jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>Because of this, they tend to be more attractive in urban environments. See also related organizations...

I participated in one of the projects in Bengaluru, India. I no longer live there, but I've seen photos/videos - they are lovely. See https://www.saytrees.org/miyawaki for more details.
Is there any data to back up the claim the author makes? Otherwise, this looks like little more than a long tweet.
> Diversity doesn't mean "non-white," it means "varied."

In USA it means "Black and Latino representation according to US demographics". It isn't the words actual meaning, but that it is how its used and if you are trying to argue something different you will almost surely be labelled racist by the person asking this question.

For example, lets say you answer this question:

> That’s a bit about what these values mean to us; what do diversity, equity, and inclusion mean to you?

With: I always worked on very diverse teams comprised of people from many backgrounds including Russians, Indians, Europeans. We worked hard to ensure that language barriers weren't a problem by forcing everyone to talk in English so nobody feels left out etc, it is a challenge but having a diverse team definitely is worth it.

Do you think you'd get hired? Maybe, but it is pretty likely they will see that answer as a dog whistle for being right wing and just end the process right then and there.
Of course, but the point is that many HR departments use it as code for "female" or "black".
AWS has a Swift runtime for Lambda [0], and Amazon has an open source server framework for Swift, Smoke [1].

[0] - https://swift.org/blog/aws-lambda-runtime/

[1] - https://github.com/amzn/smoke-framework
Containers are a form of virtualization, as are zones or jails.

Bare metal implies dedicated hardware.
> He has scratched the iceberg of skepticism and now thinks he's enough of an expert to tell the rest of us that we're Doing It Wrong.

This sort of gratuitous negativity isn't appropriate in a Hacker News comment. It is unnecessary to make your point and pollutes the atmosphere for all of us. Please don't do that.
Someone just showed us an idea like this right before you guys. We don't like it. What else do you have?
That only works if you only care about search results since you started tailing. If you want to search for what happened before you started tailing, you need to stop tailing and use less/grep/etc.
According to sama, they would fund anything that can become a $10bn company.
Huge caveat: "less +F" does not work with multiple files.

Yes, this is mentioned in the post, but I feel it is so big it would have deserved large, bold letters.
I don't want to block ads (I can use reader view in safari which is effectively the same thing).
I'm happy -- well, not incensed -- to get ads that are well-implemented.

I'm paying $4/month and purposely chose not to get a physical copy (which was offered for free). It's depressing if I'm not covering their costs and then some.

The New Yorker's online ads are increasingly obtrusive, including ads in the article body that are seemingly designed to be clicked accidentally (which doesn't benefit the advertiser).
I'd say the standard UGRAD-level physics and calculus textbooks (Serway, Giancoli, Stewart) are full of BS. Do you really need to read 1000+ pages to learn calculus?

Textbooks after first-year university are normally much better and bullshitfree. Graduate textbooks are usually solid.

Also, there are many free textbooks out there that are essentially bullshit free, e.g. Calculus Made Easy by Silvanus P. Thompson available at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33283
It's important to distinguish between the types of investments Buffet makes and those the average investor makes. Buffet buys large shares that either give him a say in how the company runs its business, or sometimes just buys the business outright.

This is important because as a large/sole shareholder you have a huge say in how the company is run. In such a case, money that would otherwise be paid out in dividends can be reinvested in the company in a way which you can influence or control. If merely you buy $1000 of ACME Corp. stock you won't have that kind of influence, so knowing that the company is withholding dividends and reinvesting it is not nearly as sweet of a deal. And if you view the company's reinvestment plan as a net negative for the company and its stock, it would be better to simply have the dividend.

Basically, some investors are mostly interested in using equities as a source of cash flow, and some are mostly interested in using them as a way to grow a pile of money into a bigger pile.
NAT66 is something real.
The last two /8s were handed out in January of 2011 so quite a bit longer than weeks or months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Addres...

Entire networks of computers can share a single public IP address so the 33.5 million public IP addresses supplied by two /8s could last quite a long time. Or we can let Ford sit on them.
Yeah to me it seems more egregious that Ford or Apple have held onto their /8.

Good on GEC, IBM, HP or Xerox for having relinquished their(s).
Okay, I guess I was confused about how people buy tickets to concerts online. I've always just...gone to the official ticket website and purchased the ticket. I've certainly never created a bot.
Most people do not use the capabilities that pickup trucks offer, and thus are sub-optimal for many people's needs:

> Truck owners might protest that they are slightly less likely than owners of other categories to use their vehicle as primary transport (83% vs. 95%), limiting the miles and gallons. And they might also protest that trucks provide capabilities that other vehicles lack. But, as it turns out, a significant portion of truck owners never use their trucks for these capabilities. According to Edwards’ data, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.
We have now sort of "hidden" the information that Netflix is not unblockable under the FAQ part of this page: https://wifimask.com/contact
Maybe we should say we cannot unblock Netflix on the frontpage, because I also realize that's why a lot of people are looking for a VPN who does.
Nevertheless, besides Netflix, there is still a lot of content to be unblocked. And ofcourse, if unblocking Netflix was the main reason the get WifiMask and it doesn't work, you'll get your money back.
I've been running Mailinabox since late 2016 and have experienced 0 issues with downtime or my emails being flagged as spam. It did take a few weeks to train SpamAssassin to properly flag incoming email as spam but that worked very well and it. just. works. nowadays.

Recently I closed down my lingering Gmail account and used imapsync to copy over all my email and contacts to my Mailinabox.

I've also moved it to a different VPS provider once without any issues. Setup mailinabox on new server, close ports on old server, create final back-up, import back-up, switch DNS, done. 0 emails missed.
Nope. It was wide open for Christmas Day.

Source: Being in UK.
For at least the last two years, almost every "younger" company I've done video calls with have been using Zoom. A few on Hangouts/Meet. The older companies might still be using WebEx or GoToMeeting. But in my corner of the world, Zoom has been absolutely ubiquitous for some time.
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I'm reminded of this story of the Federal Reserve on 9/11: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014/09/10/1328813/-The-Ast...
"You can assert that, but where is the evidence?"

It's not a remotely controversial statement. If you take a minute to actually run a marketing campaign for your company you'll learn all sorts of things. Including how targeting works.

There are other options such as restricting the type and degree of targetting.

The 'big outdoor ads' thing is not related to targeted ads, it's not part of this discussion. I'm fine with banning all outdoor ads but not targetted ads. There we need regulation.
A business built on a platform involves risks.

And a game of three-card-Monte involves risks(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_Monte).

How do you distinguish the risks involved in one from the risks involved in the other? I'd say one important question is whether the "house" has more incentive to take your stuff or more incentive to benefit along with your success. Considering that Facebook's business model is essentially still up in the air, the question of what Facebook in particular cares most about is also up in the air.
Check out localtunnel which is open source and does the same thing: https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel
With their AJAXy interface, I wonder if perhaps page views are not being counted properly. Put another way, I'd like to see a chart of ad impression numbers.

I'm sure the redesign cost them, but I'm surprised it's such a big hit.
I'm confused... you think there is a lot of scope to cater to niche segments, but then are wondering how to identify those segments?

If you have already identified the segments, then I would just talk to as many people in these segments as possible and ask them what they would like to see. I think that good customer/client dialog is invaluable.

Generally speaking, higher margin businesses are going to be less price sensitive.

There is a lot that comes with being a "dominant brand". In the electronics payments space, a trusted, tried and true product means a lot--moving money around is not the same as picking which site to use to post your blog. I would expect that there is a cost associated with a company moving from one provider to the other. Not only would your technology need to overcome the trust issue, but it would need to be able to validate the cost associated with switching.

Maybe if you spell out some of the segments you are considering, someone could provide more information about that particular segment.
I care about my work and it being used and contributed to if people are interested in it. I don't care about money, which is why it's open source and run as a free service. My code is MIT and I would love it if people took my code and made a pay-for service like this with it... but instead, they (to be fair, probably unknowingly) duplicate effort and obscure my work.

If a fancy website is all I need, I guess that's what I'll be doing this weekend. And I guess SSL and CNAME support...
I haven't seen any mentions of this data being sent to Apple. Until that comes out, I'd prefer to turn this tracking off but I don't particularly care about it.

It's not like anyone can get access to it without breaking into your computer and it's not a real time feed. On top of the fact that it's only recording the gps location of the cell tower you're connected to (supposedly) it seems about as much of a security issue as my 4square feed.
I discovered last week that the redesign isn't so bad if you go to "Blog view". I don't know when that got introduced between the day I stopped reading gawker sites due to the redesign and last week, but it's reasonably inoffensive.

Still, every gawker site has a less-annoying competitor, and I'm guessing that most of the folks who used to read the gawker version are now reading another version with the same damn stories. Once people have been driven into the arms of a competitor it's tricky to get 'em back.
The setup of the site bothers me. You may have typography design down, but your UI design unsettles my soul. You have two columns of text, seemingly different bodies of text, start right next to each other. There's no sense of what is important, and no sense of flow.
This was an engaging read. But the implication that urbanization causes obesity is not only unsupported by the author, but almost certainly fallacious. (Correlation, after all, does not imply causation)

The cause of obesity is quite clearly refined carbohydrates, and the greater prevalence among the less affluent is directly due to carbohydrates being less expensive per calorie than vegetables and meats. (This is exacerbated by a) 40 years of misinformed nutritional recommendations, and b) government financial incentives to the agriculture industry).

Not only is the author wrong about the cause of this problem, but he is wrongheaded in his demonization of urbanization. There are very clearly measurable negative environmental impacts caused by suburbanization and exurbanization. Urbanites, OTOH, have a significantly smaller per capita environmental impact.
"Private commons" is an oxymoron.
I disagree (greatly) about testing machine learning code. I test ruthlessly my pure functions and even full stack stuff, but of course my full-data experiments require interpretation. The difference is huge!

Without very solid separation between those two phases, and then without very solid actual testing, you cannot achieve trust or repeatability in your experiments. It's actually turning into a pretty interesting problem (that I've patched together solutions using Fabric and Org-mode) to track experiments to versions of code while maintaining good testing practices.
You don't realize how lax drug sentences are in other countries.

In canada, people caught with kilos of coke get house arrest.

There was a guy caught with 500kg of MDMA in his backyard kitchen and he got house arrest.

People don't go to jail for drug crimes - they usually get community service or house arrest.

Certainly for possession NO ONE goes to jail in Canada, but I've read that in the US people with a gram of weed have been sent to jail. WTF?

Or for that matter, two hits of crack, and you get like 10 years or something ridiculous.

In canada it's almost impossible to actually serve jailtime for a possession charge, and even trafficking charges are often not met with incarceration but rather conditions.
Previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1062525
So you're judging and idea not based on the idea itself, but based on who said it?
And the efficiency of police work doesn't always depend on location. I also live in Brazil (São Paulo) and had my car stolen last year; they found it the next morning. While living in Paris years ago, I had my car stolen and it was never found.
I have no affiliation with AppHarbor, but I do know a lot about Azure. I don't think it's really the best choice for running a platform like this, so I doubt they are using it. It's more of a greenfield platform because while you certainly can run legacy apps on it, in order to fully take advantage of the platform you have to design for it. For example. SQL Azure is a subset of what SQL Server 2008 R2 offers, so while if you use something like NHibernate, your app's data access code may still work, you may find that you have a reporting query that uses a specialized T-SQL feature it doesn't work.
Testing is a bit odd. It has practical value, but 'philosophically' it does not seem to make any sense.

When you are about to write some code and a test for it, you are starting with one piece of information: what you want the code to do. So why don't you just translate that into code? What do you gain by translating it into two pieces of code, and comparing one with the other? How can one have authority over the other?

So testing must be about ensuring consistency: if you change the code and the tests fail, you have made an invalid change. But that raises the question, why do we allow changes to be invalid? why don't we constrain code modification to only the kinds that maintain consistency?

Maybe testing is just one of the best things that are practically possible. . . . but there is a nagging feeling that it does not make sense!
I'm in the USA. And thanks for the replies everyone.
Have been following these guys for a while and had a lot of fun playing with their API when they were still in the alpha stage. Really impressive stuff being able to do NLP in a black-box fashion. I'm sure it took a lot of time getting the default machine learning params to work well in so many cases. Admittedly haven't tried any competitor's products yet so would be keen to hear from those who have how it compares.
You might want to read [1] :-)

[1] http://blog.golang.org/errors-are-values
Legendary radio exchange:

"I am the captain of battleship USS Awesomename! I demand you change your course!"

"I am the keeper of a lighthouse. Your call."
Here is another factor you might consider. What happens to government finances during deflation ?

Well, deflation means falling prices. Prices sponsor wages. Falling prices means falling wages. The large majority of government tax income is a tax on wages, or a tax on consumption. Both of these go down.

Now this wouldn't be so bad, except ... Governments loan money both to fund expenditures and to pay interest on their old loans. Inflation effectively means they can spend 2% of the total amount of their old loans "for free" (by loaning it) (they key thing to realise here is that doing so does not increase the burden on their income, it was 2% of taxes, and it still is). They get this double, since they get it both on the income side, and on the new loans.

Deflation means the opposite. Tax revenues go down, interest payments go up. Unless they want to drastically cut spending, that means they have to use pretty much all of their yearly new loans just to pay back interest.

The problem is also the difference between years :

year 1 : 2% inflation -> government can spend 104% of it's budget
year 2 : 2% deflation -> government can spend 96% of it's budget

So 2% inflation necessitates a 10% cut in loan-based spending, which is about half of government spending. So a seemingly tiny amount of deflation requires a 5% spending cut by the government at minimum.

But that is not all. Government taxes have always been effectively a percentage of GDP. Governments have historically been unable to raise tax income. Deflation will lead to a fall in GDP, historically of at least double the amount of the deflation, sometimes much more.

So the other half of government income goes down by ~4% (very, very optimistically).

Now because falling prices and wages mean that the stress on social services increases (for obvious reasons), government expenditures go up, usually again by much more than the amount of deflation you see. It leads to pretty much every part of social security going up. Unemployment, for obvious reasons. But also pensions (people will go on a pension earlier because there's no work) and even illness and disability (well we all know why).

So 2% deflation effectively means the government has to cut spending by ~10%, WHILE social security expenses go up.

The government controls central banks. QE, ostensibly to "cause inflation" hasn't caused inflation (rather the opposite). So in order to absorb this financial shock, the U.S. government has instead decided to finance it's operations by direct money printing, by lending from the money printer. They ran a risk by lending the way the constitution said they should lend, so they "cheated". Now we see the EU (and dozens of other governments, including China and lots of smaller ones) doing the same.

This is also an extremely important factor in central bank behaviour, as they are controlled by governments, and it is the reason that we have not seen the end of QE (except maybe in America, but to be honest, I think there is a non-negligeable chance the US will lower rates instead of raising them, in 6 months).
>But it can't continue forever...

Why not? Malthusian predictions have proven to be wrong so far.
Or physical tubes which pump sound back from the engine well to the driver.

Craziness.
>In case you don't know USA is _heavily_ investing on Pakistan and training them how to secure their nuclear facilities.

That's because the Pakistani government is of shaky stability at best, and while Pakistan having nukes in the first place is bad, the Pakistani government toppling and those nukes falling into who only knows' hands is much, much worse.

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

Making sure that their weapons are secure is a good thing.
I guess Atlassian isn't really a startup anymore! But that's the only mentioned Aussie company I hear around here
> when was the last time an Australian startup did anything interesting

How about Wireless networking? http://www.csiro.au/science/wireless-LANs.html

You're welcome.
It's best to look at the text you're generating. Not the keys you are pressing.

I would LOVE to try out the author's keyboard. It's great that someone is at least trying to push touch screen typing forward. I remain skeptical that this form of text input could be faster or safer for your wrists- but it COULD be more enjoyable to use for short typing sessions which is also important.
... and people complain that Java is verbose???
I hate that they approach minified versions with, "Do it yourself." 1.7.0.1 is what 1.7 was suppose to be and there is no ETA at all. The future of Prototype is so much brighter in FuseJS[1] once it is out of beta.

1. http://fusejs.com
Austin Kleon writes about this a lot, though he calls it chain smoking: http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/39051813256

"Instead of taking a break in between projects and worrying about what’s next, use the end of one project to light up the next one."
I was hit up by several of these gotchas when learning -- I certain wish this article had been available then.
Actually it doesn't do what it says on the package, because it's not actually a wiki any more, is it?

If I were the wikimedia foundation I'd be complaining about that.

edit: And on the point of accuracy... it would be an interesting prank to leak some fake documents to Wikileaks and see if you can get 'em to make a big fanfare about them. Preferably you'd fake enough documents so that they wouldn't really check them, and it would be several days into the media cycle before folks started to notice that some of the most incriminating memos were sent between parties such as "I. P. Freely" and "Amanda Hugnkiss".
That is why marketing and sales should have separate communication channels.
This is phones sold to distribution, not phones sold to consumers.
Vertical scrollbar?
If you like hacking in Lua, I've been enjoying Luna. It's a little IDE with an embedded Lua interpreter. The interface is weird but it works.