jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Beta user here. I requested data export because it's part of my basic product due diligence when researching tools for my team. I have a bit of extra bias, I used to work for Red Hat, but really it's common sense. Especially when dealing with startups.

I sense from your other comments that you're in trolling mode, but if you're serious on this point, remember that user data freedom is a cultural signal that the team is committed to the best user experience. We proved this at Red Hat and it's the basic battle plan for SaaS these days. Any team that show me I'm not locked in is already building trust. Strange to see people arguing the opposite.
The book was written without mentioning the internet at all. He famously had to go back and add in the internet parts after it was already a sure thing. '95 was still early, but back then techies weren't ready to give BillG the benefit the doubt about anything.

> After the book was written, but before it hit bookstores, Gates recognized that the Internet was gaining critical mass, and on December 7, 1995 — just weeks after the release of the book — he redirected Microsoft to become an Internet-focused company; in retrospect he had "vastly underestimated how important and how quickly the internet would come to prominence".[3] Then he and coauthor Rinearson spent several months revising the book, making it 20,000 words longer and focused on the Internet.[citation needed] The revised edition was published in October 1996 as a trade paperback,[6] with the subtitle "Completely revised and up-to-date.".[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Ahead_(Gates_book)
It's typical BBC Online News in 2021. It's getting close to Daily Mail levels of quality every day.

There's more where that came from in the Newsbeat, Entertainment & Arts, etc sections.
At this point, there are probably at least some firms that fear Amazon more than unions. They could financially bootstrap a union for a few years as a destabilization effort.

I'm thinking of the line "the capitalists will sell you the rope you use to hang them."
The Dell XPS works fine on Linux if you get a model that is at least 6 months old. Usually what happens is on day one people go and add support for the wifi card and then it takes 6 months for ubuntu to ship a version that includes that support.

After using both a macbook and a dell xps on linux this year, I'm a whole lot happier using the dell xps. The XPS has functional cooling at least.
Thanks :) The thing is -- often it's very hard to know in advance how much time you would spend on something. You think "ah this would be kind of a nice feature to have/question to answer... hmmm it'll probably take only an hour", and then you spend weeks doing that, and something else related, etc. Sometimes you do wish you hadn't bothered in the first place, but then it's also sunk cost so it's tempting to finish.

You know what's crazy -- I started with simply trying to improve my sleep (so exorting data from Jawbone bracelet) and wanting to be a bit more efficient at learning physics (and other things) in my spare time. I did learn some physics (and other things) thanks to all these systems, but certainly went down a massive rabbit hole too :)
Just read the tweets.
"Nearly every worker in the US is covered by an employment agreement that says they have to get pre-approval for moonlighting."

This is not true.

I've can think of one employer my entire career that had conditions regarding work outside of my normal work hours.

Granted, if you worked for your competetors and they found out about it you could be fired due to trade secrets or conflicts of interest. I only remember one employer I had where I signed something with binding agreements related to other work (and, as it happens, that was perhaps the worst employer I ever had).

I know some employers in some regions do this, but it is a far cry from affecting "nearly every worker in the US". In fact, I am not aware of any of my friends in tech positions currently being under such an agreement (that is, an agreement requiring pre-approval for outside work). In fact I believe it is illegal under many circumstances in some states for an employer to require it (but don't rely on me for that, conditions/laws change, and I have had no reason to look into it recently). I do remember discussions about it in the not too distant past, however.
After all the issues I’ve had with other providers, including self hosting. I’m now just transferring all my photos to B2 with the photosync app. It’s working fantastically well.

I haven’t found a way to get all my google photos out though.
Bluetooth even with proprietary codes like aptix is lossily compressing already compressed audio which is a shame.
I really hope WIFI (or a future Bluetooth standard version) will alleviate this big issue in the future
This.

Point to the many, innovative, options.
Or click “Don’t allow”? What’s the point?
nice news alas still not yet, integration of the master password with the Gnome Keyring...
It's... partway there. The Beacon chain is running, although I don't think it's processing all transactions yet.
Insect legs don't have the capacity to remember how to jump. They retain the ability to move for a brief period of time.

You're ascribing a higher meaning to the limited spasms of a dismembered limb.
Connection Lost

Looks like the server went away.
Likely I restarted the server, sorry.
Typing it out definitely helps with muscle memory. Every time I start trying to learn a new language, I make sure to type out all the examples I hunt down while trying to implement something.

Whether it's whitespace, or semi-colons, or brackets. After a couple days of typing everything out, they become second nature and I don't have to worry as much about syntax as I do about thinking in whatever way the language seems to flow.
I submitted yesterday, it's all in the title :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9264355
If you check out reddit /r/cscareerquestions and do some searches you will find tons of information about this.
The SEC did eventually pursue PermaPave several years after the company that'd invested in them figured out it was a Ponzi scheme and sued, and some time after they'd stopped accepting new investments. They're slow, mostly because there are so many companies out there and they don't have all that much information on them until they investigate.
I have no idea who Zed Shaw is. I've always wanted to know more about Python. Might give it an unbiased read through.
That's exactly what they did! At the moment of this writing they are sending back:

alert("WARNING: malicious javascript detected on this domain")

when you're trying to reach: https://github.com/greatfire/ or https://github.com/cn-nytimes/
That's why other people have started to notice it (as the article describes).

Timeline of the attack looks something like this:

1. The Chinese firewall hijacks requests to http://hm.baidu.com/h.js and sends back a script that attacks GH instead.

2. Github notices that a huge amount of people are trying to reach https://github.com/greatfire/ and https://github.com/cn-nytimes/

3. GH figures out what's happening and starts replying with the alert javascript snippet.

4. Users are now getting noticed by the alert every time their browser runs the hijacked javascript.

5. The person that wrote this article writes this article after investigating what the alert message is about.
They already are, inserting a alert().

What would be much more interesting is replacing <body> with a multi-lingual message explaining what's happening and how to block the Baidu script.
> it's hard to know whether this is really a big deal or just a normal retirement of older power plants for newer, cleaner alternatives.

Why isn't retirement of older power plants for newer, cleaner alternatives a big deal? If it's a lot of power plants and they're a lot cleaner, that's an impact.
Hacker News is notoriously bad at handling any discussion where tech and social issues intersect. It's probably for the best.
"SPOT INSTANCE" is $0.2460 per hour right now. "ON DEMAND" is $0.50 per hour. Login to your AWS Management Console to see the current SPOT INSTANCE price.
Am I the only one who finds it refreshing to see a business trying to protect itself with a friendly email rather than legal threats? Kudos to the Dropbox guys for walking that fine line with such finesse.
I think a closer analogy would involve USPS first charging you for building and paving the road to your house, and then wanting to charge you extra when you would like FedEx to drive on that road to deliver something to your house.
Put another way -- profits and cashflow are different beasts. In the short term, cash is king; which is why you can make more by charging frequently.
Is there a list somewhere with links to all the Founders at Work videos?
He still never finished an undergraduate degree. He dropped out of Tufts and U. Chicago.
GMail, individual Google Docs, Twitter, HN, Documntation (JQuery, JavaScript, etc.).
There is no such thing as "more good" more "more evil", simply "existing to survive" - but there is an absolute binary of freedom vs. non-freedom? There is no such thing as moderation(pragmatism) in policy? There is no power(government?) except those trying to demoralize and exploit you to extinction?

Fellow HNers, I don't know where to begin dismantling this post or what to say that wouldn't be construed as a personal attack. Can someone with more skill call out the terms for the paranoia and hypocrisy here?
> I mean that they have proven it to themselves, I don't mean it in a legal sense.

A fair point. And it's likely you're correct.

Although using the term 'prove' has specific legal meaning that many (myself included) folks would associate with the use of that term.

As I said, there's what you believe and what you can prove. Believing you can prove something may be well founded, but at least in the US nothing is actually "proven" until it has been adjudicated -- and even then contrary decisions (e.g., in an appeal) can "un-prove" stuff.
>> People just don't trust authorities with different political leanings than them.

> This. People aren't really looking at "the evidence" to make a personal decision on an issue, they search out some authority that appeals to them and follow that.

Never have people always gone to first principles on all of the evidence. They have always looked towards people they trust to prime their beliefs. There were times when experts were that trusted authority.

Sadly it’s more common that your crazy conspiracy uncle is now trusted by more people than in the past and authorities are trusted by fewer than in my lifetime.
You should provide what kind of location or travel budget that you are asking about: there's great conferences across Europe but that may not be of interest if you are based on the West coast of the states for example.
No, sorry. It's not about me at all. If I felt like I was special for having different heroes than everyone else then I wouldn't bother trying to draw attention to their accomplishments. It's about our culture's disproportionate focus on one particular person and their contributions to the exclusion of a much more complicated reality.
... I really like this site, and politics is an easy way to derail a community ...

This isn't a political article.
That's what I wanted to note as well, that the "new" Java for loop also uses iterators - this syntax simply hides them. And this basically kills the main point of this article.. (But it is definitely easier on the eye)
What? So you want to just make Google more powerful? How about all the other search engines, even the less known ones like Duck Duck Go?
The sessions are under NDA until such a time as Apple decides to release their content - this is mostly a formality, so that they can have their preview, but still have an official release later. This is what happened with both Safari5 and Xcode 4 after the presentations.
I suppose stuff like this [1] could start to happen. Note that Moxie Marlinspike is not actually in/involved with wikileaks.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike#Traveling
I have been experimenting with IF for years now and my consistent experience is that having a feeding window of about 2-5 hours gets me the best results. (As measured by blood pressure, blood tests, body weight, the overall feeling of comfort/energy/stamina atc.) YMMV.

I also noticed that the feelings of hunger are very malleable. Everyday hunger seems to be a habit. Once you are used to eating at a certain hour, you will feel hungry as it approaches, then the feeling will disappear again. It takes several days to extinguish that reflex.

Looking at the state of obesity in the richer half of the world today, I wonder if we should promote IF as an alternative to contemporary eating standards. It is not a magic bullet and it may harm people with eating disorders, but the disease burden caused by overeating is an order of magnitude larger.

The real trouble with IF is probably that it is nigh impossible to make money on it. Squaring market economy with less consumption - against vital interests of Coca-Cola, Nestlé etc. - seems to be impossible. It took a lot of effort to reduce prevalence of smoking, even though it smells badly and it is repulsive to non-smokers. We didn't even make a dent in alcoholism. And food is attractive, good smelling and absolutely necessary for our survival.

Humanity seems to be destined for a future of gluttony. I am almost 44. During my life, I have seen children and elderly alike blowing up like balloons. Unlike many "old geezer complaints", this process is measurable and even obvious in plain sight, when you compare older street photographs to the situation today. What an intractable problem we've got ourselves into.
Because that doesn't actually help you unless there are particular byte sequences that are more common in "files in general" than others. Imagine storing a "dictionary" of all 100-byte strings. Problem is, there are 2^100 such strings, so any "index" into this dictionary would itself be 100 bytes long.
I've never even heard of this before (which may be as much my fault as anybody's). I'm guessing most of the media hasn't either?

- cnn has 9 whole mentions, ever - https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

-washington post has 50, https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...

shouldn't this just be part of a normal journalistic vetting before publishing process?
That's pretty much a knee jerk reaction. The car in question is over a decade old, but is fully paid off and in good repair. It was also the couple's only car at the time, as her Honda has broken down. Reliable transportation is a key component to escaping poverty. The author isn't perfect, she and her husband did make some poor choices, but keeping the Mercedes is not one of them.
You have the right to use coarse language, but if you take advantage of that right in some businesses, they reserve the right to ask you to leave.

Same thing here, you have the right to pick your sexual orientation, but this law codifies the right of the business to say "we reserve the right to not serve you because it deeply offends us".

You might not agree with them but understand that for some folks and the deeply religious, this goes against their conscience and against their beliefs. This law is meant to allow them to say "NO".
I don't think that's a fair label in this case since they are keeping the product. For context, the blog at http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com highlights the contradiction when an acquisition announcement is filled with flowery language about the adventure of building the product and other excitement while simultaneously shuttering the product.

Obviously everyone has the right to shut down their products, but it'd be nice if they said "We are sorry that we are going to be unable to continue offering this service".
> Why are other countries not victim to lobbying in the way America is?

My guess would be the will to collect taxes is stronger than the lobbying to make it more difficult. In Europe there is far less opposition to taxation as well.
The argument is not always true though. Welding of titanium is not easy, and often there is tension in the frame. Even 10 years and 50 thousand kms later it can crack. The better welding culture is in the US and Russia, but even then there are series of bicycles that earn a bad reputation for cracking.

Another argument against titanium is that mining and purifying of titanium is not so easy on the environment. If that is important to someone, it might get counted as a factor.
I contacted the like a little guys and they sent me back 2 puzzles before they would even speak to me. The first one was dead simple and took about 14 seconds to write the code and another 7 for it to run and give me the answer.

"A 7 digit number consists of 7 distinct digits (from 0..9 ofcourse); The product of the first 3 digits = product of central 3 digits = product of last 3 digits; Find the middle digit."

"Middle Number: 2"
"Set: 1892463"
"Common Products: 72"

The next question I did not understand; I just figured I was not smart enough because I have no college and I am just a hacker that makes shit not a "software eng.". I sent it to a friend of mine that teaches Econ. at a top college and he said he had no idea what they were even asking. (see question below)

Given a list of N line segments on the X axis: (x1[i], x2[i]) where i = 1 to N; And then a list of M queries. Each query inputs one x-coordinate and you need to output the number of line segments that overlap this point. Assume M & N are very large. (So O(M*N) is really bad.)

I asked for clarification and got none so I guess they figured i was just too stupid to respond to which is cool but it made me wonder if when people talk about programmers that cant program do they mean people that cant answer these types of questions? I spent 5 or 10 min or it and gave up. But even though I didn't answer this I can code like a MF and if this question had been a programming challenge I think I could have done it.

My point is that companes should really think before sending out stuff like that to potential developers because they might pass up on some really good talent. I am not saying that I am very talented but I do know how to code and build cool products. I made digest.io and it uses clojure, ML, MapReduce to learn about your diet and help manage digestive conditions and it has paying customers that are happy. I made that and it works well so im not a rookie but I still have no idea what that 2nd question is asking.

BTW: Even though i hate these puzzles the FB puzzles are simple and I have always been able to complete them quickly.
Not sure how common I am, but after working in several start-ups previously, my primary goal when I do make the leap into starting a business is to create something with slow growth, long burn, and self funded. The above article is still useful even in that context. Money in the door is money to keep the door open.
They didn't speak like that back then, and mass consumption of technology wasn't a concept yet.

Pocket watches weren't a mass consumption item at the time, nor would they have been considered technology.
Amusing, many people get it "wrong" and I don't even know which is the original between the two of "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a (different/same) result."; to me both are equally wrong and useless. In a world that is always adapting, doing the same thing over and over again will often locally have the same effect but globally it won't as conditions change, and the aphorism is basically never actually useful or as wise as it sounds.
Finally, CNC kit for pastry fabrication.
1) Change logo. Flickr style logos are not cool anymore.
2) Follow button seems to be broken, sometimes it doesn't work.
If the way I judge what I read is by how many errors I find in it, isn't that the exact opposite of blind faith?
Depending on the quality of the coverage, the level of attention paid can be incidental to the clarity provided.

See "Signal to Noise" for details. See FOX News for examples.
Remote work is becoming more of a possibility for many workers without a doubt, but there are still huge numbers of jobs which literally cannot be moved online.
> If I had a gas station that offered gas for a fixed price, that was higher than the average gas price in your area, would you agree to use it exclusively? I don’t see how the mental load for griddy is fundamentally different from buying gas at a gas station.

Gas purchases are discrete events that, with extremely minimal planning are capable of being purchased from different outlets each time and, usually, time shifted to deal with per-provider or very short term spikes.

Electricity puchases are continuous and the ability to shift sources or time shift is often significantly less without much more significant planning.

Paying a premium for insurance against extreme variation makes some sense in either case, but a lot more in the latter case.
Location: Fayetteville, AR, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No (but persuade me)

Technologies:

Clojure, ClojureScript, Lisp, Swift, Objective-C, Javascript, React, HTML, Java, Python, git, mercurial, Technical Writing, functional programming, object-oriented programming

Résumé/CV:

- Programmer: https://evins.net/docs/mikel-evins-programmer.pdf

- Tech writer: https://evins.net/docs/mikel-evins-tech-writer.pdf

Email: mikel@evins.net
The thing is that I suspect that the problem is mostly not (yes, with some widely publicized exceptions) that you have people individually buying hundreds of rolls of toilet paper or dozens of eggs, but LOTS of people figuring that a bit of buffer stock in the house can't hurt because who knows what the future will bring.

I know in my case I did a couple shopping trips before the panic buying started. I bought nothing at all out of the ordinary but I did stock my house up a bit more than average on various things. You multiply that by the majority of people and it's not hard to clear out a store.
I have an acquaintance who’s a trader and the company had installed a 16-display rig in their house last week (London).
Well, it sort of did:

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s...

Hence the change in tact.
It's called "incubation": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_(psychology)
With JS being the better way, why would people chose that over, say, Vue ? For a few ko you can do that and more. And transition to a full scale infra if needed later.
Well, everyone's isolated now, so you let the young ones out.
Thank you! This is a serious issue I come across often. I'm often the token outsider when traveling which leads people to being open about their prejudices, most often to their neighbouring countries, how the is mutual dislike. Almost always this is an idea evolved some some hundreds of years ago, and no longer holds any truth. Even when conflict is more recent its remarkable how easily a civilian of one county will blame the civilians of another, not taking geo-politics into account in any way.
So the band and state register is memory? And the instruction table is computation?