jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Twilio was the most shocking example. They use that braindead[1] "RFC" style that includes day of week and month name in English. I remember feeling it looked like the most ugly part of their API; no reason for this silliness. (Maybe they've changed it since I looked a few years ago).

1: It made sense in like the early 70s when people read and wrote all headers by hand. It's been stupid for a much longer time than it made sense though.
Yes, they're the one product now. We didn't want divergent products for similar use cases. One feature we think is neat is you can mix-and-match standalone accounts (where the seller uses a regular Stripe account) and managed accounts (where the seller never goes to Stripe).
If it helps, they seem to also be on the brink of losing some. Congrats on the launch!
Is that a good thing? Why not have a Federal Rail Transport Police? I'm honestly not sure how I feel about a bunch of for profit organizations all having their own police force, but I'm willing to be convinced it's a good idea.

Something about the phrase $COMPANY Police just makes me uncomfortable.
From TFA: “Though he did not mention the firings in his farewell note, they influenced his decision to resign, people familiar with the matter said, speaking on condition of anonymity.”
Replacement firmware for IP cameras that has no need to go to the cloud: https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko
> The wellbeing of a prostitute is one of those things that has no market.

Sure it can. Everyday institutions make calculations that assign a standard monetary value to a human life.[1] And it's not just the market, the government and policymakers do it all the time as well.[2]

Heck, you even put a value on your own life. Do you drive the latest car model and live in a house that was built in the last two years? If not, you're trading off money against mortality, by increasing your risk of dying in a car accident or house fire.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-value-of-life/
This should be higher up.

Here's my cynical take: the most effective way to lift the sanctions would be lobbying from US corporations. Lifting sanctions is probably profitable for every US business with a market in Iran, so if you work at a US corporation, lobby your boss!
Shocked that food companies have not gotten into the driverless car space yet. Seems like Chick Fil A could vertically integrate well by acquiring a company like Waymo or DriverAI.
Haha Unclack actually does let you configure the Menu Bar icon and mute indicator appearance, including being able to disable the mute indicator altogether! :)
> There was intense demand for the Leaf in California. The waiting list was a year long through 2016, and in LA at least there was still a waiting list well into 2017.

No there wasn't. Leaf sales dropped 43% from 2014 to 2015 and were even worse in 2016 for a number of reasons. The first was the Bolt was announced in early 2016 and the Model 3 in mid 2016 [1]. The second reason was the 2016 cost $5000 more than the 2015 because of a larger battery that only gave it 27% greater range (107 miles total)[1]. The third reason was that cosmetically it was unchanged from prior years [1]. The final reason was that there was an influx of cheap Leafs on the market[2].

The only waiting list in 2016 was for receiving your EV Rebate from the state[3].

The waiting list for the original Leaf was only 20,000 compared to the Model 3 which exceeded 300,000.

> BMW, VW, Toyota, and Ford have all launched new models in significantly greater numbers over shorter timeframes and with fewer employees than Tesla.

Ok? Incumbent car manufacturers who have been building cars for 50+ years can ramp up manufacturing of a new model ICE faster than a company that's just over a decade old that had to build an entirely new factory from the ground up. That should surprise no one.

So what about EVs? VW only managed to product around 30k of the ID.3 in 2020, it wants to build 300k in 2021. Ford's new Mach-E is limited to 50k units in 2021. Why? Both are due in large part to production constraints with the battery. The battery problem isn't going to go away and everyone, including Tesla is being throttled by it.

[1] https://www.autoblog.com/2016/02/05/facing-bolt-tesla-nissan...
[2] https://www.autoblog.com/2016/02/16/cheap-used-nissan-leaf-e...
[3] https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/s...
Could perhaps ferromagnetic pieces be collected using a giant magnet?
There is a significant number of people working at Microsoft who use Windows on a Mac as it's generally nice (and expensive) hardware. I'm sure they'd be thrilled to see Bootcamp operational on ARM Macs.
By the way, being Iranian doesn't give you special understanding of foreign relations and the US role in the middle east. I'm sure it helps, but using it as an appeal to authority of some sort is misguided.
When interest rates are as low as they have been now for a long while (sub 2% for homes), the interest rate portion isn’t the limiting factor for how much you can afford to borrow.

Instead, to prevent prices going to infinity, there is usually some kind of laws in place for maximum length such as 30, 50 or 100 years (infinite I.e interest-only was common at least in Sweden when rates were higher), a minimum down payment such as 15%, a maximum size of the mortgage relative to the income etc.

Sweden now has all of these (!) so for most buyers, whether the interest is 0.5 or 3.5 makes very little difference. Most buyers, especially first time buyers, will be capped by one of the other limits regardless.

As it has been pointed out, this loan isn’t 0% since it’s not the effective interest rate including fees that is 0%.
Clearly this is awesome, I'm curious as to what lead you to build it? Understanding that you weren't solving a 'problem', but you've created something really compelling here.

Care to give a peak into how you came up with it?
American does fly to LHR, unless my trips home have been to some alternate reality... They don't fly directly there from SFO, though, you have to transfer.
I had to laugh, thanks.
Sure. I'm operating under the assumption that life might throw you a curveball or two - maybe some company is offering you enough money and a chance to network with great people that you'll take them up, but get stuck in the interview process b/c you don't have enough CS. To me sticking w/ a pure CS curriculum is the least risky and what you miss in SE you can quickly make up after anyway.
Can you please provide a reference?
Seconding this. I know many people who speak only English and are doing just fine here. Almost everybody who works at a store is bilingual. It's still worth it to learn French though, if only to get the francophones' respect. I often hear Quebecois friends complain about people in Montreal not doing an effort to learn French, but they'll respect people who put some effort into it.
Really stands out in the large photo:

http://mat.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pMAT1-7356750e...

Khakis would have been more realistic perhaps!
I just can't stop playing with this thing.

American fruits over time:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=pawpaw,huckleberr...

The pawpaw was more popular than the blueberry, and the gooseberry was more popular than the raspberry!

How much people talked about black men, and what they called them: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=man+of+color,Negr...

Amazing!
Yeah, there's a limit to how much of a premium I'm prepared to pay for the benefit of bricks and mortar!

Though cables can vary a bit in price depending on quality, so that might have come into it a bit too.
Yeah, I think I'm serious too. Team up? Let's talk about this if you get anywhere with them.
iPods can be very sensitive to moisture. I'd be wary of wearing one on my wrist.
It seems like going through CrowdFlower could help a lot. Has anyone used it? I guess it worked for the author.

At my last job I was involved in a project where we were going to use CrowdFlower, but it ended up being canceled. I was always curious about how good their results are.
Just have to say, before reading all of this, REALLY glad this many HN readers and posters are into this topic. Thought I was the only nut that loved technology and firearms, guess I was wrong.

happy sigh
Its ok, I wasn't really trying to set off fireworks... just to offer a little of my experience :)

I've found that there are quite a few companies that can pay me worthwhile contractor fees yet cannot budget to have a UI guy, a backend guy, and a product manager as employees.

I know the perspective of the post was from a specialist perspective, I'm just pointing out that there are also plenty of smaller companies that cannot afford 3 full-time employees, or perhaps don't even have enough work to keep 3 full-time employees busy.

This is typically handled by an "agency" of some sort (design agency, development house, etc.), but there is also a large market of small companies that prefer to just interact with one person for simplicity's sake.

Its kind of like serving the "long tail" of companies wanting some sort of software services but can't afford IBM's consulting fees, or a full-time employee to do what they need.
They're not sitting around a conference table in an underground bunker, stroking their beards and cackling maniacally while trying to screw the open source community as hard as possible. Microsoft is a business. What business sense does it make to release this plugin?
Dude, just 'cause you were busy making fundamental changes to a huge travel site is no excuse to have skipped the Boston/Cambridge HN meetup. Though the 5 of us got along fine without you. I'd better see you at the next one. :-)

P.S. Congrats on the big launch.
If you read the article, one detail is that the statistic is that 51% of those in this age group "live in households" which have only cell service. So in other words, this is including the kids still living at home. Viewed through this lens, the shift towards cell-only is clearly much bigger than the simple 51% number implies.

They should have told us what percentage of those in this age group, who live on their own, have only cell service. But we can make a decent guess.
Would this service support direct uploads to S3?
Sorry, but .22 Long Rifle is generally loaded supersonic from the test fixtures, even in the standard loadings. A pistol (assuming a 6" bbl) is really close to supersonic, if not a bit over. It'll vary by weapon and air density.

Now, you could use one of the other rimfire variations (.22 Short, .22 Long, .22 CB) which generally will fire from a .22 LR chamber. These would most likely get you subsonic velocities.

Another thing to consider when shooting a pistol vs a rifle and comparing sound signatures is that a pistol will eject more unburnt powder into the air around the muzzle as its had less barrel length to burn said powder.

As far as suppression goes, there are four main components of the sound signature of a gunshot:

1) muzzle blast - the expansion of deflagrating powder in the atmosphere as it exits the barrel.

2) sonic crack - the bullet creating a shockwave through the air. Can be avoided by using subsonic cartridges/loadings.

3) the weapons action - at the very least the firing pin's impact on the primer. This is louder than you'd expect.

4) the bullet's impact - very much louder than you'd expect. A rifle bullet impacting flesh is a very loud slap. Imagine dropping a large boneless beef roast on a tile floor from a few meters up.

Of these bits of the gunshot, only 1) can be addressed with a suppressor. And it does make shooting much more pleasant. You can generally avoid most ear protection shooting suppressed, even with supersonic ammo (you won't be in the shockwave so no need to worry about it).

I personally have fired rather large rifles without ear protection, and its generally not real pleasant. I really wish that there was no NFA and we could buy suppressors like some countries (New Zealand comes to mind). A .22 suppressor there is something like $40NZ, here you're looking at $4-600, a $200 tax stamp, and a 6month wait for the BATFE to do a background check that the FBI does in less than a week. Oh, and you can't let your wife/kid use it without being in violation of the NFA unless you have it owned by a trust where the family memebers are trustees.
I agree with your assessment of the Fed's influence on the dollar, but I think it's wrong to say that it's the "only governmental force." For example, if Congress decides to cut spending by 50% (hypothetical obviously :P), assuming the anti-bias government provisioning system, some of the cuts will come from goods abroad. That reduces the demand for, say, the Euro relative to the Dollar, and thus causes the Dollar to rise relative to the Euro.
My Little PonY?
can't blame the guy for that :-)
Joel's point is that these things are easy now because of techniques or features like the ones he brings up. Try to do something like that in assembly or FORTRAN or C and it's not all that easy any more.

You're working a level above- map/reduce is easy there and things that would be completely unthinkable to maintain in assembly/FORTRAN/C are the real hard problems.
So Sony starts a war with hackers, we'll see how this plays out. Maybe I'll go get some popcorn.
A strong dollar doesn't necessarily benefit the rich because the rich have very mobile assets, and it's likely diversified/spread over many regions like Britain, Russia, China, etc. Additionally, most of their assets are in equities whose values depend heavily on whether they're on the importer or exporter side of things. So unless the "rich" you're talking about hold exclusively cash or in export-oriented businesses in the US, no, the rich don't necessarily benefit from a strong dollar.

But a strong dollar for sure benefits consumers (in their consumer roles) because they have access to cheaper goods. It also benefits businesses that import more goods from abroad than they export--so Walmart, for instance.

"Consumer" means all of us in the US. A strong dollar is good for my pockets.
Redesigning them is actually a very good opportunity for someone in need of a good portfolio.
Could you go with a nice, but not ridiculously expensive, set? I had a blast on Dunlop Direzzi Z1's for about 20k miles before they wore out, and a set was closer to $600. Awful in the rain, though.
This is a really good point.

I am not a programmer at all, but did learn a little bit of ASP.NET at university. I never use it anymore, but I ended up teaching myself PHP.

I use PHP regularly, not to build anything grand - but it gets me by. I can write little scripts like working out who's unfollowed me on Twitter, small information systems, reminder applications, hack Wordpress plugins, etc.

I wish I was taught Python at uni right out of the blocks. I've tried to learn it a few times, but ended up forgetting to do lessons and just going back the the crutch that is PHP.

The theory of CS is way beyond me at this stage of life, but a little bit of programming knowledge is a very useful thing (even if it is only PHP)
This is what makes me scared of React. Everyone says it's so simple but still you need all these specialized plugins for things that are easy to do without React.
Actually, I don't think any are poisonous. Many are venomous, though.
This has to be the funniest XSS hack of all time.
Putting the entire team of people that knew how to operate it out on the street was perhaps not the best strategy for getting a good price.
Write your scheme down, compute the number of permutations it makes available, then divide by the total number of possibilities allowed by your password set (a straight [possible_chars]^[length] computation).

The results will surprise you. The space of things you describe is far smaller relative to the available space than you realize.

You can indeed make this big enough to work, and it's easy to make it big enough that only a dedicated cracker could get through it, if that. My point isn't that you're wrong, but that you may be less right than you realize.
I just switched to Pinboard as well. At first I was using the bookmarklets as well, but there are actually extensions available (why they aren't linked to from the actual Pinboard site I don't know).

Chrome
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/nfccdohlgojifgad...

Safari
http://www.chipwreck.de/blog/software/safari-pinboard-extens...

Firefox Plugin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59188/
The last time I looked, 24 years was far too long a period to examine the performance as the stock has had a reverse hockey-stick profile for quite some time.
What about some formatting like headers/subheaders and clickable links?
"we think it’s healthy to disclose and fully analyze our mistakes (although in this case we are not yet conceding that we’ve made a mistake in our analysis, but we obviously made a mistake in terms of timing our entry into the position)."

There's always a time factor to making the right investments.
It doesn't matter anyway. Accenture is also an American company despite being incorporated in Ireland.
decentralization means that a foreign government can't steal my bitcoin, not that my own government can't.
This title, doesn't that say it all?
What are you talking about? Just because a loud minority say that, doesn’t represent the diversity of the US. Melting pot of the world.

So just because you don’t like a loud subset of the US... you would rather support autocrat countries like China and Russia that are “quiet” and not vomitous.

What a naive outlook.
Why doesn't the company hire someone in another time zone?
There were animal trials. Here's an overview post of various vaccine's primate trials: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/07/30/co...

And as linked in that post, Moderna's primate study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2024671?query=fe...
Do the cons of open sourcing device drivers really outweigh the pros? Good / popular hardware will end up benefitting from all kinds of contributions from interested folks. Plus the recruitment pool and onboarding of new talent expands by a reasonable amount, in theory.

Is it really the case that somewhere in the drivers there is some secret sauce that is so ingenious that if the competition got wind of it, it would give them free access to a lot of hard work and research, and enable them to catch up?

I guess I've never really dealt with super secret proprietary magic beans before so I can't relate.
I’m no longer a SF resident because of garbage polices and obvious corruption in San Francisco public offices, but can the people still roughing it out start a recall? How did this clown think people wouldn’t uncover that he was the murderers PD and that it was obvious conflict of interest to not recuse himself instead he is basically an accessory, by refusing to file charges multiple times that would have put the murderer away for 25 to life
> The reason they're a problem is that most banks have a large portion of their funding in the form of deposits and passing on negative rates to depositors is very very hard - in my experience only the very largest (billions of dollars) overnight deposits get charged negative rates.

It's been quite some time Switzerland have negative rates and the threshold for charging the customer are getting lower and lower, closer to 100k than to 1B (base fees have also increased as a result of negative interest rates, easier to increase the banking fees than charge negative rates :))
Is it censorship to add a warning message?

With limited exceptions, I'm against removal of speech as the verb "censor" is defined here: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/censo...

On FB I've seen warnings added to the bottom of posts, and on Twitter I've seen clickthrough warnings. I think they have every right to do so. What type of content do they go all the way and remove?
Why is violence from one side celebrated and called "peaceful" ?
Most likely unable to handle the influx of users... Most social networks don't have a political drive to exodus (forced and voluntary) from other sites.

It doesn't even resemble organic.
Why am I not even surprised...? I thought about writing a sentence about how (relatively) easy it would be to build a verified compiler (think CompCert-for-brainfuck); I'd guess the outcome is one of (a) "someone already did that as well, here is the link" or (b) "I spent the weekend with that, here is the project on github". The Internet is awesome, as are people :)
> but considered by many of us to be a core American cultural value

Free speech includes being able to -not- utter things of your choice, too. No one will join me in decrying that my local paper will not publish my 30 page treatise on Flat Earth.

Yes-- power concentrating with a few gatekeepers of speech in tech is troublesome. That's what makes their moderation decisions so worrisome: that they're so empowered.

> Free speech doesn’t include provable lies

I think most provable lies are included in free speech, actually.

> or inciting imminent violence

Yup. But we kicked all the people off the mainstream platforms for things that were less than this, so now those platforms have less power to suppress the cries for violence.
As long as that way, whatever it is, still involve more than one human, you can't avoid the subjectivity problem.

Its not technology problem. Its human problem.
You can find a decent archive of footage from the recent event here:
https://twitter.com/_IntelligenceX/status/134696834457076940...

No affiliation, although I uploaded some that I archived.
Berlin is in Germany, and Paris is in France. That makes it an international flight.

Orlando is in the US, and San Juan is in the US. That makes it a domestic flight.
I think there are cynical claims of police overreach and actual police overreach in Oakland, CA. I think cameras would help with both of these.
This system allows for Nintendo gameplay audio to be played through an acoustic player piano and robotically controlled percussive instruments. The piano and percussion play live during actual gameplay, mirroring the sounds that would normally be created electronically by the NES. All audio, including music and sound effects, is translated in realtime so that it is produced by the instrument most closely resembling the characteristics of the original electronic sound.
Police and individuals should be able to use these, I hope it isn't a one way street, citizens should also be able to record the other side. I'd assume if both people have a Google glass like always on cam people will be much nicer on both sides.
As in Apache is an abomination?

I do not believe that and Apache has saved our arses over and over since times immemorial. Should've mentioned them, but it was kind of implied.
Tip for you guys: Stop pushing "We couldn't find results. Here are results similar to these" whenever I type in a very long-tail semi-obscure query. it makes you guys look bad. Just display all the results you find, even the ones that aren't super relevant.
Let's see, if complaints about police brutality correlate with claims of technical failure in the future.
I can't wait to watch the inevitable biopic about Elon Musk.
Why would you expect the CEO to need to pick up details like that, when Apple employs an army of designers?

Edit: typo
I would have to say it comes from the officers behaving more "by the book" since they know they are being videotaped.
I don't think so. If you serve the library yourself (don't use an external CDN to load it) there shouldn't be any connections to 3rd parties, at least I've never seen one in the 'network' tab of my browser's dev tools.

Also, I want to believe that, being open source, people would already discovered something fishy.