jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Amazon's simplified big picture strategy is the application of perfect execution to dominate a market. They're really good at it. They optimize the whole process from the website, to the box magically appearing at my door two days later. For books and food and ebooks and "stuff" in general, I find that ability to perfectly execute rather important, and they get lots of my business. They're the kings of detail orientation. Process failure is not an option.

They thought they could execute perfectly on designing and shipping phones. I believe they can. The problem is the market for phones doesn't care about flawless execution. Legendarily the existing network providers suck and the existing phones aren't too great either but people love them anyway and never make their buying decisions based on who's most likely to ship on time or least likely to crash.

They would fail exactly the same way if they tried to sell fast food or American cars or car insurance, where nobody cares about quality and only want low price. They would be a huge success in something like medical supply logistics (don't they already sell stuff like that?) or aerospace (spaceX better look out)

The challenge for them is trying to sell perfect logistics, perfect performance, perfect execution in general to markets where people currently really don't care. I think they are running out of consumer markets that they don't already dominate where people care about flawless execution.

Its interesting that all the stuff I use with my phone comes from Amazon. Case, bluetooth ear piece, BT headphones, charger, cable... I'd even buy a phone from them, although I'd buy the phone I want, not a fire.

Also note they're good at shipping a variety but not good at making anything. I never want Amazon's XYZ, ever. I want an XYZ, and Amazon is the best in the business at getting a XYZ delivered to me.
High jacking the top comment to include my epiphany that "work" is really relative. I used to work at a place that had playboys in the bathroom.
We should replace NSFW with NSFC - Not Safe for Childern.
I excluded Hacker News from social networks I'm in the market for. HN is political as hell, and yes, whenever I make a niche (on HN) political comment I'm always prepared to burn karma.
Not to mention his solution really does nothing against ping, UDP, and TCP traffic. It's really only effective against http traffic. Which means his upstream or provider is probably going to cut him loose for the duration of the attack. A single person cannot effectively block a concerted DDOS.
Sorry to inform you but the world isnt as simple as your dictionary definition of exploitation.
nothing. Check the supposedly leading figures and their online appearances, you will realize that they are mostly incapable of providing any convincing progress. Instead, they are enjoying some academic titles and interviews with bunch of buzz words: human level AI, distributed token based AI,etc.
Mind saying where that is found?
I'm no programmer but I've used varnish along with nginx, seems to work well.
There is also the neutron lifetime puzzle
You must be right.

But please understand we are not afraid of our lives every day. Our children are trusted to take part of traffic on their own from about 10/12yo because we trained them about every day. It is about experience in watching eachother. Not about who is right.
Awesome stuff. I hope you post about it.
Back when I wrote reviews I developed an all-or-nothing approach. The few times my editor said "this one needs major changes" I would simply delete and rewrite the whole thing from scratch - one time did a total rewrite of a 1,500 word review inside an hour, and I know for me I couldn't have done it without 'destroying' (there's always a copy somewhere) my old work.

I suppose if having a revision history gives you the bravery to take a hatchet to your work, then it's certainly beneficial to your writing.

If anything I would need a version control because I edit like a Roman general; I decimate. I'll take out huge swathes because it doesn't fit, but once or twice I find myself going back and putting essentially the same sentence in - written better, but nothing editing couldn't have done. However, I live with my methods, but I've wanted to try a revision history when writing a short story as I need to ridiculously edit them compared to a longer piece.
I didn't know about the Ctrl-9. Thanks.
This is absolutely the best one. It is easy to understand the relationship between the various repositories. Bookmarked.
Actually in this case at least it's just an artifact of the press getting involved. I remember talking to this reporter when she came to Demo Day. I started trying to tell her about the changes that were happening in the startup world, and she basically said she didn't have time to deal with ideas, and just to tell her who was fighting with who.
You forgot the fourth kind: people who didn't go to university and are glad. If they're writing articles, it's not sour grapes. They're saying, "told you so."
I wish I was as "mediocre" and "unsuccessful" as Google's early history.

Google incorporated in late 1998, and by 2000 were powering the search results for Yahoo (the biggest website on the internet at the time). They were being paid (and paid well) for that too.

It was the same year (2000) that they implemented search advertising.

Given it only took them 12-18 months (of explosive growth) before they were powering the biggest site on the internet and making money I thnk it's hard to argue they were ever mediovre.
If the key file is stored on Dropbox servers, then Dropbox has access to all of your files. This defeats the original purpose (security).

If the key file is not stored on Dropbox servers, then you can't easily use Dropbox across several different computers. This defeats the other purpose (accessibility).
PDF is a terrible format to submit to the Kindle store. If you want some help, and you're donating all of your proceeds to charity, maybe I can help set you up with something at LiberWriter ( http://www.liberwriter.com )
Yeah that is extremely annoying.
I can't believe they aren't using multi-signature internally. This is crazy.
I don't like to shy away from languages just because they won't ever become one of the top 5 languages. Moderate success for a language can often be more than enough to keep the things built on it afloat for a long time.

I also suspect that the relationship between how many people are successfully using a language, and how often you hear about it on the Internet, is non-linear. And most the popular rankings (TIOBE, SO developer survey, etc) are really measuring how often you hear about it on the Internet.

For me, the real killer feature that every language must have is an escape hatch. This is every bit as true of AAA languages as it is of up-and-coming ones. Give me a way to expose a C ABI or a COM interface, and I'll feel more confident I won't get trapped. (Though I still cry myself to sleep at night knowing POSIX doesn't have a great answer to COM or WinRT.) For one project I'm working on, I'm currently feeling very trapped in Java, of all things. Because, while Java has decent enough facilities for calling out, it's much more difficult/expensive/both to call into Java from other platforms.
How do you prevent scale build up, corrosion, etc from the chemicals that you're introducing into the water? For the most part, these towers probably aren't designed to deal with sustained high concentrations of some of these chemicals. If you can solve that problem, then I think you'll make it. If you can't then this will be DOA if you have to replace a lot of the hardware every X years.
>My understanding of the TurboTax free edition

is wrong. TurboTax has a product they will sell you when you search for "turbotax free edition". They will allow you to fill it out for free. They will hold your hand (for free) while you do it. What they won't do is file the return you filled out, until you give them money. For that, you need to go find the actual free tax return (start at https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/) and do it all over again, if you fell for the ads TurboTax bought.

EDIT: The above is correct if you made over $72k in 2020. If you made under $72k but still have questions about your investment options and house sales, please don't give me financial advice.
We could, and it ends up being much less. Probably less overall for the entire banking system, and most definitely less per transaction than the horror of bitcoin.

I've been unable to find any rigorous research on this, but even the pieces defending bitcoin claim that the banking system consumes maybe 5 or 10 times as much energy as the bitcoin network, while neglecting to mention that the traditional banking system handle hundreds of thousands of times more transactions per second than bitcoin (especially funny since the estimates include stuff like the AC costs of bank branches - obvious sophistry).
...it is. How much energy does it take to store gold?
Usually asset classes that don't have any negative externalities priced into their value are the best performing assets.
Re: dampers, we generally close 2 of the 3 vents in the 3rd floor for the winter.

Re: the downstairs, unfortunately it warms up quickly on a hot day, and the structure of the house is such that the downstairs room's heat doesn't really have an easy path up.

The other factor is that, in a NORMAL, non-plague year, I'm alone in the house during the work day. If had perfect control of the house climate system, I'd let the upstairs drift to 80 or 82 while keeping my office at 76 or 78, and not start trying to cool the rest of the house until after hours when my wife gets home. Same with heating: just heat down here during the day, and warm the rest of the house in the evening.
But then again that's pretty much what the real world is. That isn't really a CH-specific phenomenon.
There are two equally-needed levers we have to reverse climate change: the first is reducing current emissions, and the second is removing carbon from the atmosphere.

Removing emissions from smokestacks is critical to ensuring we can stop dumping waste into the sky, but we are at the point now where we need scalable, low-cost processes to pull carbon out of the atmosphere.

So, we need to definitely do what you're suggesting and capture all emissions from as many smokestacks as possible until we've fully transitioned to a clean grid. And, we also need to begin pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere.
Assuming the problem is indeed with EBS, I would say this should be a warning sign to anyone considering going with a PaaS provider, which Amazon is quickly becoming, instead of an IaaS provider like Slicehost or Linode.

The increased complexity of their offering makes it more likely that things will break, leaving you locked in.

I did a 15 minute talk on the subject, which you can check out here: http://iforum.com.ua/video-2011-tech-podsechin

EDIT: here are the slides if you can't bother watching the video http://bit.ly/eqDNei
Despite the fact that my site has been down for 3 hours, I'd still say Amazon is a great place for your startup.

Just don't use EBS.
Good job, even though all highscores are local, not global. :) Should probably mention that somewhere.

Speaking of global highscores in a JavaScript/HTML context: Anyone knows how to create a set-up that prevents cheating? The only approach I've seen that seems viable is to register all events and verify the order and validity of these server-side, which of course is a bit cumbersome.
It's a shame your sarcastic reply derailed the conversation.
Two eyes are not a requirement for depth perception. They help, especially for stuff close to you, but are not absolutely necessary.

Don't take my word for it, close one eye and move your head from side to side and see the 3d jump out at you.
> Nothing special-case here: we deploy with git push, just like any other Heroku user. Dogfooding is good for you.
http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/4/1/fork_our_docs/
why does such a small difference matter?
It doesn't really provide the progressive weight increases of barbell squats, and doesn't work your back muscles and arms like a proper squat, but if you're only going to do one exercise (which is a stupid restriction, mind you), it's probably not a bad choice.
There will be no revisionism, because that would require respect for the value of speaking truthfully and standing behind your words. Rather, bringing this up will just be met with shallow denials that it wasn't important at the time, that nobody could have known, that the questioner is part of the problem, etc.

You can already see the narrative of the ignorance club is shifting to "we're doing a good job" - focusing on current nascent actions and completely ignoring the month long head start given to the pandemic in the US by inaction, incompetence, and outright lies (eg masks).

Not that it makes sense to waste energy bickering about these things when there is still a major problem to be addressed, but the point is that the month or two long societal shutdown we're experiencing is best attributed to a failure of our institutions rather than the force of nature.
What is the alternative for the "trust in experts" model, for most people ? Is there any ?
Peter Thiel and Mark Cuban are usually wrong about a lot of things, so it's no surprise they're stupidly wrong about this one too.
Yes, people and companies need to openly defy unjust laws. NSLs should immediately be published upon receipt and litigated against.
Same here, since I was recently using Redshift on an Ubuntu laptop after coming from F.lux on my Mac. Never heard of Amazon Redshift.
I love it that on HN my point can be disproved by an actual bus ticket collector! Still I think my larger point stands - Girardian mimetic desire (http://www.imitatio.org/brief-intro) is a powerful force that certainly can get you interested in something.
I'll throw in Raymond Hettinger & Jack Diederich -- excellent peeps.
Runtime performance. Musl has different performance characteristics to glibc (glibc uses thread-local pools for malloc, while musl uses locks).
The FBI did a survey of the 160 'active shooter' incidents between 2000-2013 (PDF download warning):

* https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-shooter-study-200...
* https://crimeresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/U-_Acti...

In 5 cases (3.1%) armed civilians stopped the shooter, and in 2 (1.3%) there were off-duty police. Most shootings (90; 56%) ended because the shooter themselves stopped on their own.

While having a firearm may be handy, in the majority of cases it was not used, and probably not even "needed". Further, if there is an active shooter, and there is probably some level of chaos going on: how does a 'good guy with a good' (GGWG) distinguish between the attacker and another GGWG?

When the police arrive, how do they make the distinction? In the UK 7/7 attacks, an unarmed civilian was killed because the police thought he was one of the attackers:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Menez...
Local news have reported the perpetrator is a mentally ill person who feared for the safety of his family and intended to use the hostage-taking situation to establish contact with the government and voice his paranoid concerns.
I installed mySQL a couple of months ago on a Ubuntu server, and got asked to set a root password. I've also installed mySQL many times on Windows. Secure install is the default. And it doesn't annoy me a bit. I like my software to be secure by default.
> It only needs Google, Mozilla, Apple and Microsoft to agree and ICANN can be made irrelevant overnight.

Of course not. The Web is only a small part of the Internet. DNS is used by way more services than Web browsers.
The US market is still 3-4x China in terms of market size:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_mar...
It's funny, when I started I found programming tedious and thought that writing some software with 100 layers of abstractions so computers can talk to other computers was boring and soul-sucking. I liked designing small embedded systems that actually did something in real life with a simple program in C or C++ driving the whole thing.

Then one thing led to another and I got a job more on the pure software side of things, and realized as long as there is some interesting problem to solve it's really not so bad what the end application is.

I find a lot of these comments are depressing. I feel like no matter how complicated the stack becomes, computers are made by humans and therefore can be understood by other humans. I always pity people working in medicine who have to debug what seems like a proof-of-concept that has been endlessly patched by evolution for the past few million years into a working product.

But hey, I only have 5-ish years experience working full time as an engineer so I guess I'm still a baby. I wonder how I'll feel about all this 15 years down the road.
Just to clarify, this is a very early project, and it needs a lot of work, this is some of the stuff that is in my TODO list:

- Responsive Web Design

- User management (login/register/etc)

- Expiration time

- Documentation on how to run your own instance of Rocketb.in

- Use https://mongolab.com/ for DB

That is what I have in my mind right now.
It's still difficult for people sitting outside North America to make sense of these high valuations. To me, dropbox and youtube were even interesting case studies. It all seems quite simple now, but in the initial stages, people wondered how they are going to make enough revenues to recover the infrastructure costs. But I have begun to see a clear trend in how the Social Apps, Sharing (Rental) Economy apps, and Ecommerce are behaving at different places across the globe.

100 Million users of a social app in US (followed by other western countries) are several times more revenue generating than the developing countries. The one metric that matters here is the Average Revenue per User (ARPU). Mobile advertising is growing in second and third world countries, but still lags behind. Not to say that users elsewhere are any less useful; Facebook has a huge focus on the Indian Market.

Apps for rental(sharing) economy, Uber et al, work more evenly everywhere, since they bring a straight cut out on the amount paid.

The segment that seems to works most at par globally has to be Ecommmerce. Amazon committed a $2Bn investment in India in 2014, as Flipkart got over 1.5Bn in funding.
It bloody well should be.
I've had strangely a lot of experience with stickers and sticky tape, and the material the sticker is made of can aid removal even if the glue is sturdy: paper stickers tear, but thicker plastic stickers will hold together as you force them away from the glue. Alternatively, the glue could be water soluble, or perhaps soften with heat.
Parler has terms of service that prohibit calls for violence. My guess is that the moderators (I'm one) simply can't keep up with the volume.
It's been interesting to watch Trump signs vanish a few at a time with each post-election milestone. Most people seem to accept the results even if their lines are different.
You might be on to something(see my edit here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25651884)
Hmm, I'm noticing duplicates of the animals even when they are from different posters. (The savings thread for example)
Still working on TradesAlerts.com ... Fine-tuning my stop loss to be relative the stock's profile. Coincidently, a few days after I sent out my first alerts, North & South Korea get into a conflict.. there goes my Buy side alert. Lol.

Just wondering, is it just me or is the media shutting down straight after the North & South Korea conflict, the stocks go straight back up!!
Regarding slides as reference material, I've given several tech presentations at my job, and since I have to make the presentation available afterwards, I usually include slides that make the slide deck independently more useful (either interleaved or at the end) but I don't show them during the talk. I use Apple's Keynote in presenter mode, which makes skipping over slides very seamless to the audience.

For live tech demos, I've never not had some little screw up either, so if time permits, I usually make a screencast as a backup and provide that with the slides. It's time intensive and I've often donated a lot of personal time to it, but a good presentation makes a huge difference in the support you receive.
Most people use their computers a lot more frequently than their power drills, even now when power drills are cheap.
Do you think there is a certain market that does better in private sales (for example: cars under 10K & collector cars)?

My experience is that there is a middle range of cars where consumers would rather pay a little extra to make a trustworthy purchase from a dealership (if those two words can be used together!).
It's a type-2 hypervisor, so its performance is often quite worse than KVM. Also, its storage drivers are quite wonky, so I/O is often choppy and underwhelming. It has often a better desktop experience, though, except when you run Linux with VirGL. Also, virtualbox cannot emulate other platforms; for instance, I often run AArch64 operating systems in full emulation using QEMU on my x86_64 workstation.
This is a really good thing. Intel has had it way too easy with Atom for a long time, and it's been obvious they have deliberately kept the performance low enough to avoid competition with their higher priced lines.

With ARM pushing Atom up from below, and AMD filling in the hole above it Intel will have to start competing harder at the low end, and a motivated Intel is always good for the industry.
Just because it's runs more efficiently doesn't make it more desirable, it is after all - a militarised society, I don't particularly want to go to the US at the moment as it's moving that way.
Even routers these days have a random password assigned to them.
> There was a closed and barricaded door between him and the woman he shot. He fired the first shot.

She was in the middle of climbing through the top of the barricade, which is what got her shot.

DC is also a stand your ground territory, there is no duty to retreat even in civil matters. I think it would be very easy to convince at least a single juror that "a riot attempting to break into your place of work" would instill a reasonable fear of bodily harm. Doubly so when your place of work is the center of the nation's legislative branch. Quadruply so when the rioters are known to be armed.

Even if the officer didn't have reason to fear for his own life, shooting someone because you have a reasonable fear that they will cause bodily harm to someone else is legal. These people were armed and attempting to break into a session of congress. Fear that they might attempt to shoot a legislator would not be an unreasonable concern.
I would almost prefer to make my walls selectively “invisible” to sound. It would require the ability to quiet/mute as desired, but it could also be nice to just talk toward to my kid’s room, my wife’s office, etc. and be heard.
Um. There are more options beyond PowerPC/Intel/ARM Macs. There's a whole world of PCs out there that aren't built out of corner cutting proprietary bits.