jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This looks really, really awesome -- App Engine users have been needing something like this for a very long time. Unfortunately, Google is about to roll out their own version for free:

http://code.google.com/apis/feed/push/

and a native App Engine solution called the Channel API: http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/building-real...
No no no! Didn't anybody see Tom Clancy's NetForce? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158423/
Well, yes. Someone sitting lower than others around him/her is not necessarily bad: think driving a Ferrari vs walking down the street. But this thing does not look cool. It looks more like you are somehow incapacitated (I think some other comments mention knee injuries). Even a hover chair from the Austin Powers movies would be better. Jetpacks would be ideal.
Then we need to reform the law to impose bigger fines or other tools that dissuade FB not notifying the users
Assuming not sarcasm, how does that help? Do you do this for just Facebook or for multiple websites?
I do not give a shit what our previous world famous lunatic said. I just state my personal experience and I ride my bike everywhere nearly every day.
As long as you keep quiet about sensitive issues, you will be fine.
And why exactly do you think setup.py is deprecated?
It's kind of an edge case since the breach happened before GDPR enforcement started.
Absolutely do not trust the SMS sender name or message content in any country. SMS can be spoofed so easily anyone can do it.
On the plus side, the Dockerfile and the repo with the scripts used to build a container is usually available. If you don't trust it, read through the source and rebuild it. Or just stick to official containers, no matter how terrible they are.
Not at all. Here’s a good example, from AG of PA Josh Shapiro;

> @RepFredKeller LIE: PA officials violated the law in regards to signature verification on mail-in ballots.

FACT: Our Election Code-which a Republican-controlled state legislature revised in 2019-does not provide for rejecting mail-in ballots based on signature verification.

https://twitter.com/joshshapiropa/status/1347063329404178432...

I don’t see how this is supposed to build trust that the election was run fairly and securely, in fact quite the opposite.

My point is not to debate specific failures. My point is it’s the responsibility of the systems and processes in place in the electoral system to instill trust in the populace that there is no fraud in the voting or the counting.

Instead, people were lied to about how votes would be cast, lied to about how votes would be counted, and the rules were changed arbitrarily in many places up to the final days and even hours of actual voting.

Again, my point is not how much fraud was actually present. But you can have a system people mostly trust even if they don’t like the outcome, or you can do things like not even checking the signature on millions of mail-in ballots.
Why not BoA or Chase, for instance? Can you please highlight the key differentiating features?
There is a general upward trend. A 1 year moving average is already enough to see that a lot of Bitcoin bubbles are purely psychological. It's purely a function of the popularity of Bitcoin and it's ability to grab the headlines. I haven't found a better cryptocurrency for the long term. You can take advantage of the bubbles because they are basically happening on a regular schedule.
Probably (I haven't studied it) because of what the FSF says here "It is not a true copyleft, because it allows linking with other files which may be entirely proprietary." So it's apparently file-based copyleft, which is in the same vein as CDDL. (Which is also generally considered GPL-incompatible for that reason.)
> I'm not deciding anything for you. I can only recommend. You either share your data or you don't. It's your decision.

I may decide because I know how ad-blockers work (and even there it drips through as you must know best) but most out there don't decide. They are being robbed along the way without even knowing it. You rob them of their data, their attention and divert it afterwards for your profit. You're being paid to make this crime work.

> Of course they can do so. Except the times when they want to maximize their ad revenue, so they sell the ad slot to other companies.

And how is the fishing shop becoming an ad reseller something that would make your point above valid? Your attention rape has nothing to do anymore with me getting fishing stuff which I've been looking for. The purpose completely switched over to third parties. Meaning your employee and the shop proprietor sharing the profits of this crime. Completely unrelated to the products the shop sells.
TL;DR

1. Tell people "use other apps".

2. <wait>

3. Post on HN : "I'm lonely. My social life went to crap and I feel my mental health is collapsing"
It's dropping upwards!
Yes, I remember seeing this idea. Some blog was making new design for each of the post. I really liked that, but I did not see it getting popular ever back in the days when FB was not yet a thing and websites used uniques designs instead of the cookie-cutter so popular today.
I really don't see why crypto will end up different than the banking sector in the long run when it comes to this. They're still my dollars even if Bank of America technically has possession of them.

Nobody argues that the only safe place to keep your money is in a safe in your basement, what's up with the crypto world where the advice is reversed?
Oddly enough, I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and it was Octavia Butler novels that made me think about it (which the author of this article mentions as something she'd like to spend more time on). It struck me that it's taken me nearly half my life to get around to reading Octavia Butler; how that happened for a rabid scifi fan, I don't know. But, she's amazing, in the same class of writer as Asimov, Herbert, Atwood, Clarke, and Bradbury.

Though I also like Joseph Heller...so, I probably won't choose Butler over Heller, but I'll continue to read both, until the supply has run out.
The point is (in case that wasn't obvious, apparently not) that the real world execution time of that program has improved more than 5 orders of magnitude (decimal ones at that).

So stuff that we'd be waiting for for a couple of days in the 80's can be done in a few seconds now. Of course that also means that we're generally much less aware of where the inefficiencies are until something really grinds to a halt but still, it's absolutely amazing to me even today that digital circuits can run at the speeds they have and that we can afford to run pretty numerically intensive stuff in interpreted languages and not bat an eye when the answer pops up in under a second.

2 MHz looked pretty good back in the day.

The computer I worked with most as a kid (besides the TRS-80 and the 'Dragon') was a BBC micro, it had an expansion bus for - no kidding - a second 6502 so you could have true parallelism. That meant you only had to wait for a day instead of two if you were taxing the machine and had something that was compute bound.
> My use case might not be too common, but I use fastmail
> with multiple aliases and the official app is the only
> way for me to send emails with these different aliases.

I'm doing exactly this from Android with Aquamail.
Apple may choose form over function, but the power adaptors are a good example of how they still spent more time thinking of function than any competitor.

For the typical "elongated black box" notebook charger, a cumulative sum of exactly zero effort was spent on improving it in either form or function. Meanwhile, Apple had MagSafe (which is nothing but function), the extendable prongs to wrap the cable, or the little clip to fix the cable into place. Both Apple and non-Apple adaptors usually have detachable cables, but for the non-Apple variety it's only purpose was to streamline internal processes to provide country-specific plugs, whereas Apple used the opportunity to allow the adaptor to be used with a long cable or a cable-less plug.

Their adaptors are also smaller and lighter, both Watt-for-Watt and even more so considering competitors often choose overpowered adaptors because they happen to be cheap to procure or they already use it and want to keep their inventory simple. And if you search, you'll find that semi-famous deep dive examine the inside of one of their adaptors, and how they are spending at least twice as much on components to safely isolate the high- and low-voltage sides and provide constant quality at any level of power draw.

But yeah, the cable fraying sucks.
Essentially, second place in same constituencies.

The rationale is that people voted to be represented. When the 1st place candidate wins, they have no more incentive to represent the 'losers'.
I suspect it is very deliberate.

Their normal cores are so shitty that there is a reasonable chance that the wrong key will work to open the lock, especially if somebody is trying to open it quickly.

With LOTO locks, Bob could die if Alice's key works on Bob's lock. (e.g. both on working on equipment powered by different circuit breaks, and Alice confuses the breakers, and removes the lock from BOB's breaker, because her key happened to work on it).

A few reports of that happening, and their LOTO locks could be banned from many worksites due to unions rightfully insisting on it.

So it actually is worth having better cores to ensure only the correct keys will work.
Completely understand and sympathize with that. We absolutely can (and will) do a better job of conveying the intent of the different checks here. The pose change requested is randomized, but I get that this can be frustrating.

I know you already get this, but for posterity, the idea here is to make sure the person submitting their ID is actually in front of the computer (and can react to a prompt). Attempting to use a still photo is a common way a bad actor may try to circumvent these protections. Obviously correctly identifying someone in the case you described is extremely important given the sensitivity of some of these data access requests.

Orwellian isn’t exactly the vibe we’re looking for, though, so we can do better here.
I don't think that's true. You could make an effort to show that you'd solved some of the more well-known technical problems, e.g., different messaging architecture to handle users with millions of async subscribers. As it stands this title need not mention Twitter at all. I'm trying to be helpful. If you make the assumption that it's just a simple clone that makes the title even less interesting. The target audience for this post will likely just skip over it.
I don't buy this argument (for some context, I work in digital politics and my agency buys digital political ads).

You can micro target political speech through non-digital channels such as mail, phones, doors, & addressable cable. Campaigns have been doing this for a LONG time - before the internet.

You can also still target very specific audiences even without 1:1 audience matching a la liveramp. E.g. retargeting, specific website placements, specific youtube video/channel placements, and more.

The one kind of large negative I can foresee with this restriction would be narrowing to likely voters, which is tougher without either an audience match or 3rd party data (though maybe still good enough with 'watches news' or 'visits msnbc.com' and similar). Though one can definitely argue a benefit here that speaking to only an audience of likely voters is a problem (and 'recycles' the same voters not brining new voters in), especially with Democrats who tend to only talk to those voters in VAN.
> Isn't email mostly consolidated to a handful of providers with published APIs?

Perhaps for individuals and small businesses, but certainly not for large organizations, many of whom are running their own Exchange (or whatever else) servers.
I can see why people will miss it, but cloud print is always on my short list of things I remove/disable when setting up a phone. How many average people still own/need a printer often enough to not just go use one at the library/kinkos?
I think this is a neat idea and I hope it makes local and renewable powered goods more attractive to consumers (and ultimately, businesses).

Though I often wonder why climate tech is so obsessed with super-accurate and granular carbon calculations. You see this as a value proposition in all kinds of apps and startups for everything from travel to food.

It's pretty clear by now that simply telling someone they emitted 1,333.33 kilograms of co2 is not enough to influence behavior. You can much more quickly estimate your average emissions and spend the rest of your energy finding a good way to offset it.

At least this sort of thinking inspired the work I've done so far on https://offsetra.com - whether we manage to make a splash or not, I hope it's the start of a long career building software for sustainability.
"ENTER THE PASSWORD THAT LETS YOU DO STUFF AND WIN $$$ NOW"
Youtube consumes more electricity than South Africa.

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+total+power+cons...

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+the+total+power+cons...
In Germany they are 1€ per piece in every supermarket.
I am not sure if "curing cancer" is the best description of the problem to solve.

A possible answer is "keep the immune system in its youthful state and it will take care of any emerging cancer cells and terminate them with extreme prejudice without you even noticing". Natural killer cells are basically unstoppable once they home in on a target.

E.g. prevention, not a cure.
Adding to the list “oh if it’s not fast enough, just write it in C”

As if wishing for any performance that’s an improvement on bottom-of-the-barrel is some kind of wild, unreasonable ask for which the solution is “write it in a language full of pitfalls, sharp edges and an even worse packaging and developer experience than the current one? Seriously?
Truth be told, I've never tried to use a gtk-based editor without a mouse. Which would you recommend? I'll try it out.
Quick shoutout to xHarbour and Harbour - the open-source, commercially-supported versions of Clipper. https://github.com/harbour/core

The projects are still going strong and many years ago I had ported a huge Clipper project into Harbour and had it working well across a 20 node network with both Clipper and Harbour binaries working simultaneously on the same database.

These days every time I make another web application I wish for the simplicity of xBase. But there is some core truth about application development hidden there that is lost to me now.
It was a success, thank you!
That metric might not be useful on its own, too many people out there smoke pot or cigarettes. Could be a secondary metric, though.
The situation in Wuhan or Italy is not over yet and they did implement the harsh measures that you criticize.
As a counterexample, I've lived in ten different rentals over the past 18 years, and I have always gotten my deposit (minus reasonable cleaning fees, and in rare instances the cost of damage that was legitimately my fault) and any extra rent back at the end. Sure, there are shitty landlords out there who screw over their tenants, but it's not universal.
We are working on a pfsense/opnsense firewall traffic visualization tool based on ELK stack. It is a highly customizable solution that let’s you have extensive insight into your network traffic.

Key points:

* pfsense/opnsense support

* openvpn event parsing

* suricata/snort dashboards with interactive Maps support (MaxMind GeoIp fields, src -> dest locations, heatmap, etc.)

* deploy with ansible playbook, docker or script.

https://github.com/3ilson/pfelk
I’m starting to (almost) feel sorry for Intel now.
Both will look great on a resume but where do you want to end up?

Amazon pushes you closer to big tech companies as you are staring out inside FAANG.

JP Morgan pushes you to the fintech world.

My 16+ years experience tells me that either will be a great starting company. I’d personally find the work at JP Morgan more interesting if you like learning through osmosis.

Jeff Bezos started out in banking.

Finance is the language that unites all commerce.

That said, Amazon is doing big things and is going to be a big player in the fight against this virus. There are worse places to be that will need help from smart people (not that anyone will listen to a fresh grad).
"And your argument exasperatingly continues to assume infinite availability of masks."

Except the part where I wrote "supply issues aside". Of course there's a limited supply. That doesn't mean masks wouldn't be effective if we had enough of them. I think we should prioritize making more, not just for healthcare workers, but for everyone.

"Someone not coughing or sneezing is spreading the virus roughly the same amount whether they wear a mask or not."

Scientific consensus so far is that coughing, sneezing, and talking is responsible for the majority of spread. Surface spread is secondary.

"probably more effective than a mask on a healthy person"

Again, we don't know who's healthy and who isn't.
Unconscionable. There should be no way a birth costs this much.
I am from Medellin and eventhough I am not living here anymore, I come every vacation period to visit my family.

Things have definitely changed for good and the city is becoming an important economic hotspot for LatAm, a product of that is the enhancement of the tech scene off course. The government is financing entrepreneurial acts through non-profits, specially those that are tech-focused; the city has been a national art epicenter for a long time (which correlates strongly with entrepreneurial mindset) and the 2 public universities in the city are great. Internet penetration in the country is exponentially increasing (pretty much everyone in the major cities has a connection); pretigious accelerators such as Socialatom Ventures exist and the country has examples of tech companies that are targeting global markets such as Koombea in Barranquilla and Authy (YC S12) and Bunny Inc in Bogota.

However, the deepest problem right now is our mentality. VC firms here are only interested in investing in copy cats, they just wanna play it safe and replicate what has worked in Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv.

In addition to that there's a really small amount of people interested in computer programming, or having the rule-breaking mentality that renowed personalities such as Paul Graham remark the importance of.

Things have definitely improoved, but we are really far away of making everyone "move here".
Keeping and maintaining something that works is often safer than buying something new. Those kinds of helicopters haven't changed in a long time, and chances are, if they bought new, they would probably buy the same thing since the problem is getting parts to maintain it, not the base airframe.
If we don't act quickly, the Monarch could be considered the butterfly of the 90s.
In this case, the advice was from someone who does share the goals, and was offering advice on how to achieve those goals.
Great Idea. Are you trying to make it as painless as possible? If so, you could autogenerate an index and a backlink on each blogpost then that would take the hassle of keeping links up to date.
Forgive my inexperienced question:

Is this something you could take to Kickstarter?

I have seen some absolutely innovative projects such as yours appear on Kickstarter, but I have no insight into whether it is a good idea for both parties.

In short, I guess I would ask: is YC the only path to greatness?
Sounds like a great idea, seems odd that the interviewers would play gotcha ("But you don’t expand your funnel unless you got your conversion rate nailed.") rather than steer the conversation to the big ideas. Weird.
This is why garages (including heated garages) are super common in Minnesota. It’s not just an extravagance. And, conveniently, garages tend to have outlets in them, very often better than just 120V 15A, too!
Here are statistics for germany:

http://www.heise.de/jobs/artikel/Wer-verdient-wie-viel-98184...

From my personal experience I can tell you that colleagues at the company I previously worked for in Vienna, Austria made about 42 k / year with a several years of experience and a masters in computer science. But pay was always an issue there.
I made around 45K with 2 years experience at a big company in Hamburg, Germany.
Marketing guy here with good skills in design.

Got tired of looking for developers to help me with my ideas so I started teaching myself Python. I already know a lot of stuff about php/html/css/etc. Even though I had already a quite good understanding of the developers job it opened up my mind even more.

All in all, it's a great experience and I can now hack something together to have a "working prototype" of my ideas :)

Tl;dr Python FTW
Thanks for sharing the idea.

Actually user generated accompaniments along with more advanced social features are things we plan to develop in the future.

Why we do not do it now then ?

Because we want to build serious tools to ensure the quality and structure of the content.

We want the musician to be able to play the exact work he/she is looking for in seconds: 1 click to find the work, 1 click to print the score, 1 click to launch the full orchestra and start playing.

It is a real challenge to provide this kind of experience with user-generated content (just imagine the number of user-generated recordings needed to build a full orchestra on a given movement, then you need to mix them, ensure they have the same tonality, tempo, etc.).

That's the first reason for which we don't make it available right now.

The second reason is that we provide customizable accompaniments (you can change the tempo and tonality of the orchestra to suit your needs).
Again, making it available with user-generated content needs advanced music recognition algorithms.

We are already working on this and it will be part of the offer in the medium term.

We have already included some social features for sharing recordings though: on a given movement, musicians can upload their own interpretation and share it with others. Musicians can listen to each others' interpretations and give comments and quality ratings.

We totally agree this is just a start ...
You're creating a strawman -- there's a big gulf between "being rude" and "being excessively polite." On top of that, I've never seen any proof that suggests that leaders who create shame & embarrassment & anger work better than leaders who inspire.
I like the idea. Too bad it doesn't work on my iPad. It's hard enough carrying a cello around on the subway, so I'd prefer not to carry a whole laptop.
It's a long-running joke that Youtube is a Hindi Stack Overflow, albeit non-text based, though you can view transcripts.
You can do real-time search for anything with a live feed. Maybe not HN, but there are lots of sites that would be happy to see a better search function just to test-drive it.
http://pinboard.in aims to be a Delicious replacement and has an interesting payment model.
not if the site is down.
I used to live L and 4th street NE and it was really bad by the Safeway. Obviously Capitol Hill and Georgetown are going to be an older crowd with more decorum.
What does a dead guy do with a million dollars?
I hope in addition to the antitrust lawsuits, congress and governments around the world look into collusion behavior between the big tech companies. It almost seems like they are part of a cartel acting together.
People just stormed the capitol yesterday based on misinformation and propaganda. People avoid masks and vaccines based on propaganda and cause countless deaths.

If I can criticize a tv channel for running dumb shows, then I sure as shit can criticize a website that knowingly chooses to spread lies that predictably get people killed and destabilize democracy.