jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As a middle-aged IT person, that sounds like poor advice to me for two reasons:

1. Marketing to the 'cool kids' with the expectation that everyone else will follow-along... is probably not good advice in the absence some key differentiation. For Microsoft, this could have just been the massive amounts of capital they could deploy towards getting the Xbox to market. Even then, just spending money is not a strategy.

2. Middle-aged IT people are likely to have more disposable income to afford a $X00 device and a library of games (where the real revenue is). They could also be thought to have less leisure time and place more value on it accordingly, which would correspond to spending decisions. They may also see themselves as 'skateboarders with tattoos.' There's nothing demographic specific about those properties.
Have you ever seen this cartoon?

http://greenmonk.net/2010/01/07/what-if-we-create-a-better-w...
I'm a big fan of this thread because it helps correct the preconceived notion that culture is on a 1 dimensional spectrum between "bad" and "great".

At our 30-person company, we did an experiment where we took a culture framework that was evaluated on 2 axes, and took internal surveys between two years to determine where on the spectrum employees felt our culture was currently at, and what their ideal culture would be.

For anyone curious, I have a data visualization of it here: https://ryochiba.com/2016/11/22/what-is-a-company-culture.ht...

For anyone in a position to explore these questions at an organizational level, I would highly recommend doing an exercise like this. It gives more agency to the employee to express what direction they think would be optimal and brings awareness to the fact that totally different cultures can both be considered "great".
This is what Kubernetes is for. Personally, I run k3s, but setup and config looks like this -

1. stand up a cluster. (two commands, install docker, install k3s)
2. apply yaml files (kubectl apply -f .)

I run 6 services/"apps" on 2 OVH servers ($6.70/mo)
Bellentine's book is a good introduction to a lot of quantum physics (you will need mathematics), and to really understand particle physics you need even more mathematics
Pygame recently hit 2.0, incorporating libsdl-2.0.0 after a long wait. Have you tried that?

I think you're a bit off in describing Ruby as a language in decline. Rails startups are being built every single day, Hotwire is threatening yet another Rails renaissance as Ruby moves towards reactive web app technology, mruby is pushing forward into smaller areas, and TruffleRuby is moving forward into exceptionally performant Ruby code.

This is all on top of 3.0, which brings all manner of improvements, most notably type annotations.

I love Python as much as anybody, but I think they are equally respectable and equally popular in their own niches.

Syntax is only a preference, there is much more to Ruby as a language than just the syntactic departures from Python code. It's a different model and encourages a different style of problem solving.
That's the ideal, but we actually do it all the time. No real experiment actually corresponds precisely to the model. Experiments go Just Plain Wrong all the time, and we don't look at them; we just assume we made a mistake in the setup and repeat it. If we engaged in due diligence for every single thing we noticed, we'd do nothing else.

Science is much messier than the neat models we set ourselves. There's a whole subdomain of studying the Demarcation Problem, which is trying to figure out the difference between "hypothesis revision" (science) and "goalpost moving" (pseudoscience). Turns out it's harder to define rigorously than you'd expect it to be.

A huge number of scientific decisions end up being made on a combination of "who has money to spend", "who has time", and "who is interested". That's utterly non-rigorous, but it's actually pretty fundamental to how real science gets done.

I'd say there's a lot of stuff more promising than EmDrive. We all knew it was a mistake, and if it hadn't somehow attracted some prominent backers and a ton of people hoping that this time we were gonna get green Orion slave girls in metal bikinis, it would have been ignored years ago. We could have spent that money and time on other things, but they would have been boring even if they'd worked out.
It's not just the NUC; don't forget the Minnowboard Max, which is also Intel-sponsored at least. It has slightly lower specs than this stick, but it's still far more powerful than the R-Pi and great for home automation work. I've got a couple here and I have no real complaints.
> They have a long explanation about liability and such.

Can you summarize the liability explanation? Is the sender a lawyer/law firm or someone just claiming to be the copyright holder?

IANAL, ask them to provide how they arrived at $168.00 as economic value of the image. Similarly, you should estimate the economic value of the image to your blog/venture. Did you generate any income from the blog? Can you quantify the value contributed by image to your income? For example, if you were running advertisement on the page, could you quantify contribution of the page, that the image is on, to your total ad revenue?

Do not pay right away! Keep asking for more information like their validity of their claims of copyright, who owns the copyright? Where the image was posted? More work the sender has to do, less likely they will continue to badger you. In all requests, give them a definite time-period like 30 days / two weeks to respond.

I am very suspicious of such claims demanding monetary compensation unless such claims were preceded by take-down warnings and legal warnings from a lawyer/ law firm. My guess is the sender is a fraud and I am sure you are not the only one they are harassing. Such claims are like 'spam,' sender sends out thousands of them expecting some will pay. Do a Google search on the sender, sender email address, reverse-image search to find where else the image is posted. Contact some of them to see if they received similar demands.

Edit: If you decide to communicate with sender, I will suggest asking only one question in each email and then wait for response. Once you get response, then take a few days and ask another question. It will be a while before you run out of all your questions. You also get to see how determined the sender is to collect from you.
Because of the distance involved, it seems satellite phones will always require a much larger battery than cell-tower phones. The other idea, of cheap cell-towers to intermediate the satellites, seems much more likely.

Getting billions online would have incredible effects, especially productivity. It really will be a different world, with different market structures.

But I'm not so sure about ad-supported internet at such a fundamental level - reminds me of a Philip K Dick story with ads everywhere (even on toilet paper).
It would be interesting to hear a perspective from some of the HNers that actually worked on the re-build of HealthCare.gov
No, "not even wrong" is a pretty crappy way to describe this argument. "Not even wrong" implies a non-falsifiable claim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

The claims made by this article are easily falsifiable: do a more accurate ethnicity-based slicing of the data and show that US schools fare poorly as measured by standardized tests.

You may not find the results useful for your chosen aims ("make schools better"), but that's irrelevant. Is evolution also "not even wrong" because it can't be used to "make schools better"?
Since nothing like https exists yet for public wireless networks, it could be made so that when the client connects and the access point sends the client its public key, the public key shows up (or preferably doesn't show up but can be made visible) on the client's computer which can be then verified against a sign in the store if the client really cares. You don't need an outside authority when you basically trust the coffee shop.
Horrible to hear. My mother died when I was at a similar age. Although there was little support from my family either, I live in Germany, so the state pays for Health care and there is welfare for people who cannot work.

And still the stress seemed overwhelming. But in comparison I really can't complain...
Anyone have a sense of how this compares with QML? QML is declarative (comparable?), and is cross platform which seems better out of hand.
Yeah, this just feels subjective (which isn't bad, just not terribly helpful). I find the fine-grained control gives me more power (which I prefer to something that's simpler but less powerful).

Rst feels like a happy medium between mdown and LaTeX for me, which is actually very much how I use it. I use it in situations where I would have used LaTeX in the past (instances where mdown surely wouldn't cut it). Of course, there are some times (e.g., tables, figures and bibliographies) where LaTeX is the only sensible option, but for anything simpler, I'd still prefer the power that Rst gives me.

Additionally, I actually really like most of how Rst does URLs. It is definitely less simple than mdown, but it's so much more powerful and generalized.
I would argue that many of the worlds greatest ideas did not come about through the value generated in workplace.
Assuming MH370 wasn't one which it quite likely was.
France also is protecting their airbus business by quickly labelling this suicide and not mechanical failure that caused the pilot to become unconscious.
I like your pragmatic way of analyzing this issue, and I think we have far more security work to do in operations than in algorithms.
Ya know, if the NSA did have a presence in NAPs and other backbones in the 90s, the employees there would know. You can't take over an entire floor or wing of a building and make it restricted to people with clearance without anyone noticing.
If we can have self driving cars then self driving planes are starting to look essential. At least until judgement day.
Google PR are such a bunch of fucking clowns.
Scratch that... looks like somebody found him.
Fracking is univerally a good idea. NIMBYs don't like it and people who think "chemical" is a swear word are un-convince-able but for the rest of us it's a positive thing.
> The first example looks nothing like parsing a specific cookie. It merely sanitizes the cookie headers a little, but it doesn't extract out a specific cookie to use as cache key.

You say you don't parse a specific cookie, but doesn't extract a specific cookie as a cache key? The blog post says the opposite:

> We modified Passenger to parse cookies, and to vary turbocache responses based on the value of this user_id cookie. We invoke Passenger like this: passenger start --vary-turbocache-by-cookie user_id

In other words: parse the user_id cookie.

The mentioned commit even adds a ~250 LoC file (ext/common/ServerKit/CookieUtils.h) to do cookie parsing:
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/commit/a760649cd79fde43...

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Anyway, what you're getting at is that Phusion only parses a certain value from the cookie and then uses it as a custom Vary header, whereas the examples I linked to clean up the Cookie header and then varies on that cleaned up Cookie header. That boils down to exactly the same thing.

P.S.: downvoting? Not very nice.
How did you get into writing?

I tried to write blogs and had to write papers for university, but I always struggle.

I have the feeling that some people can produce much text from nothing, where I put my ideas into a few sentences...
You can change the effective modulus. Learn a secret X modulo (A, B, C, ...) and eventually you can learn what X is.
I'm kind of surprised that the Nexus 5 (hammerhead) isn't in the first batch of devices, since it's the last Nexus device that was released without Lollipop, and stock Lollipop has been available on the Nexus 5 for a while.

It's especially weird, since the Nexus 4 (mako) is in the first batch of devices. I'd expect the more recent and more up-to-date devices to be easier to port, and also a higher priority.

That said, this has taken a lot less long than I'd feared, so I'm pretty excited to see this! Privacy Guard alone is worth the switch to Cyanogenmod[0], in addition to a number of other tweaks that CM allows.

[0] Yes, it's available on rooted non-CM devices, but it's much cleaner when it's integrated into the ROM.
If you're new to growing your own food, I indeed highly recommend you initially stick to food from shops as you start learning to grow your own, transitioning gradually as your skills improve and can rely more on yourself. If you completely & abruptly stop buying food, relying entirely on your own farming, with no transition period, trust me you'll starve.

Likewise, stick to schools initially until you are sure you've got a solid grasp of core concepts, as taught & validated by people who know what you don't but should, then start transitioning away as your education can stand on its own. I've known too many "self taught" people who, while yes they can function in industry, suffer gaping glaring holes where early formal thoroughness would have closed them.
Ya know it's funny. I used to write about the cell phone industry in the previous decade and this was exactly the vision at one point: a feature phone in your pocket creates a "Personal Area Network" over Bluetooth or similar that provides connectivity to your your watch, computer, etc.
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It would be so fantastic if we could just have a chip implanted to continuously measure this stuff, then download it and analyze on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis. There's so much cool science to be done here, especially if this is done on a global scale.
> Well what if East India Company did not come to India, what if Turks did not invade India it would go on.

The East India company came to India 262 years before Churchill was born. But if we want to talk about that, why not also talk about the Mughals, Muslims who invaded India and are the source for many aspects of Indian culture. (I have an Arabic last name because of the Mughals.) Like other Muslim empires, the Mughals were prolific slavers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_India (“Slavery in India escalated during the Muslim domination of northern India after the 11th-century, after Muslim rulers re-introduced slavery to the Indian subcontinent.”).

If we start wiping out parts of our history that are unpleasant we won’t have anything left.

> Anyway Churchill's polices led to famine, which could have been avoided.

No, the famine was caused by environmental disasters. Nobody thinks it “could have been avoided.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53405121 (“‘We can't blame him for creating the famine in any way,’ says Ms. Khan. ‘What we can say is that he didn't alleviate it when he had the ability to do so, and we can blame him for prioritising white lives and European lives over South Asian lives.’”).

Churchill made a decision to prioritize resources for the war effort. By 1943 the UK was devastated. It lost 1% of its population in World War II. Those resources could have saved many lives in Bengal. But how friendly do you think Nazi Germany would have been to Indians had Britain not won the war? You can’t judge Churchill purely by the consequences of his actions without also addressing what could have happened had Churchill acted differently.

> His attitude towards India can be considered as racist.

Churchill once said “Indians are the beastliest people in the world after Germans.” But Ghandi was racist towards Africans (although his views evolved somewhat as he got older): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34265882. Everyone was racist back then, and in most of the world, people are still very racist. Churchill was no more racist towards India, than Indians in my parents generation are racist towards Africa or China. (And in Bangladesh, toward Jews.) And frankly, outside maybe the educated class in India and Bangladesh, most people are still that racist today.

It doesn’t make any sense to judge people by the standards of society decades later. If we did that we would have nobody left to admire. Churchill isn’t famous for his racism. He is famous for holding off Nazi Germany for years while American sat in the sidelines. He deserves to be held in esteem for that virtue, even if we recognize the faults he shared with other people of his era.
I also started on Linux without knowing how to program, but simply having that accessibility and ability meant that I had the option of quicker ways for doing batch things. I would agree with the author that Linux can be a gateway to programming.
Seconded. This must be a known issue for them? It would have been nice to acquire the securities for $0 but I was not so lucky as their tax bill indicated.
How is that different from reddit? /r/politics does that regularly
I am very much an introvert but under the lockdowns I would give my left eye for random conversations with smart people, not being forced to walk on the eggshells is a big plus too
It's all network effect. Parler somehow got some endorsements by well known Republicans like Hannity and Trump at a time when people on the right were looking to switch to something else, so they ended up with a lot more users than Gab.
I doubt that it's enough to care about. The hardware is specialized and the needs are different from normal servers. Bitcoin miners care almost exclusively about cheap electricity, not uptime or latency or bandwidth or interconnect.

Some Bitcoin-related stuff is running in datacenters, no doubt, but it's a rounding error compared to the rest.
We live in an age where it's impossible to tell satire from reality. I clicked through to both "About" and "Blog," but am none the wiser for it. (Didn't dare to click "Pre-order" in case it were for real.)
Cellular automata violate continuity and isotropy, which means they're inconsistent with the continuous spatial formalism used in special relativity, general relativity, classical electrodynamics, and as far as I know, quantum electrodynamics. We have no experimental evidence inconsistent with continuous models of space. We also have evidence that Lorentz symmetry holds over scales smaller than the Planck length, which suggests spacetime is not quantized.

One of the problems with quantized spacetime is that the cells would have a size--and sizes change depending on your velocity. Were spacetime to be comprised of cells, you'd be able to establish a single, most privileged reference frame--and that doesn't sit well with the principles of relativity.

That said, we really don't have good models for what happens at small spacetime scales yet. Gravity is poorly understood. Theories change as new evidence and mathematics develop. I just wouldn't trust Wolfram's opinion without either a.) experimental evidence or b.) a model which is consistent with (or radically reformulates) significant parts of relativity and quantum electrodynamics.
One thing I know for sure, finding security bugs is never an easy task, nobody gives you anything for free on this world. So when I see people who are thinking like you minimizing it I'm saying to myself people should start thinking twice before releasing their findings for free because nobody gonna acknowledge your work anyway.
The USB spec doesn't have any say in the data that gets sent back and forth once a connection is established. That's what makes it versatile.

So, yes, the Kinect could have been totally USB-compliant device while requiring a "driver" with juicy gobs of encryption and obfuscation.
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If you're amazing at what you do, and good at selling it, you can get a high-paying job without a lot of the extra bullshit. In short: earn your pay.

People who truly earn their pay are rare. For some reason, almost everyone is concerned with what they're "worth" (what they can get) but never stop to think where that worth comes from. It's not just about how much people will pay, but about how much value you create.

If you don't actually create enough value, then things like being the guy who stays late and blah de blah will matter. If you create the value, but nobody knows, it's your own fault. And if you create tremendous value, and people know it, and you are still expected to sit up and be a good little doggy, you're working for the wrong people, because a good business leader should be able to do the math where Your Value Y is Your Salary X * Some Good Multiplier -- and behave accordingly.

Because if you create that kind of value, they will have to hold on to you instead of vice versa.

Yet again, the balance of power is paradoxical: if you create great value, you hold the power, even if everyone else walks around thinking the employer is the one with the power.
That definition assumes that there is such a thing as an "app worth buying a phone for" that holds for a majority of people. That will always vary by person. I've listed killer apps for Android for me; as I said, I can make no claims about killer apps for everyone, nor can you, or for that matter, Gruber. So I guess the term is kind of silly in the first place when applied to third-party mobile app offerings, no?
"I know many people with Android phones who don't use it for music (myself included) because it is fairly difficult to put music on it."

You plug it in into a USB port and drag files over to the mounted drive.

Conversely, any app or product that requires me to use iTunes is pretty much out of the running for me because it is too damn annoying to work with.
You know, I realized that while Microsoft sounds insane to us geeks, this might make sense if we consider their position and customers.

Microsoft, as best I can tell, tries to maintain a very hard line against cheaters to keep the quality of the Xbox Live service high. If we accept this, and the fact that most of their customers don't know a whole lot about technical things like USB, the initial push against people toying with the Kinect (for fear that they were actually trying to abuse it) and the current repetition about how it hasn't been hacked (because it hasn't been) both make sense.
> you've got to flaunt your wealth even if you don't gotta it.

I've noticed this trend with folks who came from an emerging economy. In my case, growing up in an immigrant rich area, it was hard not to notice all of the Korean kids with the designer clothes, and parents picking them up in new BMW, Benz and Lexus cars -- most of whom worked their tails off to get into the choicest colleges. Inquiring about their first generation immigrant parents almost always revealed they worked their asses off in low-end jobs like grocery stores, cleaning services or dry cleaners and often as not lived in crummy apartments in a sketchy part of town. The need to project a "wealthy" image was so great that they often were in deep debt to buy all that stuff. It seemed crazy to me till years later I started to understand better the social pressures that caused this phenomenon.

Thought this was a great analysis over the issues of the Chinese real estate and why so many people are putting their money into it.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/18/pm...
that sound unnecessarily painful. what about the amazon mp3 integration, as well as good syncing through stuff like doubletwist
Uh ... well it is not a 503 issue but looks more a HTML5 issue to me. My browser works absolutely fine when your website is not in one of my tabs.