jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're shifting the goalposts. Presenting misinformation to consumers is generally illegal, and is also a completely separate concern from copying and building off of others' innovations. I haven't seen any comments here that support outright tricking unsuspecting customers into accidentally buying a cheap knockoff when they were looking for a higher-quality original.

A common misconception creatives tend to have about business is that it's 100% about crafting a unique and/or valuable product or service. It's not. There are innovations and competitive advantages one can have in distribution, sales, branding, pricing, and many other areas. These can also drive business success, and it is not scummy or dodgy to put them to use.

Some products are naturally defensible (e.g. the network effects of a social network) and some are protected by copyright and other laws (e.g. writing, photos, and logos, but not clothing or, in this case, shoe design), but the vast majority are wide open to competition, and it's your job as a business owner to either figure it out or avoid those industries.

You aren't automatically entitled to overall business success just because you were the first to do X or you worked the hardest on it. Doesn't matter if it's wool shoes, v-neck shirts, autotune in your music, customer support chat widgets, a mobile operating system, or like buttons in your social app. Just because you're a designer who likes designing and works hard at it doesn't make design a defensible business strategy in your industry.
would love a postmortem on the whole attempt and the real difficulties that came about.
privacy-first approach

So, let's take a look at your terms.[1]

However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat our security measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. You should always use caution before sharing your sensitive personal information online.

we each agree to resolve any claim, dispute, or controversy (excluding any claims for injunctive or other equitable relief as provided below) arising out of or in connection with or relating to these Website Terms of Use, or the breach or alleged breach thereof, by binding arbitration by JAMS, Inc.

Not only mandatory arbitration, but arbitration with JAMS, which has problems.[2] Not the American Arbitration Association consumer rules. The AAA will often send small claims to Small Claims Court, which is cheaper, and has real judges.

These Website Terms of Use, and any rights and licenses granted hereunder, may not be transferred or assigned by you, but may be assigned by Berbix without restriction.

So if you exit by being acquired by Google or Facebook or Tencent, they get all the data.

There's nothing in the terms which places any legal responsibilities on Berbix beyond minimal compliance with the law. The terms are no better than the average web site, and worse than many.

So, "privacy last".

[1] https://terms.berbix.com/terms/website
[2] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PRIVATE-JUSTICE-Can-publ...
Thanks! I did not know about this, I will definitely use them.
JWT has nothing to do with sessions. It's a stateless authorization mechanism. I actually have never seen it used in production as a substitute for sessions.

Can you show examples of production software that uses JWT as a substitute for session?
It would definitely work. The USA is a -huge- market, it just wouldn't be as economically "good/efficient" as free trade is in a strictly classical economics sense.
"you dont have permissions to access...."
Well, posting over HTTPS (with the worst certificates removed) instead of HTTP, perhaps with certificate pinning, isn't that hard and goes a long way.
Given how many times US police officers killed unarmed subjects in ridiculous situations because they "feared for their life", I'd rather take my chances with these robot dogs.

They don't "fear for their life", and don't need to react in seconds.
If the language fills a niche sufficiently better than existing ones. Julia doesn’t bring too many novel concepts (JIT, macros, multimethods, parallelism) but ties them together nicely for scientific computing.

The best chance Julia has isn’t attracting average devs alone, but the library developers. Writing new python libraries for research purposes often requires writing C/C++ code. There’s already a number of Julia libraries focusing on interesting research topics in scientific, mathematics, and AI. Those lead to better and more useful libraries over time which can interact over time. Plus Julia Computing seems to be going towards building a successful commercial side of Julia. Personally I don’t find the software poverty thing much of an issue, outside a few core areas (database drivers, basic http, c interop, networking, text editors).
Thank you.

These kinds of people have little life outside of work and few interests outside of tech.

There are those of us who seek careers in tech but do not want to go home and think about tech or even read much about it in their off-time.

My first 5 years on the job, I lived and breathed the subject matter - was kind of required since I didn’t study it in school, but to be honest, I have no memory of a social life or hobbies during that time and it kind of skipped past me like a poorly scratched CD... I just missed out on LIFE.
The company will pay you the lowest amount you are willing to accept. Location has nothing to do with salary rates. If they could find someone at lower salary, anywhere in the world, they would hire that person. They can’t, that’s why they are paying the current salary rates.

The company may use it as an excuse, but you can choose to walk. When enough top level people refuse pay cut, the company will drop the charade quick. Even if just 10% of high performance engineers decide to walk, that would cause major disruptions in the roadmap and cost millions in development costs.

Simply demand higher salary and negotiate. The company will make adjustments to fill the in demand positions. Be prepared to walk away and find the company that will pay the higher salary.
The article makes the same mistake schools make: It assumes that all children are equal.

E.g. School teachs things t slow. That’s true, for some of us, yet we also knew that group of kids how won’t move beyond 5 grade math, regardless of how many years you’d spend teaching them. Schools try to teach both sets of kids, and those somewhere in between at the same time.

The thing I’d like to have seen schools during Covid lockdown is to experiment with teaching at different paces. Depending on the child I believe that you could avoid some level of boredom while teaching 3+ years of math, physics, or whatever subject the kid excel at. Some kids could skip years ahead had their education been more focused during this lockdown.

That still leave the weakest students, but they could perhaps benefit from more one on one time with the teachers while the strong tackle the more complex assignments on their own.
You must've been economist coming out of the whom. Reading and writing must be in your genetic code. And math is just common sense, right?

Have you ever met someone who didn't graduate high school?

No one naturally understands how to approach a free market.

Your comment is so off-base it's shocking.
https://www.dtcc.com/-/media/Files/Downloads/legal/policy-an...
It didn't close so much as rebrand as the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

I don't think the US has labs abroad but other countries such as the UK and Russia have mucked around with bioweapons research in the past. Probably China too as it has a general policy to keep up with the opposition.
Feedback on the website. It's too much text and the "action" is not well defined or prominent. Do a video. Give just links to the extra info, prominent not hidden in the link list (mobile). Make your call to action the focus. The images look stock, need improvement.

I'd be glad to elaborate on any of these points. Email me
What bother's me about Dr. Stallman is that he is concerned with particular freedoms, such as the freedom to tinker with software, and brands this as the freedom. This is ideology. For me the most important freedom is the freedom to get my work done with the best available tools. Often the best available tools are not "free" software, especially if you do anything other than web or systems programming.

I actually prefer to see him marginalize his views – it helps intelligent people who are not interested in buying into other people's ideology realize that he is an egomaniacal cult leader without needing to waste time considering the soundness of his ideas.

I prefer the "open source" guys.
Other people who have honorary doctorates: Bill Cosby, Bob Hope, and Oprah.

(edit: and Bob Barker, Tim Allen... obviously, RMS has accomplished more than many PhDs, but you shouldn't refer to a holder of an honorary doctorate as "Dr.")
What I like most about developing on EC2 is the ability to save an development environment as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI), and then spin up instances of it as needed. I can fine-tune the environment over time (just spin up a new instance, make changes, and save a new AMI), as well as have different environments for different types of development.

I think you could do something similar with Slicehost/Linode using disk images and configuration profiles, but it doesn't seem they offer anything like Amazon's machine images. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.

Of course, the flip-side of all this is that any individual instance of an AMI is inherently ephemeral, and you need to treat it as such. Even the reliability claims of EBS are fairly weak. [1] That means EC2 instance storage, even EBS storage attached to an instance, isn't truly persistent, and I haven't quite ironed out my system for dealing with this.

You'll probably want to run your own Git server [2] and commit code as it's completed. That still leaves the possibility of data loss if your instance dies after you've written code, but before you've made a commit. You could just take periodic snapshots of the EBS volume where your in-progress code resides, but whatever period you choose for the frequency (like every 30 minutes) is equal to the amount of work you could lose. And that sort of constant backup isn't really what snapshots are meant for anyway. [3] I think the ideal solution would be to run Dropbox to get continuous backups of the files you're working on. That might also make recovery easier. Attaching an orphaned EBS volume to another instance isn't hard, but it's certainly not as easy has having Dropbox download the file you were just working on.

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1. http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/08/20/amazon-ebs-explained/

2. http://alestic.com/alestic-git/ and make sure you're taking frequent EBS snapshots. The right way to do this is with ec2-consistent-snapshot and XFS (see http://alestic.com/2011/02/ec2-consistent-snapshot-sceencast).

3. I might be wrong about this. The fact that you should lock the file system to ensure a consistent snapshot makes very frequent (say, every minute) snapshots seem like a bad idea. Maybe you could get around this by not locking the file system for snapshot when dealing with plain files (and not a database), as consistency should be less of issue. Maybe I just don't know what I'm talking about ;-)
Answer: probably not.
non-login link?
"I'm not concerned about Oracle's IP." - famous last words.
The BLS numbers are not as good as you seem to think, and many people are aware of their flaws. For example, the Boskin Commission (in 1996) concluded that inflation was overstated by about 1.3%/year (up to 1996, which includes about 16 years of the period you are interested in).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boskin_Commission

Regardless of your argumentum ad populum, do you disagree with my claim that a correct measure of inflation should not use an expanding basket of goods? If so, please explain why we should care about this quantity:

BLS-adjusted wage = (nominal wage) x (cost of smaller basket A in 1980) / (cost of bigger basket B in 2010)
I had the idea for this app yesterday :) Looks nicely done.
He starts with wrong assumption. When they say "It's about execution" they are not talking about testing it. They are talking about 'doing it - being it' without which the ideas is of no value what so ever.
How utterly boorish. If I could delete the submission I would because I see zero productive value in it, and I'm a bit shocked at the stunning narrow mindedness of so many.

My motive was simply to have a discussion about web security as it's a recurring topic and element fraught with peril on a rapidly changing web platform.

It's telling enough that you keep pounding on the SHA1 thing (despite the fact that I repeated, time and time again, that the computational complexity of the algorithm is of course open because the implementation doesn't exist. 128 rounds of blowfish if you prefer), that you keep misrepresenting the Gawker attack, that you pretend that it's a proposal to replace SSL (no), and so on. "Argument" to you is disagreement with Thomas Ptacek, who time and time again bizarrely gets upvoted without merit or regard for accuracy.

It's a counterproductive discussion.
How is it "end of story?"

If someone logs into my bank account right now:

1) they can't transfer money; the feature is not available.

2) they can set up a bill pay, but I get an email notice in time to stop it.

How else can they steal from me?
I've been waiting for this for months. Go Elon!

The funny thing is everyone calls him a 'Internet billionaire'. But he's never BEEN a billionaire! He only got $200 mil from Paypal. It's a bit ridiculous to throw that term around.

[Additional] Heinlein would have been proud to see this.
Are they using Etherpad technology?
It's also relevant to compare the dividends you would have received from Microsoft and Apple over that time. Apple = 0.
You may be right about that narrow category. But there were only 4 million such women below the poverty level, circa 2007.
What type of paid services could Twitter conceivably sell?

What type of paid services would people conceivably want to buy from Twitter?
Fair point.

What's your advice for incentivising developers to work on a non-VC funded idea? I have funds to pay for a while, but not a full salary/benefits.
The IETF is an open forum where anyone can participate. If you want your voice heard, join the mailing list and make your suggestions.

Also, I don't appreciate this mindless bashing on XMPP. All IETF protocols are encouraged (required?) to be fairly secure, which entails things like TLS and SASL. Once you get beyond that, XMPP is not very complex at all. If you have a specific complaint, I'd love to hear it. The XSF is basically as open as the IETF and we're always interested in feedback, but we'd appreciate it if it was constructive.
I had to Dremel open a newton battery pack. You're right, the end results are not pretty but I got my newton working again!

The good thing about the newton is that the battery pack is hidden within the main body.
Busy is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
I should have linked to the CNN article[1] - I didn't realize the Boing Boing article was simply a copy-and-paste job.

[1] http://fox13now.com/2014/12/29/united-airlines-sues-22-year-...
I don't see what the problem is here. Angular isn't going away - I daresay the 1.x will be maintained. EmberJS looks rock solid. Backbone hasn't suddenly become useless just because React is around.

A proliferation of projects is an indication of an exciting and experimental community. If you run off half-cocked and take on an unproven and unmaintained library and build an application on sand then the fault lies with you, not the ecosystem.
HNSearch seems to be better at finding previously posted content than Google is:

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=terra+...

Still, it's interesting and relevant, and I hadn't seen it before, so thanks for posting.
No, he's referencing the long-rumored "NEX Full Frame": http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr5-full-frame-mirrorless-fro...
So the meta-story is that that's what medium.com is doing right now, right?
How can you be so sure that they will never, ever

That's not what they said. They said "likely", in the context of a comment predicting a future of Microsoft decline.
If there was a near-magical device that someone created that let you take pictures with your eyes at any iso, angle, etc that you desired wouldn't you be happy? The money we've put into glass is money towards an end. The end being taking awesome photos. If tomorrow I could do with my phone what I can do with my backpack + three or four lenses + 5D MII I wouldn't even blink. I'd just say "SWEET!"

I love my lenses because of the photos they give me. And I totally disagree with this article. For every DSLR person that goes mirrorless there are going to be 10 iPhone photographers that go "pro".
December right?

Unless I wasn't paying attention to entire vid, didn't they say that they are not sure if its path will be bend and it will survive sun's rendevouz, or it will be "swallowed" by it. But, if they don't know that, they cannot know if, upon bending/surviving, it won't get on its path with Earth, right?

Wouldn't they know already?
The "stroking" term comes from Games People Play, FWIW. Really interesting read.
I am not sure that's the point. There are plenty of mirror-less cameras with a manual mode.

In fact that's the opposite, the article foresees that in a couple of years, even professionals will use mirror-less cameras.

EDIT clarity.
>I suppose by definition efficient advertising only informs me about products I need and/or want when I want them.

efficient advertising vs privacy - big dilemma ...

efficient advertising => less privacy => immoral ?

http://www.pannone.com/media-centre/articles/ecommerce-artic...
Where is the original Perl version?
My VPS is $6 a month for great stats and limits, but I'd still hit Heroku on the free to get rolling and worry about scale later. If you build something successful, migration shouldn't be a huge pain.
Let me know how it's going in 3 months.

I find I get excited about new organizational / management techniques, but very few survive the 3 month (never mind 3 week) mark.
> In particular, the level of math in academic computer science research made some progress with Knuth and since then has, in a word, sucked.

Could you elaborate on this? As someone currently pursuing a PhD in theoretical computer science, I often simply tell (nontechnical/nonacademic) people that I study mathematics rather than computer science, so this offhand remark is somewhat at odds with my personal experience.
That is pretty cool, but the ultimate work of this type that I've seen is this mandelbrot fly-through in perl:

http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=329492

Seriously -- try it.
And even more fun when you hear about a competitor billing lower, and paying higher salaries than your company.
It doesn't actually make any sense your way, though.
> I was shocked to see that our CEO had the highest salary (5x to 6x) for the job he did.

At my previous employer, the CEO was doing roughly 20x the average entry level salary. There's a reason why companies don't want employees talking about salaries: because most people would be outraged to hear just how much some do.
> 1. lsd is illegal, so no quality control and no certainty that that is what you are ingesting.

Non sequitur. Its legality has no bearing on quality control or authenticity.

LSD is illegal so you are taking a legal risk.
Generally, agreed, at least the first time. I was being paid.. $17/hr and being billed out at $100/hr. I moved to a company starting at $22/hr, being billed out at $150-$175/hr.

The 'hourly' was just a breakdown of salaried - sometimes worked more than 40hrs, never paid for it. And I also get that people aren't 100% billable, you have to build in downtime to the salary, etc. I get it. But I do know in one year I billed out about 1600 hours at at least $150/hr - asked for a $10k raise, and was denied. So I left.

In some situations since then I appreciate the 'team' model a bit more - that's what I was pitched in my 'no raise' reply. "We're a team, etc" But in this particular project, I was doing 95% of the work. I trained my replacements during my notice, and a month later the client moved over to me anyway, because I literally was the project.

Note to agency companies - don't ever let one large project become the sole domain of one employee. For various reasons, this is not good business.
> That is your opinion

Well, it's not really an opinion though. Unless everybody had a perfectly equal standard of living (which sounds vaguely Harrison Bergeron-esque) there will always be a lower class, even if they have a rather high standard of living.

Other than that, I agree with everything you say in your comment.
Starts talking about the good old days, complains about the noise teenager mice call music these days, nods off for a while then heads over to Luby's for an early dinner.
Why is it just alcohol and gambling and not, say, cat food and toothbrushes? I understand you don't like alcohol and gambling, but how do you derive that others should be prevented from seeing what you don't like?
If anyone from FB is here: I am ok with videos autoplaying, but if I then click to watch the video, please start it from the start. So many times I see something that looks funny, click it, and then all I get is the punch line as the video carries on from halfway through.
Sorry I did not notice there was a reply.
there is probably a change of hills with the time.
> Hills are dynamic
> Hills are interconnected
> Hills climber is not constant over time
The reason is right there in the footnote: the user only charges a penny for the items. The user is doing a hacky trick, and firing off a higher percentage take by amazon.
That's because F# is a Microsoft language and by thus it is limited to .NET world.
But if we look at other ML languages such OCaml we can see that they're gaining popularity.
I agree and thought of that a couple years ago. The issue is that it takes a loong time to converge APIs of desktop and mobile. Plus, there are power and cooling issues. Next, stuffing in a CPU and GPU that can satisfy both requirements is basically asking for completely new cores that can do high power and low power. Cooling for 3D desktop games would require tradeoffs.

The issue is whether it's worth having a bicycle that can turn into a car and a car that can turn into a bicycle. Most of the time, the execution on these is terrible at both.
In connection with this article, according to 9to5mac the next MBA should have a unique USB Type-C connector.

http://9to5mac.com/2015/01/06/macbook-air-12-inch-redesign