jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I don't want to get ads and spyware injected from my ISP

Honestly this is a notion that i do not understand. Why do you accept your ISP doing this? Why aren't people banding together and complain about it in an organized manner? If there aren't alternative ISPs in your area it means there will be a lot of people affected by this so more voices to be heard. Why are you just accepting ISPs adding ads and spyware to your content as some force of nature that everyone else must work to keep at bay?
I should mention though that I did re-apply last year and they were much more prompt
That last one is when reality hits :-)
Please correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't this law simply prevent a situation where a non-union employee would be forced to pay the union fees even if he doesn't want to be a part of the union in a unionized workplace? If yes, how is it a bad thing for employees?

Genuine question, because I don't understand the issue. If they want to join a union and pay the associated fees, they are welcome to. If they just wanna work a job without joining a union and paying their fees, they can do that as well. How is it a bad thing, unless you consider forcing those employees who don't care about unions to still contribute fees a good thing?
It sounds like they don't need money.
Nearly every worker in the US is covered by an employment agreement that says they have to get pre-approval for moonlighting. It may or may not be legal in their jurisdiction but by paying people to do your interview process you potentially open them up to bad liabilities.

That said it is completely unethical to make people do real work as part of an interview process. We collectively should name and shame any firm that does that.
My question/complaint is basically: rather than put all this effort behind a single-purpose button, why not work on reducing the friction for using a mobile app for the same purpose? There's no reason you couldn't have, say, a button on your phone's home screen where pushing it causes cat litter to arrive. This would be about as convenient, and way more flexible.

Edit: and the answer is pretty clear, I think. If people actually go for this, it'll be a massive advantage for Amazon. It essentially banishes competition permanently for people who use the button regularly. It'll also make people much less price sensitive. So I completely understand why Amazon would try to push this. I just don't understand why anyone else finds it interesting besides that.
But what if your battery-dash button runs out of batteries?
thank you very much

I use the Nginx as the web server currently. is there some best practice for this？

thank you.
> Let's make this so costly that no mega-corporation dares to bully non-profits in this way again.

Why?
He wasted valuable city resources on an experiment the
outcome of which he should have predicted, being a
criminal attorney in Roxbury.

See, I think the opposite - how can upstanding members of society like me claim to hold an informed opinion about the justice system when the closest I've ever come is watching the TV show 'Prison Break'?

You don't learn to program by watching a movie - you learn by trying it, getting hands-on experience. You don't learn to dance or do sports by reading a book - you learn by getting up and moving, getting hands-on experience. You don't become a judge without seeing the inside of a courtroom. You don't become a poet or a film maker or a musician without trying it. You don't qualify as surgeon without hands on experience or qualify as a pilot without hands on experience or train as a mechanic by watching 'the fast and the furious'.

In all these areas, we acknowledge that fiction and second hand reports aren't a substitute for first-hand experience.

So how can you and I claim to know anything about the justice system if we have no first hand experience?

Don't all of us who care about law and order have a responsibility to inform ourselves about how the system works, as the author of this article has done?
Great comment. One thing I'd point out however -- you make farming sound like the hardest job one could have. Perhaps it is durring the summer. However, many northern famers used to 'hibernate' all winter. Here's a great description of the phenomenon:

> In 1900, The British Medical Journal reported that peasants of the Pskov region in northwestern Russia “adopt the economical expedient” of spending one-half of the year in sleep: “At the first fall of snow the whole family gathers round the stove, lies down, ceases to wrestle with the problems of human existence, and quietly goes to sleep. Once a day every one wakes up to eat a piece of hard bread. ... The members of the family take it in turn to watch and keep the fire alight. After six months of this reposeful existence the family wakes up, shakes itself” and “goes out to see if the grass is growing.” http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/opinion/25robb.html
Collusion between providers and insurers has, as an externality to the actual transaction taking place, severely distorted the market for medical services in the US. I'm not questioning whether insurers should be able to negotiate prices with providers.

If employer-sponsored health insurance wasn't the primary vehicle for medical expenses in the US, maybe you could get an actual price list for hospital services even in the face of aggressive negotiation. But it is, and so you can't, and any conversation about health expenses that tries to dodge that point is disingenuous. That's my point.
The first thing I thought of when I got to the site is that this looks like a bought template. I don't know if it is or not, but that's not what is really important. It feels that way because it looks like a case of the "lorem ipsum" curse - when you have to fill out an already designed page and just had to keep adding stuff. The Clarke quote adds to that impression, if you don't have a quote about your product does that mean you don't have any beta users? Or were none of them willing to be quoted? Then on your signup page you have Voldemort and Dumbedore providing quotes.

Also, your twitter feed isn't very re-assuring on the infrastructure side.

Overall it looks like an interesting product though and something I might consider using.
> Some kind of hacking or fraud would be necessary for a student to gain access.

Unless someone else had access to it, made it available online as a public "free" download and they found it by searching for it. No hacking or fraud was necessary there (by the students at least)

For example, when I was a student the professor assigned even numbered problems so that the answers wouldn't be in the back of the linear algebra book. However, I found a PDF online that contained all answers with solutions! I didn't have to hack anything.
Right now I'm working for a small startup, and we've been interacting a lot with big companies. I feel like a significant percentage of my time is made up of doing "fake work." There are a lot of conference calls with like 15 people on them, and only about 2 or 3 are actually doing anything useful. The other 12 or 13 are making sure that they aren't missing anything important, because if they do, they won't ever be able to make it up.

I guess the problem is that some of it actually needs to get done. It's just the coordination penalty of trying to interface two totally different companies together.

I think the primary cause of fake work is inefficient communication, requiring people to do extra work to cope for that. It seems like the solution is better communication systems that allow things to be documented.
Your last paragraph has a nice focused point to discuss. The problem (as I see it from the comfort of my armchair) is not whether Moxie should be searched or questioned, it's how. For example, if the police appear at his home and bring him in for questioning, there are a nice series of legal rights and procedures in place to ensure that the investigation is performed properly.

Likewise, if the police wish to search his laptop or phone, there are again a nice series of procedures in place that Americans have already agreed are in society's best interests to enforce.

I would never suggest that the police do not do their job according to the rules in place. I am suggesting that using the border search rules to perform an investigation of an associate of a suspect gives the appearance that the police are avoiding the proper procedures because they don't have the evidence and cause to question him or search his laptop and phone.

This, I argue, undermines the credibility of the investigation, which is of great harm to society as a whole.
This assumes the students study only that material. There's nothing wrong with it. If your tutor tells you that these questions will either be on the test r similar to ones on the test then you'd be a fool to ignore it and try to study everything instead. Also, test scores rearely have any meaningful output with regards to how much most people actually know.
Without Steve Jobs, this picture is incomplete.
Its not entirely clear that Petrov prevented a nuclear war. His job (which he choose not to do) was to report detected missiles up the chain of command. In theory, the Soviet Union policy was to require multiple-source warnings before retaliating, in which case they still would not have launched anything. In practice, they very well might neglected to follow this procedure and proceed to retaliate.
At the very least, you have to prove that demand is fixed. Otherwise it's meaningless to claim that supply increase have any effect on price (price may momentarily decrease, but cheaper price could increase demand which bring price back up).

And before someone claims that immigrants don't participate in normal labor pool, then you should advocate for open border, free market style
> It's my feeling that your average contemporary hand-held device is pretty darn good these days.

Sums up the subject really well.
The people who make money tend to put in more money.
There's always a cost. Even if you do not see it in the numbers.
Up to $50 for a SWIFT transaction, without currency conversion.

There's likely to be a similar charge for making a transfer that large from a bank to a Bitcoin exchange anyway.
> - Health insurance is another big expense. At one point I paid more for insurance than rent, because I'm self-employed.

Health insurance is also really expensive as an employee, but people dont notice because half of the cost is completely hidden for them ("paid" by the employer) and the other half also never reaches their bank account but is on listed in the monthly payroll notification.
> It's called: Value investing

I wouldn't call that Value investing. Value investing is really about buying undervalued stocks, which really has nothing to do whether you think the underlying company is doing great. The stock might still be overpriced, and a value investor will not buy into that.
It also denied a big chunk of chip market to the automotive industry, including its own.
Looks very promising. Does anybody use for in real work? Writing scripts for something that could be buggy sounds frightening.
How do you explain all of the HFT firms that have gone out of business over the years? They're competing with each other, it's a very competitive space that doesn't even capture that much value compared to the people they replaced.
You misunderstood, I didn't say those things have no value, I was making a paralel between the logic of their valuation and the logic of fashion accessories valuation.

They're both worth as much as people are willing to believe they're worth, like most things on this planet that are non essential and not regulated.
I had different trouble.

.. (Appeals Court) Rules (Phone Search) After (Arrest Violates 4th Amendment) --nonsense

"phone search after arrest" is terribly confusing, though "post-arrest phone search" is clunky.

"Appeals Court" is probably the strongest 2-gram in the headline:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=texas+appeals%...
> Which ThinkPad models work flawlessly for you?

top of the line T models and some X models.

anything else is worse than the cheapest toshiba or acer.

if you doubt, buy yourself an E series for example. Lousy flimsy plastic quality, and all the corner cutting for costs that you find in an apple (like soldered RAM, devices changing bus based on what they found cheap on the market at that month, etc)
Similar for abuse of anonymity, I think.
I would only call it $10.5B in pre-orders if people paid the full price when they put a deposit. it is more like ~ $25M in deposits.
OK, I feel like I'm missing something with smartparens. I do the same as you -- but I use paredit everywhere, not just in lisp modes. When I've tried smartparens it seemed much less attractive (powerful?) than paredit.
Resources:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs

* https://time.com/5467628/china-uighur-congress-torture/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihrigul_Tursun

* article on https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/12/08/video-full-ex-xinjang-... disappeared.

* https://www.jiji.com/jc/article?k=2019071400172&g [japanese]

* https://youtu.be/dsd1NkCKaNg
I didn't come out of it thinking this is real.
People are hype because.... end of the day, they ship products that basically do what they say, and what they say is a big leap from what you have now. The stats on the tesla truck are incredible, just clearly better than other trucks announced at the moment. The hype is - wow we're getting something new, and we can trust these people to deliver it.
I mean, it's certainly useful to be able to raise your body temperature. I've done a bit of biofeedback and can raise my hand temperature by about 15°F in a few minutes, although not if it's really cold out. I assume if I practiced more, it could actually be a survival skill.
Pretty sure they can only afford a few core developers at a time and the code base is a 3D maze with portals.
From a technical standpoint it costs basically nothing, you can get a dedicated server with 100Mbps speed quota on a 1000 Mbps upstream, for under a hundred bucks a month.

Sufficient to support a very large number of Icecast stream listeners.

All of the software needed to do it is zero dollars and some combination of GPL/BSD/Apache licensed.
He has a poor record as a libertarian when it conflicts with his personal interests
Author here. Its because I've been focussing on collaborative text editing first, and a fair few of the articles which pop up on HN were written by me.

There's more great CRDT writing which deserves some attention. For example, this series by Bartosz Sypytkowski is long but excellent:

https://bartoszsypytkowski.com/the-state-of-a-state-based-cr...

He talks about CRDTs from the ground up, from much more of a mathematical / FP point of view. I learned a lot reading this series!

Why have I been focussing on collaborative text editing? Because I think performance has been the #1 blocker stopping us from using CRDTs in most software. And text CRDTs are a canary in the coal mine for performance. Uh, thats a tortured metaphor. I mean, If we can make text CRDTs fast, we can make everything fast.

And JSON editing (what everyone actually wants) needs to embed text editing anyway. So we've sort of gotta do that first anyway.

Smart people have also been working on the JSON editing problem. I'm a big fan of Greg Little's Shelf algorithm[1] for last-writer-wins JSON editing (which is what people usually want). Shelf is simple enough you can implement it in less than 100 lines of code. But shelf doesn't support collaborative list or text editing (text is a list of characters). We need all of these pieces, then we need to mush them all together in a sensible way. And thats something Yjs and automerge both already do, and do quite well.
really demonstrates the pitfall of having an app and local hub rely on third party servers over the Internet to work

Yep. And it's happened before.

Before there was Homekit, I bought a bunch of "smart" light bulbs from Fiet Electric. Long story short, within 16 months, Feit decided not only to shut down the service, but uploaded firmware to everyone's home device controllers to brick them.

The company wouldn't talk about it. Wouldn't answer support queries. The best guess on the internet at the time was that the company got caught using someone else's IP, and that was the way out.

Amazingly, this company has launched new rounds of "smart" devices that are on sale today. How's that for bad "planned obsolescence" optics? They brick millions of light bulbs, then go ahead and sell new ones.
Gotta love the word "advanced"
Annecdata: I was editing a movie in FCPX on my 27" iMac (Intel) w/64 GiB and it kept crashing. Reluctantly, I restarted on my 13" MBA (M1) and finished with no problems. Granted there might have been something specific to my circumstances, but I was very impressed with the performance on the lowest-spec M1 laptop.

IMO, the M1 laptops are fairly priced, but the Mac Pros have been poor value in the past. I'm really curious to see if that changes.
25b was a very commonly found compound in 2012-2014 gen 1 Silk Road era.

A visual, not too uncomfortable cousin of LSD. Except the risk profile was completely different.

25i, 25c, 25b, 25d nBome's. The "fake acid" that your high school administration actually had a reason to fret about.

Ironically, xanax is what actually should had had the attention. Maybe the high school administration were taking/selling too much Xanax to see the issue.
This is good to know. I probably need to take a trip to the store and compare for myself then. I didn't realize it was basically the same physical size as the older 13" models.
I’ve heard of people turning down job offers because the employer uses Jira, and I sympathise with that position.
I can see how that would make it hard for you. I hope your team is accommodating.
First I’m hearing about skyrmions. Fascinating stuff. Could this be harnessed in a small form factor?
A lot of companies that use macOS still rely on O365 and teams.

What are the other options? Zoom? A lot of companies ban Zoom for security reasons and the connection to the CCP - even without that it's not really that much better than teams anyway.

I think gathertown is pretty cool, but really all of these video chat services work well enough for what you need them for.

Slack was probably my favorite of the bunch for non-video communication, but now that they've sold themselves to salesforce they'll probably wither away and die (or at best remain in stasis) like everything else that company acquires.
Seems like the article writer has fallen for the very issue they're trying to portray, by writing so many examples that they've stopped thinking and just resorted to writing "PERSON CAN BE REPLACED WITH ROCK". If this isn't ironic then I don't know what is.
People write unauthorized biographies all the time. There's no reason to assume that just because a biography isn't authorized by its subject that it's inherently less reliable. They can even be more reliable; the subject may require the biographer to agree to respect certain no-go zones in their life in order to gain authorization, or the biographer may come to unduly identify with the subject after spending lots of time with them and write a book with a sympathetic slant. Another biographer writing from outside the subject's personal bubble can avoid these risks and restrictions.

Which is not to say that all unauthorized biographies are automatically great, just that you should evaluate them based on the quality of the author's research rather than just on whether or not they've been authorized by the subject.
If they copy any of your content, then you can send a DMCA notice to their ISP. And if they're doing what you say they are, then they'll do that soon enough. You may be able to figure out who their ISP is using tracert. You can also notify the sites they're plagiarizing from, and get them to do the same.

If they file a DMCA counter-notice, or pop back up on a different ISP, then you'll have to go to court to get rid of them. That might or might not be worth it, depending whether they have money to sue for, how difficult they are to track down, and how much your lawyer charges.
This seems false, given Florida's booming net migration.
For the US, the Fourth Climate Change Assessment [1] includes chapters for major regions.

The EPA has "Climate Change Impacts by Region" that also breaks down information by sector and by state. [2]

[1] https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/

[2] https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climat...
I suppose there’s a whole essay about culture and masculinity to be written here, and someone probably has, but color me unsurprised that people who volunteered and were selected to travel the world as some of America’s most elite fighters would also get up to some drunken sexual adventures in their downtime.
Powerful.

This is similar to the 'Horocrux Effect': another academically defined psychological property that makes you really motivated to defeat evil.
Great for drawing too
Here's a slightly cheaper way to do the same thing: http://liliputing.com/2014/02/10-adapter-turns-chromecast-in...
It's disappointing that we are in the situation where we have several competing protocols for streaming audio - Google Cast, AirPlay, Spotify Connect, UPnP/DLNA.

As a society we are capable of making software and hardware that interoperate among manufacturers - email and HTTP are good examples. We could be a far more technologically advanced world if capitalism didn't encourage companies to create competing closed-source protocols that only benefit the companies themselves, to the detriment of everyone else.
I'm roughly in this boat as well, though I don't want to be.

I'd rather be intimate with git.
> I don't want to cast from the cloud.

It certainly helps battery life for your mobile device to step aside as soon as playback has started. When casting video it doesn't matter even if I turn the device off.
This article is long and confusing for me. However, the sidebar emphasized his important point here about "adding function" vs "refactoring" -- The adding function hat is more stressful and riskier, so it's nice to wear the refactoring hat as much as possible.

What I take away is that if you refactor before adding new functionality, the refactoring is a lot easier because you can test that the functionality doesn't change at all. If you refactor after you add new functionality, you have to test all at once that there are no regressions and that the new functionality works, so the refactoring becomes as stressful as adding new functionality.
If you don't want a PDF or scribd, clicky to Cambridge project page:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/
Plus, linking to a Nexus S "line" that the photographer admits was posed?

The long lines for the latest Apple release are an indictment of the Apple fanbase. They should never been seen as a benefit of the platform.

I see the same thing about the endless gloating about Apple profit. "Hey everybody, look at how much I overpaid! I surely picked the right horse to back!" It's a bit incredible.
This article was posted a few days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2039427
I see! This must stem from the culture of cheapness that surrounds a lot of restaurants; supposedly the industry is cut-throat.

This just means that the problem needs to be attacked on a different front: marketing. Which is where the hucksters come in...
I wonder if Tomato is affected.

I randomize the two mac addresses weekly anyway.
Such a great article though that all extroverts should be forced to reread it yearly until it sinks in.
The comparison to Facebook is not fair. Facebook is now profitable and Microsoft online services are not. Facebook was never in the red to the tune of 2B a year. Microsoft online services had a multiple year head start on Facebook.