jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The ISS is considerably higher up in orbit and as a result would have to cover more distance. It does not have enough fuel.
> Buffet's results are unlikely

That wasn't Buffets point; his point is that those who followed certain strategies of value investing consistently win and he gave examples. That's more than a random outcome.
The New York subway occasionally runs historic trains. They're kind of obnoxiously loud and rattly. I assume they were slightly better when they were younger, but I'll take air conditioning over ceiling fans whenever I can.

That said, there's something to be said for the inhumanity of stark modern designs: http://instagram.com/p/egILDiQAS2/

compared to the older ones: http://instagram.com/p/gbwdmTwAZM/
what we need is some nielsen families that have full videos of their everyday surfing - just whatever they're doing, 24/7, saved for posterity. Imagine seeing how someone used the 'net in 1994 and 2004. It would be an interesting museum, to say the least.
I read and really liked your story about going to Cambridge when you first posted it. Did you find a PhD helped you find more interesting gigs?
You're happy with a backup software that does not have compression? Really? You don't pay for storage?
Doesn't need an image based runtime either. Ruby's "pry" is inspired by Smalltalk, in that it's providing functionality to manipulate the running environment, edit and reload code etc., and continue. During development I almost always have a make target to drop me in a pry session with all the app code loaded and initialized so I can play with the code as it is actually used.
It doesn’t have to be that way. I’ve worked on plenty of code where the code at the end is barely the code we started with. Ship of Theseus style.
It's a hard to parse sentence, which is intentionally vague. It's weasel wording, basically.
Doesn't even have to be that bad of a use, appending an item to a long-lived list and never popping it is all that it would take.

Garbage collection != memory leak proof
> Art is the big gap here. Few could argue successfully that the world is not a better place for the creations of JS Bach, Kafka, Keats, Van Gogh, yet these people did not make their fortune from their life's passion and work. Only after their death were they appreciated for what they did in their figurative basements.

You're taking the exceptions (and actually Bach earnt quite well from music). Van Gogh was almost unique among his painting contemporaries, partly because his paintings were, by the standards of the time, weird (I suspect this applies to Kafka as well). And what vindicates him now is an ultimately capitalist consideration - his works are popular, people pay for copies of them. Nowadays there are capitalistic art speculators who will buy the work of underappreciated artists if they like it themselves - see the recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8829277 - which would solve that problem.

As for Kafka, he had a famously... weird approach to his work. IIRC he wanted his works destroyed; it's only the capitalism of his descendants that means we're able to appreciate them.
What I find interesting is that the question sets you up for finding something interesting, just like the recent "what are the chances that a random number contains the digit 3" (the answer was "the same as finding any other digit and this approaches 1 as the number gets larger e.g has more digits" - a not remarkable insight at all).

However, in a classroom setting, or anywhere one is doing maths for fun, this is a great idea - it requires good problem solving techniques to find the answer and it is the process not the outcome that is the game.
The paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00490
Although I love grape jelly... Its a better way for startups to offer a calling experience to their prospects and customers (sales and service.) Obviously, not all startups need/want to speak with customers (i.e. mobile games) but for the ones who do, their is this fear of doing so efficiently, elegantly. That's what Drumbi does. A few lines of code on your site (like setting up chat) and we orchestrate the data and voice session together. Happy to give you a demo if you simply go to Drumbi.com and click on the "contact us" button. Thanks for asking.
I really hope nobody takes this guys post seriously. For the one situation that I am personally familiar with, Western companies taking an interest in Indian villages has been a great boon to the locals.

There are many idealists in the West that don't understand what the impact is of even simple things that they take for granted. If a man provides fresh drinking water to a remote Indian village, and if the water comes in bottles with advertisements for products, it might seem evil to this guy, but actually, from the point of view of the villager, its still an unambiguously good thing.

Nobody at the bottom of the Pyramid cares whether or not they have to log into Google in order to access their free online classes from EdX, Udacity, Khan academy etc. They are just thankful to have that access, which they did not have in the past.

And beyond that, its not like they cannot create a profile with Google and then ignore it, and connect to the Internet outside of Google products. Its not like Google blocks access to other search engines, or to other competing services. You still have access to the Internet.

Also, its not even clear that you HAVE to make a Google ID to access Loon internet.

This poster should try some other mechanism ... some non-corporate mechanism, and try to bring some benefits to India. If he succeeds, then I will support his model.

I certainly won't withdraw support from Google over his bullshit blog post which has zero touch with reality.
Do you allow any of that untrusted code to run AS ROOT within a container, though? (If so: what capabilities do you allow it to have?)
The actual screenshot is hosted on twitpic now.
What your proposing to trade off (price for convenience) is another subjective measure. In my opinion, your approach would be an inconvenient number points and units to manage.
We changed the post to use the article's current title, which is consistent with what you're saying. (The submitted title was "Netflix blocks users streaming via VPN", which I think may also have been what the article originally said.)
Were any successfully prosecuted?
Yea, good approach. For some things though it's hard to estimate how long they will take so they end up just getting pushed to the back.
Learn to manage workspaces efficiently on my OS. I can't afford to open all the files for a project and get significant work done, so I keep more projects open at a time.

This one is one I have been doing and I have found that I end up getting distracted between segments. I think it's a good approach though and seems to be the most effective so far - it really helps "knock down" targets.
She hints at the fact that the info was gleaned from diaries and other writings from the working class. Well...it isn't explicitly stated that she used these so I guess some assumptions need to be made. I would say, for an article like this with a lay audience in mind, maybe it's not so important that everything is cited as it would be in a research paper or an article in a history journal.

"Not only are there the usual problems in uncovering evidence about the lives of the poor and often unlettered men and women who made up the bulk of the population, but sex is also a topic about which all levels of society were generally reticent. Yet, if evidence about the sexual behaviour of ordinary people is hard to find, it certainly exists.

Working-class diaries and autobiographies shed a unique and important light on the lives of the poor. While many autobiographical writers steered well clear of revealing anything about their intimate experiences, others found they were unable to write their life history without touching upon matters of a sexual nature. As a result such sources can help us to understand not only the social customs that controlled sexual activity in the pre-industrial era, but also the weakening of these controls during the turbulent years of the Industrial Revolution."
How would SSL improve things? Publishers are complicit here. They could include trackers in their SSL-enabled websites.
After a brief stint on Windows Phone, I recently switched back to Android and was mildly amused that, thanks to the lack of word wrap, the browsing experience on mobile Chrome was somehow worse than mobile IE.
pointless.
Increases the SNR of the internet so high, it's actually worth it. I'd rather spend more on memory and have a less annoying internet :).

Consider the technical solution alternatives, and getting people to use them. Now look at how easy it is to install ABP.
This is an interesting blog post, but I'm surprised about this part:

"[...] even though we have JavaScript code running in the browser, and it knows about the invalidation of a particular URL, it cannot tell the browser cache that the data at the end of that URL is now updated.

Instead, we keep a local cache inside the web page. This cache maps URL to JSON payload, and our wrapper on top of XMLHttpRequest will first check this cache, and deliver the data if it’s there. When we receive an invalidation request over IMQ, we mark it stale (although we may still deliver it, for example for offline browsing purposes.)"

I thought that the traditional approach to this would be to add a cache-buster [1] to the query string. Couldn't the Javascript code that knows there's a change update the cache-buster argument and refetch the URL? Then they wouldn't need their own cache implementation.

[1] A cache-buster is typically a random value (or timestamp) included as a query-string argument on the URL. This value has no meaning to the server, but because the URL string has changed the browser can't make any assumptions about what the return value would be, and is therefore forced to make a request to the server.

EDIT: I think I see now - what they refer to as "the cache" is more complex than I had thought; it seems somewhat more analagous to the state in a React app, in that it is triggering UI updates and isn't just a dumb layer between the client and server.
I did something like this in my garage, with chains hanging from the ceiling supporting the fronts of the shelves. It was strong and adjustable.

But yours look much better than mine.

Do the cables ever slip where they're attached to the shelves?
Same for me, I got an email recently that bug I starred has been closed. Pretty disappointing, this would open so many possibilities
The culture slides on Netflix's job site do make it seem like a scary place to work but at least they are transparent about what it's like to be employed there..
Paul is rapidly turning into one of my favorite bloggers. Long-form, candid, and a lot of actionable advice.
That's basically the only way to do it.
If it were really clever, it could ignore packets based on vendor extensions and device characteristics. They are not that easy to spoof (you would have to modify the driver, as opposed to just changing the MAC).

I actually use this method to use school WiFi anonymously (or rather, as someone else).
"A linked list of course has no direct analogy in the physical world"

First few that come to mind: conga line, necklace, bike chain and DNA. Tangentially, lines of people forming a queue or a push down stack of dishes or the number you pick at the deli counter for your turn forming a circular buffer. All of these are examples of physical world linked lists.
Some of the banks, are willing to hire people from outside the financial sector. You might get a lower rate for it initially, but it's definitely possible to break in.

The work culture depends very much on the bank, the British/French/German banks tend to be much less work obsessed than the American and Japanese ones.
I get you. Just yesterday I was thinking about how valuable everything these companies give us for free is, and how Google specifically has completely distorted what people's perceptions are on the value of software, especially email. Google can have 50 loss leaders that completely obliterate the ability to profit in certain segments for other companies, and they're so massive they don't even feel it.
Not really. Someone steals money, sends them to you, your are having lots of trouble proving you are not an accomplice. If you are a government official, you can be framed as receiving a bribe.

In russia government can send your organisation money from abroad via an agent and then shut you down as a 'foreign agent'.
The daily Microsoft bashing HN post. There are literally thousands of startups started by ex-Microsoft marketers, developers, sales people and they are doing great. Microsoft is definitely doing great as well.

People are smart and can adapt. They will fight for politics and budget in big organization and they will get work done at startups. Labeling someone as "non-hire" just because they worked in Microsoft is plain stupid. Neglecting so much success and real on the field experience - definitely not smart.

By the way, using the same logic - marketers from Google and Facebook shoud not be hired too? Or this will not appeal to the HN community, no Microsoft, so noone to hate.

Of course reading the OP author bio confirms that - senior positions at Siebel, IBM, etc - they are obviously THAT MUCH different from Microsoft, really. So much hypocrisy. So much bullshit.

Come on.
A good product design, those renderings are eye candy for tech blogs to repost, a great video, and people love rooting for the small guy. It's almost... why wouldn't it get a ton of press.
Depends of what you mean by fundamental. Every law is an incomplete description of a part of the universe. One of first things you do when coming across such a law, is test it. This not only determines whether it is valid, but, perhaps more importantly, where and when it is valid.

Think for example of Newton's law of gravitation. It works remarkably well in all the cases available at the time, with, perhaps[1], one exception: the behavior of Mercury was a bit funky.

Wait a few hundred years, and here comes a young jewish scientist called Einstein with a strange new law of gravitation that not only agrees perfectly with Newton in most cases, it also takes care of all the nagging exceptions that are known. We're still looking for further [2] exceptions to Einsteins general theory of relativity, but I have no doubt that eventually some one else will come along with a new fangled theory that will take care of those as well.

This is how science works. Laws are idealized approximations to the real world with well defined (although sometimes unknown) boundaries of applicability. Whenever we find ourselves too constricted by them we eventually create a better description that, by adding some complexity, will remove or at least expand, some of the boundaries.

If this is true in something as fundamental as gravitation, it will be even more so in anything that deals with Human Behavior. People like to be different (or at least thing they are) but there are basic constants and mechanisms that are present in each of us.

[1] I'm not sure whether or not the problem with Mercury was already known by Newton's time.

[2] So far the only place where it doesn't seem to work well is when quantum effects are present as well.
The feeling likewise: most C-level executives don't care about the well-being of their employees.
I agree, but in this case I'd say the problem seems to be 50/50 cofounders with no clear hierarchy for decision making. I've been burned by this too many times not to insist on a clear discussion up front on who has "last call" on product issues. Of course something like the quoted interaction is a symptom of a dysfunctional relationship and probably has very little to do with the actual issue at hand.
Lady Gaga.
Being able to choose your algorithm, or even being able to replace it with one of your own or a 3rd party would be a welcome innovation here. I can see this happening on Mastodon, but not for ad revenue driven social networks.
The instrument he is using with bells is called chimta (literally, tongs)
There's some precedent:

President Carter pardons draft dodgers

On January 21, 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter grants an unconditional pardon to hundreds of thousands of men who evaded the draft during the Vietnam War.

In total, some 100,000 young Americans went abroad in the late 1960s and early 70s to avoid serving in the war. Ninety percent went to Canada, where after some initial controversy they were eventually welcomed as immigrants. Still others hid inside the United States. In addition to those who avoided the draft, a relatively small number–about 1,000–of deserters from the U.S. armed forces also headed to Canada. While the Canadian government technically reserved the right to prosecute deserters, in practice they left them alone, even instructing border guards not to ask too many questions.

<https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-carter...>

(Not an endorsement of a mass pardon of all Parler members.)
If I posted AOC's tweets and statements in support of BLM and represented them without attribution as being legitimate views in support of the magas... what would be FB's reaction?

E.g. a tweet from AOC:

'The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable.

Activists take that discomfort w/the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows.

To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable... that's the point.'
That's why I was there already, along with a few of those friends who used to be part of various WhatsApp groups as well - and they've convinced large groups of pissed off WhatsApp users to download and use Signal today.

I don't know how many of the new Signal users will stay (there's already discussion in one of the new Signal groups about "Why aren't we using Telegram instead?")

Same as much of this thread - these people are not concerned much at all about encryption details, they're largely a pissed of mob of people departing WhatsApp. And some of them are already saying "there's no web client! I can't use this!!!"

I suspect I may well end up back being "the guy who's not part of most group chats" if/when they decide Signal isn't for them... And I'm OK with that.
Twitter left up the message telling people to go home, and took down the tweets saying they were special people doing important work, that the election was actually a landslide victory for him, and was being stolen.
What, did curl not work?
> I have yet to see any strong evidence that the election wasn't conducted properly.

Well have you seen any evidence at all? What evidence would you expect to see and where have you looked?

> I have see a lot of people on HN make vague statements along the lines of "there are things that suggest that some shady things may have taken place". Every one of these statements was unsourced, and carried a general subtext that any claim of fraud automatically deserved attention and belief, no matter how little evidence was provided, and that the burden on proof should lie on people refuting these claims.

Why didn't they just link to [0]?

> The burden of proof is on you for making extraordinary claims. The claims of widespread fraud should require extraordinary evidence as well, and there really hasn't been any.

Well I think its extraordinary to claim (without evidence) that an adversarial process with high stakes and poor process controls was not corrupted.

[0] https://apelbaum.wordpress.com/2020/12/03/the-georgia-ballot...
Only difference is that we've learned that third-party ad placements are much lower quality and barely worth the ad spend. YouTube ads are highly valuable since they're effectively first-party and will offer high(er) assurances of whether clicks are legitimate. And, as mentioned below, people willing to pay for YT Premium are probably more valuable than the average viewer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858
I can't recall exactly, but I wasn't impressed with their web interface, and I think I was having long delays with push email to my phone. Also, it seemed 'heavy' - I just wanted email and calendar.

(this would have been a few years ago though, so YMMV)
Right. This way, you aren’t approximating the circle. And if you were, the area would converge to the right number. Areas are good this way, unlike lengths which is what the post is about.
Sigh, so when are we sending kids to die in North Korea?

Because North Korea doesn't even have the electric infrastructure or appliances to explain that development for a power plant.

This is all going to end very badly.
That sounds brillant. Do you have pictures of it that you could share?
http://www.supersaas.com
Doing exceedingly well, thank you, and growing like mad still. (no funding needed, cash positive from day one)
I once had a consulting client who wanted to apply for patents on my work. And since the client was a small movie firm run by two former lawyers, I knew they had the ability to make things rather ugly.

In this case, I made two statements to the client:

1) Professionally, I did not believe the work was either original or non-obvious, and that for me to sign a declaration otherwise would be perjury.

2) Their agreements with me did not allow for them to patent my work (something for which I read contracts very carefully and seek professional advice on as needed).

They backed down pretty quickly at that point.

You might have luck with a similar approach: If there's something legally improper about the inventorship, or your school does not actually have the legal ability to compel you to patent your work, you may be able to get them to back down in a hurry by laying out the facts of the matter.

But I am not a lawyer, and if the school persists in this behavior, you'll want to speak with a good patent lawyer. You may want to call a couple of patent lawyers and describe the situation to them. You can usually learn a little bit about the merits of your case before they start charging. :-)
Hmh. Its 1 AM here. Give me some time to sleep and think over that. You might be right: I can't remember why I thought the squares would go geometric. I thought I had a better reason than "It looks that way on the picture, kinda...", but it eludes me.
OS X which is really nice... beats the pants off of the "traditional" taskbar model seen in XP and most Linux distros

That's a matter of personal preference. I personally loathe the way OSX forces me to decide between Apple-Tab vs Apple-Tilde. I just want to switch.

But to be fair, it's absolutely annoying and stupid Microsoft Office applications decide they need two entries in the stack. For example, why does having n Excel workbooks open require n+1 entries? No other applications do that as far as I know.
Awesome, thank you. I'm a bit rusty on best practices since I've shifted my focus away from php, but it's nice to know that options to make it behave a bit more high level exist.
Over at Everything2.com we discussed this 10 years ago:
http://everything2.com/title/2%255E.5+%253D+2
Why? OpenBSD's implementation makes sense to me.

> FreeBSD has this

OpenBSD ≠ FreeBSD, and that's fine.
Adam Smith's discussions of labor wages include a discussion of the regularity of work, and skills. See Wealth of Nations, book 1, chapter 8. Online at Project Gutenberg.
It got deleted, a little context so that I understand?
First the great firewall of Australia, now this.

Our govt really are the worlds biggest luddites.
Someone couldn't come up with a better source than Aljazeera? Seriously?