jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you don't eat the calorie it doesn't have to be burned, your exercise to calorie burned is questionable since there is no real way to measure how much you burned doing those workouts and it verys per person based on a number of factors. Even if you did burn 800 calories a day if you consume 3k without knowing it your still not going to make progress on your weight loss goals.
It would be pretty awesome if they left, and then we just blocked the entire IP address range with them.
I had to read it for a leadership class. It had some great stories, but people overlook that the CEOs interviewed all said "luck" was a huge factor. So the rest of the book seemed like it was partly BS.

For example, Walgreens sold off their lucrative restaurant business and put all new stores in extremely high traffic areas and became the seller of not only prescriptions, but random things people need, but don't want to go to Walmart for. It paid off nicely, but it was extremely controversial at the time. They also didn't freak out when internet dotcom companies (set to take over the industry) popped up as they knew those competitors were missing the entire supply chain. Instead they took their time and automated things better to make customers happy in a different way like automated phone ordering. Was all of that genius, or luck. Maybe a bit of both. The same story with Barnes & Nobel and Amazon doesn't turn out so well.
If only that were a practical solution. The open-source community doesn't have everything, sadly, and some of the best applications are only available in the Play Store, behind a pay wall.

I like drawing and note-taking with my S-Pen enabled tablet. There's no good open-source alternative to Artflow or Nebo (both paid apps).

Sure, you could pirate it... even with morality aside, I'd rather trust Google than random APKs acquired from the dark corners of the Internet.

And with this setup, Google doesn't really have much information about my person, so I don't care if they have info on the device (assuming you take proper steps to keep the device anonymous).
> The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg ruled Thursday that compulsory vaccinations would not contravene human rights law and may be necessary in democratic societies.

> Although the ruling did not deal directly with COVID-19 vaccines, experts believe it could have implications for the vaccination drive against the virus, especially for those who have so far stated a refusal to accept the jab.

> By Czech law, children must be vaccinated against nine diseases including diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and measles.

This makes sense against illnesses that are highly dangerous to children.
Smalltalk systems have always been able to do this.
Yeeaaaahh, that looks very much like an ATA cable connector, and I've broken quite a few of those just trying to remove cables from motherboards. Maybe they custom-cast it out of a harder plastic, but I wouldn't trust it to be truly portable.
"Powerful main memories - - containing up to 524,000 characters of information - - "

Note the emphasis here needs to be on the words "up to" as many System/360s weren't anywhere near 524,000 characters. The System/360 at my university started out with only 44kB. Later, when the memory was expanded to 77kB the Uni admin announced a Red-letter day in its weekly newsletter—it was a real big deal.

That said, the 360 multitasked seven operations simultaneity and thinking back I'm amazed at the extent of the engineering and research work that was actually achieved on that machine given what we now consider to be very limited resources.

Of course, we undergraduates programmed in Fortran, and to ensure that we students wrote efficient code, batch processing runs allotted just enough runtime to complete our assignments. Sloppy code would time out and the job would need to be resubmitted (and the assignment late).

Incidentally, the time-out limitation/problem became a challenge for some of us to solve and we engaged in what I'd reckon would have been some of the earliest computer hacking. In the days before security was a big deal, the computing center used to chuck its used fan-fold printouts into dump truck behind the electrical engineering school (which housed the 360). An examination of the code revealed $Job control information that allowed us to bypass the time limit. All we had to do was to punch up a single $Job card with the correct time limit info and insert it at the head of our card stack, thus we could 'dial up' any amount of processing time we wanted.

This worked well for quite some time until some idiot decided to go overboard and pinched too much time. That's when the operators noticed the batch jobs slowing down at certain points in the run (the long trays of punch cards being processed would slow or temporarily halt at those points). It always takes some fool to screw up perfectly working system that worked well for the rest of us! ;-)
As I recall, command line scrolling output was also faster if you minimized the window. You just needed an alert of some sort when the thing was done, like a bell or audio file.

There was a period of time where I earned brownie points by flushing all of the defunct debugging output from old bugs that nobody removed, typically for a 2x improvement in app performance. All because of screen scroll bottlenecks.
I believe this is a violation of the TOS for Google Voice. I've heard great things about phonebooth.com, which is especially for commercial use and starts as a free service.
Quite possibly the crawler collecting the corpus hit a crawler trap (intentional or unintentional) -- or perhaps web-based game output (which when visited by a crawler became a de facto trap) -- which multiplied the implausible phrases.
You should really put an e-mail in your profile in case people want to get in touch with you privately (or e-mail me at anfedorov@gmail.com) ;)
How would one go about finding evidence that an undisclosed bug is being exploited?

(both a serious question and a bit of snark. Seems like it'd be pretty hard for an individual to gather actual evidence, unless it were used on them)
> On a more serious note, I am not selling out or going to ask for capital ever.

You are thinking a TON of steps ahead. You have nothing. Ideas are cheap.

> I didn't feel the need to do research to prove that people are interested in selling things online and e-commerce is hard and if you are a merchant

That is NOT what it means to do market research. There are always competitors in 99.9% of startup businesses. And the 0.1% that actually are truly unique don't just magically stake their claim and stay that way forever-- imitators and competitors emerge.

The most basic market research you need to do is to identify the size of the market you're attacking. Put a real number on that somehow. It may be guesswork, but do some serious digging.

Then you want to figure out how much your competitors are making: estimate their costs, their profit margins, etc.

Based on where your competitors fit in, you may decide that you can't compete on price and that changes your whole approach. If you have an idea to open a 24/7 grocery store in a town that has a Wal-Mart, you're probably not going to be able to beat a 2% profit margin coupled with specially negotiated prices. You may however be able to cater to a niche audience like college students by offering additional services, like making hot sandwiches (drunk kids love chicken parms at 3am).

These are the kind of decisions that affect the entire direction of the company.

> If they aren't selling it online already, it's only because the services aren't up to the mark, and that would be a good thing for me.

No, actually there are myriad reasons why someone would not be selling online right now. Maybe they haven't ever heard of Shopify? Or maybe they don't trust Shopify to handle their setup? These are marketing challenges, not necessarily technical ones. Just being a great, determined coder does not guarantee you will be successful.

Also:

You mentioned you're quitting your job in 2 months to do this full time. Why? Do you have a ton of cash that you can do that? When do you expect to break even? How long can you survive on no salary? What are your expenses?

Don't let me (or anyone else here) discourage you. Just have a real plan and put some real effort into the business side of things or make a disclaimer that tells us you're rich and aren't in it for the money. :)
Might not necessarily be miles away either. There already exists software that watches live video and can count appearances of your brand, size, length of time and so on to deliver a report on the potential impact your advertising has had.
Yes. And I agreed with some and disagreed with rest. Nothing personal. I appreciate his taking time to read and review the post. And yours too:-).

This isn't false modesty. Sitting in a closed room and trying to build something which I suppose people will use takes me nowhere. Any sort of negative/positive feedback is why I am posting it on HN.
I think it makes more sense to use federated protocols after you've reached a certain critical mass of features and usability. Look how much Signal has improved in the last 6 months. That would be harder with a federated system as people just don't update apps. I'll buy a push for Signal to become federated when it is fully featured (which may be pretty soon). Also at that point, what is to stop people from making a federated Signal? Or creating a fork that allows contact with the centralized server AND a federated space? Is it impossible to have a mixture?
FUD:

# remove package, its dependents _and_ purge config files

aptitude purge <package-name>

# purge config files from items that were removed but not purged

aptitude purge ~c

And, to play Devil's advocate the other way around, because Debian's tools are not sandboxed, they can inter-operate sanely. You can, you know, share things, print them, move them around. It's as if - shocking - you own your own data. Imagine that.

I work pretty regularly with both Debian and OSX. They both have areas where they excel. I think you're being pretty simplistic.
Most of the things you mentioned remain true for any prospective employer, though, whether it's any form of start-up or already established. Only the financial questions from the original set were particularly start-up specific, and those are the ones where I see a bias in the article, because a different approach would be appropriate depending on the nature of the start-up.
If we're in this kind of interview situation, where I am openly recruiting for a position and you are a job applicant, then it is very unlikely that I expect equity to be part of your pay.

These days, equity is for founders (if you're serious) and prospective employees who didn't get the memo about the .com bust (if you're both fools). A fixed salary at a credible professional rate is for prospective employees you respect, possibly with some clearly defined bonus structure.

YMMV, but I haven't seen any exceptions to this from either side of the table in a long time.
That's an opinion. I almost always prefer higher order functions.
Seems like it would be hard for a competitor to gain a foothold. But it might be possible:

Contact all the restaurants in a given area.
Propose them a service similar to OpenTable.
Guarantee to them a lower price and greater control.
Market yourself as restaurant owner friendly.

Launch the service and advertise in the selected area to reduce costs.
Replacing with <insert your choice here> via plugin[1]

1: http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/getting-to-docker-1-0/
Unable to come up with a way to vet your idea without wasting a stranger's time under false pretenses?
Any references on why they are dropping it and what they are replacing it with?
> It is very unusual for anything to come up overnight and being paged is the last resort.

This does not jive with my experience. Most companies aren't Google as you've described it, and in most cases the person on pager duty is the first human examining the incident.

> If there was a sleepless night

How about if they get woken up each night for an alarm that turns out to not be a big deal? That is the typical on-call experience, getting woken up for 15-30 minutes each night, cortisol from 0 to 100 in the 15 seconds it takes to get into Work Mode.

I guess that doesn't qualify as "sleepless" but between it and the general stress of not being able to turn the phone on silent, I'd call it "shit sleep." Nobody should be subject to it. How can you expect somebody to produce decent software in this condition?
The irony of this statement is that only someone with strong memories of his or her parents projecting their interests and him or her and later resenting the effects thereof would project a fear like this on total strangers on the internet.
>Taking out debt at a negative interest rate has no such default risk: since you borrowed the money in the first place, if you default the lender is out the principal, not you.

I don't think this is accurate, as there is still risk because we are talking about a mortgage, not just a negative interest loan. A mortgage comes with down payment and a house for collateral. You can end up underwater on an interest free home mortgage just as easy as one with a positive mortgage. The only difference is your monthly payment is lower without mortgage interest.

Also, if you default on the mortgage, you are also out your 20% down payment.

The part I find interesting about the current situation is that stocks are sky high going higher, but loan interest is low. This indicates to me that banks and institutions are desperate to park money anywhere but the stock market despite the incredible market performance.
> Based on my understanding, that's based on a misinterpretation so what they're actually saying in Farsi.

On Israel, there are very explicit messages around, though it's more of a "Zionist" genocide. The IR will not care if the Jews just go out of the ME, presumably.
> This is all a noble goal, but I can't see this as being anything other than a complete and total non-starter with zero cooperation from Apple.

Why? There have been several success cases of reverse engineering in the past, for all sorts of popular and fringe hardware.
Well put, it's very confusing that Apple is willing to reduce the matter of Windows on M1 to a matter of licensing, but Linux on M1 is somehow seen as competition. I was gonna buy an M1 Mac Mini to replace my aging desktop, but Apple can forget my patronage if I can't control the hardware I own.
Some people don't see computers as fungible computing commodities priced in $/GHz and $/GB.

Much like they don't see cars as fungible transportation commodities priced in $/Watt and $/N·m.
Who is the Provider A and Provider B in Figure 7?

IP2Location and Maxmind?
My Sharp MM10 wasn't.
This is great to see. Another step forward for the open web.
You're right, but there is a "premium-processing fee", it costs about $1000.00 and it brings down the approval process time down to 2-4 weeks from up to 6 months.
As a US-based recovering WoW-addict, I find it impossible to associate Leroy with anything other than "Leeroy Jenkins."

Your post pleasantly caused me to discover that a suitably strong internet meme can completely wipe out racial stereotype associations.
Heck, you can even move to a different country where the cost of living is lower :o)

[Posted from Santiago, Chile....]
ZF and CI are horrible examples of coding practices. They are extreme examples of "make a class for everything because you can". ZF file and directory structure is at odds with PHP 6's namespaces, in fact it will probably have to be completely thrown away to make way for a ZF 2.

CI doesn't even have the base class of any "controller" defined anywhere for you to read. It is created on the fly every request. This guy is a noob and doesn't understand what good programming is.
I think the important part is that, if you have telecommuting in place, you can choose. Some days I need quiet, some days I need caffeine, some days I feel like being around activity, and some days I really need to talk to someone in the offices.

But where I work essentially doesn't "do" telecommuting, except in odd circumstances. So I don't have the choice. So some days I'm drained in-office when I could be energized elsewhere. I use their desks. I sit at the same chair. I can't walk-and-code, I can't have random-amenity-X, and I'm surrounded by either oppressive silence + keyboard clicking or the occasional partial conversation.

It's their choice, but I'm the one who's losing the most because of it.
good one. I love it when take something and muck around with our expectations of it. Isn't that one thing art is supposed to do?
I'm just doing QS for the global shortcuts, anyone know of a native way of launching apps from keyboard shortcuts?
It's probably taking Google Maps' suggested directions to swim across the Atlantic.
His rumor is probably a multi-year plan rather than a one-time event.
Three is a nice multiplier too. Just after I posted this I started to think about it, 8 might be too much, but on complex projects with many developers, it's not even so far fetched, there's always things that we cannot see before we start to work on those, a task that takes on our mind 1-2 days might take up to 2 weeks easily if there is some problem that is not solvable right away.
Yep. Erlang/Elixir is actually kind of a joy to work in for math stuff. Shoot me an email if you'd like to chat about that.
On the other hand the advertising posts are very clearly indicated to be such, there's no attempt to actualy disguise them as editorial. Furthermore by explicitly posting endorsements with the other content he's drectly putting his own credibility on the line. If the advertised service is sub-par in any way it directly reflects on him.
Okay, you have me there. I think coding and math fulfill different roles within modeling, but I'll agree that speaking in very general terms, it would be hard to say one is more expressive and widely applicable than the other for modeling.
There's also the cold water in a frying pan for one serving of noodles method. Place cold water and noodles in frying pan. Set on high, stirring constantly. The noodles cook in ~10 mins.
Have you read this [0] article yet? Also worth checking out, available if you click on the author's name, are the various responses he's gotten to it.

[0] http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-trag...
Unfortunately PuTTY still isn't served over https, even after all these years...
>you've consumed other people's data //

Except you don't consume it, you view it. The data remains and is accessible at all times to others. If you don't use it you haven't consumed it in any way.

>Is there any harm in entering an accidentally unlocked house and snooping around? //

There is a lack of equivalence here IMO as personal space, such as in a dwelling place, is quite different from non-dwelling space. The case of viewing data (to me) is like a person walking across your farmland without permission; quite different to finding them in your bedroom. The lack of equivalence between physical and virtual spaces makes this analogy fundamentally flawed.

If it's addressable on the internet then it's not private: If you hide your diary under your bed, that's private. If you hide it under a bush in the park, that's not private.

>Surely you can only consume data if you seek to do so? //

I shouldn't have used "consume", as the data is not consumed but viewed (unless it's used in later actions that "consume" it somehow). That said, you can view data without seeking to view it; you can seek to view data without being able to view it. If in the OP the person had tried altering the account ID and they couldn't view data from their other account would they still be committing an indefensible wrong in your opinion?

Interestingly I was just on a site called PC Builder that had price data in INR (Rupee), switching to USD added a section to the URL and I, to see if I could use the site in GBP, went to the URL and altered it ... did I commit a crime in your opinion?
First, cracking RSA is not believed to be NP complete. Second, even if it were, an analog computer could in theory provide a large constant factor speed up that would break current key sizes. But still, it seems very unlikely that an analog computer breaks RSA.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25693742
How? If we dont have evidence for it should we just conclude that it exists because our maths does not say it doesn't.

Lets make witchcraft a part of medicine then. A statistically significant part of the human population belives in it. Lets get that into a 4 semester course in a 6 year medical degree.
What I don't see anywhere in there is whether it's effective at filtering air.
> The Game Cartridge

yeah, i was slightly surprised that jerry lawson (inventor of the game cartridge) wasn't mentioned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lawson_(engineer)
The default has never changed from the point of view of the user. The default is "don't steal my data". DNT was just reflecting the reality of the situation: user not making a choice indicates they don't want you to steal their data.
When you have no arguments I guess you can always change the topic.
Timeless classics include:

- "Proud of..."

- "Let's take a moment to celebrate..."

- "I believe <Insert "profound" thought or saying>

- "Kudos/shout out to..."

- "I'm excited to announce I..."
Very young children mirror the emotions of their caregivers. Generally if you laugh they will think that it's time to laugh, if you are concerned they will think it's time for them to be concerned. Very young children don't really understand what to do when they are concerned, and so they cry hoping that their caregivers will focus on them and make things better.
Haha, wow. Thanks for digging that up!
Bruce Schneier does have vast expertise when it comes to security/encryption and the fact that he is formulating his conclusions in a way that they can be consumed by the general public, is something that is commendable and makes him way more dangerous for the NSA. Which is one of the reaseons why he gets attacked for it, i guess.
Sure, but presumably that schema will change with time. Then you'll have a parser built around HTML5, but another new release for HTML6, so on and so forth. It just needlessly complicates things.
The ones that are also the most corrupt. Myanmar, Somalia, Sudan. Countries where they have few laws, and little or no civil justice system.
In this sense, privilege just lets you circumvent having to learn to be resilient. You can choose the amount of stressors you want to let in. I have two friends who come from wealthy backgrounds, one is putting in 70-80hour weeks doing residency at a hospital, the other doesn't work and couldn't deal with the bay area rental market, so their parents purchased them a $1.5m home.

I guess what I am getting at is there is a blend of self-respect, self-expectation, discipline, morality or something involved. At a certain point a person decides to stop trying to fight and be comfortable with whatever hand they have.
The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has filed a criminal complaint against U.S. torture program architects and members of the Bush Administration. The organization has accused CIA director George Tenet and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes and they’ve called for a German prosecutor to conduct an immediate investigation.
What if the cost of investigating, prosecuting and sentencing is 100x more than what the bike is worth (very conservative guess)?