jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The difference between Facebook and all the software and internet companies that preceded it, is a big one:

All the other companies won because of their products, for whatever reason -- usefulness, ubiquity, etc. If someone came up with a product that had better usefulness, ubiquity, etc. then users could leave.

Google leveraged network effects with publishers. A search engine to rule them all. It had publishers by the proverbial "balls" -- if they didn't play nice, Google could just delist them and they'd lose their main source of traffic.

But the users were always free. Free to switch to yahoo, or bing, at the drop of a hat if they liked their search engines better.

Facebook is the first company I know that has successfully pulled off the following: it has its own USERS by the balls.

If you don't like facebook, you can bitch about it and even delete your facebook account, as various random people claim. And then a couple months later your friends want to share their X (pictures, notes, etc.) with you and not EVERYONE IN THE WORLD. And to do that, you have to join facebook again. Yes, facebook, because joining some other site will do no good.

This works because leaving facebook is no longer as easy as making a personal choice. You now have to create more work for all your "friends" who are sharing stuff with you on facebook.

"Larry, didn't you hear? I got married! Everyone came to my engagement party! It was all over facebook"

"Sorry baby, I'm not on facebook anymore... I guess I'm out of the loop"

This is a new ball game. Of course, facebook also has PUBLISHERS by the balls, just like Google, since it drives lots of traffic to them.

But it's the first company to have users by the balls. So what if you delete your account? You are in a tiny minority. And chances are, half of you will be right back on there the minute your friends refuse to share with you anywhere else.
Answered on the Foundation’s “About” page: https://longnow.org/about/
Is it a matter of if? I wonder how many times faster it is...
Linux used to have ARCnet drivers.
Maintainer of Dokku here.

If you can use Heroku, I would encourage you to do so. While the price seems high, the value add you get from just its feature-set and the ecosystem is tremendous. Seriously, even if you just pay 7 bucks for an always-on dyno, you can get pretty damn far without needing to worry about a server. I've been on a few platform teams, and we've always been _miles_ away from the functionality Heroku provides.

That aside, there are a number of reasons something like Dokku (or insert your favorite self-managed platform here) may be a good idea for your organization:

- You need to own your availability: With Heroku, you're at the mercy of Heroku, Salesforce, and Amazon (roughly in that order). Sometimes there is a mandate that your org cannot use services provided by certain companies, or you need an SLA that you can control for a third party. While I don't necessarily agree with those reasons, there are plenty of cases where owning your availability is more important than saving on the cost of building and running the platform.
- You cannot use an external vendor: Sometimes you want something to run in your closet for the 40 self-hosted apps you run, and you cannot install Heroku in your closet. Maybe you work at a non-profit and you cannot easily justify the extra expense (either because of paperwork or because money is tight). Running your own platform is quite enticing in these sorts of cases.
- Running "at scale" is expensive: If you work at a consulting firm and are working on a couple dozen apps for customers, something like Heroku can start adding up, especially if you want staging environments for functionality. We have a ton of users that switch to Dokku for staging, and then end up hosting in other places for HA functionality they don't want to maintain.
- While we might support Kubernetes and Nomad, the complexity of maintaining these systems just for staging can seem silly.
- The platform does not support the functionality you need: While Heroku is _excellent_, it doesn' support everything, and it doesn't need to in order to service it's customers. When you find yourself reaching outside the box, that is when owning your platform becomes important.

Yeah, Dokku might seem like it's missing the point, and yet there are thousands of companies - small and large - building and maintaining their own version of Heroku (with varying degrees of success). I think in that sense, Dokku does quite well since it is flexible enough that it's "batteries included but removable".
First of all, I'm not against porn, but most of reddit porn isn't empowering people, it's selling onlyfans or posting women against their will. Google is complicit with so called revenge porn as well. If you disagree, explain why they have crawlers indexing and doing facial recognition on porn sites that have an absolute buttload of revenge porn shit, like xhamster, 4chan archives, and motherless. It's a fucking travesty, and pornhub was just the tip of the exploitative spear, later reddit will ban porn unless it's verified, because the ny times or wapo will post an article about a dozen women being victimized by revenge porn on there.
Reminds me of working for a company in the 1990's that ran constant television ads convincing everyone their experts could fix everyone's networking problems. OTOH, as an engineer working at the company the file share used for editing code/building/etc, died for an hour or two seemingly every day when the network took its daily vacation.

Many of us, after having run out of other crap to do, would sit around and wonder if the "B" grade network engineers were assigned to run the company LAN, or the ones we sent onsite were as incompetent.
This should be tweeted to their official channel or someone inside company (on twitter) who has ability let relevant Rockstar dev know about it...
I would be interested in seeing what they did to get Linux booting and their userspace daemon running in ~300ms or less. Depending on their non-volatile storage read rate, using an uncompressed kernel might not actually save boot time. I'm guessing they aren't running traditional init or systemd.

I've been told LinuxBIOS is able to get you a text console login prompt faster than hdd platters can spin up, but it takes Ubuntu tens of seconds on my SSD laptop to get me a login prompt.

I'm surprised they don't have an FPGA MEMS autopilot with a simple degree 2 or 3 polynomial model of the flight dynamics , with the CPU and Linux only being involved in making adjustments to the autopilot. Or, maybe that's what they're doing, and by "falling out of the sky" what they really mean is the autopilot drifting.
Amazing accomplishment, a great hack!
You should also make the Four Lokator app.
It's a hint not a complete answer.

If you don't assume a fixed 100 digit input, but any number of digits (especially a float) then there are theoretically an infinite number of numbers that have those 100 digits in their middle.
As of the last time I checked, Apple still hasn't opened up iAd development to outsiders, so this doesn't seem to be of much use to us.

Does anyone know if this will be changing any time soon?
That does require that the comments are public (or that the author has granted you access to view the comments if private).
Honestly I'd enter on the VWP and fly back to the UK after 3 months then fly back to the US to get 6 months. That's the easiest way but you could be denied re-entry if you can't satisfy the border agents that you don't intend to immigrate (return air tickets and other evidence helps convince them otherwise).

With your funds though, I would have thought that you would qualify for B-1 especially if you book conferences in advance with breaks that span longer than the 90 days.

If you apply and are accepted the B-1 then it's valid for 10 years and allows you to stay for 3-6 months.
Why can't you (or node?) use the \\?\ syntax?
Like it was with SPDY?
I haven't down-voted you, but I must say it's a crazy idea. We may try finding ways to impose some handicap to some people for... what exactly? For some political/social sense of rightness? In the end, the fact is, the entire society benefits from having competent people around, regardless of their pedigree chart. Moreover, like the article mentions, the inheritance isn't just estate/material any more. It's a broad spectrum that starts from (probably controverted) genetic advantage up to the process of being groomed for high-level positions in society. Say, how would we tax the parent's reputation and her network of social connections that somehow spills over the off-springs?
That attitude is exactly why I have no interest in working with Java.
I highly doubt this spin on the story. Although the structural problems with the Souz mission are well known in retrospect, none of these problems were seen as a huge threat to the mission or the safety of its pilots, more than any other mission. Every cosmonaut was an extreme asset that would never have been disregarded with the discrepancy that this story portrays. Source: Grandfather was one of members of the first cosmonaut squad. Kamarovs death was a huge tragedy caused by a miscalculation, as opposed to neglect.
That's standard terminology in libraries, especially in parsers. You don't really care about overhead memory, you're concerned with scaling one the requests start coming in.

With things like C-based HTTP or JSON parsers, they will use the same memory space that is being passed to them to par/lex/etc but in this case with a Go library I'm honestly not sure what To does behind the scenes (I haven't looked at the source).
I'm using it. It's great. I went from PG commander to this.
It's a intermediate step towards absolute frictionless purchasing.

We went from physical in-store cash payments to online 1-click delivery. The purchasing experience has continuously been quickened, to close the gap between the intent and the action.

Nowadays, running out of coffee capsules (for example) still requires some interaction, via your phone or your laptop. There's at least a dozen of seconds between the intent and the action.

Having a button attached to the products container doesn't only remove that intent/action gap physically but also mentally, because you're actually consuming the product at that exact moment.

The ultimate frictionless experience would be for coffee capsules to be delivered before running out of them, through a prediction system à la Google Now. But that would require some kind of physical tracking system...

Some people think it's an April fools joke. I'm not so sure. It makes sense to me.
I like the part at 3:30 where the driver has to drive with one hand to see anything..

Actually: Comparing that run to this one here [1] from the 'recent' past I'm even more impressed. Seems like the original video was awfully fast - and on a dirt road at that time?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y20CLumT2Sg
I'm not an expert in ETFs but all the items you highlighted seem like they would be standard in an ETF. All ETFs have fees for example.
you're arguing a tangent to GP's point, which could be rephrased as "assuming we're already willing to spend $x on welfare, we can structure the payments in a way that effective income increases monotonically as the recipients earn higher wages for work". you can fix welfare cliffs without spending any more/less money.
I probably have.

And I haven't paid close attention, as I'm an American citizen and couldn't pursue sites over such a blatant violation of the law.

Were I a European citizen, however, I would watch extremely closely and absolutely be bringing complaints against sites that did that.
Having grown up in Singapore for 3 years (first through third grade) I for one was completely in love with the place. This was in the late 70s, however, and some of the "dirt" still existed at that time. In fact, our flat (a 20-story apartment building) was right next to a "kampung", which was a shanty tin-roof village with chickens running this way and that, inhabited by very poor native people. Their sole means of income, from what I remember, was by pulling magnets out of TVs and radios and selling the magnets... to whom I have no idea.

It's my understanding that none of those kampungs exist in Singapore any longer, and I've often wondered where all of the people were sent.
yes, now it works for me too.
Awesome!

About that last line. It actually has a double meaning. I don't think Pat has ever discussed it.

First one was that Pat is a big NASCAR fan (we were trying to get that license even back in the Williams days). So that's an obvious one. Pedal down and turn left!

The second one was a dig at Williams management. Pat had tried to reason with them to not overproduce games and/or stuff them down the throats of distributors. Forcing weak games on customers and stuffing the pipe was bad for business and things had already taken a serious turn for the worse business-wise (and we were still a full 2 years before shutdown).

IIRC, the conversation with management was "if you don't slow down we're gonna hit the wall" and the reply was "f* it, full throttle!" This is why Pat hid that text in the back loop where nobody would really see it.
You're being too logical about it.
Could you describe a bit which type of satellite communication you use for that the ski use-case, and what is available as off-the-shelf equipment ?
The Internet Archive is an internet facing library. That's not (just) a "legal fiction" to get around some laws.
As you can probably tell, we are super excited about this, feel free to ask me anything : ).
What are you trying say? That there are pros and cons behind the decision between specialization and generalization? That's crazy talk if ever I heard it.
We did fix that problem. Everyone will have to buy health insurance, and insurers will in large part be prevented from rejecting people for preexisting conditions.
I don't think they invalidate the method, no. However, we're talking about building these structures in areas where the majority of people are not eating for survival.

Vertical Farms will be built where Vertical Buildings are built - cities. Cities contain a hugely disproportionate amount of western civilizations population and even more wealth. People in cities are generally paying for higher quality food than people in rural areas, so it seems rather asinine to construct vertical farms only to export the produce out of the city into poorer areas where hydroponic crops are more likely to be purchased.

Vertical farms would be far more likely to succeed if they were producing high quality foods, not low quality foods. Sell vine ripened tomatoes picked yesterday and you'll make a killing compared to the hydroponic tomatoes they would be selling. I've seen hydroponic tomatoes selling for 1/4 of the price of California vine ripened tomatoes (I live in ontario, we're the last stop, they're harvested like a month before they should be ripe). You should easily be able to make 8 times the amount selling 'harvested yesterday, vine ripened tomatoes' in a big city than you would hydroponic.

My contention isn't that vine ripened won't feed people. It's that they're planning on feeding the wrong people the wrong food which is just a market failure begging to happen. You might as well be trying to sell a Vegan some beef for how accurate they're targeting the local market.

You could get a luxury product, harvested within 10 miles of your home (beating the pants off of the 100 mile challenge) with as much freshness as farmers market produce and it's expected to be environmentally friendly, and could be made organic with far less risk of spoiling from pests and disease. All of these are huge sale points and none of them will be made with budget cost hydroponic crap.

If you built one of these, met all those marks, you'd be selling your produce to the local high end restaurants because your produce would be at least 2-3 days fresher.

Hydroponics is the equivalent of bottom-lineism in businesses. They're trying to reduce costs to boost profitability, rather than simply finding a way to raise the price that will keep people buying. Do you think Apple was looking at the bottom line when it decided to unibody aluminium shells? Or when they included a higher resolution screen?

Tech companies everywhere disregard the bottom line because they know people will pay for a superior product. Everyone here on HN knows people will pay for a superior product. Google had a superior product (not just technologically, but usability, etc. too) , and it nailed Yahoo that had poor search and poor usability.

Why sell an inferior product when you can sell a superior product, maximize your profit per sq ft not minimize it. Produce a tomato worth $4/lb not $0.99/lb-continuously on sale for 1/3 off. Make an eco-organic-super-fresh tomato and sell it for $8/lb and sell it to rich idiots.
I think you'd be facing the choice between a trial with a 500 year prison charge plus millions in damages and lawyer costs or accepting 10 to 15 years in prison avoiding the trial.

I hope you have lots of money to guarantee a fair trial, but anyway, I'd strongly suggest you to never ever travel anywhere near the US for the rest of your life.
Require care for 60 days, spend 10-20 years paying for how you didn't die. Remind me again why we don't have actual public health care, and how our system is so much better for people.
I think it was chosen to emphasise that Nepal isn't part of India.
Is there any evidence that they're doing anything sleazy? This seems like a crackpot conspiracy theory, not actual news.
I think its not only about memory, but about how rewarding it is to seek new opportunities than constantly sow the existing ones.
You should check out The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
(http://www.amazon.com/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing-Violate/dp...)

It's all about carving out your own unique niche in the marketplace and in the consumer's mind.

You'd be surprised just how much your app and outlook will change once you put a unique spin on your offering and focus every feature around it, instead of trying to play catchup with the other guys.
> way behind the times (e.g. ... desktop based

You're totally right. Google needs to really step up to the plate and finally make a web-based version of Chrome/Chromium...
There are models from Phillips that specifically mention it, yes.
He clearly defines the characteristics that make a good french fry and then explains how to match that consistently. He concludes that almost all of McDonald's practices (freezing the fries) are not simply economically important, but essential to the taste as he defines them.
They call them junkies, like programmers call them "lusers".
Those few bigger companies that I have talked to, just do not like the idea of having their sensitive data or parts of their critical infrastructure in the hands of an other company or accessible via internet. I can perfectly understand that.

In Germany for example some laws make it hard to outsource data processing especially if customer information is included. One example would be the fud about whether German websites can use 'google analytics' without breaking certain privacy laws.

Some of my clients are based in third world countries. Although they have satellite based internet, the latency is annoying enough to want something local.
Competition is good. Don't follow them, follow your users.
Walgreens carries it.
"full-time" means spending your whole day earning money, just so you have no strength left to enjoy the "rest" of your day.

i find that crazy too.
here is a really good story of a journalist working "undercover" as a car salesman:
http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/page001....
Thanks for your reasonable comments on the topic. As a hard-working, caring female I was offended by the tone of this article. By the first paragraph she was making assumptions and generalisations, and I couldn't take the rest of the article seriously with her attempt to make the statistics fit. I'm familiar with Dutch culture fairly well and it has many complex reasons for it's social structures that I don't think should be glibly lacerated to fit a concept. I've always found the Netherlands a highly liberal, equal and exciting country to work in, whether you want to push yourself over long hours or go home at 5pm on the dot.
That doesn't sound like an answer to the question.

Your product website is going to have ten thousand words of text on it, much of it on a blog talking about your company and the product you're building. At some point you're inevitably going to need to use the first person, and that's what this person is asking about.

I use "We" for any official communication and copywriting for my products. For personal correspondence I'll often use "I", especially when talking about things I personally will be doing (ie., "I'll look into that").

For anything where more than one person is reading (site copy, forum replies, etc.,) I tend to use "We".
I loved the comment that drilling some vias would create circuit wormholes.
Great, I've already bought 3 PragProg books this month alone. Don't know how I can resist the temptation from buying more. PragProg is probably my favorite publisher, I really enjoy their books.
I realized not long ago that the reactions to the facebook announcement that I am reading are so appealing to me because the world that Mr Zuckerberg and company want to build is a world I don't want to live in. And yet, it is the world that the next generation of kids seems to want to live in. I can't decide whether I should be horrified or just recognize their right to build that world.
The reason this rule exists is mostly because using "I" introduces the possibility of subjectivity, and opens up the argumentum ad hominem, both of can sometimes make a sentence weaker.

"You're 17 years old; what could you possibly know about the economic state of affairs in the Andalucia region of Spain? I'm going to go find a real expert, like the ones you've cited!"

Along similar lines is the moratorium on rhetorical questions, which open up the possibility that the reader's answer will be different from the one you want them to have, at which point you've let the reader make up his/her mind before you've had a chance to change it.

I think both bits of advice are useful sometimes (I particularly dislike rhetorical questions, as they usually feel like beating around the bush), or even most of the time, but I teach my students to avoid both (along with using "you" in papers) unless they can make a stronger argument with them (ethos is everything), in which case they should err on the side of making a stronger argument.
That Google gets you developer questions such CSS properties being used incorrectly or CDNs not issuing cross domain headers. Which is easily fixable by the web site developers / sysadmins and thus isn't remotely the same thing as the web browsers themselves not supporting @font-face.

There's a great many subjects I'm ignorant on, but I do know what I'm talking about here. So you're wasting your time trying to prove that I was wrong about @font-face.

The joke point you made at least makes some sense - even if I personally think it's a petty reason on its own. But everyones judgement will differ. :)
The gulf between what C actually is and how most people assume it is can be scary.
> Kids learn to perform the operations, but do not seem to be mastering the concepts

This is explicitly what Common Core is designed to fix -- Common Core is designed to break K-12 math's traditional focus on rote arithmetic and instead focus on learning math as abstract reasoning and multiple different solution strategies.

That you would include this barb in your comment shows that you're more arguing against the concept of changing standards, and not against Common Core itself. That's not an indefensible position, and you do consistently argue from that stance throughout your comment, but I fail to see how it's constructive. The US is ranked ~30th in math worldwide -- obviously things need to be changed. Perhaps there are better ways to change our standards: what would you propose?