jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do you think it is fair for a person who owns $2M worth house to still receive benefits paid from taxpayers money? Because my take on this is: you're millionaire so you can take care of yourself, no public money for you.

Also, no, they wouldn't have to move to Stockton, they wouldn't have to leave their home town. Sell your house for $2M, buy two condos, for $1M million each, move into one of them, rent out the other, and you're set for life, and you will still have your original $2M to pass to your grandchildren after you die. Or you can invest your $2M in ETF, and live in the rented condo, cashing $100k of capital gains profits every year.

For someone with $2M (or 1.5M, or even 1M) net worth possibilities are endless and living off of taxpayers money shouldn't be one of them.
We know the Falcon 9's marginal cost for relaunch (with fairings reused is $15 million). Of this $10 million is for the second stage, $1 million is for booster refurbishment, the rest is for operations (including the landing barges) and fuel (which is $300,000 to $400,000 at the moment). These numbers are from Elon Musk's May 2020 Aviation Week podcast. I haven't yet found a good recent figure for the sticker price of relaunches though.

I did some analysis based on these numbers in this 8 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36o4UrS9OS4
Firefox may be snappy and feature-forward, but I am reconsidering if I should keep using it considering Mozilla seems to support censorship and deplatforming: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d...
Definitely. I have nothing against Digital Ocean or their offering. It was only an example of a different mindset.
H2S-induced suspended animation featured in Alastair Reynold's sci-fi novel Pushing Ice, which I've mentioned earlier in another context. Recommended as a good read.
If George Church is saying its a bad idea, then people should listen.
If you want to allocate money to charity now and you're currently unsure how best to do so, maybe you should consider using a donor-advised fund [1]. I prefer Vanguard [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor_advised_fund

[2] https://www.vanguardcharitable.org/content/donoradvisedfunds...
Did anybody ever find the secret?

Take a look at the root pages html source
The single best thing I've gotten from Lean Startup is the concept of doing an MVP. I released AR's (a functional demo of the core interaction -- it rings your phone and talks to you, then echoes your input onto your browser, that is it) about six months ago, after about two weeks or so of hacking on Twilio. That is close to my best spent two weeks ever from a learning perspective, since people have spent six months telling me "Yes, THIS, I want THIS." I thought AR was a good idea, and the people I talked to certainly had a raft of appointment/scheduling problems, but even a one-screen crystallization of my vision for the solution helped me move it from "something people might theoretically be interested in" to "something I have a high degree of confidence will sell."

If I had spent the last six months getting no emails about it, no signups in the post-demo form, and whatnot, I would probably have reevaluated whether AR was really what I wanted to be doing next, prior to spending a month writing real code for it.

Talk to customers, though -- if you need to call it Lean or not call it Lean to talk to customers, whatever, just do it.
Why such an highly annoying video with random, needless panning? Just write an article and display the pictures.
The key phrases were 'concise' and 'creative'. Of course you can expose an object's methods in any language, but not many will let you do it by monkeypatching Object with a two-line method.
Looks like I picked the wrong day to buy AAPL. Wish that announcement had been something more spectacular than The Beatles on iTunes.
Yes, compare today to, say, Oct 27.
> This means you can only make online purchases easily and securely at home.

Fair point - I had this problem when wanting to use Internet banking at work, but these pin readers are compact (smaller than an iPhone, marginally thicker) so I just keep mine in my bag now.

> This doesn't solve the problem (which people may not care about) that the merchant could now have your pin.

Only if the reader itself is compromised (very unlikely with the small ones provided by banks for online banking, and pretty unlikely in a shop too). However, note that the PIN is useless without the card, because the crypto chip is on the card, and it can't be cloned by a reader.

> This seems like a huge burden. Physically typing in long cryptographic codes?

They are only 8 digits long. And yes, I don't want fraudulent use of my account so I don't mind.
There isn't one. It's an existing option in the kernel, you can configure cgroups that way already, but most people don't do this so the feature is wasted. All this patch does is roughly approximate a decent-looking cgroup configuration by splitting processes by tty automatically.
How are you making money on here?
From what I've read on the forums, by the developers, is that the backup and restore process on Android has been a technical nightmare for them and it's fragile as it is. I presume that since they have limited resources they can only put so much effort into adding the feature to iOS (and improving it on Android) and have been concentrating on improved groups, group calling, Desktop calling, user name support, etc.
The average age of operating automobiles in use within the US is closer to 12 years. The registration fee (annual renewal, not initial registration) in the US is based on vehicle value in 8 states by my count.

On a personal note, me and most of the people I know think more in terms of miles than years. I figure every car I buy is good for 200,000 miles and most of the brands I favor have another 100,000 miles of life beyond that before repairs exceed some loosely calculated rate of return.
I'm mixed on tesla. I bought in when the stock was at ~$50 in 2013 and sold after it jumped to $175. I bought into the company as I was seeing model S's everywhere I looked and realized it was a company that was growing rapidly. Fast forward a few years I owned a house that has solarcity(owned by tesla now) panels on the roof, the roof needs to be replaced and dealing with solarcity was probably one of the worst experiences I have ever dealt with in my life. After that experience I wrote off Tesla as a really badly run company and have since never owned their stock. I think alot of the growth is FOMO and extreme hype around the cult of Elon Musk. I like that Musk takes chances and goes for moonshots, we need more of that in todays society. That being said the stock is in stupid territory and I'll be taking a short position myself(I think even Elon thinks its overvalued).
Hi HN, I built this MVP because using an image editor to create thumbnails for my blog posts was time consuming.

Good thumbnails can bring a lot of traffic to a post specially when shared on social networks. There are just 4 templates now and will add more. Would love your feedback.
Speaking of long shots, I'm looking for exactly this setup with a Clojure(script) stack.

The alternative is to build what you want, that has been my current plan. My only problem is that I want to make everything open source, and have no idea how to monetize my work.
There are many very small countries and few large ones.
I've also found this and try to whenever possible to encourage the client to take a fixed price quote over an hourly quote. I also find it easier cuz then i dont have to track my hours, which is a small irritation.

I find clients have a sense of safety that what i quoted is what it'll cost, rather than hourly which can be open ended.
I would pass a description, how to make a Gutenberg Press.
Everything else will come up afterwards.
Is this for work/science? What could you possibly download 40 TB of monthly? I am just curious.
Exactly, using that computing power for folding@home would have been much more beneficial, IMHO.
This is not about depreciation cost alone.
Normally vendor tie support cycle to depreciation cycle so you cannot get new parts or support unless you pay them heavily.
I'm not sure why you think it's question of culture. There are plenty of people of Indian origin in the US who have fairly strong ties to Indian culture, but I've never heard any complaints about them being unable to understand stuff.
I think anything that encourages focussed/prolonged abstract thinking about complex systems should be encouraged. In chess, the mental discipline to think through a series of moves without actually seeing them, and also to formulate heuristic strategies ('if i put this piece here, it will stop any threats coming from...'). There probably is not enough of that at school - I think reading and analysing novels is the closest you get. And some kids do that very passively (like they'll completely miss the implied point of chapters).
Maybe we just haven't found a good graphical representation for code yet. For example, UML is too heavily rooted in OO-extremism, which makes it less practical for quickly building solutions to real-world problems.

If we had such a representation, it'd give interesting prospects for programming with a tablet/touch interface.
Does not work for me. http://imgur.com/j6bta.png
Yes

Edit: No. ExtJS costs money, but it looks like Sencha Touch is free for everyone, as others have noted.
If you're like me and like a quick-summary over a lengthy article, you might like this article: 'Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps'[0]. It quickly summarizes all the positionining properties, and how top/left/float/clear etc helps.

[0]: http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/posit...
I've noticed formspring is being used for this purpose on some forums that don't offer direct messaging.
I think that you are right about the fact that kids will not stumble into programming if they are not searching for it.

On the other hand, they have lots of reasons to search about programming (think of the mandatory techie present in most TV shows) and there are really nice tools to learn these days. I am thinking for example of Scratch, an MIT project devoted to learn programming to kids http://scratch.mit.edu/.

So resources are there and there are lots of spark that could ignite kids interest into programming but the real problem, I think, is not availability or interest, but the availability of "funnier" and "easier" things to do on a computer : social networks, downpour of games (when I was a kid, getting 2 games a year was a tremendous boon. Today, my nephew has access to more games than he could ever dream to play).

This has been in fact described quite well by PG in his essay : The acceleration of addictiveness http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html
So it's 51-49 then.
the product managers are ruining Google, why is there no push back from the engineers?
"Without a Steve Jobs, Facebook is going to become the new Google. A technical powerhouse that can't build usable software"

I disagree that. Google have made some usable softwares. Before Gmail came, webmail was a mess. I guess people remember those popups and irritating ads from Yahoomail, hotmail etc.
Eh, I don't think speed limits really should exist in any context. If you want people to go slow, design the roads for slower driving, don't just impose arbitrary limits.
first saw this in the 90s on an sgi indy.

here's fun blog piece about the launch of sgi's webforce content creation suite which included tools for vrml.

https://therealmccrea.com/tag/vrml/
A few elements to inform the decision:

- Both docker and podman support rootless containers.

- Rootless podman setup is easier to achieve from experience and it integrates well enough with systemd.

- Docker requires a daemon to run at all times whereas podman doesn't.

- A lot of interesting things are going on with podman ("native" gitlab-runner executor in the works, wsl2 support, among other things)
I think I have CloudFlare on, and I am seeing requests with a CloudFlare header, but I am still getting a huge amount of traffic. I am not sure what the issue is. Maybe the site is so busy that CloudFlare can’t even load it to cache it, haha. Anyway, I have to leave for an exam now, so let’s hope it manages to work itself out.
> Nobody looks under the hood of things that interests them, let alone be critical of it’s design.

Do you honestly believe this?

Many people do this. I do this. It's the best way to learn¹. There are repeating Ask-HN threads requesting for "high quality Open Source Software to learn from" for example.

¹Edit: on second thought: probably not the "best" way. Not for me, anyway. Just a good way.
Thanks for sharing. Wishing you well. I'm sure it took a lot just to type a response. Thanks again.
It's counter-intuitive, but the data [0][1] is quite clear that laws like these significantly improve safety for bicyclists. I found this video [2] useful in understanding what might be going on.

[0] https://www.bikede.org/delaware-yield-crash-data/#page-conte... ("All reported injury crashes involving bicycles at stop sign controlled
intersections dropped 23% in the 30 months after adopting the Safety Stop
compared to 30 months prior to adoption")

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/18WEQdDpxSmgETZBFPh5iO8LGAL9... ("In year after adopting the “Idaho Stop,” crashes between bicyclists
and motorists fell 14.5%, and Boise was 30-60% safer on a bicycle compared to
similarly sized cities")

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42oQN7fy_eM
I have been using "greetings" or "greetz" consistently for more than 10 years. Until i read rather recently that greetings are never for ending an encounter or message, but rather for starting one... Nobody ever pointed out my mistake so i guess nobody really cares. I default to "regards" now.
Ps I hate these -- sometimes multilingual -- automatic signatures that embed the sign off, sometimes abbreviated. Imo if it is automated, it cannot be sincere.

Regards,

Nuancebydefault
They made a private resource.
If you pay less - why not. But that's not what's happening.
I explicitly told everybody that I turned off messenger notifications on every device and uninstalled facebook from my devices years ago. If they want to reach me they can use Signal, Telegram or Keybase. Interestingly enough even my mother (in her 70s, no idea about computers) can use Telegram without a hickup. I guess it is a matter of dedication to push your peers off from Facebook.
You are right. Creepyface just swaps the images based on the relative position of the cursor with respect to the image element.

It doesn't require a webcam although you can take your images using the site: https://creepyface.io/create
So you're advocating a protocol which doesn't work on low-end systems and deliberately breaks workflows.
You have to be heretical correctly.
Hear hear. The number of 'survival cosplayers' vs actual campers has shifted is a bad way recently.

It is illegl to build a structure, bury food, etc on public land. You wanna be a prepper, buy your own damn land. Stop destroying ours.

P.s. kick over some carins too.
You're on to something there.
Is this new information? If so, we should have an article about it that's more informative than a press release.

Edit: Looks like there are two others. Which is better, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941200 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940916?
Fascinating how economics mirrors nature. In this case, falling prices entice buyers to wait and wait as much as they can to get a better deal, which causes the system to wind even lower, just like the tide going out and scavengers seeking ever farther down the beach for shells and fish.

Everyone tries to control the tides, but we should think more about raising the ocean in a more general sense. If there was an abundance of food, shelter, and power, price drops wouldn't have such a low bottom.

We aren't technologically that far away from it, but "bankers are scrambling". Don't worry, scientists are tinkering. :-]
Sorry but after reading your post and your bio, I got a few points.

1st your career is too short to fully understand the web and be able to judge a company like facebook.

2nd you haven't realized that whatsapp might be its own company but its owned by facebook, and after the buyout facebook did a clear up on devs and hired / assigned their own devs to that.

3rd you haven't realized that the power of the web is fading over the power of mobile web!

I understand that that's a blog and you are free to express your thoughts, but I am really repulsed by the fact that this post has so many upvotes. It makes me think that people reading and upvoting on this site have no idea of technology.
It's also that some countries legally required digital cameras to make noises when taking photos, to make surreptitious photography impossible.
It's actually a feature, not poor architecture. They're putting security and privacy above UX. This is especially important in this day and age with all of the NSA and related revelations.

If you want a better UX there are hundreds of other options available.
I am mostly looking forward to Proxies and Tail calls, both cannot be implemented with traceur :/
>So what is the hack that keeps us from constantly taking our luxuries for granted?

Meditation, traveling to developing countries, constantly reminding yourself how much you enjoy little things like music, coffee, talking to friends etc. Works for me at least.

Nothing like going without a hot shower or first world plumbing for several weeks can make you appreciate all the little luxuries we enjoy.
I get that it's easier to set up WPEngine, but this seems like one of those cases where you might be better off learning what to do - just set up a self-hosted VPS with nginx + varnish?

At least if you're gonna have multiple sites, this WPEngine is expensive stuff.
mixpanel, paditrack, localitycs, click tale, adobe analytics, webtrends, there are many softwares available in this space
True, GMX is popular in Austria. Especially the kids and youth now use GMX instead of GMail or Outlook.com. For some reasons they trust European companies. (privacy, dislike NSA spying, etc.)

Though, GMX has done some shady business over the years and their servers are in Germany. They would be better off with some other email provider...
You don't reply to an email and you get a reply a few days later: "Hey, I just wanted to make sure that you saw this. If you need any more details, just let me know. Thanks again!"

If you did mean to reply to that first email, this gets the job done. You can also customize the message to whatever you want. Even: "bump!"
> The young boys that had to guard Ai Weiwei in his cell had to stand completely still, weren’t allowed to talk and couldn’t even blink their eyes.

This is complete nonsense. You can't order someone to not blink.
I guess if you really, really had a use case for it, binary patching using one of the open-source solutions might be feasible. Otherwise, HA load-balancing FTW.
Microsoft also has tons of product they supported for years. From Windows, to SQL server, to Sharepoint, to dynamics, to Office, to Visual Studio, to xbox, to ...
Also live.com rebranded and bing,WP are still alive and well funded.
If you look for a company to never shutdown a product which isn't getting traction, you are living in a dreamspace and need to wakeup.
I agree! At the time, I thought of running the numbers to compare them to, say, radio and TV transmissions towers, or microwave ovens, but I had thought it was a done deal, with a few details to work out.
Even the Table of Contents looks weird in the HTTP/2 draft:

8. HTTP Message Exchanges

What the hell is the rest of the document about then?
Did I miss something? When did Google give up on glass?
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Currently a full stack engineer and generalist wishing to branch out into non-web dev work. Seeking a role that demands creative problem solving.
When I mouse over a state if it has votes then it stays black after mousing over another state. If it doesn't have votes it returns to white.

Let me know if you need more details.

Safari 5.0.2 Mac OS X 10.6.5

Also when casting a vote I'd like it to tell me what city/state it recognized me as. I'm from Provo but there where no votes there, so I'm assuming I'm the one in Salt Lake.
Another relic of old times is the font installer embed on Windows. Since Windows 3.1 to Windows XP has the exact same program! You can check that it's keeps using the old GUI to navigate across the filsesystem, not showing the "Destop" false root.

On Windows Vista and forward was replaced by something more modern.
Sorry, I didn't identify you as the original poster.

I appreciate any effort to help kids learn to program and be better prepared for college computer science. You are correct in saying that my irritation is with College Board and the average college computer science curriculum.

I am being hard on the abstract high school computer curriculum. It's a lofty argument, and there isn't much that individuals can do to change it. HN is often the place that people shout into the bitvoid and expect people with similar opinions to echo back. This isn't particularly useful, but c'est la vie. In this case I started off with a snarky comment that probably would have been ignored except for the lack of other comments.
Especially as a positive attribute...
A 9 acre open work space sounds awful. With Facebook's money and Gehry's skills it's sad that a big box store and surface parking lot is what came out in the end.
That's fantastic. Who wrote it?
I wouldn't advise to marry and have children age 18. But I just had my first child and I am 38, wish I was younger. If my son had children at the same age I do, I would be 76. Will I still be a fit and healthy grandfather by then? Also, how fit will I be age 50, to play soccer with my boy?

Better late than never, though - I am certainly happy.
It's nothing fancy.
http://www.hnofficehours.com/profile/list/

This throws an error.
Also, DEBUG = False
>Think about the things that are important to you. Perhaps you care about creativity, family relationships, your career, or having a sense of humour. Pick two or three of these values and write a few sentences about why they are important to you.

What has this got to do with physics and why are universities so interested in students' private lives?
I'm really enjoying the proliferation of compiler articles, based on LLVM. I would, however, like to see the other side too: if I write code in C++ or Python, how can I leverage LLVM (and its various compilers) call out to code written in other (possibly brand new) languages?

I really hope we see more DSLs being written, and that it is easy to integrate with them on the back of LLVM.
I like it, but I think the wheels look too small. If the wheels were like, bigger, it would look fucking cool.
It does disagree, for the reason stated above. It's as if RRC were going to write more, decided not to, and just skipped to the conclusion.
Unimportant, because they neither provide useful intel nor prevent terror attacks. Or very important, because they have lots of blackmail material?
They re-started the countdown timer: "New takeoff time is 2:45 EST"
I don't think he's naïve, since he left. He has no illusion about where Twitter will be soon.
Edit: My point being that he worked for the company when it was in the form he liked, and when that changed, he left.
Safari's WebKit has basic hardware acceleration through CoreAnimation (but it only appears to apply to the 3D transform properties)
As far as ruthlessness, he's certainly not out of line with the early 20th century industrialist-philanthropists, though probably fewer people died because of Microsoft practices than industry strike-breaking and labor conditions.