jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you use more than 2 GB per month, you deserve to pay more than the rest of us who do not. Why is this hard to understand?

So my real concern about these type of data plans is not that they are not fair, but that they will stifle inovation and the way people use their phones. If we are not pushing the phone networks to expand the amount of data that they can push out to phones and we are not encouraging every phone user to use as much data as possible inovation in how people use their phones will slow.

It is concerning to me that AT&T is now offering people a financial incentive to not look for new and interesting ways to use their phone...
I help run a small press, we publish books bundled with music albums.

http://monofonuspress.com

The single biggest problem we have is promotion.

The music is easy by comparison, as bands play concerts all the time. Authors can't book more than a few readings to promote, placing books in stores is almost worthless when the author is unknown.

The publishing industry will have to change quite a bit before the big players are replaced. Promotion and marketing along traditional media is locked up pretty tight, and online increasingly so. Remember that for every great book we're selling there are hundreds of books from crap to gold hyped by professional promoters with more money, connections and experience.

It's rough out there.
Here an excerpt that gets pretty awkward (and sweaty):

http://video.allthingsd.com/video/d8-video-under-mark-zucker...
That's exactly the intuition that led Cingular (now AT&T) to give rollover minutes. I doubt they will offer me any "rollover gigabytes" for my data plan, however.
That's fine, because I buy Playboy for the articles.
I'd love a link to an actual article, not a tweet.

Those couple characters, while written by the venerable Mr. Calacanis, are less than interesting.
The Zuckerberg hate is lame.

The guy is 26, and has grown up while building what's almost certainly the most significant tech company to be started since Google. Despite the challenges inherent in building a company whose currency is personal information, almost all of the major decisions that we have enough data to judge have been proved smart and non-evil in hindsight. He has hired one of the best engineering teams in the Valley. Trite as the observation may be, Facebook has tangibly improved the lives of me, my family, and almost all of my friends.

By any fair metric, he has at least earned the benefit of the doubt. And while plenty of criticism of the company's actions is justified, the bitter schadenfreude that surrounds his mis-steps is unseemly and lazy.

To the extent that Facebook has made mistakes, the speed with which social norms are changing means that no matter how good a job they do, screw-ups are almost guaranteed. This applies to everyone: Google messed up privacy in Buzz, and, despite dealing with far less private information, Twitter, too, have had various issues (e.g., leaked private tweets).

I'm embarrassed to be a part of the Valley tech industry when I come across this kind of mean-spirited pot-shot.

[Disclosure: none. I don't know him, and don't work at Facebook.]
So many people are eager to steer a conversation. That’s not Aaron. He’s one of the best listeners I have ever met.

And he’s one of those people that engenders so much respect that it makes you want to be better just because you don’t want to let him down. (Or maybe it’s because you don’t want to be on the wrong end of that “I’m not mad I’m just disappointed” look.)

I aspire to be the type of mentor someday that Aaron has been to us.
Also, even if the credentials are 'admin/admin' or 'admin/password', by default the administration interface is not reachable from the WAN side of the router. Or at least, I've never seen a consumer grade router that was open to management from outside.
I don't think it gets ethically interesting, only politically, which isn't very interesting.

Let's take a similar case: kill switches on cars. As you may know, not too long ago industry innovated a feature that allows remote disabling of a parked vehicle. This feature was used as an assurance of reposession and payment by automotive financing. They just stop the car from working on late payment. The result: lots of people who were previously unable to access automotive financing now could. This was a very good thing for everyone!
The editor will be collaborative. It's github.
Oh, very cool. Thanks, I just bookmarked it here.
As an additional layer of safety, you can also commit to a local repo, or a private bitbucket repo, and give it all a nice once over before pushing everything to GH. At least this keeps your screw ups out of public scope.
Kind of neat - although the iframe irks me. I wonder if there's a way to do this easily with JavaScript/AJAX...
I have been grateful for my 10+-year mail archive many times.

On the other hand, there's mail archive rot too:

I lost most of my mail archive around 15 years ago when a migration from my Lotus Notes university account to several IMAP accounts went terribly wrong. And many mails lost their metadata and/or attachments during later migrations. All in all, however, my mail archive has remained very useful.

There is only one major issue:

I use Apple Mail due to its integration with my private CRM software and with Apple Mail, you have to keep your mail archive in sync even if you use IMAP. That means a few 10 GBs on each Mac I use - expensive storage in the age of SSDs! Even worse, if you are on the road, you pay an addition toll for expensive mobile data or (usually) slow data in public wifi networks etc. Backup becomes more expensive due etc.
There are other things.

For example: Teslas improve general efficiency considerably by (for example) using regenerative braking, which will be utilised in normal driving but not if you're travelling up a big hill on a freeway.

Furthermore, they're particularly heavy cars - a Ford Fusion (similar sized saloon) is about 1500kg, whilst the Tesla is 2100kg, presumably because of the batteries - the extra effort to lift up a hill is linear in the weight, so it'll be at least a 25% drop in the surplus cost over normal driving.

Overall, it's not really an efficiency thing because the costs of fuels vary so much. For pure heat-to-wheel efficiency, the most important one is that since Teslas are about 80% efficient at turning power into motion, and charge efficiency is about 97%, and a combined cycle power station is about 55% efficient at converting heat energy into power, then the total efficiency from heat to wheel is about 43%, whilst a modern petrol car might be expected to see more like 30%.
Presumably it would only cost a penny because whoever buys it doesn't expect to collect very much and will be motivated to negotiate.

It would be really nice if rather than taking a low amount they sell it directly to the debtors themselves for such a markdown, but I guess they'd think that sets a bad precedent.
In this case, thankfully, the patient was "fake". But let's pretend for a moment that a "mental health chat bot" really did tell an actual patient to kill themselves, and they did.

Who would be responsible? It would be criminally negligent, of course, but it feels like something worse, much worse.

The only word I can think of is torture.
This metaphor works well.
What about thieves (internet criminals) or nosy passersby (script kiddies)? Don't you need protection against those, too?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy_Formalism
Google has the "AROUND" operator, though I haven't tried it recently to see if it is still respected.
As an aside, I find it interesting that the author only publishes articles about regulating AI on Nature: https://www.nature.com/search?author=%22Kate%20Crawford%22

"Time to regulate AI that interprets human emotions"

"Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated"

"There is a blind spot in AI research"

> We believe that a fourth approach is needed.... It also engages with social impacts at every stage — conception, design, deployment and regulation.
Good point; actually they should tout their excellent security more.
This is a great joke. But I'm skeptical this will actually illicit any behavior change. I think a better approach is to try to change our current phone usage patterns. I've been working on a timelock wireless charger to do just that: https://pausbox.com/
For sure. At least at amazon while they don't demote you, if they are not that excited by you on the team equity goes pretty low.

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-compensation-explaine...
UBI is a perfect solution for you, quit the job, live on UBI and never work another day in your life. Just wait for it to be implemented, it is coming.
Hey Karianna, to my surprise I actually am able to run JetBrains IDEs using the pre-release JDK 16 for Windows on ARM. I had to add "--illegal-access=warn" to idea.bat + I had to delete runnerw64.exe. I've tested with IntelliJ 2021.1.
"I almost want to say it's been around longer or as long as docker?"

I had to look it up but GitLab CI has been around longer than Docker! Docker was released as open-source in March 2013. GitLab CI was first released in 2012.
Can just default to something like

"""
apiVersion: v1
appName: "blah"
""".FromYaml().Execute()

or something.
I personally didn't get much ("much"), but have heard several people say how they can pretty much buy a high-end phone now.

You could get an account on an exchange, send the XLM there and then withdraw it to your bank account.
It is likely infected and is renting residential IP to web scraping companies.
This, porting an architecture to another process is a multi-year process. In a Reddit AMA a week and a half ago they mentioned that the Rocket Lake backport took 2 years (from 10nm -> 14nm) [1]. That's quite a quick schedule and also on a very mature process.

"The project final concept closed in Q1 2019 and we are launching today, so your estimate is right. Took us 2 years for RKL"

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/memyfv/ama_march_30t...
Can you link to the public statement? Would greatly appreciate that, thanks!
I've used

#!/bin/sh
python3 -c "from math import *; print($1)"

as my calculator for some time now, and it's quite useful. I need to invoke it with quotes though:

calc '100/34.2'
Hey. I am James Miller, and I studied metal for a long time at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The quality and strength, its wear resistance depends on the metal. I work a lot with metal and recently realized that it is worth sharing my experience on my Metalprofy blog. Here you will find reviews of the best products from different types, metal care reviews.
Same with cell or phone service...

There is not other services like GV that provider a phone number?
I started a company in Vancouver this year. It's going great, we're profitable, and I'm quite enjoying the tech community. I think the culture in Vancouver lends itself to creating sustainable and enjoyable businesses.

However, if your goal is to get rich by betting VCs' money, Vancouver isn't a good place to be. If you want to hire great people and bootstrap a company though, it's great.
Site design is problematic - it doesn't look solid - it looks almost spammy, as if if I gave you any info (personal finance info!) it'd be compromised.

Level-headed check, I know that's not the case, but the appearance is not very hot. I'm not a huge fan, but look at Quizzle.com. It's slightly busier in some ways, but there's a lot more polish, and the value prop is right there in the tagline "don't guess - know". Actually, that's a bit nebulous, but it feels stronger.

You've got 3 thrusts:
Get a Second Opinion before Purchase
Get a Free Financial Health Check Anonymously and Instantly
Boost your Financial Savvy by responding to Questions

Focus on just one as the main push on the home page, lose the others.

This is 'site redesign' stuff, and not quite what you asked for, but I think you might have the makings of something. A solid base of people sharing info here could lead to other products for upselling. Also, targetted ads - if someone's looking to buy X, not only would have people suggesting whether they should or shouldn't buy it, you'd have ads right there giving them options. Or perhaps that's crossing a line in your mind?

Again, conceptually, I think there's the seed of something there. It just feels a bit hokey at the moment.
Workload management always meant "Job Scheduling" to me - so I'm with you on this. Never knew Novell was in the job scheduling business (nor attachmate)
While I love the novelty behind UW chat most professors probably be a little annoyed with it. Still it seems like a pretty fun instant chat room app.

Really looking forward to the the next few apps. QC seems to have a lot of potential.
In devise at least reset tokens expire, so they'd need to have been set in the last day to be useful, which narrows that attack considerably doesn't it?
I agree with you that this would be a great experiment. However, that won't stop any potential bias once they get the job.
And as always when someone posts this - we are at Spring 4 now, update your funny bookmarks.

Here you go:
http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.1.6.RELEASE/javadoc-api/...
http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.1.6.RELEASE/javadoc-api/...

These are framework classes that you will never have to see or use when building a Spring application.

Spring is surely not perfect, most people don't have the slightest clue what a modern Spring Application (read into Spring Boot) looks like.
See full discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26724522
SEEKING FREELANCERS – Mobile Dev. – REMOTE

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The only non-negotiable requirements are: previous experience developing a mobile app, and an understanding of REST APIs.

On our end, we’re a growing startup with solid funding. We will pay top dollar for top work. I was a freelancer for many years, so I know the potential pet peeves and potholes of such relationships – I will take care of you as I wish my clients had taken care of me.

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Sure, it does. But what happens when it goes wrong and the anti-missile missiles are launched against a sub-orbital passenger jet whose transponder has gone wonky?
If you like Smalltalk and JS, it's worth checking out Amber Smalltalk: http://amber-lang.net/

You can even develop interactively in your browser with "live objects" using an IDE akin to what you'd find in Squeak/Pharo.
I've never really considered a sort of distributed patent/copyright system before, one based on industry/products. You would likely run into issues about defining what is or isn't a new industry, but in general, I like the idea.
It's pretty well split down the middle from my experience on these topics. And few people are really ravenous for them. However, you're talking about selection bias. If generics were something you absolutely wanted, you probably wouldn't be using go in production.

One of the things you learn when using go is that generics are not the answer to everything. They are certainly the answer to some specific things, like optimal implementations of common algorithms.... But not every application needs to use the A* algorithm, or a left leaning red black tree... Would I like to have generic implementations of those that I could just toss in my application with my own types? Sure. But I've done enough generic programming to remember when you could finally stop writing

foo<bar<baz, bat> >

And could finally do

foo<bar<baz, bat>>

.... And I don't really want to have to write that kind of code again.
> or maybe we can just fall back to a 2011 version that had a 15 second offset.

Won't the new offset be 17s? The offset would only diminish if a negative leap second was enacted which has yet to happen.
>A more effective solution at finding the right candidates is an educational system available to all.

Yes, will be good. Also important is the free movement of talent to where it is needed.

>arbitrary

Not all ranking is arbitrary. A lot of it is targetted for the skillset a job needs. What I find arbitrary is quotas. I see this in medicine and actuarial science. Where instead of basic competency, they take the top x %.
I think it also helps that, in practice, there seems to be a common philosophy (at least among the Clojurists I've talked to) that macros should be used only when absolutely necessary. Because of this, the sort of unrestrained, ubiquitous code rewriting that the author mentions is rare.
First, thanks for giving your thoughts and responding.

I think that when you say this (as you did in the blog post):

"here are a couple of rules to follow to ensure a good user experience:"

...particularly using "rules" you have to keep in mind that anyone and everyone could be reading your post.

And they very well might think that you are more qualified in your opinions than someone who has come to those conclusion by observation [1] and therefore give those "rules" greater authority than they deserve. Since, by your reply to my question, you say are actually just "simply usability guidelines that I've built up over my time interacting with hundreds of websites".

Now of course if you are a business offering to sell a product or service I for one think that it's a good idea to be definitive and state an opinion in many cases as if it's a fact. Regardless of whether it is or not. [2]

[1] Which of course we all do from time to time.

[2] But even with that I would never tell people in a blog post that this is a "rule" just something that I feel (and for what reason) is appropriate from my perspective.
Eeek! I was going to do this over the weekend!

Don't symlink your steam folder. Yikes.
How about F#'s Computation Expressions? Not exactly the same, I'm told, but they're close, if so.
Thanks. From what I can tell you agree with:

> there is no encryption for there to be escrowed for large or critical parts of the infrastructure

That is to say that TLAs get access to records before encryption is ever applied to them (I would tend to agree with this) thus obviating the need for escrow. Laws requiring key escrow, then, become red herrings to the larger discussion about the legality of access.

I personally would classify 'partnerships' under extralegal pressure. Under this interpretation you do seem to agree with the GP comment - though I would understand if one were to argue that for some important semantic reason I asked the question with the wrong word. I would probably agree that 'partnerships' are only a strict subset and not synonyms for extralegal pressure.

It does appear that there are partnerships with some digital corporations and that PRISM is a program for corporations that resist 'partnered' access to records. Given the history of telecoms and their development of partnerships, current development of partnerships in our industry and known applications of extralegal pressure in our industry, we ought to be especially watchful.
While I completely agree, the one child policy hasn't been without its problems.

For example, the number of boys Vs. girls in China is likely going to result in either a civil war or worse another international conflict 20 years from now. An extremely unhappy population is not constructive for world peace (or even inter-China peace).

I am extremely concerned about that powder keg and everyone else should be too. What does a society do with a bunch of unhappy 20 something males typically?
You don't remember Google's April 1st announcement of Gmail, then. With gigabytes of storage, it was the perfect joke for the day and naturally carried by news outlets everywhere. And the joke continued on the next day, people realized that it wasn't actually a joke and, naturally, another media frenzy happened. Perfect example of guerrilla marketing IMO.
It also makes sure you don't question your consumption habits, shop around for better deals or look at the competition.
I hope this is real.

It feels like a joke, but I could use this. I already have Amazon Subscribe-and-Save set up to deliver products on a regular basis, but the available schedules don't always meet my usage patterns. Having a button for "I took the last box of diapers out of the closet" would be perfect.
This just seems like a stop-gap solution before the true solution which is wearables (or Amazon Echo/Glass).

Saying the name of what you want to buy into your smartwatch/glass/echo is going to be a lot more frictionless and scalable than putting these buttons all over your house.
I believe the idea behind not including it is that you can choose the color of your keyboard without them having to anticipate demand for certain colors and package them together. I don't think that's a very good rationalization (just give them an option for keyboard color and ship a second box!), however.
That needs a citation. When I polled my largeish team in 2007 it was nearly 100% hard wall office.
Right...ok that's a valid corollary to Occam's razor and I respect that POV.

It just odd, to me at least, that with such a logical and profitable path laid before them, as the article reminds, that GM could be that incompetent when it came to diesel.

You really think there was absolutely no bean-counting influences when it came to the development of diesel at GM?
That started much earlier in continental Europe, during the 80s for the biggest sedans and 90s for smaller cars, with the concurrent mainstreaming of catalytic converters (smell and soot), turbos and better diesel (lower knocking and thus less noise).

15 years ago was the mainstreaming of common rail direct injection and particulate filters (on passenger cars) which cemented that
Not sure, but there could be regulatory reasons. In the US there are these funny quotas for having to have so and so many cars below certain fuel consumption levels. And those quotas do not apply to pickup trucks, because they are not cars.

This is rather silly, but it's the kind of thing that comes up when environmentalists and industry lobbyists are unleashed among politicians.
I am TORN because I love that YC is funding African American founders. I love the traction that the company has and that the team is solving a real problem. BUT I hate how it feeds into a stereotype that all black men are criminals. It is exhausting how hard we have to work to get others to see blacks in a different light.
Are module loaders missing in the feature list for ES6?
Well this is a very unusual announcement.

From what I know Apple is a big user of Cassandra and Teradata for iCloud, iTunes etc. Both of which are very solid databases that have been proven to scale.

I am not doubting FoundationDB's credentials but it's pretty extraordinary if they are having scalability issues with either.

My guess is that Apple plans to create an equivalent to Facebook's Parse. Either that or this is an acquihire.
Very cool dude! Congrats on finishing it. This is motivating me to start on a game also this weekend :)
Depends on what your employer asks for. Some might rather employ somebody who knows how to harvest free labour off the internet, rather than `waste' their time solving other people's problems for free.
I have friends who suggested it, but I was kind of set on YC for the experience and advice they can offer, I'll see what my options are, though, thank you.
traces => trenches?
i bought one to play with. it wasn't quite as good as the reviewer said, although i briefly got the wireless working. My run time was about 20 min before dead batteries. It took 45 minutes for Walgreens to figure out how to refund my money, and in the end could only refund it within $2 on my creditcard with the rest in cash
"the leader in intelligent workload management"

What does that mean?