jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If your invitees don't also have a spare iPhone, what's the point of inviting them? They'll have the same problem with no workaround?
> the MacBooks seem very similar in terms of simplicity

To the Framework? Oh heck yes!

I switched to Mac when the rumors were that Windows Vista was going to be a flop. Today, I like MacOS better than Windows 10, but Windows 10 is very nice.
Have you considered allowing the creators of a popular index to receive a small fee, similar to current ETF commission structures?

Y’all seem like you’re in a great position to create a vibrant community for the next generation of investors, and giving financial influencers a return could help bring people to your platform.
Yes. The only other option is a regional fiber network which requires thousands (if you're lucky) up front to dig a trench to your house not to mention a very high monthly fee (which I'd gladly pay).

I routinely use between 1.4-1.8 TB of data each month. I have about 30 devices connected to the network at any one time, maybe 50 total.
The world is full of good ideas. Now, thanks to personalized ads, small businesses can get theirs found. Good ideas deserve to be found.

Can anyone reading that sentence and feel like "Yeah, that make sense"?

The idea to be able to connect with your family and friends in a efficient and productive manner is a beautiful and inspiring idea worth pursuing as long as you can wrap it in a sustainable business model.

Selling a dopamine-triggering mass-indoctrination machinery to the highest bidder is not.
> pros seem to outweigh the cons.

Exactly
+1 to this, except I would like a plastic alternative to the aluminum in the case as well.

While it's commendable that framework is picking those materials to environmentally conscious - I have had such terrible past experiences with "aluminum" body laptops triggering eczema outbreaks[1] - that I avoid metal cases as a rule now.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291384767_Allergy_r... TLDR: many metallic cases have nickel or cobalt present, and it releases when you sweat. Sometimes this triggers contact dermatitis (eczema) if you're sensitized to it.
What does GPA matter for? Except special circumstances, like scholarships or visas tied to GPA? I stopped 7th grade and truly dropped out at 10th, so I'm biased. I've just never heard of GPA actually mattering.
I guess you have an Nvidia card? The two other major vendors have mainline (therefore GPLed) drivers and basically work out of the box. Keep that in mind during your next hardware upgrade.

Nvidia was the least terrible solution about 10 years ago (I have PTSD from installing binary blobs and editing Xorg.conf to make it work.) While others have improved tremendously and you don't have to do anything to get full 2D and 3D acceleration (just boot the system), the Nvidia experience™ hasn't changed much since then.
I spent 18 months deploying Openstack inside a pretty broken huge company.

Openstack is a disaster, because so many of the people building it have never used AWS and are instead trying to build "VMWare, but for free." Object storage is such an afterthought that there are regular rumblings that Swift shouldn't even be part of core Openstack. The six-month release cadence keeps delivering broken software. The releases are slushy enough that configuration options change mid-release, so you can't perform minor upgrades without potentially breaking something.

The big companies backing Openstack are using it as a cloud story that they can present to Wall Street, or as a bargaining chip to get better terms from VMWare.

Most of the Openstack startups have been aqui-hired, and life has moved on.
> Just because 5.3.3 is maintained by CentOS and Debian doesn't mean that every install of 5.3.3 is maintained. There will be a small percentage of installs that are from-source.

So is it just me, or is this a total release management failure that there can be multiple different things called "PHP 5.3.3" (or any other version number), which behave differently, some of which have security vulnerabilities and some don't.

If you want to know if you are vulnerable or not, knowing you have "PHP 5.3.3" is not enough -- I'm not even sure how you'd tell if you had a patched version or a non-patched version, other than testing it for vulnerability.

Something seems horribly wrong here, no?
Wasn't the point of the Facebook acquisition that they wouldn't need these types of tit-for-tat partnerships anymore? They're supposed to have unlimited bank now and be able to buy and produce the necessary hardware without having to kowtow to Samsung or other hardware partners. I understand that this type of partnership may make things cheaper even if they're owned by Facebook, but is it really worthwhile to take your eye off the ball if you don't have to?
I was thinking about doing something similar. Do you recommend using your own domain name (like nathan barry) or having a custom domain?
That's fair. The intelligence community really has no one to blame but themselves for that.

Arguably, secrecy exists for a good reason sometimes. But when you begin to treat the rest of the legal system, the government whose job it is to oversee you, and the public as enemies and keep everything as secret as possible, you really give people little to suspect anything but the worst.

I mean, here we are with what appears to be the biggest and most complex global data gathering correlation system in history - possibly a technological achievement to rival the web itself - and two terrorists who posted anti-American rhetoric on their Twitter accounts managed to bomb the Boston Marathon despite having been under surveillance at one point, and the Russians more or less tell us outright to watch these guys. They weren't exactly hiding behind 7 proxies so what the hell are we even doing?

How to interpret the cognitive dissonance in that? Maybe the system isn't as comprehensive as it appears? Maybe bureaucracy got in the way? Maybe the pieces just didn't come together in time? Is there even a Panopticon or not? Who knows.
Hey, I'm one of the guys who worked on this.
Once we generate the articles, they're persisted on the website so that you can share them with your friends. If you want to generate a new article, go to the "Write for Us" page (link on the right of the top menu)
How do you visualize diffs and conflicts, though? I imagine it must be different from version control as we know it, effectively forcing you to relearn this part of our skillset...
I don't know where this name came from, but it made me think of Latin rapere, "to snatch/grab/carry off", which is the etymological source of "rape" and, while a common word, was also used for somewhat related purposes in Roman times (namely, kidnapping women). This is unlike niggardly, which is etymologically unrelated to nigger. However, rapere is also the source for innocuous English terms like rapt and rapture.
Hackathons ;)
Dude... look at it this way. Imagine that post was the first thing someone read upon arriving at HN. It represents the community. Do you think they'd want to stay and participate?
Honestly? On the front page:

Magical Block Store: Why EBS Can't Work -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479613

Russia's Crime of the Century --
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479865

How many zeros are there in 2^n? -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479129

The difference is that those posts link to content which shows you something interesting. As a consequence, two of them have interesting comments, too (the political one can be excused.) It's hard for me to understand what is interesting about John Resig fixing a relatively boring CSS performance bug, but I guess that's why we all have our own vote button.
Although this seems the easiest way out, but I don't think we should give into the demands of the system. For a while going away to US or the West has been the aim of our youth and needless to say this has caused significant amount of brain drain. The society is resistive to change, but change they will finally some day.

For example, a relative of mine immigrated to the US in the 90's. And is a successful doctor there. Now sometimes when he comes back for a vacation he wonders it was not such a good decision after all. There are plenty of opportunities in India. And you can economically well off too.

On the other hand. The cost of living in the US is too high, for the conservative and savings driven lives of Indians it becomes a little to get adjusted there. You life is driven by perpetual debt and insurances. Ultimately it looks like money is not for your luxury but you are for the luxury of money and big banks. Sure the infrastructure is a lot cleaner and there are high rises, it may feel like you in heaven for some time.

But on a longer run, spending your whole life paying off bank loans, credit card debts and all sorts of loans and debts. At the end of it you feel all that was not worth it.
What is your end goal? Do you really need 'Rockstar' skills to accomplish that? If your aim is to say build a functioning webapp, you can probably do it in 1-2 months by yourself. I started from scratch in Feb and released www.sgelections2011.com 2-3 weeks ago.

I think for 'business' guys out there feeling the need to be technical (like myself), don't forget that you're not trying to be the CTO (unless you really want to then its going take a lifetime of commitment). The tech is merely a tool for you to understand the technical aspects of the business better, not for you to take over it. Sooner or later, you want to get a real techie who lives and breathes it to come in and take charge.

Personally, I had a 6 month deadline to create a complete databound website by myself. Like I mentioned, I did in in about 2 months and wrote about that experience on my blog pragmaticstartup.wordpress.com if you feel like reading it.

Hope this helps.
Amazon Six Sigma "Blackbelts", meet Mr. Black Swan.

Edit: my point is you can't hide unexpected/unknown events on statistical models; we should know better, coming from CS.
Yeah a little bit of irony, I hear ya =]
"A lot of companies rejected by YC have went on successfully; some have even re-applied several times before getting in."

I applied with someone who is widely recognized as one of the smartest tech folks on HN. We got rejected. A couple years later I reapplied and got accepted as a non-technical single founder.

In two years I went from getting shot down despite having a dream team on paper, to getting accepted despite setting off basically every 'badness' flag on the app. It's kind of a long story as to why, but the point is that things change fast in startup land, that's why we do them in the first place.
I just want cheap 1kW/kg lithium sulfur batteries promised by Theion. Apparently gen 1 is out, but gen 3 is at that density.
> As a bit of a tape connoisseur,

This sort of comment is why I read HN.
> how the restaurant kitchens in early 1900s Paris were extremely gross and dangerous, but because the front of the restaurants were clean, the customers seemed happy.

I heard a lot of restaurants in China these days, including takeout outlets, make live video feeds of their kitchens available online so that customers can be assured that the kitchens are hygienic. Of course that doesn’t tell you about the quality of source materials.
Today, polymer clay is used to make many colorful and amazing things: jewelry for women, flower bouquets
It might also be a intensity driven effect, I mean, few important moments of your life revolve around important survival information (fond memories, life events etc).. but an oncoming death taps into absolute levels of emotions, which would match the most intense moments of an existence.
For the protocol Matrix would be a good fit but all the other points you mention are valid. Its not trivial and there is no incentive.
I can see exactly where Charles went wrong. Here is how the story should have gone:

Charles implements an entire interpreted language with garbage collection and an incomprehensibly coded virtual machine. Everything is documented and works flawlessly at that level, however. Nary a bug can be found by anyone experimenting with the language.

Charles writes the program in 30 lines of this language, which appear fairy simple on the surface, but rely on some deep semantics (that Alan's team doesn't even comprehend, for instance, let alone management, without studying).

In this case, nobody can dismiss the problem as being something easy that a junior programmer can solve, and Alan's team look like troglodytes from the Dark Ages.
All the more so because their buggy, incomplete program is
over 2500 lines, while Charles' language fits into 2300.

:)
I'm guessing white wins more often... ;)
I know a couple people who work in the jewelry industry. More modern jewelry shops have teams of designers who work in 3D modeling software (the dongle-required class) all day to produce ring designs. Some designs are produced white-label for larger, more well-known "brand name" jewelry retail chains. It is better to say that technology has changed the jewelry industry, like every industry.

That being said, in the Diamond District in NYC, multi-million dollar transactions are done informally with verbal contracts. Some things never will change.
In Canada only 1/3rd of people don't eat breakfast. So this sounds like a widely divergent thing.
Really. Vocation is analogous with the notion of 'personally having a specific purpose in the world', according to the dictionary's first definition of the word.
You have to move the king into a corner and block his way out with your king.
> no safety feature on a plane can prevent the pilot from crashing it willingly.

This is no longer true. There are procedures where no crewmember is allowed to be alone in the cockpit.
Technically no. Django uses templates which can be pure HTML if you want. You can add JS if you want to, but its not required. In fact server side rendering is one of the most common ways to serve sites that don't need to be dynamic in the browser
My advise to anyone here is to not dismiss downvoted comments but independently read them and form your own opinion. If it sides with the majority, great. No harm. But if it doesn't, then you can add your voice by upvoting them and expanding on their comment with your own color. I actually gravitate towards downvoted comments to see if there is some treasure, usually not but sometimes you do find interesting but awkwardly worded ideas.

History has taught us, many great ideas go against the grain... and some ideas demand going against the grain before people can realize its value.

Of course there are univerally bad comments (violence and deep contemptful hatred).
Wait till Satoshi is revealed to be Jensen Huang.
I don't know things about that county, I can only tell you the tactics they use in my city. One of them is at some point the minimum lot size for anything was increased to 5000 sq ft, even though most lots are 4000 or less. This means if you want a new structure on a 4000 sq ft lot, you need a special permit from the city.

Another one is setbacks. If most parcels are 40x100 feet, and the city says you need a 15-foot side yard on both sides, then you either need to figure out how to build a house that's only ten feet wide, or you need a special permit.
I've been able to sleep my laptop (mostly) reliably since 2006. It all depends on what hardware you have. The "mostly" is because in 2007, ATi released an update to their catalyst binary blob driver that broke sleep and hibernation. I try to steer clear of non-open source drivers now.
I tend to agree with 37Signals on this -- they basically say that the name of your product matters a lot more than that product's domain name, so long as you get a domain that's "close enough." If you think about it, that makes a lot of sense, because most people find sites on the web either by following links or by searching Google/Bing/etc., neither of which rely on knowing what the destination URL is.

His advice of buying the actual product name (e.g. foursquare.com instead of playfoursquare.com) post-launch is good advice though, because it can help push your product beyond the early adopter stage.
Google Voice can do this for you.
It's also reasonable to assume "hackers" reading "Hacker News" know how to use Google and Wikipedia to learn about things that they are interested in but don't understand, instead of asking others to dumb down all conversations to suit them.
That's it? I'd expect it to be much higher. I wonder what the percentage is in an urban city like San Francisco... 80%?
The real question is do any of your friends use Win7 phones? Not one of my friends do and many of them use Win7 on the desktop. The number activated is probably a lot lower. 1.5 mil is not that large of a mobile/internet number.
I love the app, but they should publish active user count - if any number at all. It really matters for an app with no little web presence and little content persistence.
I disagree. It's so obviously a cheap, nasty move that no warning should be necessary.

It's beyond intrusive. It's spam and Airpush will hopefully be out of business soon.
Most of the newer SoC chips like Freescale iMX and TI OMAP have the USB core hardware built into the chip, so it's easy to have the chip provide it's own USB bootloader that doesn't require any code out of flash or RAM to get started. The only trick is to make sure the chip can start in this mode when necessary, usually a little helper PIC or some custom gates takes care of that.
On my own blog, I have gone through several movements, either from one blogging platform to another, or more recently, deciding that I liked /blog/title/ better than /blog/year/month/title/. In each case, I have been very careful to ensure that I have a sufficient set of mod_rewrite rules configured in Apache that any of my old URLs will redirect the user to the new URL.

In the case of changing structure wholesale, it was as simple as setting up `RewriteRule ^/blog/\d+/\d+/(.+)$ /blog/$1 [L,R=301]`

In previous cases, I had to get a lot more specific; eg. articles with the same title would have different generated URLs depending on the blog software, so I would need to handle that as a redirect as well.
Those keybindings look awesome and make me want to upgrade. Guess I will try it out in a VM first though.
Ok... I agree but I don't see where the "bad habits" are being learned.
You will really enjoy anything that you love to do instead just working for someone for something.
Ooh.. nice and cc:ed. This would make the perfect mobile app if you applied the right sound design and a speaker reading the text. Background noises would cross-fade in and out as you swiped through the scene. Perfectly doable and would be a roaring (or similar) success.
> Honestly surprised there isn't a religion that revolves around the belief that we are transported to an alternate reality/parallel universe when we dream.

Spiritism has that. When you sleep, your spirit separates from your body, and goes meet other spirits (some of them of other alive people, some of them of people between one life and the next; reincarnation is a central belief of Spiritism); the place where these spirits are could be considered an "alternate reality/parallel universe" of sorts. Dreams are mostly partial recollections of these experiences. For a longer and more detailed explanation, see https://www.febnet.org.br/portal/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/... starting at page 267.
I'm getting really tired of people spamming their uninteresting blogs on HN.
There was a young woman in my high school and University class, she was a bit strange. Extremely bright beyond her years, sociable, and got along well with both the teachers and most of the students.
There was always something a bit off with her though.
From early high-school, as soon as “career” talk got more serious, she had only one job that she claimed she wanted to do, “Pediactric Oncology”. Some of the teachers were also taken aback by her fervor and intensity, but also her consistency.
Last I checked she’s in Med school somewhere prestigious, I’m sure she’ll be a great doctor, and that a lot of children will get the attention they deserve, but something worries me about the whole situation.
Yes. Room temperature. Automotive (body) is between -40 °C and + 85 °C. The garage is normally not heated.
Container ships are tremendously energy efficient, around 30 gram per tonne-km.

Some back of the envelope math:

- Distance China to US East Coast ≈ 10 000 km

- Weight of 1 toothbrush = 10 gram = 0.0001 tonne

30 g * 10 000 km * 0.0001 tonne = 30 gram of Co2

30 gram of Co2 is the amount of Co2 emissions from ≈ 100 meter of travel with an average car.

Of course there is secondary land transport from the port etc. But even though the sea shipping industry is one of the biggest Co2 emitters (not to speak of other nasty stuff [0]), it's still incredibly energy efficient.

[0]: You saying the ships are "diesel-spewing" is actually doing the ships a favour, it's usually heavy fuel oil.
How many times have we said something similar about the promises of technological advancement, and yet the panacea never actualizes?
The NFL players association is a highly successful union for people with unique abilities. Same with the Screen Actors Guild.

Highly specialized labor benefits from unionization as well.
Huh, they might be A/B testing that. I still have the original $1 off any coffee shop (min. $1.50; every 30 minutes). When did your deal change?
Why not say "so China is capitalized at Berlin?"
The card reader on the ATM is frightening (but I always hide my PIN with my hand, but even then, it can be guessed by muscle movements). But Apple Pay is another positive to not having to put your card in the door. If the door doesn't support Apple Pay, then I try my AAA card, which works a lot of the time. If I have to use my bank card, I really try to hide my PIN when I eventually get to the ATM.
> When I was there a guy jumped off a building because they wouldn't let him switch off a toxic team

I mean, they would have let him leave the company, right? It seems unreasonable to blame Amazon for this guy’s tragic decision, since any reasonable person would have taken a more reasonable exit.
It's mentioned in the Reveal (investigative radio news source) coverage that Indiana had an active bid for HQ2 at the time the coverup happened.
> Is it common for engineers to even be able to influence the UX decisions? I thought that was generally left to designers.

Feels to me that no designer worked on Gimp UX.
The commoditization (sp?) of your data is what the walled gardens are all about. So it's in the interest of companies like Apple, Google, Yahoo, Dropbox, Microsoft and so on to remove as many of your files from your control as they can get away and to package them in a non-file metaphor so they can sell you your own data back, either directly through access fees or indirectly by selling you advertising right along your own data.

I wished more people would see the endgame in situations like these: you're going to be paying through the nose for something that was already yours. Hosting your own data is trivial, the only case where I can see your data moving to the cloud is for backup purposes, off-site is better than on-site in case of disaster recovery.

So, have a good and long look at that firewall that protects you from the big bad cyber terrorists out there. That same firewall that stops the bad guys from coming in (and your ISP by blocking access to port 80 and a couple of others) are what keeps the peer-to-peer potential of the web from being realized.

So when VCs start trumpeting the 'end of files' make sure you realize what you're giving up.
> Someone writing, say, a static code analysis tool or an IDE may not assume

If you're writing a static analysis tool or an IDE then I think it's fine to expect you to read the spec.
Boycott’s have occasionally been successful.

https://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/jan/06/boycotts...