jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If your API is really close to money, like say if you're Intrade or something...does it ever make sense to not charge to access your API? Since you'll be presumable taking a percentage for each transaction or bundle of transactions, would charging 0 for low-volume API access make sense? Or should you try to monetize that as well by having monthly charges off the bat to all, and not just heavy-users?
The most interesting part of that article for me is that 4sq is moving into the local merchant coupon business against Groupon and LivingSocial. With Yelp pushing their own deals and Facebook with Deals how soon before this discount bubble bursts?
It depends on what you are doing it for, if you've found site(s) that don't use rel=nofollow $1.39 for 1000 users is a pretty good deal, especially if the CAPTCHA is stopping the vast majority of spammers from making the link juice worthless.

I'd pay $1.39 for 1000 links from sites that haven't been spammed to death with out thinking about it.
I think OP is saying he understands the difference in what they do, but can't keep the names straight. I felt the same way for the first few months of using hadoop.

I eventually got that in real-life, a task is just a subpiece of a job. But the naming is not immediately evocative of the relationship, particularly since in computing, "job" is pretty overloaded. Far better would be "job" and "subjob".
To launch apps, not adding shortcuts inside apps? How?
We use AWS for the following reasons:

* Flexible pricing, with fair costs

* Instant, flexible provisioning

* Awesome APIs and third party libraries (e.g. boto)

* Extensive documentation/support in the wild (i.e. you can get just about any question answered via Google or Server Fault)

* Solid uptime track record with SLA to back it up

Did I expect that all server outages would magically disappear because we were now in the "cloud"? Not in the least bit.

Did others sign up for AWS thinking that? Sounds incredibly foolish to me if they did. But this sounds suspiciously like a straw man to me...
I'm pretty sure I learned the basics of international politics from reading Dune. Sometimes the most effective learning technique is tricking your brain into having fun.
I think one of the things that lead to feeling life is meaningless is watching too much "News". News media tends to focus on negatives and they tend to blow those out of proportion in regards to how events affect one personally.

In the `80s I realized that watching the evening News left me feeling depressed. I was being barraged with news about violence, murders, rapes and robberies, deadly accidents (autos, planes, trains, etc), wars, racial strife, poverty, disease.

It finally hit me one day when the "News" wrapped up with graphic video of a deadly car accident somewhere in Africa. I realized that when I got up that morning I felt fine, but after watching the "News", which began with local news (I was living in Los Angeles), then National News, then World News, I felt as though the entire planet was filled with awfulness.

After sitting there pondering that I realized that in my own personal life things were not near so awful and that led to the epiphany that I needed to focus on that instead, and to do that I had to stop taking on the weight of the entire planet's terrific events. I had to put that in perspective.

The "News" channel I was watching was an independent TV channel that became one of first to be purchased by Rupert Murdoch to form the "FOX" network. Tuning out provided immediate relief. But I didn't tune out just them, I pretty much stopped watching TV "News" altogether.

That was "Step 1". The next step was to begin focusing on things I enjoyed. I could list some of those here but this is something we all must figure out for ourselves.

I can watch the News now and maintain a much better perspective of how it affects me personally. and for the most part it doesn't.

Right now, today, people all around me are stressing out about what's going on in Washington DC. I am not. I cast my votes last year. My 1st choice lost. I'll deal with what comes as it comes but I will not fret about what may or may not come. I'll enjoy what I can instead.

I believe if there is a "meaning" to it, it's to learn how to appreciate it. If you can do that living becomes amazing.
Elon himself gave an explanation to why Fisker failed:

"Fisker thinks the most important thing in the world is design, so he outsourced the engineering and manufacturing. But the fact is that's the crux of the problem. And he's outsourcing to people who don't know how to solve the problem. So he came up with a product – it's a mediocre product at a high price. It looks good. Particularly from the side it looks good. I don't love the front. It looks too much like a caricature of a Mexican Bandito, the grille. The car looks very big, it's bigger than the Model S, but it has no trunk space and it's cramped inside, particularly in the rear seats. The mark of a good design is something that has great aesthetics and great functionality."
This is the essay of a man trying to sell a 'visual coding' tool.
And much higher extremity of content.

Asking better questions is normally a "better" way to find higher quality content.
In aus, federal govt cares about economic issues... State govt are responsible for public health. Thus the differences in strategy are apparent.
My memory is generally terrible. One discovery that was alarming, encouraging and disturbing at the same time is that I do appear to have some form of nearly total recall buried in there somewhere.

Unfortunately it only surfaces in one way. If I listen to a podcast while I’m doing something, then listen to that same podcast again within a week or so, I will have regular, intrusive visual recall of exactly what I was doing the last time I heard whatever passage the podcast I was listening to. The recall is synchronized down to the word with the podcast, and is vividly detailed and colorful and includes some sensation of feeling as well.

It’s weird and cool at the same time. One of these days I’d like to do an experiment where I videotape myself listening to the podcast, wait a week, then listen to it again and record myself describing what I see in my mind to test how accurate it is.
Microsoft is working hard to fix a lot of the problems e.g. connection scalability [1].

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-po...
For some values of “perfectly safe”.

From TFA: Qelbree "may increase suicidal thoughts and actions in some children with ADHD, especially within the first few months of treatment or when the dose is changed,"

https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/adhd/stronger-...
Thanks, because the end of the blog post mentions 8 instead of 9:

> At the time of publishing this blog post, all phone numbers beginning with international codes 4, 6, 8 and 8 have completed loading. The other codes are in progress and may take several hours more before they're searchable.

So I was like: what about another 8?

Edit: Actually, it is "4, 6, 7 and 8"! cf. https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1379377818618884098
If you run internet explorer I guess it does.
Iso8601 sorts just as well.

I saw no benefit in storing two copies. That’s recipe for problems - e.g. “update” code that doesn’t update both, or somehow updates them differently (which one is right?). You can probably have t-sql or some “check” constraint to enforce equivalence, but ... why?

For most practical uses, an ISO8601 textual representation is as good, though a little less space efficient.
Here is the original tweet:
https://twitter.com/Daviey/status/1378646544719753216
Is this better than splitting panes up with Tmux or similar? You end up losing the ability to pipe things. What do you gain?
How would that solve the problem? Section 230 does not protect illegal content.
This is exactly equivalent to when people thought Reddit was something novel when they mobbed and doxed various people in their vigilante internet sleuthing of the boston marathon bomber. It's mobs being mobs: always has and always will be.
How far back are you thinking? There was a time when an unpatched Windows install would be owned within minutes of connecting it to the internet.
Everything else that person said was irrelevant to this thread.

I'm looking for straight answers, not going around points, but getting straight to them.

> ...it seems like the more reasonable thing to do is acknowledge that fact, rather than just ignore their point entirely.

The fact that Tesla and Uber has more deaths than Comma? That I can agree with.
The reason why it's so controversial is because OpenBSD doesn't actually enable any services by default except for ssh, IIRC.

Which means that the attack surface for OpenBSD is just their TCP/IP stack and SSH. The slogan, while technically correct, sounds like (and dare I say, is often taken as) saying that there have been no security bugs/network RCE bugs in OpenBSD. OpenBSD has shipped with many RCE vulnerabilities over the years (in its included FTP and HTTP servers, for example). Simply in services not enabled by default. Because none of them are enabled by default.

I'm not particularly impressed by OpenBSD in this particular regard because if you want to do something with your computer, you will eventually end up needing to enable services, some of which have had bugs shipped with OpenBSD. And once you install 3rd party software, all bets are off.

One thing OpenBSD has focused on recently I am a huge fan of is their documentation and focus on making consistent and easy to read and write config files. That is a huge bonus to security IMO. Making it easier to learn how and to write configs makes the chances of misconfiguring a server much lower, which is more often the bigger security risk.
Would be fun to try this with Bismuth.
I don't understand your comment. The phase III study was done I'm the real world, not a lab. So it's not surprising we are seeing the same numbers as it rolls out. I'm fact, it would be suprising if it didn't match the studies.
Crash testing will be part of a wider testing plan. The logic there is that you have shown all the tests to pass using that particular hardware+software configuration. Only that configuration (and any future ones you put through testing, verification and validation) is what you're allowed to ship to customers.

(I work in a regulated environment, but not automotive, and we run into the same barriers, often for even minor changes. We work agile, but changes will get released in planned batches every few months, rather than shipping instantly. For automotive, I'm guessing their update cadence would be every model year.)
Some were armed and an IED was found. I recommend avoiding identity protective cognition when analyzing these events.
> Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and if the evidence presented makes demonstrably false claims, then we're done with that evidence, and should frown upon the person who presented it.

In a court of law, all claims and evidence are evaluated on their own merits. election/voter fraud as a claim is hardly extraordinary. People are charged and convicted of such crimes every election cycle. In a civil matter, a case is decided based on the preponderance of the evidence, not on the extraordinary nature of it.

I, too, will accept the outcome of the courts. What other recourse is there? But that doesn't mean the conversation is over. You can walk away. You can't shut people up. Well, you can try, and some actively are as we speak, but I vehemently oppose such efforts.
Not true at all. Censorship is any type of redaction or restriction, no matter who performs it.

You are confusing censorship with a breach of the first amendment.
Are you aware an unarmed white woman was shot and killed by police at the capitol that day?

Yes, on average black folks are treated more unfairly than white folks by police, but exaggerated claims like “the cops would have iced every one of them” help no one.
Facebook was making money from ads when they sold WhatsApp to FB. They had to know that was the plan.

I don't fault them for selling, I fault everyone else for assuming it would always be ad free after the sale.
> I don't think a negative leap second would cause much of an issue at all.

But nobody has tested it in the wild. It's entirely possible to trigger an existing bug in the code base. I expect some disruption from the first negative leap second event. After that everything would probably be gradually stabilized.
Seems fair!
Turn your lights down low. Sometimes it's like laying in bed next to each other... ;-D
No, their core service is selling ads.

You can't actually buy anyone's data from Facebook, you can only buy ad targeting.
That's really interesting. I love TPL...i need to check this out.
Here's the correct response:

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

You may want to be slightly more polite to their face.
Hi there.

I would just like to share my personal view of the 25. As an atheist, I don´t much care about the usual celebration. However, I, too, find there is something worth celebrating: The christmas truce of 1914. Though a religious event in itself, it also shows basic human values, like independence (as in the soldiers who did not heed their orders to avoid such fraternizations) understanding and forgiveness.

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs...

Happy truce day to all!
Exercising and stretching the psoas muscle might be just what you need to eliminate back pain.

One point of interest: flat abs have more to do with healthy muscle beneath the abdominals.
Out of curiosity, how many HNers write on Wikipedia? I do it every so once in awhile, but only only on a few topics I'm intimately familiar with, or to fix obvious vandalism.
I don't find it disturbing. I think it's very much in Wales' character; starting out in soft porn, co-founding Wikipedia, and then passing himself off as founder, rather than co-founder. Every time I see his face at the top of a Wikipedia page, it sickens me, and similarly every time I see him described as "founder". Thus, the Wikipedia banner sickens me twice.

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Actually this was clear in my previous company (a gaming company). We even had a 3 day "workshop" for the entire company (15 engineers and 12 artists). And 99% of the time, the artists were sitting there wondering what they were supposed to do. The workshop was full of abstract ideas (at least for the artists) on how to have art work ready early (where was the iterative design?) and when iterative design was brought up, no tools were suggested. And finally when the tools were suggested by a few of the artists, it was completely shot down by middle management in favor of doing things the "we normally do it". What the?
Wait, where's the link?
Well, McCain sponsored and Bush signed McCain-Feingold. Second, Citizens United isn't about campaign finance per se. Since the people spending money under CU can't even talk to the campaign they support, this category of spending is at least a layer removed from the candidate, and quid-pro-quo becomes more difficult.

But finally, and my most important point: No, Republicans, to the extend they have a common position doesn't want campaign finance reform. But neither does the democrats (to the extend they have a common position). Most significantly, a very prominent Democrat broke his pledge to take public financing in the face of raising heaps of money and outspend his opponent 2:1.

I mean, perfectly honest, Democratic congress or not, is Obama going to get behind serious campaign finance reform?
> for example injecting an older version of a package with a known security issue

There's a limited window during which an attack like this will work. If you look at one of the Release files [1], you'll notice the pseudo-header:

Valid-Until: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:41:23 UTC

After this date passes, aptitude update will fail, warning you that your sources are out of date, with a message like:

E: Release file for http://mirrors/debian/dists/wheezy-updates/Release is expired (invalid since 1h 24min 32s). Updates for this repository will not be applied.

Of course, the Release file is signed, so you can't just forge that pseudo-header (or change any of the packages in the release).

You could also choose one of the mirrors that supports HTTPS, like mirrors.kernel.org or mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu (both good for Bay Area folks).

(Granted, the window is probably larger than we'd like, though you could write a script to check that if you wanted. Something like [2] would work.)

[1] http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/debian-security/dists/wheezy...
[2] https://github.com/ocf/puppet/blob/master/modules/ocf_mirror...
Every interview I take, if I don't get offered the job, I ask for feedback on what I should have done in my past to take the job. Why did I fail? What should I be working on?

This post is that answer for recruiters. I've typed it out individually, over and over again, in response to bad pitches, highlighting what they did wrong and how they could have succeeded or saved themselves time.

This is a time-consuming thing for me to do, but I feel it's justified if it helps even one recruiter. So this is my shorthand way of handling it--just link them to the post instead of rewriting it for every single recruiter.

Most will ignore it. Maybe all will ignore it. But if a recruiter is sincerely trying to do a good job, it will provide them with useful information as to why their pitch was ineffective and how to improve it.

If I was a recruiter, this is the kind of feedback I'd want from someone I was trying to recruit, so this is the kind of feedback I offer to people trying to recruit me.
I think it comes down to your point of focus. With peach and peach 2, The eyes change shape quite a bit. Humans notice that much more than other aspects.

In general, I think the "ours" method could benefit by moving the boundaries between colours in and out until they get an average brightness match with the similar area in the nearest neighbour version. A lot of the "ours" images have a higher proportion of black.
I get the tinglies too since I've had covid. What helped me a bunch is making sure my shoulders are plenty warm. Often that involves a hot water bottle. Turned it from a nightly sleep interruption into pretty much a non-issue overnight for me, so it's worth experimenting with.
I'd be interested in some stats on how many Posterous posts are made by email vs being made on the site itself. I've got a Posterous and I've yet to make a post by email. My reasoning is that making a blog post is such an involved task that I'm not deterred by the process of logging in and doing it from their site.

The main draw of Posterous to me has been the quality: The blogs look great as-is, they have a powerful HTML/CSS editor, the comments are great, etc.
unless the other guy quite literally doesn't have experience/knowledge of a tick, I think one can figure out a way to describe it :-)

north: although ptolemy introduced the convention of north/up, I can easily see how the use of a lodestone could naturally give rise to the custom (north --> lodestone points forward; when you tilt the surface perpendicular to the ground, it is up).
it's still a market and the price could still be mostly hype and the "normalization" is only relative to a previous peak.
I think the idea is that you would not have to own, maintain, and park a car if you could summon one on a whim.
Hey OP, how would you describe the startup culture in Brazil? I've been thinking of spending some time in São Paulo/Brazil working on personal projects. But, have no idea where to go and if there are other sw and/or hw developers hacking away.
Say what you will about Roberts, he has done a lot to advance individual freedoms in this court.
Possibly in queue for reeducation camp ?
It really doesnt have to be perfect to trick someone. You're expecting this site to be fake so you're listening carefully. If you weren't expecting anything and you were in the middle of a busy day at work, you are much much less likely to notice any discripencies.

We already have stories like https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessedamiani/2019/09/03/a-voice...

That said, as far as harms go, i dont think this is all that bad that it should preclude creative uses of this technology.
> Most hackers certainly don't belong in business school...but many hackers could benefit from an MBA's experience/education once their product has traction, users, whatever.

I'm not convinced of this. Apart from the fact that your two sentences contradict each other, I don't believe this optimizes for the right variables. If you're a hacker, and you want to do a startup, you should be learning related skills - and the best way to do that isn't to attend an MBA course, it's to do a startup yourself.

And, besides, if you ever find yourself wanting of MBA skills in the future (which implies that your startup has some degree of success) you can always go out and hire one.
I've had a really hard time finding writing of this quality and insight into good game design.

There's lots of fluffy, high level stuff at one end of the spectrum and then lots of stuff that discusses the details of specific well trodden genres ad nauseum.

There's not so much that's of direct use when you sit down and try and design an orginal type of game by applying principals like this it seems to me.

I don't know how much of that is because the people with such insight haven't written it down, or they really just do it by feel and trial and error rather than by applying easy to describe techniques.

Does anyone have any other recommendations like this?
I make maple syrup by hand. It requires a huge amount of physical labor, as well as a fairly expensive evaporator and as well as a small building devoted to that single purpose.

The product tastes the same as the stuff I can buy from my neighbor's maple stand for a fraction of the cost and effort. It's wholly irrational.

And I'll do it again next year.

Sometimes the joy comes from doing it the hard way.
Yeah, I seem to have hit a nerve with that one.

Weird.
I clicked through to Eric Meyer's essay, in which he argued that the iTunes Store is a store, which necessarily entails selectivity over what brands and models to sell.

Where Meyer's analogy breaks down is in the fact that when you're trying to get apps for your iPhone/iPod/iPad, you're only allowed to shop at one store.

He tries to blow this off by pointing out that the Apple platform isn't the only mobile platform in town, but that misses the point.

The Big Automakers once tried to demand that people who bought cars were required to take those cars back to the dealer for servicing and add-ons. The automakers argued that this was the only way they could guarantee a quality driving experience.

It required legal challenges and government intervention to ensure the car owner's right to decide where and by whom to service and customize their own vehicle.
I think what you describe hating are dumb asses. There are plenty of those around - be they programmers, seo's, ceo's what have you.
Find me a professional athlete on a grain-free diet.

Maybe they're out there somewhere, but I'm pretty sure if you find me one I'll find you a better professional athlete who eats grains.

Find me a (former) professional athlete who lived in perfect health till their 90s.

Maybe they're out there somewhere, but I'm pretty sure if you find me one I'll find you multiple (former) professional athletes who died from CVD, cancer etc.

if cutting out grains would improve fitness in any meaningful way then we'd know about it by now. If Lance Armstrong or

Um, the guy who got cancer when he was 25 years old?
Phenomenal athlete, but hardly a good example of a perfectly healthy person.