jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If buyers had a choice of the same stone at a much lower price, they would take it. It sounds like a massive arbitrage opportunity.
I must point out that, like any other mantra, JFDI must be taken with a grain of salt. Think about the following scenarios. You meet a guru who's willing to advise your startup for a mere 5% of the company. You find an investor who's willing to put in big money, given you tear up your term sheet and use his unconventional terms. You think up a feature that, while consuming vast dev resources, could result in total market domination.

It'd be absurd to JFDI on any of those, not without doing the proper due diligence. For day to day decisions, JFDI is absolutely the way to go. For decisions that could kill your startup, BJAPC (Be Judicious And Proceed Cautiously). Admittedly, that's not as catchy.

edit: formatting.
One thing I find highly interesting, is that the article seems to imply that only the US can track other people's space vehicles.

Washington could get away with this sort of space espionage because no other government has the technology to comprehensively track the activities of other nations’ space vehicles.

I guess the word "comprehensively" is key here. Is there really such a huge gap in other nation's capabilities? The Russians have a space program. What are the facts the author is alluding to? How big or small are other nation's space tracking capabilities? (I can just see the "Moon Hoax" nuts jumping all over this!)
Would be nice if it allowed you to create a random temporary network as a demo (without asking for login/password).

I'm not going to sign up just because the idea sounds like it might be fun. I would want to try it, but not sign up for it.

Allow anonymous users to create a temporary network (or whatever it is), and put a box with a random network name already in there so I only have to click one button, and make it say something like "try it now".
This isn't a spy plane - it's a potential space minelayer.

The nice thing about the SR71 was that it wasn't that secret, you knew from the speed and altitude that it was an SR71.

But suppose your spyplane flew at the same height and speed as a B52 and was the same size as a B52 - the other guys might be a little more nervous, and more likely to react, when it flew over their territory.
I think a "while" is a better measurement than 10k or 1k. It takes a while for things to click whether it's a skill, a product or business. And the while is usually longer than we predict.
Does Heroku not have the IDE anymore?
I've been trying to figure out how they are changing the url without a page refresh. It must be a webkit only thing.
Looks like HN effect. I am getting connection refused error.
Reminds me of this fellow who was starting his little web crawler project using Java:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/browse_thread/...
"there's no such thing as society."

I'd forgotten that Thatcher quote. However, when you see it in context it really doesn't look that bad:

http://briandeer.com/social/thatcher-society.htm
>> I was actually hoping you would expand more on "maybe we wouldn't really like it".

I just meant that the whole culture, you know, the boom-and-sell and become a millionaire, that this just isn't the best thing in the world. That it makes all the sense there but that i think that a real grassroots "technology experimentation mecca" should better develop it's own culture and views about life and machines and stuff --- one better than this American-culture offshoot that i am guessing Silicon Valley is.

So technology is cool, hacking is cool, how does this affect our lives? It seems to me a bit too US-high-school thing that to prove you're cool you have to become a millionaire. Haven't you wondered why the cool guys like Woz depart and the pinpricks like Jobs stay? Too much macho display, i say. We are like Peacoks, instead using our brains as display?

For example, there is this TED talk about this one guy who leaves some internet-linked comps in the middle of nothing in India and then just comes back 6 months later to see what the children did with that, this guy is certainly not making as many millions, but i believe he is nurturing a certain "relationship with technology", and this, to me, is the one thing that is valuable about Silicon Valley.

By "socially contextual mode of analysis" i was trying to express something like "could the old lady living on a shack on the middle of nowhere share your dream of a Philippino Silicon Valley?" Is it possible to share this vision? Not that Old Ladies should code, obviously, but could you make a girl secretary that is likelly to become this old lady in 50 years, could you make her proud to be working for a high-tech fling? Proud enough to stick with you after being offered a better pay?

Could you have girl coders? And could they do it because they like it and not because it is "a right thing to do"? Because, you know, coding is fun.

I am deeply convinced that money is almost never the solution. And that when there is no "solution" to speak of, the simple injection of money will create pain. So what i am saying is that there must be a culture before there is a market, or something like it. That the idea must not be written in dollars, but in expectations and dreams, in enthusiasm, and, finally, in the good-old curious spirited hacking.

That said, have you seen "leadership lessons from dancing guy"? Do read the post too, after you see the video. Really worth your time.
Pumpkin seeds have a load of zinc in. A handful on salad does the job.
No one actually knows the living preferences of a chicken or a cow.

But does anyone know, without any doubt, the living preferences of a potato or an apple tree?
http://dell.com and http://www.nasdaq.com/
Right, of course. Thanks so much for clarifying the concepts in my head. It's difficult to keep track sometimes.

Would it be true to say that HTTPS-over-proxy provides zero security for the end user, since a proxy must be able to encrypt raw HTTP requests/results on behalf of the client? In other words, the proxy can be blatantly malicious against the user, and the client won't even be able to realize that. The only security would be against any third-party eavesdroppers (someone else besides the user, proxy, or final website).

I might be wrong about that too, but I'm trying to grok it.
It would be excellent if you reported the BC break (provided you figure it out and it's PHP fault) to bugs.php.net and also to the PHP internals list (internals@lists.php.net). Unless it's listed in UPGRADING file for your version, BC break in advanced version should not happen and is a problem. This happens from time to time (e.g. we had to break some hacks using unserialize() on non-serialized strings because otherwise it created security hole) but it's pretty rare.
I can't figure out how to get this to work, if I set my output device to Hajo I get nothing
hey f2f. This is maht.

It's Go Backlash-Day on HN. The pedestal they've been putting it on must have got high enough.
Serious question: does the same apply to encryption between routers? Like large PiB/day loads. Between the old 'bandwidth of a 747 full of tapes' exercise and the speed of XOR, I've wondered for awhile now why it isn't standard. Specialized entropy sources can make a lot of the stuff rapidly, and it seems like a case where reducing that layer of security to a a couple consumable tapes that get swapped out like batteries when they're dead would be practical, and would have the advantage that seizing the cipher clearly involves having several tens of grammes of tightly-encoded data.
There are several things wrong with your argument. Usually, I don't respond to things like this — but I have come to learn that commenters on Hacker News are unusually reasonable and intelligent people, so I decided to make an effort and explain all things wrong with this statement.

(These are separate and atomic arguments, which don't depend on each other logically).

1. You assume that "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" are mutually exclusive definitions, while one of them refers to the organisation methods and the other to organisation goals. Deliberately (this is very important word) attacking civilians and trying to increase civilian death toll in order to create a state of terror is, by definition, a terrorist tactic.

2. You go from "UN regards" to "objective fact" pretty easily. This implies that you hold UN as organisation to be of highest authority and consider it's opinion true by default. This approach needs some backup. All other things considered, you could write it as "UN regards them as freedom fighters" (which UN doesn't). Or "by UN logic".

3. You assume that these organisation goal is freedom from perceived (not debating this point now) occupation. However, that's not what they state. These organisations state that their goal is (1) destruction of state of Israel and (2) murder of all jews, primarily living in these territories (but not limited to them). If these organisations succeeded in their stated goals, they, of course, would get "freedom from occupation" (as they perceive it), but it would only be a byproduct of their mail goal, which can not be described other than genocide.

And finally, just out of respect for anonymous commenter on the site that I keep in a very high regard. Just in case you really want to keep a reasonable, logical, healthy discussion, and not a flame war. When you try to put a positive spin on these terrorist organisations, 99% of israelis wouldn't even consider responding to you. Because when you start telling people that organisations with motto "kill all jews" are misunderstood good guys, you don't seem like a guy worth having a discussion with.
What are some steps to make it more transparent? That critically both protect secret ballot and not suppress the vote?

Republicans have been ruthlessly effective here and there are plenty of laws that are passed under the guise of 'anti-fraud' but really are to suppress the vote usually in favor of southern Republicans. Copy of license, very very restrictive rules on who can request a ballot, reducing drop off locations etc Same playbook for a century, different rules
Here’s the solution, lost in noise.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24263815
If Google and Apple want those App Store policies and to remove certain stuff, that is their choice. If Mastodon.social wants to remove some accounts, they also can do that. However, others can run their own Mastodon instances if they want to do, and on Android there is sideloading possible at least, so you can still install it (or other programs) if you want it, even though Google does not want it on the Google Play.

So, I think that it isn't too much problem (at this time).

(Although I do think that their policy should be amended if needed, so that apps which do not connect to a specific server should be allowed if the servers containing content they do not want are not preset. This way, you can still have them, although you will have to enter the server names by yourself if you want to access ones that the App Store disallowed.)
Clearly the way forward is to entrust silicon valley to regulate speech. Thanks for your insight.

By the way, "Two out of three Democrats also claim Russia tampered with vote tallies on Election Day to help the President – something for which there has been no credible evidence" [0], are you interested in holding anybody to account for that?

[0] https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...
No, otherwise they'd have been replaced long ago.
I'm not interested in debating that topic here, and I've edited my original comment to try and avoid sounding like I'm inviting a debate. My point is that you're drawing a line between two very different things with different sets of supporters.
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25693679
Are you really comparing the actions of East German secret police with being banned from social media? This is ridiculous.
There’s a long history of oppressive systems favoring their target of oppression as champions of their oppressive views. It’s not misogyny to say that it is misogyny for some women to force other women to keep a fetus in their body.
But it works, surprisingly! I paid $30 for it quite hesitantly but was impressed when it could actually do what is says. Makes me think why there isn't an open-source program that does this - using something proprietary is always... shady. Lack of incentive I guess.
The article references a tweet and then fails to quote it or even link to it.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/550297471289552898
Laravel 4.3 for me.
Besides the power cable, I would think the rest would function well wirelessly with high frequency RF.
They have been around for 20+ years.

It's called a laptop Base station / Docking station. There on a fairly wide range of buissness laptops sadly that's one of the ports that Apple does not seem to support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_station
Neat hack, is there a sample of an original size image?
And there's plenty of students at Caltech who were not overbooked in their free time.
There is remote access. Fighters routinely exchange data via datalink like LINK 16 and JTIDs. It's not inconceivable that this could lead to some exposure. It would depend on how segmented the flight control computers are from the other computers. A lot of the cyber warfare plans are attempting this type of attack.
Congratulations! Looking forward to hearing more positive news from you in the future.
Not the original poster but we migrated to GCP because:

1) AWS was extremely expensive
2) Our GCP bill is about 1/3 of what AWS was
3) The Kubernetes offering is top notch
4) Google giving us credits and offering us consulting were the triggers that started us talking.
> Proponents of single family zoning in berekely in 1916 were explicitly racist

Yes, but it isn't 1916; it's 2021. Are proponents of single family zoning in 2021 motivated by racism (explicit or otherwise)?
There is nothing new in that? When I was pre teen and teen, I definitely had to get parents permission for weekend campout. It seems to me normal that parent have a say in whether the non-adult child sleep at home. Plus there were weekend activities woth familly I was expected to participate in - trips, familly visits, grandpa birthsday, etc.

So I would ask. I mean, idea that 16-17 years old goes for campout without asking parents strikes me as wtf.
kind of, the only thing you are missing is that macroeconomic trend is in play no matter what the catalyst turned out to be

the yield curve flattening was a big headline long before and seen as a bearish sign, its not important that COVID spooked everyone to selloff and its not interesting that Congress and the Fed stepped in because of that.

All the monetary policy and the fiscal policy decisions were written in advance and just placed on Congress’s desk when they were scrambling for a solution. 5,000 page bills werent just made overnight.

the entire game is to put your losses on the balance sheet of the biggest whale in the market (a sovereign with no consequence) and keep all the profits for yourself, and reaching a place in society where that is practical. there is no andrew jackson to dismantle the central bank for the specific reason he dismantled the first one. so the outcome is always predictable, the cause and effect is easy to understand. the mechanism that all central banks (except china’s) use to flood the market with cash is by purchasing an ever expanding universe of bonds, with pushes the bond price up and interest rates of those bonds down.
Chevy has no issues selling their cars directly to government agencies and Ford to Police. So I think that theory is debunked.

More likely reason is politics.
Definitely felt the same way moving from MacBook Air to XPS (under linux), but eventually I found the right settings to completely remove accidental touches on the pad while typing and since then, pretty good, not bad, can’t complain. Cause actually, all them track pads are about the same.
a bit surprised that there was no discussion or mention in the article about the lifespan of VHS tapes - the deterioration/decay/degradation of the media itself posing a problem for preservation. I know they last a good while but there's definitely degradation after 30 years or whatever....which it has been if you're talking about golden era 80s stuff or whatever
You're right about both - their marketing is really on point. But allow me to propose a few additional reasons for Target's popularity among suburban liberals:

1. Prices are slightly higher that Walmart, which keeps away the most budget conscious shoppers (ie, couponers & low-income people will go to walmart to stretch their money). Because lower-class shoppers are less visible at Target, middle-class shoppers flock to it, and even non-middle class people who can swing it may prefer it because it confers higher social status. (This is also why the common nickname for Target is "Tar - Jhey", aka, "Target" with a fake french accent to mock the aspirational bougieness of the brand).

2. Target has fairly aggressive policies about how long customers should have to wait in line (if there's more than 3 people waiting, the manager is supposed to call a sales floor person up to assist) + a policy on how long checkouts should take to complete (they actually give the cashier a pass/fail score that everyone can see after each checkout, and if the average is too low, it's grounds for dismissal). For the customer, this does mean a faster checkout. For the employees - it means more work interruptions and ultimately more work to do at closing.

3. Target doesn't even attempt to provide certain products and services that are culturally associated with rural/poor America. They don't sell guns, they don't cash checks, they don't have gardening centers.
Assuming you mean W-2 job. This arrangement is actually quite common for software engineering contractors. There are a number of "proxy" contracting companies (ex. iWorkGlobal) of which the independent contractor is a W-2 employee, but the contractor really works on an hourly contract for a third-party company that is contracting with the proxy company. It has all the trappings of independent contracting where you can choose your own hours, renegotiate/modify the contract, whatever. It's common when contracting with tech giants.
Really it is the memes behind gold that give it the value and role along with maybe a little evolutionary psychology theory of being attracted to the sight of shinies because they are reminiscent of water.

Platinium is rarer than gold, denser, and more applications, and similiarly shiny yet it wound up dumped in the ocean to try to prevent debasing gold by the Spanish soon after discovery of a large cache in Ecuador.

History and blindly aping the past isn't a very good reason but it is a strong one.
I love my Kaypro, but CP/M is a very business-oriented OS and most of the software is quite dry.
I use ideas to mean the non-material. You can hear a song, see a logo, touch packaging. I consider a brand to be akin to a company’s reputation. It exists solely in people’s hearts and minds.
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.
Just imagine this effort being spent on improving Linux OEMs hardware offerings instead.
In the UK, about 10 percent has private insurance, but nearly all private plans are 'top up' type plans where the assumption is that you usually rely on the NHS first, but ask for a private referral if you need a specialist or procedure there's a wait for.

As a result they're generally pretty cheap.

In effect you're paying to jump queues for a limited resource.
So now that we have proven covid vaccines, is there any chance of them being adapted to treat these other coronaviruses? If four viruses make up ~25% of common colds, knocking those out could have a significant impact on quality of life and productivity. (After dealing with COVID-19, of course.)
When I was at Apple, I was on a team of 6 within the server group. When I told a friend in CoreOS that we had 6 people, he wanted to know what justified our team being so large!

Oh, and if you want an Apples to Apples comparison...I was there when the Server group merged with the Dev Tools group...and the merged group is maybe 300 engineers total (all of server was about 70 engineers...all told OS X and iOS combined only comes to something like 3000 engineers).

A fun little link: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=revenue+per+employee+at...
I'd be curious to see how this lock holds up to similar testing. It's probably not going to compare favorably to much heavier/thicker U-locks, unfortunately, though it does have some advantages...I use a U-lock through the rear wheel plus a rope cable to attach the front wheel. The front wheel would be easy pickings if it had significant value and a thief with a bolt cutter happened upon it. I've seen people use two U-locks, but that's a lot of hassle.

Anyway, it's a cool idea, but I have to agree I wouldn't trust it without some evidence of its abilities to withstand modern bike thieves with power tools.
You realize that this logic can be applied, in reverse, to make a similar conclusion about PHP, right? Seeing the monstrous PHP code that equates to simple Ruby statements confirms my feelings about what a poorly designed language PHP is. (For example)
another view of supposed 'creativity benefits' to engineers:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/ian.g.mason/John_Markoff.htm
That's called Pandora
Ah, that's a much different case. There's a (true) horror story about an upper division physics course at Harvey Mudd. It was an unlimited time proctored exam. The prof apparently expected the students to spend 4-5 hours, but when nobody had left by then he had to order some pizzas to feed them. If I remember the story correctly, most of the students exceeded 20 hours and, I might be making this up, but I believe a couple got into the 40-some range.

This isn't really the usual case (most of the unlimited time exams are take home exams rather than proctored), but it's still terrifying.
All of it, the general approach is wrong - so the nonsense is the part where you believe your current set of abstractions about distributed networks are adequate.

Also the part where you reapply those same abstractions to fix the hole, without realizing that the problem is you simply don't yet have tools that are capable of writing a robust system - despite the evidence to the contrary.

If a day long outage of this scale is not enough to make us rethink distributed systems, what is?