jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Property tax rates rise WHEN YOU HAVE MADE MONEY ON THE HOUSE.

That's not true. You have only made money on the house when you sell it. Should we force people to sell their own houses because other people have more money than them?

I don't think "if you have enough money you can push others out" is great policy.
If you're writing an article about an API and show example input like that, people will think it's JSON, but it's not.
Congrats on the launch!

Is there any reason you're running an outdated version of Nginx (0.7.65 vs 0.7.68 vs 0.8.54)? It's one major revision behind current and a few minor behind stable. Which brings me to a question I had lingering in my mind, what is your "software" upgrade process since users have no control over it?

Another question, do you cache non-static objects (cookie based caching when proxy_pass'ing)? If so, how are you handling the different cookies for each particular app? Can this be turned off?

Regards

Joe
That is why these SLOC measurements are stupid. If you find the right library or module, perhaps from CPAN, that can change everything.
Haskell. Aside from usual functional facilities for code reuse such as polymorphism and Higher Order Functions, monads (specifically monadic composition) and Type Classes are quite useful for writing generic code.
ISO approval doesn't mean jack in reality

If Java was an ISO standard, Harmony would have been a legal Java implementation, Apache's vote would have meant something, supersets of the standard would have been allowed. This and the fact that the standard would have been kept small to accommodate all versions of Java, and the lawsuit against Google's Android wouldn't have happened.

As it is right now, Microsoft cannot sue alternative implementations of their ECMA standards for .NET. They can only do that for parts that aren't in those standards.

Also, in reality many governments like ISO standards.

Groklaw ... I've still never seen them offer anything other
than rational and backed interpretations of the presented facts

I would take unbiased over apparently_rational_but_filled_with_emotions any day of the week.
Haskell has type classes and type inference which seem like they would be helpful.
That's basically my opinion too.
Sell the product at break even so you can gather the world's largest pool of sleep information to sell? Hmm...

“On the macro level, we’re really doing the biggest sleep study that has ever been done,” he said. “We’ll be able to tell you how people are sleeping in San Francisco versus New York, based on seasons and all kinds of things.”

http://wakemate.com/docs/privacy/

Based on this they could be a huge marketing funnel for sleep aid companies, stress medications, etc...
I wasn't planning on making the submission, but it just happened that the "Who's Hiring" thread was on the top of the page. The truth is that it is difficult to find top talent for any organization. The economy is booming, and we're competing with more firms. As we all know: "Software is Eating the World".

This role could be in either location, but I expect it will be filled in our NYC offices.

We're no different than any other technology based firm.
I'm really doubting that "vagina" is in the top 500. They must be counting these as basic dictionary lookups and discounting them that way. Any good password cracker would definitely try a dictionary attack before brute force.
Theoretically, it could store the password in a cookie, and later retrieve it, along with (somehow) a gmail id.
Yeah, at the moment though Twitter has more potential in this area. They are seen as more of a broadcast platform whereas on Facebook the pages are tacked on to a platform for more personal communication between friends.

Certainly though I see this growing on Facebook to, I don't think there is only room for one game in town here though, so far companies have been happy to work across both platforms. Depends a lot on Twitters future user retention and engagement I guess.
It's a common sentiment - the essay in which the author laments how everything is wrong, because they don't agree with it.

In one of the pg essays, he reflects (I'm paraphrasing from memory) how it might be lamentable how everyone prefers fast food and reality TV to Mozart and Fresh produce, but you can't call it wrong. I think pg calls this 'trying to say that up is circular or down is blue' Because if that's what people prefer, it's what they prefer. The job of people contributing to society is to provide what people want, not to try and herd people into your own vision.

In a democracy, there's going to be large amounts of people who live life in a different style to your own. One of the hardest things for people as they get older is to learn to accept this and let them be. You don't have to make fun of them, or try to change them, just let them be, and ask that they leave you be as well. There are far too many people trying to boil the ocean these days and institute social changes where it isn't wanted or needed. People will adapt and change as their circumstances and tastes change. The market will follow them.
True, but shouldn't Twitter have more potential future earnings than Groupon?
HTML5 will bridge the gap. Here's a Netflix job posting: http://jobs.netflix.com/DetailFlix.asp?jobid=flix4467
I actually think the 15 years since this article was written have proven the author's point quite well.

* The exurbs have fallen drastically in price compared to urban dwellings which retained most of their value in the recession. Urban dwellings in the US's biggest cities have increased dramatically in price since the article was written, even including the recent drops.

* An urban renaissance has occurred in the US, with young people and investment again flowing to city centers. (Compare NY 1996 with NY 2010 - the progress is amazing.) The culture has followed. Most sitcoms (and many movies) of the 80s occurred in the suburbs, now they are almost entirely urban.

* Many cities started promoting more-dense zoning and mass transit, helped along by mid-decade energy spikes. Some cities have stopped providing water rights to new areas to combat sprawl.

* McMansions (not even a widely used term in 1996) have gone from must-have to gauche. The Hummer, a status-symbol of the commuting class at the time, was dismantled this year after several years of terrible sales.
You seem a bit confused as to what the target audience for this is - not unexpected given the single day the project has been online, but a topic worth discussing nonetheless. Your initial demo is to control a mouse on a Windows desktop, but in the README it states that Android will receive the first release since "desktop apps are virtually dead now." I won't pretend to know what platform this idea might take off on, and I think picking Java gave you a good set of choices, but you should nail down your stance so you and the people interested know where the project is headed.
Well in fairness, Windows 7 was a pretty awesome OS, Windows 8 ... not so much.
There are a lot more people who want to be animators than there are jobs for animators in LA. I used to be one of them.

A lot of the work is seasonal at best; you're hired for the duration of one production, and let go when it's over. If the show gets renewed and the folks running it like you you may get offered your job back next year.

You can make a decent living but not working for Bakshi or Kricfalusi; you work for those two because you want the prestige of Having Worked Under A Legend. Or because you worked with them back in the day, have a decent amount of money to fall back on, and they've approached you with a new project that will give you a lot of creative freedom because they trust your sensibility.

(I mostly worked for John K when I was hanging around the industry, so I saw this first-hand.)
> Well, you would need to install 20 copies of OSX if you have 20 apps installed, for one.

Shouldn't it be possible to use bindmounts or other virtual filesystems for the core services?
Sadly the only way to a make a difference, presuming you're in America, is to get a movement going to reform the penal system. The reason it's sad is that for many Americans the point of prison is punishment rather than rehabilitation. So they're happy with people going through hell, 'cause you know, they deserve it.

Your best bet is to find an existing rights group to pursue the changes. It will be a hard sell since the US moved to a private system. This means that the states and fed will have less direct control of things. More red tape and contract negotiations.
Google/Facebook level IPO's are quite rare, and you had be in relatively early to get enough.
> Japan had some valid grievances against the U.S.

I'm curious what Japan's valid grievances against the Chinese, Koreans, or various Pacific island groups was...
Alas, mathematics is really the "good enough" standard we in CS should strive for just like physics is the "good enough" standard behind ME and EE. Unfortunately as CS opened to the mainstream, I think a deep fear of mathematics led us to view this as "over engineering" even when it wasn't. The results are that the majority of the web is woefully underengineered, requiring far more money and time for inferior products.

As I have stated multiple times in the past, I think the crux of the problem is that software is an immature field that needs to stratify into a proper engineering discipline as it matures. Computer science should be the "good enough" standard behind software engineering. "Computer scientists" should not be the ones actually implementing software systems any more than physicists should be the ones designing cam shafts or laying out circuit boards.

The opening to the mainstream you refer to illustrates the problem. The people in the mainstream should not be studying computer science, and what they practice should not be called such. They are the engineers, technicians, and mechanics of software; they are not the physicists. Forcing all of these strata into the same bucket is doing more harm than good at this point and is likely hampering the field's drive to mature.
not sure how fast the db refreshes, i made an account and made a search, then posted some pastebin doc with the terms in it, no results so far
Ah yes, until now no one has had the idea to abuse comment forms and Web forums to promote products and services. You could become rich with this unique idea.
> In (most) other cases, it's because the troll wants to see you get angry.

Do people really do that?

I've been posting to newsgroups for 35 years...I have never once even considered betraying my personal beliefs just to make someone angry.

I guess that's why I struggle so hard with the whole "troll" meme.
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Couldn't you sue? Your home purchase was predicated on Comcast's word that they could service your new home. You require it for work. Now you've bought a home, have to sell it for a loss, all due to Comcast. I don't see why you can't stick them with the bill. Call a lawyer, have them talk to Comcast, and maybe they'll change their tune about extending their line to your home.
I’m glad you agree that Prop 13 is not the cause of rising prices.

> That's really a separate question.

Schools are just one example of a service funded by property taxes.

It’s not a separate question at all.

> Property tax - especially on the land value rather than the improvements - is good. It can provide a feedback of the cost of what someone is using.

What you are calling ‘value’ in this case is just a measure of how much other people want the property. It has nothing whatsoever to do with cost.

This just makes it easier for even richer people to take existing property rather than invest in developing other places.
I don't really agree with this comment, because we've gone through year after year of new AWS cost analysis and pricing tools that always seem to miss the mark in a major way that's only obvious in hindsight and always seem to be consistently worse than GCP and Azure. They never seem to fix the flaws in old tools, they just tack on new tools with new blindspots. Hence my comment about cross-referencing. If you're willing to put in a lot of effort across tools, you can get a complete picture, but it really does take a lot of effort and foresight into the exact structure that your solution is going to take (which involves cross-referencing documentation). Amazon doesn't make any effort to quote you a price once they have enough information, they always make you work for it. If a price transparency tool is gated behind enough effort, is it really a price transparency tool?

That said, I'll grant you that AWS is not the only megacloud leveraging opaque cost structures. They just leverage them more.

AWS support is genuinely a cut above, though.
Is it possible to include the defs in perhaps a <link>, so they can be downloaded once and cached across all pages?
I... sadly... went to graphic design school in 2005-09 and am I happy as hell I left that shit hole industry. Especially with this incredibly sad excuse for journalism. Also, I had a fascination with package design at the time.

Publix (southern US employee owned grocery store) was the first "big" store to try making the store brand look like a competing brand back in the early 2000s. They did it in response to the dot com bust and then gas prices soaring a year or two later. Other food brands were shrinking package sizes, but charging the same. Publix tried to differentiate by keeping the bigger sizes as long as they could (they eventually adopted the smaller trends). However, they capitalized on being able to brand at the same time. That Target brand aesthetic in the article, yea, Publix did that first in 04.

If you look up HOW, ADDY and AIGA awards from like 2004 to 2009 for package design, you see Publix kicking ass and taking names. Every award article commented how other stores need to take notice (especially target). Add on their profits from store brand goods went up, making them a bigger powerhouse in southern US grocery. Other stores followed suite.

I just find it weird how aiga themselves cant report on something they helped break out from back in the day. I'm guessing it's a Target paid article? Or a fiver blog writer...
This is not a random sampling of youngsters; it's presumably an interested, motivated, and exceptional group.
I've read "Algorithms to live by" and liked it. This looks like a data science variant of that same idea, very cool.

I think books like these can be a great eye opener. We all remember thinking "what am I gonna use this for??" in high school maths, physics etc, and I think this is a fun, approachable and interesting way to see real life impact of maybe otherwise dry and abstract stuff.
> However, defense analysts point out that the US remains far ahead in the key metric of tonnage, meaning the US Navy operates much larger warships than China.

It looks like China only has "largest" if you go by raw ship count, which is probably misleading.
I don’t understand why you couldn’t use the average rate of infection to compute this.
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Yesssss! An amazingly small skin of matter (folds in spacetime) on this rock floating in space has geometry encoded with information about the deepest pores of subatomic reality, the massive scales of space and time above and beyond ourselves. It's pretty fucking incredible. [EDIT: You are a small entry lane in a highway interchange in the universe, that is the busiest fucking information nexus in the observable universe.]

You might feel like you're a speck floating above kilometers of deep dark ocean, but that's just your matter. If you think about your (our!) information, we're almost more like the water itself in our permeance -- or like some sort of aerogel -- compared to anything else floating in this thing :)
Sounds like a good advice. Even better if you're good at working with someone else's legacy code who had already left the company.

At my first job, it often took me several days to find bugs that were often fixed by changing very few lines of code. Nobody would have noticed if I hadn't done anything for a whole day other than answering occasional messages.
...and we need to get back to open standards.

Imagine having 5 different email providers, GMail, Hotmail, etc... that didn't talk to each other.

This current situations is dumb.
They claim “scraping” in contexts where it benefits them to use that term (requirement to notify users) and “exploited vulnerability” when it benefits them in other contexts (answering to why private personal info was found online). Sometimes they even claim both in the same sentence:

> A Facebook spokesperson told Insider that the data had been scraped because of a vulnerability that the company patched in 2019

They absolutely can’t have this both ways.
Birthday is a form of identity verification too, for password reset.
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bit.ly/3sQCGqL&sa=D&sou...
I normally think overanalyzing where organizations spend their money is misguided, but I was surprised that the largest dollar amount on the infographic was spent "strengthening trademarks".

Here's what I found under the details link. Does anyone understand what this actually means?

> One major component of the PSF’s mission is protecting Python-related intellectual property. To strengthen the PSF’s trademarks and copyrights for Python, PyCon, and PyPI, the PSF spent over $198,000 USD in 2019 and $77,000 through October 2020.
I was thinking a few weeks ago - if you told jews living in diaspora in europe as recently as early 1900s, that there will be a modern state with the same national language as the bible, they would think you are predicting a miracle. It's amazing.
Maybe the question we should all be asking is why do we need to have just Facebook or just Twitter or just Youtube?

Maybe it's time review the landscape and realize that where a mountain range used to be, there is now a deep valley with a lonely mountain blocking our sun.
I'm curious, if The Köln Concert is not jazz then what is it? I'm not a fan of discussing labels and semantics endlessly but I'm interested where would you place it, as I have a very hard time imagining it under any other major genre.
> The harder part is accepting how manipulative they can be with the power of their brand especially.

Individuals do it just as much, most easily visible on Facebook and Instagram, but also in other non-Internet interactions.
Do you not think the outcome is more easily achieved though a social network than it is for a book, newspaper or radio?
A lot more hype, a lot more FUD about everything that isn't gold, a lot more "now is a good time to buy gold". But at least you can mark its inflated price up by turning it into something many cultures find useful or pretty. :)
I'm still waiting but I keep coming close to grabbing a totally fanless M1 Air.

But for my day-to-day use, even with barely leaving the house, a 15-16" display is much better for me. I would appreciate the speed and other features of the next-gen machines but the real deciding factor is the display. Sure, I would use it on my 27" 4K monitor a lot, but I like moving around even if it's just to the porch or couch, and my use of machines with 12-14" has felt fairly cramped when doing actual dev work.

I know the M1 MBP's fan is apparently very, very quiet but if I were recording podcasts, I'd be really tempted to go totally fanless with the Air. No noise, no vents to block, no dust build-up, true all-day battery life, no &#(* touch bar, and relatively cheap.

A huge factor for waiting is if you want to run multiple external displays. The M1 MBP and MBA can only drive the internal display and one external. I personally like one big display but if you need that multi-monitor life, you need to wait (or get the M1 Mini or use a DisplayLink adapter).
The only reason his thought experiment could work was because he bought items in bulk - which requires more initial capital.
When you're 'actually poor,' it's impossible to plan ahead and buy (in absolute terms) more expensive bulkpacks of food. There's a difference between spending $30 / month and $1 / day.
No, but they did ban Gizmodo for buying a stolen prototype.
Going along with it is fine, but doing so blindly is as banal as attempting to throw the trick. Understanding why you picked what you did for the illusion to be fulfilled is quite fascinating.
Web Components does what React essentially does, bring them together.
Yep, it's CMD+D for selecting the next occurrence of the current symbol on OS X.

CMD+SHIFT+D is handy, too; it duplicates your current line.
There's certainly a lot of truth in that, but for whatever reason -- game theoretic or otherwise -- I would practically fall out of my chair if I heard a president today say stuff like what's quoted at the top of this article. Even if it was just politics, it's clear to me that the bar for political speech has dropped considerably.
(EDIT: I understood the messages to be misleading, reply says they are true)

This walks a line between helping the customer to make decisions manipulation (I'm being generous here). If I saw an online store doing this I would think less of them (again, being generous in my language) and go somewhere else. Also I can tell the difference between real scarcity (like an eBay auction timer out) and simulated scarcity...

... is what I like to think happens. Obviously it works and the chances of me, or anyone else who thinks the same way, being exceptional is probably slim.
Interesting! I was unaware of the existence of #[no_std]. My mistake. Thanks for putting it right :)
It's known exactly how many Bitcoin will be produced and at what rate. There will never be more than 21 million BTC. This was known and agreed upon by all participants in the system.

How much USD will exist in 10 years?
I wonder how dystopian sci-fi would read in such future? I mean...what would be their parable of The Matrix?