jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Which is why certain people question "culture fit" as an exhaustive reason for not hiring
If you look through the history of Shopify, majority of their features are launched US first and sometimes never make it back to Canada. They also only bill in USD for their service and don't allow Canadian merchants to pay in Canadian dollars... and yes this is a Canadian company. They know where their biggest market is and Canadian market is often way down the priority list.
The industry demand of gold is minuscule. It's a rounding error. Buying a $1000 asset with $10 in "intrinsic value" is really no different to bitcoin.

Bitcoin can be transferred electronically, and can move across borders without being hassled at customs.
>the growing group of people who would rather put their trust in shady cartels and oligarchs than their governments

The 40+ years of Conservatives constantly vilifying government as a concept was designed to lead to exactly this situation, because they're the oligarchs that run the cartels and they're benefiting tremendously.
I might have mentioned this before, but DigitalOcean's support is (or was, before I stopped being their customer) absolutely abysmal.

I had a default card set up for auto billing. That card expired. I went to remove the default card -- you cannot remove a default card. Okay. I added a new card and tried to set it as default. It didn't take. (Refreshing the browser reverted the change.)

So I tried another browser, another computer, etc. The change never took. Finally, I contacted their support. It took a ton of back and forth with people who had dubious language comprehension before I finally convinced them anything other than user error was going on... but then, instead of fixing it, they demanded I take a video and upload it for them to prove it was real!

I did, and I paid the invoice manually. The bug was eventually fixed after a month or two, but it was a pain until that happened.

I found another provider who is cheaper for the resources I need and has better customer service by miles. If I can't get you to even take my money in an easy and reliable way, I can't trust you to operate anything I rely on.
My father used to work at a facility that actually paid non-union employees more than union employees. It was at a remote location, so any sort of strike would have cost tons of money with no way to get replacements in. Any time the union negotiated a raise, the company gave the non-union employees a bigger raise, because the extra cost was worth not having to worry about a strike shutting everything down.
I would love to fully access the data on my phone. But of course it would also introduce security holes currently unimagined. Maybe someone can devise a secure sandbox model to enable this, but after Java's failure to resolve this problem, I'm not holding my breath.
Could someone explain what the difference between a webmentipn and the ancient pingback/trackback concept is? It seems just a difference in presentation?
Yeah, but trying to do something in our case would have to be a damned convincing to a whole lot of people.

Take a wrong step and we might have a much worse capitol insurrection.

Personally I don't feel this is worth doing in America at this point. We already have very well established and optimized drug smuggling operations from Mexico that would benefit very well from a complete federal-level gun ban.

The actual criminals would love it being as easy to get an unregisted AR-15 as buying coke from their drug dealer. Meanwhile the private citizen in rural America would have to commit felonies to defend themselves, with the nearest police station half an hour away.
I support the worst parts of humanity having the ability to speak online as much as we allow them to speak in real life. If we would regulate their public speech outdoors, I'm fine with regulating their public speech online.

Would we propose that racists be banned from speaking to each other in person?
> Civilization is built on the little things if they go, it stops.

Empathy is built on the premise of relative economic equality.
You can follow all the same techniques that software companies on other OSes use, for example I bought Pycharm to use on linux, and its no different than anywhere else. Steam also runs on linux.

If you want to be OpenSource and sell your apps there are a few different ways. You could not provide any official downloads unless they pay, your paying customers could legally redistribute your code, but only you would have the official source. You could charge for binaries and provide code free of charge like Ardour. You could also sell support contracts, so paying gives them an offical account to ask questions on the forum or a number to call in.

But either way its the same as windows or mac, the only reason most non free software companies don't sell linux software is because there are less users, and they don't want to deal with making sure it works.
As far as I understand it, if PH stopped hosting the thumbnails, then Google would stop showing them.

The problem is that PH didn't actually remove the thumbnails.
This seems to further confirm a major shift that is happening in the American Right. They've been moving pretty swiftly to the "left" on economics, with Thomas's statements following the protectionism that we saw during the Trump years.

The American Right of prior decades, by contrast, was often against what the federal government of the time was doing to Microsoft (the Big Tech bogeyman of the time). And does anyone remember how the American Right stood against the Fairness Doctrine?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine
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Oh wow. There is so much in this paragraph that was best left forgotten.
>...without the expense of having to provide human rights and freedoms

If you assume that raising a small population of creative, technical problem-solvers requires this expense, then China has successfully outsourced that role to 'us' (meaning Western democracies, esp. the US), just as we've outsourced our manufacturing workforce to them. I think a trade-war is justified in retaliation for rampant systematic IP theft - although this would clearly be a post hoc rationalization at this point.
two former co-workers who aren't "names" in the industry.

They could argue with grace, they could see what was needed and build it.

And even the projects that were built quickly were easy for other people to work on and extend.
AFAIK most of what's been in European collections for ages hasn't even been transcribed. I remember Irving Finkel lamenting the utter lack of Assyriologists.
That's WebAssembly there
In the top most graph which SaaS companies have gross margins > 90%??!
We use Apache mod_wsgi with Nginx in front of it as a reverse proxy and static file server.
1. Pulse includes NYT as a preset in the feed reader

2. Apple shows off Pulse at WWDC

3. Pulse gets download 35,000 times, delivering the (limited) NYT feed to 35,000 eyeballs who might not otherwise check it out regularly

4. NYT forces Apple to take down Pulse.

It's not an issue of misuse of content. It is a preset. Pulse is not SELLING the NYT's content, they are including the feed URL as one of several defaults in their multi-purpose feed reader because they think it's nice and their audience will like it.

Now the app will go back online... and get many more sales because of this exposure... and all those new eyeballs will have to exert EFFORT to view the NYT's feeds.

Say it with me, HNers... s-t-u-p-i-d.
> The intent here is that other people should not make money off the RSS feed.

They are not making money off the feed - they have other feeds too. They charge you for the app you can use to read any feed.

If that's so, Apple is charging for a device that makes money off, among other things, the NYT RSS feed. All Apple products should then be pulled out of the market. In reality, every computer and networking device should too.
Keep in mind it took the Chinese government hacking into their computers to get Google to leave China.
I think the most compelling data here is the languages people came from: Java, Ruby, Python. And the languages they'd go to Scala, Haskell, Erlang et al.

Clojure as a gateway drug on the JVM for functional programming. Cool stuff.
You've got a false distinction there. It's the number of constituents that can be packed in per inch: whether those constituents are print dots, physical pixels, or utterly notional (as in displayed images).
This is probably a stupid policy on the part of the Times, but they're entitled to enforce the use of their content however they want. "We disagree with their policy because they web should be open and free!" is not a valid legal defence.

If the developers of Pulse and the Times settle this (in or out of court), I'm sure Apple would be happy to start selling it again, but they run a store and can be sued for selling something that knowingly breaks the terms of use of a content provider.
.... FaceTime will be WiFi only initially. Not sure why Apple roll out this FaceTime at all.. especially it's only on WiFi. So am I supposed to make video call with someone using the same network as me or .... still quite clueless.. Anyone help me understand.
do you mean am i phil clarke? no...

tis @plc. i spend too much time on HN - and have a few friends (eg: you, jedc, adw, rahulvohra, samstokes, swombat, etc) bookmarked and like to occasionally check to see if you've submitted anything cool.
MongoDB + Redis at http://bu.mp/. Some PostgreSQL for offline analytics later on.
Thanks, checking it out right now!
I really like the insight that printf() was C's original killer feature. It makes a lot of sense.
I kinda start to think is this article related to people Xi trying to crack down in China. Very similar to pervious Bloomberg stories, the sources and timings are very suspicious. Not saying the story is false or anything.
> there is little demand for money.

Wrong side of the equation. There is an oversupply of money, leading to low interest rates.
Node is definitely popular, but the fact that there are more modules than any other language is a bit misleading. Python, specifically, tends to only have one main/popular package that does something, whereas in other languages' cultures I've noticed that there are a few alternatives to choose from.
When gaming my modestly configured desktop (i5, GTX650 ti, ssd/hdd combo w/good air cooling and good case cooling) pulls 250-300 "at the wall" according to my kill-a-watt. I would imagine that as you go up the "gaming" chain (multiple GPUs, water cooling, etc) you could find yourself at the upper bound of that range.
Have you tried putting a small towel under the keyboard? It seems like a little thing but it made a big difference at my desk.
In that case you might want to try to do some absolute measurements on the dimensions of the grid.

So you get (scannerglass + fluid + gridsample), then measure the grid point distance (by taking as large a distance as you can across the grid) and compare to what you know it should be. The closer the grid measurements are to the actual dimensions the closer the index of refraction of the fluid will match the glass.
The problem with this "no documentation" stance, as you've seen below, is that it doesn't get the correct message out to those who haven't studied hypermedia.

I like to make an analogy to RSS: If I told you, "Here's a link to my RSS feed." You wouldn't be mad at me for that, since all you need is RFC 822. By the same token, hypermedia/"real REST" APIs don't have _no_ documentation: they have no _specific_ documentation about _this_ particular API.

Without a foundation in this approach towards building and consuming APIs, "no documentation" sounds like a disaster. And it is, in that context.
Yep, wordpress.com has been doing the same.

Edit: but wp puts ads below the posts not the dashboard.
Reminding us that parallelism is not our original goal is just the prelude to casting doubt on the inevitability of the breakdown of Moore's law for unicore processing. That's how I interpret the article.
It's an issue with the internet connection. Local load tests show the actual server solid.
Scheme, since it is so simple. Very easy to learn. No syntax, no comma, no semi-colon. I would have been delighted to learn scheme as my first language rather than c.
I bought this functionality but have honestly never found the need for it; it kind of reminds me of the dropbox "pack rat" feature.

Happy to support a great developer (in both cases, actually)
I think these habits are developed over more than a few days too. I bet the pickier you are, the longer it takes for your biology to tell you that it's time to eat. Also this is all dancing around wanting to call picky eaters spoiled brats lol.
Looks like I won't be getting rid of my android phone anytime soon if this is true.
> I'm concerned that email content encryption would break basically all anti-spam technologies

I've self-hosted mail for years and only received 2 or 3 spam messages in all this time. I ignore content analysis entirely, instead focusing on:

* DNSBLs such as Spamhaus, and
* DROP and eDROP (from Spamhaus), and fullbogons (from Team Cymru), and
* FCrDNS + whitelisting for legit senders lacking it, and
* block certain "blackhat" DNS providers, and
* do "nolisting" (see: nolisting.org), and
* (either) greylisting, such as OpenBSD's spamd,
* (or) greet delay + whitelisting, if not using greylisting

Requiring FCrDNS exposes a large number of incompetent senders, making it an "extreme" method that entails some babysitting. Requiring rDNS is good, and far less likely to cause issues.

Employing the above methods reduces spam so dramatically that the benefits of E2E encryption FAR outweigh the drawback of lacking content analysis.
This depends on where you are. Some places are managing it well, some aren't.

There was a huge mess in Chattanooga with people waiting in line for 6h, being told there weren't enough doses and to leave, and then there being plenty so they gave them to friends and family.
Combine this with deep fakes.

Donald Trump is Nancy Pelosi's and AOC's step-brother in a three-way in the Lincoln Bedroom.
There are plenty of things that _are_ within the reach of garage scientists, and exoplanet detection is one of them [1] as well as lots of other astronomy, as well as Biology [2] a surprising amount of advanced materials / electronics / etc [3] and more.

1. http://astronomyonline.org/Exoplanets/AmateurDetection.asp
2. http://diybio.org/
3. https://www.youtube.com/user/bkraz333
"At the very least, identifiers should not be allowed to float freely as strings or integers in order to prevent a class of inconsistency bugs."

Tell that to almost every Typescript developer who uses `number` for identifiers.
It is news like this that makes me want to go back to puppy videos on YouTube. In what universe 35 years in prison can be justified for Aaron’s alleged crime?
One difference between rollups and sidechains is that with rollups the essential data is stored on the main chain, in compressed form.
> A big part of the justification for Brexit is because the EU is a crap bureaucracy that does arbitrary, self-harming and utterly unnecessary stuff like this all the time.

I haven't seen anything of the sort as a reason for brexit. I have seen loads of broken promises that were made around the referendum. Plus the longstanding tradion (for loads of EU countries) to blame everything on the EU. Combined with UK media making stuff up about the EU (bendy bananas). There's been so much misinformation (lies) that the EU has a 10+ page list of incorrect UK "news"articles. I've also seen a lot of misinformation regarding foreigners, whereby any foreigner is put into the "asylum seeker" group. There's even some cartoons about that; that they a) take all the jobs b) never pay taxes (despite taking all the jobs) c) do not work
Maybe the answer here shouldn't be reconcile with Iran, but stop supporting Saudi Arabia... (or so, didn't really think this one through)
I love Wolfe. Which book to read first depends on your attitude towards the fantasy genre. If you're skeptical of it, I would recommend starting with the compact sci-fi short story trilogy of "Fifth Head of Cerberus" rather than the magnum opus of "The Book of the New Sun".

If Cerberus works for you, there is a ton more to chew in New Sun, and you should absolutely read it whether or not you like more mainstream fantasy works.

And if you like New Sun but haven't read Jack Vance's original take on a similar world, "Dying Earth", it's absolutely worth it. Nowhere near as deep as Wolfe, but way more funny — a truly unique voice from the golden era of sci-fi.
Just to say a big thank you to all those who have worked on JupyterLab. It's by far my favourite notebook interface and I think gets the balance between a clean interface and powerful features just about right.

I just wish that the cloud providers would adopt it as the basis for their products.
This theory doesn't make sense to me. Banks could simply buy foreign currency to achieve the same without the additional risk of defaulting lenders.
IANAL, but I don't think this meets the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Ideas for a startup are just ideas. Music and books, regardless of form, are implementations and execution. I say that the actual execution of the idea is what's important. Code piracy's probably a better comparison.

That said, as an artist I'm not too worried if somebody rips off my work to print for a personal hanging.
This excellent writeup inspired me to publish some old dotlocking code I had lying about - https://github.com/jaysoffian/dotlock
My hunch is that "short, and pronounceable, is preferable", but other than that, I think there is a sufficient number of examples (including the ones you mentioned) to make the case that a web site's domain name need not be descriptive of the site's service or content. The challenge is to do whatever it takes to build up name/brand recognition, but I think that would be true regardless of what sort of name you went with.
There's a yawning chasm of difference between "a query that gets the right data in the right way, but does it somewhat inefficiently," and "a query that gets the right data in a stupendously roundabout way." For the former, query optimization is a reasonable salve. For the latter, no amount of automated optimization can save you from crippling performance problems.

Look at it this way: If someone comes to you and says, "I want to get from New York to California in 2 hours, so I'm going to take a 747." Off the top of your head, you could tell them, "I don't think you can do that without a Concord." A computer could easily optimize that plan.

But if someone says, "I want to get from New York to California in 2 hours, so I'm going to stick grapes in my nostrils and soak my shoes in canola oil," there's nothing you can do to help this person, because they clearly have no idea where to even start. A computer could do no better.

Using or instead of in() is taking a 747 instead of a Concord. But many of the points in that article, like using distinct to mask a lack of understanding about how you're asking for data, are very much the grapes & canola-oil-Nike's of SQL.

EDIT: Whoops. Sorry; since you had been downvoted, I misread the gray-on-light-gray text as "Given the amazing amount of run-time query optimization performed by most relational DBs." Guess I should have run my comment through an HN Post Optimizer.

NoSQL solutions are not a drop-in replacement for relational databases, either, though. They're different tools for different jobs.

No matter what, you're going to need to look at the same data in different ways. If that isn't true, then the decision is easy. But in pretty much every non-trivial application I've ever worked with, the source information and the requirements for the resulting data format have never been the same for every feature.

When you decide to go with NoSQL, you are implicitly accepting some of the burden previously handled by the RDBMS: The onus is now on you to do your own "indexing," your own "views," your own "normalization." I only have experience with CouchDB, which provides an excellent array of tools for handling these responsibilities, but for certain types of data, there is still no substitute for an RDBMS.
The different phases of suckage are great insight.

Actually he is right - iIdeas and execution matter.
Could you explain a little more about how you avoid using search engines? Do you just go directly to sites that you know and trust and use their search functionality?
Actually, I'd see Amazon, Google and Facebook as three somewhat different types of monopolies.

Google's monopoly comes economies of scale and superior technology. No one is locked into the Google, you just prefer Google because it is superior.

Facebook's monopoly is network effect.

Amazon is something like traditional horizontal monopoly.

The only thing the companies have in common is that they're on the Internet. But the main conclusion is that Internet is where all future market dramas will be played out.
I think Tor network was not working in China a long time ago...
> It isn't entirely clear which fake fingerprint was used.

Obviously his own fingerprint. He doesn't have access to the German Defense Minister iPhone to test the real one (assuming the Defense Minister uses an iPhone and has Touch ID configured).
What’s interesting here is the extent to which the public vastly overestimates the prosperity of lower-income Americans.

I bet this is due in large part to the availability of credit over the last few decades. Credit has allowed lower-income people to "play the part" of the wealthy, giving rise to the distortion. In particular, interest-only, 0% down mortgages, low or no-interest credit cards, and car leases let someone making $50,000 a year drive a Mercedes, live in a million-dollar house, and buy fancy toys like flat-screen TVs and Jet Skis. I think the vast majority of the public would base their perception of wealth on material possessions such as cars, houses, and boats rather than the amount of money in savings or investments. This could explain the discrepancy.
Numerous paper's on ross's page

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/wcf.html
From the article, it seems as if its breaking was done A. by hand, and B. more as a hobby than anything else. It was explicitly noted that if they had bothered feeding it through a computer, it would've taken "a fraction" of the time.
You don't have to break a law to violate an AUP.
What about outsourcing to Russia when it becomes a reasonable place for foreign firms to do business? It seems like that wave is yet to come.
Could you explain how these instructions would give you a "headache fast"?
Ruby 1.9.2 and Rails 3.0.3 are now considered stable by what appears to be everyone but the packagers.

apt installs Ruby using a non-standard configuration too, when you do `apt-get install ruby1.8`, the executable is `ruby1.8`. Nobody in their right minds these days would install it with the `1.8` suffix.

Ruby version management is best taken care of with RVM, as that's better built for it than a general package manager such as apt.