jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/07/21/python-has-brought-computer-programming-to-a-vast-new-audience
SpaceX FCC Application for over 4000 Internet Satellites
http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/ib/forms/reports/swr031b.hts?q_set=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number/%3D/SATLOA2016111500118&prepare=&column=V_SITE_ANTENNA_FREQ.file_numberC/File+Number
We are far from a better Heroku for production apps in a hyper cloud
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/22/we-are-building-a-better-heroku/
Oncall Compensation for Software Engineers
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/oncall-compensation/
64-bit Firefox is the new default on 64-bit Windows
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-64-default-64-bit-windows/
A $5 Lamp Powered Solely by Gravity
http://enpundit.com/a-5-lamp-powered-solely-by-gravity/
Choosing Minecraft over Disney
https://medium.com/editors-picks/57a0128b53c9
NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/science/nasa-adds-to-evidence-of-mysterious-ancient-earthworks.html
Award-Winning Nautilus Enters Rough Waters
https://undark.org/2017/04/29/award-winning-nautilus-enters-rough-waters/
Why I stopped reading HN (2010)
https://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-i-stopped-reading-hn/
Supreme Court says over 200 patent judges were improperly appointed
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/21/us/politics/supreme-court-patent-judges.html
Switching from macOS: Developer Environment
http://blog.elementary.io/post/152671475281/switching-from-macos-developer-environment
Arima Model – Guide to Time Series Forecasting in Python
https://www.machinelearningplus.com/time-series/arima-model-time-series-forecasting-python
Ethereum just activated its ‘London’ hard fork
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/05/ethereum-just-activated-its-london-hard-fork-and-its-a-big-deal.html
VPN Comparison Chart
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAeQjuQPU4BVzbOigT0xebxTOw/htmlview?sle=true
Jan Koum: “I couldn't agree more with everything [Apple] said”
https://www.facebook.com/jan.koum/posts/10153907267490011/?
So You’re Not Desirable
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/opinion/sunday/so-youre-not-desirable.html
Secret Fears of the Super-Rich
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/04/secret-fears-of-the-super-rich/8419/
In startups, perspective, ideas, point of view all pale in importance to execution.
TLDR: Hard to read blathering on minimalism, then a game of "guess what movie these four pixels represent".
I don't think there was ever an intention to obscure work, maliciously or otherwise. This project started because developers started developing, not googling or searching github.

To be fair, the "fancy website" is a byproduct of designers who like to make stuff look good, and the rest of Showoff's team caring very much about not just making stuff that works (of which they make a lot, much of which is hidden away in obscurity), but about making it easy for people to use who wouldn't perhaps take on the task themselves—and I don't think there is anything at all wrong with that.

However, I don't think it is fair to imply creating this tool (and its website) was a product of caring about money, or duplicating and obscuring your (or anyone else's) efforts. It is like many other ideas out there that came from a real need, hacking it together, and then asking if people might find it useful enough to pay for it. That's not a reason to disparage or diminish a job well done.

In the end, it looks like Showoff's also brought attention to your project, pagekite, and plenty of other ways people have shared to do the same thing. Today was the first time I'd heard of localtunnel, but I've done this same bit of showing off localhost before for clients and coworkers on my own--and it's a bit like splitting hairs to call it duplication. Hackers hack. It's what we do. I definitely like open sourcing when it makes sense. But I also like to eat and have a roof over my head. Open source does not hold a monopoly on good intentions.
There is an easy solution. Apple has no business making moral judgements about my right to privacy. They should do everything in their power to protect it unless some lawful authority says otherwise in the course of a criminal investigation.

In such an investigation, your location history could be obtained from the mobile provider. Therefore this additional data could only possibly be of use to people who have no right to it in the first place.

So to phrase it in your language; yes, Apple's highest moral obligation is preventing the collection of unnecessary data about me, and indeed to tell me what it is collecting, why, and to whom it will be disclosed. In fact, where I live, all these principles are enshrined in a law called the Data Protection Act.

In the UK and the wider EU at least, Apple could be in a considerable amount of trouble for collecting this data.

Edit x2: grammar.
Aardvark is a good example of this - http://vark.com/
So, like, the cheapo dd-wrt router is always on, always connected to the internet, at your home/office. You set up your domain to point to it. You VPN to it from your Java Jungle. On Windows/Mac it's a simple as clicking a few buttons. On Linux, a single command at the prompt. That's it. You're done. The router routes the traffic to your lappie via the VPN.

On top of that, you're using your own domain, which is more professional in my humble opinion. It's lappie.yourdomain.com and not lappie.theirdomain.com ... oh yeah, and it's free. Just get one of your nerd friends to set it up. Once it's up, it'll run forever.
Well, according to TMZ, she never rejected it as her manager didn't ever send her the song:

http://www.tmz.com/2011/04/20/weird-al-yankovic-lady-gaga-re...
Thanks for the suggestion!

For now I am just disabling the background samples so that only 1 creepyface is loaded per user. Should be ready in a few minutes.
500 requests are perfectly reasonable here. It loads mutliple pics per example avatar. And there are many examples. The only problem here is HTTP/1.1.
Which fed? ICANN is an international organization. They used to be overseen by the US Department of Commerce, but that relationship ended (with some controversy) a few years ago.
Any official announcement for 8-channel 4TB LRDIMM TRX80/WRX80 chipset yet? TRX40 is underwhelming compared to high-end x399...
For the record: Thank you, TimBL. I'm only snarky because I love what you're doing.
Okay, should I assume you dont value yours? Privacy is a human right. There is no ethical argument for depriving humans of their rights.

If you want to argue that privacy is not a right, we can start there.
If you click on a number it expands the list.
Sealioning is not at all the same thing as a Gish Gallop. A Gish Gallop is throwing out very weak arguments or evidence (so, bullshit) faster than a sincerely-engaging opponent can address them. Sealioning is a much more deniable tactic, relying on "just trying to have a conversation" and playing the victim when others disengage or tell you to fuck off.

Simple Sealioning example:

Sealioner: "Do you have anything to back up those figures for holocaust deaths? I see that thrown around a lot and I'm just not sure" (absolutely being a disengenuous piece of shit who's trying to slyly push holocaust denial, but indistinguishable from someone who is in fact curious, aside from that actually-curious people don't end up in these kinds of exchanges half as often as lying assholes do)

Other person who knows exactly where this is going: "Fuck off out of here with that shit."

Sealioner: "Oh my, I was just trying to ask a question. Now I'm really not sure about your position. You seem very touchy about it for someone who has the truth on their side. Can anyone help me?"

A Gish Gallop of the same thing would be throwing out "references" to holocaust denial stuff faster than they can be debunked (and dutifully ignoring the debunking).
"Widely available, authoritative sources" is very similar to Wikipedias definition for reliable sources, and as anyone who been active there knows, the process is neither scientific nor reproducible. You can vote on it, you can form a temporarily consensus, you can elect people to make a decision for the community, but at the end its about convincing people through discussions. Naturally there exist edge cases where the conclusion is close to 99.9% determined from the beginning, like with spam and malware, and at the other end there is the small sliver of "common knowledge" that people do not disagree about (ice cream is delicious, kittens are cute, bad things are wrong).

Remove the discussion and give the power to decide what is truth to a company and what you get is the consensus within that company. Naturally that won't be fair, reproducible or representative. Give the power to governments and you get similar results, just with more police and military, through with the slight bonus of people being at least being elected. Still a pretty pointless exercise unless discussion and transparency exist.
The detection only needs to be done once on a given browser; only an extremely incompetent engineer would suggest performing that detection on every single page.

As such, I'm unsurprised to learn that a Google engineer thinks that the only possible way to solve this is to perform feature detection, repeatedly, on every single page.

The reality is that Google hires mediocre and lazy engineers, and that they also have a vested interest in pushing people into their proprietary browser. The result is that they do the thing that's best for Google as a business (pushing their invasive browser), and their incompetent staff line up to publicly defend this selfish and immoral decision.
Then you didn't look close enough. Have a look at the .drone.yml to see the entry points, we have both unit tests and integration tests that run at each build.
Didn't WhatsApp integrate TextSecure?
A big part of dating is knowing where to look and what for. 99% of single people don't do either of those right. As OP said (paraphrasing on mobile)

> soulmates are hype

Another commenter said:

> marry up emotionally

Emotional hygeine is imo the biggest contributor to a stable relationship. I'm a stupid curmudgeonly weirdo but my wife is a gem of a woman and she keeps me going. Her positivity and our healthy debate about literally everything makes sure everything is going well and we're happy.

Hidden gems are around and I feel that literature/media over romanticizes serendipity among other things in dating and relationships.

Dating apps are terrible. There's a HN post doing BOTE math about dating that will blow your mind. Make friends. Friends and siblings (not parents or uncles/aunts) make the best matchmakers if you are open when you want to date someone.
I'm not depending on anything personally :) I'm not buying any NFTs with the expectation that I'm going to be using them in anything beyond what already exists (or will exist in the short-term) today.

But power creep management will exist to the extent that gaming companies make an active attempt to control, just like any other game. Magic The Gathering might be a good template for how companies could (but won't necessarily) handle it.

Magic The Gathering is almost 30 years old at this point, has released over 140 sets over that 30 years, and has developed techniques to manage power creep pretty well (maybe not perfectly, I don't really pay attention to MTG much anymore, but they clearly think about it, as they have articles they've written about it[1]).

You can pretty much consider each type of card in MTG as an NFT. Certain tournaments allow certain cards or don't if it turns out they're too powerful, or only allow the most recent sets where they've balanced things better, or whatever.

Different types of games allow different types of things. Some games or game modes might let anything go, whatever you've got, bring it, no matter how broken it is, while more tournament like games or game modes might limit what's included to more tightly control it.

Kind of like what I heard in Halo Infinity, where professional players think the Mangler gun is too powerful and want it nerfed, while casual players are having fun with it and asking the devs not to nerf it, or at least not in more casual modes.[1]

It's not like these solutions don't exist elsewhere, it's just up to the developer how they're going to incorporate it. Will some players hate that X NFT gets banned in Y game mode for Z game, and will it devalue it some? Oh I'm sure it will, just like I got annoyed that my Mind Twist card and a couple dozen other cards I had in Magic The Gathering got banned. But I still have it 20 years later, and I still throw it in to play with friends every once in a while.

[1]: https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/latest-develop...

[2]: https://kotaku.com/halo-infinite-players-to-343-ignore-the-p...
At least part of the point was that C only appears to be portable. The abstract machine concept itself is leaky, lesser used compilers have serious bugs, build scripts aren’t portable across architectures, dependency management is poor, etc.
Indeed, what the developer is listening to on Spotify really weighs heavily on my decision to fork a repo or not.
and? isn't FB doing the same everywhere, especially recently in the US? pretty sure they block whatever even smells like a pro Trump militia in the US.
Agreed. And on Windows at least there are now mitigation measures created by the community, such as WUMT.
We now know the effects of not being relaxed on this, of course we’re now going to overcompensate
No, but they did actually have an IFTTT integration, so you could have your thermostat take action based on price. Of course that really isn't practical when the price stays above the trigger for days and it's 16 degrees outside.

https://ifttt.com/griddy
Should have mentioned Unbound, the app I’d use for that today.

https://www.unboundapp.com/

Point it at a folder, that’s your photo library. Dev could stop development tomorrow and your photos would be right where you left them.
I totally believe this. But it's highly contextual to your job/area. CAD software is very specialized so it definitely makes sense that you can influence or take job decisions based on your knowledge of a particular suite.

What I believe is that if you're a startup building a generic business tool and you target students with the hope they will be your advocates or future buyers, you should adjust your expectations.

I believe that giving student discounts as a long-term adoption strategy makes sense. Unfortunately, startups have to fight for adoption in the short term. If you can afford to give student discounts you should do it. It's a good thing to do. But don't count on this as a way to drive adoption.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_the_U...

It is not surprising. Immigrants from Nigeria are the best educated immigrant group and income correlates with education.
He just stated non-termination is not an option, therefore...
I’m in Canada and US recruiters reach out occasionally.

The TN visa makes it easy for US employers to recruit here.
This is the most stunning event of the Trump presidency. What a batshit finale. It's hard to imagine the Senate being evacuated so quickly that emails were still on the screens of staffer's computers. (https://twitter.com/Grimm_Book/status/1346926517260066823/ph...)
During my time in conscription, one thing that stuck with me was 'Forbidden Order'.

If a superior gives you an order that violates set rules or laws (e.g shoot civilians). You HAVE to obey and BOTH parties will be accountable.

It's crazy how severity of ignoring an order can be worse than tribunal. However I totally agree with accountability.

Though corps would figure out a way to weasel past this regardless.
Haven't you noticed? We can't!
Wow. Cool idea. We definitely need to look into this!
I am sure there'd be plenty of pundits soon enough blaming China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Syria....anything but a deep reflection upon Americans themselves.
Lost me at "standard piece of 8.5 x 11in piece of paper".

Nothing in that phrase is standard!
Hey Dan, what kind of problem do you have with the search (we recently fixed the back button + are also working on the small 320px screens support). I would be happy to improve it.
More like the ad is the anti-product, the POS you have to pay to get it taken from under your nose.
The headlines, indeed, are mutually discrediting. Probably the later ones were submitted in response to the others.

All these studies suffer from inadequate efforts to properly operationalize the concept of "creativity". On the bright side, I believe that information sciences and statistics can shed a great deal more light on this particular problem in the near future.
does anyone know more
comparison charts between HTTPSB (the predecessor of this topic's software) and Ghostery, inter alia: https://gigaom.com/2014/05/11/not-all-ad-blockers-are-the-sa...
http://www.opencongress.org/vote/2013/h/412 looks like it was a relatively close fail to pass the amendment to prohibit this type collection.
Hmmm... there is no 12pm? There's 11:59pm and then comes 00:00 (which I'm not sure wether it is AM or PM)?

Is that somewhat correct?
Yeah, I've had that thought often enough. If we can't make people enjoy living in (insert least popular region in your cultural environment), how would anybody want to live in space/the moon/on Mars?

These days it's flanked by a much darker counter: well at least space would provide a society that has reproduction under control with a reasonably wide moat from breeders.
As a non-systems engineer, I’ve found Julia’s blog immensely helpful. She does a great job of explaining a wide range of topics and also tackles soft skills very well
My tiny side project gets a lot of bot traffic. And just yesterday, I had a large spike from TOR including the IP range 185.220.101.0/24. I was also considering blocking these IP addresses. As the project relies on third-party APIs which are rate-limited, the bots may cause larger loading times for real users.

I'd assume that Stack Exchange might also get lots of bot traffic from TOR.
That's why I suspect it's something new and might be related to the DDoS. The main spam and abuse problems are handles by the system I mentioned, which is not the reason here. So this is likely a defense against something else.
> Temporary distractions might cause me to zone out and miss a part of the story, and "rewinding" to listen to the same part again isn't as easy as just re-reading a paragraph.

I agree. I think it also explains why I find them less rewarding. When reading, I'm usually just ... reading. Maybe walking and reading. But when I'm listening to audiobooks, I'm involved in a commute, doing some chores, or just fiddling on the phone. The audio input enough is not enough stimuli for me to focus on. I'm literally giving myself something to do along with. It makes complete sense I would not be as involved in the story.

> success with "pop science" books.

That actually sounds like a good idea.

> Audible subscriptions

I didn't have the Audible subscription up until very recently (using Audible.in and paying with a french debit card doesn't allow for recurrent payments), and I would just buy the audiobook at the offered price. Most books go for 900-1700 INR (10-20 EUR), whereas their ebook variants go for 300-900 INR (4-10 EUR). I've seen similar ratios on french stores as well.

E.g. the paperback of Turtles all the way down (John Green) [1] is 10,30 EUR on Amazon, Kindle ebook is 5,20 EUR [2] and Kate Rudd's narration is 23,50 EUR [3].

[1] https://www.amazon.fr/Turtles-All-Down-John-Green/dp/0525555...

[2] https://www.amazon.fr/Turtles-All-Way-Down-English-ebook/dp/...

[3] https://www.audible.fr/pd/Turtles-All-the-Way-Down-Livre-Aud...
Our Sun probably ate a planet thereby disrupting the solar cycle.
It depends on who you ask but Telegram and Signal are just as popular. Most people have more than 1 IM. It's been years when I couldn't contact someone because they just had WhatsApp.

People who chat a lot use something different either way because WhatsApp lacks all the cool features.
I agree, and feel that the EFF made quite the strategic error in supporting Auernheimer's appeal.
> warrant criminal prosecution

Here's a not too dissimilar case:

https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/worldview-l...
Reminds me of Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Mansions
This wasn't Aereo's business (and yeah, they're dead).

Dish has carriage agreements and pays retransmission fee's to the networks they carry via this service. This is directly contrary to Aereo's model. Aereo retransmitted over-the-air broadcast tv with individual subscriber antenna's and tried to skirt retransmission fees so they paid nothing to the content provider (I honestly thought they should have won their case).
I've seen dumber. In my second real job, I was a book editor, but I noticed our web master literally had a file called accounts.js which held a static array of usernames, passwords, and billing information for all of our customers. I told him this was terrible security, and he said, literally, "You'd have to view source to even know passwords.js exists, and our source is pretty hard to read. I'm not worried."

I took all the info to our CEO and got him demoted to server maintenance guy, on the spot, and I took over his job.

He later gloated that my store was much slower than his, since he downloaded our entire database as JS flat files and did absolutely everything client-side except payment processing and order fulfillment. I pointed out that my store didn't require 10 megabytes of download for the first page view, plus I had industry-standard security.

He was in even more trouble a couple of weeks after that, because some russian hackers pwned our server so bad that we had to drive to the colo and replace it with a new piece of hardware. I've got a dozen stories about this guy, he's a hoot.

Okay, last story, I promise; he's allergic to electronics power supplies, so he was the only employee who got to work from home (where he kept his CPU in a separate room from his keyboard and monitor).
In this context, AT&T's purchase of DirecTV makes a lot more sense: A fairly large subscriber base, some high demand exclusives (NFL Sunday Ticket). The whole satellite thing is just an implementation detail.

If the network is neutral enough that AT&T can make more money selling you out-of-market NFL games over your commoditized Comcast internet, they'll do that. If not, there's still the dishes, U-Verse, and eventually enough cellular bandwidth.
It would be better to recognize the scam that is going on and start from scratch by lettig two businesses continue:
The business of education and the business of sports. To enter the education business, you only need to have good grades. To enter the sports business, all you need to do is to play well. Make it independent decisions. Let people who enter the sports business earn a living through salaries not unlike professional sports. Let the sports business be a money making enterprise, with each "sports side" organization (team) making money through TV, radio and apparel, and clearly funneling the money earned to a foundation controlled by the university. Basically, make the teams be the money making aspect of colleges, with the requirement that each team gets rights to use the college's names, colors and symbols. A given person can be a college sports player, a college student, or both. Simple rules can be enacted to let players graduate to professional sports such as NBA or NFL.

This would eliminate the need to continue to keep this fake cover of legitimacy. We will then acknowledge what we want as a society: good students and good entertainment.

I feel sometimes our Puritan background prevents us from making such moves and keeps us "pure" when we know the current arrangement is prostituted.