jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I’ve been thinking a lot about the next looming crisis: Climate Change.

I wish people would not try to use one crisis as a justification for claiming another. Not everyone agrees that climate change is "the next looming crisis".

The reason we know COVID-19 is a crisis is that we can directly measure the impact. We don't have to rely on questionable computer models projecting things decades into the future. (And I don't just mean climate models--we also have to have economic and sociological models to estimate the impacts of what the climate models predict and calculate the net benefits vs. costs. Not all impacts of climate change are harmful. And if you really believe we have economic and sociological models that can make predictions decades into the future with enough accuracy to justify multi-trillion-dollar policy decisions, I have some oceanfront property in Tibet I'd like to sell you.)

Directly measuring the impact of COVID-19 means we can test the predictions of people who projected various possible scenarios for how such a crisis would play out, and what kinds of actions in response would have what kinds of consequences. It's too early at this point to run all those tests, but when things are back to approximately normal we should definitely run those tests and assess the results. That will help us to be better prepared next time. It will also help us to see what kinds of behaviors we should discourage on the part of major actors who have a stake in trying to spin the public's perceptions. And it will also show us where our infrastructure is fragile so we can take steps to make it more robust, which will put us in a better position to respond to any future crisis.
What's the maximum repository size and file size ?

Most other services i know:

- Github is somewhere at around 1GB.

- Bitbucket has a soft limit at also 1GB.
I appreciate the link, but this information is not terribly encouraging. Steve Yegge somewhat famously pointed out how painful Java's lack of object literals is back in 2006, and some mailing list discussion is all the progress that the Java community has made toward that feature in the 8 years since. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/bloggers-block-4-rub...
This is fixed for Windows 10 thankfully, along with a few other features that have been missing a while [1]. Multi-line copy, paste good paste support (correct formatting), newlines following resizes, transparency, etc.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/09/window...
What happens if the user tries to visit a site with https, like gmail? Can the free proxy still be destructive? I assume yes, but I'm interested in hearing about the technical details.
Technology moved fast in those days as well. My dad bought me a transistor pocket radio around 1960. It stretched the definition of 'pocket'. Definitely not a shirt pocket, though it would fit in a pants pocket barely. If I remember it used two AA batteries.

Gave it to my dad after college so he could listen to Detroit Tiger games. Dad ended up using it until a couple of years when it finally gave out. I wonder how many electronic things we buy today would end up lasting a half century?
Cool!

- oEmbed support would probably make things more useful for users.

- Here is a way for you to add a "Form" button where users can quickly create and add forms to their pages:
http://www.jotform.com/anywhere/
I pay HP about 100 Euro per year for a next business day support and whenever something breaks in my laptop they either send me a technician or mail me the spare parts. In the last 8 years I remember the technician coming here to replace a worn out keyboard (5 years) and a screen which was developing some whitish pixels. The shipped me a couple of hard disks, one of them just in case the problem I had was related to the disk, and two new power units. No complaints ever.
JSFoo 2015 will be the fifth year. That's the oldest. Rootconf 2015 in the third year is the youngest.
Does anyone know the upgrading price? I am trying to compare against Clion from JetBrain.
Probably what's happening across the world's middle schools: MSN/facebook/youtube blocked by the school firewall? No problem, I know a kid who can get us around it. Here, she says, just google proxies, and we click on the first one, and proceed to enter our credentials..
I started to read "cell phone", "car" and "kids" and stopped caring. I started with very few money. Then I manage to have my own company. Then I got broken after the war in Mali. And when you are young with no money, you don't need a cell phone, you don't need a car, and you don't make children. You get your life in order, then you go for the expensive stuff. People think it's normal to have these. Guys, it's not even normal to have electricity and water : these are the luxury of 20 % of the world. So stop spending in things you don't need before you can afford them, then complain.

A car is a luxury. You got bikes, public transport, legs...

Cell phone is a luxury. Yes, even when you are looking for a job. Unless you can find a phone bill costing 2$/month, which I do.

Kids are a luxury. Not a right. Not a must have. Something you do when you can give them a decent living. Or you don't make them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8924600
In the early 2000s Chevron bought up the patent rights for NiMH batteries and refused to grant licenses for large batteries. Toyota was sued for patent infringement for their 90s RAV4EV and settled with Chevron.

Supposedly Tesla's early cars used off the shelf lithium ion laptop battery cells to get around these patent issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_au...
> I don’t understand what Yahoo is supposed to be.

The corporate equivalent of a terminal cancer patient.

What it was, is aptly described here: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2848
"fixed the problem" by destroying community-generated porn in response to a PR campaign by an activist newspaper and business-destroying threats from pusillanimous payment providers.
Are you sure it isn't down to regulatory capture by the US pharmaceutical industry?

You can see how nonsensical their comments are in relation to using horse formulations, forgetting that in many countries around the world it is so safe that it is available over the counter. It surely can't be be more dangerous than Advil or cough syrup.

Have they forgotten doctors in the US actually prescribe it for Covid?

Apparently many people in the US and the UK haven't cottoned on to why their death rates are so high. They seem too stupid to realize that if the cure for an illness is to stay at home without treatment until the symptoms become bad enough to warrant admission to hospital more people will suffer injury and may possibly die as a result.

FWIW it is primarily the UK and US where that notion persists. Go elsewhere around the world and tell the people that the "treatment" for Covid is staying at home without treatment until symptoms become too hard to bear, and they will look at you as though you are fool, which indeed you are if that is what you believe.

If you think I'm insulting the British and Americans, listen to this from an American doctor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHi3lX3oGM

After watching it take the time to consider how many Americans and British have died needlessly as a result of unthinking acceptance of statements made by the countries health authorities.
Lots of people also write books. And the Stanford Prison experiment has received a huge amount of criticism by now, afaik.

Also being famous does not automatically make you an expert.

Edit: googled citation for criticism of the SPE https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31380664/
Using a different setup for deploying client side static html.

- React/ Js framework

- Deploy Static Files to S3

- Cloudfront for cdn

- Cloudflare pointing to cloudfront cdn

- Cloudfare Page rules for protected sites / no need create login/auth

- Flask

- Postgres
If they pay out money to creators in a reasonable time, then a fraudulent "creator" (accounts created with fake/stolen identities and tipped with stolen cards) will withdraw anything ASAP and there won't be anything to remove/recover; and if they want to protect from that, then they have to do invasive verification and/or freeze any income for a quite long time.
It’s not particularly surprising.

The level of technique is something tens of thousands of people have in my city — 1% of the few million people in the metro. There’s hundreds of similar metros near mountains, globally.

The level of information necessary for the alarms is all over the dark web, and something someone with a criminal background would be able to find and understand. Another 1% of the population.

So, 100 * 1M * 0.01 * 0.01 = 10,000.

So globally, we’d expect around ten thousand criminals with that level of climbing skill — and it’s not surprising to find a dozen of them stealing books in London. They’re going to be doing something, somewhere: it turned out to be this, here.

I think the story is fascinating, like finding a pretty flower, so I don’t share the bored cynicism — but it’s about as surprising as finding a pretty flower in a meadow.
Ok. That means they are at large and wanted.

I guess I'm not addressing them.
With the exception of 4, those would be good recommendations to apply to your code as well.
Original story is at http://www.rferl.mobi/a/how-to-guide-russian-trolling-trolls...
The important information is larger and more legible in the poster on the left. I can locate the schedule, address, phone number and URL immediately.

In the poster on the right, my eye is drawn to the enormous headings, which contain no useful information by themselves. The "Come Visit" heading isn't close enough to the address, and the address/phone/URL has been squeezed into a single block of tiny, fuzzy text. Compare that to the left poster, where each one is distinct from the other.

I feel the need to put on my glasses to read the one on the right, but not the one on the left. That alone indicates a major issue and potential loss of audience.
In his rambling ranting about how the Pono player is equivalent to homeopathy (?) nowhere does he take on the the strongest claim of the pro-Pono side: that they've spent the money to better engineer a music player and the product uses better parts and better circuit topologies than their competitors. If this thing was packed with the same parts as an iPhone just playing back at 192k he'd be right, but you can't rest on ceteris paribus unless you make sure the other things really are equal.

He postures as a scientist but he doesn't do his diligence and post any studies on whether or not people can tell the difference between music played back through $5 and $50 DAC chips. That actually pisses me off, if you want to take the "science" side in an argument you should do your homework.
Maybe it's a Twin Peaks reference?
I've been freelancing as an all-purpose web developer/designer for three years now, and to me the main problem isn't the professionals understanding of these should-be-obvious points, it's the clients.

Every site I've built in the past years (20+) where the client wants design mods near the end has, almost always, to do with breaking good design practice and stuffing more and more pointless, hard to read information onto a page.

I try my best to use the paper-as-a-cost analogy...the reason print media got so adept at stuffing more and more on a page was because paper costs money, and therefore it made deep financial sense to force as much money-making content as possible on a printed page.

This idea makes no sense, however, on the web where the cost of making things accessible and easy-to-understand is basically $0.

Most of the time, this argument works, although of course sometimes it just falls on deaf ears where the client is simply too enamored with how their newspaper or the Wall Street Journal online used to do it.
I've seen thousands of equity crowdfunding platforms and numbers are somewhat alarming. While we have leading platforms(think Angellist), there are many competing WordPress platforms with security and marketing issues.

In order to compete, these platforms will promise a "money fast scheme" promising to turn $50 into $50k. The main issue is that 1000x unicorns would rather do it the other way and most available startups would be somewhat inferior in terms of investment.

While it's good to have this provision, it doesn't change a lot of the landscape of investors.
> On the flip side, if everyone hates you equally you're probably on the right track.

This gives pedophiles the moral high ground.
> 2020 is different and new: it's the first Puerto Rico referendum I have seen where there was a sanely worded "state: yes or no?" question

As I understand it in this referendum "yes" referred to "become a state" while "no" referred to "become independent", with no option for "keep the status quo".

The best thing to do would probably a referendum with a ranked/approval voting between all three options.
Outrage has always sold. You can look at cultural/artistic things similar to this, like Rock and Roll in the 70s/80s and Rap music in the 90s, to political, War on Drugs and the Patriot Act. I'm sure you could look and find similar examples every decade for hundreds of years.
I feel like there's a punchline coming, then realized that was the joke
Would this mean that either the strong Church-Turing thesis(any model of computation based on physical reality gives the same class of problems solvable in polynomial time as a Turing machine) is wrong or P=NP?
The merge button doesn't squash commits or anything. Pulley looks like a nice way to use a custom workflow with Pull Requests.
Betcha the patents would have something to say about that. :)

http://www.cultofmac.com/how-apple-almost-got-microsofts-kin...
Fantastic example of how constraints form art.
>This is just not true. You can always find someone not liking a language but if you asked people that have used many different languages they can of course rank them from worst to best. And although I am not ad hoc aware of any study demonstrating this I also never met any developer seriously suggesting that JavaScript would rank on top of that list.

So because it's not number one it's an "awful language"? That doesn't make any sense and I know plenty of people who enjoy working with javascript. In fact the few people I do know who hate JS are people who haven't done more than copy/paste code from stackoverflow.
Also, in the wikipedia article, a Canadian district is considered part of the US.

EDIT: spelling
Well, we're really designed to walk/run. Sitting at a bar school or standing still all day comes with its own set of health issues (not saying if they're equal or not, but they're present).
I'll be in touch, thanks! I personally have my own hardware startup that is my focus, so I'm not looking to monetize this. But I see how it could easily be monetized while offering readers even better information - and am open to handing it off to people who can give it the right attention it needs.
It always astounded me that for the longest time until only recently, you were expected to pay additional money, more than the domain cost itself, for HTTPS security (and if you wanted a wildcard certificate, substantially more money.)

I guess when the gTLD explosion didn't result in massive new profits for the new TLDs (some are $100+/year!), the powers that be decided to focus on existing TLDs instead where there's extensive decades-long lock-in effects at play. No one needed company-name.ninja, but good luck giving up your company-name.org to a squatter or worse, your competition.
I believe the solution to this problem is to ban ROCOF protection, and the related phase shift protection, and instead instruct a few big energy producers to transmit a gold code on top of the 50 Hz AC, bandlimited to 48-52Hz and power limited to 0.01% of the system power. Transmitting that code would be easy (cheap) for anyone who does DC/AC conversion with solid state electronics, so that's normally solar, wind farms, and long distance undersea transmission lines.

That gold code could be received and decoded anywhere on the network. If power islanding occurs, embedded generation will detect the loss of the gold code (since they are no longer connected to the generator injecting the code), and cease supply.

The only disadvantage is it introduces a security vulnerability by design: Anyone could transmit the gold code from their house, effectively disabling islanding protection in their neighbourhood. If power islanding were to occur, and if there was sufficient embedded generation to keep a stable power island, grid hardware could be destroyed through overvoltage, overheating, and circuits closing without frequency synchronisation. I think it's a worthwhile tradeoff though - damage will be localized and minimal, and a very unusual set of circumstances have to happen outside the attackers control for the attack to do damage.
I think this might be a close second in ugliness to the Tesla Truck. Why can't have an electric Toyota Tacoma? Or an F150 or a Chevy Colorado?
If you've taken the time to understand things well, you'll do just fine, even with PHP. Otherwise, the quirks of any language/library/tool may catch you out (it's not just a PHP thing).
For the average person, the batteries need to be recharged at least at a similar rate and range to filling a gas tank.

My understanding is this still requires a battery breakthrough, or at least significant improvement.

The average person is a tenant without home charging as an option, they require a gas station substitute or better - ideally an obsoleting solution eliminating this waste of time altogether.

Imagine if a battery breakthrough enabled 2000 mile ranges with a 5 minute recharge, and effectively unlimited charge cycles so the battery outlasts the vehicle lifetime with zero degradation of range.

If such a thing were in EVs today, ICEs would all but vanish practically overnight.

I think it's obvious we're still not quite there, but it is getting close.
Yes, this !!!

Being triggerable is a weakness. It gives others power over you. So why would anyone want that?

Also, not being triggerable does not mean being insensitive or cynical or tolerant or whatever. It's just about being able to deal with stuff without freaking out.
A lot of packages I receive from overseas are stamped with words to the effect of "Package may be opened and inspected" which is probably directly related to this clause, and also negating the need to get permission from the foreign courts. I'm guessing that is to speed things up in case they do want to inspect it.

Likewise, I've received one package that was opened and inspected. It came in a clear plastic bag along with a very short note stating that it had been inspected in accordance to <whatever laws they were>.

Senders probably don't usually stamp that on illegal shipments, and the post surely doesn't drop in a polite notification if they discover something illegal in there.
The problem is that DNS powers the internet as we know it, getting everything ever to switch over is at least another 30 years after you make a protocol (that would also need to have literally no downsides).
For anyone who hasn't seen it, I highly recommend structopt over clap. It is a wrapper around clap which provides type safe parsing of CLI arguments into a struct you define. It is also what TFA uses.
We shy away from corpspeak press releases.

There are probably other substantive articles on this story out there. If any of you finds one, we'd be happy to change it. No one is attached to the WSJ article; it's just better than the one that preceded it, which was obviously (at least for this site) sub-par. I'm surprised this is controversial.
I tried this, my gf announced our wedding shouting a tweet! Was really cool, now all our friends know about it, everyone was like really excited about the way we announce it!
That's because the search I'm doing "yahoo" doesn't return Yahoo! as the most relevant result, it's a shame but a limitation of not having an API for company search at LinkedIn. Other ideas for searching are welcome.

I started a feature request thread on LinkedIn's developer forum: http://developer.linkedin.com/thread/2993
nice job guys! congrats from the feelvox team :)
My friend, Greg and I wanted to try out node.js to see how we liked the language (we're looking in to using it on http://interstateapp.com in the near future) and so we decided to do the normal thing and build a multi-channel web chat app.

So far we've spent about 1 day developing it and it seems to be working pretty well. Feel free to try it out by visiting the main prompt channel here: http://prompt.im/prompt.

For those interested, the chat completely uses node.js (with expressjs and nowjs) for the server-side code and we use MongoDB to archive all sent messages.

Any comments would be appreciated :)
I think he meant the business-oriented marketplace: http://google.com/enterprise/marketplace/
This project is the winner!
In a CDN environment, load balancing is a far more complex subject than can be entertained in this thread. Suffice to say that load balancing is not just about spreading requests evenly over machines, you have to make intelligent decisions. If the customer of the CDN is unwilling to lift a finger to do things differently when integrating with a CDN, you can have a problem. In the HTTP world, 302 redirects can work around that very efficiently, in certain cases.

As to what other problems RTMP has: 1) a significant amount of state and therefore RAM needs to be kept per connection 2) there is no standard URL format that describes where to separate the connect() string from the play() string 3) no standard way to specify query terms on the connect() string 4) it cannot be cached by nodes outside of the CDN 5) you are required to use Adobe's FMS if you need to use SWF verification or RTMPE which has significant other ramifications.

That's just what I can think of off the top of my head.
I know there are other ways to generate it. I'm just wondering what self-respecting dev wouldn't write their own.
In the case of property taxes, that's a strong hint that your property is badly underutilized. That isn't an injustice.

What YokoZar was describing wasn't that, though. YokoZar was describing a way to turn a profit on increasing property values.
NTYP -> NYT, work->word (sorry was on my way out the door when I posted that)
Disclaimer: I choose to treat people the way I would like to be treated.

My $0.02: maybe this is just one way your competitor is inept at running their business. I'd say the probability is very high of that. An overwhelmed founder IMO may be a sweet acquisition target. If he knows he is in over his head, maybe he would be happy to sell you his company for terms you can accept. You'll get all the customers, and you'll also know those customers are in your good care.

If you whack him upside the head with a report to Visa, MC, etc. he'll fix it and continue to be ignorant or negligent in all the other ways he is failing to adequately serve his customer base.

Lastly, and please know I am not accusing you of a nefarious plot here. But anyone reading this will see the potential prize of acquiring a competitor's client base. I want to dispel the myth that a report would be a fatal blow to his company that would result in your company ending up with all his customers. His merchant bank who is really on the hook for his PCI compliance will not terminate his account over a first offense. They will instead make even more money off him by imposing remediation consulting. And if those expenses were to put him out of business, there would still be an acquisition cost in reaching his customers, letting them know that your company exists and selling them on your solution.

My general approach to life: I do my best to limit my actions to those that will enhance or maintain the quality of my reflection in the mirror.
I believe IKEA offers that locally through partners. That being said, someone on Fiverr might be willing to help.