jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Exploring No Man’s Sky, A Computer Game Forged by Algorithms
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/529136/no-mans-sky-a-vast-game-crafted-by-algorithms/
Nuclear Power in France
https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/france.aspx
Ten years ago today, I had the idea for an app I thought was interesting
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1050990035892199424.html
URL shorteners set ad tracking cookies
https://ylukem.com/blog/url-shorteners-set-ad-tracking-cookies
Linode hacked, CCs and passwords leaked
http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=submission&id=2603667
“Oracle laid off all Solaris tech staff in a classic silent EOL of the product”
https://twitter.com/webmink/status/904081073256243201?s=15
Google App Maker Shutting Down
https://support.google.com/a/answer/9682494
Jony Ive’s first major design since leaving Apple
https://www.fastcompany.com/90693444/jony-ives-first-major-design-since-leaving-apple-isnt-what-youd-expect
A Python Guide for the Ages
https://gto76.github.io/python-cheatsheet/
GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse
https://github.com/idea4good/GuiLite#demo-wall
18F: CSS coding style guide
https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/01/11/introducing-the-css-coding-style-guide/
Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
https://autonews.io
Making Elm faster and friendlier in 0.16
http://elm-lang.org/blog/compilers-as-assistants
It's time to dispel the myths about nuclear power
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/apr/11/time-dispel-myths-about-nuclear-power-chernobyl-fukushima
Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/venus-could-have-been-habitable-billions-years-180973203/
WebKit is now 100% ES6 complete
https://twitter.com/webkit/status/728643624464883712
Things I wished more developers knew about databases
https://medium.com/@rakyll/things-i-wished-more-developers-knew-about-databases-2d0178464f78
“Well, He’s Not Going to Get Very Far”
http://moz.com/rand/well-hes-not-going-to-get-very-far/
An optimal algorithm for bounded random integers
https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/39143
Fourier series
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/jPGJMK
Universal Radio Hacker: Investigate Wireless Protocols Like a Boss
https://github.com/jopohl/urh
OCaml: Add support to iOS/Mac ARM64
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/9699
Turning CO2 to Stone
http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/6839.html
PDFy – Instant PDF Host
https://pdf.yt/
Publishing thousands of police discipline records that New York kept secret
https://www.propublica.org/article/nypd-civilian-complaint-review-board-editors-note
Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
https://system76.com/laptops/pangolin?its-the-same-url-but-the-content-has-changed-thank-you
A calculator for the Terminal that renders beautiful math
https://kary.us/nota/
Hey Dropbox, why can't I compare file versions like this?
http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/whycanticomparefileversions.html
Apple Never Invented Anything
http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/09/02/apple-never-invented-anything/
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Buy Supercomputer Maker Cray
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cray-m-a-hpe/hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-buy-supercomputer-maker-cray-in-1-30-billion-deal-idUSKCN1SN1CN
Lord British launches “Shroud of the Avatar” on Kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/portalarium/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0
Why I’m dumping Firebase for Web
https://lugassy.net/why-im-dumping-firebase-for-web-cd64a78cb43e
The main thing about Phenylacetone meth is that there's so much of it
https://dynomight.net/p2p-meth/
Can We Survive the Next Financial Crisis?
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-lehman-anniversary/
Python type hints are Turing complete
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.14755
Britain gave Palantir access to sensitive COVID-19 patient records in £1 deal
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/08/palantir-nhs-covid-19-data.html
On the Impending Crypto Monoculture (2016)
https://lwn.net/Articles/681616/
In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-big-data-may-not-be-such-a-big-deal.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Finding your home in game graphics programming
http://alextardif.com/LearningGraphics.html
Dear clueless assholes: stop bashing bash and GNU
https://weev.livejournal.com/409835.html
You are listening to San Francisco
http://youarelistening.to/sanfrancisco
Europe's top court: people have right to be forgotten on Internet
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/13/eu-google-dataprotection-idUSL6N0NZ23Q20140513
Beam VM Wisdoms (2019)
http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/
Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python
https://github.com/keon/algorithms
Ten Years' Worth of Learning About Pricing
http://tomtunguz.com/pricing-summary/
An Even Easier Introduction to CUDA
https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/even-easier-introduction-cuda/
Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free
http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
Fuchsia: a new operating system
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/718267/206c8a5fbf0ee2ea/
Does memory leak? (1995)
https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ada/E9bNCvDQ12k/1tezW24ZxdAJ
Marc Andreessen says he’s for new housing, but records tell a different story
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andreessens-opposition-housing-project-nimby/671061/
Bob Saget has died
https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2022/01/10/sources-americas-dad-bob-saget-dies-at-orlando-hotel/
Fed to inject $1.5T to prevent ‘unusual disruptions’ in markets
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/12/fed-to-pump-more-than-500-billion-into-short-term-bank-funding-expand-types-of-security-purchases.html
Go 1.7 toolchain improvements
http://dave.cheney.net/2016/04/02/go-1-7-toolchain-improvements
Diffie and Hellman Win Turing Award
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/technology/cryptography-pioneers-to-win-turing-award.html
The Tools of a Blind Programmer
https://www.parhamdoustdar.com/2016/04/03/tools-of-blind-programmer/
Show HN: Percy.io, a continuous visual integration tool
https://percy.io/
Why Three Prongs? (1996)
http://amasci.com/amateur/whygnd.html
.NET core spies on users by default
https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093
Mathematicians are chronically lost and confused (2014)
https://j2kun.svbtle.com/mathematicians-are-chronically-lost-and-confused
How to Hire a Programmer
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/how-to-hire-a-programmer.html
I dropped over 40 grand when I could have spent $100
http://boondainc.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/i-dropped-over-40-grand-when-i-could-have-spent-100/
Lego Is the Perfect Toy
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/12/lego-is-the-perfect-toy.html
Convert Markdown to a Mind Map
https://markmap.js.org/
Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
https://www.supermemo.com/en/articles/sleep
Snowden distributed encrypted copies of NSA docs around the world
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/06/snowden-distributed-encoded-copies-of-nsa-docs-around-the-world/
Google Deleted over 100k Negative Robinhood Reviews
https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l7bh1m/not_sure_if_anyone_posted_this_here_but_yikes/
Heat Pumps Work Miracles
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/06/heat-pumps-work-miracles/
A framework for grading your performance on programming interview problems
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gy9cmPwNhZvola7kqnfY3DElk7PYrz2ARpaCODTp8Go/edit
Update from Chef
https://blog.chef.io/2019/09/23/an-important-update-from-chef/
Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships
https://www.space.com/space-debris-astronauts-shelter-november-2021
7-Zip: Multiple Memory Corruptions via RAR and ZIP
https://landave.io/2018/01/7-zip-multiple-memory-corruptions-via-rar-and-zip/?hn
8chan Is a Normal Part of Mass Shootings Now
https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/el-paso-8chan-4chan-mass-shootings-manifesto.html
Australian uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block tracking by employer
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/australian-man-uses-snack-bags-as-faraday-cage-to-block-tracking-by-employer/
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google’s web search results
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-chrome-extension-block-sites-from.html
The State of Meteor Part 2: What Happens Next
https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/the-state-of-meteor-part-2-what-happens-next/
PHP Sucks
https://evertpot.com/PHP-Sucks/
FBI seizes riseup.net server
https://help.riseup.net/en/seizure-2012-april
Why We Should Build Cloud Cities on Venus
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-we-should-build-cloud-cities-on-venus
SICP in Python
https://wizardforcel.gitbooks.io/sicp-in-python/content/
Starlink review, four months in
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/spacexs-starlink-review-four-months
Lockdown: Open-source firewall that blocks app tracking, ads, snooping
https://lockdownhq.com
Making open source data more available
https://github.com/blog/2201-making-open-source-data-more-available
EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/02/eff-challenges-new-jersey-subpoena-issued-mit-student-bitcoin-developers
Congress.gov API
https://api.congress.gov/
Our Use of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/01/344043763/our-use-of-little-words-can-uh-reveal-hidden-interests
MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2I0T26SV0ELPP/
Steve Wozniak speaks on Right to Repair [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN1djPMooVY&t=0s
World War II was totally unrealistic
http://squid314.livejournal.com/275614.html
Stick bomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick_bomb
At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks
https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-netflix-radical-transparency-and-blunt-firings-unsettle-the-ranks-1540497174
Atom-in-orbit: Putting Atom in the browser
https://github.com/facebooknuclide/atom-in-orbit
What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit
http://www.marco.org/2012/11/16/twitter-being-a-dick-again
RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language
https://developer.squareup.com/blog/the-state-of-ruby-3-typing
The FBI Is Tracking Our Faces in Secret, and We’re Suing
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-fbi-is-tracking-our-faces-in-secret-were-suing/
SO has human moderators and a points system to gate functionality, and those points are earned by being useful.

Quora did have a points/credits system in the beginning but they removed it for some reason, and ever since then participation and edits were open to everyone which let the spam take over. They also have a faceless AI-powered moderation system that's often overbearing and wrong.
Does Wayland break X-forwarding? That's a huge step backward, if so.
It’s pretty clearly nvidias fault. Their proprietary driver doesn’t play well with wayland and they haven’t seemed to care.
Half-baked idea for an alternative to domains:

Let every site have a UUID, kinda like TOR addresses, and let the host/servers as well as users specify multiple human-readable shortcuts for that UUID.

So HN might get o4u20j4c9qwybv3u0p2hnxjq4k1n4vmcsvtvm2666kjn123 and no other site should ever get the same ID until the heat death of the universe, and you could access it by any name you want.

Something like that would be resilient to impersonation, takeovers, brand renaming, and other issues.
> Podcasts (video or audio) are relatively easy to find once you're actually into that.

I'm on the consumer end of this. Basically every Youtube channel I'm subscribed to is effectively a video podcast, with new "episodes" every so often, from a few times a week to once a month.

I would love not to have to look to Youtube to find new feeds to subscribe to (in some cases literally subscribe, Youtube has RSS!). However, I don't have the slightest idea where I would begin looking for video podcasts. Maybe an RSS aggregator? But not everyone uses RSS... Any suggestions?
You could probably find people to make the argument that music went downhill after the end of the European patronage system.
We sell a brand who has MSRP and MAP at the same price, the margin is too low after freight, so we price it at approximately 25% above MSRP.
> Also, no one really cares about network support anymore, because it's simpler and better to just do a screen share.

[citation needed]

Let me guess, you live in a city?
Joining the chorus; I've done it. Expensive on some levels, but very cheap on others. Dealing with keys as physical objects is a lot less stressful.
It is a GUI problem. How it is presented to the user.

Typical mildly advanced user thinks this way:

I see https:// in URL bar and no scary red/yellow untrusted cert dialog? -- Ok I am all set to type my credit card number in.

There are the green brackground in there too, which I forget what it means, but it presumes some extra "security/authentication" thing.

What should the encrypted but not authenticated mode show? https:// with a yellow or gray bar? Try to teach the user about is the difference between authenticated vs encrypted. Warn them once and put a "Got it, do not bother me again" dialog.

Remember windows vista with "deny or allow?" dialog every single time you did anything with your computer. The intent was good but how the users perceived it was the problem. Here it is the same problem.
What's your teaching background, by the way?
Last time I recall using a "least bad" search engine was when I was using Altavista. (before I started considering Google "least bad", I mean)

To some extent, I hope they're able to maintain their position. If Google were unseated, I would miss the big, audacious side-projects that they undertake.
Has it caused any?
A little over a year ago I decided to take the plunge and pursue a life long dream of mine to be involved with the niche market of space exploration. I've always been interested in the topic but have never really done anything with it.

I started a blog and it kind of took off due to the Mars Curiosity landing. That was the first big step for me, it destroyed my servers. The traffic was too much to keep up with. After some hard work and determination I've gotten it to a place where it gets a steady stream of traffic.

I'm in contact with the folks at NASA, SpaceX, etc and am working on stories that other space outlets don't cover. I have tons of respect for the other blogs and news sites out there, but my take on it is a little different. I'm a normal guy that loves everything about the mystery that is space.

Here's a link to the site http://www.spaceindustrynews.com .

A lot of work has gone into the layout recently and I'm continuing to work on it on a daily basis, tweaking small things, optimizing code for load time, caching, minimizing, cdn-ing.

Thanks for your interest. If you have any feedback it would be greatly appreciated.
I'm not sure the government would lie any less in this situation so that only leaves one option, no nuclear.
Causation? One of the comments points out that the rupee has fallen 25% since the adoption of the new rupee symbol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign).
You are pulling numbers out of your ass and claim we can't do math?

Give us some citations to document performance loss, and further citations do document that the performance loss is sufficient enough to reduce the amount of work the staff actually carries out (if they're less productive per unit time spent working, but still completes the same amount of work, then the cost is not borne by the government - it is fairly normal for workload to be quite elastic), and we can talk about your numbers.

You also don't account for another factor: Even if there is a loss, it is not given that it is a net negative: License payments to Microsoft leave Valencia, and Spain. Payments to any additional training and support staff or additional assistance for LibreOffice is likely to stay in the local economy, and part of it will find its way straight back in in the form of taxes.

It is perfectly possible that they've messed up the numbers, but you've not presented anything resembling a case for that.

You might also note from the article that this is not Valencias first large scale migration - they claim to have saved 30 million so far from switching the regions schools to Linux, so chances are they actually have better numbers than the ones you've made up.
since jquery 1.8 they fixed the most outrageous limitation with their deferred implementation (then should return a new promise), and I actually prefer their implementation.

that said, i make use of underscore.deferred, which is the jquery implementation as an underscore mixin.
You would think judges are sick of the national security nonsense by now. How can they let themselves be played like that? Happy to give away all power at a moments notice?
working URL: http://blog.idonethis.com/how-we-got-to-1-000-in-recurring-r...

"By that point, iDoneThis for personal, self-tracking use had grown to some 40,000 members"

Step 1: get 40,000 free members. Step 2: get 333 (0.8%) to sign-up at $3/person/month.
In general you're better off working at a later stage startup if you want reasonable hours. I started working at a startup after it raised a Series A and then left a year after it raised its Series C; in that time I went from working 9:00am-7:30/8:00pm to 9:00am-5:30/6:00pm with the occasional late working day.
They also cared about the PR issues of wiping out villages. They were there to "Liberate" not to wipe out.

You are correct it does make it cheaper (maybe, eventually), but so do bombs or gunships or drones.

These are hella complex machines though. A gun is absurdly simpler as is a drone. And the ground is a lot messier than the air.

The logistics of servicing/repairing them is also going to be hefty. Tanks are a pain for maintenance already and they are much less complicated.
Basecamp's CEO Jason Fried actually shared his thoughts in a tweet:

"Good read on how Gumroad experiments with work, structure, hiring, and compensation. Re: part time... Little known fact: I hired @dhh
quarter-time (10 hours a week) to build Basecamp way back in 2003. That's all he had, and we made it work."

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1347300851631542272
This isn't intended as personal criticism of your comment, but I've noticed that people with minimal experience in business often overestimate margins and don't entirely understand what they mean. A 37% margin is crazy high and truly exceptional; there are only a handful of businesses that profitable at scale. When you hear a 30%+ margin, think of businesses like Mastercard, that collect a percentage of most transactions that its 1B+ members conduct. Apple also has notoriously high margins for what they do, and theirs are at 18%. Most of the businesses people interact with in their daily life have low or even negative profit margins: Walmart 3%, restaurants ~2%, Uber -35%. All the storefronts are owned by commercial real estate groups (margins usually ~4%), gas stations are ~2%, travel, car dealerships, airlines etc are all very low margin.

My personal gut feeling, when I see those very high margins, is that's it's a clear cut case of capitalism not working right. Occasionally margins are high because of innovation and the position is deserved, but not in most cases. Visa and Mastercard have long been in the top handful of most profitable businesses in the world, making basically all their money on interchange. As a result, if you want to accept payments in America, you're eating around 2.5% of the transaction cost right off the bat. You might think okay, but they provide something in return, right? Fraud protection and security and support and all these important things - what would we do without them, without paying that 2.5% tax? Turns out we'd do fine. The EU capped interchange for debit cards at 0.2% in 2015 and things have worked perfectly fine ever since. Other high margin businesses are clearly not benefitting the world (e.x. Philip Morris.) Patent trolls and Verisign are both fabulously profitable, and they add zero value. And even if you like those businesses, there's an even more compelling case for regulating away Elsevier in its entirety.
The Capitol Police generally don’t (and aren’t equipped to) repel a mob entering the building. That wasn’t just for this event. It’s always like this.

Trump’s “show of force” during the BLM protests (where he brought in the national guard) was an aberration for that reason.
On what forums were specific plans discussed in public?
This section of the article puts it in language commonly used to describe coup attempts:

> One NATO source set the stage, using terms more commonly used to describe unrest in developing countries.

"The defeated president gives a speech to a group of supporters where he tells them he was robbed of the election, denounces his own administration's members and party as traitors, and tells his supporters to storm the building where the voting is being held," the NATO intelligence official said.

"The supporters, many dressed in military attire and waving revolutionary-style flags, then storm the building where the federal law-enforcement agencies controlled by the current president do not establish a security cordon, and the protesters quickly overwhelm the last line of police.

"The president then makes a public statement to the supporters attacking the Capitol that he loves them but doesn't really tell them to stop," the official said. "Today I am briefing my government that we believe with a reasonable level of certainty that Donald Trump attempted a coup that failed when the system did not buckle."

The insurrectionists/rioters were not simply attempting to disrupt the vote. Many of them explicitly posted on social media about intending to kill members of congress. The woman who was shot and died, Ashli Babbitt, said on social media the day before, that “Nothing will stop us. They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours …. dark to light!” The Storm is an explicit QAnon conspiracy forecast event where Trump / his supporters would conduct mass executions of the democrats and his opponents.

Similarly, many of the insurrectionists were explicitly looking for Mike Pence in the Capital. They had weapons, they had zip ties for detaining people, several had pipe bombs. If they would have found any of their targets (or the full group of lawmakers on lockdown) and a hostage / execution scenario began, that would have created a power vacuum / level of chaos that could have opened the door to Trump trying to stay in power.

So this was clearly a coup attempt -- a pathetic one that wasn't well executed. But the folks who stormed the building were explicit in their motivations -- to stop the legitimate functioning of government, to foment revolution, and to force the world to keep Trump in power.
Not in the USA they don't. But in Venezuela it's a different story.
The “putting the earth in the center” is wave function collapse. If you get rid of wave function collapse then all the paradoxes go away except that our experience is a tiny branch of a massive tree
I'd be interested to see if any of these techniques have a measurable impact on decisions with any consequence.

It seems like all these decisions are completely arbitrary, and I know that I'm always looking for any dumb excuse to pick one arbitrary option over another.
There is no advantage to 2 unless you're using a legacy environment or a legacy dependency.

Edit: the "Python 3 Wall of Superpowers"[1] is a good resource for seeing how far the ecosystem's conversion to Py3k has come. Many of the "red" packages even have Python 3-compatible forks (e.g., Supervisor).

[1]: https://python3wos.appspot.com
Same thing happened to me on a jury I was on. We found an error in the jury instructions and had to be issued new ones.