jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you don’t already know at least four things that are being worked on, nobody is “working on it”.

We do rotations, two shifts. I spend at least two days a month working on alert prevention or faster recovery. So does my whole team. If anything big happens, I’ll spend four to six days (I tend to volunteer for resiliency work. My standards are higher, and I can actually talk about human factors instead of staring blankly or blamecasting).

So while other things are being “worked on” I can almost always name three of concrete ones we’ve done recently.
I think SCO (SCOC not SCOX) ported so much of their own and MS stuff from Xenix 2.3.2 to 2.3.4 over to SCO UNIX SysV 3.2v2.0 to keep MS Word working I can well imagine (and I think I recall) that MS got royalty kick for every SysV Release 3.2 x86 install.

Where are my rose tinted glasses...
You all literally shut down again within the past month.

You're locked away from the rest of the world and have been for over a year.

Your economy has contracted 1% and with the continued border closures doesn't look promising in the future either.

New Zealand has only vaccinated 0.9% of the population to date, so this is going to drag on for years to come at this rate of vaccine distribution, with MORE economic downturn. I can't even imagine how many small businesses are gone.

You may even be forced to open up at some point so people can work. And your population will be completely immunologically naive.

Covid is not over for your country yet. Talk to me when you've reached herd immunity.

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...

Locking down 80% of a population of people under the age of 55 whose fatality rate is less than car accidents for over a year is madness.
Hmm... well, that isn't normal for most places. I hope this comment doesn't scare any newbies off. It's likely you can find a chiller commute than the one this guy tried.
there is a real issue with "common sense" in the world atm.
I mean look at this... the Australian Gov had to put a FAQ answer up about if the vaccine will connect you to the internet:
https://www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/covid-19-...

how utterly ludicrous is this shit?!?
#4:"global education"
I agree with you completely that KA is far from a "global" player. It's interesting you mentioned Vietnam there because I have actually been building a kind of KA clone here in Vietnam for the last ~2 years or so. And here's my analysis when I started it.

- A very large percentage of Vietnamese students wouldn't be able to understand KA's videos because of their English proficiency.

- Even if the content was translated & subtitled, the videos' topics were in a way "foreign" to most of the students, especially the K1-K12's videos

- Other players like Udacity, Coursera ,... mainly focused on specific topics and that will be more relevant to Vietnamese students/workers, say software developers. But again, it's only relevant to those students with pretty good understanding of their field's terminologies in English. Those students are the minority.

- Say, if I were to start a trello's clone, I would have little chance against trello because most of Vietnamese would be able to use trello with out any problems, so yeah, they might prefer trello.

So starting a KA clone would be "safer". And on top of that, I've always been passionate about software & education & English language, so I started it. I started with English courses, which I thought were what the Vietnamese students would need most in their career later in life.

So in case anyone thinking of making a KA clone like me, please read on. It's not an easy journey at all, especially when your resources are limited. Building the platform AND the content at the same time is real tough. It's not easy to convince good (English) teachers to go online and give lessons. Giving lessons offline is still fairly lucrative for good English teachers. Or they are shy acting in front of the camera and going to be seen by "everyone". Or they are not passionate enough a teacher. Or they simply didn't believe in us.

I haven't been successful yet, still struggling but the journey's been great and I'm really proud of what we've built: a stable platform (has most of the features from KA or udacity), found 2 young passionate English teachers and together we've built a few English courses.

So yes, that's my startup journey so far. The final results? 2015 will tell, right now we're running a little short of cash but I'm hopeful. Sometimes I just wish I was Salman Khan and met "that" investor, Bill Gates. Gates' note on online education is exactly what I've been thinking as well: It is still at an early stage and improvising for maybe 10 years to come.
Summary of Agreement (not judgement):

1. Plaintiff received $25K (directed to ACLU legal and subject to tax)

2. Philadelphia PD must communicate the following for a period of months:

"Investigative detentions may be made only on reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct and any arrest must be based on probable cause. A referral by TSA agents is not grounds for arrest unless an officer makes a judgment ofprobable cause; similarly, referral by TSA agents is not grounds for detention unless an officer makes a judgment that there is reasonable suspicion ofcriminal conduct. Any detentions or arrests should be documented on appropriate police paperwork consistent with PPD Directives."

3. No admission of wrong doing or error on anyone's behalf
It's only two lectures, so far. Maybe wait until the whole course is up before giving a review?

(Stanford has some older iOS programming courses up on iTunes as well. For example, the course "Developing iOS 7 Apps for iPhone and iPad" [1] is 18 lectures.)

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/course/developing-ios-7-apps-for...
Fortunately this is only a test CA that will expire at beginning of April.
Great video. Congrats to the founders on the acceptance and their further success; the UI looks awesome. Opened my eyes to the competitiveness of the program.
I wish the Free Software Foundation would only focus on Free Software. I don't like Facebook, but I'd prefer that my donation money be spent on paying someone to work on Emacs rather than making "Dislike" buttons.

Facebook is harmful, but people don't care about being harmed or losing their freedom. Educating them is just a waste of money.
something is better than nothing

The legacy of Obama (so far)
I didn't realize you were angel investing, Noah. Drop me a line.

NewsLabs wasn't raising enough money, so I didn't even consider it. I've said it before but: don't invest in companies raising too little. They will fail.
Which is all very well until you're playing Scrabble and your letters spell all sorts of pronouncable wordshaped sequences which you are sure must mean something to someone... but then they aren't allowed. :-/
Close, but they failed to discuss the real problem with Facebook. Privacy is less than a nonissue. The real problem is that it is a black hole: anything more than 2 weeks old is basically irretrievable ('download your information' includes only wall posts, not comments). They also failed to mention why Facebook is successful: something like it is practically required for most women to communicate over the internet.
Did they find a good font license yet, or are they still using the temporary Ubuntu Font License? There's nothing wrong with that license per se, but I know they were trying to make a better license for fonts in general to reduce license proliferation.
We had almost the same experience month ago, when we traveled to Cape Verde. No internet and calls were so expensive that I only did one phone call during the trip. It really was refreshing!
If an intelligence agency did attempt this trick then they'd almost certainly succeed, because the Wikileaks crew are mere mortals

So are the intelligence agencies.
There are three important aspects they appear to have missed.

So when are you putting the team together?
I'm disappointed with the rules, but I have to admit that something is better than nothing when it comes to regulation of Internet Service Providers. At least the government is admitting that the Internet is different from both phone and broadcast services. That's a start, at any rate.
Yes, but it's not in real time. You'd extend the time to get to that next, easier block, and with the drop in mining power, that could take a significant amount of time.
I'd guess it may have been for PowerTalk (Apple's ill-fated groupware/collaboration system), and that they were offering a free digital cert to sign/encrypt email.
Yes, it happens at compile time. To understand how proofs work here, you want to look at the Curry-Howard correspondence. Basically, there's a correspondence between types and propositions, and between the values inhabiting those types and proofs of the corresponding propositions. So a proof looks like a value of a certain type.
And the award for least descriptive commit log of all time goes to...

Cool stuff though.
His advice is all well and good but "skilled risk managers" can be just as dumb as everyone else.

I work at an investment bank and I can safely confirm that most professional investment managers and risk managers fall for this type of stuff all the time.

If you want an example, look as Nassim Taleb's idiotic moves. Here's just one from 2010:

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Nassim-Taleb-Shorting-Tr...

So in 2010 Taleb's advice to short U.S. Treasurys. How'd he do in the last 5 years? If he followed his own advice then he lost almost half his money on that trade as US Treasury rates fell dramatically since then.

I'm not picking on Nassim Taleb. He's a smart dude. But everybody - everybody - makes dumb investment decisions.
"%/year is what matters to all investors"

Exactly. Only one in Bitcoin in January 2013 were those who were really deep in the community. Investors don't care what the price was before they purchased.
You have two sides in ideological conflict that are fundamentally unwilling to let the other deescalate.

With neither being allowed to back down, either conflict or subjugation at a national scale are inevitable.

I feel that we have a very short window left to rectify this sentiment lest we be in a completely failed state. Sadly becaue of COVID, it's very difficult to move countries at the moment. I do not plan on sticking around to see what happens though.
I don't remember the exact place, but I remember reading it, and I've only read silmarillion, Hobbit and LOTR, so it must have been in Silmarillion.

I googled for a while, the best thing I found is this: http://valarguild.org/varda/Tolkien/encyc/papers/Amaranth/De...

> Thus, Eru found a means to amend the situation. After a time of waiting in Mandos's halls, the Elvish fëa may, if it chooses, be reincarnated in a hröa identical to the one in which the fëa was formerly housed. The Valar were given permission and power by Eru to see to the construction of a new hröa for the 'houseless' fëa, and they can judge that a fëa may not be reimbodied, or at least not yet, in certain situations. Normally, the reincarnated Elf remains in Aman. Only in special cases is the Elf sent back to Middle-earth, generally because he has some task yet to complete there
Thanks Yosh, I really appreciate that. It's refreshing to write whole complete sentences sometimes rather than just a bunch of assembled if statements =)
"Bandwidth is cheap"

It's not about bandwidth. It's about latency and how completely inefficiently HTTP uses TCP connections. And actually the fact that our modern connections have so much bandwidth is what is exposing how poorly HTTP utilizes the network.

"HTTP has its warts and quirks but for the most part we have worked our way around those"

No we haven't. Look at any waterfall graph. See all that green? That's the network doing nothing. It's mostly green. HTTP's request/response model creates head-of-line blocking and uses the network connection poorly. (And the HTTP pipelining dream isn't going to happen with 20 years or HTTP devices out there)

The way we have "worked our way around those" are hacky ways to either try and reduce the number of requests we have to make (combine files, CSS sprites, etc), or by hacks to try and run more poorly implemented network connections in parallel to minimize the effect (domain sharding).

The "reduce the number of request" hacks suck for many reasons, of both the devs (build scripts, slicing the CSS images) and the end user (caching opportunities limited to giant JS or CSS bundles that frequently change invalidating the entire bundle, do you know how much memory a 2000 x 2000 px PNG24 CSS sprite takes up?). The "use a bunch of bad connections in parallel" hack sucks a bunch too. It uses more socketsand it uses slower, cold TCP connections, and its a pain to maintain.

I agree that HTTP/2 is making some assumptions about the underlying network (specifically around reducing the size of certain payloads to the fit inside default TCP windows for cold connections). However, HTTP/1.x's way of sending several kilobytes of duplicate plaintext information for every request is a poor approach as well.
I tend to worry that an error in the code will be baked into the theory for generations.

I don't deal with much scientific code myself, but at one point I dealt with a proof-of-concept cryptographic library from a reasonably well-respected researcher. The code behaved correctly from the outside, but when I dug into it, deviated wildly from the published specification.
The only blame they gave him was that he had a poor choice of words. They're not saying he went against training or policy. They're not saying that he's being disciplined or fired.

Canonical said that they need to review their policies. To me, this implies that what he did was not against policy.
Opera was in another league too, but they fucked it up too.
>I want to OPT-OUT this information sharing I was NOT aware of!

Welcome to the world of Microsoft products.
This is why I have three things I never trust the experts in.
- How to be healthy
- How to educate
- How to raise kids

It seems like every decade we find out everything we did last decade was bad and wrong but now we've finally for sure got it figured out, and this time we know we are right because we have fancier gadgets and more citations in our name.

From Frued to the Food Pyramid it seems that the experts always have just finally figured it out.
> If only postgres won the marketing battle back then...

Be glad they didn't - otherwise their support dept. would be buried under questions from web-hosting newbs.
"God Created Men and Sam Colt Made Them Equal!”

https://www.historyandheadlines.com/march-5-1836-god-created...
This article is about iOS. How are you going to use LocalCDN on iOS?
The problem is of expectations. We don't expect computers to write books (creativity is a Hard problem), but we do expect writers to use word processors.

Likewise, we shouldn't expect computers to deduce your ailment and prescribe treatment (critical thinking is also a Hard problem), but we should expect doctors to use computers to remember, search, and sort things for them: the things computers are good at.

We don't need the computer to think—we need it to help the doctor think. People should be working on that, not on systems to replace the doctors themselves.
I got my first cell phone in 2008 as a junior in college, recognizing that it was getting to be too difficult looking for internships relying on my landline. I didn't want anything fancy, so I just got the phone that came "free" with the plan. That phone had a camera and a basic Internet browser.

Based on that, I'm pretty sure we'll be seeing smartphones offered at roughly the same subsidized price point as a dumbphone by 2012, and I'd actually call that a pretty conservative estimate; they could definitely show up in the first half of 2011. Giving someone a $100-200 phone with a 100mb data cap is nothing, provided you can upsell a reasonable number of them to a 1GB data cap by the end of their contract.

I could also see data/text-only phones showing up with 250MB-1GB caps in the near future, possibly rolled in with some VOIP app that bills voice as data. (It's an accident of a minimally competitive marketplace with minimal regulation that we haven't seen these already.)
My sturdy nokia survived the washing machine.
Yes, because Windows doesn't have less. It does whatever makes sense on each platform -- so on Windows it'll also use notepad for commit messages by default, and look for both .hgrc and Mercurial.ini in the home directory.

The pager and editor are configurable, of course. I have it set up to use emacsclient on Windows.
Not only eBay, but Nokia too.
Nokia isn't going to stop producing cheap quality dumbphones anytime soon. (like this: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1202-2573.php)
Question: How are you picking the cities? Is it just cities that you know of, or are they the top github using cities, or arbitrary?
another great quote along these line (who knows if rumor or not): "we never would've invented the ipod with a/b testing"

think there's a good balance between customer development/research and your own instinct/vision
All we would need would be some way to gauge the instantaneous consumption at reading time. I would assume the tested kernel is capable of, at least, boot, check its power consumption under some workload (maybe compiling the kernel with the next patch set to be tested) and dumping that information to a file or a remote machine.
A weaker dollar is marketed as a bad thing in the USA. But many don't realize that a strong dollar benefits the rich and a weak dollar benefits entrepreneurs and companies who don't yet have large dollar reserves they need to protect, but are exporting services and competing in a global market place.
Sorry, but this crap long ago passed "redressing a wrong" and went right into piracy and network attacks. There are ways for people with cracked PS3s to access the dev channel and directly pirate titles. Sony's fault for having an insecure system? Sure (and I'd bet that's why their network is currently down), but at this point there is precious little argument that they're "redressing a wrong." You can already run OtherOS and still access PSN; cracking the development servers has no legitimate use.

At this point it's full-on in asshat territory, and people like me (who own PS3s and don't really give a damn about people who can't install Linux on the 3,000th device they own) are getting it in the shorts because of it.
Bond prices should always contain the market's inflation expectations. If you think markets can usually anticipate inflation correctly then investing in bonds should be an effective inflation-neutral store of value.
I love how so many of the most distinguished names in computer science have absolutely austere websites. No tricky CSS, no javascript, just raw content.
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> People like Sergey Brin & Larry Page will drop out, with or without Thiel's investment.

That is probably precisely the part that Thiel disagrees with you about. Who knows how many would-be Brins and Pages couldn't afford the risk?
Google Alerts.
actually I find it harder to remember which username/email goes with each site

So very true. My password creation process is fairly memorable, and tends to meet the requirements of any site (password length, numbers, capitals etc). But user names - it's an email address, it's the name on your email address, they do accept spaces, they don't accept spaces, they only have 8 characters ... drives me mad !
That is nothing like cutesy corporate bullshit; nobody got downsized, no fuzzy misleading terms were used, no synergy was promoted and no next-generation vortals were collaboratively facilitated.

Follow the link to the full text, it's a very clear, straightforward and solid memo.
And more importantly, are any of these areas Sony threatened actual cash cow businesses like Windows or Office?

Yes. Microsoft thought that Windows in the consumer marketplace was threatened.

Here was the theory that both companies had then (and maybe still have). A digital convergence between media and computers is inevitable. Whoever controls that platform will see a large growth in business. Whichever gets replaced will see a large drop in business. One of the keys to winding up in control of that platform was to get richer content for your platform. The key to that was to deliver a DRM system that Hollywood liked.

With that in mind take another look at Sony's WebTV, Microsoft's Media Center, the Blu-ray vs HD DVD war, and moves towards DRM from both companies over the last decade. The battle so far has been a draw. WebTV failed to dent the PC market place. Blu-ray won. Consumers don't like DRM, but a certain amount of it has been shoved down our throats anyways.

Incidentally I believe that Sony still thinks this could happen, and this is one reason that they are involved in the Google TV platform.
Site. Cross Site Scripting.

Would Cross Side Scripting come from the other side, beyond the grave? That would be quite a bit more serious.
I'm sure it also helps the gangs run things from inside a prison.
OP here.

The longer process wasn't to avoid withdrawals. I already went through the withdrawals while I had the flu.

I've quit cold turkey before, going through the withdrawals for ~1 week. Problem is, the habit didn't have enough time to change. I was back on coffee within a month.

This particular process allowed me to cement this change permanently.

I guess I could've made it clearer in the article.
It depends on the company. At many companies any number of shares entitles you to attend, though many companies set a minimum number of shares in their bylaws (I think public companies can only limit this to a maximum of 1000 shares, and IIRC nearly all publicly-traded companies set a limit to avoid single-share troublemakers).

Speaking also depends on how the bylaws say the agenda is constructed, but I've never seen any where a share would entitle someone to a spot on the agenda. There are sometimes spaces for comment, and I think the rules for how those are selected/filtered are set in the bylaws.
No. You are wrong.

Syrians living under official refugee status can work in countries where they have this status, at the very least in the EU. If they have that status in a country outside of the EU, I'm not exactly sure about the legal situation but I'd think it's similar to other citizens of the country where they have refugee status.

Source: I'm Syrian and a refugee.

If a company wants to hire me, I don't want it to be for a humanitarian reason, I want it to be based on competence.
> began a lengthy and intensive process of advocating for broad and open access to GitHub in sanctioned countries.

> Over the course of two years, we were able to demonstrate how developer use of GitHub advances human progress, international communication, and the enduring US foreign policy of promoting free speech and the free flow of information.

What about orgnanizations and individuals working to hpromote the free flow of information, but aren't on the top-5 market cap coporations? Are they also exempt from sanctions?
Now replace "FDA" with "FAA" and "two doses is the regimen" with "the 737 MAX is safe."
If you want to do good, you actually have to help people.

Yep. Its a hard thing to look at the actual data coming out of something and see your good idea didn't translate into actually fixing a problem. Sadly, a lot of people, particularly in government, would rather die on that hill instead of moving on.

There is a fine line to walk though. Just because you didn't fix everything doesn't mean chuck it all in the trash. Being able to see the positives is important and will help with refining your strategy.