jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In the last 2 years we have seen many ARM netbooks prototypes showing better battery performance and cheaper price than Intel netbooks. But I still can't buy an ARM netbook. Where are they? What is holding them back?
You haven't heard of ConsumerReports.org?

Edit: go ahead and make decisions based on whatever criteria you feel is appropriate. Nobody has the time to read peer-reviewed journals on everything, and at some point you have to rely on the recommendations of your friends or people with the relevant expertise. You may feel that these techniques are equivalent to a spade or broom or hammer, but others may feel it's a large time commitment they would not otherwise make, or be too close to the realm of psychology/medicine, and require more than just "Works for me!" before trying it themselves.

As I said before, the lack of science didn't stop me either.
Very much so. I'm a bit of a client-fetishist, and so I'd rather see Wave be broken down into a protocol and server, allowing for client applications to access the wave, rather than deal with a web app, which still tend to lag behind a nice cocoa app.

I think this is already the case. Didn't Google demo a command-line Wave app?
Amateurs discuss tactics, professionals discuss logistics.

Intel has so much FAB capacity that they can't easily be killed even by superior competing products.
Try my site http://EveryMentor.com. It might be a long-shot, or a little off of what you ideally would like, but you might just find someone. You can create multiple accounts to match up with several people too!
This post, while on topic for HN, is (a) virtually content free, and (b) almost certain to provoke nothing but another "Apple great!" "No Apple terrible!" argument using a guy who has made no pretense at objectivity as a proxy.

Long story short: flagged.
That would also require sending #sekretpasword in plaintext, also not ideal.
I'm getting a 500 when I try to sign up for the list. How unfortunate, this idea is awesome.
Odd, the other Posterous threads are getting buried so quickly. When a new comment is posted in any thread it appears at the top, except for these Posterous threads. Is this damage control on the part of YC?

The only other person so far to comment under the co-founder on this thread (at time of writing) is jseeba, who has had very little activity and one of the few comments he's ever made was in a thread called "Ask YC: Your favorite startups" where he said "Posterous. It just works." So jseeba doesn't do much around here in the 2 or so years he's been a member but made time to chime in for Posterous again.
Yes maybe you can find advisers with your best interests at
heart by ferociously networking. But in my experience it's
a long shot. Why is some (essentially random) guy with lots
of experience gonna help you for free?

Ego. When you tell somebody "I value your opinion and want your feedback" it's an ego boost. Everybody likes to feel valued, and everybody like to talk and give their opinion. Look at us, just now, answering this question. We're not getting paid for this, right?

And some people simply like helping other people, for whatever reason. Maybe somebody loaned them a hand when they were first starting out, and now they feel a need to reciprocate by helping others. Maybe there's no such thing as pure altruism, but there are people who derive pleasure from helping others and sharing information and advice.

Finally, you can always offer equity in your startup. Some reading I've been doing lately suggests that it's normal to offer a small chunk of equity n exchange for a more formal relationship / commitment from an advisor.
Clean living and good apis in your products makes writing awesome little apps like this not to hard... which makes life good for all of us.

This has me pretty psyched, honestly. The scripting possibilities are tantalizing.
I really love how the sub-command names work with the script name to mirror the full names of the Google products. Google's "Google Foo" naming scheme was mandated from the top and was a good call for sooo many reasons (legal, marketing, etc.) which now includes "makes for an awesome command line tool".
I think C++ is more for those people who can use a language without knowing it and learn in the progress. I'm getting a feeling that knowing all of C++ is something that cannot be achieved in one lifetime, so those who want to learn it before using will just spend all their time studying without actually doing anything (some may call them academics).
This happened to my dad. TIA was suspected but there was no lasting damage nor other stroke symptoms. It was ruled exhaustion. My dad regularly works 70-80 hour weeks and does at least one all-nighter a month. What I learned is that this is not uncommon in his field (medicine.) Four of his colleagues have had the same experience, they just don't let anyone know and really try to hide it out of personal and professional pride.

I was still trying to be a startup hacker in my 30s, working all nighters, living on pizza and coffee. After one all nighter I could not remember the combination to my lock at the gym (I often showered at the gym by work instead of going home) nor could I remember my PIN number at the ATM. My hands were shaking it felt like my heart was going to explode . I checked into the ER and they said I was fine but that I was experiencing acute exhaustion and dehydration.

Since then I've tried to tone things down a bit, but unfortunately most tech companies tend towards insane work hours, no matter how much they claim to follow a "normal" work week. I recently left a job because it was expected to work about 70 hours a week and I knew I'd end up falling apart like my dad (or Bill Nye) if I kept it up.

When I lives in SF, it was not uncommon for my fellow engineers to binge drink on weekends (or wednesdays), have super unhealthy foodie-fests like "bacon parties" or try to outdo each other with the craziest 4-espresso-shot coffee concoction. I've seen too many halfways-healthy looking programmers turn into high-blood-pressure overweight blobs over the course of 18 months, and I fear for their long term health. Nobody wants to admit it, but the culture of stress and overwork at startups (and other fields) has real physical effects. Maybe not today, but somewhere down the road.
I saw it on the itch website and thought it was for ruby projects, so perhaps I'm mistaken.
> they forcibly altered the contract.

What was forcibly altered? Perhaps the meaning of "force" is different for you than it is for me.
Is Irmin more like a database engine? I.e. you have to write code in OCaml in order to use it???
Everyone has a "premature optimization is the root of all evil" story and I'm no different. I learned Dvorak years ago in university and stuck with it, thinking it would make me a better 'professional' programmer since I could type faster. Oh, how naive I was. Over a decade later, I've made the switch between dvorak and qwerty several times, and it really isn't too hard to switch, after an afternoon using a different layout I'll reach a reasonable WPM. Lately I've stuck to dvorak although I'm still reasonably fluent in Qwerty and I do occasionally go back to qwerty to ensure I'm still somewhat fluent. What really does me in when using another computer is the standard staggered keyboard layout since I've been living on an Ergodox Infinity for over a year now. Once you've grown accustomed to an columnar arranged keyboard, it's incredibly difficult to go back to a staggered layout.
This is an interesting idea. YouTube is that last big Google service that I struggle to cut out of my life since it seems to have so much more content than the alternatives. It would be great to know when I can switch to another one for a video, and maybe build that into a habit.

But looking at the service, I wish that this site provided a simple form where I could input a URL and see if there's any alternatives. It would be an opportunity to see if this service has alternatives for the channels I typically watch before agreeing to install the extension in my browser. For some reason I'm hesitant to install new extensions and I'm not comfortable having all the URLs of YouTube videos I watch being sent to someone's server, but a form or bookmarklet would let me find alternatives when I choose to look.

Good luck, and thanks for working on a project that's trying to wind back the gatekeeping and extreme censorship we see today.
Don’t forget also using the tax code and lobbying to gain competitive advantage!
No im not trolling actually ... its about as feasible as running a taxi service with Ferrari's all while having comparable revenue to a uber driver .. it just wont work , it can not scale capex is to high.
Half of these answers is common sense, the other half is shitty advice. You can't answer by "yes" or "no". Bad delivery too.
I'm pretty sure Apple goes far more for the green agenda than the old PC makers ever did - even taking into account the tiny savings you get from the few people that upgraded or repaired their laptops in the past.
Many of them probably do, but I strongly doubt they're doing a ton of trading after hours. For one thing, the people all excited about gamestop have been talking about it at $40-50 / share, so why would they suddenly all jump in at $150? For another, I read (but don't know how to verify) that after-hours volume was much higher. Doesn't seem likely that retail was much of a factor.
The tulip mania extent has been debunked multiple times. It's more of an urban myth.
I don't think you understand collision domains.
Is there a reason why there needs to be so much tweaks to get the kernel running on a modern SoC?

Any reason there couldn't be a "canonical" ARM64 standard for SoC?
Baseball cards are rare because they're scarce. Digital assets are plentiful; you can reproduce them infinitely, and there's no such thing as being "out of print".

Given that NFTs assert ownership over normal files, I don't see how it would be possible to arbitrarily destroy them.
Blue Origin at least gets a bit of the pie with supplying the BE-4 for ULA.

But ya, definitely challenging.
A full garbage collection can be a brutal time.
To me, the benefit of defer over try/finally is code locality: You can easily see whether some action has an associated cleanup, because the 'defer' statement is just before/after the action. With try/finally, the cleanup (which has to be in sync with the action) might be outside your editor window.
That’s the underappreciated argument. If we to assume that the collective will power is all it takes to create an alternative asset, e.g. the narrative “gold is old, we need a new one” then it follows that it can and will be repeated. I don’t see why people not born yet would play by the rules of the future “Bitcoin wealthy elites” when they could become elites themselves by hyping another asset/cryptocoin instead. Thus even if the narrative of “store of value” and “hedge against inflation” turns out to be correct, I still don’t believe Bitcoin supremacy will last longer than a single human generation.
Absolutely, I finished (as in actually got the system to meet requirements) a system in 6 weeks that a team of ~15 (all gone by the time I had got there) had failed to do in a year.

Their system had many thousands of classes, mine probably had less than 50. Theirs used pretty much every technology in J2EE (this was a few years back) - mine used a very small set. I didn't even have to work very hard....
It's US only. If you click on any of the titles in the table from the provided link, it shows the full breakdown. For Transformers: Age of Extinction, you get a summary that shows it was primarily international sales[1].

[1]: http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Transformers-Age-of-Extinct...
Thanks for the info. Linux certainly captured mindshare and is synonymous with the cloud these days, but I agree these things are not clear cut.
> If you can't disable Flash entirely...

I can but there are websites that still rely on Flash for video playback :/
The Old Testament god strikes me as quite evil.
> from a theoretical standpoint is a better design

What about IPC overhead?
While reading "LINUX is obsolete (1992)", this relatively unknown article has come to my mind. It's a pretty good read about a real world implementation of a microkernel architecture, and the tricks they had to do to obtain a reasonable degree of performance (migrating threads, collocation...).

Here's a little background. In the 90's, the Open Software Foundation (OSF, now part of The Open Group) was trying to build a common foundation for all UNIXes (back then you weren't a cool IT company if you didn't have your own UNIX OS, ask Microsoft).

As OSF/1, the (supposedly) reference implementation of UNIX, didn't gain enough traction, they started working on OSF Mach. OSF Mach was intended to be a small layer between the hardware and the OS personality, so UNIX companies didn't have to waste effort porting their code for every architecture.

The idea was quite cool (you can think of it as an early form of virtualization), but the initial results were quite disappointing on the performance front (the paper talks about being 40% slower), so they started implementing some tricks that, essentially, broke the microkernel architecture while keeping the modularity. The most significant was collocation, also called in-kernel servers, which put the OS personality in the same, privileged space as Mach, so cross-space messages would become syscalls.

On 1995-1996, the OSF was asked by Apple to build a Linux version for their PowerPC based machines (go figure), and MkLinux, a Linux personality running OSF Mach (which the paper is talking about), was born.

Here's when history becomes a little confusing. We've all been told that modern Mac OS X comes from NeXTSTEP source base, which was a CMU Mach+BSD OS (while MkLinux was OSF Mach + Linux), but if you look at the early code from XNU (OSX's kernel), you'll find an almost unmodified OSF Mach.

I suppose they took OSF Mach, which probably at that point was far more advanced than CMU's, added the BSD bits from NeXTSTEP and finally complemented it with the FreeBSD based IOKit.
The retirement systems is utterly inadequate and pensions are non-existent. Thus the middle class is entirely dependent on effectively a housing ponzi scheme to avoid squalor (or even homelessness) in old age. So they will always fanatically, desperately vote to raise property values whatever the long term consequences.

Even more importantly, mortgage holders and other large institutions have a vested interested in raising property values and will guarantee that polices drive that.

Obviously housing prices can't outpace wages forever so one generation, probably the current one, is going to be screwed with houses that can't raise enough in value and yet have no real retirement security.
So much this, I work in a city with literally thousands of former cobol developers who's jobs were offshored over the past two decades. Check online jobs boards, there is very very little demand for this skill, shortage is myth.
This has turned into a brain dump - apologies.

I had hoped that the DupDetector would give me more time to read stories, but I found two things:

1. There were many, many more dupes being found than I expected. Checking the robot's output before confirming the posting took about the same amount of time as it used to take finding fewer, but doing it by hand. Fully automating it would only take a little more work, and maybe I'd then get the time back.

2. I was reading a bit more, but I found that the additional material wasn't interesting. I was probably already reading everything I found useful, interesting, instructive, or engaging. I'm working on a script to help me with that as well.

The problem I'm finding is the sheer volume, and most of it is repeats, politics, repeats, TSA, repeats, wikileaks, repeats, Assange, repeats, etc. The proportion of material with deep technical content is much less than I remember. Consider - as I write this anything older than 40 minutes old has already fallen off the "newest" page. At that pace it can't all be worth reading.

It's suggested that newcomers read the "news" page, and perhaps the "over" page so they get enculturated with what this site is about. Similarly, it's suggested that older hands inhabit the "newest" page so we can vote up those things that deserve it, and flag the inappropriate.

But I can't keep up with "newest" any more, and much of what I would find interesting is vanishing before I can find it. Searching deeper will find it sometimes, but the 'bots were intended to help.

So I'm working on trying to help, working on trying to find the good stuff (by some definition), and working on adding value.

So, for what it's worth, that's what I think. I hope it sparks off some interesting or useful thoughts.
That is an interesting business proposal.
In addition to tptacek's comment off yours, rainbow tables aren't remotely necessary to check the most common passwords, gaining thousands of them in seconds. The salt's there. Just hash "password1" against all the salts in the database - you're nigh-guaranteed to get a bunch, associated with their username. Viola, you've likely got their email account.

Similarly, any sufficiently-complex-and-long (at best: random) password in those hashes is effectively secure. Rainbow tables typically only handle up to a dozen-ish characters long, and specific common passwords, frequently only alphanumeric values to limit the problem space. You're stuck brute-forcing each one effectively separately because you don't have enough storage on the planet to rainbow-table my 30-character random-ascii password. For instance, freerainbowtables.com recently cracked "racsivrv" and their table is 232GB. [1]

And even if you do find a match, it's simply a hash-collision. There are an infinite number of those. You might have my password, you might just have a random string that behaves like it with that salt. If it's random, you can't tell until you try it on other sites that I use the same password on. If it's a word, there's probably just the one (of reasonable length).

Rough sizes and overall idea (though I don't tend to link to codinghorror for accurate details, it's a pretty readable overview): http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/rainbow-hash-cracki... Very specifically from that link, "You'll also note that that passphrases, which I am a big fan of, are immune to this technique due to their length."

[1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ICSor0l...

edit: better yet: http://project-rainbowcrack.com/

ntlm_ascii-32-95#1-8 rainbow table
Plaintext charset: space and !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
Plaintext length: 1 to 8
Success rate: 96.8%
Table size: 576 GB

ntlm_loweralpha-numeric#1-10 rainbow table
Plaintext charset: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
Plaintext length: 1 to 10
Success rate: 96.8%
Table size 396 GB

huge, and that first one only covers 8 characters.
If the Consumer Is Not Deceived, It's Not "Counterfeit"

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/if-the-co...
I have it disabled, does it need it? I don't see the box anywhere, but it might be hidden.
I think you're missing my point. I'm saying: if you're going to introduce a traumatic change to HTTP/HTML, you'd expect to use a real password authentication scheme, not a half-measure.

I think you're wrong about the extent of the Gawker password breach, but I haven't been following that closely. If they lose a database with hundreds of thousands of DES crypt(3) passwords, it's safe to assume that many many tens of thousands of passwords were compromised; this is the real problem with the Gawker incident (as it's being reported).

My point regarding that incident is, the incident would be exactly as bad under this proposal.
I'm still working fitfully on my "Great Articles" concept. I store things in there, and then review them occasionally.

I've not done much on it lately because of other commitments, but it's still proving useful.
It would follow that the ultimate law would be one that sent a strong signal to your base and had very few people who could appear on TV and say they were directly harmed by it.

For some reason the tax code comes immediately to mind.
What i did was install a copy of wordpress and have about 6 or 7 main areas - Linux, db, scripts, how-to and i have kept adding articles and how-to's that i have collected over the past 4 years and have basically my own internal Linux how-to site - wordpress even though not really meant for it is a great tool for this kinda thing.
The RAND study is famous for trying this on a pretty large scale with health insurance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Health_Insurance_Experimen...

Robin Hanson has been a big proponent of resuming similar experiments:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/05/rand_health_ins.html
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/05/rand_health_ins_1.html
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/05/rand_experiment.html

Worth reading even if you're of a different political persuasion.
Facebook uses mysql as a key-value store. HandlerSocket is great for avoiding SQL parsing -- is it the same thing basically as ODBC?
I think the fact that they demoed IE10 running well on a 1.0ghz ARM, coupled with last year's emphasis on Windows 8 running on an ARM device, speaks volumes about the future.

Windows has had HTML/CSS/JavaScript "native" apps since Vista. If IE10 + Win8 results in "native HTML5" being performant even on mobile devices, it seems likely that HTML5 is soon to be the new Silverlight in terms of simple out-of-browser apps.
It's more than that. It allows you to mix and match the SQL interface with the memcached interface. It doesn't have to be persistent actually :)
> someone making something like this ought to make an effort to understand the current state of the art in the field.

Are you surprised? That's precisely the same criticism Wolfram received when he first published ANKOS:
http://shell.cas.usf.edu/~wclark/ANKOS_reviews.html
do all/many queries to facebook go to Prineville and how physically? shouldn't datacenters be in the middle of some thick cable hub?
"Any image of Queen Elizabeth II is unacceptable for Royalty-Free content."

In other words, if you want to release an image of the Queen under a royalty-free license, you must also remove the royalty.

So, if you remove the queen and license the resulting image under a royalty-free license, you have an image that's royalty-free in two senses!
Some things are still possible for now. Others were banned internationally (e.g anonymous savings accounts) by exerting great pressure on countries that had these things. I think the direction is clear. My prediction is that in 10 years we will not be able to even connect to the internet without authentication.
i'm still amazed myself! if the user doesn't even notice the difference between flash and html5, then there's hope!
Gold has no inherent value, either. Without some kind of government guaranteeing that gold will work as money, I'm not giving you anything of actual value (like food, fuel, livestock, weapons, or ammo) in exchange for gold in the post apocalyptic world.
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