jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There was a reddit thread on this that explains the gist of it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2482679.
And it also says "we cannot rule out the possibility."
Apple doesn't have to go below cost to outprice its competitors, just as Wal-Mart doesn't have to. Apple has huge profit margins and huge economies of scale that would enable it to, in some cases, sell products for less than another vendor could build a comparable substitute for.
There are strong opinions and good arguments on both sides. Perhaps we should leave scores hidden, but provide a user preference to turn them on -- after reaching a certain karma level. If one argues that the rapid growth of the site has led to an exaggerated score influence, maybe a "norming" period makes sense. Downvoting privileges have to be "earned," so why not score visibility?
Amazon devised a clever checkout method that was unique and at least required a little bit of innovation on their part. Apple sold things in a store and named it the "Thing Store."

I really don't think it's a fair comparison...
It's probably too much of my mother and not enough of my father, but I can't stand watching people fail, no matter how much I hate them.

I hate sony, but I still feel bad for them.
I think Google is going to kill at this. Their cloud print looks like the first step towards many of the things you are talking about.
I think that this and our lack in 'hands on' experience with pandemics play a role in how western governments act. It is sad that the population has to learn via a death toll that certain things have to be done.
I wish I could say it wetter, but I'm lacking the right words/phrases.
Yesterday, QFC in Interbay was nearly out of canned beans, flour, and milk. I’m sure there was more that was low, but I noticed those bare sections in particular.
Is there a war coming?
> dropbox is many UA ahead in terms of useability and platform interoperability

That's besides the point. Tarsnap is more than useable enough for its target audience, which is why cperciva (rightfully) doesn't give a rat's ass about making it as user-friendly as Dropbox and its ilk.

The two issues are completely separate. Implementation of client-side encryption and user-friendliness are not mutually exclusive. Tarsnap is simply proof that client-side encryption is entirely within the realm of possibility for cloud-based data storage services.
Totally agree with "it's not about being the first, it's about having it right".
But that's why I'm not so sure about "building a working prototype from day one". In Spotify's case, they launched when they already had developed a mac and a pc client. To "have it right", you sometimes need to spend a fair amount of time before launch. Look at Instagram... Their iphone app was pretty much solid at launch: many lenses, clean and distinctive UI, great integration with social platforms, no bugs, no downtime... In Kik's case, they had an iphone, an android and a BB client at launch. This article by @gigaom wraps up my thougt on that.
Anyway, this is a nice deck :)
I do agree that writing is a moving target. Different people learn in different ways, some people learn best from the style and content in the original submission. I’ve often thought that all docs should have a mirror video tutorial to give the same info for visual learners.

I disagree that the big picture is so broad. Your article about subjectivity is accurate, but it applies to the field of creative writing. For technical writing and to some extent journalism, they are almost defined by by their purpose in communicating a specific thing. That “thing” is the big picture.
It’s a pretty animation... so nice work on that front.

Regarding login in general, people are done with passwords. From a security perspective they are worthless in most situations. From a user perspective, no one wants to make a new one or remember a different one, so they reuse them.

The good thing is this greatly simplifies the flow.

1) Ask for the email address.
2) check it against your system
2a) user found -> send auth email link
2b) no user, make a new one

Done. 2 steps, no passwords, no double path / flow
Inexplicably F@H is not available as an _official_ docker container, and their install procedure for Linux compares unfavorably with wisdom tooth extraction.
I'm amazed they managed to scale testing.
I have to stand corrected, even after disabling that extension I get the error. But no ads so far.

I'm sure the ad-blockers will be able to bypass it soon.
It will be difficult to find adoption if you can’t make room for options like removing unnecessary semicolons.
It does, but it's mostly effective, just slow to get started in the absence of someone priming the pump.
I read this in college 20 years ago, and understood it as an allegory of existentialism (which it is). I’ve been thinking A LOT about it the last few weeks. Worth a read, but not for the faint of heart.
It's significantly more complicated because there's a protocol and negotiation involved.

If I want to give you $1, I hold my hand out and there it is. I can literally stuff it into your back pocket. You're not involved in the exchange, there is no exchange.

We can even do it UDP style - imagine that I check out of a hotel room and leave a dollar on the bedside table for the room staff. There's not even an ack.

By contrast this involves me asking if you have an iPhone, and then asking if it has this feature, and then we both get them out, and then I type in an amount, and then we tap. We'll just assume that it works perfectly first time. Maybe you need data, maybe you don't. It's not everywhere, basement of a bar, long distance train comes to mind.

It's not rocket science, sure, but it's way more complicated.

In the UK I can send payments using online banking. If I already know the payment details of the recipient, then sending a transfer is approximately the same level of convenience as cash e.g. I just choose the amount and press send. But the initial setup is far more onerous.

It's only simpler if you're a cash refusenik for whatever reason and so you first inject the whole "well then I had to go to an ATM". The equivalent would be like me saying "well first I had to get an iPhone", obviously that would be unfair.
Thank you for your great work.
You just gave me a new hobby!
I prefer to ask open-ended questions more calculated to give me an idea of where the interviewee's head is at:

"What's your favorite programming language? Why?"
> Citation? Ther actual written standards of N95 vs KN95 are very similar, and if anything KN95 is probably slightly better. To meet KN95, the mask must be shown not to let air pass around the edges even while doing vigorous exercise, whereas N95 has no such requirement.

In my experience, actual KN95s have extensive leakage, especially around the nose. One factor may be that Western faces and Asian faces are different, and my understanding is that the KN95 standard and masks are tailored to Asian facial structures.

For instance, this is an assessment of a KN95 style mask I actually bought at a Menard's clearance a few months ago. It definitely has fit problems around my nose.

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/respirators/testing/results/...

> While the above-listed product classification has similar performance requirements to NIOSH-approved devices, NIOSH does not have knowledge about the sustained manufacturer quality system and product quality control for these products. NIOSH also does not have knowledge about the product’s handling and exposures after leaving its manufacturer’s control.

> In addition, this product is an ear loop design. Currently, there are no NIOSH-approved products with ear loops; NIOSH-approved N95s have head bands. Furthermore,limited assessment of ear loop designs, indicate difficulty achieving a proper fit. While filter efficiency shows how well the filter media performs, users mustensure a proper fit is achieved.
I read your comment and then had to go Google it myself. Victuals are/is food for anyone else wondering.
The TPM can be fully controlled by the user (or ignored altogether).

Much misinformation about the TPM stems from the Anderson paper, which mixed up real TPM implementation and then-future Palladium concepts and claimed that this all runs in contemporary TPM chips.

In reality, TPM is a chip with (rather slow) crypto functionality and a reasonable secure storage whose content can be "sealed" to certain system states. That state information is pushed to the TPM by the host system, since the TPM is a fully passive component. (Exception: new Intel chipsets feature 'Boot Guard' where the chipset pushes some root trust information to the TPM in a way that code on the CPU can't modify - but the TPM is still passive)

If you control the firmware, you can build a reasonably secure environment using the TPM. But coreboot (or its libreboot distribution) by default don't even do that with the TPM.
Coal doesn't have the capability for a cost cutting corporation to have a little oops and kill hundreds of thousands, or irradiate chunks of a state.

We've been lucky so far. There have been multiple nuclear accidents -- including 3 mile island -- that could have been far worse and weren't because of luck. Luck is not a viable strategy for dealing with nuclear power.
That echoes my experience very closely.

I also disliked the emphasis on literary analysis. It so often seemed like contrived flimflammery crossed with psychoanalytic mumbo-jumbo. If tvtropes (or allthetropes) had existed back then, I think I would have performed much better on my English homework. After all, those sites do include the Jungian archetypes and the basic plots as a subset.

As it is, my high school English classes drove me far away from anything even remotely similar until a lifetime of reading fiction, a shameful amount of blathering on Internet message boards, and the exhortations of the "National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)" organization convinced me to try to write a novel in November of 2012. Two years later, I have written 500 kb, with maybe 130 kb left to go before I snap it off and start the next one. Then there's also the matter of the default HTML stylesheet, continuity notes and timelines, the character, vehicle, location, and artifact indices, working hyperlinks, and testing the release version on all available e-reader programs and devices.

As for my old English teachers, I bite my thumb at them, like Sampson. I give them the fig, like Vanni Fucci. And just as golf is a good walk, spoiled, English class is a good read, ruined. Even with those ancient cultural references rattling around my bonebox, I find that an increasingly large fraction of my memes are drawn from television, film, music, video games, and popular web sites, and a vanishingly small portion from the old literary canon.

That's how I know that the Belmonts love Devo. If you understand why, you probably won't need to thank an English teacher.

All I really ever needed was a pile of books that I enjoyed reading and a copy of Strunk and White (minus the part about always putting sentence punctuation inside the quotes, because that's just madness). What I got was about 10 years of pedagogical torture that discouraged me from trying something that turned out to be a fun hobby.
No to mention, CGI is deprecated in the latest Perl release.
Chromebooks can also run ChromeOS in a window on GNU/Linux* , which is rather more useful for ocassional Netflixing mixed with more productive use.

* probably a violation of the EULA
I think there are fringe before/after images about halfway down

http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/Projet_Space_Warp/Spac...

But you're right, the pattern is super hard to figure out. I spent so many hours in laser physics labs in college, and those dots look brutal to make sense of. I think it would help him immensely if he cleaned up the beams a bit (we put the beam through a microscope objective with a calibrated pin hole at the focal point). But... I dunno if that would remove the modes he's looking for. Without cleaning that beam up, slight vibrations in beam speckle could cause that pixel to drop slightly in intensity. An unfiltered laser beam is just a gory mess to deal with, in general.

I suppose my complaint is there's a lot of fluff and noise.

Feynman said,

"I would like to add something that's not essential to the science, but something I kind of believe, which is that you should not fool the layman when you're talking as a scientist. I am not trying to tell you what to do about cheating on your wife, or fooling your girlfriend, or something like that, when you're not trying to be a scientist, but just trying to be an ordinary human being. We'll leave those problems up to you and your rabbi. I'm talking about a specific, extra type of integrity that is not lying, but bending over backwards to show how you're maybe wrong, that you ought to have when acting as a scientist. And this is our responsibility as scientists, certainly to other scientists, and I think to laymen."

-- Cargo Cult Science

http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html

He may very well be legit, as there are some seriously weird things that happen in tortured EM fields, but without the frank openness of the data and setup (he only seems to have one angle shot of the apparatus), I can't help verify or make sense of it.
Maybe it is because we are literally fucking watching mass misinformation and delusion spread by nefarious actors lead to mobs trying to prevent the legitimate and peaceful transfer of power in a nation armed with nuclear weapons. The nostalgic claims that good information will chase out bad and that sunlight is the best disinfectant to treat misinformation have been shown to be complete bullshit. The free speech maximalists were wrong and we have demonstrable proof that continuing to listen to them will lead to the downfall of civilization.

At this point we know with absolute certainty that a lack of censorship (either direct or self-censorship due to societal costs) leads to a very, very dark place. Time to start exploring other options.
December 16's jump over 20k, where this all kicked off
https://status.coinbase.com/incidents/93smh99lxtxz

November 26's dump from 18.9 to 16.2k
https://status.coinbase.com/incidents/yjq3bch7zgt1

When there's a sudden, significant price burst, they seem to reliably flop. Look around, they have that reputation. It seems they first fail, then scale, so the fact that they first failed on the 16th and have stayed up until now isn't surprising. I'd love to pat them on the back, but this is the same old Coinbase, and with all their means they should surely be able to scale quickly by now.
Most near-trivial to rewrite to each other's format though, which means you can get any static generator to ingest your favourite flavour with only a one-time step possibly (but almost certainly not) required to teach it how to ingest a format that isn't a perfect match for what it expects.
Got it. Protesting should be illegal. Thanks for the lesson on free speech.
It’s only a positive trend if society captures the wealth and spreads it back. I don’t think wealth inequality is a positive trend at all.
Lol I'm more amazed that they have 1 repo, for pretty much everything, than I am that they forgot to change the default passwords. It's a nightmare.
I personally don't dislike people but prefer small teams where we almost get to read each other's mind. There's no magic formula for that, it's just compatibility and it usually forms organically. But I also like to get some 'let me think alone' time without which my performance starts slipping..
No, it was created to make a fantasy land bubble for insane conspiracy theorists and extremist right wingers. It did its job and normalized those things for the entire GOP.

edit: downvotes with no response is really weak, especially given what we see going on in the world today which completely backs up my point.
It is so exhausting. I made the mistake of letting the real me peek out during a "why are you leaving?" conversation and holy hell it led to a kerfuffle:

"Why are you leaving?" "<3 other reasons> And, I'm a bit bored, the product and roadmap aren't very technically challenging to me".

Queue worried texts and emails from all over the company, thinking my boss isn't explaining the roadmap or hiding things, trying to figure out how to get me to stay, etc. It was a cool company that definitely helped people, but at the end of the day, it's basically a survey app and we were going to integrate with other companies that were doing the challenging technical bits. Lesson learned.
I believe no matter what else, everything eventually ends up as black holes.
Look at it from this way, its probably more work to go back and delete entries that really don't take up much disk. Heck, collecting is easy, setting up periodic purges, archives, and such, usually gets pushed to another phase.... which may never come.

another side is, its both good and bad. You can see patterns and alert to changes. You could also use it to prove someone wasn't where others claim and so on. If your really creative you can mine it and try to figure out why so many students are making trips that take time and minimize it to put more time to learning than traveling. Like we route packages in shipping companies, load the truck properly for the route, get students into a route that minimizes travel from class to class
You're making a mistake. There is no 1 ton helicopters with 12 kW power on shaft. Even with 24 or 36 kW. I'm on iPhone so can't say exactly what thrust 12kw would produce on 6m prop. Around 300kg I'd estimate.

And another thing. 8 60in props aren't equivalent to 1 300 in wrt power loading. You need 16 of 60in to get equivalent of 1 240in prop.

Anyway, you've just calculated an octocopter with 700kg+ thrust on 60kw power. Is it bad? My neighbor's 400kg single-seater has 100kw gas turbine and it isn't 4x excessive power.
A bit odd to choose Forth, the name of a traditional programming language, for your general news service and then promote it to a technical audience.

For nillium : https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I think the solutions offered are incomplete, that is there is insufficient data in the NYT story to indicate the proportion of rentals to sales. The solutions offered have simply chosen one solution out of many. The solution needs to be parameterised, and that parameter is unknown (at this point).
The impact would be reasonably small, depending on which sub-slice of the startup ecosystem you are looking at. Paul Graham doesn't advocate jacking up headcount before you have decently functional business fundamentals. The YC model seems to be that (before the product is proven out) development is done by founders, which costs the same no matter what the prevailing wages are. After that, it's either (1) paid by revenues or (2) paid by VC money -- in the latter case the VCs will adjust expectations and/or the amounts they invest, and in the former, they'll just need to get 2x more productive employees, which is well within the band of talent hired by the marketplace today.
I also found irony in this post:

http://i.imgur.com/GAvWVnN.png
That is basically string theory^^
It would have been nice to see the comparison with independent implementations in different languages. It's too bad that they didn't persist with that idea.
I think M j Ranum [1] probably has an exceptional understanding of risk.

In fact all of his points - the 6 dumb ideas - are places where he's pointing out that people are widely misinterpreting the risks, and putting their time and effort in the wrong place as a result. Most of the closing paragraphs for each point are suggestions on how to better prioritise your time and effort so you can get on whatever make you money.

And wrt your second paragraph, if we consider most companies, there is a 'default permit' on the network, between the workstations in the finance department, and the r&d department, unless they're in physically separate locations, and often even then. The workstations in the finance dept will almost certainly run any software at all, unless it's caught by the anti-virus (default permit, and enumerating badness). You're right that they should be locked down, but are they?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_J._Ranum
PayPal or Google Checkout are both good ways to start out with. But depending on the volume of transactions and the amount of control you want you may want to go with your own merchant account. They are not hard at all to set up. Talk to your current bank to see if they have an arm that deals with merchant accounts. Most banks that offer business accounts either have their own or partner with a third party to provide the services to customers. Note that you will need an SSL certificate if you go with a merchant account. I’d recommend VeriSign ( they will also most likely end up being your Payment Gateway if you do decide to set up your own merchant account). Their SSL certificates are a bit pricy, but the most trusted name in the business. You want to make sure you get a low processing fee (percent of the transaction that the bank ends up taking – shoot for under 2% and a low per transaction fee (shoot for 20 cents or lower – hard to find). After a lot of shopping around, we ended up going with Bank of America. Best of luck!
Instead? Surely you mean, as well. You'll have to support both IE and SPARTAN. It is just another browser we have to deal with.
After the fact you are able to try and prove that the money or assets were not used in the commission of a crime. How one could ever prove a negative is beyond me, and the burden of proof is higher than that required by the constitution which (IIRC) take the innocent until proven guilty perspective.

These poker sites have not been convicted of anything, nor was there a court proceeding where the siezure was proposed and the owners of the property had an option to defend their rights.

Further, as we've seen in case after case, even in situations where the victims are not involved in crime at all, the courts are stacked against them.
First off, I think this is pretty well-reasoned. This part struck me as interesting:

"I believe tests should be written in the language most natural for the problem... I have never coded my way through a surfing session."

To take that a step farther, we usually don't write prose-form descriptions of surfing sessions either. Following that, it seems the language most natural to describe a user interacting with an application through a browser is a straight recording of clicks and form interactions (if I understand correctly, this is what Selenium IDE tries to accomplish, although I've had problems with that particular tool), rather than Cucumber's descriptions, which compared to that, are more like code.

This is why I abandoned Cucumber: it seemed to be another way of writing code and left me on the wrong side of the gap between specification and actual interaction. I don't fault anyone who has found it to be valuable—as the poster said, it's possible to write good tests with any tool. Choose one you like.
I don't know about the client, but I imagine fulltiltpoker.co.uk will work just fine for the foreseeable future. There is no force in this universe that will keep the British from gambling... and if there is, they already have bets on it.
I'm curious about your costs. "The worse case scenario for cost to service that customer is about $20 a month paid to Twilio." Which you say is for 100 appointments per month.

Assuming one text and one call per appointment that's $.04/appointment, or $4/month.

So what am I missing? Does your service let you fan out to 5 users per appointment? Or is that you can send multiple reminders to the same person for a single appointment (24 hour notice, 4 hour notice, 15 minute notice)?
Odd, they're all resolving for me. I wonder if that's USA only? I'm in Canada