jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
http://searchyc.com/submissions/last+question
At the corporates I've worked at, this product would have been preemptively blocked anyway because it relies on an outbound ssh connection through the external firewall, which wouldn't have been allowed. I'm not sure if that's standard practice at other SuperGloboCorp organizations.
Yes, we have been struggling with a focus problem. We're techies (and our tech is good), not marketing gurus. :-)

Thanks!
You should file for an S-Corp. It provides the same tax benefits as the LLC and the liability protection but helps you save on self-employment taxes which equals 15.3%. If you feel like talking directly, just let me know.

You can look me up on hn office hours or email me directly at cameronkeng@thekenggroup.com
It seemed like it would be relatively more complex to set up / run, and more expensive to store large bunches of files. Good middle-range option. I like to dual-boot sometimes, which might mean hairier fixes, but more than that I don't want to have to do any tech support for my backup solution if anything goes wrong. Experiments, software, I'm fine dealing with the consequences, but with my data, I don't want too many DIY fixes since the results can be really unpleasant!
Anything I was uploading to the interwebs for serious storage would already be lovingly encrypted in a TrueCrypt container... usually.
I like this, but... how is it free?
I really don't see the need for something like this. We have instant messaging, SMS, Twitter, and so on for this functionality. I think it would be better served to make instant messaging more universal and have less boundaries.
If I wanted to store everything, 100 GB would be too small.
Right! Linode was $20/month at least and more focused to businesses. Not the then unbelievable $5/month for SSH ssh accessible virtual box with root access that DO started. Plus the SSD. Other hosting providers later caught on with DO.

But the thing I liked best was their "no hidden cost". You pay what you agreed before to pay. No surprise. No upsell, trick sell which were common with all hosting at that time.

DO still maintains that honesty. Not sure what will happen after their IPO.
how is it possible that someone can carry this kind of attack without facing any kind of legal consequences? I know they are china we're not going to start a war with them but shit is there really no legal authority here?
All you people suggesting "do both" - do you really know what you are talking about? We may have different definitions of what a startup is.

If by startup, you mean a one man website that is some kind of low-maintenance subscription service, then yeah sure, go travel the world.

But if you define startup as I do, as a venture-backed, aggressively growing company employing people, then how the hell are you going to travel the world while managing that? Please tell me if you have a way, because I would be genuinely interested :)
By making something useful! There's nothing wrong with charging an honest price for a useful service. That can be just as valuable as public service.
Have you tried contacting any news organizations? I can imagine a few in and around San Francisco would probably be interested in this, as it has a direct impact on Gay Rights.

This seems like complete discrimination. They shouldn't be able to freeze your account for having any references to "gay X" any more than they should be able to freeze your account if you were advertising "african american X".
Say what you want about PayPal but they don't discriminate. They screw everyone regardless of race, religion, sex or sexuality.

To the OP: Like so many people, I lost money when PrayPal[0] locked me out of my account. No amount of faxing documents, emails or phone calls would convince them that it was my account and my money. I ended up just walking away.

A suggestion might be to go talk to a gay rights group and try turn this into a civil rights / discrimination issue ... they won't want the bad press.

[0] PrayPal: Put money in and pray you get it back out again.
Yes. I didn't want to criticize MongoDB or SQL based databases. Just point out that Redis' protocol is small and easy to implement.
I wonder if I can convert my old dusty Win XP Parallels image and VM-import it into EC2... That would be pretty cool!
Well, it's true that the first and most important thing is to ensure that the sign of your overall effect on the world is positive, not negative, before you attend to increasing its magnitude. But you don't need to train 17 hours a day to achieve that; more than anything, you just need to be in the right circumstances, so that the everyday living of your life helps the commonweal rather than hurting it.
This is actually a pretty good analysis by the mainstream press. While the information is well-known to the point of being common sense for us, for readers of the WSJ it will likely be a learning experience.
Thanks! The link I posted was the link cited on Knuth's website... no blog spam intended.
I think it would be fun to think of this in a more high-level language where data structures could be autonomously tuned by a VM or interpreter.

That way, you could start out with lists when prototyping and building up your app, but under the covers, at runtime, your underlying data structure could swap into something else that optimized your usage pattern. I also think that although this idea sounds fun, that it is premature optimization of the worst kind.

I do think that the idea of Perflint, where you do a little profiling up front as the dev, is much better than trying to use some embedded heuristics. Probably just realizing that its worth doing a little "real world data size" testing makes something Perflint valuable.
This was a pretty casual article, and the author does think the issue is exploratory, but there wasn't much depth of analysis. The graphs show only correlation between higher education and success, and if anything fit into the thesis that Thiel et al supports: people have a 'belief' in higher education (which explains the correlation--kids are told they HAVE to go to college, so the smart kids make sure they jump through all the hoops and get their degree) yet it doesn't truly educate the students in question.
"women don't give a crap what kind of car you have"

Not when you're married, no... but when you're single? It's taken as an indicator of your wealth and status (whether consciously or not).
At first glance, I thought 'pulse' meant it took your pulse. Not sure how that'd work.
You don't have to treat Android phones like devices with memory limits either; the only things that run in the "background" are services that explicitly request the ability to run something in the background, and most apps don't do this. Please stop spreading FUD.
This one adds more to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQyBBPPuPw
Really just more crybabies crying. It is only about 20x more than the total electricity used annually for Xmas lights in the USA. Thank about it. If you want to save the environment. Cancelling Xmas is a much better choice.
Static site generators have been around for ages. Jekyll was one of the first, as far as I know, but there are dozens of others now.

https://jekyllrb.com/

https://jamstack.org/
From yesterday:

https://www.axios.com/khashoggi-report-365166be-7092-483c-b7...
I suspect porting had something to do with the quality; software that is actually _ported_ (as opposed to Java or Electron write-once-run-everywhere) often ends up better for the exercise.
I know a very, very specific niche of riders who like these bags, and they make up an exceedingly small portion of the riders I’ve met over the years.

Bike packers are one group, which has overlap with the randonneur group. They are probably the largest set of cyclists who typically have bar bags.

And I don’t think they would buy this one - not a single one of them.
It's amazingly frightening to me that companies were willing to pay MILLIONS for a Cray 2 supercomputer and I carry a phone MORE POWERFUL than that and I basically use it to browse the internet - and I don't know anything to do on it that would be worth millions to do.
> If you're tired of cancel culture and censorship

Yeah, I am, but it's a stretch to assume that's behind this, when it could easily be a licensing issue or something else benign.

But I would be interested in an Amazon Streisand service that simply reports things that Amazon has disappeared, such as this and When Harry Became Sally. Maybe there is an ideological pattern, dunno.

https://humanevents.com/2021/02/23/amazon-sneakily-removes-b...
1/3 of $40k + $160k is significantly less than $185k. I would walk away.
This is really a quite surprising and profound fact, worth pondering.

Naively, one would think that if you have (in some antediluvian setting) village A with 50 men and 50 women, and village B with 10 men and 90 women (and children born with that gender ratio, respectively), that village B could "produce" way more offspring and grow faster.

A naive "group selection" view of evolution might even predict something like that to happen.

But, in village B, there is an incentive, so to speak, to cheat and have boys at a higher ratio, because that would increase expected total number of offspring. So, the gender ratio stabilises around 50/50 - a Nash equilibrium, if you will.
Swiftkey is what I found to work the best. It puts symbols on keys (e.g. long press m to make /), can make symbols like × by long-pressing *, can have a number row above the keyboard, and the predictions are some of the best as far as I've been able to tell.

I also don't mistrust Microsoft that much, since they don't have a data-oriented profit model, so even if the firewall is slow to boot up and lets it upload a backlog, even then it should be okayish.

I made the mistake of updating it once, though, and got an uglier design and now need to press two buttons to get into incognito mode rather than just one. Lesson learned: never change a nice system if it's fully firewalled and isolated... or at least have a planned retreat.
This is an exciting idea!

I seem to get a 'room is full' error when I try to connect between my macbook and imac. Any tips?
No, they don't. There doesn't need to be an arbitrage. If you have 10 USDT and I give you 9.90 USD for that...nothing else needs to happen.

But the degree that this is happening pales massively in comparison to the billions that are sat on exchanges and recycled.

Tether would be the first legitimate billion dollar operation where people have to say things like "but you didn't hear it from me".
How is that a dox attempt?
The value of your labor is how much the company is able to leverage it for a return. It has next to nothing to do with where you live. It's on the company to answer this question, not you or some third party to the negotiation between you and your employer.
I just checked: you can access the beta program in the play store, too!
Why do you need a blockchain for this? This just sounds like a shared data format.
As a general rule, never disclose current or old salary. Just because you get asked, doesn't mean you need to tell anyone.

I usually politely sidestep the "what's your current salary?" with a "in rolling to accept at least x, but we can negotiate if both parties are satisfied and get to offers". If a recruiter insists, I tell them I have a personal rule to never disclose that. I think I have lost a single prospect, which likely was never real to begin with. Likely just fishing.

While I'm at it, I never mention who my current employer is either. I usually obscure it on my cv of I'm still employed. I also had a request recently to provide a scan of my passport on initial application, which i also declined.

Honestly, recruiters think they can ask for any and all personal information they want. If you have value, no one will drop you because of it.
Makie.jl [1] does it's plotting on the GPU (like a video game engine), so can handle millions of datapoints just fine.

Also, note that for people to whom plotting is really important, it's quite easy nowadays to just AOT compile your plotting library to your sysimage with PackageCompiler.jl [2] for instant plots.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Makie.jl

[2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl
Interestingly from what I’ve read it seems like the hedge fund community overall views the GME event as fair play. ‘Maybe Melvin got burned but they should have known better’, kind of attitude.
Julia oversells itself as a general purpose language which I find absolutely out of line. Their marketing needs to be a lot more humble until they figure out the kinks.

Also, my guess would be Python and not Matlab as it’s main competitors.
Every single piece of advice amongst the top comments over there is straight up idiotic.
97% of people like to code??? What??? Unless you mean 97% of developers - in which case, yeah, I should hope so. But even if you meant 97% of the tech industry? This industry is full of people who want to "design apps" or "manage developers" or some other such nonsense (obviously, those are real things - but there are plenty of people claiming they want to do them that have no idea what they actually entail)
enough with this fear, uncertainty and doubt, Mt Gox should not be placed in the same sentence as Coinbase, Coinbase is a lot more transparent...
Not sure beards ever went away here in the South.
How about the Linux kernel? Essentially, it began as something very basic in 1991 when communication methods were much different than we have today (e.g. video conferencing, etc.)[0]. There are many other examples of high quality open source projects that were born or greatly improved on the Interwebs, e.g. Git, Apache, ...

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[0]: http://oldlinux.org/Linus/911010.pdf
that's a pretty good description & solves find the frame (or potentially the bike) but not the parts being stripped & re-sold.

Maybe that's good enough. The 2007 article posted by a reader (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8817800) mentions the sequence is: Sell complete bike on Craigslist & stripping down as the last resort moving the parts to chop shops. The high cost is another form of insurance especially for USD8K bikes.
Environment variables can work well for development but I wouldn't put them in .bashrc or .bash_profile; if you are like me, you like to store your dot files somewhere public. I typically leave them in an encrypted file on dev systems, but this only solves the accidental over the shoulder problem. Production systems require another level of security altogether.

Typically, I've seen services run in restricted user accounts with limited system access, reading passwords out of an encrypted file. This file is stored in some obscure location on the box to which that user account is the only one with read permissions to.

Keep in mind, every system has weaknesses and I am still interested in listening to others' approaches.
> a gas-engined car has to deal with less air to burn which balances out the lower wind resistance.

Thats only true if you have an old carbureted car that requires turning a screw under the hood to adjust the air-fuel mixture. Modern cars measure the amount of O2 in the exhaust and adjust the mixture to keep the moles-of-O2 to moles-of-gasoline ratio roughly fixed.

The thinner air means you have to open the throttle wider to achieve the same manifold pressure, which in turn means that with the throttle wide-open, the engine will produce less power. But the thinner air should have no effect on the amount of gas you need to burn to achieve a particular amount of power.
I love ledger. It inspired me to create a life/fitness command line tracking tool using the same idea https://github.com/Hranoprovod/hranoprovod-cli
There's a fairly straight forward pattern for keeping sensitive credentials out of github. It comes straight from http://12factor.net/config store configuration data in the environment.

What I do for most projects is keep the tree containing the working directory in a directory that has some other items that don't belong on github (like the project brief, my emacs bookmarks file, random notes related to the project etc. ) and in that directory there is a .credentials file containing a set of export statements somewhat like:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export AWS_SECRET_KEY=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
export AWS_USER_ID=############

If I'm feeling extra paranoid, I'll encrypt that into a blob that I only decrypt when I'm working on said project.

Then at startup the app goes looking for it's config in the environment. This does create issues for some environments ( solving this for docker is trivial ) but you can usually pass environment variables to whatever is executing your code reasonably securely. Now it's not perfect, and environments can sometimes be revealed externally if an attacker is determined and clever and focused on your app for some reason.

But it does give you a hygienic procedure that keeps your credentials that are equivalent to an open draw on your bank account out of public repositories.
Apple can't deny consumer law, so no. In countries like Norway (5 years "right of complaint" for electronics where the manufacturer is obligated to either repair or provide an equivalent product, new or refurbished), Apple has to oblige the consumer, by law.
Basho have an excellent guide that'll get you a decent practical understanding of Riak in about 45 minutes:

http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/The+Riak+Fast+Track
Can I complain that I posted about this almost 2 weeks ago?

http://neosmart.net/blog/2010/google-adds-support-for-custom...

Even submitted it to HN, but I guess since it's TechCrunch it makes the cut :)

(link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1384608)
that is not possible with the current safari api
1 month = 730.484398 hour

730.484398 * 0.01 UK£ = 10.6570369 U.S. dollars
So I'd be interesting to hear if anyone is running this in a prod env? I'm currently evaluating NoSQL at the moment (mongo, cassandra, raven etc etc) so would be interested to hear peoples real world experiences with it?
I have great news for you. The brain is extremely plastic. Read about neuroplasticity here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity

Rest assured that your capacity to acquire new skills and knowledge is massive.

You don't just get smarter. You get smarter at something in particular. Playing chess, doing IQ tests, running the 100m dash, programming, social skills, public speaking, etc. So you need to pick a particular skill or set of skills or vocation and decide to get smarter at that.

There are some general rules for improving brain function though. Here are a few:

1. Read books. Reading trains your brain to concentrate for long periods of time without fatigue or distraction. There is a growing school of thought that the short bursts of reading and frequent distractions we experience online are harming our ability for deep contemplation, introspection and concentration. See Nicholas Carr, The Shallows. http://n.pr/bnAfRV

2. Try to get 10 hours of sleep a night. Sleep improves mental and athletic performance. http://n.pr/9wQsXr

3. Maintain your cardiovascular fitness. I highly recommend running. After years of cycling, swimming, hiking, etc I've found that running gives my brain function the biggest boost and provides me with sustained mental energy through the day. A good cardiovascular system supplies your brain with plenty of healthy oxygen rich blood. It's like putting racing fuel in your car.

4. Eat well. Cook your own food. Avoid processed or pre-prepared foods and non-organic foods (mainly due to the pesticides). Fish is awesome, but watch out for mercury.

5. Don't drink anything stronger than wine. Don't do drugs. (just like your mom told you)

6. Watch your weight. I find the biggest source of mental fatigue is when I've gained a few pounds.

Good luck, and congratulations on making the decision at a relatively young age to focus on your mental fitness.
It's interesting to contrast the response between geeks and grandmothers when Google adds Pac-Man (with sound) to the hompage, and a nice picture of some pigs.
He mentioned he was a foster parent. He may be legally required to implement a technical block.
Thanks for the info! I have many questions about your tool, but if the answer is "go check it out via a free account!" then just tell me that and I'll get around to it :)

- Were you influenced by Swagger at all? Did you exist before/after?

- Do you expose any schema that developers can modify via an API or similar? Do you have an internal schema that all docs follow?

- I edited my original comment to include Read the Docs [1]. Are you familiar with that service (it is in private beta)? What are some advantages of using ReadMe instead of Read the Docs?

[1] http://readthedocs.com
I haven't looked into that yet, and am hesitant to go that route, as it often means giving up some features...sometimes important ones. My old Sensation 4G never got a new ROM because WiFi and the camera were non-working with Cyanogenmod; I rooted it and stipped it of all of its T-Mobile and HTC shovelware, but it kept its default OS.

I didn't need to root it to get the Google Play Store side loaded, so I haven't looked into that, either. That said, if I can't figure out how to replace the awful launcher/home screen on this thing, I may eventually give it over the to CM gods (or whatever custom ROM comes along). I would like my back button, as well.

Edit: this conversation led to me googling how to replace the annoying launcher...it was as easy as installing Google Now Launcher. I just reduced my dislike of my phone by another large measure. Now, if I can just get the back button to come back, the stupid tilt functions disabled, and google maps to work right, this might turn out to be a decent phone.
Oh nice, I'd love to give the Signal 2.0 beta a go if you have any invites into the beta testing? :)
I created an iOS app http://ideon.co/theconverted/ as a side project. I've had hopes to be able to survive entirely on revenue from my own projects instead of relying on client work. I'm very far from that goal at this point, but the extra income is nice.
TickChek.com is a side-project I launched in collaboration with my university's wildlife laboratory to offer tick testing for Lyme and other diseases. We've grossed over $4k in out best months this last year.
I actually saw a concave face until I read the article. Now I see a regular face. I'm not drunk, high, or otherwise on any substance. I hope I'm not schizophrenic, though for some reason I've always thought that it would be awesome to have it like for a few days. So yeah. Concave faces.
Which methods in this SNTouch.m ( https://github.com/deliciousrobots/gnustep-gui-sony/blob/mas... ) are stubbed out class-dump methods and what UIKit class do they come from?

Where were the new instance variables in NSView.h copied from? I've been comparing them to class-dumps ( http://code.google.com/p/iphone-dev/source/browse/#svn/trunk... ) of Apple's code and I don't see anything like what you are describing. Care to show some examples?
Badges/leaderboard for pushing a button != game. More like cheese for the caged rat.
Easy way: Find ETFs representing each of those core areas. Calculate the correlation coefficient between any of these pairs. You should be able to do this in any programming language, or with tools like eSignal or Tradestation if that's your cup of tea. You can have fun looking at correlation with other pairs in various markets if you think about it.

Edit: What are you looking to do with the correlation? As a technical indicator, it can be interesting to see when markets diverge/converge in price. Is this what you're after?