jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was more talking about someone posting a thread on HN earlier in the week that said someone was going to post something to fuck with HN users to get their personal info.
Definitely. That story (or rather, the concept - as there are seemingly many variations on the story) was the first thing that came to mind when I read the article. Google "knowing where to tap" for (some) variations.
I can't put my finger on it, but for some reason I just can't stop brainstorming about this concept. I think it'd need to be marketed as a lower level service than Posterous. It wouldn't create a nice web page for you, it would just store the data and let you do whatever you want with it.

I guess you're right though. If somebody was going to code something and use a database, they'd probably just go with something a little more direct.

Edit: Also, in regards to overhead of GET versus an SMTP message. I think the payload for SMTP might be about the same or maybe even less than GET in size.
Don't you have this problem with any 3rd party email client that doesn't use OAuth? With bigger projects it's going to be pretty improbable that a malicious commit will get pushed to the trunk, but still, with small projects and hacks like this it's always a possibility.
Greenwald has an article on Salon calling solitary confinement torture. He's not alleging actual torture.
5:48 marathon was his fastest time, according to that article. That's A LOT of walking. And that was his best time.

This is more akin to hiking a flat version of the Appalachian Trail than running 50 km straight.
Good work! (And quick: What search-term or tool did you use?)
> watch NYC launches

Is there a site to keep up with this? I'm in NYC.

Similarly for air travel: what do you use to find good deals? Sounds like you've done research.
See also the 2009 edition: http://www.edmunds.com/car-buying/confessions-of-a-car-sales...
More worrying (to me, anyway) than the potential to run out of money is the Wayback Machine's policy of permanent, retroactive exclusions.

A copyright holder, rogue admin or anyone who buys a used domain can immediately destroy the entire history of a URL they control. This isn't "accessible to everyone" and it definitely isn't "forever."

I understand that rights holders, etc need a certain amount of protection but this policy hamstrings the project. If content can be removed, the archive fundamentally can't be trusted.
- 14 webapps on AppEngine, all small and all profitable

- 1 Linode for internal webapps

- 1 Linode for some fancy data mining

- S3 for backups

I highly recommend all those services if you undestand their strengths.
I do in theory agree that a user (wrt Windows) shouldn't be running their machine with admin privileges-it's certainly how I do my day-to-day work in Unix environments. I tried running Windows with a watered-down user account, but I found that all it did was cripple my capabilities while hardly affecting those of the malware that would infect my machine.
I think a more apt retort is "looks like Chinese" because when/if you learn Perl6 I assure you that line will seem natural, readable and meaningful.

Still you are perfectly free to not learn Perl6 nor Chinese :-)
And would break[0] or blackbox every single application in the process…

Yes, right.

[0] considering how scaled applications looked after a "trivial" doubling from iPhone to iPhone 4 resolutions, a half-assed scaling (1.367 or 1.5625 for your suggestions) would not only look utterly terrible, it would burn significant amounts of resources. Which are already limited on the iPad (it has filltrate issues for instance)
It's the 21st century version of the 1960s ELIZA program. For people who are so addicted to texting with their friends that they need something, anything, to get them through those endless five minutes when their friends are off doing something else.
I've actually had arguments with people who believe drunk driving is the fault of "the system" for not making transit instant and free for everyone. So blaming auto manufacturers is the sort of thing people actually believe.
Does anyone else find it funny that it's a .org domain?
Real people are eating too much rice. This problem can be addressed by eating less rice.
Now Facebook wants to track other things that were out of their control too. If businesses start using the messenger, then facebook will know about my buying habits and other information too.

And how long will it take for Facebook to sell as Ads, the information back to businesses that helped them collect it.
It's not JS is the only thing in the world of computers which is around largely because it picked up enough momentum to have people try to improve on it rather than replace it.
A local network is more than capable of serving up the chromecast app. It's a restriction they've added to the device that it won't load it from a local network.
Too bad leap seconds will not be abolished before this happens, abolishing leap seconds is up for consideration in November 2015 at the World Radio Conference:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Proposal_to_abolis...

I wish they had a call for public comments.
So if I get this, HBO Go, Netflix, and Hulu Plus, I'm looking at something like $60/month (plus my broadband costs). (I can get broadcast TV over antenna, though reception isn't always great, even in a big city like Houston.)

Almost approaching the costs of buying cable, right?
Imagine a lighter than air cruise-ship. That's an interesting idea and somewhat more realistic from an engineering perspective. There must be some kind of happy medium of a giant lifting body full of helium that takes 24 hours but is large and luxurious.

The key to all future transport seems to be turning it away from disciplined travel as the primary activity. Doesn't matter if its bizjets or cruise ships or trains or my crazy balloon idea.

A cultural moving away from "travel for 4 hours strapped into a seat in a car or old fashioned airplance" but "hang out at the bar for 8 hours or play video games or post on facebook for 8 hours, or join the mile high club all night, oh, and at the same time as traveling from pt A to pt B but its not the primary activity"
I'm not sure about that. It's toward the top of my "Github Contributions", and by necessity I have to show them my Github. I've never worked as a developer before beyond a few small contract jobs, so I have to show them code somewhere.

In any case, this is falling off the new page, so I probably won't be able to hear from a meaningful sample of the hiring population. So I'll just have to risk it, and revisit it if I don't get any calls.
I used to work for a small web agency. Clients would buy websites all the time without having a clue what the content was going to be. Occasionally I'd say "We can't start work until you provide us with content." Most times it was a deal killer: the client wouldn't sign the contract unless they saw the design first. In other cases, the client would promise to find content, but never deliver. I can't tell you how many blank websites we billed out after waiting for months with no content.

Because clients dragged their feet on getting us content, most of our sites had to use placeholder texts. The client would delay content until the last minute. Then, as always, we'd get some shitty word document with content that didn't fit into our design. Text was crammed into places it didn't belong. Feature boxes were created for content that didn't exist. A design disaster. But clients loved it. And it got contracts signed.

If you're a freelance designer, team up with a good copywriter. 10% of the time, the client will agree to have their site written by a professional, you'll get content on time, and everyone will be happy. The other 90% of the time, the client will try to save money by writing it themselves. They will either write an indecipherable crap-pile, or absolutely nothing. These are the clients that pay your salary. And that's why placeholder text will always exist.
Recipes explicitly cannot be copyrighted: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl122.html

This is why Coke's recipe is a trade secret instead. I've recently been down the patent research path myself and to me it is still not clear what creates a patentable non-obvious combination of technologies, and what is simply not patentable. In many cases it seems based on the patent reviewer's subjectivity.
I also got mine today (about a week from submitting my application). Hardware is great, imo. The trackpad take some getting used to coming from a Macbook, although it's no worse than any other netbook I've played with.

As for their OS, it's Chrome-the-browser with a login page and a few more hidden about:config style pages, no frills. I think my wife will love it when she gets home. All of her computing use cases are internet based, and we were discussing buying her an iPad, but she'll probably try to steal this for her couch computing usage. SD slot and file management seem a little iffy right now (downloading a PDF from google docs worked, uploading a picture from my digital camera didn't).

As for the command prompt, you can hit ctrl-alt-T to get to the console, but it's very limited. SSH is password only, not key based, which is practically a deal breaker for me.

The Verizon wireless setup was painless, and when connected it shows you how much data you have left in the context menu which is really nice (although you do have to create an account with Verizon and provide a CC number, even for the free service. I figure it's stored for immediate plan upgrade options since they don't have overage fees).

As someone else mentioned, I think a Google hosted VPN service would be really nice for this. More of the "no worries OS" since 100mb is very little wireless data and I'm not all that tempted to be daring and hop on public wifi and access any personal data.
As funny as this sounds, fixing the upload bandwidth problem is also something we will work on. Getting a good route between your users and servers can make a real difference.

So at some point in the future we'll offer upload servers in all major geographic areas.
Yeah, why don't they make a 150x faster javascript encoder, then I only have to upload much less data! </derp>
From the article:
"Just as a quicksort algorithm that sorts in O(n log n) comparisons is fundamentally better (except in very small sets) than a bubble sort that typically takes O(n^2) comparisons."

Small nitpick: while average time of the quicksort algorithm is O(n log n), the worst case is O(n^2).
What? Building an OS is just the cost of a laptop and test device (~$1000 at most), playing Madden costs you $60 + $200 console, the puzzle is just the cost of the newspaper, and depending on what you mean by "rewiring" and your level of know-how, that project shouldn't be out-of-this-world expensive either. Not anything like a million dollars, or even $15k for that matter.

To be honest, I think your post illustrates the premise of the article. You can do these things without a vast sum of money just as easily as if you had a big wad of cash.

And if your point is that being able to do those projects and ALSO "buy what you want" (e.g. nicer TV and car) will give you much greater satisfaction from your life, you are clueless about human nature. You might get a thrill from these items in the short term, but eventually you'll just want more and better ones. You'll be in the same place (psychologically) as where you started.
Looked at her linkedin profile, she went from getting her BS in 1980 to being Deputy Director of the US Department of Justice in 1983. How did that happen? She was a college grad with 3 years of experience with a degree in math. She's not a lawyer or a DA or State Attorney General, I'm really curious how she got that job?

Edit: Seems she was the Deputy Director of the Office of Information Assurance in the US Department of Justice. That's still a big jump, but not as large.
Luckily, centenarians aren't typically in the market for buffered video encoding vendors.
Perhaps US calls will stay free, but you may have to listen to some targeted advertising in the future?
Thanks for the suggestion, we definitely screwed that up.
This discussion reminds me of a quote:

"Young people trade their time and health for money, only to later trade that money for time and health."
Like any other practice (programming, music, art) it can be difficult at first and the benefits take time to accrue. I struggled to sit comfortably for a long time before I reached the point where I can sit easily for an hour - though it still takes a little time getting up :)

As far as bladders, in the Zen tradition, half-day or full-day sits are short sessions of sitting (maybe 35 minutes) alternated with walking meditation (maybe 5 or 10 minutes). During the walking meditation, you have an opportunity to step out if you need the toilet. Also, there can be a meal and rest period thrown in so that it's not actually 4 or 8 hours of just sitting.
davorak - Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it!
We actually had some winners in the 90s but many of them either lost their winnings in the dot bomb or never invested in other companies. A few of those winners are guiding their second or third start-ups, too.
One thing rote learning is good for is how to spell in languages whose pronunciation and spelling are inconsistent, like English.

(sorry)
You do know how he started in Canada right ? Nothing glamorous about that. And don't get me started on the Emerald mine talking point. As far as every trustworthy source has confirmed he was quite far from a trust fund kid. The one thing in his favor was possible to be a white, well educated kid. Compared to all the PoC who don't even have that under similar conditions.
I found this section (pp. 33-34) particularly interesting:

...enforcement of the Sun Java API copyright might give Oracle a significant share of these funds. It is important, however, to consider why and how Oracle might have become entitled to this money. When a new interface, like an API or a spreadsheet program, first comes on the market, it may attract new users because of its expressive qualities, such as a better visual screen or because of its superior functionality. As time passes, however, it may be valuable for a different reason, namely, because users, including programmers, are just used to it. They have already learned how to work with it. [...]

This source of Android’s profitability has much to do with third parties’ (say, programmers’) investment in Sun Java programs. It has correspondingly less to do with Sun’s investment in creating the Sun Java API. We have no reason to believe that the Copyright Act seeks to protect third parties’ investment in learning how to operate a created work. [...]

Finally, given programmers’ investment in learning the Sun Java API, to allow enforcement of Oracle’s copyright here would risk harm to the public.

If one were to apply the above logic to anti-trust instead of copyright fair use, one might wonder if the Court could find harm to the public in certain behaviors of e.g. a monopoly email provider or monopoly social networking site.

(A big argument against anti-trust enforcement against Google and others is that the Sherman Act is designed to protect consumers, not competitors.)
quite amazingly, it was written, produced and performed by (mostly) hobbyist musicians and actors from Russia's pretty sizeable LARP community (though some leads are pros)
The link provided there for the city of Flint, Michigan goes to a 404 page.
Judge William Alsup learned to code for this case

He learned Java for the case, but he was already an accomplished developer: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-googl...
I doubt it is "finished" in that it has only been asked to parse a case or two and if it broke I would have to choose between extending it or just trying the GPs implementation.
That's because the West already made those improvements and there are no longer any low hanging fruit.
They've not only rid themselves of the activists, they've made it clear that you lose your job if you publicly disagree with them. You'll lose your job and if you try to fight it you'll spend years just to get a settlement.

From here on out everyone will be thinking "is this worth losing my job over, especially when I may have similarly serious concers about any employer I work for?"
For video and photography, there has to be a human element involved.

A fixed, CCTV feed of a beach with a daily sunset is not copyrightable, nor is a non-human using a photo camera.
If we are to be very picky I'd say

if (/ip(od|hone)/i.test(navigator.userAgent))

is easier to figure out than

if (/ip(hone|od)/i.test(navigator.userAgent))

for some reason.
Beside the options DaFranker mentioned... There is also good old IRC. Its something that I've used for many many years of development chat. It also has the advantage of being something that your company can run internally. Channel logging is not terribly hard either... While it's certainly not as batteries included as some of the newer chat systems... One can achieve many of the same things depending on your IRC daemon and bots.
I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I applaud how you turned those principles into a well-packaged, professional product with metrics, studies and whatnot. On the other hand, when I get subjected to those I feel like being... manipulated, to put it generously.

Regardless, your comment and the subthread it started gave me a product idea - an adblock-like plugin that would remove all such manipulative elements from online shops. Basically, it would cancel out all your hard work ;). But hey, it's an arms race between salesmen and consumers.
I wonder if sooner rather than later, those ghost cities might actually fill up once they bottom out and become affordable like how bad parts of SF or Oakland or NYC used to be cheap?
Standard caveat: I don't speak for my employer.

Using Bazel (aka. Blaze) every day is one of the things that has made me dread ever leaving Google. Fast, reproducible builds are amazing. Once you have used this tool, it is very hard to go back. Personally, I'm thrilled that it has been open sourced.
An ideal tool for stalkers.

I am sympathetic that this data could be useful for law enforcement - however this data must not be released wholesale to the public and there should be limits to how long it is stored.
(googler, opinions are my own).

See: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/14/22175150/google-return-o...

We are WFH till September for sure, and they will be testing flex hours after that. Though, they are still office focused, so you need to live near the office/team you work for.

Note that there are a few special cases where they let an individual be remote, but they tend to be very very outstanding developers. I've only worked with 1 of those in the last 5 years here.
Well this is the first time I've ever stumbled across my name on HN! Thanks for the plug!
You can do a read-only web share from iCloud. Definitely not ideal, but in some circumstances, good enough.
One little thing that aggravates me is that you can't type a sequence of letters and have a drop down menu go to the appropriate choice most of the time.

Like, I can type "N" and it will select the first choice beginning with "N", but I can't type "New" and go to the first one beginning with "New".

This functionality was standard on the Macintosh maybe 30+ years ago, but I feel like 80% of the time on the web, it isn't.
I think none of us is surprised that the free lunch is now over and that this could not last ad infinitum.

Google One is a good deal, but if you're not afraid of doing a minimal amount of manual work then there are other storage services out there that offer good price per GB.

Most of them are compatible with S3 buckets - Backblaze B2 or Wasabi are good examples. Any sort of contents can be synced to these buckets using third party apps. A quick Google search brings up FolderSync which looks decent.
This is from January 2020.

The 2021 report is here:
https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-crime-repor...
Presumably, so they can stub out the singleton for testing. It makes sense, sometimes, like the way your global database is a singleton that you really don't want on every test.

But in a lot of cases it's overkill and makes everything harder. Following a rule to always do it is simple but using your judgement is better. The best code minimizes side effects and reduces stubs and fakes.
40% of corporate equity is owned by foreign funds that don't pay US taxes at all (thank you, capital inflows!)

30% of corporate equity is owned by tax advantaged retirement funds

Only 30% of shares are even subject to this tax trade off discussion.
If you use terabytes of storage on consumer oriented free or nearly free services you are going to get burned sooner or later. Switch to b2 or s3. Your data will be there for a much longer time. b2 costs $5/terabyte. If you don't access this stuff, it's probably at most $10 - $20/mo.
In the Middle East the Land Cruiser V8 is king. It's not because of looks (although IMO they don't look bad), but what it can do.

Can you use this to overtake someone on the hard shoulder (half covered in sand) and go bumming around sand dunes? That's what Tesla have got to do to win there.
> I'd be surprised if less than 80% of Blizzard's fan base isn't aware of the "Free HK" controversy and doesn't support the notion of freedom in HK to some degree.

I assume you mean 80% of Blizzard's US fan base?
And have been remarkably successful at it, tbh
We were able to justify it because the automation would have taken a FTE to impliment. The cost was more than half that for us.
PhillyG, right off the bat thank you for your feedback.

Doing my best to respond to your queries.

1) This was the initial purpose of MeBeam; not having to start a video call and all the issues that go with this ( yes, having a bed head, or kids in the background)
To solve this, there is a few commands built into MeBeam which I have not made public as yet

If you type the following, ( fwd flash fwd slash fx = number ) applies a filter your image

to disable filters type the following and press go/return
//fx=0

to brighten in low-light type the following and press go/return
//fx=1

to darken type the following and press go/return
//fx=2

to blur your image type the following and press go/return
//fx=4

to extra blur your image type the following and press go/return
//fx=5

I will add an extra filter to blank your camera
//fx=6

2) To change the room or create a new one click on the options icon in the top right corner,
this will open the options screen and the last setting is 'change room' click on this
and a field will appear where you can enter another room name

3) Back in the day, I did everything I could to remove smut from the service ( 16 person multi video calls )
to no avail; I have some recent ideas which may help.

4) That's fine, if your on a device (such as a pc or laptop) which has a keyboard, you are not limited
to hitting the virtual keyboard; just use your normal keyboard and use the enter key to send

5) The camera description is not in the correct order ? .,. Assuming it is working besides the naming
of the camera, then it's a small bug I have introduced somewhere;

ps.
If you connect directly to https://mebeam.com without a room name as the url
e.g https://mebeam.com/myroomname

,it will open mebeam to an introduction/help page which
includes screenshots as to what the buttons do etc.

Thanks again for your feedback, ..!

Ash
> This is silly, you can't expect to screen out bad actors in a brief online conversation, least of all via text.

https://old.reddit.com/r/creepyPMs/
"Shaka, when the walls fell."
In Spain, everybody is an Organ Donor. If you want to keep them, them you should sign up in the non organ donors list.
I don't truly understand the need to listen to stackoverflow and hanselminutes. Their podcasts aren't really learning. They are more there just to make a few extra bucks than to teach anything really interesting.