jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm dreaming of a "GPL" food movement, where the process of making the food in question can be inspected by anyone at any time, and where the ingredients and sub-ingredients that went into it are also recursively "open source". There would be a Sourceforge/GitHub/YouTube site where you could upload and view videos of those inspections and leave comments.

Then you could even have a 100% "open source" product label when all the ingredients and sub-ingredients you used were also "open source".

You may ask: why would anyone other than paid food inspectors be interested in checking out those places? For one, it can be very educative to take your kids to show them how things are made. If you have allergies you may be interested in double-checking claims. It could also be an alternative fun thing for people into geocaching, for example to help "complete" the "100% open source" label for a given product.

You may also ask: why would anybody in the food industry be interested in making their food open source? Why would they want to give up their trade secrets? Well, for one not every product has to be mysterious: e.g., bread is bread, you just want to know if any suspicious additive has been used, and if your bread is good you want people to know it. It can be a marketing tool. You could prove that your product is 100% organic/local/kosher/gluten-free/peanut-free, etc., because all of the sub-ingredients have been verified to be the same as well, and you've crowd-sourced the work of verifying this.

Thoughts?
Sports radio sounds just as retarded as politics to me. I'm a huge hockey fan and played a very high competitive level. Let me tell you that sports talk is not sophisticated. What you hear on the radio is not nearly the same level as you hear from a coach.
Count me in as someone who says the word better start with at least "peta"

It's not just eh size though, IMO it implies a certain dimensionality and/or lack of structure. At work were sittin on several petabytes and I don't view it as Big Data because it's actually pretty simple. We share many of the same problems as Big Data but not all
When I want to watch a movie I want to have a copy of it in some fashion.

So the first thing I do is type "purchase mp4 <movie name>" into google. So far I have not been able to acquire a movie in that fashion, so the second attempt is usually obtaining an .mp4 through other means (which do not involve paying for it).

I want an .mp4 because that works on more-or-less on all of my devices. xbox360 from usb-stick, sync it to the ipod, etc..
> we alternated between Safeway and Walmart

Well there’s one problem. Safeway is crazy expensive compared to many supermarkets, like 30–50% more.
Are you sure about that? [1 ]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufortia_(plant)
I assume you already know about http://embed.ly but are concerned about security, like embedding unknown/untrusted html on your site?

I find your idea great and I have built something similar my self. I focused mostly on the interface and the fact that many times when watching a video you want to be able to switch between videos and make them fullscreen without interrupting their download. For example, when you have a long video on youtube that is split into many parts.

Playlists and ratings for videos is also quite useful in my opinion.

If you want some ideas check it out: http://lideo.me - you don't have to register/signup to start using it. You can do that later.
The most strange (but interesting) static site generator I’ve ever seen is: http://mearie.org/about/mearie#technical-detail . It uses Apache’s mod_negotiation very well to support internationalized contents. (That site provides English, Korean and Japanese version for most contents.) You can read the source code from here: http://hg.mearie.org/mearie.org/current
And when you convert algae to fuel you're not taking food off the table, as you are with corn. The impact ethanol has on driving up food prices is the almost exclusive reason why I avoid using it.
daniel@danielsilva.org
Furthermore, algae's use as fuel doesn't impact food prices, or the prices of goods made from the many millions of corn byproducts. Arguably, it makes a lot more economic sense than corn-based ethanol in the long run.

One counter-argument I've heard is that we wouldn't be using land to grow algae in the first place if we weren't growing it for fuel. Whereas we're already growing more corn than we need. So the opportunity cost of growing algae is therefore taken into consideration. I'd argue that this logic assumes we'd be growing algae and/or corn on the same plots of land, which seems to be inaccurate. I don't think a zero-sum economic analysis can be done, given that they are not viable substitute crops in any given space. Furthermore, I don't think we're growing enough surplus corn to cover total fuel consumption needs without dipping into the food and industrial supply.

Finally, yes, algae is a more efficient raw material for fuel extraction than corn is.
Please let them hire some decent people to handle communications to AWS users!

And we won't complain if they also get some engineers with world-class expertise in network attached storage.
Both questions were unanswerable. Even Amazon's estimates were wildly off, and they can actually look at the infrastructure.

Heroku's only way to answer your questions would have been to lie.
To add a bit more perspective: Norway's a fair bit higher. I'm paying about 14.60 NOK/l, which is 10.42 USD/gallon.
Probably a smartphone. Car makers have been notably stagnant in this category: http://www.porsche-design.us/Products/Electronics/Communicat...
This is not monkey patching. This is the good old function/api "hooking" that's pretty common in the compiled language world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooking

Monkey patching is a less invasive version of hooking used in dynamic languages. Bottom line: if you are dealing with assembly it's no longer monkey patching :-)
Sure it does. If your log lines are distinct (e.g. they have timestamps or unique IDs) then you can use less's search highlighting to provide a visual marker for a specific line, similar to what you can do by manually inserting a bunch of blank lines on the console.

This trick doesn't work if your log file has a bunch of identical lines and you want to keep an eye on their rate, though.
Little bit boring to be honest. The green color used for the topchan.tv is pretty ugly.

I think you should really highlight the 3 steps, put boxes around them or something. Make them the centerpiece to your landing page.
This sounds pretty crappy but the more I think about it, what's the best case scenario here? Mind you, we're coming out of the worst recession of most of our lives, we've still not fundamentally fixed any of those problems and then with the general status of human life on most of the planet, global warming, etc..

I'm just trying to think this through, so we identify some sort of signal. I'll bet that there will be detractors, with legitimate arguments, why wouldn't there be? It's not going to be an English message encoded in a format we can't dispute. Maybe it's a bad assumption but assuming the aliens use radio technology, it seems at least somewhat reasonable to assume that they'd use it to communicate with themselves before attempting to communicate with others, for those aliens, we'd most likely intercept their communications signals rather than directed communication with us or others. Communications which happened years and years ago. The best case scenario would be one of the near by stars having alien life that happened to be listening too and in that case should we get a signal and send one back it would still be on the order of a decade long cycle. What's the average case? A century long communication cycle? Assuming both parties are listening and engaged? Likewise, if they're sufficently advanced, wouldn't they compress and encrypt their communications and it should appear to be entropy to us?

I think there are a lot of things you should do just to do. The best upside here seems like hope or an easing of the beliefs about the universe, it just seems like we'd have to get really really lucky to actually communicate with something else and it could take centuries to establish that. Which in a round about sort of way makes it seem like shutting down a telescope for a few years isn't so harmful after all. Then let's just toss in nuclear proliferation, Islam fundamentalism (as well as other religious zealotry over the centuries,) AIDS in Africa (imagine should it some how become more communicable...) hunger, and global warming as issues that might affect our ability to concentrate on a problem for a century or more, is stoppage that bad?
If we extend "fun to work with" to include "quieter, more intelligent" people, I think palish's definition may work rather well. That group definitely falls into "people I want to work with."
This isn't a different voting system; it's only a special case of the current system. Keep in mind, in your system it's got to be possible to NOT delegate your vote; it has to be possible for everyone to just vote on their own without delegation. In that case, what happens? You haven't really specified the voting system, just an additional feature that a voting system might take on.
Samuel Beckett used to drive André to school in his pickup truck. He was too big for the school bus.
Absolutely. People, and especially a very large fraction of people in the software industry, are loathe to think that anything other than ability and pure reason factor into, well, anything.

Maybe I've just had some poor experiences but I find it is safe to assume that the majority of decisions around office configuration, benefits, salary, etc., are made based on power dynamics, ego, and bean counting (which is itself a means of exerting control) rather than any other reason, especially rather than after considered thought given to employees' needs and desires.
A unique culture, not an unique culture
> If all of Uber's drivers banded together and simply decided not to drive until their terms were met, they'd likely have a good deal of leverage over Uber without any government intervention required

I have experience with unions and I can tell you that if every Uber driver on earth were to protest right here, right now.. and all you will be doing is creating job openings for other people who will happily get paid less to get the job done.

Driving people to and fro isn't exactly a highly skilled job and there is no shortage of people who are made poor because of a car payment.

Comments like this are just more proof of HackerNew's magical thinking regarding unions.
> Plenty of mobile networks will timeout inactive TCP connections in less than 30 seconds.

Good grief - that is awful, but sadly believable. Do you happen to know who does that? A couple years ago I tested AT&T's 3G and found that the TCP timeout was 30 minutes, versus 30 seconds for UDP. I'd love to know numbers for other carriers.

Edit: Found an interesting paper from 2011 that tested 73 cellular carriers worldwide and found only 4 with TCP timeouts less than 5 minutes. The majority had timeouts greater than 30 minutes, and 21 had a timeout in the 5-30 minute range. Some of my faith in humanity has been restored. http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/sigcomm11_netpiculet.pdf (see page 8, table 5)

Edit: A paper from 2012 which measured Verizon and Sprint at 30 minutes, and AT&T at 3 minutes (my tests are more recent, so perhaps AT&T wised up?) http://www.cs.umass.edu/~yungchih/publication/12_mtcp_4g_tec... (see page 11, table VI)
Confusion is negative, so actually we're very sure of ourselves ;)
While we're on this subject, is there a good, free street address parser that will work for at least the US, Canada, UK, and the major EU countries? I've tried most of the available ones, and they can parse about 90-95% of business addresses.

(Regular expressions don't work well for this. Neither does starting from the beginning of the address. Proper address parsing starts at the end of the address and works backwards, with the information found near the end, such as country name and postal code, used to disambiguate the information found earlier.)
I just feel that the whole humanity should speak one common language. Now whether you like it or not that language is going to be English.

I just dont understand why do we need multiple languages anymore. If anyone says we need them to preserve the culture, I dont understand that either.

My native language is not English, just in case anyone feels I want to force English down your throat.
What he said... nvd3 and d3
Early Strugatskies, "Noon, 21st century". A look into how communism would like.

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

Efremov: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Yefremov

Golovachev: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Golovachov Especially early works - how clash of civilizations would look and live like.

Alexander Belyaev: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Belyaev A classic sci-fi writer, very grounded though.

And for pure aesthetic pleasure - Vadim Shefner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Shefner His writings are so poetic, kind, ironic and alive. I still reread some of his works, despite not reading much those days.
I think you are being naive if you think people who don't understand the definitions of "pass-by-value" and "pass-by-reference" (terms well-defined and well-understood in programming language theory and computer science fundamentals), and then go on to further misunderstand an article about Java and C++, will get any benefit from discussion on the topic that avoids Java, C++, or any other concrete examples, and instead tries to use the very definitions themselves (which are not understood, remember?) to try to provide clarity.

As I said before, if people understood the fundamentals, or if the fundamentals were good enough, then this entire thread wouldn't exist. This stuff is child's play. Anyone who is confused by this needs more help than shrugging and saying "stop trying, just point them at more fundamentals"...
IMHO Sublime is like Sketchup.

Certainly there are more powerful tools (emacs and vim - or 3dMAX and Rhino, when comparing with Sketchup) but Sublime/Sketchup are so fast and easy to use from first day by amateurs and professionals making them very hard to beat.

I don't use them everyday but I can be quite productive with both. It would take ages to be productive with Emacs or 3dMAX using them only every other week.
Not involved in the startup scene at all, but isn't "uber for laundry" a punchline at this point? What are cleanly doing (or what aren't they doing) that dozens of failed startups didn't do? This isn't snark, YC are saavy investors and I'm interested to know what they see.

This article, for example, is a year old: http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/

Unrelated, I found it interesting that clean.ly doesn't resolve to Cleanly's website--for that you have to go to getcleanly.com. Do -ly's confer status these days to the point that the URL is unnecessary?
First, this is a tragic loss of human life, and shocking that a plane crashed in Europe of all places. Will be interesting to discover the cause.

Secondly, I just landed in Lithuania to visit my partner's family. I just spent six hours convincing my partner that it's safe to fly, especially on an Airbus A320. We land to hear that the same kind of plane we flew on had crashed in the Alps.

My partner will never trust me again.
I don't use bookmarks anymore. I have been using pocket (getpocket.com) for 6 years now and it helps a lot in managing, tagging links.
That's funny. That's not a great description of the reality, but you can't get make a comment both accurate and funny at the same time.
I’ve always wanted to make a GitHub for recipes. You can fork recipes. Submit pull requests. Public and private repositories. Versioning and commit history. Share with friends, Etc.
How was gcc bootstrapped?
> - Whether or not Signal's server is open source has nothing to do with security. [...] having the server code open source adds absolutely nothing to this security model, [...] The security rests only upon the open source client code. The server is completely orthogonal to security.

The issue a lot of people have with Signal is that your definition here of where security comes from is an extremely narrow & technical one, and many would rather look at security in a more holistic manner.

The problem with messaging security is that there's two ends, and individually we only control one of them. Ok, screenshotting & leaking your messages will always be a concern no matter what technology we develop, but the other challenge is just getting the other end to use Signal in the first place and that's governed by the network effect of competitors.

Open Source is essential for security because one of the most fundamental security features we can possibly hope to gain is platform mobility. Signal doesn't offer any. If Signal gains mass adoption and the server changes, we're right back to our current security challenge: getting your contacts onto the new secure thing.
It also depends on how often you engage in a back and forth in meetings.

I am an individual tech contributor. I don't oversee anything, mentor anyone, or manage anything. I am not the kind to challenge already made decisions. So meetings are largely one way information flow, as it seems to be for most of the developers I know.

Write me a memo and I at least am in the same place 90% of the time.
s.* files were how SCCS worked, the filename limits were also how Unix V7 worked - most people understood this at the time and used small names
This is great. Outbreak of COVID-19 had definitely made remote work popular. Many companies have realised the remote work is possible without productivity being affected.

But with remote work there's going to be a lot of competition for jobs.

If you're a Software Developer here's a great course which helps you in your interview preparation.

https://gumroad.com/a/46068851

I recently bought this course and have got offers from 4 Unicorns in India!

Since I loved this course, just wanted to share it with others in this community :)
The most common case of this (as expressed in HN comments over the years) is Amazon recommending products based on Amazon purchase history. In that case it's all first-party data.
>these sites won't be able to run ads that track purchases

Isn't that part of the purpose of the changes that Apple is making? As a user, this seems like a great change. Less tracking is a positive.
No, because of group dynamics. Once you start un-personing people, you have the in group and the out group. The in-group repeatedly redefines acceptable behavior to exclude some small margin. Repeat and you end up with absurd extremes.
Possible, but there are also different files with different schemas, so it's hard to even say that.

There only ones that actually define the data are the 9 or so CSV files that have a header like:

id,phone,first_name,last_name,email,birthday,gender,locale,hometown,location,link

Those are what I looked at and those are super annoying because several have commas in both the first & last name. I don't know why, but a handful of people listed their names as some, guy, some, guy which I assume should be split into firstname: some, guy and lastname: some, guy. Then a lot of people have None for a birthday, some have something like May 8, and others have something like May 8, 1990. Both locale & hometown can be either None, or have several commas in them.

I had to reformat all that data and validate that each field made sense to parse it. There are helpful "Location" and "link" markers in the CSV but it's still super annoying to parse this stuff.
Parent wrote "coup attempt", not "coup". There's a difference.
i'm confused by this. the reason for creating an entire framework is you didn't like the jQuery dependency?

replacing jQuery with MooTools in Backbone seems trivial, especially with respect to creating a whole new framework. you'd just need to override a small handful of methods.

all the other problems Composer solves that Backbone excludes (like filtered collections) are supplemented by other third party libraries. i'm not one of those "another framework?" guys- but it seems like you had a great opportunity to make the landscape more robust, instead of further segregating it.
A great post. The excitement of the OP in the post is quite palpable and I could feel it. I am brimming with excitement right now.
Seems not very legal...

I am sure this is illegal in Europe. There are strict rules for how much one can use from another website (limited number of words plus max size one image).

Google News complies to these rules (without adding its own ads) and still many publishers are battling it...
Google News has stopped in Spain last week because it has to pay the publishers starting Jan 1st.

Excerpt of Terms of Service of nytimes.com (just as an example, every publisher has something similar):

2.2 The Services and Contents are protected by copyright pursuant to U.S. and international copyright laws. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce (except as provided in Section 2.3 of these Terms of Service), create new works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the Content or the Services (including software) in whole or in part.

2.3 You may download or copy the Content and other downloadable items displayed on the Services for personal use only, provided that you maintain all copyright and other notices contained therein. Copying or storing of any Content for other than personal use is expressly prohibited without prior written permission from The New York Times Rights and Permissions Department, or the copyright holder identified in the copyright notice contained in the Content.
You've just described MacOS X's 10 year old Spotlight feature : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_%28software%29
If you draw graphs/charts, then use a WYSIWYG program like Word. If you generate graphs/charts from data, then use a compiler like TeX, which nicely integrates into a build process.
>but it absolutely isn't required by my company

Is it needed to hit deadlines or to successfully do your duties as lead?

Because it might not be required, but it ends up being expected.
I stand corrected, thanks for the reference!
Not if the companies with the eurodollars can get tax haven in London...
Of course, good catch. Whether or not 80% of AMCs are still on the road would be an interesting question.
> Surely the UK has laws similar to ADA and protected classes?

The article seems to imply that the journalist was "refused service" because of their disability.

That does not seem to be the case. My understanding of the email was that the journalist was given a choice to proceed with the service after being informed that it's not likely to lead to a successful outcome.
Let's get something out of the way, it's not the 1 percenters that make things for us, it's the engineers, the programmers, the developers, the physicists, the biologists, the chemists, the grad students and every other poor soul grinding for progress on a computer screen in exchange for basic decency.

Why is it that nearly every company that puts first the shareholders ends up pooping the bed? Because the shareholders don't know jack except what the other people in the 1% want.
There is already a sugeestion: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2592.htm
One thing the article left me wondering... what should I do? My bias makes me think that the cheap supermarket meats have more of this resistant staph than farmers market or whole foods meat. Is that a fallacy?
I'm a junior programmer who's just started my own business (selling tea, www.minrivertea.com). We have physical products, but sales are 100% online.

I'd say the biggest challenges have not been technical. Understanding business law, import/export, promotion and marketing, getting photography, sales, dealing with accounts. That side of things has taken up 50% of my time, but it's been 90% of my stress.