jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
They can certainly memorialize the event, but explicitly putting the spotlight on the opposition seems quite overt. From a propaganda perspective, it's almost a reminder that the bad guys are still out there. In the US, we don't celebrate "Independence Day From the Usurious British," we just celebrate Independence Day.
How many bad apples until people declare the whole batch spoiled?
Yes, although it has to be a little more complicated than 1 mistake => in trouble, I think this is essentially the complaint of a lot of stack ranking dissenters.
Goat Grazing? Maybe targeted for April 1?
Where do I get these rates? Personal experience. I bought a house in 2006 and already had a house purchased in 2004.

Also your figures seem wrong to me:

http://www.hsh.com/natmo2007.html -- in 2007 a 1 year ARM was over 6% for most of the year, longer ARM loans would have been higher. Most people in 2008 didn't have loans taken out in 2008, but more likely in 2004-2006 when the market was hot and rates were higher.

Incidentally, while the real interest LIBOR rates right now are close to zero, actual mortgage rates are considerably higher, especially on 30y fixed (we got a 15y fixed mortgage because with the difference in interest rates our mortgage payment was only about 40% higher than the 30y option).
Yeah, I think Chrome is the browser to beat right now... but does most people really use the sync feature? I might be wrong but my guess would be no, and that's true for a lot of the other "additional value" features that browsers add
The actual letter site is built with .NET MVC and a lot of fancy JS/SASS/etc. deployed to Azure. It fits into an ecosystem of other more complex components (Akamai, CMS, proxies, etc.).
5 years ago at least, I was dealing with 50Tb databases on hundreds of Tb of physical storage. We didn't call it big data, it was just data, we didn't call ourselves data scientists, we were just database guys, DBAs and devs.

Nowadays a million rows is "big data" and only a "data scientist" can handle it. These guys are a joke.
Yes, what we usually do when there is a tug of war between upvotes and flags is prevent the flags from killing the post so active discussion can continue, but not turn off the flags altogether. This happens on controversial posts where the community is divided, and it's not uncommon to see large fluctuations in rank under the tug of war.
obtuse: "stupid or unintelligent : not able to think clearly or to understand what is obvious or simple"

Why is it understandable that someone is an asshole to someone else who is not as smart as they are?

I mean, I guess it's all understandable, I understand some of why people are assholes, sure. But it's harmful to ourselves and our projects.
This time we should not fear of loud laws, but of silent subversion. You can no longer tell good guys from bad; everyone you trust can betray you. Forced to make pacts with bad people, giving them everything of yours.
I would argue that AWS does not have a "Customer Obsession", and that's exactly why it's Amazon's most profitable business (by far) and the underwriter of all of Bezos's ambitions.
> You're assuming it takes considerable skill to fuzz an algorithm or look for back doors and easter eggs?

This is usually a good assumption.
Just google "one handed keyboard" or "half keyboard". There's plenty of options, from single hand hardware keyboards, to software that mirrors your existing keyboard so you can use both sides with one hand (usually holding down the space bar turns mirroring on).

I tried one of the mirroring apps many years ago and it didn't take long to become pretty quick using it.
Sadly it's not how these platform operates, they provide the card for security deposit usually.

That's why I've used Agoda every time I could (works well in Asia, spotty elsewhere), because they allow paypal payment. Hotel will still want your card for the deposit but you can just provide it on the first day.

This way you don't have to fight with a place that did overbooking or similar and still has your card on file.
> Chinese engineers cracked ...

I feel this is becoming the new "British scientists ..." meme
Does this mean that memories are discrete? As in stored as integers corresponding to the DNA code?
So interesting how, almost as a rule, the people on this list who've actually contributed something to this world want something immaterial. And then there's Amanda Congdon.
BofA's Internal->Web filtering proxy.
If I understand correctly, your basic assumption is that a developer only needs access to the configuration options. Essentially, a developer isn't going to hack the code, they just modify the package configuration as needed. I think this would be a fair assumption and targets a huge number of users looking to leverage the cloud.

As for pricing, looking back, I realize that my question may have been a bit blunt and offensive. What I was really curious to know was whether you were going to be charging "per instance", "per hour", "per instance-hour", "per package", etc. For example, is Apache+MySQL on a single machine (if that's possible) less expensive than Apache on one machine and MySQL on another? What about compared to Nginx+Cassandra? (FWIW: You don't have to answer this directly if you want to keep the cards close while in testing...)

None the less, I wish you the best. (signed up for a beta.)
I'm sure those graphs are interesting, but they're so small that I can't read them, at all.
tl;dr - "See Plans and Pricing" vs Free Trial or the like. Second post - iteration, iteration, iteration.
Even though I disagree with his views on just about every political issue, Aaron is an inspiration for me. I would love to be in a position where I don't have to worry about money and invest significant amount of time in things that interest me, without worrying about money.

It seems like ever since I started working for myself, I don't have time for hobbies at all - everything I do has to go through a prism of how will this affect my bottom line...
It uses your topcolor on the list pages, but it switches to Christmas colors when you submit a story or reply to comments.
This is bollocks. I usually tell people what I'm working on, during casual conversation. I then ask them if they'd use it. I don't need false pretenses. I just need to know the likelihood a person, given experience A, would take action B. And I make it interesting for them.
> It seems it can happen with the standard library's RwLock too[1]. Perhaps it's a Linux peculiarity?

I would not call it a “linux peculiarity” as any system could have any priority policy and could change it unless explicitly guaranteed, which this rarely is.
Much of the cutting edge today is based on Unix which has been continuously evolving since 1969... if you solve problems well from the outset, you often don't have to re-solve them over and over.
I've come to be suspicious of anything in finance claiming to be "mathematically optimal". You can only optimise according to some simplified model, and simplified models of complex systems have a tendency to unpredictably break down.
Not at all. The priority has and will always be making sure customers can get to _other_ webpages quickly; we're not of a scale where the load on our own sales/account management pages exceeds the needs of 2-3 boxes (with a couple of redundant virtuals ready to fire up). That they feel fast to the CEO, without a defined metric for "fast", is about the only criteria.
But they don't. I did a whole comment there pointing to the statistics about how most bombs are unclaimed, hours ago.
This might be only tangentially related, and I'm sure nearly everyone on HN knows this, but salting MD5's is probably the easiest way to significantly increase their security. By changing md5($var) to md5($var . "foo") this type of attack could be prevented, assuming that the crackers don't have access to the source code [in this challenge, they did].

To get an idea of what can be exposed if you don't salt, and thus use predictable hashes, have a look here: http://www.google.com/#q=inurl:c4ca4238a0b923820dcc509a6f758...

md5(1) = c4ca4238...
In theory using the GPL should prevent that. It might be difficult to enforce though if the code is something that could be used internally or otherwise effectively hidden.
RMR and the Mprize!!!
OpenResty seems to be a bundle of nginx add-ons, while Tengine is a fork. Also, tengine has DSO loading.
You are right that the i3 CPU(Core i3-530) we compared with is a little old generation. I tried to compare online Core i3-530 with Core i3-2105. The 2105 is SandyBridge and runs at a slightly higher clock 3.1 GHz(while the 530 runs at 2.93 according to CPU world).

According to cpu-world. The 2105 is 21% faster than the 530 for single threaded operations. If you account for the speed in clock this would mean only a boost of 14% improvement over the 530.

So its really not such a bad comparison.

In the meanwhile we will try run this on a newer CPU and let you know the results.
Banning tiny phones is stupid. These people have already shown that they don't care about the law - that's why they're in jail[1] and having a cell phone in prison is already not legal. What's it going to be now? Double plus unlegal?

Surely faraday cages and cell-phone jamming would be easier and less restrictive for regular people. (The BBC article says they're changing legislation to allow them to block signals in prison)
From the BBC article:-

> More than 7,000 phones and Sim cards were confiscated in prisons in England and Wales last year.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_prison_populati...)

> Using the figures below from 2009 and 2011, the UK prison population stands at around 97,000. As of October 4, 2011 the population of women in prison in the UK is 4,635.

I don't know how many phones they're not finding. Or how long prisoners have had phones before being caught.

[1] Although England and Wales sends too many people to prison and there was a problem with women not paying tv licence fines, and then going to jail for not paying the fine.
I've been thinking about going back to Apache on at least one server due to Nginx's poor WebDAV support. This might just push me over the edge.
The interesting takeaway I took from this which I loved was his gorilla marketing strategy.

Basically it goes like this, attack your competitors, wind them up in the press as a form of advertising. This creates enormous attention for nothing (people actually read editorial and skip the ads) and often you need an adversary to make something newsworthy.

Be ethical but let the industry know there is battle on and you're fighting for your life, but fight on safe ground!

This is the method I personally used with some success in my former business which was also an electronic hardware, design and manufacturing company. With very little funds for marketing I had to be creative, we made impressive DPS adverts and coupled these with side stories which were often gossip over industry turf wars or other antics I would get up too.
The ACA model in the US is very similar to what exists in many places in the world e.g. here in Australia. And it was driven from the needs of the government not the needs of the health care industry. Although they are a beneficiary. That said the model really does work.

The fact is that uninsured people has a devastating effect on the economy. It prevents movement of labour, affects productivity, promotion to higher socio-economic levels, prevents people starting businesses, affects crime and countless other social effects. You need to force people who don't think they need it to have it.
Thanks! That's a fair question. I've written a short blog post about why you might want to choose UX-App over another solution here:

https://www.ux-app.com/static/blog/2015/01/05/why-choose-ux-...

I'd like to think that there are 3 main killer features:

1. the visual code editor: this allows you to create interactions that simply aren't possible to recreate in other tools. If you want to see in in action then check out:

https://www.ux-app.com/static/docs/quick-start-code-editor.h...

2. Real components which can be quickly composed and nested. This allows you to quickly create complex designs that aren't possible in many other tools.

3. Powerful device preview. UX-App will push all changes to all connected devices wherever they are in the world.

Thanks for your question, I'd be thrilled to have you on board with UX-App. Contact me at eli@ux-app.com if you have any further questions.

PS; If you do sign up to UX-App, let me know and I'll upgrade your account for you!
There's a significant part of the staff working on game production that is not engineering. There are far fewer job opportunities for the folks working in the Art, Design and Audio departments.

For engineers, there's a wide range of disciplines (graphics, networking, systems, gameplay, AI, audio, etc...), so in theory there's a ton to learn and it's easy to continually be challenged. In practice, at a large company, you'll most likely end up working on a very narrow specialty, on a very specific genre of games. Much like the film industry, people continue to join thinking they will make it big, i.e.: have a critically acclaimed title on their resume.
API | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/api/
Even that first request benefits from things like header compression and the more efficient encoding. The big win, however, if you are making an API client is that you can connect and immediately send all of our requests without needing to issue them sequentially. If your API design in the past has needed to prepare combined responses to reduce latency that can a pretty big win.
I have one in the bedroom and one in the main living/office area. They were essential in California during the past few years of fires. The indoor air quality was maintained consistently while outdoors was horrendous.
It’s such an easy thing to lie about. “I had only one dose left and had to use it on my wife.” How do we know there was not 10 more people but he did what he could to get exactly 9. There is huge incentive too. It would be less suspicious if his wife wasn’t sick.

I suspect the nytimes is interested in pushing the racism angle more than anything.
This sounds like the best use of DHS I've heard of since their inception.
Thank you for illustrating my point perfectly.

“Grudge?” (proceeds with details of grudge).
Most simulations, games, everything that isn't generating cryptography does not need security in it's random.

For most domains secure random is a niche, not universally applicable.
That's a good question, happy to answer.

I have asthma and mild allergies triggered by pet dander and sometimes seasonal pollen and such. It's a 3 bedroom house. 7 rooms total. And we have pets, because we're dumb.

Ideally we'd have one filter for each room, but they're not the cheapest things, so we just keep them in the rooms where we spend the most time.

Do they work? They've had a positive impact on my asthma/allergies. Not a magic cure, but nothing is. Obviously, it is a part of a comprehensive strategy that includes vacuuming and so forth.

Side benefits of the filters are that they also cut down on dust accumulation on surfaces, and are somewhat effective at reducing odors in general thanks to the swappable charcoal filters.

(FWIW they used to go on sale for like $119 once in a while, in pre-COVID times. That's when we got ours...)

It's just never occurred to me to filter
the air in my home aside from burning
something on the stove or similar

Yeah, I don't think this is some sort of thing that everybody needs to do.

If you're currently doing fine, then this doesn't seem like something you need....
Given a power law curve with $770K at the low extreme, $2.7m does not seem like an unreasonable average amount. RichList puts $1.31m=0.5%, $2.7m=%0.16 and 13m=0.01% of the population.

It also says that $1B puts you at #998 in the world. Oxfam claims that number recently grew to 1645 [1]. I can accept 998 as a calculated estimate based on somewhat outdated data. But, it's obviously not nearly perfect.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/29/oxfam-r...
If you wanted to, sure! A lot of people dig the peace and quiet, lakes they have a boat for, etc. Most young tech people I know though gravitate toward the cities, though. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/03/12/392136...
I didn’t argue for the need of regulations, and I don’t argue with the reasons. I argue with the solution.

You could use your argument for reintroducing gatekeepers to information economy.

If we banished social media and independent blogs, and got back to a bunch of government-approved publishers, we would get rid of fake news, anti-science and populism within a day.

But the cost is too great and we are looking for other solutions.

Ditto with arxiv and Elsevier. You can say a lot of bad things about Elsevier, but not in terms of the quality of papers.

Gatekeepers stiffle innovation in exchange for safety. And there are other ways to arrive at safety than through gatekeepers. (e.g. by punishing people who abuse the system post-facto).
I don't understand that, if devices can take as long as they please then why give the 10ms delay at all? It'd be like telling the hardware engineers "you're not allowed to wake up your device for at least 10ms". Is that just the spec trying to say "this should cover most use cases" and it turns out that's not really the case in practice? Or maybe it's an expected limitation of the technology that it would be nearly impossible to ready a device within 10ms, so the spec is saying it would be pointless to issue a request before that time?
As I remember a year or two ago they were convinced, that it is ok to send real user's request to a dead backend from time to time to check if it's alive, arguing that dedicated health check wasn't going to make a difference.
I have a fake Facebook account for this exact reason.

In this world of big, perpetually stored data, I don't know why anyone would be interested in having their casual conversations tied to their real identity. I'm sure if you really wanted to, you could figure out who I am; I won't deny that. But I'm not going to hand it to you. So many things said, so easy to take them out of context.
If discourse is the problem, what's wrong with some sort of HN/Slashdot/Reddit-like crowd sourced moderation?

That's the way to solve that issue.
There's a fairly well-established notation similar to what you made up: ABC notation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation).
Could someone who understands these things explain to me why flattening the declaration in the second example appears to make it 85% faster?
Perhaps you are unaware that Google makes Android, or that Android uses a Linux kernel?

This makes Android the most likely target among Linux-based phones and tablets for the patent owners to go after next, since they have already established (until/unless Google can get it overturned on appeal) that their patent is valid against Google. They can try to leverage off that and bring in Android as just more instances of the same overall infringement.
Reminds me of a section in Richard Branson's book Losing my Virginity. He had just started Virgin Atlantic and was essentially the target of a smear campaign by British Airways. The future of Virgin was up in the air, more or less.

During all of this, BBC (or some other station) did a short documentary on the situation. They interviewed him at an airfield for retired planes, somewhere in the Southwest US. Quite the ominous setting.

(Can't find the exact quote anywhere, sorry)
One of the most annoying forms of interview has to be the immediately technical phone screen. I remember talking with startups, and during the initial phone call they'd leap into a canned set of technical screening questions, which themselves are some set of factoids which are supposed to translate to how good of a programmer you are.

I understand the need for startups to screen out absolute idiots before they spend time talking with a candidate; it's easy enough, though, to look the guy up beforehand or send the guy a coding question he could work on in isolation. Just make it a policy to only talk to candidates that have something technical you can verify beforehand.

In our current tech job market, it makes sense for the company to convince you it makes sense to talk to them further; chances are, if you're any good and someone they want, you can and will get multiple offers anyway. Even if the company wastes "talk time" to candidates that wouldn't make the cut, it's worth not driving away the guys who got annoyed by its strong-hand "we need a strong code monkey" interviewing tactics.
> I like simplicity. Simplicity tends to perform well, and being simple also means it has little space for problems.

I like simplicity in my code, I am far less concerned about simplicity in the underlying libraries that I use.

GC makes my code simpler and more understandable. I use manual memory allocation when I absolutely need to, and GC languages when I can. In most cases, that means I use a GC language.
Who do you consider "the real spammers"? Stopping a majority of spammers is what makes my life easier.
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Exactly, but autism doesn't excuse the fact that it is a humanly possible level of intellectual capacity.
This sort of thing is inevitable whenever you have a flawed system which incentivizes this type of activity. If anything it only raises awareness to how we should stop using captchas because they simply don't work.
Terrible idea. He's out in two weeks. Why stir up his base and invite confirmation bias when he's already out the door? That would be risking a lot to gain very little.
With respect, that isn’t why large numbers of people are suspicious.
> I'm talking about confiscating property in a banal, rule based democracy sort of way, not by mobs.

Banal, rules-based democracies still need a fundamental set of rights if they're to avoid instantly devolving to mob rule. I really don't want a rules-based democracy voting to kill me and my family, so I'm glad that I have the fundamental right not to be subject to that risk (even if it were supported by the majority.)

One of the values that's pretty prevalent in the United States and a lot of other developed nations is a respect for property rights; if you worked for something, you get to keep it, even if other people would want it more.

Both of these rights exist on a spectrum (e.g. the death penalty can override your right to life in the extreme case, and taxes can override your right to your property to a small extent), but by almost any measure putting your right to property to a vote is extremely far on the "not respecting property rights" side of the spectrum.

Also, I have extremely little confidence that the best way to assuage our political divide is to introduce the perpetual threat of "the majority had better think that what you're doing is useful, otherwise we'll take everything you have."

The rule of law means that sometimes things will arise that slip through the cracks in unintended ways. The solution to this is to fix those cracks and make the law more clearly define what's desired. If this makes a given business model non-viable, then so be it; that's the price of progress. I'd imagine that those is favor of the rule of law, though, can see the slippery slope of letting the mob vote on what do with the property of those who were following the law at the time.
And there are vast stretches of the internet where private or not the platform is infinitely permissive or a close approximation. So if people are feeling unheard, it’s pretty likely they have their work cut out in terms of building the audience for their voice.

The left has been in this position forever. But somehow we’re supposed to sympathize when a bunch of yokels storm into a parliamentary procedure and start shooting it up?
I believe the Social Dilemma documentary on Netflix answers this question pretty well.