jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How Amazon’s ambitious new push for same-day delivery will destroy local retail
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/small_business/2012/07/amazon_same_day_delivery_how_the_e_commerce_giant_will_destroy_local_retail_.html
Boeing Resisted Pilots’ Calls for Aggressive Steps on 737 Max
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/business/boeing-737-max-ethiopian-plane-crash.html
How to make a friend fast
https://happyturtlethings.net/how-to-make-a-friend-fast/
Ask YC/HN Archive
http://gabrielweinberg.com/startupswiki/Ask_YC_Archive
Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report
https://nltimes.nl/2021/04/17/huawei-able-eavesdrop-dutch-mobile-network-kpn-report
Hang Around with People who Get Shit Done
http://jaxn.org/article/hang-around-with-people-who-get-shit-done
People with names that break computers
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160325-the-names-that-break-computer-systems
'; CREATE TABLE `Capture the Flag`;' -- Stripe's Web Security CTF is Live
https://stripe.com/blog/capture-the-flag-20
Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-50418317
How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit
https://intoli.com/blog/f5bot/
NASA finds super-emitters of methane
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-finds-more-than-50-super-emitters-of-methane-180981045/
Oh, you mean like IPv6
Perfect! Well put.
Tunnelier (http://www.bitvise.com/tunnelier) is a great tool to use with Notepad++ for SSH tunneling
I believe he was intentionally using hyperbole there. For example, if he were being literal, why would he mention "firing" anyone, since he obviously can't actually do that?
Patrick, Thanks for sharing so much about your new service and what it takes to get off the ground. I'm curious if you plan to use a true merchant account for handling credit card payments since AppointmentReminder orders are probably going to be larger in value than Bingo cards.

Also, do you plan to form some kind of business/formal entity? I see reference to Kalzumeus but is this just a placeholder? I'd love to hear thoughts on those aspects when launching a new service.
A WSGI server (like paste, tornado, etc...) - you just wrap it in an app() function or object. It's very similar to Ruby's rack...
All but one of the classes I've taken so far at college have explicitly allowed collaboration. A couple are designed to be impossible to pass without collaboration.
It's refreshing to see product based innovation instead of the dozens of social media startups.
From my understanding, one of the main reasons that internet is so slow in China is because everything has to pass through the Great Fire Wall.
Some lines I've been saving up, feel free to contribute.

"Aren't you at least going to buy me dinner first?"
"Woah there buddy, don't skimp on the foreplay."
"I think you might have missed a spot."
If you're into forex/CFD/futures rather than stocks, you might want to take a look at Metatrader. It's free, it is very widely used and it comes with its own C-based programming language, MQL4. I've used the language to set up my own custom indicators and expert systems (for real-time automated trading). I recommend this as a very hands-on way to learn technical trading.

http://www.metaquotes.net/
http://www.mql4.com/
Yeah, that seems to be what I'm going to have to do. I suppose I'll work on a product in my free time.
Per the CNN article, there's been no change in policy. That doesn't exclude technical changes. Engadget quotes two words, and who knows if they've accurately represented the context.
I don't think this approach will really work, and could cause a significant amount of issues on an implementation level. While it may work in theory, changing all the software would be a huge pain and it would be more difficult to mentally model.

1. I probably make the mental conversion between UTC, and EST, EDT, PST, etc several thousand times a year, which is very strait forward to do with an hour offset. However, doing these mental conversions with 4 hours and 3 seconds (think after a few changes) or 3 hours, 59 minutes, and 57 seconds will make mental alignment of data in different offsets massively more difficult. While I'm a huge proponent of representing all our systems in UTC time, it's just not a reality that exists today. Also, I see many peers fail this conversion often enough, that adding complexity here would be costly.

2. Some of the protocols used for transmitting time offset from UTC are only capable of a resolution of 15 minutes. If I remember correctly, all current 3GPP standards do this, as the wireless protocols for cellular are highly optimized for small message sizes, they do not currently encode a higher resolution than 15 minutes. This means that today, a cellular network cannot send your phone a time offset from UTC more precise than 15 minutes, and to do so would require a change in standards. This also means, that likely no phone on the market today would be capable of reflecting these time differences.

While I don't have a perfect alternative, I did like the idea of abolishing the concept of a leap second itself. Meaning, that it is more important that time count forward at a steady rate, from a computation perspective, and that adjustments to re-synchronize with the slight changes in the earths rotation should not be taken at all. I can't think of any downsides with this approach off hand or from previous readings, but I'm sure it creates it's own problems in certain problem spaces I'm not familiar with.
Although these days I'm living several layers above bare metal (Linux and Perl), I do miss the DOS days as once you ran your code there was nothing between you and the silicon.
This website is unbearable even if you have a great computer. Get it together forbes. Big does and fullscreen does mean better.
Thanks for checking that. Looks like I'm wrong.

Out of curiosity, what other perms does it have?

I bet you could also sneakily restrict people by checking the device's phone number, for example.
12:00 is almost never midday. Even in equator, "midday" drifts by several minutes as the year goes by. Sunrise and sunset times vary a lot by latitude, so 5:00 in one location might mean sunrise, where in another location the sun won't come up for a couple of hours. Ditto for sunset. Even DST can't compensate if the sun is rising at 6:00 and setting at 22:00.
I would've thought headphone quality mattered, but my boss heard the effect through iPhone earbuds.

The effect is fairly subtle. To make it as clear as possible, try leaving it on for a couple minutes, then switch it off and listen for a bit. Or, play this example, which is the clearest demo I've found: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t5dvah8zke3uky8/HellOfAGuy_demo.mp.... The song's played twice—with and without the filter.
Not to a moderator; to a YC partner. Moderators' Hacker News looks completely different, and you're going to have to wait till one of us leaks another screenshot to see it. :)

I feel like since it was we who slipped up, fair game rules say we owe you guys an explanation of what those bells and whistles do (warning: you may find it disappointingly mundane), so I'll come back and post some more in this thread later. By coincidence, however, I was out all day, so had better catch up with anything important first.

Edit: Ok, I think I've answered all the questions about details. But let me add the most important point here.

The interface that you see in that screenshot is not actually used by anyone [1]. Those links are there for legacy reasons. Their principal role at present is to lure YC partners into accidentally fat-fingering things. (Don't worry; that doesn't happen often, and we see it in the logs and correct it.) They don't exist in the YC-partner version of Kevin's new HN markup, so they won't be around much longer.

1. The only exception I can think of is that Trevor occasionally helps out with moderation.
Check out Codebox.io, another open source web ide. I've been comparing the two from a self-hosted standpoint. c9 definitely has the more polished interface (for instance, the ability to resize any pain), but codebox doesn't seem to limit any features on the self-hosted version. It just seems to work better.

I only got my self-hosted version running last night and couldn't seem to spot a "chat" option (had two different browsers open) but for any file that was open by two people, you got to see who was editing what within the file.

When I was running c9, I couldn't even get the console to display. I found a plethora of issues in their github issue tracker of other people with the same problem, as well as code suggestions to fix it, but virtually no response on any issue from the c9 people.

I reported an issue I was having with codebox on their tracker. First I thought it was a bug, then I found a workaround (set the USER environment variable before starting codebox). I reported that on the issue, suggesting a documentation update, and within an hour, they had committed new code that made the workaround unnecessary.

So for self-hosted, I think codebox has the more stable and actively developed codebase while c9's open-source version is more of an afterthought. But I do admit that c9's hosted service is much nicer than codebox's hosted service.
WHY is this posted as an embedded scribd doc?

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EDIT: full text posted here: https://gist.github.com/710960
This would matter if one of them had the limit that's much smaller than the others, which would lead to aggressive GC, which wasn't the case.

When working on the same project of a known size and using similar IDE functionality, different IDEs still had noticeably different performance characteristics (i implore you to try the same, especially with the same Xms and Xmx values set).

That simply leads me to believe that each IDE implements things differently, for example:

- JetBrains have separate IDEs for separate languages (IntelliJ IDEA for Java, Rider for .NET, PhpStorm for PHP etc.)
- NetBeans allows lazily loading support for different languages/frameworks/tools
- Eclipse is generally viewed as a bunch of interconnected libraries/frameworks (JDT for Java, PDT for PHP etc.)

That's just one example of the architectural differences (which may impact which functionality is loaded when and how efficiently the memory is used), though it stands to reason that it's perfectly normal to observe them to act differently from one another, even in controlled circumstances, like the above.
> self-reported emotions also have tons of pitfalls well documented in the literature

That's interesting. Where can I read about these issues?
The Netherlands is quite aware that we are considered a tax haven, it's in the news all the time. What most other countries don't like to hear is that multinationals consider them a tax have not for the low corporate tax rate (it's not the lowest in the EU), but because the tax authority provides a much better service.

In particular, companies can get so called "tax rulings" that allow them to predict exactly how much their tax bill will be, as long as their revenue, depreciations, etc, stay within an agreed upon range.

In many other countries it can take over a year to get a final total on your tax return. This causes headaches for multinationals who need to keep a reserve somewhere to account for the worst possible outcome of that tax bill. I would say that attracting multinationals with better service is fair game.
I agree completely with your points, and I'm sorry be that guy, but "literally retarded" is offensive language and is frankly below the level of discourse of HN. I'm not one to be the PC police but really, come on. You can make your argument without resulting to slurs like that.

https://www.verywellfamily.com/what-is-the-r-word-3105651
The software was working just fine for years before on earlier versions with the interlocks. They never checked to see how often or why the interlocks fired before removing them. Turns out those interlocks fired often because of the same bugs.
Currently they go in landfills, but there are programs[1] starting up to recycle them.

[1]: https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ge-announces-first-us-wind-...
Can you share your source? I wonder if you are looking at production or consumption numbers. California is the largest energy importer in the USA (25%) and my understanding is that the number 1 source for this power is coal and natural gas in Arizona and Utah.
> With civil statutes, the objective is not to fully extinguish behaviors like jaywalking, but to provide law-enforcement with tools to maintain order. Most officers don't run around citing people for every violation they spot. They instead look for people who are behaving in a way that is dangerous or disorderly, and then use the law to reign them in.

It's not about "maintaining order". These laws serve as a legitimate cover story for police to harass indiscriminately, as they are widely disregarded, giving a blank check to police to stop and harass anyone based on their own hunches, biases, or prejudice.

It's a bad system, and it has nothing to do with maintaining order, and everything to do with legitimizing police misconduct.
> The bottleneck is vaccine production

Given claims like "I have 70m doses that I can’t ship because they have been purchased but not approved. They have a shelf life of six months; these expire in April." from https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/14/w... it seems like claiming that the bottleneck is production needs some serious caveats....
"it’s hard to tell where the artist’s work ends and the vandalism begins"

Seems like no harm, no foul.
Hello HN!

The goal of Artifai is to help people generate art from photos. I had a problem: My walls were bare. I wanted to decorate them with memories, but I wanted the decorations to be artistic at the same time.

This lead me to discover neural-style, an algorithm that takes two images as input, and copies the style from one onto the other while retaining its content. Neural-style lets you take a meaningful photo and turn it into awesome art! There were several implementations available on Github, but I didn't see a way for non-technical users to easily use it and have the result shipped to their home. And so I began building Artifai with a group of friends; We are a group of university students and this was our first fullstack app!

You can read more about the technical details here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q63JH2CnRWZbhO7oDHEeAWJT...

Thanks for checking it out and let us know if you have any feedback! :)
Nope. I'm on a static business IP, with DNS all set up correctly. I've also got SPF records set up, but I don't think they get used, as I use my ISPs smarthost for relaying mail through.

I do get a lot of incoming spam though, but I think that's more to do with some of my email addresses being over 20 years old.
Literally any real language would be better.
Even if I have to learn a bit of it to write pipelines, at least I'll end up with some transferable knowledge as a result.

In comparison, if I learned Github Actions syntax, the only thing I know is... Github actions syntax. Useless and isolated knowledge, which doesn't even transfer to other YAML-based systems because each has its own quirks.
Right, and it's worth emphasizing that companies do not provide free speech, nor are they required to.

If you want that to change talk to Congress.
I cannot stop thinking this guy is describing what we do at https://garden.io.

He seems to go on describing the Stack Graph and the build/test/deploy/task primitives, the unified configuration between environments, build and test results caching, the platform agnosticism (even though we are heavy focused on kubernetes) and the fact that CI can be just a feature, not a product on itself.

One thing I definitely don't agree with is:
"The total addressable market for this idea seems too small for me to see any major player with the technical know-how to implement and offer such a service in the next few years."

We just published the results from an independent survery we commissioned last week and one of the things that came out is: it doesn't matter the size of the company, the amount of hours teams spend mantaining this overly complex build systems, CI systems, Preview/Dev environments etc. is enormous and often is object of the biggest complaints across teams of Tech organizations.

So yeah, I agree with the complexity bit but I think the author is overly positive about the current state of the art, at least in the cloud native world.
I've read people admitting that Nix can give you a lot of work from time to time, when something isn't already available for Nix (which happens more often than, say, for Debian), and you want to add it to your system. Is that true in your experience? I may be phrasing it wrong.

What is the learning curve of Nix?
It would have been interesting to discuss the giant leaps of racket materials though. Wood to steel/aluminum in the 70's, and then graphite in the 80s. That would have been a more appropriate discussion. It would be interesting to see their third point, about patents, and how big of a barrier that was for tennis racket technology advancement and adoption.

I'd imagine this Vaporfly issue wouldn't be such a big deal if competitors were easily able to create similar shoes.
I don't know how replies and edits work on this site. I didn't see most of your post when I replied.

The problem I have with what happened to these penguins is how wasteful it was. Relatively little was produced and everything else was wasted. And using a living creature as fuel to render its compatriots into a low-quality, low-yield product. The fact that they died isn't really the upsetting thing to me here. It's the wasteful nature of the process and the impact on the species and the environment.

I'll happily, very happily in fact, eat bison. They're delicious. I would have no problem killing and butchering one myself. Shooting them en masse and leaving the carcasses to rot as happened early in the history of the US is beyond repulsive to me.
A better comparison would be Microsoft's demos for Project Natal, which eventually became Kinect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5__fZ3GsW8

There was also the other Kinect demo that featured Milo, but Molyneux probably deserves the blame for that infamous piece of hype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDvHlwNvXaM#t=10

I definitely want HoloLens to be real, too, but to avoid heartbreak I'll temper my hopes until more reports come in. Or, even better, a firsthand experience.
> However if you take the lid off a WD drive, the head arm pivot goes out of alignment, since it is secured in place by one of the lid screws.

Oh god, how did I forget about that? Yeah, the guys on hddguru had things to say about that a few years back. A few folks made some really good side money making a tool specifically for realigning the heads on those WD drives.

I used to do the very occasional DIY data recovery for people that had the need but not the money for a professional recovery. My last one was well over 5 years ago, WD and the others made it impossible for people like me to do it anymore. (We still can do recoveries on failing drives under very limited circumstances using a custom server/software we patched together.)

You really have to pay for expensive yearly training and piles of equipment to do data recoveries now.
The Piwik use-case I was referring to is to run it from your imported logs, not the default JS tracking. Because the visitors can't circumvent server logging, you get analytics and also boost page speed.
What it reminds me of, is Google Project Tango, which also has the NASA's JPL listed as a partner[1]. Also worth mentioning, is Johnny Lee, who worked for Microsoft Kinect, and is now working at Google for project Tango.

[1]https://www.google.com/atap/projecttango/#partners
To expand on my earlier dismissal. The hard problem states
1 Consciousness has a special property
2 Physical process are insufficient to have the special property
3 Zomg what is consciousness
4 We are totally not Dualists, honest

The answer is either
A) Conciousness is the result of a physical process
Or
B) You are a Dualist, stop lying to yourself.
Recent example: Try explaining web app session stealing (to other web developers or management) two months ago versus now. Two months ago you get blank stares or outright disbelief, but now you get "oh, to protect against firesheep? yeah, let's use SSL everywhere."

It was just as obvious two months ago as today, but now people have a one word conceptual model to use without needing to understand cookies, browser requests, proxies, broadcast domains, or cross site issues.

Obvious to us. Amazing to the normals.
That's actually motivated by various mechanisms. Phone usage peaks during the day and during the workweek, falls at night and the weekend. So they try to encourage usage during the off-periods by lowering price. Classic pricing for fixed capacity infrastructure. Similar to hotels, airlines, theaters.

Network operators have different transit deals with other operators, at varying prices, so that's why calls to different operators may have varying prices.
Oh yeah, kids who get "You have to be a doctor" parenting have a 50-50 or so chance of succeeding when at least one "doctor" is a parent. Some have brilliant careers, and others screw up totally and end up destitute.
This is how strtok returns tokens too.

Incidentally I only found this after trying:

char tmp[] = "cat,mat,sat";
char *t;

t = strtok(tmp,",");
while(t != NULL){
printf("%s\n",t);
t = strtok(NULL,",");
}

And getting a segfault, as 'tmp' is not writeable memory.
Reachoo (http://reachoo.com) is a video classifieds website (a craigslist and youtube's baby). It also aggregates ads and distribute ads. I'm a single female founder that started and self-funded the site since early 2009 . Reachoo went from being ramen-profitable to replacing my corporate income in the past 6 months. My site is reaching 1M unique pageviews/month
I like the bookmarklet idea, but find the interface confusing.

It also seems to have problems with some Google Chrome extensions like AdBlock, i.e. it lists all "unused" selectors that are loaded to block ads.
> I don't understand how you could reasonably apply TDD when developing user interfaces:

Unless you are trying to test whether clicking on a button or link fires an event, UI tests aren't exactly in the domain of unit tests.
> So like Churchill's assessment of democracy, public school remains the worst form of education except for all the others.

Is it though? We have records (sometimes questionable, due to bias) of different forms of government, dating back thousands of years. Where's the comparisons of educational systems? I'm no expert in pedagogy, but I'm also no expert in governing systems, yet I can name at least five different forms of the latter, and only one of the former.
jesus christ gmail is absolutely unusable both on the desktop and on mobile.

the only way to make it usable again is to switch to the plain html mode, that uses no javascript, loads very fast, and reminds me a lot of the first gmail ui, back from ~15 years go.