jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> guzzling a substance that's likely to screw with your health long term...

Low-to-moderate alcohol use has been shown to have significant health benefits over the long-term.

For me, three beers is enough to have a strong enough stress-reduction effect, two if they're strong. My mind just unwinds and I relax. I used to think I'd develop a tolerance and start needing more and more to get the same effect, I no longer think so after many years of roughly the same level of consumption.

Alcohol is generally not a problem unless you start really young or had the kind of abusive childhood that leads to addictive behaviors.
Although that's a really easy way to discredit someone...

Not that I am positing that's what happened... But the last thing I'm willing to do in a case of government front agency vs anyone, in a case where the government had taken extraordinary measures to protect an agency they deny any involvement with... Is assume it's not a move to further discredit their accuser.
Looks really good, can't quite tell if it can interleave lines from several sources if not this would be an excellent feature.
> Sure there are benefits for EMPLOYERS. However, you aren't making a very good case for EMPLOYEES.

Yeah, you're looking at this too narrowly. A new opportunity that otherwise didn't exist, that just might have a few high wage jobs in it. Even if the average salary goes down, the total number of opportunities goes up.
Funny, just last month I sat in a meeting with the president of a $1 billion company to kick off the development of a mission critical app. When I asked him how to go about collecting requirements, he answered, "You don't have to. We're already doing this. Just see what everyone is doing in Excel. My people have to get the job done whether they have support from IT or not."
It's pretty awesome, but I can't help the feeling that the formula has lost a little magic to me now...
I did not realize HSA could be rolled over. I am an employee and my place of employment offers an HSA thru AFLAC, but I remember the AFLAC rep stressing that it was a use it or lost it deal.
No, no: each board has 8 CPU/chipet/DIMM(s?) (latter on the other side of the board) with 4 ASICs each handing all the rest of a motherboard's IO, virtualizing it (e.g. each core sees 4 virtual SATA drives). That's why each board needs 2 x16 PCIe connections, the backplane has a fancy supercomputer style torus topology interconnect, and you can put up to 64 physical disks in front. Lots of Ethernet out the back and there's an FPGA system for the backplane, which might be due to the small number of units but will give them lots of flexibility.
The sat prep company,!? How are they getting data in there? What data?
"Turns out players are not streaky; simply flipping a coin produces the same sort of runs of H's and M's. The scientists gleefully explained this result to basketball pundits; the pundits remained non-plussed and unconvinced. (Surprised?)"

Yes, I am surprised. The article makes good points but its fallacy is applying mathematical abstractions to the real world. Now, there are real-world phenomena that are closer to the assumptions made by the dependency assumption in the coin tossing (Bernoulli) trials, e.g. rolling real dice. However, player performance is complex and does depend on previous history; for example a player who did badly in the previous game or missed an important shot will be under pressure this time, which will affect his performance.

The model in this case is too simplistic, a Markov model may be a better approach perhaps. However, estimating the Markov order of a given time series is a hard problem.
Scam? Not exactly, but shady. Growth, I guess. There are ads on TV for another site just like them.

Simple concept though, sell bids. When you have reached your profit line, have the robot on your server (that spends no money) stop bidding on an item and let someone win. Then you just find a low price on amazon.com and dropship it to the winner.
That's a cool idea. I wonder if technology firms actually ever take a contract like that.
Performance per watt depends on the computer and the workload. It's not apparent from the SPECint benchmarks they show in the article, but chips like Atom are better than beefy server chips for some server workloads, and worse for others, when measuring performance per watt. Here's a paper from Berkeley's RAD lab which tries two Atom processors and a Xeon on several different server workloads, and compares their performance per watt:

http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/papers/hotpower_10_chun.pd...

The tl;dr version is that what you really want are hybrid datacenters, where you can assign various workloads to different types of machines, and use each machine type for what it's best suited to do.
About 4 BTC in my case, but many people lost a lot more. I was definitely not individually targeted, and definitely did not make any of the usual novice mistakes. Since the Synology NAS systems are commonly used as backups for small and medium-level enterprises, they were (and are) exceptionally high value targets. In my case, I had a root exploit in the OS that allowed all kinds of malware to be installed by anyone who cared to scan the Internet at large for systems on port 5000.

Most of the publicity centered around trojan miner applications, but the same issue also exposed the entire file system. So, searching the exposed file systems for wallet.dat files was a trivial and obvious free lunch for the crackers, much more so than mining.

In retrospect, I think the biggest mistake was using the same port for things like the security camera server that is used for remote administration. Taking the time to learn how to use a nonstandard port would probably have kept this particular system safe. I can't blame Synology, really... just a bad threat assessment on my part. My thinking was that keeping the wallet.dat file off of any Internet-accessible Windows boxes would provide enough "security by obscurity," but we all know how that story usually ends.
Is there anything you can actually show? It's pretty pictures and nice promises in the text, but not many useful concrete details anywhere? Or did I miss something?

A lot of your description could be (probably misleading) marketing material for already existing solutions.
mmh. i think the author mentioned this as well: weren't these in the past just for S3 ?
That sounds pretty cool.

I found C for Dummies at my uncle's house and got lucky. I loved it.

I've always wondered what alternatives there are. Most of the college textbooks I had were too dense to get into, but I think I remember the Deitel and Deitel ones were descriptive enough, but kind of dry.

Maybe I'll keep this TI NSpire CX CAS in mind next time the question comes up.

About 1.5 years ago someone posted this discussion of a related article on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6303654
So he wants a certain amount of money, essentially a payment to change the license. I don't understand the connection to hiring a lawyer but whatever...

Tarver claims the current license is more open than the GPL. I don't understand the basis for that claim.
*use bitbucket
The website I referenced can do that computation for you. It's been accurate +/- 5 mi per supercharger segment for me. It estimates 216 rated miles to drive 201 actual miles, from Sacramento to Truckee to Sacramento.
You could try embedding a google form: http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/05/embed-your-forms.html
It's just a marsh, dude.
Microwave foil is a sturdier version of cling foil. Which is plastic, so perfectly safe to put in the microwave.
I'd think a bit more about what your actual goals are. To me, going to an renowned school like MIT is a means to an end not a goal. Depending on what you want to do after, it may or may not be a wise decision.

From your post, it sounds like intelligence isn't the problem, but rather one of motivation. While doing well academically does require a baseline intelligence, the more important thing (like most things in life) is a matter of effort. Perhaps this comes from your lack of any concrete goals.

I found myself similarly lost when I first started my university education. Actually, I started off by going to a community college, and while at first that was disappointing, it also gave me the chance to sample a wide variety of subjects, and eventually finding out CS was what I was passionate about. By finding my passion, I was able to overcome my previous motivation problems. Perhaps if you try new things as well, you might find something that sparks your drive.
I am potentially very troubled by it, because I think the capability of a team of capable engineers/marketers to A/B test and measure their way to addictiveness increases much faster than the ability of people to adapt to the stimulus. In particular, I think that there probably exists one or more vulnerable segments of the population who get ROFLstomped by this.

I chuckled with most folks about being "addicted" to WoW, but I play some of the social games on Facebook. One of them has a particular mechanic where you buy a treasure chest. The price is immaterial, and it is obfuscated -- we've learned that people suck at fractions so if you price points at 80 to the dollar sales increase versus pricing them at 100 to the dollar. Anyhow, buying a treasure chest gives you a 5% chance at one of four particular desirable items. It also gives you chances at less desirable items, which are designed to make you feel (like a slot machine) that you just missed getting the good one.

(I'll note that despite being fairly decent with numbers, my ballpark guess for how much you'd probably spend in USD to get one of those items was off by a factor of four.)

There was a long thread on the forum about folks spending hundreds of dollars rolling for that treasure chest.

I have no particular problem with a well-off individual spending hundreds on virtual goods. However, I don't think that 90% of e.g. Zynga's bottom line is coming from folks like me. I think huge portions almost certainly come from people who are relatively poor, less educated, have poor impulse control, and who cannot afford what they're buying. If you look at the AOL ad click data, they found that this is the type of person who clicks -- almost obsessively -- on advertisements. They don't understand that they will not win a million dollars if they punch the monkey.

I'd prefer to see the industry self-regulate to avoid exploiting vulnerable people.

Considerations like this are why I decided against doing a Facebook game -- I was genuinely worried about what my stats would show me.
Hmm. Now see, here is where a list of ipad user's email addresses might be useful.
Usually, a product which doesn't exist.
For those wondering how to get rid of the background (I sure was) - just

1. Sign in to Google.

2. Click the white "Change Background Image" link in the lower left-hand corner.

3. Select "Editor's Picks."

4. Scroll all the way to the bottom, where a plain white background is available.

(Oddly enough, after being alarmed and even angered by the weird image, I actually found myself really liking a plain grey background.)
Not being a panacea doesn't make the intended problem being solved a myth. Maybe a fault with overestimating the scope of the problem, but that's about it.
Well, nobody dares admit to their co-workers or their bosses that their productivity has crashed, lest they draw attention to themselves and paint a big target on their backs. So we plaster on a fake smile on Zoom, lie to each other that things are great, and suffer in silence.

Personally, I can't wait to go back to the office (and it's not because I'm an extrovert or have a office with a door either).
Hmm, I worked at a large company in 1995 as a web dev, and they were paying a license fee "per copy" of Netscape Navigator. I distinctly remember this, because we had 10,000 licenses. But we did get phone support with that, and I talked to Netscape's help desk a few times with various issues I faced as a developer.

Commercial users were paying for Netscape in 1995. It was only free for personal use. Even articles from 1996 mention the cost of Netscape as $49. [1]

So at least part of the reason IE displaced Netscape was that it was free for enterprises. And Netscape was not, until it was too late.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/27743/nothing-netscape
I'm not sure they wouldn't just support the next one and then do a mea culpa after the fact again. Did they change the way they treat US intelligence info? Or address geopolitics differently? I'm not sure. I haven't read the Economist since 2018, but I genuinely don't see how they wouldn't end up cheering for the same exact type of intervention due to the exact same rhetoric.
Not as litigious, and doesn't own Java, (whose std library APIs google copied).
It doesn't eagerly load anything. It preloads exactly what you tell it to.

Ecto Repo vs Active Record: https://youtu.be/IFKG4Hgt-zM
Not any different from every other VC funded company out there
I don’t think anyone familiar with the field is in anyway surprised by this results.

The breakthrough seems really limited to showing it holds for graphs. We already knew this was practically true though anyway.
Some of it may be that factories don't get the needed downtime for maintenance, safety inspections, or rest for the line workers. (This is just speculation.)

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." (Hanlon's razor)
There's all watching canv.as. If you want an invite, hit me up.
Yes, it was. It discusses Jack's habits, Jack's preference in suits (Prada, practically an advertisment for them), Jack's preference in wristwatches (Rolex), Jack's ideas, Jack's relationships, Jack's friends, et. al.
The fact that Google is trading on the open market, as compared to Facebook's makes these two valuations hard to compare directly.

SecondMarket aside, when valuations are based on participants (insiders & investors) who have no reason to be skeptical/down-to-earth (is there any way to "short" a startup and affect it's valuation?), they are bound to be somewhat exuberant.
I didn't say it worked with all. But it works with a lot.
Note to mike:

"The easiest way for me to handle this is to be up front about all of these investments and disclose it in posts, which I’ve done and will continue to do. "

Actually it would be better to pick one, investor or journalist, and quit the other one.
When I want to watch a movie, the first place I go to is Netflix Canada, half of what I want is unavailable and it doesn't update very often (at least not this month) so the second place I go to not too hard to figure out.
That would be Vic Gundotra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Gundotra
I made this because I needed to include a few small images into emails I'm sending for a separate project. I didn't want to annoy the user with the "allow images from this sender" message, so I needed them to be pure html/css. I couldn't find a tool that would make the conversion with inline css, so I made one myself.

It can't handle large images because the css is inline, but that's the trade-off for being able to email them.

Can you think of anyone who would pay for this? Is there a feature I could add that would make this worth paying for?
1) If you believe FB will be worth $140+ billion in a few years, but you want money now/have a fund coming due it might make sense to sell at $70 billion.

2) If you believe FB will be worth $140+ billion in a few years, and can afford to wait it might make sense to buy at $70 billion.
Please don't break the site guidelines when posting here. It only makes things worse. I realize it's extremely frustrating when you're representing a minority viewpoint and it feels like the majority is not only wrong but ganging up on you. But there's not much that can constructively be done about it other than to patiently present your substantive points (or, failing that, ignore).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> If you're a backend database guy, talk about how Google must run a query against a massively sharded database

Apropos of nothing, I hadn't realized that "shard" in reference to databases had made its way beyond MMOs, and I think it's hilarious.

Ultima Online pioneered the MMO concept of using different copies of the game world, each with their own server and backing database, to partition a large player base into manageable chunks. These were called "shards" in reference to the shards of the evil wizard Mondain's Gem of Immortality, which was shattered at the end of the original 1980 Ultima and caused problems in later games. The word was informally used for later MMOs' servers, and apparently it's now formally used for horizontal database partitions.

So, if anyone asks you what a "shard" is in a database context, I recommend you start by telling them about the terrible legacy of the wicked sorcerer Mondain.
I got rejected by YC in a similar fashion. They will grill you hard if they have any doubts about the idea/founders. It was definitely an ego-bruising moment for my cofounder and I, but we are both alive and kicking.

I really enjoyed reading this post. Keep on keeping on and DO NOT stop working on this idea. I know I'd be a paying customer right now if you had a site up.
I've always thought that Mechanical Turk's command line w/ XML definitions was overkill, so this goes a long way in getting simple tasks up and running quickly..

On a side note, for any Rails developers out there I've developed the Turkee gem, a library that great simplifies the process of getting your Rails forms integrated with Mechanical Turk (https://github.com/aantix/turkee).
This is oddly familiar. Hmm...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo_Kramer#Coffee_Table_Book_...
Certainly. But look at the simple facts. From 1961 through the 1990s only 2 organizations (the US and Soviet governments) had developed or flown manned spacecraft. Since then 6 organizations have developed, built, and flown such spacecraft: China, Scaled Composites (a sub-orbital flight), SpaceX (an unmanned test flight of a crew capsule), ESA and Japan (ISS modules and re-supply craft), and Bigelow Aerospace (unmanned tests of inflatable space habitats). It's especially notable that half of these achievements are from non-governmental activities.

The point being: the ability to build manned spacecraft is much less difficult and much less rare than it once was, and no longer restricted to governments. Given that, it's no small stretch to imagine impressive increases in lift capacity coupled with equally impressive reductions in launch cost facilitating even greater fluency with manned spacecraft design, construction, and operation.

It is not so terribly difficult to mount a manned mission to Mars as some people seem to imagine. Read Zubrin's "The Case For Mars" to see how it can be done rather efficiently. Given the projected payload capacity of the proposed Falcon XX launcher it would really only take a few launches to get things running.

Given that SpaceX has already built a seemingly functional crew capsule will it really take much more than 20 more years to build and test all of the necessary pre-requisite components of a manned Mars mission? I don't think the timeline is so terribly optimistic really.
I can't help but feel that you're doing it wrong?

Spotify playlists are beautiful because you subscribe to it. The playlists are updated and curated continuously. This is true of the Spotify-published playlists and those of musicians, celebrities, etc.
> I've worked in an exclusively open format office and it
> can be hard at times. Ideally you can find 2-3 spots to
> work: your desk near your team, a reliably (tho perhaps
> non-reservable) quiet spot for focusing, and an (perhaps
> unreliable) quiet spot for super privacy (e.g. a
> conference room )

Yeah this seems typical. And it seems so close to ideal, actually. That shared, collaborative space is very important. There just needs to be enough quiet space for every engineer to grab a "booth" or a "nook" whenever they need to focus and bear down.

The average mid-level engineer in the U.S. makes something like $80K/year; it's obviously proportionally higher in tech hubs like the valley.

It's just heartbreakingly, frustratingly comical to think of a highly-paid engineer losing hours and hours of work every week as they wander around looking for an actual spot in the office to, you know, work.
True, and I like using this for syntax-colored views of files. But it's got an annoying tendency to switch to edit mode with very little fuss.

Sometimes I want a viewer to just be a viewer.

Speaking of which: are there any Linux/Unix viewers that do have generalized syntax highlighting support?
uh, I think they made that, and called it StackOverflow
I wouldn't be so sure about that 99% on the retina display. While there were existing (relatively) cheap, production 3-4" screens approaching the 300+ PPI resolution of the iPhone 4 when it was announced, there is nothing like that in the sizes (or quantities) needed to produce a 300+ PPI screen for the iPad.

Remember, Apple is a design company. The "sauce" is in how they combine existing (production or future) parts designs into a single device and then load it with software that makes it work for consumers. Apple is like a chef, taking various types of ingredients and combining them into a dish that makes people fawn.
Yeah, and autorun.inf, and a lot of other tricks.
That's not generally considered "old-skool", though.
Here is the companion post, which addresses the more substantive issues:

http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/index.html?story=/opinio...

I've put in on HN, here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049449

If you think this is only about "drama", you're sorely misled. This is about journalism, and about whether we have any journalists left that will examine the Wikileaks issues with some rigor, as opposed to grade-school attacks on the messenger and Palinesque distraction tactics.
I do not have crystal ball with precise stats. I do however know and communicate with many people far removed from programming. Nearly all of them have laptops, few have actual desktops. Beside as an owner of some products with 10s of thousands of customers I regularly receive customer wishes. Requests to port to Mac OSX are clearly visible. Requests to port to phones are zilch.
I'm reminded of top gear's Geoff [1]. It's that concept car angularity that makes you believe that it could be manufactured in a shed, if only it had a frame.

[1] https://pics.imcdb.org/0ge20/206146-Geoff.jpg
https://pantheon.io/

Not affiliated, but worked with some high profile sites on there.
Sure, they can spin up and shut down any service they want any time and that's their right. But the price they pay is that many no longer trust their services to be around long term and make purchasing/adoption decisions accordingly. This feeds back into what are likely less impressive uptake numbers. At some point, their lack of commitment to their own products/services becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In Settings > Colors you can choose an accent color and turn on the "Title bars and windows borders" option - I think that would give you exactly what you want.
Agree! We fear what we don’t know, and action will likely help to learn it.
P/s: “Just do it” is my favourite quote
From https://dev.to/liyasthomas/i-created-postwoman-an-online-ope... the author stripped down Chromium for the UI in order to get something much lighter than an Electron app.
No it isn't ironic. You just have a very poor sense of priority and scale.
I meant my password.
"You got hacked because you didn't give us enough money"... these guys should get into the Ransomware business.
C# the language is exciting. C# the platform, however...
It's a landing page for a product; they all look like that because they convert REALLY, really well.
translation: "i made it up".