jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, there is no exploitation. A driver for uber (or dasher for doordash, or whatever) is legally completely allowed to create their own app to take their own orders. This is because they are independent contractors -- businesses, from a legal perspective, doing business with other businesses. As such, neither uber nor doordash nor anyone else can prevent its ICs from joining other networks (hence why many drive for lyft and uber). It would be exploitation if these individuals were employees, which is what California has recently forced in that state. This state-mandated exploitation is immoral and unjust, because it precludes workers from doing things like this.

In California, now exploited employees would first have to quit their gig job in order to join a new app that benefits them. This creates an artificial moat around starting a new app because often times these individuals would not have enough capital to be able to finance even short periods of unemployment and migration to a new platform. That is really sad.
Yeah, but everybody expected a price drop with new gen, instead we got overpriced TRX40 (compared to high-end x399) and the same number of cores for more $. I get it those cores are much more powerful, but it's still an untypical situation. 2990WX will probably stay at the same level as there is no other choice for x399 owners anyway.
Yes, I share your feelings. That's what I was going for, it's definitely not a "ha ha" sentence. I don't think it's offensive, I think it's a reminder of how this exists and if you're the victim, you have to stop blaming yourself and seek help.
This is why I always export my slides to pdf. (Obviously doesn't work so well if you've got fancy slides.)
Try looking at the comments from a different angle. Instead of grouping them into "pro-NSA" and "anti-NSA" categories, try checking for technical ignorance. Look for ideas about cyberwarfare based on bad analogies with real warfare. Look for a mindset that puts winning an arms race first and never considers ethical implications. Look for vague statements about protecting or harming America that don't explain whether they mean the American military, the civilian government, or ordinary citizens. Look for equation of the NSA's offensive and defensive capabilities.

The other side of the debate has its own poorly reasoned comments. I haven't noticed many on this article yet, but they should arrive soon.

I doubt such comments are written by people with NSA connections, but their sudden appearance is odd. The only other subject that produces so many strongly opinionated, poor-quality comments is systemd.
As someone who has to use Tcl fairly often as part of an FPGA tool chain, this description is accurate.
I think there's a bigger opportunity to minimize emissions by working on digestion and flatulence.
> Maybe the model is biased, how do we know?

There are multiple mutually incompatible metrics of fairness, being unbiased in one makes it biased in others. See e.g. https://www.chrisstucchio.com/pubs/slides/crunchconf_2018/sl...
I agree from a technical POV, but there is a social reason (network effect): Swift has Apple-backing, OCaml is not currently supported by any of the big,
influential software companies. OCaml's main backer now is Jane Street
who do a lot, but is too small, and Facebook's support (via ReasonML)
is too half-hearted to be compelling. As a former OCaml programmer, I
would not currently bank a career or startup on OCaml. Indeed I've
been doing OCaml programming over the last few weeks (and seen the shortcomings of OCaml's current library eco-system vis-a-vis more mainstream languages) in order to
interface with a big existing OCaml development, and they told me they
decided to move to Rust for all future new developments.

I say this with a heavy heart, as somebody who spent his first decade
as a programmer with OCaml.

Interestingly, even in Feb 2021, there is no compelling mainstream alternative to OCaml (in the sense that e.g. Jane Street are using OCaml):
Haskell's being lazy, Java/Scala etc as well as F#/C# being JIT'ed
make performance predictability difficult. Rust does not have this
problem, but for many tasks where software engineering agility is a more
important consideration that extreme performance (which might be most in-house business software?), a GC'ed language
would appear to be more suitable.

(No language war please ...)
If you want a plug-in free solution, you can try the following:

$ exec bash -c ‘source script.sh; exec fish’

This has some caveats and won’t work in all cases (both bass and replay.fish go into more detail), but this is what I use and it hasn’t failed me yet.
I use an ergodox keyboard with a custom Dvorak based layout. Underscore is pretty prominent, analogous to the 4 key with no modifiers.

It makes a huge difference, so much so that using camelCase feels like a huge drag.

Qwerty is frankly awful for programming. I encourage everybody to look into alternate layouts.
> desperate people who've tried mainstream therapies without success

It would be wonderful if we could help desperate people without lying about the expected outcome of alternative treatment.

I don't think anybody will complain if you say something like "maybe you will find this medidation technique makes it easier to deal with your pain".

The problem is when people say "This technique will cure your pain. You only need to give me 5000€. Also, don't bother continuing with chemo, it just interferes with your natural healing powers."
It's 2021 and we still perpetuate the narrative that "Africa" is a country.

The full title is "Jack Dorsey and Jay Z have teamed up to fund Bitcoin development in Africa and India
"

Why then is it not:

"Jack Dorsey and Jay Z have teamed up to fund Bitcoin development in Africa and Asia"

Or:

"Jack Dorsey and Jay Z have teamed up to fund Bitcoin development in Nigeria and India" << This one is accurate

It would never have been:

"Jack Dorsey and Jay Z have teamed up to fund Bitcoin development in Europe and India"
Holy heck. 1972. The year I was born.

And that PDP-11 emulator is a blast.

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In an economy where attention is the currency, someone takes your work and uses it to gather attention to themselves -- attention that would otherwise have been yours.

How is that not stealing?
Take a look at this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDtWxURLlPk (Kids react to old cameras). Take it with a grain of salt, but it amazed me how those kids had no idea what it was and that they were so disappointed by a lot of facts behind those old cameras.
It's worth pointing out that the author of this piece is considered by many to be patent troll.

https://gigaom.com/2011/04/13/419-jay-walker-goes-nuclear-pr...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/04/priceline-founder...
npm ironically also uses Rust https://www.rust-lang.org/static/pdfs/Rust-npm-Whitepaper.pd....
for what it's worth, my company was using this method and we were supporting, I think, ie10 at the time just fine. No issues that I know of.

some advanced features of SVG, such as filters, are very much YMMV to this day. But for simple logos and icons there isn't much to worry about.
Mashallah, congratulations!
My thoughts exactly.

In my opinion, the mid-1990s to mid-2000s were the pinnacle of GUI design, specifically that of stacking window managers, in terms of usability.
This happens when you put idiots in a position of power. I've seen that everywhere in the world, not just in the US.
Marx is bad in theory and bad in practice.

There can be nothing redeeiming about a philosophy that does not treat individuals as ends in themselves.

Such a philosophy will always lead to people and their lives/property being sacrified for "the common good," which means: for everybody and nobody.

Sure, there are different permutations of Marxism. Stalin and Mao may not have done it the way Marx would advocate, but it's still a permutation of Marxism. We see a different permutation of it in Britain and gaining ground in the US. We also saw it on Pol Pot's killing fields. I am not talking about Marxism as a specific political position; I am talking about Marxism as an underlying philosophy.
In case you stumble across this submission, it's been duplicated here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2017000

That one has got some comments, although not many yet.
I use a hashing bookmarklet myself. Only, I wish there was a better algorithm and I think it's wise, at least with an audience like HN, to point the weaknesses of those system. See for instance : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/554224/is-the-bookmarklet...
>Outside of Silicon Valley? Well that's another story.

It's the same here in the Boston area. I suspect it'll be the same at most companies with heavy software work.
The article has the classic issue of a strong degree of selection bias. While MS and Google don't drop hit songs every release, the fact of the matter is neither does every startup.

MS and Google effectively become angel investors in startups of their choosing. This seems like a rational way to spend the money. And given that Apple is dominating the consumer market, giving money back to shareholders indirectly means funding Apple.
Actually, that's not true. Look at the encoding section of the PwdHash USENIX paper. PwdHash returns an ASCII representation (not a hex or base64 encoded string) of the hashed domain name + master password. PwdHash also applies a number of constraints to the returned hash to ensure that the special characters that it does use are legal at most websites.

A typical PwdHash password, with domain name google.com and master password "LetMeIn+123456?" looks like this:

6+LYoE/C0wP8dGPoO

Try it yourself at the pwdhash website.
Here are the results of some sample benchmarks. These are the same as those used in the paper "Regular Expression Matching in the Wild" by Russ Cox [1].

500 MB file, regex: .*$
pcre 31.67 MB/s
re2 242.28 MB/s
pire 756.32 MB/s

500 MB file, regex: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ$
pcre 153.67 MB/s
re2 653.76 MB/s
pire 755.98 MB/s

2 MB file, regex: (\d{3}-|\(\d{3}\)\s+)(\d{3}-\d{4})$
re2 423,76 MB/s
pire 775,89 MB/s

Source: Yandex, the company where PIRE originated. [2] (Russian)

[1] http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html

[2] http://clubs.ya.ru/company/replies.xml?item_no=30753
I've never used it, but Fink (http://www.finkproject.org/) is basically apt for OSX.
Buy company, acquire exclusive rights to technology, dissolve company.
The OPs request is for S3. Especially limiting egress fees and allowing some other fees.

> There's no reasonable way to implement this [...] on any level

That's not true (as OP proposes a reasonable way)
My feeling with this is potentially where small businesses or startups don't want something accidental to incur a stupidly high bill.

But yes, you could set up alerts to monitor when this is likely to occur. But to do this across each service for each reason your bill might spike drastically might be a challenge.

In the linked article the user was alerted, but they were asleep. One of the proposed solutions is to have usage limits which are calculated based on a maximum monthly cost and AWS will work itself within that.
As a coder? Yes. As a manager and conference organizer? No.
> How come the FSF hasn't said anything about why Stallman is back on the board - not even an announcement?

The entirety of the FSF top-tier management resigning over this (the people that actually would do the work of directing staff to put together an announcement, reviewing it, approving it, etc.) probably has some impact on the lack of a coordinate communication campaign from the FSF. The Board (whose also lost at least one member) doesn’t do the day-to-day work, or even directly manage that work.
A union gains leverage by monopolizing the sale of labor to a company; a company gains leverage when they can buy labor elsewhere. If you don’t support the union, you are necessarily chipping away at their monopoly. There’s no action whereby your choice doesn’t change the balance of power between the two.
This is a subtle ad hominem. There are many reasonable people who would describe Stallman's particular pedantry around the definitions of "child" to be pedophilia-apology. Describing anyone who disagrees with you, including the person you're replying to, as "not a reasonable person" is unbecoming of hacker news.

It's also absolutely not libel, and it's rather silly to throw such terms around.
I was shopping around for the m235i, 330i, x1, x2 and similar vehicles. Was rather disappointed about the configuration options, terrible headlights (worse than a prius), unless you pay for the premium. Zillions of options that really should be standard, things like ski pass thru and folding seats, stock radio that was pretty disappointing, and the nav system/idrive was pretty disappointing, much like a 10+ year old smart phone.

The Tesla options were a pleasure, lr, awd, or performance, interior color, exterior color, size of the wheels, and fsd or not.

Saw quite a few horror stories about the "wonder 4 cylinder", plastic timing chain gears, issues with the high pressure fuel pump, and then BMW halved their CPO warranty. One of the bmw forums mentioned a just out of warranty engine check light, going to the dealer, getting the all clear, having the engine sieze the next day, and a $20k bill. Sure it's just a single story, the next day there were 20 pages of similar stories. I had done the research to buy one of the "good" BMWs (the 6 cyclinder, no HFP issues, and no plastic timing chain gears). But then the model 3P came out, drove quite nicely, nice speech recognition, nice nav, and acceleration that puts a smile on my face every damn time.
You can do this by monitoring billing alerts and automatically shutting down non-critical infrastructure you have. "Do everything possible" is up to a customer to define because it depends on their infrastructure, AWS cannot define this in a way that would make anyone happy.
It's definitely not!

I've had some success doing freelancing on Codementor.io after struggling to find clients for years on popular platforms.

I just want to help people get started with freelancing.
"If you don't thing Github cuts the mustard, svn on
Google Code probably won't have problems like this..."

Neither will Mercurial on Google Code ;-)

Disclaimer: I work for google on the Project Hosting product.
Cant see the issues in mobile safari,it throws a 'Bad address, cant open' error.
In the UK there's at least http://www.godine.co.uk, who recently won our local startup of the year:

http://notttuesday.com/2010/11/11/and-the-winner-is/
Here's another possibility for consideration: trained individuals can use physical force equally, if not more, effectively for submission or harm. Do they really need a box cutter or a bomb in order to crash a plane wherever they please?
Don't know why but refreshing fixed this issue for me.

Btw, it's the 2nd or 3rd time i see a link to something on licorize but every time i feel its interface it's a bit hard to "get" and a little confusing (it could be me). What about removing the image list at the bottom (it ruins the layout imho), making the page preview clickable and use more identifiable icons? My €0.02.
Happily there are too many people that haven't heard that things cannot be done, so they attempt... and do them.

To me this seems more like a proof of concept article, yet, it opens an area of research which may in fact succeed after some time. And there are a so many easy ways to make something like this hard to steal- I won't go into details because this is not the important here.
Very cool concept! I may contact you about that backend position. Seems like exactly what I was looking for.
Do we have statistical evidence of this bias? I'm not doubting we do, I would just like to explore it.

There are many professions that are dominated by a single gender or a single ethnicity. That's not necessarily evidence of bias.

There are lots of ways to explore this. For example, sending identical resumes with female and male names for engineering jobs and measuring requests for interviews.
OE isn't about targeted attacks to get your data. This is about raising the cost of bulk eavesdropping. Yes, there are a lot of ways to easily do MitM, but all of those still cost more and have more opportunities for error and detection than a passive tap that is basically a giant tcpdump on the backbone.
Because when you get a subpoena for everyone's email, it's less disruptive fetching it off the mail server than taking the hard drives out of everybody's workstations.
So that's who wrote that finger-crippling macro. It all makes sense now.
I had been holding out until the next iMac refresh to buy a new computer; the 27inch screen and the Core i7 were pretty darn attractive.

However,a server model paired with two cheap 22inch screens tempts me greatly, given the smaller dent on my wallet...
Would you sacrifice your father, mother, sister, brother, etc, to save the Mona Lisa?

Would you allow a type of fish to go extinct because some eccentric billionaire has a grudge against it and offers to end world hunger if you do?

Not easy questions, and clearly not all "priceless" things are equal. But if you go about ranking things and comparing how much you want one thing or another, you're basically giving it a price.

A loaf of bread isn't "worth" $4. It being $4 just means that you would like a loaf of bread approximately as much as a venti frappuccino, or that you'd be willing to work 15 mins (if you make $16/hr) for it.

So, yes, I could assign dollar amounts to all of those questions.

Think of it this way: What positive thing would you see done in exchange for the burning of the Mona Lisa? Nothing at all, really? You wouldn't have us land a man on Mars? Surely that would be as historic and beautiful as the Mona Lisa. What about free art supplies for life for an entire generation? Maybe that would inspire some artist to create something as breathtaking as the Mona Lisa.

Now, once you have that minimum positive thing, ask how much it costs. (e.g. free art supplies for life for a generation: 100M people * $250/yr * 80 yrs = $2T.) That's the worth of "priceless" Mona Lisa.
Worked temporarily. Google appealed that case and won: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-google-bot...
once upon a time I thought about making an analytics app.

doing the math though, it must be so hard to get traction in this space. it's an expensive / risky business to run (1 hour of downtime will piss off ALL your customers), but at the same time I think on the low end of the pricing scale, demand is going to be very elastic. If you're charging $50 a month for an analytics app, people will always compare you to Google Analytics, and side with the latter since it's free.

Getting into the analytics game is only worth it if you know how to sell to enterprise, IMO and you can sign up large organisations for 6-figure license fees. More likely to exit from that kind of scenario, too.

That said, I wish Mixpanel and KISSmetrics the best of luck. No doubt they have good products, I just wonder whether the SME market is receptive to boutique analytics apps like these at the kind of scale necessary to make the business viable.
The 3.5 inch figure represents the floppy, remember that? :)
A "3.5in HDD" is a hard disk that fits into the bay originally designed to hold a drive for 3.5" floppy disks.
Actually, several Conservative MPs and at least one Government MP have spoken out against the Internet filter. I don't know why they chose to go with a Greens Senator.
The idea that extinction doesn't directly effect us presumes that we don't live in a complex system where ecological changes can have unpredictable, possibly dire consequences.
This should not be taken lightly, your life is effected by this since you mentioned you cannot sleep at night, nor exercise not drive. As the company advances your duties will increase and personal time gone.

Best thing would be to raise this with your manager, if no real action is taken then leaving or changing team is an option.

Being oncall and paid for it is much better. Here your personal time being lost with no compensation is simply not worth it. In fact if you don't respond in time it may reflect badly on you.

There is an approach that can be taken to focus sprints on only improving oncall but it requires management buy in. How bad is it? Is it something out of your teams control or is it something if you spend an hour over you can fix for good?
SpaceX had their big contract with NASA structured as a fixed price contracts. Most other contracts are cost plus, where the contractor gets paid for their costs plus an additional percent for profit.

It shouldn't be surprising that traditional program costs have not come down, since the more you spend the more you make.
I'm relatively new to haskell, but I appreciate the generous use of namespaces in the library. My perception is that there are lot of letters being appended and prepended to function names to inform their use in Haskell where qualifying the import and using the namespace might be cleaner (particularly when there isn't any ambiguity).
You really shouldn't trust Alexa's numbers for anything.
Maybe, if you assume this is a clubhouse only for hackers. I think the purpose is more like "news that would be of interest to hackers", which implies others could have interest in the same topics. If a recruiter posted in this thread it certainly wouldn't be out of place.
That book is by Johnson's protege and successor, this one is by Kelly himself:

http://www.amazon.com/Kelly-More-Than-Share-All/dp/087474491...

Both are amazing stories.
> "User Engagement Triples"

Overly vague. Does that mean 3 times the page views? Nothing much seems to have changed on any traffic measuring sites (quantcast, alexa, etc).
T61 on Xubuntu 14.10 working great! Like others though, there is always a 'but':

-correctly installed and configured Thinkfan to control fan speed. The default is a bit annoying.
Add some legal pot and it will all be forgiven and forgotten.
I think offensive vs defensive is a very easy choice. We want to prevent our systems from being compromised, but don't have any business provoking attacks by breaking into systems. Invest in defense.
I have Awesome window manager and Firefox with the Pentadactyl (and previously Vimperator) plugin.

I use Awesome's tag system extensively. When tabs aren't in use, the task list then looks and works like tabs - that is they are lined up across the top and you can click on them.

Not only do you get the benefit of the tagging, Awesome can be controlled completely by keyboard. I have mine setup to use Vi-style keybindings. Combine that with both Firefox and tmux using Vi-style keybindings, and you get a really cohesive, reinforcing keyboarding system.

It works great on my netbook for a couple of extra reasons: Firefox's chrome in this setup takes up about 20 pixels (for the status bar, and even that can be hidden if you want), and I don't have to use the horrible trackpad nearly as much.

I do prefer this, but I should point out that there are a few of gotchas to working without tabs. First, Firefox 3.6 is much slower opening a window than a tab. Firefox 4 improves this quite a bit, but it's not yet stable. Second, the Vimperator/Pentadactyl keystroke for opening a window takes two keys (";w") instead of one ("f"); this is probably fixable, but I haven't done it yet. Third, I haven't found a way to make a window open in the background yet; that means to open a window, it's ";w [link]...[mod+j]" - I open a new window then switch back to what I opened it from.
When we get users like this at TekPub we kindly refund all of their money and cancel their service - life is too short to deal with assholes.