jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Domain name at name.com: $9.99

Domain at godaddy with tons of coupons: $9.99

To me it has nothing to do with elephants (i left long before that).
NoMoreTaxes was inspired by the American Tea Party, and EducationFirst was inspired by the Dutch D66.

Re: race condition: I just assumed that votes would be secret. Are you sure you want to jettison that feature?
Wow I wish I had $200 to spend at 15

The rest of your comment makes sense. I didn’t really start saving until my late 20’s. It just made waaaay more sense to invest any disposable income in myself.

So far so good. Thanks to those early investments in myself I’ve been able to save more in the past ~5 years of my career than my cumulative earnings of the first 10 years.
I have been through this 'transition' about 4 times now on other applications. "oh I do not use that one anymore I use XYZ" when it comes up and offer to help them setup a new account. I then usually just fire it up for them for a small conversation right then but then turn it off. There is nothing wrong with having more than one application. Hell most of our phones are already running dozens of them. But at a point you grow weary of them. I used to use aggregator applications like trillian. But they always seem to be chasing the breakage or not able to interpolate at all.

In a couple of years it will be some other application that will be the top dog. "Hey what is your ICQ number?"

It also depends if you are considered a hub or spoke in your social circles. If you are a 'spoke' then getting others to change would be hard. If you are a 'hub' you have better success.
Religious flamewars, which you predictably set off with this, are their own circle of off-topic hell on Hacker News. Please don't do this here.
As long as you're in good health and stay hydrated, you can safely fast for almost 30 days.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25552155

"Conclusion: Ramadan fasting is associated with transiently impaired insulin sensitivity, compensated for by an increased p3-cell function. However, the pattern of insulin resistance-mediating adipocytokines suggests a potentially beneficial metabolic effect of Ramadan fasting."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-a-per...

"At the age of 74 and already slight of build, Mahatma Gandhi, the famous nonviolent campaigner for India's independence, survived 21 days of total starvation while only allowing himself sips of water. In a 1997 article in the British Medical Journal, Michael Peel, senior medical examiner at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, cites well-documented studies reporting survivals of other hunger strikers for 28, 36, 38 and 40 days."

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17095605

"Experts believe it is possible for the human body to survive without food for up to two months."
Ok, we changed the url to that first one instead of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/10878625/Fasting-for-....
The author appears to have added a CNAME since this was posted to HN. The updated URL is http://blog.ppelgren.se/2015-01-03/DIY-Make-Your-Own-Program...
The version numbers are tied to the schema. So if you have two resources, foo and bar, then they're both at version 1.

You create a new schema called "2", change the foo table and release it. As a side effect you also have two versions of bar that are identical. If a client creates a bar+v1 then it goes into the first schema, and if a client creates a bar+v2 then it goes into the second schema.

So you think "fine, I just won't publicise that, clients will only know bar+v1". You continue to make a few more changes to foo, bumping up the version number each time, and then you want to make a change to bar, so you do that and you then have a bar+v1 and a bar+v8.

--
"There's no reason you can't change your data model with this. Why do you think you can't?"

You can with this through the versioning and different schemas. I meant more generally that exposing your DB and then making changes would break consumers of your API, forcing you to freeze your data model instead. Using schemas is a novel solution, horribly hacky but I guess it works.
How will you deal with spam, torrents, child porn, etc?
There's nothing inherently better about a "non-drug" method.
I've lost count of the times I have built something that nobody used or wanted, or failed for reasons outside of the development work itself. While it can be disheartening, you can still take pride in doing a good job, you (hopefully) got paid for building it, and you learned some things and maybe wrote some useful code in the meantime that could be re-used somewhere else.
Please just keep people like Lizard Squad, Ulbricht, Omari and co away from people like Hammond, Mitnick, and Barrett Brown. Two completely different ideologies, and shouldn't be all thrown under one buss.
I have multiple(big,expensive) drones. I program them too.

I am not too worried about them, they are far safer than a real helicopter.

"One GPS glitch" ?? When something fails on a drone you could detect it very easily. If GPS fails you have barometric sensors, you have accelerometers, you have compass, you have gyroscopes, you have infrared sensors for horizon.

When something fails you actually reverse and disconnect the motors automatically. Now it is just 1 or 2 kilos falling down. Mine have small parachutes.

Like humans you could add redundancy to those machines, and the probability of all of them failing at the same time is almost zero.

Normal toy quadcopters weight 100 grams and you can stop the blades with your hands (or you neck) without harm.
This is the most extreme example of Atwood's law that I've seen so far of.

Any volunteers for making an operating system kernel? Or has that been done already?
Twenty thousand lines of code to make a todo list - congrads. And crashes Emacs when opened due to that last line being tens of thousands of characters long.
Keep making cool stuff. Loved your little lisp project!
3 of the top 10 billionaires are from the Walton family, so another good way is to inherit it.

I say that to suggest that you have a strong bias error.

http://selectusa.commerce.gov/industry-snapshots/financial-s... says there are 5.87 million in the 'financial services and insurance sectors' in the US. There are under 2,000 billionaires in the word, so at most 500 "newly minted" billionaires who made it there via investments.

It's impossible that a lack of "hard work and competence" is the reason that the remaining 5.87 million failed to become billionaires.
I'd say the most important thing to do is to decouple your income from your time. You can easily become a millionaire with a reasonable paying job but to become a billionaire requires that you find ways to massively scale your income. There is an upper threshold on what you can make per hour and barring the most successful CEOs, it is likely impossible for you to be a billionaire by trading your time for money.

This is why finance is such a lucrative area. In finance you leverage money to make money as opposed to using your time to make money, property has a similar effect. Starting a company is another good option simply because you begin to make money by trading other people's time.
There is sekey app for macs, use it. There are also yubikeys which can be used for SSH and OpenSSH knows how to use fido keys, so even more to choose from.
I’m confused. The article you linked to says the opposite:

> Ironically, much of this trend is fueled by the fact that safety sells, and the biggest, heaviest cars are the safest—for their occupants, at least.
Research on governmental websites in Sweden show many of them accidentally send IP addresses to Google Analytics, breaking GDPR.

Often due because of a
typos in the option string 'anonymize_ip'
Arguably illegal under the GDPR.
He is paying off his debt to the society, obviously.
I doubt it, as it is not economically feasible in western countries. It’s a pretty hard sell when you can have renewables for much cheaper.

Also the east problem is still not solved and getting enough and cool enough water becomes more and more a problem for reactors.
Isnt supply price-inelastic in the short term, so "30% above" is the same quantity at all price levels?
It's the public that needs convincing more so than the government. Billy Gates is probably the best person, apart from Elon, to try and convince people that it's not that bad. It's a good way to build positive PR for something that is considered a hideous, disastrous, dangerous monster of an idea.
i check dice, indeed and simplyhired and openings are pop up alot, but its hard to tell with HR people posting the Jobs and they know nothing about the field.
I have to say that the package for speakers it's pretty good. Way to go, guys!
I did interview, and found the tests far too difficult and not remotely like anything I've ever hit in 20 years of doing software development. Everything was rather computer-science-algorithmicy, and there was no ability to ask for clarification on aspects of the puzzle-questions that seemed ambiguous. Couple that with somewhat short time lines, and it was frustrating.

In my 20 years, I've never not been able to ask a client or PM or end user for clarification on what they mean, but what I took from toptal is that you'll be expected to work under those conditions.

It certainly weeds people out, and the whole "we'd rather weed good people out than let bad people in" mentality is probably understandable, it just rather felt like a "one size fits all approach".

Interestingly, looking at their site now, I read "we do not tolerate sub-par work or poor communication for any reason." Except, of course, when taking their entrance tests - no communication for clarification there. FWIW, tests were from codility.com
Oh? Edited to say "The long story short of this is that it’s like a hosted Kafka." Thanks for the correction!
Paranoia.

It's also a guaranteed way to get a new external IP assigned, even when renewing your DHCP lease fails to.
People are missing the point of this article. It's not that they used fire, it's that Neanderthals used it to cook vegetables when previously we thought they just ate meat.
There was enough demand that Linksys created models just for this purpose (the WRT54GL and friends).

It's an easy upgrade for a technical person. Download custom firmware, upload to router, reboot. The same people who would upgrade their own firmware from Linksys can install dd-wrt, Tomato, hyperwrt, etc. Admittedly, that's a small slice of the population but a large number of people.
A lot of the Mac vs. Windows scenario is more a myth than anything else. Look at the actual market shares in 1984 or 1985 and what they are now (hint: the C64 was a bigger player than the Mac).

If you care about Mac vs PC, then surely iPod vs Zune should be just as relevant. More so, given the consumer focus and iTunes being just as big a factor in both. The Apple that existed from 1985 to 1996 is long dead, what remains is NeXT part 2.

The massive economy of scale Apple can bring these days is pretty impressive and the iPod touch / iPad factors (as the article states) need to be taken into account.
See my comments above http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2044753

Restaurants need to see results

1. Grow their email database and they have contacts they can market to.
2. Engage the customers with the site. Keep them coming back. 2 for 1 vouchers anyone?
3. Provide the basic information like where, when and how much. Make this accessible across devices.

It doesnt matter how good your site is, if your food sucks you loose.
Me too. I had a Mac so the Mac punter/prog scene was really tiny. Most of them were written using OneClick, a scriptable palette-building app to make on-screen widgets that fired off macros. Ah, those were the days!

FWIW my punters were named AOElephant and Hex.
>car and cdr must have something going for them

In most implementations , I can do

(cadar (list (list 1 2 3))) -> 2

vs

(first (rest (first (list (list 1 2 3))))) -> 2

I find the car and cdrs in Racket very very convenient.

Reference:

http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/pairs.html?q=pair%20ac...
Well since Komodo will kick the butt of any human it played is it not the real world champion?
Pedanticism of this nature is literally the key to living a frustrated and lonely life. You asked for a good faith reply and I gave it to you. You then decided to play your "trick" and point out that you're actually making a totally unrelated grammatical dispute with the original poster.

I won't be falling for this again and replying to you further in the future.

I hope it feels good to be "right" all the time.
The deals underlying movie distributions are cut once or twice a year, mostly at trade conferences. It's not something the theaters are privy to. You are normally not allowed to license elsewhere unless you care to lose your distributor. It's something that plagues many independent theaters, at least in Europe.

It's all a bit of a power play over their heads and it's one of the reasons why you can't start an online streaming service in today's environment, which was one of the questions that was relevant to the political pirates last I've heard from them.

I don't know much more because I'm out of touch with the whole piratism thing, I just wanted to correct the "why u no pay" attitude earlier. It's a bit silly to think they could have reached parliamentary representation on that party line, and slightly condescending to everyone involved.
Maybe. I'd love to think that.

I'm bit afraid to share that directly with my boss (though I hinted it at times). Both for obvious reasons, and because I don't feel I have quite figured out what's going on with my productivity.
That would be true only if the screenshot showed the "login or pay" page. Those things work by issuing a fake SSL cert for the initial request in order to redirect you to the inflight.gogo.com page to login or pay.

The fact that the screenshot shows they are not rediecting with the fake cert makes it clear this is an intentional Man in the Middle attack.
From what I can gather, BigStash is a rebrand of Deepfreeze.io, which itself is a sideproject of Longaccess.com, launched in 2013.

Not sure why, but the old saying 'if it's too good to be true, it probably is' keeps going around my head.

5tb would cost you what, £170 to purchase? (Brief Google search, feel free to correct me). Multiply that by the amount of customers that will sign up for this and it seems a little bit of a loss maker to me.

Note this is all just conjecture on my part, and I could be completely wrong.
I'm a junior programmer still so I'd like to share my thoughts regarding this post. I'd actually like to say that I've been aware of all these (code commenting, incorrect function names, etc.) and the thought of changing them is always "it takes up time" or "you don't know if it's worth the time." But I'm always asking my superior that specific question: "can I get rid of this?" Unfortunately, wherever I've worked, I haven't been working under very experienced people either so they've responded to me with the simple "uhhhh..." and given me no answers. In the end, I end up faulting into habiting into this article's main points.
Heh. OK, I'll give you that. Language is such a funny thing.
http://opensourcetemplates.org/
Like I said, you're technically right. But nobody describes Harvard admissions as some contest that they hold. YCombinator is a lot closer to that than the New York Marathon.
Good top post on the blog page, made me lol:

'I like C, but I have to admit that, sometimes, “The Old Man of Programming” can be a bit of a killjoy. This is one of the most exciting eras in computer history, but lately, C’s acting like he doesn’t even want to have a good time. While the cool kids like Ruby and Haskell are living it up, C’s over in the corner obsessing over bits and bytes and memory alignment and pointers and the stack and machine architecture and unreachable allocations and multiple indirections…and it’s…kind of a buzzkill. You want to tell him, “Dude! Lighten up! This is supposed to be fun!”

But of course C can’t relax. He’s holding the entire computing universe on his shoulders, after all. It’s not turtles all the way down — it’s turtles all the way down, __then C__. Not a lot of room for fun underneath that, is there?

Is there?

Well. Here’s the secret: C does let loose sometimes. And after being bottled up for so long, when the release finally does come, it’s pretty much an F5 of crazy.'
> I think the most striking thing about this book is
that it does not in any way require you to turn on the computer

YES! I love this about this series. If you're looking for something more challenging along these lines I can't recommend The Reasoned Schemer enough.
This is a terrible idea. Americans have been socialized to add ".com" to everything for the past fifteen years; consumers will never remember to drop the "m".
Right. My point is that a scientific text has the form "we researched this and here are our findings: things that support theory X and things that support (not X)" rather than "this is my point X and here is evidence for X".

Have his findings been independently verified? Especially his claims that the bone structure is better in the individuals on native food, for which he provides almost no evidence.
So you're of the opinion that technology markets itself? That's pretty naive.
"How do you convey a nuanced, complex opinion in such a fashion?"

- You don't... that's what a long form writing is form, i.e a blog. Brevity is the sole of wit.
Or the political machinations of lousy management. Not to mention the typical bait and switch that most tech companies pull on talented staff, as was my experience at amazon (which as far as I can tell is the rule there):
Job description: develop a sophisticated new system to replace the barely-functional bug-ridden nightmare we're stuck with now
Actual job duties: wade into the bug-ridden nightmare and add features to the framework that's designed to break as much as possible if you touch anything.
Why would he retire? I am sure that he is having fun doing what he is doing. He makes most of the rules and only gets in trouble when the share prices take a dive.
In the context of this story, the simulation below you would also be looking into the future, and the simulation above would be looking at your future. Whatever "future" is seen has to be reflected in every simulation.

This doesn't change much, the problem irons its self out. I see no paradox. And I don't know what you see that makes determinism "seem improbable."
I honestly did not realize that the adoption of them was that widespread. Thank you for the correction, that definitely does make a difference to my post.

Still, don't you think that video chat at no extra cost will be a rather huge innovation? If part of the reason it isn't used is because of the cost, wouldn't make it free help that? I know that video calling isn't necessarily better in plenty of cases, so I don't think it will completely replace voice calls (at least not for a long, long time if at all), but the facts that it's

1) free and

2) has Apple behind it and

3) therefore tons of media hype behind it

will help usage (edit: changed from adoption make my meaning clearer) by a large margin?
Ofcourse, the twitter folks are making fun of them because the substring "cum" appears in the URL :)
I've recently started toying with the Play Framework, a Rails-alike written in Java. The other Java web development tools I'd seen all primarily featured a suffocating bureaucracy, but this one pulled a number of tricks to appear almost as concise as Ruby. My take-away was that Java didn't have to be as repetitive as I'd thought, just that most of the Java libraries were written to encourage that. Maybe that's easier to make Java more productive than Ruby more efficient.
The cost of creation is alway high relative to manufacture. It may not be measured in dollars, but it can be measured in time. The cost of writing books, the cost of fact-checking, and the cost of marketing, all add up. Think about the plant growers who must breed generations and generations of plant? Take my website for example, the opportunity cost in creating the content is enormous. Duplicating only takes a few hundred dollars and maybe 3 hours. RedHat almost certainly spend millions of dollars investing developer man hours in their distro and the linux kernel.

The pharmaceutical industry costs' is surely higher than usual. However, the original drugs can sell for very high price, even when generic versions introduce market pressure.

The high cost of creation is not unique, and not limited to pharmaceutical industry. It is only relatively speaking that pharmaceutical industry's creation cost is much higher.(Don't forget that some of the cost are certainly inflated by an overly risk averse regulatory agency.)

In any case, introducing intellectual monopolies is a dicey game. Not only you must balance the incentives, you must also manage the bureaucracy, take into account wasted cost opportunity that could have went into research and marketing. If somebody exploit a loophole, it would take forever to change the law because congress is slow, or because of huge opposition pressure. People can be brought to favor certain corporations.

So you want to support a system of intellectual monopoly? Good luck balancing all the incentives, disincentives, and things that come up that you didn't know about. To underestimate the difficulty of managing a regulatory system is to fall prey to the planning fallacy.
The good news: A Netflix client!
The bad news: AT&T just cut your data plan...
In that case my current iPhone has hd video at 1 fp5s. If it isn't at least 23.976 fps then it isn't hd video. Period.
I've been going all-in on flexbox, knowing full well that I'm going to have to manage these IE11 issues. Well, it's just about time to pay the piper. This will be very helpful, thanks!
It's to give worse prices to customers that are not good at negotiating.
Great one!

I've heard it described as Twitch Chat minus Twitch, just the Chat.
You have the cause and effect reversed. One of the reasons I want to move from USD to crypto is because I don't want to invade countries for their oil. I'd rather my currency not be tied to imperialistic warmongering.
I have one, thus far their cloud service is free and hopefully will continue to be so. Every ReMarkable comes with an 8gb cloud account, which is the same amount of storage on the device.

Hopefully this doesn't change, because it's really a pain to put things on the tablet without using their app.
this is only really true in the united states. the rest of the world has free or almost free instant account to account transfers
How can they push toward regulation? Honest question? I could set up wherever i want i the world right?
This is an example I ran into recently: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16317075/read-anonymous-j...

Although the question was framed badly it could have simply been edited to be more clear about what it was asking and what the answers are answering. It was helpful to me and I'm sure it's been helpful to others as well.
Ha! I know someone who pre-ordered it like 8 years ago. Not falling for that this time.
It is rare that I ever do that, but I wouldn't put it past anyone to retain a modicum of hope for DNF.
Yes, Groupon is the brick-and-mortars version of Digg. But I will point-out that Digg links are good for SEO, so there is at least some degree of permanence. I guess the Groupon equivalent would be word-of-mouth referrals, though I'm afraid that many reviews would be, "I went to this awesome place [only after artificially lowering the price] that I found on Groupon". The implied sweet deal from Groupon might be something that other potential customers would expect as well before trying a new place out.
This is what makes SO a great site: an exhaustive answer and the thinking being it, neatly explained. Fascinating.