jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that publishers are not actual creators of these works, scientists are – they do all the work, and academic publishers simply use their position of power in the Republic of Science to extract unjust profits. Sci-Hub does not enable piracy where creative people are deprived of the reward they deserve. It is a very different thing.

This has strong parallels with how the parasitic private sector, in its endless thirst for profit above all else, ruins so many other things that would be better run through public provision: housing, medical care, etc.
I'm willing to bet publishers understand that will make any remaining good will they have with the people who generate their content evaporate
Coinbase doesn't trade USDT. They have their own USD pegged stablecoin called USDC and also trade Dai, which is pegged to the USD and is over collateralized
>serving relevant ads

Relevant ads are the kind you get on DuckDuckGo: relevant to the content you're looking at. E.g. if you look at a site about origami, you get ads from arts&crafts supply stores.

What you've probably meant are called predatory ads: they chase you around the Web wherever you go, like a predator chases its prey.
An electric trike that doesn't exist yet and seats a single person, for only the price of a Tesla.

It could be fun, though I think 3 brand new high end motorcycles would be a better use of money for that.
What Apple did was gave people a solution that looks good on the retail floor, but in practice involved carrying a bunch of dongles, which take up more space, can break more easily, can be easily forgotten and are more finicky while using.

In practice it leads to a significantly worse product for the vast majority of users, for the benefit of the minority that falls in the pro crowd and is able to get all their work done solely through USB-C ports.

But the Apple Pro crowd users tend to include a lot of audio/video professionals who have a lot of expensive devices they tend to connect through USB-A, HDMI, etc, Photographers who were big fans of the SD card readers, and business people who didn’t really need pro devices but could afford them, and were fan of the video outputs for connecting to projectors and monitors, and maybe even LAN inputs because many offices tend to discourage WiFi networks.

I think Apples big mistake was a category mistake. If they had made the MacBook or MacBook Air all USB-C, for example, there wouldn’t have been too much of an outcry. But the MacBook Pro line is the same one that carried a FW 400 port years after FW800 had been released and even after FW itself was kinda dead besides certain niche applications (which tended to be popular with Apple pro users).
>At first yes, but over time you become one of the people who pays relatively less compared to new buyers.

Wow, if this is intended then this is a literal ponzi scheme. I always assumed that it was an unintended side effect but people are actually banking on this? That's crazy.
I seem to recall conspiracy theories abounding in the days of Usenet
I'm not objecting to the article. I'm asking what the original comment was objecting to.

We all know, before that comment, Amazon wants you to vote no. The OP was adding to that, in criticism of Amazon, by saying there are detailed six page instructions on how to vote the way they want. But that doesn't tell me what's to be outraged about -- as the first response noted, that is exactly what every other campaign does.

If the OP wasn't claiming Amazon was outrageous beyond the mere fact of asking for no, then why even bring up a six page instruction set?
Not a single mention of Monero or privacy coins? Thanks, but I'll be sticking with Kraken where the CEO actually has a spine.
As if they would even know the issue and risk breaking all their civil contracts and criminal trade secrets protections with their guesswork
This is absolutely an impressive demo, but the way to look at it is as a 'mash-up' of a variety of components that have all been demoed before in isolation and usually with a lot more attention to the technology behind it but a much less slick presentation.

So kudos to the people that put this together but it is mostly the mashup that is new, not the individual pieces and those pieces have demos all their own that make for very interesting reading and viewing (where applicable).

I should do a blog post on this, but that will be a ton of work to properly represent the state of the art (which this demo does not).
For some reason this site redirects you to the insecure version (HTTP). So if you are using HTTPS everywhere, you will get stuck in a refresh loop.

See this snippet of code from an inline script in the page source:

var isNative = /RadioGarden/i.test(window.navigator.userAgent);
if (!isNative)
if ("https:" === window.location.protocol)
window.location.protocol = "http:";
else {
...
}
My take on this is that they want to differentiate it enough to make it more "Nokia-like". However, what this means concretely - is still unknown.

Also, my guess is that they will announce something on this the coming summer, well before Nokia world in September.

(edited for repetition of words)
Agreed with the expertise thing, but to add to your summary of the post-mortem, it looks like human error compounded by:
1) An architecture bug (the EBS "control plane" cuts across Availability Zones and EBS clusters, leading to a single point of failure: this is what broke the "service contract"),
2) a spec/programming bug: No aggressive back-off on retry attempts of EBS ops, and
3) two separate logical bugs: the race condition in the EBS nodes & problems with MySQL replication.

I think that's everything. It just goes to show, most disasters in very well-engineered systems are generally the result of a series of things all going wrong at once, not individual failures...
He had a more practical "algorithm" as well:
"You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”
How about this solution to improve the readability of HN threads, without degrading the quality of comments/discussion?

1. Show comment-ranges. (1-, 0, 1, 2-10, 10-50 etc.), instead of absolute values. This indicates the quality of a comment, without promoting/prompting voting, based on existing votes (that much.)

2. Do not show username (use a placeholder for profile link). This will solve the problem of "instinctive" up(/down?)voting from commenter's fan base.

3. Any related changes required in the UX, to bubble the better comments more visibility.
I highly recommend that anyone who was surprised by this outage, or the description of the chain reaction of failures that lead to it, read Systemantics. It is a dry but amusing exploration of the seemingly universal fact that every complex system is always operating in a state of failure, but the complexity, failovers and multiple layers can hide this, until the last link in the chain finally breaks, usually with catastrophic results.
If Manning had given the data to Al-Qaeda would we feel the same way?
Don't focus on people who aren't your customers, focus on people who are.
Totally ignore pirates. It's a waste of your time.
I can reproduce this problem on my iPhone--there's no link sidebar. So he's not the "half accurate" comment in this thread right now.
I guess that begs the question, what should you put up when your business is stealth! The hope was people would enjoy the experience enough to "trust" us with the email and a follow-up down the road.

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.
I'd build on that to point out that the systematic transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top is not something that "we're doing", but simply the natural product of capitalism. It doesn't require an evil mustache twirler sitting in a dimly list room scheming about how he's going to systematically conduct a massive wealth transfer. Wealth transfer is the natural result of any system that rewards the deployment of capital with more capital.

There exist lawmakers that focus on cutting taxes on the rich and reducing access to education, health care, and economic opportunity. While they are helping to widen the gap between the haves and the have-nots, they're unnecessary--the gap would widen with or without them.
...But Windows 10 pretty completely addresses that.
As I've said above - you can upload the file to iOS device using GoodReader, and it can extract the zip archive as well.
I can't speak for the Surface 3, but I have owned a Surface Pro 3 for a good while now. I _never_ use the trackpad. Browsing, office, even doing software development can all easily be done using finger and pen (for when you need finer control). I've gone so far as to check if there is a Type Cover for it that doesn't have the trackpad, but uses the space for something else.

I know it's the popular thing to say that Windows 8 isn't fit for touch devices, but it's outdated and usually only reiterated by people who don't have any proper experience doing it.
The article doesn't truly address such a large claim -- it basically could be titled "After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge from 3 College Students".

The NSA has nearly unlimited hiring potential with just the pool of military folks alone that work there. There are constant hiring freezes for a year at a time, because a lot of buildings are over capacity.

If one of these college students were to apply to the NSA through NSA.gov (mandated as the only way someone is allowed into the agency), they would have to apply a minimum of 2-4 times, because the application stays good for about 90 days, and the average applicant waits 6 months to a year to get accepted. This is assuming they're applying straight through without having someone with hiring power pull their application from the queue. After that, the process to get a clearance could take anywhere from another 6 months to 2 years (possibly more in some exceptional cases) and costs the agency about 250k.

So, it goes without saying that bringing onboard a fresh college student who isn't going to even get to walk through the door at least a year after applying, can pale in comparison to bringing on someone who already has a clearance and training. The article assumes that the NSA relies heavily on its external recruitment, but the vast majority of folks working there just change out of a uniform into jeans and a shirt.
Are you referring to the hammer mechanism clicks? (They're rhythmic, along with the notes, as opposed to random noise.) I think the exposed mechanism makes that sound more present in the recording. The outer body of a conventional piano serves to muffle that.
The US government, through various means, seems to be intent on removing from public discourse the very information needed for those in uniform to properly assess the legality of their orders. Also, in case they forgot, the Constitution is the Law, and if Manning saw that the government was violating the Constitution, I don't think it's wrong for him to expose such wrongdoing. That's the very definition of whistleblowing. And, to those who claim that he should have pursued his whistleblowing through established military channels, I would reply that the US government, the Military, as well as other agencies, seem intent on keeping the truth from the American People, so it is entirely reasonable to expect that the military and other agencies in the government would attempt to disallow the whistleblower's efforts.

update: fixed typo.
Do please educate us on its potential, if it's so obvious.
Isn't there a Google interview question for this?
I'm not sure that they are:

Yes the most likely time for him to score, all else being equal, is just after he's scored. This is really just looking at the cumulative probability of something not happening - the chance of not scoring on consecutive attempts goes down just as the chance of scoring on consecutive events goes down - (with the remainder constituting the other potential arrangements of observations.) And so observations for given events have a certain tendency, for a certain level of probability, to occur in clusters - which influences how much confidence you can place in something given the data.

However, that does not make it likely that that'll keep happening for large runs, it's more likely that a yes will fall after a yes than that it'll happen elsewhere, but more likely is not the same as very likely. And the more observations you make the less likely it is that you're just looking at a cluster that'll occur naturally in a given number of cases.

By way of a, perhaps simpler, example: if you flip a coin and it comes up heads six times out of ten, that might just be a fluke. If you flick a coin and it comes up heads six thousand times out of ten thousand, then you can be fairly confident that it's crooked.
Raw PHP performance (the bottleneck for this) isn't different between Apache and nginx. The only thing nginx excels at is handling a higher amount of connections, and lower memory usage. None of those apply here because ownCloud is a small single-user CPU-bound application.
Thats longform/episodic, which is not the same as feature length hollywood.

However you are correct that 8x25 or 6x60 allows for far richer narrative. (The BBC's sherlock is a brilliant example of this 3x90 minutes of tastily thick narrative)
Well if you spent a year not accomplishing something and you'd like to accomplish something then presumably you wouldn't choose to work with people you accomplished nothing with.

And if you take it after the projects done then you must have done something so the hypothetical isn't relevant there.
ADDED IN EDIT: My apologies to efnx - when I saw that the the submitted link referenced another site, I thought it was just referencing it. The comments below show that the referenced site was actually doing something different.

I'll leave this here as a reference, but I was wrong.

mea culpa

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Here's the actual link:

http://gaurabc.com/visualizing_microwaves_in_a_microwave_ove...

From the guidelines at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

In Submissions
...
Please submit the original source. If a blog post
reports on something they found on another site,
submit the latter.
It's like anything. You get what you pay for.

If you're up against low price estimates, they're probably using templates, or reusing stuff they've already done for someone else or maybe even outsourcing it overseas. You can't compete with that when you're starting from scratch on your own time. You just have to accept that some people are cheap and won't pay your price. You should never do a job that loses you money just for the sake of winning the job.

Estimation on any project is a matter of breaking it down to the smallest components. Estimate each component with a high/low bracket (i.e. best case and worst case). Find the average, add some slippage (15%-20%) to allow for when you get it totally wrong, or to give you some room if the scope changes (and you want to be nice and not charge more), and you have your number.

Don't ever budge on your hours estimate.

If your client thinks it's too much you can do a % discount on the overall price, but you make sure they're aware that 200hrs is 200hrs. Too many clients think you can somehow build the exact some thing, but in less hours by "trying harder" or waving a magic wand. They'll ask why the guy on craigslist is cheaper, I'd suggest they give the guy a go and find out, and if they're not happy to give you a call back. It may help to ask them if they'd ask their surgeon for a discount :P

But seriously, give up on craigslist. The only people looking there are ones that are trying to save a buck. We've tried a few online "job markets" and found we were estimating $2000 for jobs others were quoting for under $500. A 15 page website in a day?? No thanks!
GAE is web scale!
It hinges massively on how correct the worst-case predictions about impact are. I don't agree with the worst-case predictions but let's entertain them for a moment as a thought experiment: let's say grid power is almost entirely knocked out for a full year in and that leads to mass starvation and a general breakdown in society. 30% of the population dies of either starvation, heat/cold exposure or from th troubles.

If, and it's a big if, that came to pass just once in five hundred years then sure, the chances of dying in such an event turn out to be higher than dying in a car crash. Much higher, at that, so the real figures don't need to be anything like this extreme. Low-frequency high-impact risks can lead to that situation and it's one reason why 'the odds' is often too simplistic to be useful in assessing risk. Humans have a general cognitive blind spot when it comes to assessing this kind of thing.

We're generally terrible at predicting how high-impact, low frequency events will impact us and play out and part of that is that our collective reaction is the most unpredictable element, with potential to multiply or mitigate the impacts to a huge degree in either direction. The current pandemic illustrates that quite well, as does Texas. A CME if/when it hits will open us up to a similar opportunity (or risk) of reacting in a way that either minimizes or intensifies the damage.
Machine-code outlining sounds kind of like the opposite of function inlining. Right down to the name! I am amazed I've never heard of this optimization technique being used in compilers before -- it sounds like it could improve performance in many cases by making code smaller (or hurt performance for the same reason that inlining can help performance)...
Even if you only run eBay for cats, you probably secretly believe you can become the equivalent of Facebook in your particular space, and feel that what you need is a room full of the eBay for cats version of Mark Zuckerberg, making the billion dollar magic happen on the cheap.
Rook + king is a simple checkmate (http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/basic/r_k_mate/r_k_mate....)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0528_030528_...

An interesting side note about Caldwell is that he was held hostage, along with others, by rebels in Kyrgyzstan in 2000 while climbing there. He pushed a captor off the side of the mountain which led to their escape. Bad ass.
I guess, if your philosophy is "bad coverage is still coverage". But hasn't this happened with an Amazon product announcement before, and backfired? Amazon Echo comes to mind.

Not even sure that was around April fools, but my point is, bad coverage can, and has often, backfired.
I wonder if it would be worth for Google to finance Mozilla regardless of its user base. Just to keep it around as a competitor to Chrome to avoid monopoly issues with regulators.
Maybe it's because I am visiting the site abroad but there isn't a Dutch version of this page? The Englishification of Amsterdam and other major cities in The Netherlands are starting to worry me.
I do the same thing but use KeePass’ password generator to create the answers. My mother’s maiden name will be something like “diejdJyt7ejHsud”
The metaphor I've been using lately is that programming is like art. Anyone can doodle, it doesn't have to be anything more than a line on a page. But to paint a masterpiece, you're probably going to need to know the inner workings of some language. We don't spend enough time talking about the correlation between programming and the arts. The metaphor is extendable to all arts, like music - symphonies, harmonization, cadence etc. I think if we emphasize this more, we'd find another opening for people to go deeper than the doodle. I worry about lack of access to the arts, it degrades the opportunity for deeper and more meaningful computer programming for future generations.
Having set up some php servers myself: it's not a lot harder to host a python app. It is mostly the that hosters have optimized for php but you could do the same for python
The only thing keeping the lights on at Mozilla right now is their default search engine deal with Google. Which is quite ironic considering their constant anti-Google rhetoric - that Google is the one actually funding them.

If Google were to decide they didn't need them anymore though or that deal due to their small market share, Mozilla is toast.
Having written for both platforms at the time, I don't know about 2010 but by around 2011 or 2012 it was sure as shit easier to program for than Android. By a long shot. And a breeze to maintain an actively-developed app in the field, by comparison. Maybe there were also-ran mobile platforms that were easier, or not-apples-to-apples comparisons with, say, desktop development, where that's easier, but if you wanted native mobile dev Apple was a piece of cake (pie?) compared to its main competition.

[Edit: Nb my perspective is that of someone who'd never used a Mac full-time before working in mobile development, had never even looked at Obj. C before, was quite familiar with Linux and to some extent Windows, and had a passing familiarity with Java, so if anything my background should have biased me toward Android, slightly. Last time I touched native on the two platforms was, oh, 2017 maybe, and it was still true.]
The reason why it always comes up is because programmers are relatively well paid yet nobody really understands what we do.

Therefore you get these really silly memes such as if a factory worker's job is outsourced, you can just retrain them to be a programmer. Or the only reason why some downtrodden group is not a programmer is because they were prevented by someone from being a programmer.

The thing that is ridiculous about the memes is that programming is the only field that is completely clear of gatekeepers. You don't have to go to college to be a programmer - the top programming coursework is available online for free (or nearly free). If you want to be credible as a programmer, there are plenty of open source projects that would welcome you. Compare that to doctors or lawyers which really do need college degrees and certification.
Cornerstone was a menu-driven database application, it wasn't programmable. It would probably have sold better if it was.
> Without access to their metrics though, it's hard to tell if they're continuing to gain meaningful traction or if their growth curve has plateaued.

Some public data that could be used as proxy for traction:

- Some companies using Conan in production can be seen in the committee for Conan 2.0 called the tribe: https://conan.io/tribe.html. That includes companies like Nasa, Bose, TomTom, Apple, Bosch, Continental, Ansys...

- The public repo for ConanCenter packages, got aprox +3500 pull requests in last year https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/pulls. This doesn't count for contribution to the tool itself.

- https://isocpp.org/files/papers/CppDevSurvey-2020-04-summary... shows a 15% of adoption

- With +1600 subscribers the #conan channel in the CppLang slack is consistently ranked in the most active channels every month: https://cpplang.slack.com/stats#channels
Reminds me of this from last week: https://catinthehatattack.com/
The guy got 74,216,154 votes in 2020. The second most votes in American History, only outclassed by the current President with 81,268,924 votes.[1]

Your other point is based on your own personal political biases, which just furthers my point about these platforms controlling the release of information (or disinformation) to the general public.

Just imagine if Twitter was a Right-Wing organization, and decided to silence the current President. How would that change this discussion?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia...
As it happens, the last time I checked Britannica's article on Wikipedia, it was a pretty entertaining read. It was actually pretty hilarious counting how much of the article each section took up -- I think I counted about 2/3 of it being dedicated solely to bashing Wikipedia. It might have changed since then, I'm not sure.