jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It’s not a Ponzi scheme any more than any other investment is a Ponzi scheme. Once 50% of society buys gold, who’s going to realize their gains? Except for gold speculators, the point isn’t necessarily to just realize gains, the point is to own an asset whose value is guaranteed not to disappear, even if it fluctuates.

Granted, gold has a stronger guarantee than Bitcoin as of now. But that doesn’t make Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme.
How many members of the board are going to be from authoritarian regimes? I seems likely that this ends up more like the UN's committee on human rights (which frequently contains or is lead by representatives of horrific regimes) than NATO.
A really great addition to any CS curriculum would be a long-running projects course that runs the full four years so that you get experience in managing architecture, growth, and maintenance, instead of just building. Lots of students do that by attaching themselves to open source projects or working internships, which is great, but it's not (as far as I know) an official major part of any curriculum I've heard about.
I consider the narrative improbable.
Although I don't think "a few" is an exact quantity, I don't agree with the definition of "relatively small" either. If I take 7000 line and compare it to 70,000 lines, 7K becomes relatively small and I could then call it "a few" lines.

Think about how people use the term. "I'm having a few people over for a bbq." Or "I ate a few cookies." Would you ever expect to see 700 people at the bbq or that the person ate 700 cookies? I think if you were to ask people "how many is 'a few'?" The answer would likely be a number greater than 1 and less than 10. Or maybe a range within 1 and 10.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1406664
They're draft standards, just like the rest of HTML5. It's not a standard yet either.
I agree that accelerating technological progress poses risks (and posted a related comment about AI http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1407120 ) but don't want to ask people to forgo treatment for the sake of population control which can be otherwise managed. To make it (cheaply) personal, and to prove that you're right about my selfishness, I want my wife's cancer cured while the planet is being saved, not afterwards.

Edit: The cancer is in remission, but curing it is something else
Nor china http://www.coindesk.com/btc-china-lowers-trading-fees-01/
>But now the world's 3 largest powers wanting to ban it, is very similar to how the largest incumbents react to disruption - they try to fight against it as long as possible instead of adopting it. And they lose everytime.

Actually they've managed to suppress tons of things.

In fact, there are tons of disruptions that never made it. Except if, in hindsight, one calls disruption only the things that actually won in the end (in which case it's a tautology -- of course all disruption wins in the end, if disruption is only what wins in the end).

So the "they lose everytime" is a little too optimistic.
NixOS isn't quite clean slate, but it does completely reimagine package management.
Ok now I'm even more excited!

Thanks! :-D
I wasn't sure if the 4 GB limit "discovered" FAT32's limit or if it was a MP3 format issue

I think it's based on commodity single-layer DVD's being the storage medium, since the process seems to produce ISO files for burning, which might imply ISO 9660 limitations.

Although, there's MPEG/DVD mastering software in use, which would (probably) be smart enough to fragment assets, and chain them together for continuous playback (considering the availability of dual-layer 8GB recordable DVD's).

The images also note a Thinkpad is in the mix, which might imply Windows XP (or newer), and possible access to NTFS partitions, which permits files of 2^64 bytes.
same, never heard of that behavior and I use Teams daily
The brain lock is probably a bigger deal in your mind than in the mind of the interviewer. You seem to be framing the interview as a confrontation or holding perfection as your standard. The truth is that interviewers are often on your side and want you to do well, they need a good employee afterall. If you stumble just admit it with an honest comment like "Hmmm, I'm a little nervous." Unless the interviewer is a sociopath he will probably provide some guidance or try to break the tension with banter or something like that. Finally, practice makes perfect so take any interviews you can get even with companies or jobs that you aren't that interested in (this will reduce anxiety too since less is on the line) so you can get better at the process and do well when you find the job that you really want. It is a lot like dating ;-)
I was a late convert to "full stack" myself. Just go directly to Typescript and run a linter on the code before you execute it.

It seems like more than a programmer should have to do, but eventually you'll forget about the extra tools and have decent pseudo-compile-time error detection.
lol, bro it's much simpler than that. people play games to have fun, and the intersection of complex, time intensive games and those who's idea of fun is complex, time intensive games … it's a small intersection.
Presumably, forcing illegal actions to happen through bitcoin adds friction to the process.

But more importantly, as far as I know bitcoin is not designed to guarantee anonymity in money transfers, and the fact that every transaction is set in stone publicly in the blockchain makes it relatively easily traceable. Am I wrong in that area?
I think the pedestrian experience of 4-way stops is pretty great - you always get right of way.

Pedestrian experience is probably the one downside of roundabouts.
Small Steps Giant Leaps is great!!
May I recommend adding a static type checker to your tooling. You can annotate function types with TypeScript using JSDoc comments[1], or Flow[2] and transpile the annotations away with babel.Then you would run the type checker as you would run your linter as part of your CI.

1. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/intro-to-js-ts....

2. https://flow.org/
What would clean burning entail?

I assume something like piping into the mound, then flaring with a Venturi mixer?
All foone does is take things apart. He knows.
Wow, works great on my iPhone. Love it!
>Of course, roasting yourself is not really an option.

Why do you say that? I've been meaning to try it after I saw Michael Johnston describe it as his hobby[1]. He bought a 300$ machine[2] that by his math will pay for itself since green bean is cheaper than roasted. Amazon also seems to have a few cheap and well reviewed home roasting machines[3].

[1] http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photogra...

[2] http://www.roastmasters.com/behmor.html

[3] http://amzn.to/1d9OvOB
> At that time, I was working for $BIG_BANK, and BTC in my view seemed like it would be a compliance nightmare, so I avoided CoinBase.

... that’s why there was all that alpha to capture to begin with
> 1Password has none. KeePass has none. The open-source Bitwarden has two for Google Firebase analytics and Microsoft Visual Studio crash reporting. Dashlane has four. LastPass does appear to have more than its rivals.
The women claim Facebook does not require minors to link their account to a parent or guardian’s account, install filters to stop adults from communicating with minors, or install software that could alert on buzzwords typically used by adults attempting to groom a child. . .

Facebook initially opposed FOSTA [Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017] but dropped its opposition after lawmakers amended it, changing the grounds for liability from “knowing conduct, by an individual or entity, by any means, that assists, supports or facilitates a violation of sex trafficking laws” to “knowingly assisting, supporting, or facilitating a violation” of sex trafficking laws.

https://www.courthousenews.com/texas-court-refuses-to-toss-s...
Is it really that complicated? The map is pretty much straight lines from top to bottom. This is like saying that the subway system is too complicated. It is simply a series of tubes with stops. The map simply allows someone to view the entire system at once.
In secure airgapped environments, very much so. We blew time setting up new offline install processes & tutorials for the Nvidia docker ecosystem for rhel8, which basically reused centos7, as most of our users took weeks/months when they tried to figure out for themselves. Think utilities, gov, banks, etc: Anything not supported by official RHEL8 repos causes problems both technical and compliance.

RHEL8 felt like a repeat of IE vs Firefox but now for RHEL (main sponsor of Podman) vs Docker, and much worse. It's one thing if docker was never there or containers were removed, but this was replacing with a binary-incompatible tool under their effective control and marketing to security-critical customers (and on hackernews) as a safe and ready replacement. So we also burnt time diagnosising people were trying to use broken podman tech because that's all RHEL gave them and tricked them into thinking was appropriate.
I’ve always wondered if part of the reason the “clear” craze for sodas died off is that you didn’t have the right signals to tell you what it tastes like.
I couldn't find any solution that works for what I want. Google Drive is the most similar to what I want (with a minor difference that bugs me). I want an external virtual drive on my computers that syncs my file on demand, that doesn't count against my hard drive quota (unless I download and work with these files).

Google Drive gives me that (I pay for it) and all my files are synced across all my devices. My problem is that I do not want one device to be "the owner", I want all devices to be the same because. Unfortauntely Drive doesn't allow that. So on the main device I can access the file in their local path, while in others they are in (for example): G:\Others computers\Laptop\Drive

I hate that the files are inside "Others computers\Laptop", because it makes me feel that if I ever lose the "Laptop" and lose access, I may lose all my files.
I stopped using Dropbox when it started asking if I want to back up every USB drive that I plug into my PC, and started to pollute my removable drives with a configuration file. (Because for some reason that's the only way it can know that I don't want my removable drives backed up.)

All I've ever wanted is a folder that syncs automatically. Nothing more. And for a while Dropbox was the best at fulfilling that role and getting out of the way, but it seems feature-creep has taken over.
Could you please elaborate the "coding is not a social activity" or offer a reference. Thank you very much in advance!
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cool paper, thanks
Honestly, I as a user don't give a shit what a good engineer should so. All I see is that my personal data gets leaked left and right by elasticsearch and not mysql or postgres. But its fanbois just keep shifting blame instead of reflecting about reality and going "hey yeah maybe we should try do do something about it on our end". So fuck ES.
When you look back, you're looking back from the particular world where X became a requirement. If instead, Y had become a requirement, you would be looking back wishing you had structured your code in some completely different way. YAGNI then applies to the extent that you can't predict which of X and Y it will be in advance.
thanks I watched it all and came back to upvote. I remember seeing Max on Pepsi commercials, never knew he came from this show.
Italy has near-uniformly bad coffee, unless your idea of good coffee is the cheapest, dark roasted "arabica" found on earth.
> A large part of the cars can be charged at home over night. Alternatively, at work during work day.

Most people live in buildings, not houses. Same applies for work. You don't get to charge there. A dedicated charging station that replaces gas stations is needed.

> A lot of these places could offer low-power outlets for slow charging.

I have no experience with US, but in many major cities in Europe, it's hard to find any parking space, let alone the one with a charging outlet. It's a problem that would require a lot of infrastructure.

Anyway, those are all valid discussion points. No reason to downvote. People on HN want electric to succeed and that's fine. But downvoting anyone who points at problems... are we on Reddit now?
"In particular, Apple cites patents issued in 2009 and 2010 that cover the physical design of the iPhone along with various trademarks for its app icons."

If the main thrust of the suit is around the physical design, they probably have to go after the OEMs, not Google. Seems like Google could probably duck that.
DDG has haters?
Sex and real estate have a lot in common. What's a house really worth? You have to look at the comps, and see how the house does relative to them.

There's no hard-set intrinsic value.
It was featured here a few days ago.

Here's a link to see what it looks like http://cicada.heroku.com/
Would all the knee-jerk comment posters actually click through and see that it's not an 'Android' lawsuit.
It was chased up but Dodsworth stayed quiet on the subject: http://thenextweb.com/uk/2011/03/30/tweetdeck-still-wont-con...
I want to see that IRL. Is there any more compelling evidence that that actually works?
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-co...
Searching subreddits can also be useful
> TL;DR: it’s very ironic that, for all of Silicon Valley’s noise about moving fast, breaking things, accessibility, equality, and good old-fashioned American innovation and Freedom, a not insignificant part of it continues funded by foreign governments whose values are fundamentally at odds with what Silicon Valley claims to promote.

Just put the TLDR at the top of the article, next time.
> What does it mean for American innovation to be backed by oil wealth?

> Uber. WeWork. Flexport. Slack. MapBox. DoorDash.

Chat app? Office rentals? Adding a layer of ripping off restaurants to food delivery? If this is the “American innovation” the Saudis want a piece of, let them have it.
Agree. It merits being looks from the other side. The angle of writing seems to indicate the writing was on the other side, but looking at the document it should be clear which side has more ink.
But they don't exist. "Someday, there will be a client that will make the signup process simple" is not a great argument for my mom when I'm trying to text her my holiday plans.
Making the lives of civilian people utterly miserable in order to force them to topple unwanted governments has been a corner stone of US foreign policy for decades. It's why countries like Iran are facing so harsh sanctions; they punish the people severely into desperation. At least that's what the terribly flawed theory predicts. In reality, the rulers can easily circumvent sanctions through smuggling, foreign travel, sophisticated financial setups, etc.
It's just designers learning and overcorrecting sometimes.

Skeumorphism [1] tried to fix the confusing abstract and grey interfaces, but suffered from clutter and no-information-pixels. Minimal/Flat design attempted to remove unnecessary information but lacked affordances. Since then, these affordances have been slowly added back in. Currently, we're reconsidering skeumorphic elements without sacrificing what we've gained from the minimialst approach.

From each approach, lessons were learned and carried over.

(This is obviously simplified, but it's a better explanation than: "It's Apples fault")

[1]: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/50144a1784ae6db4b...
Me and my partner rebuilt a log cabin into a year-round house over the period of a year. Only bearing walls remained. Re-insulated, expanded and changed the roof, added a bathroom, sleeping lofts, etc. She did most light work while I was holding down the day job to secure the down-payment and mortgage, and I would handle the heavy stuff on the weekends.

The zone is not ideal for wind or solar, so we are connected to electrical. We had a contractor help with bath tiling, he did plumbing and electric hook-ups, an electrician did what was required by code for the electric system.

Every single one of the licensed pros had cut corners.

The electrician did not secure the outlets to the walls properly, just enough for them to start getting loose after 2 years. One weak screw instead of four. I was afraid of electric for a while. Only had the energy to read the code, some books and watch some youtube videos and re-secure all the outlets and set up 2 extra outlets, with channel cable dragging, etc, about 3 years ago.

The plumbing had multiple mistakes as well, wrong tank positioning, wrong main drain placement, no main cut-off to the tank, did not get a filter hook-up or a drain valve, etc, and the hot water boiler did not get a proper set-up for easy maintenance (the magnesium sacrificial anode cannot be removed, too close to the ceiling, you have to dismount the whole unit).

If I had the money and not to have to work during the build process, I would have built a small house first, learning everything about how to do it right and observing the "pros" as they go along. But hey, we have a house that total spend was 1/3 of the market, enough land to build a second one, and I am a different man from the experience.

It was my first experience with engineering outside of software. Trust no one, do your own research, plan, experiment and verify apply even more in "physical world" engineering.

It's nice to become more and more self-reliant with construction skills. I just serviced the indoor plumbing, changed 3 taps, installed a water-filter hook-up and filter, including pipes, and plan to assemble a big water filtration system, myself, in the summer. $ 5K to 7K for filter tank, controller and installation by contractor, vs $600 for system and medium from manufacturer, and install it yourself.

Whether you plan to go off-grid, build, be your own general contractor, or even just buy a property, doing things yourself, provided you can follow engineering principles and values, is always the best bet. You want reliability. The pros want to make a profit.

Life pro tip - if planning to participate in construction in any way, audit the locality and how strict vs smart their code and inspections are.
It’s a personal website, not a landing page (and hosted on a platform that encourages experimenting). I’d argue that in this case not everything needs to be optimized for the new user’s sake.
I got $85K at a Boston company not known for paying top-of-market, just out of college, in 2010. A junior dev not getting $100K right out of college in SF is being underpaid even worse than is normal in this industry.
Even in the US with its unusual rule of first-to-invent, you can't file a patent on an invention that somebody else has also invented and disclosed to the public ("prior art").
Yah the bike in the image has disk brakes. you can see the disk at the centre of the wheel. Disk brakes have "handlebar" brake levers, but the braking force is directed by small pads that grind against a disk - just like car brakes. They can be mechanical or hydraulic based.
The Wii is not a loss leader. Only the original xbox, ps3, and 360 are loss leaders. It's entirely possible for the kinect to be break even, or just barely loss, in which case I think Microsoft is willing to take the hit for more mindshare/market share.

Maybe their PHB and marketing drones won't get that, but I think their real managers and marketing people (they have to have exist for the xbox division to get where they are) are going to see how valuable this is. I mean, MS threw an entire hardware generation as a loss-leader, I think they'll happily take a break-even to make Sony look silly.
Because TWO was not enough, and THREE is ONE HIGHER!
Apple has done Email and it is UGLY. This guy obviously hasn't used .Mac webmail.
The author is a philosophy professor at the University of Cape Town. He is probably most famous for his argument that existence is a moral bad, as described in his book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence.
I am newbie when it comes to compiling kernel. Is it a pain to do with stock ubuntu 10.10?

Sometimes I run something heavy on my laptop and desktop freezes annoy me. If this patch will allow me to get around it - I would be glad to try it out.

Anyone having url of some niuce tutorial to compile new kernel for ubuntu 10.10?
Ok, let's assume everyone knows who The Beatles are and will never forget them or their music (and above a certain age that is a more than reasonable assumption).

So the teaser banner said:
"Tomorrow is just another day. That you'll never forget."

Post announcement, you can read it as:
"Today is just another day that you'll never forget The Beatles."

Which is true (even though it was deceptive... but it was just a teaser banner on a website after all).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Store#File_format
256kbps .m4a file with an option to convert to an .mp3. For anyone who takes music quality seriously the lack of a lossless option is a big turn off. No DRM on the purchases unless you live in Japan where some albums are covered by DRM.

Will do more research when I get home.
You say: "being profitable is enough for many people" as if being profitable is easier compared to getting acquired. For most web based companies, however, getting acquired is easier.
The Programming Collective Intelligence book on sale here is wonderful! If you want to build software that does something intelligent thanks to the mining of a tremendous set of data (think recommendation engine, price models, content classification, search engine, etc) and you're not sure where to start, start with this book. Not being a CS academic, it's hard to find useful, non-trivial introductions that I can understand on these topics. That's where this book excels. It's one of the few technical books I regularly go back to.
I read an article by adult performer discussing her career and the “manger/pimp” distinction …

Basically “managers” are a thing when you have a large number of employers who need to coordinate.

Legit managers can look a lot like pimps. For example, they usually require employees “to be on time” and “always have a good attitude.”

But if someone isn’t on time, than everyone else is waiting, and typically not getting paid. So failing to show up on time means your coworkers are paying for you to do your own thing.

So there an element of “you know it when you see it.”
The Republic for Which It Stands - The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

by Richard White
This plan ignores the part where it is going to get DMCA'd like crazy by people who do not want their tweets to have anything to do with the world's most deliberately-inefficient database, aka The Blockchain, never mind people who do not want someone stealing their work for profit.

By cloning people's accounts without their permission and storing data in these "shadow accounts" (to borrow a phrase from Facebook's fuckups) it's probably going to run afoul of the GDPR, too. Data on the blockchain is immutable and undeletable, have fun complying with the GDPR's right to data erasure, for instance. Really any "let's make $service but ON THE BLOCKCHAIN" proposal runs up against that one, hard.

This plan also ignores the part where people who do not want to be part of your pyramid scheme would start sharing blocklists of people known to be running the browser extension. How long do you think it would take to make a bot that watches for people who have linked their Twitter accounts to Vampire Twitter accounts, and auto-block them for anyone who wants to subscribe to it? Autoblock extensions sprung up very quickly after the hexagonal NFT icons popped up on Twitter.
Try gradually switching to decaf! It did wonders for me.
> The eggs are $8 a dozen [...] and I spend a few hundred a month on them

You eat over 300 eggs a month?