jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Stock immediately went up 7% on the news.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AMSFT
Apple doesn't have a 7" tablet...the iPad Mini is a 7.9" tablet. Quite a difference screen area-wise.
Sounds like Uber is mostly capitalizing on the intense regulatory capture in the US taxi industry that allows cab companies to be horribly complacent about the customer experience. In places where cab companies are already competitive, Uber doesn't look so shiny.
> What is your problem? Seriously. Labor WOULDN'T move overseas if unionized workers had any power. The labor moves over seas because those with the power decide where to move the labor, and it is decidedly NOT unions.

Yes seriously. You stated that having a union makes the company more productive because of it cooperative power. Corporations are economic entities, and made an economic choice, proving that this is not the case.

> I made no such assumption. I only assumed that the worker should be able to negotiate their worth by using other employees as a resource for evaluating what that is. If all the other workers agree you are worth X, the company should pay X. The company should not be in charge of both determining what you are worth AND paying you, because they are likely to minimize both, no matter what reality has to say.

Why should it be up to your coworkers to judge your worth. There is very clearly another better way. You make or save X dollars for your company, you are worth some amount of that. The bigger the X the more you are worth to the company.

>The only reason you have competitive wages anywhere without unions is because companies compete against each other. And if they collude, you lose that. It doesn't matter what you are worth, only how much collusion is legal or accepted.

I am not for company collusion, and it is illegal in most place already anyway.

>Do you know that the laws can be repealed? And that the people who would repeal them are the same people you're asking everyone to forfeit their political and economic power to?
How do you expect a law to stay on the books if the only ones championing for it have their hands tied?

I expect a law to stay on the books because people still have the right to vote in this country.

The laws that would help American workers the most (Obamacare, living wage, guaranteed retirement, guaranteed unemployment benefits, etc.) are not supported by unions. Guess why?
This was not the first mention of C in Byte. That happened in 1977, if memory serves correct.
I oversimplify it by saying "Companies will pay cash and accept closed source in return for good documentation and someone to answer the phone." Most non-IT buyers don't bring up open vs closed source in purchasing discussions.
I doubt it because previously, you did not have easy access to shows on demand. You could purchase from a small set of large, expensive packages which contained 80% things you probably did not want to watch, and even then very little of it was on demand. Cable is upwards of $50-100 or more, whereas you can get Disney, Netflix, and HBO for less than that.
I think you'd be suprised by how user-friendly piracy has become. Often, it's just as simple as appending "watch free online" and finding some shady video player site. If you have a VPN, or just don't care about being DMCA'd, there are plenty of user-friendly video torrenting apps out there - PopCorn time, for example. People don't always know it's piracy, but make it hard enough for the common individual to find the content they want legally, and enough people will persist until finding what they want illegaly.
All the live footage I've seen from people who have actually gone suggests that it was as bad as people suggest.

Things I've seen video of includes guys handing out guns to (what appear to be) minors, fights breaking out, and people getting assaulted for recording what is happening there.
SQL Server Enterprise edition has this feature... but the licensing on it is pretty painful (Around $30k a processor, last time I checked).
Part of Nature's special story on "PhD Future". The index of all related articles is available online at
http://www.nature.com/news/specials/phdfuture/index.html
If you want to put this info to use, check out Stefan Tramm's JavaScript 8080 and CP/M emulator: http://www.tramm.li/i8080

Aside: The 8085, despite its similar part number, is not actually an x86 chip. It used the 8-bit 8080 architecture: the Z80 was an enhanced 8080 that achieved much greater popularity than its ancestor.
Apparently all of Reddit's problem is either Amazon or Conde Nast.
Reusing hot memory is a pretty ancient GC technique, though the details have varied over the decades.

You can Google "nursery generation" for some examples:

http://www.google.com/search?q=gc+nursery+generation

The original theory was that most objects in a functional language are extremely short-lived, and you want to reclaim them quickly. But if you GC your nursery generation after every few kB of allocations, you'll also keep the memory in L1 and L2 cache.

The ideal size of a nursery generation (and the value of reusing hot memory) should be measured empirically.

Of course, most popular scripting language GCs are non-copying, reference-counting collectors, which means they ignore techniques that were well-understood back in the 80s. However, this has not been a barrier to the adoption of Python, Ruby, etc., because the business value of high-performance code is often minimal.
Guardrails is a nice technique for adding security to Rails apps. You tag data items with access conditions and guardrails does a source translation in the background to ensure the data is protected accordingly.

Alpha version of the code is now on github:

https://github.com/guardrails/guardrails

Slides describing its design (paper to be presented later this year at USENIX WebApps 2011):

http://www.owasp.org/images/c/cd/Guardrails_owasp_final.pdf
I'm torn myself. Part of me wants to own a copy of let's say Rushmore, but the rational part of me thinks it's ridiculous, especially because I have no desire to watch it right now. Maybe we live in the Age of Reference, where it's not the possession of the thing but the ability to refer someone to it, that is important. (That's perhaps a way of saying that we now live in a permanent Age of the Hipster.)
Reddit's current technical staff is composed of a single engineer and 2 ops (maybe 3, but I believe it's 2).

They simply don't have the manpower to do that.
"The market pays what it sees fit"

There is no such thing as "The Market", there are markets, all of which are composed of arbitrary rules created by people. They are all corruptible, and the question here is if ours is being corrupted and is in need of some systemic changes.
Ad blocking != block tracking. If you don’t want to get tracked, turn on Do Not Track in your browser. Matomo and most other privacy focused analytics scripts respect that setting.
I think it would be extremely foolish to assume they don't.
Can we just appreciate that someone did write that program for the Atari palmtop 30 years ago just so it would appear for 5 seconds in a movie. Crazy.

I wonder how the hiring for that position go? "Our movie studio is looking for a programmer to code a sequence that simulates PIN cracking on an Atari which will look cool and hackery on screen."

Either way, that coder did a stellar job in making it look really legit vs the shitty hacking sequences that followed in movies of the early '00 where you could hack the DoD by typing on the keyboard random words really fast or assembling some 3D shapes on an SGI machine to break encryption.
GDPR does not require consent. If you use consent, then it must be freely-given, but can often use a different legal basis when processing personal data.

The ePrivacy Directive requires consent for reading or writing from a terminal device. This includes anything with cookies, even if they're not personal data. While the ePD refers to GDPR for its definition of consent, it is a separate piece of legislation and many things that are true about GDPR are not true about ePD (such as being able to invoke Legitimate Interest instead of consent).
I don't know that it's depressing, more that it's indicative of a culture I don't want anything to do with, which is fine with me. At least it's truth in advertising.
Hey, HN friends. I was thinking a lot about The Old Web when I built this, so maybe some of that sentiment came through, but I tried not to make it so quirky that folks wouldn’t get it.

I’ve been trying this out with friends and family for a couple of weeks. Some things we like about it: no setup or signup, it’s fast and snappy, it doesn’t demand or abuse attention. I guess the third one would keep it from ever being big, but maybe that’s fine. I think I’d rather make something nice than something big.

Some things I’m still thinking about: image scaling and optimization, discovery (search? hashtags? web-rings?).

I’d love to have your thoughts and perspectives. Is it something you can see yourself enjoying? Why or why not? What would you add or take away?
No worries, I was just making the history of the pricing structure clear.

Thank you for the kind words, I do love working on this project and I hope to be able to continue working on it. Existing customers absolutely love it and keep recommending but I am still struggling with finding a pricing structure that makes sense for everyone.

I do hope that one day I will find a way to make userTrack free for everyone, but looking at Matomo, making it open-source seems to drastically slow the development of a project as there are so many people involved and so much more decisions to be taken. Apart from that I would still have to earn a living somehow, but if I get a job and keep userTrack open-source I won't be able to spend too much energy on maintaining it and I hate not being able to make a product as good as it can be.
> I would believe these types of pop-economics articles a lot more if they could actually find and example of a deflationary spiral causing a long term depression.

The obvious example would be bitcoin. No one ever spends their BTC, because of the fear that something that costs 1 BTC today will cost only 0.5 BTC tomorrow.
Confession: I am a Luxury Ricer.

When I bought my now 11-year-old Lexus, I was amazed by two aspects: how sporty and well controlled it was [for a luxury car], and how silent it was. It was literally more quiet than a Prius and it had an inline six.

And I hated it.

After a few months of hitting the gas and hearing nothing, I opened up the hood and ripped the tiny ram-air front inlet off the air intake. I also took apart the air box and gutted the parts that didn't affect the air filter. The result was a tiny but definitely noticeable engine roar when high-revving. It finally sounded about as mean as a Toyota Corolla.

They can pry my engine noise from my cold, dead, ricer hands.
Yeah man, super true!

For example if prices were to start falling I'm going to start putting off the following purchases:

1. New computer

2. New TV

3. New stereo

4. Toilet paper

5. Food

6. Gasoline

7. Rent

8. A new-to-me used pickup truck

9. Clothing

10. Several dozen other things which I can't really wait for but which I will pretend I could for the sake of making a point

EDIT: Yes guys, I do realize that it's a marginal effect and that people aren't going to STOP buying TP. The point I'm trying to make, though, is that the "deflationary spiral" told as a story isn't entirely accurate either. People don't STOP buying things, they simply reduce their consumption ever-so-slightly and if EVERYONE does that, it cuts growth.

My point, though, is that there are a whole bunch of things which aren't really elastic or which already have falling prices but don't cause general malaise. Yes TV purchases do get put off for the next best model, but eventually people do buy TVs and the industry has models that work even given this reality.

In my personal opinion it's not that deflation itself is bad it's that it takes a long time for the deflation to work through the economy and for expectations to readjust. And given the maniacally long maturity of mortgages it takes half a lifetime to reset expectations and it's simply unrealistic.
Thank you for your comment.

Me thinks Mithril is fairly minimal, too, but this point can't be completely objective. If API allows to do things I find complicated to do myself, then I happily accept a little bloat here and there.

I will be looking at Riot custom tags and how they might help (or hinder) creating components out of functionality. There is currently an interesting discussion on the Mithril mailing list about these things. Also it's what attracted me to Angular long time back (and what drove me away from it, as well).
> (Yet we have seen consistent inflation)

Last month, the US inflation rate was 0.8%.

For 2014 as a whole, it was 1.6%.

This is, in fact, credited in part to low consumer demand. Slack demand generally leads to job cuts, which leads to even slacker demand. That's the spiral they talk about.

> The current 'deflation' is primarily led by a sharp downtick in oil prices that won't be repeated - there's no immediate suggestion that prices will continue to fall.

This is why economists talk about core inflation, to remove as much as possible the influence of volatile commodities such as oil. Inflation will remain very low even with oil prices go up. Since 2008, inflation has actually at times been negative (i.e., deflation.)

People who think deflation is a good thing need only look at the Great Depression, Japan, the present Eurozone, and the 2008 recession. Just because high inflation is bad doesn't mean that deflation is good.
Are you aware that "this reminds me of Black Mirror" is a really, really bad thing? Like, did you miss the whole point of the show?
Anecdotal evidence or do you have a link to this claim?
Edit: Looking at the source code [0], looks like all probes that this service matches will be reported.

[0] https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/service_scan.cc
You're right, I shouldn't single this one person out. I'm thinking of the many who knowingly work on technologies or exploits that are being used to spy on their own citizens.
> I'm glad to be living in a city with a functional public transit system

Unless you want to go to LaGuardia airport.
This is the reason I stuck with Python for my development and production code. Python scientific programs running on the backend, using all sorts of fancy libraries (NLTK and numpy mostly) and then a Django frontend that plugs right in.

I'm dabbling with RoR and it's certainly pleasing at times, but there are the odd bits of Python I keep running into that make me smile too. Especially map. :]

To me it seems that half the anti-Python sentiment is because you can write some truly terrible Python code, just as you can write some truly terrible Java code. You can also write some elegant Python code (although there are some situations where you just will run into those damned underscores), but it's in the minority.

Coming from Perl (no, really) and Python, my main issue with trying to learn Ruby is all the extra syntax and punctuation. It just looks and feels wrong until you force your way through it and see it from the other side. There are some really nice advanced features of the language (I sat in on an advanced Ruby class and found it surprisingly easy to follow given a background in ML, Perl and others) so I'm still going to persevere and learn it, but I'm still at the "Ruby feels arse-backward" stage. I think to me Ruby feels like Python does to Rubyists. Sort of.
That's an awfully long article to say his dying and written a book on his 'new found' way of investing.
agh, I refuse to visit a site called ihas1337code.
How does someone's party affiliation keep the police force from following its equal opportunities policy?
> "But it doesn't make Ross's keyboard bad in any way"

Here's one way -- it's certainly bad to have UPPERcase be a DOWNward flick.

Perhaps he thought he wanted numbers above the lowercase letters on the top row to look something more like a real keyboard, but it's silly for the alphabet.

> "And honestly? It sounds like you don't want to have to learn something new again."

It seems this keyboard is chiefly for the sake of not learning any keyboard. Learn at least one, then complain about someone not wanting to learn another.

// I touch type qwerty, azerty, and qwertz. I've got nothing against learning punctuation on new layouts. If the goal is applying something new to make "hunting and pecking" easier, this system is great: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITALY
the Saudis and the Iranians can no longer pretend publicly that they don't hate each other.

Why not? Everyone with a brain already knew that the Saudi regime hate the Iranian regime. The cables do nothing to change that. And really, the fact is, Saudi Arabia's King's opinions on Iran have zero bearing on whether the US invades Iran.

I don't see what exactly distinguishes your claims about the probability of war increasing due to this "revelation" from magical thinking.

That's just one example, there's any number of other ways that bringing unpleasant truths to the surface can spoil already-weak relationships, as anyone who has ever been in a weak relationship can tell you.

I don't think that one's love life or startup business experience really equips the average person to correctly understand international diplomacy. You say this is just one example: OK, please list some more. Or flesh out this one to the point where it actually makes sense.
Do you have reasons to suspect that wikileaks has withheld leaked non-US documents?
Why? The content is quite good.
redis.co.vu :-)

Here are other words for grabs:

{"alcove", "alcoves", "covalent", "covalently", "covariance", \
"covariances", "cove", "coven", "covenant", "covenanted", \
"covenanting", "covenants", "covens", "cover", "coverage", \
"coverages", "coverall", "coveralls", "covered", "covering", \
"coverings", "coverlet", "coverlets", "covers", "coversheet", \
"covert", "covertly", "covertness", "coverts", "coves", "covet", \
"coveted", "coveting", "covetous", "covetously", "covetousness", \
"covets", "covey", "coveys", "discover", "discoverable", \
"discovered", "discoverer", "discoverers", "discoveries", \
"discovering", "discovers", "discovery", "dustcover", "hardcover", \
"hardcovers", "irrecoverable", "irrecoverably", "Muscovite", \
"Muscovy", "nonrecoverable", "recover", "recoverable", "recovered", \
"recoveries", "recovering", "recovers", "recovery", "rediscover", \
"rediscovered", "rediscoveries", "rediscovering", "rediscovers", \
"rediscovery", "slipcover", "slipcovers", "softcover", "uncover", \
"uncovered", "uncovering", "uncovers", "undercover", "undiscovered", \
"unrecoverable"}
Is being "large" and feature-rich a bad thing for a command-line tool? I don't want gems with unnecessary features bloating my projects, but I have no issue with feature-rich gems that help me develop more effectively, even if I don't use all of the features present.
There are quite a few 'public' places where you can hear 'real sceners' speak these days. Also NFO files (which often contain a lot of 'talk' as well) and scene magazines (such as commented charts) have always been there.
Maybe. Adding a simple shallow groove in front of the gap may be all that's needed to catch the roll-away items.
As soon as I have the chance to develop a seed list of Android components, I'm going to spin up an identical site for that platform.
A video of it actually flying would be nice.
Oh. I was expecting it to be some javascript-y reason rather than a mere big-O calculation :-P Forgive me, I flew cross-country overnight and am operating on not much sleep :-)
+1

@zhamilton89:

You've written a lot where you identify as being an entrepreneur, but I can't find anything you've written on what you're working on. Your other pieces for medium seem to avoid answering this question. What is your project's goal?
I thought Manning should be addressed as Chelsea now.
I'd say that happens a lot _less_ on facebook though compared to a site like reddit, because more people are cognizant that they're using their real life identity.

People also post pictures of their shiny new credit cards to twitter, it's not because they don't care about fraud, they're just not aware of how twitter works.

Some small portion of people really don't care and will gladly threaten to rape you under their real name, but I'm guessing that the majority of the ones you see are people who just aren't very internet saavy.
Slightly meta - Just a recommendation on your "pitch". When you are trying to get someone to buy something using the word "try" makes you sound less serious. I understand you're trying to be humble, but confidence in your work will get you more book sales. Be confident and people will take you more seriously.

That being said...the book looks interesting! Grattis for shipping.
Regulatory capture is a big problem.

Regulatory capture is THE problem. Contrary to the parent post's claim, the problem is not with our "economic system". It's that, if you're going to regulate something (particularly something as complex as nuclear energy), then you need experts. And the only place to get those experts is from the industry. Generally, those people are naturally going to look at the industry from a certain perspective, one that views the activity of the industry as important, and its status quo as something other than an historical accident.

Until you can find a way to extract human nature from the regulatory process -- and that's even before we start talking about corruption -- you're not going to get anything better.

So sure, the industry tries to push the boundaries, and we should call them out for that. But while doing so, we must also consider how the regulators -- themselves humans -- might do even worse. That side of the equation is too often overlooked.
Did he have unreleased leaked documents?
The last example doesn't seem to work on node 0.10.17:

if (sieve[(x / 8) >>> 0] & (1 << (x % 8))) {
^
TypeError: Cannot read property '0' of undefined
Never give up, don't end your life. Failure is a part of life, we humans learn from our mistakes. If you ever read "Dune" or watched the movie "Fear is the mind killer." and it makes a lot of sense that statement.

I am 45, and I am having a hard time. I am flat broke, disabled, and 100K in medical debt. No startups want to hire me, nobody wants to help me, and I did a great job when I was working and did two startups of my own.

http://www.greatdox.com/documentaries/ I want to do documentaries on various topics because I faced a lot of stuff in my life and I don't want to see others suffer as I have, as I have seen many others suffer. Know that you are not alone. I have software I want to develop as well. http://www.greatdox.com/software/
I lost 50 pounds eating ~500 calories more on keto than I did before.

Unfortunately I wasn't completely comfortable with the types of meals I ate with that lifestyle.

But it did make me feel as though the whole calories in - calories out was nonsense. Especially after trying (and failing) diets based around that (weight watchers) multiple times.
Should pornography sites block countries where viewing pornography is illegal? What about a site with essays critical of Islam?
Then you can't trust, accept, or move to, any other company, either.
Same, I've worked with 2 4K displays on both with a 2018 MBP15 and 2020 MBP16 for the last year, I've never noticed any of these problems. 1 connected with DP, the other with HDMI.
No such button available here.
People branding his flags and hats stormed the Capitol walls and Senate floor, as he delayed an eventual reiteration that the elections were rigged, they should be furious, but now they should go home and that he loved them very much and were very special people. There were nooses propped up, people died, and elected officials were bunkered. His close sources also reported that he watched on TV with manic joy at what people were doing in his name. Hence, the ban and mass 11th-hour resignations.