jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I just switched everything to lastpass.com and use it on my home pc, work pc, and iphone. Works great so far.
Is Google good enough to be featured here?
the landing page design really grabbed me, but I'm also really impressed with how simple and functional the actual dashboard is when you login. I had signed up with another beta autoscaling service, but I never heard back from them again. Best of luck with the service! I'll be rooting for ya.
The whole point of having a license plate (or "tag") on your car is to make you accountable. Any anonymity drivers may have had up till now has been entirely incidental. You are responsible for your driving, and you always have been since you got your state-issued license.
What is the point to this?
The "plain view" issue is one reason to never, ever let a police officer into your house without a warrant. Especially since it can be hard to know what they will claim to be evidence of a crime any more.
Just to be clear, TurnKey Linux _is_ an open source project. All custom packages are open source, and all changes made to other packages are published as well, according to the GPL. The ISO and VM builds are free to download and use, no strings attached what so ever.

The subscription you are referring to is currently free. 6 months ago we began soliciting feedback from the community regarding pricing [1]. You might want to take a look at the feedback we have received and the motivation behind adding a premium to the AMI images. We have yet to come to a decision though, so feedback is most definitely welcome.

In a nutshell, the idea is to fund development. When you use Amazon EC2, you are already charged on usage, so the idea is to add a reasonable mark-up on those fees so people who are using TurnKey give back a little bit into a pool which helps support the project and fund future development.

We believe this is a win-win for the community, because a premium would fund development of open source appliances rather than expensive and closed proprietary alternatives. To the casual user a few bucks here and there would hardly be noticed on their bill but multiply this thousands of times over and suddenly we have the resources to do much more for the project's users.

[1] http://www.turnkeylinux.org/polls/amazon-ec2-fees
I think there's some confusion over how Apple is implementing multitasking. Apps continue to run in the background, and when you re-open them you'll be back to where you were. The operating system will begin to terminate the apps when it is low on resources. In addition, there are certain services that work a little bit differently, like VoIP, music in the background, tasks that need extra time to run, etc. As far as I'm aware, this is very similar to the way that Android implements it.

The wallpaper feature is there if you want to use it, but Apple has included some darker pattern wallpapers if you prefer a low key background behind the icons. Of course, one could always whip up a plain black background to use too.
An aside: a lot of Korean companies have offices in LA that help with their US market activities. These aren't always publicized so always ask!
Very exciting to see the major strides they're making. Unfortunately not all the updates are getting rolled out to all users, which makes it harder to get people "selling" the phone to their friends. I've got a G1 Dev phone and I'm still stuck on 1.5-1.6 (or something similarly ancient), so I guess I'm really hoping I can somehow swing an upgrade to a Nexus for myself :/
Yep, in practice your HDs would be in NetApp shelves or equivalent, and you would also need to account for the volume of the NetApp heads. That reduces the density by 5-10x. Then there is also the overhead of RAID-DP.

Still, that's a shitload of bandwidth.
Leibniz's folly was essentially that, the "Calculus Ratiocinator". He supposed a machine that could settle questions of law. The problem is that no one agrees on the meanings of the inputs.

It's a common fallacy to believe that computers can produce "correct" answers to questions which a sample of 1,000 (or even 2) humans don't give the same answers to. If you have nothing unambiguous or even statistically reasonable to compare your answers against, the experiment is unfalsifiable.

Human scientists (if they are such, and not just bottle-washers and button-sorters), pose questions and then experiment against reality, which is and always will be the final appeal. A computer "scientist" cannot avoid that -- they still have to simulate and experiment. Several do, actually. The best seem to be based on "genetic algorithms", ie, simulation and experiment, just faster.

So there are many things computers can do and will do. But expecting a computer to tell you whether abortion is right or wrong, or to run for president, or be a perfect oracle, is missing the point. We, as humans, are very probably incapable of building something more intelligent than ourselves, because, by definition, we wouldn't recognize it if we did. Eliezer will probably jump in at this point, and I'm curious what he'd say.
Joe Lieberman, the primary sponsor of the measure

Is it any surprise that he's the primary sponsor? You can always count on Joe to be on the wrong side of history.

An Internet kill switch is one of the worst and most authoritarian ideas I've ever heard coming out of the US government. Here's to hoping Schmidt uses his veto power on this one.
In ordinary trespass it is. I am about to spend several hundred dollars to fence my back yard, because that is the only way to stop people from just cutting across it.
Wasn't the Benghazi attack more to do with the Iranians and Russians trying to stop the CIA secretly smuggling missiles and other weapons to Syrian rebels?

I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
Not the dumbest by any means.

What this idea seems to miss is that most of the value created in computing - not just among professional software developers but also among ordinary users - comes when people do things that the creators hadn't thought of. You could run every program in its own isolated space where it can only touch its own stuff, and this would eliminate a lot of vulnerabilities (we see this today on mobile). But as soon as you want to script your image resizes based on a spreadsheet or whatever, that model breaks down (or else you end up with everything tunneled over the few approved vectors; iphone users dropbox files just so that they can open them on the same phone in a different program). And worse, users end up utterly beholden to the few entities with "real" access.

It's very easy to create a secure computer, by turning it off. But that doesn't help anyone. In the long run, the cure of deny-by-default is worse than the disease.
I read this article a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, but I've had trouble solving Default Permit in practice. Does anyone know of a free software operating system that white-lists its software (say by having the white-list be tied to the package manager) without having to do a lot of tinkering/configuring? I know you can do it with certain Linux add-ons that provide mandatory access control like SELinux and grsecurity, but it always seems like they introduce problems that you then have to troubleshoot for hours before your system is usable again. Bonus points for if this distro uses ASLR, W^X, and other countermeasures to avoid violating the security policy through code injection.
And they pretty much just "resell" infringing content. Scribd "cribd" as in stolen seems like a rung or two below quora and experts-exchange.
He is right.

He is right about premature optimizations and also right about craftsmanship.

Many performance problems stem from bad overall design decisions, bad abstractions and bad data structures (summarized: craftsmanship). I always wonder, how fast today's processors have become and how slow they get with today's software.

One of my first computers had 64k of memory and a processor that was so incredible slow compared to today's processors, that it is unbelievable. And still, they made so many good software with it. In today's programs the resources of this computer would not suffice for the idle loop.

Also the first Unix computer that I worked on, had only 8MB of memory and had X11, LaTeX and many other stuff!

It was a long way down the road of abstractions, that today's computer could hardly live with 1GB of memory and 1GHz processor (2 cores, please, please!) for basic usage.

The real art in computer science is, to know where to optimize -- to use your time most effectively.
Not everyone. Generally those who are not temporarily embarrassed become the millionaires and Steve Jobs.
This seems unlikely. Even if North Korea would not be backed by China, could the US win a war? Probably not and they know it. North Korea has one of the largest armies in the world and they are probably crazy enough to take huge losses. This is not like Iraq at all, to say nothing of Afghanistan.

There is also little to be gained. Syria would be a more obvious candidate. It's just as good for "focusing our attention", probably can get public support easily, would please both, Saudi Arabia and Israel and could even make strategic sense. (To be clear, I would oppose such a war, of course.)
Deplatforming isn’t censorship, it is publishers saying they find said speech to be garbage. I don’t typically stop arguing someone because I have convinced them of my view but because I guess further interaction with them on the topic is a waste of energy. I am confident in all my arguments but a lot of people are too dumb and too emotional to be worth debating. And in the group context, arguing without moderation has mostly devolved into name calling and child porn. It is an experiment often repeated. Some people want a different experience, which seems to mean they want moderation in exchange for a good forum, e.g. this web site.
Because I am reading and commenting on Hacker news!
Why not have a three-wheel axle, with two wheels at the edges like in conventional vehicles, and the third wheel riding in the middle of the lane? That would transfer ~30% of the load to a portion of the road which is not wearing down anyway.
Fair enough--we perceive things we're ignorant about as complex. I buy that.

I guess I was comparing it to how things were (or more precisely, how I perceived things) 20 years ago. You'd rack a server or two, install Linux, stick the application in /usr/local/bin, make sure Apache was set up, and you were off and running. Simple enough. It probably didn't scale to 2020-sized Internet user counts, though.
I, for one, would not mind receiving whatever percentage of $5000 is left over after the lawyers take their cut. Google definitely owes me at least that!
If you wear a mask to be anonymous when you enter a shop do you find it "galling" if the cctv still records your entrance or did you expect to become invisible suddenly?
Agree. The spying part is what is wrong (and should be illegal without a consent and paid compensation). Ad agencies should not be allowed to track and model my behavior, and then use these models to sell me stuff. Or if they do they should pay me for it.
In the early 90s I worked in a shop that sold QEMM and DESQview, primarily to customers running Stagesoft and DataPro accounting software.

DESQview was everything Win 3.1 promised to be but was much more stable. At the time I regretted it didn't get more widespread adoption.
I mean, Firefox sends Do Not Track when in private browsing. So clearly it's trying to do more than just hide local history. It obviously can't guarantee it, but it's trying.

Chrome is not, and it seems pretty clear that it's not because that would hurt Google's bottom line. There's no conflict here between "Google shouldn't track you" and "Google should be split up".
Following the model of "understand" -- I'm going to start going with "inlog". Inlogging, inlogged, inlogs -- it just works!
I think this is the first YC company with french founders so congratulations to the team for that, and most importantly congrats for your launch I look forward to test it! Dotcloud seems awesome!

Cocorico :)
You've never had a bad connection? Or you dial a number and it doesn't go through and you have to try again? Or no trunk lines available when calling internationally?
This is great advice & a wonderful way to "brain dump" those nagging thoughts out of your head.

Another writing tip: When you are really upset about something and want to rip someone a new one, write them an email but don't send it. Write what you want to say, get it out of your system, the thing is say whatever you want. Then walk away for 24 hours. If you find upon returning to the email the next day that you still want to say those things, fire away, but most times you'll have cooled down by then & be able to re-write a much better and less "venting" email. This has helped keep me from burning many bridges in moments of extreme frustration.
It might be worth it, but the best code I ever wrote had 0 comments, it didn't need it...
That's not JSON in the examples. It's Javascript. Perfectly valid Javascript.
Yes, we do help you scale as well. Think of DotCloud instances as a generalized version of Heroku's "dynos".

You can scale up any component in your stack by cranking up the number of instances. We automatically provision and reconfigure instances for you.
Using CRISPR to edit the genomes of human embryos because YOLO, is very different to using it in a modified version of an existing treatment for sickle cell anemia. Do you not see the difference in ethical scale and scope?
You’re missing the point. Athletes are gambling with their health, yes. But they have a 50-50 chance of winning or losing. Casinos are not 50-50. They are rigged against their customers.

I wouldn’t have a problem with gambling if the odds are even.

Also, combat sports are not addictive, gambling is.
You dress up better. For the past several years, biking was the only way I went to work, the only exception being if my bike was in the shop for repairs when I'd take public transport.

You'll notice that regardless of the weather, people bike. Chuck some rain pants and a rain coat on, or carry an umbrella, or get a bike poncho thing, or all of the above. It's not hard.

If it's seriously shitty weather, the public transport is a bit more full than otherwise, but still people are out biking because that's how you get from A to B.
You replied to:

> In Germany, all costs associated with a lawsuit have to be paid/reimbursed by the losing party.

with:

> That is already how it works in US civil litigation.

An optional agreement between parties is absolutely not the same as a mandatory, by-default, loser pays system. And yes, in my case getting an agreement like that was certainly going to be impossible.

Also, re: Google and Oracle, the payment was after petitioning the judge - as often happens - and those costs were awarded because the lawsuit was particularly pointless. Yet even then they did not include millions of dollars in discovery costs, so Google got much less than 100% of their legal costs: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/25667/oracle_must_pay_google_... I do not believe you are correct in saying there was any prior agreement.
Getting rid of qualified immunity without instating a "loser pays legal fees" law seems like a a far worse situation.
According to psychologists, there is a personality trait called neuroticism. Neurotic people worry about everything. They worry about getting sued. But they also worry about whether they look fat in these clothes, whether they will forget their uncles birthday, 5g radiation, microplastic partles in the air and whether the guy on the ground is dying or not.

What I'm hinting at is that a neurotic police force would be less likely to harm people. But also take less action in general, solve less crime.
>We cheer for tech that only the rich can use now because it will be for the masses soon. Tech that never exists for the rich, will not exist for anyone ever.

Realistically however, this kind of area falls squarely in the healthcare field which is increasingly becoming a thing for the rich and indentured servitude for the rest.
Tell that to my coworkers. I still get emails encoded in SJIS every day, sometimes with attachments with the file name also encoded in SJIS, which results in funny mojibake when saving them to disk. Not to mention the many web forms that insist you need to write your name in full-width characters or whatever funky shit.

On the other I recently got some Python scripts to crash because someone in the European team decided to encode some texts in ISO-8859-1 and Python assumes everything is in UTF-8.

I really, really wish one day all legacy encodings will disappear from the face of the Earth and only UTF-8 will stay.
something like Plan9's cpu server would help here: you "mount" your shell/IDE environment from your computer and "mount" the other computer's cpu, memory, and fs over ssh. "mount" is in quotation because in Plan9 you not only can mount fs but cpu, network interfaces, desktop windows and what not too.
> releases hardware that's open source and uses Rust

This is an LPC55S69. So it's open source firmware, not open source hardware.
> It rarely happens that once a prototype is written, the developer finds out it was all a wastage and the customer wanted something quite different.

In my experience this leads to mediocre results. You need to throw out prototypes often, otherwise you'll end up with shitty solutions.

It's an unfortunate fact that as soon as you see a prototype, everyones instict is to fix the most glaring issues and call it done.

But to get to a truly great solution, you often have to throw out the prototype, and start all over.

Unfortunately very few people have the patience for that. Usually the prototype already took so much time, that everyone is already totally stressed, and starting over is out of the question.

If throwing the prototype away isn't possible, it's not really a prototype anymore.
Classic startup idea validation one-pager. I'm sure you'll get at least a few people signing up, but I don't think this is a good measure if people are really interested. Final price, look of the product, and the ability to market b2c matter much more.

23's success is more based on the execution of their product and marketing. They already have proven for you, there are customers in this space. Now you just need to build something great.
Even if the article gets the "linear RGB" idea wrong, it doesn't matter for the results, because each channel in all explored palettes is still 1-bit: either on, or off, sometimes with the constraint that red and green cannot be on at the same time.
UBI and NIT have the exact same end effect in terms of how much wealth goes where. They are simply different ways of doing the accounting.
Odd. I wonder why that is. I suppose it has to do with gaining the knowledge to work in the space. Once you do, it's probably easier to find a job with other companies in the same space.
Absolutely fantastic notes, the standout ones to me:

"They have had 7 significant revisions in 11 years" - This echos something I've learned in my own career. You'll never ever ever ever get it right the first time. If you spend all of your time trying to get it right the first time, you'll never produce anything. BUILD! (but plan well to eliminate obvious mistakes).

"All their systems work well inside a datacenter, but have no way f spanning datacenters." - This was a real surprise. I guess I had mistakenly assumed that all of Google's distributed resources lived as one giant meta-machine. I never realized how disconnected the datacenters were.

"Don’t design to scale infinitely – consider 5X – 50X growth. But > 100X requires redesign << very insightful" - quote says it all.
I am a huge JSON fan, but I have still managed to find a few cases where I can make use of XML - the mixed-mode situations the author describes.

To generalize my viewpoint: XML is a good way to mix data and data processing, or mash up multiple DSLs in polyglot fashion. When stream-parsed, one can imagine great use-cases of XML, where an early node adds context, references and functionality for other data later in the document. But it sucks for plain old standalone-structured data, which is the kind of data we usually like to _store_.
There must be a reason why Silicon Valley has resorted to using social networks to identify good people.

Maybe it's time to use social networks for airline security as well.
I'm not sure it's easy to distinguish the Hawking radiation from the stuff that comes out otherwise. I guess the Hawking radiation should be thermal but for a borderline small black hole there will be few particles.
This is not a helpful question, because there is no decision you can make which depends on the answer.

Here's a better question: "I have about 2000 signups and 3-4% of them are active users. What can I do to improve my activation or retention?"

Here are some ideas:

1) Do you email people? This is the single most effective way to increase retention, because email is stickier than applications for pretty much every application which is not Facebook. If you don't email people, email people. An easy way to test the waters is to get a MailChimp account and set up an "autoresponder" sequence with emails 1 day into use and 1 week into use.

2) Have you optimized your first run experience? You get about 30 seconds before that pernicious bastard, the Back button, eats your lunch. Make that thirty seconds count. If ~5% of people currently hitting the back button had a good first experience and stayed for the long haul, you'd have about twice as many active users.

P.S. There are worthwhile things you can do for the business which will decrease your percentage of users who activate. That is OK.
I think there is an american version where a beige democrat side face a grey republican side and they both discuss the issues sensibly before devolving all power to the individual pawns
$0 seems a little off.
1. How many work trucks have you seen with a toolbox in the bed - almost all of them? How would you access one in this thing without literally climbing into the box?

2. How do you carry a ladder, roof rack, or box on this thing?

3. Where do I tie down the countless odd-shaped items that a work truck carries?

4. How do I mount a deck for bigger equipment on this truck?

5. Is 250 top range enough for a work truck that does field service and likely hauls significant weight?

This thing is less truck than the original Honda Ridgeline and that's saying something. You'll see one at the mall before you see one in the field.
Why does the word ‘woman’ look like a derivative of the word ‘man’? I think it’s unfair! (The term ‘female’ is no big help, either.)
One distinction though, the rubes he targets are generally rubes with some level of power or influence. That's kind of the point.
Misleading title; I assumed it was talking about http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/39339/android
This can't be real.? I have family who worked at netflix.

Netflix must have brought their P.R. Consultant on full time for the last 3 months to write this post.
The two main advantages were XML parsing performance, and the ability to embed XML directly in the XHTML. For phones of the era, the performance benefits are obvious. As for XML embedding, it'd give you the ability to embed SVG, MathML, and any other XML language directly. This avoids a second retrieval/parsing step, and allows extensibility without changing the XHTML spec.
I know that a lot of people use PadiTrack to better understand their GA funnels and it provides segments as far as I know? Plus, it's free. http://paditrack.com

What do you guys use for funnel analysis? I think as a paid solution KISSMetrics covers some of the issues outlined in this post.
An extension of this is The Noflake Manifesto http://noflake.org/
It's important to be reminded of this every so often. It definitely helps to get through "tougher days" if you're able to have a little perspective on how great things actually are, or how much worse they could be.