jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you rolled a dice a few thousand times and found a very unlikely subsequence of length one thousand then the dice almost certainly would be unfair. You need to spend lifetimes rolling dice to find sequences of a thousand rolls where the numbers of ones, twos, etc. are very much different from 166.
Till v8.0.16 mysql used to accept and then just ignore check constraints

I've never been so offended by a technology as the day I discovered that; it's not a misfeature and its not a bug -- only pure malice could have driven such a decision
Additionally, if you're not not assuming guilt then there is one thing you can assume: leverage.

He's got a lot to lose which the article makes painfully clear:

- time with family

- personal reputation

- fulfilling personal/religion goals

- ... and a lot more

Personally, I think it enlightening to consider the opposite scenario: what about those on the fringe with nothing to lose? The FBI has a life changing program for you! They'll give you a sense of purpose, a feeling like you're part of something, and all the support you need to ... become the star of the next foiled terrorist plot.
I can understand that. I bet Yahoo is low on budget.
There are also minicabs everywhere, some of which have app-based booking, and Uber certainly isn't the only rideshare app Londoners can use.
Given a hospital patient who doesn’t value taking care of their health, should it be ok to administer X-rays without concern for radiation exposure? If the patient doesn’t care, is it ok then?
"Significantly, planning cases were based on speculative logic – not actual demand"

The same happened now in some parts of Switzerland with residential buildings. In some areas, rents are dropping because there are too many buildings and too few tenants.
Cost is only one, relatively small, part of Uber's USP in London. The general shittiness of Black Cab drivers about taking you anywhere close to the edges of zone 1 is the biggest issue for me. Night tube only runs on Fri/Sat nights so I literally couldn't get home from a late week night without Uber.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Uber riders blocking taxi ranks if Uber actually stopped operating, Black Cabs serve very few Londoners.

Edit: Not "literally couldn't get home", I would just have to spend over an hour on a night bus.
> who attempt a violent takeover of a market

What is a "violent" takeover? What would a nonviolent takeover be?

I'm all for new companies providing better services to consumers. If they take over a market, isn't that because the existing market wasn't meeting consumer needs? A new company taking over a market is generally a good thing, the creative force of capitalism itself.

(Provided it's not done by ignoring legitimate standards for safety, environment, externalities, etc.)
> I'm also afraid of digging an inescapable hole of untestable spaghetti code and tech debt.

if you are worried about tech debt you should watch "The art of destroying software". It will be hard to understand at first.

Here is TL;DR. Writing small services that will take only one week of work to rewrite. That way you can burn your services and recreate when you truly understand your domain.

Recently I worked on a REST API using go. I think the go package system has good support for writing small and independent packages. Just make sure your microservices are micro.

You can do the same for your React Codebase.
Agree with this. No small or new projects can ever be discovered given keywords and links are hyper optimized and new indies may not have funds to market it.
Alright, I'll take you at your word and I'll risk it, let's see what happens.

China:

- is good at doing things. Projects in the West are smaller and take longer.

- can take the long view. Western governments think of the next election.

- promotes harmony and unity among its citizens. Western electorates must be divided by emotional issues.

- has a domestic security apparatus that's more transparent and obvious than corresponding forces in the West.

- has 1.4 billion people. EU has 512 million. US has 330 million.

- learn what works from others and make it their own. Less Western students go to China, than vice versa.

- people emigrate everywhere, mix with everyone but still maintain their own culture. Less Westerners migrate to China than vice versa.

- is very safe from violent crime and terrorism. The West could emulate China's effective law enforcement strategies.

- has an admirable, inspiring and clear goal of striving for national rejuvenation, a harmonious and moderately prosperous country. What admirable, inspiring and clear goal for the future to work toward does any Western country have?

That's some of what I think.

But I don't think it's important to you what I think. I think what's important for you is you being open to see what's already there in front of you. When you are open to learn, you will find your own things about China that you admire and wish the West would emulate.
This website is incredibly confusing and hand-wavy, but from what I've read in the past about Pika, I believe (though I had trouble finding this clearly stated) its key feature is automatic conversion of third-party JavaScript modules to the ES6 (here referred to as ESM) module syntax.

For those who aren't familiar, JavaScript has two distinct module syntaxes (and several variations on those). Nodejs brought its own when it came on the scene, and then later browsers standardized on a new one for the web. The two are incompatible in some pretty nasty ways (the former is a runtime function, the latter is fully static). So standard practice is to use a bundler like Webpack or Browserify to concatenate your code and all its dependencies into a single JS file (with modules being properly scoped, artificially, through functions scopes and other tricks) for use in web browsers. Basically, this allows browsers to avoid dealing with however all your modules may import each other; you can even mix both syntaxes in one project. The browser just sees one big file.

The problem is, a) this makes it virtually impossible to use any dependencies from NPM on the front-end without a bundler, which means a minimum required amount of configuration and tooling, and b) you lose out on some potential caching benefits because files that may not change much can't be distinguished.

So why doesn't everyone just use the new modules syntax so that code can be loaded in the browser, as separate modules, without bundling? Because if even a single one of your NPM dependencies is still in the other syntax, you're up a creek. It's like the IPv6 problem: until everyone has it, nobody does.

So projects like (I think) Pika have cropped up to try and address this. If it really does auto-convert packages to the new modules syntax, that eliminates the biggest reason to use build tooling in a modern JS project. You could theoretically get away with having no build process at all.
I mean, if that's your argument then it seems like the OP article isn't valuable news. It's a change to terms of service when you never trusted the ToS to begin with.
Concerning sms in many of the countries worldwide sms is not free/unlimited as the case in the us you only get a specific amount in your plan with extremely late/unreliable delivery so it's basically unusable for chat where I'm from and only works in the case of ads and credit card transaction notifications.

whatsapp also had the advantage of being simple to use requiring only your phone number and it worked on pretty much any phone you had from symbian feature phones to the latest iphone helping it to gain widespread traction among people.
Common Desktop Environment? I have a couple old RISC boxes running it...

;-)

Sorry. Couldn't resist...

Now, seriously, this goes a bit beyond package management by bringing along what seemed to be the specific versions of libraries. The goal is to do reproducible results for scientific data but, in this case, I would prefer not to have the original libraries packed along but having the dependencies flagged in a way that any version-specific bug could be easily pointed out.
That's a good point, but not entirely true. I'm half Lebanese. Despite being "randomly selected" often, my Beirut-born brother has taken a box cutter on every flight he's been on since 9/11 just because he can.

TSA is quite uneffective.
[ with 200$ 10.1' android multi-touch devices e.g. http://goo.gl/S5JHs (I would suspect that wholesale costs would be closer to 100$). ]

For seeding 10000 restaurants, you would barely need a million and half dollars (not counting android app development). I daresay that you could make the interface close enough without infringing on copyright issues.

The key is to lock down a hardware manufacturer who can supply the devices with a low failure rate.
There are a number of people with extensive startup experience on HN who don't think YC is worth it. Thomas and the guys from 37signals come to mind. There's a lot of experience and validation that comes from bootstrapping that YC doesn't provide.
"it was too expensive to keep, but letting it go could be harmful."

which means that they have probably priced their product perfectly
I lived and worked on University ave for 2.5 years. Every so often we'd walk over to Nolas or Old pro, realize that it's still crowded and crappy, and go back to the office and code.
This is exactly how Vinod’s lawyers want you to see this: some complicated and interesting legal case. While you might be accurate about the details, it’s not within the public interest to see those details as relevant. The truth is that Vinod bought a property overestimating it’s value and this legal nonsense is how he tries to recoup from his mistake. It is not within the taxpayers interests to entertain him.
Very good idea I love it! I foresee and amazing future for you, just don't give up, keep it going for as long as you can. Cheers!
I would pay good money for this.
So what you're saying is, you don't handle different monitor resolutions.

My team is split between people with 4k or even 5k screens and wide-angle screens with lower pixel densities, so this would be an issue. Not sure how common that is, though.
Stronglifts or starting strength
You can absolutely rob a person that does not have cash though. Even ignoring the value of personal electronic devices credit cards themselves can be a target. You might be able to eventually unwind the financial impact but that doesn't deter robbery.
Einstein pulled out.
One downside is Revise v2 actually itself has a fairly high startup cost.
Best alternative is to pin it to Revise v1.

I personsally don't mind the startup too much.
But I do get where people are coming from
There isn't much content in the article worth getting around the WSJ Paywall;

Online-storage company Box Inc. priced its initial public offering at
$14 apiece late Thursday, above expectations, according to a person
familiar with the offering.

The deal raised $175 million by selling 12.5 million shares, according
to the person. The company had been looking to sell 12.5 million shares
in the range of $11 to $13 a share, according to a regulatory filing.

Box’s IPO comes roughly 10 months after it publicly filed for an IPO.
Those plans were postponed amid a drop in demand for technology
stocks, and in the ensuing months it turned to the private market to
raise additional funding.

Box plans to start trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange
under the ticker “BOX”.

The deal is being led by Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse
and J.P. Morgan.

(Hope it's okay to Mirror here)
You can also get to Heathrow with a bus or the tube for 10 GBP, still most people either take a much more expensive train or book a car.

Getting to JFK in public transport might work for a domestic flight but i won't want to go trough NY's public transport with 2 full suit cases.
Varonis and Trusteer essentially deal with the issue of "the bad guys are already inside" and Lifelock the damage control element of post-compromise.

I'd say in mobile security space Good Techonologies, OpenPeak, Ionic, Telesign and Okta all probably have valuations in the mid-hundreds of million of dollars.

The big winners in mobile have been gaming and advertising, but I'd suspect that in terms of enterprise software security companies are probably out-performing the average.
I find this fascinating. Again 1969!

Abbreviations:
8-balls - Flight Director Attitude Indicator
If you have any good blogs that discuss this, I'll add it to my notes. I'm always skeptical of supplements but I want to aggregate all thoughts on RSI.
> Esqueleto and OpalEye. The latter is fresh off the presses and not yet ready for prime time (see the "ideal sql" samples interspersed with the performance killing actual sql)

On the contrary, Opaleye (lowercase "e") has been used in production to run multiple-hundred line queries with high performance. I gave the "idealized SQL" examples in the docs as a way of making the generated code easier to understand for readers, not to suggest that there is any performance loss. If you know of an example where the code generation leads to a performance loss in Postgres I would be interested to hear about it.

(An aside: Esqueleto isn't anywhere close to typesafe, nor does the author claim this is one of its goals. It is trivial to produce crashing queries: https://github.com/prowdsponsor/esqueleto/issues/41)
The example described in the article sends an average payload of 6 bytes (smaller than UDP header) and converges to a steady state bandwidth that is a function of RTT and the number of player input changes per-second that is generally independent of the amount of packet loss. Given that with this protocol the average average stream is 12kbps, the vast majority of which is UDP packet header, I think your concerns about congestive internet failure are somewhat overblown.
How scalable is Node these days, considering that javascript has no real multi-threading support, and most of the things you do for a user in Node are thus blocking other users?

I know it is possible to run things in different processes, but it seems to me that this is kind of a hassle (like a workaround).
This get's us back to basics. It's interesting how some things like "Title bar" and Scrolling never changed.
Wow. Is this "everything I need to know about Germany, I learned from Fox News"? Let me pick apart the pieces

1) 20k minimum for startups

You're confusing a few things here. The costs to form a company depend on what kind of legal form you want it to have. What you're talking about is the GmbH (basically a LLC), where you actually need 25k of capital. This is by far not the only form a company can take. If you just want to make sure that every founder gets its part, you've got a name for the company etc, you can form something like a UG. If you don't have more than three founders, you can use some standard forms and everything's done within a few days at most. And even if you want limited liability and don't have the capital, you can choose from several other legal forms available in Europe. The British limited company is quite popular, as you need less capital.

This is hardly a problem for most IT-based startups, who rarely have a lot of founders or actually trade something (where limited liability is quite welcome).

2) Diplomas/certificates are required

There are several cases where this is true, but I don't see any that would affect startups. Yes, if you want to become a hairdresser or want to open your own carpentry shop, you need to have the proper papers. For a web-based startup? What kind of papers would those be?

3) 35 hrs/week

That's France. Never mind that the difference between a regular job and startup hours doesn't have to be that different. And even if you're doing the stereotypical 100+ hours a week, the difference to a regular job in any country will be quite high (well, South Korea excluded).

4) Less hunger because of welfare

Hows is that particular to startups? If this were true, people would drop out of almost any job because it would be easier otherwise. Germans on the dole don't live in limitless luxury.

I'm not saying that there isn't a tendency to copy things here. The whole Facebook vs. StudiVZ affair is pretty embarassing. But that's basically one market niche some companies are filling, it's not really representative of the whole German startup scene.

Yes, there's no equivalent to the venture capital-backed silicon valley startup scene. But that's pretty unique in the US, too.
Twitter isn't there just for your voice. There are plenty of good voices you could follow if you were willing.
The tiny circuits forum seems to have an issue where opening a link to it when searching on google leads to a spam site selling viagra. I searched for “tiny circuits forum bootloader”.

I tried to inform them on their forum, but I didnt want to create an account. So hopefully they will see it here.
So it was only in 2016 that the opposition party decided to drag their feet in any way possible? Not 2010? And it was only in 2016 that the tone was set for America, not when the current sitting president was raging for years about how the previous president was not a real American citizen?

Grab a mirror. This has been building for a lot longer than 4 years.
Hollywood isn’t a monolith, and it didn’t “remove movies or ideas”. Hollywood production companies and theatre chains agree to set standards for film ratings in order to access large audiences. Artists almost always have had the ability to release unrated films, at the costs of access to large funding sources and theatre chains.

That’s freedom in both directions.

At its worst Hollywood created a black list for alleged communist sympathizers. That was a very specific kind of rating system for the same benefits. Most Americans were justly terrified of the Soviet Union and its genocidal leadership at the time, and distributing a film written by or starring someone who publicly endorsed communism would have killed box office and likely had the studio boycotted by large anti-communist groups.

That said, the black list unfairly included lots of people who were at most interested in social justice.

Today the same thing has happened to Mel Gibson and us happening to Johnny Depp. Don’t expect your employers to invest their millions into help you promote repugnant behavior or beliefs to their customers.
> I find it implausible half the population is dumb

Half the population is dumber than average.
Well, at least you have to purchase another device from them to run xcode on. Those 99$/a aren't the biggest hurdle of you aren't a Mac user. (even assuming a skillset that includes "futzing about with certificates")
The above poster does have an important point: Freedom from speech also includes freedom from compelled speech.

The things you listed entail selling materially defective good, and discrimination on the basis of race and gender. These are not examples of compelled speech. Here are some more applicable questions:

* Can the government force Hacker News not to flag and hide certain posts?

* And the government make a bookseller to stock certain types of books?

* Could Trump pass a law or executive order to make Twitter revoke his ban?

* Can the government official compel a newspaper to print certain content?

The last one was actually addressed in a Supreme Court ruling [1].

Freedom of speech includes freedom from compelled speech. It's also against the law to tell a person or business to print or say something, or not ban certain content. Sure, if a business exclusively bans content based on the race of the poster they they could fall afoul of anti-discrimination laws. But note that it wasn't the content of the speech that matters here, it is the discriminatory nature on the basis of race.

These protections don't magically go away when a company grows to a certain size or number of users. Market share is relevant to things like anti-trust and anti-competitive behavior, but the people claiming that Facebook or Twitter have to run content because they're big are incorrect.

The exceptions to protection from compelled speech are very narrow, like showing your passport at the border and nutrition labels on food or health warnings on cigarettes. They almost always have a direct and tangible safety or administrative justification. Furthermore, political speech is the most protected form of speech in the US by far. I would be astounded if we ever pass legislation compelling platforms like Facebook or Twitter to host content against their will.

I agree that the principles of inclusion and freedom of speech should be upheld by Facebook and Twitter, but I strongly disagree that they should be enforced by the government. I could see wisdom in making ISPs, payment providers, and DNS providers act like utilities and extend services to all lawful customers, but not at the application layer.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Herald_Publishing_Co._v....
Let’s be blunt... because white people.

This is the same thing that happened in Charlottesville and the after action review of Charlottesville made that clear. No one listened.

The need here isn’t more police or more training or more gear. Any of those things would just be used to harm people of color and low income communities.

What needs to happen is people stop being taken in by bad faith arguments about “free speech” and “both sides” and take the threat of white supremacist violence seriously. It is the most frequent type of terrorism in this country.
I haven't had too many issues with Google guessing what I mean but the sites that scrape other sites are a real pain. find the oldest page with that text and show it to me, then exclude the rest from the results. Or something like that. If it has the exact same information then it's useless to me.
Windows has run on non-x86 processors from at least the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Supported_platforms
Yes, the possibility is not zero, it would be great if flagging would always ask for a reason (similar with reporting on reddit ,where you have to specify the rule that is broken and everyone could see what was flagged and why)

Though don't you think that your criteria would affect all the "X subpar re-implemented in Rust" submissions there are same thing all the time only X changes.
Super valuable. I remember specing out Ettus radios for a security research project and they were in the thousands of dollars, whereas today it's a $20 dongle with gnuradio.
People are different and they have different aptitudes.

There is some thinking that if we don't have ALL categories/jobs/promotions with the same population proportion it is because "systemic racism".

I am still waiting for at least 53% of NBA be white.

And 50% of nurse school be male.

Please have to desire and aptitude to do different things.

You can see it on your own family with siblings. Same "genetics" but very different aptitudes and skills.

Feels like a dictatorship where we should have quotas for each profession and team.
Why would you expect the sample of gifted children to be representative of the population. By almost every measure Hispanic and Black students fall behind other students. The achievement gap is very well studied.

The challenge is fixing the problem, not pretending it doesn’t exit by making white and Asian students educations worse.

This is like the Boston PD issuing orders to shoot more unarmed Asians since black and Hispanics are shot more disproportionately.
The answer appears to be that "The Twitter Algorithm just doesn't seem to like it..."

https://twitter.com/hugovk/status/1364506939686875137
> Private companies are under no obligation to protect your right to free speech.

More to the point, your right to free speech isn’t a constraint on the private companies right to exercise theirs.

And even more to the point, @realDonaldTrump is (and has been described as such by its owner in court cases) a official communication tool of the Office of the President; it trumping the preferences of private media firm by whose resources it is relayed would be a direct, government violation of the right of free speech/press.