jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't mind Windows; there are some apps that are VASTLY superior to anything I could find on Mac or Linux. Nor Mac, for a different set of apps. I don't think I would ever spend the Apple tax on one though; as long as work provides me with one that's fine.

I tend to do my "real work" in a unixy context, but WSL, VMs, and `brew install coreutils` gets me close enough to run my dev tools of choice.
Concurrency != parallelism. You can of course run a multi-process cluster, but that’s besides the point (and these days it’s best to run a single process inside orchestration like k8s).

Basically almost every high performing server atm is running on some form of event loop / cooperative multi-tasking. Ruby Puma, Gunicorn, rust’s tokio and async/await, goroutines... Java is probably the big exception here (if you’re not using VertX et al) and we all know the pain of thread safety.
Did they perform regular PCR testing on staff? No, and so they didn't detect any asymptomatic carriers. By comparison, all NHS staff are doing biweekly lateral flow tests, and hundreds of staff are detected prior to symptoms this way. This means that fewer staff are off sick/isolating, and more staff are available to care for patients.
My complaint with the Windows 8 start menu wasn't that it took up the whole screen, it was that it took up the whole screen to show _the same number of items_ or fewer than the 95-style start menu. And half of them were ads.

A full-screen start menu with the same information density as the 95-style start menu, possibly with a pane for programs and a pane for explorer, is something I'd happily try out.
I love Rust, I just wish it could get rid of semicolons. Quite a lot of discussions around this.
Can't wait for when the Bitcoin bashers find out that other networks exist!

Can you imagine the posts on Ethereum-based Defi?
Ironically when I worked at BT an "engineer" was always used to refer to (in US terms) the linemen.

Only the "executive engineer" held any kudos and there only a handful of those in the country.
Dragging selected items to copy/paste them is pretty universal. I know I’ve done that in Windows as well. Ironically, it’s not available in every Mac app - many won’t let you drag text or images out of them.
Reading this made me think of these posts:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996237

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043613
Somewhat random fact: comment solutions like IntenseDebate and Disqus incorporate Quantcast into their js, so you are indirectly getting counted by such services if you use IntenseDebate, etc. I searched for an out-clause, but found none.
Yeah, tr was my instinct as well.. Thanks for quotemeta, it helps with something I'm working on right now!
From "Bright Lights, Big City," I believe the protagonist uses the term "emotional paraplegic."
"replace the features page with "benefits""

Yes.
Well, if the organization putting out RFP's took the contractors' track records into account when awarding contracts, they'd end up eliminating a lot of this corruption. Instead, the fact that the big contractors routinely run FAR over budget and behind schedule, often not delivering anything and what they Do deliver is usually not up to spec, doesn't count against them when they bid for new work.

If it did, companies like Lockmart and SAIC and Northrup-Grumman wouldn't be able to continue winning contracts.
The solution I eventually arrived at after many years: Don't start any more side projects. Save my energy for my primary project.
After reading the article, I looked into similar services available online. While I couldn't find any blogging sites, both WriteAPrisoner[1] and PrisonPenPals[2], while dated, offer to connect visitors with incarcerated pen pals.

Even more interesting, however, is that the State of Arizona banned these types of interactions in 2000[3], only to have to the law struck down as unconstitutional four years later. Specifically, the law banned any "attempts to correspond with a communication service provider or remote computing service" such as the sites listed above.

[1]: http://www.writeaprisoner.com
[2]: http://www.prisonpenpals.com
[3]: http://www.ojr.org/ojr/law/1082592378.php
the first girl said she didn’t think services needed to be combined

This is something I found in my own research too. It appears most normal teen users cant stand mashups. I was building a platform that converted between sms, email, IM, facebook message so that you wouldn't have to check all your messages in different clients and ran it past normal users. They hated it. Users want communication mediums to stay seperate!
Do you raise those issues as specific bug reports against specific programs?
Hmmm...Maybe they dial back the stickiness even more for VetWrap.

Ours is slightly tacky, but can't really pick up hair (have used it on myself in a pinch).
The joke police are ruthless today. Just let me pay the fine, surely it's easier than having to convince people I don't actually think Einstein was an alien.

Tesla? Actually an alien.

(I'm kidding please stop).
> Pediatric oncology

My father in law does this, in a developing country no less. Bless his soul, he's a very kind man. But it's incredibly taxing. Not just the treatments but there are many cases where children die and there's nothing you can do about it. And it doesn't stop, even when he's on vacation, he has patient's families calling/texting him.

I've been at dinner where someone will walk over and say something like "you saved my brother/daughter/sister/son's life." Or sometimes my wife and I will meet someone who will recognize she's his daughter and day the same. Hopefully that makes it worth it.
It wasn't a 'steal'... it was an incentive to move, which was only the cost of a transaction. Liquidity providers are looking for the best rates and most amount of transaction fees, which far outweighed the cost of the transaction to move. The bar was very low. It was also brief and only lasted until the next thing came along...
Good points, the discomfort as the article put it is a better way to describe it than inferior. Also true that not everyone feels comfortable in the elevated position of being able to afford to hire other people to do what they might consider menial tasks.
The client is blocked but the producer is not. As soon as the client gets #1 it can process #1 and #2.

Here's a real world implementation discussion of this sort of stuff: https://github.com/couchbase/sync_gateway/issues/525
> whenever a gravitating object moves inertially

The object is not moving inertially. Someone is forcing it to change direction, which is the exact opposite of inertially.
I like Vim...do I like it that much? Hmmmmmm
You're the reason I'm on HN, so your feedback is always more than "just another comment" to me.

WHY I INTERVIEW TIM:

1) Eric Ries once told me how a tiny change to a marketing page is worth hours of recoding. I believe there are little changes that have big significance and Tim is good at identifying and explaining them.

2) There are loads of books about health, but his is going to be a top seller. I'm curious about what it is about the way he presents & markets ideas that help him stand out.

3) Tim Ferriss gets a lot of attention. This response would be incomplete if I didn't admit that Tim's name got my other work a lot of hits, and it will continue to. He has fans that still tweet about an interview that I did with him over a year ago.

WHAT I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER:

1) I should have addressed some of his health claims. It's outside the scope of my work to talk about health, but if we brought it up, I needed to talk about opposing research.

2) I might have been too fawning at the end. I always love my guests, but at the end of an interview, when someone sits for 1 hour and answers questions, I'm prone to gushing out of gratitude.
I have up-voted both you and the parent, because while you both have opposite points of view (more or less), I fall somewhere in the middle.

My favorite thing about Tim Ferriss are the video podcasts that he does with Kevin Rose. They're posted on his blog ("Random episode X"), and they're usually pretty interesting (the one they did when traveling around China comes to mind), though not mind blowing.

As for the rest, I try to be inspired by his energy at trying new things and being methodical about learning, but I don't really follow him on most of the specifics of what he does.
I have to imagine that it's less than 10% of Android owners that root their phones.

Certainly there is power in niche markets in this modern world where the barriers for distribution have been mostly obliterated by the internet..

That wonderful reality also blurs the importance of the majority though.

Most people just want things to work without having to deal with it.
Another thing that I associate with this year is the spreading awareness of ORM and framework agnosticism. With the popularity of Sinatra and MongoDB, along with other Rack frameworks and non-AR DB libraries, there seems to be a big shift toward web-related libraries that are Rack-centric rather than Rails-centric.

Regarding Padrino: when it was released earlier this year I initially didn't think much of it, but after playing with it recently I believe it definitely has the potential to be another great Ruby web framework. It's already very usable and extremely pleasant to work with.
have a repository of your ideas, and what you completed of it, before you wonder to something else. Even a notebook and a pencil can be useful for this. cut back on sugar. :-)
When you operate on the scale of Amazon or under financial regulation like the other three, it pays to be on the government's good side. If you're merely an ISP or hosting provider that does email, your business doesn't need to interact with the feds much, so there's very little extra-legal leverage they can use against you if the necessity of a warrant is well-backed by the courts. In cases like that, you may have much more to fear from your clients than from the feds.
one to 19103 as well. many thousands of IT professionals in the city. we're sol brotha
Can someone more familiar with this world explain where the law ended up on building your own guns? I recall a controversy around whether you can even share open source 3D printing plans (which to me felt like a violation of the first amendment) but leaving that aside, I've also heard that it is possible to do so using more traditional methods.
Yes if they buy with stock, and if the stock doesn't tank when they announce their intentions. So, no.
If we ever figured out a system where prices like rent weren’t set by the most that people are willing to do, maybe we could finally get more leisure time from our productivity increases. In the meantime, everything is an auction :(
> In the same way that cells form eye patterns on the wings of butterflies to excite neurons in the brains of predators, our NCA’s population of cells has learned to collaborate to produce a pattern that excites certain neurons in an external neural network.

I know there has been other work on adversarial networks, but this analogy (along with the photo of the butterfly) really communicates the idea well. And although I'm generally skeptical of claims that ANN "x" is the true model of how the human brain works, it makes a lot of sense to me that this is how adversarial self-organizing biological structures interact.

Also, it's a powerful example because of just how effective the butterfly wing's "eye" is. Despite understanding that it's a decoy, I still can't look at it and not be unnerved a bit by it.
I thought it was obvious. Author wrongly assume those Data Collection from 2015 - 2018 were used for Maps. When they were actually done for training purpose or R&D. And it is obvious their detecting Algorithm is no where close to what Google is doing.

Look Around is so much better than Google. But Apple Maps is still far behind Google Map in terms of accuracy.
NB: it is not "AWS Babelfish". It is (currently) "Babelfish for PostgreSQL".

https://babelfish-for-postgresql.github.io/babelfish-for-pos...

Can the title of this post be changed to remove "AWS" please?
Obviously, if you just reimplement SVG in JSON it's not going to get better, there would be far more to it. And I'm a big fan of strong schemas, it's the best part of XML.
> One is travelling at tremendous speed (Mach 5 or something?)

Much higher, about mach 20 to 25. They are moving seriously fast.
Who has tried since? I understood that in WW2 for instance it was their strict policy of neutrality that kept them from invasion, and the fact that Germany thought it was more beneficial to have them as a neutral rather than occupied country.
Why the Treasure Planet hate? I really liked that film when it came out. It was just torpedoed by interdepartmental politics that hurt theatrical sales, like Emperor's New Groove. IIRC, they weren't allowed to make a trailer for it until the last minute, so the boring and uninformative one that aired in theaters came to be.
It wasn't automation that destroyed US manufacturing
If you are male, don't fret about the hair. As long as you refrain from comb over, you'll be fine.
Well, at this place you're probably going to get this advice quite often: Invest in several startups. Just what YC themselves do.

I'm the CFO of a tech startup myself. We are building "The Instagram for online trade". I'd love to talk to you.

If it were my money I would invest a portion of it in startups (but you must obviously know that the risk of losing these money is present), and I would invest most of it in stocks and keep the rest in the bank. I have some personal recommendations, but if you don't have any idea on the stock market I would consider contacting an investment bank. I think that would be reasonable with your amount of money.
Obviously fake. If OP really had that money, they could afford a very good financial planner and wouldn't have to resort to asking random people on Hacker News about how to manage their finances.

If I had that much money, I wouldn't invest in any company whose CEO is gullible enough to think that this post is genuine.
The only data we have points to that the NSA is ahead of the academic community, from differential cryptanalysis onwards.
Existing extensions for FF and Chrome using the same idea ; both use the same algorithm so you can share passwords:

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/firefox/addon/password-hasher/

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pawhash/adgekjfphh...
Thanks for sharing, and for anyone else reading you might also like the following book--`Modern Compiler Implementation in ML' by Appel. (http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/ml/)
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Thank you for replying with your list. I lean away from Cruz myself (not offering a strong enough dissent, a la Rand) but I did find it pleasant to see his SD-226 questioning of the Review Panel. I would note that I also am frustrated in my attempts to find a party and candidates I feel represent me.

I wanted to reply to

> I suspect that in the near future, the major email providers will offer end-to-end encryption for all their users with no possibility of back doors. The NSA technicians will lose the ability to casually type in a name like "Bill Clinton" and read his email at their leisure (as happened with that analyst who got fired).

First I was wondering if you had a reference for the analyst that got fired. I hadn't heard that particular instance of (attempted?) abuse.

Second I wanted to update the document regarding Apple. Here is their Legal Process Guidelines: http://images.apple.com/privacy/docs/legal-process-guideline...

Third I wanted to share that encrypted communications will not prevent disclosure of customer records pursuant of 18 U.S.C. § 2703(f) (A governmental entity may require the disclosure by a provider of electronic communication service of the contents of a wire or electronic communication) and a constellation of other laws that require providers of communication, even when encryption is provided by them, to disclose those communications upon request: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2703

You will see a strong history of this with encryption laws with telecommunications providers and the Clinton Administration first attempt at using key escrow rather than regulatory measures (and in fact we have seen that telephony data is easy for the government to request).
Curious, what topics don't you dare write about?
You need to check your facts and your baises. There were never any weapons being picked up by the van nor did they ever "appear" to do so. The talk of weapons where wishful thinking because they were so set on engaging:

06:33 Come on, buddy.
06:38 All you gotta do is pick up a weapon.
06:44 Crazyhorse this is Bushmaster Five, Bushmaster Four break. We are right below you right time now can you walk us onto that location over.
06:54 This is Two-Six roger. I'll pop flares [drop flares]. We also have one individual moving. We're looking for weapons. If we see a weapon, we're gonna engage.
07:07 Yeah Bushmaster, we have a van that's approaching and picking up the bodies.
07:14 Where's that van at?
07:15 Right down there by the bodies.
07:16 Okay, yeah.
07:18 Bushmaster; Crazyhorse. We have individuals going to the scene, looks like *possibly* uh picking up bodies and weapons.
07:25 Let me engage.
07:28 Can I shoot?
07:31 Roger. Break. Uh Crazyhorse One-Eight request permission to uh engage.
07:36 Picking up the wounded?
07:38 Yeah, we're trying to get permission to engage.
07:41 Come on, let us shoot!
07:44 Bushmaster; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
07:49 They're taking him.
07:51 Bushmaster; Crazyhorse One-Eight.
07:56 This is Bushmaster Seven, go ahead.
07:59 Roger. We have a black SUV-uh Bongo truck [van] picking up the bodies. Request permission to engage.
08:02 Fuck.
08:06 This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. This is Bushmaster Seven, roger. Engage.

The official report also comes to the conclusion that they were engaging the van because it was picking up wounded insurgents. Of course the wounded man wasn't an insurgent but one of the journalists.

http://www.collateralmurder.com/en/transcript.html
https://www2.centcom.mil/sites/foia/rr/CENTCOM%20Regulation%...
I've seen companies do a "challenge" style interview, where it's less of a contract and more of a "take this problem home, code something up to solve it, push to github and let us know when you're done". Then the interview portion is discussing the solution. It means you can calibrate across candidates better, but I think the advantage of an onsite contract job is the two-way feedback, especially in a smaller company.
35 years, and he needs to do a third before he is eligible for parole. He has also served 3 years in jail already.

He could be out in 8 or 9 years. Not that harsh.
I'll just quote Antoine de Saint-Exupery here:
"You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, Not when you have nothing more to add, But when you have nothing more to take away."
looks beautiful in chrome 10
>If you don't trust your partner and want to rummage through his or her computer—or if you worry about the prospect of your partner rummaging through your computer—you may want to go to a couples' therapist.

Thanks, I am fine. But you should know that a number of marriages do in fact end badly in the real world and that a tool like this one can give evidence of cheating and cost a lot of money in a divorce trial. Do I need to make any more examples of why collection of private information is frequently a problem in everyday life?
I would have been a lot more interested the five other times I've seen this today if one of the headlines mentioned that it was pulling the location data from backups.

I just assumed that it was Yet Another Location Tracking App.
Yes, though for the market price there should always be buyers. And you already made the loss on your house, and your books would reflect this if you marked-to-market.

By sticking around in a depressed area your are just depressing your earnings.

(It's something different, if you have to come up with cash to pay off your mortgage; instead of just being able to keep paying the normal rates after you sold your house.)
Anyone else find it ironic that iPhoneTracker.app phones home (to an AWS ec2 server) upon startup?
> Exactly, I don't think you've really lived till you've experienced that pit of your stomach feeling when you realise you've just wiped out a product website / database.

Or sent a test email to thousands of customers in your prod database encouraging them to use web check-in for their non-existent flight tomorrow.

Yeah, did that five years ago, talk about heart-attack-inducing. Quickly remedied by sending a second email to the same test set, thankfully, but that's the kind of mistake you never forget.
The agreement was that you wouldn't work in the Japanese market at all? I agree with you about the huge, unexploited opportunities. ;-)
Thanks for the offer.
I am afraid NC is a bit far for me. I was thinking somewhere around NY to be the furthest.

Anyway we should discuss some great ideas together sometime.
Do you do IRC?
These are terrible examples because they are not reality. In a rational world they would not have been able to go public with the numbers and lack of rational plan to solve it they have. You do not have to be profitable but you have to because to explain away to get there that makes sense. For Uber and Lyft, I do not think they can. Time will tell. WeWork is a example of rationality returning after Uber, Lyft.

I would suggest for tech VMware, Arista, RedHat are far more rational guides.
Does the iPhone app needs to be running through the night for this device to work? that's what I hated about Sleep Cycle and would not want to use it if it has the same flaw.
Korea as a whole was a nation for over two thousand years; 99% of the population on the peninsula is of Korean ethnicity.

After the war, citizens of South Korea volunteered, for no pay, to rebuild infrastructure (roads, factories).

From the 60s through the 80s, there was one singular goal, namely, building the nation and becoming a prosperous society.

I think that kind of scenario is a little harder to reproduce in the more heterogenous parts of the world. How do you propose getting opposing ethnicities in other countries to pull together like that?
This is a perfect storm. Many twitter clients automatically retry posting tweets when there is a non 200 return code from the Twitter API (including humans posting on the website seeing errors). Unfortunately, Twitter has been returning 5xx codes while successfully posting tweets. This, plus the apparent fact that duplicate tweet detection is failing/turned off means that all of the duplicate posts get through. Mayhem ensues...
What I have a hard time finding is a service that offers low fees for small purchases, or micropayments.

I sell a small software application that goes for $7. After trying a few places I've settled on PayPal micropayments which charges 5c + 5%, which comes out to about 7.5% for me.

I'd be interested in anyone that could give good micropayment rates.
I personally HATE social networking in my news. That is, for example, you going to the Huffington Post and seeing Facebook Connect buttons, as well as Twitter / Google / Yahoo! login buttons.

However I do think that the idea of use aggregation leaking in to the site, Reddit Style, could be a good resource. However that probably wouldn't be a main feature of the site, but likely a sub-section of the site completely separated from the actual content.
I noticed I kept getting Internal Server Error messages, so I kept trying to post, until I checked my timeline and saw it showed my post 4 times. Then I saw someone I follow post the same message about 20 times in a row.

It kind of reminds me of the Win32 exception with a result code of 0, "Operation completed successfully." but backwards.
The weirdest place I've ever found a server was in the storage room of a neighboring bar.