jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It seems like a real 6+% has been possible over the past half century.

https://thume.ca/indexView/

Granted, it could be that the SP500 or the US over the past half century is not representative of equities over a longer time period, like a century, but in that case I don't know what is.
> I've never bought (pun intended) the argument that dining out in any form (including coffee) even comes close to these other items.

Well it's easy to know if that argument holds true or not... just track your expenses. It holds true for me.[1] Once I started WFH during COVID my weekly expenses got in much better shape.

[1] Edit: combined lunch + coffee + snacks during the work week were equivalent to about 15% of my rent (and rent is high where I live). I did not include weekend dining out with friends/family in that figure, or it would have been even higher. (The reason is that during the work week I always get food or coffee from the same merchants so it was easier to track, but during weekend it varies more).

Edit 2: solution was to pack lunch/snacks, and use the office coffee maker. Packed lunch is less than half of the previous amount, and office coffee is free. Now the figure is about 5% of my rent.

Edit 3: a positive side effect is that my snacks started consisting more of things like an apple or an orange, rather than the crappy processed-food sugary snacks I was buying at the cafe.
and momentum .. while Houdini has a glorious past it's a pro tool in a niche space; blender is the trendy open source liberating kids creativity all over the planet. I'm not pro blender but that's a potential scenario.. so far they managed to grow the task force and keep it cohesive and productive.
The SEC's core reponsibility is to ensure you can get complete, accurate information about the securities you're buying, which for stock means information about the company's business operations and financials. Speculation in the sense of "I bet this business will do really well in 2 years" is fine and the SEC has no mandate to interfere.
There are many different formats you can use: https://github.com/github/markup
Another snowman. This one on Chromium under Arch Linux, no idea what font its ended up using, but I think it looks much happier.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6266437/Snowman.png
His book "C - The complete reference" was so bad the term "bullschildt" was coined.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bullschildt.html
I'm glad there is going to be more competition in this space.

Currently, I don't really have the need or desire to manage my own Hadoop cluster, but I haven't been completely satisfied with Amazon's Elastic Map Reduce offering either.

Definitely interested in any beta tests and/or feedback for that!
The main difference from the merchants' point of view is that when they do an offer with Groupon they receive half of the proceeds from the 'coupon', whereas in for a 'discount book' they receive nothing. The Groupon offer is thus better viewed as a heavily discounted gift certificate. Otherwise there is little difference other than the scale.

As to whether you are too cheap to buy a coupon? Unlikely. More likely you are insufficiently cheap for the idea to hold appeal, as you are OK with buying the product you want when you want it, rather than jumping through all sorts of hoops and advance planning to save a few dollars. You are welcome and possibly correct to view this as 'wise'.
Merry Christmas! Tomorrow i'll be back saying sqrt(-1)/8 ! :-)
So, coroutine are as fast as callbacks and easier to program with... so, why aren't available is all language?

I understand that it is difficult to change JavaScript, yet, when you create a whole new framework, say, nodejs, why not providing coroutines?

Does it need a language construct to be efficient? Maybe, then have a look the Icon programming language, where coroutines rule,
Interesting -- have you done this successfully?
Right, and the only way to ban those coffin sellers is by force. Someone has to be willing to go in there with a gun and make them stop. The ability to get that done is called "political power".

Of course, normally it doesn't come to that, but the threat has to be real otherwise those naughty people will just go right on selling coffins. (My goodness, they might even be unsafe.)

Yes, people often seek political power in order to maximize their economic power. And people with economic power can often gain political power. Nevertheless, the two types of power are distinct. Political power is the ability and willingness to initiate force against others. Economic power is the ability to deploy capital in production. Just because one can be used to pursue the other does not make them equivalent.
While it's a big deal, let's be reasonable with our expectations of privacy.

I know my street addresses, home and work, my e-mail addresses, significant URLs, credit cards, expired credit cards, buying habits, posts, messages, family relationships (mother, wife, ex-wife, kids, ex-girlfriends) etc are stored in a lot (probably more than a hundred) places. I have no expectation all that data will be kept secret for any length of time. I seriously doubt much of that data could be kept form a dedicated googler with lots of free time, much less from a determined criminal who wanted that data.
IMAP are POP3 optional. /var/spool/mail/$USER or ~/mobx were enough some time ago, although right now not everyone is running their own mail (smtp) server.
If I had to come up with a new long password every three months I'd do what undoubtedly countless other people would do in the same situation: I'd write down my password somewhere nearby the computer so I could look it up when I needed it.

Overly onerous password requirements reach a point where they no longer increase security, they just shift vulnerability to a new area. They also piss off users.
Good documentation definitely helps. However what concerns me more is the growing tendency of Rails and related packages to do more and more "magic" without warning the user, at the expense of best practices and the principle of least astonishment. The best example I can think of offhand is Bundler "helpfully" invoking sudo to modify your global system settings, as the default option.
This article also underscores how important that you choose wisely what it is you want to win at, since if you even want a chance of it you'll likely have it consume your life.
Is it obvious that one (public) is more monetizable than the other (private)?

Facebook is hugely profitable, but its messages are private...
Oh, OK. It's in some dire need of some information design.

It would be good to at least replace the year with the PageRank.
No.

The classic case of a license in common law is permission to enter someone's property. Consider this case:

Me, opening the door to my apartment: Oh shit! There's a burglar in my living room!

Burglar: I'm not a burglar! This is my apartment! I've owned it for ten years.

Me: This isn't your apartment! It's my apartment! I bought it from Hugo López last year!

Burglar: Hold on a second. As long as you don't lay your hands on me, I'll allow you to remain in this living room to discuss this with me, but López never actually owned this apartment. He rented it from me for a while, but I evicted him five years ago for not paying rent. It was a fraudulent sale.

Me: Really? Shit. Listen, are you armed?

Burglar: No. Does this catsuit look like it has space for a gun? [Holds up hands, turns 360°]

Me: I guess not. I'm still calling the police.

Burglar: Go ahead.

Me: [pulls out cellphone and starts dialing]

Now, the burglar has granted me a license to remain on what he claims is his property. He could still be a burglar hoping to fool me long enough to get away, or he could be telling the truth and be the legal owner of the place, or in fact he could be telling the truth but López might have become the legal owner of the place through adverse possession, but in none of these cases am I accepting his claim and ceding the property to him simply by remaining in my own living room, or by not bodily throwing him out.
Which means there's no option 3. There's really no "better place" to go. The whole world is under their control and other countries are worse.
and gold and other heavy metals in trace ammounts
I've always wondered if there's a space for some serious disruption in this industry. One of the things I've always seen, having gone to lots of auctions as a kid, is that you can buy diamond rings for a fraction of the price on the auction block. Even if you just rip the diamond out, and set it in a new ring, you'd be saving money, not to mention the metals you have left over from the ring.

If there were a company whose sole purpose was reselling jewelry like this at a pretty big markdown from competitors, I wonder how sustainable/successful it would be, because I know I would support it.

Part of my thinking about this is just my desire to "stick it to the bad guys", but part of it really is a recognition that traditions aren't going to change over night, so we might as well try to save some people a little money.
It helps to identify and avoid clickbait articles and nonsensical self-promotion.
Everybody is an highly competitive field. Everybody wants to release as fast as possible. That's why everybody is using open source components. I know that everybody in the commercial field avoids GPL. Just curious which other licenses are on the blacklist of the some companies.
Even worse is what De Beers has done to try making synthetic diamonds inferior to "natural diamonds" - https://news.internetstones.com/de-beers-iidgr-holds-synthet... (They designed a special machine to make the synthetic diamonds fluoresce under certain wavelengths of UV light.)

Personally I think a synthetic diamond is better than a natural one, but IFLS.
Kind of a bummer that nothing was suggested wrt tightening the number grammar. "99" and "99e0" are both valid serializations of 99, and "0e7" and "0" of zero. JSON also allows arbitrary trailing and leading 0s in the fraction and exponent, respectively. Personally I don't know why for instance "0.0" can't be the only valid interpretation of a double 0 and "0" be the only valid interpretation of an integer 0. In fact, why can't all floats that are ambiguous wrt an integer interpretation have a ".0" tail?

Also, if you're going to stash binary data in to quoted JSON strings then why base64url encoding and not Z85[0]? It's more efficient and easier to decode.

Using schema-less formats generally sucks.

[0] http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:32
I find it very odd that Delicious was not a "strategic fit" at Yahoo!

If I remember right, Yahoo was a bunch of links pointing people to webpages. How is that different from bookmarks?

Citation regarding the history of Yahoo:

Before long they were spending more time on their home-brewed lists of favorite links than on their doctoral dissertations.

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html
The regulator sues and is reviewed in court under a highly deferential “abuse of discretion” standard.
The protestors in Portland saw the courthouse as a symbol. They were not trying to take control of the government or harm people.

Wednesday's insurrectionists were trying to stop the recognition of the next president and take control by force. You can look through this Twitter thread for examples[1]. People entered the House Chamber armed with some sort of weapon and carrying flex cuffs. These aren't "people spilling over a barrier". They are insurrectionists that attempted to literally take our government hostage. The intent here was drastically more serious than any of the BLM protests.

[1] - https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347011413101998080
Which of those websites is in any way obligated to amplify things that violate their policies?
The printf format string is actually a little language. In the book The Practice of Programming, Kernighan and Pike show how you can devise a similar format string to pack/unpack network packets.
I really don't recognize the society that we are moving towards. People are welcoming censorship with open arms. Twitter and other social media are the public spaces of the internet. Deplatforming someone there is essentially as if the governments bans the public speech of someone in the "real" world.

It truly gives me shivers down my spine...
Rather than fixating on the mailed ballots, which are used in many places and by which Republicans have been elected in the most recent election and before, concentrate on designing an end-to-end system which could safely incorporated mailed ballots.

Two years of lots of shouting and no accomplishments by Democrats, with more covid deaths in 2021 than in 2020, is going to powerfully depress their turnout in 2022. Also there is a new thing called "Movement for a People's Party" [0] that will take more votes from Democrats than from Republicans. Don't be discouraged about Republican political prospects!

[0] https://peoplesparty.org/
>Wouldn't you do the same?

No, if every educated person, scientist, lawyer, and generally decent person starts treating me like I'm radioactive at some point I'd probably start pondering if they're right rather than putting on a Viking outfit and storming the capitol in the name of Q. I actually lack the imagination to conceive of what goes on in the mind of someone who stands in a crowd of people who look like a mix of dollar-store militia and medieval role-playing convention and not ask themselves where they went wrong
Just saw google removed the app and now apple is about to as well
Why ask me? I don’t claim to know what they’re thinking, I’m just skeptical at the idea that misogynists are so evenly distributed between genders.

Why don’t you actually go talk to pro-life people and really listen to what they have to say? You might discover a better line of argument than just saying “stop being a woman hater”.
aye - or given how low cost/portable drones are now - any agents of those governments ( or other governments ).
> With electricity markets you make more money if everyone is generating 1/2 power in an emergency.

The per-megawatt hour prices might be higher, but is there evidence that overall revenue is higher? I understand that supply is down as well, so overall revenues might be worse or equal to normal levels. Furthermore, people in yesterday's griddy thread mentioned that currently the price is fixed at $9/MGWh by state regulators, which isn't exactly a free market.
Depending on where you live it many also be a criminal offence - I agree with the policy here that "Children have the same legal protection from assault as adults."

https://www.mygov.scot/smacking-children/

And yes, I am a parent.
The last time I went to the Cambridge Microcenter (~1 month ago) they were spraying your hands with sanitizer the moment you walked in. I haven't seen any local grocery store do that.

It's a fantastic store, but it very clearly hasn't had a remodel since it opened.
The issue isn't public vs private, it's the combination of a profit motive + inelastic consumer demand + lack of alternatives. It would make sense to run electricity as a public enterprise, to run it as a deeply regulated private one, or run some kind of mix - public ownership of distribution, private ownership of generation.
Can we make this a regular thread on HN? Perhaps TMWN HN (Tell Me Why Not HN)? I have tons of ideas that I'm too embarrassed to get initial feedback on from HN. Once a month we can all pitch each other ideas and give feedback on others'.
I'm quite sure the reason for people who share rooms with their family is because they can't get a bigger apartment for whatever reason.
Honestly doctors can spread a lot of disinformation on things not biologically related. For example, our pediatrician recommended we wait until 3 to potty train our son... who at the time was already potty trained.

Potty training is also something that differs widely between developed nations and rest of world.
Man held after banknote campaigner receives rape threats on Twitter

Police say man arrested on suspicion of harassment offences, after shadow minister criticises Twitter's response to abuse

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/jul/28/man-arrested-...
Not to mention: If you get value from Adaptive Multimedia Streaming then pay for it. Why should they necessarily provide you value for free?

That argument applies to the software as a whole, not just to a particular feature, right? Isn't it just an argument against open source in general?

rather than getting behind the ethos of what it's actually about

What do you think is the ethos of what open source is actually about? I think part of it is indeed about sharing things with others for free, isn't it? If other parts of it are about the ability to see the code you're using, and make changes to it yourself -- you can't do that with the non-open-source part of this (or other) application either, right?

I don't have a definite opinion on the nginx model, whether or not it's good for the community, I don't really know. Certainly no developers are obligated to write open source ever, everyone can choose to write proprietary software whenever they want (and sometimes it's good for the community and sometimes it's not). But your argument is silly.
:) The house is a link.
You ingest more radiation eating a banana than you would absorb if you lived right next door to a nuclear power-station.

Perhaps we should destroy all the banana's in the world?
Surely this is innovation when applied to a new domain (ranking websites). Also Google never stopped innovating PageRank and other ranking techniques.

PG applying Bayes' theorem to e-mail spam was innovative.

If we get very loose with our definition of algorithm, one could even say that ants implemented the first PageRank-like algorithm, when they ranked sources of food, using pheromone trails.
If you want to know what life in a UK prison is actually like, read this ebook, HMP - A Survival Guide http://issuu.com/prisonism/docs/hmp_a_survival_guide

It's a down to earth practical guide aimed at someone who hasn't been to prison before. The ToC features such chapters as Sharing A Cell, Violence, Getting Stuff Done (Complaints and Applications and so on. Smoking teabags, making toast using the radiator, cooking noodles in the kettle, making rope out of sheets to pass things between cells, flash-distilling vodka using ice cubes and a live 240v mains cable, it's all in there.

I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever wondered what prison really involves, day to day, from a prisoners point of view. Or anyone really. It's a fascinating document, very much DIY, reads a bit like a txtfile from back in the day.
For those who are not convinced. Here is one more benchmark.

http://www.inpai.com.cn/doc/hard/198143_8.htm

Page takes a while to load. Then scroll down to the benchmarks. Take a look at the single threaded Linpack benchmarks between i7@3.5GHz and Exynos@1.6GHz.
I can understand that attitude, I don't think there's many on HN who would openly support the public sale of firearms with their serial numbers filed off.

Anti-terroism laws are great, the problem is that everyone is a terroist.

Anti-criminal laws are great, the problem is that everyone is a criminal.

Anti-drug laws can also be great, the problem is that relatively safe drugs are incredibly illegal, and applied typically against minorities, and extremely unsafe designer drugs arn't and circulate amongst the public.

It's not so black and white as I see it, anyway.
or, "How taking venture capital is a risk, and where the control lays even if you're successful."

(also: especially if you're successful).

Except that Tony Hsieh is now on a committee with Jeff Bezos, and 4 executives from Amazon and Zappos. It will still operate as their own entity, run by Tony, and they've basically placated the VCs with Amazon stock while he gets full control over the company, culture, and with access to Amazon's resources. They went inside the deal in a couple of places, check out Inc.'s article on the subject.
I never drink alcohol (or caffeine) on long haul plane flights -- dehydration is really really awful, and you dehydrate so quickly on planes with the air conditioning going all the time. But then again my "long haul" flights are 20hrs+, not 10.
this is great advice.
I disagree on his recommendations. I was looking around for a good entry level DSLR (narrowed it down to Canon & Nikon). For the "Best Serious Camera" he recommended the Nikon D5000. I couldn't be happier with this camera. It's easy to use and takes fantastic pictures:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/recommended-cameras.htm
I've got an rpi running as a NAS with USB External HDD's and it works a treat.

Took about half an hour to set up, everyone on the network can access it easily and my WD TV Live will happily play video directly off it without any significant time buffering.

Personally haven't had any issues with speed or maintainability, would definitely recommend giving it a go.
Maybe you're right. Maybe I let myself get carried away.

However, in the first part of my comment, I ask questions I wish the article would have answered somehow.

In the second part (after the quote), I'm maybe a little fierce, but it's more a general statement on a common mistake (giving up too easy) that many fresh startups make, including some in which I was involved.

It was not my intention to make assumptions. So, in order to improve my writing, it would be nice if you tell me about the assumptions the you read in the comment.

That all said, I feel sympathy for the founders and wish them all the best. Too bad they shut the servie down, as I read about it here for the first time and would have been a potential user.
I think that a better solution is to use pwdhash. Check it out here:

http://pwdhash.com

It's a browser extension for Chrome and for Firefox that seamlessly hashes the concatenation of your master password and the domain name of the site you're logging into. This produces a different password for each site, and requires you to remember only your master password.

The extensions were created by Blake Ross (big name in the firefox community), as well as Collin Jackson and Dan Boneh who are highly regarded security experts at Stanford.

Also, if you're interested, I've created a command line utility for Mac OS X that exposes the same functionality:
https://github.com/ali01/pwdhash.py
There are a lot of apps that are much cooler on the iPad, especially the generative art and particle physics ones. For example Art of Glow, Little Uzu, etc.
To your point of the beholder: I find/found the ideas of quantum mechanics beautiful, but I find the Hamiltonian formulation of classical mechanics much more beautiful. I see QM as sort of messy...

...until second quantization (and some Dirac-notation formulations of perturbation theory). Those I enjoyed.
I read a story on HN a while back about a guy who used an algorithm to generate his passwords. Don't have the link but something like combining easy to remember bits of personal information. e.g mother's name, kids birthday, maybe changing the case of these. Also adding something site specific like the last three letters of the url backwards. It's easy to remember passwords this way but if one gets out they're all vulnerable if someone looks closely.
Admittedly, I have not taken the time to try MacPorts specifically. (This is probably due to the fact that the lab machine I worked on was polluted by various things installed via MacPorts, which seemed to mess with the autotools/configure process even further, if I was trying to compile something in ~/src. Left a bad taste in my mouth. But that's obviously not MacPorts' fault.)

My experience is that these third-party package managers are great, until you want to make them work with software that doesn't come through the package system. A good test case, I think, would be this: how easy is it to install Python via [MacPorts|Fink|Homebrew|etc.] and then compile and run the latest SciPy (say, a bleeding-edge version from source control, not one from the package manager) against that Python?

Can you speak to a case like this, or one of similar complexity?