jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We should. Ads are an invasion of privacy, a security risk, and an attempt at manipulating you. The very purpose of ads is to convince you to do something you wouldn’t do on your own. I don’t need ads to badger me into thinking my life sucks and I’m a loser and the inky way to fix this is to buy whatever the ad is selling. This is the fundamental purpose of an ad. I reject this and I’ll keep blocking ads, thank you.
git 2.23 isn’t that old - seems like something that GitHub could support in the future
That would be something I would expect to be demoed at WWDC 2020.

Now that it isn't happening, lets see how it goes.
For me maintaining common elements across pages is a reason not to use “just html”

It’s error prone to make changes in the header and footer for example across all pages if you have lots of pages
It's surprising right? I like pretty much everything else about them.

To the OP's question: for apps that facilitate micro-transactions I ended up using Stripe, but I forced the user to add a balance to their account first. So, rather than charge their credit card for every micro transaction, they'd add $20.00 to their account in the beginning, and every transaction would just draw-down from that account. Antiquated, but seemed to work alright.
Writing from scratch is the way of suckless. :)
What's wrong is that all the current solutions don't get out of your way and let you get back to coding.
The UK Government
If you are in the "but what if..." phase then you already know the answer. Something like AWS's a la carte pricing may appeal to us geeks, but for most people, three buckets just converts best. Relevant link: http://www.michaelmcderment.com/2006/01/19/pricing-web-servi...
Make sure you are capturing emails so you can follow up and tweak your offerings as necessary. If your prospects decide your product doesn't fit their needs, they will let you know.
When visiting someone for the first time it's nice to be able to look at street view and know what the house looks like. (This may only be an issue in a town or city, but it's a lot easier to read building numbers from street view ahead of time than it is while driving.)

PS: You can also vairfy you have the correct location when talking to someone over the phone.
^^ This. Also, while you're presenting, try to remember that you're the expert. Practicing in front of people will give you an idea of what kind of questions you might get so be prepared with a coupe extra slides to answer any frequency ones.
This reads like sarcasm right now in this context, but it won't always. By 2020, I would expect cameras to be so cheap, widespread, and connected that you can walk virtually down most city streets in real time. Shortly after that's common, the idea that you would consider the outside of your home "private" will seem peculiar.
This notion of equivalence is a very interesting concept.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937589 look at the drilldown results, does it still show a spike?
Django?

Oh... You mean the guitarist... Right... It was tragic... Only about 40-something...
> My understanding is that the books you "buy" are licensed only to a single device

Amazon allows you to read a book on up to six Kindles (or Kindle compatible devices such as iPhones / iPads).

It can be a bit fiddly (the easiest thing would be for you and your girlfriend to share a single account) but it's doable.
Quien no ha visto Sevilla - no ha visto Maravilla! but Quien no ha visto Granada - no ha visto nada!
Interesting. I always found those machines to be annoyingly slow and loud.

My theory with money: the less your customer has, the more important appearances are. Go to your local bank and look at how nicely dressed the tellers that are cashing grandma's $20 check, and then go to their trading floor and look at the traders that are trading millions of dollars a day.

In the case of Coinstar, every penny is important to the customer, even though a penny is worth approximately nothing. (And of course, they take 10% anyway, so their incentive is to over-count, not under-count, but I digress...)
There's often times a hidden variable in the decision to return home - in my case it involved nice curves and brown eyes.

I'm a Kiwi and many of us head off overseas in our early twenties, usually with the intention of returning home in a few years. This 'Big OE' though is mostly because people want to see the world rather than because they want to move somewhere to improve their quality of life. So that's part of the explanation for the difference the study sees between migration between Western migrants and those from Asian regions say.

On their travels some people meet a pretty girl / handsome guy and so sometimes the new partner returns to New Zealand too and sometimes the Kiwi ends up staying in the new partners country. The decision in these cases is more a personal one than to do with any specific countries advantages / disadvantages.
Wow, feel the fear. Grow a pair!
This happened to me with Apple. The pay cut was huge; I declined. End of story.
The drag and drop delete both unnecessary and the reverse of what someone would intuitively do. A simple button/link per item makes far more sense.
No, I'm just saying it's weird. People tried this (+) with houses and it didn't work very well. Why meals?

(+) this == "You saw the price and consumed the product, now it's time to pay." "But I don't have any money." "Oh fuck. I'm fucked, not you, even though you're the asshole."
The worst thing is humans controlling planes. Everything else follows.
Could github whitelist ip addresses who did commit to protect normal users from DDoS effects (splitting traffic to two sets of servers during DDoS etc)?
>I would emphatically advise beginners not to listen to Linus Torvalds

Lest they might learn something?
Or, the kid will grow into a misanthrope. Or, perhaps become depressed enough to commit suicide. Or, more mundanely, will soldier on in life, carrying psychological scars.
Ugh, yes. The other "innovation" was to redo the building as an open-plan office. The increase and noise and decrease in productivity was ridiculous.
Sure, accessibility continues to be an issue.

The head of WP marketing - who has contributed a ton over the years - learned she was out of a job when she saw the announcement of a new marketing lead on social media.

WordPress is great, but it isn't perfect. And for the CEO of the largest for-profit part of WP to liken a competitor to a roach motel or an abusive relationship is irresponsible and denigrates the mission.
Being further north should actually make it easier. If it's consistently below zero then you're less likely to get the really dangerous ice.
Money in bank accounts is insured by the government, but our data and privacy isn't.

> and the systems in place to safeguard that trust

How many systems are in place that safeguard our privacy and our data?
The thing with salaries is, there is a certain number (different for everyone obviously) at which you are happy and comfortable, and each incremental dollar from there on matters less and less. That is the point where you can afford to care about things like social impact, company culture, fulfillment and more.
I swore off Youtube Kids a while ago due to the inability to whitelist / black list effectively (I hear it is better now).

There really was a strange amount of 'empty' what seems like almost procedural generated type content that is just sound and noise and nothing happening.

It's like hypnotoad with slightly more action, but only slightly more action.

I go with PBS Video (https://pbskids.org/) if I need a quick go to type video for the kids. I trust PBS a hell of a lot more.
Aside from implementing FedRAMP controls as it relates to these servers (look up FedRAMP’s system security plan template for these controls to get a better idea of what these are) the role would likely involve speaking to assessors from a 3PAO and the FedRAMP PMO and demonstrating that the controls are implemented.

Yes - it is tedious and a drawn-out process that will last many months (could be more if the org is far from FedRAMP-Ready) but may be a great learning experience as well.
Kanbanize. I also looked at LeanKit Kanban before. It seems to be almost similar, maybe a bit better, but a bit more expensive for our team. Not sure what you mean with Github issues, I don't think Kanbanize has Github connection but there is an api so you should be able to build one if you need it.
Yeah, I feel pretty bad for the top 13% wage earners in the US (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/business/one-p...). They really have it rough.
Why would anyone recommend the ECB mode as an alternative to CBC?!
> Are you trying to say it's morally wrong to read data made publicly available through a site's API? I think that's a stretch. Clearly there are very obviously malevolent things you could do with data acquired with such queries, but just iterating on a URL query string seems pretty far from an obvious moral wrong.

I used to think this. But I changed my opinion and yes, in this particular instance, it's pretty much unambiguously morally wrong.

Why did I change my opinion? Because the previous one was wrong (morally). Ethics isn't rocket science or brain surgery. Well, maybe a little like brain surgery.

I could download that data and IMO, it'd be wrong to do so. I'm not always a good person, even by my own standards of ethics, so I might download that data. I wouldn't use the data maliciously because IMO that'd be even wronger (but by now why are you taking my word for this? I already violated my own ethical code once!). So all in all (if you take my word for it), the consequence of me downloading that data is strictly less bad than some malicious actor doing the same. I'm not really a big fan of Consequentialist Ethics. It's nice in theory (say, Utilitarianism), but in practice people simply have to use a derived code, which is not always as clearly defined. I like to keep my hypocrisies at surface-level.

So I could do it, things would probably turn out right for everyone involved, but I'm not going to kid myself and tell myself it's not wrong to do so in the first place.

(Also, there's the risk where having a copy of the data could mean I could lose control of it, fall into more malicious hands, and that'd be bad. Practical considerations I do not disagree with, but I should not need these to determine whether something is right or wrong)
I found a great article by Walter Chen yesterday about how to he brought his business to $1000 recurring revenue yesterday.

http://blog.idonethis.com/how-we-got-to-1-000-in-recurring-r...

Im working on a similar service using SMS.
Maybe we need something like Feminism but for older people? :)

Older people are people too.
As the article says, the previous one was a brute force implementation. And the 100x number is kind of nonsensical since the real speedup depends on the size of the input (the asymptotic complexity of the algorithm went from O(nmk) to something like O(n+mk) I believe).
kudos for the book. I really liked it. Will/Could you add a section for Dovecot also?
Exactly. This is all about their earnings. Given a general trend towards decreasing or outsourcing R&D, Amazon is still doing it in-house, because it's their competitive advantage. Explaining that to a bunch of panicky stockholders who just saw a Big Ugly show up on the cashflow statement is mandatory, no matter how much they care about the long-term.
I guess this is kind of surprising/interesting if you haven't taken a functional programming course in university, but as others have pointed out, proxy is just a simpler wrapper on top of 'apply'/'call'. You should read the docs on those two functions, as the difference in the way they work is subtle but worth understanding.
Could this be made into a bookmarklet? I could see using this to diagnose issues on 3rd party sites where source access isn't available.
The location/timestamp concerns are only relevant when my phone has been stolen or somebody has unrestricted access to my computer. At that point, location tracking is only one of many many terrible things that can happen to me, and frankly it's nowhere near the most terrible. And if I'm concerned about somebody tracking me, I'm going to be most concerned about the last 7 days, not the past year. If you're concerned about the government tracking you for longer than a year, they easily have access to that data without your ever knowing they looked.

The solution is to properly protect your data on your phone and your computer.
The solution maybe better ways to find old content.

But having the same links resurface over and over doesn't seem optimal to me.
It's not that easy. What about fonts?
As a citizen of neighbouring Denmark, I find this a truly grim day.
How can something like copyright infringement result in a prison term ?

And don't even get me started with the whole "A torrent tracker is copyright infringement" argument. Jeez!
"polls at intervals and either pulls from the remote repository, or adds, commits, and pushes from the local one"

What does the dropbox client do that is significantly different from this? Does dropbox do block level replication or something?

NB I use dropbox and like it, but I do like the idea of the server component being completely open.
"As far as I remember these guys declared never to pay the fines."

Not quite sure what you mean by this, but once the collector comes, he'll just take whatever you have. I don't know about Swedish personal bankruptcy law but even in the best case if debts like this can be discharged by bankruptcy, going to jail for half a year, being flat-out broke for something like 5 years after that, having all your wages and possessions confiscated, and then having to re-build your life at 40 doesn't seem like a sacrifice the 'intellectual property is evil' cause is worth.

Does anyone know something about these guys? Do they have families, companies, jobs? Eventually something like this had to happen of course, but still, I'm sure these guys were 100% convinced they were the Good Guys and Good Guys Prevail In The End, so this must be devastating...
I had big problems with bittorrent and QoS back when I ran an open network. It's not uncommon for remote seeds to run on an alternate port like 22 or 443 to get past their own firewalls. At that point, you have to do deep packet inspection, and I'm not sure how feasible this is on consumer grade routers.
Great work! I would suggest taking some of the clutter out of the design. Make the homepage dropdead simple.
Haha I love "little laptop pixies" :) That's exactly what I was talking about.

I think I'm going to have to get this TECS book (no pun intended) - it sounds just what I'm after. Need to finish SICP first though :P Not enough hours in the day.
Yeah, we have seen that. Definitely similar concept, but different market. Really impressive implementation!
You can self publish a lot of free and full of ads crap.

Self publishing to the App Store seems a good model for professional writers, the diference is a distribution channel you can profit from without ads.

This is more a competition to Amazon and Kindle than competition to blogs and wordpress sites.
Heh - Mike was exaggerating when he said unintelligible. While we are not masters of that paper, we worked through it and understood the algorithm. We could take a simple example and apply the steps - this is a very different understanding than someone who studies and focuses on this field, yes. Given time, we could have done the implementation without the python code - Mike's recollection of the early part of this story is heavily 2nd hand.

However, even understanding the algorithm (if not masters of all the concepts behind it), there was still a large gap to implementation. The solution that was used allowed us to focus on pieces of that problem and accelerate development fantastically.

Lucene has some of the best tests in open source software IMO. We are confident in this code - whether it takes 2 or 3 people to properly maintain or not.

The option before was a completely non scalable joke fuzzy query or nothing. Now you have this option. Great. A little magic? Sure. Great :)
Why not link the original source, without the ridiculous commentary? http://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/04/you-asked-for-it-you-got-it-...
You could always just chuck an SSD into a macbook pro on your own - my aging late-2009 macbook pro got a fantastic speed boost when I dropped an Intel x25m G2 SSD in - a bit short on space compared to before (which forces me to keep things backed up and synched, which is a good thing) and the speed difference is night and day.
As cities get more dense, people walk and cycle. For longer distances they take public transport, which is far less accident prone than 100s of people zooming by on segways.
That was added a couple years ago in MySQL 8, as were window functions and arbitrary checks. The two databases continue to fill in the gaps that were historically reasons to choose one over the other.
I know you say we wouldn’t believe it, but would you be willing to share how you discovered the book?
I think something like this would be good, but I don’t think I’d base it on bash. Some of the things I would have are:

1. When someone writes a command like foo | bar, instead of making a single pipe from one to the next, put your own lightweight program that works a bit like pv in the middle. In the standard case this is a pretty cheap program: it just needs to call splice to move from stdin to stdout, but you could have some mechanism to eg view the data going through a pipe or the rate of data: one could tell if the program is doing anything

2. Typical interactive shell use involves writing commands, inspecting output, then modifying the commands. A notebook format may be better for that. I think I’d want some mechanism to say “these commands will generate some output. I want to inspect it then write the next stage in the pipeline so hang onto that output instead of rerunning the command.” And why not make some “interactive grep” and interactive versions of other commands so that one can get immediate feedback when modifying the regex.

3. It’s hard to know if a command will have side effects but I feel like it matters a lot. Maybe something could be done to detect it somehow.
Will you be using samples to identify NEW microbiome bacteria? Or are you only identifying KNOWN bacteria?
That's usually not enough when they're really wrong and it's their first time touching a hot stove /pot.
40% say that Trump won the election.
It will take a couple of years to see how many people are QAnon/Trump zealots and how many are Republicans held hostage while waiting for someone to viably step up.

But for now, it's 40% that's a mix of cultists and people who act like cultists for the time being.
Where do you draw the line?

Ants are very intelligent. Is it okay to destroy their societies just because they don't look pretty and we can't emphasize with arthropods?
Actually the term is defined in a Google article called hardware lotteries[0], describing software theories that make it because of existing hardware.

[0] https://hardwarelottery.github.io/
Although only silly in the context of the US legal system. In other countries, and NY State, a "supreme" court doesn't necessarily doesn't the top court. normally a "supreme" court is a court of general jurisdiction, as opposed to lesser family courts or dedicated criminal courts. The top court is then some variation on "court of appeals".
Every revolution and coup has been driven by a small group of people utilizing social networks and shared ideology to win an asymmetrical fight. Altering consensus at scale is nothing new.
World's fastest supercomputer is now nvidia's gpus: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/china-...
Related Article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1897940
The current system in the US strictly follows a flowchart. It has no preparation for anything other than "generic terrorism".

With an infinite set of previously unthought of plans, this is a system terrorists can game to their advantage. The Israeli system requires competent individuals trained to adapt to any scenario.
Clever name. Hot pot is Chinese family-style fondue where everyone takes some meats and vegetables and puts them into a communal boiling soup bowl, waits for a while chatting, then pulls out something delicious. I'm definitely interpreting it favorably, but it fits the service very well.
That "99%" does not mean that the rest of the search engines share 1% - people use different search engines for different types of queries. As some commenters pointed out on previous days' news submissions: "if you want to find music/videos, go to Baidu, if you want to find foreign information, go to Google".
I got a message alert in Gmail two days ago saying that my email had been accessed from China. I wonder if that was related.
You said "instantaneously". That usually would imply traveling outside of your lightcone. That really is undefined; an "instantaneous" transport from here can end up anywhere outside of your lightcone, which are all equally well(/poorly) defined in relativity. You can't distinguish those points in either time or space without creating a preferred reference frame.

This is the same reason FTL drives are also, fundamentally, time machines. It's really a very profound thing; there's no "yeah, but really we know there's an absolute time frame underneath it all"... there really, really isn't an absolute time frame, and you really, really can't say how old the black hole would be if you "instantaneously" transported there; it is just as valid to instantaneously appear when it is 31 years old as it would be to appear when it is 100,000,029 years old (taking of course the estimated age as its true age). Or, IMHO, just as invalid because FTL and instantaneous truly don't exist.

Yes, if you change your claim to be sublight and non-instantaneous we can compute how old it would be, but that's a profound goal post shift.

The Minkowski metric is a mindbender, the moreso once you realize that it is not some weird mathematical abstraction with no connection to reality, it is reality, or at least a much better approximation than the one we instinctively use. The "weird mathematical abstraction with no connection to reality" is the implicitly Euclidean/Galilean metric that exists in our heads. (Which can actually be demonstrated to contain fundamental contradictions if you poke them hard enough.)
I assume there's so little detail because he wants you to click his affiliate link and buy the book.
Agreed. I've never bothered to write a review on Yelp, but this interface was quick enough that I found myself writing a couple on here.
But that looks like the general direction:

"One could even go further: the privacy level using those public DNS servers might actually be higher than using the DHCP-provided ones in many cases"

(I'm a massive systemd fan, but ignoring DHCP provided DNS servers is IMHO a bold move)
How would one go about protecting their own personal backups from something like this?

Would a hard-drive be fine if it is just not plugged in at the time? Or would it need to be stored in some sort of faraday cage?
I think you meant Alt-N and yeah I did know (don't even know how but I use it every day since forever..)
Nah, not a fan of Facebook, not a fan of Apple either with their closed system. This is how we cheered Google with their "don't be evil" mantra while they got evil. Who taught Facebook how to invade privacy? Google. Who taught Google about closed systems? Apple.
Inexpensive mitigations in this case are things like evaluating and improving transformer designs so they are more resilient to these events, maybe speeding up replacement of some transformers (if they are especially susceptible or very critical) and maybe having a few more spares around.

Of course nothing will make sure we are 100% prepared, but there can be a lot of value in reevaluating and improving things.