jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Space is full of a LOT of empty space. Maybe even more amazing to myself, is the scale works almost the same in inverse. There's also a lot of space at the tiniest scales.

Scale of our solar system: http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...
Secrecy buys Apple:

- Protection of IP until a few weeks from launch date
- Rapt attention for what amounts to a PR presentation
- Synchronized media buzz for new products
- Strong early sales leading to additional media buzz
I think you can find a better name that does more justice
It seemed to be the ones that included latex math mode were true.
A cool brand name they probably thought long and hard about before adopting it. A brand that will have resonance with the general population at the cost of alienating some developers. This is what 'crossroads between liberal arts and technology' is about; changing the pecking order in the technology business: Apple first, normal people second, developers a distant third.
I don't think that is true, and I am sure Apple doesn't think that is true.

Whatever you say about Apple, they very carefully manage there brand, and part of that is keeping things secret, controlled releases of information, and building up large buzz before there regular announcements. It seems to be working for them.
Thanks for writing it up. I enjoy reading "success stories for the rest of us" sorts of things by people who aren't already famous, backed by VC's, etc...

Rob Walling's book, "Start Small, Stay Small" has some pretty good advice for those of us in that boat: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YH9MMI?ie=UTF8&tag=...
No! That is how a fascist system works.
Thanks for writing this article. Looking at the timeline and the slowish traction really gives balance to the i-built-a-5000-a-day-app-in-three-days-in-my-PJs articles that tend to dominate the news. It's a good look at building an actual product that shows it's not all roses and hockey-stick adoptions.
> I am also concerned by the willingness of communications companies to respond to requests without warrants.

You probably don't want to read this then: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/warrantless-eavesdr...

It’s easy to forget these days, but former President George W. Bush’s illegal warrantless surveillance program was never halted by Congress, nor by the Obama administration. It was merely legalized in a 2008 law called the FISA Amendments Act. That means the surveillance of Americans’ international phone calls and internet use — complete with secret rooms in AT&T data centers around the country — is likely still ongoing.
Will you guys ever do something like this:

http://cache-scale.appspot.com/c/www.reddit.com/

but officially supported (and paid for) by you?
Let's start with that I didn't downvote the comment you've now changed that one into. I downvoted something else and I think it's at least a bad tone to liberally edit comments.

Second, the original comment said nothing about you being part of the community. It looked like poor self-promotion of some musical piece I didn't find interesting, let alone unique or "unconventional".

I don't really understand what kind of "disconnection" you are trying prove. In any case, please don't vandalize others' votes.
The difference is in the word "utility".

In the 90s, hosting was a fixed quantity for a fixed price.

In the 00/10s, hosting is whatever you need whenever you need it and pay for whatever you use.

It's like going from chopped wood to an electric grid, a radical transformation of technology and business models.
> I'd say that the point of 'going public' is to provide liquidity to existing shareholders (e.g. founders, employees, outside investors). There are other ways to raise money, if that's all you want.

Actually, the point of an IPO is to raise money, from the public markets. It's an Initial Public Offering, and the company can raise more at a later date by issuing more shares. The liquidity wouldn't exist if people didn't want those shares.

The IPO just happens to be a convenient time for current shareholders to sell their stake (as part of the offering) but even then, there are rules about how they can do that (lock-in periods, etc)
Try JetBrains, WebStorm, it's a great IDE for JavaScript. It's much more handy than VB6's IDE.
What is your source for the 15% number? In SF, UberX costs the same as taxis per mile, has no tip but a higher minimum, and surges regularly to 1.75x or more every time there is high demand, such as on weekends
How could this password even be “leaked”, it’s so trivial that it would be on a list of first 10 passwords you would guess.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes the thread even worse. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful. Note that they include:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."
What the bloody hell are you on about? The company highlighted in this article has a legit product. They are being copied by scammers selling half-assed fakes on Facebook, Etsy, etc.
I am pretty sure that E2E encryption is impossible today if you are using a WebRTC SFU since there's no spec for it. The closest thing is PERC Lite [1] which no browsers support, though maybe you could cobble something together native.

Is there some path I didn't know about?

1. https://www.meetecho.com/blog/meetecho-and-cosmo-strike-agai...
The heat death of universe is true based on current state of our understanding. Nothing says that it won't change in next million years - that's a monumentally long time in exponential rate of human progress.

We've been wrong about a lot of things in the past and if people had made up their mind about the meaning of life before Kepler, we would have thought that we are the center of the solar system. Therefore, we are the most important thing in the Universe.

Not knowing something is a boon - it rallies optimism that one day we will find what that unknown thing is. Religion does the opposite - not knowing something is replaced by faith and god.

Meaning of life - my personal opinion - is to lead a good life, help humans understand mother nature, how she really works, and give back to the world before we are turned into dust. That's the purpose and I am content with it.
My first visit was in 1966. I remember being quite enchanted with it, having had no idea such a place existed.
The NAMES Project Quilt.
I was never able to articulate this, thank you. It seems I think better when talking (very fast) than when writing or thinking. Why is that?
And yet a ten year timeline is obviously nonsense. When these reactors were built in the 1970s, groundbreaking to power production was often 5 years.

Why is the process much worse now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_Nuclear_Power_Station
Strength training has changed my life. I did martial arts a bit over the years, but this has made more difference (for so much less effort) than anything else I've done.
Yup that is what I would do. Slightly higher latency for the first coffee but the higher throughput is worth it.

Pipelining for the win.
What do you need a TI ROM for? Programming a full-featured TI emulator on a modern OS is a college-level programming assignment.
That's a good point actually. Regardless of your personal opinion on the applicability of the clause, if your company's lawyers say you can't use FB's software, you're pretty much out of luck. I wonder how many companies and developers have been effectively blocked out of the ecosystem as a result.
When using a photo as a source it feels like you're just taking someone else's vision and photocopying it on a canvas.

There are lots of ways of using a photo as a source. A lot of the 'art' comes from choosing which techniques and paints and colors to use to capture the feeling you are after. You can also choose to make choices like adding/removing elements, changing the field of view or moving the point of view, playing with perspective etc. to make the composition more interesting.

You can give the same photo to 100 different artists and you will get back 100 different paintings with 100 different artistic choices, some of which will appeal to you on an artistic level a lot more than others.
That’s the Actual reason for using the monitoring - understand consumption and try to reduce usage. Unfortunately this is how the home is heated. I’ve remodeled and added insulation. Thought about going gas, but recent energy prices have made me rethink that approach.

In the winter of 2019–2020, about 5.5 million households in the United States used heating oil (distillate fuel oil) as their main space heating fuel, and about 81% of those households were in the U.S. Northeast

In 2019, residential consumers in the Northeast used about 2.9 billion gallons of heating oil, equal to about 86% of total U.S. residential heating oil sales.2
In 2019, residential consumers in the Northeast used about 2.9 billion gallons of heating oil, equal to about 86% of total U.S. residential heating oil sales.
Is there any way to know if my Gmail message will be protected by StartTLS before I press 'Send'? That is, is there a Google API that takes the recipient email address and tells me if StartTLS will be used?
Remember, "offensive" is transitive: to whom is something offensive?

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679... : India had its own idea of what is unacceptable. ISTR there may be no map which is legal in both India and Pakistan.
I am really happy that I took the time to teach myself Racket in supplement to (really more importantly than) my introductory programming classes in Java. I was way better equipped to design programs in a good way because of it.
In case anyone hasn't heard of it, Asm.JS is basically trying to turn JavaScript into a similar standard. Combine that with sourcemaps in browser debugger tools and we're really close. I've been using clojurescript recently, and I can even connect a REPL to the browser and make on-the-fly changes just like we've always been able to do with JavaScript.
This could revolutionize SCA combat (and let me keep all my teeth!)
Sure, there is. You should read slides by agentzh:

http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-scripting/

http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/recent-dev-nginx-conf/
I've had a similar interest lately, to freshen up on some higher maths that I've studied in school and mostly forgotten due to lack of use. Calculus, linear algebra, statistics; I feel like it would be good to review some cliff notes, but not sure of a good source.
Careful if you have a 3G -- twitter reports are saying the new OS is even slower than 3.x:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=ios4%203g%20slow
yup you are right, sorry
I'm in. Morrisville would be a good location for me too.
Having worked on an FDA approved device, may I be the first to say STAY AWAY. I understand the rationale -- I look around at the sort of software every job except one I've worked at produces and am literally terrified of the idea of that software being the basis of medical decisions. The one place I felt built OK software had a nearly one to one ratio of qa to software developers. Nonetheless, having the FDA approve every software update is beyond frustrating, slow, and extremely expensive. Few things suck more than hearing people complain about bugs you fixed a year ago when you can't distribute updates to them until they get approved.

On the other hand -- I've seen software from an employer I won't name that informed a Dr that his patient was not pregnant. Which was good since the patient is male. And not postop male, but bio male. You see a few visible fuckups like this and get awfully skittish.
the more I hear about this, the more I have to think it's just "because they're evil" and "because they can".
Sadly, even the chairmen of central banks ignore the most important contribution to inflation: wages.

The reason why we have deflation in Japan and Europe despite almost zero rates and even additional quantitative easing is because nominal median wages there are actually falling.

It is very easy to make sure to have an inflation of 2%: Just raise the minimum wage 2% each year. Thats it.

Example that inflation correlates strongly with wages for the EWU:

http://www.flassbeck-economics.de/wp-content/uploads/2013/03...
>we'd be in negative interest rate territory

Risk adjusted market returns are clearly in negative territory otherwise we wouldn't have these piles of idle reserves even at -2% real return.

> for malinvestments (e.g. the shale oil industry...

Malinvestment is not something that exists under any mathematically consistent macroeconomic model but even if we try to tie the word to a somewhat sensical meaning, the most "malinvested" form of savings, short of using the money to hire people to destroy property, is to keep the savings as excess idle money. Savings have a return of near -100% to the aggregate economy when they are turned into uninvested idle fiat. The returns are even lower than -100% if you consider the welfare paid to the unemployed this results in.

Even if the shale oil industry gets a very poor return of -50% it would still be better for economic value creation than building excess fiat. Of course central banks did not cause the shale oil troubles as they set their rate to imply anything not having at least -2% risk adjusted real returns is not worth doing. Shale oil went way below that because of factors independent of central banks.

If a monetary bubble ends up bursting it will be because central banks have been too tight, making fiat keep its value above market safe returns and getting people and banks to stockpile it instead of investing in the private economy, effectively turning savings into mere intrinsically valueless paper which doesn't have any economic activity, any stuff or means of production to back them.
You can't register via Tor on HN. I wonder if you can do that on reddit. Then there's always the email account thing, but if you were careful from day one, you could get away with it.

Hosting AMAs is both stupid and provocative IMHO when you're a drug dealer.
But the only way to save Dinohatten is by transporting it to our own dimension!
I've edited mine before if I notice there is cruft like campaign trackers, etc., to get to the canonical URL (i.e., I made a mistake submitting). I am not "accusing" you of anything, I am wondering why the dupe detector does not work. It's of interest to me especially since I rely on the submission here to do an atomic "Submit or vote this up" action instead of polluting things.
There's a good wiki on Starting Strength at http://startingstrength.wikia.com/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=789517
(the longest discussion on this so far, I think)
Python/Lisp/Ruby/Perl/Whatevermakesyouhappy.

Note all the hubbub about functional languages:

1. Common Lisp, scheme (ML/haskell people argue they're not fully FP).

2. Haskell and erlang have been evolving since the 80's into really powerful constructs.

3. Scala, clojure, F#, JRuby, groovy for JVM and .NET CLR.

4. OCaml, SML, some other ML's.

5. And also some you don't hear about so much: clean, dylan
Some of these edits seem really questionable when laid out like this.

Pew Research: 2.2% of Americans produce 97% of political tweets

↓

Small share of U.S. adults produce majority of tweets on national politics

Why remove the exact figures?

Former Apple chip executives found company to take on Intel, AMD

↓

Three of Apple and Google’s former star chip designers launch NUVIA

Isn't "star designers" more subjective than "executives"?

1.2B people exposed in data leak includes personal info, LinkedIn, Facebook

↓

Personal and social information of 1B people discovered in data leak

Why make the headline less informative? Data leaks happen regularly. Data leaks from Facebook and LinkedIn has different implications than a leak from LexisNexis or a random blog.

Cloudflare open-sources Flan Scan, a network vulnerability scanner

↓

Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner

Again, why remove info? The fact that CloudFlare is behind this is more interesting than yet another random tool.

Mozilla: “Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default”

↓

Dear Facebook: Stop cross site tracking by default

Same complaint. This distinguishes a random person making a random gripe from freakin' Mozilla who has the control to make Facebook's tracking more difficult.

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Every single one of these headlines actually are less informative or less interesting (in general, of lower quality) than their original submissions. They actually served to make HN less informative. WTF?

That gripe aside, most of the edits are useful (typo fixing, adding dates, and such). These just leave me scratching my head.
That's roughly 12-16 hours work assuming 5-10 minutes per machine. Worst case, first pass. And you can improve on it pretty easy. If it were me, I would do a first pass check: "who has a heart beat?" Just blast through them and eliminate the obvious duds.

Round up a couple, maybe few light, cheap monitors, some longer cables, and lug the whole mess into a room with some floor space.

Get a friend or two, setup some power strips, line 'em up, and plug them in. Do batches. Maybe 5 to 10 a pop.

Will they do anything useful on power up, even if that's to display some kind of status screen?

Best case is you plug monitor in and see that. Worst case, is you plug monitor and keyboard in and have to smack a key or something to see if they've got a heart beat.

This kind of first pass sort can potentially save you a lot of time. Put your focus into the functional ones and a better setup.

You can get this done in a day. Even if it's just you, maybe they only need a few minutes each, and you can overlap some of that by working in groups of several machines.

Get pizza, coffee, whatever and just bust it out. That isn't the whole task, but will give you the lay of the land.

While doing that work, formulate how to setup a more functional test bed. Offload that onto someone, or chip away at it for a couple hours each day. Or, bust that out too.

Have you got a deadline, or is this just a PITA?

If deadline, do the math and get help from somewhere, maybe from whoever stuck you with a pile of thin clients! And if it's you, well?

Just do it. Quick, dirty. Get it over with.
Newer antidepressants have less/different side-effects compared to older antidepressants like Prozac.

5-HT1A agonism relieves a lot of symptoms commonly associated with SSRIs, so does antagonism of 5-HT2A, 5-HT2C (Prozac does this), 5-HT3, 5-HT7 and certain adrenergic receptors. Some newer drugs target these receptors.
Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the hostile. Amidst hostile men we dwell free from hatred.

Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the afflicted (by craving). Amidst afflicted men we dwell free from affliction.

Happy indeed we live, free from avarice amidst the avaricious. Amidst the avaricious men we dwell free from avarice.

Happy indeed we live, we who possess nothing. Feeders on joy we shall be, like the Radiant Gods.

Victory begets enmity; the defeated dwell in pain. Happily the peaceful live, discarding both victory and defeat.

There is no fire like lust and no crime like hatred. There is no ill like the aggregates (of existence) and no bliss higher than the peace (of Nibbana). [17]

Hunger is the worst disease, conditioned things the worst suffering. Knowing this as it really is, the wise realize Nibbana, the highest bliss.

Health is the most precious gain and contentment the greatest wealth. A trustworthy person is the best kinsman, Nibbana the highest bliss.

Having savored the taste of solitude and peace (of Nibbana), pain-free and stainless he becomes, drinking deep the taste of the bliss of the Truth.

Good is it to see the Noble Ones; to live with them is ever blissful. One will always be happy by not encountering fools.

Indeed, he who moves in the company of fools grieves for longing. Association with fools is ever painful, like partnership with an enemy. But association with the wise is happy, like meeting one's own kinsmen.

Therefore, follow the Noble One, who is steadfast, wise, learned, dutiful and devout. One should follow only such a man, who is truly good and discerning, even as the moon follows the path of the stars.

--
Sukhavagga: Happiness
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/dhp/dhp.15.budd.h...
"Is this really the best humanity has got -- the side effect of a decades-old weapons program?"

You mean, like integrated circuits, GPS, and the Internet?
It seems hard to extrapolate a long-term boom-bust cycle from those graphs. SF may be more sensitive to national trends, but I only see two clear busts, and one was 2008, during which housing markets collapsed almost everywhere. The earlier one coincides with the 2001 downturn and dot-com bust. You'd probably see echoes of those busts in plenty of other housing markets.
"Craigslist: the company that made IP address masking illegal."

I hope Craig figures out how to unwind this. It would be a terrible legacy to have your good fame traded for bad.

Who wants to be the big company that fought a startup so hard that it created new internet restrictions for the rest of us? I wish they had just bought 3taps and added the functionality.
Reading the sample and it is interesting so far. Elon is awesome!

Can you disclose how many people bought the book or what price they picked(median price)?
"Google in December announced a program to give its Chromebook computers to schools for $99 each."

That's an interesting use of "give."

Anyway, the idea of an ad free search engine hits right at the heart of Google's business. While I know many adults who are unconcerned about their own online privacy, many of them have serious concerns about their children's.

Google is entangled with Schmidt's creepy line.
Not really...you'd still need to be online which isn't always the case.
Did Magento development for 2-years. The company I used to work for decided to go all-in and build a SaaS product on top of Magento to compete with Shopify. Always thought it was a stupid idea.

That said, this website got a facelift because I remember googling "fuck magento" 6-years ago and this URL was the first match. Obviously I wasn't the only one who hated it.
it's fine for lots of things and equally terrible at lots of things. It basically picks up the slack from google, i think. DDG isn't a real alternative, but it does things for me that google can't and vice versa. So i think that 85% of the time it's a good alternative. Of course there's the problem that i can't know what i'm not shown, and it's hard to talk about what i don't know.