jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> You did not present a reasoned argument as to why this is a mistake. Taxes are one way to incentivize behavior AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, historically.

I did. I argued:

1) The goal of incentivizing/deincentivizing behavior comes into conflict with the goal of raising revenue for government services. For example, people have suggested high taxes on cigarettes and gasoline. But if you significantly reduce consumption of products, then you limit the ability of the government to raise revenue from sales of those products.

2) It's a free country, and thus the government has no business trying to do Skinnerean behavior modification on the populace. IMO that's a pretty disgusting idea and reeks of totalitarianism.

3) Income taxes do not actually stop people in any way from trying to better themselves financially. There is simply no empirical evidence of this.

> "fair" has a philosophical answer, not an objective one.

Yes, so?
Much appreciated. I'm partial to streaming soma.fm next to it
Please no! I come here to learn. I go to reddit for AMA and jokes and other ways to waste time. This is Hacker News not chitchat time.
No Microsoft achieved dominance in the PC space because it was the "safe" choice. IBM PCs were not cheap back in the day, but neither were Selectrics and in the business world, "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." Once Windows came along, businesses had the choice of keeping compatibility with their existing PC software and hardware or starting over with Macintosh. Most made the easy choice. And consumers who used PCs at work typically bought the same platform for home so they could install pirate copies of Wordperfect or Lotus 123 or Microsoft Word/Excel from the office.

Unlike then, in the mobile space, and now the tablet space, Apple has won the huge market share position. Microsoft, Palm, and others have been working for years on the platforms but never quite got it right for the mass consumer market. Apple did. Will Android beat them? Remains to be seen but I don't see this as history repeating itself at all.
How many analogies was that?
GNU Emacs users have tramp-mode for this.
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode
Many of the things Alan espoused are now mainstream, and more is coming down the pike. I'd say they won. It's actually not that their way won so much, but that they are privy to certain thing that are true -- were privy before most of the rest of us.

Exercise for the reader: what are the things I refer to?
Unfortunately, realizing this is not enough. You need your partner to realize it too, or you're out of luck. Good luck presenting a ring of ruby or sapphire; even though they are far prettier stones IMHO, every girl I've met has diamonds stamped into her heart.
> who suggested a theory that seemed outlandish at first but is making more and more sense to me: Steve Jobs just isn’t bent on world domination.

Hard to understand how that idea could be outlandish considering how many times Steve himself has repeated it.
The images pixelate even in full screen mode, it's hardly designed for high rez print-outs. Quite hard to print with the hover effect.
Not if ATT's new data pricing catches on to home broadband in US (not likely, but not impossible either).
Edit: Ah, slide 31 mentioned it..
I thought it's more like an investment.
This should may help you, and other interested persons determine whether or not marg bar Amrika is to be taken literally, or is indeed an idiom (btw, it is):

In Persian, "Death to America" is "marg bar Amrika"

Common Persian phrases, and these are everyday phrases in Iran include:

1) Marg! Literally, Death!, closest we have in English: Shut up!

2) Khabare margesh! Literally, the news of his/her death! This is used with someone you don't like, as in, you're only interested in the news of that persons death (perhaps a politician is a typical example).

3) Boro bemir! Literally, Go die! Again, in English, the equivalent is along the lines of Shut Up!

4) Che margeshe? Literally, what's his death? Used mostly for objects, such as when your car won't start.

5) Marge man, literally, my death. Used when you are swearing you are telling the truth.

Iranians have so many idioms/expressions/figures-of-speech related to Death, this is just a small sample.
> If PPP is 21.3 (2019 data) between USA and India, a Harley Davidson in India should be 21.3 times cheaper than a Harley Davidson in USA. It isn't. The cost is pretty much the same. So is the case with iPhones. Even if iPhones are manufactured in India it would still cost slightly less than in USA. It will never be 21.3 times cheaper.

PPP does not mean that Harley Davidson in India would be 21.3 times cheaper. It means that the value of Harley Davidson in India in US$ would be equivalent in the US when the price is 21.3x

If you do not like PPP, you can use another metric to normalise prices. But, you can not simply compare two goods in two different currencies by taking an exchange rate. You need a normalisation factor. Every metric has its shortcoming - pick one but don't compare absolutes.
It's not commitment if it's voluntary play.
I tend to be on your side of the fence but I have to nitpick your argument:

At these companies, algorithms and the basics are fundamentally important. Because you tend to work on tiny parts of a massive whole, there is no tolerance for cowboy-coding and not following best-practices. IMO the interviews test that you can fall in line and follow the patterns that have been in place for decades.

With regards to using API design as something that is not assessed: System design questions do test this. Also at a company like FB, there's a handful of people designing APIs that are at the top of the pyramid, and even then long-standing conventions around API design at those companies will short-circuit the need for most devs to think about how to organize and name their endpoints.

At my small startup where most of us write an API endpoint, it's important to know. For a UI dev or someone optimizing DB lookups at massive software companies, API design is not something that needs to be tested.

Personally I can admit to feeling frustrated that passing these types of interviews is not my forte. It sucks that I would have to study for weeks to not flop these interviews even though I consider myself a good software engineer. But that doesn't 100% invalidate their interview process.
You means something like this? http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de/ada/units.htm
I used it a bunch back when it was Piwik (why did they change the name, it was great!) and have been quite satisfied.

Yet, though at least it isn't cloud based, it's still quite scary what kinds of things it will tell you about your visitors.
Well, if there is no demand from the user side, then apparently it's not very important.

For a vendor, creating, maintaining and supporting on-prem software is more expensive than cloud software, which means it will have a higher price. Don't see users willing to pay a higher price, if it's not considered important.
I think this is what Facebook got fined for earlier, right? (With the caveat that it did not lead to a reversal of the regulatory approval of the merger, because it was not contingent on this.)
One cann do this in Python, or any other language for that matter:

def quicksort ( xs ):
if len(list) == 0:
return []
else:
less = [x for x in xs[1:] if x <= xs[0]]
more = [x for x in xs[1:] if x > xs[0]]
return less + [xs[0]] + more

Not the most efficient implementation in either.
Operating at such a low volume introduces other problems similiar like surgeons doing too few procedures and therefore not gaining enough routine
But Stripe doesn't charge different percentages.
All I can find is in this whitepaper, and it doesn't go into detail: https://www.cloudflare.com/static/media/pdf/cloudflare-white...
I myself have quite severe Bipolar-Type Schizoaffective Disorder.

Among my symptoms are visual hallucinations, paranoia, delusions (other than paranoid delusions), depression which can be suicidal, actual suicide attempts - no suicide completions so far :-D - a euphoric state known as mania, which can feel good to some extent but, when extreme, is far worse than all the other symptoms - sleep disturbances (at times insomnia, other times hypersomnia), catatonia and flat affect, that is, an inability to outwardly express my emotions. My flat affect makes it difficult to connect to other people, which itself can lead to depression.

However, the specific reason that I work as a coder, is that computer programming accomodates my illness in a way that physics does not. (My degree is in Physics, not Computer Science.)

I hated coding with a passion at my first full-time programming job, I wasn't any good at it, and fully intended to do just about anything else once I was able to find a "real job".

However I happened to notice that I could still write software even when I was floridly paranoid. I mean like that NAZIs having Panzer exercises in the office parking lot. I didn't see any soldiers or weaponry when I looked directly out the window but when I turned away I could feel their presence.

I decided to stick with programming in part because of that, as well as some other reasons.

These days I am contemplating going back to complete my Physics PhD. What I find these days is rampant age discrimination, as well as no one believing that my resume is for real.

I wrote my first computer program in 1976, in FORTRAN, with a pencil on a coding form, then typed it into a paper teletype terminal, where it ran on an IBM 360 mainframe. That box was so expensive that the University of Idaho had just that one computer for the entire campus to share. I'm pretty sure it had magnetic core memory.
Irreverent... What don't you understand about the maintainers are volunteers?
Hardly a new idea:

http://www.mgateway.com/docs/universalNoSQL.pdf
> Another man allegedly showed up in the nation's capital with an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and told acquaintances that he wanted to shoot or run over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, prosecutors said.

Wonder if this is what makes lawmakers consider some sensible gun regulation...
Came here thinking there would be some discussion of Cylance and TrustPipe, two startups that use machine learning to identify good and bad and filter out the bad. Cylance looks at markers on file artifacts, TrustPipe at network traffic.
I'm not sure I agree -- it's my experience that too often `practical concerns' become an excuse to teach faddish details of what is being done in the `real world' now, instead of provide any sense of the parts of the field which don't change with each new technology.

I'd rather teach a new hire who had worked through a curriculum built around SICP[1] or HtDP[2] the languages and technologies we actually use here -- even though we never write a line of scheme -- then teach a student who got a four year `Computer Science' education focused on the details of a particular programming language or technology stack how to use that very stack to accomplish lasting things...

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/

[2] http://www.htdp.org/
"...only actual asset they got was the domain name mysql.com"

Not true. Apart from the domain, they also got the MySql brand name. More importantly though than that they got the ability to sell MySql licenses.

But wait you say, MySql is free... Well, yes and no. It's free for a limited subset of cases, for the rest you need a license. Now the code can be forked forever, but only Sun (now Oracle) can sell commercial licenses.

MySql is a big deal for Oracle because they are effectively the only ones that can change the licensing conditions for MySql. All MySql forks have to be licensed under the GPL.
It seems like you're using a colloquial meaning of the phrase "need for cognition", but it has a specific well defined meaning in psychology (see the link in the blog post for a brief description, or Cacioppo, Feinstein, and Jarvis PB 1996, 197-253 for a deeper description). Whether or not NFC measures anything meaningful, and whether or not a single scale factor is sufficient for account for NFC are possibly valid objections, but that it doesn't sound like using facebook requires cognition isn't. That's actually the point. Here's a correlation between NFC and some behavior that isn't particularly cognitively intensive.

As for the criticism that it's correlation and not causation, NFC has been shown to be relatively stable, so it's extraordinarily unlikely to be the case that facebook usage lowers NFC. It's possible there's an unknown confounding variable, but no one's going to look into that until a correlation's been established, so it's unfair to attack this study for establishing the link which may get other people to study this more deeply.
You missed the thing! It starts after the video finishes!
I've never used Rails or Heroku, so I have a question - how many companies can depend on deploying to Heroku? Is it really flexible enough?

As long as you don't write to the file system, and you don't need non-web, non-worker, non-cron server processes, you're probably OK on Heroku. You also have to be willing to trust Amazon and Salesforce, which isn't too big a stretch in many industries.

Their WebSocket support is still in beta, and it's not clear whether it supports Comet on non-WebSocket browsers: http://addons.heroku.com/pusher

On the other hand, if you need to respond to ZeroMQ messages, or if you need to poll S3 every 5 seconds, Heroku's just not going to work for you. In that case, you can either toss everything onto a server running Phusion Passenger, or set up a real deployment infrastructure with Chef (or Puppet). This can take up to 2 days for a sufficiently messy project, assuming you want to fully automate everything, and I agree that's it's not fun.

(Edit: Chef provides pre-packaged deployment instructions for Apache, Unicorn, Rails, ha_proxy, a database, etc. This takes a couple of days to work through the tutorials and set everything up. The setup is a bit of a drag, but it's sweet once everything is working.)
That's cool, but I like the Google Command Line interface even more:

http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

I was blown away the first time I edited Google doc using vim, hit ":wq" (save), and saw my changes reflected instantly in my browser, where I had opened the same document.

The Oauth authentication was also pretty cool. Instead of asking for your Google credentials every time / saving them on your machine, the first GoogleCL use opens a browser window, prompts you to log into your Google Account, and asks you to authorize the Google CL client. You may then revoke this permission at any time (like any Oauth token).
Aha. I've now seen the somewhat-discussed green username. Too bad you can't fake a decades-old HN registration. :-)
This is kind of a shallow assessment in itself. I'm a social butterfly, let me spread my wings and network! Trivial little snippets of life between me and my best friends, extended social circle and local arts scene all amount to a conveniant and rewarding way to passively share time with friends.
you spelled "kook" wrong, independant of the quality of the broth.
I completely agree.

The MacBook Pro Retina 13" is almost the same weight and size as a MacBook Air 13". It no longer makes sense to keep the Air around as a "lighter" alternative.

IMHO, both the Air and the non-retina-Pro are going away. Keeping just the MacBook and the retina-Pro is what makes sense the most (the rest are just cheaper alternatives, and Apple doesn't generally do cheap).
If you are referring to the profanity filter demo on our website, that is only active for English. Here is a list of the languages our full version licenses support:

http://www.webpurify.com/documentation/additional/language/
Now that is strange, since Amazon specifically touted that Silk was being powered by EC2 instances. Almost certainly they are using a load balancer. Perhaps they rolled their own.
You could have a button next to the button to order more batteries.
And my friends would be amused by your friends. I know a few DoD-type guys who operate in these informal government contractor circles. I have seen some wild stuff involving private companies, NASA and intel agencies. Lot of these CIA things are being outsourced to contractors. Similar to the private intel network of Sid Blumenthal providing info to Hillary Clinton, from an easily hacked AOL email no less.

The power and influence, along with whims of eccentric players, in these contractor groups is really getting out of hand.

And we all want attention in some way, including you for posting your comments and me for mine. It could be both a noble thing Snowden did and something he wants some recognition for doing. Basing your analysis on whatever he did in high school is quite silly. Most everybody was looking for some attention then and likely going about it the wrong way.
You can check this list: https://github.com/RichardLitt/awesome-remote-job curated by the guy responsible for "The User is Drunk": http://theuserisdrunk.com.
Paywalls are frustrating, especially when the content is available elsewhere for free. Here's the paper on arXiv.org: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4088v1
Your question depends on your definition of retroactively.

I think the article's context is if you don't currently use a pepper, you can easily add one and update all of your password hashes in the database.
What about an img tag?
cool! seems deep research in your app
This looks great, what a good idea! I’ve often found too many pins on iOS maps annoying to deal with (most recently in the app "Eat Street"). I’ll definitely keep Superpin in mind for any future map-based iOS projects.

I think the price is very fair.
I agree, until Lyft runs out of money, Uber wins, and the price skyrockets.

Plus there's Sidecar, which will surely die soon because nobody even knows it exists.
And it's pretty great, if you can get it.
Coinbase goes down every time BTC goes up.
What? They're just saying the ban is for 2+x weeks where x is an as of yet (publicly) unknown positive number. You're posing a false dichotomy.
The current post has a slightly better URL, because https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112681480907401 versus https://www.facebook.com/4/posts/10112681480907401/
Two months of weekdays is about 40 days, so they would have be 80 hour days. (Although we also forgot to multiply by the number of people on the team...)
Well, there goes the "You don't need to quit WhatsApp because they don't collect data like Facebook" argument.
"indefinite" just means there's no certain/specific/decided end.

It does not mean "permanently", though it's often used to imply that without saying it outright.

So in this case they're saying "anything from two weeks and up, with no decided end".
Telegram NON Secrete Chat are not E2E.
You are correct the video all the platforms are using to justify the bans explicitly asked people to go home. Previously he had urged them to be peaceful which they mostly were as evidenced by the fact that no capitol staff or police were in any way injured during the incident.

edit: Leaving my comment intact as there are people who have replied. VBProgrammer pointed out that a portion of my statement is not true. This morning the DC police revealed two officers were hospitalized with injuries and one was described as having serious injuries while 12 others suffered other injuries.
I was the one who reported the 1 Mb file issue...

I mean, it looks nice - but I'm a bit undecided about the whole proprietary code project thing.

If it was open-source, we might actually be able to see if there was some silly hardcoded limit in there - heck, we could even submit a patch and do a pull request.

That, and the blatant ripping off of Sublime Text's interface.

It's bad enough they don't put the source itself on Github, but they aren't even using Github's issue tracker for the project - or heck, any other issue tracker as all.

So we're resorting to filing bug reports on a discussion forum...shakes head.

Hopefully Github will come through, and sort things out.

I have no objections to paying for an editor - heck, Sublime is $70 - but with this being closed source, and Brackets.io being more mature, and open-source, not sure what the attraction is.
Itemize if you feel deductions will exceed the standard deduction, leave the rest of us alone to agree/disagree with the amount on the postcard the IRS sent and mail our checks. Now that our paid mortgage interest is low enough to not matter, I can’t remember the last year that the IRS couldn’t have just send us a postcard with the amount they think we owe, and we would have paid probably exactly that amount. And we have a ton of stock transactions and the like. I’m willing to wager that for the vast majority of U. S. residents for the vast majority of their lives, their deductions will not exceed the standard deduction.
So, weird product fit, I think? You have to be small enough not to have a real enterprise grade visibility platform (like ThousandEyes or whatever) which will already have that capability, but also have enough legacy not to be fully automated already (e.g. LetsEncrypt, ZeroSSL, CSP integrated certificate management).
> With these services it's more directly obvious that you're getting something in return for your money.

Article mentions that you have to sponsor a certain amount to get

1) early access to software

2) Access to videos

The second especially is a "sponsors only" feature

"A few weeks later I added a new “private” group of screencasts for GitHub sponsors only."
This article comes up constantly but it just isn’t consistent with anything I’ve seen about any of the suburbs I’ve lived in. They are well aware of their costs and revenues. They aren’t delusional about any bit of it.
I'm not sure that buildings are priced at their construction costs in SF.
> desperately needs defrag, which it does not have

OK, this is interesting to me, because it takes me back to the 1990s, when Windows users coming from Windows 95 (who were also Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS users prior to that) would come to Linux and, having been of the Power User variety back in Windows-land, would ask "How do I defrag my disks?"

Of course, by then Linux was on ext2 or similar, so the response was "Real filesystems don't need defragging. The kernel keeps track of free space automatically. Don't worry about it." And, generally, it worked pretty well. (Source: I like to fill disks. I've never seen a big slowdown even unto the point of "no space left on medium" errors.)

So why does ZFS, a Thoroughly Modern Filesystem by any account, need defragging?
Yawn. Hardly relevant to real web design use cases is it?
The smoke is breathable. But combined with a strobe light there is no way to see. Add in typical "screamers" that you have in every alarm system and you couldn't navigate or communicate.
Aerial gravity surveys are not particularly new. I've done a ground-based survey, but we were looking for a weak anomaly and the region had strong topography so the results were dubious (the inverse problem is very ill-posed to begin with and the topography doesn't help).

The GRACE satellites are a neat instrument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Recovery_and_Climate_Ex...