jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wal-Mart, Vons, and I'm sure a few others do this in the US. A super cheap brand, a mid-range brand, and sometimes even a high-end brand too. I can't remember their names off the top of my head but I think this tactic is common
> Conclusion: we don't want to pay related to the value we receive for a certain service, but to the amount of effort involved in the delivery of that service.

But is that irrational? This seems to be a personal preference. By refusing to pay the same price for 10 minutes of work or one hour of work, we assert that we do believe in a certain income equality. "Disturbing someone for one hour vs 10 minutes" is not a necessarily irrational way to look at the situation.
1 million as an IC. I need to join FANG.
If someone had seen on time.
Thanks a lot for sharing, it's really hard to get this much detail out of the analysts I know personally. (Because I never see them anymore, har har)

Your last paragraphs made me wonder: where are you now? Did you leave finance entirely?
I have several micro USB cables that are asymmetrical - the cable is shifted to the side, like http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Micro-Travel-Charger-M540/dp/B...

These are trivial to plug in purely by feel in the dark.

And as a bonus, they charge many of my devices! I "die a little inside" every time I have to use a special cable for an iDevice (or a Samsung tablet!)

Interesting that you consider it an advantage to have a connection sturdy enough to pick up the device by the cable. You probably don't care much for magsafe adapters...
So basically they are saying you can plug the 10W or so Iphone charger to the fridge somehow and get the same amount of freezing over a day? Engineers beware. 24 h * 10W is not 1KW and that means running the charger all day long.
I don't know where they come with these figure but I can only imagine.
Do they have API for app submission ? looks like this guy have automated app creation/submission.
RequestPolicy FTW - unlike those other plugins, it is a whitelisting system so nobody slips through just because they are new. It is also site-specific, so if you want to load up disqus from one site but not any others, you can.

https://www.requestpolicy.com/

Downside? You have to be more involved by manually whitelisting the necessary sites like CDNs. I've been using it for years and it doesn't bother me, although I'd say 5% of the time I'll just give up rather than work through a list of 10+ cross-site references.
That would be expecting someone who is 19 in the late 2000s to actually read a newspaper.
I’ve never seen exactly what they are talking about but what they may be getting at is actually information compartmentalization - group A can know fact A and group B can know fact B but neither group can know AB. Some higher up official can know AB but must keep those facts separated in documentation because they may share portions with the groups. Having said that - both A and B are classified. You can’t have unclassified compartmentalized info.
You're right the he is legally entitled. I wasn't clear enough: he is acting morally entitled. In this sense, "entitled" means a person who feels it is reasonable to use their wealth and power to do anything they want and other peoples wants are irrelevant.
Netflix's last quarterly report showed an operating margin of 18.7%, which I think would generally be considered profitable.
In fact, I'd claim that there are almost no jurisdictions where there are no limitations on the control of private property.

Even if we limit it to "just" restrictions on public access, I don't think there are many jurisdictions that don't have carve-outs that provides protections for public access of some sort to some private land.

The reason, of course, being that most countries have traditions of access that long pre-dates modern property law, and that had to be accommodated.

In Norway, the freedom to roam was considered so intrinsic to Norwegian culture that is was not even mentioned in law until the 1960's, because it was considered "obvious", despite the fact that the Norwegian legal system is based on codified laws with very limited use of precedents, and certainly no "common law" element. In a completely opposite way of seeing it, Sweden embedded it in their constitution, because it was considered such an innate right.

While the expansive freedom to roam of the Nordic countries, is relatively rare, ensuring public access to the shore has been considered not just an issue of leisure access, but an issue of guaranteeing economic interests and food safety for centuries in a large proportion of countries with shore lines, and so has been very widespread - countries that don't guarantee access to the "dry" part of the beach have often still guaranteed access to the tidal zone, for example, to allow for fishing, or gathering mussels etc.

The idea that some people have of property rights as something exclusive just does not match reality - there's been a very acute recognition in most legal systems that property rights restricts the freedoms of the general public, and that as a consequence some trade-off must be made. The question is generally not if one needs to be made, but how extensive the right of public access should be.
You're always going to have people in life who have more than other people, life is inherently unfair, there's always going to be a 1%. You can put measures in place to ensure that the gap doesn't widen too greatly, but that's a different discussion.

It's true that bitcoin creates a disparity in ownership, but you can't actually realize any gain unless you sell what you have. If I'm accumulating and holding bitcoin, that's good for me and everyone else who's accumulating and holding bitcoin because it keeps the price up. If I sell bitcoin at a profit, that's good for me but bad for most other people, but I also lose my position and the price goes down to allow others to enter into the market.

There's no incentive to sell with dividend producing stocks and real-estate because they produce money, if you're strictly speaking about money begetting more money then that's the problem.

The middle class can gain a strong foothold in bitcoin in its nascencey, the elites aren't willing to give up their income producing assets but if bitcoin continues to multiply by 5-10X every four years like many expect it to then that gives the middle class incredible leverage to move up the economic hierarchy like we've never seen before.

I actually think this is how the next decade will play out, bitcoin will continue its historic rise and we'll see economic changes like we've never seen before. Bitcoin is going to restructure the way the economy works over the next decade or two.

Millennials will be able to pay off their loans, they'll be able to buy houses and many will become the new "Elite" until something else comes along.
Agreed! Soon CoScreen's UI controls will get hidden automatically so you won't see anything but shared windows.
Was at any rate.
Don't forget the bits about a sizable chunk of western media going to lengths to fit their mould, and the sheer amount of world companies which China has powerful portions of stock in.

It starts to paint a picture of a very quiet and tactful fascist world conquering through totally legal business moves.

Also, just to get the idea out there, I'm totally down for a lesser standard of living for the sake of not putting any more gas in their tanks.

https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina
Title needs to be changed -- the linked item is not a "patent" it is a "Patent Application Publication" (which can be seen by hovering the mouse cursor over the document number in the blue box, the tooltip that appears will say "Patent Application Publication").
*asshole, that would be grammatically incorrect if you spoke English
> It was akin to 12 hour, mentally-clear cannabis high.

This is the best way to describe reasonable (small) doses of LSD. It's like the purest sativa possible; as if somebody removed all of the earthiness and stoniness and then amplified the psychoactive.
That is not the point. The point is what does the funding get them? A backdoor? The algorithm as well as the client source are open for audit and have been audited multiple times.
Good Morning,

I am the CEO of MobileCoin.

A few points:

1) I started MobileCoin to fund Signal. That’s it. I believe that a world with a well-funded signal is a better place. In order for signal to compete in the 21st century with messaging apps around the world they need a payment story. MobileCoin is the only thing ever built that is both privacy protecting and fast that meets the standards of data retention signal requires.

2) MobileCoin Inc. intends to maintain an extreme minority of the coins once the dust settles.

3) This is designed to be used as a payment rail, which requires us getting coins in the hands of users. As you might imagine, navigating the regulatory waters of how to do that with compliance to how governments want us to behave is non-trivial. It’s important for us to move with correctness over speed.

4) this project is 4 years of my life building real technology. This is not a pump and dump scam. We have been very careful in the design, operation, and development of this system to give it the best chance at surviving in the world of cryptocurrency projects. It is non-trivial to deliver a coin that is useful for payments (the requirements are speed, privacy, low-energy footprint, and operation in resource-constrained mobile environments).

Let me put it simply, I love signal and we intentionally designed this currency to be as oblivious as possible with respect to user data so that signal could maintain their relationship with their users, one of retaining as little information as possible without compromising on the user experience. Nothing else in cryptocurrency, or payments, comes close to the level of privacy and performance that MobileCoin has achieved.

I welcome any questions I am able to answer. Note that some questions revolve around tightly regulated areas of concern and may take longer to answer as I must check with outside counsel before replying.
It doesn't look like you don't like working but similar to everybody, we have other things we would've loved to do that doesn't generate the income.

Anyways, I always thought big companies fit the bill for this even though I've only worked in startups myself. Actually, aren't sysadmin/IT roles also often great for near nothing? I'm also thinking about doing these jobs at places like schools/universities where expectations are low.
Fun to see Ada Palmer posted here! One of my favorite essays by her is The Shape of Rome, which tells Rome’s history through its architecture. It is a fascinating history of course but her writing is what stood out to me: it felt fast, almost breezy, while still conveying the sense of just how much time had passed between events.

I wish more history writing were like it, and if folks have recommendations I’d appreciate it.

https://www.exurbe.com/the-shape-of-rome/
Sysadmin roles where you don't have to care about the product are definitely a thing, you just need to look outside the tech industry - think low-tech manufacturing and service industries. There are a lot of roles out there that can be low or no touch, as long as the email is flowing and the printer is online, although a lot of those kinds of places might not get the concept of remote work even a little bit.

If I really wanted to work as little as possible, I think what I would try to do is develop a customer base of local small businesses that aren't big enough to have their own dedicated IT person, help them get things set up, and then sell them monthly support contracts that include maintenance and some low fixed number of included hours for incidents.
yes

i hired a guy who had been through a general assembly course in london, he had also had a couple short of internships before he got to us. hired as a junior javascript developer and he is doing very well
I’m not sure about the quality of posts but here’s what I believe, people from different backgrounds posts on HN and ask questions from HN community and this makes HN a diverse community and a great place to learn.

Last but not least HN is full of knowledge and I got to learn a-lot from this community and In my opinion no post is low quality you always get to learn something new from each post
Much obliged —

> Fermi ... (last drivers in 2018, you're on a legacy branch).

IYO, is there any value to using legacy nvidia-driver-390 over X.Org?

> apps using newer versions of CUDA will not work, and your hardware is also far too old to use OptiX.

Will look to see if apps I use avail of my CUDA cores, else I'd prefer to remove this sole proprietary driver from my old-and-busted workstation.

Thanks again for saving me time. I’ll re-de-prioritize further GPU config hacking, though if you have suggestions for a Nintendo Switch-to-FireWire 800 interface, please share.
I liked the "accidental solution" in older Prius (2007 I think?). It had a touch screen for address input/map and some setup. But it was so far away you actually had to lean in to reach it. You would never do that while driving so you wouldn't play with it - the inconvenience was a good thing. Putting lots of controls on the steering wheel with tactile differences for each helped too.
If the sea floor above the pocket is so fragile, what was to stop this disaster from occurring naturally some day, without having ever drilled?
Open http://i.imgur.com/xktPl.png in your browser and zoom out.

Frankly, I don't see advantage over the common alphabet, even when considering this problem that nobody actually has.
Wisdom comes only with age.
Enjoy nature, and travel the world.
Meet new and different people/cultures.
Spend money on experiences, not on unnecessary stuff.
Learn to play an instrument.
Never stop learning.
I thought it wass due to the fact that the platters are 3.5", just as the 2.5" hd has 2.5" size platters.

But no, looked it up, 3.5" have platter sizes of 3.74" apparently, 5.25" had 5.12" platters. Which makes sense when you look at a hdd with the top off.
Also, what's this with the width of the page being > 1280 pixels? I thought 1024 is still the common standard.
Although he could pack a Phil Collins drum roll punch.
Nothing that has occurred since the incident has given me the impression that BP has a complete understanding of what's going on.
No, No! Neither "tunnel" nor well need to withstand the pressure of 5000 feet of water. Reason is that the well (tunnel) is always filled with either water or drilling mud (roughly the same density as water) so the inside and outside pressure on the drilling pipe are the same. The pressure differences are not significant until/unless drilling into an oil or gas pocket. Even then the pocket must have a pressure significantly greater than that of the 5000 feet of water to be any problem. But that's what blowout preventers are for.
> One of my potential colleagues interviewed me and gave me a fizzbuzz question.

That should have been a big clue right there that it wasn't going to go well. Based on their hiring criterion and culture, that they still do a technical interview like they were hiring junior developers is a bad sigh.
If people continue to work in the games industry despite the workload and pay they must be getting something out of it.
I think Barack Obama is going to try to keep his public distance from the surveillance debacle.
Classic power player tactics; the Machiavellian Prince is to be kept clean and associated with only good news. Dirtying themselves with dispensing punishment or handling scandals and bad news is for underlings - disposable if their sullied reputation becomes too much of a liability.
Location: Bangalore, India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://rnikhil.com/assets/files/resume.pdf

Website: https://rnikhil.com

Email: contact@rnikhil.com

Ex-pro poker player, founder of a poker saas startup currently working as a SPM at a gaming company in India. Have experience yield farming and building arb bots. Looking to work on interesting problems in DeFi/web3.
ROS development was handed off to OSRF [1] earlier this year. [2]

[1] http://osrfoundation.org/
[2] http://osrfoundation.org/blog/ros-at-osrf.html
>I would have a much easier time supporting Manning if he did as Snowden did, and turned over select documents to a reputable media organization.

Define reputable. If his objective were to have talking heads bicker about it on CNN, then handing it over to WaPo or NYT would have been well-advised. If, on the other hand, he wanted real people to have access to the information so they could participate in an informed debate (which is what he said he wanted), then those outlets would have been a terrible place to go. Wikileaks could at least guarantee that the material would reach the public unaltered; the MSM could not.
I wonder if the web engine development pretty much stopped, or developer notes are just less detailed over the last year or so. Those are a shadow of the former self, certainly.
This is what drives me insane about the state of modern electronic device quality. It seems the less you pay, the longer it lasts. This is completely the opposite of how it is with traditional goods like furniture, utensils, tools, and so on. Maybe it's over-engineering, maybe it's forced obsolescence, maybe it's something beyond my comprehension. But it stinks.
It's the web version of the Interactive window bundled with Roslyn.
Why not both?

I find easier to imagine the characters in a book if I have seen someone portraying them before.

Actually, the full movie is not necessary, a trailer will do.
From my understanding of the tee shirt company they are using, all these shirts are going to be custom made per the amount of orders made.
Must have some money behind them to snag that domain name!
In the Terms and Conditions[1]:

"It's mysterious and alluring, and maybe it slaps you a bit from time to time, but it doesn't really mean it, deep down you know it loves you and if only you weren't such an annoying user, it wouldn't have to do that."

This is a joke about physically abusive relationships. I found the rest of the irreverent tone funny, but then this made me sad.

[1] https://imgz.org/help/terms/
I've seen a good intro on this topic by Jeremy Wagner at CSSConf Budapest

https://youtu.be/VccJldua8tc
>As an aside, I find Feamster's comment reply, "What is false in Oliver’s presentation (and many of the claims in the popular press) is his claim about what causes* that slowdown. The cause of the slowdown is congestion, not intentional throttling,*" to be simply disingenuous. What exactly is the difference between intentional throttling and intentionally introducing congestion by not upgrading inadequate peering relationships?

He discusses that in a later comment. The point I think he's making is that it wouldn't qualify as "paid prioritization", and shouldn't be characterised as such.
Very cool, Well, I am still very much intrigued. This has been one of the most fruitful HN conversations I have had. Frankly, JS is metal is not my cup of tea, but I really like where your heads are at, so I will start reading PAPL and really playing with this.

Thanks for something beautiful.
Yeah. I'm sure Russia is the only place where the telecom, tech and news sectors have quid pro quos with the organs of state.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2006/05/att-whistle-blowers-evidence/
I agree, we as a society have learnt nothing
Out of curiosity I checked the "show me the proof section" and I am not convinced:

When has faith been a valid form of proof? By definition faith is the anthesis of proof.

The Bible has not provided an accurate model of the universe (see flat earth, firmament, etc.). In fact it has no scientific predictive power what so ever.

Why would the creator of the universe be interested whether we believe a story about it or not? Why is the story so difficult to believe?

Why does being the creator of something grant complete and utter control of the created? Why should you love it and vice-versa?

It does not make sense to establish that miracles are true because they have been reported by ancient people and ancient records are inherently accurate. If you believe that, you would also need accept other ancient manuscripts such as Tripitaka, Vedas, Quran, etc.

The Bible is not internally consistent. For example: the synoptic Gospels of Matthew and Luke differ in account between the birth of Jesus. None of the gospels were eyewitness accounts and were written long after the events occurred.

Most Americans believe the bible should not be taken literally at 43% but inspired, 26% believe the stories are fables, and only 24% believe in biblical literalism. [1]

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/210704/record-few-americans-bel...
You’re being a numpty at best. When someone is trying to illustrate a point, I can say something like “he was so drunk he saw pink elephants!”, and if you are stupid enough to confuse the illustration with the point that’s on you.
“Why not come up with an example that doesn’t use pink elephants!?”
Why not be less of a mindless pedant?
Really even yelp reviews?
How much vigilance does one need to not be coopted by propaganda . . .
I've heard from several spiritual teachers that whenever one feels ready to criticize another, it's a good idea to make a mental list of all their shortcomings and then turn the gaze inwards and look for those shortcomings in yourself. I think this idea is equally applicable to the article and comments.
Whether you think so or not, personal incentives motivate people in their careers, salary being one of the biggest and weightiest. I'm not saying there aren't that many personal incentives to a life of politics, but at face value isn't exactly the most attractive career path.
"Honey, did you press the button to order more coffee?"
Interesting approach. I guess there are use cases where the small number of allocs of some of the other routers is enough to cause problems.

I'll definitely stick to httprouter as my default starting point, though. The params interface is much nicer, and it's pretty damn good with performance and allocation count: https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter
The idea isn't to "get social" only in your personal hour of need, though.
Anyone know where you can buy hardware like this (a wifi button) that you could then use for your own stuff? Eg. Using your own little web server: Press to order an uber etc.
It has to be. It's such a provocative product that they wouldn't risk releasing it so close to April 1. Or would they? :)
I read that article too, but the reality is you don't need to refrigerate them. They don't spoil, even in the US.
Google earns money just because someone shows you the ad. And if I'm not mistaken, when you click in some ad, the site showing it also earns money.

So, basically, people spend money anyway, but you just "reward" the site when you click on it.
The goal of multi-signature is to decentralize the ownership (or control) of the coins. In the case of Coinbase's offline storage, they could very well be using multi-signature (and they probably are) so that no single employee can run with the coins. Instead, every time they need to refill their hot wallet, the three or five or whatever employees needed to sign the the transaction have to agree and provide their signature.

Edit: Actually, apparently they aren't using multi-signature internally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8948337