jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is if you are storing all your data together in a single location. If you decouple it, using multiple accounts on the host, or even several hosts, you might have some of your data decrypted, but it would be worthless. If you decouple correctly, you should have data that is meaningless without some other data that is hosted elsewhere, on an account completely unrelated and unconnected to your other host accounts.
You don't save your credit card & bank statements for 7 years back like you're supposed to?
This is false, it is merely a CSE viewpoint. In science, several prestigious journals are difficult to get into, and afterwards, charge you for the paper, per column or per page, being published. Figures and color may cost extra (significantly).
> Instagram has restrictions on the aspect ratio of pictures.

I definitely think this is one of the reasons Instagram is so popular, together with the low resolution. It lowers the bar for when a picture is as good as it gets which makes people more prone of posting it.
And that is awful, right? We got rid of files by the same way we could get rid of files 20 years ago: by not having them anymore, burning them, storing our information in other people's files.
An alternative explanation could be that Karpeles, who was convicted of fraud in 2010, decided to stick with the fraud thing from the start.
I don't think they're going to enforce a "you went way over the storage other people tend to use" cap, the way ISPs tend to. S3 stores petabytes of stuff; they can eat your 50GB-per-day wastefulness without breaking a sweat.

I think it's more to cover the case where you figure out a way to build a business that stores data in this, instead of in S3. Especially the case where that business is, itself, a primarily data storage or backup business, so you're directly living off the margin between "capital-cost storage for you" and "linear-revenue storage sold to customers." Amazon does not want to kill S3's business model, just yet.
> And lord help you if you have to programmatically add or remove views from a layout at runtime.

I disagree with the rest, but yeah... that's a sore point.
Please don't do this here. You may not owe "Qanon" better but you definitely owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The last sentence is a decent summary:
“More confirmation is required, but the observations in the translational macaque models for COVID-19 (12-14, 38,39) can be regarded as a serious warning as they may be predictive for COVID-19-related dementia cases in humans in the future, even after an asymptomatic infection or mild disease process.”
Simple CRUD websites maybe, adding simple things to e.g. wordpress deployments.
There's 3,531 tons of gold mined in 2019 alone, yet gold prices seem to be doing just fine.
> (2) want to make minor changes to existing ETFs

This is exactly the use case I've wanted for a long time -- I'd much rather just park most of my money in an S&P 500 index fund. But there are some companies there whose business practices I just find scummy; and if I own stocks in that fund, those companies will be doing those scummy things in my name and for my benefit. I realize there are "ethical" index funds, but somehow their senses of ethics and mine don't match 100%. I'd very much like to be able to say, "The S&P 500, but not X Y or Z."

I'll definitely be looking into this.
I've more or less removed Twitter from my life. From my perspective, Twitter turns people into the worst versions of themselves and in some ways has gamified social interaction to the point of making toxic behaviour and witch hunts the default simply because it's the best way to "win points".

To quote WarGames, "the only winning move is not to play."

For the odd occasion when I do log on to Twitter, my rule is simple - if I see a tweet that annoys me or I just don't like, then I block them. I have no wish to spend any time or energy even allowing that stuff around me.
The funny thing is that this is essentially a giant ad for this person's business, and their website uses GA (lol). I've noticed this is an increasingly popular tactic on Reddit and HN. You clickbait people to an article backed with no data that you know will tickle people's emotions. Then at the end you include a call to action to use their service because it will save the world.

I used to hate GA as well as ads in general when I had never tried to start my own business. I had the typical Reddit/HN anti-FB-and-Goog mindset. After trying to start one, I completely changed my mind. I couldn't find a reliable way to put my site in front of customers without ads. I guess if you're popular and have a huge social media reach that might be enough, but for someone with no social media presence it can be tough.

Once you start spending in ads as a small business, it's useful to have some data to understand what the hell is happening to all that money. I spent thousands on FB, Google, and Reddit ads and it's extremely difficult to find out what is happening and which ones are working. How do you know which people are coming from which ad? Which ones are real people vs bots?

I strongly recommend people try to make a website/app without being popular on social media and try to get people to use it without using ads. Places like Reddit are generally against self-promotion. If you Tweet/post into the ether of Twitter/FB no one is going to randomly see your post. After using ads, I've started to pay closer attention to ads instead of instantly ignoring them. It turns out that they are frequently useful. For example the other day I was searching for services for hiring a remote contractor and the ads were more relevant than the search results.

As for this article, I don't really follow the logic. A lot of it seems to be backed by the knee-jerk emotional hate people have for powerful companies. For instance, when talking about how Google uses GA:

> we don’t even need to speculate. It seems pretty obvious to me that they’re using it to guzzle up even more data and to crap out ever more gold ingots.

Every time I see the word obvious, that is a sign that a big leap of non-obvious logic has been taken. It is not obvious that GA is being used for bad things, maybe Google just makes a ton of money because their products are useful. The rest of it also seems mostly backed by emotion. I guess these type of emotional anti-big-tech articles are quite popular here though. It seems like every day there is a new one.
You confuse CO with CO2, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide_poisoning....
Oh man, this is actually exactly something I want. I want to invest in the s&p 500, like an index etf, but I want to filter out companies which I don't agree with ethically. I also want to look at my custom index's performance historically so I can see how well it tracks the overall market.

It is extremely hard to actually do this. There's a plethora of hurdles in the way - you need to get data (I bought some historical s&p 500 data, seemed to be the only way), and then you need to figure out what to do with it too. When you look at a graph on the index, what is that based on? Do they rebalance every day? Monthly? Who knows? I was never able to reconstruct an s&p 500 graph from source data myself as a baseline.

I will definitely be giving this a try.

EDIT: signed up for the waitlist!

Also, a question: Can you use this without some sort of linked broker account? IE, you tell it what you've got, and it spits out instructions that you execute manually? I ask because I'm in Europe, and only the big American brokers ever seem to get proper integrations with anything.
All the profits from Fanta were kept away from the Nazi government by the American Coca-Cola managers in Germany and then handed over the parent company when the war was over.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-coca-cola-invented-fanta...
If you manage get the signal from the AP to the device, just remember the device has to be able to talk back.

If the device is low powered, this may still be a problem.

A multi AP system allows the higher powered APs to talk to each other, and the lower powered devices to talk to the nearest AP.
> Assuming the acronym isn't widely used

I don't care how widely used the acronym for a noun is, first use should always be the full form.

Only time I don't think it should be applied is in the case of a standard/protocol, or policy (such as gif or VAT). Then the first use should be the concept explained, not what it stands for.

I do like their style-guide definition:

acronym: A pronounceable word, formed from the initials of other words, like radar, nimby or NATO. It is not a set of initials, like the BBC or the IMF.
It's unethical to charge defendants with crimes that a prosecutor truly believes they can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

So therefore it's unethical for a prosecutor to accept a plea deal less than all charges.

"In the interest of Justice" is a pretty thin excuse.
Commenting as a reminder to follow this up :)
Sub-zero in the United States means below 0F. Ambient freezing temp isn't really a "cold" benchmark to people in northern climes, but sub zero (-18C) is a milestone that communicates a cold day from an experiential perspective. For instance, if I tell you a place gets below zero for a couple months, you know it's committed to being frozen, and that circumstantial variations like radiant heat from sunlight aren't going to get you back above 32/0F. Incidentally, freezers are set at 0F/-18C. So being in subzero temps is like being in a freezer, whereas being at 32F/0F could be a completely different experience based on radiant heat from sun, warm winds, etc.
and no groups.

I think my friend uses it for news.
And this is exactly how it should be - people's futures shouldn't be bargaining chips to use to push through political reform, least of all the futures of those who may be wrongly accused.

If we want to see change in the justice system we need wider societal education and to force that change from the outside, but that butts up against a lot of "hard on crime" rhetoric.
It could still take a third of its total daily accumulated power for said 90-second flight, no?
> I've had motorcycle engines with the following configurations (among many others): - 200cc single cylinder - 250cc single cylinder - 650cc single cylinder - 250cc two-stroke single - 500cc two-stroke single - 300cc parallel twin - 800cc parallel twin - 650cc v-twin - 1200cc opposed twin - 900cc inline triple - 650cc inline four - 1000c inline four

But have you had one with FOUR TURBOS?

https://youtu.be/NeaxbS1mNPw
Really great apps and bar is being kept high which is always great for the s/w industry. If I could achieve just 1% of what Panic has I'd be proud.
What does that help? Doesn't the ssh-agent keep the keys in memory too?
Doubtful that Whittier had much in that department. I was in Cordova (with ~1300 people) and our public library wasn't much. I mostly read old sci-fi novels that my dad's crew would leave behind in the bunks.
Except that you're not "literally taking money out of their pocket for that day" - that would imply that the money was rightfully theirs, and that you've essentially stolen it from them by not tipping. That's not how tipping works - it's the customers money, given at their discretion. There's a strong sense of obligation felt by most people, but it is ultimately optional.
We have just started converting our React apps to 6to5. I was experimenting with Traceur for a bit and found it to be slow and resulting in bloated code. 6to5 feels just right. Very happy so far.
Sweet! Now they just need a LaTex-based doc editor... ;)
Conversely, it's a pet peeve of mine when someone proudly distributes their independently-useless 5 slide slidedeck that accompanied an hour long speech that wasn't recorded or documented in any way. There are easier ways to get Dilbert comic strips.
I'd love to know how many active installs there are of those 7M downloads. I must have downloaded it 3 times to my devices and it didn't successfully run on any of them.

We have an app with over 1.2M downloads and around 500k active installs. I think the active install rate is low because it is a LITE version. Only - I haven't put ads on the game yet, and have been wondering whether it's worth it or not. If it only makes a little per day, then I'd rather just leave my free users alone and stick with the paid upgrade.

I'd also like to know what kind of revenue they are making from ads on Android. I feel like if we made our game completely free, we'd reach over 2-3M downloads pretty quickly and triple our active install rate, and if that meant we were making as much in ads as paid downloads, then I think we'd consider going that direction. It's just too big of a maybe, and we can't seem to get any inside info about ad revenues to make the leap - even when emailing Mobclix and Admob, we get no response to this question.

Worst of all - I wonder if we are leaving money on the table by not being an ad supported app.

Ho hum.
When there are no problems present, and you make predictions based on only the effect you see, it's easy for you to be tricked about the present circumstances. It's almost like saying that spring is here again because it's 65° in Brooklyn today... even though winter is right around the corner.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29editornote.html ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1948067) has a "note to readers" explaining why the NYT decided to publish the documents
There actually are laws prohibiting the sharing of government secrets. Lots of them. Bradley Manning, the suspected informant, is likely to go to jail for this incident.

But once published, they are published.

As for whether random bloggers are members of the media, I agree that it isn't a simple cut and dried situation. However at this point wikileaks is so prominent, and is so frequently part of the information infrastructure that more traditional media provides, that I believe it clearly is media.
It isn't just about the job, it's the location. I moved to the other side of the world to be outside of my home country, and to be closer to my partner.
I think a more likely explanation is that the causality is in the other direction: the Nokia board was already leaning toward making a deal with Microsoft before they hired Elop, and he was hired with that in mind.
I'm not sure whether the OP is implying that Amazon is guilty of these fallacies or whether AWS's users are.

I had AWS customers in mind, more than Amazon.com themselves.

If you are renting instances in a specific data center, and you wish to have cross-cluster redundancy, it is your responsibility to build that into your distributed system.

Exactly. It's easy, though, to build something on top of AWS (or Rackspace or whatever) and then stand back, marvel at it's magnificence; and forget that an outage - in a network segment or service that you don't control - can totally wreck your masterpiece.
I'm happy to have IB in my toolbox and it can definitely save a lot of grunt work but I do think it tends to break down in more complex cases. Just today I gave up after a few hours of trying to align several subviews in a big scrollview and did it in code in a few minutes.
Hey.

I've been on the leader board for quite some time, and I occasionally and inexplicably have some of my posts declared [dead]. I suspect that sometimes I hit against a x_num_posts/hour wall, or that I occasionally hit up against a blocked domain.

Needless to say, I'm still on the leader board, I've been to startup school a couple of times, and I haven't seen any deleterious effects.

There is no appeal process on HN, mainly because PG is the admin, and he's got more important stuff to do.

Also... There's a lot more to startup life than HN. Move out here to Silicon Valley, start attending local events like http://www.hackersandfounders.com or 106 miles and get plugged in. And, more importantly, build up real life karma points in person, rather than on HN.
Is admin supposed to be plural? I mean, do they really have multiple system admins now? I ask, only because I know people have been coming and going recently.

Frankly, for the size of the site, they do really, really well for the limited resources they have.
Why is ELB not mentioned at all on the Service Health Dashboard?

We're experiencing problems with two of our ELBs, one indicating instance health as out of service, reporting "a transient error occurred". Another, new LB (what we hoped would replace the first problematic LB), reports: "instance registration is still in progress".

A support issue with Amazon indicated that it was related to the ongoing issues and to monitor the Service Health Dashboard. But, as I mentioned before, ELB isn't mentioned at all.
I was lucky enough to have a few house records published in the 80's and 90's. An initial run of a record would always include a few hand-labeled "test pressings" that we would take around to radio and club dj's to see how they would fare in the mix - and also to build the buzz.

It was always a rush, going to a full club or hot radio station and handing "fresh wax" to the dj - no it was not really wax - and getting immediate feedback. Very similar to launching a new app or feature these days!
They should make some special glasses for viewing web pages without getting headaches from flash.
Open question: does Google App Engine have automatic redundancy across multiple datacenters?
Not often you see websites just going by IP. New trend?
The money made by icanhazcheezburger was not "the serendipitous by-product of any venture". A guy bought the site from someone else with the intention of making money off of it.

Getting rich selling plastic sheets to indian farmers does not bother most hackers because it's completely outside of their domain. Building a website or iFart app is not.
Great idea to find other "currencies" from your clients/suppliers. What about the idea of having teachers provide you with free classes as their way of paying? You could then turn those freebies into promos/giveaways, etc..
"So Dad was a banker but he couldn’t bear talking about money..."

I think bankers deal more with "debt" than "money." I don't know if this has any relevance to the article and what the author is saying.
Maybe I should have used a different word. I meant you cannot predict if a venture will make money or not.
Though a bit trivial but still awesome reading, thanks for sharing!
Your comment reads to me like an extremely long variant of "Let them eat cake."

You really need to explain how working for a little while and then "cashing out" was a viable option for these men that they simply chose not to exercise.
Awww, if you scale it up it gets horizontal gaps in the whale :'(

Other than that, very nice job. Wonder if Twitter would use it.
From the article:

... stranger angles (such as the strings) are masked using containers with overflow: hidden

Hum, am I the only one who wonders why we have to reinvent, in 2010, a graphics language, and everyone seems to think it's cool?

Even on the Apple II you didn't to do such ugly hacks. Why now?
Is your complaint specifically that he is writing in JavaScript, or that he is starting from scratch and not relying on libraries to use more sophisticated algorithms?

Because both seem like odd complaints for a tutorial like this. No, you're not going to do real world work this way, but you're not going to write a game in shadertoy either.

The latter shouldn't be replaced with an apology note for wasting everyone's time and link to UE4.
If you've ever done anything with matrices (and are lazy) you should have encountered Matlab. And if you haven't, it's worth checking out. Matlab made my life so much easier!
Exactly. Which becomes downright comical when you read any of the HN threads on negotiating salary, and see the stream of people who take what they are offered or are pleased with negotiating 5% more.

I've never given an offer I wouldn't have been ok with upping 30% or more, and conversely I have never taken an offer I haven't negotiated up 30% or more. And I don't see myself as a cunning negotiator - if I had been, I probably would have been far better off.

But I do negotiate, which is something, by experience from the other side of the table, nearly nobody does.
Some of that quality of life is dependent on having cheap labour from neighbouring countries (and repressing any protests). Who washes the laundry quickly and efficiently at a low price, and serves at that nice restaurant?

For tech jobs talent, the immigrant status is different of course.

I'm not telling Singaporeans what to do, this is just for the note.
I see the goalpost has been moved then, only took one post. Okay.
and afaik hardly any email clients support it. and even if yours does, chances are the recipient on the other end uses one that doesn't.
I just finished reading the paper. I took a few hours. It is indeed a well reasoned argument. I will have to read it a few more times to make sure I've understood well enough. I'm not moved in my position (which aligns strongly with Kennedy in US v Alvarez and with John Stuart Mill), but this was very interesting material to consider.
Great to see that companies take a stand against the domestic terrorists and who are threatening the democracy.
I saw an air pressure analog computer in Leeds, in the early 1980s. Programs were stored on giant plug boards the size of a wall map, about six inches thick, and it looked amazing. They used it for modelling air-conditioning and other things in an architecture school, fluid dynamics stuff.

I've also seen the liquid model of the economy.

I have a copy of Svoboda on 3 bar linkage computing in the MIT radiation labs series, published in the post war period. All the examples look to be flight and ballistics related, I guess these kinds of things were used for bomb and gun aiming, and radar.
You’re saying the same thing as the parent comment.
Nice, I've often thought plotting commutes by speed and see where you get slowed down/stressed, could call those stress maps for commuters then. Everybody goes on about bigdata, maybe this year people can focus on personal data, be surprised what you can learn about yourself and this is a wonderful tool for enlightening you.
Yes, salaried employees are paid to get the job done regardless of how long it takes, so long as it takes no less that 40 hours. Companies will gladly let you work 50, 60, or 80 hours a week with no additional compensation (except promises of promotions or bonuses), but if you try to work less than 40, that's not allowed.
What would be a sane framework? Every one of them seems to have many pain points, and every other developper tells you should use X instead of Y because Z.
This topic periodically flares and provokes so much emotion it is almost unseemly. The two camps are so diametrically opposed that I think other factors are at play here. Programmers who cannot or don't want to understand some of more advanced/esoteric features of expressive languages like C++ or Rust insist on the virtue of simple languages because it guarantees job opportunities for them. Their slogan is group power; quantity has a quality of its own. Interestingly, communists have similar slogans, who are mainly intellectuals self assured to govern/manage the mass and be handsomely compensated. I never realized the common interest between the top and middle, or how corporate the communism is. The other camp is equally vehement because their livelihood is at stake. If all their time and effort will not make them better/more productive programmers, the upper limit to their compensation is drastically lowered, not to speak of damage to their self-image and statue among peers. They are the liberal individualists who insist that there is no limit to what one individual can achieve or make. There is no need to debate this further. Everybody WILL not change their mind. Go will go far, just look at Java.