jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are two ways to look at it. One is in terms of likelihood and projected value of an IPO. Another is in terms of Twitter's value to an acquirer; in this case, there are rumors of a $5B offer from Google.

Google in turn would be valuing it in terms of multiple assets: how much it would increase their search revenue, monetization opportunities if Twitter was in the Googleverse, employee acquisition, develoepr ecosystem, synergies with Android and Chrome, and competitive value vs. Facebook, Apple and whoever else they're concerned about.

So while on the one hand a $3B valuation is astonishing, it's certainly defensible.
We're excited to announce the launch of EEWeb, our flagship electrical engineering community. If you're a hacker looking to learn a thing or two about hardware design, or are a full blow engineering professional that needs a place to call home, we hope you enjoy what we've put together. We even have our own original comic called "Return-to-Zero" that features some fun strips based around hardware design.
Makes me wonder if something is off with the caching directives on the static content.
Fair enough.

I would totally use Nagios on my kids though.
Elon is crazy (in a good way). See also their press release on raising $1.6 billion:

http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-announ...
My old company has its dev team in Shanghai, we used multiple VPNs: openvpn and a Cisco vpn; we setted them on company's router.Normally it's ok except some special days like every year's session.
While I hope Bitcoin ultimately succeeds I know the early investors will lose millions building infrastructure that gets thrown away when late arrivers come and blow away the early adopters.

It couldn't happen to a more deserving set of twins.
Indented and hard-wrapped, for your viewing pleasure:

Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for google.com

What is the current listing status for google.com?

This site is not currently listed as suspicious.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 12 time(s) over the
past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 6815255 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1686
page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed
without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on
2015-01-22, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was
on 2015-01-22.

Malicious software includes 139894 exploit(s), 2748 trojan(s), 502 virus.
Successful infection resulted in an average of 5 new process(es) on the
target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 275 domain(s), including 24corp-shop.com/,
abu-farhan.com/, soaksoak.ru/.

296 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing
malware to visitors of this site, including southeastasianarchaeology.com/,
thesmallbusinessplaybook.com/, impots-economie.com/.

This site was hosted on 3 network(s) including AS36040 (YOUTUBE), AS43515
(YOUTUBE), AS15169 (GOOGLE).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, google.com appeared to function as an intermediary
for the infection of 528 site(s) including s3.amazonaws.com/lowlordyok/,
s3.amazonaws.com/fann21ahsdc/, s3.amazonaws.com/skcfb01kpl/.

Has this site hosted malware?

Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It
infected 22 domain(s), including burguscircus.free.fr/,
plus.google.com/112502198606472559837/, beljews.info/.

Next steps:
Return to the previous page.
If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your
site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review
process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.
This line of thinking is the same as Will Hunting say that you can get a Harvard education for 1.50$ in fees at the public library.

Education is a wide-scope issue; availability is only part of the equation.

It's easy to perceive education as "immediate" from the middle/upper class point of view, but it's not so immediate in reality for families living on food stamps and/or multiple jobs, and/or with relatives in jail, and/or having children going to schools with high crime rates and/or poor teachers, and so on.

I strongly doubt that any of those self-made millionaires is the son of, say, a Mexican car washer.
Or, http://www.chip.de/ii/1/7/3/6/4/3/8/7/Microsoft-Surface-Tabl...
Posted a solution: https://github.com/magwo/elevatorsaga/wiki/Solution-by-indut...
You write it down because it's a business and you need some amount of documentation to run any business. The journal thing could have been avoided, but the chat logs? There are bound to be disputes when running a black market, and it's useful to have a reliable record of what happened in the past.

The armchair commentators here write "just keep it all in your head", but that's just not possible.
"The man on the other end isn’t imaginary. He’s a real human person"

And a real hero?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DSVDcw6iW8
Your obtrusive and underhanded domestic spying law gets shot down by a democratic procedure?
No problem! Just tack it onto a bill already being considered by the House of Lords and sidestep the whole pesky review process.
Avro, heh.

1. avro schemas are defined in JSON

2. there is no way to define a map<string,string> with null values, this does not work: [{"type":"map","values":["string","null"]},"null"]
I'm a fan of Godot, so I'll state that in the beginning, so I'm biased. But I took a look at her(?) GitHub page and wondered why there isn't more effort being put into this branch. Even from his own words, ECs is a more efficient style when a large number of objects/nodes are involved, or when optimization becomes important.

At the moment Godot is really only viable as a 2D engine, as it tends to bog down when used as a 3D game engine even though it has all but replaced the default Blender engine (their recommendation). So in order to get a viable 3D project, a user would have to use an experimental ECS version (no offense to the creators, they are working hard and I do have high hopes for this project. I'll most certainly be experimenting with it) using the C# version, which is still fairly new.

Now, the fact that a small group of devs can make an indy project/proof of concept with Blender and Godot, or students can make a group portfolio that is viable - these things are AWESOME. Granted. But it still comes out of a quasi Frankenseinian lab as they have chosen to go with OOP instead of ECS, it seems, even though a path does seem laid out before them.

P.S.

here's the link to the ECS project:

https://github.com/GodotECS/godex
My emacs-fu is pretty stale, but I'm sure it has the hooks to track what you need. Although, Emacs isn't all about keystrokes, it's more about interactive coding and an integrated development environment.

Maybe you could do something more along the lines of Perl golf, where you achieve certain things in as little code as possible.
Now that's interesting. I wonder if it's because businesses tend to use HH while personal mail tends towards MC?

I just love to see this kind of experimental results.
That article is Amazon affiliate hotlink heaven. All items mentioned are Amazon links with referral code hidden behind a domain redirect. I initially expected to get another article on the item I clicked on. But the links serve no purpose than to make some money off referrals.
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration." ~Edsger W. Dijkstra
Until the late 20th century, marriage was an institution in support of human survival—which in the recent history translated to financial security. Divorce rates were low because survival was not only a practical limitation but also collectively valued very highly, and thus many societies didn't even allow divorces.

In the late century, marriage became primarily an opportunity to accelerate your growth as a human person and help your spouse do the same. In other words, two closely bound people teaching each other lessons in life. This bound is weaker than it used to be (lacking the survivalist element) and as singles can now feed themselves divorce rates are way up.

(With regard to the above, please remember that marriage in Western tradition has been commonly just disguised as romantic love; I maintain that romantic love has never been the deepest reason for two people deciding to bond together but merely an incubator for such a bond to form. Romantic love generally disappears from any relationship after the beginning phase unless actively maintained.)
I don't believe the two things are mutually exclusive. You can have a standard professional "package" for new developers, but allow them to customize it if they feel so inclined.
that has no bearing on the discussion of the validity of comparing people who look alike but live in different countries. a white finn might look like me, but i have no idea how i would go about modelling my behavior on them.
I'm on Airtel Broadband, and all the 32 websites are working fine (atlease for now). May be because I'm using Google Public DNS.
I have a 2017 MBP (no touch bar, so only 2 ports total), and I have a dock. But I don't want to bring it with me everywhere I go.

The mediocre webcam doesn't bother me that much, but I do wish Apple made it easy to use your iPhone's back-side camera for video conferencing. Seems like it would be so easy, and then you could use all the bokeh effects and such.
Judging from this and other comments you've made, you seem to think of "food" as being something other than just chemicals. It's not. Food, just like humans, is just an assortment of chemicals. There is nothing mysterious about it, there are no hidden secrets that we can't discover with a microscope, it's just chemicals arranged in a certain pattern.

Yes, there may be some of those chemicals that we haven't yet recognized as being important to a healthy diet. However, since quite a few people (not just Rob, there's an entire community built around this doing DIY Soylent for the past few months) have been fine on Soylent for a significant amount of time, there's not much reason to think that we're missing anything life-or-death important. We certainly know that there isn't anything in your typical fast-food meal that is both important for health and missing from Soylent.

It seems like you have two main objections. First, judging from your posts, you really fucking love food. That's cool, and I'm happy that you can get that much enjoyment from eating, but a lot of us don't. Second, you seem to think that there's a fundamental difference between food and not-food (Soylent). If you look at the chemistry though, there really isn't. In fact, Soylent has significantly more healthful nutrients than the average American's diet.

That all said, nobody is trying to convince you to convert to Soylent. I couldn't care less where you get your nutrition. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for the same courtesy in the other direction.
Well, it's not. YouTube asked me exactly once if I want to use my Google+ name and pic on YouTube. I said no. It said Ok. Didn't ask since then.
Fascinating article. My only quibble is when it mentioned "tiny South Korea". That population is 50 million, while Japan's is 127 million. So, yes, Korea is smaller, but hardly "tiny" in comparison.

And "tiny" probably doesn't refer to land area either. Much of Japan is rural or uninhabitable. In both countries the amount of habitable non-farmland is relatively "tiny". Quite unlike the USA.
I actually couldn't find a copy of the survey to see what the actual phrasing of the question was - which is why I raised the question of bias. If the question was phrased the way you quote then it would be more accurate.
AOL for a sick joke could bid for MySpace..
"Wait, ENCRYPT credit numbers? I thought you said decrypt!"
I'm excited to see that the populace at large (not just tech enthusiasts) are learning about something other than iOS, but I'd be wary of calling this a big win for Google or something similar. Remember that APPL is still raking in much more cash off of their iOS devices than Google is from Android. This is probably true even if you consider the indirect income Google sees from Android.

I think something more telling is that RIM is still slipping. Will they be able to recover?
Not to mention that Sony BMG was a 50% joint venture with Bertelsmann and I don't recall many people boycotting magazines or books at the time.
Hi Victor, there have been a couple of projects exactly like this here on HN, first was MapRejuice, AFAIK.

"You've heard of SETI@home? We're SETI@Chrome."
http://2010.nodeknockout.com/teams/anansi
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1645520
Step 1. Apply for coding job.

Step 2. Get coding job easily.

You are easily qualified for a junior position. There is such a derth of talent compared to demand for anyone who can code, which you clearly can, that you will easily be able to find a job, assuming you can relocate.

>I am not opposed to working for a startup, but who wants to hire the self-taught guy with 6 months programming experience when they can hire the guy with years of experience and a comp sci degree to prove it?

No body; unless your engineering background helps with the project/domain. But that doesn't matter if you are just looking for 'any job'. You will easily find one.

In programming people have learned (especially startups) that experience and education mean almost nothing compared to a few thousand lines of good code.
True. Big incidents like this require for companies, in this case Sony, to carefully choose their words. They are obliged to inform their customers.
If you really want to work there, that shouldn't stop you.
Hey, I didn't make the original comment. Its just, I get fed up of people "splitting hairs for splitting hair's sake" on yc. The ideal conversation flow would be minus yours, and my comments and have a response from the poster to the original comment. Gotta add value.

"This looks like every other business guy looking for a tech founder" is the important part. The fact that "significant equity stake is on the table for anyone who fits the bill" is missing from an otherwise pretty well thought out post makes me think that in fact, comparatively to 50%, they are going to "offer almost nothing".

But look, If I'd prototyped and market tested something, I'm not so sure I'd be prepared to give away 50% either. Just sayin.
The first one (http://bookflavor.com/) is better. It's easier to scan. The pictures in the second option are also too large.
That's a literal definition of "conservative", but there's plenty of instances of "conservatives" (in the US) trying to change things--conservatives were the most enthusiastic proponents of the War on Drugs, which changed the US legal system dramatically, as well as the War on Terrorism, which involved a whole mess of other "innovations". In many cases, conservatives are the ones wanting to change things and civil libertarians (i.e. liberals) were trying to maintain the status quo.
I was really hoping for a thoughtful piece discussing a situation where requiring that infrastructure owners not discriminate by content had an overall negative effect.

Sadly, the author just Glenn-Beck-style associates rules requiring fair play with regulation of speech and business decisions because they both can be called "regulation", and goes on to describe how fascism can stifle the growth of good ideas.

tl,dr: Author sets up straw man; author attacks straw man; author concludes all regulation is evil.
So if I'm understanding this correctly:

1. You sell books, and make some money off of the sales.

2. A commission is paid for each sale, to between one and four "referral sources."

Isn't this what every author does, except #2 is called an advertising fee?
I'm going through it right now. Looks very useful, thanks for writing.
>>no, investment may move, but it doesn't simply vanish. wealth managers would be fired for holding investible funds in cash (which is what withholding investment means--that's the opportunity cost mentioned earlier).

The percentage of income invested fluctuates, based on factors that include security of property rights and expected return on investment.

Creating a reliable regulatory and tax regime would mean greater annual inflow of money into investments.

>>historically, disenfranchised masses revolt, violently.

All the better then to remove the obstacles to the enfranchisement of the masses, by offering compensation to the current beneficiaries of rent-extracting institutions in exchange for recruiting them in the drive to abolish these institutions.

Violent revolutions that overturn power structures are actually quite rare and far more common is persistence of structural forces of rent-extraction for decades or centuries, and thus the threat of revolution is not an effective motivator for those in power to relinquish their privileges. The pragmatic reality is that we are more likely to get to a more just and efficient economy without these structures if we reach a settlement that removes the opposition of these structures' beneficiaries from the drive to eliminate them.

>>bonus point: a more equitable distribution of wealth would lead to smarter investment overall and a more productive economy.

Another bonus of eliminating rent-seeking institutions is that it reduces wealth inequality. Compensation to expedite the removal of a structural force that contributes to wealth inequality would likely be a net-gain for equity in the distribution of wealth, because the former is a one-time action while the latter has a recurring impact.
Takedown is a very good film, hard to get/see too.

That being said I’m not sure that’s what hacker refers to in HN.
You'd think it's a joke but it's like a 2nd or 3rd time that my brother ordered a pizza by phone and got a wrong one. Sure the girl who takes order is absent-minded or hard of hearing. And similarly sounding pizza names don't help. We like their pizzas and try to cut out the middle-man, but our colleagues who order from there suggested we just use Pyszne.pl (i.e. Takeaway.com).

Also, many times we tried to order food to office at work, we just got a busy line.

Doing transactional stuff by phone has horrible UX.
Ok, come on. Now you're just trolling. Amazon also promises not to share your credit card information. It should be obvious that trust is necessary in business.
I felt let down by the interviewer interrupting and changing the topic at least two times when I was eager to hear more. The first when Lustig tries to address Alan Aragon's criticisms, he even insists that it is important to follow on it, and the second when he begins talking about the externalities of using public policy to counter the effects of increased consumption. In both cases the interviewer abruptly changed the topic and the arguments were left incomplete. The rest was not news if for anyone that has seen his youtube video.
"left" leaders aren't telling people to riot. They aren't mad because twitter is banning them. They are mad because someone is telling them to be mad
TSMC has some say in the matter.

If they view Intel as a competitor and AMD as a long-term customer which would seem rational, why would they blindly auction their capacity to the highest bidder of the two?

Frankly I'm more concerned with Apple's deep pockets continuously monopolizing TSMC production.
The real differences are the lies and craziness.
Not portable, but if you can get the address of the stack you can force printf to overwrite the return address, obviating the loop.
I don't know, but the way they casually let them in doesn't look like they're retreating from the position. If they were, why open the barriers? Why wouldn't they just back up from the position to their fallback position as one group?
Links to all 52 parts at the URL below. Part 1 is dated Jan 23, 2019, Part 52 Dec 30, 2020. Looks like a book may be the next chore.

https://thonyc.wordpress.com/the-emergence-of-modern-astrono...
1) that's a different process, not the process followed for the specific signature audit

2) even that casual process caught 11% of the fraud

3) where is evidence of ANY sizable signature fraud? Your article indicates we should have caught about 11% of it, even without the more strict signature audit.

4) you still haven't answered how you find 11,800 people whose signatures you can fake, and be sure they won't ALSO vote at a later date, which would be detected.

We done yet?

No?

Prove it in court.

Or just accept the outcome of this election, and get started trying to improve security for the next election.
Looking forward to using custom post types and the integration of WPMU and WP. Wordpress is really coming into its own as a CMS.
I might be repeating myself too, but go check out who they market themselves to, and how they describe their product:

http://basecamphq.com/buzz
Seriously. Zed produces a shocking amount of content and software. On top of all the software he writes, he's got multiple blogs that get updated frequently.

Clearly Zed Shaw has discovered self-replication and is using it to his advantage.
I think I'm okay if Basecamp doesn't want me. Really, it's a product, and if it doesn't fit my needs, I'll move on. But I'm sure I'm not the only one. But really, it's up to 37Signals to listen to the feedback or keep the product as is. Keeping it as is will keep their market share low, and ultimately make them less money. But I might be missing the point.
I think having you be a rabid fan would actually hurt them. Don't take that personally; having our consulting practice be a rabid fan of Basecamp would be equally painful for them.

But if you want to plan a conference booth with a graphic designer, a professional marcom event planning, and some company principals, I can vouch for the fact that Basecamp is awesome.
Port 80. This means you can make web apps that use all available protocols but only need to know about port 80. Gets through firewalls, cuts down on configuration, and it's not too hard to do in the server.
I have "cleaned" the reputation of an AWS IP address that I've got a mail server behind. It wasn't bad, but it should be a step in any guide on on setting up a server. There are lists of blocklists you can check to see if you're blocked, and manually request your IP be removed (only takes a few minutes.) I had to open a ticket with Yahoo to get unblocked, but that was it.
Most (all?) of that material was in French, which seems to have been a surprisingly effective barrier. (French proficiency is not terribly common in the US or Japan; and how many people are so paranoid about random counterparties that they will hire translators to go through everything any of the counterparties have ever written looking for red flags? Have you ever done that?)

I don't recall even the Mtgox haters bringing up any of the French backstory until not long before the end.
Try it with my Mutt:)
If they're wearing masks I'd wager it's not the protestors.
Twitter also binned the video as did Youtube - not sure why posts are flagged about it on here. Social media giants / Trump and today are surely worthy of HN debate?
No doubt the NHS in London is close to capacity, perhaps even more so than it usually is this time of year. It's hard to know for sure.

It doesn't help, however, when activist NHS nurses lie on (and abetted by) national media; imagining bed occupancy and oxygen supply levels out of thin air, implying the mutant strain is more virulent among children etc. causing panic, confusion, and supplying fuel to the very people you're trying to lampoon.
Way back in 1994 or thereabouts I coded a faux PIN-number-cracker inspired by this scene on my Psion Series 3 (128 kB total memory) in the natively available OPA language (which is basically BASIC). It was a fun project for a thirteen/fourteen year-old.
Yup. Which is why I avoid political news and think it's pointless for most people.