jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it has something to do with the fact that Microsoft had just invested close to $10M in Heroku in the weeks prior to the acquisition (making Microsoft the biggest investee in Heroku). Right now, Salesforce is positioning themselves against the Microsofts and the Oracles (versus the smaller CRMs like ZoHo, Sugar, etc.); the Heroku purchase was probably more strategic than anything else.

I think this is one of the reasons why Salesforce has agreed to let Heroku "run themselves" instead of taking over and ruining the party. It's also a good sign for Heroku customers since it's unlikely that Salesforce will make a ton of changes to Heroku's service until they can figure out how best to integrate the two services.
The alternative to Google doing it, would be your browser fetching every single page, reading the meta tag, retrieving the XML, parsing it and then displaying the contained title tag. Without trying Firefox, I can pretty safely say that's not happening in the milliseconds that it takes for Google to get me my results and my browser to render them fully.
I think it has something to do with the fact that Microsoft had just invested close to $10M in Heroku in the weeks prior to the acquisition (making Microsoft the biggest investee in Heroku). Right now, Salesforce is positioning themselves against the Microsofts and the Oracles (versus the smaller CRMs like ZoHo, Sugar, etc.); the Heroku purchase was probably more strategic than anything else...
Nepal is not the roof of the world. Tibet is the roof of the world. I've been there and have people there, which I consider as friends.
>> "It turns out that a matrix like A, whose rows add up to zero (try it!), is called a Markov matrix, ..."

Oops, you mean the rows add to one.

I hate to nitpick, but, additionally, numbers in the matrix can't be negative.

Also, it's not just that 1 is an eigenvalue, it is that 1 is the largest eigenvalue. This is significant, because it implies that all other components will die out in time.
Can't seem to find the package on Ubuntu 10.10, do I need to enable some repository?

EDIT: Apparently it was included in the basic gdb package or something.
Agreed. You can't show ads unless you have users. Optimizing advertisements is definitely second fiddle to optimizing the user experience.
You're assuming individual or social utility-maximizing rational behavior if we do hit limits and begin deflating. I don't share that faith.

Look at what happens domestically when we have a year or two of recession and take the exponent of that. Now imagine a contracting economy for decades with the rate of contraction accelerating over time.

The "genetically rational" (not hedonic or utility maximizing) selfish-gene course of action in a shrinking pie world is to reproduce as much as you can and then kill as many other people as possible, preferably those from lineages further from yours (other ethnicities). This increases the odds of your offspring successfully reproducing by eliminating their competition. Our genes are ancient, and they know what to do when the famine comes. They don't "care" whether it sucks from the perspective of their sentient but disposable constructs/vehicles. Evolution is amoral, and nature doesn't care about you.

An alternate "genetically rational" strategy is to retreat to the margins and wait for the episode of "Walking Dead" to end, but there'd be competition for good but isolated places to live off the land. In this scenario you'd want to actually look poor, if not be poor, since that would make you less attractive to raiders.

Not exactly a future I want to see. I'd rather just be at ground zero when a nuke hits. Quick and painless.
Ran out of hydraulic fluid
Nothing, but don't expect congress to do anything about this.
It's hedonism + individualism. We tell our children things like "you are unique, there is nobody else like you" and "just be yourself" and we ask them things like "who do you want to be when you grow up?". We raise our children to be identity driven.

Then they grow up, find a lover, and realize they need to give up parts of their individuality in order for the relationship to work.

Whaaaatt?? Give up my individuality? But I was raised to enshrine this above all else! Heck no, I'd rather divorce!
I agree with your last statement 100%. Why in the world would it be necessary to disrupt the nuclear family to have greater community and cultural bonds?

Some of the founders of BLM are self-proclaimed Marxists. I don't think it is much of a stretch to say there is some sort of a connection between Marxism and being anti-family.
"trust but verify" -every construction job ever
A large list of splits for comparison. https://jhelvy.shinyapps.io/splitkbcompare/

Kinesis and Ergodox are generally the two most popular.
> it was mature and smart for Gamestop not to make an opinion or jump on this in any form

GameStop couldn’t. They were deep into the quarter and had non public financial information. The companies that could sell stock did.

If GameStock could have sold stock and didn’t, and if I were a shareholder, I’d sue. They have an obligation to current stockholders. And a duty to be honest to new ones. Nobody bought their shares at inflated prices under duress.
I don't know what Mission Control is, but seeing from the screenshots it seems to be something like what you get on windows after pressing Win+Tab ?

Honestly I never understood the appeal of gestures as I use my OS not only on laptops but on desktops too where there is no touchpad.
> It still seems like a valid metric, you just need to multiply the number of bitcoin transactions with some factor for the average number of outputs

Nah. You don't need to double and triple down on wrong ideas and metrics that are scientifically spurious. You know calculus so you know multiplying by averages won't tell you what you want to know.

Transaction count relative to energy usage doesn't tell you what's valuable about the observed system and its energy consumption, which is its decentralisation, censorship resistance, assurances, and trustlessness.

Assuming you care about logic, simply update your broken mental model.

Because batching will increase as Bitcoin grows, and has practically infinite throughput, its efficiency improves exponentially by securing more value relative to energy consumption.To secure ever more value using the Bitcoin network, humans are incentivised to find and build more efficient energy sources.

Further, an arbitrary number of transactions can occur securely offchain and get aggregated and finalised on-chain i.e the settlement layer. In fact this is how the future will be. See Lightning, Liquid, other L2 designs. The order of operations is first to have a bulletproof settlement layer.

Bitcoin was designed to be the single planetary currency. Spend time studying it and you'll realise that Satoshi was smarter than all his current critics who all imagine they've brilliantly and uniquely perceived some fatal flaw in Bitcoin's engineering, game theory or economics.

Remember, if Bitcoin were a company, it would currently have a market cap of >USD800B. Few programmers can build anything that valuable let alone critique it meaningfully.

Let go of useless, poorly reasoned concepts.
Humble yourself and study Bitcoin. It's a wonderful optimistic scientific discovery on par with fire, antibiotics, and electricity. http://lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html
I think it's important to highlight something:

*While U.S. children are more likely than children elsewhere to live in single-parent households, they’re much less likely to live in extended families. In the U.S., 8% of children live with relatives such as aunts and grandparents, compared with 38% of children globally.*

The UK, with a similar lack of living with extended family and a similar culture, has a 21% single parent rate compared to the 23% found in the US.
Does not seem to work good in Chrome or Opera for me, all movement leaves trails.
Is everyone here anti-divorce? Anyone care to explain the downvotes?
These days, I typically edit stuff live on the hosting site. But I used to routinely write code offline by hand in Notepad, save a jillion different versions (mypage; mypage1; mypage1a; mypage1b; mypage2; mypage2a...etc...for versioning) and then only upload the one I liked at the end. I think I largely stopped doing that after I began using so many "includes" files because you really can't tell what it will look like without them. Now, I seem to be transitioning most of my sites to Wordpress, and, as far as I know, that also can't really be coded offline (though I guess I could write drafts of new content offline, so far, I really haven't).

If you are willing/able to code in Notepad, all you have to do is save it as .html instead of .txt and it will open as a webpage in your browser, without any internet access. It makes for a cool little sandbox.
Do you think it will hurt you to shop around a bit?

I mean there's no free lunch - a consolidation loan might cost you more than sorting the mess out on your own, but (no insult intend, please don't take it so) - you probably wouldn't be in this position if you had the correct set of financial practices in place to avoid it in the first place.

Consolidation loans exist exactly to profit from this type of situation - and people are more likely to pay a single loan than they are one out of a dozen. A pile of loans is big weight to carry - a big mental burden. A single loan to get out of debt is still a burden, but it has a purpose and can be more manageable, and still profitable for those lending.

Can't hurt to ask, right?
Looks like Tim Pope started playing. He's talking about the "anti cheat" mechanisms on twitter: http://twitter.com/tpope/status/19900265129836544
Advertising companies also have legitimate needs for tracking exposure to advertising across applications. Frequency caps, for instance -- advertisers buy inventory across multiple applications with the explicit provision that a user won't be shown the same ad creative more than a specified number of times in a given period.

Not having cookies accessible across applications is the true design flaw. No one particularly wants to use the UDID for anything. Everyone would much rather use exactly the same infrastructure used for web advertising.
Following the rabbit trail of that thread (all the paw questions) is a fascinating look at how really good questions tend to get really excellent answers. Of course, it doesn't hurt that it's an intriguing problem but the fact that the question asker adds a ton of pictures and information has to be the key in getting a very thorough and informative answer.

Even more interesting to me from a psychological perspective is the amount of time people are willing to spend on other people's problems when those problems are challenging and/or framed well. Interesting stuff.
It's fear-mongering because the title of the series is 'What They Know' - emphasis on the ominous, faceless, ever-present THEY.

Even if there's no real connection between, say, upstart advertisers and the Black Helicopter Patrol, the framing suggests that anyone with an interest in user data is part of a monolithic, conspiring entity that staffs the thin edge of their Orwellian wedge with Angry Birds.

That's not to say the gist isn't interesting. But the breathless FOX FACTS wrapper? Not helping.
Help others succeed
It should be recognised that not everyone is in a position to make these changes. This doesn't make them any less important though.

Being able to love what you do is a luxury not everyone can afford, but it is surely the ultimate luxury?
I've done more than 100 interviews at Google.

The first candidate who I interviewed and was hired coded in Lisp during the interview.

I recently interviewed a candidate who did a lot of iphone development and was obviously very bright, but didn't code very well in straight C get hired.

Candidates coding in Python during the interview is pretty common and I certainly don't count it against them.

I am not sure what recruiters are looking for and filtering upon, but if you are good with C++ or Java, even if you haven't used in the last few years, that is more than certainly enough. If you aren't good with C++ or Java, but you are really good anyway, you can still make it through the interviews, but it will be harder.
Thanks for taking the time to compile this list for me.
I can envision facebook taking quite a dip as the batch of new internet users that have joined in the past 2 years get tired of it and find out there ARE other websites.
I worry because of the "breakfast is the most important meal of the day", so I just skip lunch. I've not lost much weight. I've heard just eating less each meal is also good, but I've not been able to do that effectively. Fitting in exercise combined with eating less was probably what helped me lose a few pounds (surprise, surprise). Just dropping one meal a day hasn't helped. When I skip breakfast and lunch, by the afternoon I'm a lot more drained.
I say, that's a joke son. </foghorn leghorn>
Facebook is not going to ever be anywhere near as powerful as a government. Are you insane?
Do you not remember yourself how AWS was initially pitched?
This feature is being developed in FreeBSD, and will become part of the general ZFSonLinux set.
Marginally cheaper/easier to deploy. Very robust queue system built in. Where you'd pay for Sidekiq in Rails, that's included in Laravel. Auth is also more streamlined since Laravel takes a stance on what the default is unlike Rails (though I admit most people just use Devise).

I think PHP is still faster as a language? There are also tools available now to run Laravel apps on serverless infrastructure if that's something you don't want to mess with.

I'll admit I'm biased and haven't spent much time with Rails outside of a hello world and various podcasts.
I can only ask that you read some Stuff From The Other Side Of The Argument...

http://www.drroyspencer.com/ is a good start on that.

I'm already being downvoted on here - proof that there are a substantial number of HN users who have Made Up Their Minds on this, and simply do not want to even consider that they have been bamboozled by various interested parties. I realise that no one likes to either admit they've been fooled by someone/a group of people, or simply that their view of the world around them is simply wrong - still, no reason to use HN's downvoting as a weapon against those who would otherwise try to post a contrary view. Still, it's fascinating to be downvoted simply for offering a contrary opinion.

As an interesting but connected sidenote: I've noticed on here that numerous HN submissions which tend towards CO2 demonization get upvoted and are filled with the Convinced, whereas the various articles I have submitted which tend to question this either get zero attention or are downvoted to obliviion. Whatever, and so be it.
8K seems too low. Sure at 20K you wouldn't hear anything, but there's still a lot of potential to hear a low level hum at let's say 13K which drives you mad.
Build community.

Make a business plan. Figure out who specifically your audience is and how you will reach them.

Consider making it non-profit. Then you can solicit donations.

Establish relationships with colleges. Set up pipelines of energized young people. Harness their useful but individually ephemeral participation.
> Mesires said that, in any case, the $1.5 billion amount was never reached. The investment fund raised about $4.2 million "from various sources," Mesires said, without citing further detail. That would be a fraction of what Trump said: https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/oct/02...

> The company website in 2016 reported that Bohai Capital managed the 20 Billion RMB ($2.8 billion) fund. [..] business registration filings in China list Hunter Biden and James Bulger as key officials at Bohai Harvest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHR_Partners

So he is a 'key official' at a fund with billions of dollars of Chinese investment. But you find that claim 'false' because his lawyer states that they only raised $4.2 million, during some unspecified period of time, from unspecified sources, and explicitly declined to give any details. Being a lawyer, I'm sure his statement is technically correct. Given all the other sources, I'm also sure it's utterly misleading.
Of course they haven't.

The people that are the most vocal against VR, calling it a gimmick and all, typically haven't tried it, or they're just simply not interested in video games to begin with.

That's not to say that there are gamers that have tried VR and were unimpressed, but they're exceptionally rare.
I'm in the audience. They're demoing the AdBlock port now and it looks really good.
For what it’s worth, 95 characters per line seems to be about what’s optimal for reading speed, but most people aesthetically prefer shorter lines.

http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLeng...

“ This study examined the effects of line length on reading performance. Reading rates were found to be fastest at 95 cpl. Readers reported either liking or disliking the extreme line lengths (35 cpl, 95 cpl). Those that liked the 35 cpl indicated that the short line length facilitated "faster" reading and was easier because it required less eye movement. Those that liked the 95 cpl stated that they liked having more information on a page at one time. Although some participants reported that they felt like they were reading faster at 35 cpl, this condition actually resulted in the slowest reading speed.”
Woah! So the cells that accept the CRISPR modifications do so because they have dysfunctional p53 gene activation. This most likely means they are specifically the cells most likely to become tumors if they undergo any mutations triggering carcinogenesis as p53 and its helper genes are mainly responsible for killing off cells that become cancerous among other things.

This means that you can use CRISPR to selectively kill these cells only since they would be the only ones that easily accept and express the CRISPR modifications. This could be ground breaking if it is not already tried.
The tomb next to hilbert:

"I must know. Why do the mathematicians take so long to find out?"
The point you’re missing is that if you just change the file extension of a ePub to html it will work fine in the browser. There’s nothing special going on. Just bec most .html files are served from a remote location that doesn’t mean they need to be, you can send someone a .html file as a download which they can open from their desktop, it will work just as well as an ePub file, in fact bec the browser recognizes the file ext it will likely run it better!
Historically there have been sites that tell you which RAM modules work with OS X. It's usually the higher end stuff, but then again the modules that come with OS X tend to be better than average to begin with.
If I went the academic path as opposed to industry I was strongly considering focusing on this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_geometry
I am running a few one man saas's on a 2.99$ vps (1 per project) with php, mysql and nginx.
Liiiike craigslist? It'd also be perfect for a blog website. Or a news website. Or 90% of the content on the web that isn't an app.
From https://www.netflix.com/Help?faqtrkid=4&p_search_text=si...:

Q. Can I watch movies instantly on more than one PC or Netflix-ready device?

A. ... If you are on the Watch Instantly Unlimited plan or the 1-disc-out-at-a-time plan, you may watch only one device at a time. If you are on the 2-discs-out-at-a-time plan, you may watch on up to two devices at a time. Members on the 3-disc plan can watch on up to three devices. The maximum is four devices -- available for members on the 4-or-greater-discs-out-at-a-time plan.

Your account can have up to six unique authorized devices activated (and associated with it) at any given time, including personal computers and Netflix-ready devices. For example, if you're on the 1-disc plan, you can have up to six devices associated with your account, but you can only watch one of them at a time. If you're on the 2-disc plan, you can have up to six devices activated but can only watch two of them at the same time.
I think it's also that silicon valley is a relatively efficient market for finding office space on short term leases, housing, contractors, and employees, vs. a non-silicon-valley place, where an incubator really might need to provide that kind of stuff. Recruiting full-time employees is the one exception, and some of the top VCs (e.g. Andreessen-Horowitz) now have an in-house recruiter to help portfolio companies with that.

(Though, I hope there is some kind of internal-to-YC bulletin board of housing, though, because I really need to find a place to live, ideally in Mountain View.)
> In America, derivative works include software programs which are inseparably reliant on code or features (including APIs) of another program. ... In this case, dropship is entirely reliant on unique features of Dropbox. This makes it a derivative work, and would mean that Dropbox has copy rights over dropship.

I don't think that's true; if you've got any case authority, I'd certainly like to remedy my ignorance of it.

"Derivative work" is defined in the Copyright Act: [1]

"A 'derivative work' is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is a 'derivative work'." [Emphasis added]

I don't recall ever having seen any kind of ruling that sending API-compliant messages to another computer via the Internet, for processing by code already running on the other computer, somehow constitutes creating a derivative work of that code.

And I don't see how, in any normal case, the owner of the code on the other computer could claim that the API message sender had caused an infringing copy of the code to be made. If I were representing the API message sender, I'd likely argue that the owner of the code -- by (putatively) licensing the computer operator to configure the code to listen for and process API messages -- had consented to whatever copying might have occurred.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_0...
There were no takedown requests. The whole discussion is moot.
More venting on the topic, not that it seems to be accomplishing anything: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479584
It is an issue of bulk registration. The reason why the numbers are low is because we detect it fairly quickly and teach their shape to our abuse prevention tools.
In terms of hardware, IMO my XPS 15's trackpad is superior to my MacBook Pro's trackpad. The gesture support from the OS obviously isn't as good, but the XPS sure does feel better to use.
The deflationary nature of Bitcoin is a commonly used property to assert that Bitcoin is designed to increase in value over time due to artificially programmed scarcity.

However, I don't think GP's parallel lines up, as another commenter pointed out.

In any case, a single satoshi, which is the smallest denomination of Bitcoin (10^-8 of a Bitcoin), is worth about 0.05 cents as of writing this comment. If Bitcoin didn't have such large transaction costs, slow transactions, and price stability, it's scarcity would be way less of an issue due to this really large level of division of a single coin.