jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My fully legal music collection curated over the past decade or so? Absolutely my personal data. Backups of my home server that run, among other things, personal websites, source code repos, and a home automation system? Absolutely my personal data. How about paperwork from the doctor's office? I'd like to see you argue that isn't "my personal data" despite not being created by me.

What if it's all encrypted? Actually, scratch that, if I'm putting any substantial data in a random cloud service, it's going to be encrypted, period. Amazon gets incompressible, non-dedupable random bytes and nothing else.

What this all boils down to is that your definition is arbitrary and illogical, and has no support from the documentation, either friendly or legal, which leaves us right where we started:

Nobody knows how much they can put on this service, and the word "unlimited" is still false advertising.
Same here, as in being interested in the field.

On the other hand though, I've had something like 10+ customer service jobs, along with formal education, a tried-and-true love of technology...and a deviant / mischevious streak wider than the Gulf of Mexico. Oh, also acting lessons...People are kind of my specialty...

To me, working customer service is very much a social engineering training ground. How? Little to no actual authority, frequently hostile / challenging engagements, and limited tools and techniques by which a solution or conclusion can be reached. There's a significant advantage to out-thinking one or more customers, staying just ahead of them thought process wise, which seems to align with turning the coin around.

One of the other things I learned through both customer service and in my white collar career(s) is how to dress for success. Self-presentation is one of the most important parts to get people to let down their defenses. Technicians look tech-y, consultants look business-y, security people project a certain firmness...well, anyway, that's been my experience as both service provider and dealing with people in power. I've always used my learned perspectives for good.

At the end of the day, it's absolutely amazing the results that one can get with a pleasant, persistent attitude, good appearance, and some patience.
Thank you for calling it a religious freedom law instead of an anti-gay law as most media outlets, since the law never mentions homosexuality, but only reaffirms our Constitutional right to Freedom of Religion.
There are superoptimizers that do exactly that.

But current SAT solvers aren't powerful enough to do so at much more than a few tens of instructions long. Still useful though.
For one example of why Z3 is cool, check out this application to "peephole" compiler optimizations: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1170

Also take a look at the "licensing" section to see why switching to the MIT license is a big deal. Even open source software projects like LLVM have had to worry about whether using Z3 was OK or not. Now they don't any more!
I only use Netflix for streaming and everyone I know has the same problem with Netflix that I do. The streaming content is absolutely LAME. Thanks for all the downvotes though, glad to know there is a Netflix fan club somewhere.
Looks cool (pun intended). The website could use more demo pages, though. It could also have a section "Sites using Inuit.css" with screenshots. Why would I use Inuit.css instead of Blueprint ( http://www.blueprintcss.org/ )?
That's pretty narrow-minded thinking. Life isn't all about whether something pays off or not. There's science out there that you cannot capitalize on, but it's still worth it. It should be anyway, if humanity wants to progress as a species.
Guys... September 2000...
Not surprising after I saw how many R&D offices Huawei has in Europe.

They basically placed their offices right across their competitors like Ericsson, Nokia, Imagination, etc. to the point that in every European Tech hub you will find a Huawei office.
I thought crocodiles or alligators (forget which one) were immortal and they tend to die only because they get so big and can't eat enough to maintain life eventually. But, they're not on this list?
I am annoyed by some people failing to see the difference in privacy for governments and people. People have an inherent need for privacy, while government has an inherent need for transparency, by virtue of their public service.

Something completely unrelated, but that is a very well designed (print) page.
Agreed. I'm reminded of a tweet I saw:

> Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.

https://twitter.com/pookleblinky/status/1309325764739858432

These heartwarming stories are like a bandaid on a gunshot wound. Not even making a dent in the problem.
Now there's a name I haven't heard too recently - except for a handful of us who were part of a group many years ago.

Did you have a favorite Palace server you logged into regularly back in the day?
It's not about GNU.

V6 Unix (circa 1975) had it: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/6/units

Your macOS have the BSD version:

% units -v

units version 1.0 Copyright (c) 1993 by Adrian Mariano
This program may be freely distributed
usage: units [-f unitsfile] [-q] [-v] [from-unit to-unit]
> Beach trips, playgrounds, etc probably do add up.

It's killed quite quickly in UV light.
Clickable: http://www.findanewgame.com for the app and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1811024 for the HN thread on the 'making of' blog post.
The reviews are public, but you choose a nickname to identify you (you're not identified by your Google account). The "friends" feature lets you get recommendations from those people. In addition, a friend sees your Google Profile name and picture, not just your review nickname.
Wordpress.com - the world's largest blog hoster not supported in auto option? Any idea how do i configure dns for a wordpress.com hosted site?
Interesting Article. I'm a dev student with entrepreneurial aspirations. Any other sites, twitter people, blogs where one can keep tabs on the Indian startup scene?
Peace Corps?

There are also English teaching jobs in Japan, Korea, and presumably many other places. I did it for two years before taking a "serious" job and it was a blast.
Those not from Canada probably wouldn't care, but Tim Horton's is our equivalent of a Dunkin' Donuts, but EXTREMELY popular.

I don't think the it is surprising that Nova Scotia earned less than other provinces on average. The eastern provinces (from my understanding) are a poorer region of Canada.
Assuming you know the exact structure of the file this would be a perfectly valid attack. There could be a lot of variance in rich formats like PDF files from things like compression, etc, so this might be expensive to perform on non-plaintext files.

Dropbox effectively acts as an "existence oracle". You can't ask it to cough up a file you don't have, but you can ask it if a given file exists anywhere in the system.

This would be an effective way for law enforcement or copyright civil enforcement to check for content that is clearly illegal or a certainly copyright violation to possess. They would need to query for a set of hashes of the given illegal content. If any matches returned positive data, they would be able to issue a subpoena for all users who stored the given content in their dropbox folder and pursue them further.
Not really. It's usually the merchant implementation that decides how it's displayed. All the 3DS I've implemented have also recommended using iframes in their API.
$15 is livable wage in that county though. I checked Zillow and there are ok looking houses starting at 100k ($450/month mortgage = 20% of income). Most expensive house in the county is $2.5M and it's actual lakefront mansion on 10 acres with swimming pool and private pond.

$15/h is unlivable wage in Bay Area or Seattle but actually ok money in many parts of the country.
Not according to their site. It says: "And now, we’re making it available free of charge for commercial or use under the GPL"
What's wrong with 9 to 5ing, learning more, and doing your own thing on your own time for a while. There's NOTHING wrong with that. Don't buy into the romantic notion that you have to give 110% to your startup or it's not worth doing. Pragmatism is ok. Pragmatism is not mediocrity. Don't confuse the two. There's a lot of hyperbole and rhetoric in the startup world. Don't buy into it. Plenty of startups have been launched (and done well) in people's "off time".
Always the same training story. What is the percentage of microsoft office users who has received a training ? I do not know any. How many trainings have been given when migrating to the latest releases of MS O that are so different than the usual interface ? The deployment of OO instead of MS O is not more complicated than an upgrade of MS O toward another version of MS O. And for the support costs, the main problems of MS O were concerning compatibilities between releases. These issues do not exist for OO. The only way OO can be more expensive than MS O is if many people ask to have MS O in addition to OO.
Downloaded from here: http://unsplash.com/ as in "Free (do whatever you want) hi-resolution photos." :)
I meant just as a tourist for a few weeks; you could at least figure out basic stuff, right? It's not like you'd be totally stranded and unable to communicate at all.
> Redhat is somewhat open-core: They develop proprietary interfaces and products as well as the core OS.

What proprietary interfaces?

Red Hat does have things that are not available to the public (e.g. RH network), but these are more services than actual products (machine management and patching can be managed using Spacewalk these days, and all patches are rebuilt and released by CentOS/SL). There's a bit more leg-work required but RH's whole business is based around adding service value for customers.
I would rather use PHP over JavaScript. I know that puts me in a smallish subset of people here, but I really don't like JavaScript.
So, they're basically adding the features from Apache ...
Best part that most people don't realize... There are 3 parts to it... All massive.

I still remember finding part 1 in the used books store with my dad around the age of 10-11 for like $2. Now I'm in my early 30's and all 3 parts are just a handful of books away from my physics and philosophy books on my book shelf :)
totally agree!

Also I browse with chrome at 144% zoom so that picture ended up taking more than half my screen which freaked me out some more.
I don't know if "Americans don't like living in dense cities" can be called a truism though. Wouldn't that assume that in America, there are no dense cities? Wouldn't the existence of dense cities along side suburbs indicate that there is a wide range of preference?
Or to be more precise, over 2 years not updated.
to be fair, bikes were designed in an iterative process that included trial-and-error.

Though not design-from-first-principles, that's still design.
from the comments on the blog:

-- quote --

Hey Matt,

Thanks, glad you find it useful. My reasoning for the bit.ly links is so that I can see what types of resources readers of the EY blog find interesting so that I can cater future posts and tutorials with that in mind. I know that google analytics does the same thing, but I myself do not have access to that and all I need to know is what links were clicked on not everything else.

I did not expect people to find the bit.ly links annoying. Is there something about them I am missing? I wouldn't have done it if I thought people would find it to be an annoyance.

-- end quote --
I agree with Paul, but there's a few caveats:

a) First, for something to be a "toy" it has to be fun. Putting a computer in my mouse is not fun; it's frankly rather boring.

b) It's only a good sign if you (the founder to which Paul is speaking) have a future in mind where your product scales from toy to appliance. There are fundamental problems with this product that prevent it from scaling in such a way. Display connectivity is a big one.

IMO, this whole concept is rendered obsolete by the "computer on a stick" form factor that a few big names have released. By plugging directly into the HDMI port on the display, the highest bandwidth link is physical, and peripherals connect wirelessly.
A) That would probably be politically unpalatable within MS

B) That would definitely be a bad move for consumers. Monoculture is bad, and even though a fork would allow them to go their own way to some degree their existing codebase is probably more pliable to what they have in mind.
> Github is not at all important to China

If that were the case, I don't think they would have backed down and allowed access to Github again.
I would agree with you that this has been the default state of human history with since the rise of agrarian and pastoral societies. I tend to believe that previous to that in our hunter-gatherer days we were forced to live in a less hierarchical structure, despite probably having a well defined hierarchy of duties even then. Maybe more consensus building among everyone rather than simple blind obedience to the group?
Is that true in chaos theory though? Are there mathematical ways to create and predict dynamic systems with behavior that is truly bound within certain parameters?

Kind of... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_chaos

There was some hype about this in the 90s, but not much seems to have come from it in terms of practical applications. However it is really cool from a theoretical perspective, and some of the experiments (IIRC precisely controlling chaotic contraction patterns in heart tissue from rabbits in vitro) were also really interesting.
LEARN TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python

One of those does not belong.
The Arab spring was largely crushed with the help of American largesse. We ignored Bahrain, we never stopped funding the Egyptian military and said nothing when they reestablished control.

People are unwilling to oppose government control, and when they are they get crushed by outside forces. People in American continue to work for the government, it's even considered prestigious.

We can't even prosecute torture. People who believe in the government are dangerous idiots.
Doing things that don't scale: "We do a lot of things that don’t scale. That will never scale. And we’re going to keep doing them, because they’re that valuable." PG would definitely approve!
Sure they can. Anyone can. It just takes a long time per password to crack (that time is a function of the cost/# of rounds of the hashing function).
The UI colorizer is what I thought of immediately, too.

If we took a poll I suspect the majority would be thinking of the Amazon service

That's just personal projection, and is as irrelevant as an argument beginning with, "I think most people would agree that..."

Personally, regardless of Amazon vs UI hack, I'm really tired of ambiguous naming in tech projects.
I love the specificity of the 9 million figure, 1.5 billion years ago.

You set me off on some reading to find out more as it seems so interesting, but I can't find a detailed figure, so I like exactness your estimate provides.

Amazing to consider what the common ancestor was like and also what our animal ancestors were like at that time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_fungi
Perhaps auto correct did a trick on you. Her name is Laurene Powell Jobs.
Telegram is a great messaging apps. Private, desktop and web support, fast, better UI compared to WhatsApp. The problem is my friend don't know it so I have to be stuck with WhatsApp for now.
I was developing an app in Java at the time (1996). The Java motto was "write once, run anywhere." (everywhere?) We used to say "write once, debug everywhere." It was a mess (granted, we were using it to build a client, not a server). A San Jose Mercury news reporter and asked Eric Schmidt (who was running the Java show at the time) to respond to my claim that Java was buggy and Eric Schmidt replied with something along the lines of "If it's crashing, then they must be bad programmers."

Of course I got the last laugh because he went on to become a billionaire. Wait a minute.... maybe he got the last laugh. Either way we're both laughing to this day.
I think you should ask yourself what you will gain by having an LLC.

* Are you trying to reduce your liabilities in the event of lawsuit (how likely is one?)

* Are you trying to get certain tax advantages with an LLC over a sole proprietorship or s/c-corp (are you actually going to make money?)

* And so on...
The PokerStars.com thread seems the latest and most illustrative example. Maybe it's all in my head.
When you're more or less encouraging a coup, the "fire in a crowded theater" analogy couldn't be more applicable.
> The problem is once you start scaling up you're losing real estate. Sure the picture will look better but you're not gaining any improvements in being able to open and see more things at once.

Depending on what you're doing, that might be exactly what you want. I use my 27" 4k display to read PDFs zoomed in to fit two pages side-by-side onscreen. That way, the clarity of the rendering is good enough to be an alternative to print.
That would tell me that you would switch to use none, or that you currently don't use anything, or that you wouldn't switch from your current system, but it doesn't give me any advice to pass on to my friends, who do use WhatsApp, want not to use WhatsApp, and need to use something.

So providing those options wouldn't help me, although it's otherwise interesting to note that you'd vote "none".
I'm not sure it's relevant. Paper ballots can't be hacked on a national scale. I trust my local election commission. And even modest fraud can be managed; if someone wins with 45% of the vote, we've changed an outcome, but the democratic check-and-balance remains.

The problem is closed, proprietary, secretive, touchscreen voting machines. For all we know, Biden won Texas. Or perhaps everyone wrote in Putin as a joke write-in. We just don't know.

For how this works in practice, Applied Cryptography has a nice, readable explanation.
I quite like that format, it looks like a youtube video, but unrolled.

I much prefer this than watching a whole video. Less bandwidth, less ads, I can skip to the part I want, the content' doesn't keep going on while I want to re-read something or examine a picture, while it is light on processing power.

In short, I can scroll at my own pace.
Interestingly, I have something of an inside view on this- my wife was one of the early enthusiasts, and I guess you could accuse her of being one of the "cliques" discussed- I have been to an instructor's house, a friend of ours is a publicist of sorts for someone prominently mentioned in the article, she will be in the wedding of someone she met at Soul that used to work the front desk (and I guess not coincidentally loves bright red lipstick) and would frequently have her bike moved to the front row.

She used to spend a jaw dropping amount on Soul- it was her favorite activity to take her clients to. Around the time they IPO'ed, she felt a change- the expansion took her favorite instructors out of her favorite studios, and often even out of the area as they helped open up locations in LA, Miami, etc. The new ones never had quite the same magnetism- which is of course subjective- most people have their personal favorites, and while there was some overlap, this could differ substantially from person to person. They used to give gifts to their top riders at the end of the year in the form of free classes, that went away, replaced with "charitable donations" and eventually just dropped altogether. Top instructors tried to branch out on their own, some successful, some not, but the point being is that really it was over expansion and IMHO brand dilution, which I guess you could call exclusivity (though I personally feel its a bit different than just exclusivity) that really sent them into a downward trajectory. She went from taking 4-5 classes a week, to mixing in Cycle Bar and other studios, to finally in October 2019 just deciding to get a Peloton.

All that said, they still had 1.62 million rides in 2019... which while down from ~1.8, that's not exactly a fad or a dead business- I actually thought their drop would be far bigger to be honest. Personally though I feel this was less of an effect of a fad, than the more typical story of the bean counters moving in and pursuing growth and next quarter's numbers at the cost of the quality of the brand.

To be honest that article was quite eye opening- I guess what I thought was a unique experience and fandom by my wife was something that the culture carefully cultivated.
Well, do democratic values (and facts, really) matter more than the sweet, sweet engagement metrics and ad revenue Mr Zuckerburg gets from the MAGA crowd?

Sorry if this comes across as bitter. I’m very disappointed at how the large social networks’ have conducted themselves at this point to the point that for a large swathe of the US and the UK, the facts don’t matter any more.
Yeah, and you can bet there will be some very long and very serious investigations over this. Congress is plenty pissed off, and the Capitol Police work for them (I believe they technically are a part of the legislative branch, not the executive). And I think every law enforcement agent in the district should be ashamed of what happened.

I should point out that the photo going around showing the difference between the BLM response and the response to this mob is of the DC national guard, not Capitol Police. The DC national guard was not mobilized when the rioting started yesterday. Apparently it was requested but the DoD had not approved it. You can bet there will be some investigations there, and people involved will try to hide themselves in the bureaucracy and pointing fingers.

My bet is that, in a year or two, we'll see some serious reforms in this area. Probably an expedited procedure for mobilizing the DC National Guard, or Congress will be so angry they will demand an expansion of the Capitol Police force, since that force works directly for them.
I don't know enough about this particular contest -- and since it happened in 1984, I'm not going to attempt to find more information on the internet -- but typically the goal isn't to have an unwinnable contest, just to have it drag on long enough while drawing more and more people into listening.

At the start of the contest, you might have 0.1% of the people in your listening area tuning in for the reading of the serial number, and by the end, 1-5%, before dropping down to, say, 0.2-0.5% after the contest is over. Early on, there's a 1 in a 1000 chance of someone listening having the bill, more or less, so the contest won't end too early, but by the end, you are up to a 1-in-20 chance, so once it gets popular enough, it will end fast enough that people don't get too much into grumbling that your contest is rigged.

Meanwhile, the radio station probably didn't actually put up the $30,000 -- it was probably an advertiser who paid the radio station $40,000 out of their advertising budget to run the contest, or should I say, the Wonder Widget's daily drawing, brought to you by Wonder Widgets, your wonderful source of wonderful widgets. You repeat the advertiser's slogan three or four times as people are tuning in to the station to listen for the day's serial number, and three or four more times throughout the day reminding people to tune in at X o'clock.

There's no need for the contest to be rigged or unwinnable -- it's a bargain for everyone at half the price. The advertiser knows people are listening to their ads, the radio station is getting paid outright as well as getting a boost in their listeners (which gets them more money from other advertisers). And actually paying out the money, eventually, lets you go back to that same gold mine again and again.