jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes, sorry, I meant to make that more clear: this is NOT an nginx issue. It just HAPPENS that I always see nginx on the 403 page.

It appears somebody doesn't like lynx's User-Agent string and it makes me sad.
>however most of that is hidden behind the already established tooling

...and so everyone without Google-level funding is stuck with this tooling. Thus, control over the protocol that millions of people could use to communicate with one another directly (by making websites and possibly servers) is ceded to a handful of centralized authorities that can handle the complexity and also happen to benefit from the new features.

I remember how Node when it was just rising in popularity was usually demonstrated by writing a primitive HTTP server that served a "hello world" HTTP page. There were no special libraries involved, so it was super-easy to understand what's going on. We're moving away from able to do things of this sort without special tooling and almost no one seems to notice or care.
Being able to hire experts in one field doesn’t make you omni-competent. There’s a long history of famously successful people embarrassing themselves once they get out of their area of expertise, and in this case you’re also talking about someone who is rich enough to run with a whim because he won’t suffer any real consequences if his gamble doesn’t pay off.
Why pay your employees when you can pay a consultant to show how to keep your employee costs low?

/s
> Australia

It's fairly easy to prevent stuff from entering the country when you are an island. Singapore also had no problem in doing it. Notice some kind of pattern?

> China stopped it and they have heaps of people

Do you trust any data coming from China? Because North Korea also claimed they had zero death from COVID.

Also, it's fairly clear by now that there is some genetic component with COVID: there are less death in asian ethnic groups compared to others, so having less deaths in China/Japan/Korea is consistent in that regard anyway.

> The US failed spectacularly

Comparing to death rates across Europe, not that much different actually. Media brainwashing much?
> but US govt is the representative of what significant amount of US people want.

How so? When you have a "choice" between a limited set of candidates, serious restrictions on voting rights (eg. following a conviction), and when candidates aren't bound to any form of contract (they can promise anything, do the opposite)? Also, what's even a democracy in an age of mass corporate media? I don't know about the USA, but here in France all major media are owned by billionaire sociopaths, and i can count on one hand the number of nationwide independent newspapers. Also, voter turnout for last USA presidential election was only 62% of voting age population, not accounting for minors and immigrants. That's not even close to representing anything.

That's nothing like a "democracy" (power of the people). Democracy is when people make decisions for their lives. Not when they have to choose between a few power-greedy politicians to make decisions for them.

> Public transportation sucks because it doesn't take you to where you want, when you want, from where you want.

Only because we let governments/politicians dismantle public services to the point they're essentially useless. It is not the case everywhere, and was not always the case through history.
Plaintext protocols are textbook case of a negative externality. Programmers who work on them capture value, but impose higher costs (vs a well-suited binary protocol) for parsing, serialising, transmission, storage, computation etc onto everyone else.
Why not a store that aggregates and organizes all the HN-built apps out there? I'm sure there's an app built by an HN member that covers all the major tools startups rely on. Say you decide you need an A/B testing tool. Check out the HN Store and you'll be sure to see Visual Website Optimizer is a popular choice. Support your fellow Entrepreneur and get great software; its a win, win.

Probably something that wouldn't be incorporated into HN itself, but I could see the potential for success if someone else built it...
To the extent this is a possibility, it's more likely they didn't know exactly what 'it' was going to be, and were expecting something comparatively minor.
Old Glory is no protection at all - it's just there to compensate your loss in the even of a robotastrophe. Insurance.
People are taking sides already, and with zeal! That makes me incredibly curious.
I look forward to seeing the rest of Common LISP implemented in C too.
It keeps 30 days for free accounts. That's unlimited for Pro IIRC (although you have to manage according to free space)

Edit: apparently policy changed at some point and versioning does not count in your quota. Also, Pro accounts need the Pack-Rat extra to enable unlimited versioning.
One of my favorites from Startup Weekend NYC. It's something we call think about if you have ever been on a conference, and fits my needs pretty well. Congrats!
You don't actually have to register a trademark to use the TM symbol. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_symbol
I agree but when it comes to recording ambient sound for marketing purpose I don't think there is a need for a debate.
I would imagine that it's not.
I think that is true for our space industry in the 50's and 60's, but we've had a space station up there for years and what has come out of that? Im playing a bit of the devils advocate, but honestly all I hear is 'we are preparing for deeper space missions..."
much better i think.
Check out the Rivian, it's a great looking electric truck in my opinion.

https://rivian.com/
comcast internet is slow in my experience. Much slower than advertised. Comcast has also done a lot of bittorrent throttling, given there are legitimate uses for bittorrent.

Also in my local market there is comcast or att dsl. ATT dsl is slower than comcast, so I'm forced to pick the lesser of two evils.
Other billboards we can put up in the ghetto to make sure people are fully informed and that experience tells us work just as well:

- Not having sex means no babies.

- Don't do drugs.

- Stay in your local, neighborhood school to perform as equally well as your similarly-aged peers in schools located in more affluent areas.

Well, maybe that last one not so much.

Your argument strikes me as a reason people raise in objection to mass transit: the "undesirables" might come to town. I'm actually somewhat sympathetic to your position. I live in an area of my city that, on paper, has a pretty high average household income but due to history also has a decent amount of petty crime. The answer isn't to redline those people off to somewhere else. There is a huge difference between being poor and committing crime, except that the poor tend to go to jail and the wealthy tend to pay a fine with no admittance of wrongdoing. And the latter also tend to screw over more people in one pop.

The answer is to make it socially unacceptable, in all areas, to commit crime and to demonstrate that the law and society won't tolerate it.
The abovementioned comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8801046
OMG what I wouldn't give to be an 18 year old programmer. The world is your oyster dude.

"I am a young software developer.

more coming soon..."

You're god damn right. Income? Who needs it? Do something awesome that you are passionate about. Everything else will flow from that.
You are right http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24066/how-to-simula...

Is a good thread to follow
If I may I'd like to just reinforce that point.

I am an apologist for the ideas of democracy, the rule of law and equality before it. As I am for certain aspects of attempts to achieve such. I am not any kind of apologist for facism, totalitarianism and ideologies that lead to such.

From a slightly different angle that may make the example clearer:

The so called "2 party" democracy has it's drawbacks, one of which is often labeled "partisanship" or something like that. I am an apologist for that, while acknowledging its imperfections and problems. The concept of the loyal opposition is the thing that seems to have worked best so far, I would argue it has worked best by such a huge margin that alternatives are scarcely worth considering other than as the enemy of freedom.
This is a really good idea, but it seems somewhat unlikely to happen in the USA - not least because of how valuable that information is. It's not just something that's used by individual companies, it's something that they can trade and sell. Giving consumers the ability to take their data from one company and give it to another (in exchange for a discount, perhaps? Someone would definitely try that) would have the potential to cut into the profits of companies, and so I would expect them to lobby against it.
I very strongly recommend cpanminus (aka, cpanm)[1] over cpan now. It's zero configuration, lighter on memory use and much more straightforward for most uses.

[1] https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus
I second the first two paragraphs but I'm not sure about the third one.

I want to see a 140t to LEO rocket, too and I'm sure SpaceX is already building it.* However, is this really necessary? I think the orignal, soviet moon flight plan would have been to put several stages into LEO and combine them there. The plan was given up, but I think it should still be possible if no larger rocket is available soon. Consider, SpaceX plans to lunch 10 Flacon heavy (53t to LEO) per year at a combined cost of 800-1250 million.*

And of course, the Saturn V did already put 119t to LEO in 1967.
Hence, their knowledge in building space stations like MIR.
How much was bailing out those rust belt dinosaurs again?
Title should be changed to: The Android Explosion: How Google’s Freewheeling Ecosytem Threatens the iPhone
Wouldn't load for me but

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/vanished-smithsonian-0415... is straight from the horses mouth, and

https://vanished.mit.edu/user/register is the game itself.
I actually signed my lad up for Google so he could go on there. You have to be 13 for FB, it is rather limiting.
I just implemented it for ripl, http://github.com/cldwalker/ripl, in two ways: https://gist.github.com/939846. First way would put it in your history as a one-liner. The second would let you edit the last code block in your editor. The gist shows an example.

If you want to try this out, simply `gem install ripl ripl-multi_line` and add the gist to ~/.riplrc. Since this is a hack, I would open an issue on https://github.com/janlelis/ripl-multi_line/issues if you want it to be done properly.

If you were talking about using readline's multi-line history, I'm not sure if ruby's readline library has an api to it. Would be useful.
shouldn't the question really be "why is what you're building only possible or necessary tomorrow?"
i agree and mention that. i just did not want to fast without protein and other essential vitamins hence the idea to try it. i should have documented it more with vids, etc.

maybe it was the sodium?
Release early, release often--or, we'll cross that bridge if we ever get to it.

Unfortunately, I'm not out to make a tool for everyone in the world. No, I don't have a plan for those issues, but I and at least one other person I know have need for text editing in a WebGL context (specifically, with WebVR work). For that, I need a canvas element that I can make into a texture.

The only previous work towards such a thing I could find was a Kickstarter that failed to deliver (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1241383920/open-source-...). The current status is that there is no way for any locale to have even antiquated ASCII text, highlighted, and working with editor controls, in a WebGL context.
Order of magnitude cheaper to start with flat sheet, lasercut/waterjet/stamp out final shape, and bend.

They are starting the cut and bend operations with the fully hardened steel, so there is no post stress relieving / aging / finishing. It's about as simple as it can get for metal fabrication.

Welding also fundamentally changes the underlying steel properties. I'm not up to speed on full hard 301 SS, but most likely any thermal operation will degrade it's mechanical and chemical grain structure.
As someone who works in conservation tech, there are a lot of issues. You need to have influence with policymakers (ie the people who can crack down on illegal habitat destruction, or agricultural policy).

It requires a mixture of educating local people about sustainable land use, better environmental monitoring (this is what I do), changing consumer habits so we don't need to deforest to satisfy our food needs, and so on.

There is a lot of money already involved and there are lots of startups doing good work on sustainability which indirectly is beneficial. For example lab grown meat might reduce pressure on livestock farming.
Reflections from Marie Curie on the value of basic research:

"The story of radiology in war offers a striking example of the unsuspected amplitude that the application of purely scientific discoveries can take under certain conditions.

X rays had had only a limited usefulness up to the time of the war. The great catastrophe which was let loose upon humanity, accumulating its victims in terrifying numbers, brought up by reaction the ardent desire to save everything that could be saved and to exploit every means of sparing and protecting human life.

At once there appeared an effort to make the X ray yield its maximum of service. What had seemed difficult became easy and received an immediate solution. The material and the personnel were multiplied as if by enchantment. All those who did not understand gave in or accepted; those who did not know learned; those who had been indifferent became devoted. Thus the scientific discovery achieved the conquest of its natural field of action. A similar evolution took place in radium therapy, or the medical application of radiations emitted by the radio elements.

What are we to conclude from this unhoped-for development shared between the new radiations revealed to us by science at the end of the nineteenth century? It seems that they must make our confidence in disinterested research more alive and increase our reverence and admiration for it."
I work somewhere that has one of the worlds largest Nomad deployments.

It's easy to manage, and since 0.9.5 release they have resolved most of my issues.

Simply adding Traefik/Fabio gets you a lot of benefit as well.

We run it across multiple distributions as well and it "just works," which is not something I experienced with Kubernetes. It also works on Windows if you need that.
Can anyone vouch for mullvad VPN?

https://mullvad.net/
I think pg is trying to argue that passionate disinterest is different from work ethic. For a person like Ronaldo, all of the off-field training might be enjoyable. If it is, then is it really work ethic? Or is it just Ronaldo doing what he wants to do and would be doing anyway, if there were no such thing as money?
Dupe, and not very old at that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1916489.
The best thing I've found for distractions is a program called "Concentrate" on OS X. You can set time to block certain classifications of sites, such as social networks. I do the pomodoro technique which is 25 minutes code, 5 minute break alternations. You'd be surprised that you get just about the same amount of HN time in your 5 minute allotments.

I did a blog post about it here: http://jasonseifer.com/2010/02/08/using-concentrate-for-pomo....
You're not necessarily looking for the terrorist, though. You might also be looking for the guy who might have too much to drink, get into an argument with his seat neighbor, then reach into his bag for his glock. Or the guy that's just mentally unstable.

Granted, these are one-off cases, but I can't think of a good reason for people to have guns, or (large) hunting knives in their carry-on luggage. And truthfully, if people want to pack guns in their checked luggage, from a safety perspective, it's probably better to have them declare it and put it into some sort of 'safe' container. Lord knows there will be people with ammunition that is waiting to misfire inside the luggage storage compartment of the plane.

(Not that I'm defending the TSA's actions for the past 9 years or anything...)
I know it's the mantra, but as somebody in a similar situation, I can tell you there are 2 pieces of advice leading up to my imminent launch.

1) Find a partner - I've had a LOT of false starts on projects that were sure to be the next big thing. I would get an idea, work hard on it, overthink everything, convince myself it was destined to be a failure, and then start on something else. I watched idly as I saw my ideas implemented by other companies, some with very large exits, some making large profits, and some flops. I invariably regretted whatever reason I had justified to myself for losing steam on it before.

I found a likeminded individual who is motivated, and is good in all the areas I'm not (and better in some of the areas I am). From first-hand experience, it's a lot harder to lose focus or succumb to wanderlust when you have somebody next to you making progress. His progress motivates me. My progress motivates him. We both have skin in the game, and we're both moving forward at a pace I never have before.

The other piece of advice? Cancel cable. My TV broke, and I found myself being extremely productive while I was waiting for a repairman to come out. So productive, in fact, that I called and cancelled on him.

I still get most of what I watch from Hulu or other sites, but now the TV is background noise while I'm programming, and far less of a distraction than something that I needed to leave the room for.
Fair point about their dominance of the mp3 player market, but I think the mobile phone market is a lot closer to PCs. More people have computers or expect to own one than have mp3 players. Pretty much everyone is going to get a mobile phone. Possibly we'll even see android phones start to compete with Apple as mp3 players.

I should perhaps have made it clearer I don't think Apple particularly care about the mass market or consider their position as losing. Why not be happy with what is viewed as a premium product by part of the market, charge extra and make additional revenue as a result?
Hi, simply because we have most experience in those technologies.
Two ideas:

A large part of the reason HN is so distracting, is that usually, when you read it, you look at the front page and open everything that looks interesting in new tabs. So when you're using your browser for something productive, you see a tab open that you haven't had a chance to read, and you want to go read it. Solution? Firefox profiles. Start firefox with firefox -P work --no-remote, and use that for all your work related things, while your should-read-later-eventually-maybe tabs stay happily open in another profile.

Second idea,

echo "127.0.0.1" `sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default/places.sqlite "select url from moz_places order by -visit_count limit 100" | cut -d/ -f 3|sort -u| tr "\n" " "` | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts

Maybe HN isn't your only distraction, and this saves you having to figure it out.
It's not odd nor is a comparison with Texas necessary if the #1 question is "Why is the 'Golden State' doing so badly?"

Plus we understand why a lot of Texas has been historically poor; the question of why California has gotten a lot worse is probably more interesting.

(I'm not sure how much worse, how or when, my Google fu wasn't good enough in 1-2 minutes to find anything beyond "In 1969, California's poverty rate was more than three points below the rest of the nation (9.1 percent compared to 12.5 percent)" in the summary of this: www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jul2002/cali-j13.shtml.)
So, if it was known in previous semesters that a test bank was used, why such a large statistical aberration this time around? It seems implausible that 1/3rd of the class just happened to memorise the answers accurately, and indeed, the distribution suggests that another factor was in play this time around.
What you describe is a fear of what people might do if they are not forced to work. None of us really knows, but my feeling is that it is natural for humans to go out and explore things, make things, strive for recognition by others, etc. Homer Simpson does not expemplify the natural equilibrium of the human psyche.

What you describe is exactly the current situation in Europe, but the reason is not some bohemien ideal. The reason is fear. By tieing entitlements to a lot of conditions people are incentivised to stay put in their current status once it is officially acknowledged. Once you have your piece of paper that makes you unfit for work you avoid doing anything that could threaten that hard won status. I personally know people who live off benefits but would much rather work if they were not threatened with losing _all_ of their benefits the day they start to take up self-employed work.
>Go run a tip system on reddit using fiat currency.

changetip is off chain so it doesn't matter what currency you use it would work the exact same. There are other micropayment and tipping systems that don't use bitcoin and they are just about as successful as changetip(not very).

>Go try sending money to someone in Ethiopia in fiat currency.

Try sending money to someone in Ethiopia using bitcoin in a way they allows them to actually use it in Ethiopia.

>Ensure nobody can steal your money without you making a mistake first (either giving someone else access, or leaving your wallet password in the open).

Ensure that if you do make a simple mistake(how many relatives do you know that have installed toolbars? Thats the level of simple mistake you have to avoid) you will lose all your money with no recourse.

>Transfer a large sum of money (in excess of, say, 100k) in seconds between an arbitrary sender and receiver.

Large wire transfers are simple and given the cost and difficulty of acquiring 100k worth of bitcoin would almost certainly be cheaper and faster.
Ok I'm confused by 'environment variable' vs files. How does one set an environment variable without putting it in a file on the particular server. Or by 'file' in this article (and the 12 factor one) do they mean a file that in source control?
Whoa, 47,000 * 100 == 4,700,000
Github's app lets you push and pull and do some minor work on your repositories. the Octohub app lets you search projects and stalk people.
> Maybe they just have a generic "bug" or something.

You have an excellent point there. I remember when I was learning Japanese I asked my teacher what the word for 'rat' was (mouse is 'nezumi') and she said just use 'nezumi', or use a qualifier e.g. 'ookii nezumi' (big mouse)
This methodology is commonly taught for designing discrete logic in electronics. Make a Karnaugh map to show your true and false states, and pick to implement the minimized logic for true or false cases only.
Yeah, Apache is too heavyweight. I want the server embedded in a language-specific module, not the other way around (an Apache module for the specific language). Something like Mongrel or Unicorn, but written entirely in C, except for language-specific bindings.

I should be able to just execute "server.run(application, port)" or whatever, not have to dive into Apache configuration files. Even with Mongrel2 you need to start multiple processes to get anything working.
I agree - I don't think I want Basecamp. But I don't need Zoho either. My point was that Basecamp is missing a few (very small) features that would take it from "Ok" to "Awesome". Even though this may be against much of the 37 signals philosophy of keeping things simple and lean.

I thought Basecamp is also designed to solve the distributed project management problem in a simple, easy way. I like the appoach, but the Deadline/Time tracking doesn't work for me in it's current implementation.
Writing stuff down.
3) the business side of Healthcare. There are tons of sites for consumer information but very few about the Healthcare industry from the business perspective.