jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I remember hearing about this a long time ago. Even then I thought it was a dumb idea. How many people would repeatedly visit this site to see the adverts, other than the advertisers themselves?

Did the fellow ever end up making a million dollars?
I have some friends from college who made such a move. They said it's ridiculously expensive, rainy all the time (duh), and it gets much hotter in the summer than anyone wants to admit, because it's hard to find a place with A/C.

Of course, they are loving it anyways, they are both employed by a publisher of roleplaying books, and they are both huge roleplaying nerds. I would have moved out there if I had the chance, but instead I got relocated to Montreal and I'm quite liking it here.
This. I've setup several client servers on slicehost in the past 6 months and they have been solid. More recently, I've put a couple clients on rackspace cloud because the SLA will make the client feel more comfortable. It's been equally solid.
I'm quite satisfied with proPlay (https://www.proplay.biz/).

Advantages:
- Rock-stable (didn't have any issues so far)
- Cheap (e.g., for 3 Euros a month you get a vServer with 384 MB RAM and 8 GB harddisk)
- Non-Enterprisy: Support is available via IRC instead of an useless callcenter

Disadvantages:
- It seems to be a one-man company. However, it has been in business since 2003
- They are based in Germany. So from the US the latency to their servers is somewhat higher than a US-based provider and their websites are primarily in German

If you check them out have a look at their "vps premium" offers. they are even cheaper then the offers that you find directly on the mainpage.
Perhaps in theory possible, but it violates the simple "complete and total separation of state from economics" principle.

And the public choice theory says it's not possible: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice_theory
Well planning for an ICBM is really overkill - most micro-nations would be wiped-out by a single nuclear-tipped ICBM (which are really the only kind since everyone assumes doomsday when one is launched). You're probably referring to tactical missiles a la Tomahawks, or even large anti-ship ones like an Exocet.
how is evolution of military technology slower than evolutions in communication? I mean, what scale exists to measure that?
And how does it cause nation-states to be obsolete, if something we have many proofs that improving communication means allow nation-states to become larger.
True, also the "Availability:	In stock" is pretty funny.
It won't matter - the guy at the Guardian has already posted to twitter that they will publish the papers even if wikileaks go down.
From the fact that they're very interested in telling you its precise metal content I think we can assume that they're not expecting to sell it for a floating museum or a billionaire's private yacht.

There's no price given, but I would estimate that it will go for approximately the cost of ten thousand tons of scrap steel, minus the cost of towing it to China.
The book "Elements of Programming" is a good read, http://www.elementsofprogramming.com/, although it's a bit theoretical.

While the book isn't free, this blog thoroughly covers the book and the lessons learned from it in a lecture series:

http://cpp-next.com/archive/2009/11/%E2%80%9Celements-of-pro...
This might be a honeypot, but if they had been looking for a programmer I would have sent out my first resume in a fairly long time.

I would much rather see a job posting that says "We are looking for someone competent that can help solve our problems without getting lost in search of perfection." than one that says "We have HARD problems we seek LEET person to help solve them and CHANGE THE WORLD!!1!!11".

PS: Even if it is not a real job the fun of crafting a completely understated resume appeals to me.
Very cool idea, but is it so hard to add body { font-family: sans-serif; } (replace "sans-serif" with your favorite font if necessary) to your CSS?
thanks for posting this- I am the same way about books, and it's nice to feel a little justified about it.
The one I'm battling is a Fisher-Price based firewall from a company called Palo-Alto. It makes the complex simple and the simple complex.
> Postgresql is following a blacklist access model which is really hard to get right, a whitelist approach like mysql would be much easier.

I don't think this is quite right. When a new user is created in Postgres, I don't believe any permissions are implicitly GRANTed by default aside from CONNECT. And I believe the only default privileges granted on a given database are to its owner. Is it possible your experience has only been with configurations in which your PG user was either the owner of the database or a superuser?

EDIT: clarification
am i reading their marketing stuff correctly that this doesn't include any new fido-protocol features vs the solo key v1? that is, as far as chrome sees it, it might as well be the same product?
There are some very good reasons why some homeless people resist services offered them: It often isn't terribly humane or useful.

http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/2014/11/mi...
Thanks ebiester!
Yea, I saw that too and thought it was a bit short-sighted to base it on that library. The calendar command is nice if you're integrating with something that doesn't play nicely with .ics, but other than that this is pretty ho-hum at the moment.
That's why they have to pay us to get us to do it.
You can make decent pancakes with oat flour. Try http://www.recipefiles.org/view_recipe.php?id=548 out.
This is very wrong for so many reasons and misses probably the most important reasons to pass by copy...

The example of the sorted functions is striking - because the compiler should be able to produce the same quality of code from both cases - the fact that it doesn't suggests that the compiler is not that smart. The r-value, l-value distinction is, in this case, unimportant - because of const the l-value can not be modified, as long as you don't use const_cast or forget a volatile keyword etc. elsewhere the compiler can safely assume that it really will remain const. I'll have to play with this myself I guess cos I might be missing something here that looking at bytes would reveal... but it seems that your example should fail to show any difference on a good compiler.

Worse though is that the const-reference and explicit copy is done at all - what possible reason could there be? This is where you should use pass by copy /anyway/, before your argument about speed, because you quite explicitly need to work with a copy. If you chose a suitable example you would see the opposite... unless your compiler is smart enough to treat your redundant copy as if it was a const-reference, which, e.g. the MS C++ compiler does infact do.

The important point I think that was missed though is to always pass small things by value - throwing heap pointers around to be dereferenced is typically much more expensive than using the stack - your compiler might optimise it away for you, but especially if you aren't using const references/pointers it can be difficult. Imagine your compiler is not smart - passing a 4/8-byte value as a reference to a 4/8-byte value is just silly. This is probably the most common case - ints, floats, doubles and even small structs will go on the stack, or better.
This is a good call to action, but at the same time, I think the problem is not really the FSF. We are the problem, and by we, I mean Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot, and a variety of other community sites.

If you look at http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/, for pretty much every negative campaign, there's a positive one. The problem is that the positive campaigns don't really make the headlines. People want controversy, and the FOSS community communicates through echo chambers where people who yell louder win, so it's natural that the positive marketing sinks to the bottom.

The day before this article went up the FSF announced they were holding a planning meeting for a GNU social network. I only saw it thanks to http://reddit.com/r/gnu

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-to-host-gnu-social-ar...

Yes, more positive campaigning would be good. But I think it's unfair to blame the FSF when their positive campaigning falls on deaf ears. It's a property of the Internet and mass media more than a failing in the FSF. They have positive campaigns, we just don't see them as much.
I was about a month away from doing exactly that when I finally got another job.
This one at Stack Overflow is a good resource as well:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1939/howto-articles-for-i...
This reminds me of the markov-generated paper that was accepted for review (or publication) at a distinguished organisation!

I don't have a link, although I think it was on HN awhile back.
Well then thats the trick. A legal research team that develops the form for as many sites as you could find, and then a mechanism to send that form filled with each users data to those sites.
I laughed out loud at the "a SaaS service drops a post on here" -- it's not that easy for everyone, I promise.
Because American companies definitely don’t sell your data.
Doesn't Chrome refuse to trust "Google" certificates issued by random third parties? Presumably it should complain when some site claiming to be gmail presents some bogus corporate MITM certificate rather than a certificate issued by Google itself?

If so, maybe that's a good reason to use Chrome for gmail. ;-)
It's still pretty dang abundant, though, is it not? Ceres is literally a giant ball of water ice. So is Pluto for the most part (it's even hypothesized to have liquid water under its icy crust). So are most asteroids and comets and dwarf planet(oid)s and gas giant moons. There's massive amounts of it in both Uranus and Neptune.

Like sure, it ain't like 19th century fiction books where space is literally an ocean and the latter part of the word "astronaut" is far more literal than it is now, but water is by no means scarce in the solar system or in the universe as a whole as far as anyone can tell.

If anything, everyone thought water would be less abundant in the solar system than it really is.
Has anyone commenting ever actually bought or sold drugs before? Every single dealer or customer I've ever met has been through someone else, or someone I knew. There's relationships and trust vouching, just like any business. Credit is extended, and paid back. Transactions generally occur in homes or cars.

The comments here are acting like all real world drug market transactions occur between strangers, which is so far removed from the truth we might as well be talking about something else.

A good way to describe selling weed is 'the only MLM where people actually want what you're selling'
That's true, I suppose I was too optimistic in my analysis, there will definitely be some unmeasurable factors pushing in each direction.
The story ends well because the project was actually simpler than what it looked at first.
Unfortunately, more than often, things happen to be a lot harder than expected

What happens when, after 2 months of scribbling and playing space invaders, Charles realizes the project actually requires 3500 lines of code?
He wants the project to succeed but now he doesn't have enough time, and he fears to ask for help because he knows he is labeled as a lazy and arrogant guy.

So he works long hours to fix the situation, then he burns out.

Source? This is somehow happened to me. Several times.

This story can be true, people like Charles and simple projects exist, but these are exceptions, not the rule.
It's easy for a beginner to believe he is that guy and then experience a death march [1]
Things can go wrong for Alan, but he has a team to support him and his managers know he is working at something complicated.

I'd like to be Charles one day, but for now I'm Alan.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march_(project_managemen...
Thanks for your comment. I can relate and agree to whatever you have mentioned. The chances of Indie game succeeding are very slim.

My motivation for making games is two folds - one the psychological satisfaction of "creation" and second the ability to reach out to global audience with whom otherwise I would never had any connect. See, we two are talking right now :) I am hoping to reach a level where I can make a living through my games. I am far away from that goal right now :)

Regarding the developer address part - Isn't it mandatory in Play Store for every developer to list their address? Can the address be just a city and country instead of a detailed one?
Lots of system tools are written in Python nowadays. If you use a Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS base image then there's a good chance that Python is preinstalled because some system tool depends on it.

It was also much easier to write the tool in Python than in C. Writing it in C would have taken much longer, and at the end of the day we wanted to get work done instead of worrying about a few MBs, which only take 1 second to download and which cost $0.001 of disk space.
You ought to be supporting publishers that are important to you with your dollars, not with HTTP requests to Google Analytics.
Supposedly sell it in Spar too.
Closely related - http://kerneltrap.org/node/467 - FreeBSD network stack virtualization, though it seems to be RiP now.

It is (was) not the only implementation of the idea that is as basic as it is extremely useful for testing in complex network setups.

All network stack variables (i.e. settings and state) are gather in one big struct and all network stack functions operate exclusively on the contents of this stack. Every process has one stack instance assigned to it by default and it may switch to another instance at any time. There are no changes to any socket-level API, all calls function exactly as before, but they are executed in the context of process' effective stack.

Process' default stack is inherited from the parent process, and this makes it trivial to run any existing application in a context of specific stack (by launching it from a process that selects desired stack and then does the exec).

At the bottom each stack connects to one or more network interfaces. Stacks may connect to the physical devices (multiple stacks per device is OK as long as it supports promiscuous mode), or they may connect to a virtual interface. Virtual interfaces in turn may have their inputs and outputs meshed together via hubs, switches or direct links, all of which may in turn be configured to emulate packet loss, latency, jitter and what not.

That's your basic network stack virtualization. Functioning version can be assembled from a forked Linux source in a couple of weekends. If only someone would bother submitting the patch after that :)
If he doesn't feel that as a wholly empty accomplishment, he must be a sociopath.

He didn't prove his ability to fight was superior. He didn't prove his mastery of martial arts was superior. He proved his ability to push his opponent over the line.

If there were no line, he'd be crushed.
It's not like everyone in the military has ultrasecure data on their mobile device. There are 2 people on each aircraft carrier whose full-time job is to stock vending machines.
I would imagine some kind of zero-knowledge proof would work here, but that would require more server interaction than just doing the hashes in the first place.
This is why I mentioned it. It provides improved time guarantees for your users with out needing another library.
"every effort to support his claims using facts, anecdotes and citations"

Has anyone ever bothered to verify those facts and citations? I mean, do his sources actually support his claims?
Are you looking for an answer or do you just want to be snarky?
I have a hard time imagining the FBI putting a crypto backdoor in and securing it with an expiring NDA.
AWS should do it at least on bandwidth cost.
Of course he wants to increase corp taxes, this will make life incredibly difficult for his competition or new upstarts to challenge Amazon. He has already planned for this and how it will kill his competition.

Amazon can afford to find the loopholes but hes right that most of his competitors can't.
Bezos is also giving away around $2 billion a year away for Blue Origin.
As a space fan, the top two richest men funding space companies makes me so happy!
Which is interesting. Unlike virtually every stock on the stock market, I see Bitcoin-stans constantly harp about the "USD price" of Bitcoin on places like Twitter, Youtube, any social media with a large enough megaphone, just so they can stir up loads of FOMO and get people to make a financial decision that is likely not led with wisdom and prudence in mind. Especially with how high BTC is priced at now, you'd be lucky to have massive multipliers on your initial buy in as you might have in the earlier days. The diminishing point of returns is rearing its ugly head, so more pumping must happen to keep this all in the public zeitgeist.

That kinda smells pump and dump like to me. Lest we forget, the end of the previous bull runs in 2013 and 2017 wiped out some people that made bad investment decisions (and there's no guarantee another black swan event won't happen again in the future). Not to mention, whenever there is news of someone losing their wallet keys, Bitcoiners breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that that's one more person that has to permanently HODL. Gross.
Feels like we're 5-10 years away from "Lisp as an alternative to Go".
Apparently the Android team is still not recommending Flutter. Hmm.
The E71 was both great and maddening.
The keyboard was good. Being ably to write Python on it was great. The music player and camera were junk though. Worse than the equivalent on many lower end phones.
IIRC they probably mean to detect them through how they operate on the website, rather than how they register (tracking navigation, how they upvote/downvote, and what content they post).
It took me about five minutes to realize how dumb I was and that this was literally Vanilla JS.
Moonpig is UK based. He could have looked up how to report a data breach in the UK.

Not sure what the DMCA reference is about. I understand that people use DMCS on companies that are not US based therefore it has no power. Still not sure why you mentioned that though.
"But then, my whole career is in a context where it doesn't make sense..."

Well, like I said, applicability can be occasionally surprising. What is your background like?
Can you give a specific example? It seems to me you can either share out risk, or place a bet to offset the risk, in which case you have transferred the risk to the person taking the bet at some price. They may be taking / placing yet another bet, but that simply moves it on further.

To make it concrete, if I buy a house, and there's a chance that it'll fall down this year and I'll loose the 100k , then after a year is up, if it's fallen down the sum of whatever portfolio it's been distributed in is still down 100k.
Do you plan to offer a licensing option for self-hosted deployment? And good luck with your project! World needs GA alternatives :).
> guaranteed that they will make at least the federal minimum wage

Guaranteed legally, and guaranteed in reality are two different things. If I pay someone to drive me somewhere, it's legally guaranteed that they're licensed driver by the government by the appropriate regulator. But in reality, UberX.

I would like to know how often employee's end up following this up with their employer, and how often the employer makes up their wage.
A food scientist came to my high school and did a similar demonstration with us - except with different flavors of koolaid. Students reported red as cherry, purple as grape ... but they were actually the same flavor and only differed in color.
Managing expectations is key as you suspect. It's important to remember that hundreds of talented people are putting out very high quality stuff every day, most of it is noticed by someone, but very little of it makes it into popular culture.

When you've prepared a good home for your material (I have no idea what it is, writing? Music? Software? Something else?) then the work of getting people to it begins. For me, that means tweeting, chatting, "forumming" and generally being annoyingly plugging my stuff whenever I get the chance (and sometimes when I don't). You will likely receive very limited feedback from doing this, but it does help, and people will pick up your stuff eventually.

I expect very little, the things I make are also not very good, so that's probably part of it. I get "feedback" by searching for my stuff online, and I'm pleased when I find it popping up in linux distros or discussion fora, or youtube videos. But that's about it.
I run the browser under different OS user accounts, and make my display manager display the user account in the window title bar.

https://megous.com/dl/tmp/8eaa15e187fa9a2e.png (ff1 being the user)

I trust it more than browser's internal isolation solutions, like tab containers, which I like to use for other things, like testing web apps using different login sessions at once.

I'd hate a remote solution. ;) Though this is not for privacy but more for protection and better low effort isolation.
Energy-assisted magnetic recording is the next step in the hard disk industry roadmap and it's believed to be necessary to increase capacity beyond 20 TB.
I'm a beginner myself, but here's my experience. First of all, as the saying goes, the best telescope is the one you have with you. That is to say, if you need to move the telescope at all, think seriously about portability.

My first scope was a 6" dobsonian that I bought on craiglist for $120. It was a great first experience, because I was able to see some amazing things. But it's size was a big downside. I couldn't fit it and a passenger in my civic coupe. It was also so heavy that I often didn't feel like taking it outside. If you're already in a dark place and can store it somewhere that's easy to get to, then I think it'd be great. If that doesn't apply, I'd try for something smaller.

I've recently been thinking about getting an Orion StarBlast 4.5 inch dobsonian, or ST130 (though this requires a mount). They're inexpensive and portable. Not nearly as much power as a 6 or 8 inch, but the portability trade off is worth it for me.

One other side note: if you get something with a tripod, it's gotta be at least decent. I also have a ST80 telescope, which I wouldn't really recommend it this case. But it has taught me how important the tripod/mount are. The tripod that came with the scope was unusable. I got really frustrated on forums, because so many recommendations were for $700 tripods, specifically to use with this $100 telescope. I've been happy enough with an $80 Orion Tritech II; it isn't great, but it isn't $700 ;)
Why? Why can't Google offer the same thing?
In addition to what's been said, Flash cells lose data over time and need to be rewritten.

The controllers take care of this. But an SSD that has gone read-only, assuming it can in fact go read-only, is an SSD that will quickly lose all its data.
The F-16 was introduced in 1978 and no new F-16s have been purchased since 2001. Are you suggesting that they don't want new F-16s in 2021 because ... they want to make money? Isn't the simpler explanation that maybe a 42-year old design is out of date?
Women are attracted to you and start braiding and styling your hair whilst you're out?

I must be missing something.
M2 money supply also includes M1 money supply. The reason we don’t see the same step function increase in M2 supply is that this chart is really just showing that some components of the money supply are now classified as M1 instead of just M2.

The HN editorialized headline is basically false. Look to M2 to understand what’s going on here, as stated in the above comment.