jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sure, but dropbox themselves aren't exactly a blue chip corporation with a long-established reputation. There's no need for additional third-party configuration, either: $X.com could easily host a custom build of SparkleShare configured for their site. Hence, the straightforward installation process you describe could work equally well with s/dropbox/$foo/g.
Excel is perhaps the single largest development tool used (mostly by people who don't think they are developing anything.)

I keep wondering what a next-generation replacement might look like?
Care to tell us your story?
Is that Linus post originally comes from some mail list? What is the name of the list? (google gives me only links to realworldtech, which is weird)
I like to get myself away from any and all electronic devices at least one day a week. Last Saturday I took my family to the beach and we all brought books to enjoy. It was awesome, and I felt more relaxed and recharged than I ever do after eight hours of sleep.
TechEd isn't the big Microsoft event I believe its PDC so not really comparable.
Last time I checked, darlbehindbars.com was available.

It still seems so.
Very good list, it's amazing how these events provide a clear picture of the various strengths and weaknesses of these two companies.

I liked this part:

"All the women at I/O were interviewed, as were all the women at WWDC. Both the ladies attending I/O and all three attending WWDC said they liked the sessions."
This is just amazing. THis is what i needed. It clearly shows how FLash uses less CPU and runs smoother than HTML5. Maybe HTML5 will perform like Flash today in two or three years, but till then Flash will also improve.
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[Full disclosure: I've worked on Amazon Route 53 ;)]

The RTT mechanisms in resolvers have a high degree of randomness and will aggressively try the other, slower name servers again. E.g., out of 1000 samples, my desktop in the Netherlands (via XS4All) sees low latencies from Route 53 ~60% of the time:

$ seq 1 1000 | xargs -n 1 sh -c 'dig test-$0.trosc.com | grep "Query time" | awk "{print \$4}"' | histogram.py -f "%3d"

18 - 59 [ 609]: ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
59 - 100 [ 1]:
100 - 141 [ 1]:
141 - 182 [ 229]: ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
182 - 224 [ 102]: ∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎∎
224 - 265 [ 37]: ∎∎∎∎
265 - 306 [ 1]:
306 - 347 [ 15]: ∎
347 - 388 [ 2]:
388 - 430 [ 2]:

This looks decent at the median (20ms), but falls off beyond with 185ms at the 90th percentile and 88ms average, with one >1s outlier removed.

As you pointed out, Route 53 optimizes for availability and DDoS resilience over RTT performance. There are 4 name server IPs to choose from which gives me 4 different paths to 4 different server locations via anycast, giving me 4 different RTT buckets. Few DNS providers go through such lengths for availability. Still, 185ms is a lot. It's probably because anycast/BGP advertisements from the US get to AMS-IX with a smaller number of hops than competing advertisements from European locations. I would guess Route 53's current striping is not heavily tuned for RTTs.

Caching solves part of this, but there are a lot of resolvers out there. As a thought example: Assume your sources of traffic are uniformly distributed among 75000 resolvers and you use 60 second TTLs (pretty standard), then you won't see significant benefit from caching until you get to >>1000 requests/s.

Many applications also have a long-tail of DNS names and basically wont benefit from caching at all. This could be motivated by availability as well (think shuffle sharding :). I'm building one where DNS query time currently dominates page load time (especially aliasing to CloudFront can be slow :). It's useful to understand that there's a general availability vs. latency trade-off in DNS that only gets partially addressed by the resolver.
Hahaha, I looked at the article first, then came to see the comments after I read that I was wrong about the one on the right. Why are the flyers on top of a black bar? Is that Times New Roman? Are we putting borders around our images again? Why are coffee cup rings such popular logos? And what's with the pink table of contents that won't swipe away? Boy, this developer has a lot to learn about design. Imma go finish that article.
Particles pretty much _need_ to be in a few places at once, even for such simple things as establishing chemical bonds:

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/quantum-supe...

And the difference between being in two (or many) places at once, vs just not knowing where it is, results in different energies.
Roar[0] works great for this, we use it for our HAL APIs and I'm very happy with it.

[0] https://github.com/apotonick/roar
Adding 7ths and 9ths certainly is changing the harmony, as is changing a diminished to a half-diminished chord (which also changes its function), so that element of the criticism is true and warranted. As for "fair", I think having one's (many people's!) time wasted by baiting them with a false promise, only to present them with something likely to produce confusion and frustration, is unfair.
The thing with these things is in theory it sounds great, if you have a fully independent checker/person doing the checks.

The trouble is we are human, and no one is truly independent. Put that together with the classic phrase, there are lies, damned lies, and then statistics.
Facts can be shown in a way that manipulates, is that ok or not?

Who decides, is the crucial question?

Are you willing to give the same power you want, to tell us what facts are, to your political opponents?
FYI my corporate DNS blocks archive.is, but changing the TLD to .today works

http://archive.today/iYBQy
> And we do want to be like that, in theory

One problem is that the whole illusion of power a government requires to operate falls apart when this promise isn't kept in practice and a large number of people become aware of this failure through media. Perhaps the news and following public outcries about e.g. police violence in the US serve a (second) purpose.
My understanding is that running resolvers at the kind of scale they need to handle attacks is actually difficult and expensive. The registries themselves are just a couple of machines with databases on them.

Maintaining namespaces is just hard and the DNS, with groups of people running TLDs, is the best we’ve come up with so far. I personally thought namecoin was a creative alternative and I’m a little disappointed it hasn’t become more popular but until something like that does we’re going to continue seeing things like this.
I understand you may not be fully booked 100% of the time, and that there are certain overheads, but despite all that, this guy said $1000 after tax for two days work is totally unacceptable

that gives no consideration to the programmer's skill or experience, location, overheads, average workload, etc

Let's say you have 125K after tax (which is what he said), and you spend $12K a year on health insurance (that's $1000 a month on health insurance...), you're still sitting at $113,000 AFTER TAX.

Even if you only work 75% of the year because the other 25% is spent finding contracts (188 "working" days per year instead of 250), thats still $93,000 AFTER TAX. For remote work.

I don't know where you're pulling the number 30k from... The same magic hat where $125K post-tax is unacceptable?
Let's compare the anguished cries of "Windows Ecosystem" people encountering this to the anguished cries of Linux fanboys in 2001 when encountering IE6-only web sites.
Moorcock's Tolkien take-down is here: http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953

It's a good read, although I'm partial to some big dumb sword-waving pulp fantasy anyway.
The universe is not deterministic. However, this was used to say that "there is still free will!!!" (e.g. Penrose). So, there is "hard" and "soft" determinism—the universe may not be determinstic, but that doesn't mean we're any less determined by physical processes.
I find that small apps tend to turn into big apps over time, and Flux lets us build with the confidence that, as new features are developed, our apps won't have to be deeply rewritten. New, unexpected features tend to fall into place with Flux, with a minimum of effort. I have seen this time and time again in working with Flux.
Listing is not accurate, prices for some domains are way too high (even twice the price I've seen elsewhere). I would guess someone is making bucks from advertising Hover and Gandi...
> If you don't like it, why don't you just quit and then sue the company instead?

When folk talk about the 'privelege' of HN, it's this. Unions exist because your suggested course of action isn't viable for the majority of workers.
No. The GDPR explicitly doesn't concern matters of lawful interception, intelligence, police and justice.
Who stopped work and staged a demonstration during work hours? The article doesn’t state that anyone did. 200 people demonstrated on a Friday, but it’s quite possible that they had that day off.

Nobody was fired, supposedly, in relation to that demonstration.
Appreciate the slow clap - would love your help. See Andrew's note to learn about ways to help.
The comment only started this conversation about it’s negativity. It created an attractive nuisance. Obviously.
I struggle with finding ways to create functionality with good UI without coding (like the author mentions). I seem to always fall into a situation where I need a bit more than the no code solution I’m using offers.
https://mixtape.ai contribute directly to indie bands and labels
ED is a fairly notorious site. I suspect they have 3 lawsuits on the front burner, on any given day.

Also, she (of course) did not take the picture, nor did anyone in her family. I suspect the FR that took the picture was fired with extreme prejudice. It may have even been illegal to take them. It was certainly a fairly abhorrent thing to do.

But it wasn't a copyright violation.
I consider that an advantage of Angular. You allways get a complete package with everythin updated and consistent.
Maybe you had a deficiency? Our bodies do crave things they lack.
I don't know with 100% certainity, but it's a moderately confident conclusion from my little experience.
We get more of what we incentivize. Give financial incentives for unhealthy behaviour? Get more of it.
> I was under the impression corners don't matter... it's about borders, not corners. Draw any kind of map you like, you only need four colours.

Corners matter (or do not matter, depending on how you like to phrase it!) only in the slightly non-intuitive sense that countries that meet only at a corner must be declared not to 'meet' at all for purposes of the theorem. Otherwise, you can have four regions meeting only at a corner (say by sub-dividing a square), which therefore use 4 colours, and a 'moat' surrounding them all, which therefore requires a 5th colour.
OEMs use codenames because they're often sending/receiving parts to/from external suppliers, e.g. when driveshafts go around random warehouses and logistics companies they have the codenames on the boxes and stickers. they impose the same rules on tier 1 suppliers in order to maintain secrecy and streamline communication, that way everyone is referring to the same project using the same naming convention while preventing incidental leaks
Their argument is that it is borderline illegal since it could be perceived as incitement to violence given past events.

The other thing is that we need to recognize that the law allows for immoral, unethical and antisocial action. "Not illegal" is an incredibly low bar, and we shouldn't necessarily strive to have the legal system get involved with community morals.
You are not getting the point. I am fine with apple removing any app it doesn't like from their app store, as long as you can sideload an app to iphones (like you can do with Android). The fact that you can't sideload, it makes it worrying as one exec has all the power on what you do with your phone.
"Work hard enough" doesn't mean the same thing it did in the middle of the 20th century. The amount of resources available to the everyman today is orders of magnitude larger, be it tips on frugality or ways to supplement income. They don't really expand upon it in this piece, but it feels like they're using it in the "older" sense, i.e. simply working your job dutifully and being conservative with your money.
> - On the other hand, fellow cyclists were behaving like mad men. I can totally see why people are having issues with cyclists. Running red lights, taking sidewalks, zooming in front of cars, that doesn't get you a lot of understanding.

what's really hilarious are the justifications cyclists give for this kind of behavior.
So, as a fellow hobbyist with 12 free dynos running on Heroku with custom domains, I clearly don't want to pay $84 a month for apps that aren't meant to generate revenue.

It is a sad day.

Where are you moving your side projects?

EDIT: I'm asking since I have no idea where I should go next. Heroku was a blessing.
> 128GB minimum storage? You'd have to be installing like a lot of software then?

Nope. Windows grows over time. So a Windows install that fit into 40 GB would grow to over 100 GB over a two or three years.

Heck we had to pull an entire rack of servers because the idiots that set them up partitioned the drive into a 100 GB C: and a massive D:, and Windows consumed all the space on C: just through Windows Update and then started falling over.

We had to rebuilds the machines with a 200 GB C: and they have been running fine ever since.
any suggest?
I really like the book Different by Youngme Moon.
With any design you will sacrifice design for functionality, but with great design there will be no loss of functionality. The weakness of any design is scalability and user fragmentation. When users want to do different things or want something else out of a products it is very hard to design for all cases. Your example, the coffee machine, is a design challenge if the question "who am I designing for" is consistent. The wrench in the system there would be to ask "what if they want a stronger brew?" Here we find that the design could completely change by widening the scope of customers.
What do you mean, exactly? Chrome + Safari don't crest 10% of web share.
italians eat it at the end of a meal
There's no excuse for a blog to have 4 external stylesheets: these can easily be concatenated. Worse yet, they're not even minified.
It's not just the size limit that's a problem in Splunk, the user accounting is only in the paid version - the free version is completely open for anybody to browse and it's up to you to secure it.
Number portability in this context means the ability to use an existing number with new service, not the ability to use a new number which points back at your existing number.

Google's been on the record for several years as hoping to support this in the future.

http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
LHC@home seems to be the closest thing, but Wikipedia notes:

> BOINC users who are considering joining this project should know that it only occasionally has work; the project is used for design and repair considerations related to the LHC. There are currently no plans to use the project to do computation on the data that will be collected by the LHC.
Why not conduct your business in Canada or, alternatively, try hiring a few of the millions of U.S. citizens that are out of work?
I always thought that it was because the palm of the hand was more sensitive than the back, but the finger theory is much more sensible.
Also, I see Localytics as another option. Anyone have any experience with it?
My email from teamhint was in my Gmail spam folder.

If there weren't a nugget of truth in this, this phrase from the email would actually be hilarious:

"We HIGHLY recommend you change all of your online passwords as a precaution."

Thankfully my Gawker password was limited to a few sites of no worth and you can't deduce any of my other ones form it.

There's a little bit of scaremongering in that sentence though. Why change your other passwords, UNLESS your Gawker password was your email password too? After 19 years on the Internet, I have a lot of logins.

OpenID ain't looking too bad now, is it?
The original title for this was:

"CODE HN: Function to take better advantage of Node.js asynchronous goodness."

I'm not sure how it changed.
I was fully aware before he decided to come barging in

Do you mean the thread having nothing to do with you where you responded to my post with-

"Stop pretending there isn't something horribly wrong with the company just because it suits your rhetoric."

I think your perception of reality is a little skewed, and your unmerited, hostile, trollish response has no place on HN. Also your business savvy is, well, non-existent, which was why it was time for that discussion to end. It was another thread where in the end my feelings of PayPal just improved because I saw the class of individual loudly airing their paypal gripes.
Non-shortened link it should probably be changed to: http://mashable.com/2010/12/13/mozilla-foundation-leweb/
Just dumped the data in the wizard
> Is there straightforward software to use with one-time pads that ensures you use them correctly, though?

XOR.

The biggest problem with one time pads is that people don't use them just one time...
Wasn't part of youtube's original concept to be limited to 10 minutes as well? It's already been so long I've forgotten.
> However, we need to focus on a systematic cheapening of solar output per dollar for mainstream use, not clear solar panels that don't even make use of the most powerful spectrum of light.(even so I am still mostly in favor of this research)

Solar already competes with oil despite comparatively massive subsidies for the oil industry. The problem at this point isn't the technology: the tech is good enough (although better would obviously be better--I'm not saying more research isn't warranted). The problem is government misdirecting funds into non-renewables.

> Oil is way cheaper to make plastics with than any other organic element.

Petroleum is cheaper to make plastics with, and only because oil companies have already footed the bill of locating and drilling the petroleum. If petroleum-based plastics ceased to be the byproduct of a much more lucrative industry they would cease to be as cheap.

> Further when you devote arable land to something other than food there is always going to be market pressure that will drive up food prices.

I don't think you have enough data to say that. Corn and soybeans are very different markets, and that's not even looking at other potential plant sources of plastics. Not all plant sources of plastic would be detracting from food production.
That won't do much good when all the rare talent needed to build it is locked up at Apple and Google.
Let me rephrase for him,

"Is it reasonable to be outraged..."
From what I remember the common criminal was not resisting the arrest and got slowly suffocated by a police officer using a technique that is not sanctionned for neutralizing suspects.

The military veteran - gathering with like minded people who thought they were sent there to make a coup and storm the capitole and one of them was carrying colsons so who knows what else they planned to do - try to get further in the capitole, with the support of a mob behind her singing threats, to wreak havoc.

How you think your attempt to fabricate an alternative reality on HN is going to fly is beyond me.

> Were BLM grievances not rooted in an equitable respect for the sanctity of life and an earnest desire for peaceful coexistence?

GF was slowly put to death. Ashli Babbit broke through a doorglass after breaking into the capitole with people who had previously brought the flag down and claimed to overturn a democratic election. I don't see this act as a sign of wanting a peaceful coexistence.
> Some of this conversation confuses me. Since the M1 MacBooks came out, all of a sudden people are talking like every MBP version prior is junk. Top-of-the-line MBP that can't run dual monitors? Where were these conversations about poor MBP performance 6 months ago?

The 15/16" MBP is certainly capable of supporting 4K displays without issue (posting from one now). Most likely some people have something screwed up in their setup and didn't realize it until they moved to another system.

With the new MacBook Air, they won't even know their setup is screwed up because there won't be any fan noise. It'll just slowly degrade over time.
Seems like the Whatsapp change doesn't really affect EU users.
What's the WhatsApp blunder?
Smile is nice, I wish they offered it in Canada.
He specifically ordered Pence to throw out the Electoral College result. Pence refused on constitutional grounds. How is that not an attempt at sedition?

Never thought I'd have anything nice to say about Pence but pushing back was the right thing to do here. H/T to him

To say nothing to his tacit approval of a mob storming the capitol on EC certification day...
Genuine request as I've seem this framing a lot and cannot understand it:

Can you point to the specific things that occurred which you believe were part of an attempted coup, and why you believe they were?
As someone else mentioned we also had a group attempting to derail the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice earlier in last year.

Did Twitter et al get all twisted in a bunch about it?
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