jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And here are the FUD-spreaders yet again, that instead of the tiny “bad” things like some form of harmless analytics (it is not even that) they would run towards the goddamn gate of Hell itself. Like, what do you imagine chrome does? Or do you think brave have eveything removed? It’s the exact same browser with different name and logo and preinstalled adblocker..

Sorry for the somewhat angry comment, but I honestly can’t understand this mentality.
Nix Pills was the "standard" intro text I started with a couple of years ago. At the end, you'll be able to navigate packaging with Nix in general, even if you're a little unfamiliar with some of the modern idioms and tools. It's very approachable, not especially short, not especially long.

https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/
Only anecdotal, but my father always tells that the original skin heads when he was a young man were so transgressive as the hair cut was usually one of weakness. It was the cut of prisoners, insane asylum inmates, prisoners of war etc.

At the time it was in no way considered manly or even threatening. It was truly a statement that we likely can't imagine now.
Backblaze did a blog post about helium drives in 2018:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/helium-filled-hard-drive-fail...

Some interesting stuff in there, like the SMART data element for helium status. And this quote, after they had 3 years in with helium drives:

"To date only one HGST drive has reported a value of less than 100, with multiple readings between 94 and 99."

But, then, later, this quote:

"My prediction is that the helium drives will eventually prove to have a lower AFR. Why? Drive Days."

Would be cool if a Backblaze employee could chime in with what they've seen since.
I think the trick is that after you complete the next mark phase, you have visited every possible pointer to the unmapped page.
This is the best summary of the article. How is this #1 on HN right now.
The famous Bitcoin family reportedly spread their hardware wallets across the globe.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/11/bitcoin-family-hides-bitcoin...
Many types of bit error are not recoverable without a full system reset. It isn't a matter of a simple "this bit in ram got corrupted", but more "this floating point unit has got into a state where it will not produce a result, and will therefore hang the entire processor".

Therefore boot time becomes critical - if you end up rebooting due to bit errors multiple times per second, you can't afford to wait for Linux to start up each time...
But this risk-adjusted thing is just silly: either you have the money or you do not. I do not care about the risk.
When Amazon has their Fire tablets on sale, you can make a $60 tiny laptop. Or "laptop" if you prefer. ~$27 for the Fire 7. ~$25 for a Zagg hinged keyboard case. Spend 30 minutes removing the Amazon annoyances from their version of Android. Install Termux. Install Brave (this is the one Android browser I've found with full KB support). Not quite a full-featured computer, but maybe close enough depending on your purpose.
Ah, good catch. So in the event the gpr predicts zero variance, the optimizer says EI is zero and thus won’t sample again. That may depend on the settings of the gpr.. if I’m not mistaken there are ways for gpr to model noise and not collapse to zero variance on every sampled point.

Anyway, I guess I stand by my original suggestion that BO is the best tool for gradient free optim with slow and noisy fevals, but to my knowledge nobody has built a way to dial in the hyper parameters automatically. And there are quite a few. Entire companies exist for this purpose, SigOpt comes to mind..
I wouldn't call it a new policy, but sure: what I look at are HTML doc title, article title, top subtitle, and first sentence of the article, in that order. If the latter is significantly better than the article title, we sometimes use it, like we did here.

A good HN title is accurate and neutral (the opposite of misleading and linkbait). Rewriting is bad; it's far better to use words that are already there than to make up words of one's own. Taking words out in order to fit the 80-char limit is ok. Editorializing and spin are right out. Faithfulness to the original content (unless it is misleading or linkbait) is paramount. I think that's about it.
Not sure what you mean, but Google Groups is basically enabling ... mailing lists. So we go in circles, back to email.
I may have been overzealous here. The page also provides Garamond in various OpenType and webfont styles, and I wanted to be sure that the Garamond is displayed with ligatures, because Garamond's ligatures are really nice and not particularly noticeable (whereas I notice the lack of ligatures right away). I didn't really give thought to what happens if the page is being rendered in a different OpenType font for some reason. Perhaps I should replace "dlig" with "clig".
"The output isn’t really a true maze — it has no proper beginning and end, and some avenues lead nowhere"

I'm disappointed, but the output is pretty.
There's a Telegram desktop client... for mac at least.
Wow - I thought it was just me !
It might surprise you that Inman actually makes a lot of his money from SEO. From what I've heard from people close to him, The Oatmeal business is still a relatively small portion of his income, as compared to the intelligence he has to use his viral marketing ability to promote websites that actually create large revenue streams through organic traffic.

I'm sure Oatmeal is his "pet project", the one he loves doing - but the SEO part is the one that pays the bills. It seems, of course, that he could monetize Oatmeal a little better without coming off as a blowhard, but I'm not close enough to the situation to say.
I've been on both the tech editing and author sides. It really depends on the quality of people that you get working with you.
> But instructing your visitors in some way to click on your ads does cross the line.

If you think that crosses the line, then you just gave anyone with access to a small botnet (or who knows how to cleverly use Tor) an easy, cheap way to cut off the income of people who rely on AdSense. And there are a LOT of those.

Outright, criminal fraud is one thing, but I would argue that it's unethical to hold up the funds he has already accrued. Sure, cut him off, but perhaps it's not the best idea to rely on the good intentions of people when you offer cash for clicks.
HN is where I go to find good discussion about topics in which I'm interested. For general news, the BBC still tops my list.
Softlayer customer here, but not for long.

Some points need to be made about SoftLayer:

1. They have a fantastic network.

2. Point #1 is the only good thing that could be said about them.

They used to be an incredible company, but recently, following the TP merger, they have adopted a policy of capriciously shutting down customers without notice for arbitrary reasons that have nothing to do with TOS or AUP violations.

See the cases of SimpleCDN and SiteGround for examples of this.

Host with SL at your own risk.
Yes. jQuery's text() method will properly escape HTML fragments.

It's just a bit more verbose and a bit slower than using .escape("attribute") within a template.
No, it sucks. I was just objecting to your incorrect assessment that it went down like this: "if they deem they're paying you too much money, they kill your account".
My problem, if it really is one, with The Oatmeal, is that he isn't creating comics as an art or for entertainment. He creates comics that he knows will be linked to and drive up page views. A great example of this is his recent Christmas comic, where he portrays 30-somthings without kids having horrible holidays, which resulted in a fair amount of 30-year-olds getting mad and linking to his site when explaining why it pissed them off.
I think you're orders of magnitude off on your annual deaths[1]. It seems that most recorded influenza deaths are from pneumonia, and aside from the very rare and deadly influenza strains, far more people have died from malaria than any other disease in the 20th century - perhaps aside from only smallpox.

Malaria is believed to kill on the order of a half million or more a year. There are other infectious diseases that kill millions of people - such as the many illnesses that cause diarrhea - and these are also prevalent in Africa, and related to health care.

Ultimately improving health care has cumulative effects. A society that does not need to worry about malaria (or influenza, for that matter) can begin to work on other issues. When so many children die every year from a random illness, adults cannot plan families, governments cannot address other issues.

It's vital that malaria be cured because it is necessary to solve many other issues. Improving health care, period, would reduce the population growth rate and allow more resources to be dedicated to education, infrastructure, and yes, further improving health care.

It's only in places like the United States, where the leading causes of death are from ourselves (car crashes), from disease associated with old age (cancer, heart disease), and our mistakes (medical mistakes), that we can be a society that looks so far forward.

It's difficult for someone in the 21st to realize that our treatment of influenza and other diseases has prepared us to be a super power. Diseases just don't kill people very often in the US, and allowing young children and their parents to not worry has drastically changed our society.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/lawrence-solomon/death-by-influ...
It might improve usage per household which agrees to pay for the nets, but what about the people who refuse to buy them?

Couldn't giving them out for free increase coverage even if the average usage is lower?
It also works in Opera, fyi.
At best it's very arguable whether school choice results in children getting a better education.
I'd imagine that like weather predicting, the best way to simulate a complex system is to slightly vary the starting conditions and sample the results. Obviously it's not going to be perfect, but it gives a clear idea about what things to worry about.

Reading the article, it seems that the purpose of the twin isn't simulation, it's mapping. That data can then be used as the input to simulation of your choice.
Thank you for the kind comment!

And yes indeed, though our data model sits on top of any number of databases and spreadsheets. The warehouse is just another source that can be combined with others, rather than the only one.
We would if drivers licenses where limited in scope and purpose to only proving ones ability to operate safely on the public road ways.
"But higher wages can buy many dinners."

"Explain how!"

"Money can be exchanged for goods and services"
Great, but my local ISP monopoly will be instituting data caps in 2022 (only after massive public pressure to delay) and therefore speed won't be my major issue but instead overall data consumption. In fact, I'm looking into routers (UniFi Dream Machine) to throttle devices in order to prevent them from streaming 1080/4K video.

I don't need technology to increase the speed at which I exhaust my data cap, I need legislation to outlaw data caps and create ISP competition.
So, NYT dude is not very much impressed, but at the end of the article he says he is seeing dramatic improvements in latency of his light bulbs and garage door, which apparently took seconds with his old Wifi.

That sounds odd.
Rewards programs are opt-in. Stores have even stopped harassing me to sign up.

Analytics are the equivalent of a computer following you around the store, watching what you look at, how long you look at it, what you pick up, what you pull out of your cart and put back...

I’ve never in my life gotten message from the grocery store saying, “Hey, we saw you were looking at grapefruit. Here are some other citrus fruits we think you might like.”

I’ve never in my life had a store send me a message offering to sell me all the items I abandon in my cart on my last trip.

There is certainly data brick and mortar are looking at and it is often intrusive and creepy. Still, they weren’t doing this a few decades ago and they were fine. They’re pointing at online stores and saying “But it’s the only way we can survive!” It’s almost bizarre to point back at the more expensive, often first-party controlled, less accurate solutions of brick and mortars and say, “But they’re doing it too!”

(This problem is compounded when this data is given freely to a third party who now has much more data than even the individual stores or websites.)

All this adds no benefit to me as a customer. Lower prices are not a benefit if I’m also being psychologically influenced to spend those savings and more on something else.

Online or offline, I don’t care. Stop doing it. It’s creepy and unethical. It’s a waste of resources that could go towards giving me better products or a better experience. It’s the equivalent of cops asking for back doors in encryption schemes because it makes their jobs easier. If businesses can’t find a way to stop doing it themselves than I think maybe we need some regulation.
One small problem: co-founders make you stronger. You are your own single point of failure. For many customers that makes you a no-go zone.
Many people do, and it's an inescapable part of their social life. And it is quite easy to narrow down results based on location, even if you have a relatively common name. Which many people don't; for example I know of only one Mozaffar Qizilbash and some extensive googling hasn't turned up another.

But this specific example isn't the point. My point is that as information becomes more widely available and integrated in our lives, there will be plenty of ways to find out plenty of stuff about all but the most cautious hermits. Trying to plug every hole just isn't practical.
Mark Cuban is delusional when it comes to the telecom industry. He thinks that it is currently operating as a free market. Basically, he is opposing regulation because he doesn't understand that the industry is already regulated by the governnent in a way that prevents any chance of a free market. If he wasn't too stuck on the glory days of his first tech startup to educate himself on this subject, he might change his mind.
I look at sarcasm and ridicule as mechanisms to deal with feelings of powerlessness. Jon Stewert and Stephen Colbert used them as 'weapons' on their own audiences to build their own careers and to garner advertising revenue for the companies who employed them.
Ah, I'll have to fix that.
As a Car2Go user I can tell you that the Smart Fortwo has weird controls and weird handling, which I think makes it a bit ill-suited as a carshare vehicle.

One prominent example is that the Fortwo is the only street-legal vehicle I've driven with a brake pedal that hinges at the bottom instead of at the top. I find this incredibly awkward and it often results in my hitting the brake harder than I intended.
I particularly enjoyed their assertion that global warming was not a threat as I quote:

"The sun is shutting down"

Well, that is certainly some unwanted news. Here I thought 2020 was crappy, but to learn that in 2021 the sun is shutting down...
> Lay off implications about bad faith

You're right, I crossed a line there.

From a market perspective, the problem is that in the short term it might be feasible to build a closed, tightly controlled market that rivals open alternatives, but in the long term general purpose computing acts as a safeguard against market capture and anti-consumer behavior -- and to a certain extent, consumers and markets in general are very bad at optimizing for long-term consequences.

The movement of both iOS and Android in this direction would not be as concerning if they didn't hold a duopoly over the entire smartphone market. Apple in particular has faced significant antitrust criticism in this area.

Open markets that empower consumers (and I mean that generally -- not just general computing but also home cooking, self-publishing, self-repair and hardware DIY) are the reason why closed-down markets don't degrade and become awful over time. Almost every capability on the modern locked-down iPhone started out as a 3rd-party proof of concept that Apple was later forced to offer in-house alternatives to in order to remain competitive.

It benefits even normal users who don't care about general-purpose computing that there be at least one mainstream option on the market where users can fix their own problems without asking a company for permission. And I don't think it's an accident that as Android and iOS have both moved away from that role, that we are now seeing increased calls for antitrust, increased criticisms from developers, and general outright rejection from these companies of new innovations like game streaming.

> Given the unparalleled success of iOS and Apple's locked down ecosystem, it's pretty clear that many find this level of security is very much worth using regardless of imperfect moderation

I do think it's slightly problematic to assume that users are conscious enough of security to make an educated decision to opt into a locked-down platform, but are not educated enough to avoid flipping a switch in the settings that turns that environment off and on. I don't think that users temporarily become security conscious only when they're in the act of purchasing a phone.

The more likely reality is that most users don't think about security or 'openness' at all beyond reputation/advertising, and the vast majority of iPhone users have probably never thought about the tradeoff between open access and security at any point during any of their purchase decisions for any computing device.
You are correct, I misspoke. Thanks!
I'd summarize his essay by saying that true service is about doing what's best for the situation, regardless of ego, while shiny silicon valley "service" is about getting paid in praise and adulation rather than the usual currency, money.

When you're doing real service it's usually largely thankless, anonymous for a good long while, and you work really hard and maybe move things 1 millimeter towards the goal. If you're traveling around doing photo-op's, then except in rare cases (like, you're a celebrity bringing attention to an under-recognized problem), you're not doing the right work.
I work on Checks at Stripe. I'm sorry we've kept you waiting for so long. Our initial rollout has been primarily targeted toward users most likely to have a high volume of checks usage based on the number and value of invoices issued.

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There’s no problem with the device: I triggered the failures/packet loss manually by pulling the cable to test the system. The actual packet loss is intermittent and reasonably rare, and is I suspect a fault at the line level with BT/OpenReach. A&A didn’t provide me with the Vigor 130 btw, it’s my own device. In general I find DrayTek devices very solid and I’ve not had any issues so far when powercycling it over the past few years. It’s pretty much a stateless device, as the actual connection is established from the router on my side of it.
Got an example? I've seen plenty where the introductory rate is bigger, but the fact that it's an introductory rate is still made adequately clear, as is the true price. I could be misremembering or oblivious, though. I'd happily call others blatant false advertising as well if so.
I hope this attracts both positive and negative reviews of police officers.
I'm not a wildlife conservation expert by any stretch, but it was my impression in 2006/2007 (before wolves came in significant packs to the Idaho panhandle) that the elk population was stable and on sustained slight growth without any overpopulation.

When the Rocky Mountain states were debating opening up a wolf season (circa 2008-2010) one of the arguments was that the early studies had indicated a balanced and desirable wolf population of around 700 or so - but current population estimates were an order of magnitude larger, around 6,000 wolves. An apex predator population of that size would (and did) tear through a large and unadjusted prey population and tend towards overpopulation, starvation, and disease themselves. Putting a human control on their spread is the only thing that was sensical both for the wolves and for the whole ecosystem. The only thing worse than 10,000 wolves running through the Rockies is 10,000 starving wolves running through the Rockies.

I'd also point out that by putting the wolves on the list as a hunted species their long term survival is all but guaranteed - hunters of a particular type of game tend to be very active when conserving populations of "their" game animal, put massive personal resources towards supporting that game's environment, and pass those values on to others.
Good Will Hunting.

The Bourne Identity.
Pick a different name. Also, to maintain high S/N ratio, ensure that only items specific to India are discussed there.

There are many issues that hackers/entrepreneurs would like to discuss which never get enough traction on global HN. This could be a good place for those items.
Think of ideas as the spark of creativity. It's what gets the ball rolling. The next step is to get the customer development process happening. Steve Blanks has some great posts on this and a book. "No idea survives first contact with customers". But that feedback is critical in making sure you implement the idea that has a market.

Now for implementation. You really need to create a team and that team should include people who can implement the idea and others who can ship and support. Your role would be to evangalize, read some of Guy Kawasaki's stuff if that's a new concept for you.

If you are looking for investors, having an idea, early prospective customers and a prototype might be enough to get the ball rolling.
A Beautiful Mind

The Shawshank Redemption

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Pirates of Silicon Valley
don't you mean "substitute 'demand' for 'ask'?
If you do come to an agreement eventually, I recommend using escrow.com for the transfer. It protects you both from the other party backing out. They have a service specifically tailored to domain sales.

You pay escrow.com for the domain, not the owner directly.

Escrow.com notifies the domain owner that they have his money, and he can now transfer the domain to you knowing you're not going to run without paying.

Escrow.com will only release your money after they verify the WHOIS data reflects the transfer to your ownership.

If he didn't really transfer the domain, he doesn't get your money, and escrow.com will return your money. If you do have ownership of the domain, escrow.com already has your money and won't give it back without going through a binding, mediated dispute process.
Collaborative editing just sort of snuck into workflows. And maybe it's not useful for you, but for me it's revolutionary compared to mailing files all over the place and having to figure out merging edits. If you don't like something like Google Docs, should probably drop GitHub too.
The problem is that the countermeasures people want to put in place strip people of their ability to vote legitimately. For example, voter id laws are put into place to prevent voter fraud, that you admit isn't happening, but strip ten of thousands of people of the right to vote. [0] Similar to poll taxes and literacy requirements in the 19th century, this was said to have a better electorate, but it was selectively enforced so that it disproportionately affected black voters. That's why you have to be careful with this rhetoric. When someone is fixing a problem that doesn't actually exist, they could (likely?) have ulterior motives.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-we-know-about-vote...
Although they're client/server encrypted, I think contextually it was obvious that the person was talking about end-to-end encryption. "Encrypted chat" means end-to-end encrypted, if it's used to mean client/server encrypted then that's misleading.