jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
HTTPS everywhere. And I would not trust an entire site to go unindexed.

There's a lot more to change if I want real HTTPS support. Changing a single port number is the least of my worries.
That cow left the barn a while ago.
It's not legal to drive while you are impaired regardless of the reason for the impairment. From a public safety standpoint banning bars would do far more good than legalizing medical marijuana. IMO, it's one of those cases where the perception of risk has little to do with actual risk.
If anyone wonders why C/C++ programming is still so popular, here's a perfect case study. Most new fangled languages don't offer the option of static linking. This single piece of uncompromising idiological doctrine has led to billions of dollars in effort expended in engineering systems to workaround that choice and to effectively reproduce static linking in different form.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_matching
1. Defining problem space.

2. Input/Output.
Who are these mythical consumers that are going to use NoSQL products but are too dumb to understand what they are without some Jeffrey genius to explain it to them in simple marketing terms? Last I checked, the commercial NoSQL efforts aren't trying to take the dumb money away from Oracle. They're just trying to keep the doors open so they can keep coding and continue helping engineers solve problems.
Google made this point of recommendations vs facts on a recent paper on their Q&A System: "Confucius and Its Intelligent Disciples: Integrating Social with Search" http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36900.html
The USPS has managed to improve service while dealing with a postage rate increasing less than the rate of inflation.
USPS provides first class mail service to all Americans for the same cost (whether that letter is addressed to down the street or across the country) and provides mail service to almost everywhere people live in the United States, whether it be a small rural town or New York City.

So in part, it's a matter of equity -- that everyone in this country has equal access to postal services and the benefits they provide (which are admittedly cross-subsidized). This same rationale goes into telephone universal service funds and has been discussed in the context of the national broadband plan too.

None of the USPS' private competitors do (or I can imagine would do) this.
Yeah, I agree.

I don't have any horses in this race (anymore), and I don't really have a strong opinion on whether I think he's likely right or wrong... I just find his writing on the topic amusing.
The article is really poorly written. The specific example is very specific, the claims that "nobody else gets it" are in fact unsubstantiated. All the effects he mentions are very known among right professionals.
And the title text is not about "relative latency" you mention but about the cost of paging, once something gets paged out.
Xen/XenSource seemed to go OK.
The characters here don't depart any further than those in, say, A Black Comedy or The Wastelands of Time, both of which are a lot further from canon than MoR, widely acclaimed by some (including me), and not much hated by others that I've ever seen. "It violates canon!" is a rationalization of a strong ick reaction for other reasons. There may be parts of this that I don't fully understand, but I'm reasonably sure of that part.
I think that there's room for us to abstract away branded search under a new category, but I don't think new browsers are the answer.

People rely on brands when they have a product whose quality is important to them, but is difficult to discern from casual inspection. So for example, the strongest brands tend to be in markets like soda, foods, and cigarettes, because you're putting this stuff in your body and yet you can't tell what went into it. Branded medicine can fetch prices several times higher than generics, despite being exactly the same stuff. Things like software - Microsoft and Google - have middle-ground brand power, where quality is important (but not all-important) and you have few indications for overall software quality at purchase time. Things like airlines have virtually no branding power, because the trip is over in 5 hours, you've gotten to your destination, and you quickly forget about just how unpleasant the flight over was.

Following this, there are two ways to cut brand power of entrenched competitor:

1.) Make consumers care less about product quality. Cunard and White Star were done in by the airline industry, because by cutting trip duration from 5 days to 5 hours, they made consumers ambivalent about trip quality.

2.) Give consumers better information about the actual quality of the product. Google destroyed branded directory sites like Yahoo because they showed everyone just how many websites the directories were missing, and let them evaluate for themselves the quality of the sites.

To achieve #2, you could build some software - either a browser plugin or a meta-search engine - that "rates" each result on an unbranded results page, saying "This is filled with adsense" or "this information is false" or "this was copied from here". If you could convince consumers to trust the ratings more than the original search, you'd break the brand power of the original search engine. However, that's probably at least as hard a problem, if not harder, than building the search engine itself.

FaceBook and other social networks become dominant because of network effects, not because of brands. They don't let you export your friends, so you become trapped there, without much value anywhere else. FriendFeed tried to break that cycle with their meta-social-network, but it didn't work, probably because they didn't add any value besides what the social network itself had. In cases where new software really is superior, I think it's possible to convince whole cliques to move over at once, though, and that can break the back of the entrenched competitor. I saw it happen with LiveJournal, and then again with MySpace.
The article implies that the fb.com address will be used internally, while the new email accounts will use *@facebook.com
> Sure ebooks can have precise text placement, just use a PDF.

Not so hot on most e-ink devices, but yeah, you can use a print format to achieve print-like documents that throw the middle finger at your screen's dimensions/resolution with sometimes-nice results.

> As for indexed vs full text search, an eBook can have both, and many do.

Ah, but their indices are usually more of a pain to use than an index in a real book. Like footnotes, but even worse. As with full text search, though, it might beat the dead-tree if you're on a laptop/desktop (bigger screen that can show the index to the side of the text) but at that point there's not much distinction between an "ebook" and anything else one might read on a computer.

> No argument on the price, though it didn't hold for works out of copyright.

Unless they're not originally written in a language you can read, in which case odds are good that the best translation is still under copyright. In fact, it's not uncommon for there to be several copyright-protected translations all of which are better than any of the public domain ones. So technically, yes, you can go to PG and grab a ton of classics for free. Practically speaking, for non-[language(s) you can read] works, if it's worth putting in the time to read it you'll be well served by buying (or borrowing) a newer translation. All those 19th century ones have a way of being both less accurate and less pleasant for a modern reader.
The situation you describe (striking every other year) is indicative of low bargaining power, as they have to resort to extreme measures and still don't get what professions with high bargaining power get offered even without negotiation.

One cause of low bargaining power for this type of professions (characterised by low pay, relatively high education requirements, decent social status/respect, working with people, often majority female) is that in those positions "the market knows" that the strikers won't fulfil the only threat that matters, namely, simply abandoning that profession for a career path that pays more but is worse in other aspects (generally, unskilled or semi-skilled jobs with less social respectability and work conditions - e.g. painting jobs in construction, driving a garbage truck, etc; it generally would seem a downgrade for a teacher even with an increase in pay) and that theres a nontrivial niche of young people who are still intentionally studying for that profession despite knowing that the pay sucks, because they are motivated by factors other than money. The more people there are who are highly motivated to do that job for non-compensation reasons, the less bargaining power the whole profession has, and it is reflected in pay.
Until their competitors are providing the same products for less, or they are forcibly broken up by the government.
I feel like I got served an appetizer and a small dessert, with no main course in between.

California has a housing crisis in some cities. Californians are moving out of those cities. The cities that they're moving into are experiencing an increase in demand (directly restating the previous). That's pushing up prices (not shocking), which is preventing some people with less money from outbidding people with more money (also not shocking).

Conclusion: Single Family Zoning is bad, but only a few places have been enlightened enough to limit or ban it.

OK, maybe, but strikes me as an argument from declaration of opinion rather than a logical conclusion from the priors.

The only thing new I learned from this article is a rough estimate of how much higher an ex-Californian's budget is on average, which was novel but hardly surprising.
The thing is, you talk about how blocking implicitly is bad, but I didn't say "it's good to block in the destructor" as a blanket rule either. I'm talking about this very particular case of blocking deserves to be in the destructor, for what I thought were fairly decent reasons that I spelled out. You haven't actually addressed my points about threads specifically and are just talking about blocking in a destructor in general, but the discussion/disagreement isn't about other cases. There are definitely times when I think it'd be wrong to block implicitly, but this just isn't one of them.
No, he's not. That's what gets lost in the shuffle in discussions like this. He is saying it works for him and like it or not, that's what the vast majority of people care about. What's In It For Me?
One that Loeb has mentioned: the status quo 10-year plan involves searching exoplanets for oxygen, which could arise without life, and which organisms would not necessarily need or produce. Instead, Loeb thinks we ought to look for industrial pollutants. A positive result on that would be extremely interesting.
I don’t really understand how this is genius? Basic philosophy 101 and systems thinking concepts.
This is very nice. I'm working on something similar as part of my build process so that I can more directly notice changes as they are made in markup, and catch changes that I didn't expect.

The issue I've hit, that you may want to consider, is a suppression list of sorts. The ability to silence diffs on things that look like dates for example would be rather valuable.
OS X is pretty much all BSD userland, because of BSD's more permissive licensing. OS X's bash version is ancient as well; also because of licensing, as far as I understand.

It's not so much that someone would learn exactly the same tools, but that there are more similarities than if they were switching between Windows and Linux.
Hey, thanks for posting this. Very nice.
Meanwhile in the UK Mia Hansson has embarked on a recreation project on her own:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1139246322780314/
So far she has completed 92ft after starting the project in 2016.
The boy who cried wolf was eventually correct too. A broken clock is right twice a day. Etc.

Peter Schiff currently believes Bitcoin is going to collapse, that anyone who buys it is a fool and charlatan, that hyperinflation is around the corner, and the only solution is a return to the gold standard. Do you agree with this?

I don’t like Bitcoin (too many grifters) but even I can admit it has value as a hedge asset against systemic shocks. He just doesn’t like that it may supplant Gold.
My email is in my profile. I'm happy to make those referrals, but will note that most of them have landed in places that make them appropriately comfortable and engaged, so they're hard to dislodge (don't think I haven't tried every so often).
W3C is defining SVG Native [1], which is a subset of the full SVG spec. The plan is to use it in font files and it should be a nice format for native apps. It removes support for CSS, the style attribute and lots of extra syntax. Even the XML parsing is made simpler by not requiring support for XML entities. Compression with gzip should create fairly small files.

By reusing the SVG format, it is still compatible with existing tools, such as Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape (meaning that they can open SVG Native files).

Adobe even has an open source renderer for SVG Native [2].

[1] https://svgwg.org/specs/svg-native/

[2] https://github.com/adobe/svg-native-viewer
Datapoint of one: I have the audiobook and never finished it. Found it tedious, far from the inspirational read/listen the hype seemed to suggest.

Catchy title which is both great advice and terrible advice at the same time. Often there is a better question than Why, and sometimes you need to approach it sideways. A Why without context is meaningless.
Some stateful identifiers are required for technical purposes. IP addresses for example.

Other identifiers are required for the functionality of the service, such as your contact details or information you enter in a social network.

Given you can't work around providing the information, the only solution is to use legislation to prevent that information for being used in malicious ways.

Also, the current situation with the consent prompts in Europe is not because of the GDPR but because of its lack of enforcement. The GDPR learned from the former "cookie law" (which I agree was a shit-show) and explicitly prohibits annoying/misleading consent prompts.
Hi,

I noticed you posted a comment on Hacker News.

Be sure to reach out if there’s anything I can help with?
> By contrast, as soon as I learned the "trick" http://golang.org/pkg/time/#pkg-constants

Since MST is GMT-0700, the reference time can be thought of as
01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700

Such sadness. Using a reversed month/year date as a "reference" when we have ISO 8601. Much american-centrism.

Otherwise I like the trick, but I'm not sure it scales to locale-specific time formats (whereas strftime does a bit with %aAbBxX).
It's a library addition, not a language addition.
While I don’t disagree with the sentiment, you are making an abstract argument with zero consideration for the facts at hand. The environmental need for rare earth metals does not mean that every rare earth metals mining project is a net positive for the environment.

In particular, this specific mine in Greenland is also a uranium deposit, and could be especially devastating to the environment, at relatively little yield[1]. Greenlanders are correct to be skeptical and concerned (especially given that Greenland Minerals is actually an Australian-Chinese company).

[1] https://www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-arctic/2021/01/08/canadian-...
I used to manage the network at a co-working space and I had two of these access points installed in a mesh setup, with one covering the main front room, and one covering the back part of the building.

I'm not sure if it can handle 500+ concurrent users, but we would frequently have as many as 100 people present and on the WiFi during some of the events we held, and we never had any issues. We would have people live streaming video while other people were working on their laptops. As the network admin, I regularly did speed tests and asked people how the internet was working for them and everyone was always very happy with it.

Over the course of about two years, we had over 3,000 people log into the WiFi, and never once had a single problem (other than from our main gigabit cable internet going down once or twice).

This is a HUGE contrast from my experience with consumer grade WiFi routers like Linksys, Netgear, and D-Link, which often advertise crazy speeds like 2,000 Mbps but only deliver 50 Mbps in real life. I once had a $300 D-Link router that I literally had to reboot every week or else it would become completely unusable and slow to a crawl, for example.
Are you implying that Germany's electric grid is unreliable?

If so, a citation would be good because my sources say Germany's electric supply has been stable.
no, but for seller reputation sake, WHO gets the sales matters a LOT.
A limited brand that everyones knows 90% of stock is going to a reseller marking it up is going to quickly be done.
Here's a nice source of revenue from google
($9 billion/year):
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-reportedly-pays-apple-...
GitHub Codespaces lowers the barrier to contributing to any GitHub repository, because all you need to have is a browser. Codespaces is an opportunity to mainstream coding and contributing to open source.
SF: San Francisco
Yes. That's the funny part. It doesn't work despite that. uname -r gives 5.7.7-amd64-desktop.
Did Parlor tell you to think that ;) ?
Well it's sarcasm in this case, but it won't be when you see it elsewhere.
Still no way to set read/write permissions on a user-by-user basis? Makes it difficult to manage my less tech-saavy sales reps when they are always editing and moving files around.
If you like Banks you might consider checking out the other two members of the "Scottish Clique", Ken Macleod and Charles Stross. Both write some really good stuff.

Other new good hard SF writers might be Cory Doctorow, Michael Chabon, Rachel Swirsky, Sara Genge, Geoffrey Landis, Elizabeth Bear, Ted Chiang, Paolo Bacigalupi, Aliette de Bodard, Mary Robinette Kowal, Charlie Jane Anders, Felicity Shoulders, and Ian Tregillis. I haven't read them all, but they're all at least on my reading list for good hard SF due to recommendations from friends I trust.

And I'll second the Alistair Reynolds recommendation too.
Morning everyone, Noah from http://AppSumo.com here.

We love the WakeMate product and pulled them because the service they were offering was not public as expected.

Here's our emails confirming WakeMate wanted to be in the bundle: http://cl.ly/3p3u3T3I3e3p3e231c31
Booked it!!!!
Can you point to some examples of startups trying to use games as a new way of teaching?
Yeah, this seems like something Google should do. They're probably already looking at it. It's their job.
This is my November Startup Sprint[0] project, inspired by a StackExchange question[1] from this HN thread[2]. The idea is that the app creates a unique email address for you, and any emails of the form "Lunch with Bill Tuesday at 12:30" that you send to that address will be added to your Google Calendar. I'd love to hear what HN thinks of it. Much thanks to HN user riskish for his design help.

[0] http://hn.21times.org/

[1] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/7139/add-an-event...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1861283
Besides its capabilities as a launcher, Spotlight is also a very capable calculator. Stuff like sqrt(2pi^e) works, oh, and Cmd+C works for the results, too. Someone was really sweating the details on that one.
> Without proper controller separation (using twig as rendering engine for example) it poses the risk for the business logic to be tangled with view.

Well, you should also quote the part in my comment about "use Composer to pull in specific packages that you really need." :) I'm not suggesting "roll everything on your own," necessarily: if you want to use Twig, or another templating engine, add that as a Composer package. (Personally, I'd just write a small pure PHP template class to handle this and trust myself not to be a dingus, but if I were on a team that might change the calculus here.)

> Not to mention that it's hard to do routing with native PHP...

Again, you don't have to roll your own here; you can include something like FastRoute or even Symfony's router as a routing engine.

I'm not saying you should avoid absolutely all libraries. Laravel is built on top of a lot of Symfony libraries, after all! For a project I've been noodling with slowly, I'm using my own "pure PHP" template engine, but I'm using FastRoute for routing, Doctrine DBAL (although not the ORM) for database access, Monolog for logging, PHP Debug Bar to get a lot of debugging info in development, etc.
Why for? It won't change anything. On OnePlus the modem is tightly integrated with the rest of the system, and on Nexus 4 you cannot even boot Android to any usable state without proprietary blobs, so forget about any non-Android based OS (remember that Ubuntu for mobiles is just a chroot-like layer on top of Android base system).
Would nicely complement a station wagon full of tapes for bandwidth.
I actually think that proprietary software is morally wrong anyway. Blasphemy! :)
Aside from Apple vs Google, David Mitchell discusses this curious form of expression with graphs and what-not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
Not much of a penalty if you get the money back. Have it donate to an organisation or political party you cannot stand instead - you'll have a stronger incentive to minimise the damage if every dollar goes to the enemy.
You may be right about the result but the gas analogy doesn't work. To make it work you would have to image customers all getting gas from the same tank. While they're filling their vehicles the tank is getting lower but the instant they stop the tank is full again. Not slowly filling up with gas, instantly full capacity again.
We are already there. See Detroit.
I'm genuinely not sure if this is sarcasm or not. Teen Vogue is certainly surprisingly serious, but my standard for "solid journalism" involves some attempt at neutrality and objectivity as opposed to hyper-partisan ideology marketed to children. To be quite clear, the overall modern media landscape is highly partisan and sensationalist; Teen Vogue mostly only stands out in that they're marketing their divisive ideology directly to children.

EDIT: This is unsurprisingly attracting downvotes. I'm curious if people are objecting to the characterization of Teen Vogue as partisan and ideological or the implication that marketing divisive ideology to children is a social ill? Or perhaps that journalism should aspire toward the truth and not partisan advocacy?
Can you elaborate on this? Just wondering what you mean because I have been using private networks and haven't really run into many issues.
This looks bad but companies with unions do this a lot. I remember seeing welcome packages for Delta Airlines employees where they tell them to not join the union and explaining why on their perspective is bad to do so.

I'm not saying this is correct, but unions are rarely aligned with companies, so there is always going to be a perpetual fight between unions and companies that have them. You can't really expect Amazon to embrace unionization. They are in their right to try to disincentivize unionization if they believe it could be damaging for their business.

Again. I'm not saying this is correct, but I guess that's the whole point of unionizing. If it were an easy fight, it wouldn't make sense to unionize.

For the sake of transparency, I would disclose that I'm in principle anti-union but I understand why they exist and how can they be helpful, especially to employees who work low wage jobs and who could be vulnerable to abusive employment practices.
I can't imagine the stress of launching a "sustainable" tech product like this, knowing every aspect of the product and business will be ultra-scrutinized.