jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How much more difficult is using liveinternet.ru, out of curiosity? Google analytics got popular because all you had to do was paste a single line to the bottom of your site and google would handle the rest.
Yep, it's my opinion, and that's why I put it into the design. Lots of language design comes from opinions. I hope it's borne out. FWIW it's the same approach Rust has taken, where macros have to end with a ! to make them visually distinct.
That's not the main thing that float does for you. Massive positive cash flow as a result of operational dynamics means that you if you happen to have explosive growth you can fund it out of your cash flow rather than having to go begging on Sand Hill to pay for your rocket fuel, like many tech companies.

Might as well give two examples of how it looks like with different business models:

+ SaaS is often cash-flow negative if you're doing month-to-month billing, since cost of customer acquisition (marketing spend + sales commission) is routinely 4~8 months of billings. If you increase MRR by $100k in a month you're doing great, unless you don't have $500k in the bank account, in which case you just bankrupted yourself.

+ E-commerce: If you're in a model where you actually hold inventory, it is very possible to need to pre-purchase a large amount of inventory in advance, occasionally on non-favorable credit terms (like e.g. cash before delivery), prior to being able to sell it. Many of the great e-commerce businesses are built on various hacks which flip this cash flow cycle around. Amazon, for example, was famous for (ab-)using traditionally prevailing payment terms in book publishing which are hilariously in the favor of retailers ("We'll just give you free inventory and only ask you for money if you sell it." "OK. Tell you what, how about we sell it, only then even take delivery, and then pay you." "My, you tech people sure don't understand how this game works. OK, sounds great.") -- that's one of the reasons they picked books as their first base of operations.
Saying they should is the easy response, and will surely receive many upvotes, but my point was it's hard to judge them. I suspect many people here would hesitate to open up like that if in a similar position. Facebook is a business after all.
Perhaps offtopic: Is web scraping a desired skill in the job market? Asking because unemployed.
I prefer name-brand flying spaghetti monsters actually.
oh! Thanks! I didn't realize that those images were 15 times larger as pngs than they would be as jpgs! I'll fix that right away!
Do you get the karma data by scraping pages, or by calling apis or a combination?
If you do a google search to find out who this guy is you'll discover that this story has been copied in a number of different answer sites and blogs for the last 5 years.

But no info on who this is or the backstory on the context of why he got shot.
Congratulations to Instagram!

> We decided that if we were going to build a company, we wanted to focus on being really good at one thing. We saw mobile photos as an awesome opportunity to try out some new ideas. We spent 1 week prototyping a version that focused solely on photos. It was pretty awful. So we went back to creating a native version of Burbn. We actually got an entire version of Burbn done as an iPhone app, but it felt cluttered, and overrun with features. It was really difficult to decide to start from scratch, but we went out on a limb, and basically cut everything in the Burbn app except for its photo, comment, and like capabilities. What remained was Instagram. (We renamed because we felt it better captured what you were doing -- an instant telegram of sorts. It also sounded camera-y)

http://www.quora.com/Instagram/What-is-the-story-behind-Inst...
And how silly does that look in hindsight? Person of the year, really?
So would you say there's now a greater efficiency to your social interactions knowing that they are, for the most part, more uncommon? There could be something to be gained by learning not to take personal transactions for granted, but I'm curious as to whether there's any proof/metrics for that.

Also, playing devil's advocate, but I don't see how the online shopping experience is any better - sure, there isn't human pressure, but there's targeted advertising and dark patterns. It's unlikely to be served an ad AFK that knows your browsing patterns, preferences, etc.
This list is missing Tridge!
> Being polite to them and treating them equally as another human goes a long way.

Yeah, but it goes a longer way to make sure they're paid a living wage for their work, and that they're not being exploited by you or their employer (by not paying into their Social Security, say).

Part of the class weirdness around these jobs comes from the way the rich want people to do them, but they don't really want to pay what it would cost to have someone do them legally. So a whole gray market emerges of companies offering cheaper cleaning services by taking advantage of workers who don't have a lot of options, due to things like not being fluent in the local language or lacking proper immigration documents.

Homejoy's particular dodge to keep costs down is insisting its cleaners aren't actually employees of Homejoy; by classifying them as independent contractors, Homejoy can skip out on all sorts of expenses, like paying the minimum wage, providing health and retirement benefits, and reimbursing them for work-related expenses they pay out of pocket. Homejoy cleaners actually just launched a lawsuit against the company to challenge their classification -- see http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Homejoy-Postmate....
From the other side:

I worked for one of the on-demand valet services in SF for a few months a few months ago. Basically I loitered around on the street all day, waiting for my company-issued iPhone to send me running or biking to either pick up someone's car or return it.

What was driven (ba-dum) home to me was how buildings in a city are built defensively, to keep out the riff-raff (myself being a member of such).

The implications are somewhat worrying.
I think the GP's point was that you can't mock out the computer chip's opcodes.
Fine, you can always find a defense, but my basic point is that PHP forces you to find them all. Many languages do not threaten to undermine very reasonable code in entirely unreasonable ways.

I thought PHP would be great, when I was a junior sysadmin with programming aspirations and that CGI stuff looked like a hot mess. Today, I recognize it as a fractal of bad design.

http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Now that .NET is going open source, I wouldn't be surprised if JetBrains came up with some good cross-platform IDE for C# and the rest of the gang
Yes, I would prefer the US government to require that prefix.
umatrix is dead by the way
I'm sure those people driving dangerously are just trying to get home a little quicker. I'd rather get home alive.

I'll sacrifice a little extra time commuting to see my family again another day.
I'm sure they were picked specifically because they sound bad. Using only the the first letter would probably work for the US (e.g. kbytes) since it wouldn't step on SI's toes.
To anyone else who was wondering what Tai Le is:

The Tai Le script, or Dehong Dai script, is a Brahmic script used to write the Tai Nüa language spoken by the Tai Nua people of south-central Yunnan, China
My top issue with Zoom, which I find absolutely aggravating, is that most of the time there is a scheduled meeting window, and once it's over, the meeting is closed, and there is no way to continue a conversation with someone you are interested in conversing with. It resembles a prison visit more than a community meeting.
Have we flattened the curve yet?
Turkey successfully made US tech giants comply to Turkish law by banning purchase of ads from non compliant ones and threatening with accumulating fines and progressive bandwidth throttling.
Yes, that’s my point. The person I was responding to wrote that Mon to Fri schedules for everyone are nice since they don’t have to sync schedules with friends and family, but that luxury of not syncing obviously doesn’t apply to people who have to work Fri afternoon to Sun night (and holidays).
More freedom as long as you run on AWS. Or did they release this?
>Who cares about gold? Who cares about avoiding math? Not me. I guess I am no Austrian for those reasons.

The people who wrote those books that you said would support your argument certainly do.

>I’ll be happy to get my (Of course discredited) books out and recite the counter case about the Great Depression if anybody really wants me to later

>I do care, however, about restraining the inflationary tendencies of governments because I believe they are an engine of wealth redistribution from the poor to the rich and powerful.

Are you basing this belief on anything other than gut feelings and the work of Austrian economists who's books you've read? von Mises is an absolute crackpot, but he does a very good job of making you "feel" that his arguments are valid.

>And sure, I suppose I do care about avoiding mathematical naval gazing, or statistical hackery.

That's different than the Austrian position that mathematical analysis is impossible and harmful. Without accepting the basic premise of Austrian economics that "no measurement is possible" and everything can be derived from the first principle of "humans acting with purpose", the rest of their "proofs" are worthless. You can't just accept (and cite) their arguments while also acknowledging the fundamental flaws with the axioms they use to reach their conclusions.
MySQL 8 aleviate that problem, although it's not perfect it's better than before: https://mysqlserverteam.com/mysql-8-0-innodb-now-supports-in...
What's with the capitals? The "fiat" in "fiat money" is neither an acronym nor an Italian automobile manufacturer. (The Italian automobile manufacturer, OTOH, is an acronym, just like "OTOH". One stands for "on the other hand"; the other for "Fabricca Italiana de Automobili, Torino".)
It also used to be an empire, that's gone.
I agree with you that borrowing when needed is good, but excessive borrowing can create crisis. Karl Marx did foresee this:

Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

Karl Marx, Das Kapital, 1867

Another citation here:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/01/faux-mar...

Edit: markup
For me, Linux didn't cut it with application support to become my primary OS. Even dual-boot was a hassle.
Microsoft Office, Adobe CS, Solidworks, ACAD, etc. aren't supported, and although Ubuntu has come a long way so far, the UX is still somewhat lacking.

Granted, I'm virtualizing Ubuntu right now for dev. It integrates seamlessly, and has been working beautifully so far.
Unions continue to destroy this town to this day. I'm not saying that Carnegie was pure unadulterated evil. But he's not the purely good man that TFA holds him up to be, either. That's all.
Same thing happened to me recently. I find the interview goes much smoother and both parties feel more satisfaction about the interaction if the interview is more free-style where we talk about relevant interests, experiences, and skills.
I'm not the OP, but if she is already having medical problems then the new plan would likely refuse to cover it because it's a pre-existing condition.
Greys are actually the best for UI design. Think Apple, Gmail Buttons, HN!
I'd often argue that it's not an improvement: at least when there's a baton hitting you in the face, it's a clear threat.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/evgeny_morozov_is_the_inte...
What were the implications of knowing the _callback parameter?
Switzerland has been around as a (relatively) small government democracy for quite a while. There are regular direct democracy polls on spending and taxes.
Only around 30k for a 50 chip sample
Yes, it's another way to interpret his choice. "Satoshi being a member of the Cypherpunk" is only one possibility. It's entirely possible that he wasn't active at all, and his familiarity of Cypherpunks was from his learning, not from the participation.
I've got it. We'll create a _new_ spec and design it right this time. It'll support split ordered lists, and table colspan, image size attributes, and definitely templating - cause what we really wanna do is programmatically generate this stuff, amiright!?
Even for live broadcast, how can a few integer instructions matter? If you have to compare timestamps every audio sample, that's a few multiplications every 22 microseconds (common denominator can be computed once). Or am I completely off here?
I doubt there is a single correct answer to your question. That said, two things come to mind...

First, commercial software used to be very anti open source. See [1]. As a result, there can be distrust & skepticism when commercial companies get involved in open source.

Second, there are a range of “open source” licenses reflecting a broad spectrum of values and beliefs about how much code should be shared and with what restrictions/obligations. So, people enter into the discussion from a variety of view points. Some people only use GPL or AGPL software and won’t participate in online forums unless the forum software is released under those licenses. People in that group might feel excluded from OpenTeams in the same way someone who is a strict vegan might feel excluded at a vegetarian restaurant.

[1]: “Balmer: ‘Linux is a Cancer’” (2001), https://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_...
Great work. Let over politicized countries fight each other while the rest of the world moves ahead.

>“The Chinese Communist Party is trying to circumvent our export control system to support national security threats like Huawei - we cannot let it succeed,” Representative Mike Gallagher, a Republican from Wisconsin, told Reuters.

I mean, one cannot make this more obvious. The rest of the world really doesn't want to be subservient to US paranoia
It's not a crime, it's policy. China has special lines at airports for the speedy transportation of organs.
Can you "physically own" Bitcoin? Or what does "physically own" mean exactly? I kind of understand what "physically own" gold means, but not sure it means the same as "physically own" Bitcoin.

Getting downvoted on this. I am not complaining about the downvotes, but seriously, please enlighten me...
By making any case other than robust worker rights and fair compensation, they have demonstrated their culture and priorities as a corporation. But, by all means, I agree that one shouldn't stop their enemy when they're pointing a gun at their feet (edit: to clarify, this implies Amazon is making a strategic failure by fighting unionization efforts, at it reflects poorly on them).
The section on concurrency is a hilarious joke that deftly dodges the obvious drawback of Python's concurrency model while peppering the reader with distracting solutions built on top of multi-processes or single threads. What is missing here? True, multi-threaded (at the OS level) concurrency.

We're engineers here so let's be real and recognize that different tools are suited to different tasks. Limiting oneself to concurrency without OS threads is, to be polite, not necessary. Obviously you CAN build pretty much anything you want with pretty much any tool, as the examples in this article show, but that doesn't mean you should.

(written by someone who writes Python daily)
Jeff Bezos has plenty of slack for treating workers better while still being a billionaire. To start, he could each of 1 million employees $2000 more every year ($1/hour raise or 30min/day in more breaks) and not break a sweat.
Right, that's a bigger problem that we have to deal with in society anyway, so I don't think this introduces anything new. We just take the existing legal definition of pornography and apply it to social media.
This doesn't make sense to me. If a driver isn't capable or willing to be ADA compliant, then why are they driving other people? They shouldn't be.
Here's a lesson (I can laugh about now that I'm retired): one of the first billing systems I ever wrote (in the 90's) had invoices with a mask of '$ZZ,ZZ9.99' based on interviews with staff. About a year later I get an urgent call from the owner. It seems a client was under-billed about $100K dollars due to truncated invoice.

Subsequently, whenever interviewing clients for requirements I'd mention this and it usually resulted in padding their specs.
Even splitting off 1 company, and shielding that $999M in revenue from the higher tax burden, would make sense for Netflix.
My Uber in Denver has Uber Pet. I thought I remembered seeing child seat in the past, maybe Ski too but I could be wrong.
This is not the only issue. It is an extension to a bigger issue, cancelling rides.

There are many time I have Uber driver cancelling my ride from the airport because my destination is not the big metro center, rather, just outside of it. The driver was quick to accept the request, then called and then cancel the ride. Of course, the driver would said the customer "request the cancellation".

This wasted so much of people's time.

Please don't tell with all those smart people Uber have in their payroll couldn't figure out this. Or they simply ignore it.
I've written a lot of Javascript. It doesn't sound weird to me.

I don't use "this". I use "new" for things like making an Array. I never modify a function's prototype.

I simply write functions at the top level, make all the signatures as explicit as I can, and keep everything as decoupled as I can.
I don't know about your classes, but I did science at a fairly well known Canadian tech school (now in professional school in Canada). I usually would skip the last few weeks of school and study straight through at the library. Studying ten hours a day instead of going to class worked for me.

Studying for exams is boring. It's easy to get distracted. I started off timing myself with my watch on seven hour countdown. Every time I got up or got distracted I would stop the clock. Builds good habits and after a while you won't need the countdown and you'll gradually be able to study more hours a day. 12 to 12...

Studying is a pretty individual thing but that's what worked for me.
Or you could use C++ and RAII. It's an excellent fit for the problem that's been presented.

Though I do understand, there are some very special projects that can't use C++, and must use C. I'd say in most cases, the extra machinery you get with C++ outweighs the small performance penalty you get by going with straight C.
"I tend to care more what the code does as opposed to how it does it"

Exactly. Lets focus on solving the problems and not letting the solutions become problems themselves.
A few software authors have ‘crack catcher pages’ for the search engines that say things like “I work 60hrs per day on my software, please support me if you want me to continue adding features” etc.

Sounds like it would also be a good idea to include some comments / code in there for crackers to stumble across and guilt them into stopping.
What about inconsistencies with data outside the database? Things like credit card transactions or other external API calls that were recorded on the master but not the slave will be inconsistent with your slaves view of the world. Is there a standard way of dealing with those kind of things or is that usually handled manually?
Until the dollar fell it might have made sense, you could have used cheap blended Canadian whiskey for fuel.
Can someone tell us what the relevant metrics are in this space? Capture time? Accuracy? How is accuracy measured?
Does anyone make e-paper/transflective vehicle signage yet? I'm sure it'd pay for itself in seized assets fairly quickly :)
I don't think explosion swabbing detectors are operating in a free market: they are built off funds from government contracts. There isn't much reason to expect a similar pace of innovation as for email servers.
Thanks chollida for your answers and good luck with your trading platform; and hopefully, your account accrued more profits during the halt and beyond.
figure that out, you can make a nice chunk of cash
True, but that's why they reportedly pay lots more than minimum wage, recruit carefully, and train heavily. And also profile the hell out of people.

The real difference is that it's only one airport. It would be very expensive and time-consuming to scale that up to secure every airport in the US.

Not much news about false positives for them makes it out, at least not in English-language media, but the worst I've heard of them doing is grilling suspicious people for a few hours.
There is also Rails + Phusion Passenger + Nginx, which is just as easy as Rails + Phusion Passenger + Apache.
You know anything involving a jail sentence of over a year is a felony, right?

Actually, I did NOT know that... part of me thought it couldn't be right. But here you go: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3559 Thanks.
I believe that user was referring to Google as a one trick pony in regards to their primary revenue stream.
I think you are misinterpreting what I'm saying (aside from stating an experience). If hand lotion can (supposedly) flag the machine, setting off the detector shouldn't be handled in this fashion.
Oh, but what is "natural" is not "coercive," at least according to capitalists.
Yeah I'm in a similar position. None of the TailwindUI components have the logic built in, it's just the markup so you need to build the components yourself. I like the feel of Adobe Spectrum but it doesn't have exactly all the components that I want so I'd have to make my own components, and the styling looks somewhat complex to modify such that it doesn't look just exactly like theirs.

I'm looking into their react-aria and react-stately libraries which appear to just give you the hooks that power the UI components and then you can supply your own markup.

Tailwind has headless-ui coming out soon which appears to be very similar to the aforementioned two libraries so that may fill the void but it'd be nice to have a something now. At the moment I'm using Tailwind for mainly static informational sites rather than interactive UIs until I get around to making an internal library of components that I can style with tailwind css. At the end of the day it's basically just CSS anyway.
Not true. Anyone who joins a job like that is going to want strong protections whether they use them or not. Why would I work for department X where if I make a mistake I can be ruined when department Y will trust that by going thru the process to become LE, in general I’m not looking to be a corrupt maniac. Not to mention those same depts will let me keep an AR in my trunk, send an MRAP to cover me when I am going into a sketchy situations

Similarly, why would I join a dept with a weak union when I can be in one where I’m backed by a union that for better or worse will assume innocent until proven guilty and protect the paying members.
I've been an rsync.net customer since Mar 2013. I sent a fairly straightforward administrative support request once back in 2015 and got a response back within a day or so. Haven't needed any support other than that; their service supports standard sftp / sshfs with the usual tools. The CEO also occasionally chimes in on comment threads on HN.

I believe based on their pricing structure, 24/7 phone support starts at the 100+ TB tier, which should work out to about $1500+/mo. But all of their standard accounts should provide support, within reason. See https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html.