jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Burn out wasn’t the point. I explicitly disregarded that by putting in the premise that the hypothetical person is not and will not get burned out with that philanthropy schedule.

I could have just as well have written that they made a million a year and only donated 5%—that’s besides (my/the) point.

I guess we are all so alienated these days that we don’t find working on Wall Street—or Main Street—in order to indirectly help other people with our money instead of helping directly not the least bit weird at all. Or to help people by working as a programmer and donating a lot of your salary to some school instead of just working there as a teacher, helping people directly (to use another example). (Oh, that reminds me. I need to take my vitamin D supplements right about now. I calculated that being in the Sun is not worth my time so I have to compensate a bit, you see.)
In 1963 JFK told Ben-Gurion that Israel developing nuclear weapons would lead to other countries in the region also pursuing nuclear weapons. Israel did it anyway, JFK's prediction obviously came true, and now America is saddled with Israel's problems; trying to stop Iran from doing what Israel did, because Israel did it. The sanctions are decades late and aimed at the wrong country.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/kennedy-letter-to-ben-g...
It's not arbitrary, it's based on sunlight. The sun sets our mental clocks.

This is why a lot of people advice against using screens late at night—because they contain a lot more blue light than regular household lights, and thus throw our bodies out of balance. But, those are still much smaller light sources than the sun!
If the local regional fiber ISP gets their act together that will motivate them to run fiber to our region. Otherwise I'm not holding my breath. I may have to supplement my wired network with a low cost cellular based network.
This podcast with Michael Blastland about his book The Hidden Half touches on the topic of twin differences and how it shows how much more there is to discover and learn. The discussion of ostensibly genetically identical Marmorkreb crawfish is especially interesting.

http://www.econtalk.org/michael-blastland-on-the-hidden-half...
None of those restrictions are relevant to the question of who may and may not use their service.
I’ve now read every one of the links you shared.

Again, it’s unquestionable they were unprepared. It’s obvious it took too long to respond once shit went sideways.

The question is why, the answer to which you will not find in any of those articles, because it’s simply not yet publicly known.

The Military Times link you provided concludes there was a delay, but;

> “I can’t tell you what was going on on the other end, on the decision-making process. There’s been lots of speculation in the media about that, but I’m not privy to what was going on inside the White House or inside the Pentagon,” Hogan said.

The Hill cites an anonymous Whitehouse source to tell a completely unsubstantiated tale.

The only explanation the AP can muster in thousands of words is the following;

> This was a failure of imagination, a failure of leadership,” said Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, whose department responded to several large protests last year following the death of George Floyd. “The Capitol Police must do better and I don’t see how we can get around that.”

The Politico article is merely paragraph after paragraph of speculation (you might say conspiracy theories), culminating in;

> Somebody must get to the bottom of [this]!”
Sun also made some pretty awesome x86 servers. It's sad that so many of the vendors left standing today have such crappy IPMI implementations.
Here we are mostly in agreement. On the flip side, BLM got much more favorable treatment from media, even if they did not get that treatment from cops.

You are right. Things are not equal. I would love for the same standard to be applied to everyone.
Dude...listen to yourself.
The entire chain of succession was in that building. Both houses. VP Pence. Pelosi. VP-elect Harris.

And the insurrectionists came for them.

It was 9 justices and 1 President short of a State of the Union address.
I am going to suggest for you to go visit San Francisco, stay in a hacker or startup house. Try a few, some are awesome, some are bad, depends on the guests. Smaller houses are more casual, but bigger houses often host events or team up to travel together to nearby events. Plan to stay around 2 months to really get the feel of how things work. Check if Stanford or some other university hosts a startup camp of some sort. I feel like you should stay away from actual hackathons in the valley, but I may be wrong. Also the winter is warm in San Francisco, so you get to move around easily and it attracts more traveling hackers from around the world. Another thing - don't focus too much on the engineering part - don't dismiss artwork, design, and sales people.
I've definitely found this helps for developing ideas. I think what first prodded me into doing it was realizing that much of my interesting thinking was coming in making long posts on forums (Slashdot, HN, various other places). Nothing wrong with that really; discussion catalyzes thinking, and "writing a reply to a comment" has less activation energy than "writing an essay".

But I eventually realized that my writing output had this weird gap. On the one hand, I had 6+ page academic papers, all official and published and whatever and listed on my publications page. On the other hand, I had literally tens of thousands of comments scattered across the internet, one to a few paragraphs each, with no real way of pointing to them or even finding a comment again myself. Writing blog posts fills a nice gap. They can be somewhat longer and digress from the immediate conversation that spawned the ideas, and I have something to point to in the future (and find myself).

The other thing I do now is keep a text file of comments I've posted that seem worth finding again (as opposed to ephemeral discussion), with the URL of my comment and some notes on what else I might want to say on that. Has only sort of worked out so far, because like any "list of things I might want to do someday" they mostly don't get expanded into blog posts, but it feels like a step up in organization.
50 million light-years away? They called that our "neighborhood" a couple days ago...

I think a lesson on expectations management is due.
I think you are confusing "instant preview" with "Google Instant" search
It seems like they were right about Singularity!
I sympathise entirely with this post. I too didn't realise that it was a common way of thinking until I saw this a while back:

http://xkcd.com/616/

One day they'll expose me!
"First, if you are close to an employee’s anniversary and decide to move them out of the company, you should vest some of their equity even though you are not required to do so. If it took you a year to figure out it was a bad hire then there is some blame on everyone and it is just bad faith to fire someone on the cusp of a cliff vesting event and not vest some stock. It may have been a bad hire but a year is a meaningful amount of employment and should be recognized."

Right on. I've never heard ANYONE publicly advocate this. But it is absolutely true. Terminating an employee right before his or her cliff vest is terrible, but unfortunately it happens A LOT.
Doh! So I do. Thanks.
The primary reason to make your product free are positive network effects (no, it's not only about social networks, e.g. making .pdf a de facto standard also counts). The other reason is that the product is useless. The two should never be confused.
In my experience the best solution for a large-scale dynamic site is a combination of read-only access to production and deploy management.

Deploy management is the combination of a change management system with a deployment tool in a flexible way. So for example, with the right options, in an emergency the manager of a team of developers could deploy anything to the site immediately without requiring approval from change management. The tools are still right there to revert any change, and of course there's snapshots and daily backups for the most critical data.

Except for emergencies, all changes to production would come with an approval from a higher-up with potential code review back-and-forth first. Contact data and reversion capabilities are built in, so everybody knows who did what, how to contact them and how to revert it if they're unavailable. And of course your trending data will tell you when your peak use is and code pushes are typically frozen during that time, minimizing further potential loss.

However, besides having read-only access to production, devs should also have two kinds of testing: "development" and "staging". Development is where the bleeding-edge broken stuff lives and code is written. Staging is an identical machine to those in production. Often you'll see test or qa machines which aren't identical to production, usually because changes aren't pushed to them the way they are in production. The staging machine gets all changes pushed to it like any other production machine, except it lives in a LAN that cannot access production or anything else. A method to reproduce incoming requests and sessions from production system to this staging server will give you a pretty good idea what "real traffic" looks like on this box, if you need it.
Exactly.

I refuse to use Electron apps - they clearly work in JS so the web version will work fine, and I get to keep the sandbox protections, content blocking etc of Safari.

And I use IDEA Ultimate almost daily. Yes, it uses a ton of RAM - but it uses a ton of RAM and is powerful.

I've not yet seen another IDE with the same capabilities (i.e. built in static analysis of dynamic languages like PHP, with refactoring support, etc).

I have oodles of memory (64GB) so I could of course run Slack and not "run out". But the key thing here is that Slack doesn't just use memory, it wastes it.

ID EA uses memory to make me more productive
Do make sure you leave Bluehost. They denied some stuff about a big malware attack and generally acted ridiculous:

http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/06/bluehost-talks-down-malware-p...
Depends on the airport too. I wouldn't be surprised to see a pass like this accepted at CMX, but I would much rather keep my distance should someone try this at ORD.
The "Release soon, release often" and "Incremental improvements" mantras generally do not work for iOS apps like they do for most web apps.

The majority of apps released in the App Store get one chance at making a splash. If the app does not appeal to the general public, it is lost in limbo.
With a name like 'Hashify', I'm surprised they don't also offer the option of putting the content into the '#fragment' portion of the URL. Then, not even the hashify.net site would need to receive and decode the full URL; they'd just send down a small bit of constant Javascript that rebuilds the page from the #fragment.
Something hit my monitor too :)
I have to tiwtter this.
I did this once (right after getting my Kindle, ha), and it actually scanned correctly at the gate! The trick is zooming it just right to get the barcode to be the right size on the screen.
> I am good enough to be a contractor designing the systems - but apparently not good enough to be an employee.

Or not good enough to mess with the contract they have with your employer?
We recommend customers access data via the desktop client, which doesn't ever send passwords or keys to the server.
http://www.slideshare.net/cultureshock/y-combinator-portfoli...

Good luck!!:)
I dont think so. The mafia movies go out of their way to show mafia men relatable, courageous, smart, overcoming adversity, having good motivation initially. Their victims are either not shown, deserve it, weak (instead of principled), or are just not relatable cartoon characters with no real backstory. The consequences of their acts are not really shown.

So they end up being adventure movies essentially where main character shows smarts.
I think the go to rate was $5k, this is maybe 6 months ago. It was a friend who told me after they asked a famous ex-Uber employee to hunt them
I can't tell if this is a parody post or not. But I will try to understand it.

> Bitcoin doesn't have a dividend...in order to realize any gains you have to sell it

So...like gold and silver? We've already had those for millennia. We've also had inequality for millennia - and at times it was way worse than it is now.

> The script gets flipped if that asset is a hard, un-inflatable asset like bitcoin with a built in scarcity mechanism.

I'm trying to understand this. If everyone puts their money into Bitcoin, inflation won't eat the value of their money so they won't try to increase it by investing into dividend-producing businesses? Otherwise how is this "script" "flipped? I don't understand this line of reasoning.

Also if lots of people pull money out of dividend-producing businesses and put it into Bitcoin, the prices of those assets will go down which will make their returns even better. So it seems like it would cause more of the thing ("elites" putting capital into revenue producing assets) that you're saying is the problem here.

> a lot of the truly rich people in this world have income producing businesses and other assets aside from stocks but you could argue that that's a lot better than money simply producing more money.

Money simply producing more money is bad, but selling appreciated Bitcoin to make money is good? I don't see the difference between the two. And flipping Bitcoin is better than using fiat money to start businesses that produce value?

Like maybe you have a good point but I have no idea what you're trying to say or how it relates to TFA.

> yet you mention bitcoin on hacker news and you're down-voted to oblivion,

Maybe only mention it on articles related to Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies?

> The world desperately needs bitcoin to succeed.

Given the already-well-known environmental cost of mining Bitcoin, one could argue that that's the last thing the world needs.
One. The article eats itself browsing incognito (using Brave), can't read beyond the first few paragraphs.

Two. Now that Bloomberg is running for president, I am suspect of any doom-and-gloom articles published by his media properties.
Same with Roku, revenue but no profit [1]. Spotify did turn a profit in 2019 [2], for the first time since inception (16 years). However Spotify is predicting a loss for the next year.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ROKU/roku/net-inco...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/6/18214331/spotify-earnings-...
> Un-coordinated disclosure isn't intrinsically irresponsible,

I agree with this.

> and so the term "responsible disclosure" is misleading.

I think this is a key point. As I said, I think "responsible" implies being responsible on both sides: neither simply publishing without sufficient time for a vendor to make a fix, nor waiting indefinitely while the vendor waffles around or tries to pretend the vulnerability doesn't exist. "Responsible disclosure" focuses (or ought to focus) on minimizing harm to users, whereas "coordinated disclosure" focuses on cooperating with the vendor. As such, "Responsible disclosure" in fact carries within itself the threat of going public if the vendor is dragging their feet, where "coordinated disclosure" doesn't.

I continue to think that we should use the term "responsible disclosure", and insist that it mean actually behaving responsibly to users.

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I had assumed OP meant all methods of shipment.
Would the labor board have provided such a convenient ruling if it were right leaning political activists masquerading as employees fighting for employee rights? For that matter why are the actions of political activists protected at all? From past discussions on HN, my recollection is that these two were not fighting for labor rights or wages or conditions. They were climate change activists that would spam employees with political activist content unrelated to work. Big tech companies are already very much taken over by left leaning ideology, and forcing companies to allow such employee activism seems highly inappropriate and bad for society.
the nginx, inc. CEO is the former vp of bizdev at redhat.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/gusrobertson
I believe the point was that WP is lagging behind the times. A developer that works with modern frameworks and looks at the WP codebase will quickly ask themselves "Why"...

There is always a "backwards compatible" argument that pops up, but the solution is simple: persons that dont want to upgrade from their 2002 PHP installation can use legacy WP. Everyone that wants a new WP site can just do so using modern server software.
You are not quite understanding the graphs (and their proposed interpretation ) correctly.
What the OP is saying is that the Rupee is being devalued (As seen by rising $ to Rupee curve) by the Govt in power, in the months preceding the next general elections in preparation for getting their stashed money (dollars) from outside (Swiss banks) into India and get a favorable exchange/conversion rate. As seen in the curve, the curve apparently goes up (dollar value goes up) right until just before the elections, and then the black money is brought in and converted in large amounts, which as you suggest appreciates the Rupee value immediately( as seen by the curve starting to go down).
I'm just beginning to learn about scraping--how common is it for companies (even those with junk APIs or none at all) to take these sorts of actions against scrapers?
I know this is a little off-topic, but I posted it given the recent discussions on HN (NSA, etc.)
You'll find a lot of stuff if you search for the nuclear safety myth in Japan. Here are a couple of links:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/world/asia/25myth.html?pag...

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2011/06/09/national/myth-of...
Thanks Jeff. I've learned to always provide the caveat "unless AWS have upgraded this recently" due to the speed at which new features are added/improved. :)
UTF-16*, not UCS-2. Although there are probably many programs that assume UCS-2.
Yep. In javascript (and Java and C# from memory) the String.length property is based on the encoding length in UTF16. It’s essentially useless. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a valid use for the javascript String.length field in a program which handles Unicode correctly.

There’s 3 valid (and useful) ways to measure a string depending on context:

- Number of Unicode characters (useful in collaborative editing)

- Byte length when encoded (these days usually in utf8)

- and the number of rendered grapheme clusters

All of these measures are identical in ASCII text - which is an endless source of bugs.

Sadly these languages give you a deceptively useless .length property and make you go fishing when you want to make your code correct.
Well done. People insisting on black and white w/o nuance never seem to think things through too far.

It reminds me of a few years ago when some would cry to be the first to scream they dont see color.
The downvotes were before the edit.
> The worldview of the show is essentially the exact counter to the tech/entrepreneurship community's unique strain of optimism

I think it's the inevitable outcome of tech/entrepreneurship's naivety . Facebook and Google both came from this "unique strain of optimism" and they've come to represent much of what Black Mirror discusses.
Great insight. An analogy I've heard that echoes the same sentiment: you don't buff a diamond, you cut it.
Sen. Manchin's letter calling for a Bitcoin ban.

http://www.manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-release...
I believe he's replying directly to the original post.

I'm not necessarily thrilled at their move either (though I understand it completely) because the automatic expectation is that they're going to dilute the free product and focus only on the paid product. Other commenters have hashed out examples dealing with MySQL and Wordpress so I won't bother restating them.

That said, being GPL or not wouldn't matter because they have the right to relicense their code under whatever terms they like. There's nothing that stops the owner of the code to put out a commercially licensed release along side a GPL version. Example: http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/oem/
> I guess one reason to go flat is that almost everything in a web page is now clickable so having it all 3D gets a bit "noisy".

that isn't true tho. how many things in this hn comment page are clickable? certainly not your comment. and even when they are clickable how can i tell which are part of the same link and which are separate? (e.g. is your name and the date following one link or two? or only part is a link?)
Not all countries have laws against price gouging (e.g. I am pretty sure it is legal the price gouge the government in my country) and there is still a lack of face masks in those countries.
But using general masks to stop a virus is like wearing a volleyball net to stop gnats. (In reality, the size disparity is far more extreme than that.)
>Why? Unless one is a devotee, the hours of queing up and jostling with crowds really don't payoff. Also, non-Hindus are required to sign an affadavit declaring their faith in the presiding deity before entering the temple.

I am not a particularly religious person but I went to Tirupati anyways. I enjoyed my visit there. I found the temple to be magnificent. I would recommend people visit it.
That library pisses me off on a visceral level.

The author "Enki Mute" is no doubt a brilliant mathematician, his library looks awesome, the online demos are unreal, but he's squandered his talent.

The code he writes is unreadable gibberish.

Zero useful comments. One-character variable names. Stringly-typed programming. Regex soup. It's psychotic.

I tried to reverse-engineer it in order to write a SIMD-optimised Rust version. But fuck me. It's like disassembling the machine code of an obfuscated anti-cheat library. Even with good tooling and industrial-strength refactoring, I couldn't make enough sense of it to make any useful headway.

Just try and read this. Seriously: https://github.com/enkimute/ganja.js/blob/master/ganja.js

What saddens me is that every other library I looked at was ancient and no longer maintained. Half wouldn't even compile. Most started with an explicit assumption that only 2D, 3D, or non-degenerate metrics are needed. Very few have efficient code-generation, and those that do are invariably C++ only, but I'm never going back there, even at gunpoint. Just shoot me now, I'd rather eat a bullet than face another STL compilation error that I have to decode from a linker error to do with __malloc() or some garbage I don't care about.

Enki Mute's Ganja.js is the only recent GA library I've seen that ticks all the checkboxes, but when I opened it up, I faced only the unspeakable horror of yet another dead end.

GA is going nowhere because everyone cooks up their own special version, the terminology is unique and special to each researcher, and most libraries stop just short of being useful.

What we need is standardisation around a well-documented and extensible library with polyglot code-gen. Something with expression simplification, SIMD, and both maths-centric and 3D graphics optimised capabilities.

Ganja.js is not it, unfortunately.
Right, I mostly end up using Haskell's lists as an extremely ergonomic counterpart to iterators / generators in languages like Python and Rust.
Wow lots of interesting projects in this thread.

I'm currently working on a blogging engine I call bittyblog

https://github.com/cluoma/bittyblog

I'm not a professional coder so it's mostly a toy project to get me programming and learn new things but I also use it for a couple of my blogs and add features as I want them.

It's CGI/fastCGI based with SQLite3 for storage. It integrates well with lighttpd because of its fastCGI process manager.