jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I also don't understand the use of some of these. You can borrow crypto against other crypto?! What is the use case for that?

I am sure eventually you'll be able to borrow / lend / put as collateral not just other cryptos, but tokenized assets as well. That's why Ethereum is so exciting to me personally.
It's the "first they came for the.." poem.
Totally agree. Due to COVID most of my company worked only 4 days per week last year. The improvement in quality of life was amazing and productivity didn’t drop noticeably.

There was a time when 6 days per week were normal. People thought the world would go under if people worked only 5 days but things were ok. The same will happen with 4 day weeks. Once people get used to it it will be hard to imagine working more.
My billion dollar Canadian health/benefits insurance company turns their login form (and therefore form submission) website off at five oclock every day and entirely on holidays.

Must be nice!
I'll admit I am surprised; after it retook the $20k peak from ~2 years ago, I was explicitly curious if it would hit $40k this time around.

I still neither like Bitcoin nor believe in its utility nor intend to ever hold any, but I also no longer feel comfortable forecasting its future peaks and troughs.
It's because they ended the previously controversial "Trojans for Tigers" campaign... j/k
It isn't hard to copy:

http://www.joylent.eu/
http://aussiesoylent.com.au/
My impressions are so strange. Why do you think this way? Based on my experience, Medium is one of the most accessible, reader-free sites.
Okay, I understand now. Congratulations on being published! I'm sure it was a lot of hard work to write this.
These things are only obvious in retrospect. Why did the iPod create a new market when the Nomad MP3 Player already existed?
This could very well be a legacy of Rome. Rome apparently wasn't big on cavalry.

Second possibility is that it was not so much about military secrets, but rather social class, as horsemanship was a generally required skill for nobility and these skills were taught as part of a "gentleman's" education. This was up until the time that European nobility began the intermarriage process with new moneyed classes, the related economic phenomena of companies such as East India, and the related military matters of colonizing (something new for Europe) far flung lands. Those changes to social order and military requirements likely gave us the impetus for "commoners" on horses; i.e. scaling the officer class ranks beyond aristocracy. Your Dom Duarte's timeline fits well with that speculation.
Not quite, prices capped first. Then when that was not enough rolling blackouts where implemented. Those blackouts where excessive and thus reduced the wholesale price below it’s maximum.

As rolling blackouts where implemented by people paying wholesale rates they obviously have an incentive for excessive blackouts. Regulators said, you can only have rolling blackouts while rates are near the maximum because otherwise you’re simply going to keep cutting people’s power off to save yourself money.

Granted, outside of context it seems like really odd behavior. But again this was retroactively filling in periods where prices dropped artificially rather than proactively increasing the prices. It’s no different than the SEC stepping in when someone manipulates a financial market.

PS: That said some of this was simply technical as blackouts aren’t capable of the kind of fine grained second by second control needed to maintain a stable electric grid.
So what do you want, right speech or free speech?

Is there a method that serves both ends?
Given the legal turmoil it's been adopted/forked for use on the Vampire series of Amiga accelerators/clones.

See also: reactos (Windows2k) and haiku-os (BeOS)
The article really jumps to conclusions. This missile shaped and moving like a cruise missile in a part of the US where they test missiles, was probably... a test missile.

Especially given all of the hypersonic missile development going on right now.
That was great advice when it was written in 2006. Unfortunately, we're in the middle of a pandemic, so parties with strangers are right out; I'm booking camping sites for the summer and want to bring a scope with me!
Oh, nice! thanks
The VC-financial industrial complex is really ramping up their efforts lately.

Who will be the people left holding the bag, will regulatory capture lead us to forcing people to need to buy Bitcoin to function in society?
Do you assume the child never sleeps? Even co-sleeping, our son would go to sleep before us (either staying in the bed on the floor or being transferred to a crib). There can be other places in the home to be intimate.
Perhaps the sarcasm missed me, but you know people willing to commit money a year in advance on a crowd funding website is only a tiny portion of the entire market, right?
it's a ridiculous suggestion because
1) the workers at nuclear plants already risk their lives to help out when it's out of control

2) nuclear is so expensive to clean up that they run for decades after the initial design, presumably many of the initial designers are dead, and every incremental change should involve a suicide pact?

Remuneration for such an undertaking would have to go up by a large multiple to make such work attractive.
How secure is this platform compared to say something like Wordpress?
1.5 million € is a rounding error.
In this case, the flaw is not with the software, but a bad document format with a closed standard, as well as an undefined and misdefined standard of how to render the documents.
The salaries for those people are real costs. If you don't add things to their to do lists, you can hire fewer people and pay less.

It's all cost.
That anonymity also allows for people to make direct threats against other non-anonymous posters and gives leverage to people who doxx others. Its up to each site to weigh the pros and cons and it is totally legitimate to say that downside outweights the upside.
For anyone that's interested in creative engineering in motorsports I'd definitely recommend trying to make it out to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah for one of their speed trials [1]. It's an amazing experience. You'll see everything from multi-$100k vehicles with huge corporate/university support down to a guy who put something together in his shed four a couple grand (and he may still get a record). Some people go to try to break official records, others to break personal records, and others just to have fun. There are lots of different categories so almost anything you would want to make/modify can be brought out there as long as it's safe. Go to one that has both motorcycles and cars to see the best diversity(Speed Week, in August, is what I'd recommend).

Another cool thing is how close you are to the vehicles. You can be 20 feet away when the 2000hp streamliner takes off. (Although they aren't dragsters, so the acceleration isn't what's important). And most of the people love talking about what they built. So when they're waiting in line you can get right up to the cars and ask questions about stuff (just don't bother them if they look like they're in a hurry to fix/modify something ;) ). You'll see extremely well engineered vehicles using established ideas for going fast as well as crazy ideas that may or may not work (e.g. a v-twin converted into a single cylinder which uses the second cylinder as a supercharger.) Often times it's not even about trying to go faster, it's just about trying something new or challenging.

Anyone into cars and motorcycles should go at least once if they can. For many people, after their first experience they decide they need to bring something to run next year, and that's when the addiction starts. :)

[1] http://www.scta-bni.org/
C++ it seems.
If someone gets sufficient access to your server to read arbitrary files it is 99.95% possible that they also have sufficient access to just read your DB username and password straight out of the Rails application's memory. (One method, among many, would be "Attach a debugger to it." For a graphic example of what is possible with debuggers, in a format slightly easier for Rails devs to understand, see: https://github.com/ileitch/hijack)
TAOE is an awesome book. Leave it to physicists to write a proper electronics textbook.

(The op amp circuit diagram is also neat.)
I took it, there is no need to fear, maxwell's equations aren't used at all for the problem sets. The only real mention of it I think was when Dr. Argawal derived Kirchoff's circuit laws, and then later when mentioning cross talk.

So. There's no vector calculus, but there are some easy differential equations later on and the T.A's work through some sample problems to bring people up to speed.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better intro to electronics, it is excellent.
I don't think it has anything to do with democracy. Moreover, I don't think that we should be talk about "corruption" as some kind of a moral entity, it's not. What we call "corruption" is just a manifestation of the human nature to be selfish (combined with unability to think beyond scope of one's own person and family, something many people seem to suffer from). As long as what humans want is misaligned with what they can get, there will be corruption.

Note that, ironically, humans are so selfish that everything is corrupt, and yet not selfish enough as the economy would like us to be.
When IE6 came out, it was a breath of fresh air; the fastest, most stable, most featureful, most standards-compliant browser available. It was the final piece of the puzzle that let corporate developers move away from desktop apps and onto the web wholesale.

Sure it has overstayed its welcome. But I hate the revisionist attitude of some, who were still in school when all this went down.
A user process can start subprocesses under different users, without access permissions to the files owned by parent. The most obvious way to do so is to use sudo.
Because the "average person" neither cares, nor knows that these shenanigans go on. The "Olympics" brand creates a predisposition amongst most people to assume nobility, honour and "sportsmanship". This is what brands are designed to do, and they've done it brilliantly.
You should check out a more recent version of WordPress.
Thanks for the comment, you may be right wrt. to "peaceful instead of external".
Plants don't have nervous system, animals have, and it allows them to be able to suffer.
But even if you think that plants can suffer, still being vegan is more ethical, because overall suffering will be reduces, there are less plants needed on vegan diet than feed to animals to be eaten.
Caveat: I have a doctorate in computer science.

Important things to do, regardless of your degree if you want to program for a living:
1. know what the hell you are talking about
2. have experience in the things you want to do
3. become known in the community

Expanding:
1. If you say that you know what the hell you are talking about, and your O(n^2) algorithm for computing something for someone's app used to work but now falls to pieces with more widgets, then you really don't. Learn how to design and analyze algorithms to fit the task at hand. I don't know how many times I've cleaned up someone's O(n^2) or O(n^3) algorithm to O(n) because either they didn't know the language or just weren't very good, but it's at least 20 times at this point. If you want to self-start, check out MIT's OpenCourseware. It has a free computer science education that will result in zero paper. Lectures are available online for free.

2. Don't just read a bit about a new technology that you want to get a job doing, actually use it. There are free VM solutions that will run on your hardware and OS combination, which will let you run and test any number of software configurations to see what it's like.

3. If you're really using the software, and you don't run into a bug, then you're not really using the software. Report bugs, fix bugs, get involved. Every project needs help; the more you help people, the more you are known; the more you are known, the better your resume.

There are people who have never had a problem getting a job without having a degree. And there are some people who haven't been able to get a position, regardless of their degree. Personally, my degrees have opened doors that would otherwise never have been open to me. And the education that I have acquired in school has been invaluable to actually performing my duties as a chief architect. In my experience, there are just some things that you are only likely to have been exposed to during the course of education and related further exploration.

Ultimately it's a matter of what you want. Do you want paper? What if the paper can increase your lifetime earning potential (do you care)? What if you are so good that you can do better without the degree slowing you down? If you were 1st or 2nd year, I'd say switch majors. At 4 years... I'd say go with your gut. If you're guts are wrong, at least you went with what you thought was right, and not what others thought.
The learning curve with Scala would properly be higher but I really, really like the Lift framework.

And I think Twitter is using Scala.
Why not contacting someone directly from Mozilla or Google? They should both 'adopt' it in no time. Also I have seen zero coverage of it until now.
>(I would have its JavaScript babies)

You mean you would clone them? Prototypal inheritance, after all...
> Advanced imaging technology and more stringent pat downs have also since been implemented.

Which wouldn't have found the gun that was in a bag.
I admire prefix notation but that's a poor example. Most people say "2 plus 3" and the prefix version is really wacky: "plus 2 3".
It does? I think you'll have better luck reporting bugs and getting them resolved with the Nexus S than you would with say a Verizon Droid X where you've got to 1) figure out WHO you report the bug to as an end user, and 2) ensure it makes its way through the hall of fingerpointing so that it will get to an engineer who can fix it.
I doubt that many HN users are really offended by the idea that their degree could be worthless - if it really is, they probably came by that conclusion on their own.

The resume/interview process is broken, too, but I think most people would consider it poor judgement to explicitly invest in those who didn't get through it.

If he really felt like the degree is just a poor indicator of performance, there would be more discussion about what metric serves as a good alternative, or focus on improving the current metric. Instead, with the age limit, he asserts that degrees are a negative indicator, which makes it sound more like he's purposefully making a poor investment to give a voice to those who have contempt for those who finished college.
Thanks guys, the service is a bit backed up right now, with all the importers, but the site should be responsive and functional otherwise. I greatly appreciate everyone's support!
Can full-text search help you in organizing the bookmarks?
This gets my vote. Will a lot of us be traveling the week between Christmas and New Years?
Nice, seeding a cryptographic! PRNG with math.random(). I'll not comment on the rest of the code, as I'm having trouble following the Javascript here, but I'm not entirely convinced this can create more than one RSA key either...

Also, that browser plugin that's mentioned on the page but not in the tarball? Kinda important. Letting the server supply you with arbitrary Javascript code to execute doesn't really get you away from trusting the server.

Crypto-in-Javascript is kind of a red flag, and the results so far don't look promising.

Oh, and aside from the implementation issues: why'd anyone ever run a server? If you want open source, servers will have to accept data from any application, which pretty much cuts out any way of making money except charging for data storage/server access. And good luck getting people to pay. (Altruistic hobbyists won't cut it for Facebook-scale projects...)
Talking about books I would recommend Introduction to Functional Programming 1st edition (Prentice Hall 1988 -- the second, paradoxically, is "spoiled" by Haskell), by Bird and Wadler.
The ones that stick around :)
I haven't met any of you Chicago HNers before but I would love to. Next week is best for me and I would also vote for the 29th.
15 minutes of fame isn't just for people.
Doesn't Rubinius provide a lot of this?
If memory serves, Netflix users discovered that Akamai is using this strategy and everyone coming in from Google's DNS or OpenDNS was getting put into the same 'pool', and overloading the pipes in that pool. The recommendation was to use your ISP's DNS at least for your Netflix devices.

Or have I misunderstood?

(Post should probably have had the date listed; just realized this article is 7 years old. That doesn't make it wrong or bad, mind you...)
Markets are defined by greed and fear. We are in the greed mode right now.

Great line.
Ha! I started playing the game without having read the comic. What a pleasant surprise... :-)
Foursquare probably gets funded on the same concept color did. It's more about the data it can generate and sell, not the product itself. I'm still not convinced that it's a viable way to cover that kind of value.
Follow on to a)

Society is also structured in such a way that for the most part every job will have folks clamoring for it. When you are born without capital, you have to take what you can get.

Unfortunately I think it's going to keep getting worse as wealth inequality increases.

Imagine walking into a monopoly game where each piece is already bought and owned. Try to win at that. Instead, I could imagine you wind up working for someone, and feed them a majority of the profit while you get scraps.

I don't have good solutions for how to fix this, other than perhaps universal basic income would alleviate things.
The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. Facebook has a lot of issues and we might applaud Apple on their push for "privacy" but we can't forget that Apple is no angel either.
I don’t play wind, but I think trombone fits in.

Popular is at odds with “doing things the majority of people don’t do” of course. Like asking about popular non-QWERTY Apple keyboards. Unpopular doesn’t mean “you suck for wanting it”, just “hey not our thing, do it if you want to.” You need compositions and maybe an audience. 4/4 and equal temperament just benefit from a network effect.

There is a significant culture of non-Western instruments and non-Western musicians. Probably a good starting point.
It seems we are finally going back to the ecosystem of the 90's with multiple processors. This was the genesis of Java at the time and the promise of Write Once Run Anywhere was quite appealing to many developers at the time.

Back then IBM Mainframes still had as strong foothold in large corporate IT departments. Sun had a dominant position as well for most newer companies. If you wanted multiple CPU's with redundant fail over and gigs of RAM Sun was your huckleberry back in the day.
Great job with the visualization!
Both design and process are top notch not sure why it didn't gain exposure when you first shared it months ago.

I've been working with cell towers for over a decade thanks to https://FindTowerApp.com

OpenCelliD is indeed a great resource but it is important to note that the rows in their db reflect cells (not towers, towers have multiple cells) and they are based on sampling (ie coordinates are calculated based on samples).
Not 100% accurate but like a said, an amazing resource.
It's common sense they wouldn't be able to do business in China without it?
Coming soon, crazy cheap Facebook subsidized Android phones with "Facebook Browser"...

I'm only somewhat kidding. I imagine a flood of super cheap, but decent spec Androids would be pretty disruptive, despite sending everything to the FB mother ship.
Thank you! It's been great working with you too and BeeLine is now one of my favorite extensions, can't imagine reading long articles without it.
<IMHO>

In the vast majority of cases, there is no first mover advantage. Most ideas are not new. There will be some kind of competition already out there. In the rare case a project is wildly successful, being known as an innovator could result in favorable coverage, but being the first does not necessarily help you.

For example, Lyft came before Uber, then Uber launched UberX in retaliation to Lyft and surpassed their traction quite considerably.

Another great example is YouTube. They were not first, they just hit at the right time. Bill Gross talks about this in his TedTalk, “The single biggest reasons startups succeed.” Other examples of success stories that were not first to market: Google, Facebook, Slack, Apple, etc. The list goes on and on.

Here is a good read about the subject:

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-blank-first-mover-adva...

</IMHO>
Removing a contaminated mask involves both touching a contaminated surface and touching your face, which you say can still get you sick.
Is it possible to kill the virus inside the body, the same way we kill it outside?

For example, if one could hypothetically spray alcohol everywhere inside someone's lungs, would that kill the infection?

If so, could a liquid/gas mixture be developed to deliver the right virus-killer substance directly to the lungs?

Does anyone here know about PFCs-breathing treatments?[0]

0: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/08/15/can_humans_...
"Unprovable but true" has often turned out to be "false," if we look to history.

This is the reason that scientific epistemology is reliant on empiricism.
Sounds like a great idea! I'd love to use this from the terminal with vim.
What potential is left? I’m curious about what could goodreads add to make it better?
There are a bunch of organizations doing work to fix the problem, like Initiate Justice (https://www.initiatejustice.org/take-action/join-us/). If you email me at izaak@o1labs.org I can try to help you get plugged into something.
> Well that's true of SFTP, browsers don't support that protocol but I think they should.

They should not. SSH -- which is used as the transport for SFTP -- is a rather large and complex protocol. Implementing it in browsers would significantly increase their network attack surface, while providing few (if any) new capabilities. (What does SFTP provide to the browser that isn't possible with HTTPS?)

> FTPS is common now, most people don't even realize they're using it.

Can you give an example? There are no major web browsers which currently support FTPS -- it is not present in Chrome, Mozilla, nor Internet Explorer.
As a programmer it's almost unavoidable to have conference calls with clients, vendors, etc. I've been on 4 and 8 hour conference calls before. Those calls are distracting to everyone around. I can't imagine anyone working productively while someone tries to coordinate with multiple teams on single call. Nevermind that when conferencing with people on speakerphone or with thick accents (or both) it is your tendency to speak louder and clearer.

There's simply no denying it. Maybe these open space workplaces don't have situations like this. But in my line of work it's part of the job.
There's one big issue with CGNAT for ISPs: compliance.

At least in Poland, you must provide law enforcement with information about your subscriber for any given 5-tuple at a given time (timestamp, {src,dest}{ip,port} and protocol). If you're CGNATing everyone, you have to either:

- log all outgoing connections (which is a GDPR hazard)

- design your CGNAT to use static outgoing ports for a given customer (but then you're running out of ports pretty fast, if you're doing anything close to >=500 subscribers)

With IPv6, you can just immediately tell who the subscriber is based on the IP address, and as such don't have to log anything.