jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If the US spirals into an economic crisis, I don't see how China could avoid one. China's economy relies on US demand; if Americans aren't buying Chinese goods, then Chinese factories are closing and Chinese exports will crumble. I don't think anyone knows how to raise non-US or internal Chinese demand for Chinese goods fast enough to compensate for a major shock to the US economy.
thanks man...gud advice....
The First Cause? The Unmoved Mover?
Bret wrote: "I think it was bad for us to stray from Internet standards and conventions by having an robots.txt that was open and a separate agreement with additional restrictions."

You don't have an "agreement" at all. An agreement requires that two parties actually, um, agree. You've published a statement where you assert certain rights and imply that you will sue anyone who accesses data on your site in a way you don't like. You may get away with that, regardless of the legal merits of your position, because you have more money for lawyers than most people you're likely to sue. But don't try to dignify what you're doing by calling it an "agreement". It's like an extortionist telling me that we have an agreement that he won't break my windows if I pay him protection money.
I'd be happy to share the usage stats of WP.com's post-by-email feature if Posterous would be willing to do the same.
The issue that a lot of people have is that they would like to see change happen in their lifetime. Microsoft is in a decline now, but that doesn't mean that: 1) it will continue to decline or 2) it will completely fail within our lifetimes. Once companies hit a certain level, they take a long time to completely fail due to the accumulated money and power during their 'good years.'

Change, in general, doesn't come about by people sitting around doing nothing but saying, 'the market will decide.' If you take the time to become an advocate for a certain 'side,' you can affect the market through public perception.

[aside: People are not always logical agents with access to full information like most economic theories seem to assume. To me this comes off like a lot of physics where things are assumed to be on a 'perfectly frictionless surface,' 'in a vaccum', etc.]
There is a lot of room in real estate -- from getting a mortgage --> finding houses on the multi-list.

I ended up getting my real estate license about a year ago just to not have to deal with agents (I have flipped a few houses). They were so inefficient it literally was painful.
Rising intonation gets my vote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTbrIo1p-So (Tim? the Enchanter)
I think "bloated" is a reasonable description when a feature that almost no one uses (or even knows the existence of) can DoS an XML parser in 15 lines of code.

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

And it especially is bloated if you throw in the whole suite of XML-related technologies, such as Schema (you may think that's unfair, but XML advocates frequently point to such technologies as the solution to various deficiencies of pure XML).
>Given the choice between spending a day or a weekend building something in house

Remember that building it is not the only cost; you also have to consider the costs of maintaining it and keeping the servers running.
The poster corrected himself above - it's not the case.
Mostly http://raphaeljs.com/ and jQuery.
I think it's great to check the SLA. However, there's enough wiggle room in the AWS SLA that I think this outage could continue for the rest of the month, and Amazon would still not owe a penny. I don't even know that the SLA covers this outage, because network connectivity isn't affected.

Even if Amazon breach their SLA, I think they only have to refund 10% of one month's bill per year - i.e. a 1% discount. I suspect they'd make a good profit even if they paid out a full 10% refund every month.

Unless an SLA is accelerated - i.e. >100% refund - I don't think it's worth taking particularly seriously.

Of course if an SLA only guarantees 95% uptime, that's probably a big hint to design for failure!
I wasn't able to view a Foursquare checking for a little while and I've had significant amounts of my morning news be related to AWS, the cloud, downtime, etc.
It's something of a Finnish trait.
the russian letters are broken and show as questions. this is 2011, why encoding errors!
I went to college for a year, and I'm doing just fine without it. That used to be the standard path. There are plenty of well-paying jobs that don't require a degree--many trades pay far better than white-collar jobs, for example, and sales jobs often don't require a degree.

And there's nothing wrong with renting, either. You buy housing as you need it, just like you buy food as you need it--I don't feel ripped off that I eat peaches but don't own an orchard.
Wasn't buzz going to kill twitter too because you don't have to leave your inbox?
Although the question is directed at someone else, allow me to interject and add my $0.02. I don't buy all of the PUA neg/evolutionary psychology/detach-attach etc. However, the biggest takeaway I had from PUA is handling social rejections like feedback. PUA taught me that social relations is nothing at all like Disney romance but like playing sports, music and programming. When you miss a shot shooting hoops, or a note in a guitar solo or get a compile error coding, you don't slump your shoulders and go home. You figure out what went wrong, repeat usually 100 times until you get it right. Blind confidence is perhaps the most important skill for PUA and programming. In the latter, you stay up until 2AM, Googling stack-overflow to fix that one illusive bug; in the former, you stay up until 2AM, working set after set going for that one illusive f-close.
I think you're going about it backwards. Let me get this straight: You're moving to a new city without a job and getting married in 6 months with 100k in debt? Yikes. You're resume and LinkedIn can wait (or be done on the side at night). Start networking NOW! Job 1 is getting a job. Best way to get a job is to be introduced. Talk/email/call/bang on the doors of everyone in Philly.

Good luck with the reboot.
The label is a small problem. The concept is a big problem.

http://www.quora.com/What-s-wrong-with-OpenID

"The short answer is that OpenID is the worst possible 'solution' I have ever seen in my entire life to a problem that most people don't really have. That's what's 'wrong' with it."
> No; I use standard, time-proven, secure designs. SHA1(salt + password) is sufficient in almost all cases, and if anybody is capable of deriving the original input from the digest, they can do so no matter what digest algo is used.

Anyone can create an input that hashes to a given value. The relevant factor is how long it takes to create that input. I hope you can see the difference between that process taking 3 seconds vs 40 years.
This story is touching. If you want to do something worthwhile today, take a second and call your Senator and tell them to support the dream act. It's a big issue for all immigrants, not just Mexicans.

The vote is most likely this week and every call counts.

http://reformimmigrationforamerica.org/blog/make-dream-a-rea...

To tie it back to Hacker News, you'll also be using my company's technology to complete the call.
The best description of CH I’ve come across: “A platform where C tier people listen to B tier people talk about A tier people.”
"Traditional Banking" does far more than bitcoin ever can (without building similar structures, organisations, products, call centres, offices, etc etc around it), and serves many many times more people. Your comparison is spurious.
He is a literal legend in the field of gamedev.

1. He made some commercial and critical successes.
2. His writings are studied in game design academia.
3. His reason to pursue what he is pursue, is a good one, he gave some awesome speech on GDC about it when he was about to quit the normal industry and attempt this, long story short, he is upset with the AAA-style games and wanted the game industry embrace the fact they can make interactive art, and should take more risks.
4. He created GDC in first place!

By the way, his goal is not completely nuts, "AI Dungeon" for example is close to what he wanted, he has a text to explain why he doesn't consider it a fully valid attempt though: the fact it is entirely AI generated using deep learning, what he wants is to create a tool that the end result is like AI Dungeon (For players) but that is actually some kind of authoring tool, where game designers can actually be creative and create something fun.

I personally think his goal is a cool one but I have no idea how to make it possible without heavy-handed AI in the middle.
Right. So continue your reasoning: you are arguing that if we pay the minimum required to produce an item, from that point onwards, more money doesn't unlock additional production? I agree you need to be able to charge enough to cover costs; the question is what happens after that. Why does it require proof to suggest that paying someone slightly more than the absolute minimum they'd ask to do something will increase their willingness and ability to do it?

At 20/dose, companies could produce N. At 30/dose they could probably find a way to produce more (perhaps by spending money to retrofit an old machine, which at 20/dose wouldn't have been worth it). And at 100/dose they can afford to fly the device manufacturer out to personally oversee sped-up installation.
Maybe try different channels, like working with a different recruiter or getting a referral? For the few times I've been approached in the last few years, recruiters differ by miles for how they prepare and present you.
I haven't found that exact claim on the site. It does list these blockers as "Liste von bekannten seitenmanipulierenden Add-ons" (known site-manipulating add-ons) [2] and on the main page "Diese seitenmanipulierenden Add-ons stellen ein erhebliches Sicherheitsrisiko für Sie dar!" (these site-manipulating add-ons put you in a situation of increased security risk) [1]. Together, these two assertions might be libellous, but because they are not together, I guess it is not as straightforward as the words of Michael Büker's post suggests.

[1]: http://www.browsersicherheit.info

[2]: http://www.browsersicherheit.info/addons.html
Agreed. There are two problems that compound on each other but are somewhat distinct

1. Excessive models. They make this look work than it is by essentially having 2-4 customizations of the same model and presenting them as different models.

2. Confusing attempts to segment. Having the first step on the website be choosing which "segment" you want confuses the user. I'll pick a segment, then be unsure if I'm not seeing models that I'd like to see. Savvy consumers assume that "Home" mean "crummy," but "Business" isn't exactly right either.
An hourly incremental backup.
I don't get it: they're pulling out v1, but v2 is just released ? Isn't that standard MO for all software releases ?
I'd never heard of it before this poll and I've looked a few times at alternative webservers and have been using Lighttpd for the last 3 years.
#2 - Some researchers think there is wide variability in the optimal amount of sleep. Some even think that you can get too much sleep. The thing to do is to pay attention and experiment. I sleep in two sessions, one 4 hours, the second three. Getting more sleep makes me feel a little worse. The good news, is that there are cheap sleep monitoring smartphone apps.
You are :)

Personally I use my cell phone or my iPod sort of alternately, most of the people I know either use their phone or a girl friend to wake them up.
To be fair, wasn't the Road of Serfdom more of a political theory book than an economics one?
It's not so much the sex, it's more the (pretty much) rape. Sure, there's only one rape scene in the books. There's also only one 90-page speech, and only one scene where the death of everybody on board a train is justified because they all just happened to have one silly political view or another. That doesn't stop these three things being at the top of my "things that annoyed me about Ayn Rand" list.

This is a shame as I agree with her on many points. I'd rather people were reading Hayek than Rand, though, he's temperamentally more sensible and less... nutty.
> As an Indian undergraduate who is looking forward to a job, I find this very intimidating.

Please don't. Because those of us who have good experiences do not find it particularly necessary to be vocal about it. There are good places and there are bad places i.e. you have a choice. Even if you start with a bad place, then don't think twice and quit the job the day it starts to suck.
As for the culture, I worked for all sorts of managers and never experienced any cultural bias.
What I'm saying is that it is "not a mistake" to omit the closing tag in some cases. There are things that are hard when it comes to parsing HTML, but when to close open tags is not one of them. Rules for closing tags are trivial to implement and well documented. (Add: also, omitting unnecessary tags such as <html> and <body>)

Humans throw some HTML-like stuff at the browser and the browser tries hard to make sense out of it. If the browser misinterprets, you have a hard time finding out what went wrong.

I haven't seen any modern browser misinterpret HTML's (simple) closing rules. As for being harder to debug, I haven't seen any real evidence of that either.

Whereas with XML and XHTML you get told immediately what's wrong and you don't have to hope that every browser implementation works the same way.

Again, do you have any evidence of such incompatibility with current or recent browsers?

It's also a bit strange to argue about "easier to write manually" in this day and age of Markdown, HAML, etc.

Way more HTML is written by hand than Markdown and HAML. The issue isn't just saving keystrokes. The point is that whenever possible, technology should accommodate simple mistakes people make.
Cobra (https://github.com/spf13/cobra), which is a pretty popular library for Go CLI applications, behaves more like classical GNU tools. It also offers usage/help autogeneration and autocompletion for popular shells.

Not sure about the relevant point on compact short options syntax as in `tar -xvzf archive.tgz` though...
(edit) after a quick & sloppy test it seems to work as expected
As an aside, I was interested to see these devices tucked into the waybill pocket on a shipment of vaccines (see photo):

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canada-expect...

I presume that they are continuously logging temperature?
So I can kind of see what you are trying to get at with your product. There are 3 books I recommend you read to help you further:

1. "Competing Against Luck" by Clay Christensen https://www.amazon.com/Competing-Against-Luck-Innovation-Cus...

This book will teach you how to look at the market from a jobs-to-be-done perspective. People don't want products, they want progress. They will hire a product to do a job for them towards that progress. It will help you understand where your product fits in ie. you should be able to answer the questions "what job can my product be hired to do?", "what progress does it help make? and for whom?"

2. Obviously Awesome https://www.amazon.com/Obviously-Awesome-Product-Positioning...

This is a book on Positioning by April Dunford. It's absolutely fabulous! It will help you understand how to position your product in the market and how to clearly communicate your benefits to them.

3. Demand-side Sales by Bob Moesta https://www.amazon.com/Demand-Side-Sales-101-Customers-Progr...

This is a sales book that explores things from a jobs-to-be-done perspectives. I have found his frameworks extremely helpful.

These 3 books taken together will help you understand your market better, communicate with them more clearly and position your product in a way that the market gets it. More importantly, working with your target market in this way will help you reshape the product towards something they will eventually want to buy.

Hope this helps!
I’m not blaming them in a bad way. I’m just saying it’s not completely not their fault. Releasing vulnerabilities and POCs for major applications should be handled with utmost care and responsibility unless they don’t care about the consequences of their actions. There are tons of script kiddies using POCs out there who would never be smart enough to create them themselves. It helps abstract the actual hacker process down to just grabbing a git library and executing it on a victim.
My brand new Lenovo laptop with Windows would fail to wake up from hibernation quite often. I decided that since it starts up in about 15 seconds from a cold start that I will just power it off every time instead. It powers down in about 10 seconds.
Had this exact thought.

Like a node/electron version of jupyter.

IIRC jupyter has a node kernel too, though not sure how well it integrates with the plotting API etc.
Completely agree, the implementer of date had many options. choosing + character, they apparently went for conciseness instead of convention.

Not sure what you are disagreeing with though, I made no claims that someone had to use +, or positional argument in general. Just an observation about what might have guided the design process.
> If you add constraints (like not being able to feed the program to itself as is done in the halting problem and not allowing unbounded loops) then it is possible to determine if a program will terminate or not.

Dhall is a good example - https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-haskell .
link to the actual Github repo: https://github.com/tryolabs/metamon
This possibility discovered ages ago and it's still wide open... ((
10% chance of a $100,000,000 exit in five years

That seems highly optimistic.
This story is preposterous for the fact that its cause was its own pitch. It almost wrote itself. When we make the problem larger than it actually is, we will end up immanentizing it.

Of course a panel of authorities on microaggression and social behaviour is going to end up becoming the very thing they resist.

It's legitimately weird to see the Streissand effect on this particular front on the culture war. This case is clearly going to blow up the discussion on who gets to define what, so there are distinct reasons for the story to either a) disappear, or b) be rendered off-limits for s/n reasons.

Do we have what it takes, as a culture right now, to accurately define microaggressions? I don't think so - in fact, I think the academic leaders who seem so intent on pushing this issue, are only making the issue much, much worse.

Any 'ism can be weaponised. Sure, we are not cool with aggression - but what about the kids?
I don’t want to come off as a Facebook apologist, but are there any privacy implications in being part of this breach, if you are already listed in the phone book?
> Zuckerberg is probably right in this one.

Yes, for protecting his own interests. Users are just like cattle, playing farming simulations, feeding cattle.

They needn't to know what's happening in real life.
A good time to check out Threema, (discussed many times before)

https://threema.ch/en/download
This is one of the best cases to see if GDPR truly works in Europe
Most of the hard stuff is there no matter the encoding (normalization, user-perceived characters spanning multiple code units, paths vs strings, ...).
Why notifiy? Victims got notified everyday with many spam-sms. Thanks Facebook!
What is the Real Book? (a jazz shibboleth) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD0e5e6wI_A)
I'm surprised that they moderate every video with over 50-150 views, that seems quite unique in this market. This is probably largely a good thing though given the target market of kids/teenagers.

It's already very interesting seeing how this is playing out.
It's so hard to find the other side of the argument for therapy, I appreciate your links!

The advertising for CBT as an entry point for therapy is over valued. Therapy should really advertise more effectively as a social role rather than going deep into the task oriented stuff.
Plagiarism has more of a claim to being morally wrong than copyright violation, I would say. The notion of copyright only arose a few centuries ago, and even today a significant part of the world doesn’t really get the concept deep down. But when it comes to plagiarism, we have attestations even from antiquity (Martial, for instance) of creators complaining about their work being passed off as that of someone else.
I've had the chat queue take over an hour. And yes it used to be instant.

Email went from within 24 hours to multiple days.

Basic tasks like moving a cert between accounts are now 'it doesn't work because of a bug in our software and we have no timeline for it to be fixed'.
If anything the article really undersells it by calling the meetings "useless". I'm a programmer, but most of my experience over the past 12 years has been client-facing, and these things often go beyond simply wasting time to actively harming your project. Much like the idle engineers who they invent work for in the article, idle meeting minutes get filled with planning that completely ignores actual business needs.

You make a meeting 20 minutes, everyone shares their progress and can plan their week. You make that meeting an hour, and 20 more minutes are spent investigating someone's "concern" over an imaginary problem, and the next 20 finding solutions to this imaginary problem. Because that's the end of the meeting, mentally this becomes everyone's priority afterwards, and the day that would've been spent continuing on a healthy project is now wasted solving something that doesn't need a solution.
There have been a lot of discussions on Google Search quality lately on HN. (eg here: [1])

I wonder how much of the negative sentiment towards Google is partially motivated by subconscious dissatisfaction with their main product. I think I'm probably guilty of that.

Others have mentioned that the web environment has changed a lot and I've come to agree. PageRank style algorithms are probably pretty useless in an era of low effort reposts, aggregators, optimizing for clicks and a large SEO industry.

In addition, most of the user-generated content is now inside "walled gardens" like Facebook, Instagram and Reddit, and is either impossible to index, or much harder to quantify and rank than websites linking to each other.

There has to be something better out there, but it will be a difficult challenge.

Ironically, the thing I would appreciate most is a manually curated, Wikipedia inspired, hierarchical directory.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21515181
https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2021/attorney-general-james-...

https://crypto-anonymous-2021.medium.com/the-bit-short-insid...
Started with Gosmacs. Working in the CMU graduate terminal room with the man himself. I was just a freshman undergraduate, but a graduating student gifted a coveted X1 key to me. Mostly coveted due to the coke machine.

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt
Agreed. I still remember my first foray into linux install. PC wouldn't boot afterwards and I had no one to shepherd me through it. These days if I want to get information on how to get something working, 9/10 someone already posted it for your benefit.

Some of things are worse, but some things got infinitely better.
There are many solutions to your problem, some simple, some more complex.
They're still lowering their target compared to the 2020 target, it's just that pandemic-induced lockdowns reduced the actual emissions even more than planned. They're probably not expecting large-scale lockdowns in 2021, so the new target is set under that assumption.

Note also that this is about particulate emissions which I think are not subject to the Paris Agreement on climate change. Part of China's strategy to improve air quality is to phase out certain kinds of coal that produce a lot of soot when burning. That helps reduce smog, but the "clean" coal it's replaced with still releases a lot of CO2, so it doesn't really make a difference in terms of global warming.