jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
DragonFly uses git: http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/?p=dragonfly.git;a=summary
I think we're talking about different concepts, and yes, inclusion of these words does not appear to have been a factor. What I'm referring to is a belief held by some that words such as 'free' ae interpreted by google as meaning the page is lower quality content, spammy in some way, and is this results in demotion.
It doesn't surprise me, lots of things were done in a bit of a panic in late 2008 and it's no surprise that every effort was made to keep the gory details out of sight for as long as possible.
If I recall, much of it was written by Jobs himself.
managed to get my Tokyo vpn server quickly. awesome.
Ahaha, noice1, never thought to take it that far. Seems like there's most probably a web page out there that will do glowing green terminal emulation of some sort. Nothing's going to fit me in my old aquaman under-roos though, lol!
How many facts do we really need?

Number of terrorist attacks attempted: 0

Number of terrorist attacks prevented: 0

Number of 'suspected terrorists' screened by TSA: More than 0, with great probability they pick out more than 0 every single day at every single airport.

Trying to stop terrorist attacks (at least in the US) is akin to trying to prevent a lottery winning. The statistics just don't work.
I think the average computer user is even more likely to be using old hardware than a gamer. The average Joe browsing facebook could be perfectly content with a 15 year old computer. Gamers at least are pressured to periodically update their hardware by the appeal of games that demand more than their old computer can provide.
Does setting up 100,000 communes count?
What we need is efficiency in the second-hand goods marketplace. One partial enabling change would be to eliminate sales tax on second hand goods (or only charge it on the markup).

I don't want to worry about how long I need to possess something at the time I order it. I want to buy it and a repurchase agreement and then sell it back to some marketplace.
Mini MSFT was on a hiatus, but seems to like the news and trying to shape the post-Ballmer Microsoft. Speculation that it was Sinofsky should be put to rest now.
Also Gasland 2 which recently came out on HBO.
I actually dislike it when this happens because I have to download the ~2.5GB dev kit again on my crappy connection before I can publish again. Or am I doing it wrong?
Oh, sure, I'm not against recruiting a cofounder, I, too, think one is very helpful. They never asked me that, though.
I can't decide if I should upgrade my iPad to this or not. The lack of multitasking - and therefore the lack of distractions - was the main selling point for me.

Also, the last iPhone OS update I ran on my 3G made the device run so slowly I jumped to Android.

So I'm going to wait and let everyone else be guinea pigs for me. Has anyone installed the update already? How was it?
Every time I read a facebook story here or elsewhere, I get the overwhelming desire to delete my account. The only problem is that there may be people I want to interact with that I don't have other contact information for. The sad thing is that I don't remember.

I might just do it anyway…they can't be that important, right?
My understanding of the situation is that most of the documentation on manufacturing fogbank was destroyed to evade litigation by workers poisoned by acetonitrile (which your body metabolizes into hydrogen cyanide) which was used in the manufacture of the substance.

One should remember that not long prior to the shutdown of the facility making fogbank, the Rocky Flats facility (which made plutonium bits for nuclear weapons) was the first nuclear facility raided by the FBI and EPA for environmental violations (among them was burning plu contaminated waste in open barrels and losing track of hundreds of pounds of plu).
Being Dutch I think I'm qualified to at least observe that plenty of men here too do not have full time jobs and love it. In fact, a fairly common situation is for both partners to work, but not full time.
Incredible, its really spartan and great design. Where would you recommend I start looking designers like that? 99designs? Any tips?
Something about patents that Windows/Linux use?
This is Carl, cofounder of Minus. Thank you for the suggestions. We are looking into adding OpenID and Google Login soon. In the mean time, we designed Minus in the hope that you can use Minus effectively without having to sign up at all!
Nice, that just saved me $70/year on MobileMe. I had been using it only for the phone locator feature, and using Google Sync for everything else.
Has any social network ever focused on users well-being and been successful? I think it’s not criticism but an interesting idea.
See also: Spark

http://patriciagomes0.tripod.com/id8.html

(Sorry, that's the best 'net version I was able to found).

...save the tiniest
bit.
it needn't be much, just a spark.
a spark can set a whole forest on
fire.
Unnecessarily long. He gets fellow inmates' respect, and he doesn't appear to be having a hard time with doing his hard time.
Seems like you forgot to open scanned PDF files. It will take years to scroll one page.
Correction to above: Gizmodo reports paying $5K for the prototype; the $10K figure was an earlier rumor. Gizmodo's account:

http://gizmodo.com/5520438/how-apple-lost-the-next-iphone

I wonder if those expressing their disapproval of Gizmodo (and anyone who thinks Gizmodo's actions may have been legal and ethical) with copious downvotes think (a) Gizmodo is lying; (b) Gizmodo is telling the truth but still indefensible; (c) Apple and similar secretive corporations should just always be respected, no matter the legal details.
Pretty well written story - I was fairly captivated, and I don't even care about him all that much.

I'm curious whether this prison system does in fact have better rehabilitation success than regular prison systems. It does sound like the inmates are more well adjusted, and although the article initially describes them as "soft", mob hit men as well as some gruesome murderers and child molesters definitely make that list.
Cool concept, marking-up documents is big business. Legal depts we negotiated licenses with would always do it by emailing a Word doc, with its diff/review feature that looks very nice, and comments. My book publisher also used it for reviewer feedback.

Unsolicited feedback: It looks beautiful!

It's much slower than google gview and scribd (but they don't allow annotations, so it's apples/oranges... but still).
Why don't you pre-scan the demo document? I know it's cheating, but it gives a better first impression (and, to me, it would feel reasonable if my own document took a few moments longer to process than the demo. Best foot forward etc).

I wish you'd have an "upload doc" textfield prominently on the demo page - without it, I assumed you had to open an account; it was just luck that I happened to read the FAQ saying that you could. But it didn't say how, so I'm scratching my head. Luckily, I tried going to the front page, there it was. You're making me think too much, just to get started, which is an easy place to lose someone: I think you're losing trials by not having it on the demo page either - that's the natural place for a "load" document.

Also, Your style of upload file/URL form is popular, but I really think there must be a better way! Perhaps one textfield, with two buttons (upload and file browse). You enter your doc, file or web, and the uploader sorts it out; the file browser is just a convenience. Maybe also have a google search, if people don't have the URL immediately on hand (must be a common case).
Or the bid goes through with $1.
Are you saying that you actually considered that case, and then wrote code that didn't deal with it?
Whether or not the AI is likely to value revenge doesn't matter.

What matters is whether some subset of people will believe that an AI is sufficiently likely to value revenge for them to consider that the most likely scenario to be that they are living in a simulation where revenge will happen given certain types of actions.

Also, consider that there are many sets of assumptions that may lead someone to conclude that simulation is more likely given a vengeful AI, and in that case, even if you consider a vengeful AI to be less likely than a benevolent one, it may be rational to assume that the odds are higher that you are in the simulation of a vengeful one.

E.g. lets assume simulation will never become "economical" for some arbitrary measure of economical, and simulation requires an extremely strong motive, but is still done enough that we are almost certainly in a simulation.

Revenge could be such a motive that might drive up the frequency of simulation. A vengeful AI might (making up numbers is fun) be willing to invest hundred times as many resources into running simulations just because playing with human suffering is what it does for fun. If that's the case, then even if a vengeful AI is a tenth as likely as a benevolent or neutral one, you're still playing very bad odds if you bet against being in the simulation of a vengeful AI.

But again the point is not whether or not the revenge secenario is actually likely, but whether or not sufficient people with relevant skills will believe it to be likely enough to take actions in favour of the creation of such an AI.
Given the disaster that is software engineering, I tend to agree with this position. Who's going to write the requirements? Who's going to implement? With what language technology? We can't get past this stuff, so how will anything like Strong AI ever get built?

The answer of course would be some sort of emergent system, but there are lots of intelligent seeming emergent systems (ie ant colonies, bee hives, ...)
Essentially Ruby does only `end` and so does e.g. the Unix shell. I still prefer { } because it stands out in the text better.

I should have mentioned verbosity in declarations too, it's not just begin ... end.

And I do miss a few of Pascal's neat features, such as using an enum type as an array index type.
I think that Netflix also doesn't want to be in the business of building the full secured/DRM code stack on all these platforms themselves. They'd rather leverage. And for whatever reasons I believe they are/were a Microsoft video encoding shop on the backend, which can limit their choices (e.g. they won't use Adobe Access on Flash, which is not universal either).
I am a total Google fanboi. I love their motto "Don't be evil." I love that they release quality products for free. I work in Palo Alto and I love to flag down people sporting their Google windbreakers and tell them how much I use/value their products. The idea that you can build a website, get a free hosting plan, sign up for Adsense, and then start profiting the same day with 0$ down is extraordinary.

Even for non-developers their list of amazing products is endless. Froogle, Google Maps, Google Images, Google Finance, Google Docs. All of them are well-executed highly functional free applications. While apple and 37signals are fun, Google is useful and free.

Everyone wants to work at Google. But, so many people forget the hordes of people that work for themselves thanks to Google.
With the added bonus that Perl makes it obvious you're talking about an array.
Who the dick is selling anything? I thought we were building things. Call it DongDB, I don't give a damn, I just need to push some shit that's not going to break.

It does not matter what we call the products or the product category or the "movement". Products are built on technology, and the vast majority of the technology in the NoSQL space is pre-existing and appropriately named. A column store is a column store, not a CassandraStore(tm). A bloom filter is a bloom filter, a vector clock is a vector clock, consistent hashing is consistent hashing, ad nauseum. Those who are actually interested in understanding the tools spend their time reading technical and academic documentation that describes the foundation, building blocks, patterns, and concepts that are in play.

What matters for products is not what they are called, but whether they will work or not for your problem set. The best way to help this "movement" is to write code, run code, and provide examples, use cases, and data about real world environments that will help people choose the appropriate tools and approach to manage their data. Compared to actually using and building things, chatting it up about terminology isn't going to make a god damn bit of difference. Which is to say, get things done or shut up.
Pretty awesome overall, hit detection kind of sucks though. I thought I had to lob my shells at first.

Looks like 60fps, on my new low end Mac Pro. Is there a frame counter?
They archive chat messages so that you can search through them later.
Latest news, it seems like related to health issues behind the reason of why the co-pilot crashing the plane!

Probably some sort of procedures to make sure the health condition of pilots before a flight or in regular basis.
Encryption isn't the same as hashing. Encryption is two-way.

The previous comment did make the encryption / hash distinction - though I can totally understand how his post might have been misread that he was recommending the same mechanisms for both sets of data.
Has Facebook said their first shipping product will be a gaming machine? If not, then we should probably take that name with a grain of salt.
I also wrote an introduction to ECC using Python. It's longer, less gentle, more mathematical, and doesn't cover Edwards curves. But it ends with a program allowing you to play EC's over any finite field, and implements and explains some of the major protocols.

http://jeremykun.com/2014/02/08/introducing-elliptic-curves/
My first programming job in a cube was right between accounting and customer service.

After 6 months they expanded accounting and so moved me to the other side of the building, but next to sales.

After a couple days I started missing customer service.
It's not as bad as Ruby in Debian, which has the patch version number in the package name. For a while there, 'ruby1.9.1' was version 1.9.3...
It's mostly younger people ride bikes, but because of the availability of bike lanes and public bike racks, more and more people from all incomes are riding bikes.
Tesla's already done things that used data collected in the past. For example, a year after I bought mine, they started labeling all of the chargers you've ever charged at on the map... all the way back to when your car was delivered. So I've got a charge icon sitting on the Tesla factory in Fremont, where they had it plugged in when I took delivery.
That guide highlights this in its own box. In red.

Not sure how GitHub could make it more obvious.

Perhaps if they mentioned there are unscrupulous users out there who have a script that hammers GitHub's events API to search for exposed passwords/keys, then it would reduce the 'oops I only pushed it for a second' thinking that users likely go through.
You are in a strong position as you have the offer.

How well you do will depend on their budget, politics, attitude as much as how good you are.

I would suggest framing everything in terms of business benefit and the benefit to the person making the decision. Pretend you are them and imagine what they are looking for.

The refactoring stuff looks good. So you could frame that as "You are getting a lot of bugs reported every day, which must be frustrating. I bet you'd rather be making progress the more important things in your job. I will fix those bugs quickly. I can deal directly with the support department if required. At the same time I will work to make the codebase better to reduce the bugs in the future by at least an order of magnitude. I will do this by ..."

Now this guy will personally want to fight to get you in at the higher salary because you are going to make his life easier.

Another way to look at this is how the employer thinks about roles. If you can sell yourself as a senior developer or architect or team leader rather than just a developer, then show comparable market rates, this will help.

But you need to figure out what is making them tick.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=2961090759639019608&...

Cited by 192

EDIT: Although looking through that link, most of the articles are about the technique rather than the actual discovery. I did find a followup paper:

http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v30/n2/abs/nbt.2109.html
It's really bothersome that so many people I know were unable to upgrade their older phones yesterday. Now they'll have to wait for (presumably) months, while the fanboy wankers who already have the latest phones pay full price to be the first guy in their neighborhood bar to stare at a retina display, instead of talking to women.

I know this will never happen, but it would be a thoughtful gesture toward customer loyalty if AT&T were to give priority access to the latest hardware by contract age, instead of just creating a free-for-all scramble on pre-registration day.
In response to:

> But Apple gets into trouble when they start thinking, "People want iPhones and these jerks are copying our iPhone"

and

>The reaction was the same, "How dare Microsoft try to give people Apple-like stuff!"

I think Apple's position on this has been misinterpreted over the years. They don't have any problem with copying good ideas from others and don't have the "how dare they" attitude towards Microsoft (or Google) that people seem to think. What I believe annoyed them over the years was that Microsoft took the basic premise of their stuff, made it worse (i.e. produced a "third-rate" product as Jobs has called it), and was winning with this strategy (because, they felt, that "enterprise" was making the purchasing decisions and that they were suffering from the layer between them and the consumers).

On Google, they're competition, so they're competing with them. The Eric Schmidt angle might make it a bit different, but largely I get the sense that Apple respects what Google does, believes they make great products, and is focused on beating them in the market where they both compete.
What OS does this run? Linux or Android? I guess you could put either of those on it, maybe also Windows RT for ARM.

I would perhaps consider this for a work desktop or a presentation box. Would be great for meeting rooms!
Are you being facetious? Rand Corporation estimates the US illegal drug market to be over $109B.

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-10/more-pot-les...

That is so much more money than the government has to fight it. Look into how Mexican cartels are actually kidnapping engineers to build infrastructure for their paramilitary operations:
http://www.wired.com/2012/11/zeta-radio/
From the README.txt

ABOUT d0z.me

=========================

d0z.me is a demonstration of browser based DDoS techniques combined with URL shortener hijacking. Basically, the concept is to trick large numbers of users into viewing some page through an iframe, and then running code in the background that tries to DDoS a target site.
Hi Paul, thanks for your insight. Wise words I'll always remember when facing adversity. This project is just to get a couple of bucks a month, nothing else. Running on top of google infrastructure I'll try to see how much it can handle without breaking apart, I'll be reporting on any scaling issues.

This will be a great learning experience for sure.
Almost the entire advertising industry is pure waste, whether they are physically destroying laptops or not.
We know how to go to the moon. Once you have the technology its all about the money.

Does anyone remember Moonvertising in 2008.

http://amnesiablog.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/moonvertising-is...

Google should be the first to do this!
The latter or incompetence or they just don't care enough about it to really investigate a viable solution (most probable.) Their technical reasons are invalid after all, so something is wrong, how much is the question.
Woah, orange usernames are back?
The post seemed to indicate "no health benefits for family members" which is a benefit that many tech companies offer. Can you comment on that?
To be fair, I can't imagine Google fucking up web search or AdWords without receiving the same kind of criticism. We can shrug it off when Google fucks up Wave, or when Microsoft fucks up Kin, as long as products like AdWords and Windows keep making money.
I think one reason for me, is that I am way much better doing pure graphics coding for customs components, than trying to make a component out of <div/> coupled with CSS/JavaScript magic.
I woke up this morning, determined to look for unanswerable questions. Hungry for philosophy.

By chance, I decided to browse through HN now, rather than later. If I'd come here later, I might have missed this link, and this blog.

I honestly thought I'd done with HN, and that it had served its purpose. It seems that I can still gain much by coming here daily, after all.

And the Krishnamurti site will provide me with a veritable feast of unanswerable questions, enough to satisfy the hunger of my inner philosopher for a long time to come.

"Even a tree struck by lightning may bear new fruit." -- The Code of Ananda
Hmm...
Nice idea. But what if the closure is to be called from somewhere else as well?
== enterprise software?

Isn't that the core business of consulting firms like Accenture? To answer your question, eg. people in 1.5-2nd world countries who want to make a good living.
There was a number of similar active threads over the years, some great ideas in them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358111

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789
I wrote a puzzle app for iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/app/id906543727

It's free to download and try it out, but then I charge for additional puzzles.

I was keen to give a complete version of the app for free (without ads) so that people understand clearly what I'm offering. This strategy seems to be working with good and returning custom. Not $1k yet but some reason for optimism ;)
One thing you can do is make your peace with the fact that it will take a couple of minutes or so to refocus. So assume that three 30 minute blocks of time are worth at least six minutes less than an uninterrupted 90 minute block of time. Yes, that's frustrating, but may not be as huge a loss as you think: You can still get about 84 minutes worth of work done. It adds up over time. Also, if those 30 minute blocks are in quick succession, it will take even less time to get back in the groove than if there are large interruptions that make you completely lose your train of thought and, thus, require you to reread things and so on in order to figure out where you were.

While I am on that topic, one way to be more productive when your focus is broken up is to find ways to track where you left off. If you do a lot of reading of dead leaf materials, book darts can mark the exact line you were on when you stopped, which can prevent you from scanning two pages to find where you were. Online, leaving things open at the place on the page you last scrolled to and similar. I try to open tabs I need to do something with later even if I can't get to it just yet so I will, at some point, check that tab and go "Oh, yeah. I need to do that thing." Otherwise, I may completely forget about doing that thing at all on that day. It may get ignored until the next day -- or the day after or whatever.

I also found it helpful at BigCo to make a spreadsheet and track certain things. Creating the spreadsheet took just a few minutes, updating it took a few seconds here and a few seconds there. The amount of stress and distraction from worry it saved me was worth many times the amount of time sunk into creating a simple tracking mechanism.