jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> the request header referrer for the tracking domain will no longer contain the full web address of the host page, only the domain name

Why not just remove referrer header for all 3rd party requests? Or remove it in Private browsing mode. VPNs nice, im using one, but other VPN companies are not, such a cutthroat business :) And you can not self-host VPN, it defeats the hide my IP feature.
Don't take this the wrong way, but I feel like you are undervaluing short fat engineers. :)

The article isn't saying that specialists aren't valuable. In fact is says the opposite: "If you know exactly what you need, and you need it right now, choose depth." It is just saying that perhaps the short fat engineer would be the one who realizes they need an OpenGL specialist on the team in the first place because the graphics are hitting a bottleneck and slowing down everything else. The author is merely pointing out that in the nascent portion of projects their contributions are, at times, under valued.
Speaking anecdotally, I put a few logical ideas together from different articles and got an answer that seems to work for me some years ago:

1. Simple carbs like sugar are metabolic stressors

2. Saturated fats, as well as other agents like caffeine can act to accelerate the metabolisation of sugar

3. If you consume a stressor with an accelerator, you are more likely to do damage than if they are spread out or diluted e.g. with fiber, so don't do that

4. (Something something exercise)

This hypothesis, while lacking in rigor, explains why I can have two burgers and be fine, but be miserable if I have a burger, fries and a coffee.
Well, I meant the latter part of the 20th century. Population has more than tripled since then. The crazy thing is that the 108M that died in WW2 really only slowed, or paused world population growth. It was not a devastating depopulation event like the Bubonic plague that killed 1/3rd of Europe.
here is a link to the thread on the mailing list: https://www.postgresql-archive.org/partial-heap-only-tuples-...
And they probably would have donated something either way. Just not so publicly.
To avoid the paywall, copy the title of the article and paste it into google. The google link will give you the full article.
Bob Metcalfe was interviewed in November 1998 by Wired (see http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.11/metcalfe_pr.html ) and he gave this interesting perspective on MIT students:

"Flocks of MIT engineers come over here," Metcalfe tells me, leading me up the back staircase at Beacon Street. "I love them, so I invite them. They look at this and say, ‘Wow! What a great house! I want to invent something like Ethernet.’" The walls of the narrow stairway are lined with photos and framed documents, like the first stock certificate issued at 3Com, four Ethernet patents, a photo of Metcalfe and Boggs, and articles Metcalfe has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

"I have to sit ‘em down for an hour and say, ‘No, I don’t have this house because I invented Ethernet. I have this house because I went to Cleveland and Schenectady and places like that. I sold Ethernet for a decade. That’s why I have this house. It had nothing to do with that brainstorm in 1973.’" He pauses for effect, as we arrive at his top-floor office. "And they don’t like that story."
Rufus knows what he's talking about. A conventional 1.5T or 3T clinical scanner with active shielding makes the danger zone of the fringe field more compact, but also makes the transition zone between where a ferromagnetic object experiences little force and where it experiences intense force that makes it a dangerous projectile quite small in space (and therefore quite difficult for a human being to predict). If you've got a ferromagnetic object within the 5 gauss line on a modern clinical system, you are playing a dangerous game of chicken. On a system without active shielding, that transition zone is more gradual.

The quoted field strength of a magnet can be very deceptive. That number indicates the strength of the field at the magnet's isocenter. It says absolutely nothing about the characteristics of the fringe field. There are small 9T animal magnets that you can work on with a steel crescent wrench and 1.5T magnets that you wouldn't dare to even consider walking in the room with ferromagnetic tools.
I'm actually really curious as to why people are down-voting me so much. Did I cross some invisible line? Are people interpreting my comments as some sort of attack or aggression?

I just made the observation that it seems misleading to call this "Apple's term" since they are not the only ones that use it. Note, that I'm not claiming that anyone is lying or trying to be intentionally deceptive. I'm not making some sort of "No! Apple didn't invent the term! They are non-innovators that steal everything!" comment. I'm just stating that it is a widely used term in the industry, and that calling it "Apple's term" might lead people who have never heard the term before to attribute it as some sort of Apple-specific jargon. Rather than not contributing to the conversation in a meaningful way by just down-voting the parent because I think that he/she is wrong, I just posted a minor correction in the interests of correctness/completeness.

[I can't even believe that I need to specify these things in such excruciating detail lest someone on HN feels that I'm being an asshole by trying to attribute my emotional state to a block of text rather than just reading it for what it is. Really, HN? I thought that we were better than this.]
This article is little more than a generic rehash of popular memes. Let's break it down:

- 37Signals is great, they do simple!
- anecdote
- Apple is great, they do simple!

I hope whatever software this guy does has less opinion and more substance.
At the farthest reaches of powerful software, you will always end up with a programming language and libraries.

At the other extreme, you have one thing that does exactly one task and as such can have a nearly "invisible" interface.

My suspicion is that it's actually kind of rare to need the areas in between - that apps like spreadsheets and photo editing are unusual, and if you _suspect_ that you have an app that could be developed in such a broad, deep, configurable way, your best bet is to start building in a library form and construct prototype one-shots - possibly even making them your MVP - attacking various different problems to see if you're right, before you try to make a unified monster UI for the perceived need.
See the (short) e-mail exchange for a sad little story; http://craigsworks.com/projects/simpletip/sandbox/emails.txt
The title implies there's an easy way
> influenza rates have apparently dropped dramatically during the SARS-2 pandemic

Last I’d heard, this was due to people practicing better hygiene - washing hands, masks, social distancing, etc.
I was blown away last year. Very very impressive.
This article was written in November 2009 and is 5 years old.
A report a day ago from the BBC - same story, different source, no comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919117
Another interesting question. Given we can move between mechanical and electrical systems with circuit theory. Are their other systems that we could apply circuit theory to (i.e. non electrical and non mechanical systems). Light and space circuits for example?
There are 1.25e14 synapses in the cerebral cortex.

The total number is higher still (the cerebellum is heavilly wired too), but I don't know by how much.
Spark & Ada just to see if the language and associated tools and processes are really practical (read fast development with low bug rates and easy to mantain code) and secure.

Scheme to learn functional programming and see if this paradigm really implies in good reuse of code.

Agda to learn about intuitionistic type theory.
Scores only 179 on html5test.com.
Chrome dev: 241, Webkit nightly: 243, Firefox 4 beta: 217
My own experience... I know why this concept sounds so familiar to me. I had one when I was little.

There are many childrens toys with a flywheel and a ripcord. That system is an "Inerter"... If the ripcord is a rigid toothed rack and pinion setup then it can act as an "Inerter" in compression as well as tension.
A few years ago, I tried using email tags with many online services so that I could use the tags for email filters. Most form validations rejected my email tags because they considered "+" to be an invalid character in email addresses.
You sure? I swear I saw it there before.
Adding too many feeds to my reader. A site like HN is tolerable, since I won't even notice if I've been away for a couple of days, but the unread count on my reader...
I nearly launched quantly.com a year ago. Almost bought the .ly but held off on it. Surprising to see someone using the domain here.
For those of you who get stuck in it before reading the source code: "EXIT! One finger still, four motioning quickly downward." He should have put support for just 'q' in there too :)
4chan would probably be on the side of the website owner. Unless someone's harming a cute animal, they don't seem to care much about peoples plights.
All the poems about water in the world will not prepare you for the first splash.
Is luakit a Linux only software, or does it work on OSX, too.
The real answer here is to change the field name to "Sex" which only has two possible outcomes based on what biological reproductive role you fill. While it could technically be three, adding a blank would solve this.
But 1. point, in this post, IMHO, is not completely resolved.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100699
imho it's not reasonable to perform dozens of http requests in order to create a device fingerprint. especially on mobile networks this will require a lot of time until all requests are through.
I specifically did not mention any names to not trigger flamewar. And mentioned Ember only in relation to the video.

For me personally it is Backbone (very minimal skeleton-like framework), view/binding library I like today (and can switch tomorrow) and routing I probably write myself for specific use case.

If this is too "low-level", next what I will check in "higher level" framework - as least "magic" as possible - i.e. explicit getters and setters with current state of Ecmascript, clear rules on how and when rendering happens, debuggable views (which often means views being compiled into JS.), being able to split large application in pieces which get loaded on demand without hacking/monkey-patching framework, being able to use jQuery if I want to, and not include it if I don't need it.

Sorry, no specific answer to your question, as I think it is problem specific, and even Angular can be used in some limited cases as it turned out.
and in a variety of formats: http://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2014/
This is my inspiration to create https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/
Funny, I saw it and thought fat people in wal-mart. This could revolutionize the electric shopping cart industry, much as the segway turned the airport police patrol and guided tour sectors on their ears almost a decade agoe.
Yes, they do. My previous employer (a Fortune 400 company) was picking up H1B workers like there was no tomorrow. But, I believe it was more to get lower paid employees with more direct oversight than outsourcing while paying less than what an standard middle class American IT employee would expect. Over half of my dept that did web development alone, about 60 people, were H1B's from India.

When the company had its first layoffs ever a few years ago, 99% of those laid off were not the H1Bs. They are all still there to this day.

From the H1B guys that I knew, they agreed that this was pretty much the standard than an abberation.

However, understand right now that there is a glut of jobless tech workers that has led to an undercutting of wages for quality talent and a reduction of companies that can pull the H1B card to get cheap labor.

Keep trying, but why not try to flip the idea upside down and do remote contract work?
> Is this a particularly revolutionary thing?

No. They've been doing this for a while. Not sure why it's news now.
Some people are honest afterwards even if they have a momentary lapse of judgement. If incorrect conclusions are made on the assumption that they are lying 100% of the time - anger.
Completely agree. The links for information aren't hidden behind animated menues and drop downs. Though, interestly enough, the Favicon on the site actually blelongs to ucarshare -- https://www.ucarshare.com/secure/Home.aspx -- which looks like a zipcar competitor.
You all are being too emotional about this. Corporations don't act that way.

You eat my lunch, I eat yours, and kick you in the balls.
Will probably be there
Not sure the cost, but iirc, it was $880 after taxes for my wife's 3GS about 9 months ago. Actually, not sure how long ago, but it was a while back.

Despite how it sounds, this isn't anything new. They've been doing this for some time.

Edit: I should point out, I believe we also got the iPhone care thingy from Apple as well. Which makes more sense.
I think people who visit HN -- myself included -- experience cognitive dissonance because we immediately see a domain parking page. Judging from the persistent profitability of domain name parking, most people don't share our experience.

It's really quite usable.
As the other commenter pointed out, that's not my point. If I issue a billion shares and offer you stock options at a $0.10 strike price you can't really expect the company to grow that 25x . It's an entirely different matter if there are 50,000 shares.

You may be assuming that the strike price is fairly pegged at a real value of the company and thus you can make assumptions about real growth of the company in terms of multiple. Short of public markets, this is always a questionable assumption, but in the case of new startups it is almost completely arbitrary. When you start a new one, there is no reason to differentiate between choices in the number of shares varying by a factor of 10,000x or more, and strike prices are almost as flexible.

Perhaps the best reason to pick any number is to pick a large one because of the (irrational) psychological impact that your large absolute number of shares will have in option grants.

I suppose this emerges out of people's naive appreciation of public markets. Smaller companies often have stock prices in the teens. Mature, stable companies tend to hold prices closer to a hundred. Blockbusters like Google go to 400! Etc. These prices are managed with splits and have little to do with the return captured by owners of the stock, but people looking at it from the outside sometimes miss this. That's why I appreciated the article so much. It goes beyond these simple matters.
One other question: I am using authentication through Facebook and Twitter. Not having to manage accounts (recording e-mails, making forgotten-password functionality, &c.) allowed me to focus on the game itself.

Do you think this authentication method will cut down the number of people who will play the game? Or could not having to sign up, specifically, make people more likely to play?
> Tis only a matter of time before laws start getting passed, ISPs are forced to monitor and people start getting cut-off/fined.

Will that actually accomplish anything? I think it will just push things deeper underground, and force downloaders to encrypt everything, which is at best a minor inconvenience.
Oh. I thought this article was going to be about the price of food, transportation, and many goods industries are driven up because of regulation. EX, why shipping by train is so disastrously expensive that it cancels out the efficiencies, due to regulation. Or why you can't get a decent meal for less than $5, where natural equilibrium prices should settle in at $1, and how this really hurts the poor.

Instead, it's just about how taxes aren't progressive enough to suit this guy. What a shame.
Don't forget that some of the original Hacker News user base is getting older and deciding to try out new things. Working for a large technology company, even if you ultimately want to strike out on your own, is a good experience and can teach you a lot of thing you're not going to learn at a startup or small business (simply because you'll never encounter them)
LISP is meant to solve this problem, but it's yet to be deployed outside of the test network. It could also be used to address exhaustion to some extent by allowing the use of prefixes longer than /24 on the internet, although that is not the intention.

https://www.lisp4.net/

https://neverthenetwork.com/notes/lisp/

Full disclosure, the second link is my blog.
Yes, provided your ISP allocates you a P2P link as well as your prefix. Once you get used to breaking up your prefix into subnets it all starts to work quite nicely.

I have even found that real world IPv6 addresses are not quite as bad as they look. We have all seen the auto-generated ones and they look awful but you don't actually use those as such. For example you are allocated a /48 prefix: 2001:db8:1234:: in general you might think of the ISP as 2001:db8:: and your site as 2001:db8:1234::. Your first subnet might be say 000a or simply "a" for VLAN 10 because you decide not to allocate IPv6 to your default VLAN 1 and start with your current PC VLAN which is 10.123.10/24. In IPv4 you have 10.123.10.1 as the default gateway (VRRP) with .2 and .3 for the physical routers. Hence your PC VLAN routers get given 2001:db8:1234:a::2 and 3 and ::1 for the VRRP address. You can play games with 1337 addresses using 0-9a-f eg face:b00c sigh.
They can, so long as commercially means operating at a surplus (keeping the profit to use later) rather than distributing profits (giving out the profit).

(Details may be incorrect. IANAL.)
Pretty solid all around. Would benefit anyone not just engineers. I like how the included a lecture on real estate.
I mean this is fundamentally untrue JWT is the underlying standard for Oauth2.0 so its something that is worth understanding even if you don't plan to utilize it.
Players are required to keep notation in tournament games, and the use of external software ... does not absolve the players of this responsibility

New technology can change the rules. I'm not sure about FIDE, I'm a former USCF TD. The USCF began allowing digital scoresheets many years ago. No doubt sponsorship from Monroi played a roll in the rule change, but it happened none the less. I can easily see the use of digital chessboards eventually eliminating the requirement to manually write moves down.

There are also many instances where players are not required to notate (at least under USCF rules). Like when a player's time remaining drops below 5min in sudden death time controls. When a player can't read or write. Blind, or other handicapped players. And blitz games.

At many of my tournaments it was pretty routine for parents to set up video cameras to record the games because the player's were too young to read or write.
I agree, we should dispose with the cops. Private security for those who have bootstrapped themselves into the means to pay for it, sure, but that's it.
Saying anything positive about online advertising is a ticket to downvotes.
...yeah, I suppose he does limit the examples to just nested function calls (and assumes everything ends up in the same object file).
I took to asking to see samples of real production code at all my interviews towards the end of my time working as an employee.

No-one ever objected. In fact, most places seemed glad I was interested and thought it was a reasonable request. It was pretty common to be asked to wait until the second interview, though, as most places wouldn't be kitted up to do this without notice.
MobileMe should be free for any Mac customer.
I'm such a novelty whore: I bashed my email address in the form on nothing more than the headline here. Sounds like a fantastic idea, though.
Part of it is probably the fact that he was still moving after being shot five times. Lethal injection would most likely hurt less.
The migrants, while in a terrible plight, are technically coming into a foreign country without following the proper process. They're suffering a (deeply problematic) government response to that action, essentially a poorly done catch and deport process.

China is systematically doing this to its own citizens, and intentionally harvesting body parts from them.

Those are, in fact, quite different.

China is
French numbers are actually quite easy though if you learn even a little bit of French.

You don’t think of quatre-vingt dix as four-twenties ten, you just think of it as ninety just like in English.

I suspect the same is true even for native speakers, your brain is going to pretty quickly map to the actual number it represents rather than the arithmetic statement.
It’s just the next step in the denial. Once “it’s happening” becomes transparently silly to deny, the next step is “fine, it’s happening, but we can’t do anything”.
A response of "oh, come on, we all know.." to someone that said they personally went through 100 tickets is not really contributing much. Worse, actually, as presenting your assumptions without evidence as counterfactuals to someone that purports to have actually done legwork actively muddies the discussion.
I notice a trend, at least in online fora, to glorify or almost celebrate anxiety and neuroticism. I'm not weighing in on the cause for this phenomenon but I wouldn't be surprised if this is related in some way.
> A lot of undergrads are not really looking around any more.

My friend is doing a CS degree now and is being told by profs that you won't get a job without an ML background.
I don't understand why they announced that Google Hangouts (classic) is closing to move to Google Hangouts Chat, like it's a chat app am I going to notice a difference, but now you just made me think that the whole service is shutting down?
"The name, contact number, email and shipping address within certain orders may have been exposed."

I really hate that most companies force me to give a phone number when I buy something. Why do they need it? Why forcing? I usually end up giving a fake one.
> "Twitch said it would rely more heavily on law enforcement in “off-service” cases and is partnering with an investigative law firm to support its internal team."

So if a user becomes noteworthy, expect to have investigative checks periodically done by the agency? What an insane concept -- this is how we end up with corporate governance and unjust punishment without societal review by fiat, without review by our peers.

Consider that Twitch is owned by Amazon. If Amazon were to start doing things like this, suddenly someone so accused can't walk into Whole Foods?
The crude/simple explanation I think is to imagine your program like an Excel spreadsheet: Some cells on the spreadsheet contain your client-side data (i.e. your "model"). Other cells are used by a javascript library to decide what's in the DOM (i.e. your "view")

The "flow-based programming" model involves creating all the formulas that shuffle the data from the model to the view.

At least that's what I can gather from what I've read (and I agree it's always been a big fail in the past, though there may be some merit to this idea eventually in limited roles.)
I like the way the D language approached this. It's garbage collected but it also has a "delete" function/operator. That way you can use garbage collection if you'd like, or you can manually free memory when you think it's worth it.

That seems like a reasonable compromise and I'm surprised that more languages don't do it.