jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Dropbox can still win.

First, have you tried the Cloud Drive UI? It's barely hackathon-level quality. They have basic photo browsing, which is nice, but the Dropbox UX is orders of magnitude better at the time of writing.

Second, a lot of people use Dropbox to share files. Amazon's service is currently about back-ups. They're somewhat different use cases, and sharing is arguably a harder problem than backup because the sharing experience must have much less friction to succeed. So Dropbox is already years ahead of Amazon in this regard.

Third, storage at scale is still much cheaper than what anybody is charging. A 4U of RAID 5 SATA drives costs quite a bit less than Amazon's $59/yr/TB price point. (I know Cloud Drive is "unlimited" at that price, but survey data suggest to me most users have less than 1TB of data or unwilling to upload that much). While Dropbox purportedly uses S3 heavily, S3 is about $360/yr/TB. Clearly Dropbox must have storage hedged with something else to back their Pro service (even if that tech is still under development).

Dropbox can, with high probability, meet Amazon's offering here, and they'll likely blow Amazon's UX out of the park.
"Flash the way it is supposed to be today & tomorrow: fresh & innovative" and since the whole site is made in Flash, middle click on the demos doesn't open a new tab. It's just great!
> Can you boot to a btrfs yet?

Yes. Out of the box BtrFS support in the RHEL 6 / Centos GUI installer (and the Fedora one too).
Someone goes to Rudd and gives him a folder of 'objectionable material.' Also gives Rudd stats on how frequently it's accessed. And it's been on Rudd's mind ever since and he's trying to disinfect Australia and himself from it.
Yup, 7pm Australian Eastern Standard Time :).
I usually hear it in the form of a denouncement of tools that "make easy things easier and hard things impossible". I think that perfectly describes a bad abstraction layer.
The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, um not sure actually, 1984, The Sound and the Fury

Edit: Google tells me it's The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair.
Most teacher and school assessments in the UK are based exactly on that - achieved improvement versus expected improvement. Schools in underpriveleged areas and which perform poorly on standardised tests still themselves score well if the results are "good given the context and circumstances."

The tragedy is that teachers who don't teach to the test and provide an excellent education that is tailored to the children they have are starting to worry about the security of their jobs, whereas poor teachers who have no real ability except to regurgitate the texts and drill the kids on process and recitation are relatively safe.
... I'm lost for words. The crazyness about this is not so much that they got money from Zuckerberg, but that they had to look for it! I'm showing my lack of knowledge about the US political system now, but did the founding fathers not provision somehow that the elections as the central element of the democratic process must have guaranteed adequate funding, without influence from any other government entity?
The claim is that there is an asset bubble. In other words, stocks and real estate are being inflated, whereas the products that constitute the traditional measure of inflation (basket of goods with bread milk and eggs in it) are not.

This attempts to show the “real” inflation so to speak.
The humor is strong with this one.

This is a welcome laugh during tedious times.
Apparently my family knew this in the 1960s, as we always ate dinner before dessert.
I went to TJ too. Asra loves to make this argument but it is BS. TJ can engage in precisely the same systems that have historically excluded everybody but white people while still ending up dominated by south and east asian students. The article you linked is gruesomely biased.
I get your point but this one article of many written by Glenn on the topic of crappy journalism and a lack of accountability, even among the reporters at the NYTimes.

This article is about a social media post, by a journalist at the NYTimes, accusing a highly visible person of using a slur that never actually happened. And once corrected, this reporter basically hides and asks why everyone is attacking her.

He’s using this event as an example of an on-going issue.
GMO means we can use chemicals that break down as opposed to more toxic ones that build up in the soil.
It can be transparent in the visible spectrum.

But ya, the UV dyes are probably not very stable
Why do we get sensationalist articles on HN? Surely the reason this is interesting is not the animation quality. I really hope certain sites would not even appear due to their poor reputation score focusing sensationalism. Here is a few to name:

quantamagazine.org, nautil.us masquerading as science journals

phys.org masquerading as physics journal

indepenedent.com, et al not masquerading as anything they are just crap
Oversimplified, but a very good visual representation of the scale of recent money-printing.

MMT is being tried in realtime, even as the debate roundly defeats it.
> “The technical difficulty in manufacturing such a magnet is staggering,” says Brookhaven Lab physicist David Morrison, co-spokesperson for PHENIX, one of RHIC’s two main experiments. “The technology may be similar to an MRI—also a superconducting solenoid with a hollow center—but many times larger and completely customized. These magnets look very simple from the outside, but the internal structure contains very sophisticated engineering. You can’t just order one of these beasts from a catalogue. ”

Can someone go into more detail about this? What makes it so sophisticated? At the end, it's just a pipe made out of ferrous metals, right? So is it just a very evenly distributed alloy, or what?

Edit: Also, how do you transport something like that along the highway without arriving with three smart cars and a geo metro stuck to the trailer?
"They run out of battery, they hurt your eyes, they don’t work in the bath."

None of that is practically true.

The Kindle can run out of battery but lets face it it lasts weeks so you just need to remember to charge it occasionally. It is unlikely to die on you like a mobile phone.

I am not sure what they mean by hurt your eyes, but the ability to change the font size and still have convenient paging is brilliant. With a paper book you have to don your 2x non-prescription glasses I guess.

And they do work with the operator in the bath, and the eReader just above the surface. Just keep the window open so it isn't too steamy, and have a table ready for when you want to put the reader down (stop reading once your toes start to wrinkle!).
My vote is definitely for swagger. Besides being a great way to write API spec, it has tons of tooling to take a given spec to the next level. See the list at https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-spec. My favorite is Swagger Editor which allows you to write a spec in YAML and shows you consumable API in real time.

There also exist an opens source project that has Swagger at its core called a127 (https://github.com/apigee-127/a127-documentation/wiki) that allows you to build enterprise-class APIs in Node.js locally and deploy to any PaaS where you can run a node app.

Disclaimer: I work with a127 project.
> Phrasing this emotionally ("dislikes") is weak. These are not people rms (or anyone else) "dislikes", they are people who want to remove your freedom to use software.

How is disallowing a feature for political reasons any different than this? This is a useful feature that he's refusing, that people want, because it might help out the bad guys. He's basically willing to screw over his customers (the users), to make a point.

> You're happy to have more software written but don't care if that includes software that doesn't let people use it freely. You're allowing harm.

Lol. I make software. I want people to use it, and I want to make money for my efforts. I have zero interests in their politics. To me, that's freedom. If that's "allowing harm" I will happily do it.

Let me give some credentials here. I make a plugin for unity 3d. I sell it. It's not my day job, but I do make some money from it. When I sell it, I also include the source code, because I realize that developers are sometimes going to need to customize this product for their own needs. Even if they distribute what they do (which I hope they do! That's the point right?), I don't ask that they contribute their changes back, because that was their blood sweat and tears and they already paid their due (IE, the price of the product). Good for them. I'd be incredibly appreciative if they contributed their changes back, but they already paid their due, so I ask nothing of them. To me, although this particular thing is not the BSD license, I feel like it's in the spirit of that. "Here's some code, contribute back if you can". The GPL license on the other hand seems pretty un-inclusive. It's basically like, "here's some software... You can use it I guess but we mostly meant this for people that follow our cause..." The entire thing seems incredibly political, which makes me uninterested since I don't subscribe to their cause for various reasons.
I'm not saying your conclusion isn't wrong, but your argument probably is - largely because there are many costs of terrorism beyond simply loss of life - it's an incredibly efficient way to disrupt a nation.

For example, some estimates of the cost of 9/11 (I think including the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan) suggest that each American is out to the tune of $10,000 [0]. If the NSA were able to prevent one 9/11 style event, they'd in one step justify their budget for 300 years (if you ignore Iraq and Afghanistan, it goes down to 75 years, but in many ways at least Afghanistan was very much caused by 9/11).

[0] - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/09/08/us/sept-11-rec...
Regarding client support, why does only Google appear to be interested? Talking about saving a round trip here...

To try with NGINX, you may need to add compile it with --with-cc-opt="-DTCP_FASTOPEN=[X]" otherwise just adding fastopen=23 into your server block may be problematic.
https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/5392464
If there were some independent/third party responsible for the sifting that took requests from NSA, I could maybe see accepting it.
Because you can't just cut taxes. You would either have to increase other taxes or reduce spending. Ex'Tax takes the first of these approaches.
> Learn yourself some TDD. You won’t regret it.

How?
One simple way to help make sure your employees are selecting good passwords without a mountain of rules is to run your users' password file against a tool like john, perhaps adding details like company name and their personal info to the dictionary. If the password stands up to a few minutes of brute force and dictionary attacks, that by no means makes you secure against hours or days of attacks but does rule out Password1 and the like.
I am not a lawyer, but I guess those things are allowed, assuming you put your hands back on the wheel again.

I cannot recall ever hearing of anyone charged with such an offense, but I am sure you would not pass a driving test if you didn't use both hands.

https://www.canstar.com.au/car-insurance/6-road-rules-youre-...
I think you're wrong. GPL is designed specifically for FOSS programmers who work only on FOSS projects. Legally, it's a restrictive license that limits options for developers who develop for a day job (for a company that keeps their software proprietary). The BSD and MIT licenses are far superior for the average working dev.
Update: The DNS issue responsible for today’s downtime has been resolved. We are continuing to monitor.

https://status.notion.so/
well you could add motion sensing and a camera on the device to help with that.
>No, really, gamergate supporters like Milo Yiannopoulos have also been doxxed

I don't think someone searching his twitter feed for a phone number he himself posted for self promotion falls under the same category as taking selfies outside someone's place of work.

>The drunk driving analogy is stupid because the benefits that cars provide to society outweigh the negatives of drunk drivers, but there is no good reason for an anonymous tip to warrant armed soldiers breaking into your house in the night, usually making no indication that they are policemen and not just thugs and robbers, and shooting you dead if you so much as move the wrong way in your confusion. It's a profoundly dangerous and easy to abuse system, and it needs to change.

You're right, the system does need to change. And I would even agree that is linked to the issues of online harassment. However, that is not the cause of online harassment, nor would improvements to police reaction policies put a stop to doxing.
I disagree, it's the same as any other situation where people act unethically just because there's low risk of getting caught.

People steal items from hotel rooms, catch a train without buying a ticket, hack cable TV circuits, use others' unprotected wifi, keep a 20 when they were expecting a 10, insure items after they're damaged, etc etc. My last two flatmates have left without paying their share of the utility bills and ignored my messages. None of this is piracy but it's similar behaviour.

A lot of people just have no spine and only the threat of prosecution keeps them in line. Which makes it hard to swallow any of these elaborate justifications of media/software piracy.
I send the articles to Instapaper, but if the comment threads are especially good I save those to my delicious bookmarks as well.
Serious question, as I've never had a phone repaired. I have a work paid for phone, if my phone were to stop working I would call Apple and either have a new one shipped to me or go and pick one up (probably go pick it up as I'd like to get it ASAP) when I previously had a blackberry I would have done the same (substituting Apple for Verizon). Can you (at any level of expertise) fix my phone faster that the carrier/provider can replace it?
In high school and college, I pirated plenty of music, because I was dead broke. Now that I'm older, and have a job, I'm buying a lot of the music that I downloaded 10 years ago. $1 a song is still too much, but when Amazon has digital albums for $5, I'll buy a few.

I've always gone to shows, though, to support the local artists as directly as I can.
Then don't. You don't have to. Listen to the radio. Record the radio (in many countries that is legal). Listen to Youtube or streams. Listen to free music!
Funny thing about the 10th Amendment: only reason it made it into the Constitution was because the Founding Fathers made sure to reserve most powers to the Federal government in Articles I-III.

America has had a limited-power central government. The first time, it was called the Confederation, and it failed within 5-6 years. The second time, it was called the Confederacy, and it failed just as quickly. Europe's experiment with a weak centralized government hasn't worked out that well either.

The US Constitution deliberately created a strong federal government because the Founders had lived through a weak federal government and had no desire to go through that ever again.

As for that bit about guidelines: it would never work. States actively resist guidelines and best practices. Its one of the reasons that the federal government issues so many mandates to the States as a condition of receiving federal funding.
Very interesting. However what prevents this system from splitting out into virtual cliques consisting of same groups that exist today? There is no doubt that the proposed system is more accommodating of the non-US, non-European authors. However since the RE entities are free to choose what they review, what is the incentive to dig through piles of papers from unknown authors?
Yes, yes. It's not patents that will be the issue for 3D replicas, but branding/trademark/licensing. I can make the Toy Story action figures for my kids, rather than pay Pixar for the rights. I can make Thomas the Train toys.

It's not that there's anything patentable in these items, but the licensing deals associated with things like TV shows and movies takes a serious hit.
No. However, I was going to say I can pay you the princely sum of one shiny upvote for your participation, but it appears I can't even do that. Or if I can, it's not showing up. :-(

You'll have to settle for me thinking "Thank you, wlievens" really, really hard.
I didn't mean to besmirch the honor of the prison guards... "angry" only meant that they would be angry because of the detainee not following the rules, not because they are inherently angry people.

I was reasonably confident that said minor beatings were codified into what the guards are supposed to do. If Manning doesn't do one of the things he is not allowed to do, he will be forced to comply, and said force is likely to resemble a beating.
Yes but I think a lower amount like 50 would probably be enough or at least a good test before trying an higher threshold..
the site probably never took off because 'fit finder' is inherently misogynistic and a little bit creepy?

I know Zuckerburg started facebook as a way to find girls but at least the name is more generic
How so? Yes, I understand it is geeky to protest a semantic inaccuracy for spite of which the intended meaning of the original point comes through. But you'll see the same thing on any forum (I've seen people who fail to capitalize the beginnings of sentences loose their shit at spelling errors), and I don't see how cynicalkane's not-unreasonable correction (continuing to use "Asperger's" as a synonym for "Nerd" does get a perpetuate its use as an unhealthy crutch for the socially-awkward neurotypical) trips anything but the most wildly flailing, meat-free interpretations of your protest.

To your point itself, very few stories on the front page of HN at any given time have members of HN, or people you would accuse members of HN of playing fawning court to, as participants. Many of them have one or two comments that say "Seriously guys? This isn't Reddit." They're usually buried gray at the bottom, forgotten under a mound of productive discussion on whatever the topic is at hand.
I would agree, except "standard security measures" aren't and you lead to travishamockeries like the pepper nonsense. Which is why I default to, "cite your sources."
Yeah, is not about making money at all, it's about have fun and then sell all that fun for millions :)
I only did a quick search (UK, US), there could be community (EC) registered marks that are earlier but these should have shown up (in the UK search).

Trademarks are unregistered IP as well as registered. Registration gains you more protection and makes suing people easier but it can be done with an unregistered mark (or that's how things work in the EC).

It doesn't matter when any product was made in as much as the registered mark is a sign of the origin of goods/services it is not a product mark. If there is no other IP protection on your product I can rip it off and sell it as long as I don't use your trademark.

I don't know sufficient to comment on priority of registrations in the US both in the specifics and in general, sorry.
This only happened after the airlines stole most of the passenger traffic. By the 70s the rail vs flight curves had crossed and most passengers were on planes, after deregulation of the airlines the market for long-haul passenger carriage was owned by the airlines; the only thing left for railroads was freight and short-haul passenger traffic in populated corridors. When passengers were the bulk of the rail revenue stream the system was optimized in their favor, and when fright took over the conditions were inverted.
Ooooh kay, lets look at the practicality of this:

If North Korea (as a government) wants something from Sourceforge's site, will blocking access to the site really prevent them from doing so for more than a second?

Meanwhile, if a North Korean wants something from Sourceforge's site, why are you blocking it? Similar to above, they can still get it, but all you're doing is punishing the civilians, most of whom have little to nothing to do with the government. How is this helpful?

Now, which of those two is the US Government at war with?

They were implying the law is ridiculous. Complying is the cost of existence in a nation.
Sorry for my stupid question, but I can't understand the quoted phrase "out-to-lunchness". What's that? I don't know, but it sounds pretty derogative.
What makes that better? "Scheduled downtime" such as meditation or a walk in the park is wonderful, but waiting in line at the grocery store is hardly conducive to inner tranquility.
someone unable to pay to heat more than one room had a dramatic photo of her showing her heating bill in her living room - with a 55" HDTV and Xbox360 in the same room.

There's a difference between the ability to purchase one-off consumer goods and the kind of situation this person is in. Consider that those consumer goods may have been purchased before an economically catastrophic event such as an illness or a layoff, or they may have been a gift from someone who is willing to purchase consumer items, but not willing to provide the household stability that they require.

Also consider that, second-hand, these items are not particularly expensive, and even if they were sold, they may only provide a heating bill for a month or two. Especially in places like Atlanta, which are particularly badly insulated, and ill-equipped for severe cold.

So what we have is a situation of economic precarity, an instability in which the existence of consumer good purchases does little to remedy a unstable situation.

I have a lot of gadgets and toys, but the overall value of them depreciates daily, and if I lost my employment or well-being tomorrow, they would do little to stabilize my financial situation, even if I fully liquidated all of them at a good market rate.
Your focused on moving heat from "Power Plant" to "Home". That's not where/what the OP is talking about.

He's talking about installing solar devices to collect heat at the place of business/home and use it there. On-site creation (if you consider using sunlight creation) and consumption.

There is nothing stopping the creation of electricity/gas/etc and transporting that over long distances... while ALSO using solar devices at the business/home.

Why use electricity to heat water, when you can use the sun? Why run an electric heater when you can use the sun to provide some/all of the heat needed?

It's a great idea and he makes a lot of good points. If the engineering can be simplified and brought to the masses
I spent far too long just reading along with this walkthrough (http://www.allthingsjacq.com/intfic_clubfloyd_20080904.html) this game would drive me insane ;-)
How about more funding for election security?

Oh, that's right, Mitch McConnell wouldn't bring those bills before the Senate. [1]

[1] https://www.courthousenews.com/mcconnell-under-fire-for-bloc...
https://m.habr.com/ru/post/206900/

FiloSottile described it as “The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen” https://twitter.com/filosottile/status/987376021589692416?s=...
Somebody needs to invent a financial instrument that enables betting on a collapse, without it exploding and bankrupting you if you get the timing wrong.

Instead of collecting a payment upfront, and paying back a potentially unlimited amount (or zero) as we do with the current instrument, you should pay in any amount you choose, and the higher the stock goes before it collapses, the more you get back when it does (maybe by the square root of the difference), though the value falls off slowly over time. If it doesn't burst, you get nothing. If it bursts too soon, you get back only what you paid in.

That said, I would not bet against SpaceX/Starlink.
This is what will happen. Arresting them on the spot would have been a mistake for a few reasons (optics for a larger, volatile group, muddying the waters for condermnations of the invasion). Trump is still president for two weeks. I think we'll see action on this on January 21st.