jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A shortage is a is a mismatch between demand and supply. When you are in the ramp up of production, the art is to match these. That means a closely monitored planning covering both aspects. Which is exactly what was done with toilet paper.

Done right, one could even get away with not reserving the second shot from the first deliveries. Another parallel between toilet paper and vaccines is the sudden demand spikes, read additional orders from the EU in January, that resulted in reduced short term availablity.
The answer is to impose environmental and labor based tariffs on countries that enable destructive capitalism, so the cost savings from disregarding the environment and human suffering is offset. Free trade should only be a thing between ethical, responsible states.
Thanks for the feedback! We are working on all of these things - we've been iterating from 'geeks only' to 'polished product' and just aren't all the way there yet.
Although we send paper letters through regular mail for a small fee... (that's something)
I get a sense of a little non-developer hate going on below... so fair disclosure, I am not a developer. I am an aspiring entrepreneur, and yes, I am working on a web-based company. I also work on Wall Street, so I apparently chose the other option Eric to which alludes.

The value add of a non-developer to a startup is pretty simple--they bring a different perspective than a developer does. Diversity is a good thing. I'm working on building something that I believe would be enormously useful, and it approaches a problem in a way that hasn't been done online before. I think the reason I was able to come up with this idea was precisely because I'm not part of the "online" community. There are certain ways things are done when building an online business that have become part of the "culture" to which the article speaks. Being able to approach a problem from a point of view without a preconceived or subconscious notion can add enormous value to a startup. That said, I am becoming part of this community because I do need the technical expertise to help build the product and it is easier to find someone to partner with than learn to program myself (although I do know some).

It is the same as growing up reading and writing a western language. You don't even consider the notion that text would be written or read in another direction than left to right. Having a Chinese friend at a young age would keep you thinking in different and more creative ways.
:) DejaVu
"Networking."

Absolutely right.

Do you know how hard it is to find good potential hires? It's really fucking hard, costly and time-consuming. If you think you're doing someone a favor by dropping off your resume at their job-fair booth, you've got some things to learn.

The best jobs are found via recommendation for a positions; better than that is to be recommended as a hire without there even being a position open with your specific skill or even a strategy in place on how to address that. Nobody is going to read your blog posts and come calling. (Unfortunately, some times they do for reasons unknown. Don't ask me why.)

The only way to do that is to get out there and execute on your ideas, make friends with as many people as you can, respect them and yourself and yes, network your ass off, even if you aren't looking for a job. Show some chuptzah, create demand around yourself and get them thinking that if they don't float an offer out to you, someone else will.
If they only swam up they would soon run out of sea!
Congrats on the launch, guys! We've tried it and love it.
Once you get your Dutch oven, I highly recommend this recipe: https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/no-knead-crusty-whit...

I’ve made it twice since the CA quarantine began and have been keeping dough in the fridge so my family can have fresh bread every day.

You can even start with the dutch oven cold, which makes it much easier! https://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/2017/07/05/baking-in-a-...
BSL4 laboratories (highest level of biosafty) require exactly this.

Random picture from Google: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.txbiom...
It makes China’s failure to respond understandable.
I wonder if there are any historical accounts of military warfare during a global pandemic affecting both sides at the same time.
Not well, sadly. Trying to stay distracted but all that’s happened to me feels like the perfect storm.

Signed a new contract in January and was supposed to start in April, moving countries. Now my flight is canceled and even if it weren’t I’d be unable to enter the country since all visas have been voided. Moving company canceled on me (no money back also, claiming force majeure). Have to leave my apartment by the end of the month and have absolutely no idea what to do. My family is in another different country as well but it currently seems impossible to get me and my belongings there. Have little savings and after a month in a motel I’d be broke :(
At least in my country - which I'd say has a larger percentage of religious people than the US - churches were forced to close over a week ago. They've now moved to hosting events online and TV for older generations.

It's not religion that's causing this, it's stupidity.
His contribution to "Wikileaks good" here is that Wikileaks didn't compromise its source, Lamo (and to a lesser extent Poulsen) did. But that's a straw man argument. Nobody is arguing that Wikileaks is bad because it might rat out its sources.

What frustrates me about Greenwald's overall take on Wikileaks (not just in this article) is that it takes Wikileaks supposed ideals at face value. He's actually not arguing for Wikileaks; he's arguing for the idea of a Wikileaks. Unfortunately for all of us, in the real world, human beings with normal human incentives are going to have to run Wikileaks, and we have to consider Wikileaks as it actually exists and not simply Wikileaks "as a long-term force for positive change in the world".
couchdb then technically violates this due to revision numbers
Activism for transparency is not a value judgment?

Analysis of information suppression by governments in relation to events and information which affect the lives of billions seems like a value judgment too.
Upvotes aren't for agreeing.
I cant find any reviews http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=review+%22JQuery+Fu...

Has any one read this book, have a review?
Thanks for pointing this out. I had no clue.
Deregulation isn't about improving consumer outcomes, it's about improving profits. Expecting it to result in lower cost per kWh is a losing game.
I spent way too much time trying to get cloudlfared working for team RBAC/MFA SSH solution. Ended up going with Teleport instead.

I really wanted to love CF Teams but is lacking some polish IMO.
Yeah, that's why Bitcoin grows fastest in Africa.
Hard mode in Wordle precludes that option; after weeks in that mode in Wordle it would never occur to me to put an entirely bogus set of numbers into this.
Just a note for those of you who may be in a similar situation. YMMV.

If you have a couple of very large folders (even 1 TB or more) you care about holding onto from your unlimited drive, share it with a few (even throwaway) personal Gmail accounts. Once my HS disabled access to my account after I graduated, the school admin account somehow inherited these folders (the organization name is the new owner).

I still have access to these many TB large folders many years on in the “Shared with me” section of gdrive.
No, I was trying to keep the link without a http://, https://www.tesladeaths.com/ or https://www.tesladeaths.com/ works www.tesladeaths.com doesn’t nore does www.tesladeaths.com/

I am sure I have seen comment links without the http:// but might have just gotten so used to it than I stopped seeing it.
While it will reduce how often card readers will be used, card readers will be around for a while yet. In many markets contactless (atlest with real plastic) still has limits requiring the card holder to validate themselves (in the UK it’s a max of £100 per transaction and £200 over multiple transactions) and some card holders dislike contactless completely so have cards without it.

So in those markets you will still need supporting hardware for the times you can’t accept contactless or risk losing the sale.
Yes, it would force people to use better alternatives such as Signal or Telegram.
While this specific project does have a github page, the R world is 'complete amateur, avoid avoid avoid'. It's not really a 'programming language' in the way software engineers would see it. It's more a loose collection of stats functionality that is tied together with text interfactes in a way that somewhat looks like programming to the uninitiated. I mean, batch scripting is technically 'programming', and Excel (even without VBA) is technically Turing complete, but neither of those would be considered 'programming' by software engineers, at least not under an intuitive understanding of what 'programming' is. (by that I mean, it's easy to be pedantic and argue that R and batch files and Excel files are 'programming' because of [xyz] where [xyz] will probably involve real 'definitions' and selection criteria etc; but despite those tools being useful, you can't do real software engineering in them, which you sometimes want/need).
I have that palmtop and implemented it in qbasic after seeing the movie.
(of course also only the animation)
Wrote some more "hacker-simulators" after that.
Got me into programming.
I came here to say this.

This seems like a non-issue given renv. And renv gives a more reproducible, I think, solution as it pins to versions, not dates.
Facebook and by extension Whatsapp needs to be regulated.

Also, I'd be happy to pay for Whatsapp but then they need to isolate themselves from Facebook/third parties and slow down with the feature creep. It works great for what it is. If they mutate the thing further, it's going to become a gross/convuluted app that tries to cater to all use cases.
I was thinking the same. Across a large fleet of vehicles, this must add up to significant excess fuel consumption and emissions?
I'd guess that it's actually a classic razorblades model - the real product is the classes and the bike is just a way to be able to do the classes from home.

It's probably not surprising that a group of tech people tends more towards introversion and exercising alone, whereas the general population likes the group aspect for motivation.
Walls. Or floors.

This is a particular point of the "kettling" tactic, where protestors are herded into an area and kept there for hours.
I think that explaining core of the editor to the people is whole point of how to get people to use/extend/modify it. And this post really hit the nail on the head.
Mandatory helmet laws kill people, and possibly more than are saved.

This happens in two ways: car drivers drive more dangerously when they see a helmet; less people ride a bycicle and so there is more pollution and more deaths or more lack-of-exercise related death.
I don't watch TV at all. Netflix is my first connection to tv shows in about 3 years. I only started watching it about 2 months ago when someone recommended it to me.

Few days ago I went to my friends house and was waiting to go out. The TV was on, I was surprised how quickly annoyed I got with all the ads. I can't go back to that shit anymore.

If I remember correctly Hulu ads are more annoying and frequent than TV ads (and they sometimes require human interaction, ie, "Click X", to go away!). I don't know if it got better though.
Most people are not able to use mathematics as a tool.
Right, the famous Subprime Mortgage Problems Contained...

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/28/110709.shtm...

March, 2007
That's exactly right, I was indeed. I did give it a couple of weeks, but I had a knee-jerk reaction at a point when I was dealing with a customer onsite.

The gig was to migrate some of his company's products to the web, and of course, his main concern was on the speed -- he didn't believe the web could be as fast as a native client. While there's merit to that on its own, my attempts to show otherwise were thwarted by a really slow CloudFlare CDN, at the time, so I kiboshed it.

I blogged about it at the time, and hoped that it was just due to what I'm sure was unexpected expansion in the light of the Disrupt coverage, but truthfully, I don't currently have any products large enough to benefit from it.

It seemed like a cool service, and having recently gone the other way (implemented Amazon's CloudFront / caching / yadda yadda), I will attest that CloudFlare's implementation was far easier and more convenient. I'll try to check you guys out again soon.

Thanks for the comment!
Implying we /all/ didn't benefit from TARP is absurd as well, IMHO
Exactly. I had a pretty solid encoder running. But it was slow and wouldn't scale well. Zencoder's pricing is right and I would rather build it into my pricing model than deal with the hassle of managing an encoding system. This frees us up to focus more on the other aspects of the app.
How about a simple "Replay" link (or a "Tour" link someplace they can find it later)?
Hm, now that you mention it my dreams may have been more vivid recently, but I wouldn't consider that a negative.
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Is this open-sourced on GitHub?
The "Great Firewall" in China has over 600 million active Internet users. That's double the population of the United States. Baidu is the dominating search engine, there are replacement services for Twitter, Facebook, and others. Their IM "Wechat" has over 300 million active users alone.

In all reality, Google, Facebook, and others would _love_ to have even the smallest presence in China to get access to that user base. It's a gold mine just waiting to be cracked. Until they are, it will be referred to as "The Great Firewall", when in reality, Chinese internet users probably aren't really missing a lot, outside of politically charged sites, perhaps.
Just to keep things in perspective: the Iraq war and occupation, taking eight years, cost 4500 US military lives. The Battle of Antietam, a single day, saw 2100 Union and 1500 Confederate lives lost. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive was about six weeks, and saw 26000 US military lives lost. The Battle of the Bulge was six weeks long and saw 20000 US soldiers die. The entire Vietnam war, a similar timeframe to the Iraq war, saw 53000 US soldiers die.

Somewhere along the way, the US public seemed to decide that it was okay to go to war, but not okay to lose soldiers doing so. 2.5 million US military have served in Iraq, and 4500 is 0.18% of those. Painting a picture of soldiers dropping like flies is misleading - and yet the US still meets its military goals (though failing at the corresponding political ones).

In any case, against that backdrop of success, you're not going to shift the embedded graft keeping the current top dog in place.
Nice! I really like the animations actually. Now all it needs is upvoting and commenting built in (but obviously HN would have to enable that part of the API - which I assume is disabled).

Good job on separating the comments visually.

This is much more usable, not to mention responsive.

Well done!
Elon musk's companies are doing well now, but and he and his companies were really on the edge failing not too long ago, so "can't fail" is not really a good way of putting it.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-on-failure-tesla-ban...
So it seems... so where the hell are the OSS implementations of the Hub component?!
I'm not on Facebook and have a Quora account, is this a new requirement (I probably signed up during the betas)?
this is one of those buzz words you put on resume to say "I know how to use the bcp command"
> and not only does he explain almost nothing on a global scale but oftentimes what he is doing might look, at first blush, kinda wrong, obtuse even.

Can you give some examples?
Wow, I came in here to say the same thing. I don't get enough traffic through Disqus to have issues at the moment, but when I did a while back I remember Daniel bending over backwards to answer all of my questions and it left an absolutely incredible impression. I thought that in a world of meticulously curated "FAQS" and auto-repsonse e-mails that Daniel was remarkably refreshing.

Kudos.
For awhile I had a coworker with less than stellar English skills. Said employee wrote an error message that was poorly worded, and somehow we missed it and the poor English was shipped to customers. The response was that everyone on the team had to have their error messages reviewed by a member of the docs team before we could commit any code with error messages.

I never did decide if it was OK to be annoyed by that policy.
Zazen. Mostly on my own - 1hr in the mornings plus chanting liturgy (which feels like a spoken form of meditation rather than a plea to some higher power). But, it's important to my practice to also attend the monastery or temple where my teachers are - I try to get to one or the other at least once a month (would love to go more often but I have to balance family and work as well). Though it's perfectly possible to practice meditation of any form on one's own, a good teacher is invaluable for helping work with obstacles that arise in practice.

For those in the NYC area, I have learned a lot through the Mountains and Rivers Order, which has a temple in Brooklyn and a monastery upstate in Mt. Tremper (between Woodstock and Phoenicia).
http://www.mro.org/mro.html
I understand completely your argument, and the article argument - I've used plenty of contextual advertising, and it's better than what we call ROS (Run Of Site), but it's worst than targeting based on interests.

But let me give you a inside view: there's been a war from major media groups to try to take down Facebook and Google (let's see what they come up with for Amazon).

This solution for them is the best solution for news websites, that since 2013 have seen their advertising budgets being siphoned to Google and Facebook.

All because they cannot compete with their level of data granularity - and trust me they tried! Hell some tried to build their own data systems to have more refined targeting.

I can even tell you one of the solutions on the table was to force Google and Facebook to share their data with media groups.

So this "white knight in shinning armor" article, despite showing valid arguments, is most definitely biased, because it's in their best interest that contextual advertising prevails and interest/behavioral falls. For years their agenda is to get back media investment from the big boys.

So bare this in mind when you read these articles.
Here's my contribution to allow simple comparisons using series and small multiples, and to automatically shift curves with a calculated delay: https://boogheta.github.io/coronavirus-countries/
Discord servers are free. I fail to see how this was a move to make more money.
>anyway, i find windows 10 to be the superior os.
Why would you compare iOS to Windows 10?

The better comparison would be Mac OS X (Microsoft I noticed couldn't wait to get to 10, won't be long before they're calling it windows X I'm sure :))

I find Mac OS X to be the superior OS to Windows, since for yeeears I can run fantastic Mac apps and build and run fantastic Unix apps all on the same fantastic hardware.
source code https://github.com/mozilla/browser.html
It would be amiss not to mention:

- Brew (http://brew.sh/) - The missing package manager for OS X

- Alfred App (http://www.alfredapp.com/) - that lets you be more productive with hotkeys, keywords and file actions at your fingertips.

- Sublime Text (http://www.sublimetext.com/) - a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.

- Navicat (http://www.navicat.com/) - a GUI for various databases.
What do you sugest?
Thanks - I deleted it because I googled up the guy and realized he was actually a very reputed developer. So I removed this out of professional respect
Using a VPN or Tor Browser would probably work without the hassle of switching ISP.
I find it disturbing that you think clean parks are a white elephant. In any case, your list has things that directly improve people's day-to-day lives. Sending men to the moon consumed a huge amount of money, but to the average person, it was just bragging rights; we beat the russkies.
What are they going to use that money for?
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-losing-money-on-999-e-... This is outdated from 2009, but the pricing is pretty close to this still.
Thanks :-) Will check it out.
I am new in a city, with few friends. I need information on stuff like restaurants, library's, movie theatres, clubs, etc. I live in West Africa.
I was discussing doing some contracting work with someone, which I mentioned to a friend of mine, who told me not to sign anything before talking to him. A few days later I asked if that meant he was looking for contractors, I was working with them within a week.

tl;dr: I knew someone who had his own company.
I was going to ask the second part of your second question. The answer is, that by the time anyone knew a "cyber 9/11" was happening, the President himself could do nothing to stop it.

Further, this sort of security theater (or is it Security Burlesque?) doesn't really do anyone much good. It's far better to work toward policy and protocol that improves security a little bit across the board, rather than nit-pick little specific threats. For instance, throwing a lot of time and money at locking down SCADA at nuclear power plants isn't going to help as much as making sure there's a sane firewall review policy in place.

The answers to #1 would probably be:
a. Infiltration of networks belonging to Federal Government, Military, and private defense organizations. Maybe other massive-scale breaches of smaller government entities, hospitals, etc. - Communications shutdowns, leakage or destruction of data, etc. It's really hard to tell. I don't believe in a "Live Free or Die Hard" movie-plot "Firesale" scale of carnage, though.

b. If you look at Operation Aurora, though, and consider the fact that a dedicated team of skilled attackers could potentially sit in wait, persisting without causing much trouble, over long periods of time... you see where it could go.

c. Folks who don't like the U.S. but have strong technical skills. As you can imagine, that's not exactly a TINY group of people. They'd also need someone or a group of people who are good at coordinating things.
I write because it helps me think. Actually, it helps me learn what I'm thinking. It's one thing to have some vague ideas and beliefs floating around in your head, quite another to put it into words and make a cogent point.

I could do this for myself, keep it private, but the idea of making something public pushes me to be at least somewhat more rigorous. And getting feedback is fun and often educational.
I thought that was very clear.

"If that killer app vendor decides to support Android more effectively than they support Apple, or if for some reason they decided to drop the iPhone, that one vendor could have a devastating effect on Apple's position in the marketplace"
Another interesting snippet is that since Node switched out UDNS and GnuTLS for C-Ares and OpenSSL respectively, it no longer depends on any GPL or LGPL code. Everything seems to be MIT now: http://github.com/ry/node/blob/master/LICENSE

(See ~23:00 of the video)