jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
https://www.vpn.ie/

A domain that earns via affiliate commissions. I write a blog post every now and again and swap in different offers from time to time. But it works very well for the amount of time I invest in it. The companies I work with offer lifetime commission on referred customers.

About once a week someone calls or emails me, and I just send them a standard email about what a VPN can do.

When I get particular good offers (Black Friday for example) I fire off an email to the newsletter which has about 200 subscribers I think.

The site takes less than an hour a month to maintain.
Doh! I didn't see it then. Sorry for the repost.
split it evenly between the employees and all retire
I've set off the machine in question before. I am a american male mid thirties swedish/english/german (and look it). The person assumed the machine was wrong and spent a bit of extra time with me and sent me on my way. This was in 2010.

I do not recall if it was during Ramadan.
Is "bp" buddypress[1][2]? I think that would mean you're looking for a Course Management System.

You might want to look at Moodle [3], but there's not much more help I can give unless you're more descriptive.

[1] http://buddypress.org/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuddyPress

[3] http://moodle.org/
yes. it's been low onnn digg.
I personally went through the opposite problem last year : one of my two co-founders left when the business tanked due to economic crisis.

He always felt like he did more than his share of work and received less than his share of money (he had half the share of capital, 20%, but as a compensation he always had a higher salary).

I stepped down from technical manager so that he could build the team at his will. Later, I sold him 10% of the shares for a tenth of the price (so we both had 30%) but he still felt like he was cheated.

I think that the hard times during crisis broke him down finally. I'm pretty sure it was a bad move financially for him (he wouldn't work for anyone else, and by himself he can't earn that much), he even tried to "steal" our biggest customer...

We had quite a hard time, particularly because the whole team left after him (unsurprising, it was his team after all) but we got through and everything's fine again now (though on product development we've lost 6 months at the very least).

What else? If we hadn't full coffers at the time crisis hit, the company couldn't have survived such bad times.
I believe Microsoft charges OEMs $15 for XP and $50 for whichever edition of 7 which goes on netbooks. Though it wouldn't supprise me if larger vendors had a little negotiation room. Also, security companies like Mcaffee and Symatec also pay OEMs a lot to bundle their trials.
I'm guessing local Cox nonsense.
"one to one" typically means injective (into). That is, every element in the image corresponds to a unique element from the domain.

That's just a convention, though. To be
precise one ought to use terms
like injection, surjection, and bijection.

When speaking informally, sometimes people say "one to one" and mean bijection. It's a catch 22 in a way, because you can only divine the precise meaning if you already understand the proof, viz., Cantor's proof isabouf bijections sp "one to one" means that.
So what about capital gains/income tax? AIUI - and I have not really studied LVT's closely, but since they have been bandied about quite a bit, I know only enough to be dangerous - LVT's are supposed to pretty much eliminate other taxes, correct? If your property doubles in value, and you sell to get out from under the tax, but you lose 25-40% of that increase to income tax, you just took a big hit.

Or am I completely off-base here?
Exactly! Reduce "random_page_cost" down (default is 4) and this becomes a non-issue. It's just one of the less well known things and somewhat difficult to diagnose. What I mean is that what you will see is your database returned rows metric will rapidly climb but rows fetched will hold steady (or decrease). Based on that alone it is a bit of a leap (or at least it was for me at the time) to conclude that the query planner was not using an index on a table that was clearly indexed.

Once you understand what is going on, it makes perfect sense. It's just getting there that is the trick.
It is (now-corrected typo aside).

I would not argue that its intentional, the environment really promotes a certain kind of person living in the city - the kind of person who can and wants to spend countless hours at a startup.

The kind of person who doesn't have a car, who DOES go out all the time, and so on.

Speaking of - I was thumbing through the blog that the original article was on, and there was an article about the market for Aeron chairs... hidden in there was the fact that, "oops, none of us have cars, how can we transport these?!"

It's somewhat telling. Can you think of another place in the US(besides the other startup hub, NY) where you'd see people making over $100K not having cars?

It's a very precise social strata that SF is selecting for, and it is a strata that includes ideal tech workers. Companies move here because that's where the workers are. Having 50% more real income isn't worth much if it tears you out of the great social environment, especially to a third-tier city.

Good news, though: it's not like the whole Bay Area is the same. There are perfectly family-friendly communities in other areas, including parts of the South and East Bay.

I could go on at some length - since I've been in both the job hunt and the online dating world heavily, I've become very acutely aware of just what is (and isn't) cool, especially as cities go - since it's a fascinating intersection of economics and sociology.
Nope, their entire stack is JVM based now.
Doesn't mean it is right though. Wikipedia: "Pornography or porn is the portrayal of explicit sexual subject matter for the purposes of sexual excitement and erotic satisfaction." How is a simple picture of a naked child explicit or exciting?
I don't even think it is attraction, just a person (like most) who craves additional acknowledgement and attention because it is a powerful feeling.

I have seen people go out craving attention and not being satisfied until they have gotten a hit from someone.

To me it is the same impulse that has people meticulously manage a facebook profile so they can get kudos from practical strangers.
Wouldn't / just cause confusion trying to delete a directory called /rf ?
ZFS has the following that BTRFS doesn't
* Deduplication - Huge in any virtualization environment
* Cache layer - Required for high IOPS
* fsck - BTRFS cannot fix itself
* raid - BTRFS raid currently cannot repair itself
and current git of the latest linux kernel still has these isses as well as space issues. I wouldn't trust BTRFS to store /dev/random
I took game theory back in college. I noticed something wrong about that article: a complete lack of math. It's not that I don't believe there are counter-intuitive things that can happen. But I sure don't believe them without proof.

And your simulation is a lot more interesting than anything found in that article.
None of the UI stuff but the JS improvements are there. About the same speed as Chrome (so about 30-40% faster than Safari 4 according to the SunSpider benchmark)
Did I miss something? Isn't your link the same as the original one?
It should be, but you might check with the creators before using their interface design. It might weaken their brand or create confusion if you make something that looks like a copy.
desktop = solid color, 0 shortcuts beside recycle bin
Yeah, Mountain View sucks, but that's easily fixed: just move to SF or Berkeley.
I am no fan of Scheme either, but at least I admit it had one big contribution: the idea that a language ought not to be measured by the number of its features, but by the number of things its features can express when combined.

The situation with Go is completely different. Go is just... meh. Its concurrency model is worse than Erlang's, which predates it. Its type system is worse than Standard ML's, which predates it. Its runtime efficiency is noticeably worse than C++'s, especially so when using customized allocators and avoiding exceptions and RTTI. In short, Go is mediocre.
Completely agree on this. I don't believe in innate talent. I believe we are all born with the same willpower to acquire knowledge. Some people will be ok with not mastering any specific skill as long as it does the job. Others who are "passionate" about certain fields or skills will try to learn as much as possible. So "passion" is a better word to define people's skills.

I'm in the latter category, many people ask me sometimes how do I know so much about so different skills: from networking, security and system programming to web development UIs and design. The truth is I just spend so much time reading and practicing stuff that would seem boring to most developers around me. I spend nights trying to learn this new framework which seemed interesting enough to dig into it, and once I learn to use it, I want to know "HOW". How does it work, which problem does it solve ... and I think only passionate people can do this.
That... sounds like a perfect place for me to live. I'm just salivating at the thought of living in a town that doesn't allow buildings over two stories. If I didn't love Texas (and my current job) so much, I'd seriously consider moving there now.

Hmm... I think one of my ex-coworkers from my last job is from that town. Maybe I'll ping her and ask her about it...
It will probably sound enough out-of-place to get attention.
But it doesn't help with the stigma of electric cars being toylike.

Go with something menacing, like the sound a TIE Fighter makes. Attention getting, futuristic, and you won't feel like you're riding around on Scooty-Puff Jr.
No, this would be so easy to code. Enter 100 basic phrases:

You look so [appearance adjective], my [affection term].

Hey [affection term], I'll see you at the [social location] tonight.

... and so on

Then enter possible variables:

affection term = [baby, honey, sweetheart]

.. and so on

Then buy 100 stock headshot photos and generate a random list of first/last names for each. Set up a FB/email account for each.

Then integrate with Twilio for SMS sending. Write a little cron script to send 1-2 messages to each user per day.

Done. A week's worth of work to launch.
I'm glad to see some folks on here involved with the JWST, thanks for all your efforts!

I have a question: is the big cost primarily due to the one-off nature of the components, figuring things out for the first time etc? I ask because there's some proposals (ExoEarth Mapper) for constructing a giant array of 20+ of JWST-like telescopes in order to get pictures of earth-like planets.

So if one JWST costs $8Billion, how much would 25 cost?
Not surprising at all, from the same article:

"The Xhibit Corporation went public via a "reverse takeover" of a shell company in 2012. Earlier, in 2011, the individuals behind the company acquired a shell company called NB Manufacturing for $350K, and voila, Xhibit was able to become a publicly traded company."

"How does a company go from $350K valuation to $300MM in under two years? The answer is that if a security is fairly illiquid, the "price" is more or less arbitrary because people aren't really buying or selling many shares."

So Xhibit buys a shell company to become publicly traded, drives up their stock price by taking advantage of minimal liquidity, then buys SkyMall with their inflated stock. Just surprising that SkyMall sold to them at all.
Germany, article 5:
Kunst und Wissenschaft, Forschung und Lehre sind frei.
I feel bad for Hammacher Schlemmer also. The only time I ordered their products were when I was totally bored, mildly drunk and browsing SkyMall.
It's simple. Designing a language that clearly illustrates CS fundamentals and a designing a language that supports maintenance of huge codebases by teams of programmers of varying ability are two very, very different problems. It's no accident that CS profs love Scheme and banks love Java.

What really matters is how well your language supports your primary level of abstraction. The turtles-all-the-way-down nature of elegant languages like Smalltalk or Lisp doesn't really make that much difference when you're mostly manipulating high-level third party APIs and where mature tools and predictable, easily readable code count for more than the ability to roll your own new object system in the core language.
Probably not. These would be useful in wireless sensors and other devices where having an accurate absolute time is not as important as knowing precisely how fast time is ticking away. If I were going to use something like this I probably wouldn't even bother noting the absolute time of a sample at the point of measurement. Rather, I would just periodically synchronize the network with a clock pulse and let each individual node figure out whether they're running fast or slow, and by how much, if it even matters.

If it doesn't then just note the time of arrival at whatever server is controlling the network and use that time exclusively. Then you can buy one 64-bit machine and leave it running all the time, and as an added bonus you no longer need to worry about whether each node has the correct time.
That was a good article, Wolfe has been my favorite author for years, so it was interesting to read a little about his life.

Book of the New Sun is obviously his top work, but he had some other stuff that as really damn good such as his two books series "The Knight"/"The Wizard"

Given the popularity of scifi/fantasy TV shows lately would be interesting to see someone attempt to adapt BoTN, but maybe that would be just too difficult..
I have had this issue with my current golang projects. I haven't found any clear standard for project layout. We have a bunch of microservices with grpc api endpoints, and some which are event driven. Has anyone found a better resource? As it is, even our internal projects are fairly inconsistent in their project structure, which is a bit annoying.
It’s pretty obvious if you got it or not. Also .... why would you want the trial to not be double blind??
> We need to get past the idea that electric rates must be flat.

I'm not aware of anyone that does minute to minute electricity pricing, but I know for many utilities you can sign up for alternate price schedules that have different rates based on the time of day.

I would guess as much as anything it's a metering issue.
The world of watches is heading in interesting direction. Slap this band onto an iWatch and you would be unstoppable!
Governments should take notice. The "corporate veil" should not be a carte-blanche to crimes (especially the stochastic kind with small but significant reductions of millions of lives or the entirety of human population).
Those specs are for a reason. Not conforming to them causes loss of life and limbs.

A plant bridge is nice and dandy until it falls on your head
(Whoops... not Terminator)
If it's geographically, then don't account per capita. Account absolute values per country.
I remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Scrap_Object_File s. (Most people didn't realize this was a thing. I'm not at a Windows PC at the moment: is it still a thing?)

I've always thought it'd make a lot of sense, for any modern OS, if every time you cut something, you'd be creating a .scrap on the desktop; and then, if you later pasted it, the .scrap would go away. Desktop-as-spool-directory. Same as the way macOS tried to use the desktop as a spool for screenshots until recently (where now the screenshot spool has become a mysterious locationless storage displayed in an ephemeral modal window.)
If the gaming experience is similar to what the trailer shows, this would be the closest to what a VR killer app should be
Carrot and stick doesn’t work with someone who is mentally ill.
You are out of your mind. Their site flat out does not work with the default behavior of most modern browsers.

In chrome, you get nothing but a tiny bit of text with no option to continue to the main site.

In firefox and IE, you get a browser notification that the site is trying to open up a popup window.
Could the stunt be repeated today, using USB sticks perhaps?
This is something we really need as the line between phone and "pocket portable computer" continues to blur. Permissions management for applications right now is a nightmare.

If Android, BlackBerry, and WinMo allow these type of security programs but iOS blocks / doesn't allow them this could be a bad situation for Apple in the corporate market. They are riding a huge tidal wave right now but it doesn't mean they can overplay the hand.
True - DMA can do that - but then you'd have to have something managing the network stack - the kernel manages tcp/ip.

From the man page:

"sendfile() copies data between one file descriptor and another. Because this copying is done within the kernel, sendfile() is more efficient than the combination of read(2) and write(2), which would require transferring data to and from user space."
To help keep everyone out of a "What is that freaking word? I know it but can't think of it!" loop, the word he meant to use was verbose.

Also, to save you the work:

ver·bo·ten
forbidden, as by law; prohibited.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/verboten
This will give you an upper-bound, which is the worst case. You're right that you'll end up not giving the students as much as they "should" have, but its still infinitely better than just truncating it without warning.
You're comparing a speculative mania in fictional crime-bucks to a speculative mania in a car company worth more than Facebook while simultaneously selling just 4% as many cars as Toyota. Tesla's price to earnings ratio is 1500 meaning it would take until the year 3521 for it to earn back its market cap.

The fact you're even making this assessment tells me this isn't going to end well for anyone.

Heed my warning: The bubble pops when the last bear dies.
Exactly. It can take decades and all the time you have to build the next Google or Tesla and that's in the case that it all works out. There are other things to pursue in life and with a smaller company you get a lot more control in both the company and your own lifestyle.
That's what you should bdo. If you don't like the company don't buy from them.
Especially when many alternatives exist.
It's just a choice to use WhatsApp not a necessity.
Just remember MySpace.
I've had that response several times, but XMPP is not a messaging app. It's like asking for an email client and being told "Use the internet", or "Use TCP".

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the response, but it's not answering the question I'm asking.

What app running on top of XMPP would you suggest?
I hear Mercury is an alternative. I didn't have any luck signing up with them though (they refused me service for the bizarre reason that I couldn't provide the EIN registration form I got from the IRS a decade ago).
No, and you are not even allowed to fork and modify their client that connects to the official Signal servers.

Also you cannot put their client on f-droid.

It's by far the most locked-down "open source" I've seen.
You are absolutely correct, and no news organization is correct all the time - you should strive to consume a diversity of sources.

NYT remains one of the more reliably correct news sources in the US but they all make mistakes - sometimes accidentally sometimes maliciously. Since there are humans involved you need to understand the biases the news sources have and compensate for that yourself.
There's Square's Cash App as well. Coinbase fees are through the roof now.
Which Amazon outage is going on at the present time?
You seem to be spec'ing either vim or emacs, there.
I always thought it should just have been "binary/decimal kilobyte" etc which would have neatly sidestepped the awkwardness of saying those words out loud and would have also likely satisfied most people who preferred using the traditional-within-computing binary meanings. In theory that would be universally applicable to any units and any base. Instead we have this ugly linguistic hack.
Ah, ViewMax memories in DR-DOS 5.0.
> If you additionally require that changing an input from 0 to 1 (or to -1) can not make a definite (non-zero) output to 0 (less certain) nor flip it

Why does it make sense to require those conditions?
Granted it was then perhaps a bad example, as it doesn't take into account the value of the companies possessions.

I just wanted to give an example to say that you can check things about a company beyond the stock price, which may be inflated by gambling. If a stock is "gambled" to the moon, it assume would have a very high P/E. I'm not actually an expert on those indicators, haven't looked into them much.
C wart, rather.
At our company we have a bunch of Macbook pro 13" with butterfly keyboards that nobody wants to use internally, that in combo with the new M1s really made the resale value drop, it did leave us with a bad taste in the mouth.
Why? One does not even need to make any wrappers over the library and still sell the library for use, as long as it is clearly stated it's GPL code and where it can be obtained in the source form. This is the way GPL was supposed to work.
Opus is brilliant, both technically and strategically, but its worth noting that despite technical superiority, there's still not a word out of Apple on the subject, Microsoft (despite co-developing it via their Skype purchase) have dragged their heels on this for a long time and still seem reluctant to use it for non-WebRTC audio, and the various groups surrounding ITU/MPEG are still pushing their royalty bearing alternatives via bundling and backroom deals between patent holders.

Even if this new video codec beats the alternative on several dimensions, it'll be a struggle to get adoption for similar reason of entrenched patent owners and business interests.

I can't really bring myself to blame corporations for following short term private gain, but all the nerds who ignored licencing issues in favour of short term technical superiority deserve some blame for this local minimum we're trapped in.
Absolutely, but he was too modest to promote himself so I, an disinterested third party did it for him.
Pretty sure he's just referring to backprop[0] correcting weights more dramatically at one layer vs. another layer

[0]http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpropagation
I always liked a lot that solution ("adding noise"), it seems very elegant.
There are some occasional hacker meetups in London that are good networking opportunities, and also things like the appsworld congress and silicon milkround recruitment events. I'm an amateur web dev in London and I know one other one who would be interested in anything to make it easier. We can meet if you want. My email is in my profile.
This gave me a great idea. There should be a website with a bunch of programming challenges (e.g like making a Todo list app or write a data structure in an hour) where you can share your code and workflow. You could then view a bunch of other peoples workflows, code, and post mortem notes and discuss how to improve each others workflows. Anybody know of a site like this?
Since SMTP email is sent in plaintext by default, what people send you can never be assumed to be private. Setting up your own server doesn't change that. Also SMTP email is "best effort" which means that the route between sender and receiver is arbitrary. This means that you can't control which servers an email sent to you passes through. Setting up your own email server doesn't change that.

As a sender, you can exert some control of these things, like encrypting your communications but that only works if the person receiving the email is willing to decrypt it. Setting up your own email server doesn't change that either.

For other apps like word processors and spreadsheets, it is of course very practical to set up these locally using FOSS or commercial alternatives. Once you share them by email of course all email issues apply.

TANSTAAFL. Good luck.
One of my most often used Google queries is "time in [city]"