jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do you think that 200 million Netflix users comprises the same set of people that are bandwidth constrained? I don't see how that's relevant to the point whatsoever.
Man, Black Friday is getting out of hand...
This is exactly backwards. My network latency to North America is >200ms (RTT). Three round-trip times is about 750ms. You can do 75 disk accesses and three billion mathematical calculations in that time.

If your database and computations are requiring multiple seconds on a normal web page, you have serious user experience problems. When you're under 140ms, it feels like the response is happening at the same time as the request (Dabrowski and Munson weren't able to reproduce the old 50- or 100-millisecond rule of thumb in what sounds to me like a poorly-controlled experiment; http://books.google.com/books?id=aU0MR-MA-BMC&pg=PA292&#...). Increasing Google search page render time from 400ms to 900ms dropped traffic by 20%, according to Marissa Mayer (http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/11/marissa-mayer-at-web-20....). Traditional OLTP systems tried to keep response times under one second; beyond a second, people start to get frustrated and wonder if something is broken.

So, for a normal application, the milliseconds you might save by optimizing your database and computations are peanuts in comparison to the second or more that TCP-level optimizations could save you.
In Unix it is rather "everything has a file descriptor at API level" while in Plan9 it is really "everything is a file" from the system standpoint.

It is not surprising since Plan9 also came from Bell Labs, and they learned the lessons of Unix, raising the idea to a new level.
Quicksilver or something similar is a must. I have become SO much happier with my desktop environments since embracing Quicksilver and Gnome-Do.
Probably not, because we've lived up here in this "gray and cloudy" environment for thousands of thousands of years, and we're doing just fine; we're adapted. But we are aware that living "up here" is a problem for people who comes from "down there".
Property rights require someone to enforce them;

No, property rights and enforcement of property rights are separate things.

Jury's require jurors who very often don't want to be there. Speedy trials require judges and jurors to work efficiently, and again, not free. Protection from unreasonable search and seizure requires someone to enforce it. The right to confront your accuser requires the accuser to testify.

The inability to confront your accuser, produce jurors and promptly render a verdict results in the inability to prosecute, not the inability to have your trial heard by jury.

Protection from unreasonable search and seizure requires someone to enforce it.

This someone is the judicial system, which is (likely) the same system conducting the searches. It is again a "safe by default" system.

I was objecting to your conclusion that rights shouldn't require other people when the facts are, many of your existing rights do.

It is true that you never implied that the right to the Internet was absurd. That was a comment on the discussion at large. However your arguments that rights require the actions of others is unconvincing. My argument is that rights are a limit on the actions of others, and paid for by the agressor. When they are paid for by idle bystanders (likely through taxation), they are a form of socialist benefits and not "rights".
OpenSSH (http://openssh.org/) grew out of OpenBSD, and that's used pretty widely (http://www.openssh.com/users.html).
How do you feel about Vray then? http://www.vray.com/
Okay, here we found an interesting bit:

> [...] but you've chosen a label for yourselves that was invented to describe the bad guys.

For me, probably randfish and lots of other people, some of them working in this industry, the word SEO just doesn't mean this.
How would you implement the UI for browsing search results in this system? Maybe draw some inspiration from map searching UIs.
NVMes are magic. Just the same improvement that SSDs have over HDDs. Probably the only upgrade worth getting for my home PC at this point.
Reminds me of how the heads in the The Sims pie menus look around to follow the cursor as you point at different menu items!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-exdu4ETscs

>The Sims, Pie Menus, Edith Editing, and SimAntics Visual Programming Demo: This is a demonstration of the pie menus, architectural editing tools, and Edith visual programming tools that I developed for The Sims with Will Wright at Maxis and Electronic Arts.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/pie-menus-936fed383ff1#61bc

>The Sims pie menus show the currently selected Sim’s head in the menu center, looking straight at you if nothing’s selected, and turning to look at the selected item, like the Brady Bunch intro. That helps you identify which character the menu will affect, and focus on which item is selected.

>When I implemented this effect, I actually wanted to make the Sim’s heads nod or shake according to how much they wanted to perform the selected item (so she’d look delighted about “Tickle”, or shy about “Kiss”). But that would have been a burden to produce and program for every menu item, and we had to stop thinking of cool stuff to do and just ship the damned game.

Kinda like the "Brady Bunch" intro, with Alice in the middle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZhhUdc_Vt0

It was easy to implement the heads looking around with the character animation system, but later I made a version of pie menus for Unity3D that used the webcam to project my live face into the center of the menu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMN1LQ7qx9g

>They're very general purpose, and you can configure them for whatever you need, and then you can integrate them with your app, to give interesting feedback. This is a pie menu with eight items for SimCity, for selecting an editing tool. Now you pop a menu up and you see in the center right next to your cursor where you're looking, the menu title and the menu description. And then you see all the labels of the items. [...]

>I don't know if you've noticed, but there is this head in the middle of the menu, that's looking around at the menu items, kind of like in The Sims. Now this is to demonstrate the kind of things you can do by having notifiers that react to the tracking that modify objects in the world to show you what's going to happen before you selected it, or just, you know, just to give you some interesting feedback. Now I'm not actually moving my head around. It's just twisting this 3D object.
most likely due to the caveats I assume:

"Two caveats. This only works for a table with equal legs, where the wobble is caused by an uneven floor. If the table has uneven legs, you probably need the folded napkin. Also, the floor can be bumpy but has to be free of steps"

Spherical cows rearing their ugly heads once again
Dating has always been a quid pro quo interaction, and it probably always will be.
What many people don't realise (especially in HN) is that DDG is not as good as Google, in my experience, in looking for non-English content. One of the things that stopped me was the lack of good Dutch results that Google can pick up easily with its internal translations and whatnot.
I think WebRender (the FF-integrated name of Servo) didn't improve Firefox VR support in any big way. VR was pretty good in Firefox already and WebRender mostly impacts rendering of HTML content like fonts, images, and CSS. The lower level tech that VR depends heavily on is WebGL. The next big jump in that department looks to be WebGPU but that's still in early stages.
Tinder had no effect on a large percent of the population. So your estimation of the cultural impact is skewed by your personal experience.
Okroshka is one of my all-time-favorite summer dishes (I grew up in Russia). So refreshing to have a cold "soup" / "salad" hybrid.
Most languages are. IMHO, the best language for writing a compiler or interpreter is Prolog.
Had talked about it few months ago that it may be risky to use a .so (Somalia) domain for such a business

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23240762
Notion is currently down....(Feb 12, 2021) https://youtu.be/_lEORC9-XcA via

#NotionisDown #SaveNotion #SaveOurData
+1 on the two Bela Fleck collaborations. They're amazing.
Smart move. My mom is on twitter and this sort of thing is too far out there for her.

If the Nazis want some sort of platform that isn't built around pleasing our mothers they will just have to build it themselves.
> non-democratic, unelected and all powerful executive branch

This is just not true. The EU is run by the Council of Ministers primarily (who are the national ministers of the member states), with a side-order of democracy from the European parliament.

If you're going to argue about something, please choose an accurate thing to argue about.

> imposing hard borders on Northern Ireland without even bothering to tell the countries in question and then immediately backpedalling

Again, this isn't what happened. One interpretation of a proposed order would have necessitated some kind of border. The Republic of Ireland vociferously objected, and the proposal was withdrawn.

That being said, I think the EU could be a lot better, and am deeply sorry that the UK left (especially vis-a-vis the consequences for Northern Ireland).
I see the same. Maybe I'm getting confused by the wording and layout.

I interpreted the "Reject All"/"Confirm My Choices" buttons at the bottom to belong only to the "Manage Consent Preferences" section. The "Information Our Partners Collect" part above it is a separate section, with a separate "Accept All" button, and an opt-out link in the text, so I figured the final "Reject All" might only reject the second section. Because why else would they have separate sections with separate buttons?

Either way, none of this inspires confidence that they have my interests in mind.
If you want to instrument only a handful events, yes. But for microbenchmarks which you can run for many iterations to get min/max/stdev (such as the benchmarks in the article) it's much easier. Disabling turbo often is sufficient to lower the variance far enough that old and new code are clearly distinguishable.
They should have explained that copyright belongs to every author and singling out one industry as being worthy of compensation works against the spirit of the treaty.

They could then explain how their content uses excerpts of copyrighted material to direct the curious to the source.

It should have then asked for legislation on what constitutes fair use in this context.

If the government insisted on fees, then they should have asked them why news businesses are more worthy of those fees than individuals.
Not Netflix, but we do use notebooks on our internal platform. Long-running notebooks for model training, but you can view their state as they run even after you close the tab or get disconnected from the internet.

We also publish AppBooks, which are automatically parametrized notebooks. However, we automatically detect and track experiments, and then we deploy models in the form of an endpoint to be invoked by consumers, with a convenience page for humans to invoke the code by sending JSON data, or uploading a CSV file.

- https://iko.ai/docs/notebook/

- https://iko.ai/docs/appbook/
Yep. Level 6 in the first one :-) IIRC their challenge machines were under quite a bit of load and I had difficulties getting the proper solution. If anyone is interested for some reason, here's my writeup including their code and my exploit: https://github.com/dividuum/stripe-ctf
Virtually every FANG interview I’ve done has covered API design as part of system design.

My brother is currently in med school, a huge chunk of his time studying is spent on rote memorization. Their Leetcode equivalent is Anki (flash cards) which they spend hours on every day, for years. At least with Leetcode, it’s taught me to quickly recognize algorithms and implement my own when needed.
Unfortunatley that's just the way the world works. We don't have world peace yet, and have plenty of countries that if not outright hostile in the rhetoric and stance, have the capacity to elect leaders who could change those stances. All of those countries have complex sets of relationships with one another, and its not a given that if your country is attacked (and is not the US or some other super power), that someone else will come and defend it. The concern over China is, of course, quite a bit more obvious given the _ongoing_ abuse of their own citizens.
100% this. I wrote a separate comment in this thread cautioning people that this doctor, despite this charitable act, is probably not as charitable as we might think from reading a news article.

If we dig deep into his clinics' billing practices, we might see lots and lots of bogus charges billed to the insurance companies (some of which might have to be paid by the patients with high deductible/co-pay in their insurance plan).
> For instance, people would be more aware that twice as much of the tax-derived budget goes into defense and international security than to safety net programs.

do you not consider medicare, medicaid, and social security to be safety net programs?
In Jason's defence (I still think he's a scumbag) he pays people to aggregate data from multiple sources. That's about as unethical as writing a paper that cites multiple sources (provided he's actually using a reasonable number of sites and is within fair use).

This, of course, doesn't excuse the fake domains and link farming.
I have to agree somewhat, but its not slackers, its politics or something... there are plenty of places in the UK at least where a policeman could walk down the street and find 3 or 4 serious criminals in the act of committing a crime - they are never there. (from what I hear US is exactly the same)

Probably too busy making it look like we have security against the terrorists, who don't really exist...
_why penned an article titled "The Little Coder's Predicament" that echoes similar sentiments and proposes a couple solutions. I found it an interesting read.

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/hacking/theLittleCodersPredica...
Wow, that's pretty content-free. Flagged.

If you want to actually learn to use the Unix* command line, read Kernighan and Pike's _The Unix Programming Environment_.

* Not Linux.
IANAL, YANAL, etc. But I still want to ask: suppose regular people start using the phrase "the other white meat" in various discussions. I used to refer to the Nitro Ruby Web framework as the other white meat in discussions that inevitably mentioned Rails. Suppose, as a reaction to this nonsense, it was used everywhere, all time, so as to dilute any special association with a particular product.

I realize in the land of the free you can get sued by near anyone over near anything, but how likely/risky is it that blatant use of this phrase in on-line discussions would lead to legal action or threats from pork lawyers (AKA swine swine :) )?

While this may not be the case that sparks a populist reaction, would encouraging people to wilfully apply some trademarked phrase as often as possible work as a protest?

Ironically, the idea of spamming the on-line world with misapplied trademark usage made me think of Hormel, who handled their trade-name issues like thoughtful people. The pork people may have blown a chance to make something positive out this for themselves. At the very least, thuggish behavior doesn't help. There are nicer ways to defend trademarks.
I said "screw it" after my Oracle Cloud "always free" account was terminated with no recourse, a few days after having activity on the database building an application prototype, well under the resource limits. I'm now running a libvirt VM on my laptop to develop the prototype.

Others have complained about Oracle Cloud's draconian practices. Doesn't sound like a company that wants to build a cloud business.

Cheers
You going to shower at work? How do you get your kids to school? Are you going to put them on the handlebars?
I agreed with some of what your saying.

The delta comes from my incredible work experiences / organization management in the Marines and then working for selfish and incompetent bosses in the civilian side. (I have had bad luck on the civilian side in the past.)
sponsored content, their own advertisements in their content, and patreon?
Disclaimer: I have no BTC. I just want to point out the current transaction UX is not reliable at all.

I rarely hold any cash on my person and typically pay for everything with my iPhone, otherwise with a physical CC. If the merchant has no power or a broken machine, I cannot make the purchase.

This literally happened to me a few weeks ago while buying a slice of pizza ($5 or less). My phone had power so I offered to Venmo the owner instead but they said no.
I agree with the above. Keep in mind that a lot of what you take for granted in a native app you'll have to build yourself. Scroll inertia, image carousels, determining a "flick" vs a tap, fixed tab bar - these are all something that haven't been 100% figured out. Yes, you can find solutions for each one, but try putting them all together and you quickly see the conflicts. Add in some caching of data and you'll learn that the HTML5 cache concept is different for each device.

I've tackled these issues personally, and at my company (iPad app). Keep in mind that your users will demand that your app at least feel native, if not the same UI controls. You think that you'll have the freedom to run on each platform, but in reality you'll be dealing with the quirks of each platform and that will set you back some dev time. Webkit is not 100% the same on each browser

What Phonegap gives you is a demarcation point to drop in your HTML code - and that's it. If you need API access for accelerometer, vibrate, etc then Phonegap can help. If your app is focused more on the user experience, then Phonegap cannot help you.

Do you really want to launch an app that will feel awkward on every platform, or just develop a native app for each major platform? That platform space isn't as large as you might think - iOS, Android, <pick your consumer markets third>

I'm a mobile product manager by day, my contact info is in my profile if you have any more questions.
He should only have to pay self employment taxes on self employment income, which at $1500 & 15% indicates he was bringing in 10k / year in google ads, which seems reasonable with those traffic levels. That is hardly breaking even unless he was running it on a Cray.

The sorry fact is while you may think your tax rate is 15% or 25%, there is always that extra 15%, even for the employed. In employee's case, they pay half (FICA) and the employer pays half, which of course reduces real earning potential by that amount. It's a scam to talk about taxes rates and only quote the federal income tax rate.
Were you able to successfully download it? The link has since become unavailable.
Looks like the video's been removed - anyone have a mirror?
That seems like a pretty solvable behavioral problem. I hesitate to recommend using some todo application since todo apps have turned into kind of a joke in the last few years, but.. maybe try using a todo app?
Related to this, I've found most text books aren't the best way to learn the material since they don't actually provide answers to solutions. You get the theory but little followup practice to apply your understanding of that theory.

Are there any good texts that are more problem workbook style? One example that comes to mind is "Exercises in Probability", or some of the 3000 Problems books as published by Schaum.
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

It's rather like getting tenure."

http://www.langston.com/Fun_People/1992/1992AAC.html
I have only seen + heard the opposite about Apple cutting back on enterprise sales of any kind. (Up until two-ish years ago, they made very little outreach to enterprise at all, just because they don't do roadmaps, don't have special support for "enterprise," etc.) Your retail-business theory is what I thought of as Apple's old strategy.

They just engaged Unisys to support and infiltrate the enterprise (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-25/apple-enlists-unisy...)

I'm not saying your interpretation of the Xserve discontinuation is wrong, just that i hadn't seen anybody with that interpretation before, and i'd love to hear more.
Citation please. Assuming you meant Fluoride: it's neither heavy nor a metal.
Ha. Mine's the same. MAybe that'll be my next project.
Yeah, I thought it's about a book called "Ground Up"
I agree broadly with your point, but I fail to see why a physical keyboard is important except to a very small subset of users. Swype handles all the text input I need, and does so about 20%-30% faster than my physical keyboard.

Now, this is on a first generation Motorola Droid. I have seen some students that are pretty wicked fast on their Blackberry. We haven't 'raced' yet. Maybe it's just a bad keyboard design on the Droid?
Could you elaborate on this for me? It sounds like what they're saying makes perfect sense (btw, there is really no need for the --or high school economics-- jab).

Visa is an abstraction of my money. A better example would be american express gift cards. I can buy american express gift cards, and I can trade these gift cards or goods or services. The gift cards have a non-static real-value that is tied to the United States dollar (it's value in GBP, for instance, will fluctuate based on currency values).

I can take $100 USD, give it to a third party to hold, then slowly spend it as I see fit (effectively).

How is doing this with gold something that they should have covered in "high school economics class"? (No high school I've ever seen or heard of teaches an economics course, by the way)

I take $100, and give it to somebody who gives me an abstraction of that $100, gold.

To me, this sounds like literally the exact same thing as a gift card, just shinier.
And this is why my chef broke todya.
Yeah but if I can't carry sixteen kids in the car whilst towing my 60ft yacht 2000 miles without refuelling then what you are proposing is useless.
I'm re-writing an API and Insomnia is a required tool because ...

* Non trivial authorisation

* Chained commands

* Templated requests

* Random generation of content
I had never heard of this product before this HN post. While I agree Google kills off many useful products, perhaps there is a deeper reason that many products were birthed without any real long-term plan or ownership?
What are they astroturfing? TdF vs Giro? Contaminated beefs? Caliper vs disk brakes?

Edit: or are you talking about something else than r/peloton?
Not satire. I have a copy on my desk at work and used it within the last month to explain truth tables (section 4.31) to a developer.

Try looking at it again through the lens of designing a domain specific language. It forms a robust framework for rigid and controlled communications or interactions.

The reason it was supplanted by Philosophical Investigations is that it was overly strict in defining the logical foundations of language and meaning.
To me, this seems like a good case for government intervention. Domain names are critical infrastructure at this point.
I think their point was that "old internet" was harder to use as a publishing platform than the new one, not necessarily that what we got was the best evolution, but that it has enabled non-techies to publish more.
In all fairness I can tell you that isn't David's style to do something like that. He's a right proper HN coder, and he shared this with me a few weeks ago while in SF. Try not to assume the worst of people, eh?
It seems that "the terrorists" just don't have careful leadership. With good leadership, average people can do amazing things, like hijack four planes at the same time and crash three of them into buildings. Pretty scary.

Also, why does the article call people "perverts" for looking at porn? Really? People still think that?