jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Has no-one on here hit problems with backblaze's number of file limitations and xml data structures?

see: http://harijan.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/the-real-backblaze-b...

what the author does not make clear is the statement:
"the bzfileids.dat is causing my computer to stop."

this is how i found the article originally, the bzfileids.dat on my computer was too large and at that point the only solution is to reinstall the software. which invalidates your old backups and they are purged after 30 days.
Gifted education doesn't encourage entrepreneurship and is likely to lead to careers that are less enjoyable.
> Anything that you can have a 'career' in is a trade.

Well, sure, but clearly he meant trades that host artisans like carpenters, mechanics and so forth. People who make tangible things other people use, and can employ the artful piece of their trade to distinguish their product from the next guy.

Programming is an artisan craft. Beautiful code is distinct and a sight to behold above and beyond code that may simply fulfill the requirements of the task.
From a technology perspective that's pretty cool.
From an ethics perspective, I don't think it really makes a difference, or will impact the future of war. It will definitely impact the art of war, but not on how much war we'll have.
There were technically arms races throughout all of history and technology cannot change that about us. I can imagine a bunch of Englishmen sitting around thinking about the ethics of war because their buddies just made the Longbow.
I'm pessimistic in believing that no matter what technologies we find there will always be humans that act like animals, but I'm optimistic in believing no matter what technologies we find there will always be people who will stand up for the right.
I don't think this will really impact most of our lives at all..., but they do look really fun.
Neovim
Git
KeepassXC
Thunderbird
Dmenu
Python
No, insurrection is pretty accurate. They attempted sedition, and these people breaking in are domestic terrorists. Clear as day.
This is true of all studies, not just medical studies. It would be nice if the people at Vox realized this as a lot of their explainers are based on one shot studies with small sample size, marginally significant p-values, and no replication.
I'm pretty sure people go into government with the intention of really changing it from the inside out, this time things will be different.

The evaluation period for efforts like these should be a decade or more, that would be a good time to review and see if things have really changed and if the change stuck or if the machine turned out to have too much inertia after all.
Worked a wide variety of low-skill, low-pay temp jobs during college. Lots of the people I worked with there were juggling multiple gigs, and were sort of locked into that system of work.

By the time I graduated, it was mostly temp firms that handled the recruitment - and FYI, they absolutely follow the "hire fast, fire fast" mantra. So while you could land work the next day, you could just as easily get fired from the same gig 2 hours into work. That's how fast it went.

This is turn made people stick around shitty gigs, if they knew that meant job security for the next 3-6 months. And once you start turning down other gigs, you might not get called up again, ever again. It's not that you're implicitly getting "blackballed", but rather that by the time you're calling back for work, they've gotten N new candidates working, and ready to go.

And the worst part? These gigs do next to nothing for your resume. I worked with college graduates stuck in such positions, graduates with decent and hard degrees. One year turns into two, two into three, three into five...and before they know it, they've worked these shitty gigs long enough that their degrees start to lose value. But you gotta pay rent each and every month, so what can you do?

For some more meat to this story - my least favorite gigs, which I consider stereotypical "shitty jobs" in this segment of jobs:

1. Warehouse worker for huge transportation corporation: 12 hour shifts, extremely high tempo, employees pretty much throwing every parcel that can be thrown, to work faster. If the supervisor caught you slipping for even 2 minutes during that shift, you could be removed from that job. Shit pay. No wonder people receive broken packages, when the warehouse workers are throwing them like basketballs.

2. Construction helper. You're just carrying stuff up and down stairs, all day long. That's it. Imagine carrying bags of cement up 5 floors, for 10-12 hours. Again, bottom bucket pay, and you'll be constantly monitored.

3. Roofer hand/helper. Same as 2, but you'll be spending your time on a roof, often time just getting stuff up there. I once spent the whole month of February shoveling a warehouse roof, that's all I did for 8 hours a day.
Guess they finally realized the amount of revenue from a free site with ads far outweighs the diminishing viewers that pay considering the competition.

I visited QZ daily and stopped ever since the paywall. Ars Technica and The Verge have had the privilege of my eyeballs since then.
Everyone and their mother is putting big money into semiconductors and cyber security. Federal gov just announced this in their budget.

>"It is risk-free, very cheap and highly profitable," she said in an interview. "Sadly, there is also a lot of state-backed hacking."

State backed compromising federal government. This is cyberwar.
If anyone had ever perused around the steem network (pre-Justin Sun takeover), you'd know what twitter would become if posting/liking/retweeting ever got monetized. It was a strange place. It might still be, but it seems to mostly be chinese posters now so I can't judge.

On the flip side, monetizing social interactions is a great way to suck the vitality and soul out of them, which would fastly reduce twitter's impact on the real world. So if you don't like twitter this isn't the worst proposal.
Please Note! This Story is NOT pay-walled.

We’re taking down the paywall on QZ.com : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31061385
Verbose article with little substance.
I get some odd results:

HTTP client = Opera 15.x-18.x (User-Agent string is fake)

I'm on Chrome, and not faking a User-Agent.

Uptime = 9 days 17 hrs 17 min (modulo 49 days)

This is just wrong.

Everything else was correct, but everything else is available in HTTP headers, so isn't really that interesting.

> 10-20 bits of entropy right there (you need 33 bits of entropy to uniquely identify 1 of 6.6 billion people on earth).

This reminds me of this[1].

[1]: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Why on earth is the backend written in 3 different languages? That's going to be hard for any team to maintain.

Also, this might work better on Flippa.

And, finally, there are a ton of tools that do this exact same thing, and many are mature and widely used. What's new about this?

For $50,000, I could get an enterprise account with an established marketing analytics firm for 6 months to a few years, depending on the provider.
This is what I've never understood about the people claiming that "they have no choice" or that they feel morally justified in denying revenue to authors and other content creators. I don't use ABP, but it's really not that much effort to have to see bad ads on each "bad" domain _once_, and then blacklist and not have to deal with that entire domain and their bad ads ever again. I do something quite similar with a JS blacklist (mostly for poorly-coded newspapers where I can't even scroll until they fetch some non-main-content resources over JS).
A relational database plus offline processing is usually enough for that, e.g. FB uses MySQL

Graph structure based features like in Friendster are expensive and don't scale well, that's why Friendster failed. And MySpace and FB removed that features (friends of friends of friends) early on.
.. because he actually understands Git, perhaps?
I've always found Akhnaten a bit bombastic but I love Satyagraha (composed a few years before Akhnaten) and I saw it live last year. It absolutely works.

Interestingly I saw Einstein on the Beach the year before. Beforehand I was worried whether the near-4 hours would be tortuous (I love the work but tend to have it on while doing other stuff - I've never say and listened to it like one would a shorter or more narrative piece)

In the event it was actually a really lovely experience and if anything it went much quicker than expected. You do have to listen differently but it's still music and does all the things that 'normal' music does. Create anticipation, build up tension then release it, evoke emotion.

Just on a different scale and over a different timespan. It's no different to learning to appreciate classical when you're used to pop, Early Music when you're used to the Romantics or Be-bop when you're used to Swing ;-)
Why would you want to do it multiple times with different parameters in parallel? If your code can already scale to multiple cores, then just have each parameter set run one at a time, and you're already maximizing your CPU use.

Or integrate with make's jobserver as someone else has described.
An "API neutrality" proposal would make more sense. E.g. Apple wouldn't need to develop iMessage clients for non-Apple platforms, but they would not be able to block non-Apple platform client apps (developed by anyone) from connecting to the API. See HTTP, IMAP, Exchange, NFS, Windows SMB, etc.
"Acquisition of liquidity"?

http://adam.heroku.com/images/posts/startup_curve.jpg

Are all YC startups encouraged to get acquired?
This.

Arbitrage is all about execution speed. Free-money by definition is scarce. Assume you just sold the put and need to buy the call on the other side, some one else may buy that cheap call and the next block of call's might be more expensive and force you to eat a loss on your trading.

In options market, some brokers allows you to do a multi-leg execution although the execution might be poor and oftentimes you might just get the market price.

A safer way to play sports betting is do a rebate arbitrage which is to find bookmakers with two different lines in really close games and ensure that you just break even. Most bookmakers have a 10% bonus that you could cash out if you bet more than 10 times (bonus for being a liquidity provider a la the stock exchange), but it's more tedious and you have to deal with parking your money in the Cayman Island's due to US ban on online sports betting.
thats my xmas weekend sorted.
The use I had in mind was for the energy cost of producing a material of uniform or irrelevant thickness, such as aluminum foil or photovoltaic cells.
I feel like I need to link to this story whenever Comic Sans is mentioned: http://www.metafilter.com/86695/I-thought-I-was-the-only-one...
> I tried to take on all the businessy things like support, so my cofounder could keep coding. He got work done, but it was mostly paying the technical debt we had accumulated when trying to launch quickly.

... it sounds like you were following his later suggestion pretty much exactly. Also, paying down technical debt may not be sexy, but it's damned important.
Please put an edit at the top of the article in addition to the one at the bottom. This article has the potential to waste the time of those who don't read all the way through.
Perhaps in the past Time might have been a reputable news organization, but its just part of the corporate oligarchy now. Of course they awarded it to one of their biggest link feeds. Hell they probably negotiated some kind of kick-back.
15 Million Merits brought this article to mind.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/HAPPIDROME-Part-...
My point is that federal agencies have at times written rules where it was clear that nobody had bothered to think at all seriously about the constitutional implications.

It isn't the CDC's job to prove that acts of Congress are constitutional, but it is their job to stay within the constitution, whether or not an act of Congress says they can go further. (It's also Congress's job to not write legislation that authorizes acts outside the legal authority of the federal government, but that's not the subject at hand here.)

What I called "somewhat better than nothing" was the significance of acts of Congress as giving authority for CDC actions. Yeah, they do... and they don't. The constitution is the outer perimeter of the CDC's authority. An act of Congress can assign them some territory within that perimeter, but it cannot extend the perimeter. I'd like the CDC to be keeping an eye on that outer perimeter, not just on the acts of Congress that say they can do something. (And not just the CDC. I'd like every federal agency to do that.)

Turning back to the original question: Has there ever been a case that established the constitutionality of a federal agency banning evictions? It would have been nice if the CDC cited it in their order, because most people that I know have never heard of such a case. Or, if there hasn't been one (which I think is the actual situation, but I'm not certain enough to say definitely that it is), then I would like for somebody at the CDC to think more seriously about the question than to just say "yeah, we've got an act of Congress that says we can do stuff to deal with health emergencies". "We can do stuff" does not mean "we can do absolutely anything we decide", because some parts of "absolutely anything" are clearly outside the authority of the federal government.

Does the federal government have the constitutional authority (for whatever reason) to order a nationwide ban on evictions? Where in the constitution do they think that comes from? That is what I want to see in an "Authority" section of the order. (And then, yeah, I still want to see the act of Congress that says that the CDC can do it.)
<del>Assumption: WhatsApp for iOS is in the 5 business day App Store approval queue.</del>
I would expect that radio stations in general were suffering from people switching to other forms of media. If that's the case, would it perhaps drive the licensing price down?

And if the licenses could be affordable, perhaps it would be possible to raise funds for people to do low power radio in that space? I don't know if it would be legal to do it that way, but if somebody presented the FCC with a plan (including details of how they'd self-regulate), perhaps they'd accept it?
That is explicitly and directly addressed in the article.
I'm not sure how many people are skeptical about the global warming itself, but there are definitely good reasons for skepticism about the proposed political solutions. I have yet to see a quantifiable and accountable proposal in a format "let's allocate $X billion, implement measures A, B and C, so with the probability of Y%, the point where Earth becomes uninhabitable due to global warming will shift by N years into the future". Instead far too many people who haven't tried running even a lemonade stand, are talking about raising billions by taxing things most of us enjoy with a very hazy perspective of having some great outcome way past their own political lifespan. Given that everyone else manages to cooperate in a completely unprecedented way.

To give an example, I personally hate commuting and believe that spending hours sitting in traffic every day is a major waste of time. However, if a politician came by and promised to raise gasoline prices by 50% in order to invest $X billion into WeWork so that they could solve the commute problem once and for all, I would never have voted for them. Not because I love commuting, but because I don't believe this will solve the problem at all, given the track record of WeWork. Of course, people with a financial interest in WeWork would gladly label me a commutist and would try to make sure my arguments are not heard.

There are plenty of ways to reduce the emissions that are much easier to quantify and implement: making nuclear power safer, improving biodiesel, even a national standard for replaceable EV batteries so you could switch one out not much slower than filling in a gas tank. But instead we keep hearing the original sin [0] rhetoric on how we should eat less, not buy a big house and give up on having kids.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_sin
That is pretty awful, I did know that one but conveniently forgot about it. I suppose I'll go back to having a lack of faith in humanity again.
Moving goalposts to advance a different broken argument.

Your original assertion:

> but then we're also not costing decommissioning of nuclear generators or the waste disposal either.

But we are costing and accumulating funds for that purpose.

> the final price will be higher unless the government starts collecting the waste by 2020, which almost nobody who tracks the issue expects.

You're now complaining that costs are accruing to utilities because the other money we've collected isn't being spent. This means we're effectively double costing the storage/disposal.

I disagree with that precise statement, BTW. The final price in current dollars for final disposal will decrease the more time the waste has sit in spent fuel pools and cooled. Not that this is a great thing to be doing.
If you want a high end old tech TV you can easily get one for free on Craigslist - demand for these is so low you can’t give them away.
> Elves and orcs are spirits more than people - they don't go to heaven

There is no concept of heaven in tolkin. Elves go into the halls of mandos, its simular to the north religion.

But its not eternal as heaven, in chrisitanity, they all wait in the halls of mandos for the next great song.

> they can return from death

Only one human and one elve has ever returned from death. Gandalf is neither.

> they don't get their sins forgotten (unlike people)

That is not clear at all. Humans go out of arda but its not known where they will go and its not known if there sins will be gone. The not knowning what happens after death was a gift from elu.

Also if I recall correctly, even the humans will be brought in for the last great song.
Not at all, there are loads, see for example http://donsbot.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/semicolon.pdf

What I'm saying is, don't let a minority of the community put you off. The "conventional wisdom" on how to learn Haskell, is wrong.
> why even have a file system?

None of this implies that the underlying file systems aren't really useful in this situation. In fact, proper use of a file system would include separation of the media indexes from the media themselves, so that if you want to migrate to a better index, you can do so easily.
This looks very similar to http://famo.us/. What is the main difference of Snabbt.js as compared to famo.us?
> there are far better ways of avoiding it than these anti-patterns.

Could you describe or at least point to some of them?
If you think that Primrose is neat, checkout Daniel Earwicker's carota editor. It's based on a similar idea and has way more features, as well as a license that won't hose your project (MIT):

https://github.com/danielearwicker/carota
I think Cygwin is trying to be an Operating system ontop another operating system. Windows is in C:\Windows, so there is some logic behind Cygwin being in C:\Cygwin. It's not ideal, but I wouldn't call it all together illogical.

The package management is indeed a mass. The install.exe should literally install ONLY the barebones system plus some kind of terminal app, like Putty (because CMD is a pain to use), and then open the terminal to continue installation from there.
I have written a few languages here and there. Hope this helps.

They are all separate parts, and you can do them in any order you want.

I like to think of the language as two parts - syntax and features. How do I want the language to look and what features do I want the language to have? The parser and lexer handle the syntax, and the AST handles the features.

This way, I can play around with the syntax of the language a little later.

I would start with a really simple language:

- add expressions, proper infix support for arithmetic

- variables

- if / else / else if

- scoping / functions

- loops if you don't want to just use recursion

then, you can get more advanced:

- lambda expressions / first class functions / closures

- namespaces or types

- macros. if you can make nice looking lisp-style macros for an infix language i would love you

write it as an interpreter, add an llvm backend.

It should be fun. do a little at a time.
I used full-screen in leu of a Maximize shortcut. As you well know, "Zoom" doesn't quite work as Maximize does in Windows.

So, the solution is actually: Just move and resize your windows with the mouse, like normal people.
Grails is still my favorite web framework.
Interesting suggestion on Twitter:

> hendrikmorkel Hendrik Morkel RT by flattr
> I'd like @disqus to implement @flattr buttons in the comments so that I can Flattr smart contributions.

A lot of interesting potential in this flattr that has yet to be unexplored.

https://twitter.com/#!/hendrikmorkel/status/6145605252429824...

EDIT: I also look forward to seeing HNers use this for their weekend projects. HN is not always an interesting way to gauge appreciation.

EDIT2: It's also the perfect tool to counter slacktivism as seen on reddit where people think they contribute to ending world suffering by upvoting a story detailing it. Now, it's possible to, say, create a subreddit where all the submissions have a flattr profile for a cause specific cause.

Clicking a button is so damn easy, and if they same can be applied to charitable donations, it might revolutionize online donations. You can even make a poster with a QR code!
This post is wrong. The central issue around equity splits is preserving equanimity and founder happiness as long as possible, in as wide a variety of situations as possible.

That is the fundamental purpose of a co-founder equity split in fact -- to allow founders to happily sacrifice and risk for corporate value building.

The niggly thises and thats this author suggest may be arguably fair day 1, but they miss both the psychology of nerd co-founders (or a nerd and a business guy), and they take absolutely nothing about the future into account.

Anyway, if this works for you and your team great, but I would bet 10:1 that with Joel's rules, the amount of time you spend fighting about equity in your first year is close to zero, definitely measured in hours.

With these rules, you will probably spend that long agreeing how much each of the multipliers is worth day two of your new startup, not to mention re-jiggering when some low-percentage (by this setup) co-founder has the actual big idea that gets you launched.
I got the top of the line MacBook Air. It was my first Apple product ever. After tax was 1900 ish, which I do admit is super expensive. It does everything I need, and is SUPER portable -- I can carry it like a piece of paper. Everything is super responsive, and compilation is fast enough. I run Photoshop from time to time, and its not a problem whatsoever. Also tried out Portal 2, no problems at all.
Yes, it's called sysprof-cli. It should be built and installed out of the box.
CP/M needed a disk to function. If this is ported to machines that could load from tape, it would be very fun for machines like the msx or speccy.
I'd like to see a list of apps that are over $10. Most people would consider that 'expensive' for an app. These 4 seem too obscure.
I learned a lot from Denthor... I even emailed him back in the day and asked him about the first election after apartheid and if he voted (he was South African) and he responded and said that he did. Seemed like a great guy.

I also learned a lot from a book called: Flights of Fantasy (taught you how to build a flight simulator).
When an iPhone update is released, the update becomes available worldwide for everyone. There is no delay waiting for individual carriers to approve the update, like there is with Android and Windows Phone.
new/delete have done this for a while.

I wonder if this is because it is the boost filesystem v3 library mostly.