jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Excellent! Thank you, swombat.

Don't worry about tags, layout, formatting, RSS feeds, ebooks, or anything else. If people want that stuff badly enough, someone in this community will step up and do it, providing additional value and showing us what they can do.

You are already on the critical path, using your background and experience to curate all the noise out there into something really useful. Please keep doing that.
20 years. It looks to me like this one was actually filed on 2 Jan 1997 and granted on 6 Apr 1999. [1]. I think the 1992 date came from on of the patents used as a reference in the application.

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Or you can just add a few lines of javascript and have Chrome Frame install in IE. Users will think they're installing the game itself.
This is not a question at all that this can be done or not ( There is no reason it can't all be done on-device. )

Question is will this be ethical .. I will not be comfortable using a device that logs every API an app on it is calling.
> Either you are hitting an API or you aren't. And that causes a bullet item to appear.

That's not really how it works.

The same type of data can appear in multiple categories, and there are exceptions that mean you don't have to list certain usages.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/

For example, if your app doesn't ordinarily collect email addresses, but you have a contact form for support purposes that does collect them, you don't need to list email address as being collected.

The privacy label doesn't really cover the app - it covers what the services that the app connects to do. An entirely offline app shouldn't need to list anything on the label, even if it does use APIs like location.
I've had real problems with UPS off and on over the years.

There was a time when Amazon.com would let you chose carrier, and it was a real problem for me when they took that away and gave the contract to UPS. An extra $3 for not having to interrupt my day to get my packages, or ever have to argue with someone that the driver repeatedly putting a not home sticker on my door WHILE I WAS HOME? Shut up and take my money.
Mmm no. A friend of mine is a male model and the fact that he is very good looking makes all the difference in the world.

Where I can agree is that a man can make up for a lack of attractiveness with other things. But being super attractive is simply a huge advantage, that cannot always be compensated with other qualities.
Most bitcoin is not held on exchanges or in custody. "run on BTC" is not possible, because people already own their bitcoin. Also, exchange reserves aren't fractional, so there's no reason they would lockdown withdrawals.

You can track the bitcoin reserves on exchanges here: https://cryptoquant.com/overview/full/247?window=day
I think a good-till-cancelled limit sell order on an exchange can do a lot of that too...
On the other hand the tutorials I remember following back in the days were quite long and all in one page, while today those tend to be split into annoyingly many pages.
Woah. I never knew how much I liked the “old” USPS vans until I saw the new one.
I believe javascript is the most popular language on github, either way I really dont see github as a "ruby / rails community"
yeah, I understand what's going on.
Rackspace is desperately in need of as much help as they can get. Whereas the rest of the industry (Softlayer, etc) spent the last five years building out automated infrastructure, Rackspace spent it mostly on sales. As a customer with dozens of servers at Rackspace, and hundreds at Softlayer, the difference is night and day.

I feel bad for Cloudkick as a company, though. San Antonio is a million miles away from San Francisco, culturally. Good job on having an exit, good luck on not hating yourselves in a year.
As an on/off CloudKick user (long story) my concern is that RackSpace has purchased the company to obtain performance and metric data for its competitor's serving solutions. If I'm right, expect to see them reduce the price and/or increase the allowances of the free tier in order to obtain more data.

This is always a problem when a company is purchased by one of the vendors it sits above in the value chain, esp when impartiality and independence is important in a space such as vendor monitoring.

I can't see RS buying CloudKick for internal monitoring of its own customer's servers and instances because they would already have a mature solution by now.

I'm not sure I want to be providing RackSpace with performance data of my servers running on their competitor's instances, the CloudKick agent is placed to send (albeit transparently) all sorts of data back to RS. And don't be surprised if other vendors raise concerns to this effect too.
In this video the founder of @evernote goes open kimono on conversion rates.

3% overall
only .5% in the first month
2.5 years in over 20% pay

Amazingly honest discussion from a $10M freemium business.
Location: United States,
Remote: No,
Willing to Relocate: Yes

2+ years of software development experience (Full Stack) at Barclays, Trupik and UF Health.

Education: Masters in CS at University of Florida #8 in Public Universities USA

Bachelors in CS, BITS Pilani #3 in Engineering schools, India.

Technologies:

Programming and Scripting - Java (Proficient), Python, JavaScript, PHP, C, C#, C++, Shell

Database Technologies- MySQL, Oracle SQL, Cassandra

Relevant Coursework - Data Structures, Database Management, Computer Networks, Math for Intelligent Systems, Object Oriented Programming

Frameworks - Spring, Django, Android

Others - Agile, Unix, Redis, AWS, Docker, HTML, Memcached, JSON, Tomcat, GIT, SVN, REST API

Resume/CV: https://github.com/leero-ady/Resume/blob/master/Aditya_Nallu...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-nalluri-a1278262/

Email: adityanalluri9@gmail.com
Conversely, I walked away from my townhome because it was ~$150K underwater.

I lost my downpayment (~$20K), plus whatever principal was paid over ~4 years. After losing almost $60K-70K in a home I couldn't sell nor could I rent (HOA restrictions), why would I throw good money after bad? New mortgage guidelines stipulate only a 3 year waiting period from foreclosure date to get a new mortgage, even less if you document a financial hardship caused your foreclosure.
Injested or put in his eye?
Agreed that commuting (for some forms of commuting) text is suboptimal. I ride on a subway so it doesn't really matter to me but I can't read blogs while driving for instance.
And the Kinesis Advantage is programmable as well, so you can redefine keys as you please. For example I moved arrow keys to one side, remapped Delete to Ctrl and changed some alt/cmd keys configuration in thumb cluster.
You're understanding the actual data quite well as it turns out. Moving from $40k -> $50k is a much bigger gain on the happiness scales since it is a larger % increase. Moving $120k -> $130k is much smaller relatively, even though it's still $10k.

As for getting larger raises, many jobs you get raises based on a percentage of your current salary. So if you get a 5% year-over-year raise and your base salary is $120k, you're getting a similar happiness boost as the 5% year-over-year raise of someone making $40k base salary. But you're getting way more in terms of net actual dollars.
Specifically about this issue, see the section about the MongoDB oplog further down in the article. This removes the polling interval/overhead, so should significantly improve performance and responsiveness.
OT but do people prevent direct access to the upstream servers (i.e. only allow the downstream proxy to make any queries) and if yes, how ?
"If at first you don't succeed try, try, try again. And then quit, no point in being bull-headed about it."
Far from it. I think it's great that they don't simply forget problems from 10 years ago, but that they're able to return to and fix them. It'd be better if they didn't take 10 years to do so, but then again, I'm not complaining, either.
yes depends if the valuation is pre or post his money, Jabbles was not explicit.
In the US, you can request a bench trial instead of a jury trial (at least according to Wikipedia; I have not heard of anyone doing this).
Friedman proposed a negative income tax, which is not the same thing. A negative income tax often increases the marginal utility of work (if the rates are not too large), a guaranteed minimal income always reduces it.

Assume a utility function U(P) (P is take home pay) which is downward sloping (i.e., dU(x)/dW < dU(y)/dW whenever x < y). This is just the law of diminishing marginal returns.

Negative income tax: take home pay is P = A x W, where A > 1 and W = wages. Marginal utility = dU(AW)/dW = A dU(AW)/dW. If A dU(AW)/dW > dU(W)/dW, negative income tax creates an incentive for work.

Basic minimal income: take home pay is P = BI + W (BI + basic income). dU(BI+W)/dW < dU(W)/dW. This is always a disincentive for work.

I'd really be curious, do you have more information on Hayek's support for minimum income?
I like the experimentalness of it too, plus the fact that it goes against certain moral intuitions that have proven themselves rather fruitless in practice (bootstraps, blah blah). Real leaps tend to be counterintuitive. It does worry me that it seems dangerously write-only.
I've recently moved to Toronto from Australia and notice the same difference re: homelessness and begging.
As you hand out more free money you just cheapen the money in everyone's pocket and make them poorer. The 20k you just gave away won't even buy the amount of goods it would have before you created the program. This is just some redistribution of wealth gimmick. Giving away money does not address the source of poverty. Would you patch your code this way?

To end poverty you must fix the education system. Perhaps vouchers would encourage competition and force schools to compete for students by improving the quality of education. Perhaps someone would have to balls to end the process by which bad teachers are transferred from school to school because the union and public admin refuse to do something about it.

To end poverty you must cut the costs of education. There is no reason a 4 year college should cost what it does today. Look at what some administrators and professors make compared to what they do. Look at the quality of what you can learn on the internet for free. These need to come in line. State universities don't need water parks.

To end poverty we must educate on safe-sex.

To end poverty we must encourage healthful eating choices. We must get partially hydrogenated oils and all the other crap out of are food.

To end poverty people in the US must realize that left/right blue/red republican/democrat foxnews/msnbc is a false paradigm. People must not be divided by these things. People must see past all of this noise and see who is working against the best interest of people in favor of the people who hold the most money. People must see that all policies we have are in fact creating more poverty. To end poverty, we must fix the source of the problem - the united states congress and the federal reserve.
Dan, I really admire your products and your business sense. Your post on "Step by step to launching a new product" is spot on. Keep up the good work!
I disagree. When governments step out of their proper role of protecting individual rights, economic output will necessarily be lower than what it could have been. This is because governments deal in force (and they must do so - they have a proper monopoly on the retaliatory use of it!) But force applied in a non-retaliatory manner inhibits minds - minds from which all economic activity stems.
The most recent municipal corporation formed in Nevada was in 2001. I think California has some more recent ones than that.

People form governments all the damn time, most often municipal corporations.

I’m not a fan of this new wave of interest in company towns, but the worst aspect of them was company scrip and that was outlawed by Congress. Still, cities are an emergent phenomenon, cities that you can call cities and not just cities on paper. You can’t plant a few skyscrapers in the ground and call it a day.
I'm not convinced the end-game is ads. There are a lot of entities that would pay good money for a profile of troublesome individuals.
Kinda like saying one didn't inhale.
Pertinent quote:

"I defend the value of "not caring about 90% of stuff" Care deeply about everything == accomplish nothing."
- John Carmack
I've had the same problem with them lately. Extremely frustrating when you really want to read something and then can't find it.
Larry would never admit it, but he is a pragmatist. He will fight Microsoft when it favors Oracle and shy away when it doesn't.

Larry must think Microsoft has enough enemies to keep it in check without Oracle having to devote resources to that.
Every single open question thing Obama gets is inundated with questions about medical marijuana, and every time he mostly ignores it...
I suppose testing could be understood as a special error-correcting code for a particular noisy information processor -- humans writing software.

But then one must begin to wonder, are they doing that job very well? Testing does not seem to be so carefully designed as Hamming codes or others . . .
Other than Windows Update (which non-technical users shouldn't be running manually anyway), I can't even remember the last site I've been do that didn't work perfectly on Chrome (or Firefox). Examples?

On the other hand, we're getting to the point where some newer sites render poorly in IE, run very slowly, are missing features, or don't work at all. HTML5 and intensive JavaScript may be on the verge of reversing the old conventional wisdom about using IE for widest compatibility.
Free speech isn't free if there are stipulations. I'm not saying Amazon should have to let you host whatever you want on their servers, just that if you can't host controversial speech there, you can't rightly say you have freedom of speech on that particular service.
He may have won the turing prize but he's apparently forgotten what linebreaks are for in written english.
how can i help vim without helping ugandans?
While I agree your sentiment that degrees and IQ have next to nothing to do with whether or not someone is actually smart, have a look at current culture and at corporate america.

At amazon, everyone was obsessed with how "smart" amazon employees were, and yet the place was a showcase of terrible engineering -- rife with accidental complexity and tight coupling that spanned not just systems within a group, but across entire divisions -- and some what I read in this article I saw there first-hand. The management complained constantly about how bad our tools were, yet the people that they promoted and took care of were the ones that designed and implemented those same tools.

A great many managers haven't the faintest idea as to how to determine what constitutes a "smart" employee, so they zero in on things like degrees and number of hours worked because they don't have any rational standard for identifying the good ones from the bad, so the guy with the degree who's working 80 hours a week is obviously the best guy on the team! Look how hard he's working! He must be REALLY smart!

"Also, the article seems to conflate having an MBA with being smart. I wonder if Gladwell has ever thought that the reason Southwest has a vastly more efficient organization than its competitors is because it has a bunch of smart people who figure out how to do things more efficiently. People so smart in fact that they realize people on the ground can make much more informed decisions than people in a boardroom."

I think that was precisely his point. Enron used MBAs as a proxy for "smartness" and turned out to be a spectacular disaster. Southwest doesn't, and is one of the few US-based airlines that isn't relying on the US government to keep it alive.
I haven't taken three years of university math but I found high school calculus fascinating.
We need a borrow checker for the financial system.
Details and explanation in this expired IETF Internet Draft: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-01.html
I have seen non-Americans write YYYY/DD/MM before. Hyphens are key here.
Sites like GitHub are more important to free speech than the actual speech itself: code isn't just saying something, its the actual act of expressing your ideals itself. When you write code, and someone runs your code, your words /do/ something, your words /are/ action.

India is basically telling their own people they're not allowed to do anything of importance, and they should just go back to their shitty third world lives and that what they do doesn't matter, will never matter, and their lives will amount to nothing.

Does Github work properly though Tor? Is that a solution?
My favorite single book of poetry was actually written by my best friend. It's called God's Livestovk Policy, and it's a completely brilliant commentary on how we relate to each other and power figures. It's brutally funny as well as beatiful language.

http://www.lesfigues.com/book/gods-livestock-policy/

Other than that, I'm a huge fan of romantic era German poetry.
Heine's Wenn ich in deine Augen seh is haunting

Wenn ich in deine Augen seh,
So schwindet all mein Leid und Weh;
Doch wenn ich küsse deinen Mund,
So werd ich ganz und gar gerund.

Wenn ich mich lehn an deine Brust,
Kommts über mich wie Himmelslust;
Doch wenn du sprichst: Ich liebe dich!
So muß ich weinen bitterlich.
'The student version does not have watermarks and there are no other feature restrictions.'

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-general/student-version-o...

Get your 3 year free license here:

http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/maya

I believe you don't need an .edu address, it's on the honour system.
The problem is the cost of the deal is too high and the benefit too low.

The Iran deal is actually rather simple in concept. Iran temporarily suspends certain nuclear activities (not all of them - for example, researching enrichment is fine). In return, Iran gets an economic boost and a permit to do whatever it wants, like supporting terrorists or mass murdering Syrians or trying to destroy Israel.

The latter part may surprise you, but it's obvious when one thinks about it. What is the West allowed to do when Iran commits those things? It's not economic sanctions, since removing sanctions and then placing them on again for different reasons would leave Iran no reason to comply with the nuclear deal. And of course, war is undesireable (the entire point of the deal was to avoid war). So Iran can do whatever, and if the West does anything serious, well, nukes.

The rest of the ME isn't going to meekly submit to Iran. Worse, Iran can't finance its holdings (Iran requires weak governments in order to hold Iraq and Lebanon, but that means no investments). That means things get done in the ME way, which already leads to mass amounts of refugees.

Iran's involvement in Syria directly led to Brexit (Leave would have lost without an immigration crisis on) and played a key role in Trump getting elected (Is it a surprise the most anti-immigration R candidate won the primary given that background? Didn't Trump end up hiring Cambridge Analytica, which would have never happened absent Brexit?). If it weren't for the deal, maybe the US would have done something about Syria and we'd have avoided all that. If Iranian destablization of ME restarts under Biden, the result may well be Trump mk2.

I do not believe this is an acceptable price for temporary restrictions.
So your opinion of Apple is just that they're pure evil, or what?
One of my favorite books.

Particularly the example with a person who should walk on a beam between two skyskrapers.

IIRC it goes like this:

- A beam lies ok the ground. Everyone can dare to walk on it.

- Now the beam gets lifted up between two skyscrapers.

- Now almost no sane person would walk across it.

- If it starts burning in the building, at some point one will cross, if necessary by sitting and sliding yourself across: embarrassing but better than the alternative.

- If however there was a reliable safety net right underneath the beam a good number of us would enjoy crossing between even if there was no fire.

I think this example speaks volumes about how to get oneself and others to get past certain fears by making sure there are known, reliable safety nets.

FWIW: I found out a while ago that the example with the beam (or rather a plank) probably comes from Coué. (There's a reference here: https://medium.com/s/radical-spirits/the-man-who-helped-the-...)
It's simply pathological to claim that we have NO DATA just because a large scale RCT wasn't performed.

For starters, we have profound differences in the attack curves between treatment and control group, starting about 14 days after administration of the first dose [1]. I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I'm going to guess the trial size is more than adequately powered to detect differences 27 days out.

All this is exactly as theory would predict. Seroconversion typically takes about two weeks. Once seroconversion happens, immunity lasts years (if not decades), which is why most booster doses are given years apart [2]. And any talk of "full efficacy" is confusing population statistics with individual outcomes. To say that Moderna is ~85% effective after one dose, as it appears to be, is to say that 85% of the population will produce antibodies after a single dose. There is no "partial immunity"--you're immune or you're not.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/7cebed90-3267-4651-a249-56f5a9ae7...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
Perhaps it's time to revisit jit extensions for webassembly [0].

[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FutureFeat...
Of course it's horrendous and completely disheartening but it does not make it not true, and I think it's important to inform that the answer is not 'voting'. Voting does nothing with a non-functioning government.
Is MS not busy looking at doing their own ARM silicon for future Windows powered Surface devices after release of M1 and the failure Qualcomm with the Snapdragon 8cx (we just use ARM reference designs) ???.

They do have the chops for it since they have done Xbox and Hololens and various other devices in-house.
Github has some great management tools for reviewing code and integrating with various integrations. But so does Gitlab, Bitbucket... and I'm sure there are more. They aren't 1 for 1 replacements, but they do exist. I'd personally recommend against using a ton of integrations that tightly bound you to any service.
I hope this and projects like it spearhead a movement of ARM laptops outside of the Apple-sphere.

I wonder if System76, for example, has their eyes on being the first to market as “the Linux laptop on ARM”. Seems right up their alley.

Also worth noting that I understand that System76 and Apple are not comparable companies. One is a humble operation installing a custom Linux build on rebranded hardware, and the other is a vertically integrated powerhouse building it’s own hardware.
The reason I originally signed-up to WhatsApp was because of spending more and more time in Brazil and realising how ingrained in society it is. Even though a lot of my friends and family there have iPhones, none use iMessage.
Max Keiser puts it at 220k for the end of this year.

Even JPM is in the news with 150k predictions.
Maxing out 'politeness', 'acceleration', and 'inflow' I could achieve nearly 7000veh/hr.

Probably impossible, since it would cause heaps of rear ending accidents. Maybe if driver assist features both prevent lane changes and optimize avg. speed.
I have the bike+ and the automatic resistance is great. Unfortunately only available for on-demand classes.
100% agree with this perspective: "history doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes"

The number of voices on twitter is the rhyme: Hearst and a small number of people controlled the message back then. Twitter bears responsibility, but they are ultimately not editorializing everybody all the time.