jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The only reason it got to 19B was because Brian Acton refused to cut and run.

He refused to sell repeatedly.

19B is an insane price. Clearly the buy was worth it for FB so it's not mispriced, but really think about the 19B.

They had 30 employees? I think people that worked there for one year cleared $140M.

If someone held out until 19B I would trust them to be more principled than 99% of founders.
Is it better to not even have a chance to work? Not sure why the choice has to be between a 100% effective solution and a "better than nothing" solution.

It's like saying to the Fire Extinguisher salesman, "But what if the fire is too big and I run out of propellant? No thanks I'm not going to own one."
Every administration change, at a minimum.
What was unsustainable was the will to calmly ignore 19 billion dollars sitting on the table. I would certainly fail that test.

I wonder if they considered a legal structure which would tie their hands, precisely to prevent such a thing. Long before they got so big, I mean. Would that be possible?
I never heard of thedonald.win and took a peek over there just to see what a cesspool of banned users looks like.

JFC. It's a circus of terrible thinking and baseless anger over there. If that site is getting a lot of traffic, you folks who consider yourselves above such things better start fighting for what is actually true and good, because what is not true and not good is exactly what is festering over there, and if they don't get their vote, they WILL get violent again, just see how they attacked Lindsey Graham at the airport just now for breaking rank on principle... and sweeping these folks under the rug will not eradicate the cancer
No, that's the actual IP address, but you have to browse it as "www.fulltiltpoker.com", otherwise it redirects you to there.
Not that this helps, but: always worth asking whether an 'average' is a mean (likely to be skewed higher by a heavy tail of high salaries in certain industries, certain areas etc), or a median.
Same here, I would pay good money for the offline version. Personally this falls into the category of "too much risk not enough benefits"
what do you use for tracking and managing inbound user feature requests and support issues?
Oh man, I really enjoyed reading this because I've felt the exact same way most of my life (as a matter of fact, I still do feel this way quite often).

Dealing with people is incredibly hard because everyone has biases, experiences, and lives of their own -- and regardless of how much you try to put yourself into someone else's shoes -- to understand why this person is the way they are -- there is simply no way to ever truly understand how someone feels and acts.

People can be hateful, ignorant, and mean to one another -- but at the same time, people can also be kinda, loving, and compassionate.

I've found that the best way to get around the constant anxiety that goes along with wanting to help and fix everyone I come across is to try my best to be accepting of people the way they are.

Nowadays when I meet new people, I try to have no expectations: instead of building up a mental image of this person in my head, and assigning them an identity (this person is nice, or this person is smart, or whatever) -- I instead try to be fully present in the moment and let things happen as they will.

Not only does this help me deal with social anxiety a lot, but also helps me relax and feel more comfortable about myself, knowing that I'm constantly trying to live in the moment, accept reality (and people) as they are, and live my life the way I choose regardless of outside influences.

It's incredibly hard to do this, but all the effort pays off (at least it does for me).

Thank you for sharing your story.
It's okay, though, because he won the Peace Prize, and is the first African-American in office, and he's going to fix healthcare and shutdown Guantanamo Bay.

Ron Paul for Galactic Emperor 2016--failing that, let's see what Hillary does. :(

EDIT: Lest you get the wrong impression the entire lineup of Republican turkeys probably would've ended just as repugnantly.
They can afford it because they have sufficient cash reserves to pay the upfront costs of robotic vehicles versus ongoing personnel costs.

Eliminating workman's comp suggests that the robotic vehicles are substantially safer compared to putting human lives at risk.

(As a roboticist, I reject the notion that "all automation is bad", but that's a separate discussion.)
I wonder how often this happens, and what the value of the information being provided to the hedge funds is. Anyone on HN got any information on the matter they can share?
Hey Arun.

Shot you an email to see where the disconnect happened.
The iPad port actually does this, look at their preview video and experience the full joy: http://vimeo.com/17390761
Even in the worst case you'd just buy another charger somewhere in the world, or plug into it a computer in a internet cafe or borrow someone else's.

I travelled to Honduras (from the U.K.) and realised after a few days I didn't have a charger for camera and then battery ran down. It's non standard and I couldn't find one anywhere. However, I noticed someone I met had a similar camera so I just borrowed her charger. In another situation (another trip) a friend's camera failed, but I had two cameras by then, I let her borrow one of mine with her memory card for the rest of the trip - problem solved.

Somehow, I don't think your story (or mine) has anything to do with dropping a business with millions of users, annoying lots of customers, with knock on effects for Flickr, upcomming etc. and losing trust with the early adopter community which are key to many new products succeeding.

Trust is not commodity you can borrow or buy.
Photos, Music, Video. It all adds up.

Oh and my .vimrc is about 3gb now too.
According to the counter, I was one of the first 5 or 6 in. But I got that error screen for a good 10 minutes, then timeouts and nginx error pages. All the while the counter was counting down. Gave up, checked my email, and noticed that I received an invoice. No credit yet, but I suspect I made it.
I used to work in machine translation, about 15 years ago. At the time, one of the big things they were working on was an improvement to the contextual inferences. The prior versions were able to consider context within a single sentence, and input documents could be tagged with a subject area, so the system would know to resolve ambiguities in favor of, say, medical terms.

The best examples of this, I thought, were the following passages:

Yesterday I went to the symphony. The sound was beautiful.

versus

Yesterday I went to Long Island. The sound was beautiful.

In the first passage, sound refers to an auditory experience; in the second, it refers to a body of water. Within the sentence "The sound was beautiful", there's no way to know which to use, so one must look to surrounding information to make a guess.

But I've given a short and clear example; anyone can see the right solution. But in real-life usage it's frequently unclear.
I think you underestimate the consequences of getting caught!

Your plans are reasonably valid at first - you still need to deliver the drugs to the launch location, but that's a current problem with deliveries anyway. However, that third location is going to be the problem - if your authorities were really in a mood to capture you, they could track the drone back to your recovery site, and either wait for you to show up, or set up a camera to get you collecting the drone on tape. Note that they could use a drone of their own for this, too, and theirs can fly higher and probably have a better camera, so you'd have to be pretty diligent to make sure you aren't 'followed'.

And if you're attaching remotely-controlled explosive/incendiary devices onto your drone, then your risk factors have just gone up by a degree I can't even begin to estimate. I think a capacitor that would short out the electronics and memory would be enough, as long as you're careful about not getting any fingerprints or DNA samples on there.

This is fun to think about, though!

I suppose that if I were to do this, I'd have my drone go somewhere with only one aerial entrance that I'm surveilling, to make sure no other drone/person follows it in (e.g., train/subway tunnel, storm drain, etc) that has many different entrances/exits that I could use to recover the drone - if there are enough of these, I could go in and recover my drone before the police could reasonably place each one under surveillance/show up in person. But there's surely not an infinite supply of these even in a big city.
You mean like this?

https://www.hipmunk.com/flights#f0=BOS;t0=HNL;d0=2015-02-11;...
Very good, and limiting itself entirely to hard facts.

Backing up those facts are e.g. the reports on the top Transocean guy on the rig, Jimmy Harrell. Another worker has reported that after the meeting with BP where the latter decided to remove the mud Harrell said "Well, I guess that's what we have those pinchers for" (the BOP shears that failed for one reason or another).

A less well sourced report has him saying this while on a boat to someone in Houston:

"Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig's on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.

"I am fucking calm. "You realize the rig is burning?"
See Esyir's response. In short, we do NOT look up your DNA, and only look into microbial DNA. In fact, we do a host depletion step to enrich for microbial DNA prior to sequencing, then a following host depletion step prior to microbial mapping. Sequencing will inevitably pick up some signal from the host genome, but at such low levels, we cannot derive meaningful signal from the host DNA.

TLDR, we do NOT use host genetic data, but cannot guarantee that none of that data will be stored somewhere in this analysis
Because I’m having an existential crisis thinking how incapable I am and have been winging it all along. Keep stressing over how long would it be before they find out and kick me out.
This seems a little dangerous since now the logged in state (likely cookies but maybe also hashed with identifiers like IP etc.) becomes considerably more valuable to steal.

I actually see the opposite done, where any changes to login related things (passwords, 2fa keys) mandate a 2fa re-auth.
> Sources would be anyone who's grown up in a poor neighborhood. The day that government checks clear gets weird. Drug and liquor lines grow, as do those for sexual services. And of course the flurry of activity invites robbery, etc. Housing projects, for example homeless housing in SF, will ban visitors on and around those days.

Wake up wake up wake up it’s the first of the month
Get up get up get up cash your check and move on

Bone thugs described it in 1999 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PArF9k2SbQk
Yeah spam, people kowtowing to their company's PR gospel, and the usual "inspirational" messages from sponsors.

It's a sickening mess of PR giddiness but unfortunately it's needed to get a job nowadays.

I hate it so much though, never post anything and I only accept people I actually know.
I think that's why it's very important to get buy-in and solicit feedback from coworkers even if you're the domain expert. Also, regression test coverage from the beginning is very important if you ever expect anyone else or even your future self to have a shot at safely modifying mission critical pieces of code.
The police are not abusing law. The bots that do the automatic take-downs are abusing the law.

This is not State censorship, because the police are not censoring the videos. People still get to record them, and still get to share them. If they can't be bothered to post somewhere other than Instagram (which is abusing their rights), then the failure to share is on the people doing the posting.

There's nothing stopping the people who recorded the videos from sending them to the news media. The recordings are still getting made.

They're just being removed by some bot from the Instagram feeds. Shame on Instagram.
Recommended practice in server frameworks is to control the information in the errors according to the environment i.e. Development|Production.

But many websites fail to do so.
Interesting to see someone else with the same base and thoughts on it, and I'd highly recommend it! At a lower level, I've found a PL/Compilers background lets me switch/pick up languages quickly often and also helps even finding quirks as you can often guesstimate where the bodies are buried from design choices of the language. Also very helpful for architect type roles where you're picking what technologies to build on, consulting experts when needed.

I think the idea of "you have to spend years and years to know the internals of X" is a bit flawed - you can get quite a good feel in ~6 months that's not equivalent but not terribly far off. If you do "height on demand" for long enough, you end up with a good number of these. As someone called it, a "comb" engineer, if you will.
My understanding is that duckduckgo uses Bing rather than google (mentioned in the comments at http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/duck-duck-go-arc...). Although that doesn't alter the validity of your concern.
> "Netty is not the problem. Java NIO has that limitation."

As I say, I'd be interested in numbers to back that up. It's certainly not a limitation I've noticed.
Execution is everything, even in something as apparently simple (it isn't!) as a lego brick.

The tolerances, the plastics used, the pigments, all add up to a quality product. The difference is so large that you can tell the 'real' from the 'imitation' just by looking at them, you don't even need to do a trial fit to see which one is which.
This is old news; Hari Prasad visited the U.S. within the last month and gave a series of talks at universities around the country. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/us-prof-behind-evm-study-d... is the latest in the saga, but I have good reason to believe it's slightly inaccurate...
At the most basic level, the cardinal rule if you want to work and succeed at a company is to make your boss' job easier. When asked, "what can you help with?", you said "you'll do anything they need" and thus transferred the work to them to figure something out. That's not good.

They already have enough to do. So if you had said, "I have thought a lot about this, and Ii think I can do x, y and z to start and potentially a, b and c later", my gut tells me the outcome would be different.

Offering to do a free internship is indicative of moxy, but offering to do a free internship and having a plan on how you can contribute is truly valuable.

Best of luck.
You're certainly not the only one questioning the trend. I've been looking into phones like the Desire myself over the past few days, but having finally had chance to try one at the weekend, I was a bit underwhelmed: the screen really is very nice, but the UI you see on it is just full of junk stuff I would never use: millions of apps I don't care about, integration with social networking services I don't use, and the like. I'm also discovering that the battery life and, crucially, the mic and speaker seem to suck on all these new smart phones with big screens compared to a phone from a couple of years ago that is just designed to be a good phone, and that I hate typing anything with the touch-sensitive screens. Maybe they're just not the kind of device for someone like me, but I'm not sure anyone has made what I'm really looking for yet.
It's enabled by default.

It wasn't even a very good example, since Pulse is all about showing headlines with photos, and the Times feed didn't have photos in it so it was just a wall of text.
To: ahoythere
"By that logic, Safari ships with Apple and CNN "built in"."

Yes - but you bet Apple did actually ask CNN and others beforehand and CNN said Yes. That has been my experience.
It's not that they are not trying to innovate. It's that they are trying to navigate a rapidly changing environment in a big battleship that is slowly sinking.

The hell of being the NYT is that you're too big to pivot all the time, so you need to
pick a plan and stick with it. And if, ten years from now, it turns out you picked the wrong plan, you will feel awful because you lost the New York Times, for gods sake, when all you had to do was follow the soon-to-be-obvious-in-hindsight Plan X.

What is happening here seems clear: the Times is freaking out about iOS apps. Apple has cleverly offered the dead-trees publishers something that looks like the model they know, where they control the experience and the design and, not incidentally, the ad placement. And now the Times gets confused. Do they buy Apple's offer? The way the music publishers did? If they do, will their glass look half-empty in five years, or half-full? Or should they continue the earlier plan and try to compete on the open web where the mass of people are? And can either of these models support anything that resembles the existing staff and properties of the Times?
I was wondering about that. It did look like the "after" image was just someone using the font at full resolution, rather than being properly scaled down.
> wouldn't a paid for browser (html reader) do the same?

Remember Safari and IE are also paid for. Safari for Mac requires OSX and is, presumably, included in its price. The same goes for Internet Explorer, whose EULA explicitly forbids you from installing on anything other than Windows. Safari for Windows may get away with that.
That's a great read, congratulations to the author.

I wish newer movies featured devices like Cosmo Communicator, Pro1X or upcoming PinePhone with keyboard case in the hacking scenes to give the handhelds with keyboards a second chance. Last time I saw a cool handheld in a hacking scene(movie, so no Mr.Robot) was Nokia N8 in Tron Legacy(2010), but it really should have been N9.
Signalling is actually the easy part, as I'm sure you know. It was everything else that you take for granted when doing voice comms: auth, handshakes, reconnects, etc.

They all seem really simple, until you actually sit down to do it yourself. Mad props to the FaceTime crew...nobody else has mastered seamless RTC the way they have.
Many times you want to connect to someone but don't know anything but their name and who they're friends with. For example, my dad (who is 75 and whose wife died this past year) is engaging with many people on FB now, and it seems good for him
The trouble with water heaters is you want hot water year round. Heat pumps are pretty ineffective once you get down close to freezing. So having an exterior air source heat pump would only make sense for maybe half the year in a lot of locations.

Generally utility rooms in houses have a decent amount of waste heat anyway from being near the furnace, so it probably does work out decently a lot of the time.

My in-laws have a heat pump water heater and it makes their basement noticeably colder in the summer, which is pretty nice.
In their own way, the comments are more interesting than the article. Atwood lists StormFront as one of the sites they investigated the dynamics of. The other two object; one claims Atwood was dismissive of his concerns in a twitter convo. In the end, the posts were civilized and the discourse, nonexistent. Each is visibly holding back his fuller opinion not b/c it would be uncivilized to give it but b/c he fears being seen as such. What was gained?
We were working on a product that used their SmartCamera product, seems like we will not be able to do that anymore. Their huge database and human recognition for worst case scenario were great. Does anyone know any good alternatives?
>Fortunately for everyone, the "antivirus community", which produces software I would also classify as malware

Why? I know some are better or worse than others, but...
First of all, I believe you're still missing my point, so maybe I need to be more clear. I'm fine with a simple "we didn't know better" since that's apologetic. That's not a falsehood even if it weren't possible for the Americans to know better; I'm willing to believe they acted in good faith on the best information they had. That's not even a falsehood even if there truly weren't any better options, which is of course impossible to know.

Instead you get "we did what we had to", which is unapologetic, and doesn't allow the possibility of there being better options. It basically comes down to admitting doubt vs. reinforcing belief (since asserting an unfalsifiable claim is a belief).

Nevertheless, I'm not convinced that invading Japan was the only alternative. I mentioned somewhere, perhaps not in reply to you, that dropping atomic bombs on remote regions of Japan would have demonstrated military superiority with far less casualties.

And another post in this thread linked to this article:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/the_bomb_di...

If you're actually really interested in this, and maybe you are since you're obviously interested in military stuff, I'm pretty sure there are entire bookcases filled with books and journal articles weighing the pros and cons of the decision to drop the bomb.
I used to heavily use http://cooltext.com/ to generate logos over 10 years ago, and amazingly it's still there. The site is a web interface to GIMP (or at least was). It basically converts text into any typeface/effect you want.

HipsterLogoGenerator is the modern day equivalent. Text as an image isn't very Web 2.0 (you're supposed to write an equivalent sized CSS file to create the same effect), but today's logos should be ambiguous in relation to the company or products purpose.
He says the maximum number of units is 1600.

If 6 players mindcontrol a drone and an scv and build additional armies, the total number of units could way exceed 1600. Or what am I missing?
The next book ("The Rhesus Chart") came out last July; there are five books in various stages of production after that ... and none of them deal with cryptocurrency or space colonization or the singularity: this decade I'm doing urban fantasy (plus my big fat post-Edward Snowden security state near-future technothriller).
Yes it does since they describe them as "Tic-Tacs" which are in fact round and cylindrical.
Amazing story! Thanks for sharing
The same anarcho capitalists running France, Spain, Italy, Germany, etc?
As well as for regular stuff, I'm now using email as a WhatsApp replacement with a few friends, with the delta.chat mobile apps.
There are quite a lot of comments that make it to the top which say, "That's nice, I made this similar thing which is really interesting, here's a <link>." Followed by a big thread about their thing.

I don't mind those comments so much, as they can lead to good stuff, but I do mind them derailing the main thread when they are upvoted. So, I often downvote them in retaliation.
Interestingly, there was an article in the Swedish media this morning basically calling out a number of Swedish governmental ministries for violating Swedish privacy law. The violations were all the use of google analytics.
And the parent's comment is any contracting work, really.

With DoD you have to add in various accountability steps, political footballs, public opinion, etc.

If you've spent time around the DC area you'd be shocked at the number of adverts for things like the F-22 that you see. One time I took the metro from NoVA to MD, with a stop off downtown, and counted at least 6. They're not just bringing lawyers and playing contractor games, they're aggressively marketing to everyone.
I would say either use Firebase or roll your own ( a open source self-hosted framework would fit this).

Firebase seems to be one of Google's stable projects, so I love it. I've used it for at least 4 years. I'm only using it as a hobbyist, so take all my experiences with a grain of salt.