jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This article looks like it has some good ideas in it. But the practical side of me thinks it would probably only work well in the context of small- to medium-sized projects whose users include few, if any, technically ignorant people (libraries, command-line tools, etc.).

Maybe (?).

Also, this has been submitted & discussed before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1627246
Visa, MasterCard, and American Express are each individually bigger than Sony (but comparable). Certainly Sony is big enough that it can negotiate with them, but its hard to imagine them being able to dictate terms.

So, Sony may be allowed to store CVV numbers, but if so its likely that they negotiated that, giving up something in return (possibly, for example, agreeing to penalties in event of disclosure).

[note: I checked bigger in terms of market cap. I'm confident this is also true in any reasonable way of comparing.]
Uh, it's fairly understandable?
I don't know much about the product, it seemed a bit sparse after looking quickly. However, I think the point is not what it looks like now, but what will it look like next year after the investment. A project management app is probably general enough to be beneficial to the country.
Trying to write a neo-noir nerd novel! I only get in that writing mood when I have other things that take priority. I can't let that happen forever.
What a wasteful donation. MIT has an over $8 billion endowment, and it teaches the most privileged technical students in the world. If MIT was at least trying to expand to teach more students, but of course it can't since it needs to maintain it's high selectivity in order to preserve its reputation. I can think of a thousand better donations than wasting it on rich ivy schools.
Sorry it's so slow though...still a novice when it comes to AWS instances :/. Definitely not using them the way they were meant to be used, or there's a rogue DB query or 5 in there.
Nearish lets you roam around a map and chat with other Facebook users nearby. It uses node.js on the backend and jQuery on the frontend. I wrote it in about a month and a half... my understanding of Javascript has improved a ton! Any feedback is appreciated :)
The hard way for me means to do a serious research which means digging every whitepapers in the field. That may cause an unexpected result if done properly. For example, learning hard way to touchtype a QWERTY keyboard may result in discovering Dvorak layout.
> All that talent was up for grab: What were the other players waiting for?

That's exactly the problem with monopolies. As one two or three companies get to be ever more outsized giants (Apple: 2.2T$, Amazon & Microsoft: 1.6T$), owning more of the talent pool, there's less other players with any chance to build up success, to acquire talent.

People can keep making small, successfully-acquired companies, but this idea that it's everyone elses fault for not challenging the monopoly is not a statement I'm very sympathetic to.
+1 This guy profiles
But that high value (and the volatile prices) is entirely the problem (coupled with other issues like the extremely low potential number of transactions per second). As it stands, Bitcoin will never be anything other than an investment vehicle. Maybe another cryptocurrency will be a suitable replacement for fiat, but right now and for the foreseeable future, crypto is still too niche, too complex and volatile. At most we're seeing banks extend their offerings with cryptocurrency, but none of it points to widespread replacement of fiat outright. There are too many institutional, technical and social barriers.
Why is this always framed as a problem caused by people looking for a place to live?

I moved to SF for a job. I'm not the one who decided to not build enough new housing for 30 years. I'm not the one who decided to approve all those new office buildings. Yet I was the problem for renting an overpriced apartment from an SF native who bought in the 90s, and now pays less than $8K/yr in taxes on a place worth over $1M. And now I'm still the problem if I decide to leave?
That analogy doesn't hold up because HN isn't a publication, it's a list of links.

It's nearly always trivial to figure out who the author of a post is. The question is whether that should be emphasized in the title, and HN's traditional default is no. Putting the emphasis on content rather than personalities seems to produce better discussion.
This!

Even though I don't think this would have proactively helped this DDoS, but it can't be closer to the truth.

CDNs hosting libraries / fonts / resources for the web are going to be targeted more and more, it is just too attractive to malicious people.
The very modest wee cottage in Dunfermline where Carnegie was born is a museum:

http://www.carnegiebirthplace.com/
It's also the hull class designation for a destroyer.
Heh. I caught in the rain with my MacBook Air, and it worked fine for a day, but then wouldn't boot up at all and wouldn't hold charge. Three weeks later and rice and all that jazz and nothing. A couple months later, the charger showed a light, but it wouldn't boot and never lit up green.

Six months from the first incident, and I randomly plugged it in and it booted instantly - I was ecstatic. It lasted two weeks before it wouldn't boot up again. A week later, it booted up again, and has been fine ever since.

Beats me man. Apple "Geniuses" wouldn't touch it and wanted me to buy a new one.
Is this supposed to be ironic? An article discussing the success of wordpress, posted on medium?
They've added an "About this site" page now. As I can't edit my previous comment, I'll add the link here https://savedotorg.org/index.php/about/
I’ve found success with the following:

- Proper desk height for standing and sitting to ensure arms are at 90* angle.

- Extended height monitor arms to ensure screens are up at eye level. This has been great for my posture.

- Split keyboard (kinesis) to ensure my shoulders are in a neutral, not rolled inwards position and my wrist angle is also neutral. I broke my collarbone when younger, and it’s very easy for me to not keep my shoulders neutral.

- Extended palm pad for keyboard to keep my wrists neutral. With larger hands my palms are pretty far from the keyboard, which makes it easy to have my wrists lower than my hands. I have the V3 attachment to the kinesis keyboard.

- Regular exercise and strength training.

- Avoiding working on my laptop as much as possible. The angle and ergonomics are just not nearly as good as my desktop setup.
Others have already given the modern answer, but the historical perspective and how it was discovered is also interesting. It's not obvious (some people thought that m|v| is conserved) but that those two are conserved can be deduced from intuitive facts about mechanics that you already know, plus the fact that gravitational acceleration is constant. Christiaan Huygens, who predates Newton, analyses the situation in this very interesting article, which Newton cites as an influence when he presents his laws: http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/texts/huygens/impact/h...
Why in the world would you want to exploit someone like that?

For things like this, turn it around. What if it were you?

You find a photoshop with your face using new sex toy, for example. And the slogan:

"One day, even people like RaceWon will be all in!"

:D

Also, laugh. Meant it to be funny, and thought provoking.

There are other ways.
I switched to a desktop so my keyboard and screen are independently adjustable. Beyond that, I’m pretty close to Jormundir: no matter what you do, if it’s still being sedentary it’ll catch up with you - bodies didn’t evolve sitting in the exact same position for hours at a stretch. Taking breaks is important even if it just means you get coffee in smaller serving sizes.
The questions on Quora are also really low. I'm absolutely done with answering questions that amount to doing an undergrads homework or how to learn language X in Y time.
What happened with Qwant? I've used them from time-to-time (and love their OSM-based map viewer), so I'm curious.
I forgot I mentioned the age - but still, it is in the opposite sense. It is not part of the reason I "dismiss" her now, I only mentioned it to soften the criticism.

In any case, why shouldn't her actions be relevant? To me, it changed my opinion about her. Why wouldn't it be relevant for others, too?
Fixed my shoulder issue on my desktop PC by adding a second Mouse, so I have one on both sides of my keyboard.
It's getting less common.

Many hotels now have an automated system where you punch in a time on the phone's number pad and it stores it and robo-dials you.
Send letter to proper state senator that company in his jurisdiction is ignorant to important safety warnings and delivered the product that threatens the security of his constituents.

If that will work - you'll attract proper attention.
This isn't unique to software; the lowered barriers to creation has meant that the value of almost everything has dropped to the point of worthlessness. While you may not be able to make a living from your open source software through donations, you can certainly make a living by providing support to businesses or assisting with integrations/migrations. We are seeing a shift towards a service-oriented industry, rather than a product-oriented industry, and I expect the rate at which this transformation is taking place to drastically increase in the near future.
Why do we cooperate though? Internet Explorer didn't get better through cooperation, despite having a big team, until there was competition. The Space Race was competitive with the Soviets.

Cooperation isn't the inverse of shortcuts, selfishness or keeping failures secret. Cooperation between companies that are supposed to compete, the forming of cartels, is a really bad thing after all.

Humanity is competitive, social creatures. Cooperation starts at the family and tribal level which morphed into nation states (eventually), but it is fundamentally driven by competition.
Maybe we don't need all those PhDs, and we should stop funnelling public money into producing an excess supply of them?
Unfortunately not when you're performing error diffusion, where the residuals are added to neighboring pixels. If you're doing it in the non-linear domain, you're going to get a different result during that diffusion step, even when you're dithering to a target 1-bit/pixel image.

You can see this visually in Surma's excellent blog post [1]: look for the gradient strips in the "Gamma" section.

[1] https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/
In principle, you can know that an ad click resulted in a purchase without knowing who clicked the ad and who made the purchase. Apple supports these kinds of measurements for its own Apple Search Ads product.

The “entropy limit” you see people talking about elsewhere in the thread is one means that attempts to allow ads to be measured like this without revealing information about the users. But if every store *.shopify.com is in the same entropy pool, there won’t even be enough information to tell which ad campaign led to a sale on which store.
> Banning people may eventually have more serious consequences closer to the "having your water cut off" situation.

This can be resolved by improving interop and competition among social media, not by forcing moderation decisions on private companies.
I'm struggling to understand both sides of this argument, so I need help grokking all these positions. I need more information before I know if I can support your position.

If I work for a large company, and I go out and do something that may not even be all that bad. Say, publicly berating an Uber driver like that woman doctor in Miami, my organization will fire me. Just as her organization fired her. Especially if people start publicly connecting me to them. This has happened forever, no internet need be involved.

The difference here, at least one side claims, is that the large organization paying your living exists on the internet, and so should be viewed differently than any other large organization. Since those other large organizations are not internet-based? I find myself unpersuaded though, I'm honestly not really seeing much of a difference.

So just so I understand what you're saying, is your position that no large organization should be able to separate themselves from that lady doctor in Miami for instance? Or is your position that only large internet-based organizations should be precluded from separating themselves from her?

(Dr in Miami that berated the Uber driver is just the most analogous offline example I could think of. Large organization with enormous market power paying her living. They fire her, no one else will touch her. I'm sure there are many many more.)
I've seen tons of people blaming it on other factors. And tons of people blaming everything on covid-19 as soon as it was possible since they are sick of lockdowns.

But I'm not sure what niche in frontend development as a founder is available for live entertainment outside of tickets. And yes, that niche would have been affected by covid-19. Almost more than anything else, coinsidence?

Most startups downscaled until after covid and if it was in video, transitioning to online video could have been a very viable means.

Even podia builders which are directly affected in every way ( i know 2) have temporarily transitioned.

What was the name of the startup? You're comments are still incoherent to me, even if I "sound" rude.

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In real life, i would have questioned more to see legitimacy ( it's still perfectly possible to be true) and you wouldn't have noticed it. I'm just using the tools available to my disposal.

And I'm still curious on what blocked a transition in that niche if it was in live entertainment as a dev. Since it couldn't been hibernated i would think of something capital intensive and that's why I'm asking the name to check further.

Claiming: this is my last post, just adds to me not believing you. Which is a shame.

Consider it more as curiosity in the specifics why it failed, than taking it personal.

> Well consider this my last post on this account

Why do you need multiple accounts? ;) More than in rl, online should be clear since it's easier to misinterpret something ( for better or worse)
> Papers in the 1700s had just as much dominance in speech as social media does today.

The important difference is that less than a billionth of what people communicate was through those newspapers. Nowadays? Maybe half is the the internet and most of that is through the big players (e.g. Facebook).
I like the thesis, but peeling the onion back, there's an implicit assumption that one is always optimizing for world-changing impact. Looking back at Newton and sorting his work into useful/worthless buckets after a few hundred years tells us nothing about how he actually valued these pursuits, and what motivated him at the time. As silicon valley culture goes mainstream, salaries at big tech soar, and increasing numbers of young people buy into the value of creating "impact", the irony is that it pushes more young talent towards local maxima instead of truly novel pursuits that might could lead to world-changing innovation. IMHO the only way out of this conundrum is actually to be okay with not making world-changing innovation and directly embrace the creative process of ones pursuits.
"The unemployed need the money. The rich don’t.

Moreover, the top 1 percent spends a small fraction of their income. That’s what it means to be rich — you already have most of what you want. So extending the Bush tax cut to them won’t stimulate the economy.

Yet people without jobs, and their families, are likely to spend every penny of unemployment benefits they receive. That will go back into the economy and save or create jobs."

Fundamentally, this is the reason the rich don't stimulate the economy - we've tried that in the past (trickle down, anyone?) it doesn't work.

Anyone else up for a holiday reading of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" ?
This Events API effectively replaces our Logs API, which was a subset of this. The Logs API still works but we removed it from the API reference in the docs as the Events API should be used (and hopefully preferred) going forward.
I went to public schools through high school and then, on scholarship, to the local public university. I doubt my family "invested" more than $10k in my entire education. Whatever it cost, it's certainly repaid itself many times over since then.

The great thing about coding for a living is that most companies care more about what you can do than the name on your diploma.
I never thought of that. I can see what you mean. I'll have to think about this some more. I'm not sure I'll like it.
Wasn't aware that this was a consensus; I always avoid ternary expressions for this reason.
> Perhaps if OP was saying you shouldn't use it for C++

I think that's exactly what he was saying.
Well, the kernel is so shockingly simple in part BECAUSE no one let C++ in. And it is a testament to Linus' great leadership and censorship that it remains that way.
It's true that handwritten notes are optimized for speed of writing, but they're also optimized--perhaps secondarily--for the speed of reading, which happens at least as often as writing (we can certainly hope).

There's a third optimization at work, for small size, both for its own sake and as a byproduct of optimizing for writing speed. Less ink tends to be faster.

Tufte frequently mentions the importance of saving ink when drawing charts, going as far as the rule of thumb that if any line can be erased without changing the meaning of the chart, the chart is better after doing so. But of course, it's not really about saving ink itself, it's just that total ink is a good proxy for the presence of distractions that impair clarity (chartjunk).

Similarly, fast-to-write notes like the fishbone also tend to be fast for trained practitioners to read at a glance. Though they may not be exactly what we'd come up with if starting from scratch with reading speed as the sole criterion, they get much closer than the typical lab results report.

Current electronic alternatives tend to be optimized for something else entirely: ease of printing on a fixed-pitch line printer. We can improve readability greatly by broadening the formatting options beyond that, to include options previously only possible with freeform pen and paper.

An ideal layout optimized for readers and free from obsolete constraints (such as writing speed and legacy print engines) would probably abbreviate fewer words compared to handwritten notes, because unusual abbreviations slow down the reader. At the same time, it would get rid of common words that ended up being frequently repeated on computer reports (medjunk). It could include better graphical and formatting cues (selective boldfacing, symbols, sparklines, spatial layouts like fishbones, etc.)

We can also take advantage of handheld devices like the iPad to allow trends and ranges to be brought up by tapping on a result, instead of trying to display everything all at once.
Yes. Unless it is pure opinion, or you are willing to spend a lot of time tracking down references for what he wrote, then who the person is has a STRONG bearing on their reliability.
Yes, this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb535184(v=VS.100).a...
Use Prolog.
I have two problems with analysis like this.

First it ignores how early we are in the game. To use the PC Operating System comparison we’re still in the period where people thought OS/2 and DesqView were viable competitors. Yes Apple and Google are currently the frontrunners but you have some big, successful companies like Microsoft and Nokia who will literally do anything to get a foothold in this market.

My second issue here is this analysis ignores the vast number difference between PC shipments and Cellular Phones. Windows really cemented control of the market with Windows ’95 but the year after that only saw about 80 million in total PC shipments. Compare that to the Cellular Phone market which is projected to hit 5 billion this year. It’s much harder to dominate a market of 5 billion and I really don’t see any company controlling 90% of that.

In the end I suspect there will be a lot of competition out there with certain platforms becoming more popular in various countries (I suspect the U.S. will stay Apple vs. Google for example).
Even more ironic is that site looks awful in Firefox 2.0.0.13 which is what I am stuck with at a client site today.
Are you really incapable of seeing the distinction between being able to find a real name from the pseudonym, and being able to find the pseudonym from the real name?
Great UI. Out of curiosity, does a user's website have to be hosted at straw.page, or can they take the generated website and host it on any static website host?
The article uses it.

Maybe I should have said "insinuations" rather than "accusations" to be fair to them.
At it's heart I think the phrase is essentially a political one. It signifies at attempt to address the balance between success and safety, rather than skew completely towards success.

When I was in the army fellow officers would say their first priority was to get their soldiers home safely, to which the soldiers would joke "can you fly me home tomorrow then Sir?"
I second the recommendation for the Cloudy Nights forum.

Secondly, I‘ll go against the grain and suggest you don’t start with a binocular or manual dobsonian, but with a motorized goto telescope. They come in many varieties and for a start, pretty much all of them are good. Celestron has a series of telescopes called Evolution and if it’s in your budget, an Evolution 6 will be a good scope for a long time. They also have smaller & cheaper scopes with Go-To that will work well too.

What’s Go-To? You tell the telescope what you want to look at, and it drives right to it and keeps the object centered within the eyepiece. The last part is quite important as even at average magnifications, objects tend to move out of the center (where it’s sharpest) quite fast. Many scopes can also be controlled via your phone with an app such as SkySafari - sometimes that requires an extra adapter for the scope though.

Why this path? I followed the usual advice of getting a binocular, then a small dobsonian and barely ever had the drive to use them due to finding objects to observe in city skies being hard. The scopes just collected dust for the majority of the year.

I just made the jump to a bigger scope with Go-To to a) make visual observations more interesting for me (more observing, less searching), and b) pursue a newly discovered interest of mine called Electronically Assisted Astronomy. Think Google‘s night photo mode but for a telescope, allowing you to see galaxies and nebulas in all their glory from home!