jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I assume to get people to read the piece. TL;DR at the top is kind of like an Executive Summary, and if I saw something labeled an Executive Summary at the top, or even looked like one, I'd skip the whole thing.

I think the key is to make the entire piece short enough but not too long so that it's quick to read and the TL;DR can be used as a good way to describe the entire piece in other contexts.
Car payments and mortgages are very different things. A car payment is a loan for a depreciating asset. So even after you finish repaying your car, at the end you have an asset that's worth much less than what you paid for it.

A mortgage is different, by getting a mortgage and buying a house, you build up your assets with every payments you make, it's often better than paying a rent and not getting anything in the end... The main difference between a car and a house is that the house generally doesn't depreciate, which is why a mortgage can be a good investment.
Talking about mobile only VPN: you can also check "Warp+" (https://1.1.1.1/) from Cloudflare - unlimited traffic starting from $1/month (depens on your region)
Norway have selective regulation, mandatory minimum wages in certain trades and low income occupations.
Ouch! That makes Stanford's voluntary surrender of their /8 block back in 2004 extraordinarily expensive! Think about how many scholarships that could have paid for!
What are some examples of interesting interactions (that you'd like to see, not necessarily already exist) that illustrate linear algebra with non-R^n vector spaces?

Thanks to representation theory, we can model vector spaces as R^n
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_theory
From the section "Opaque decision-making":

> Adding to the frustration is the fact that ICANN gave no explanation for moving ahead with the decision to lift caps despite the public opposition. It also carried out no economic analysis of the change, despite being aware that it could be worth billions of dollars. Unusually for such a high-profile issue, the decision was also made by the organization’s staff rather than its board.
Net worth is assets (everything you own, not savings only) minus liabilities (like debt).
> It just showed up one day, which confused me at first.

I've heard this pretty often. One day it gets rolled out without any notice, and surprise, you're on V6. Plays havoc.
Yes, I fully agree. You can even see the vestiges of this in julia's own official website: https://julialang.org

I cringe a little every time I see a julia advertisement that centres it's premise around "use julia 'cause it's fast!".

I love how fast julia is, but that really isn't the important part.
> A first world country that short of some tech and Toyota/Honda produce little to nothing for trade. Everything is imported

Japan does not export "some tech and Toyota/Honda". It exports a LOTS of vehicles, vehicle parts, integrated circuits, machines, etc. Japan is the 4th largest exporter in the world.

Also, a country that doesn't export much cannot import much, or else how could the country afford it?

edit: typo
The easy explanation here is that both the Democrats and the Republicans in the United States are 'right of center', America at present does not have a functional 'left', just the illusion of one.
Mine still doesn't work:https://github.com/kasbah/nomech_mini-hw/blob/master/nomech_...
The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

--W.B. Yeats
Nope. To see where the subtlety lies in this problem, simplify it. Change it to a discrete problem: the side can be 1, 3, or 5, each with probability 1/3. The expected value of the side length is still 3.

1/3 of the cubes have volume 1, 1/3 have volume 27, and 1/3 have volume 125. The expected value of the volume is 51. Think about why it is 51, not 27, and you'll see why it is not 27 for the continuous case.

In general, if you have a random variable X, and some function of that random variable, f(X), then it is NOT true that expected value of f(X) = f(expected value of X).
Many things right familiar to our IT experience.

1. From the Mythical Man-Month, as team size (and capacity of productive work) grows linearly, communication overhead grows quadratically.

2. Attempts to manage with traditional tools get sidetracked by impossibility to create standard procedures that account for overwhelming detail and the need to apply experience, knowledge and raw common sense on every level of decision.

3. Do we have some insights to offer? Maybe instead of having lone residents falling in and out of context over short shift, a solution similar to pair programming can be implemented. Think of pairs of residents, the fresh one (less than 6 hours in the shift) doing the driving and the one with more hours behind providing tactic advise and context for what have happened in the previous shift. Could such a team eventually take care of (at least) 80% the work load of the two doctors working independently in parallel?
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You work really hard to get your first clients, fighting for each billable day, dealing with lots of dry spells. Then you "roll them up": you over-deliver and establish a reputation at those clients, find more work inside of them, and ask them for referrals. The stories you generate from over-delivering becomes the ammunition for any promotional work you to to generate new bluebird inbound clients.

There is no secret trick to getting those first clients. It's a scary suck for most people who build successful consultancies. The "trick" is in carefully and aggressively exploiting those hard-to-get first clients in order to make subsequent clients easier and easier to get.
In that case we talk about very close investigations. So the chances of cross contamination are higher, IMO. And IIRC we still have no idea how the server was found in the first place.
Although it might not be the 99.99% that we expect from our antibacterial products, this is part of that 0.01% that it doesn't kill. It is pretty amazing to me how we find such amazing things that were discovered during what most often think of as a lesser time. Although they didn't talk about it, I am sure that they are going to research it further to find out what part of it is so effective against MRSA. They probably got this published so someone who has the money to support the research further could provide funding.
sorry, I meant for the video service.
Yea I've been thinking that was weird too.

I suspect its for economical/space reason and dealing with expensive real estate. Still though it feels opposite to the their "image".
That's not free. You're spending time in exchange for goods. Time you otherwise could save by just spending a few dollars.

The real annoyance is surge pricing.
Redesigning parts of the ux in one of our apps. I've sketched out the new layout, now awaits Coda.
Can’t wait for the corporate security industry to get hold of this. Yet another way to make corporate policy compliant workstations slower and less usable than a 10 year old linux box.
Discord is already hosted by Google.
You've never been stopped at a light where the queue was many multiples of the number of cars that could get through in one cycle?
at that rate they're probably the top of the field? I'm a UX engineer for ten years and the highest rates I've seen are "only" 200ish...
I was thinking that too, but at the same time I'm glad those days are over. I don't miss that at all.

I was thrilled that my ISP/Cable company didn't try to sell me their "TV and Phone" bundle because they understood the absurdity or could tell by my voice and interests that I wouldn't be interested or the target audience.
The CERN Large Hadron Collider sensors[0]

(not head-mounted!)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
The only ways you'll get an Instagram out of Google is

a) Google finds some serious way to monetize it

b) Someone gets a 20% wild hair
Presumably because the comment is obvious, unhelpful, and somewhat mean-spirited. I don't think anybody here needs a lesson in how to avoid accidentally dropping your production database.
It looks like they scrapped their original idea. ReadWriteWeb reported in February based on a Google cache of the site before it was locked down that Path was "a tool that facilitates the creation, sharing and correlation of lists."

"The site so far is a list of lists. You make a list, give it a name and add items to it. Then you can see who else has made a list with the same name, what's on their list and what the most popular items are across all lists with the same name. Lists are things like "best coffee in San Francisco," or "evil corporations."

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/first_peek_at_pathio_th...
"...via the photos you take every day with your mobile device.

We’re launching first on the App Store on iPhone. If you do not have an iPhone, you can still register and check out Path through your browser."

I took this to mean that they're definitely planning on releasing for other platforms.
Who is down?

A bunch of full time university and industry research groups.

This is an as of yet unsolved problem beyond the absolutely trivial scale. And even that is very difficult (and not useful).
My worst was discovering I had written a unique ID generator which was (due to me typing "==" instead of "!="), producing duplicate IDs -- and not only that, it was producing them at exponentially increasing rates -- and every duplicate ID was destroying an association in our database, making it unclear what records belonged to who.

It was not a good day.
I published an article in a local magazine on free software (Maybe I will put readable scans on somewhere). Appointed editor for it and will come out with the sixth edition right at the start of the next semester.

Have submitted a position paper for review at an international conference (awaiting the news of acceptance to present). And the usual at my blog.
It's actually spelled Reeder
I'm not sure this is what you mean but, running the charts in a browser won't give you as much uptime as a terminal even if the charts look better.
Defined as what? The Wikipedia article says the definition is unclear:

Languages are often colloquially referred to as "strongly typed" or "weakly typed". In fact, there is no universally accepted definition of what these terms mean. In general, there are more precise terms to represent the differences between type systems that lead people to call them "strong" or "weak".
I have no ill will towards psychology, but to my understanding ,user experience(as in "the way the product is designed") is a different thing from status, etc.
I wonder how they came up with a price tag for this. Anyone know how much it costs?
I find myself very conflicted about this. I think the wording of "kill switch" is an extremely poor choice so I will try to illustrate what I think the genuine national security reasoning is, using China as the hypothetical aggressor. The Chinese government controls all of the hubs which connect the internet in China to the rest of the world, the "great firewall" as some have called it. The chinese use this for censorship, but it also puts them in an advantageous situation during a conflict. Imagine the impact widespread denial of service attacks on financial and governmental institutions would have on a nations ability to wage war (read estonia). China could launch such attacks while effectively defending itself against similar attacks from foreigners. The chinese subset of the internet would continue to function while blocked off from the rest of the world.

With that in mind it seems like the "kill switch" should kill or limit connections to outside the United States. That said, the power this would give the domestic leadership may pose a greater threat to liberty than a foreign aggressor. I think I agree with philwelch.. I would rather see the plans to do this confidentially drawn up by the CIA than written into law.
That's an oversimplification.

Facebook - Design was their early traction - clean and exclusive, with regimented testing in every release.

Apple - Built on incredible engineering and developers, leading case for vertical integration.

Google - Key innovation behind pagerank was scaling it with a node-based hosting architecture which was built by incredible engineers. Not to mention google maps which won on design alone and is becoming their #2 most important product.

Amazon - Innovations in shipping, distribution, and line automation are far more important than testing in the razor thin book marketplace that put them on the map.

Zappos - Ran out of steam here, probably a good combo of the above four :)

I see your point, that's what the companies are known for.

But in reality there are deeper innovations that are have powered those to the levels they are today - seems like each of the above GREAT companies above has at least 3 of the 5 areas hitting on all cylinders.
I don't believe the federal government should be bribing illegal immigrants in order to increase its size and scope. We don't need a bigger military.
Where did you get that claim from? From my understanding, they were using Silverpop to manage their newsletters, rather than cooking an in-house email management system.
I'm apprehensive about Tim Ferriss. I've read 4HWW, and found it to have some good advice, as well a a significant amount of fluff. The announcement of "The 4-Hour Body", with lists like this on the book, have only increased my skepticism and apprehension.

I enjoy fitness. I've worked out four to five days a week for the past seven years, first at a climbing gym, and then with Crossfit. I've competed in fitness competitions. I've know a number of well-respected high-level Crossfitters. I would call myself, at the very least, a fitness enthusiast.

I think some of these claims are at best, laughable, and, at worst, will give false hope to people who might truly be interested in fitness. Fitness is hard work!

> * How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time

Muscle memory will allow people to gain significant amounts of muscle in short periods of time, if that muscle has been trained before.

It's why athletes who take rest periods or have injuries are able to come back just as strong in only a few weeks.

It's the source of many of the before/after pictures for "health foods" and supplements.

If you're actually interested in gaining muscle and weight, the easiest way is to eat tons of food and do heavy, compound exercises three to four times a week.

> * How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested

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

Anecdotally, a friend of mine ended up in the emergency room for severe dehydration after trying the Uberman's Sleep Cycle for three weeks.

> * How to triple testosterone and double sperm count

I imagine he's be talking about various supplements here. Supplement science is sketchy, and should always be taken with a grain of salt.

The best way to take supplements is to not take them, but rather, eat more fruits and vegetables.

> * How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks

Pretty simple, actually. There are progressive running plans in almost any running book.

Also, the difference between five and 50 km, at least to your muscles, is much less than the difference between 400M and 5K. It's just training your aerobic system and converting more of your muscle tissue to slow-twitch muscle fibers.

> * How to reverse “permanent” injuries

Eat right and exercise correctly.

If you read the forums for crossfit, or stronglifts, or a number of other fitness websites, or diet websites, you'll see people who miraculously cure their bad back, bad knees or diabetes, just by eating right and exercising correctly.

> * How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months

This is almost guaranteed to happen when someone goes from an untrained state to the beginning of a trained state. It has to do with muscles learning to be used, rather than significant strength gains.

When I started Crossfit three years ago, I could barely deadlift 135#. Three years later, my last 1RM deadlift was 455#. Going from 135# to 300# was _so_ much easier and faster than going from 300# to 455#, because my body had always been able to do it, it just didn't know it.
I disagree though, as a developer. It might be unnecessary to have an incredibly design focussed thinking (but sites like mint.com prove otherwise), but figuring out how a core feature is supposed to work, and then leaving the details to devs is how I'd have it. Not just say, okay, lets get picture sharing on the site.
It seems like it'd be pretty easy to roll those features into the broadband router - and everyone seems to be able to handle one of those pretty easily.
Twitter feed is nice, but the RSS feed is a lot more useful IMO ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc100 ).

When I first saw your post ( http://jeffmiller.github.com/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-ne... ), I missed the RSS feed links, and started looking for ways to convert a twitter feed to an RSS feed (I use Google Reader)... But then I saw the light :)

By the way, thanks a lot for making this, Jeff. I've been using your feeds almost daily since August. I used to spend a lot of time scanning the /best page for unread articles. No more!
A non-citizen terrorist is not rebelling, and it's hard to argue that terror attacks constitute an invasion - there's no intent to control territory, nor is a governmental entity involved.

So, no.
I reckon scam sites pretending to be reputable newspapers and mimicking their layout and contents to push investment scams via social media ads should qualify.

And heck, any and all phishing sites, by definition.

So millions of websites?
I learned this while learning drawing techniques as a kid. Drawing a circle from the shoulder and elbow, for example, will look much smoother and be much easier to accomplish with just a little practice. Any sweeping motions will appear more sweeping. Practicing shoulder and elbow mobility is a great asset to hand control for all kinds of things. It isn’t always intuitive, perhaps because we learn to write, type, and draw on such small surfaces and tools.
Checked the video and wow! Haven't seen FTE editor for years, is it still alive?
Implementing these sort of backup options should not result in a meaningful reduction in security as they don't effectively change the security model, encrypted client side backups are equivalent to the existing signal specific encrypted backups on android, device to device transfers are the equivalent of coping the existing signal specific encrypted backups to a new phone and restoring them. The desktop client receives copies of signal messages normally as well so it effectively keeps backups already(they just often end up incomplete and can't be restored properly).
I didn't know I was in such auspicious company!
> they squandered a two-decade long global monopoly on computing

This conclusion is extremely premature. Intel has greater market share now than it did in the Athlon 64 days.
In a trenchant, insightful and well-researched book about people who are conceptually producing social change, Anand Giridharadas takes a dig at the global elite. Read it https://www.amazon.com/Winners-Take-All-Charade-Changing/dp/...
> why wouldn't you use tape

Because there are many orders of latency magnitude between spinning rust and tape.

We still use a lot of spinning disk for precisely this reason - you get roughly 5x the online capacity for the same cost and automation does not whine about wanting the new shiny.
Early in the evenin' just about supper time
Over by the courthouse they're starting to unwind
Four kids on the corner trying to bring you up
“Headphones, please” you shout at them “and kindly shut the fuck up”
Is there an OEIS sequence? Seems like something there should be nice combinatorial formulas for at the different levels of sensitivity.
> Yandex officials also said they re-secured the compromised accounts and blocked what appeared to be unauthorized logins. They are now asking impacted account owners to change their passwords.

I’m curious how access was provided to these sold accounts. The password change implies the passwords were shared and that means plan text password were available to admins!?
By that reasoning, how is anything ever anybody's fault?

Caveat emptor, my product might not be fit for purpose, and it's your own damned fault if you think it is. Consumer protection? What's that?
NetBSD could easily start using OpenBSDs pkg_tools to solve that problem.
In my research, I found that the dev shops I'd apply to do ask technical questions in the interview (oop design, APIs, data structures, etc.).

It would probably increase my chances a lot more if I could answer some of those questions. It would probably also give me more bargaining power for salary. I think its a worthwhile investment to make, even if the skills are in vain.
I hate this mindset, especially because good coders are rare. So why would we want them to stop coding?

You wouldn't, but look at the majority of Big Companies out there. If you see someone still coding at 50, 1% might be doing because they love it and are great it it, but the other 99% are doing it because that's the furthest they could get. Sad, but true.
At five figure checks, they can send it via carrier pigeon if they like :).
I think it will be great if there are 4 working days. The work will be much more productive and there will be enough time to rest and recuperate. This will also avoid frequent burnout at work (https://ivypanda.com/essays/stress-and-burnout-in-the-workpl...)
This is helpful! As noted in my other comments I’m realizing that the car I’m talking about is a Ford Model A which is completely different- and an indication of how much I have to learn. This post reminds me of this guide I found on my dad’s computer after his death:

BEFORE STARTING

Connect fuse at starter motor.
Turn on gas under dash.
Retard spark, which is the lever up position.
Open up gas mixture at choke lever a turn.
Turn over the car while pulling out the choke in short bursts, usually the car starts on the first choke pull.

WHEN THE CAR STARTS

Advance spark which is the lever down position.
Gradually close the fuel mixture down to a 1/4 to 1/2 turn out (in the 9-12 on the clock range).

WHILE DRIVING

Retard the spark at stop signs and the care while idle more smoothly.
Open the fuel mixture up to 6 o'clock if the car lags on hills.

PARKING THE CAR FOR THE NIGHT

Turn off gas under dash.
Disconnect fuse at starter motor.
put up top to keep dust and water out.

GENERAL THIINGS TO CHECK

Water level, if you can see water everything is fine.
The radiator temperature gauge works by the way
Tires, 30-35 psi is about right.
Oil, not apt to be a problem.

THINGS TO REMEMBER

THIS IS A 6 VOLT POSITIVE GROUND CAR, WHICH MAKES JUMP STARTING ALMOST OUT OF THE QUESTION.

WHEN CHARGING THE BATTERY, THE BLACK CLIP GOES ON THE STARTER MOTOR POLE, RED ON THE FRAME.
It's probably more appropriate to use kms driven than just number of cars, but thats probably harder to find reliable data for globally.
Tell me more about how you are a semi truck driver on hacker news. Where you once in the tech industry? Do you just find it interesting here?