jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Retargeting can be effective, but it starts getting really annoying a few weeks after you decided against a product and for me creates a negative image of that company because I feel almost harassed. If you use it, I would recommend trying to limit the time frame or frequency of ads shown to something reasonable. Maybe a lot of impressions for a few days, then a few impressions per week for up to 2 weeks, then maybe just a few brief impressions after that. But don't go on for months.
Humble brag.
I totally want to, but it all comes down to cost.

I'm a college freshman without a job, using my 2009 Macbook Pro's stock 320GB HDD (275GB used so far). A 256GB SSD is too expensive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE...) for me to dip into my savings when my HDD still works (and has more space).

Sure I'd like a faster boot time and for apps to snap open, but I don't know if that's worth $500.
"Is it possible to create a cheesecake using moondust?"

How about stardust?
But do blame Amazon for Amazon's lack of redundancy.
I think the story is an expansion of a quip by the portrait artist Whistler: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1716265
This might offend some people, but I'd argue that something like Reddit (and even HN, at times) is a modern person's version of a TV -- endless streams of interesting/useful information that can be consumed to no end. Admittedly, some sources (like HN) provide a higher signal-to-noise ratio in most cases, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be cautious about the amount we read.

Within the scope of HN, an honest question: how many AMAs or interesting heart-warming or funny stories have you read in the last month? How much do you know about VC funding, term sheets, pitches, A/B testing, SEO, HTML5, frameworks, functional programming, etc? And then, how many finished products have you built that have at least a few customers?

(Thanks HN for having a noprocrast feature.)
Just yesterday here in Shenzhen "Escalator malfunction injures 24". Anything can break unexpectedly...

src : http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2010-12/15/content_1360566.ht...
setting up periodic purges, archives, and such, usually gets pushed to another phase.... which may never come.

True, but like collecting, it's easy.
Depth of field increases as the focal length decreases. It's exceptional enough that there are very involved manual procedures for taking 10-20-30 pictures with a telephoto lens wide open, and stitching them together to give a wider angle appearing picture.

Completely spit balling, but I suspect that front lens element is worth about as much as a house.
One way of thinking of engineers is that they exist along two axis, junior => senior and generalist => specialist. So, when hiring, you might say something like, I want my team to be 50% senior generalists, 25% senior specialists, and 25% junior specialists. And, uh, yeah, junior specialists would probably end up being someone who can't really produce much of anything.
Top comment (“above”) currently reads “ Similar archive of clips + streams from the George Floyd protests”.

That was posted 40 minutes before your comment, as the very first comment. Yeah, it’s a different thread. Still hard to miss as context for a good-faith interpretation of the comment you’re replying to. Which I believe we do do here.
Thanks this is a great nit pick :) My knowledge on this topic is hazy at best so I jumped to the most famous populist screed writer of the french revolution.
There really isn't (in SMS)

> Message delivery is "best effort", so there are no guarantees that a message will actually be delivered to its recipient, but delay or complete loss of a message is uncommon, typically affecting less than 5 percent of messages

Maybe 5g will fix something, I'm not current on the spec.
The mainstream channels have constantly and blatantly lied to us about absolutely everything. Or have you forgotten Weapons of Mass Destruction, 15 days to flatten the curve, or the complete silencing of the Hunter Biden story (and it turns out he IS under active FBI investigation).

People don't trust those channels because it's so easy to look at literally any other non-mainstream source to see how we've been constantly lied to.
What does any of that have to do with storming the capital building and attempting to halt the election process? There were no protest signs looking to be heard about this issue or that, only Trump flags, union jacks and maga hats.

We're supposed to believe this was a coherent protest for populism and not just sour grapes flamed by the president?
Or just a cellphone that plugs into a monitor.
'Don't realize'? Which of the huge number of colonizers in the history of humanity ever set about colonization with the intent of minimizing control and minimizing economic gain?
There are a fair number of Republicans who would oppose this sort of thing (as many did last time). The most prominent might be Rand Paul, who is a serious prospect for the GOP presidential nomination.

But look at what just happened with civil forfeiture; pressure on the administration came from Republicans and Democrats alike. Republicans like to feel privacy from the government too. It just needs to be framed correctly; "imagine if someone like Lois Lerner had a backdoor to every conservative group's email server," or something like that.

And there are other routes they could take with legislation besides global key escrow. They could pass a law that mandates stiff penalties for people who decline to provide their encryption password in the face of a warrant.
I am using Mac OS for my Macbook because I tried several times to configure different version of Linux on Macbook, but I failed. Especially the support for retina display was poor. Right now, I am using Linux only on my desktop at home and work. The only thing that I think I really miss in Mac OS, is a good tiling window manager, such as, i3wm and Xmonad.
There's one giant flaw in this argument.

Lübeck was subsidized by the tax money from King Henry's other lands. How else do you support a private mint and an army to protect merchants from pirates and bandits? Is it any wonder why the merchants moved there when they were essentially being offered free money?

Now fast forward to Africa today. The warlords are happy receiving millions in aid and not creating a powerful merchant class that could usurp their position.
ISP makes a promise to deliver data at a certain rate for a certain amount per month.

ISP can't actually deliver said data, and so, can't deliver on their promise.

I can't see how this is Netflix's fault. ISP makes a promise, ISP can't deliver.

Yes it does happen to be coming from Netflix, but Netflix didn't FORCE the ISP's customers to become Netflix customers, did they? Or does Netflix not only have some magical ability to FORCE data upon people, but also mind control to MAKE certain people sign up?

You're arguing that the ISP should be allowed to overstate their capacity as much as they want, and if it causes any problems anywhere, that the counterparty is at fault no matter what. That's completely nonsensical.

> The question is whether all consumers' prices should go up, or Netflix prices should go up.

> They're complaining about the cost of taking the extra data.

Basically they're complaining that they have to make good on the promises that they've made to customers. They were hoping that they could way, way, way oversell their capacity (and charge more for a theoretical peak capacity that you can never use) and get more money from their customers as a result.

Now what's happening is that many of their customers are asking them to make good on 10% of their promises all at the same time. This causes problems for the ISP, so they flail about trying to blame other entities than themselves.

Nobody is asking the ISP to give them a HIGHER data rate than they've already paid for.

They're asking the ISP to give them a mere 10% of what they've already paid for.
Well, Palestine is already invaded and occupied, I guess that's different...
I just want to boost big time for Cygwin, it really is amazing how much it improves the experience of using a Windows computer. It gives me the tools I want/need (gcc and python) and the programs I write run without modification in Cygwin, Linux and OS X!

Also, the default terminal emulator that comes with Cygwin, called MinTTY, is fantastic. It doesn't have the flashy features of many native Linux clients, but it has all the basic features one could want (full color support, nice fonts, very durable, no 'gotchas').

The only problem is that support outside of C-based languages is touch-and-go. Mainline Python works flawlessly since it's implemented in C, and all it's tools also work flawlessly (virtualenv, numpy, scipy, matplotlib, django, flask, etc), but other languages like Go or Rust don't really support Cygwin. I'm unaware how well other languages are supported (e.g. Ruby).

So Cygwin will definitely "give you that Unix feeling" on a Windows machine, but it can't always replace a virtual machine.
Perhaps the Solyndra failure was not indicative of the field? Looks like the DOE success rating is pretty damn good (98%):

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/fact-checking-go...

So in this case, Tesla is one of the many many successes. The others you don't hear about because they're not suddenly disrupting consumer-facing businesses like car companies.
Expat Brit here. Quite frankly I'm frightened to pass through UK ports now to visit family after reading about Schedule 7 powers.

My reading of it is that passing through a UK port means I enter a legal limbo. If stopped by an inquisitor, I'm likely to assert my right to silence. This may mean I'm detained and intimidated for 9 hours. At the end of this I can be arrested and charged with 'non-cooperation', this may involve further detention and/or fines all for simply remaining silent.

Leaving the UK is worse, as I'll likely miss my flight, and have the expense of re-booking.

This is just if the border agents are acting within 'the law'.

Virtually every UK citizen passes through a port at sometime during the year - the inquistors can simply wait there for anyone they are interested in. It effectively means the right to silence is dead.

Foreign visitors should be aware they can be legally forced to give up their Gmail/Facebook passwords. Hope Big Ben is worth it.

I wonder what the plans are for Julian Assange when he eventually leaves the UK - almost certain to be detained under Schedule 7.
Nice, looks good. Can you comment on what logs you keep and how much of users communications you're privy to? Is everything e2e encrypted?
It could cure cancer; it is still done without consent of the user whose computer it runs on, which is unethical. It violates their privacy, which is an abuse of their human rights.

You should not make software that abuses the human rights of your users.

If you bought a plain old alarm clock and it silently connected to wi-fi and told the manufacturer every time you were in the room with it via a motion sensor, without notifying you when it did so or asking you if you want that, you would call that a defective product, and you would say that the front of the box, that says nothing about being a tracking device, is fraudulent.

It’s the same with a package manager, or any other software tool. Tracking in this way without consent is not acceptable, even if there is some fine print on the back of the box that tells you about it.
I really like this project! But I speak from authority, having fully integrated a wireless and wired network and charging station into a carry bag for work uses:

Thar Netgear switch will cut through your onboard battery like a bullet. You'll absolutely need a larger battery if you flip that switch on.
> some old English women who don't know how to dial a telephone, as they always used to get their husbands to do it for them.

My grandma was Scottish but she was like that. She eventually learned but, when I was a kid she'd always have me or my sister or cousins dial for her because my grandpa had always done it for her. I'm pretty sure she always knew how, I think she just didn't want to or like doing it. She'd always make this big act about how it was too hard to figure out though, would make attempts at dialling, dial the wrong number a bunch then tell us to do it but it always seemed like she was just doing it on purpose.
>you criticise the idea of criticism

No, I criticize the idea of un-constructive criticism especially in cases where the solution is non-obvious (my second point). Constructive criticism would have been, for example, "here's five things that should have been done differently and here's why they would have helped." If you cannot inspire change in an issue with constructive criticism then all you're doing is throwing dice and hoping the change will be positive since you have no idea what that change should actually be.
I think the comment was making an analogy to a more contemporary issue.

As far as whether they could figure out how to target Koslov personally, that requires more info than we have. The nature of any complicated scheme is that, while yes, information is compartmentalized, doing it at all requires a lot more "regular people" than you expect. Leaders alone can't effect a criminal conspiracy.

At the end of the day, someone like, say, a mid-level foreign affairs analyst probably saw this stuff and could have blown the whistle too.
And then Equifax gets breached.

When does infosec start to realize that it's not just about company costs/risks, but the lives of all those users who are going to get screwed when your 'low risk = cheap fix' mentality pays off?

I'm in the Equifax breach (like sooooo many more)... part of my 'general concerns about the world' is whether/when I get my life hacked and have to rebuild.

Let me know where you get hired next, so I can take my business elsewhere.
On the other hand, a test with questions like 'are you a tech worker' might be a lot shorter and just as meaningful!
Actually, many Chinese people mock western commentators for how bad their takes are. Those commentators often have a superficial or highly western-centric understanding of things in China, resulting in wrong or incomplete interpretations. Lack of Chinese language understanding is a contributing factor.

That doesn't stop those commentators from getting lucrative jobs. Apparently, western audiences don't care to verify whether what commentators say are accurate, or audiences just don't care whether it's accurate. There are no consequences to even years of inaccurate commenting. So I guess if you have no professional pride, then yes you can get away with not learning Chinese.
Makes me even more curious about Stadia’s “button anticipation” code
Just lie.

Use a friends address...
I mean... that's kinda how phones work. Really any communication system you have to give out some identifier. For the vast majority of us we know who we're communicating with. If you're that concerned, buy a burner phone with cash or wait a few months. But I don't understand why this would be a big issue. Who are you handing out your number to?
AFAIK the spec is a free download, I have the "Bluetooth Core 5.0" one and it's 2822 pages long.

I also have the one for WiFi (802.11-2012) and that is 2793 pages, so I'd say they are of roughly equal complexity.
Sad times we live in
I think you mean a large proportion of the newspapers here, even "Liberal" papers like the Guardian do this.
> I often feel pretty lucky that I grew up with the early internet, back when you hid your real identity and trusted no one.

That's funny, because going through old usenet posts from the 90s I got precisely the opposite impression – noticeably more people posting under their full names than you'd find a decade or two later in comparable forums.

I've also made the same observation for the online community of a long running simulation game I frequent: A lot of the old-time members dating back to twenty years ago or so are posting under their full names, whereas with newer members abbreviated (last) names or outright pseudonyms are clearly predominating.
I'm a fan of what Observable is doing. Combine bubbles of classic code, with intermediate audio/visual output as you build up to full interactive infographics/demos.

Some types of code, hopefully less than more is just not very flow based and doesn't have a concrete visual representation.
Code library managers don't belong inside OS package managers (because you want hermetic builds), unless maybe you have some Nix-live multi-manager that can provide many environments.
I’m not sure about the renouncing your old citizenship, at least not in general. I don’t believe Belgium has that for instance.
I second this, either get a Synology/Qnap NAS or take an old PC with a couple drives and install OpenMediaVault/Freenas/Unraid. All of these platforms have out-of-the-box solutions that mirror most cloud services. I found homelab redit to be great.

If you get the off-the shelf NAS, get one with at least 2GB of ram! Synology is particularly notorious for selling NAS with 512MB(WTF?!) of ram, and then when you try to run a few applications it grinds to a halt.
I agree the scientific consensus is debatable, but I enjoy the way the man turns the policy debate upside down. At the very least, he's helped to de-politickize the debate.
I think the problem is more the software is single threaded. I’m sure YC can afford more than a single core machine.
> No, that's just because P(X=x)*P(Y=y) = P(Z²=(x²+y²)).

I found a way to make my idea work, anyway.
It's amazing what they're doing. Just as the Newton has come back to beat Microsoft at their own game, maybe the Pippin will rise from the ashes of obscurity!
The last revision gave you two video ports, too. With the right adapters (Mini-DVI -> DVI, MiniDP -> DVI) you can drive two screens. It works very well. More screen real-estate than a MacBook pro, a fraction of the Mac Pro price.
"""The Higgs boson's nickname comes from its importance to the Standard Model; it is the sub-atomic particle which explains why all other particles have mass."""

That's not the story I heard: Leon Lederman named the hypothesized Higgs boson the "God particle" as a joke, because its effects were everywhere yet nobody had ever seen it in the flesh--not because it was in any way powerful or dangerous or numinous or terrifying.
The number of independent Web analytics vendors is getting smaller... wonder when Webtrends gets bought... or when the acquisition of the european vendors begins...
Interestingly it's not a default installation. It's an installation that, in the past, I fine-tuned with great success. That said, it has been less than satisfactory over the past few weeks.
Am I missing something here? From their website, it looks pretty clear that Etacts advertises checking your e-mail to remind you to keep in touch with people. Just like I wouldn't be surprised that Mint.com accesses my bank account online, this is hardly as outrageous as he makes it seem. Also, wiping your computer or using 1Password isn't going to stop you from giving your password to random web apps...
>Last year, Lulu created 400,000 titles and sold over 1.6 million books

So Lulu sold an average of four copies per title? I'd be interested to see a chart of sales by title - I'm guessing it would be the mother of all zipf distributions.
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I'll file this under "Things I Needed 20 Years Ago" but thanks.
Integration of the browser with the OS, down to the API level. Forcing OEMs not to pre-install Netscape on Windows machines they sell. Releasing their own Java VM on IE (for which they were sued by Sun). Creating JScript, a JavaScript implementation not compatible with Netscape's. Just search for "microsoft antitrust case" for more details.
He doesn't understand OCD, but then again, most people who throw that term around don't. For most people, it comes down to an extreme attention to detail or commitment to some form of perfection, when others would call it good enough.

True OCD is much worse. At a young age, my cousin was diagnosed with OCD in the form of hand washing. He had to wash his hands multiple times per day, whenever he perceived them as dirty. It was crippling to him, as he had a hard leaving the house to do basic things like go to school or play with friends.

It's really annoying when people use medical conditions in "clever" ways like this.
>What's the point of an unstable, volatile, frantically manipulated currency that is susceptible to social media pump and dump schemes (Elon + Doge)?

BTC is only volatile as not enough people use it. Further, if you stay on USD, every year a cappuccino will cost you more. Fractional reserve banking is practically a license to print USD. We're not funding the stimulus or really any of our government via tax anymore. Inflation is the real tax.
Try coding with them playing in the background for a week and let us know if productively increases ;)
That is true.

But the hope is that if you do it right, you only have to do it once.
If I remember correctly, the vulnerability already being exploited at the time of the announcement was the reason Tavis gave for faster-than-usual disclosure.

Edit: the exact quote was "I've concluded that there's a significant possibility that attackers have studied this component, and releasing this information rapidly is in the best interest of security", from http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/googler-drops-windows-zero...
Wow, I'm going to have bad dreams about that place.
from: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?101713-About-Jack....

A few people in the community have been asking about Jack and his whereabouts as of late.

We're not entirely sure whether to respond to this with a 404 (not found), 301 (moved permanently) or a 307 (try again later at the same location.) After pretty intense work getting Ext JS established, Jack tapered down his involvement during the past 18 months. Although he may return in some capacity in the future, we wish him all the best.
> There are no sounds that I can make with my mouth that are dangerous.

This might just be revealing a lack of imagination on your part. I'd argue the opposite: there are sounds you can make with your mouth that can change the course of history.
I doesn't matter. If I make a movie to make fun of german but the main character is jewish and greedy, that would raise a lot of eyebrows.
It's about differentiating (i.e. creating a distance) between speech and our reaction to it, or, in other words, it's about taking responsibility for our reactions.

In my opinion, prohibition of symbols, under the premise that they're subversive, like the Nazi ones, is one of the biggest cultural blunders of our time. It castrates entire generations of the possibility to experience the difference between ideas and their effect on us. It is ceding to the symbols, saying "you have power over us, with which we cannot come to terms with, the only thing we can do is prohibit your use".

The seeming culture-wide inability to discuss politics, religion or other dividing topics in a constructive way is part of the same phenomenon, in my view.
Do you mean the bottom or the top class?
That's mostly older commercial paperbacks that have UPC instead of ISBN barcodes. I think nearly everything published since the 90s has an ISBN barcode.
> “...I'm afraid that in this new reality my software/management skills won't be of any use in 6 months.”

I’m curious: What do you mean by this?
I know people who would argue if Bavaria really counts as a western democracy ;-)

But i think you are right: The infection risk out in the countryside must be magnitudes smaller than in any major city (so long as mass-events are banned).