jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would note that if the NSA only "cannot confirm or deny" events that did occur, people would never believe it. For that response to work, the NSA has to practice not confirming things that did and didn't happen with regularity.
It's the other way around. Things with technical solution should never be solved by law. Lawmakers and law enforcement is absurdly expensive and law has unforeseen side effects, we should use that only when absolutely necessary.
If you don't generate power and hydro power plant, you just overflow it, there is no damage in consuming this electricity.

If sun is shining, and you don't generate solar electricity, if you heat it, and that's it, there's no damage taking solar electricity.

And so on.

> The idea that the majority of the energy used for bitcoin is generated in such places has no real basis in fact.

It is based on fact. For example: "In so doing, the CoinShares team found that bitcoin miners were using a disproportionate share of renewables." https://www.vox.com/2019/6/18/18642645/bitcoin-energy-price-...

But the original idea that bitcoin is a gigantic CO2 disaster is definitely not based on facts.
MySQL/MariaDB have several relatively easy ways of building multi-master setups. Postgresql doesn’t really have a that great solutions for master-master replication. Our customers go for MariaDB to get master-master replication

We see some customers building new solutions on Postgresql, but for large setups, it’s still MariaDB/Galera or Oracle and there isn’t a big push to drop Oracle.
works -> worse
I believe Consumer Reports used to show instances of this and call it the "grocery shrink ray." Corporate greed and willingness to deceive: news at 11.
This is an interesting thing.

Free Now for instance, previously MyTaxi, previously Hailo.
How many time will this thing get rebranded? How many times will my data be shared with new entities?
The point of the article was that Facebook gets information on not only those who are using Facebook to login, but those who aren't, because the "Login with Facebook" button is an iframe when using the SDK.

OAuth does not have this issue.

If you choose to login with Facebook, it is implicit that Facebook receives information.
"exploiting THEIR workers." - The UK has full employment right now. If they're working uber, they're doing it because they like working for Uber.
Do you even live in London? I love when people talk about a whole city in general terms like they can speak for millions of people.

Well get this, I live in London and I love Uber and I would definitely miss Uber if they stopped operating here. So your statement is wrong. In fact, our general slack channel at work had a ton of people posting sad faces about this news. But yeah sure I guess you know what every Londoner thinks...
I also loved and played this game as a kid and I don't remember it being "too fast" (on my 80286).

> So, a few years ago I looked for it online - found an exe that I tried to run with WIne on my Mac, but could not get it to run.

Well, Wine is for Windows software; this is MSDOS software. It probably works fine in a DOS emulator such as DOSemu, or a VM which runs say FreeDOS.
At the template level and JS library level we're not doing any magic. Javascript allows keys of object literals to be written without quotes

Javascript does, but the JSON standard does not. Both on the root page of JSON.org and in sections 2.2 and 2.5 of RFC4627, JSON object member's keys are strings, and strings are defined as delimited by double quotes. It's pretty explicitly defined in the RFC.

So while you can say that your structure is Javascript code, you can't really say it's JSON. Saying it is JSON but not following the JSON standard only leads to confusion and failures when people try to parse it with JSON parsers rather than unsafely evaluating it with a Javascript interpreter. And no one should be encouraging the use of javascript eval to unserialize JSON due to security concerns.
Oh, nope. I copy pasted it from somewhere.. sorry, didn't realize it had a code on it.
Or better yet, figure out the rough maximum worse case scenario for word length and just leave extra space on the printed area. If every word was 8 characters, and you had 150, then leave room for 1500 characters instead of 1200 on the print area. If it still goes over, dynamically scale the font size down on that section by up to 1pt to make it fit.

Or like you said, offer logic to have additional pages printed if needed.
char_lengths_in_px = {"a": 9, "b": 7, "c": 8, ... }
px_per_line = 768
current_length = reduce(lambda x,y: y+char_lengths_in_px[x], my_text, 0)
space_left = (px_per_line*num_lines)-current_length

FTFY
phpMyAdmin, GitHub, Google and HN.
There are no DVD ripping apps distributed with Windows (or Mac, or any commercial packages distributed from the US due to the DMCA which makes CSS circumvention tools illegal).

I recognize you want to argue this topic, but seriously man.
A terrible amount of the effort in modern enterprise software engineering is bridging the gap between business logic and code. Layers upon layers of diagrams and modeling techniques and pseudo-code systems are all purely intended to try and take a very high level and abstract business concept and bring logic and discipline to those concepts until they reach a level they can be instantiated in code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Process_Execution_Lang...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArchiMate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOGAF#TOGAF_8_Certified_Tools
etc. etc. etc.

All of the above (and more) are the wild shots in the dark to not only bring engineering discipline to business folks, and to supply a common language between equally intractable engineers and business people but also to prevent blame coming from both sides (which can get really ugly at times as engineers try and interpret wildly abstract and often contradictory business ideas into a working system, and business folks thinking that engineers don't understand basic business concepts).

That all being said, I don't think it's entirely working (as several very high profile, very expensive, Enterprise Software failures have demonstrated). It requires business people to learn a modicum of technical and logical skills to fill out the high level models, and it takes engineers out of their development time to drag it down through the rest of the levels of abstraction to get to actually getting down to working. Then they have to validate conformance to spec with entire trips up and down the abstraction stack.

sigh Of course this is probably the best way we know so far to build monstrous systems but it's clear we still have a long way to go.
So, I have been working at learning Python (I do Java at my day job). Where can one pick up this "lambda love" quickly? Any links or pointers?
It's not quite that simple even with a monospace font unless you wrap words unnaturally. For example, the word "heterochromatic" repeated over and over with a space between fills up the HN comment box in 288 characters, but "I DO" makes it to 359.
Consider Threema also, please. No phone number required, super-easy to connect with your friends. I'm not affiliated in any way.

https://threema.ch/en
No. This is incorrect, and a misunderstanding of economics.

CPI, price inflation, is tracking at 2% as expected. Housing is actually down.

Stocks are up because some people have a bunch of extra cash and nothing to do during the day. These two are not connected.
Thanks for the info. Perhaps I just got better about writing clean markup around the same time I started using XHTML, and confused the two. I suppose now's as good a time as any for me to embrace HTML5.
https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2022/02/08/23527112...
I agree with you. The value of the heuristic is in the 99.9% and the value of the person is in the 0.01%. That's why doctors are so valuable. It's for those times when someone comes back and says, "It didn't work." If we waste the doctor's time on the 99.9%, then they lose their primary function of being the expert during the unexpected. For an individual, they may seem interchangeable with a rock, but for a society, they are not. This is because while the probability of cancer per unit of human doesn't change (enough to matter for this illustration), the more people there are, the probability of cancer per unit of time does increase. 0.01% of a lot is still something.

Crucially, however, the security guard and doctor are roles that have value in their responsive nature. Then you have the part of the article where you are talking about roles that have value in their predictive nature. And for those, yeah, the author has a point.
Another one is the "science can explain everything" heuristic, which is true in 99.99+% of cases.

But there's one important case where this is not true and many people are trying and failing to use the scientific approach, unable to realize that "solving" the problem requires a very fundamental change of thinking.

Try to guess what I'm talking about (it should be easy I think).
Dang. You beat me to it. I agree.
I certainly wouldn't trust Wikipedia on a politically sensitive issue - the OG disinformation source! There is plenty of evidence on both sides and I unfortunately don't have time for it.
Excess Cancer Mortality per 100,000 individuals exposed to 100mSv is ~1000 in the 1 year-old male cohort. A single scan is ~3mSv, which makes the mortality ~30 per 100k, or 1 in ~3333, assuming the linear no-threshold model[1].

When someone comes to the ER with a traumatic brain injury, a CT scan is the standard practice because they are at a high risk of dying and presumably the scan is important for reducing the risk.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model
I might be missing something with this analogy. Is there a legal component to accessing digital content that re-enforces its concept of being property? /gen

There are general similarities in computers mechanically enforcing access that applies to crypto-assets and digital content. I'm specifically interested in how the legal system confers additional properties or re-enforces these properties in digital assets that legitimize the properties institutionally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

For example, the headline picture is from a normal prison in Xinjiang that houses convicted criminals of various Chinese ethnicities, not a "Uyghur Concentration Camp". Yet it is misused as representation of "Uyghur Genocide"?

Nayirah level nonsense.
... aaand a Google engineer showed up to answer the question. The beauty of HN :)
These discussions criticizing Apple usually precede a new product that explains everything.
d) Tell your boss it will take 6 weeks, deliver in 4
Caffeine can make it worse
Aren't telephone directories a thing anymore? At least in my country you can just search for a person online and see their phone number. Someone's phone number seems like the least sensitive PII.
Here's a link to the article if you want to avoid all the innocuous trackers

https://outline.com/Mvrn9u
This is what will come as soon as they're out of beta, obviously
> They are hiding, scared, waiting for the government to officially announce that it is once again safe to return to the world.

Would you believe that many of us are not scared, but rather that we decided based on facts about aerosol transmission that nonessential travel/social events put other people's grandparents at unneccesary risk?
you’re insinuating that adhd (or, executive functions disorders) don’t exist.

1. there is lots of evidence showing that “something” is wrong with lots of peoples executive functions and that this observed problem is hereditary.

2. this is pretty insensitive.

everybody does have these symptoms to some extent as you executive functions can’t be running 100% all the time. just like everyone has varying degrees of sight. it’s only a problem when it negatively impacts your life.

for someone with an executive function disorder the symptoms happen often enough and with enough severity to materially impact their ability to; do work, have friends, be organised etc.

not like, oh i forgot the milk (though, that happens) but like: “oh, i forgot i was brushing my teeth and now i’m searching for rubber gloves to replace the ones with a hole in from the kitchen, where did i leave my tooth brush?”

the meds impact people with an executive function disorder little differently too, they return executive function to normal. so, while you maybe amped up on amphetamines to some degree your head is clear , your ability to pick which questions to answer, which rabbit holes to explore, to maintain more than 1 thing in your head at a time is restored. for 4-8 hours a day you get to be somewhat like your peers.
Uber drivers have access to a car, have a driver’s license and are presumably citizens, pass a background check, and maintain a high enough rating to continue to drive, so their social skills can’t be terrible. The minimum wage in SF is 15.50 and in LA is 15.

My question is, if Uber is such a terrible exploitive company to work for, why do they have a critical mass of drivers? They could also drive for restaurants. I was a Dominos delivery driver in a past life and made kind of incredible money for the job (tips).

My logical mind tells me that drivers continue to work for Uber because it is more profitable than alternatives, despite what the endless barrage of negative press drills out.
Seems like maybe it wasn't actually a massive amount of new housing?

Having been to Vancouver, the only thing that seems like a joke is the massive amount of land that is reserved only for multi-million dollar single unit homes, and the lack of space where apartment buildings are allowed. Vancouver is beautiful, has great transit, but needs a lot more apartment buildings.
thanks @joyrider!

Stan | Epiclist
"Our investment is also structured as a line of equity; meaning, you only draw down the amount of capital you need, when you need it."

This is revolutionary. Whether indie.vc works out or not, this is how funding startups should work. The developers who draw the least funding and the investors who provide the most funding should receive the most equity.

Does anyone know how much equity each startup receives if it draws the full $100,000? Will it be 50% to developers and 50% to investors, or some other ratio?

Hypothetically if they add a second round someday, could it work in a similar fashion, where if the startup draws another $100,000, its equity falls to say somewhere between 0 and 25%? This would probably be nonlinear and depend on a lot of factors (which basically means don’t count on it!)
Does your target audience understand regular expressions? I like the approach import.io took: you go to one or more pages with their browser, select the fields you're interested in and they build the extraction (xpath, css selectors) for you. An engineer can take that configuration and instruct the scraper to call a URL and get JSON back. Even with their special browser, help pages, videos I had trouble explaining it to a non-technical person.

"Normal" regular expressions are probably fine. Only with back-tracing or look-forward it might be possible to create complexity so a regex takes too long. Wrapping it into a block with fixed timeout should work.
Unless there is something madly wrong going on, images etc are "sterile".
I love Anthony Grafton! He's basically the last of the 17th century polymathic scholars, which is fitting because that's precisely what he studies. Academics have recently been having a debate about putting footnotes online which seems apropos here: https://chroniclevitae.com/news/665-wait-your-footnotes-are-...
Thanks for pointing this out, @danso! We can't stress on this enough: Focus is key to create a successful product!

Stan | Epiclist
Yes, I along with my team members have helped my company come from zero automation to decent coverage with UI tests. We have tests that run reliably for Web, iOS and Android.

It has certainly improved our deployment time.

If you describe some of the your problems. I can tell you how we overcome them.
As "web stats" - sure. GA is a great alternative to parsing your own server logs, which doesn't make sense to SMB.

But ROI? GA will tell you absolutely nothing about why nobody cares about your product or service, or why your competitor X is succeeding while you are not.

You will get what you pay for, simple click statistics, but don't expect any business insights on ROI.
Several of the reports of this story have been flagged off the home page, probably because of the horrible comments that appeared in the discussions. Trans-gender issues can be a complicated topic for people not familiar with them and I worry that all the hateful things being said today are going to take LGBT progress a few steps back.

I wish someone would fix commenting already. This is a problem that really deserves fixing. Comment sections are some of the worst places on the internet, even on sites that are otherwise usually OK. There is a need for a startup to encourage smart and empathetic comments, and discourage anonymous bile you can find pretty much everywhere, including places where real names are required.
> It's not just for search engines (we try to help with, for example, how/why people retweet, link, share content, "like" on FB,

... and how to get a popular item on news.yc :) I guess it just goes to prove your point that you can can promote your brand without being spamy.
It's possible the guy didn't know how to spot. I'd say no if someone asked me.
I usually refer to that distinction as "self-financed" vs. "bootstrapped", where "bootstrapped" implies an alternate revenue stream while building (usually a full-time job or consulting).

37signals, having evolved from a consultancy, is a more classically bootstrapped company.

However, in practice, the lines are often fuzzy with companies using a number of instruments to fuel growth.
It's worth remembering that since HN is (unsurprisingly) largely made up of developers when you read through all of the great comments and linked articles there's bound to be a bias towards solving problems with technology even though it's not always the best approach. Remember that a lot of business transactions are done in the real world based on connections, phone calls and socialising.
you can also specify on the site which hours you are open. We have a dynamic indicator on our site showing when the phone line is 'open'.
"don't mean to be a (french) grammar nazi"

Would that be a grammar Vichy?

"it's spelled "voilà"

Right. The dash was in there to emphasize mispronunciation of a mis-spelled word, to indicate mock astonishment in context.

Thanks. :)
Well there are electrical, mechanical, civil, chem, etc. engineers and I'm sure some of those are represented here, not just software engineers.
Gaaahhh! Visions of prancing, sweaty Ballmer!
You've made my point - absolute drops in a bucket.

Your links contain:
-6 forged letters to a congressman
-a youtube spoof of Al Gore
-lobby group organizing political rallies (up to 1100 people!)
-$24 million from Koch's company (link to the greenpeace site, really?)

Again, against the tide of NGO and Government money spent to promote alarmism, it's like a water pistol against a firehose.

If this is the best evidence available, it's a very weak case. If the industry funded lobby groups have managed to sway the opinion of the voting public against climate charge alarmism, then they have gotten very good value for money.
Wonder if this goes in both directions or just for women.
The Hacker's Path
krainboltgreene.github.com/l/2/

Found this couple of days ago here on HN. Hope this helps.
I am also quite mystified about the downvotes. It would be nice to see an explanation...

Edit: The comment score has gone positive again, but I am still interested in who voted my comment down to negative three and why. I'm not complaining, just curious.
> extension to help users resist online censorship and integrated ad blocking

The irony of this is amazing.
interesting: given that it may at any time hit that line of GPL'd code, your claim is that the rest of the code can be MIT licensed? i am not a lawyer but that sure seems like a borderline case at best.
I think you've misunderstood me. I'm not suggesting you should dismiss academics offhand because they use certain words.

However, when you hear people using academic buzzwords in a typical social situation (either online or offline), it's almost always the case that they're not an expert in the topic but instead just trying to show off how smart/woke/edgy they are by using some of the same language that the "thought leaders" do.
Huh? This seems totally backwards to me. Stripping down an acquisition to incorporate it into the acquiring company is the ultimate competitor crushing strategy; buy up all the best technology and sell it exclusively through your locked-down walled garden. Apple products integrate with Apple products and nothing else by design. Granted, the Facebook product is an absolute cancer on society, but Facebook's acquisitions have continued to thrive while still maintaining their original product visions e.g. whatsapp, instagram, oculus. Frankly, I think you're viewing things fan-colored glasses.
I agree you need to temper your expectations.
But, something I don't think comes up often enough is that as you get older, your eyes not only have focus problems, you have less color receptors too. That means galaxies and nebulae are just faint grey smears instead of faint colored smears for anyone ~30 and older.
Could it be the same cardinal at a different time of year?

I'm not sure whether or not they are migratory.
Even in the "millions per month" company realm, I've often felt that AWS treated us like a cash cow to some extent.
I'm pretty sure Sherashevsky (studied in the early 1900s) falls into the 'normal' people category. He certainly had problems but would be a very high functioning idiot savant at absolute worst.

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Mnemonist-Little-about-Memory/dp/...
Kenya is interesting. Heard of a competitor doing it while I was in Asia. I looked at Ethiopia, but the cost of telecom is huge. With Kenya getting a fiber and some semblance of stability that alone is a game changer. Not sure what the labor differential is, but English+Fiber+Relative Stability == pretty good candidate. Assuming cost is equal or below Philippines, I would definitely consider it.
I'm more familiar with the term "Computer Engineer" applied to hardware design folks, and "Software Engineer" with human programming. Am I nuts?

Aside from the nitpick, the point is a good one. Thanks for the essay.
seems to be available in the AWS marketplace here (just found it by Googling):

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00A04GAG4/

unfortunately it's not available for cluster compute/HVM instances, so I can't compare it with our existing nginx deployment.
Sad news, although it was obviously coming. Glad for Igor and others involved, but for me it is about time to start looking for alternatives.
The page source gives no hint of the source of the slowness, but curl -I reports it's Apache running PHP. So I'm going to guess it's mod_php in standard forking mode, fruitfully multiplying.
+1 on that. and I hate having to submit a request for a salesperson to contact me so I can get more info on the product.

my interest went from "oh wow I'd like to evaluate this tonight" to "blah. this is sure to be a grating email dialogue."

edit: ..and even though I'd be willing to buy a small license now for evaluation purposes that seems to lead to the same sales trap.
Genuine off-topic question: why didn't they go through Kickstarter, to potentially reach more users (although a $32M goal is huge)?