jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Has anyone here successfully made money off of mobile games?

Lacking feedback directly from anyone who has done it: I get the impression that the secret is to throw lots of things against the wall and see what sticks. It paid off handsomely for Rovio, for example.

If you can crank out a new game every couple months, it might be possible to make a living that way. Unfortunately, nobody goes into games wanting to crank one out every couple months.
Italians always crying but they live better than others
More here:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/e6707fe8b155cc92da1cb...

This screws my efforts to try to optimize my site for increased traffic and to work towards longer user sessions. This hurts my website.
Who,

... on this deep thread,

... that you started,

... ever claimed this?
Is there anything for which you cannot ask a similar question of the form: Why does xyz exist? Why are things not just [this simpler thing]? For those types of questions, I imagine one would answer: because if it were not so then things would be nonsense.

If this question is asked of consciousness without saying what consciousness is doing such that if you took it away then you would have nonsense, then I do not see how anyone can answer it.

The way the question is framed up, consciousness accomplishes nothing as far as survival goes. "evolution could have produced zombies instead of conscious creatures – and it didn’t" Zombie seems to be defined as: phenomena that you think has consciousness but does not.

If consciousness has been defined as some phenomena where you have an intuitive understanding of what is being communicated by that word "consciousness" but also it (consciousness) does not do anything, then how can anyone explain why consciousness should be? Anything you can think of as a function of consciousness, can then be hand-waved as able to be accomplished by zombies.
Lighty, Apache and Nginx have been tested much better to face the wild public, hunchentoot not so much.

Hunchentoot's builtin multiplexer is one thread per connection, or one process for all incoming connections: you can customize the taskmaster to be event driven, but then, you will have to write your own load-balancing cruft code to distribute load between processes; something you get for free with a proxy.
Either Aristotle or Seneca said "There was never a great genius without a tincture of madness".
Why are all of these people using their official e-mail addresses? Are all of these iPads work-owned?

I would never sign up for any personal service using my work address.
these look like some of the bumps that occasionally air on adult swim. I assume now that they are creating their own in the same style for laughs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI0QTaM-mo4&feature=chann...
All I can tell you is what I see other people's apps doing, routinely, with a variety of different ORMs. You claimed ORMs are a better answer to SQL Injection than stored procedures. I'm sorry it upsets you to hear this, but that's simply incorrect.

The apps that I've seen do best against SQLI had an enforced policy that front-end devs couldn't write queries, that their access to the database was restricted through stored procedures, and that access was further restricted with database permissions. Stored procedures aren't a panacea either, but they're definitely more reliable than the Django ORM.
100% agree.

The article was actually inspiring, it's nice to see such a supporting user base.
http://www.fortknoxmailbox.com/ -- works great for me (locked mailbox, built like a tank).
Nice to see there is still a little bit of innovation going on at Yahoo. Really sad to see how far they have fallen in the tech world.
Scribd link does not work. I think this is the result the recent Facebook Connect integration...
You're right. Most people assume their democratic duty amounts to showing up and voting once every two or four years - though almost half of eligible Americans don't even do that much - and that voting for the best candidate is enough to effect change.

Community organizer Saul Alinsky famously had a meeting with US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who had just been elected in the deepest trough of the Great Depression. Alinsky spoke about the President's role in creating a more fair and prosperous society.

At the end of the meeting, FDR told Alinsky: "Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out and put pressure on me!"
Articles submitted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919845

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1909148

(actually the same article) quote a study, so I thought I'd go find it. And here it is.
Historically us Brits were not very good at foreign names, Leghorn vs Livorno for example. In some cases though the name has changed and we use one not in current use, eg Danzig vs Gdansk. Spelling was less standardised too.
great read. i enjoyed the specifics of how you beat out the big player
http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=%2Binsect+with+a+b...
How do you switch to a new department in a large org? I’ve been working on a couple cloud systems for 5 years. Demand is high in my area but I want something more technical but without a pay cut. I use JavaScript day to day and built a lot of REST/SOAP web services over the years.

Most of the internal jobs are .net and I could learn c# (have some java experience out of college) but I don’t think my resume will sway the managers.
It's not ideology.It's Pavlovian science. If you reward behavior, you get more of it.
I think it's a valid choice for a country to decide that the economic boon from foreign entrepreneurs isn't worth it if those people can't speak your language. I'd certainly be irritated if someone opened a business in my town and couldn't speak English, and the US is a lot less homogeneous than Japan.
Unironically, my very comment above (as well as others in this thread, the topic of which is heresy!) is gathering downvotes as we speak, despite it being technically correct. Normally this would bother me, but this time I find it pleasing because it illustrates the point.

My intuition is suggesting to me that your inclusion of "truths" in quotation marks suggests you are primed to expect me to reply with some things that I believe to be true, but that are false. Obviously I am speculating, but I find thinking about the nature of communication in fine detail to be extremely interesting.

Also, pardon the delay in reply as I'm quite sure my account is flagged and rate-limited for participating in flame wars, or more specifically, holding incorrect beliefs in flame wars. I believe this latter point because it takes two to tango in a flame war, and if you pay attention when warnings are handed out for such offenses here on HN, you may notice a pattern of the person receiving the warning is the one who holds the heretical view, despite many people being participants. I say this mostly as just an interesting aside, but I believe it does to some degree fairly illustrate the possibility of bias that exists on HN, including at the moderation level. Since the degree to which my speculation is true is not knowable, casual dismissals must not be based on pure logic, but rather a mixture of conscious logic and subconscious heuristics. Sometimes what's so easy to see in others, is near impossible to see in ourselves - such is the nature of the human mind.

As for some examples of what I'm talking about:

Here is a person taking the definition of Fascism and applying it to Nationalism:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504768

Here is a person who seems to believe they can both read minds and predict the future (but apparently can not defend the facts they have learned during those exercises):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21501182

Here is a person who believes that it is impossible to love one nation more than others. Knowing such a thing would also require mind reading abilities:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21501200

More mind reading, and the stating of opinions as if they were facts (this is very common):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21500900

I mean, on one hand this is just people being people, nothing to lose any sleep over. On the other hand, this isn't /r/politics - is it asking too much that we strive for a higher standard of thinking and discourse here on HN? And furthermore, it might be worth considering if this sort of behavior might be counter-productive to the speaker's goals in more way than one.
> But does everyone remember how much the Taxi system sucked?

In London? The suckage level was zero. Black cabs were fine. Reputable minicabs (Addison Lee etc.) were fine. Uber does not provide anything like enough improvement to justify the level of illegality it's riddled with.
I don't think a rich white would be benefited more than a rich black in terms of sending messages on an individual level. (After all - if net worth is the same then a $ is a $) However - the part where they're responded to would be favored to a rich white instead of a rich black... but I don't think that would be any different than a non-pay system. And that's not correlated to rich white vs rich black - that's correlated with white vs black. :/

However, one could start arguing that because there are more rich white people than rich black people then the system favors whites more because whites hold more money to message people. Therefore, because of that, then the people who are messaging the most desirable will more likely be white (even if split of race in the country was 50/50 white/black - whites will be messaging more because their wealth on average is higher).

I don't think such a pay to message system should exist (even though many dating apps do implement a roundabout way of doing this - lol - they all implement some throttling mechanism that you can get around if you pay $$$).
This is based on Mathbox which is... brilliant.
Here's the demo blog post that shows off what it can do:
https://acko.net/blog/mathbox2/
> Another is that it changes the way you think about IP addresses,

Only if you don't have a clue of IPv4 either.

> with endpoints getting a /64 instead of a single address like you did in IPv4.

That's just wrong. And endpoint gets one address, just as with IPv4 (and can optionally assign additional addresses where address space is available, also just as with IPv4).

What gets a /64 by default is a link, like, an ethernet. Which is also exactly like in IPv4, except, of course, with IPv4 you had shorter/fewer addresses, and thus obviously also smaller prefixes/fewer addresses per link.

> This allows users to change their IP address for every connection if they want, so if you want to apply policy to them you need to apply it to the entire subnet they are on.

Which is also exactly the same as with IPv4. If your LAN has an IPv4 /24, you can also change you address for every connection.

> Granted, this also happens in IPv4 if you are doing NAT, so it's not really a change for most people.

You have it all backwards?! NAT is what makes this impossible for connections to the public internet, in that no matter how you change your RFC1918 address, you keep the same address to the outside world? But that obviously is not a property of IPv4, but of NAT.
It's just a tech business language mannerism. People use it for the same reasons they use "price point" instead of "price", or "usecase" instead of "use", or "form factor" instead of "size": to show that they belong to the tribe, and to sound clever while saying something that could be expressed more simply and elegantly. The jargon adds nothing, except cringe.
Glasgow?
Wild West Domains is GoDaddy, so strike bullet 3 off the conspiracy theory.
Where do you get the data? I've found that access to (inexpensive) sources of data to be a problem. For backtesting, I'd love to get historical data; even a sample would do.
A long time ago, Island used to make their data available. Then they were bought out by NASDAQ, and no more data :-(
"Really what people are paying for is immediate gratification."

They make it sound like its a bad thing. I think that last quote misses the point, I order single items from Amazon using Prime because I know I'll get it in 2 days. As a parent with a young child '2 days' is quicker than I'll be able to get to Target to pick up whatever it is I wanted.

I've ordered toilet paper using Prime...you know it's going to run out in 3 days, but you'll get it in 2!
s/SASS/SAAS
Given your statement on MD5 collisions, it's not entirely clear to me who's the script kiddie here.
Avast found a virus in your link.
We'll know Monday once the thanksgiving weekend is over and any details are posted to ICE.
I think the most interesting aspect of Pocoo is the documentation and general code quality. Flask is definitely a large inspiration when documenting something.

Also, I don't quite get the Op's point in "just" posting a link (although to fresh version of Pocoo's website).

One note though. "The Pocoo Team is an international group of enthusiasts from the Python community working on open source Python software without commercial interest and for the benefit of others." is exactly why the web (and life, btw) is awesome. I want the pre-ad web back.
https://brkirch.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/switchdisksizebase-...

Fixed link.
He got off on a technicality. Even many of those that voted not to convict said that they thought he was guilty. They just didn't think they could convict a non-sitting president.

False cures for diseases, yes, people absolutely go to jail or receive massive fines. Sometimes on charges of fraud, sometimes on charges of endangerment. If your fake cure doesn't actually do harm (and is just useless) then you can usually get away with it. A quick google search will show you multiple stories about criminal charges for fake covid cures.
I think plenty of people here have been done with smart/touch crap for years now. It was kind of neat when the technology was new and the premium option but when the choice of a decent UI went away it really started to suck.
What’s up with your computer where Defender flags any non-RT programs? I don’t have that issue.
No, the type of sounds can be grouped into distinct language families and further down into language "branches". I just don't see (no pun intended) how this translates into different sign languages.
That doesn't seem better than a touchscreen.
Germany has 80 million people, 70.000 died through covid. US has 320 million (so roundabout 4 times as much), 500k died of covid (so roundabout 7 times as much). Thus, more people per capita died in the US than in Germany.
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
This explains, to me, at least, the whole "four score and seven years ago" speech. I always wondered the reason behind such a silly way of presenting a number, I just figured it was archaic.

Nope, just French.
> - Files not displaying until you navigate away from a directory and return again.

That's strange. I have never seen this and I've been using OS X since day one, every day. In fact I remember being thrilled when the Spotlight hooks where added and I could run “touch test” on Terminal and the file would instantly appear in the Finder.

> - "Recents"

Oh yes, one of the first things I change, Finder -> Preferences -> General -> New Finder Windows Show…
I attended UberConf a few years ago and found it to be pretty interesting. A lot of the talks seem to repeat from year to year, so it was likely a one-time thing, for me.

https://uberconf.com/
I moved to Linux (Ubuntu) and migrated a HUGE iTunes library along with it. I now use Clementine as my music management / player. I believe there's a way to import an iTunes library, but the iTunes metadata is all in one big XML file. So I wrote a script that loads all my metadata into Clementine's sqlite database.
Floppy disks actually provide a rather pleasant form factor. It's large enough to feel meaningful, wide enough to not get lost between other objects, flat enough to be included in a binder with printed material. The only downsides are transfer speed, data capacity, and lifespan.
"The more important your Cheese is to you, the more you want to hold on to it."

Insofar as Cheese == Wi-Fi connection, I couldn't agree more.
You don't think that the pros and cons of different operating systems are germaine to hackers? I don't get it.
I was having a really hard time last week trying to figure out good settings to pass to OpenSSL in 2014. There are quite a few tutorials over years, and as an outsider it's really hard to evaluate the relative benefits.

I'd really love to see a continually updated set of best practices for using OpenSSL for a variety of tasks, like creating a CA, intermediate cert, cert for ssl/tls, etc
I find it interesting that you're response to studying a field that has entire conferences dedicated to it is "So, just do this!"
One might point out that "AWS" isn't down, EC2 in VA is entirely broken for a certain notable section of customers.
Given reddit’s content and its demographic appeal, I’d guess it’s got about as much revenue potential as 4chan, which is to say, barely any at all. Perhaps even less, considering Condé Nast won’t let reddit run ads from the porn sites and male enhancement product vendors that keep 4chan afloat. There’s a reason reddit has to resort to Flash games and lolcats as placeholders for its ad space.
I don't even think that

1) The system only trains PhDs for academic research.

There's lots of research jobs in industry and government, and a PhD is excellent preparation for them. Who else but a PhD-trained researcher would know enough to be able to run the research programs at Intel or Genentech? Come to think of it, who but a PhD-trained researcher would know enough to be able to start a company like Intel or Genentech?
Sadly, that's not allowed :(
4JD=Gjwci(*a^]jcfda.join(',')^]

God this is addicting. Shaved off a few characters.

edit: switch the first three letters to j3D, as 4JD seems to work differently between my two machines.
In my day, the goons were always fighting against the farkers. Ebaumsworlds didnt reach their radar.
I worked with Scheme (a type of Lisp) professionally for over a year and even after heavy usage there were still lots of syntax "speed bumps" like this that slowed me down. I really enjoyed a lot of the concepts of Scheme but the syntax was a bummer and I'm so glad I'm not programming with it anymore. :)
I'm not a fan of people trying to shoehorn arguments (especially: arguments they are losing) into strict logical exercises. It's like a "work to rules" strike, message board style. The point of a message board argument is to influence and communicate and, sometimes, to arrive at a shared understanding of the truth (some topics, subjective ones, don't readily admit to a convergence on "truth" and yet make perfectly fine fodder for an HN discussion). They don't all need to be scored from the Nizkor list.

I'm not saying logical fallacies are all benign, but if you ask me what fallacy annoys me most on HN, it's the fallacy that logical fallicies are themselves invariably germane. They aren't.
There's someone making money off of Android, but it's hardware makers and the cell networks, not Google. What's Android's strategic relevance? More web advertising. Google Voice? Value-add for Android, maybe, but how does it add to their revenue?

I don't think Groupon will necessarily end up bigger than Google, but they may end up fairly comparable. The point is, Groupon is a fairly young startup with some growth left in it and Google is a mature, publicly-traded company. As a business (rather than as a social force or a technical harbinger), Google rounds down to web advertising. To beat Google as a business, you have to beat Google's web advertising. Groupon can do that.
Very appropriately launched on Dec 28th, the Latin version of April's fools.

I think I'll wait for retail :)
I don't think I would call that a fail.

A fail would entail the company not caring about the product it was selling, letting the purchase go through as originally set up, and then disappeared if it turned out to be defective and any attempts to get a refund were denied.

I think what Groupon did was pretty great. They're paying attention and not just trying to get sellers and then forget about them.
His name is "Chet Uber"?!?! He's the ultimate Chet?!?! "Chester Superior"

My uncle Chet is going to raise hell when he finds out there's a Chet claiming to be a better Chet than he.
yeah - it applies to a lot of group dynamics. Working and growing up on a reservation tends to skew my views on immigration.

I had to deal with a lot of studies a decade ago and am not very happy when I see crud like this. It filters into the political arena and some really stupid policies come from this crud (Look at any gun violence study and map its participant's locations or check demos on a lot of polls taken in Florida). The sound bite is more important than the procedure.
Almost every person correctly guessed the number on his or her forehead, or was off only by 1! Could this mean that it wasn’t a game we were playing for the first time? Could it be that we’re playing that game over and over every day?

Really? Maybe it's just that, once everyone knows the rules of the game, they are reasonably successful in communicating a tiny piece of information (a single number) to each other.

This demonstrated that by simply deciding to change my own status and acting accordingly, the other person almost immediately granted me that status and at times, changed their own.

That's because he thought he was supposed to, not because it was necessarily something he would normally have done.
Is the page background indicative of where one's relationship will soon end up after the other partner finds out? :) [Sorry couldn't help myself!]

On a more constructive note, a generic postcard arriving in mail is pretty lame, if I can have live flowers delivered once a month for around 100 bucks per quarter from numerous established players.

Are you planning to offer any sort of customization/tailoring ala birchbox?
I set up a folder for notes that shares across my network using SyncThing and is backed up with a FreeNAS box.

That folder is just a collection of markdown files for each program / system and when I save on one device it updates the documentation on them all.

I use Atom to view and edit them on my Linux machines and a markdown editor app on my phone. This allows me to search across the notes too.

I've had this fairly simple, free, open source setup for years with no problems.
Wasnt there some hints that parts of the leaked PII are more recent?
That is how I use the term culture fit. It doesn't mean do they have the same hobbies, interests, or likes. That isn't important, what I care about is their ability to work with others, respectfully disagree, ignore/cross boundaries to solve problems, admit when they don't know something, be invested in the problems/products they are building/solving. If I just wanted a cog to churn out code that meets requirements I could get that for half the price by outsourcing.
PewDiePie did a music video dissing cocomelon one of the biggest producer of this garbage and youtube pulled his video to protect them, so yeah youtube does not care about any quality control on youtube kids.
This entire discussion is literally about how that's not the case.
People hate on it, but do you know what language would be perfect these days?

Easy shelling - check.

Easily embeddable - check

Easily sandboxable - check.

Reasonably rich standard library - check.

High level abstractions - check.

If you're still guessing what language it is, it's Tcl. Good old Tcl.

It's just that is syntax is moderately weird and the documentation available for it is so ancient and creaky that you can sometimes see mummies through the cracks.

Tcl would pretty much solve all these pipeline issues, but it's not a cool language.

I really wish someone with a ton of money and backing would create "TypeTcl" on top of Tcl (à la Typescript and Javascript) and market it to hell and back, create brand new documentation for it, etc.