jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have been using Earth Class Mail for several months and it works fantastically.

You get a real, non-PO-Box address (your user id is in the "apartment number"). Since I've been moving around a lot, including abroad, I use it for my bank accounts, credit cards, everything. Occasionally a company will want proof that it's your address, but once you have mail coming to it, that's easy. For example, changing the mailing address on an existing bank account can be done online, and then you have a bank statement as proof in the future.

Earth Class Mail will scan your mail for you at the touch of a button, so most mail does not need to be forwarded. They scan the outside of all mail, and even run OCR on the return address. If you have them open an envelope and scan the contents, they will scan everything they can, and then put it back in an envelope that they can forward to you if you need the physical contents.

There's really no downside as long as you trust Earth Class Mail and their employees.

(Note: I haven't compared ECM to other alternatives. After reading hannibalhorn's comment below and some of the linked pages, it sounds like people have complaints about ECM's prices, high latency receiving mail to some east-coast addresses, and poor check cashing feature. I have a Seattle ECM address, don't use their check cashing and have not really had any problems. It's a very valuable service to me, and though I don't know if they really need to charge the fees they do, it's not obvious that switching to a competitor trying to undercut them is wise. I will probably give virtualpostmail a look though.)
With MAC Apple has created fierce competition for Microsoft. Why would Microsoft allow iTunes, Safari to collect deep insights about Windows users!
Involve the blogs with the product during its feature-spec stage. Not only will you get better press from them once you need it (people like to write about their influence...), but you should also get some good feedback from the blog authors and users.

I'd contact blog owners during dev, tell them, "hey i've found this pain, and I'm building MyProduct to solve X, Y, Z. Do you think these are the biggest problems, as you see it?"

This way you can get press, you can network, you can get good feedback from potential customers... And the blog owner gets to feel special, and look special, to their readers. Win win.
Or just use Google as a referer: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22technologies%2C+such+as+Go...
> Paywall warning.

Full article (just plugged some text into google):

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/entertai...

Turns out this is just an article off of a Newswire so its available in many locations.
Google docs has an API, they also have folders. http://code.google.com/apis/documents/overview.html

I've used Google docs folders for team projects that include file types other than those used for documents, it simply 'stores' it in the folder along with revision history.

Is any weekend hacker thinking what I'm thinking?
I donn't think that is actually the case. You may think, and I might have agreed with you, that at first blush building yet another insipid shopping mall does not necessarily yield any enhancement to society but after further thought I would tend to disagree. The "market" is where society comes together to mingle and it is also where goods and services are presented to the people who may not have had an avenue to receive them previously. The modern day mall is the modern day town square market of yesteryear. It is yet another avenue for ideas to germinate and goods to be exchanged. Someone will buy something that allows them to free up time which will allow them to spend more time thinking about something new or caring for someone who will think of something new.

Expansion is the only way forward and often everything can be measured in economic output.
I can't tell if this is a masterful troll or not. Let's not get hung up on the 2X factor, it's just shorthand for "More than X" (though to be honest I'd expect you to hang with that by the time you're proposing new economic theory)

So let's go back.

Today:

We both pick potatoes.
A day's worth of potatoes costs $X
UBI pays $X
I decide, fuck work - I'll eat free potatoes.

Tomorrow:
You say - I can get $X for free, so I need "more than $X" to keep picking potatoes.
Now potatoes cost "more than $X" because of labor cost.
You can't buy potatoes with your $X UBI.

>> "potatoes .. is some real low hanging fruit."

At least that much we can agree on.
“The last few years of the strip, and especially the Sundays, are the work I am the most proud of. This was close as I could get to my vision of what a comic strip should be.”

https://www.zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoo...

That must be the zenith of his career. Hope I can truly understand what he must have felt like when he said that.
In Firefox for Android, I can press and hold on the Back button in the '…' menu (not Android's Back button) to show the current Rab's history as a list. By touching an old history entry, I can navigate directly to it, skipping any redirects.
It'll be an odd world if we ever reach the point where we throw hardware away before the battery runs out.
> Smart contracts basically throw all of your consensus guarantees out the window because they can cause arbitrary exchanges of value in the application layer, which can be used to incentivize miners into all sorts of shenanigans.

Do you have an example?
Don’t you have any issues with delivering a product full of crap? I’ve tried not giving a shit, but I feel it’s just fundamentally impossible.
The syntax for a graphviz digraph is almost the same to the one used in this product.
> No one who has thought through all the issues thinks its a good idea.

As far as it goes, no reasonable person thinks that even having spaces in filenames is a good idea. Nonetheless, POSIX is what it is, and if you're writing a program meant to be generally useful, you can't just handle the POSIX filenames that you like--you have to handle them all.

There are many consequences for failing this, but the most obvious ones are buggy behaviour in general, and security holes in particular. This cannot be ignored or wished away.
It's better than no security. Most people aren't going to use a secure pin code on their phone.
I like the way that you’re moving the goalposts and trying to throw me off balance with this argument. Hope you have a great night.
I’m sure you’d still be liable if you were a licensed electrician.
> Google is kind of an ass to the content creators but they don’t leave.

> I think it’s more of a sort of digital Stockholm syndrome, kind of like how MacOS users enjoy working around defects youtubers enjoy dodging censorship.

I think it's more that the issues here are blown ridiculously out of proportion and show an obnoxious level of entitlement to advertiser dollars. Calling it censorship is a good example. Everything beyond the basic ability to upload videos and share links (getting recommended, getting advertiser money, etc.) is something that prior to youtube would require serious negotiation with publishers and lawyers. Small time creators never even had a seat at that table.

The reason creators don't leave is because it's beggars trying to choose and that doesn't work.
I don't see how your comparison is remotely fair to Twitter. Youtube is just a website, if they wanted to change how they allocate video numbers, nobody except for rogue bots will notice.

Twitter is an API. Even if they have the knowledge of how to fix past mistakes, they need to ask for feedback, give plenty of notice, and set a deadline of when the old version is cut off.

Maybe they didn't do everything perfect day one, but I don't think there are any APIs the size of Twitter. Cut them some slack, they're not morons.
Anyone interested in this stuff should read Steven Pinker's "The Blank Slate"...
Fear is a man's best friend.
Freedom, yeah baby!
You would be importing a LOT of stuff necessary to keep your city going.
You could. And probably should. I've thought about doing that myself, as I have no shortage of quotes and inspirational passages that I have collected from my readings over the years. But this book was a good place to start, and while corny, I found the message to be solid.

Hey, this might do absolutely nothing for you, which is fine. Like I said, I found it helpful and I perceive a difference in my attitudes and behaviors after spending a year with this book. But that's just me.
How is this different from a basic forum with an 'edit post' button available to all? I've never used Wave so I'm not trying to be funny, just genuinely curious.
Yours is the first intelligent commentary I've read. Thank you.
Dropbox and external HDs for now. Trying out AeroFS as a possible migration path; I have outgrown the reasonable price point of cloud storage.
I've wondered for a long time what 4chan vs the government would look like.

V&
Tarsnap is great. Some things that would have been nice:
* Automatic archive naming. I would love to just type tarsnap-backup stuff/ or something, and it would pick a name based on the folder name and a timestamp.
* It seems a little too easy to delete archives. Perhaps a way to lock an archive so it cannot be deleted or modified without unlocking first.
* If you backup a symlink to a folder, tarsnap will only backup the symlink itself. Perhaps this is the best way to do it, but it means you may think you have backed up something, but actually haven't. A warning message perhaps?
It's open source. There are others:
http://hackernews.in
http://quant.ly
Simple solution: only track those google accounts with cell phone numbers on file
Challenges:

* The need for speed, at every level of the architecture (network, tcp/ip, hardware, app)

* Reducing order (send/ack) round-trip times, this generally means putting your servers in a data cetre as close to the exchange as possible (co-located, if the exchange offers it). If your trading across multiple exchanges simultaneously it gets trickier.

* Sourcing market data - can you source direct from the exchange, rather than through a 3rd party like Reuters? Again, it comes down to how fast you can re-act to the market.

* Back-testing - you need historical data to test a model, then you need a way of testing the model - what are you going to test against? How are you going to simulate the exchange?

* Expense - it's expensive - market data, co-location etc etc all costs, as others suggested. HFT is generally short term positions, with some arbitrage strategies holding positions for less than a few milliseconds. A medium term (intra-day) type strategy requires less intensive (expensive) technology as your not trading to capture market prices that might only be extant for a few milliseconds.
Was not having it magnify centered around my mouse position, at the edges of the rectangle, a design decision, or a limitation of the tools?
They will need vastly more rugged versions for your average American. I say this being from Texas.
I wouldn't question Siracusa's technical chops, he's definitely earned them. He's intimately familiar with Objective-C and its history.

As for your second claim, I really don't follow. Memory protection has nothing to do with garbage collection in that quote. He's talking about protected/per process address spaces.
I second Code Complete. It is a very good book, especially since you are just starting up. It will help prevent you from developing some bad habits. At my last company, I would buy a copy for all our new hires.
Not a lot there. Among other problems, they missed the most fundamental law of marketing - "People can't buy your product if they don't know it exists."
$549 for the 3GS. I absolutely shudder to think of what the iPhone 4 will sell for. I'm going to guess about $749.
Older profs are better in general imo. They've used to teach with finite methods of conveying your points...

Now there's these new professors who have been blinded by the boundless possibility of telling too much stuff with powerpoint slides - you can always create another slide to tell everything...
Using the same container volume with less net weight, for example. Those of us who have the luxury of not being particularly busy can certainly keep logs of unit pricing, but it's not practicable for most.
Another reason why heliocentism was rejected is the lack of observable star parallax which it implies. No one had an idea stars could possibly be SO far away... and it took another 200 years to detect parallax and further 30 years to measure it first.
This is exactly what my dad said about Sears in the 80s and 90s
> It's called swatting

Dark but true :( Again, mostly geographically limited to the United States of Barberica?
When did PG redesign the site?
Stuff like this seems like a clear example where a lottery would make a lot more sense than a FCFS system.
My mother's saying was that "A boy becomes a man when a man is required."
You can play evil throughout the game in Dragon Age.
The problem with vitriol is that it becomes performance art. A review trashing a movie is a lot more entertaining than a civil one; but people can forget that the real issue is how to see a good movie.

Why should I be more likely to adopt your opinion because you are driven to anger to express it? I don't know you. Your anger holds no reference point for me and therefore is of little value. Your best way to convince me is to make sense.

Exchange of ideas is hardly incompatible with civil discourse.
You're right about the article itself, but you're missing the context. Greenspun has had a long series of nuggets of cynicism that make up most of his blog posts. Together, they paint a picture that gives more excuse for his cynicism.

- Public employees make up an ever growing percentage of the workforce, which still has to be paid for by the private sector.

- Many public employees have large unfunded pension obligations that are very hard to cut.

- As such, new graduates need to have lots of earning power to keep the whole country running.

- His experience with college graduates both in the computer field and the in the context of flight school and his reviews of curricula imply to him that students actually learn very little, and are no more prepared than non-U.S. students to generate lots of value.

- His exposure is mostly to Boston area students, who on average pay a lot for school, or someone else does via scholarships.

So I don't think he means the blog post literally, but in context he's just offering another data point that supports his thesis that the U.S. in economic trouble in the medium to long term.
The article is basically claiming that if a doctor earns $100k a year, and costs, say, $1m in funds to be able to complete his or her extended studies (that take many years), then creating that doctor is not a worthwhile investment for parents or for society.

That's wrong on so many levels that I won't even bother to argue with it.
Jason Rohrer is an American programmer whose family has annual expenses of less than $15k:

http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/supportMyWork...

From the sound of it, they're not living on Big Macs. But they do live an unconventional lifestyle and have made material sacrifices to minimize their consumption.
Bs. I do quite fine with high school. The biggest advantage those growing up in today's environment have going for them is that everyone else their age is lazy. You can do far better today with the same work ethic of the previous generation.

It is an educational arms race, however in any arms race there is plenty of money to be made selling arms.

Fuck unpaid internships, get a job at a small company where results are noticed. When you see something going wrong step in and fix it. I started my career in programming putting together a simple scheduling app in php. I didn't ask permission I went and coded it at home and brought it in one day and demo'd it to my supervisor. After that they didn't want me doing tech support any more and wanted me solving all sorts of other problems instead.

Whining about education is a crutch used by those who don't want to fill out resumes or otherwise work. Generally those people feel that now that they have an education all they need to do is sit back and wait for a cushy job to knock on their door.

Before one gets a degree they should type that degrees name into a craigslist job board and see what comes up, if nothing comes up then one should not expect to get a job as a result.

I wanted to add one more piece of advice, when you decide what you want to do, find the industry where that job is the "profit center" and also in the "profit center" pick the job no one else wants to do. Yeah, sometimes it actually really sucks, but usually there is just a little learning curve, and then it's easy. Never tell them this. You're now indispensable, likable, and if you saved your money properly you also have negotiating power. This means that you're likely to be offered a raise, if you ask for one accepted, and if they decline have the means to make them give it to you or find something else, and surprisingly at the other company no one wants to do X either.

Pro Tip: If you've just bought something major on credit (car, house, etc), your boss probably knows about it, this means that you will NOT get your raise for the thing you bought that you can't afford. This is also why if you talk about cars or houses with your boss he may convince you to buy something you don't need. The people who get raises are those who don't need it.
Trolls buffalo trolls that troll Buffalo buffalo trolls.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo
Well if you care about it so much, contribute either money or code and create ecosystem with the same level of layman UX. It's difficult to get legislation when you cannot demonstrate alternatives that do not severely reduce convenience. This is a forum of overpaid software engineers. Distributed neural network training isn't science fiction anymore. Go ship or pay others to do so.

Brave and DuckDuckGo built entire businesses on the premise of privacy. Many an arrogant reader here HN have no qualms claiming that they can replicate Facebook in a weekend.

Go forth and walk the talk. Yet another Mastodon client is cool, but do you know what's cooler? A production quality OCR competitive with Google Cloud Vision API, voice transcription on par with AWS Transcribe, or personal assistants with the ubiquity of Siri.
Most ad fraud is the referrer owner faking clicks on ads on their own site. To trust a click you need to trust that the ad was displayed to a legitimate user. That's the hard bit.

Ad companies could move to only paying when ads result in a sale, but that only works if there's a sale that can be tracked. If I click a BMW ad and then buy one in the showroom that's really hard to track.
Thank you, I wrote "with the client", but I meant "with the server". Your description cleared some misunderstandings I had.
Interesting - I have been working with a recruiter but the results are very underwhelming. Fortunately, I am not paying for the service.
djb? Pass.

Got burned hard on Qmail which was strangled to death by his ridiculous management practices. Never again.
One of the companies apparently used TripleByte for the tech screen. They gave me a multiple choice test that I scored highly on (don't know the exact score) and after that I started getting emails about completing the TripleByte process. Is it worth it? I tend to assume these things are scams.
Public mask wearing prevents the wearer from emitting droplets. You don't need n95 for that. Also please read the article in discussion, this virus is not that easy to transmit, even for hospital workers.
ha, I just revealed my status as a non-engineer. Yes, languages. I am trying to improve my Spanish during quarantine downtime.
I happen to own couple of medium sized amateur telescopes and relatively cloudless and dark skies. I have started to convert them into remote observatories so other people can watch stars remotely. It is on early stage though.
I used BeOS. It had some great features, but it wasn't great the way NeXTStep was great. If it had been built on top of C++ 11 or later, instead of whatever C++9x they were using, maybe.
combat, combat, combat.

Not so long ago I shared a small video of his young brother doing the jumps and walks that he uses to create the animations for his game. Awesome work, awesome video. Inspiring.
> having to explain why I’m suddenly taller to everybody

No need to worry about that. This process takes several months.
The BookBaby links there were timing out for me, but I found it at https://store.bookbaby.com/book/apocalypse-the-memoir
That's actually really dope, thanks! I bet we could do something there...
tl;dr: "But for now, anyone who wants a tablet device to read Google Books PDFs, there is clearly only one choice: the iPad."
I guess one of the things I'm wondering is whether there is room for a game that is text-based. On the one hand, I like the semi-retro feel, since it is based on a classic game. but on the other hand, I'm wondering whether a text-based ui will prevent the game from getting any significant traction.
On the other hand, the Swiss Guard show up wherever the Pope goes.
I took over the Aroma Tea Shop on Polk st for 3 months earlier this year. The biggest stumbling block was the landlord (a trust fund) dragged its feet and eventually denied my sublease application at the end of the 3 months. With a couple friends, we had been operating semi-discreetly during this time, but didn't redo the banner outside and didn't do much marketing.

Since we left, it's been taken over by the boutique next door. They kept the paint job and sandwich board sign we made.

That's about all I've got the energy to rehash-- but if you catch me in person I'll tell you all about the folly of Polk Tea.

And here's some pics:

http://kaimary.tumblr.com/tagged/tea
http://kaimary.tumblr.com/tagged/tea/page/2