jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Still, this is an argument for upgrading all "pipes", not one for attempting to control demand on the supply/capacity side.

But even absent that, you want surface, collector, and feeder streets to be the natural "rate-limiting" parts of the network (in that order).

It's why it's especially egregious to wave-in people from a driveway or parking lot into traffic on an already congested street. It breaks the natural rate limiting.

The right-of-way rules are surprisingly well-thought out, from a systems perspective.
That's an underrated point.

I, and most consumers that've been repeatedly burned, go out of our way to avoid products that lock us to them. I'm in the market for an exercise bike, but a lifetime of $35+/mo for classes, in addition to a $2k+ bike with questionable repairability in 1,2,5,10 years, is not something I'll ever want.
This is incorrect. Fox continues to maintain a conservative view. DailyWire and similar are radical right, which maps fairly cleanly to Nationalism, Fascism, and similar.

That's if you are using the commonly received connotation of conservative, rather than trying to rewrite reality.

My $0.02.
That's OK. I get a new "flag" button on every post you make...

(Also, those of us who have "showdead" turned on can see your posts, even after they're flagged. That's how I knew you were repeating yourself.)
It's not the wage that dictates that a worker is exempt from FLSA overtime. Rather, being under $23,600/yr means you cannot be considered exempt. Being paid over that, by itself, doesn't necessarily mean that you're exempt.

https://www.fws.gov/policy/225fw6.html

https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/whd/flsa/screen75.asp
er....what? There are tons of Winnie products in China.....

https://www.taobao.com/list/product/%E7%BB%B4%E5%B0%BC%E7%86...
Sorry to learn this... I enjoyed being their customer.
Literally any thing the government might have authority over or acknowledge as a freedom could have things get absurd. So the argument that it might get absurd doesn't mean the thing is wrong. It just means that, likely any action, there's potential for consequences, and you deal with them.

You don't back down from a good thing just because it might be hard to implement. So then it just comes down to whether you think removing speech that incites violence is a good think or not. If you think it's good in itself but could be abused so maybe not do it? No, you do it and deal with the hard questions that come along every time you make those decisions.
In fairness, he'd probably be really nice to any torture victims if they ever pitched their startup to him.
it is pretty easy to unblock

1. host the analytic js on your own domain
2. and/or rename it

at the very worst you can do the analytic tracking server side, I know that because I had to do it to track RESTful API usage as json/xml can not allow you to embed the ga.js

eg.

1. read a _ga cookie, if it does not exists create it
2. not fan of it but you can make it more persistent with a session (I know, opposite to the idea of stateless with REST)
3. and use the measurement protocol (universal analytics) server side which is trivial to implement

here an example in PHP http://pastebin.com/PQCRcJXq
that's tremendous and i applaud you
It is a reasonable answer, but the reason many people don't find the "go use a different site" answer satisfying is that sites on the internet have network effects that make switching untenable, so it makes more sense to stay and debate the point. Which is also reasonable.
History is replete with terror acts perpetrated by the Catholic Church (the Inquisition, the Crusades, ...).
And more ... I'm usually talking on the phone when I'm also doing something else ... driving, walking, taking a sh*t (sorry, but it's true) ... those are perfect times to get in touch and have long talks.

I'm never standing still unless I work or relax, in which case I don't want to answer phone-calls. Even when I happen to take long bus-drives, it's usually crowded, I'm standing on my feet and I can't hold that phone focused on my face for long (I know because I've been trying to read on my ebook).

The only use-case I'd have for video-chat is to talk with my family if I were far away from home, but then a video-call is much more expensive than a regular call (I have hundreds of voice-minutes included for a few bucks per month), and all family members have computers anyway ... which means I prefer using a laptop to also transfer pictures and links or whatever, and Skype is OK for that.

I don't know ... maybe with slick phones like iPhone4 and with lower prices on 3G connections it could appeal to me, but not right now that's for sure. And I hope it comes with an open standard, because buying iPhones for every member of the family is expensive.
I use Opera's content-blocking function, which allows me to nuke just a specific ad, or a specific part of a page. If something truly incenses me, I kill it. I think this is how ad blocking should work in general, given that most ads are benign.
Nice looking office space they have there.
I have to agree. I really like the concept of the service, and I am sure it will find some niches, but I don't think I have ever considered "...like X, but better..." a strong marketing argument.

I would suggest just comparing it to Heroku and then specifying how your service is different, instead of making a claim about how one should be valued over the other.

Best of luck regardless.
libevent2 and threaded C++ for one project. The http stack seems nice and easy to use, and you get an async http client too. (Server can also run as fastCGI.)

Currently I'm proxied by nginx for sanity reasons, but the lack of keepalives to the backend server is a serious problem (under load, you have zillions of sockets waiting to close). Would be a nice thing for nginx to add.
Too bad: "PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 7C81BD02"
Cover letters on the other hand tell you lots, and, incidentally, also tell you how well people can write.

Also: if in doubt, hire the better writer.
Put in my email for an invite, its going to come down to pricing.

My initial skepticism is that deploying PHP apps is easy, and Fantastico already gives us 1-click installs for stuff like Drupal and Wordpress. So you'll have to provide all the value on the sysadmin side.

However, we do have a couple of apps that require load balancing. I'm pretty happy with the dedicated server and load balancing prices we get from WiredTree already, but I'm always looking for new opportunities.
They already offered Yahoo as an option. It's specifically Bing that's new.
Another interesting source where to learn about implementing Unix-like OS is JamesM's kernel development tutorial.

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html
> Cogs are great, but it's idiotic to treat oil as though it were mere deadweight. Both are needed in any company.

For an example from the sports world, see the NBA's Shane Battier, described in a NY Times article [1] by Michael Lewis (of Liar's Poker and Moneyball fame) as "The No-Stats All-Star."

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/magazine/15Battier-t.html?...
Microsoft only cared to implement spending caps when it affects their bottom line.
To be clear, I am not throwing stones. I am, of course, a MSFT employee, so I have a bit of bias there. As a data junkie I like to ensure that the right conclusions can be drawn. A post like this, when contrasted with the $4+ billion that the Office group makes, well it's hard to draw the dire conclusions that one might make from this data in a vacuum.
There's no such target market as "the average user". That's usually a condescending fiction used by techies. The line of thought is something like:

"Of course I do interesting stuff on my computer, but the average person doesn't. All they need is X."

Importantly, X is never defined by asking actual users, but is simply a distillation of prejudice about the needs of "the common people".
Like C?
Are we beginning to see the tipping point where mainstream corporates are starting to question whether traditional OO is the right way to go?

Not to start a flame war, but it seems that Clojure/Rich's strong anti-OO stance is almost a selling point of the language.

IMHO, OO just put some lipstick on the procedural pig.
Have you read http://wingolog.org/archives/2013/01/07/an-opinionated-guide... ? It might help you weigh your options and make a pick that best suits your preferences. I don't think you could go wrong with Guile or Chicken. I use Guile pretty much exclusively and it has a good POSIX API, so I write scripts in Scheme instead of Bash or Perl or whatever.
It's a feature that optimizes for short term profit at the expense of the long term: memory of last year served to reduce demand this year, and memory of this year will serve to reduce supply in the future. Part of me wonders if they didn't tweak the surge multipliers in a misguided effort to appease drivers' expectations.
Many mammals have a "musk" gland they use to mark territory and other stuff. The smell is vile. If you've ever lived with an unfixed tomcat, that will give you an idea.
Yes, you are correct. All ios apps must be code signed by Apple which is pretty stringent in it's reviews. This is why you won’t find any apps in the app store attempting to spawn /bin/bash or mimic its functionality.

I believe apple is now requiring all osx apps on the app store be code signed as well.
I was looking for the same thing and found this:
http://www.falstad.com/circuit/

It shows blocks traveling across wires/circuits. You can create your own circuits and see what happens. It's not just for logic, but you can see how analog circuits operate as well. The speed of the blocks represents the current flowing and the color of the wires represents the voltage.

I wish more stuff like this was available for circuitry. It gives a nice basic intuition how things work and shows why I need to place a resistor in front of a LED.
Note the distinction between competence of terrorist attacks (especially attacks against targets in the US/Europe) and basic government functions. The fact that the Taliban can't run a suicide bombing operation in NYC to save its life matters a lot less than the fact that lots of people in some parts of Afghanistan prefer taking their disputes to the shadow court system run by the Taliban. The skills you need to be a good jurist have little to do with the skills you need to be a good tactician, and may very well be more significant.

Americans focus on terrorism because everything is always always always about us, no matter what, but the Taliban can and does do many things besides terrorist attacks against western targets. Incompetence in one area does not mean that the institution is incompetent in all areas.
I disagree. I think the problem is that in some parts of Afghanistan, the Taliban represent authentic Afghani nationalism whereas the warlord government in Kabul is seen as incompetent quislings. If the populace thinks you're a joke controlled from DC, then it doesn't matter how many American soldiers you have helping you; firefights are irrelevant.

Look, the US has spent upwards of $250 billion in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has a GDP of maybe $21 billion. If we can't bring about a government that the population sees as legitimate after blowing a decade and ten times GDP, maybe we should just accept the fact that our military is not capable of transforming alien societies in the way that we wish it could.
> Then we could talk about how we make systems to help the editorial team sort through the 16,000 content submissions we get every day,

I knew you guys had this and I honestly thought that was as far the technical feats for the company went - to be clear I'm not trying to insult you guys or anything...I didn't know there were 40 employees. I remember I saw a youtube video a while back that made you guys look like a 10 man operation at most.

EDIT: Just saw your post down below talking the technical side. Interesting.
I think I can write, but I certainly don't know if I can in the form of reporting.

The kind of information I'm interested in publishing is non-biased facts. I doubt a news site could function purely on this, but if I could design one I would put a lot of emphasis on bullet points.
I don't think this is true at all. There is a tendency amongst westerners to assume that the official government is inherently legitimate. But legitimacy is earned, not granted by the 101st Airborne Division. You are the legitimate government of an area if you have an effective monopoly on the use of force in the area, if you provide vital social services, if you perform dispute resolution, etc. In significant parts of Afghanistan, the Taliban are seen as the legitimate government while the children from Kabul are seen as inept crooks. In those areas, random violence undermines the Taliban's goals: once you've convinced people that you're the legitimate governing authority, you have to keep them satisfied, and random violence makes constituents very unhappy.

The same confusion often erupts when people consider southern Lebanon.
Anything that causes you to use time, energy or money less efficiently generally contributes to one being less effective, successful or productive. I've built this element into a few of my game designs, where, for example, the player can acquire assets or skills which reduce the future time/energy/money cost of doing something worthwhile or necessary. So it's like an investment where the payoff is an accelerating factor on everything else the player wants to do.
Unrelated: Apparently Twitter was originally twttr, and in 2006, techcrunch had this to say about the service:

There is also a privacy issue with Twttr. Every user has
a public page that shows all of their messages. Messages
from that person’s extended network are also public. I
imagine most users are not going to want to have all of
their Twttr messages published on a public website.
> But you're not going to get a diff or git blame, which is what the parent comment really meant.

You could though. Microsoft (or anyone else creating a "no code" platform) could absolutely build that into a graphical timeline view. Select these two snapshots, and show which cells changed.
> other fields where such principles aren't really applicable

Statistics and reasoning are almost always applicable, and that's the extent science is applied to most fields.

If you want people to act in an evidence-based way without invoking trust/faith, they need to understand statistics and be able to evaluate studies on their statistical merit. Unfortunately that's quite difficult and the educational systems we have do a poor job of teaching it.

Statistics is subtle. For example, "It turns out, most doctors don’t know actually know probability." https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2014/11/12/doctors-dont-k...
Exotic beautiful cold desserts, anyone?
Would you please drop the swipes from your HN comments? "What are you talking about?" is bad enough. "Ur a cunt" is obviously in bannable territory, regardless of what you were replying to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26128020).

We've had to ask you many times to stop breaking the site guidelines. If you can't or won't fix this, we're eventually going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please fix this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> If you force officers to carry malpractice insurance...

With all respect, this sounds like an awful idea. Doctors have malpractice insurance because their field is an outlier in many ways. In almost every other profession, people who mess up get fired, not fined, and it works pretty well.

Given that that is largely not the case with police officers, it seems like we should try what works everywhere else before we try the one-off exception we've carved out for medicine.
This is just patently false. People get away with whiffs of sexual harassment all the time. John Lasseter, Andy Rubin, among many others, got away with more than a whiff of sexual harassment for decades.
But why? There's no benefit to naming Lamar and there's some cost, both to Lamar, and to the NYT in terms of offending people they may want to talk to.

"Who cares" when asking about arbitrary decisions that hurt people is sociopathic. Obviously the people getting hurt care and the people who care about the needlessly hurt people care.
Yeah I seen the on a BBC winter watch program. The trees needed a fungus for it to happen in the UK
Well yeah I could probably have done that with some 7400 series TTL ... but the MIPS wouldn't nearly cut it in today's world :)
No idea, but I presume it’s partly education/pedigree, lack of language barrier, accountability due to being in the same network, and availability in the same timezones.
.. except the marketing of Roundup as safe to use only in combination with other GMO products from Monsanto, that is.
Ah, so you do care enough to not share your password. So I guess the reason I care about SSL is the same reason you care about SSL.
Ads are seen as less deceptive, I think.

[EDIT: why the downvote? You may disagree with the above sentiment, but I was trying to explain why there is a difference.]
Neither, it's sarcasm.
this lack of a 'bulk discount' is something I've given a lot of thought to. I do give a bulk discount that can seem pretty dramatic, in part because I assume the same amount of support on a $8 VPS as on a $68 VPS. -

What I've found is that this is not what many customers assume. Many customers assume that if they buy a larger, more expensive VPS from you, that they will get a higher level of support, even if ram/cpu/disk is deeply discounted on that large VPS vs a small VPS. So from that point of view, adding in a 'bulk discount' doesn't make any sense, because you end up spending just as much money supporting one large (and very demanding) customer as many tiny, undemanding customers, so from that point of view, Linode is doing the exact right thing.

Now, I've tried to tackle this by being more explicit about the "you are paying $4/month for support." bit. I'll be opening orders for large customers again later this month, I hope, and we'll see how well that works.

Another possibility is that Linode sees support costs as fixed... in many ways, they are. You need to acquire a good team, train them in customer service, and then have enough of them that at least one is on line at any time (I'm not quite to that last part yet, which is part of why I need to insure that my prices fly beneath Linode's.)

You need to have enough people to handle peaks, and support is very peaky, so unless you queue it up (causing latency and customer dissatisfaction) much of the time, many of your support people are going to be idle (or working on non-support stuff)

even so, the greater your customer's support demands are, the higher your peaks will be and the more support people you need, so I think the former is far more likely than the latter.
FireBug is an excellent tool, that is not available for Chrome yet (at least, not with all its bells and whistles, lasts I checked). That's the single reason I still have Firefox installed.
I saw a lot of these leaks behind the scenes, and received a few myself, and 90% of the time it is either lawyers or investors who leak the information
I just don't see Ender.js pulling it off. Mostly it is the use of klass that puts me off. I much prefer the pure prototypal style of backbone.
We are talking here about Dropbox being simple to use for everyone and you start talking about keeping backups of keys. In safe deposit boxes, no less. Wow.
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> I don't think this is sane.

I don't agree. My 8 year old has a better understanding of many issues than a lot of adults I've met. And he's got a huge stake in the future. Given that a single, solitary vote is worth next to nothing, I think it totally makes sense to give that right to kids.

Yes, maybe I could coerce him. But my son would probably just tell me to pound sand and then vote how he wanted.
I don't have to maintain state on GCP persistent disks. I can blow away a server without warning, and I'll only lose a few seconds of data.

True, I have to maintain state on S3, but there's not much work involved in that.

If I was maintaining my own database server, I have to manage upgrades, backups, and the complexity of running an additional server. With Litestream, I don't have to manage upgrades because nothing bad happens if I don't upgrade, whereas there are security risks running an unpatched MySQL/Postgres server in production. Litestream has built-in snapshots and can replicate to multiple S3 backends, so I'm not too worried about backups. And there's no server to maintain.

What operational complexity do you see in Litestream?
If you adjust for lifespan, we probably do worse overall.
I hear yah.
FYI Current gen maxima has a wheel used to navigate
Free markets are a good thing. We can see the prevention of a truly free market through onerous zoning policies that prevent new housing starts in high-demand areas. Preventing people from building, or hosting short-term housing, is all impedance on free markets and their distortionary effects are worse than a VRBO guest that forgets to move the trash can to the end of the driveway. To counter your point, it's equally possible can have a long-term terrible neighbor -- maybe they are loud, or don't maintain their property and it's lowering your property value, and there isn't much you can do about it.
Yeah no...I can't imagine not having cash. Every card purchase i make is made at a cost to my privacy, having my personal data mined. If there is a digital product or card (like cash gift cards) where it's value cannot be revoked dynamically and can be exchanged for goods without requiring an active network connection, I am all for it. But those are the entry level requirements for me. Anything short of that comes at a cost I would not want to pay.
I am working on an application by which reader can read books as messages on their favourite messaging application such as Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp. Now a time people are spending a lot of their time on mobile phone and of which they spend 80 percent of their time on social media or messaging platform. They wanna read books but not able to get time for reading. So, we are creating a platform where users can select a book from our collection or upload a book and we will split the book into small twitter sized messages and then user can schedule the messages according to their availability ( no. of messages user wants to receive, In how many days they wanna complete the book ) and based on their schedule and our algorithm we will send them the text snippets.
For Authors :- 1. It is very difficult for authors to do marketing for their book and as every year around 1 Lakh books publishes all over the world and of fiction books consist of a big section of this number. So, we are creating a platform where book authors by taking a little bit theme plot of their upcoming book and creates a small and interactive Facebook messenger based story which they can easily used for marketing and It will increase the sale of their upcoming book.

2. Now a days, people are more interested in interactive books where they can be also a part of the book and there are sounds, images but for authors creating a book on top of messaging application is not possible due to technical issues. So, To tackle this problem we are creating a Saas application where book authors can easily create an interactive book which going much into the technology.

More details about the application can be found here :

https://www.notion.so/Blinks-helping-authors-and-reader-4338...