jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It sure looks like you're trying to make this about some cancel blah blah nonsense, when it's not at all. It's simple: backblaze used a consumer-grade registrar for their ostensibly business domain. That consumer-grade registrar got probably a spurious complaint -- or maybe even a real one! -- and gave backblaze their full $12/year worth of service backblaze paid for.

In contrast, a business-grade registrar won't take domains down for a handful of complaints, and will aggressively work to contact someone inside their customer.
And an even bigger one - coffee is extremely lucrative, so there are enormous amounts of money in play to make sure it stays legal/popular/'healthy'.
I thought the 757 wasn't a popular freighter because it doesn't really well fit the standard air freight container? Or am I thinking the passenger configuration?
"Junior" is not the same as "fat & short". It puts stigma onto you (no experience, green) and your capabilities (needs guidance, possibly bad judgment) which is certainly unfounded after working several years in the industry, no matter how niche your stack was. Switching technologies does not make you a "Junior" when you have loads of war stories to tell.
I'll quote myself

> Not saying that unproven interventions should be thrust upon naive patients,
I would generally reserve HN as a space worthy of more nuanced opinions than this but in this case there is one response that feels appropriate.

Fuck the nyt. That entire dumpster fire can hopefully fizzle out shortly.

Slatestar codex was some of the most interesting content I've read in my life. In comparison, I've never read anything in the nyt that compares to "I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup" or "Meditations on Moloch" or "The Toxoplasma of Rage" so in my mind the single most consequential thing that publication has done is to silence something of higher quality than itself out of fear.
Yeah; what I wrote was absurd. Most civilisations can trivially be improved; we're definitely pretty high up the possibilities. I meant we're not in the top 20% of feasible possible civilisations anybody currently alive would want to put into place (which is a qualitative claim, not a quantitative one).
//just popping down the shop, need anything?
while (yourout){getsomemilk;}
//LOLZ
Correct, hence part two was required. This went into some of the possible errors that came up

https://barronwasteland.wordpress.com/2014/12/13/infinite-mo...
I use it (with Recurly). It's fantastic, especially since Recurly's built-in reports don't seem to jive with reality (for instance by ignoring coupons on subscriptions). The multi-user support and email alerts are also useful.
Yep. RFC2606 It is what they should use. And if you need to specify 2 hosts, you can use example.net and .org as well.

Unfortunately, the example domains don't convey context very well, so we see things like target.com, victim.com, etc
youtube view counts don't tell the whole story. this is exactly what we need!
I do some work in personal protection inside and outside of the home and there are really quite a few simple things you can do to better protect your home from a break in or home invasion.

First, make sure you have a solid wood or metal door with a deadbolt. Second, reinforce all exterior door frames with door jamb armor, a large metal plate that covers your door jamb and 3 1/2 in screws that secure it into the frame. [1]

There's quite a few other window security films on the market. 3M is probably one of the best. [2]

You'll want to look into securing your glass to the window frame so it doesn't just pop the glass out in one piece. Some windows make that easy to happen and some secure the glass in pretty well. 3M has a few attachment systems that hold the glass in the frame. One easy option is a silicone sealant called Dow Corning 995. It's an incredibly strong silicone that bonds the security film to the window frame. [3]

And finally get a gun and learn how to use it. You can tell me how much you hate guns but when a insane machete-wielding man kicks in your front door, a phone in your hand dialing 911 is not going to stop him in time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsAMSQ13bY

[1] http://armorconcepts.com/EZ-Armor/

[2] http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/Window_Film/Solu...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000L00N0Q/ref=oh_aui_searc...
Disagree.

1) Kik claims to have already submitted a new version of the app that addressed these concerns.

2) The app was already approved and into the store. How is his responsible behavior?

3) How does further disabling Kik’s ability to distribute new versions of the app (by revoking signing keys) help?

4) How does crippling the UX (by disabling push) of the existing install base help anyone? That isn’t, as you say, putting users first! (And I don’t buy that this would improve batter life — this is the whole idea of push, it’s better than long or frequent polling!)

I’d bet this is almost entirely because they see Kik as a competitor to BBM (which it is).

Edited in reply: Removing from the app store is one thing (done ~2 weeks ago). Breaking existing installs for no real good reason is pretty indefensible, IMO.
Presumably this thing needs a power brick too, though?

As I read it, HDMI as standard only supports +5V at 55mA. Taiwanese versions of this thing linked on this discussion suggest it needs +5V at 2A: http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=514&t=4112495
No monthly fee. I don't really like services that charge for this data.

I prefer to make it available for free and then make the money by signing people up for bookies that they might not normally use.
Anyone watch Black Mirror? Remember 15 Million Merits? Heh...
Confirmed: https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
What if the company needed to bring on a large number of junior developers again?
Or any other of the popular value brands like Ikea, Target, Old Navy, Southwest, H&M or Honda. Amazon is perceived as utilitarian, but that's not inevitable for a value retailer.

There's a fundamental mismatch. Jeff Bezos wants to be perceived as cool, cutting edge, an explorer, an innovator. These are elitist concepts that work for a premium, aspirational brand. Value brands need to come across as ordinary people.
I think if you look at my history, most of the time I plug Appleseed on Facebook stories, but in any case, I'll keep my comments on open source social networking more abstract, and not mention my project from now on, if people feel it's inappropriate.
It's not much of an article as it is only two paragraphs. Get your popcorn ready for when stuff starts hitting PACER/RECAP.
You can't on the one hand say that OpenJDK Unix SecureRandom uses urandom so it's OK while on the other hand saying that SecureRandom is preferable because it works on platforms without urandom. That's the problem with SecureRandom: it's hard to know exactly what it's doing, as the Android team discovered last year.

(On Windows, I'd use CryptGenRandom, although it inspires even less confidence than Linux /dev/random).
I think he should have written "disintermediated" for those examples. There are now fewer intermediaries, maybe only a single layer - but the companies in that layer occupy almost all of it.

You can publish books without having to worry about publishing and distribution - if you go through the publication-and-distribution vertically integrated monolith.
I feel like I want to test what happens if you put values like "", false, " ", 0, an empty array, etc etc etc in front of ??.

Because, you know, this is PHP.
An Android version is also planned.
My personal solution is so much more simple than this shitbowl solution and is trivial to implement. I have been using it for years and can personally vouch for it's effectiveness and scalability.

Skip the bowl entirely.

When you finish with something just set it down. It really DOES NOT MATTER WHERE! Honestly.

Set it on a flat surface, under a chair or a pillow, in a depression in your yard. Set it on your neighbor's side of the fence. It is totally irrelevant where you leave it.

Since it is universally true that you always find something in the last place that you look this method that I have employed works perfectly EVERY SINGLE TIME and for objects of any physical description.

It is impossible to lose something if you are willing to spend sufficient time and effort remembering where you put it and revisiting that location.
Are you sure it wasn't the Chromium project? I have this one in my mind: https://www.zdnet.com/article/chrome-70-of-all-security-bugs... But then again it could be the same for other projects and just be a general thing that happens.
“ Our European visitors are important to us.

This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.”

The GDPR went into effect almost three years ago. I guess we’re not that important to news10.com.
I don’t think there is anywhere near the anecdotal evidence to support this. Even when big tobacco was in full swing people knew smoking was correlated with cancer/lung disease/etc. I felt noticeably healthier when I quit smoking years ago. I’ve quit coffee and aside from caffeine withdrawal little difference in how I felt. What negative health effects do you propose are caused by coffee?
FWIW, I believe your anecdote. It doesn’t mean it happens everywhere all the time. You’re posting with your real name and I can’t think of why you’d come to HN to lie about it. I value reading about personal experiences on HN.
You must need a very high res camera. Very very high res indeed.
A good friend of mine works for a major electronics manufacturer (trust me, you'd recognize the name) where some employees exfiltrated 200,000 internal design documents/artifacts to a competitor that they were planning on joining. As a result, no one can use gmail/gchat from work machines or VPNs anymore. I think a MITM proxy that detected giant file exfils but allowed people to send gchat messages to their family would be a huge plus in that environment.
Goofing off, most likely.

I haven't really thought of a use case for the home, although there's literally dozens of them. I actually wonder if it could function as an auto-dog walker for my organic dog on the days when I'm too swamped with work to do so.

The thought of attaching a leash to my dog and the leash to Spot while I'm indisposed is actually kind of attractive. I would have to make sure my dog has already done her business though, since I wouldn't want to be the kind of asshole that not only uses a robot to walk his dog, but also lets his dog shit on his neighbor's yard while a robot walks his dog.
That one was tedious though. It's easy to see what the solution is, but it just takes a lot of time to write it up.
>Let europe live in mud huts for a few centuries.

I can just buy an AC and pay for electric heating. I'm not so sure that every African can do that.
You could change the drop semantics to drop as soon as a variable is no longer used/borrowed (as opposed to now when it goes out of scope).

But IMO that does not seem like it's worth it considering how less predictable it would make drop.
I'm in Singapore, probably faster to wait for an asian neo-bank to appear than for Monzo to get here
The people doing perpetrating these crimes don't care. Their paycheques don't change. If they aren't afraid of jail time and real accountability, then this will happen again. Instead they pushed through whatever they needed, and probably got well paid for those "successes".
Leave of absence? He’s looking at a decade behind bars and a felony.
Good one. Another on the same lines, and also related to your parent comment's point about politics, is:

Getting the users in the org to, you know, actually use that well-specced, well-built project, which was delivered within time and budget (or with only a small overrun). I mean, use it at all, or use it enough for it to deliver its benefits. Real life issue. Seen it on at least a few projects I've worked on, including two early in my career. Inertia, luddite fears, turf wars can be some of the causes.
> That sounds like a huge hassle to be honest.

You could probably describe what Ross Ulbricht is going through right now as an even bigger hassle.
That's a very contrived example you obviously didn't spend any time trying to understand. No-one in their right mind would write code like that, except to demonstrate something.

And if you did write code like that, Haskell's hlint tool would make suggestions to turn it neat and readable using fmap.
Mithril is a tremendous little framework, and Leo has done an exemplary job of writing it, documenting it and blogging about usage patterns and tricks. While declining frequent requests that he cram more functionality into its core, he takes the time to explain the trade-offs, showing a deep understanding of the problem space which gives me confidence to build upon his work. So thanks Leo!

Hopefully, in time, more people will realise the "zen" of mithril's minimal approach. In the meantime, interested readers can check out lichess.org, which recently rewrote its impressive UI using mithril.
Lots of companies would consider the answer to that question to be confidential information.

When I worked at a startup, the initial deployments were well aware that they were beta sites and that they would be working with us to polish the product. This could have been taken both ways: they would have some input on development, but they could expect to face some issues with it from time to time.
That's the first course I actually like. And it's free too!
Responding to GP; I think it's a tiny bit clearer with `== true`, but I don't feel particularly strongly about it. I wrote this code without caring too much about style and cleanliness.

However, I don't agree that the shortest code is always the cleanest. In JS for example, I've found that wrapping every conditional body in braces even if it's a single statement helps avoid bugs and clear out ambiguity.

Also, this code:

if (foo()) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}

is not equivalent to

return foo();

because foo() could return something that isn't boolean. The correct short version would be:

return !!foo();

It's far less obvious what is going on here. That said, I'd probably go with:

return foo() ? true : false;
It is a bug having to ask for permission to collect money electronically. And assuming you get permission, it is a bug to get charged more than a penny or two for having your transaction processed. It's a bug not being able to receive/send cash anonymously, or to be censored because... because... what crime did Wikileaks commit?

Credit is a bug if you're an offshore company that can't find a payment processor or has your payments held for three months before release because the War on Terror means offshore companies are now suspect. It's a bug when your business sounds high-risk or illegal but actually isn't. It's a bug because the people who get employed managing this risk don't do a good job themselves and are often complicit in gaming the system. And it is a bug when you're in an industry where credit card fraud is rampant, because now the inability of the industry to handle data security means you pay twice, once when you're ripped-off by the customer and then a second-time when you get ripped-off by your bank with the chargeback.

The need for credit is a huge bug in the way it forces companies to be PCI-compliant (why should we be devoting massive economic resources to this?). And it is a bug in that it requires people to have credit cards, which requires them to have credit records, which brings up another set of problems....

Your complaint seems to be mostly that you don't have bitcoin and it would take you a single extra transaction to get it (something already easier than applying for a credit card, and/or paying your bills and frankly getting easier). But if you think bitcoin is more difficult than the alternatives, think as a conceptual exercise of programming a machine to buy and sell things with a credit card and pay its bills automatically. And once the tech is in place, apply for a credit account for the machine....
The whats?
Every time someone has attempted to explain to me why bitcoin has value, they instead explain why blockchain technology is cool or why they don't like "the man" in a monetary sense. Those are both interesting discussions, but they don't address why there would be any floor whatsoever to bitcoin's value, specifically.

USD, for all its issues, is required for the payment of taxes. So as long as anyone wants to do business or live in the United States, there is a legally mandated demand for USD. (If an event has occurred to cause no one to want to do business or live in the United States, money of any kind is probably the least of your concerns.) Then on top of that confidence of an absolute floor in demand, you can build more layers of demand like the petrodollar, etc.

Bitcoin could go to zero tomorrow without any real change in the real world. For USD to go to zero, the United States and perhaps the world order itself would have to collapse.
I love the town of Bayeux, and agree that the tapestry is a jewel. Great museum experience. With the popularity of comic books today, this is a great way to introduce folks to Norman history.
HN hug-of-death...Can't establish a connection to the stream. Interesting idea though.
White person: We need more of my kind on the board. <-- racist

Black person: We need more of my kind on the board. <-- woke

Brown person: We need more of my kind on the board. <-- woke

That view is endorsed at the highest levels of corporate America, politics and MSM. And somehow we're supposed to believe that "white supremacists" control the system. The current state of America is quite laughable.
Interestingly, this is what holistic practitioners and naturopaths have been trying to say for a long time

They’ve just substituted the scientific method with no method at all and devoid of all peer review or capability of it

As technology improves I expect individualized and therefore holistic treatments to be at the forefront
Google isn't a company run by some AI algorithm though, at least not yet. At the end of the day it's run by people. When something gets this much public notice (or even much less than it), people step in to take control and make the decisions. If this high-profile PR-damaging ban was confirmed up to fairly high levels of the company (which it must have been by now), then there's a clear reason for it that's a lot stronger than "Well this black box algorithm doesn't like him and we don't know why".

To return to the original post that started this conversation subthread:

> I don't believe no one has noticed at Google yet. There has to be something else at this point.

I think that's true, it's just that those of us on the outside will never find out the real reason because the decisionmakers within Google are deciding to stay silent about this for whatever reason.
Thought i would expand on this with some order of magnitude leak rate guesses. For a standard small lab vacuum system with viton o-rings something like 10-7 mbarliters/sec (same as atmcc/sec) would be considered acceptable. Assuming the drive is pure helium at half pressure with this leak, the loss would be on the scale of 3 cc/year. The rate will decrease as the partial pressure decreases, but once this becomes significant im guessing the drive is already toast.

I would also note that the helium will leak out before atmosphere leaks in. If the drives are well sealed they should fail due to lack of pressure causing head crash.
I can't wait for the legal system to start interfering with crypto coins. The effects will be interesting to say the least.
> What is the difference between those fields and IT?

Now this is the million dollar question. I don't have a succinct answer. I _suspect_ that a strong part of it is that IT is notorious for having handsy/abusive colleagues. but that cant be the entire reason, especially given Law's reputation.
Thanks, I appreciate the overview!
It's beautiful in a utilitarian way
The issue seems to be a misunderstanding of what Cassandra is. It's an (advanced/nested) key-value database, so of course you need to specify the key to do anything.
We have a bunch of slide and video links up on the conference page here: http://lanyrd.com/2011/jquery-sf-bay-area/
Oh, the conversion is not problem, I can figure that one out - it's getting permission from all the authors that would take ages...
I'd think of it more like, if you kept all the coupons in numbered cubbyholes, and each coupon had a post it note with the location of the cubbyhole where the next ordered coupon was.
Well, to be fair, it's easy to fall in that behavior. I often catch myself before hitting send/post. But sometimes the filter isn't good or fast enough. This happens usually on caffeinated bad days working on frustrating bugs. It's likely the writer was experiencing that.
Sorry, I was just after some basic advice... maybe there are some websites specifically for this sort of networking or something? I'm really just throwing it out there in a generic sort of way to see where others might have started or lessons learned etc. because I'm sure there are many others in the same general posistion.

To be specific though, I have been working on a social site that combines RSS/Atom managament with networking to allows users to publish and share content in interesting ways. For example, users can copy from another user's posting and receive updates (to the actual feed) when the author edits it. I have been fine tuning the the actual website, but I would like to begin extending the idea to a mobile app - which is one area where I fall short for lack of experience. I would imagine the project will develop much further with fresh eyes looking at it.
The timing is a bit tongue-in-cheek but it's still a great cause. Upvoted for the environment.
I hadn't heard of a whale book -- that turns out to mean Muchnick's.
He wrote 10mpg in the comments [1]. That means $0.39/mile on average driving in the U.S. [2].

[1] http://www.hankboughtabus.com/a-tour-of-the-bus/#comment-508

[2] http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/gasdiesel/
> Linguistics is a science and it is inherently descriptive.

One might go so far as to say that, because linguistics is a science, it is therefore descriptive.
This is why I don't visit Reddit much anymore. I appreciate the seriousness of this discussion board even with controversial topics not related to the programming sphere.
> solar

> not a very visible industry

Hah.
Just more of the tired "low-level programming is REAL programming" shit.
Admittedly setting a time zone different than your local zone is an edge case. 99% of the time your local zone is the correct default. It would come up if you're scheduling a meeting for your trip to a different zone, or setting your TV to record the football game being broadcast from Chile.