jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wifi DNS bug? Thanks for putting a name to a very persistent annoying problem in this household with--holy crap--12 Apple devices.

Also thanks for that Launchpad description. Keeps happening to my kids and I couldn't figure out why. I'm really disappointed in Apple. I'd really rather have reliable wifi than, say, Continuity.
You brought a smile to my weary eyes.

I myself wanted to be a farmer. Everyone has to eat, you see, so I figured I could charge as much money as I wanted to. I'd be rich!
Great article.

Choosing a place where people appreciate honest criticism works for friendships as well. My biggest criteria for friends is that the person is cool with honesty, including telling them when they're wrong.

Interesting point about how if you never fail, you're too conservative. The same idea applies to poker. Microsoft fails constantly and people accept it, yet every Google failure means they've lost their mojo. No Wave and no Buzz means no GMail.
It rapidly consumes your precious battery. Of course it's not a common case.
If tax rates should serve economic growth, you'd better have solid proof that the ROI on government collected money is greater than an analog private ROI. Any penny that the government does not use more effectively should be immediately returned (if the purpose is growth).
Unless I'm very much mistaken, I don't think the outsourcing of call centers back in the hey-days of AOL was that prevalent.

That said, AOL isn't the first company to bank on sending out free stuff to get a lot of customers. I believe Schick gave out free disposable razors to nearly everyone in the States at a time when there were no disposable ones. After exhausting their seed money on sending those out once, they raised a lot of money for now customers were flocking out to buy one.
I wonder why they have that there when they're actually running nginx:

689 ~ % curl -i bit.ly/test
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved
Server: nginx/0.7.67

Are they using AOLServer behind nginx? That seems bizarre.
> The article is largely trying to, in effect, refute the
> usefulness of HN. If merit counts for little, i.e., if
> reading about and doing all the things that are discussed
> on HN is a waste of time, then why is this site here and
> why are you reading it?

I don't think the article is trying to say that work (or entrepreneurship) is independent of wealth, just that it is not nearly are correlated as people would like to think.

The article is probably not useful to an individual trying to optimise their own wealth; it is, however, useful when it comes to the evaluation of public policy (which is a duty of all citizens in democratic countries).
allowed?
I'm not sure why the xasos says that. For me Haskell has been great for apis. Regarding calling C, the Haskell ffi is very easy to use.

Try Nim, Ocaml, or Haskell to replace Go in that order. I order it in terms of probable familiarity.
Yeah, this was one of the eyebrow raisers in the article. The other was a load average of 0.6 being "high".

For what it's worth, autovacuum can be enabled/disabled on a per table basis, too. Some tables need frequent vacuuming, others less frequent, and others none at all. If you manually VACUUM a table, don't forget to also ANALYZE it!
Why can't an introvert put on headphones or simply disregard irrelevant conversations in an open office?

It has nothing to do with introvert / extrovert from what I can see. But I don't understand why people keep thinking that headphones are some magic cure all. Sometimes you need quiet so you can focus, and just replacing one source of noise with another does absolutely nothing. Not to mention that "open plan" allows a constant stream of visual and tactile distractions as well as auditory.

Really, open plan offices have no redeeming qualities at all that I can see. They're optimized to disrupt productivity to the greatest possible degree, while providing a superior illusion of collaboration. In my experience, they're a complete joke.
Check pf-diverters [1]. We are using them in our openbsd firewalls in order to block unwanted connections.

[1] https://github.com/echothrust/pf-diverters
Try it, then decide for yourself. But yes, I use Clojurescript and much faster then Javascript to release stuff as the language is so complete
I used to tether the 3.5G connection with Bluetooth with my Nokia 515. It worked quite well.
"Murdered" Wikipedia whose fifth pillar is "ignore all rules"?
I clicked "somewhere" and got this: http://new.livestream.com/spacex/events/3665355
> I think it's time for me to go back to sending SMSs on the telephone keypad.

Well if your primary use of a "phone" is to make GSM voice calls and send SMSs then what you're looking at is completely overkill. The vast majority of people that buy top end phones do so for things like: pocket sized, always available, excellent quality camera, near desktop-like internet browsing, and then the entire application ecosystem including maps, lifestyle applications, games, etc.

There are going to be tradeoffs to be made depending on what your requirements are, including price and battery life.
This is true, although it is probably because of the software being built into the trackpad itself.
An actual RnD, or engineering?

In the link you point to the need of "EU fab." Who do you think will buy its chips?

Germans for their cars?
My math was not memorizing formulas and French constantly tortured us with writing essays. And my school system was more tilted toward authoritarian memorizing then my kids school is.

Also, kids don't retain everything, school or not. Yet also, my kids are in elementary school and I definitely learn faster at this point. They will learn even faster then I am learning now, but they are not there yet.
I also came to post this. It's great.

I've got a degree in classical performance (and deeply love and respect that tradition), but more often collaborate musically with people who don't come from that background. Most will say with a little embarrassment that they wish they knew more "music theory". It's difficult to communicate to, say, and indie songwriter how I think theory might help them (to communicate, or analyze their own or others' music), and ways it's probably totally irrelevant (depending on genre, functional harmony is really not very useful).

And that's still just western music traditions. Study Indonesian music and you can see how many ideas about music are encoded even into the notation of western art music.
But that's always been the case. I worked remotely in a 3rd world country for $1500 a month, then moved to SV and saw my salary magically sextuple, for the same exact job.
From the outside it looks like you're swinging too far the other way now. Pay is known to be a huge motivator to a specific point, then fade rapidly; that's where a product you believe in and interesting work picks up. It sounds like you didn't get enough money, or your needs changed, and obviously it's best if you get both types of rewards. I just quit my job knowing I was getting paid more than comparable coworkers because I was bored though, so try and be conscious and intentional in your own motivators.
My first contact with the stock market was learning about some stock that had ballooned 1200% and crashed the next day. This was in 1999 or 2000.
I sometimes find the articles and links shared here interesting.

But the most interesting thing to me is the cognitive dissonance, ego, obstinacy, and single-mindedness of the discussions.

If you question the idea that this place is anything but some kind of algonquin round table for the techno-elite then you’ll get a stern rebuke from the moderators. The reality is that HN is exceptionally good content marketing for a VC company.

It’s just as funny to me as browsing /r/SubredditDrama or any other hobby forum.
Depends on the use-case. If you use your laptop mostly in a clamshell mode connected to a monitor and keyboard, you don't really care about the chassis.
these APIs are UI Automation on windows and NSAccessibility on macos
someone should set up a script or something for mailinabox for example. that way people who are doing selfhosting can just do this on their own domain so it looks more plausible?

question. if scammers do "realize" this technique and block you, would that mean a signal for them to not bother this guy? or what?
The solution is History, as in the data/evidence-driven profession. It's perfectly well applicable to contemporary events too.

Wikipedia/wikinews with all its faults gets a lot closer than the NYT. Because it's not static, it's not maddening fluff and drivel (when every fucking "article" is a story, "Abigale stood in the doorway in a chilly afternoon, disoriented by the bad news that her application by the Local State Office of Nobody Ever Heard of Ever was denied ..." and seven paragraphs later we will finally find out some new nugget of information, maybe even at the end of every such amazing certified five-times-Pulitzer piece there will be some hard data "statistic").

There's simply not enough demand for such an outlet with rigor, standards, etc. (Or maybe there is and it's a market niche, or it's an outright market failure that this need is not satisfied.)
I’m pretty sure you mean “Algorithms to _Live_ By”- but I love the typo, since one anecdotes involves using CS/mathematical principles (secretary problem) to find an optimal romantic partner. Enjoyable read for sure!
That doesn't help if you're trying to protect the AWS root account.
I'm working on a quantum version of this. Items placed in the bowl may randomly disappear then reappear in a different quantum bowl somewhere else in the universe.

We have already seeded the market with test prototypes shaped like laundry baskets that are limited to small pieces of cloth footwear. But we hope to scale up to Level 5 Flinging of Massive Objects (FOMO) before the end of the year.
Oh, okay, the problem here is that we have different understanding of the relevant meanings of “type” and therefore “type system”, which is unsurprising because the term has many different uses in programming.

I am using “type” in the standard computer science sense of statically enforced invariant and “type system” as the system of statically enforced invariants, distinct from annotations which are the syntax by which types are expressed.

You seem to be referring to “types” and “type system” to refer to something else, perhaps some aspect run-time behavior / “dynamic typing”. whatever it is, there's probably also some improvement in that, too, but given that the original concept of the uphtread comment about type system improvements was about type safety, which is what the system of types that are statically verified addresses, it's not really a germane issue.
How do you tag someone that doesn’t use Facebook?
It really depends on where you live.

A lot of places and apps are moving to require smartphones, and I hate this trend.

In China for example you can't even open a bank account without a smart phone, vending machines require smartphones, and even some robotic grocery and convenience stores are requiring a QR code scan to enter the store. I even saw a public restroom once that requires a QR code scan and SMS verification to dispense toilet paper. (That's right, no shitting at that toilet for foreign business professionals without a local +86 phone number and bank account.)

The whole world tends to be moving in that direction now. Uh, welcome to the future? On the US side I've had meetings with clients using Microsoft (R) (SM) (C) (TM) Teams that require a smartphone to authenticate. I have to deposit checks to my bank with a smartphone because they refuse to implement a web version and they also don't have a lot of physical branches. Even Signal, probably the only trustable E2E encryption app, wants a smartphone to log in (ugh).
What do you need to improve your situation now?
The color of food and drink certainly has suggestive power, but the popular conception of what that wine study shows, i.e. that wine tasting is complete junk, is itself complete junk.

A reddit comment summarizes it best: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/4q6485/til_a...
To be fair they do have far better copy and paste than Android does.
Ya it was a last minute effort. I think it had the potential to be really big and fun. People came to us. Thats a hard thing to have happen at SXSW.
This page has some links: http://yourstory.com/2014/10/guide-list-y-combinator/
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9202522
I hate to defend the Street because most people in the industry are self-righteous duches. But then again so are most people who think that their latest RoR Web2.0 project are going to change the world, just poorer duches.

Just facts,

1) Creating a derivative market on Facebook employee options creates value for the Facebook employees because it means that they can now sell their options in a more liquid and better-priced market for cash (to potentially finance their kids education, help buy for a house or for hookers).

2) High frequency/automated trading tightens the bid-ask spread of stocks and does away with the "old boys" network of market-makers; making the purchase of stocks for both mutual funds/retail investors cheaper by $0.02/share-$0.05/share; at a volume of 4+ billion shares daily average volume. These cents add up to savings for market participants. But these machines could also turn around and manipulate the market and help save for hookers for traders/programmers who run them.

3) Weather derivatives, like other derivatives do have intrinsic values. For hedgers (such as hotels/ski slopes/airline industry/agriculture harvest that could be severely affected by inclement weather), they are insurance policies against risk that they are not willing to bear and help ensure that these businesses stay in business. However, if you have an army of Physics PhD who could model the risk/probability in weather derivatives; you could sell these insurance policies and make money to get hookers.
If you want to see the answer to your question turn show dead on. Someone made a mistake.
The PDF link is the main link. The Scribd link is an additional option added automatically by the Hacker News software.
For those that don't know (some on this page don't, it seems), Arch, Gentoo, FreeBSD(-STABLE and -CURRENT), and others already do this.
Note that not everyone on HN is an entrepreneur. As a programmer, I don’t want to feel shamed for not having shipped a product when that isn’t even one of my goals in the first place. If there were such an icon, one of the states would have to be “don’t care” or “unspecified”. I think that should be the default initial state for everybody, but the problem then is whether people will be honest enough to change their icon from “unspecified” to “not shipped” on purpose.
There doesn't have to be an exact one-to-one mapping. I doubt there are many Gtk+ widgets that cannot be reasonably emulated in the latest browsers.
When a given word becomes too strongly associated with a single company, then the word itself, in all its uses, becomes protectable by that company. The one case I know of is the word "gallo" (Spanish for rooster). The Gallo wine company has such a strong mark that they regularly crush people that try to use the word in any context, such as a small hispanic artist in San Antonio that named his company "Puro Gallo". I'm not saying I agree with this, at all, but that is one aspect of current trademark law. It took the Gallo family decades to establish the strength of their mark. I would guess that the entire idea of "Facebook" will be rather quaint long, long before the idea of "face" can embed itself into general commerce enough to be protectable as a word in all uses.
That’s 11,000 jurisdictions just for sales tax. There are many other jurisdictions not listed there that impose other types of taxes.
> Re: iteration time, Live++ [1] integration has matured a lot in UE5. That means compiling most code changes without having to restart the editor (or even in-editor game session). Again, not much different than Unity here, though both can break and require editor restarts for certain types of changes.

A week of doing things in unreal engine 5 C++ has resulted in more editor restarts than years of doing things in unity. They are not really comparable. And this is from someone who have written a a few hundred thousand lines of C++ at Google and no professional experience with C#, getting to a productive state in unreal engine C++ as a solo developer is a huge slog compared to unity.

If you do most things in blueprints then unreal might be fine, but for an experienced programmers blueprints feels extremely slow and clunky to work with. I want to write code.
Scott completely misses this important fact:

Some ideas (really collections of ideas) are easier to execute in one medium than another.

Rather than some larger commentary on ideas versus execution the complaint that "X wouldn't make a good movie" is usually meant in the sense that the things that made X good in medium A would not translate well to medium B, where B==film.

For instance I think it's perfectly fair to say that it's not a good idea to make Lord of the Rings into a musical.

You may counter that the execution is everything, but I'd respond that if you made a good musical out of the material, it wouldn't be LotR -- it would be some vaguely related thing. It would necessarily lose some of the things that make LotR great.

While I greatly admire Ed Catmull and his insights into teams, I don't think his "good team will fix bad idea" comment is relevant here. Part of implementation is choosing your implementation medium. Pre-specifying the medium (i.e. let's make X into a film) is an implementation decision.

It would be analogous to a startup saying "let's take this great system and re-implement it, but it has to use technologies UVW". That's an implementation decision that may be badly flawed.
By "collapse theory" I presume you mean the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics? That actually gives the guy more credibility: it suggests he learned physics at a physics department of some university, as opposed to, say, from popular literature or random blogs.

The page you linked says: "the many-worlds interpretations wins outright given the current state of evidence". This sentence does not make sense. The MWI, just like the Copenhagen interpretation and all other interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, are just this: interpretations. They don't disagree about the expected outcome of any imaginable measurement. They can't be tested experimentally. Choosing one interpretation or the other is a philosophical choice, not a scientific conclusion. "Evidence" in favor of one interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is of the same kind as "evidence" of the existence (or non-existence) of God, i.e., some people feel very strongly one way or another and will argue with you to death about it, not to mention create web pages which authoritatively state their opinions on the subject, but the disagreement cannot really be resolved by arguments or by empiric observations.

Physicists are aware of this and that's why most of them choose the simplest thing and talk about the collapse of the wave function.
I wonder who leaked my password http://www.apathysketchpad.com/images/uploads/mushport.jpg
Agree. As far as the tenure debate, becoming a candidate for being science professor at a top university requires INCREDIBLE single-minded focus, from college through Ph.D. through postdoc. And for that, you get a chance at an academic job, because only a handful are up for grabs in any given year. It's an incredibly high-risk proposition, with a lot of opportunity cost. Your chances are helped immensely if you're not interested in any other activities beyond working in your field. It's a monotonous life in many ways. Not many people would want it to begin with - that's why the Aspbergers types are often the only ones who make it through the filter.
It's about control. Like most companies Apple prefers not to be dependent on unilateral decisions made by other companies. Even though WebM is free it is controlled by Google. WebM has only one implementation and Google sets the direction of the project. H.264 is the result of cooperation of many companies and has multiple independent implementations. For a huge company like Apple the license fees of H.264 are not important.
Of course, it's not like you need to hold your phone for audio calls. You just put it next to your ear and it hovers there unsupported.

Obviously they just need to adapt the technology so the phone can hover in front of you without tiring your arms out.
Never used Litespeed, but wonder if you should just buy more VPS for the $200.
Maybe you would have been better off to move/rename the original copy of Safari (4)... Installer probably thought it was just cleaning up after itself (why would the average user want 2 copies of Safari?).
I did something similar with my VPS's (nginx/MySQL/PHP/Django via flup), but at the same time this is not as easy as just disabling the pre-forked processes. The point of those processes is that they are available. Sure, if the services on your VPS are competing for resources then yes that would be an issue. However, I would recommend that you use all the available memory, but make sure that each process stays at that memory load.

For example I have a number of FastCGI PHP processes running, each consuming up to 20MB. I tuned it so that if each one takes exactly 20MB (more or less max memory limit I set), then I still have a sliver of RAM left. That way there is no cost of starting/stopping these processes and there is maximum resource utilization.
Actually the best description comes from the TechCrunch article (http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/xing-founder-lars-hinric...):

"Like a Klingon starship de-cloaking in the middle of Europe, Lars Hinrichs is putting his efforts onto a new startup investment vehicle dubbed HackFwd."

So they're the enemy then?
I make video calls all the time via Skype with both friends and family. The reasons I never picked up phone video calls was because 1) they rarely worked properly, 2) they required compatible handsets (see 1), 3) they were several times more expensive than normal voice calls.

This solves all 3 of these problems. Almost everyone I care to talk to (other than my parents) has an iPhone and will be getting the iPhone 4.
It's a good point that programmers only become famous among non-programmers because of non-code reasons, but the same applies to specialists in almost any technical field (except for maybe physics and math).
My politics are left wing. I could no doubt pick some fox news examples if I watched/read that outlet. The media may have helped Bush’s war, but they weren’t uniformly conservative and they also didn’t tell overt, easily verifiable lies. It’s one thing to report that the intelligence community says there are WMDs, and quite another thing to outright lie about the contents of a memo or a video which are publicly available.

> I presume you think yourself unbiased too.

0/2 on your assumptions about me. Of course I’m biased; everyone is biased. The difference is that I don’t double down on my biases, but rather challenge and evolve them by reading and debating other points of view. Note that the stark contrast between that and the folks (esp in the media) who persecute others for ideological transgressions.
I’ve had some great success finding affordable, senior Rails developers in Portugal on Upwork
Bueno. Thanks for sharing your perspective. You seem to be making relatively decent money there. If you want more, make some moves.

I should have been more clear in that while I'm against unions I'm all for paying workers twice the going rate. And firing them if they don't perform.

And my comments about working harder for more money was about pay based on performance. ie produce more, make more. Go hard or go home. Not sure how that can fit into retail and warehouse there exactly but it probably could be done.

Pensions, 401K. Not my cup of tea. I prefer to watch trees grow. And have you seen how easy it is to launch a product these days? Well, actually nothing's easy.