jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Would be cool to see how often they communicate, and what data is exchanged. Also, what bandwidth and the time it takes to arrive back here.
Why do roofs need replacement? Cant they make more durable roofs? Is it the rain? (Never had to deal with such problems so have no idea)
That's fair, but we have our share of blame for letting this get out of control. We knew what this virus could do as well, and instead of acting accordingly we're just not.
You can't prove a negative.

There's not been any documented occurrences of it. But most people probably don't know how they got infected either.
AIDS is not a pandemic. Pandemic requires epidemic, which requires rapid spread in a short period of time. AIDS has been slow. Calling it a pandemic is, IMO, motivated by politics (it mostly affects male homosexuals and sub-Saharan Africans). Ctrl-F for my discussion elsewhere in this thread.
See the authors list. One of them, Zhengli-Li Shi, moved to Wuhan (of all places) and continued the research there after it was banned by US government.
I remember reading once they generate more a G of force just letting off the accelerator. Back in the day, Nigel Mansell had to leave for a few months for an injury. His next race back he retired because his neck muscles had lost conditioning despite working out every day.
I'm chilean, working from home for american clients, I have never been really interested in the local startup scene because, well, there was nothing of that a few years ago really, but things are changing and I'm glad we now have this initiatives and we're slowly starting to attract talent! we got the infrastructure but what we really need is to attract foreign talent / entrepreneurs, and to _keep_ good local talent. I wish you the best!
In the case of this story, it's not what they drew while they were in a clinically insane state, but what doors that state opened for later sober pondering. Which may or may not have been productive.
That's great! I lived in Chile for six months in 2009 and loved it. Startup community there is thriving too.
"Like a mad Klingon"

I was just thinking the other day about terms like "ninja", "pirate", and "rockstar" that are so played out at this point they make me cringe whenever I hear them. Isn't there something fresh to convey the concept of being a badass? "Klingon" works pretty nicely. For now at least.
I predict that LSD will become much more popular in the near future due to services like The Silk Road and Bitcoins. While other drugs can be detected quite easily in mail with scanners and such, LSD in plotter form can't be detected without actually opening every letter.
I've found the opposite case when advertising my app on both networks. Conversions were about the same, but cost per click was about 4x on google. Its a $4.99 one off payment app, so its possible different revenue models find one or the other better for their use.
After years of being away from Linux, I decided to give it another go with the latest Kubuntu a few days ago.

After a painless install I ended up being at the computer all day and up until 2am, obsessively tweaking and trying new stuff. I can't believe how much I miss it.

Btw, I was into redhat (circa 5.2) and Slackware, reconfiguring and recompiling the kernel over and over. Making the OS wicked-fast. The experience is even better now. Awesome!
Technically it was bought for Google services and data collection in mobile space, that's inside their control.
I wonder if it's related to this workaround that allowed access to some Google IPs to bypass the captive portal, which someone managed to then use to access app engine, and a proxy running there to reach the entire internet: http://bryceboe.com/2012/03/12/bypassing-gogos-inflight-inte...

quote from that article:

"There is, of course, one other possible solution: Gogo could man-in-the-middle the desired Google web services in order to perform filtering on the HTTP host header. However, this approach could have unforeseen consequences. Therefore, I do not recommend it."
It's absolutely regrettable. If this was legit, it would mean that the browser would be faster, the user experience would be better, and developers would be another tiny step closer to having an easier time of things when working in IE. I don't feel sorry for Microsoft here, but I'm a web developer, and I want fast, continually-improving browsers to code against.
I switched my blog to disqus, on wordpress, because I thought it would help increase interactions since it has all these hooks into other services.

Surprisingly, it did not.

I guess people will leave a comment regardless of what commenting system you use.

That being said. I love disqus. You can build interactions into any webpage in a matter of seconds.

Ps. If disqus admins are reading this. Please do some testing around importing comments from wordpress blogs with lots of comments... I emailed you guys about this before.. Just a reminder...
Things may be a little crazy, but I don't see $10M (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20013223-36.html) as just a signing bonus.
Hhmmm, is there an option for round trips?
This tweet was a joke, why did this get up voted?
I'm really sorry for not being able to back you. In fact, I don't even have a credit/debit card! Else, I would've helped.. So, sorry about it.. but I tweeted it..
Agreed. C++ is more like Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C than "C with classes".

Blatantly plagarized from: http://www.cvaieee.org/html/humor/programming_history.html
>> they don't make it easy to figure out what exactly you're getting in the very beginning

I've bought computers from both Dell and Apple, and I think their sites are about the same. If you go to the Dell site, right off the bat, you can choose whether it's a home or a business computer. Then you can pick based on rough specs and price, and then customize from there. Which is not to say you have to customize. You don't. Same with Apple.

The main difference was my mentality when choosing who to buy from. With Dell, I wanted to customize. With Apple I wanted to not have to care. I think generally that's the main determining factor when people choose a manufacturer.
Consensus of what? That early miners could mine a bit coin everyday and now you have to mine for 3 months to find one?
You could have the system reserve a little tiny bit of extra memory (somewhat similar to the "disk space reserved for root" in ext2) that it would only ever hand out in response to malloc() attempts inside a SIGNOMEM handler.

You're right, though; metadata on the allocations themselves marking them as release-on-memory-pressure would be much better.
Reading this also reminds me of Balzac's Lost Illusions. I highly recommend it to anybody who thinks that what's going on is anything new:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusions_perdues
http://www.salon.com/2005/08/08/balzac/
No. ipv6 if you don't have enough ipv4 addresses.
> This doesn't mean that you can just cross the street wherever and whenever you may please, neither does it mean that you can actually walk in the street.

Yes, that's exactly what I meant. I couldn't find it when this discussion was going on, but last time I looked at the Swedish law it said something like this about pedestrians: Pedestrians may travel wherever and whenever, except on motorways. If there is a dedicated pedestrian walkway nearby, it is recommended to use it. If there is a pedestrian crossing signal, and it is red, it is strongly recommended not to cross.

I.e. pedestrians have right of way always, outside motorways, and may walk on the street as they please.
Hell yes :)

Bitcoin is similar to a pyramid scheme. Started mining early? You are rich! Started mining yesterday? you are screwed. And the more people get interest, the more fopping rich (i still think bitcoins have zero value), increasing value their mined coins will have.

Don't be so naive please.
"Developer, developers, developers."

But imagine picking up an original iPhone today and comparing it to v6. Now imagine HoloLens going through that refinement process.

If the platform is as powerful as it sounds, and you can openly develop software which effectively leverages that platform, how is that not awesome?

I mean, it's an entirely new hardware form factor that we all get to hack on and play with, and it's not a sure thing, but if it goes well, it could become mainstream and open an entirely new era of computing.

That's the vision anyway... like I said, I'll choose to believe the hype because it's more fun that way.

Thinking about the design a bit, it's interesting all the compute is on the band, and not broken out to a separate box communicating over wireless. They mention fans blowing hot air away from your head, and then add in the battery too... how long can it run?

I think their use cases are a little weak. There are much more impressive things you could do with this kit.

Also, what does it look like in a dark room?
Surely at this level of traffic it would make sense to get in contact with your provider and see if they can block it upstream?
My best understanding from the posting is that it's going to be a "stable" version of the "Haskell Platform" set of packages.

Haskell has been notorious for moving (too?) fast while not maintaining decent backwards/forwards compatibility, a problem made worse by some tooling issues ("cabal hell"). Now most of the technical issues should be solved.
Not pushed out so much as sidelined -- it was clear that she was never going to get promoted beyond where she already was at Google, so if she ever wanted to move up she had to move out.
I'm curious, how did you trawl through odesk to find a designer worth a damn? The place is just overflowing with bodies, all of them (that I've seen) completely talentless.
I can already ask my friends if I want information that they may have. More over, there are at least a dozen ways I can do so in a medium that's not littered with daily horoscopes, stupid quizzes, Farm Mafia Mob Zombie Fish Wars, and photos of pets from people I barely knew in high school. Search engines are for things my friends don't know, or for those times when I don't want to bother those friends, because I know they're busy with more important things to do than sit on Facebook all day long.
There's a neat subculture of RC who do some amazing DIY work known as "FPV" or first person view.

Basically they hand build RC aircraft to carry a payload of onboard electronics, and also ground stations with aircraft tracking antenna from which they pilot and record their flights.

The legality of this varies from country to country, however as hackers of their discipline, some of these guys are particularly impressive:

http://vimeo.com/riscyd/videos/sort:date
Cool, worked with Chile! Too bad all cellphones here have the same area code.
I wish there was a good way to find designers that are trying to build a portfolio or just like making stuff for the hell of it. I hack around on weekend projects for fun all the time, but I don't have much desire to start a business or try to make it big -- it would be nice if there was a good way to find like-minded designers that would throw together a logo or color scheme.
Can you provide a reference to this info? So you can't buy this for comercial purposes?
Replace "novice designer" with "people in general".

I've been having an ongoing fight with a colleague who insists we should redo the design to a completely new theme before launch, with the rationale that it's "ten lines of CSS".

Part of the problem is that one of the qualities of good design is that it looks obvious and effortless. I have spent hours sometimes fine tuning micro-details to get just the right feel. The result of these hours of work is that it looks like it took less time rather than more - the longer I spend, the less time people assume it took :-)

(FWIW, I'm no designer, just a developer who has to put that hat on every now and then).
I'd sooner blame the "choices" of food we eat.
I used to work at DigitalOcean. Can confirm we didn't think a lot about Linode. We saw AWS as the real competitor. If there was someone in the VPS market we respected and tried to emulate it would have been OVH, not Linode.
I understand why Facebook is useful and fun for many, I don’t understand how it could replace a search engine. Facebook can certainly shoulder some traditional search engine tasks – looking for people, say, or asking questions you know your friends can answer – but that is far from the majority of things I use a search engine for.

Just looking at my search history, how can Facebook tell me how many calories 100g pasta with tomato sauce have? How can Facebook tell me how VAT and inflation are connected? Does Facebook know what a clathrate compound is? Is Facebook supposed to know when Civ 5 for the Mac is coming out?
RANT to follow, feel free to ignore:

It feels like this story is being spun to raise "serious questions about the federal government's nuclear weapons management" by Mother Jones and others, as well as to demean hackers.

From my three minutes of research, it looks like Fogbank is a material that is used in just three models of nuclear warheads, one of which, W76, is used on a the Ohio class of nuclear submarine. More to the point this is a story about refurbishing a device that is 20-30 years old. One weapon in the nuclear arsenal, the W76 nuclear warhead, is due to be refurbished and one component is not readily available since they shut the manufacturing plant down 21 years ago. And now that they tried to make the component again, they have run into some problems since no one has manufactured this stuff for 20+ years. The stuff is a nightmare to make--they had to evacuate the manufacturing facility three times in one year alone. (Has your office ever been evacuated three times in a year so you wouldn't DIE?)

This story angle(and its related links) is really about pundits who NEVER DID ANYTHING HARD mocking nuclear engineers who are trying to remanufacture something from the past, essentially from scratch.

"Tee hee, they're so dumb they forgot how to make the atom bomb." No. They are trying to make component to a discontinued 30-year-old nuclear warhead. I would love to have one of this guys fix my grandmother's 600lb. RCA Color TV, the one in her living room in the gigantic wooden furniture case. All they have to do is order a new cathode ray tube...oh wait...they don't make them anymore for that, now what? These critics are guys whose knowledge of electronics extends to (possibly) being able to use a light switch, and who have never MADE anything their entire lives that involves science, math, or reality. So what's my point? (Following is NOT directed at F. Pohl, I know nothing about him:) Maybe in Science Fiction Land, old crap is easy to fix, maybe your robot girlfriend could even do it for you---but in the real world, complex old junk and old codebases and anything that comes from intelligent, creative lifeforms does not get fixed by squirting stuff on it that you can get out of a toothpaste tube you can buy at Wal-mart. And frankly, my guess that if they spent $60-100 million dollars to create this new facility and make juicy new Fogbank, it is LESS than the cost would have been to keep the old facility open for 20-30 years until now. A top secret nuclear weapons manufacturing facility? What do you think that costs to run per year? (The Microsoft Ultra Top Secret Software licenses alone probably run into the millions per year.)

They won't reveal what Obama's last junket to India cost (and/or Bush before him), but if it was in the $5-10 million dollar per day range (that was the latest figure, I saw quoted, and verified by snopes) times 10 days and there goes the Fogbank budget. Pffft.

Hasn't Obama heard of Skype? Sheesh.
I've also stopped using for a few months and found more time and focus without it.
YNAB is excellent - its design forces people to budget properly.

It also lets you track all expenses and let’s you keep lifestyle inflation in check.

I’ve found it well worth it (and I’m pretty responsible financially).

Mint on the other hand is totally useless.
> Imaging paying 10%+ of your salary just for health insurance

I decided to actually look at my budget from the last year and see how this compares to my costs.

In Australia I pay about ~28% of my salary in tax. 2% is for medicare, and I have private health insurance on top of that for roughly the same cost again (for dental, which isn't covered in our system because of dentists lobbying an exception back in the 80s). You still have to pay part of most costs in Australia, looking at my budget that's come out to about another ~1% of my income in the past year.

So I pay 5% of my salary for health services. It's pretty much inline with other costs like food and utilities. Doubling it to 10% would be doable, but it would suck.

It seems that the US system doubles the cost and the extra money serves as the very healthy profit margin of their private health industry. Keep in mind Australia manages to sustain a private health sector off that 5%, this isn't abolishing private health by any means.

A proper government health system could probably be even cheaper than the 5% I pay because the US has much better economies of scale. Not to mention the benefit of untying it from employment.

I'm not really making a point here, your comment just inspired me to compare the numbers and it sure is grim...
pull request time? a teacher might have a lot of influence on that team.
> "whatsapp also _is_ basically the Internet"

this is the best description I've read so far.
The various billings groups, cards, keys, accounts, phone apps is frustrating, but I don't see any drive to unify this. Electric vehicles are becoming mainstream, and I think regular customers will find the various providers confusing. For example, I planned to do some shopping at a place where I knew they had free charging. I figured I would be in the store for about 2 hours, which for a 22kW charger should have fully charged the car. Despite being relatively tech-savvy, I wasn't aware that my 120kW limit applied only to DC charging, and not AC charging, so it was reduced to 11kW. Which it only did for 5 minutes because apparently I needed to navigate to a website and 'ok' it online for it to continue.

Until a non-tech savvy person can simply drive up and pay for the electricity like at any other petrol station, EVs are going to run into some serious issues and disappointed customers. At the moment it works for those who are willing to put the effort in.
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I'll also chip in. I'm working for Nexedi in France and we're probably one of Europe's largest open source publishers.

We're doing strictly FLOSS software and earn our living by (1) customizing solutions for industrial clients and (2) participating in R&D projects. Our main product is ERP5 (think open source SAP) - https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/erp5.
Other solutions are built on top, such as SlapOS (ERP for cloud orchestration) - https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/slapos or Wendelin (ERP for big data)- https://lab.nexedi.com/nexedi/wendelin

We're recruiting mostly for our R&D projects, since it's a good way to familiarize yourself with our stack - https://stack.nexedi.com/

One project is https://www.osie-project.eu/ - building an open source/open hardware framework for industrial automation and robotics
Another one is https://www.cython.plus/ - trying to port multi-core concurrent programming from Golang to Python.
Third project about deploying SlapOS on swarms of drones has no site online yet as we just started.

We have also launched a hyper-open cloud provider, called https://www.rapid.space/ - hyper-open meaning open source, open hardware & open service. One other notable for Rapid.Space is the upcoming release of our openRRH project through the free software endowment fund we're working to establish - https://www.fdl-lef.org/

Albeit all of this, we're still only a small team of about 40 scattered across the globe. Our main offices are in Lille, Munich and Tokio. Our learning curve is quite steep, so pre-Covid it always helped to have new Nexedians start out in one of our offices or at least spent a few months with us. Depending on your topic and Covid, remote work is not a problem. Aside from this, we have a flat hierarchy and expect everyone to be able to work autonomously. If this is not your thing, you'll have a hard time here. We're also obviously opinionated about open-source, our stack is mostly Python and Javascript and we only use Chromebooks (with our own OS). We're free of VC-funding to keep our solutions free, the downside being that we don't have the marketing budget for flashy sites and large communities. C'est la vie as we say in France :)

If you're interested, our current offers are on https://nexedi.com/jobs , my mail is on my profile. Thanks!
You definitely could do that to my recollection, I remember doing so to ferry files around.

Here's an apple support doc showing how:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201544
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No. They're both "reserved" loop-back addresses, but 127.0.0.1 has more cultural/conventional weight for this explicit purpose and also avoids any possible semantic overloads with dotted-quad zero and/or null values.
Beyond ideology, this series can help entrepreneurs in regions where VCs are highly conservative and bootstrapping is the only way you can even take risky business decisions.
Stop working for agencies and work with the end clients. You'll have to work harder to find clients but you will be valued and will make more money.
In South Korea, Google's market share is below 5%, and Naver gets more than 80% of search queries. I think this is the reason why Google's search results for Korean contents are not as good as contents in other languages.
I'm not sure how this is the top comment. Or people are really cynical these days.
Anyway, this is really about stopping desert expansion, something brought on - as far as I know - mostly by climate change.
Of course whatever faults the people of Africa may have, causing global climate change isn't one of them?
Looks like a nifty site - the site design is really cute :) Unfortunately, since I'm not a renter, I had to Firebug your form out of the way since I didn't want to enter inaccurate info.

Hope you get your four users :)

BTW, on http://www.rightrental.com/properties, there is a layout bug with FF 3.6.8 on Windows 7: 46 Richmond Avenue is messed up. Can't see anything wrong in the markup, but it happens even with JS off...
I did not have too hard a time. But the sentence is not a model of clarity.
You can even get rid of the lambdas, with SKI calculus. (And the I in SKI calculus is also unnecessary.)
I can't forget that time when a London taxi driver made a killing with me by in an unexpected city tour. I took a taxi at Victoria Station and told the driver to take me to Kennington tube station. I'm not a native English speaker, and the guy understood Canning Town, which is located approximately at the other side of the city, so I had to point it out on his map and cross the city again.
Because if everyone used SQLite there would be no second implementation, which is something that is necessary for a proposed standard to become an actual standard.
Right, it's not really supposed to be used, but it's impressive and interesting in the same way that e^πi = -1 is.
Also I think IndexDB might turn out to be yet another compatibility headache because everybody will be creating their own implementation (I'm pretty sure there will be at least 3 - Microsoft, Mozilla & Webkit). It's a speculation but most likely this wouldn't be an issue with Web SQL DB because everybody would just use the same SQLLite backend.

For a proposed web standard to become an actual web standard there need to be at least two implementations. This is a good, healthy thing. There was going to be no second implementation of Web SQL, so it was never going to become a standard.
Then you have no idea who Hackers are.