jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Light rail runs quite far into the suburbs these days, and that's going to increase when the red line gets built out.

It's probably moot for me as I currently work in the suburbs (West Bloomington) but even if I did work downtown or in north loop with the rest of the SV wannabes I doubt very much that city living would be a compelling option when compared with a suburb house or apartment nearby a light rail stop.
It turns out people don't really search for most of the things that are out there to sell - cola, soap, milk, chocolate, candy, fuel. Yes some people do search and research these things but compared to the number of people who buy these categories (aka category penetration), the # of people searching is vanishingly few.

It turns out that in other categories, a LOT of people search for things but very few buy them. About 1.5 million luxury cars are sold in the US in any given year but you could bet the number of searchers would be in tens to hundreds of millions.

So the Google data works for some businesses which are in the Goldilocks zone when it comes to search behaviour (ie. It's a product that just the people who wamt to buy will actively research before buying) but for many other businesses - especially the ones with giant marketing budgets, search is just hygiene cost, not a business driver - ie. spend enough so your competitors don't appear as the first results in search ranking.

At the scale of many businesses (especially the ones in the first paragraph), broad demographic segments (and yes TV!) turns out to be a very efficient way to build a brand and yes you can also selectively augment with other data based marketing.

For other businesses (think niche cosmetics brand) paid word of mouth (aka influencer marketing) and pushing the paid word of mouth content to more people who are likely to be have the same interests (eg. Follow fashion bloggers) turns out to be hugely efficient and relevant and that's something Facebook excels at.
I don't think so. Everyone seems to put in a solid day working. No one is counting the hours, but we seem to be productive enough. Still, I definitely joined the company to get away from working more than 40 hours per week and feeling stressed all the time.
That frequently regurgitated phrase means that execution matters more than an idea for a business, not that ideas are literally worthless and therefore undeserving of attribution.
Awesome write up, keep them coming... thanks for the sneak peek \m/
It's doubtful Android would have had the same impact as the iPhone if the iPhone hadn't existed. I can no longer find the source, but Android's interface pre-iPhone was just as uninspired as all the other smartphones around at the time. It would've taken considerably longer for other companies to hit on a genuinely good touch screen interface if they hadn't had Apple's example to follow.
There's a conference call scene in this (relevant, interesting, funny) video which I think applies to this topic:

http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourc...

I think that it could become a liability to do this at some point, though. When everybody is calling in and people have flaky quality, you are wasting at least some time. If a meeting is more effective in person, then have that meeting in person! You shouldn't be afraid to exclude one or two people if they're traveling; they're already excluded anyway. Why provide an illusion of close involvement?
I read the headline, then the comments. Sometimes the article.
Isn't Didcord on-premise? How could he be banned? Hopefully someone will be able to answer. Please don't downvote only because you think the question is stupid.
We considered that at one point. The problem: if we slow down our encoding, we make more money. If we optimize, we make less money. We want to align our incentives with our customers, and we're focused on being as fast as possible.

That said, at really high volume, an approach like this can make sense.
It's too late to edit and I need to just not read or post anything anymore since it never helps and makes me more depressed and angry seeing how true my assessment of the world is. But I couldn't stop worrying I made you feel bad should have expounded on my first sentence in my last reply. You have been there kindly since my first post here. I appreciate that. You are clearly a good human being. That's just not enough and it feels like anything I say to well meaning but ultimately unhelpful advice either makes me seem ungrateful, unwilling, or deserving of this decline. None of that is true but you can only take so much, only explain so much. Only refute so much. That always results in people giving up on you as if that's your fault. And I don't mean giving up on being nice...if niceness was enough I would be ok because I know some nice people. But they give up on anything that would really help. I am not setting any artificial deadlines...they keep making threats...and I live every day wondering when the hammer will drop. I have tried to prepare things so I CAN leave if an opportunity arises but so much is still wrong, lacking, and accessible. I have no agency here but to suffer...or end the suffering...and if they kick me out even that becomes harder with less options. I can't live like that on top of everything else.
We'll never know if that's true, because they were never given the option.
At Google, we strive to ship a new Clang/LLVM toolchain to our C++ developers every week.

Two of our toolchain engineers gave a talk on this at CppCon. Check it out if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh91if43QLM
I'm a University of Waterloo computer engineering student. I'd love to join your team for a 4 month internship starting in September.

Location: Waterloo, Ontario

Remote: Maybe

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Technologies: Full stack web. JavaScript - ES6, Backbone, Node. Python. Django.

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Wow, a really nice experiment. I'm surprised you created so many.
Even if you think it doesn't apply because you're not in the UK, it might. There have been several cases where a blogger in one country has been sued via the UK by a blogger in another country, because the blogs were available to readers in the UK.
It is pretty much a direct port of the Processing language (originally written in Java). So you can bring your Processing projects to the browser without the need for an applet.
I'm learning making my own. This is the first time I'm seriously muddling through parsing and lexing. I want to make at-least a toy-language interpreter.
If you don't have an incremental backup you are playing with fire no matter what kind of solution you have in place. A single point of failure is a single point of failure.
Unfortunately, this isn't a question HN can answer. It's not uncommon to be smart and not be cut out for school. The thing is that only you can determine if you're cut out for it. How much longer do you have in school? Can you stand to be in school for that period of time?

If you can get a degree, absolutely get one. It won't get you any jobs, but it will get your foot in the door. On the other hand, there are other (arguably better) ways to get your foot in the door, such as having a set of side projects that show your passion.
Don't downvote snewe, he/she is correct: http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=...

I can't figure out why though. It sounds like an incredibly stupid rule.
I didn't move the goalposts. We're talking about the now. Gruber is on a personal mission now to act as a one-man army against Google and, strangely, Adobe (the guy has a real hate on for Adobe that he suddenly developed once Jobs got his anti-Flash lean). The whole point of most DF complaints are that he went from being an Apple fan that wrote on technology to being an Apple fanatic that wrote critically about anything that threatens Apple.
Heh. Back when alternate email protocols were still common, it was my job to help support the "smtp gateway" product for a large corporation. I got to the point where I could forge emails by typing in SMTP by hand.

This worked very well the day I played a prank on my boss - the boss had sent out an email forged to appear it came from a co-worker that was supposed to be funny but hurt the co-worker's feelings badly. Co-worker wanted revenge, so I created a "letter of resignation" that appeared to come from the boss and that appeared to have been sent to every member of our company - but was really only sent to the boss himself.

Co-worker later told me he saw the boss running from office to office trying to do "damage control" before he realized no one else had actually gotten the email.
Just come. Its at 7:00pm. We will just say you are having dinner with friends. Not drinks. Its on a Monday night. They shouldn't expect heavy drinkers on a Monday. So come and just say your having dinner with friends.
Sort of defeats the purpose of Posterous though. It's nice to be able to send an email and be done with it. Though for an account coming under constant attack, it'd be nice to have the option though.

Edit: What they should really do is obfuscate the posting email addresses a little. Make my posting email 1234randomwords@posterous.com, and give me the option to change it to something else if I am coming under attack.
It might be a namespace thing? I have seen that too, and that is the only thing that comes to mind.
> What's different between the way they did it and the way you did it?

he was successful.

seriously, though, the difference probably is that you put more time and effort into creating a posterous that was more secure. something as simple as "create it using a difficult email address" should cover most bases. something that most people likely don't do.
Because obtaining a hash of a password does not mean the attacker can access the accounts and the chat logs.

If the passwords were not hashed or hashed in a weak manner then that means the attacker could figure out the account passwords, then gain access to the accounts, which would be bad.
No, the author's response was to contact them again to get a status, get no response, then disclose after 90 days, all while informing them multiple times of the imminent disclosure.

It's great that they said they needed more time, but they completely dropped the ball on that communication chain, and got more than enough chances to ask him to wait.
interesting, my first impression is "hey, it's a linkblog!" rather than "hey, it's a delicious clone!". This isn't necessarily a bad thing, just my observation.

a few things I see that I'd kinda miss from delicious:

1) instead of seeing how many people are linking to something as a number, it instead has an "also shared by:" feature instead. I honestly like just seeing a number of how many people are sharing it more than seeing if a few random people are also sharing something. It also helps me judge whether someone linked a "big news item" or something they were personally digging for info on.

2) multiple tag filters - i.e. search multiple tags for my personal bookmarks. I don't use this much, but it's comfortable that it's there.
They have the population to compete with European nations as a world superpower. But the world superpower is not a European country, it's the US. Japan has something like 1/3rd of the population of the US, and is also extremely constrained on a bunch of natural resources.
"government can negotiate even better rates"

Yes. Up to a point. It's true that in general, the government currently pays less than private insurers.

What's not clear is what happens if/when the government is the only one paying hospitals to keep their doors open. At the reduced rate, hospitals will have hard choices to make. Only about 20% of hospitals are for-profit. For the other 80%, less money coming in the door will result in changes of some kind. I can't imagine how hospitals can do that, and make things better for patients at the same time. Something's got to give.
Yep. My top-of-the-line Threadripper 1950X is already multiple generations behind the bleeding edge; I built that machine last year, and there are already newer CPUs blowing it out of the water.

It reminds me of the 90's when Moore's Law was still a Law-with-a-capital-L and I love it.
Their demographics are horrific. More diapers are sold to adults than babies. People are worked to the bone to support the needs of a massive elderly population.

Japan does a lot of things exceedingly well but demographics are one of those forces of history that are dammed near impossible to mitigate or circumvent without enormous cost, like trying to stop a train with your fist.

EDIT: Just to be clear, my point is about demographics, not immigration. We have yet to see if productivity advancements such as robotics can fill the void, but either way, Japan has a significant struggle ahead of itself.
And several more in ready reserve!
> no path to permanent residency

http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/tetuduki/zairyuu/eizyuu.ht...

> or citizenship

https://www.justlanded.com/english/Japan/Japan-Guide/Visas-P...
Postgres really improved in performance?

It’s not the only reason but yes, Postgres has recently made significant advances in parallelism and indexing.
Yeah... you don't exactly need to bring in a federal law to fire someone for saying 'Ok Boomer' in most of the US. Disrespectful, insubordinate, a bad fit, etc. there's no real need for bringing in the age discrimination law unless it's a superior doing it consistently.

Also trying to bring this up to a federal discrimination suit feels like peak Boomer to me. The whole counter-backlash to Ok Boomer is really reinforcing the stereotype it's lashing out against. Decades of articles saying every mildly declining industry is being 'killed by Millenials' or 'Millenials are X' and all it takes for Boomers to start playing federal discrimination cards is a two word clap back of 'Ok Boomer' is just chef kiss beautiful.
Genuinely curious, what do you think a "modern programming framework" would change?
Have _you_ looked into it? Nope. #haskell is the most helpful and active channel on freenode that I know of.
Sure, understood and agreed. I like to get away from work during lunch too.

But, for those rare times when I might eat at work, I like the idea of a few long tables, for the reasons Joel outlined. It might solve some awkward problems for some people, and I don't see the harm in it for the rest.
Not exactly, the secret it's is acidity:
"It [Honey] has a pH that falls between 3 and 4.5, approximately, and that acid will kill off almost anything that wants to grow there".
Which makes the life expectancy of bacteria and fungi inside of honey too low.
China is a scary place, we're screwed in the US.
Alas, I was expecting hard data to support his statement, rather than a mere opinion. I prefer Stanza over iBooks precisely because I hate page flips.
That's very interesting. I just took my final exam for my OS course, and one of the questions asked us to explain the traditional model of implementing symmetrical multiprocessing in a kernel (refining a giant lock into finer-grained locks by identifying supposedly independent areas of kernel space), and then to explain an alternative approach. In answering, I mentioned transactional memory and hardware support for atomic operations (e.g. compare-and-swap). This article would have been a great help!
Doesn't matter if AOL is profitable.

Is about.me profitable? What's the revenue, if any?
Thank you! I tried googling the answer before pasting it all over HN but to no avail.
The mere fact that SEO exists as an industry is an aberration and just a testament to the long way the search engines must go.

People that make business decisions based on SEO are putting the cart before the horse and will go away quickly. Fine-tune it, but don't obsess over it.
I work on Adobe LiveCycle, which is an enterprisey do-everything suite. The creative suite software is still the biggest seller at Adobe, though.
One of my favorite math puzzles. I would've bet quite a lot there just wasn't a strategy for this.
I read somewhere that US soldiers took or sent home 3 times the amount they had been paid. In Berlin the British were so busy profiting from the black market they pretty much forgot to do the jobs they were sent to do in trying to restart some degree of normality in Germany. Civilians starved and robbed. Women and young women were turned into prostitutes or raped. The usual post war winner stuff basically.
The law is fairly obviously not an answer though, given the context. The original question specifically asked what stops Coinbase from shutting down and taking everyone's money like MtGox did. It was just as illegal when MtGox did it, yet it happened anyway. (Actually, most of the other answers have the exact same problem.)
I did a big job a year ago and had to recruit two young guys for my team(21 & 24). Neither had met the other before and they both had neat, groomed beards. Early on they both complimented me on my late winter 'griz' and issued their complaints about itching, debris collection & the unavoidable mess that is beard trimming(pro tip: do it outside). I inquired why they had them if they hated it & they both said their girlfriend was a fan of Greys Anatomy & the bo-hunk actors all had them so they had to grow theirs, too.

edit: OT removed
It seems a massive violation of basic DRY to come up with new names instead of using those that have been a staple in math for the last 50 years. It's also just about 5 words in total, if you count the most important and widely used Haskell/FP typeclasses. I really hope people in general are able to memorize five words.
Cool - sounds like you have the context.

I just remember adults yelling at me as a kid for things like this. “You should take responsibility.” Etc.

At the time I didn’t know what to do.

I wish I had just said, “I have no control over my life”.

I think other adults can sometimes be clueless about what a kid’s family life is like.
"I doubt anybody in an important position would lend much thought to crypto"

I don't think you're deliberately being absurd unless I missed the sarcasm?

Joe Biden's nominee to head the SEC, Gary Gensler, is an MIT professor who teaches a course on blockchain and Bitcoin. Would you consider SEC chief an important position?
Strange, Amazon shows that the "No" ebook is "not currently available for purchase."

Edit: This appears to be a newer edition, and one that's available as an ebook: http://www.amazon.com/Start-No-Negotiating-Tools-that-ebook/...
U dont tell me what to do!
i like my tail

/thefox
Bad implementations are indeed rife! It can be particularly problematic in home-grown ORMs. ACID DBs do provide you with tools to work around this pretty easily, but it's fair to say a lot of mistakes get made.

It's one reason I'm wary of anti-ORM sentiment I sometimes see around. I'm quite often more productive when I eschew a heavyweight ORM in favour of something closer to the 'metal', but part of that is that I have a lot of background in database systems, so I'm confident that I will generally avoid concurrency mistakes. For a typical programmer, in a developer culture that doesn't want to understand the complexities of data storage, my experience is that they're often better off using an ORM.
Not true, if you are in the lower %20 you will get fired. That's the pressure to "get rid". Of course they will let you "resign" instead of get fired, and if you refuse they will give you a financial incentive to resign. This keeps the "stats" better, and probably where boredoso gets his nonsense.

But here's the real kicker that makes the company so stupid- if you're on the lower half of the rank, you're blocked from moving to another team.

Even though the HR policy is that your manager can't block you from an internal transfer, that's not reality. Which means when you're wrongly assigned to a team with a bad manager or a bad fit, you better bounce quick, or you're stuck there until you leave the company.
UPDATE: I've just released v1.2 which supports Python 3. For details: https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder
I disagree. It now sounds like 100 other clickbait titles - "The 10 best ways to lose weight!", "The one true way to scan that the manufacturer doesn't want you to know!"
Yes, even if previous generations did not have the wealth of knowledge we now possess - It's not that they were all stupid. Hundreds of years ago there wasn't much other choice than to use your surroundings to survive. No pharmacy around there.
It must be noted that due to the unexpectedness and questionable nature of this move combined with his April 1st start date there is some speculation on Twitter that this is an early April Fools gag. Although Matt has been on leave from Google and his last blog post is about him reducing social media use which is mentioned in the article.
That's quiet a high salary you currently get. Usually when foreign companies hire developers in India, they do it to reduce costs(for what you get, your company could easily hire 5 really good developers, or 10 good ones). I'm guessing that your company believes that compensation should be based on what they believe the developer is worth and what they are willing to pay, instead of where the developer lives.

$250k/year is probably twice the median salary for a developer in SF. Yes it's not quiet the same as it would be in India, but still is pretty good. I personally would take it, just because I feel it's a better place to live and work.

To put it into perspective, Google pays it's CFO a base salary of $650K a year. Of course there are bonuses, and stock options that make it much more than that, but I doubt you'll get anywhere close to what the converter says.
The AWS console is absolutely terrible for this, not just because it disobeys my preferred date format but because it's not even internally consistent. sometimes it converts timestamps to my local timezone, sometimes it displays them in UTC, sometimes it displays them in ISO8601 format, sometimes it displays them in US format.
If you’re living in Berlin, it didn’t matter what US date format was 20 years ago. You’re missing the point that the globe is far more connected due to the internet.
Yes. Unless a court decides otherwise or the law is changed.

Thinking about it, I don't see why Apple and the iOS store are a specific target. How is it different from Sony having monopoly on who makes PlayStation games for example?

Or from another perspective - what principle entitles anyone else to have app curation/approval/distribution rights on a platform that Apple created if Apple don't want them there? And to be clear - this isn't an argument for or against closed or open platforms. I might personally prefer the more open ones but I think that it makes more sense if the creator of the platform opens it up if they want to instead of this being mandated by law.
>we are going to have to deliberately geoengineer our way out of the problem

Agreed, I'm really starting to think this will be the only way.
They are and our community sees Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft as generally committing many of the same sins. We are not charitable in our views of them or their employees. You can tell by the comments on Hacker News.
I'm not 100% sure a surveillance state actually running the pipes of the internet will be much worse than some opaque telecom oligopolies with close ties to security services. But I suspect it would be.
That's what the coasts have come to, I guess.
Amazon Lightsail - $3.5 for 1Tb, $5 for 2Tb outbound traffic per month.
OK, how about "Uber for toilets"? Clean a toilet, get paid. Cameras and machine learning to check what a clean and dirty toilet look like. Sign up, and you get access to cleaning supplies and can turn the hose on. Works like retrieving dockless scooters.
> But it not always easy to toggle such comments on and off

Try:

/*-* /
non_pub_locally_unused_item(----) { ---- }
//-*/

remove the space on the first line to re-enable it.