jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But @lotusleaf1987, that's just anecdotal :)
Their explanation is here:
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#protecting

Looks like they're differentiating between durability ("99.999999999%") and availability ("99.99%").

So it's not uptime that has 11 9s…my mistake. Should have checked the documentation.
Agreed. Not for all content though. But for what's foreign to me. Ideas, concepts, even products. If I don't "get it" right away, comments help guide me to a better understanding. Lower scores indicate noise. (Not really, but I won't know the difference.) Sorting comments without points isn't enough though; you don't know when exactly the noise begins and where to stop reading.

It's even useful for topics I'm already familiar with. If a comment I don't necessarily agree with has a high score, I'll wonder why. It's a great opportunity to walk down new mental paths or explore different angles about the topic without feeling vulnerable. If any insights emerge while doing this, I'll then follow up with my own comment.

In either case, it's impractical to analyze or reflect on every comment, so points are a pretty good heuristic. Even if it is a broken system, it does help a lot of the time.
Taking it one step further, Matt Mullenweg's old card: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glsims99/506973719/
Now you have function(amount){

console.log(amount + " problems.");

}
After 5 years of Python, I don't even see self anymore (how zen).

Author could have written

class Window(object):
def __init__(self, min, max):
if min > max:
min, max = max, min
self.min = min
self.max = max

to avoid repetition. If many args are needed,

def __init__(self, a,b,c,d,e,f,...):
for k, v in locals().items():
setattr(self, k, v)

Etc etc there are endless idiomatic ways to avoid boilerplate in Python
True, if I recall correctly, having bottom everywhere just complicates things without adding much value.
How did you do the foot note?
You're assuming that a higher chance of being caught has no deterrent effect. My understanding is that this is very much not the case.

On the flip side, you're also ignoring the opportunity for abuse of surveillance, which it may make sense to consider additional crime.
I don't know, but what actually happens is immaterial. All that matters is perception, and my perception (selection bias and all) is that starting or being involved in a startup seems much less risky than it did 5 or 10 years ago. I'm sure that there are lots of people at Harvard, Wharton, and Columbia that share this perception, leading to an increase in demand for programs about startups.
I received a letter saying essentially that the company had declared bankruptcy and some assets (not the entire company itself) were acquired. Nothing was available to pay common stockholders.

So, yes, it actually was worthless.
So which way to go .... the MVP that EVERYONE says to launch, or mockery because you’ve launched something less than perfect.
That stuff is expensive and oats, protein powder, avocado oil, eggs are cheaper.
This seems reasonable. I've never been offered anything like that. It would be minimum $1000 a day.
Truly terrible that someone should stick their neck out and criticize the broken system. You're right, what we need is to crush his creative talents and make him good and compliant.
This is the lisp-way:

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(* 4 10)
(* 2 30)
(* 5 20)
(* 6 20)
(* 6 25)
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This way we can never reach consensus and beat about the bush! Welcome to the bike shed. What color should we paint it with?
You definitely don't need client-side anaylitics to know if you content is being viewed. I don't know if Cloudflare Analytics is that but a simple view counter on the backend (ie a log analyzer) is enough for that. Or just search for your site to see if people link to it.
Didn't really have a boss. By and large, I've met more a-hole bosses in enterprise than vocational.
Study the traffic in Wireshark, and also sniff upstream of your router to compare. I'd bet it's your router before I'd bet it's your isp.

I gave up with cots routers a while back, and life has been significantly improved. I wrote it up here https://res.rag.pub/2020-11-1-an-home-router.html
Can't get 100 Megabits on a 10 Megabit line was the point.
But the government’s money comes from taxes. In the end it’s effectively a balance transfer, just like the high price of housing is balance transfer from the young to the old. It’s a zero-sum game. That’s not to say that it’s bad - but let’s be perfectly honest about what it is. You can’t make one group of people richer without making the other comparatively poorer. See for example, the 1% vs the rest of us. Unless of course, you’re investing that money in, say, education, or small businesses which grow the economy - and that might be a good idea.
The changes only broke (some) unlicensed cartridges, it didn't break cartridges that had a Nintendo manufactured protection chip.
On the flipside, sales teams are probably the closest people in the business to what customers think they want.

Engineering teams often have a disparaging view of the sales teams, but usually the sales team is just selling what is needed to get the sale. Sometimes this is 'misplaced', but in my experience of enterprise software it's more often the case that a client has a genuine requirement and the engineering team thinks 'feature x' is close enough, but the client disagrees (and the client will obviously be right about what their requirement is, and if feature x is close enough is just a matter of opinion).
I tested every mentioned site, nothing is filtered in DDG for me. Hoax or just based on country?
Is that with dd-wrt or something similar? I heavily doubt you'd get that feature on an ISP router :-)
This is your regular statistical reminder:

The plural of "anecdote" is not "data"
Knox vs US is interesting. I've encountered more than one foot fetishist who should be in jail by those standards.
That's another way of staying minimal, but still, the library makers get to maintain that pile of rarely used features and that may slow down development, delay releases.
Hacker here, if you have any questions, would love to answer them.
Oh no. I’m moving from Australia (zero cases after we eradicated COVID) to California soon, and this seriously worries me.

You can’t seriously get on top of case numbers without maintaining restrictions well after case numbers have been crushed.
For those wanting to learn more about it, SDV can be found here: https://github.com/sdv-dev/SDV

SDV (The Synthetic Data Vault) is an ecosystem of Open Source Python libraries and tools for Synthetic Data Generation that works with single-table, multi-table and time-series data. One of the use cases of Synthetic Data is data augmentation for machine learning models, as shown in the example posted, but it also enables a multitude of other use cases such as privacy preserving methods for sharing data or the generation of data for software testing. More resources, tutorials and documentation can be also found here: https://sdv.dev
This is the full quote from MS, provided in The Register article:

"Customer privacy and trust is our top priority at Microsoft. We do not sell any information to third-party companies and only share customer information with Azure Marketplace publishers when customers deploy their product, as outlined in our Terms and Conditions. Our terms with our publishers allow them to provide customers with implementation and technical support for their products but restricts them from using contact details for marketing purposes."

My interpretation is:

Every time you buy or use something from the Marketplace, MS will give your contact details to the Marketplace publisher. That publisher is then restricted in what they can do with the information. They may not use it for Marketing, they may use it to provide technical support.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to compare it to being injected with some other substance, instead of comparing it to “not being injected with anything at all”? I’m certainly no doctor, but I assume there is some risk associated with injecting a substance into the body. It would be very interesting to see the rate of similar blood clots for various vaccines/medications injected in the same manner as the AZ vaccine.
It's not hard: build a better product. Talking computers, why the hell doesn't Dell hire a few great industrial designers? Dells' best notebooks (which all cost over 2k) look just like their $300 notebooks; fat, covered in black hard plastic, stickers stuck on the palm rests - and not to mention loaded with bloatware.

If Dell (and HP and all the rest) built compelling looking (and performing of course) higher end notebooks then folk might not keep looking to Apple as the standard "best". All these companies (except Apple, since they enjoy such high profit margins on everything) fight over scraps at the low end. Even in their business lines (not talking servers here just notebooks).
Good to know. It was my first such experiment, and it does boil down to a few core principles I wanted to apply. I'll write something up once things calm down a little bit.
You must be confusing them with Sony...
Thanks for the ideas!! I have to try it out...
You need to practice reading between the lines. That's pretty much what the entire post was about.

No.

Believe it or not, there are entrepreneurs who do other things besides make web sites. If you think this post is specifically about web startups, you're missing the point. Moreover, attacking it on that basis makes zero sense.

Meanwhile, you and some others are projecting the "superiority" bit onto the article. The fact is, people have pretty much zero idea what it means to start a company until they've actually done it. Doesn't mean founders are necessarily superior, but it is what it is.

I don't understand why this is controversial. I don't get defensive when people say "either you've run a marathon or you haven't" or "either you've climbed Mount Everest or you haven't." I haven't ... so what? I don't get flustered and try to deny that they've got a shared experience that not many others will fully understand.
Isn't the browser supposed to get this right automatically? Chrome does this correctly, no?
It seems like they should just allow you to flattr flattr. They believe in their model, right?
If you're pasting italicized text into a plain-text editor, it's not preserved automatically. (Edit: updated my post to make the purpose clear.) You have to mutate the page yourself. But you're right, most browsers do handle this when pasting into RTEs like Word.

On a completely unrelated note, Word completely fails to preserve blockquote indentation. Plain-text editors do the same, of course. Maybe that's another thing to mutate?
In real life though creating a company needs a lot of commitment.
I would suggest looking at government or large, stogy companies (e.g. banks, insurance companies, etc). I think the key here is to find a place where everyone works slowly and it is very difficult to fire anyone.
Hah last year I did my case study of building an app with only web tech - no dependencies, build steps etc. - https://github.com/ivank/vanilla-teuxdeux

Figured out virtual dom is the one big missing piece to make webdev workable without any dependencies at all.

I can see other people are getting to similar conclusions:)
I think you are right for trying to spend more time on your hobbies. However isn't there a way to make a life out of your hobbies? It does not have to make you rich, but every penny you earn out of it, does not have to be earned by work which is mediocre at best.

Good luck on your search!
I have a couple of Vendor supplied programs that run on MicroFocus COBOL in a Linux environment.

The product line supports IBM mainframes and a few other platforms, so I assume it's easier to target the mainframe first and then the other platforms.
I remember seeing a Show HN a while ago with the perfect cookie pop-up. It was small, discrete, and didn't take the whole page width. It was even praised in the comments.

Unfortunately I can't remember the website. I hope someone posts it here.
The acceleration of computation has transformed everything from social and economic relations to political institutions. A social network can harness the combined computation of the average Joe and create a rudimentary form of artificial intelligence. Amazon has already accomplished it. Today, we depend on Amazon bots to tell us what we “will” like. This is a major paradigm shift from less than a decade ago when we bought books solely based on recommendations from humans rather than computers. Everything a user does on a social network says a little bit about them. What happens if all those bits get put into one big trove of data about the user and their tastes? Advertiser’s heaven.
Happens to me constantly. The best questions for me are always like how best to make money in an Android app, which StackOverflow hates because there isn't any clear answer, just many people who have tried many ad networks, free and pro apps, etc.. The only questions they seem to allow are trivial things I know from reading documentation anyway.
It is implied by the summary slides, but the phrase can be seen exactly as stated in the title of slide 38 (the last of the slides on this topic, starting on slide 18), "Our High Performance Culture Not Right for Everyone.
iAd is such a low priority for them you wouldn't believe. From what I've heard it doesn't have basic features that other advertising networks have and it prioritises privacy pretty heavily. In fact, I suspect that reducing the market share of advertising networks that are less privacy concerned in favour of one they control was likely a major reason they launched it. Even if not, it hardly compares to the likes of Google, etc.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/02/apple-struggling-ad-sales...
First word-combination on this page is "cross-language":

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

Taking that goodness and making it CrapScript-only is an abomination:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL
> I mean, our drones aren't in the shape of men using gliders.

They are in the shape of manned aeroplanes, though -- they need to land on carriers and runways, they need to refuel, and they sometimes need to have weapons mounted on them.

I agree that we can generally improve on the human form in some cases -- "eyes at the front of a head with limited rotation" is an easy fix, for example -- but most things are going to be loaded with tradeoffs, not just functionally but in how their public use might become accepted.
Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to sound like I was snarking at you!
I think you might be confusing "fires low performers" with "fires people who have occasional misses." There's a world of difference between the two.

I have a few friends who I worked with at a large company, the kind with a large bureaucratic, broken management system that shuffles around incompetence without ever purging it. They went on to work at Netflix and they tell me how much they love it. They no longer have to deal with terminally incompetent divisions. They're top performers; there's no fear. If Netflix were stupid enough to fire them they'd instantly be buried in new opportunity. Of course, Netflix isn't that stupid.

Consider the economic incentives: A strong will-fire policy is a great negative incentive to prevent incompetent hires in the first place. It's not so scary if you're competent and capable -- and that's precisely the kind of people a company will want to hire..
Any resume sent to careers@rentec.com will be entered into our system and be seen by one of the tech managers (which includes me). If you don't mind my asking, when did you contact the firm? I will speak with the people who process the received resumes to not discourage people from making submissions.

The open position here most closely matches to the "Financial Infrastructure Programming" position.
So what you're saying is that it's possible that there were fraudulent ballots in support of Trump?
This diversity of thought stuff is poison, but a lot of these people here seem to lap it up.
> possible but annoying

That's the thing: people (non-tech, non-privacy aware) are always trading privacy for convenience.
Well both sides won't admit that they're not totally right, including you. Your question implies that you're 100% right and the opposition is 100% wrong.

I've seen compelling evidence on 4chan to make me believe that there was some shadiness going on in this election, perhaps moreso than normal. However, even I can admit that it does not appear to rise to the level of systemic voter fraud that I would need to call this election a "sham", nor does it appear systemic by any measure.

Can you see the difference between "everyone I don't agree with is 100% incorrect and racist" and my statement? Can you see how claiming intelligent working people are "in another reality" might be divisive to the people you're (falsely) claiming to want to meet halfway?

It goes both ways too - the right still won't admit that climate change is a thing to be combated even though that it is facially obvious to anyone that climate change has at least some negative effects.
Is it me, or is there no plaintext or PDF version?
Wow. I don't know about Stanford, but she captured my MIT experience (Course 2, '95) perfectly.
I had 4G turned on overnight as well (where I have full 4g/3g service). I've heard that leaving 4G on while in a 3G-only area will drain the battery, but hopefully that problem will be fixed with an update.
Mongo is awesome.
The Evo sucks down battery. I found that by disabling background data transfer the battery life improved Tremendously, to the point where it's not an issue anymore and I can go 1.5-2 days between charges.

However, I would love to be able to install Froyo and remove Sense. I imagine each of those steps would help to improve battery life even further.

Aside from being aesthetically ugly, Sense is so tightly embedded that it's impossible to fully disable it. I'd prefer some nice HTC branded wallpaper that could be easily disabled in a few minutes.
Do doctors always use computers as part of the diagnosis process? Shouldn't it be a criminal offense not to do this?

In fact, if the diagnosis differs from what the computer says, then this should always be reported. Failure to do so should be considered a criminal offense.
As a PhD student at MIT with many friends at Stanford, I'd like to say that both schools provide an abundance of opportunities for an engineering student to choose a less specialist path: business school classes, leadership in student organizations, student advocacy, business plan competitions, even industry consulting.

As with most universities, the opportunities are there, and your education is what you make of it.

As to Rebecca's comments on large-scale projects, when DARPA funding first dried up, the CS and AI Lab (CSAIL) turned towards industrial sponsors and pursued a vision of pervasive computing, incorporating advancements in networking, speech, and NLP. But there has been no shortage of recent DARPA sponsored large-scale projects (e.g. the DARPA Grand Challenge, command and control systems for urban search and rescue, semi-autonomous forklifts for war zone unloading).
You can visualize the 4th dimension. Just imagine 3d space moving through time. 5 is where is starts to be problematic.

BTW the video is ok until 4:30. Then it quickly degrades into nonsense, not just more complicated than needed.
PDF: http://hackermonthly.com/hackermonthly-issue1-revised.pdf
What is web based core? Does it run on Chrome?
Agree 100% on both of these, and #2 is seldom listed as a big issue. Had IMAP addressed search in a better way, I think it would have made a huge difference.

Of course, it's not simple to set up a mail server that stays clean of spam RBLs, or that is Gmail-acceptable out the gate. But that's just the bar that got set as people went to Gmail because of the lack of other good alternatives.

Question is, is Gmail hegemony fixable now?
Perhaps it should just be used when a pedestrian is near? It's bad enough worrying about cars that are making legal maneuvers, but when an electric car doesn't follow the rules, it's that much more dangerous.
This brings back memories... I worked at a company that used special duplication devices. We assisted with duplication of the game Rogue, and secured it with the main trick of making one of the sectors on the 5 1/4 floppy (might have been sector 8 or maybe 2, I don't remember which track) only half sized, while keeping the sector's recorded stats set to normal sizing (in the FAT? Not sure).

During game load, the executable would get the PC drive to do some kind of absolute positioning to read the "hidden" half sector, which would exist on these specially created discs.

Any subsequent copies made on normal PCs and copying equipment would copy the half sector as a normal full sector, missing the hidden part.

I remember talk about "fuzzy bits" at the time, but I cannot recall if we used them, and whom for...
"Waste" means "use" with a negative connotation. The good thing about spending resources on copy protection may be that the developers were able to make more money on sales. I don't know if it's true.
"Information should be accessible to anyone, for free."

Just not your information, of course.
They are both very useful for solving real world problems, yes.
I'd think underwater hazard detection would be more relevant.

Another modern shipwreck: http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/twenty-first-ce...
The impression I got was that the person they were monitoring used OTR for some messages and plaintext for others.
Serious question, as you seem to be a developer.

How would you feel about companies using GPL licensed code in close source products?
Examples of causation are pretty damn important. Just because something intuitively appears to make sense does not mean that's the actual way things are.

Really, even the industry cartels can't prove it. (And their attempts are laughably bad and transparent)

Can you?

But lack of sales, okay. The music industry reports record profits year over year, so those artists you speak of don't represent the larger trend in any case.

Let's pretend that it did for a moment - is that drop in sales due to:

* A minority of consumers downloading, rather than buying
* More choice in the marketplace (more stuff for people to buy meaning the existing players get a smaller slice of the pie)
* Less quality in the marketplace (pandering to the lowest common denominator resulting in flagging sales due to a percieved less quality product)
* The economic downturn meaning less got spent on entertainment anyways
* or something else?
Why re-enter?
This is mostly from a theoretical crypto perspective since that's what I'm interested in:

Introduction to Cryptography:

Yehuda Lindell - http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~lindell/89-656/main-89-656.html

Complexity Theory:

Jonathan Katz - http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/complexity/f11/
Luca Trevisan - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~luca/cs278-08/

Foundations of Cryptography:

Yehuda Lindell - http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~lindell/89-856/main-89-856.html
Jonathan Katz - http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/gradcrypto2/

Secure MPC:

Jonathan Katz - http://www.cs.umd.edu/~jkatz/gradcrypto2/f13/
Probably internal services depend on the DNS too
It's being down voted because it completely ignores the human element. Yes, quality of work matters. So does the impression your co-workers have of you. This is not "@ss kissing", it's just reality. You can be super productive on a daily basis, but if you're a jerk, or someone who is unwilling to help others, or not focused on the larger vision of the company, you're likely to be passed over for promotions (and deservedly so).
No comments on that submission. Here's a previous submission with discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4372563
I got approached by an employer through SO careers. We went for few rounds and got the offer. But I ended up taking another offer with better compensation.
A standardized API that can be embedded into many mail clients would be great for this sort of thing.