jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What exactly are you looking for the Postgres lacks?
If you haven't tried Fly yet, where have you been?

- Anycast IPv4 to VMs hosted near the edge

- Raw TCP/UDP servers or external HTTP/HTTPS termination

- $.02/GB egress, no per-request pricing

You can build almost anything with this model (VoIP, video, gaming, Heroku-like, App Engine-like, Lambda-like, ..), and the bandwidth pricing is astounding. Fly have an obviously bright future, they aren't even on the same page as existing CDNs.
I always grep for ffmpeg in .bash_history.
> I'm just looking into what flag does what.

So you read the whole man page when you need a flag that does something specific or do you mean you never write new things and just have to look up flags already in use by some script?
Because for everything else that seems like a fascinating waste of time.
Well it just sounds like your neighbors are not really open for change. You can of course try to change their opinions in town-hall meetings and so on, and that's commendable.

Another option would be to vote with your feet and money. If you move to an area where the zoning is e.g. more dense or bike-friendlier, it will add to the property market demand in those areas. OTOH you selling your property in your current area adds a tiny bit of negative market pressure. If that happens on scale, it drives down the prices in less friendly areas and drives up the prices in climate-friendlier areas.

Though I honestly don't know how realistic it is really currently to find a densely-zoned districts in American cities that are not plagued by rampant crime, run-away poverty and under-performing schools. I live in Europe, and my image of American zoning is mostly based on content of two YouTube channels: "Not Just Bikes" and "City Beautiful". You have probably heard of them, and if not I think you might find their videos quite interesting (or the "Strong Towns" initiative, if you prefer reading.)

In my European home city the council is actually already taking concrete measures to increase the density of zoning and actually discourage sub-urbanization / urban sprawl, even though the scale of the problem pales in comparison to typical the American city AFAIK. One of the concrete measures I myself pledge to is to always prioritize availability of biking and public transport when moving - if not for my own sake then for the sake of my children. This is a natural choice for me since I have always lived in the city myself.

I think the difference to US cities might be that in my home town the real estate prices in the city are very high because a sufficient large portion of the people who have the economical means to choose their place of living choose to live in the smaller apartments of the densely-populated city center districts, as opposed to the larger single-family housing in the suburbs. This is because the city center is actually filled with desirable services and urban culture, which just does not exist as much in the suburbs.

But I do understand that bootstrapping a lively and livable downtown is not as simple as just moving there if the area is currently dangerous and undesirable. The city council has to encourage this trend for it to be a viable option for residents who want to live there.
Windows user, still using hibernation. My corpo-Dell has abysmal battery and I definitely don't want to not-hibernate it, nor restart all programs, browsers, terminals etc each time.

It works mostly well.
Once every few years I come across some weird issue happening with software X which over time I figure out is linked to software X not handling dehibernation well, but the pros outweigh the cons.
I can second your annoyance with observable. I don't use it for this reason.
The "o" in "coke" is what linguists call a diphthong: two vowel sounds pronounced in quick succession. Pronounce it slowly and notice how your tongue moves as you say it. In IPA it's written /oʊ/, it's a combination of the vowels /o/ and /ʊ/. The "o" in "cock" is a single vowel that's pronounced quite differently in British vs. American English.

The French "o" isn't like any of these; I believe in the case of "coq" it's pronounced /o/, i.e. the first half of the English /oʊ/. Your tongue shouldn't move while you say it. Pronouncing this single vowel like the English /oʊ/ is a very common mistake that English speakers make in French (or Spanish, Portuguese etc.) - it's a distinctively English sound that gives you away as a native English speaker.
> The blockchain doesn't contain any price information

Yes, but it tells us about the supply and demand, including the average time the coin is being held (good indications of investor confidence and/or real world trade volume) and other valuable metadata.

People even do news articles when large amounts of coins exchange wallets.

If thousands of people all of a sudden "bought" a certain coin on RH, shouldn't that increase it's price due to increase demand? Does that happen? How can it happen? Does RH communicate its trades to other exchanges? Which ones?

> "Legit" exchanges like Gemini and Coinbase don't put every transaction on the blockchain

If you're one of the tens of thousands of the fine folks trading things online from one of (dark.fail) black markets which do hundreds of millions each year in business (judging from FBI seizures) you won't do it internally between CoinBase accounts, but you'll have to transfer it to the wallet of the market or the dealer. Same is true if you'll buy a big ticket item like your new Tesla with BitCoin (which you now can).
Facebook is ReadWriteWeb's Best BigCo of 2010.

Fair enough, why does your title say 2011?
What happens when you add kids to the equation?
They could have just done a much more efficient cannonball on many factors. I’m sure it first had to beat the Tesla on paper for them to even attempt it which means theirs some calculation you could do yourself to prove it would be faster.
Why would you even use floats when dealing with geometric data? With floats, coordinates near the origin have more precision than other coordinates, and this usually doesn't make sense because the choice of the origin is just a convention. Better to use fixed-point numbers for geometric data, so all coordinates have the same precision.
Most states have a blanket law that 10/15/20 below the speed limit constitutes obstructing traffic and is usually a ticketable offense.

In the digital age with sensors and data so cheap there's also no reason we can't set speed limits based on the Xth percentile everywhere with an automatic annual adjustment.
Man with AR-15 was police.

Man carrying a Glock? I don't see anything resembling a gun except on his hat.
Oh man I can’t believe I didn’t think of that
What is the time frame needed?

Once upon a time Tesla just needed to sell a lot of cars to justify their valuation. The time frame for that to happen was really not that long.

Now Tesla just needs to sell all the cars to justify their valuation. Sell all of them and then some really.

So is the idea that the rest if the industry will just evaporate and Tesla becomes the Xerox of cars?

I remember price targets being based on having half the car market in a few decades back at $1000 pre-split
Is it considered a no-no to use it with a password manager for other accounts that I consider less critical? I was thinking that for most accounts, I would use the password manager, but use 2FA for the password manager. My primary email account that everything links to, would just be 2FA.

Meaning, I would only really have to remember two strong passwords. The rest would be strong passwords, but without 2FA, and easily changeable without forcing myself to remember yet-another password and which account it belongs to.
These notes are pretty "skimmable"
http://www-control.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mcs/lecture_j.pdf
That's actually one of the bits I like best of the system (not actually used one, but have thought about using my XBMC setup with a similar unit). I'm not really impressed by a response that says "we've removed all the buttons from your remote, look how nice it is, by the way, we also removed all the related functionality too".

Maybe, just maybe, if competitors could achieve 80% of the functionality with 20% of the buttons, then that would be something to crow about. But solving 20% of the problem isn't enough.

It just means you now have at least two remotes (one for live sports, one for digitally delivered TV shows etc.) which multiplies complexity, but Apple (or whoever) only takes credit/blame for part of the problem/solution and pretends the rest doesn't exist. It's not someone elses problem, it's my problem and Google is to their credit at least trying to solve it. Pass-through HDMI alone is a genius idea that would make my homebrew XBMC solution a great deal better.
Y-Combinator has something in common with the Moore Law: self-fulfilling prophecy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_Law

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-fulfilling_prophecy
> If the kids at a specific school don't seem to respond well to a text, PULL IT.

That seems like a very weird understanding of education to me. The whole point of the exercise is getting children to read something they might otherwise miss. If students oppose a book's content - very good, you have a debate running, and you can clearly learn from that (e.g., Huxley's use of the term savages does not dehumanize them, quite the contrary).

Education is not about taking the easy path to something, it's about taking the hard path, and learning on the way.
> It would be really, really interesting if there was a lot of flux to Go from Ruby, but not from Python and Node.

What exactly would this tell you?
>> it's often an uncomfortable fact that we pay taxes to the government who willingly allows companies to outsource or externally hire our jobs

I think your argument is weakened by the fact that H1B holders pay the same taxes as US citizens. It does stand when it comes to outsourcing, though.

>> The effect of this does cap/limit salaries for all involved

Do you have evidence for that claim? Research seems to point otherwise [1][2].

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/05/06/i...

[2]
http://economics.ucdavis.edu/people/gperi/site/papers/peri_s...
I am pretty sure it's tongue-in-cheek humor. The idea of a file format apologist is silly, a Hitler apologist not so much.
Accelerationism is trendy now, but also pretty controversial. It's not so much that Marx wrote about accelerationism, just that the technological advances of capitalism were an important part of humanity's development, while containing contradictions that would eventually bring about its end.
Other uniquely American things:

- Passing on the right

- Taking an exit from the passing lane (cutting everyone off)

- Couch in the middle of the highway
Nothing prevents Blackberry from making an Android phone, though, and having their own store instead of the regular Google Store, thus reaping the benefits of Android applications sold on their platform without having to ask developers to make entire new versions of app for a losing standard. That's what Amazon does.
Each component maintains it's own state. Think them as functions with isolated scope. The tags accept arguments via HTML attributes and each tag has a reference to it's parent.

Instance variables and method are assigned to the scope and you have direct access to them on the HTML expressions. Once the scope changes and tag's `update()` method is called the expressions are calculated and DOM nodes are updated. Nested children are also updated.

You can update all tags at the same time with a global `riot.update()` method.

Hope this helps.
It's not a slope at all. They pushed it off a cliff.

Though the timing aligning with a new set of committee heads in the Senate is more than suspect. Zuck knows how easy it is for the government to break them up and he's trying to make amends for his original sin of not stopping Trump in 2016.

The argument that "this speech is too dangerous" can be made by anyone about just about anything. This isn't fire in a theater. It's political speech and disagreement. If you accept the outcome here, you or your children will one day regret it when their voices are the ones that are muffled.
I'm working on integrating Braintree payments into a client of mine. Braintree is a perfect example of this and is a wolf in sheep's clothing, meaning, their docs look great at first glance until you need to get all the way through them.

For example, you start reading about how to do A. Half way through, you find out you need to do B. So you look at the link to B which then refers to C but C is A and you realize you're in a loop.

So then you try their search function, or Google, but then you find yourself linked to either outdated docs that look like the same thing or articles about the subject which give no detail.

It's spaghetti documentation mixed with out of date spaghetti mixed with meatballs. At this moment, I have 13 tabs open to various parts of the docs trying to piece things together to understand how to make it work and, sometimes, I find the out of date docs more understandable!
To me it just reminds me a bit too much of people who buy clothes and accessories with the brand name printed really really large so that they can be sure that everyone knows they are wearing Prada sunglasses.

I just like things a bit more subtle and understated, both in my laptops and my other accessories. Which I will admit, at the end of the day, is probably just as vain and silly.
Recently launched Super Fast Yellow Pages: http://www.superfastyellowpages.com/
This isn't completely true.

I frequently will download all the videos for an online course. Subsequently, when I watch them in VLC [1], I'll bump the playback to 1.25x - 1.75x.

Fwiw: for me, playback speed strongly correlates to how technical the topic is, less technical videos tends toward the 1.75x; while highly technical tends toward the 1.25x.

I'm also a big proponent of subtitles and transcripts.

[1]: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
20 characters is quite generous. 123-reg (semi-popular domain reseller) insists on eight. Not seven. Not nine. Eight exactly.
This thread is titled slightly better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2487421 - but really the news channels should be referring to this as: Android now the most desired operating system for smart phones.
Press release in plain english:

Nokia will fire 4000 people and 3000 will be moved to Accenture so there will be 7000 badges less in Nokia very soon.

Nokia can not fire them US style (as in "don't come here tomorrow") so they will need to do this in phases throughout 2011.
Besides hating, don't you think this is strategic move for the Nokia?
Greenwald: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/01/north-koreason...
Less variety should put downward pressure on wages, all things being equal, not upward pressure

All I am saying is, software development wages are too low, especially relative to the demands of the job - that's why there is a perceived shortage. Raise the wages and smart people from other fields will teach themselves to code and join the fray
I think there are two historical views of technology that people take. View 1 holds that any new technology is better because it saves time performing some task that used to take a long time previously. View 2 holds that any new technology is suspect unless it can be shown that there was truly no value in the time spent before the technology came about.

I think there's value in both views, but I'm also more of a View 2 rather than View 1 person, and that's why I prefer not to do those things. I also don't own a microwave, toaster, or coffee maker. Instead I use a French Press and an oven.

Realize that when you choose to do something differently from the way it was done in the past, there is necessarily a trade off to be made, either in your enjoyment of time, or the quality of your output, or both.
I curious their philosophy (less is more?). I used dwm for a bit and still use a personally hacked inspired from dwm console derived dvtm, also by Marc iirc. If their going towards UNIX philosophy concepts it will be nice to hack a post config to extend it with personal my schemes and nda|dfa regex engines. This looks like a nice project. Looking forward to watching it.
CrazyEgg needs to implement this. For example, I have a couple of hundred landing pages on my site which have similar design/navigation and different text. I'd like to be able to see clicks over all of them, rather than have to make hundreds of individual clickmaps, without doing any URL rewriting funkery to make it appear to them that the landing pages are, in fact, the same.
From the site:
To clarify, most iPhone 3GS owners aren’t upgrade eligible. Most iPhone 3G owners probably are and can pick up the new iPhone for $100.

I'm sure this update was posted after the article was initially submitted. Still, a useful clarification.
Let me introduce you to my mom.

Some years ago I needed a file from my parents computer sent to me. I called my mother (father wasn't home) and asked her to send the file. I would guide her through the process.

The conversations went a little bit like this.

Me: Ok so you go to the desktop and open the mail client.
Mom: I am at the desk
Me: Not the desk, the desktop on the computer
Mom: Where is that?
Me: If you click on the little button in the bottom of the screen next to where it says start.
Mom: Internet explorer?
Me: No the next one.
Mom: Which button do I push?
Me: The left one
Mom: Nothing happens
Me: What do you mean nothing?
Mom: Well a small window pops up, is that the desktop?
Me: No, you are right clicking, you should click the left button.
Mom: But I am!

We go back an forth a little with me trying to convince her that she is pushing the right button. Then suddenly:

Mom: Ups everything disappeared and now there are only small icons, what did I do wrong?
Me: No that's it. You did it right, that's the desktop.
Mom: Ok, but that was the right button.
Me: Hmm weird, well anyway open your mail client, that's that icon I showed you, double click the left button.
Mom: ok, nothing happens that little box pops up again.
Me: Mom, I am telling you, you are clicking the right button. You need to click the left one.*
Mom: But I am, it's just really difficult.
Me: What do you mean difficult? You just double click on the left button.
Mom: I know, but this is not behaving like it used to
Me: What do you mean?
Mom: When I go up it goes down and it's really difficult to double click with my thumbs.

Me: Ahh

Of course I now realized what was going on. She had the mouse upside down. After that I could guide her the rest of the way.

I talked to my dad later that night and found out the problem.

Instead of the mouse cord going behind the desk and into the computer it went in front of the desk to the USB plug on the front of the computer.

So the mouse had ben pulled around but she didn't get that. She thought that was how things should be.

Mind you she had used it before.

My mom is not a complete moron, yet she didn't manage to realize the problem.

We take understanding how this stuff works for granted because we grew up with it and got a more holistic understanding of things related to computers. Our parents didn't.

I have often compared it with dropping a geek into the wilderness at the African savanna with a map that isn't correct. That is if you want to understand how it might feel for people that aren't doing this everyday.

As non natives in the wilderness we are forced to follow the map, but if the map is wrong what do we do (besides taking out the GPS obviously)

And the point is not really to treat her as a child, but to take her trough small natural steps in order to give her a more foundational understanding, while still enjoying the experience.
how dense should banana jam be to start a chain reaction?
I was initially thinking Citibank, but they don't seem to have any foothold in Denmark.
Then I tried to contact them, but their site is a confusing mess of links back and forth. The only thing I ever found was the American support phone line.

Thanks for the tip though. I'll give it another shot.
You can always find cases that are exceptions to the general rule, where someone does something that ends up being very destructive for the vast majority of people who try it but comes out just fine. Especially on the internet. That in no way justifies or makes safe such behavior for the rest of the us.
well you can simply type "w" then your search in the address bar
"My attitude is that childhood is where we do our best to lay a foundation. Puberty is where we have to cross our fingers and hope that we did a good enough job."

That is precisely the problem with early puberty. You lose multiple years of the childhood necessary to lay the foundation for the onset of puberty.
Reminds me of Google Glass's concept video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R1snVxGNVs

I think Google over-promised initially which lead to many being underwhelmed with Glass. I hope Microsoft isn't making the same mistake here.
>initially funded by pornography //

Can you expand and maybe source that comment. "Initially funded" to me suggests that the R&D was funded by people/companies for the purpose of carrying pornography.

"Popularised by" is often suggested, or even "first exploited commercially for" - either of these seem far more likely. I just can't see Daguerre, or whoever (Wedgewood, Fox-Talbot, ..), getting pay-checks from people/companies that want to publish porn?

I'm not saying, yet, that you're wrong - history is often surprising.

By wire recordings you mean the audio recordings on wires that predate reel-to-reel and such. Are there existing audio porn recordings from the 1890s? It seems strange with the cost of the tech that anyone would even want it as a recording when the people who could afford it, given the massive difference in income and the availability of prostitutes, could order a live rendition. Stranger things have happened though.

Telegraph? Morse or semaphore porn, ... I'd have thought that was really an exception to Rule 34!?

Pray tell, more details.
Interested readers should note that

1. it's impossible to satisfy this poster and their parent at the same time.

2. but both of them will hate you either way.

This leads to an important customer service technique I've learned, which is that if you slightly inconvenience the most difficult people they'll just leave and you'll be left with less demanding customers who will actually appreciate you.
Easy things to say on HN, in friendly territory. Looks like you have the moral high ground!
This keeps getting repeated in this thread & I keep not understanding it. If I downloaded Uber & set it up with the payment method that I need, why would that payment method suddenly change at 1am in India?

The way this should work is when you set up payment option X, it downloads the relevant payment info & then you're set from then on without any other modules unless you add a new payment option. Likely pre-bundle the generally "global" options (Apple Pay/Android Pay since those are platform-native & credit cards since those are likely small implementations).

The real reason is that you will always have drop-off because the download phase is split in two (on the other hand you'll have increase in installs because the app size is smaller). That would need App Store integration with the loadable modules so that you could say "Install these payment features of the app". This may not be a win because again, it requires the user to do more work. Simple for everyday users will often win the day even if inefficient vs more optimal options that achieve that optimality by pushing complication to the user.
> If I followed someone around, taking notes on them as I went, so that I could try to sell them something

Well, stalking sounds like you're driven by some strong emotion or crazy plan. This sounds more like a private detective/investigator doing surveillance, or a "social engineer" – itself an even more over-benign term – exploiting people to get what they want.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5-s-4KPtD8