jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Lots of good arguments against buying a car (esp in cities) or buying a gas car (tesla) or buying a new car from a dealer (massive depreciation), but there are cases where it makes sense.

The key is to be an informed buyer, and to break out separate parts of the transaction and analyze them individually.

Financing from your credit union, in the absence of a manufacturer-driven promotional financing rate, is going to be better.

You'll get more for your car selling it on Craigslist or whatever (although, more hassle).

Various services exist to negotiate fixed discounted prices for cars themselves: costco, usaa, etc. Founderscard has an audi MSRP discount, too. You might be able to do better negotiating in person at a dealer if you know the structure of manufacturer incentives -- sometimes selling a car at a loss makes sense because it pushes them over a threshold -- but that's a lot harder in a place like the Bay Area and for popular cars (VW TDI when gas was expensive, audi and bmw now).

The great deal that was the certified preowned seems to have become popular enough that it's no longer such a deal.

I really hope my car lasts me another 2-3 years; either get a Tesla then, or a 535d in Germany.
I like the octopus one (freeipmi), it's very cute.
I agree, I'd rather have a website like http://www.slackware.com/ than any of that bootstrap stuff.
Or even better, you could order your food in a mobile app (or on a website), and the supermarket would deliver to your home later at a time you choose, e.g. between 4 and 5 PM. Several supermarkets such as http://www.nemlig.com/ do this in Denmark for a delivery price of just $3.5.
Un-ripped MP3's? I thought they were just how AOL mailed software.
Good question! We either already have employees in the places you mention or have specific spikes of usage in the geographic areas you listed.
I see that two people have already asked, but does anyone else have an invite? charles.melbye at gmail
One thing - if you're outsourcing to a third party (not rackspace) for sysadmin, it would be much cheaper to just use a colo with 'bare metal' machines you order yourself - so why do you use rackspace?
Do you have plans to open source Haystack at some point? It sounds very interesting.
Tell me, why is Microsoft Word in the same graph as Google Mail?

You claim to compare the Office suite to Google Apps, but I don't think GMail and Outlook are included in those categories.
And here's to many more!
>overseeing

The word you want is "overlooking." To oversee is to supervise. That was more what apple did.

(Also BTW overseer has historical connotations of slavery, so it's generally a word best avoided.)

Sorry if this is pedantic, just trying to help non-native speakers.
>Javascript

>You’ve perfected a robust, rich user experience for shooting yourself in the foot. You then find that bullets are disabled on your gun.

Anyone have a modern version for this?
Their serious "A" game against Google was what you saw with the first version.

Not sure why you'd say this then list its obvious and avoidable failings. Failings which contributed to an SVP being ousted and a huge amount of investment being made to catch up. Seems more like they came out with their "C" game and are now trying to ramp it up to their "A" game.
Note that Watt-second is also known as Joule (J).
The Good Books depends upon which specific field you go into. The first step is to pick a field that you're interested in. This is often the hardest step, because from a 10,000-foot level, you often can't tell what will be interesting, and whichever field you dive into will shut off various other opportunity costs.

Then, go to your favorite graduate school website. I'm partial to Stanford and MIT, because both put up fairly complete syllabi on the web, including textbooks and often homework assignments. Pick out a couple courses, just as if you were back in college, and note down the textbooks.

Then go to Amazon.com (or Amazon.co.uk, when I was in college Europe had much better textbook prices, I dunno if they've closed that loophole) and search for those textbooks. And when it pops up "Related books" with good ratings, add those to your cart as well. Buy them.

Read, rinse, and repeat. Many textbooks have generous citation indexes that you can use to find further books or papers to check out.
I have this problem right now.

A botnet found one of my computers. Most likely through IRC. They have been trying relentlessly to get my computer added.

They have no chance of getting in - using public key authentication - but it still takes quite a toll on my network speed.

That said, I have a file containing about 366 IPs belonging to this botnet, as well as a half-meg file containing nmap scans of all these IPs. What should I do with it?
But cstross, the Soviet Union shot you
and your family in the back of the head if you tried to leave! And there were entire agencies devoted to getting persecuted minorities out of the USSR, including Sergey Brin's parents. It is not exactly comparable to what happens when you leave a company (the occasional Ballmer chair throwing fit notwithstanding).
I had my internal monitoring system on a network I managed set up with port knocking. It ended up being more hassle than I thought it was worth, as it wasn't a box that was getting attacked much anyway.

It's really pretty easy to set up with iptables in Linux.

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/268
I wish Google would push Adobe to give us a flash that performs decently on Linux. The Cr-48 runs absolutely horrible with even basic flash applications.
Reason, logic, science, requiring evidence before one believes something. These are what prevent conflict.

Education is way to vague and seems to me to imply wisdom imparted from a position of authority to those who internalize it, which is not something that necessarily promotes reason or logic.
The article is very interesting, but what strikes me most is:

> “Three out of five of our siblings have committed suicide. Mike’s mother is the third...”

Is this only an unfortunate chain of events? Is there some biological cause to the high number of suicides in his family?
Can you link to Brewer's article please...
Standard containerization technology (e.g. docker) isn’t designed to sandbox untrusted code.
Settings > System > Clipboard

Make sure "Clipboard history" is turned on. It will also tell you how to access the manager: "Press the Windows logo key + V".
Do you think it’s reasonable to believe your name / address / SSN / DOB / etc is already out there?

I’m of the opinion it’s too late for prevention and we need, instead, mitigation.
That's because popular culture believes that there's a separation, which means that if a doctor of your physical health asks you about your emotional well-being, the typical response isn't, "Gee, he must need some relevant information" but rather "Oh, my doctor is being inappropriate; maybe I ought to get offended and sue".
I still get a kick out of the clock icon.
Eric and I agreed that Internet pornography would allow Alex a sexual outlet that was the safest of all the alternatives. [..] Looking back, I realize I knew nothing about boys and pornography. I’d never seen online porn and assumed that Alex was viewing still pictures similar to print magazines. It wasn’t until Alex was 12 that we learned that he’d been downloading video clips and visiting adult chat rooms.

This article lost its legitimacy when I discovered that this poor lad merely suffered from a lack of good, disciplined parenting.

Not everyone turns into a secretive, manipulative sex addict a few years after puberty whether it happens at 9, 11 or 13. Letting a 9 year old browse porn and interact on "adult chat rooms" shows, to me, a lack of care that could (did?) cause serious psychological trauma in someone so young.
The Strait is 33 miles / 54 kilometers wide at it's most narrow point, I'm hard pressed to imagine that the navigable part of it is narrow enough to close that way.

True, but the actual channel through which supertankers navigate is only 6 miles wide (two miles for each direction of traffic with a two mile gutter to separate). The rest of the channel at that point is either within Iranian territorial waters or too shallow for supertankers to safely transit.

I've always heard that Iran's plans would involve the usual tools like missiles, mines, small boats, etc., all of which have obvious counters. I'm not saying it would be a cakewalk, and not even considering how things would change when they go nuclear, but "easily" doesn't strike me as accurate.

Oh, I very much agree with you. I'm sure Iran would follow through on all those options before they did something as difficult to undo as scuttling tankers to block the Strait.

There's also the minor detail that they import over open water 1/2 of their petroleum distillates, a naval war in that area would bring their economy to a near halt. Drop a few bombs on their only refinery (I've read they have only one, but whatever the number, it's small enough for us and their neighbors to take out) and their country reverts to a pre-industrialized state with mass starvation.

Yeah, that would be awful for them. But given the low elasticity for gasoline consumption, cutting off 40% of daily oil flow would be an economic disaster for us. Businesses would grind to a halt as tens of millions of people would no longer be able to afford to go to work. For starters.

Iran is exquisitely vulnerable, which is certainly one of their reasons for pursuing the bomb (and one reason they might continue even after a regime change).

Absolutely. But the entire industrialized world is also vulnerable. And if we start a conflict and do take out Iran's sole refinery while blockading them to prevent them from getting refined products, they will have every incentive to block the Strait. Right?
A colleague of mine has a daughter who went into full-blown puberty at the age of 7. Bodily changes, emotional lability - everything that usually happens at 13. The doctors recommended they cut out the use of plastics and household cleaners... so, off to read the article.
As Windows has nearly 90% of the market and more than half the respondents of this survey, can windows user surveys results show anything beyond what the average is?? I would think any survey would be so skewed as to be useless.

Though I do like how the survey clearly points out that Mac users 'want to be perceived as unique and different'. I wonder how much that 'want to be perceived' further skews the data??
> Not to mention an established relationship with millions of businesses through AdWords.

I still think you need to have people on the ground. And lots of them. As a small aside, I work for a Groupon-clone website in a non-US market. I've built a very nice Internet-based redemption interface for the business owners to check the clients' coupons. Guess what? ~75% of them don't even have Internet at the POS, they print their coupon lists at a home computer and somehow manage all the clients we send them manually. We also manually create accounts for about half of them, because, apparently, creating an user account on our Drupal-based website is too damn difficult.

Maybe this time is different, and all the tech-savy small-business owners from out-there will go directly into Google's arms. I personally doubt it.
All the people saying this will "kill" Groupon in some way are missing the fact that couponing is very far from a zero sum game. Customers are not brand loyal to coupon sites, as it's essentially free money, if Google Offers took off, then people would use BOTH Groupon and Google Offers. The only thing all these couponing sites will kill is the margins that restaurants have.

(Also, did anyone else think the subject meant what would Google offer salary-wise to not leave for Facebook? ;))
Also, what are the biggest pain points that you've experienced with other solutions and billing in general?
Although Jeb's a politician, to my knowledge he's not running for anything any more and saw this as a transformational, not political interview.

If I understood him correctly, he's talking not just about school choice, but about dividing up the money spent per credit and then using market forces to create and allocate value directly to the student.

If somebody could pull something like that off, it has the potential to create tons of startups and completely transform education. Whether or not it's all pie-in-the-sky, of course, is a open question. Can you imagine an App store, but solely for education? You could split the problem hundreds of ways, like creating app for just something like High School mathematics? You could even add in proctors and other physical aspects. In addition, using the app store metaphor, people could rate the app, get their money back if not satisfied, or compare test score results.

That would be something in education worth pushing for.
I don't see what the author has to do with it. It links to the relevant patents & court files so you can read them yourself.

They just won a judgment against Google for using Linux. Granted, it was in East Texas, but that's where all the trolls file. This is exactly why software patents should not be allowed. I hope the patent gets invalidated soon.
I don't think anyone has really argued about WHAT he said. It's just a question of how he says it. There are many, much politer (and probably more effective) ways to say the same thing.
Last time I checked Turkey is still democracy. A better example would be Egypt or KSA or UAE.
Excuse me but how are you still missing my point? I merely used the vocational terms to identify the people in my story.

If you can get past your witchhunt against chiropractors then I think you may understand more of what I am trying to say. With respect
This is a very good idea!

A nice way to discover a very promising language.
Studies have shown that the prevalence of tinnitus in a population likely ranges from 5%-30%[0]. Looking at sales figures for AirPods, 50 million users would be a very conservative estimate. Given those numbers 600+ reports is not very convincing.

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5812683/#S8titl...
> the second being the system of mind control which enslaves people by feeding them simulations that convince them that they are sufficiently free and safe. The latter version of an unfree regime still benefits from creating a form of slavery, but it's slavery of the mind. Imagine a civilization comprised of figurative Uncle Toms of the system.

I'm a bit confused by the figurative language used here. Did you have a specific example of this, or is this a hypothetical? I think this type of thinking has its, but I think it's important to contextualize it. For example, you can say that a gambling addict gambles against their will, but I wouldn't say that they are enslaved to gambling institutions (unless I was purposely being hyperbolic). But I agree that many systems of slavery had a degree of self-regulation among the enslaved.

> Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding your point.

My framework is this: violence is a necessary part of slavery, because to a certain extent enslavement requires the enslaved to choose between continued slavery or extreme violence/death. If you remove state violence from the equation, slavery still usually exists, and often flourishes due to the lack of a countervailing force. In "top-down" situations, where a system of slavery has implicit or explicit state support, the state doesn't have to explicitly enact the violence itself, it can simply declare a certain segment of the population "extra-judicial.

I think authoritarian, low violence states like Singapore have numerous human rights issues, but I wouldn't go so far as saying that the entire body politic is enslaved.
AFAIK, it has no iCloud integration.
> But even in a minute a plane travels a huge distance. And also keep in mind the height at which they fly so assuming the planes don't stop going forward they can travel huge distances on their descent to the ground.

Even a few dozen bytes worth of data every minute about current position, heading, airspeed, heading and speed of the wind is enough to reduce this theoretical "huge distance" (that is much smaller than what people have to deal with without tracking data) to a relatively small cone that can be searched effectively.
F I N A L L Y!!!
I just might spend a little more time on Windows now.
Lem is hands down my favourite Sci-Fi author, mostly because of how different he is to everyone else. His novels from 60s or 70s could have been written yesterday, they feel just as fresh. Unfortunately, it's incredibly difficult to recommend them to any of my English friends, as translations are poor and hard to come by. I've spent a little fortune trying to get a copy of "The Invincible"(my favourite) for a friend, because it was only released in English once, in New York, for two years(1971 and 1972), so good copies are very hard come by. And it's a poor translation because it was translated from Polish to German then to English.
Fifteen Olympic officials spent $70,000 for one lunch seems a bit corrupt.

http://www.esquire.com/_mobile/blogs/food-for-men/olympic-ju...
I think it's a poor comparison. You need water to stay alive and to not stink. Electricity is easier to avoid, but why do that? Electricity and running water don't disturb me with notifications, are not as addictive as social networks, don't make me waste time, don't track me (as much as a smartphone).

I find that having no TV, no smart phone and no facebook reduces the noise. I don't miss them.
Nice article, well done!

Minor question/comment regarding the implementation of Result.map: Why do you create a new Result in the error case? Result is immutable (or am I missing something specific to Swift here?), so the old and new Result are the same and stay that way.

I'm not familiar with the internals of Swift, but e.g. in Scala, there is only one "None". If you call map or flatMap on it, the same None will always be returned.
It also highlights the unashamed US-centric view of this place.

These kind of events happen all the time in other countries and you don't hear a peep on here, and rightly so it's considered off topic.

But it happens in the USA and it's all over the front page because it's a "new phenomenon".

No, attempted coups are not a new phenomenon, nor are stolen laptops. It might seem that way to most of us US citizens but the USA is not immune to events like these.

As with most things, real politik will ensure things continue in stability. As with any other failed coup, no coup can suceed without the support of the military. Not to mention the wider global political community would do their best ensure that Biden keeps power unless there really was an overwhelming case that Trump had full command of everything.

This thread is just "nerd-wanking" about how if they ran IT there they'd have everything permanently under FDE with 3fa, physical lockouts and a whole host of other things that users would do their best to work around lest they spent half an hour every day waiting for their bitlocker resets on their 512bit entropy randomly generated passphrases.
Venezuela aggressive?? Chavez speaks a lot, but that's about it. And it's not really a little country either, at nearly 1 million square kilometres.
I've been here since Sept, I'm able to sleep, but it's noticeably less nice than the sleep I get in a quiet place.
Have people seen the clip of an aged Edward Bernays saying he coined phrase "Public Relations" because the word "propaganda" had acquired negative connotations? Public relations is just propaganda for corporations.

Too bad this article doesn't cover that.
I wouldn't worry too much about what Recurly did - they seemed to constantly change their mind on how their pricing would work. Now they've given up and are holding out until to July to announce new pricing.

What I would take away from Recurly is that it can be hard to get it right first time, and changing your pricing once customers are signed up will upset some of them.
Do you think my satire contains a moral judgment?

(I hear you like to answer questions with questions over there.)
to wit, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
"Be flagrant in your pursuit of the powerful and the soon-to-be-powerful, and when you have their attention, praise them to the skies." - Isn't this one of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition?
They recently did an article on 6TB drives. My first thought was that it could be misnamed repost and I started by searching for a date.
Huh? There are countless examples of this happening. I can think of a dozen off the top of my head...

Of course it's not easy, but it shouldn't be easy. Mods spend a lot of time building up their communities. It should take an equal amount of work to create a competing subreddit.
Someone tested this ironclad verification process and their signature was accepted eight times. [0]

[0]: https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinion-columns/victor...
Please remove the blinkers. Dozens of murderous world leaders that regularly espouse violence are still on Twitter but Trump is eliminated.

BLM leaders who explicitly called for violence, arson and looting were never "fact-checked". Not until they started openly talking about murdering whites.

Face it - this is because the Twitter CEO actively dislikes Trump and has little to do with any sort of violent speech.
I don’t know if you realize you’re making exactly my point.

This “fact check” is the kind of laughable gaslighting that got us here. The YouTube videos speak for themselves. The death toll speaks for itself.

> Colbert: ”I know there are protests still happening in major cities across the United States, I'm just not seeing the reporting on it that I had for the first few weeks,"

The “protests” were violet mobs which destroyed property and killed people. The media made up a narrative of “fiery but mostly peaceful protest” while buildings (and people’s livelihoods) literally burned in the background.

$2 billion dollars of damage.

> This isn’t going to stop.

Police shot in the head, doused with gasoline, government buildings burned into the ground.

> This is a movement I’m telling you.

City capitol buildings invaded. Throngs calling for the removal of the elected leader of Seattle. City blocks occupied for days by an armed insurgent force.

> they're not going to let up — and they should not. And we should not," she concluded.

Ted Wheeler seems to be finally coming around to this, god knows how it took him so long;

> “My good-faith efforts at de-escalation have been met with ongoing violence and even scorn from radical Antifa and anarchists,” Wheeler said in a New Year’s Day press conference. “In response, it will be necessary to use additional tools and to push the limits of the tools we already have to bring the criminal destruction and violence to an end.”

Like I’ve been saying for the last two days, you can either say people like Kamala are inciting violent protest that was actively ongoing when they made these statements, and you can hold Trump to the same standard yesterday. Or you can let Kamala off the hook, but then you let Trump off at the same time.

You can’t hold Trump to one standard and Kamala to another. You can’t call yesterday an insurrection and last year a summer of love.
Until people whose brains have been melted by Parler influencers start calling you with death threats because they believe you’re a treasonous antifa instigator.
Some people assume the default scale of things is linear. This is false. The default is logarithmic. When feeling snarky I like to say that it's called the natural log for a reason.

I feel like I see the 1%/50% ratio in more than a few places. One percent of people own 50% of wealth. One percent of mobile apps make 50% of the revenue. And probably a few more with respect to digital store fronts. Maybe not exactly 1/50, but certainly closer to that than what people would like/hope for. Can anyone think of more 1/50 examples?