jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
With somewhat freer immigration rules, it'd be easier for people to vote with their feet. As far as land goes, for example, the U.S. has a ton of space--- it's not like we're China-style densely populated and totally out of room for people to come and set up new towns, if they wanted to and we were willing to let them.
Google isn't some "great equalizer" that ranks content purely on its merit. There is an entire economy working behind the scenes that determines which pages end up at the top of the search results. On top of that, there are a huge number of complex technical issues that regularly get in the way of worthy content being ranked. Understanding how this process works and how to best present your content is not manipulative at all. If anything, SEO is only going to grow as competition for rankings becomes more fierce and search becomes more complicated.

I also think the author chose the wrong article to pick on. There are so many poorly written and poorly researched pieces of advice on SEO out there - the article they chose isn't one of them.
I've had my Drobo 18 months without a hiccup - It's not silent, but it's not noisy either. I've never had to contact customer support, so I can't really comment on that. I am marginally concerned by the fact that its death would mean I must have another Drobo to read the data, but this really isn't any different from most other hardware RAID controllers/NAS boxes, where the death of the card almost always means purchase of another identical card/driver combination to get your data back.

The point here is, Drobo/RAID/NAS are disk redundancy solutions - they cater for the fallibility of spinning magnetic platters, and never promise 100% reliability. Just like any solution, if you want to avoid data loss, you need to have an orthogonal backup system for when the other fails at a system level.

It sucks that he's had such problems with his Drobos, and it looks like the support he's got is subpar. This is not, however, the universal experience. Based on my experience, I'd be happy to recommend the Drobo to most people I know who want a simple and easy to setup solution for hard drive failures, with the big caveat that they still need at least one other backup solution.
You could inspect the history of any big open source project, no? Pick any popular framework. They may not have created the git project from the very first moment they actually got started but there are so many such projects, if you poke around enough, I'm sure you could find something interesting. As for "best practices", well, you'll probably have to judge that for yourself.
Please evaluate your filters. If you believe this you are in a bubble. It’s the economic and historical equivalent of belief in a flat earth.

The “New Deal” saved the middle class. A “green” new deal could do it again.

We have an incredible need and opportunity to (re)build infrastructure in this country. That’s where the middle class can thrive.

The green new deal was an olive branch as much as anything. An opportunity for everyone to make a needed contribution and be compensated for it.
right, big font authors are big font because they are popular, so Isabella was chosen as a popular author's name, but most of the big font authors had male names (or unisex); Octavia Butler was from a later generation than these books are supposed to be from.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803998
> we know, more or less, where the money goes.

Show us? It's publically available information I guess, where can we read about it?
Every grade at some point is considered the hardest, but what I suspect you're referring to is the Yosemite Decimal System [1] which postulated 5.9 as the hardest grade possible (5.1 and 5.10 are the same from a numeric point of view). I always thought the Australian system (start at one and go up) made the most sense, but the context the the British grading system [2] provides is wonderful.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Decimal_System
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(climbing)#British
I may just not use whatever it is that has bugs in OSX, but I've got a 2009 Mac Book Pro that I've been using since it was new, and I always upgrade the OS after a month or so from release.

I've only ever noticed a bug in Lion or Mountain Lion (don't recall which) where time machine would get borked if I put the computer to sleep when it was in the middle of a backup. That was super annoying, but it was fixed eventually.

I've never had any issues with wifi or graphics or whatever. I suspect these issues come about from hardware changes and the related drivers in the various models. Windows has the exact same problem, exacerbated by the freedom users have to mix and match hardware. My work computer running windows 7 would crash once or twice a week, always due to video driver (or the underlying hardware).

While Apple's ecosystem is limited, they actually have a rather large diversity of hardware to support now, and I'm sure that is the source of many issues. Makes me afraid to upgrade actually since my computer works so well.
No..it wasn't doors.

This was the MajorBBS, by a company called Galacticomm, which was the only BBS system that allowed realtime interactions and gave developers the ability to access shared memory that stored game state and player information.
This is addressed in the FAQ[1].

> That three millisecond time doesn't make sense as the timeout for a connect() call.

> Yes, I know. And it wasn't the timeout, actually. In the story, I make it sound like it took all of ten minutes from being made aware of the 500-mile email limit and determining a 3 ms light-speed issue. In fact, this took several hours, and quite a bit of detective work. The point is, eventually I came up with that figure, ran units, and gagged on my latte. (I'm fairly certain it was a different latte from the one I started with.) So what, in particular, is your question about the 3 ms figure?

[1] https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
For use cases like that it is incredibly similar if you give the --verbose flag:

$ units --verbose
[header]
You have: furlongs per fortnight
You want: m/s
furlongs per fortnight = 0.00016630952 m/s
furlongs per fortnight = (1 / 6012.8848) m/s
You have: 17 yards + 2 feet + 5 inches
You want: meter
17 yards + 2 feet + 5 inches = 16.2814 meter
17 yards + 2 feet + 5 inches = (1 / 0.06141978) meter

Personally, I find qalc via qalculate-gtk more useful for exploratory sessions but I still use units an awful lot.
Again, journalism is so horrible these days.

1) The picture in this linked article is not the Hubble picture, which is here:

https://imgur.com/a/UwD49Dr

2) The value claimed obeys no known concepts of supply and demand.

3) There are 7.5 billion people on earth, not 7.5 million.
> China is stealing Western tech to gain an economic and strategic advantage.

Cry me a river.

Western companies went there for cheap labor. They could've rethought this any time in the past 20+ years, when it became apparent Chinese companies aren't willing to follow US IP laws and keep buying the trinkets they (and at this point, only they) know how to make at a markup. Instead, our corporations still outsource manufacturing, and solve their IP issues by telling the people to tell the government to cry foul and do something about a now nuclear-armed nation that decided to grow past being a source of cheap labor.

There are plenty of bad things to say about China as a country/government, but on the IP front, that's just funny. IP laws in the West are a ridiculous racket. For all the companies here talk about innovation, there's sure as hell more of it happening in China than over here.
So what would it say for TikTok?
I’m bipolar and every month I’m dealing with insurance medication denying extreme common, proven, and relatively cheap first-line medications. My insurance constantly requires exemptions and referrals for every step of my treatment. Even for things that have already been approved.

At this point, it would be cheaper and easier to manage everything myself. The only problem is, if I don’t use my insurance, the out of pocket maximum for inpatient treatment would be so expensive I’d refuse treatment and risk killing myself or harming other people. (Which is very much non-zero.)

As a child, my parents constantly fought insurance to get life-threatening allergies treated.
Is this a covert reference to the 500-mile e-mail?
Interestingly here in Germany you can live in your whatsapp free bubble easily...until you get a child. Everyone I know gave up at this point (at least one parent).
I am guessing this is mostly related to Apple's IDFA changes.

- First facebook acted to label all their products with "from facebook".

- Now this privacy policy change.

It even says: "showing relevant offers and ads across the Facebook Company Products"
>And the EU does. But ironically whenever that happens Americans argue that such action isn't about privacy but instead about the EU trying to promote their own domestic industries.

International politics isn't fair or just or honest. However that's been known since probably before written history. So of course the US will spin things with propaganda and false statements and whatever. You can't change it or impact it or do stop it directly. So blame Europe for not successfully countering it rather than the US for knowing how to play the game.
The man it was made for tried it with his daughter: http://wadler.blogspot.com/2007/05/oh-no-alligators.html
Hi, I built the app and can answer your questions :)
I know a kid whose throat swelled up, couldn't breathe for several minutes, and suffered brain damage after a one time incident of eating peanuts... Apparently, non-negligible (over 1% [1]) portion of the population reacts this way.

Lesson for everybody: Don't eat nuts!

[1] http://www.mountsinai.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/r...

Your argument against psychedelics is not persuasive in the manner presented.
Good point. But to be fair, a lot of what BP has seemed to be doing is making guesses. Educated guesses, based on some observations and known facts. But still, guesses just the same. At best, estimates.
Plenty of Fish, last I checked.
Hmmm things would have to pretty dire to need to do this, can you imagine the financial repercussions for thousands upon thousands of business if they were irrecoverably disconnected from their servers & clients for a unknown period?

The fallout would be huge!
I think there's a very strong argument to be made that Windows nearly killed Apple because Jobs made the same mistakes he is making today with the iPhone platform.

Jobs wasn't even at Apple after John Sculley forced him out in 1985, you know. Even before the Macintosh debuted, it was Sculley who decided to raise the price from the originally-planned $1,995 price to $2,495. Does that sound like a move Steve would make? Contrary to your point, I think Jobs-era Apple is pretty different from Sculley-era Apple.
What database do you use for storage?
If conveying that information in your voice is useful, it's also very useful to be able to fake it. I lifted weights in high school, went wakeboarding with people and (briefly) went to an MMA gym. I've met skinny people with deep voices and ripped people with high voices and vice versa. I wasn't able to find a link to the original study, but I think they're completely wrong, and the correlation is nonexistent or negligible.
That photo is from a documentary [1] in which Jony Ive said that a big part of his work was designing fixtures that hold the parts in the machines.

I always figured that Apple designed the process and others merely implement that, they don’t seem like the kind of company that works with many ready made parts.

[1] http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/
sounds to me more like the editing of current partial clips or future partial clips online (mobile uploads sounds like the perfect target)

more like video editing for the average joe, rather than a full out way to post-process your files, and small short shots like what you would typically see on FB would be perfect for this

I wonder what the actual stats are for the number of clips people have on youtube that are these types of small clips for friends, family, and fun? because, yea, for the top seen videos this would be not so useful as those are mostly post-processed (but I guess quick editing would be nice, like annotations being very simple and heavily used despite post-processing options)

also wonder if you could clip together multiple clips to get beyond the 10 min. time limit... but the system probably already accounts for that...

another last thought, I wonder what cool things people could possibly do with this for fun. youtube is known for innovative content, so it might be interesting. also, what about the possibility of different people uploading to youtube to form a single combined clip w/ different shots w/o the need to send it all to one computer for editing?
That's good.

Problem: what about Sense and Motoblur? Think HTC and Moto are going to drop them just because the Android UI bas improved? yeah right...
Wanting choice and keeping companies from customizing their product to differentiate them seem to be goals that are at odds with each other.

However, I've used a number of android based phones and I still find the Nexus One's interface to be the best and cleanest.
The inherent problem HN faces with pagerank, is that it's a site with a million outbound links. I would imagine also that thread pages tend to have more outbound links in them than they do backlinks going to them.

On the bright side, the PR result I just got in checking it, came back a seven (Reddit is an eight by comparison).
Yes that is what I meant, thank you for clarifying. My US-centric viewpoint came through more than I expected!
There's a good roundup of Side-Projects in Review for 2014. Nathan Barry, Brennan Dunn et al. are featured:

http://www.startupclarity.com/blog/bootstrappers-2014-year-r...
The way you improve test scores and increase America's economic competitiveness is to understand that higher IQ students will learn faster and more efficiently than lower IQ ones, and then by grouping the students accordingly. Instead of wasting billions trying to get everyone up to speed, let's devote more resources to those who demonstrate talent, while
those who cannot keep up are encouraged to pursue vocational work. Hence, we see that that the problems facing our educational system cannot be lessened by throwing money at it with reckless abandon, but by better understanding human biological differences and how these not only effect learning, but economic outcomes. I don't want to make this a partisan issue, but what we observe is a leftist denial of human cognitive differences and a denial of the significance of these differences as the culprit. Better teachers, new technologies, and new curriculum can only go so far; for progress to really be made we need to stop being in denial of human biology as it pertains to IQ and learn to face these sometimes uncomfortable but inescapable realities head-on.
nikic/FastRoute. You're welcome.

(Also, note that the problem is more with Packagist's search results, since most of them aren't even routing libraries)
If you have the bandwidth, handle forgotten passwords manually through a customer service call and ensure they give you email, username and billing details if applicable.
He could just pardon them individually if necessary, just print up a list of names based on the arrest records.
well, as general categories, cancer, heart and diabetes are the main non-accident reasons people die, for example in my country (US), and it's similar in most other countries. I see that trend as continuing (as a consequence of the nature of health care, and lifestyle).

The actual details underlying the health trajectories of individuals (and then viewed in aggregate) are interesting, and the way we record cause of death, study deaths, (and the studies are then reported on) don't really capture the finer details in most cases.
Another point to add is that applications sold outside the App Store can avoid the sandboxing restrictions of the Store, and consequently contain functionality that would be not permitted by Apple on the Store (file access, deeper system access, etc.).

That said, for my side project ( http://artfulmac.com ) it is absolutely worth it to me as a solo developer to pay Apple their 30% to have them handle fulfillment (including system-integrated update notifications), payment processing (with currency conversion), tax form creation, and refunds. It's a trade of financial overhead for time. The App Store also conveys a sense of trust to consumers.
"Obviously a huge part of an index is maintaining desired weightings"
Actually it's not. Suppose I have an index that should contain AAPL and TSLA weighted by market cap, with total value $100,000. Say they both have 1000 shares in existence, and on Monday their prices are $100 and $300 respectively. Then my index will consist of $25,000 = 250 shares in AAPL and $75,000 = 250 shares in TSLA.

Now suppose on Tuesday the price of TSLA has increased to $700, so my index should be 1/8 AAPL and 7/8 TSLA. It's tempting to think this means I have to rebalance by selling AAPL/buying TLSA. But that's not right! I have 250 AAPL shares which are still worth $25,000, and 250 TSLA shares which are now worth $175,000. So I'm already at the desired 1:8 ratio.
I haven't listened to this episode, but John was great when he went on the On The Metal podcast[1].

1. https://oxide.computer/podcast/on-the-metal-11-john-graham-c...
Absolutely. Would you want to make this index?
How long until id.me gets hacked and all those scanned licenses get released...
Came here to essentially post the same thing. If you're on some form of basic hosting with a Cpanel, you probably already have it installed or a click away.

Google can't entice me enough to bother adding load to my sites.
I don't know if you're considering what Coinbase is when in alignment with cryptocurrency. It is exactly what cryptocurrency was supposed to not be. It's centralization, it's a bank. I personally have no emotion towards it, but I definitely understand those who do as the cryptocurrency project was quickly taken over by the same old financial interests.
If you're sending from an exchange, you're actually splitting that fee with multiple people (one transaction with multiple recipients including yourself). If you're on your own transaction (e.g. sending from a hardware wallet), you're going to pay considerably more (closer to the tune of $10).
The simplicity of this client is quite beautiful.

I wonder though, how do you keep the client minimal, while also maintaining a useful level of functionality?

It's something I've tackled with over the years while developing DarwinMail[1]. I've always tried to keep the UI clean and clutter free, while still providing all the functionality the user would like (that I learn about from feedback and also from other tools research).

I'd love to hear your thoughts on how you decide what features make the cut, and how they are designed?

[1] https://www.darwinmail.app
> It appears to be a win-win-win situation for all involved

Will no one think of the criminals?
> Both of those emit radiation and until there's definitive proof that one or both do not cause damage, they shouldn't be in use.

Should we ban your light bulbs because they emit radiation that is in every way more dangerous than millimeter waves?

Sorry, but the catch-all "ban all radiation because the word radiation sounds scary" is beyond stupid. I believe there are good reasons not to use this kind of technology (mostly it's about privacy), but luddism like this degrades the legitimate health concerns there are against backscatter x-ray machines.
My general position is to avoid things that could conceivably cause cancer until hard evidence shows they don't rather than the reverse. X-rays could conceivably cause cancer.
How does an SD card get locked to a handset? That doesn't seem like functionality that exists in SD cards.
Don't forget cell phones, they cause cancer too.
It pushes the problem to the hiring stage at the company which wrote the OSS pulled in by the gem pulled in by the gem pulled in by the update to your Twitter integration plugin.

For kicks, go open script/console, type [].methods.size, and create a passing test for that number. It will fail, eventually. The code that kills it may surprise you.
SpiZilla
The iPhone doesn't have removable and expandable storage.

Nonetheless, I consider that to be an essential smartphone feature.

A related note: What is Microsoft thinking coupling the performance of a phone to performance of an SD card?! Architecturally, I can't see a good reason (unless my assumption that the phone has internal storage is actually wrong)
I started getting it in the 8th grade, and this is what I've done to this point (sophomore year of college):

-In 10th grade, I switched to Dvorak, more-or-less on a whim. After two painful weeks of hating using a computer, I was semi-fluent in typing and could resume normal use. The key was forcing myself to use it for everything. Although this may be wishful thinking, I feel I have become able to type much more comfortably while using Dvorak, and my wrist pains lessened for a few years.

-I have tried to remove the mouse from most of my workflow; I do this primarily by using keyboard shortcuts and Emacs, although last week I started learning how to use vim because A) (proficiency with) two editors are (is) better than (proficiency with) one, and B) its commands seem shorter, which I think might help.

-When I do use a mouse, I now use an Evoluent vertical mouse; this has been one of the most important changes, and relieves much of my wrist pain. I've realized now how unnatural it is to have your hand flat while mousing.

-This summer, I used a Kinesis Advantage Pro contoured keyboard, and pending financial feasibility (e.g. I'm a college student and I owe $23,000 next month) I'll be buying one for my desk; that thing worked wonders.

-In the meantime, I use a Microsoft Natural 4000 ergonomic keyboard, which helps; I'm looking into cutting off the numpad so that the mouse isn't so far off to the right. It's been done before, there are resources online; it's not that hard.

-I've migrated much of my work to a standing desk; this makes it much easier to get proper posture (IKEA Fredrik desk). I have several barstools I can lean on or sit on at the proper height, if I need to rest, although I find I'm more productive standing.

-I stopped playing video games. (The pain persisted, but video games were the worst transgressor) (I didn't play much, but tetrinet / puyo puyo / etc can be pretty nasty to your hands and wrists)

Of course, all of these things probably have the sum usefulness of taking regular typing breaks and doing the proper stretches, which a doctor I met with years ago told me I should do; however, I've found myself to be quite bad at keeping up with that, both enforcing breaks and doing stretches for the duration. I like all of these options because once I set them up, I don't have to do anything (or at least, very little) to maintain (in my opinion) healthy habits for my wrists.

Maybe someday, though, typing breaks and stretching. Never push through the pain; it'll only make it worse next time. When it gets really bad, step back and stop. I never take Advil or any anti-inflammatory for the pain because I don't want to power through it and do damage when I should've listened to my body.
If the goal is to fetch as many URLs as possible, the best bet seems to be using async epoll to simultaneously fetch tens of thousands links. Processes/threads consumes too much memory to be viable.
Bromium does this for common apps (web, pdf, office) on Windows, e.g. each browser tab and HTTP request is a separate VM.
actually verizon is already advertising the phone as 720p capable, but what that really means I guess we'll find out in the 23rd

http://phones.verizonwireless.com/droid/x/

edit: looks like they changed the ad from "720p screen" to "captures 720p" which makes more sense