jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree. I think their UI is actually a little too creative at times. It has lots of whitespace and a single color and that means people will say "clean", "minimal", "modern", "artsy fartsy".

But I agree, that with something that coins itself "the developer cloud" it should provide critical information first. It is ok to kill some whitespace or put some monospaced fonts in there. You aren't trying to sell me an iPhone, I am trying to manage a server.

Route53 on AWS is what I have been using for domain management and I like it because it doesn't mess around with cute UIs. It is strictly function. Instead of form fields for each TTL line and host line like other sites do, you just get a big multi-line text box and you use spaces and line breaks (gasp) to create your dns listings.
wouldnt it be better to fix 'trail period' laws so thats possible
For me, the huge trackpad in the middle front is the problem. Centred trackpads, weren't a problem when they were about 1/2 the size, but they've steadily been getting bigger and bigger. Now almost all laptop trackpads are at a size where the base my thumb and the edge of my wrist brush against them, causing endless false touches. If I'm typing for any length of time on a laptop, I now always disable the touchpad and plug in a mouse. Give me a laptop with an offset smaller trackpad please. I suppose people who only use a laptop, learn to type with floating hands with claw-like fingers, but I use a desktop most of the time, so my resting-wrists-on-the-desk style of typing doesn't work.

I can't be the only person with this problem?

Edit: While I'm ranting, I am 100% sure that the touch-logic in trackpads favour right handed people (same with mobile phone screens) and as a leftie it seems harder for me to perform complex multi-touch actions than it does for right handed people.
Every year their taxes get smaller and smaller, as the tax is, by law, sub inflationary.

The older the wealth, the lower the taxes.
HEY BHM1 DOERS, why pay almost $500 in dues? We’ve got you covered* with high wages, health care, vision, and dental benefits, as well as a safety committee and an appeals process. There’s so much MORE you can do for your career and your family without paying dues.
*Applies to regular full-time employees.

IF YOU’RE PAYING DUES… it will be RESTRICTIVE meaning it won’t be easy to be as helpful and social with each other. So be a DOER, stay friendly and get things done versus paying dues.

(sic)

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Couldn't even include a stock-statement like "we got you covered" without a disclaimer.

"won’t be easy to be as helpful and social with each other" What the hell does that even mean? In a union you can't talk? As though you could be totally chatty before?
I have been using this for a while, GoAccess is a wonderful little tool to automate the parsing. Highly recommend to those who prefer the old-school approach towards web analytics.

https://goaccess.io/
Well, it's all speculation in the end, because Google is silent about it.

BUT: the costs of running and maintaining Google Analytics must be significant. There must be some strategic reason for Google to continue to do so (look at the way they deal with products that are not working for them, remember Google Reader?).

So what is that strategic reason?
That’s why I’ll have to hire a CPA. It wasn’t totally clear to me from that article if it’s double taxation or if NY is just trying to claim taxes I would otherwise owe to CO. And you’re basically under threat of an apparently extra painful audit from NY.
It's a great scene, but this one takes the cake:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ5VfKSYvSk

"There’s some shady stuff going down. God, this is intimate. I feel like I’m financially inside of you or something."

"I'm jacked. Jacked to tits!"
That's an overstatement, but the gulf between the mathematician's mind-set and the mind-set of physicists and engineers is still far wider than most mathematicians appreciate, and it really would be valuable to have a different word for what physicists and engineers do when we "do math", because it is not "math" the way you mean it.

I don't think that's true, at least in areas where physicists or engineers are actually going to be trying to use the relevant math. I think the difference is mostly in norms of written presentation. In physics, the concrete motivating example is often seen as an important thing to present; in math, it seems more typical to polish your definitions until they're as minimal and general as can be and start the presentation there. This often obscures the more concrete examples, but I've found plenty of times that if you read or talk to mathematicians in informal settings they can be pretty good about the examples that motivate the ideas.
Seems like Xi is modeling himself after the God Emperor (Dune reference)
>That's why printing all this money is going to catch up with us sooner or later.

In 2009, here on HN, people were warning that the first round of QE would lead to Weimar-style hyperinflation in fairly short order. Six years and two additional rounds of QE later, interest rates and inflation in the U.S. are still quite low.

People tend to forget that the economy has done quite well even under inflation levels that we'd now consider high; during the Reagan boom, inflation fluctuated between 3-5%. Even if all this QE led to 5% inflation for a number of years, that's not really a serious problem (and certainly not hyperinflation).

It starts to get painful when you get to 10%, 15%, 20%, but that's a fixable problem. Indeed, it was fixed at the end of the 1970s. It was painful, but it was fixed.

So, yes, it might catch up with us. But when and how badly matter a lot. If the cost of all this QE is that average inflation in the 2020s is 5%, so what? That's hardly a disaster. Or let's say inflation creeps up to about 12%, and in 2025 the Fed takes strong action to get it under control, leading to a sharp painful recession in 2025-26. Should we have a decade or two's worth of stagnation to avoid this hypothetical? I personally don't think so.
It's somewhat common to leave a two-cent tip to signify you were displeased with the service.
It's a shame that looping and parsing is so tightly coupled.

Also you should add an ELK stack to centralize your logs and add some correlation ID to your instructions if anything goes wrong.
This is what has me switching. Despite an expected increase of about $10/mo, I'm moving to T-Mobile as soon as the weather turns nice (unnecessary transport in Minnesota winters is... undesirable) because I don't want to give my money to a company actively fighting against net neutrality, Verizon. Plus the bonus of influencing the mobile market in a positive manner, as this article describes.
Well you still have easier and more difficult distros. You can go easy route and play with Ubuntu or Fedora but you can approach linux from the hard side and try Arch or Gentoo
Bitcoin definitely includes more than just the ledger. Without the miners, there would be no transactions, and without the intermediate processors, there would be no transaction intake. Without exchanges, there would be no value. Bitcoin is clearly a lot more than just the ledger.
> It looks pretty straight forward in Tomcat 8 or later.

Yes, when seeing the examples, it doesn't look too bad. I guess without any example and no idea (at all) on how to set this up, it would still take quite some time to figure out.
I guess that would be a slightly laborous work around? Install vanilla linux, configure as needed. Save snapshot. Treat it as a custom image :)
Gold is commodity. The financial system is an industry that provides goods and services. Gold is not an alternative to the financial system. How could it be? It's a completely different thing.
Coinbase does allow people to store their funds with them, but it's common for people to buy bitcoins on Coinbase and then immediately transfer them to their own wallet, or to a service with far better security like Kraken(which will happen less once Kraken supports ACH and immediate funds).
The second step isn't easy to parallelize while avoiding two CPUs writing to the same cache line..
There really should be a breathalizer requirement for domain purchases.
DGPS requires a fixed base in order to calculation the differentials I believe.

Some states, like Iowa (http://www.iowadot.gov/rtn/), also have real time information you can access to reduce the margin of error.
There are all kinds of solutions available to you in that scenario. Two-phase commit, on DBs that support it, would probably go a long way towards enabling a transaction layer like you describe.

Usually, though, discussions of DR should start with determining what kinds of RPO and RTO you're willing to pay for and then evaluating which of the available solutions will get you there.
My guess is that it doesn't assume anything about your motion model. The real question you should ask is what's the frequency of the positioning solution. Your generic GPS unit computes solutions at 1Hz, more sophisticated ones do it at 5Hz, surveyor quality units can do it at 10-20Hz depending on firmware, but I think they're pushing the limit and probably assume something about the motion model. Applanix and Novatel solutions that use inertial sensors definitely make pretty strong assumptions of the motion model (see Kalman filter).

OmniSTAR in particular and DGPS in general will operate under assumption that errors due to ionospheric and tropospheric effects change slowly in time and space. If this assumption is correct, then dynamics of the vehicle won't affect the corrections themselves.

My point with all this is that 99% of the corrected GPS solution should theoretically be within x cm of some point on the true path of the vehicle no matter how it moves in a plane. The question is, if you're interested in real-time solution, how far will the vehicle be from that point by the time you get this fix, and if you're interested in capturing vehicle's travel, how well will the curve fit through these points match the true vehicle path.
Anyone want to meet sooner? I'm recently freed of employment and trying to figure out what the tech scene's like around here (other than linked to 'the industry'...)

May is ages, I might throw the towel in and go travel India or move to SF or something before then :) Would prefer to stay though! Looking out over San Fernando valley now .. listening to lovely music, typing on new laptop and preparing to go and celebrate the traditional long weekend holiday that commemorates my nations' deaths in Turkey during the war...

sigh

May as well have a party! Hell, have it at my place!
Will it get a lock any quicker?

It would be nice if accuracy could be traded off for time, so that instead of getting a more accurate lock, we're getting a the old accuracy but quicker.

For me the biggest limitation of GPS is that it can take > 1 min to get a lock on a regular basis. I know this is hardware and software dependent ... but it's still common for it to be at least 20 seconds even on the best hardware, I think. Apart from making apps that rely on GPS awkward ("please wait an indeterminate amount of time while we find your location") it also means much greater power use because the GPS has to be active for longer (GPS seems to be something that noticeably uses a lot of power in my Nexus One).
I wonder how many 24-year-old CS students have given this same advice to Stallman in the last 25 years. Not that Alexey shouldn't voice his thoughts, but it's well-trod ground.
It's veneer, I guess. I'm not very familiar with carpentry vocabulary but here in Mexico they call the technique "tambor" (drum): sheets of cedar enclosing a simple skeleton of cheap wood. Solid wood would have been more expensive and too heavy (this one's heavy enough!).

Nothing yet that I would have done differently about this desk: it's barely my second day with it and I'm just happily overwhelmed by the response its getting from the interwebs.

That said, if I had to design a desk all over again, I would probably do a standing desk. That NYT article on sitting as a lethal activity was definitely the last straw for committing to a future with less sitting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17sitting-t.h...

The problem is that I haven't yet the slightest clue into how to make an elegant standing desk, all the designs I've seen are pretty terrible.

Thanks for your kind remark :)
> I'm more excited for BlackBerry's future than ever, but I'm also more worried than ever.

What exactly do you think is exciting about BB's future (as a platform)?
Very interesting. First Chinese OS project i see posted here.
This seems more relevant for /b/ than for HN.
I say that the ethics should be left out of the science. If ethics conflict with research - priority should go to research, until alternative, more ethic approach is found. And the ones responsible for alternative should be the ones that claim the current method is unethical - do not let non-scientists to forbid a research just because they think it is unethical.
Yep, I have worked for companies that would not buy software unless there was a maintenance contract.
Its a good thing that Linux is open and transparent. Good to admit a bug (and exactly what it is) rather than silently deny then possibly fix.

Also, somebody uses Google+ ?
Can you give more details and maybe examples of this?
I suspect it would be to do with spotting visitors bringing in illicit mobile phones not prisoners.
Thanks for this clarification. I am also still confused as to why Trump himself has been the target of all these tech/social media platforms. As far as I can tell he has not incited violence - imminent or otherwise. Yes he has made exaggerated/false claims about the election, yes he has not condemned the criminal acts of the capitol rioters, but as far as I can tell he has not encouraged or incited violence. And each time I have asked this question of friends or on HN, I've not received a substantive answer.
You'd want to survey companies that investors like https://indie.vc, https://earnestcapital.com, and https://tinyseed.com invest in.
This comment is why having this discussion is so difficult.

To anyone not invested emotionally in this conversation, it's clear that your point isn't making a valid point. They are not equivalent actions.

You're pretending they are to try to lend cover to the truly harmful action that just took place.

We can call a spade a spade without pretending that everything else is also a spade.

To be clear, I am directly saying that you are arguing in bad faith.

I hope it is clear that this is not an attack on you as a person. I am attacking your idea directly, not you.
Haha yeah, there wasn't this much outrage before because it was the peasant's businesses being destroyed. Protesting is now bad because it actually affected the rich, political class.

Look at how different the MSM response was. Destroyed businesses and disruption to innocent people's lives was a necessary sacrifice for BLM riots. And best of all, covid is only dangerous depending on what you're protesting for. But some people going into a building?! No! Stop that!
Don't forget that the US gov itself is also propped up by mass belief. Its authority rests in the people.

Now you might say "actually its authority rests on people with guns", but that's only to the extent that the people with the guns believe in the governments's authority to tell them who to point them at.

Underneath all is belief and sentiment.
Why do you feel sorry for them exactly?
The correct fix seems to be electing presidents that don’t invite terrorists to do what they did.
I still don't see that artificially inflating coinbase bitcoin. plus only bitfinance would be able to print/create tether. also, there's no evidence that companies what you claim they could do.
Assisted GPS is better than normal GPS.

It uses towers to work out how to find the GPS satellites quicker than normal, and additionally can provide some location information when no GPS is available.
My guess is that this is just an implementation optimization. Probably analogous to lookupd caching DNS lookups. The developers probably didn't think anything of it.

Even lookupd caches could be represented in similar light: "Your Mac secretly records the websites you visit in a hidden file." It's just that we're all used to (and understand) DNS lookup caches, and locationd and location lookups are relatively young.
and he shameless deactivated the comment-function in his blog.
Sorry to bring up NIH so willy-nilly. Ultimately, you guys did an inspiring job and from what I can tell of implementation you did it even more elegantly than I did.

The whole simultaneous invention thing is really interesting to me. It was covered in two great books, What Technology Wants and Where Good Ideas Come From. Both seem to imply that the more utility something has in the "adjacent possible", the more likely it will be invented by many people in roughly the same time period. This actually quite frustrates me about technology! What's worse is that this phenomenon will only increase over time. And because it's about utility (never mind the illusion of unique "UX" of products now), there is little room for expression or creating something unique to you that matters.
I use Duo to harden ssh connections from work to my box at home since I don't like leaving my home network unsecured. When people hear my iPhone buzz with the Duo authenticator callback when I open an ssh connection, they pretty much freak out at how cool it is.
> So essentially, what you're saying is that this determination is based on your opinion of "anti-racism" and not any objective observations, direct measurements, or first-hand experience dealing with the impacts of racism?

Not at all. I said that I looked at incidents of supposed racism such as the above. My observations drove my opinion of "anti-racists".

Is there racism - yes. My point is that the anti-racists aren't pointing it out, that they're engaged in political posturing.

BTW - I'm familiar with many of the so-called "direct" measurements. The vast majority don't measure racism so they're useful only to identify folks who either can't do science or don't bother in this case. Which category do you find virtuous? (You do know that "he meant well" is an insult, right?)
Erm, maybe we should be a little more scrutinous of where our bubble predictions come from?

"The number of tech-related jobs in San Francisco is near its record 34,000 in 2000, the pinnacle of the Internet bubble, according to analysis by real estate consultant Jones Lang LaSalle."

"Nearly 150,000 tech jobs are expected to be added this year, says Sophia Koropeckyj, an economist at Moody’s Analytics."

"Prospective employers alternately pitched themselves as “hot” promising start-ups, nestled in cool neighborhoods such as San Francisco and bursting with venture-capital cash."
I don't think that is a fair comparison. The 386 was a true CISC design while the ARM2 was RISC. One of the major points of RISC was to reduce silicon complexity by using a less complex design (and shoving the complexity onto software).

Intel could have built an equal or better chip than the ARM2 but they were worrying about servicing the already established market for x86.

P.S. Is it even reasonable to compare MIPS between RISC and CISC designs? A RISC chip has to execute several instructions to do what can be done in one CISC instruction.
The Simpsons also had a few episodes where the initial plot would kind of fizzle out 1/3 of the way through and then suddenly they'd get to the real plot.
http://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/12/buckminster-fuller-e...
Wow. The OLPC XO-1 launched for $188 in 2006. Now we have relatively mainstream retail laptops selling for less than that.
> ignore the obvious problem which is that some speech shouldn't be tolerated

We must embrace intolerance to snuff out intolerance?
It's only applicable if someone did yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater (and there wasn't a fire).

The worst Trump did here was say that people should march on Capitol Hill and "cheer on" congresspeople.

I guess people are assuming this was coded language to incite violence, but I'm not buying it
Despite something like 1000 people swore affidavits of violations.

Not sure why the number of affidavits is so important, and how many of these affidavits were from that form people were filling out a form on a website?

If you look at the spikes in vote counts on some of these graphs, its more than enough to warrant a hearing.

Assuming that "spikes" in a graph are proof of anything wrong at all, if the answer is "That's where a bunch of votes were added to the count." then what is the followup from there that necessitates a hearing of any kind?
Active discussion on a slightly earlier thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25672461
To be perfectly honest, I hope they’re arrested on/after Jan 21, so they can’t be pardoned by 45.
Not on FB, but Pelosi in particular fueled the flame of civil unrest, err... "peaceful protests", more than a few times. There were many others around that time who were fanning the flame, on both sides. But nobody was held accountable then, and certainly nobody was banned, so it's concerning that POTUS is banned across social media for this, and the damages were much less this time. I'm not a fan of censorship like this, regardless of the side. It controls the narrative and stifles free speech through discord.
Maybe, just maybe, you are being lied to:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pennsylvania-205000-votes/
And a Connecticut mode where nobody uses the right lane to pass people who do that.
it's also extraordinarily difficult if not impossible to prove. This is a problem for researchers, not people looking for ideas for startups.
I'm guessing you're not familiar with Eminent Domain?
> Which aspects of functional programming are you talking about?

Passing around things that do work on other things -- easy with C++ worker objects, painful with C function pointers (or worse, pointers to structs full of function pointers).
It's interesting that you bring this up. I was an econ undergrad, so it made me think of how this will change because of technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
craigslist. It's easy to search and narrow down results. Also really like indeed.com.

Current position was looking for someone way more senior. But I was nearly an exact match for what they needed and it's worked out great.
Yes. The problems are different, but the source is the same: software that sucks.

(I probably should have entitled grandparent, "Enterprise/SMB software sucks" to be more precise.)
I was referring to my own (limited) experience and stuff I’ve read from Jane Street. If people have axes, let them grind them.
But you realize the reason expensive things are expensive is because there are enough people willing to pay the premium. If demand for premium products diminishes, premium product producers can either lower prices to meet demand at lower price point, or lower production to new lower levels of demand.

Either way there is a present glut of expensive things without enough demand, so existing oversupply is liquidated. So expensive things get less expensive.
Yeah, but it can be really helpful, too. Checking out from the news for a few hours and doing something productive can benefit your mental state, at least it benefits mine, quite a bit.
That only applies once their demands are going to actually bankrupt you, and even then only if you're offering them more than a court would take. "No leverage" is the usual case.

"You COULD get a huge discount!!!" is, to first approximation, pure bullshit.