jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> A new asset class (like Gold) which everyone wants to invest in because they think everyone else values it (just like Gold). And with a few benefits over Gold like it can be transferred easily.

haha, I've never had trouble buying and selling GLD instantly. Gold futures too! My broker charges a few pennies.

On the other hand a BTC transaction uses 600kWh of power, yields 100g of e-waste, takes hours to confirm and $20 in fees. Yay! What a time to be alive. I'm sure glad we went through all this consternation.

> That this has sustained for 12 years is amazing and the longer it stays, the longer it will further stay.

Madoff lasted 17! :)
Yep, and if you squint serverless stuff like AWS Lambda, knative, etc. is basically a slicker more modern take on plain old CGI scripts. I don't view that as a bad thing--the less friction there is between "here's a function/code block.. please run it on this web request" the better.
DigitalOcean has /32s from ARIN and RIPE.

(And a /48 from APNIC???)

(Edit: And a /36, /40 and /48 from APNIC?)
> If they did this, they clearly think that the pros outweigh the cons, and they believe they are operating within their legal rights.

No, they don't necessarily believe they are operating within their legal rights. They believe the penalty for noncompliance with the law is low enough to be worth it. This is an important distinction, because it means we need much greater penalties for labor violations.
> I just came across a digital currency system called Taler that solves the double spending problem by having a central authority

This misses the entire point. Anyone can solve the double spend problem with MySQL, the innovation of bitcoin is that it is decentralized with no central authority.
The original comment was talking about USD not being usable, not ACH. Having to delay money transfers for a day does not make a currency unusable.
> but with ax I can get over 800 Gbps

Can I assume you meant 800 Mbps?
Look at the older Lenovo workstation laptops for an example of something similar.

I have a P50 -- a 3840x2160 15" screen, 32GB of RAM, Xeon E3-1505M v5 @ 2.8GHz, and a removable battery. It also comes with space (easily accessible!) for extra drives, ram slots, etc. Even with the overkill Xeon CPU, I still get ~5hours of battery life on windows under moderate load.

Most importantly, the service manual is a thing of beauty, and has detailed instructions for almost any replacement. This is a laptop designed to be used, upgraded, and used again.
IMO the design of Reddit's website could use an overhaul. I can't even snap it to one side of my screen without totally screwing up the front page and forget about using the site on mobile. The sidebars contain way too much unnecessary information as well. I do love me some reddit though.
I hope I can tuck in this video as a gentle reminder of what we wishes we can do. Now that we are pretty much there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxq9yj2pVWk
Here's a better link:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Portage+Glacier+Hwy,+Chuga...
I went to Stuyvesant High School. Whenever I list it, it's usually a plus.
> Surveillance or not, this is a public forum.

Unfortunately, many here write under a pseudonym. Surveillance at the scale the NSA/FBI/CIA is practicing deanonymises everyone, pseudonym or not. You control the information you put into this public forum, but they operate at a level beyond that information.
"I took all the info to our CEO and got him demoted to server maintenance guy, on the spot, and I took over his job"

WOW. You are a terrible human being.
"When going through hell, keep going".
5000+ comments, page read only due to 'heavy traffic'. Actual answers to pointed questions, one of the best AMA's ever on Reddit.
Hmm, I wasn't implying people should be forced to live where they aren't comfortable.
> Once you have accepted that progressive taxes are acceptable. . .nobody can argue with a straight face that a 10 line table is too complicated.

First, I don't think anyone should pay taxes on their labor. And just because my labor makes more shouldn't mean I pay a higher percentage; so, no, I don't agree with the concept of progressive taxation on labor. Regardless, that's what we have.

Anyway, 10% after $50,000 is dead simple. e.g. make $120,000 as a family, take away $100,000, left with $20,000, I pay $2,000. Real tax rate is only 1.6%, so maybe that's too nice for the American family? You can change it to 15% after $25,000 and it's still simpler. $120k-$50k=$70k x .15=$10.5k or 8.75% real tax rate, all without worrying about IRAs, 401ks, HSAs, etc.

With a 6-12 tax brackets with crazy amount of deductions, I need to:

1) calculate taxable income. This is some func of deductions. i.e. standard deduction ($25k) + max 401k ($20k) brings taxable income to $75,000. There's other deductions such as IRAs, HSAs, 529, etc; all with their own maxes based on various criterias and income, which has it's own list of gotchas that screw over people. Hopefully you didn't forget a deduction on top of all that.

2) Now determine tax rate. 22%. Feels bad, but whatever -nearly a quarter of your income (nominally, at least) to finance the debt to keep inflation going. The graph says ~$4,800+22% of anything over ~$42,000. Alright. So $4,800+(22% x $33,000)=$12,060 are taxes owed.

3) Now determine your credits, if any. Such as a child credit. I hope you know your credits, because you might've forgot about a tax credit for something you bought. Let's assume you know you get $3600 for a toddler, and put that in. Now your $12,000 is $8,400.

4) Ensure your paid taxes is correct. You paid throughout the year, adds up to ~$8000. So taxes due are now $400.

5) Now you go to pay $400. Welp. Now you need to pay $50 because you decided you wanted to buy a stock that gave you $10 in dividends in a brokerage account, and now you can no longer free file. But you don't want to be audited, so you report the $10 and pay the $50.

Yeah, that's very simple and straight forward. But good news is the actual tax rate is actually only 7%, even though you felt like you just paid nearly 22%, wasted hours of your life, and were insulted with an additional fee just to pay your taxes.
Hopefully Linux on the M1 won’t introduce big issues. I remember daily driving a MacBook Pro 2014 or so and it was pretty horrible .
They are going to accept payments from contactless credit cards as well, so connectivity isn't assumed. If it could be, the flow you describe is brilliant.
I'm particularly excited about the fact that Apple has added 10 gigabit support and reasonably priced it at $100 more on mac minis. Looking forward to the M2 refresh as long as it includes the mini.
Heh, I know where you are coming from. In high school (before Google was really well known and popular) I participated in a "science olympiad". One of the competitions was focused on computers. You had to create a spreadsheet to calculate certain values, etc. One of the tasks was to answer a question using the internet. It was something along the lines of "Who was the man that refused to leave his house before threats of Mt. St. Helens erupting and was eventually buried in the ash." I typed something like [grumpy old man buried mt st helens] and the first result contained his name in the snippet. I finished way earlier than anyone else :)
I didn't find it patronizing in the least. As to whether it presented the opposing arguments in their strongest form, that's hard for me to say as I strongly agree with the article and generally find the pro-libertarian arguments to be weak.

As to why the UK national health service isn't discussed - why should it be? The article is pretty specific that it's not intended to demonstrate all statism all the time is perfect, but that some statism some of the time is beneficial.
Everything in life devalues over time

That's not true. Violins, clinker bricks, gold, wine, classic aston martins, original prints of the Book of Mormon tend to appreciate. Some wisdom for you: cheese. When sovereign debt collapses, those of us who have been quietly stashing wheels of cheese will laugh all the way to market.
I develop iOS apps on a $300 Dell mini 10v (hackintosh). It's slower than my MBP at work, but it's just as capable.
Confidence comes gradually. When bitcoins started, confidence was extremely low. Thus the whole bitcoin economy was worth maybe $1000.

Now confidence has grown significantly, and the whole bitcoin economy is worth approximately 5 million dollars.

I wouldn't bet my life savings on it yet, but I find that already pretty good for something that has less than five years, and isn't backed by anything.
Core is just a desugared Haskell. Do you know there's another much simpler intermediate language called STG?
>>On principle, I have no real problem with the NSA having access to phone records (pen register) for purposes of combating actual terrorism.

Right, if they actually _first_ determine that a person is a terrorist, _then_ they start spying, that'd be one thing. But instead, what we have now(or at least what they're asking for) is almost like this:

http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/DarkK...

Basically, no one person/organization should have this data at their immediate finger tips. It will be abused; it's human nature. A more acceptable way to do this is let Apple/Google make their impossible-to-break-encryption-whatever stuff, then when law enforcement gives a warrant for a particular phone number, that specific phone gets pushed a firmware update or something that disables encryption. Pre-emptively/retroactively having access to everyone's phone data at all times is bad.
Well, it probably will if a large number of people leave and that doesn't have to be bad news for the ones that stay. Of course, that will depend on the specific situation. I can't come up with an example where there was a large decline in population in an area on a voluntariy basis.
Finnaly, no language is complete without compile-to-javascript support :)
Neither is about 99% of the other software that Ubuntu desktops and servers run daily. Hence why we have software repositories and user friendly package managers to make installing new software a breeze:

apt-get install tmux
I agree we're not doing enough with the information we do have to curb this, but speculation also has value. Speculating is a way to explore what the line might be and also could bring attention to an unknown infringement since the NSA surely isn't telling us everything yet.
You can also achieve this by doing:

tail -f whatever.log | grep --color=auto -C99 exception

And there are other ways pausing/scrolling back, such as tmux's scroll mode.
Indeed. My opinion is that the author doesn't know what he's talking about.
Can the browser/os have an alert for such kind of behavior ?
I mean if a script/program is sending repeated/too many requests stop/slow/show users a message ?
Like when some javascript scripts is using too much cpu the browsers actually inform the user if he/she wants to stop then ?
I adore the nonsense poems of Edward Lear. He's most famous for The Owl and The Pussycat, but The Nutcracker and The Sugartongs is one of my favourites to read aloud: http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/nutcrackers.html

When read aloud, the rhythm is impeccable and almost addictive.

Another shout out has to go to A A Milne, particularly for Disobedience, which again is a delight to read aloud: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~ridge/local/disobedience.html
You're equivocating and that isn't an argument. "My nose can't be running, it does't have legs." Yes, but there is snot dripping down your face.
LinkedIn gives away email id and phone number (even if you had given just for 2FA) to all your contacts. I checked PDL, it has all the information from LinkedIn except for phone number, which I promptly removed once I identified the 2FA issue (now TOTP is available).
Re: "For example: YAGNI. "Your ain't gonna need it." It could be used to advocate for deferring a decision for which you don't have enough info..."

Another rule of thumb is "know your domain".

Re: "Good engineers don't spew out slogans. They explain their reasoning."

That is true, but it's also good to have summary reminders. People won't remember most 2 hour lectures unless refreshed over time, and rules of thumb are one way to do this without re-attending the same 2 hour lecture over and over. In the ideal world they'd re-attend the full lectures (or close to) to get a refresh, but that's not the way most humans do things.
I'll take nameego.com and wearstartups.com
Sure. Email iworkforthem [at] gmail DOT com with your GoDaddy Account ID. I will transfer it to you.
iOS's JavaScript engine and version of WebKit is single-threaded; dual core won't help (this isn't strictly true, but there's a global lock that they both acquire). No support for WebWorkers either

Perhaps Android is better in this regard?
You don't even need a web server to throw a 301 at everything that comes by saying "GET / HTTP/1.1".
searching is not a valid substitute for having a proper remote jobs post. i was originally for this consolidated who is hiring idea, but if it means we lose the separate remote post, then i am against it.
Nice one camperman. Can't go wrong here. Been on Stronglift's for over a year and it got my squat up from 40Kg to 145Kg.
Aiming for 180 -200Kg by the end of this year!! Great program for discipline too which really carries through into your other work and area of life.
Google "Intermittent Fasting" (IF). For many people the hunger pains go away as long as they don't eat at all for long periods of time. It can make it easier to lose weight because you end up eating less calories over the course of day or week.

Personally, I can't IF at all because of my activity levels. Missing 1-2 meals for a couple days means I start losing weight which is not something I'm looking to do.
He made some good points, but even a visionary like Jobs missed how his prediction of networked computers would help improve education. Once again, I point to the Khan Academy.

If all Salman Khan had was a log cabin, he would have probably still taught because it's his passion. But he would only touch the lives of a few hundred at most, not millions.

The same applies for the top universities making their content available for free online. Do people really not see what it means to students outside America and Europe?

With age, even Jobs got jaded and forgot his own golden words: STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH.
What a great find and thank you for posting. I appreciate its a little old now but the message is still relevant
After exercising, how long should one wait till breakfast?
If I click on comments it should automatically upvote.
There is a very easy way to model this, just convert the IP address into a 32bit integer! :) Then use ZRANGEBYSCORE to query.
Moodle is another interesting option. I know a few schools that are using it, and it certainly has some fan support:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUrhl974wSE

(I recognize it's not a massively innovative product compared to Blackboard, but I do prefer it. It's a step in the right direction.)
> Why would anyone want Windows-specific code in a Linux build? It's dead code...

You might want to ask the thousands of Electron App users how much they care about dead code ;-)

I mean, you are right. But if you offer your users no alternative they might not care enough to choose another product. In addition, some might even value it not having to choose the right binary for their system.
In the end of part two there is this:

> ”Basically, this question is to software engineers as FizzBuzz is to programmers.”

What’s the implied difference between software engineer and programmer here? I don’t get it.
I am someone who have managed and worked with bare metal servers my entire life, having never used AWS or any cloud provider.
i received this question when i interviewed with them back in 2019. It’s definitely up there for my most enjoyed interview experienced
For me macos has easily the absolute window management of any WM system I've ever used. Everything feels unnatural and awkward and requires me to do exactly what you say, download 50 random apps to get it to behave in some even remotely reasonable way.

And if i brush the touch bar and hit a button one more time I might just chuck the thing out a window.
Have you tried using custom DNS (or an alternate provider) to attempt to bypass your ISP? Or run through a DNS (saw another comment saying to try a few different ones). Might just be slow all the time then (if they can't determine when to un-throttle your connection, ha). But at least you'd have something to look at.
What's stopping the workaround you suggest is that the element of surprise is gone. Nobody knew that he was building up a 10% stake to take an activist investor stance, because he built up the stake slowly. But now we know.

And we know that for him to buy up enough shares to override the poison pill vote, he has to act much faster than he did the first time around. But the markets would be aware that he's looking to buy a much bigger stake, so existing holders can set whatever price they want.
I would prefer for different doctors to have the freedom to try out different techniques. Then we can measure which methods appear to work and which don't, and I can make my decisions based on that
It's common knowledge that the FBI, DEA, etc have typically relied on the NSA for such exploits.
I seem to recall that we were told that those people could be hired back really quickly if needed while disbanding the part of the NSC that was supposed to take point on this.
That's not the only concern. Ads have been known to contain malware. They all contain trackers.
https://github.com/txthinking/brook
> Curious how you get this impression, do you have specific examples in mind? For example, bats, wolves and civet cats are consumed in Wuhan, which is not the case in Hong Kong.

There you go. Even in Guam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_as_food

Australians eat crocodiles and kangaroos.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/australian-food/index.htm...
Here's another thought--why not try to fix this in ClickHouse? It sounds like you are rebuilding Elastic.
(I consider "formatting" under "manipulating". Parsing too, actually. Really anything where you have to consider the parts of the string individually and not just the whole.)

By and large I think you're right; as the root post said you pretty much never actually have to reverse a string.

Specifically though I think manipulating filenames is not really unusual; for instance adding or reading a file extension, filename<number>.<ext>, splitting into directory paths, etc. Filenames are actually an interesting case because they're a very good candidate for having their own type (since they have some internal structure to them and operations on that structure).

Which leads me to another hypothesis, which is that the number of types you have to do something to truly unstructured data other than compare it is really low, and we actually don't need a generic "string" type at all. Unfortunately this is not really feasible in a world where the Unix principle of "everything is a stream of bytes" is ubiquitous.
It's nice to hear this mentioned. Just Windows by itself is a privacy nightmare. It's always amazed me that it isn't talked about alongside other companies and software with privacy issues.
I've read of people routinely asking Amazon for compensation when their packages arrive in over 2 days. Some ordered regularly enough the $5 credit they hand out like candy more than paid for the entire membership.
> But it is hard to fudge a death.

One country (Germany, I think?) doesn't or wasn't including people who weren't tested before dying, so had a really low rate.
For years as I developed with Python and Javascript I thought "I really should write something in C again and maybe I should learn some C++". But nothing I was doing was performance critical or low level enough that I needed C or C++.

Then, a funny thing happened and I started playing with the Arduino.

And, while they go to great pains to hide it from non-technical people, the whole Arduino stack (ignoring the IDE) is based on C/C++. So then I began writing C again and learning C++. (I always find it slightly odd that I'm using C++ on a microcontroller--admittedly it's very small subset of C++, mostly just used for the object encapsulation/abstraction. (Insert handwavy, "yes, yes, I know it's not strictly C above library level" here.))

So, you might like to take a look at playing with the Arduino if you want to get into C. And if nothing else it's fun playing with tangible things that interact with the "real world".
I like it so far. I hope it becomes the best place on the web to promote/find new startups.
Out of curiosity, how did you go about your search?
FYI, the app limits the precision artificially. The database is much more precise. There's an entry in their FAQ about it. Maybe the parent poster patched the app to get finer precision.
Absolutely to all of the above. A developer's job is to determine what's actually wanted/needed, not what is exactly enumerated, especially in a startup. In addition, if a job needs done, a job needs done. A developer who can hop on a sales call, or do customer support when needed is invaluable in an startup environment.
And despite having been written in 1956 there are still people to whom it is new. This is one of those things that should be re-posted every year or so, just so more people see it.
Explanation of what is going on here: http://alyankovic.wordpress.com/the-gaga-saga/

Parody is a protected form of free speech, why does he ask permission? If he is going to complain about someone not giving him permission, he should just go ahead and do it.

Update: after reading my own link, I have the answer to my own question.
That's why Australian consumer law says that things should remain working for a 'reasonable' amount of time.

The law makes distinctions between a manufacturers warranty (e.g. Apple says it's devices come with a 12 months warranty, which is true and legal.) and, and the manufacturers/retails obligation to resolve defects (Apple will repair/replace devices for free even after that 12 months).

The law is purposefully vague around this (I believe it says products should last for a reasonable period of time, depending on it's price and perceived quality), and different retailers/manufacturers honour this in different ways.

This lead to some interesting situations, like Apple covering mobile devices for 24 months since purchase OR last repair/replace date, so it's actually possible to get infinite warranty on a device if you get to replace every 24 months.
Yup. It's possible to show massive value by doing the job of the talent agency by finding your own jobs. The downside is that the ratio of interest of you going out and looking is 1% of someone coming and finding you via LinkedIn, github etc. TL;DR inbound >>> outbound. But if you're deperate, don't hide it but don't be overly needy or whiny if they don't return calls.... leave it as "if you change your mind, here's my contact info." almost always.
Reminds me of the zionists brigades on reddit.
I was calling into question the veracity by which some were willing to defend Monsanto, no matter the cost. I agree that the tone of responses can be moderated higher, but I also think that the reaction of the pro-Monsanto crowd has its own insidious nature, which must be dealt with - its a company well known for its own online PR tricks and campaigns, in an effort to manage its image. And it is not without its evil side, as a corporation.

So I'll consider your feedback for the next time we have to discuss Monsanto's efforts to control the worlds food.
Whoops, I guess I chose the wrong sharing option. Fixed now.
It depends on the city. After Chicago 'sold' the right to collect parking fees, fees increased and allegations of wrongful ticketing skyrocketed.

Google 'chicago parking meter privatization' for more info (some of it likely to be biased).
I can understand thinking that it's inert and safe initially, but the fact that it warms up when shaking it conclusively disproves that idea.