit me, or to expect shops to start stocking them.
you can subsidise the poor cabbies all you want, as long as you don't take Uber away from me

also, don't call me 'intelligetsia', it is insulting
I wouldn't do that personally. It would say "Busy" and nothing else - that is all the company needs to know.
It turns out I still feel the same way as I did when I woke up at 5AM. I mean, I went back to sleep. But I've been up for a little while now, and I'm pretty sure I'm right, and "responsible disclosure" is way more Orwellian than "pro-life"; there's at least a colorable argument that "pro-life" is descriptive of a policy position, whereas there's nothing "responsible" at all about independent researchers disclosing information to the public only on a vendor's schedule and terms.
Very simple and informative
Well, maybe you're right, but that misses the point. Read "I'm sure I could" as "Even if".
A friend of mine is the best salesman I know. He attributes his success to griwing up as a Jehovah's Witness, with mandatory door to door proselytizing every weekend. Rejection doesn't phase him in the slightest.
> Over the past days, an inspection team led by the Army Corps of Engineers, and including state officials from the Office of General Services, the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York

Huh? What? How was this not already done? YEARS ago? What if this was something _fast_ moving?

We knew a pandemic was inevitable. No stock pile of mask? No plan for ad hoc hospitals? If they're making it up as they go then what has FEMA, the DoD and the CDC been doing with our money? Using it for TP?
> Evidence from China and Italy is that they don't actually work.

Don’t work for what purpose? They work well at shutting down the virus in the short term. In Wuhan the reproductive number of the virus is estimated to have dropped from above 3 to ~0.3 after the lockdown.

> In Italy, with two weeks of lockdown, the exponential growth of new infections hasn't even slowed

This is definitely not true. If you plot Italian cases or deaths on a logarithmic scale it’s easy to see the curve slowly bending down. Keep in mind it takes ~2 weeks for public health interventions to start showing up in data about identified cases, and ~3 weeks for them to show up in data about deaths.

> places like Korea have no trouble stopping the virus without the authoritarianism

Places like South Korea have had plenty of “trouble”, but have stopped transmission through nationwide testing, contact tracing, isolation, and quarantine, along with early school closures and a mass social distancing effort among the public, pervasive use of face masks, etc.

The South Korean public health response (and we might add also Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore) was much faster and more decisive than the response in the US or Europe. As a result they have avoided the situation of widespread community spread, and not needed to undertake a total societal shutdown as became necessary in Hubei or Italy.

What other countries should be learning from South Korea is to act quickly and stay on top of the virus before it gets out of control.
>And why are people so resistant to wearing masks?

In the US, there is a severe shortage of masks. Even hospitals are struggling to get enough masks for health-care workers.
Yes, but some people are infected and don't know it yet. And some people have symptoms but don't think it's worth wearing a mask, maybe because of the social stigma of wearing one in western countries. I think if everyone was wearing a mask, that would solve both problems. (of course, we know that many countries don't have enough masks).

I was saying the same thing as you two weeks ago (even in HN comments). Now I'm confined and can't leave my home without risking a fine. There may not be sufficient scientific evidence yet, but I'm starting to believe that we wouldn't be in this situation if everybody started to wear a mask in public places at the very start of the epidemics.
Didn't change the trend. Does ask for a different call to action. No need to be upset on people submitting auxiliary videos. Would be nice to have a feature linking the video to the article. Is there already metadata to make this discoverable?
You can request to join by opening an issue here: https://github.com/openventilatorregistry/OpenVentilatorRegi...
People used to sit on a couch and watch TV for hours and also spent hours on the old phones talking about the most exciting shade of nail polish. Shopping is also fun.

Now all that activities largely moved to Internet. Thanks to omnipresence of smartphones the hours dedicated to those activities had also increased. Of course share of general Joe Doe's website got smaller as said website does not always cater to few most popular people's activities.

That does not mean that the total amount of Joe Doe's websites decreased. It is growing, just not as fast as the amount of my cat videos.

Sure big companies may try to subvert the Internet but I think that creative type of the populace will always find ways.
He acted out while in the Army, obviously behaving in a way that showed his superiors that he needed help, yet they did nothing. He was even busted back down to PFC from SPC. Yet, they put him back on the job.

On top of that, he was living in the "don't ask don't tell" world of the military at the time, risking discharge for admitting that he was gay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning#Deployment_to_...
Its both cases of failing government oversight of these industries. Fukushima got worse and worse, because the company was basically doing and saying whatever they wanted (and seemingly still is) with the government just repeating it.

Same goes for GMO. Its a good but potentially very dangerous technology. We should not simply allow it because a few billion USD in turnover and GDP growth are promised.
Maybe she feared that this announcement could negatively affect her lawsuit if published before the sentencing.
Maybe she also feels, that it is necessary to inform the public in order to make sure, that she gets the medical treatment.
> I would much rather see a model where features from the professional edition propagate to the open one after authors earn enough from subscriptions.

This wouldn't work. Paying corporations tend to be fairly conservative on the features they use, so it's not necessarily the new features that people are willing to pay for.
But what about the albicuierre drive? (sp)
Both of these things are tests of our ability to be conscientious, honest, and to take the power we have seriously and act accordingly. They're tests of maturity and responsibility -- at a civilization level.

So far on the nuclear front we've failed that test. Fukushima had its backup generators in the basement -- in a tsunami zone. There is no global nuclear emergency response team. There is no long-term waste solution in many countries including the USA. Managers of plants routinely slack off on safety, reporting, etc.

We are quite simply too irresponsible and immature for such toys... yet. Humanity has a little bit of growing up to do.

I don't think GMOs are an exact comparison, as I think the risk is much smaller there (at least with most GMO technologies). But it's the same class of thing-- a technology that demands maturity and responsibility. I'd extend that to biotech in general.
I wouldn't say so. Many-worlds is an interpretation of QM, and to my knowledge, all verified QM formalisms treat time as a continuous parameter; not a discrete one.
Pensions should be paid by the government, not private companies. In this case, everything is clear: companies are trying to be as efficient, as possible (for example, by reducing labor costs), pay taxes which will be distributed by the government for the social purposes (pensions).
Of course, Mr. Curran totally ignores Silicon Valley's two major successes in entertainment: video games and Pixar.
hello truck repairing jobs
This is incredible; it reminds me of the kind of stuff that sometimes used to crop up on Astounding Websites (http://web.archive.org/web/20010203162500/http://astoundingw...)

It feels like there aren't as many people doing interesting things and exploring new ideas on the web anymore but maybe I just don't know where to look.
That might be because governments keep talking about going back to growth after the austerity measures. If there is no growth and unemployment stays at the current levels, things eventually need to change. And it's not only a governments' thing, with a large part of the population without any money, consumption will suffer a lot so companies will feel it deeply.

It's going to take some time though as nowadays the middle class doesn't like the idea of more social welfare since there's currently a direct connection to heavier taxes.
Sockets are used for a lot more than just serving HTTP requests.
The second process would have to be run under the same user for that to happen though so a real production system would probably never be impacted by this but what would be nice is a flag to restrict the port to children of a particular PID or just lock it to one particular PPID.
I agree that this is fake and that they should give indisputable evidence to convince me that this is true.

The problem is how to explain this to the non scientific people. Most people can't understand the difference between the scientific evidence behind quantum entanglement and Bigfoot. Everything that is in a newspaper is true.

The problem is that pseudoscientific news gets rehashed. It's a nice (false) story and I'm afraid it will get resubmitted from different sources until one of them gets 50+ upvotes, and we both will be unhappy. I only hope this story is not nice enough, or not technology related enough.

From another point of view: How do a layman reading the newspaper evaluate if a story is "true"? It's a good sign that the story the source is someone from a well known university. It's a bad sign that the only source is a video in Youtube. The problem is that this is very close to an appeal to authority argument, and the second problem is that for an advertisement it's enough to put an actor with a lab coat to backup the claims.

And even if you have a scientific background, you can't retest every result, so you must evaluate and weight the sources. Is this published in a well known journal? Is this against some well known result? Have anyone reproduced the experiment? Is there a strike of similar claims that were proved wrong/fake/scams? Have you ever measured the mass of one electron? Do the neutrinos have mass?
Skype used to be the only name in video calling.

It wasn't anything extraordinary that made skype lose market share - just a gradual slide into irrelevance as competing products got stronger, and they tried to make a profit when everyone else was giving away the product for free.
> In western cities there are off-road enthusiasts who camp at places you can’t get to without a modified vehicle and winch (no crowded campsites).

Backpackers seem to manage just fine.
That's basically what Bob Lutz said about the Dodge Ram redesign in the 90's
That roof will not work very well in areas with snow. You're going to spend an hour cleaning off the snow and ice. In my region a hefty fine is in store for anyone who does not clear snow and ice from their vehicle roof.
Yep. I know that your version is correct, as well. My only point is that there are several young kz thst are not offended by it. They just don't associate it with Kazakhstan, and take no offence. It's just like the red sonja movie or whatever with Schwarzenegger, in russia, they just think it's disconnected fun, and has nothing to do with Russia. But i agree sir
It's the implementation of a "social credit" system. I don't know all the details but they evaluate your "social media creditworthiness" through your phone number.

I don't agree to any TOS with tinder and I really doubt they "delete all my information" when I delete the account like it says.

In fact my guess is they just leave your profile active if it's popular to encourage other people to "match" with you.
I agree with you on many pickup purchases being conspicuous consumption, but I think you're underestimating how many people would happily display conspicuous green consumption. This has all the "look at my big powerful toy" but acceptable for someone wanting to display how environmentally aware they are.
I don’t like this truck, but it looks like it’s from the future. Brutalism is just ugly.

Although maybe when it was trendy, brutalism looked like it was from the future too. Maybe in 20 years, this truck will be “just ugly” as well.
Tht's insane. Is that rule in the contract, or is it something that's imposed after employees are hired? (Or is it like, "you agree to adhere to all Amazon internal policies"? Is that even legal to begin with?)

I don't understand how they can enforce something like that without it being an explicit agreement in the contract. Is it the case that they are explicit clauses, but people don't negotiate them out?
And judging by the blog post he's a talented technical writer as well.
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So, a life of crime?...
I guarantee you that something changed. Maybe the row count passed a certain threshold. Maybe you upgraded the database version.

If you don't want the query planner to pull arbitrary execution behaviour out of its ass, why are you using an SQL database in the first place? The whole point of SQL is that you declare your queries and leave it up to the planner to decide, and for that to be at all workable the planner needs to be free to decide arbitrarily based on its own heuristics, which will sometimes be wrong.
What the other person said and try and have adults who can back up that you had the symptoms of ADHD as a young child. My parents were not super-engaged with the process and it made my diagnosis a lot harder, my friend's parents were and he sailed through it.
A little more details on how would be nice.
Maybe there are some core PostgreSQL hackers here:

I know this probably sounds silly but for the transaction ID thing, it does seem like a big deal, is it really insurmountable to make it a 64 bit value? It would probably push this problem up to a level where only very, very few companies would ever hit it and from a (huge) distance the change shouldn't be a huge problem.
You know what's important here? Deliveries start Summer 2011. There is so much vaporware with small vehicle companies. Well okay, not vaporware, but years of delays at least. It's a great MVP, not perfect, but still awesome.
What is up with this naming thing anyway? Comet is a pretty well established term... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
That's a valid strategy, and one the US government may even employ. However, other countries would have to agree to similar restrictions, otherwise you could trade dollars for euros, then euros for bitcoins. It also wouldn't prevent over-the-counter exchanges between individuals.

The US government would also run into opposition from groups like the EFF, and I think it would be difficult to word the law to ban bitcoins specifically, and not other similar mathematical activities (like issuing SSL certificates).
Don't worry, it won't be disconnect a wire, but change a bit in the compute unit and make sure the compute unit code and data are cryptographically signed and that its signature is verified by all other compute units so that you may not even start the engine should you decide to alter it.
> Sorry, but a negative reinforcement cycle of tensing up in a medium stress situation is exactly the kind of characteristic that I'm trying to screen out in an interview.

Then you are doing it wrong. There are different types of stress. Holding up well under "stress" is a misnomer, as someone can hold up well under one type of stress, and completely fall apart in another situation entirely.

What you are testing for is the ability to handle the stress of interviewing. If anything, you are hiring for people who can more easily leave.

While it's appropriate to test for situations where stress is a factor, it's equally important to realize that talking to a customer and doing pre-sales and an interview are about as far apart as possible on the stress meter. One hardly equates with the other.
Apparently he somewhat cheated in that video by mixing in a bit of the original audio.

Here's what it sounds like on its own:
https://vimeo.com/1483630