jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The idea is to provide Copy & Paste Unix commands to use like so:

In one terminal you can do:
cat file | copy

And in another:
paste
Your phone number is a short unique identifier for you which follows you around for potentially your entire life, because the hassle of changing it is significant.

I imagine marketers find it significantly more valuable than an email address.
They’ll never do that, that would spoil their business. They’re in the business of enabling addicts bleed dry
Yes but a company doing something that causes the market to value shares less isn’t dilution. The fact that you know how the market will respond to companies raising capital by issuing new shares doesn’t change the legality of it.
53 years old when he died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann?wprov=sfla1
Which person are you talking about? If it’s who I think it was, formal charges were filed and the outcome was totally different.
True but on the other hand, he kind of made computers 'open source'
I don't quite get how the loss could have such an effect. The article says

"She hid her theft by creating dummy bills for suppliers and paying the money directly into her account."

If I'm reading this correctly, fake bills were created and entered as expenses, which were then paid from the company bank account.

If so, wouldn't the losses have shown up on the income statement? That would mean that the owner had the same amount of money he thought he had, but less than he should have had.

Likely some details are missing from the article.
Maven does exactly that as well. The term is "artifacts" in Maven.
I still don't understand, Maven artifacts are hermetic and cacheable, no?
> Just a technical issue, right? Nothing going on there.

Well no. It's literally the second FAQ on this website: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

HN demotes heated discussions, regardless of the topic. That's probably a big factor here.

Be careful about jumping to some kind of conspiracy theory for explanations. It's not healthy.
Isn't that the point of having others help and fill in the gaps? What's the point of belittling it to a "naive experiment"?
Throw enough marketing & psychology studies behind a "Which Muppets character are you?" quiz and you'd have something about as meaningful & actionable as MBTI.
botschaft ("message" in German) is a "middleware" or API gateway, abstracting over messaging/notification "providers".

Instead of remembering the right Slack webhook URL every time you want to add an integration, you can just remember "your.botschaft.server/slack?channel=<channel>&message=<message>" (each route can GET with query params, or POST with json body of the same parameters)

It currently supports Slack, Discord, Twilio and SNS. Let me know what providers you would like to see added!

botschaft also provides customizable "topics", or groupings of providers to send a single message to multiple destinations.

botschaft is provided under the MIT License. Its primary distribution mechanism is the ttymck/botschaft docker image, but you are free to package and deploy the application any way you like (it is a python 3.8 ASGI/WSGI server).
To be fair, I strongly suspect the various VPN apps out there are doing Facebook-style shenanigans with user activity. Especially the free ones.
Never hearing about other types probably says something about their social circles because amateur psychometricians come in other types too.
CS in Swedish is usually “data science” (datavetenskap).

Some universities use “Department of Computing Science” as well as the English name.
DENT est le projet de la société DENT Wireless Limited qui s'occupe du marché des données mobiles. DENT Wireless Limited est basée à Hong Kong, en Chine
Apple wants all your data to be stuck in their walled garden, but indeed not for the nefarious data mining/reselling practices of Facebook — more old fashioned lock-in reasons.
My understanding is that they now only host the latest documents purportedly to cut hosting costs. Some argue that it's a bit of manipulation in order to garner more donations. You can google for mirrors of the old content.
doesn't really matter - since all of these services allow you to change the e-mail addresss in the future. i'd use whatever is most convenient, probably a general catchall @yourdomain.com
Perhaps he works for Airbus?

edit: apologies, cperciva, hadn't read your profile. Backup software is nearly as critical!
If the dropbox client encrypted all files using a shared secret known only to myself, then my files would be protected by an additional layer of security where I manage the keys, that makes a lot of difference.

Obviously there is no such thing as absolute security, but that's not a reason not to take protective measures.
Chase PINs are by default 3210 - guess how many people still have that pin.
I finally got around to starting something towards the middle of November, and only recently did I realize there's no way I can finish in half a month. But, if anything, it got me motivated to actually start on something.
This sounds like something outside of Google's sphere of competence. If it's true, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
I am vastly more concerned with real-world consequences than stated intentions.
Why would they need to put nofollow on links to their own site?
> I haven't studied OOP extensively in a strict setting, but I would have said that in the OO world, a property is completely separate to a method.

There is absolutely no reason for that, and the grandparent of all things object-oriented (Smalltalk) very strongly disagrees with you: everything is a message, and there are no properties.

> A property defines data about an object, and a method defines something you can 'do' with the object.

A getter method is a property and a method. Properties are irrelevant, access should be uniform, the implementation details of an object (whether a "property" provides direct access to internal data or not) is of no concern to the user of the object.

A property is nothing more than a method whose contract is "give me some data"
The second part is (I think) relatively easy: Some startups fail regardless of the basic idea. Start 100 Amazons in 1995 and at least a certain number will fail.

The first part (why are some succeeding?) is an interesting one. I'll venture a couple:

(a) This business not a natural monopoly to the same extent as many online businesses. Groupon have (I think) one offer at a time. If you're in the mood for groupon, why not check in on five, see what they have today? They could of course have lots of deals but that'd be doing things differently.

(b) Groupon is about localization at the city level. Their are still more cities than Groupon can take. Being the best dealoftheday site for Newcastle is an achievable goal. Maybe this is a subset of the former.
Any source for that utterly outlandish claim?
Human rights are a luxury of stable, developed countries. If autocratic governments are too liberal with them, they can lose their power, and that can end up worse than all the human rights problems put together (ie civil war). See Iraq or Syria for example.
Unreal returns for early investors although the same can't be said for the later stage players
Yes, I bet this guy is glad he didn't live in a society where they don't rest terminally ill people:
http://www.pancan.org/section_stories/story_details.php?id=1...
Can you share a link to your service? One of my new clients (I provide managed IT services) is in this exact market with 10 locations and more coming.
Sure! And I have big plans for 2015. Both being bigger in my home country, and expand to other countries with the same concept. In Q3 of 2015, I hope to have tripled the monthly revenue!
It's available on UNIX systems from the CLI, and is open source: https://github.com/koenbok/cactus
It is blazing fast for me. I see from another response that this is a Node.js app but perhaps caching might also explain how fast this is. Also, today I have learned that jazz also means "have sexual intercourse with".
I find the comments most interesting. An example:

For us, one of the biggest latency wins comes from the fact that go can truly execute sql statements in parallel (whereas python's GIL serialized these parallelizable operations). In general, single-threaded go is at least 5x faster than pure python (without c-module).
Any specific reason for it being dog only - we put our cats in a cattery fairly often when we travel and I'd love to be able to use an online system to book things.
That article is amazing, and an eye opener. I did not know more than half of the things it contains, truly amazing. It is not only education or economics (feces removers make a living), but customs, and customs are hard to change. Very hard.

Thank you for sharing.
Affiliate, but I know all of the creators personally. We have a smattering of other leadership/personal development products as well.
You didn't really spell out why this trick works:

array[index] == *(array + index) == *(index + array) == index[array]
Awesomeness Reminders is hilarious. Wish I had known of the referral code, but regardless, it was money well spent!
MariaDB is fine too
What blows my mind is that we have something like CRISPR and people using it with certainty and cavelier "throw caution to the wind" attitude, while undiscovered cells are still a thing.
jplr9822, I just wanted to say thanks for this great reply, and that I would thoroughly enjoy reading an expanded version of this in long form. Cheers
"Concrete" as in Knuth's "Concrete Mathematics"?
It is doing less work. There is less air moving, and it is in a partial vacuum/low pressure environment - as physics dictate less work is being done. Simply connect an electricity monitor and you will see it.
My experience there was overall very negative. My comment above, though, was actually a very bright spot, and I want to call out the positives that exist.

At the time, I had several years in the industry under my belt but was new to big tech companies, and especially the tech that Amazon had built. I lacked confidence in myself but I was super conscious of actively seeking out the help of others. And it failed spectacularly - one SDE3 in my team with whom I was sort of paired would quite literally back away slowly when I was showing him an issue I needed his advice on.

Big companies like that have such variation in teams, and I think I just got rather unlucky in my experience.
In a sales setting, being an introvert is probably a negative. In programming, it’s the overwhelming default I think.
Setting user expectation is a design problem that can't just be brushed away if there is any desire in this thing going mainstream. The user will come into the device with misconceptions - it's up to the designer to manage those misconceptions and help the user through any such "user errors" gracefully. A key teaching of service design is that often it's just as appreciated - if not moreso - to guide the user through any issues gracefully, than to not let the mistakes happen at all.

Perhaps this review was just a fluke. And yes, it's a V1 - at least as far as feedback from the real world goes. But to me, a lot of the things that surprised him (that having a partner would influence the readings negatively, for instance) also surprised me. I would be hesitant to give something like this as a gift to a "mainstream" person (a "normie", if you will) right now - just because I would worry that WakeMate's manual/interface/whatever isn't yet ready to help my friend through any misconceptions they might have.
I hope to find this stands up in court.
In the comparison between racism and sexism, the incident in the blog post would be comparable to a text book with a picture on the cover. The picture shows a generic programmer at work. While one could use a shot of a person of moderately dark skin with a unisexual haircut taken from an angle where no facial features are recognizable.

Yet generally it's a white male. Or a black male. Or a white/black/asian/indian/latin man/woman.

It's not an issue of racism in this case, it's merely the fact that it's convenient to pick someone and take a normal picture. That's why "he" is often used. It's just more convenient to stick with it. Any more meaning than that is just inventing interpretation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yCeFmn_e2c

How about there's more in it for them if they find something new?
Maybe you should ask this question from him.

I could think of a million reasons not to want to work at Google, or any other major player, ranging from having to relocate through having a problem justifying working for a multi-national, huge company, to simply not liking the name.

Or all of the above.

Personally, I'd shake his hands for having the strength to say no.
Right, but my issue is directed at the people who use Android. It didn't start outselling iPhone because of techies like us alone - 'normal' people use it, 'normal' people who would otherwise never use 'linux' and probably don't realize they're already using it on their phone, and the key to that is they got rid of all* the parts about linux that cause headaches for average users.
This is amazing! Thanks Zee. How is this not so well-known?
That's interesting. I got an email and a document with it that had some links for development.
maybe this is why his main app has barely cracked $25K/year after 5 years.
Ten years ago, were you saying the same about laptops?

Given that there are already enterprise users out there today on Android and iOS devices, this is a pretty bold claim. (And you can, in fact, plug things into tablets with both operating systems - they have USB support.)
The most important one to me is not using PHP (THEshittiest programming language ever) and being built upon NodeJS. Also, look at my answer below about the security aspect of it.
Sometimes I wonder if Google does things that look bad by accident or if the really meant to do them. And I wonder too, if they realized of this before the French and if Google used this information.
Great analogy with the bike - continued pedaling is absolutely key. I think the skydiving analogy is trying to capture that feeling you have when you're teetering on the edge of the plane that makes a lot of people turn back or never jump.

After the jump though - the parachute and landing zone become critical.
Obviously, so that you'll survive when someone writes an app that uses the Twitter API to communicate with the Blackwater Mercenary API to kill everyone who unfollows you with a snarky message. Of course, it will all fall apart when Google buys them out in a high-profile acquisition, and one of their engineers accidentally adds "walled garden" to the snark detection heuristic, which results in Facebook inadvertently putting a hit out on every single open source developer on the planet due to a mass simultaneous unfollowing in the aftermath of yet another content privacy maelstrom.

Or... I dunno. It's kinda awkward, I guess. Sometimes.
How is that different from the valuation?
They are neutral hydrogen atoms - why does a magnetic field affect them anyway?
It's true that it's very common and there is often nothing untoward about it.

The issue that I think is most relevant is that there has been virtually no transparency about the machines, the health and privacy risks they pose, etc.

It's as if these contractors with high level government connections made a big sale to the US Government and the public had no choice about whether to pay for it or whether to consent to the risks.

Learning that one of the main beneficiaries of this big sale was the very recent head of the government office that purchased the machines suggests that perhaps there was worry that transparency might have jeopardized that commission.
I am surprised that nobody has pointed to http://news.usethesource.com/ yet.
Whoa, looks like Data's testing the iPhone 4 in this one.

http://slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curiosities/2010/image...
Perhaps putting money is people's hands is what is needed?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/08/23/214210692/the-char...
I am suffering from messaging app fatigue, using WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and iMessage on Android and/or iOS. No sooner than witnessing a significant portion of my contact list migrating to Signal from WhatsApp, after the ToC/privacy debacle, now there is another spanner in the works.

Telegram failed with the TON project, trying to mix oil with water, in their attempt at cryptofying their platform. Signal should focus on solidifying their lead, and provide core messaging features with robust privacy, instead of a scattergun approach. Elsewhere, WhatsApp is already attempting to make a come-back with new cross-platform/multi device features, to eat away at all the gains.

https://www.androidcentral.com/whatsapp-will-soon-let-you-tr...
Are you sure you didn't come from a family of thieves? Have you discussed this with other members of your community, especially law enforcement?
The fact that we have careers decent enough that we are not dehumanized on a daily basis or expected to work in depressing, unhealthy, sometimes dangerous conditions for just enough pay to scrape by should not be seen as luxury; it should be the norm.

And considering the value developers bring to companies, and comparing our salaries to other positions, developers in general are underpaid. It's perfectly reasonable to demand more perks.

But I guess this is why we have a lower class: to keep the worker bees on their toes. "See how good you have it? You could end up like one of them."
these are all symptoms of an industry that finds its workers in high demand, which is the root of the issue we're discussing. people are complaining about being in demand.
Did you ever read assembly?
This is just a laptop from an unknown Chinese OEM with a Mi logo (poorly) Photoshopped onto it. http://www.kakatech.com/i5-14inch-laptop-k18/ The source of the rumor is Gizmochina, which has basically no reputation for authenticity whatsoever.
Not saying I disagree, but check out VoiceCentral Black Swan. It's a web app that links to Google Voice, but very much feels like a native app. Much better than the Google website.
I closed the window after I read "We are blog posts about the economy".

There are so many hand-wavy stuffs in that site that it almost spells doomed.
The hellbanning algorithm seems to be overly aggressive lately. If you showed a link on dead items (where "flag" would be on a live comment) that said "Ok?" or something similar, the users could flag items back in to existence.

I feel like there have been a lot of good comments lately that have been autokilled because of a past transgression and we're missing interesting conversation.
quantum computers are not KNOWN to be better than classical ones for NP-complete problems (although many believe that no form of computation available in this universe can solve NP-hard problems in polynomial times)
I've got plenty of criticism for the academic world, but you seem to vastly undervalue the accomplishment of advancing the state of human knowledge, even by just a little bit.

It's those little iterative advances that are the foundation of all major discoveries and all substantive technologies.
That's a disappointing review, but it makes a lot of sense. I've been looking at that tablet since it came out. There's a video review of it as well, which was mildly favorable.

It is probably worth pointing out that the DealExtreme laptop & tablet both use an ARM cpu, which may not be open like the MIPS one, but probably is better supported (eg, Android runs on it)
There's no problem with using SocialGold, Spare Change (Playspan), Gwallet, TrialPay, Offerpal, SuperRewards or many other payment/offer systems that are easy to integrate into Facebook apps.
And art has no societal or historical importance?

In case you didn't notice (which you apparently didn't), my post was satire. Of course incremental progress has value, and even failure has value. (particularly if the failure occurs publicly.)

I'd never look down on an academic because he'd documented 100 ways not to do something, nor because he operated in an obscure corner of an obscure field with no obvious and immediate utility to society.

The world changes too often and too unpredictably for me to guess what will end up being important for society in the long haul.
We'd also attract many tourists confused about whether they were on Hacker Island or actually on Reddit Island, worried that they had somehow arrived at the latter.
Turkish sources are open for inspection for years. Please provide some solid proof, other than your relatives' stories.
> I'm a dev manager at a prominent employer of software engineers

I find it hard to believe. In large companies HR establishes salary levels (usually bands) which are tied to titles or levels within the career ladder. Does your company negotiate each compensation package on a one-off basis?
This isn't a direct response to your points, but thank you for this! I'm a self-taught bassist, and I come from a very musical family, but I have no theory training at all. I love the form you've given to the things that I've come to just kind of intuit over the years of playing.

One of my favorite things to do on the bass is to play around with that "region of probability" - to jump the beat, or to wait until the last possible moment to resolve something before moving on with the riff. It's fun. It makes the music sound unpredictable-yet-familiar, alive, and exciting. When my drummer and I start playing around with this, really fun things start happening. I've never really known how to express it before, but this gives me a wonderful way to conceptualize it. Thank you!
>Coravin’s proprietary argon gas capsule

good lord. Why must every product do this? Why? Whyyyy? Just make something good. Make something that works and is practical. I don't want to be taken for a ride. I don't want to be on a treadmill. I want something that doesn't make me dependent on a company that could go under at any time.

Every time I see stuff like this, the more cynical I become.
Nothing new. You can go the you Audi, BMW, Mercedes Dealer and "upgrade" your car with some features as long as no new hardware is required.

It is quite common for some time, that a number of features are just a bit flip in the settings if it is enabled in your car or not. That is the reason why there is a whole industry around, which do things like "chip tuning". They just reverse engineered those things.

May be you can't go to a dealer in the US. But that is related to a different market situation. I learned, in the US you buy that car that the dealer has in his show floor available. In Europe, especially in Germany I order my car to my like. I can also go to that dealer and "add" features afterwards.
Why not just give every file a name that's a guid or a hash of the content? this works fine with any CDN and it's impossible to guess/fudge. You can only obtain a hash if you have the rights, and while you could share it with others it doesn't seem a bigger security problem than just sharing the picture directly instead of the link.

The only problem I see with such approach is lack of expiration policy (other than re-loading the file under a different name every now and again).
append .torrent to any file url
Veggie Burgers are an option at virtually every fast food (including mcdonalds) here in europe -- or at least in France, the UK, Germany, Sweden and Spain; I don't know about any other country.
Do we really need to work so hard to stimulate curiosity in people? Aren't people inherently very curious?