jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To be honest, if it was for a Rails or Python gig, that would be a reasonable question. Zed has a lot of projects, people active in either community should know who he is. As they should, say, Jesse Noller, or Joe Stump, or other well known programmers.
you can't really be sure your new signup page is better than the other unless you measure the improvements.

Maybe when doing this kind of change, you should to run some a/b tests to confirm your assumptions?
This is hardly an "Easter Egg". Just a custom search results set like they have for so many other searches - examples:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=whois+...
etc.

Sorry but are just fishing for traffic to your blog?
Downvote. You really throw around that phrase "criminal offense" too much.

Penalties are certainly a mistake in the case of your statement, as you haven't really outlined any computerized diagnostic system that is accurate on the entire range of human maladies, is available to all, and that can account for all of the fuzziness of reporting symptoms (just to name a few obstacles).

But I can't see at all where you're coming from when you say criminal offense. This would suggest that doctors should be locked up?
I worked for a time in Zurich years ago so this may not be current but there are some tech jobs in Switzerland (eg Google has a decently sized office there). It's less than in, say, London.

Switzerland is actually a dream for car-free living. You only need a car if you live in a rural area. Taxes are pretty low. There a bunch of mandatory insurances you need but my experience was your net income position was substantially better than being a salaried employee in London (although food in particular is MUCH more expensive in Switzerland such that people will drive an hour to Aldi across the border in Germany to go shopping).

Fun fact #1: there are limits to how many groceries you can bring into Switzerland. Meat in particular. You can get checked for this at the border.

Fun fact #2: IIRC years ago the supermarket just across the border in Germany had the highest revenue of any supermarket in Germany.

As for work authorization, it is relatively easy for EU citizens to get and somewhat harder for non-EU citizens. It generally takes 5 years on a B permit (work visa) to get a C permit (permanent residence) if you're EU, 10 if you're not.

I imagine with Brexit, UK citizens are now in the harder category.
Comparing BTC mining to a small country is just absurd. You could do the same with hundreds of other applications aside from YouTube like all social media servers, gaming, existing banking infrastructure, etc. Also Bitcoin arguably replaces gold which uses more energy and is more destructive to land (while using fossil fuels instead of mostly renewable energy like BTC). Lastly how much energy do we think the dollar which is backed by the US military uses per year? Id wager a lot more.

The pitchforks are out in this thread quite simply because people dont like other people outmaneuvering them in purchasing power but of course is disguised as a virtue signal.
The most productive tools I built for non-programmers were using text UI. They were fast, clean, obvious to use. Turbo Pascal made it especially easy with good support for menus and windows / panes.

Nowadays, terminals have no problem with mouse support, which everyone can test by starting htop in a terminal and clicking with a mouse on a column title to sort by it.
For an internal app, you could give users restricted ssh access, less pain that giving them binaries.
No, where did you hear that?
Bitcoin is traceable.

Bitcoin is slow.

There are better alternatives out there.
Even if I could use it for regular transactions, I’d still need a reason to want to.

If the justification is “you don’t need to pay credit processing fees” then things would have to be priced cheaper. But I think you’d have to pay me more than the credit card fee to give up the ability to do chargebacks for a lot of online transactions.

Maybe I’d use it for making donations where I’m not expecting anything back from a transaction that the other party could fail to deliver.

They’re just not solving a problem that I have.
I'd assume not considering he has left the US multiple times since his presidency and does not seem to be under arrest. There was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_War_Crimes_Commis... but if you read about that the connection to the questioned claim (and the claims of the linked commission) have dubious basis at best.

When you hear something that makes you ask whether or not it's true it's best to try to validate or invalidate it quickly rather than hold onto it. In this case a simple Google search saves a lot of assumption.
I subscribe to a video game channel that primarily covers only racing games and hardly swears. Is that considered directed to children? This is such a mess.
This oversimplifies the situation. An NGO can be profit-driven while the actual volunteers and workers who do much good are not.

Did you read the article? This is not an entirely uncommon situation, either. The corruption is often seen as a cost of doing business by interested parties with other priorities, something which all parties are usually generally aware. After a war (a scenario in which NGOs thrive) the existing social structure that has the capacity and organization to execute projects is often the winning faction, which as often as not didn't prevail by being virtuous.
I've experienced lots of limp-chip scenario in delivered food.

I find it's worst with American McDonalds-style french fries - they're very thin, and steam themselves into a soggy mess very quickly, pretty much no-matter what happens.

Australian/English style chips seem to have a better longevity if they're cooked properly (double-fried, and a more developed golden colour than pale/white).
The best chips for delivery are battered (light tempura style), although it's rare to find them. They remain crisp and crunchy even long after they've gotten cold.

Packaging is also a serious concern, too - plastics are right out, as steam will be trapped and condense on them much more rapidly - even if the packaging isn't closed tightly. Paper or cardboard are best. Foil can be okay as a backup option for a short period, if it's kept hot.
Ugh, this drives me absolutely mad. My work has some very defined timelines because I have 3rd parties making stuff for me. Yet the conversation about schedule is exactly the same every project like they don't believe me that an injection molding tool takes 6 weeks and that I need the schedule for two rounds of modifications because something unforeseen will come up.
For sequence diagrams, I've used this a bit:

https://bramp.github.io/js-sequence-diagrams/

The nice thing is you can add the JavaScript as a renderer on your page and have svg sequence diagrams rather easily.
Do you know a lot of private companies that publicly share their revenue or profit? Of the ones that do, how many do it in a way that can be verified?
SAP have a big site downtown (formerly Crystal/Business Objects.)
Microsoft have a site downtown (in Crystal's old space, ironically enough.)
Apple has a secret site (via their 2005 acquisition of Schemasoft.)
Vision Critical has approx 160 people in the old Pivotal building.

Crystal/BOBJ/SAP has acted as an academy company for enterprise BI software in the same way that EA has for gaming. There are a few BI companies started by ex-Crystal people and rumour has it that some companies have opened sites here to soak up some of the post-SAP diaspora (Qliktech for example.)

Don't expect those kind of businesses to get much love here on HN, but there is still plenty of tech employment in this town and I'd say the prospects were getting better not worse.

(FWIW I am a former Crystal/BOBJ/SAP employee and now work at Indicee, a SaaS BI startup.)
In reference to the uniform voice of center controllers--the "Houston Center" voice, Tom Wolfe tells a related story about pilots in "The Right Stuff." He asserts that all of the test pilots of the era copied the slow, calm, and always subtly positive delivery of Chuck Yeager as the pre-eminent pilot of the day. Other pilots in turn copied the test pilots and so Yeager's voice floated down and became the mold for all American aviation radio communication.

I'd guess that the author is correct in that the controllers copied the delivery of the voice of the space program from Houston, but those controllers were usually former test pilots or members of the military flight programs themselves, so we're probably still thinking of the same unflappable voice.
Not at all. These are senior-level positions and you need to get good people there. If you value them less than other positions, you'll get second-class hires -- which will cause huge problems going forward.
Action games, for one thing.
He'd have a lot more luck with a portfolio than without. You don't really have any sort of a shot at getting hired for most creative jobs without a portfolio.
The countermeasures you can use today to counter web server resource starvation attacks are:

* Turn off keep-alives
* Turn MaxRequestsPerChild/Thread down to a minimum
* Set your timeouts low
* Set your MaxClients/Threads to a number your server can handle
* Enforce LimitRequest* settings
* Enforce cpu runtime, memory, and other limits on CGI to prevent an overly-zealous set of web apps from loading your boxes
* Don't accept POST and other methods if you don't need it, and enforce a maximum POST size in your web apps
* Play with mod_antiloris, mod_qos and mod_evasive and see which works best for your application.
* Use a single iptables rule to drop more than X connections at a time from any host

You're right that a stupid attack like a plain-old DDoS using normal machines to make normal requests is probably the most effective. After blocking tor and anonymous proxies there's only a few other ways to block a large number of different addresses from flooding your site, usually with packet analysis on # average connections per host and repeatedly requested URIs, but those aren't as trivial to implement as the settings above.
I don't agree. I can show you some form based screens where a non-technical user can create some content and publish it fair easier and quicker than using an in-context editing approach.

I raised the point in comments above, but there is a big different between creating a new page from scratch and using a simple form to create a templated page. WordPress (or any blogging tool) doesn't make you build your blog post as a page draggin modules onto it...they give you a special admin page where you just fill in the title and body text and click publish...what could be simpler?

In-context editing does work great for many use cases, but it doesn't work well for some. Think about when you need to create a slightly interactive web page...not just a simple static one. You'd like one section of the page to fade in/out when the user hovers over an image for instance...I haven't seen anyone pull off an in-context UI that makes that easy but I've seen some great form based UI's that make that 30 secs work for a non-technical user.

Check out the Carrington Build WordPress plugin (no affiliation) for a decent example of providing users with a very simple admin page builder drag and drop layout tool.

I do wholeheartedly agree that very few CMS tools have an awesome UI for business users...maybe you can change that.
That is the biggest problem. Orwell's Ministry of Truth seems to be reality...
It seems to me the massive "investments" made in mainly web-related frameworks (Rails, Merb, Sinatra + ORMs) didn't help the foundation of the Ruby ecosystem: Take rubygems, take RAA, take the MRI development process.

If you got "brainwashed" in the last 5 years about code quality (DRY etc.) + test methods (TDD/BDD) and then look at today's Stdlib, you'll scream and want to put bleach into your eyes…

To me it seems the "übercool" guys already moved away to their NoSQL/node.js/whatever next party, so it's not easy to motivate people to change such "messy" and large projects anymore.

I'm also not sure about the number of Ruby interpreters around and their useful impact: If you e.g. change something for Ruby 1.9.x / 2.0.0, it will cost a lot of manpower to port those changes to JRuby, Rubinius, maglev, IronRuby and BlueRuby (if SAP's Ruby is still alive?) and most of them are just used by very few people.

Maybe resources are better spent in creating a new Stdlib, improve the rubygems infrastructure (already started with gemcutter) and do something with RAA?
Here,s what I mean by that:

I,ve gone through all the effort of writing my content... Publishing my content... I have been blessed with a visitor who is interested in what I have to say... Joy!

I want them to read what I have written, potentially changing their life for the better. It would be a great honor and privilege, in fact. It is the main reason I write.

If I had a choice between that and a ten-dollar clickthrough to an affiliate, I would not make the trade. It may not seem like an either-or choice, but it is.

Their time is also very limited, it is the scarcest resource any of us have, and their attention span is fickle. Even if their attention strays for a split-second by looking at the ad, I have already lost them, potentially to never have them again.

I don,t need data to tell me that anything extraneous I put on the page is competing for attentiom with the content which brought the being reading it in the first place.
first - the title is misleading at least
second - this is one of the very few events where I actually think MS did something good.
List of Ad-Free TV sets by RTings.com https://www.rtings.com/tv/tests/ads-in-smart-tv
people on reddit joked about it, lots of laptop thrown around, sometime with drives in them

who knows what you can find
> Of course, paying with Bitcoin saves the seller about 3% of the final cost, and they need not worry about chargebacks, which saves them more money in the long run, so they offer a discount when crypto is used. It's a win-win for me and the seller.

But where are the benefits for the buyer? I have to go out of my way to buy BTC, when I’m paid in USD, and the value changes so quick that if I don’t want to hold BTC the buying the exact amount will be difficult, get to deal with fun taxes at the end of the year, and all of this because “fiat is bad” and to give up my rights to a chargeback. And then one day SHA256 will be broken, as all hashing functions eventually are, and then what?
Interesting, I should look into this again and update my knowledge. Thanks for the reply!
I thought a few plug computers over the last decade... honestly I always had fire hazard at the back of my mind...and the one time I opened one up that was getting hot only to be horrified by the setup inside and stopped using it! Of course this doesn't speak for all plug computers, just why I've avoided them since
How many states have F35's?
There is also this old book about Emacs that describes data structures for text editing:
http://www.finseth.com/craft/#c6
I used MacPorts for years and eventually gave up and abandoned it for Homebrew. It simply became too common that I would come across a project which had directions for setting things up with Homebrew and when I went to try to do it using MacPorts a required package would be missing, outdated, or broken.

I think the world sort of moved on from MacPorts and honestly I think it's a few years too late for big OpenSource package system to come to Mac OS. I think that Apple is on a long term course that excludes (or perhaps confines or quarantines) Open Source. I also think that package management is really behind the curve in a computer science sense and a 'next, next-generation package manager' needs to come about.
There is some code that does unintialized reads on purpose.

For example highly vectorized loops that process a big buffer of data, but might read a bit out of bounds at the start or end of the buffer. The algorithm as a whole is guaranteed not to depend on the outcomes of those out of bounds reads, so as long as they can be guaranteed not to segfault, they should be safe.

Not allowing this usually results in either slower code (can't vectorize as much) or bigger code (need to have a special case codepath for the first/last items to be processed). The bigger code is often slower too due to worse branch prediction, more cache pressure, etc.
In addition to everything else already said, pipenv is mind-bogglingly slow and buggy. Like 30 minutes and a timeout error to install pyspark.
Sure. Loners and isolated people are less useful, but they are also non-threatening beyond stochastic violent events. They may develop undesirable ideas or ideologies, but that’s generally irrelevant due to their social isolation.
I agree but where would the money go?
Epub can do all sort of homecalling / user tracking using HTML or CSS or javascript.

What's even worse - almost all Epub readers don't do proper sandboxing.
Yeah, I wish I had a time machine so I could go pick up some SCO stock.
If I understand correctly, it's this summary article that states what you need for SEO:

"The new SEO, at least as far as Panda is concerned, is about pushing your best quality stuff and the complete removal of low-quality or overhead pages from the indexes. Which means it’s not as easy anymore to compete by simply producing pages at scale, unless they’re created with quality in mind. Which means for some sites, SEO just got a whole lot harder."

Which to me, means that SEO based on a lot of weak references to a strong entry will not add to your page rank, but now will detract from it.

So, if you have one content page, but 5 paths to get to it, remove 4 of them, and add external links (article recommends via social means) to that one canonical page.
Beware of wrong incentives. This is exactly how people are tempted to improve the average case with a trade-off with the worst case. Dollars saved in the short term can cause catastrophic problems later.
> Which is great, except you are punishing the crime, before it even occurred.

No, they aren't. They're enforcing the terms of use that Dropbox users agreed to when signing up.

I don't think asking folks to take stuff down was the correct solution...I think fixing the bug was the right solution, which they've also done. But, I don't see how Dropbox is "punishing" anyone, when they're just asking people to use the service as it is intended.
Am I reading the article wrong? The way I read it, Dropbox did NOT issue a DMCA notice to Github; it's system just automatically triggered a notification to a Dropbox user that Dropbox had received a DMCA notice for that file.

It's a simple notification email that does almost nothing in the framework of the DMCA and simply notifies the Dropbox user that their file has been removed. It looks like their file removal system is a bit rigid in that it always assumes that a DMCA notice was received by Dropbox, even when they didn't receive one.

So, there seems to be absolutely nothing wrong here -- literally just a simple mistake.
>Today's health crises, which exploded around 1980, can be traced back to the media trumpeting the twin (false) claims that dietary fat is evil and that corn syrup is a healthful alternative to sugar.

I'm surprised you think this is only the media's fault:

"In January 1977, after listening to the testimony of Ancel Keys and other doctors and scientists intent on promoting the unsupported Dietary Fat-Heart hypothesis, the Committee published the "Dietary Goals for the United States" recommending that all Americans reduce their fat, saturated fat and cholesterol consumption, and increase their carbohydrate consumption to 55-60% of daily calories."

http://www.healthy-eating-politics.com/usda-food-pyramid.htm...
Oooh, I think Alex has just designed my next business card -- just my name, and underneath it: Google me.
It's biased to say that torrents and rapidshare are equivalent to illegal file sharing. Illegal file sharing is just how people use these platforms, but not these platforms themselves. Dropbox is just another file sharing platform which directly exposes to the threat of illegal file sharing.

The de-duplication feature greatly helps pirates to gain access to files that don't belong to them, or even other people's privacy. If illegal file sharing service is something against your wishes, what you can do is to concentrate your effort to fight against copyright infringement (if you'd like to), instead of killing an innocent open source project that simply helps cross-account file sharing.

I used to love Dropbox's de-duplication feature, and I think that helps a lot of people with low bandwidth connections. Since I started noticing the existence of such feature, I'm already aware of:

1. My files are no longer mine. Anyone who knows the hash can access my files immediately.

2. Dropbox's claims about encryption are totally pointless in this case. Encryption is not going to help.

3. Requests from government agencies are going to be fulfilled very promptly.

4. Even hackers can access my files with the knowledge of only the hash, why can't employees of Dropbox?

I don't understand the "strict access policy" on employees inside Dropbox. Are there any difference between Dropbox's de-duplication and eDonkey's hash-to-file P2P?

To me, Dropbox is doing something here that against their wishes.
Well over a million installs with no marketing is no joke. I think they could be on to something. I mean.... look at snapchat.
Oops; i was wondering why this was such a silent thread.
Actually, I think truly remote teams are just rare regardless of affiliation - we're YC, 20 employees, and only hire remote for all the reasons outlined in this thread and others.
I call Poe's law on this one.
That implies that the outcome has to be correct, which is - as always - debatable.
>the much vaunted "single market" was always first and foremost designed for the purposes of France and Germany

The thing that was Thatcher's idea?
These apple privacy questions are confusing and highly legally relevant. We found it very hard to accurately answer the questions for a SAAS company that collects data in an obvious way to provide service. It should not be a surprise to anyone that companies are taking some time to answer, and also see if Apple makes any relevant changes post launch, and also to let customers get used to seeing these notices in other apps.