jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're missing the point. You still need to buy servers, right? You still pay for electricity to power those servers, right? You buy hard drives, right? Those would all be taxed transactions. Whereas Microsoft's startup would use Microsoft's existing infrastructure. Even Microsoft's hardware costs are pennies on the dollar compared to yours, so their sales tax revenue would be also.
Similar experience here, I first came across the Red Bull advertising in Wipeout 2 on the PS1 in New Zealand. I don’t think you could even buy it here at the time.
If you have serious points to make about a porn issue, perhaps you should use a throaway account rather than 'INTPenis'. joke that's mildly amusing in other contexts seems tasteless when it shows up in a discussion on sexual assault, and that's probably outweighing the substance of your argument.
I think even the gun-hostile places in America are (in relative terms) way more gun-loving than you’ll find in Europe.
> But the story isn't chemical X is bad for you. It's about how Suzy and Michael, within a specific set of circumstances, had bad things happen after being exposed to chemical X.

That's a very specific story then, and that's not what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about "eating poison is not good for humans". Suzy and Michael are humans, therefore eating poison is not good for them, but they could be replaced with any other human: they specifically don't add anything to the story. They're an emotional connection for the reader at best and a filler at worst.
> I bought some 3 & 4 TB WD Red drives around 2014, and they have all been going 24/7 with absolutely no problems at all.

It may seem like they are running fine, but are they actually? Have you run a zpool scrub or equivalent?

What happens with these old drives is that one dies and then you have to replace it, which is very hard on the other drives as the array is rebuilt. Then while the array is being rebuilt, another drive dies. It's better to replace drives when they are EOL (usually 4 years if running 24/7) rather than waiting until there is a problem.
But collocated teams are still more efficient - there's plenty of studies that prove that.

And my current job quite often has multiple teams from multiple employers/agencies from multiple time zones - even being able to have key meetings with all hand present would massively speed up - we could have avoided so many problems and delivered things months quicker.
That describes exactly, the power of suggestion of perception. If it can all be explained by association triggering memory-perception (and it can, as suggested by the idea that 20 years of conditioning make it vivid) then we can reasonably conclude that there's nothing to the wine thing except that.
Considering the makers of Databricks are also the maintainers of Spark it makes you wonder whether this is deliberate
I think it would help you see where people are coming from if you assume media ownership is power and consider that consolidation of power is undemocratic.
Just for clarification, dask lets you run any python function on any python datatype. Numpy/pandas is faster, but anything is doable with dask. This makes it eminently flexible, unlike many «big data» tools that only work on tables, or other arbitrary limitations.
Nothing new here, the fourth power.
Don't A/B test your credibility. Not everything should be (or can be) subjected to hypothesis testing.
Well, we can access everything through http://www.unblock-us.com/ for $55 a year and the US has been kind enough to provide an USD:EUR exchange rate of almost 3:2 so for the price of a single movie you can get a month long subscription to Netflix.
James Carse writes about how machines are controlling us in "Finite and Infinite Games"
Here are some quotes. There is some more in the book and some of it is (imo) quite a bit over the top.
Interesting thoughts,though.

> While a machine greatly aids the operator in such tasks,
it also disciplines its operator. As the machine might be considered the extended arms and legs of the worker, the worker might be considered an extension of the machine. All machines, and especially very complicated machines, require operators to place themselves in a provided location and to perform
functions mechanically adapted to the functions of the machine. To use the machine for control is to be controlled
by the machine.

(Apart from cars, the relationship between people and their smartphone comes to my mind)

>[..] We do not purchase an automobile, for example, merely
to own some machinery. Indeed, it is not machinery we are
buying at all, but what we can have by way of it: a means
of rapidly carrying us from one location to another, an object
of envy for others, protection from the weather.

> I cannot use machinery without using it with another. I
do not talk on the telephone; I talk with someone on the
telephone. I listen to someone on the radio, drive to visit a
friend, compute business transactions. To the degree that my
association with you depends on such machinery, the connecting medium makes each of us an extension of itself. If your
business activities cannot translate into data recognizable by
my computer, I can have no business with you. If you do
not live where I can drive to see you, I will find another
friend. In each case your relationship to me does not depend
on my needs but on the needs of my machinery.
If to operate a machine is to operate like a machine, then
we not only operate with each other like machines, we operate
each other like machines. And if a machine is most effective
when it has no effect, then we operate each other in such a
way that we reach the outcome desired-in such a way that
nothing happens. [...]
SO never quite the original vision right. (A strange thing to say about an incredibly successful site, but...)

The problem is that you can't boil down development to very focussed questions with very focussed answers.

A lot of answers are experience and opinion - and if someone experienced is giving an opinion that's usually useful in itself, dammit, even if someone else with experience disagrees.

'Is React better than Angular?' may seem pointlessly open, but if you get answers from two camps who both know what they're talking about, it's possible to learn a lot from both.
It's a bit sad how you often have to choose between actually making useful things and being paid a lot of money.

I'd call him a douche, but this is a clear case of don't hate the player, hate the game.
I'm not sure why G+ should succeed. It's one of those, "Who ordered that?" propositions. I don't understand, does Google want to be all things to all people? I would rather that they brought self driving cars to commercial fruition as soon as possible, rather than try to clone Facebook, Twitter, Amazon or Apple's flagship products. Roll out Google Fiber everywhere, or at least in the Bay Area. Give us something we really need rather than uninspired versions of existing products. Total lack of focus.
I use this, its not that bad.
This approach also completely overlooks the fact that most sophisticated products are multi-client: web and native mobile app. In this world you want APIs that can mostly be shared across platforms, as mobile should operate as more of a thick client anyway given network latency. So supporting HTML over websocket as another client is pretty incongruous from an architectural perspective.
Come on man, nobody has problems with their SSD not being seated correctly with any other brand. There are screws to hold them in, they're not going anywhere.

The thickness thing - how thick is an M.2 SSD? 3mm? Get real.

Apple is consumer-hostile and their products are disposable, that's all there is to it.
Thanks!

Hmm, it's hard to quantify it exactly, but overall there isn't that much maintenance required once it's all set up (except for the few manual bits). Let's say it could all run for months without needing any intervention. Maybe one or two data sources would stop exporting due to an expired token or some API weirdness, but the downstream services that use the data will carry on running against older data.

It's possible due to the design: some general 'architectural' decisions [0]: separating the data retrieval from data processing, avoiding databases where it's not absolutely necessary [1], 'defensive enough' error handling [2]. (but naturally I fix small things here and there when I notice just like with other chores)

I do spend quite a lot of time on it, it's sort of a hobby at this point (e.g. to add/connect new things, experiment etc.). But, lately most time was spent documenting, releasing different parts, and writing about it to share with people -- this is much more time consuming (and certainly less fun than tinkering). I'd like to reach a certain milestone and get some rest from it, switch to something else :)

> if you were to start over with a new organizational methodology, what would you do differently knowing what you know now?

Frankly, I'm not really regretting doing anything the way I did it (at least for now) -- most things make sense to me and what I implemented is a 'dependency' for more sophisticated methodologies anyway, so hopefully no effort wasted here. I wish I came up to the principles I described in the links quicker, for a while it was a 'random walk' without clear vision how to compose and connect things.

[0] https://beepb00p.xyz/exports.html

[1] https://beepb00p.xyz/unnecessary-db.html

[2] https://beepb00p.xyz/mypy-error-handling.html
We just need to couple this to a Z80 on an FPGA with a VGA out (or a MIPI core) in a laptop case and abandon modern computing.
Red Dragon was killed by NASA (under congressional pressure), not SpaceX. It was never really being worked on though, more of a proposal.
How do you build initial trust though?
My understanding is that “10,000 hours” isn’t a strategy, or rule, or evidence-based observation but rather a catch phrase of Malcolm Gladwell’s to make memorable a finding that he references in his book Outliers. The finding is by Anders Ericsson, it’s detailed in his book The Path To Excellence, along with his evidence, and it says that extensive Deliberate Practice is what makes an outstanding expert, and that instead people generally mistakenly assume that semi-automatic repetition strongly correlates with expertise development, which it does not.

So counting how many hours you’ve been working in a field is the exact mistake that most people make. Gladwell’s book has reinforced that confusion.
If you want to follow a few specific accounts, just try following their RSS feeds! You get to see what they say without all the other junk.
That is demonstrably false—tweets about, say, programming language theory are pretty far from politics.
Maybe it's a phishing attempt? Be careful!
Could just be a graphing anomaly, or that there aren't many people living on either side of the border in those areas.
Newport makes a really interesting argument in this post. He practically reduces motivation to getting started early on projects which you have a good reason for doing.

I certainly understand the 'good reason' part, but the 'getting started early' angle is a great insight. Picking off something small right away has a tendency of knocking even the most imposing projects down to size pretty quickly. Even if all I do is define the first thing I need to do, it leaves me with a sense of traction that often continues through the rest of the project.

Continued progress, however small, is one of the most powerful motivators I know. It may even be addictive.
I almost made this same comment before noticing yours.
I know, I've been thinking about setting up a marketplace just for webapps because of this reason.
Surprisingly, I found vk's interface much more appealing and intuitive than fb's. Besides, I can't find a single reason to migrate to facebook and so do most people I know, and as the map shows, most people in Russia.
Location: Poland

Remote: Yes, Willing to relocate

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Elixir, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cisekrzysztof/

Email: krz.cisek@gmail.com

2 years of experience, looking for some fullstack Elixir/Typescript (React, Svelte mostly) projects, willing to go for full Elixir or Elixir + vanilla js if it's actually necessary
OK after giving this idea a little bit more thought. This is the deal:
PoW for eMail needs to come with a parameter that controls the amount of work (computation) done to find the PoW hash. This allows senders to choose on a continuous scale how important it is for them to proof they are not mass mailing spammers.

This in turn allows small organizations / private mail servers that are not on common anti-spam white lists to proof their good intentions in a decentralized fashion.

PoW makes mass mailing very expensive and thus directly hurts spammers that are not on the common anti-spam white lists. Organizations that need to mass mail users for legitimate reasons are most likely already on anti-spam white lists and thus need not to do a very hard PoW hash as they are already proven to not be spamming.
Beautiful site! Do you write your articles in markdown or something like that and render them into pages at build time? Is your source available by chance? I've been wanting to do this exact thing but while the Next.js docs are great, what would really help is to just see an example site that does exactly what I want to do. All the good examples are either too trivial to be useful or to complex to be useful.
"Their home environment and neighborhood is so shattered that what they need most is a stable day-to-day existence shielded from drugs, gangs, and criminal behavior."

You do realize you're talking out of your ass right? 99% of inner-city youths don't do drugs, aren't in gangs, and aren't involved in criminal behavior. Nice way to stereotype them though.
full transcript (thanks Miguel) http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/11/microsoft-kinect-no...
Sadly here its more expensive to file the one LLC form then the equivalent corporate form. (Yes corporate entities need more forms but its bizarre.)
http://www.promotionalcodes.org.uk/
I'm also interested in propietary CMSes by web bureaus. Wordpress, Dupal and Joomla does not make for a good custom site experience. Either too generic or having a gui that is too complex and hacky for mere mortals.
I don't see a resemblance? Is any app that tracks multiple packages a knock-off? I don't think so. And I've been using original Delivery Status (as an OSX widget) before there even was App Store.
Sort of bugs me that some basic clothing that's good for outdoors and daily life in the northwest gets co-opted into a fashion thing

So it's the 1990s again? Cool, cargo pants must be coming back, too. I wonder if it has anything to do with the rise of Portland in pop culture. Portlandia's got it right: it's still the 90's in Portland (I'm from the area, it's pretty much true).
How did they delete all the fat prople?
Making terrible mistakes on real machines teaches you much more though (by sheer necessity if nothing else).
You need to put your email address in your profile so others can find it.
There are plenty of problems with CSS. You can't specify the width of an inline element, for one. That alone prevents a lot of reasonable layouts, like tables. Also problematic is a standards body that ignores this use case! In this case, they protect the writer from over-filling some boxes with more boxes. But that would at least be visible - in this case, the workarounds end up far worse.
I hope by "lightweight" they mean that the new browser will not be tied to specific windows releases anymore and it can update to the latest version independent of users having to upgrade their entire os..

wishful thinking :)
The European Commission is planning to cap (VISA, Mastercard etc) card fees to 0.2% of the transaction.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-10-31/eu-bid-to-limit-...
Page 32 has a description of hay fever by a 10 year old girl in 1849. It's really quite interesting.

Page 59 has her hoping that she'll live to see the 20th century in 50 years. Not the year 2000 though, she doesn't want to witness the apocalypse.
That is assuming everything will go well: this person will get a few customers ASAP, within 1 week or 2, to stay a float for at least 1 - 1.5 years.

Consulting requires networks and connections. If the person stick too long as a "Senior Software Developer" and rarely meet non-geek human being (potential customers), it'll be a while before the person can get a well-paying less-stressful consulting offers.
"eg: an Apple IPod"

Pity his demo doesn't work on one.
I think the idea is that he's not gaining anything from running HN, so he should have someone else manage it since he can generate more income doing something else with the time he would spend managing HN to keep it running smoothly.

This begs the question that he's not gaining anything from running HN, of course.
The scary thing about the Beatles is that if you eliminate all their #1 hits their second tier is still astonishing.

My favorite obscure tracks are probably Rain and Good Morning Good Morning, but ask me again tomorrow and I'll have some different ones.
I have offers from both and am deciding presently. I don't know that they're "aggressively" recruiting me though.

The reason I'd rather work for them than start my own company (now) is that I'm interested in infrastructure. I could go start a company and be an architecture astronaut (and never sell any infrastructure to anyone), or I could go to Google/Facebook and learn the kind of domain specific knowledge that I can only get at a Google or Facebook.
Could clarify a bit more?
Forget about friction: how much money would this really bring in? Some time ago I read that Switzerland instituted a stock market transaction tax ... and their market quickly lost a very large fraction of its business. US based multi-nationals would e.g. follow all those oil services companies that have moved their headquarters outside of the country (curiously, to Switzerland (and note that this happened before the BP spill)).

Obviously there would be a mass exodus out of instruments that are taxed in this way. People and companies would game the system like mad, descend upon D.C. for exceptions for their "critical" industries, etc. etc.

And destroying or chasing out of the country a large fraction of the US financial sector---which all too many people unwisely desire---could easily result in a net loss to the government, especially when you count secondary effects like a decreased ability to raise capital and vastly less efficient capital markets.

My favorite not so quick fix is the government selling off a very large fraction of the land it owns. What's the compelling reason for it owning this much of these top ten states I just randomly found on the net:

1. Nevada 84.5%
2. Alaska 69.1%
3. Utah 57.4%
4. Oregon 53.1%
5. Idaho 50.2%
6. Arizona 48.1%
7. California 45.3%
8. Wyoming 42.3%
9. New Mexico 41.8%
10. Colorado 36.6%
You could fall in love, get married, have a kid and raise a family. The whole process is a real eye opener and, possibly, the ultimate provider of wisdom.
Yeah that's weird. When you search for "true grit" it finds the movie and John Wayne is correctly listed and one of the cast members. I'll sort it out when I get home, it's probably just a case of adjusting the querying algorithm. Thanks for letting me know.
As someone else noted, QEMU is a likely match, perhaps another option for running Vagrant on OS X. But apple probably wouldn't go to this much effort and commit to supporting a hypervisor just to make virtualizing Linux easier. It's not an unmet need, and it's not their primary focus at all.

As you noted, all the existing VM players can provide their own and may want to continue doing that (unless Apple forces them to adopt this one... which is unlikely), so I'd bet on Apple itself being the primary consumer of it in some way.

As for what Apple itself might do with it in the future, perhaps this is just intended to be a low level component that will be used for other high level things in the OS itself, similar to the way XPC is now used all over the place as a core technology. As for what that might be with the hypervisor... I'd just be guessing. Guessing is fun though :)

They did say they were locking down /System soon, maybe that's going to be far more expansive than just the filesystem path, maybe a native hypervisor paired with VT-d allows them to "sandbox" things that currently can't be contained, even kexts? I'm thinking about Qubes OS when I say that http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS
ah, good point, "Our #callout element is set to position: absolute, and since its parent element, #content is set to relative, the offset properties we’re using on #callout are based off the coordinates created by #content."

would be nice to see it called out as one of the core techniques above though. or I guess I could have just read the whole article before commenting :)
Easy to play CDs in the car.
make -j$(2N + 1) is roughly where minimal compile times are.
Are you sure you're not drawing both a strawman argument and false dichotomy here with respect to near-field communications? While I can't speak with authority on how it'll be implemented, what makes you think that the use of NFC will be without your explicit consent? How is this any different than one taking out a credit card and swiping it at a machine?

Regarding WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS... these options aren't default on my Nexus One. I control when I want to use these features. Barring the cases of strange backdoors and apps secretly grabbing your data, I'm not sure what the issue here is.
The following sentence on your web page has three "is" words. It should have two "is" words and one "it" I believe.

Is it safe to use? Is is finished?
In Statist Russia, leadership is closed and software is open.

In Plutocratic America, both are only open to those who pay...
In response, I'd say that attributing nefarious motives beyond any policy point is pretty much conceding that you've lost the policy argument.
Frugality also fits the definition of "theft in the sense that it deprives a producer of the income or potential income that they would otherwise make from someone buying a good." If I were less austere, you could make a ton more money off me.

Also, property is not itself all that metaphysical, at least not if we accept the idea that things actually exist as we perceive them (which seems like the opposite of metaphysics). Some of the trappings we attach to it might be, but property is pretty fundamental to the idea of self. On a very basic level, my property is something I have.
Depression is far from my real issue. (I am rarely depressed and if it lasts more than 3 days, it is usually due to anemia.) But I do have a serious medical issue that is normally treated with quite a lot of medication. I found the drug side effects more crippling than my (deadly) illness. I have made a lot of dietary and lifestyle changes and gotten off about 8 or 9 different prescription drugs -- and gotten my life back. If you really want to get better and also avoid medication, it may be possible to do exactly that.

Peace and good luck.
To be absolutely honest, I can't imagine that being herded by dogs is any worse than being herded by humans. Especially when you consider that the dogs are unlikely to then flip them over and castrate them, give them injections, etc.

I think you're being downvoted because you're being overly sensitive to an imaginary problem. From reading the article, it sounds like the dogs are more likely to be harmed than the sheep.
Speaking of disgrace, Salon is prominently featuring ads to scammy sites like hxxp://www.online8report.com/Acai-Berry/ right next to that article.