jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> We can especially study peasants in England because the archives there are especially full. In some cases, the superiority of English archives stems from the more careful record-keeping of its administrators, but, in most cases, it has been a matter of survival through the centuries. Thanks to a strong legal system, a relatively stable social order, and a hefty dose of luck, England’s medieval archives have survived especially well. In France, for example, many medieval archives were destroyed during the French Revolution, and in Scotland, untold thousands of state documents were lost when a ship carrying them sank in 1661. History is built on evidence, and if there is little evidence, historians have much less to study and much less to say.
I find Quora these days to be less self-congratulating than it was 5 years ago.

That said, my main interaction with it is the digest emails. The recommendation algorithm is a bit wonky, and will recommend you many answers for any topic whose answer you merely glance at.
> Getting 1 of the 21 million bitcoins is like decentralized proof of saying "I had 48k worth of value in Feb 2021!"

Bitcoin doesn't prove anything about your USD value. Bitcoin blockchain only proves how many Bitcoin you have. Nothing about how much they're worth.

No one cares how much your 1BTC was valued at an arbitrary date in the past. The only thing that matters is how much someone else is willing to pay for it right now.

If you buy 1BTC for $48K, you don't have $48K. You have $0 and 1BTC. Someone else has your $48K.

> It locks in the value that you created forever. Otherwise governments will just keep printing money, and your value gets diluted arbitrarily.

What is inflation? Inflation is when the price of something is pushed up. You don't need to buy Bitcoin to avoid inflation. You can also buy stocks, or real estate, or gold, or businesses, or any other number of investments. Basically, do anything other than put cash under your mattress and you'll avoid currency inflation. Bitcoin isn't even close to unique in this regard. People have been investing to avoid inflation for centuries before Bitcoin came along. This idea that Bitcoin is the only way to avoid USD inflation is a deliberately misleading narrative from the people who want you to buy Bitcoin instead of other assets. Fear-mongering.

Bitcoin, however, is inflating in US dollar terms. It is inflating due to demand-pull inflation, by the textbook definition of inflation. The fixed supply of Bitcoin isn't what drives the price up. The only thing that drives the price up is demand.

> Assuming the mechanisms of protection for the blockchain holds, it should work out exactly as that.

No, blockchain has no notion of price. USD prices of BTC are purely a function of exchanges. Exchanges don't even touch the blockchain until you withdraw from the exchange.

Blockchain only protects your 1BTC. It doesn't protect your $48K value. The $48K value comes from other people buying Bitcoin. Why are they buying Bitcoin? Because they expect the price to go up. Why do they expect the price to go up? Because other people are buying Bitcoin.
Windows 95 ran on machines with 4MB of RAM (8 recommended). NT 3.1 required 12 (16 recommended). That extra 8MB was a significant amount of money in 1995. NT 3.1 also required twice the hard drive (75MB vs 35MB). Windows 95 offered better support for direct DOS mode access, VxD, etc. Which was crucial at the time for games and multimedia applications in a manner that NT simply couldn't match.

Additional useful reading: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120102-00/?p=87...
When searching about for decent resources to help build a working hypothesis for worldbuilding in D&D, I came across bits on medieval demographics, sort of a "how many peasants do you need for the village to have its own blacksmith" deal.

Overall, a very grim view of the situation is a bit like trophic levels in a food web, with the farming peasants being the humble vegetation on which all others grazed, directly or indirectly. And certainly all of those tax records helped delineate just how much land was required. Fascinating stuff.
On the other hand Kotlin devs can also be really conservative in what they let creep into the language. But that's what I like about the language, it doesn't try to please everybody and that create a somewhat more rigid frame in which I'm more comfortable expressing myself.
> Is a $20 bill something of value? No, it's merely somewhat hard to forge, and accepted as currency by lots of people.

It can be used to pay taxes levied by a government that will employ force if I refuse to pay them. How do I do that with bitcoins?
Exactly. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Candyland is the best game ever for children of a certain age. I went to great lengths to import a copy here to Norway, and my 4 and 5-year-olds absolutely love it.

The time will come, soon enough, when they want a game that requires them to make decisions, and plot strategy-- and when that day comes, there are plenty of such games to choose from. (My two older daughters both jumped straight to chess when they got to that stage.) But right now, game playing is about the social aspects.

In fact, prior to the arrival of Candyland, my five-year-old (then four) would make us play board games without any rules. She'd roll the dice, and move the pieces around randomly, and have us do the same. That was the part that was fun.

Lately, she's gotten into card games, and her favorite at the moment is a game of her own invention, called "Stop and Go". You divide the cards equally among the players, and each player has a stack, face down. When it is your turn, you turn over the top card. If it is red, you stop. If it is black, you turn over another card, and keep going until you hit a red card. The first person to go through their whole stack wins. No strategy, no decisions-- from a game theory standpoint, it's the same as a lottery drawing-- but that's the beauty of it.

EDIT: for clarity.
Winners don't conduct illegal gambling operations.

-- William S. Sessions, Director of the FBI
They disabled uploads a very long time ago, although I don't think it was announced as widely.
but the mysql folks have already explained that accessing innodb without the overhead of SQL (both protocol and semantic) implies a huge difference in performances.

So this goes in the direction of your implied problem: faster access to data.
I wouldn't say "from day one..." OpenGL performance was actually quite good in Windows NT 4 with my ATI Xpert@Play video card (at least for the included screensavers). The OpenGL screensavers ran smoothly at the monitor's refresh rate. The Windows 9x equivalents seemed to chunk along at ~15fps on the same hardware.
Many. At work I'm one of the few that have to get in the zone to do any meaningful amount of work. They mostly seem not to require much effort to start working on anything. Also, multitasking does not seem to make such a hit on their productivity as it does for me. Maybe they have a sort of zone too, only much less pronounced and thus not noticeable to them.

When I'm not in the zone it seems like I'm grinding compared to them, like I'm walking in a swamp. Yet when I'm in, I work at what seems like stratospheric speeds.

Sometimes the zone happens when collaborating on solving a complex but rewarding problem, or an involved yet insightful discussion. When this happens, I feel 'offseted', like I'm on a different flow of time. My brain churns away, evaluating solutions, and I can almost hear the colleagues mind slowly ticking. I seem to have computed how every path of the conversation tree will unfold, which questions they will come up with and which conclusion they will reach. It's terrible because in that case I can subtly nudge their thought flow in one direction or another, making them reach a given conclusion faster. Everytime I feel like performing some dirty Jedi mind trick. Most of the time I refrain from doing so and adopt a maieutic approach to let them reach their solution by themselves, only cutting dead branches around.

The zone is a wonderful, timeless moment when experienced alone, but every time third parties are involved it's a frightening experience. It's also a bane of sorts, because I'm utterly improductive without it.
That was true for iPhone OS 1.x, but since 2.0 they moved everything to 'mobile' except a few (very heavily sandboxed) daemons. For example, the 'JailbreakMe' jailbreak exploited FreeType running in the browser (Safari), but it still was sandboxed and running as 'mobile', so it had to the exploit the kernel itself -- from userland -- to get full access to the system. (It also installed itself to run at startup, using yet another exploit to evade the code signing requirements.)

However, if, on an iOS device, you do find an exploit in a root process, you still don't have a way to do much. Because of the code signing requirements and the W^X protection, you can't run your own binary or even execute shellcode: ROP is the only method possible to run code. So you still have to exploit the kernel to disable those, making root code execution is only slightly more useful than 'mobile' code execution for that purpose.

But that's not even really relevant, since only a few (JailbreakMe, Spirit, the on-bootup component of limera1n and greenpois0n) of the "jailbreaks" (a really misleading term, since they are more of "injected kernel patches to remove code signing requirements") are even done from a booted device at all! Most of the exploitation happens in the lower-level bootloaders, over USB (using the protocols intended for restoring the device if the higher-level components fail). Once you get access there, you can pretty much do anything you want (run a different OS, remove restrictions from the kernel), but only for this one boot cycle. After a reboot, you need to apply these patches again, leading to what's known as a "tethered jailbreak": you have to exploit the bootloaders each reboot to start up the device. This can be avoided with yet another exploit, which breaks the chain of trust at boot time to apply the patches without user intervention.

Edit: some clarification.
Edit 2: I should turn this into a blog post ;P.
The first part of your statement was correct:

https://i.imgur.com/1erVokO.jpg

He was promptly fired by his employer.
platter is removable

I remember repairing discs by swapping to the shell of a new one when something like the mini spring broke.
Back in the early days of personal computing, the 'custom cable' was the norm.

When the 'ready made' cables started appearing, it was a relief to throw out our personal stocks of male/female connectors, the gender-changer connectors and at least a dozen different types and sizes of cable (co-axial, ribbon, multi-core, etc)

I get tired of having to roll up great lengths of bulky cable, just because the 'standard' lengths are too long.

Maybe I should regress to making up my own cables again. I need a more modern soldering-iron, anyway.
"dlc"? What does that mean
I got mine on Tuesday. And it's a CR-48 (not 49).
It's the former - on our end we didn't see any errors logged, and had no trouble reaching the site. We did see sporadic reports on Twitter and tried to chase them down, but there was so much going on we couldn't spend much time on it. Eventually pvg made some apache config changes on the fly that seemed to banish the problem for good.

If that was the general experience people had with the site last night, then it absolutely was downtime.
Consider yourself emailed! Thx!
> fear isn't something that kicks in often, but when it does it usually means you're in pretty grave danger

Fear is a very bad advisor. That's why some people have to rehearse disaster scenarios over and over until reacting to them becomes a routine activity - so they can properly react to the threatening situation.
Two fingers down does the tilt. How did you get rotate to work?
No, the premise is, don't glorify dropouts. Sort of a giveaway that it might be about prestige.
Someone else said that too - not such a bad thing though I guess? We don't have Toucan Sam over here, so was a coincidence.

We'll post about the evolution of the mascot at some point. He once looked somewhat different.
What is the mascot supposed to be? I see someone here mentioned a whistle. It almost looked like a water bottle at first. I'm trying to figure it out and it's starting to drive me nuts.
It's not a terrifically high threshold of intelligence or determination, but it is a threshold. A lot of people drop out of college, for various reasons, and so a college degree does act as a filter.
Since power will be an issue, I suggest printing the internet. HP will love you if you use one of their printers.
I'm not surprised Portland would be interested in trip data from Uber. The city recently licensed data from a fitness app company apparently to help better understand cyclist habits [1].

I'm just glad Uber and Portland were able to work something out. Both sides were able to save face and hopefully the city can enact some sane ridesharing regulations. Portland has fantastic public transportation compared to cities of comparable size, but completely disallowing ridesharing companies from operating would have been a big step backward.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/8/6938041/portland-enlists-b...
If your products help people, then it's not self promotion at all, but an offer you are making to those people who need that help. Some may find them not useful, and a few may dismiss your efforts as self promotion, but why are you ignoring the many who will find them useful if only they had heard about them?
The point is that cash differences in a supermarket get noticed within hours. Some level of error can be accepted, but if somebody comes up $40 short several days each week, they're going to be looking for a new job. Mt. Gox claims they didn't know they were being drained of assets for months.
A program can't prove its own correctness in any useful way. Especially for a system that is under continual development.
On the topic of SSH: It appears that they used their own version of SSH reimplemented in PHP: https://web.archive.org/web/20140102104411/http://blog.magic...
What sort of figures are you talking about ?

The UK varies quite a lot by location and field. In general for a experienced developer in London I'd expect a salary in the region of 35k-60k GBP/57k-96k CAD (the financial sector somewhat above this range; academia below it).
Just feel I should point out this line (and nothing else! this is a volatile line of discussion, and I'm not aiming to perpetuate it):

>... there is zero chance of permanent consequences.

Bull. Faculty are just as petty and lazy (ie: human) as any other person. There are plenty of instances of teachers saving their own asses by lying enough to get away with it, and with them wielding their mighty tenure in unethical ways.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, if you don't know the teacher very well. Odds are certainly on your side, heavily even, but it's far from "zero".
I'm also an app developer, but have very few (if any) pirates using my games. However, I agree that if a large group of pirates downloaded your app, it would be worthwhile to take advantage of that increased user base (even if they're not customers). The problem occurs when the negative impact from the people who pirate your app (but otherwise would have bought it) surpasses the positive impact that the pirates make on your app (e.g. suggestions, more publicity, etc.) I'm pretty sure that there is a point where the negative impacts surpass the positive impacts.
My condolences. My father plays a huge role in my life. He's got Parkinson's Disease and has had it for well over a decade now... it will eventually kill him. So I've had time to think about this. The truth is, when it comes time, I have no idea how I will deal with it. But my father, being the person he is, would want me to live my life to the best of my ability and live it without getting hung up on the little things. The reality is that we all die eventually, like it or not. To honor the memory of our loved ones we should do what they would want and I doubt they would want us to be so stricken with grief as to shut down our lives. I like what michael_dorfman had to say; you are very fortunate that you got to spend as much time as you did with your father. Cherish his memory, always.
I’ve seen guids used as secrets on APIs/cookies. Those are easily guessable and also not random.
Or just use electrical tape. It's not the same, but it works
It's a real shame it's OS X only, I'd love to have this on my MacBook otherwise! :(
As they say in the video, even if these are half as efficient as regular solar panels, you could still see them on other types of surfaces where current solar panels can't be used right now: think windows or smartphone screens.

We could also see them on large buildings or rich people's villas whose owners perhaps want to use energy from solar panels, but don't like the "look" of solar panels on those buildings. So then the choice becomes using this or using no other solar panels.
I highly recommend you check out roots (http://roots.cx/), a static site generator that lets you use a CMS like Wordpress to manage content and then pulls data from its API to build a static site.

We've set up a full featured publishing workflow by coupling this with outgoing webhooks on Wordpress using hookpress and a great static hosting platform called Netlify that accepts incoming webhooks to trigger new static builds with roots when content is updated on Wordpress.

So far it's been fantastic for us. We enjoy all the benefits of a static site: low hosting costs, simple infrastructure, highly scalable, and virtually zero downtime, while still giving our users a familiar CMS interface.

We're are using a similar workflow to power our site (http://carrot.is/) but instead of Wordpress we're using Contentful, an API-based CMS with webhook support. Luckily, roots has a very flexible extensions API, so whatever CMS you want to use, as long as it has an API it can be turned into a static site.

Here's an example of how to set this up with Wordpress:
https://github.com/carrot/roots-wordpress-example

As well as the two CMS extensions we've built so far:
https://github.com/carrot/roots-wordpress
https://github.com/carrot/roots-contentful

We really love it, and are happy to answer any questions from people considering a similar setup or who are interested in learning more about roots.
Yeah, should've said, Chrome.
> See-Through Solar Is Tomorrow’s Threat to Oil

> ...screens and windows that soak up light could power your home or your phone

These two things don't compute. Oil is mostly used for mobile energy, and solar is mostly used for stationary energy. However...

I work in solar, and solar is a threat to oil. Why? Not because of transparent photovoltaics, but because it and batteries are getting so goddamn cheap. The Department of Energy has a goal of $0.06/kWh for solar by 2020[1], and Tesla aims to reduce the cost of lithium ion batteries by 50% by 2020[2]. That's only 4.7 years away.

When things get that cheap, we can just slap solar everywhere and have "gas stations" with excess inventory of swappable batteries for cars. It baffles me why more entrepreneurs haven't realized that 87% of the energy sources we use are going to be switching to other sources in our lifetimes[3].

[1]: http://energy.gov/eere/sunshot/mission

[2]: http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Teslas-Giga-Batt...

[3]: http://www.pvsolarreport.com/the-next-internet/
It depends on what's been spun off as a separate top-level project.

Does it have its own subdomain on apache.org? Then it's a top-level project.

It's not uncommon for projects to start as subprojects and then get upgraded to the top level, and some of them came out of Hadoop. For example, Avro started out as a Hadoop subproject before becoming its own top-level project.
4-6 years, that's why we need to make them cheaper and not fancier.
I'd rather have an internet of nice things anyway
"Terrorism" happened. And all the liberties went under the bus.
I think it's more accurate to say that it's a truism. Unfortunately, it's one that a lot of people forget.
I don't even think about it.

Yes, my apps get a canceled order every day. Sometimes two. But if those people didn't think they could steal my app, they never would have paid for it to begin with so it's not like that's money I wouldn't have made.

I won't lie. It sucks, I feel violated and hurt when my apps are returned, but I choose to enjoy the good feeling I get from the sales I do make instead.
Exxon is a special type of company.

It was one of the largest, most-profitable companies in the world 100 years ago (then known as Standard Oil).

Exxon is still one of the largest and most-profitable companies in the world today.

And, given that many of their existing oilfields will continue producing for the next 100 years, Exxon is likely to still be one of the most-profitable and largest companies in the world long after we are all gone.

The same is true of the oil industry. The oil industry was one of the largest and most profitable industries in the world long before we were all born. It is still one of the worlds largest and most profitable industries today. And it will still be so long after we are all gone.

Interesting fact: many oilfields in the San Joaquin basin of Southern California have been producing oil since the 1890's. Continuously.

It's hard to think of many industries where the risk-capital that you invest today will still be paying dividends 100 years from now.
Don't worry. It will default to 'compatibility mode' and there won't be any way to force the browser to use the new engine. It will still be full of security wholes, take forever to parse simple javascript and no doubt offer an overall inferior browsing experience. I don't think Mozilla/Apple/Google have anything to worry about.

As a web developer, I'm quite happy with the way Firefox's rendering capabilities are progressing, despite what these phony tests might suggest. And seriously, how can they compete with Firefox's 'AwesomeBar'? I seriously couldn't live without it.

I just hope these make believe test pages don't fool the end users :(
I'm not sure where the "no more 'vanity' press" bit comes from; I'm certain most self-published titles are still fairly awful.

Still, the bit about Amazon now giving 70% of e-book revenues directly to the author for books priced between $2.99 and $9.99 does strike me as tempting. That could be a real gamechanger for books with an expected readership in the thousands. Does anyone have any experience with this scheme?
My understanding is few companies have as many class action lawsuits against it as Apple. Perhaps Microsoft is the only one who has more. An old customer of mine is a lawyer specializing in class-action lawsuits, last time I talked to him about it he had filed suit against Apple seven times.
Excellent, I look forward to getting run over by some jerk cruising around the block while staring at his iPhone.
Barclays has a history of writing short pieces on Tesla:

* "Barclays slashed its price target on Tesla to $150 from $192"

* "Barclays Calls It a 'Niche Carmaker'"

* "Morgan Stanley lifts target price on Tesla to $810, while Barclays reiterates $230 view"

* "While we still believe TSLA is fundamentally overvalued, we see nothing to prevent the shares moving higher in the coming weeks"

Please.