jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A significantly better product and/or at a lower price point that has enough marketing and buzz to spur a mass exodus.

There's a tipping point wherein there's enough momentum among a competitor to at least induce someone into signing up, if not fully converting.
Agreed, we do have several vendors and do distribute the workload as much as possible. In our experience when a server goes down the whole data center has problems, so even if it's more inconvenient the best is to really have an assortment of vendors.
The counterletter accepted signatures for longer than the original letter, and it was heavily promoted in the Eastern bloc, which is very sympathetic towards causes that exclude women and other minorities.

The original letter is signed by many of us who actually write the free software and who are part of GNU. I recognise people in the original letter I've collaborated on GNU software with, people I've met at conferences, people I've worked on bug reports with.

There are a few personalities in the counterletter, but if we're going by "jury of peers" there are far more peers in the original letter than the counterletter. The signatures in the two letters are a clear case of quantity vs quality.
Looks like it was originally committed as a snowman, changed, then committed again, then finally removed. Quite the flurry of activity over a tiny character that sits in the background quietly increasing the consistency of browser behavior and saving the world from cross-encoded text.
A cool thing about this design is that it also allows for redundant, independent internet archives. But some of those pieces look like they are interlocking instead of stacked. I also don't quite get how you can assume the existence of a non-evil, non-coercible certificate authority.
This claims to be a mirror, but it's sourcing the font file from the original website. That means if unicodesnowmanforyou.com goes down, so does the mirror. Not a mirror.
Maybe you could get some kind of co-membership thing going on with hacker dojo?

SF is just too far for me to go most days.
There's 2 things wrong with this idea: First is that I really can't see this approach being much more successful than just being honest and saying "can you spare 5 minutes? I'll buy your coffee for the trouble." And more importantly, the overwhelming majority of consumers can't give an unbiased opinion on a business idea. Especially when you frame the question with your brother being destitute if the idea fails. 99.99% of the time, people will tell you not to do it simply because the consequences of failure are so high. Just be honest. People like free stuff. Just buy them the coffee and they'll be more than happy to listen to your idea.
It depends on what you mean by designing operating systems. Usually I've found that OS taught in college tend to be out of date, that is of course unless you are grad/post-grad CS research.
I agree but we do pay subsidies to industries we wish to protect. Why not protect this way of life?

The EU's CAP is huge protection and in the US I'm sure there are all sorts of subsidises industries that "don't deserve it".

From the perspective of the working man this argument just seems to push down their wages but not allow other industries to pop.
Auth0 is another.
> private as in used to generate profit

That's commercial, not private.
Facebook dating was announced recently. It doesn't really change my argument even if there weren't any major competitors; it's a prime space for entrepreneurs if it is as broken as people claim - there is a pretty low barrier to entry.
I had an idea for a much more aggressive filtering service called first date. Men's profiles are a video that you only get one chance to shoot in which you are asked a random set of questions that you thus can't prepare for.
Finally some honest marketing.
Interesting idea, the floor does not have to be zero.
That’s a carefully considered rule. In general, primary sources are frowned upon, instead they have editors use secondary or tertiary sources.
I used to run a web forum with hundreds of concurrent users on a much lesser specced machine in the early 2000s so this sounds like a software problem.
And watch it get reverted 5 minutes later.
Unless this takeover is being conducted by M&A professionals, and not the result of wine and ambien, I think OP has a point.
This seems odd to me (I am considered a Millennial). Social media for friends, are they really friends? I text, call, see in person my friends. A person does not have that many true friends in my experience.

Facebook should not exist for friends- mostly people bragging about something or another.

Facebook groups are extremely helpful. That as a social network makes more sense to me. For example, I can find a group of experts that have to do with carpet cleaning to answer questions.

So my two cents, your solving the wrong problem. Social networks are not for friends. I also understand I am most likely an outcast odd ball who feels this way.
Sure they may have only had 80k deaths. But 4638 for 1.4b people. The largest population in the world has the lowest number is deaths and infections?

There was reports of people saying that they received their family members ashes. They weren’t even told they had died just receive ashes.

I don’t believe China would end up with the highest infection or highest deaths. People are quite content wearing masks and social distancing.

But I do believe the numbers are 10x lower than they are in reality.
Those benchmarks are pretty heavily gamed. Think about things like hardcoding "Content-Length: 123" instead of computing the length at runtime.
I'm glad they are making money, but 1M in revenue doesn't strike me as a lot of money once you divide it across 4 people. I'm making 1/4th of 1M just by having a job, no startup capital required ;)
The most probable decline of bitcoin imo is regulation or societal collapse from ecosystem loss from climate change. Both are a 10-30year timeframe kind of thing imo.
I think it was meant to convey the impact he had on economics, not as a vote of confidence for those contributions.
The most important part is easy to miss in the intro.

> each layer requires the previous one

In my experience (several projects and companies) most code reviewers pay scant attention to correctness, ignore security altogether, and spend all of their time on readability/elegance. Time after time after time, I've seen several people have lengthy exchanges about these "higher level" concerns during code review, the code gets merged, and then multiple bugs end up tracing back to fairly basic logic errors that they all overlooked.

Why? Because it's easier for people to talk about the superficial structure of the code. It's almost easy to argue about various micro-optimizations (which usually don't even matter). Making sure that each path leads to a reasonable result and/or gets tested is much harder. Identifying the paths/cases that are missing altogether is harder still, as it requires context about the rest of the system as well as the bits under review.

Most code reviews are looking for the keys under the lamp post. IMO the only way to fix that is to add some accountability, but that usually gets mistaken for adding hierarchy and process so engineers (particularly the "move fast" variety) strongly resist it.
I totally disagree. If it is a comment on diversity, it might be sarcastic or unprofessional, but that doesn't make it just as offensive. Saying all minorities look the same reveals ignorance and biases, which is the offensive part, not the comment itself.
Indeed, and those particular externalities are the same for each unit of electricity used (given some generation method), regardless of what the electricity is being used for. To me it makes a lot more sense for government policy to address these externalities directly, instead of trying to determine for each specific use case if it's okay to impose externalities or not.
So turn it into Diaspora?
Random small companies are able to raise 1mm right now with little difficulty. A .5m delta to here isn't that big.
This compromise happened DAYS ago. Google was hacked by China in mid-December 2009 they didn't publicly announce what happened until January 12, 2010. What started to look like a harmless intrusion turned into compromised gmail accounts turned into a highly sophisticated attack on Chinese dissidents turned into a full scale assault on their infrastructure. People were still figuring out the extent of that attack a couple months later.

While this is a bad security breach, if you follow security news at all you'd know computer security is a joke. The Rustock botnet operated for FIVE years with impunity on as many as 2.4 million rooted machines. People didn't even know they were owned; their computers worked perfectly fine like nothing was wrong. Every system at pwn2own gets owned in seconds and you can bet the black hats were there first. Everyone gets compromised. The only thing stopping a crippling cyber attack is whether someone feels it is beneficial to do so.

I do not especially fault Sony for this. Google gets hacked. Microsoft gets hacked. The NSA gets hacked. The DoD gets hacked. JP Morgan Chase gets hacked. Just add another multi-national to the list. It's a systemic problem that nobody really cares enough about nor can we do much about it if we did care.

EDIT: Just to give you another idea of how screwed we are from a security perspective. To paraphrase George Carlin[1], some programmers are really stupid. Did you ever notice how much stupid software you see? Think of how stupid the average programmer is, and realize half the programmers are stupider than that. And that bottom half? They probably work in IT, managing over engineered address books and accounting ledgers of the world while smarter people worry about cooler problems.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rh6qqsmxNs
Media Temple is pretty sweet, and they have a friendly user interface.
In their defense, artificial scarcity can drive buzz for the product a lot, if done well. Also, a service that's not yet done can't afford to launch to the public, especially when there's money involved.

Rather than think about launching in beta vs launching publicly, think about launching in beta vs launching much later. Which is the better choice?
Beats the one we hacked together over here a bit back, although we've got pins. http://corknik.com
agree with both statements above. You just have to position yourself as a productive programmer. Although in terms of possibly engineering solutions or understanding concepts and fundamentals you may not be knowledgable, you produce product which says a lot by itself. In startups I think production trumps fundamentals, but not by much, but hopefully you'll work under someone that can teach you.

to just comment on the entrepreneurial aspect you're looking to fulfill, you really lack focus. I fall under the same thing as throwing out many things and seeing what works, but hopefully you find a passion project that you can get behind and keep at it for some time. Being an entrepreneur is much more than product.
> yet under its own weight it has nothing to show for it.

That's factually incorrect. There's plenty to show for it, you just have to scale to the size of humanity's computing concerns from four or five decades ago.

Moreover, in no field of creative human endeavor have popularity and worthiness been correlated. You think all those billboard top 10 acts came from Juliard?

Is this a troll?
You could get hit by a bus tomorrow. Life's too short, do what you love.
Something drôle I caught on Joe Armstrong's twitter feed: ``A machine learning researcher, a crypto-currency expert, and an Erlang programmer walk into a bar. Facebook buys the bar for $27 billion.''
What makes you think there are two wrongs?
It would be good to see a proof why the homomorphism property is sufficient for doing ML (or a specific type of ML) on encrypted data.

Intuitively it may or may not make sense to people, but a proof would also clarify whether there are any caveats, limitations or other particuliarities.
My impression is that the current AI hype cycle is no different from the last one, and is likely to result in the same disillusionment as always happens.

Self-driving cars are foundering because of the same problem that always sinks things that are sold as AI: We've still got zero idea how to program a computer to introspect and reason independently. Not even the foggiest. So we invariably fall back to an unmaintainable rat's nest of hand-coded rules when the time comes to implement the very core of the system. And then distract people by hyping up whatever fancy new technology (Stacks of NVidia GPUs let us fit hypersurfaces in lots more dimensions than we could on a single Xeon!. . . err, that's not marketable, let's call it "deep learning" instead.) is being plugged into that core.

The deeper issue is that people hear the term AI and invariably think "artificial general intelligence". You can try and walk that back all you want with disclaimer upon disclaimer, but it's kind of silly to even try. If you're describing something as Artificial Intelligence, of course people are going to think that you're claiming to have built something that is (1) Artificial, and (2) Intelligent. And, let's be honest, that's probably what they were trying to imply all along. If they wanted to describe the technology as "really really amped up parameter estimation", they'd have stuck with the term we already have for that: Machine Learning.
First thought it’s by Andrej Karpathy...
What about pedestrians?
Borg? Hardly, there is already a Google product with the same name.

But more importantly, it is the name for a castle in several languages. So unless Paramamount is planning to sue a lot of very old places in Norway and other countries...
The time for nuclear has passed (at least fission. Fusion may still be a good future energy source).

I say this because the cost of building a new nuclear plant is more expensive than wind and solar.

Nuclear might still be a good solution for northern and southern habitats. But, at this point, where most pollution is produced, solar and wind are viable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

With all that said, the real viability of renewables is partially going to be determined by storage costs. Nuclear doesn't really solve the storage problem though (it is a base load only power source). Eventually in order to hit a 7.6% reduction goal we'll have to phase out natural gas peaker plants. To do that, we need storage.

We certainly shouldn't be decommissioning nuclear plants in favor of renewables. I just don't think the time to build new nuclear is here. The cheaper and faster solution is new renewables.
Unfortunately, pragmatism like yours sounds unconvincing compared to the more passionate positions of somebody against nuclear fission power. It doesn't mix well with an expensive project with a long development time that risks being cancelled in a temporary shift of public opinion.
Too little too late, I think; why would I use this instead of Dhall or Nix for writing Kubernetes configuration?
How much data can you transfer from the free AppEngine?
In college I used to weight train 6 - 7 days a week. I've never been able to get results out of a single set of weights. You really need a full range of weights and a full set of benches (incline, decline, upright, etc) to build any muscle mass.

Since you can't really increase mass, you should think about doing a relatively high number of reps and whatever exercises you can come up with. You'll at least maintain muscle tone doing that (you may drop some muscle mass or add fat, depending on your diet).

If you just want to be healthy, you can't go wrong with an aerobic exercise (whatever fits your current circumstances). I live in a crowded city and running saves my sanity.
I am currently using MaxCDN. Are there any cheaper options avalible?

SimpleCDN is not allowing new sign ups for CDN accounts.

Also, why so many people using Cloudfront?
I used to subscribe to one last year, but I just wasn't reading the whole thing. It was a pain to go online and find out more information, to participate in any discussions or to lookup words or terms I didn't know. Then I got Google Reader and canceled that subscription. Never going back. (under 25)
Me and the WSJ. You lose?
Both of which were AT&T before they weren't...before they were again. What goes around...
Dean Kamen looks like he could be on the way to being a proper heroic inventor. Although people will always make fun of him for Segway. :)
Why isn't Bitgravity in this mix? We use them and love them - and they also power Vimeo, CollegeHumor, and other huge sites. We have used them for images and video content and could not be happier.
The best thing you could do is to use as many IPv4 addresses as you can... just to speed up the migration process :)
I think the doctors could have killed this scheme well before it came to whatever kind of standoff in the ER you're envisioning, and yes, they certainly should have. But they wanted to get paid.

In any case, it doesn't take an enormous amount of moral courage to say "there is no possible way this person or his family has consented to being filmed so I'm taking the microphone off and you are taking your cameras out of the room."
I appreciate your point that not everyone has great internet but let’s also keep in mind that services like Netflix consume about 1GB/hr SD and 3GB/hour HD, and Netflix has over 200 million customers world wide. 1GB just isn’t what it used to be.
I worked briefly in a state agency and I recall during a presentation of an application we developed, my boss noting t hat the users should be careful what they enter into certain fields due to FOIA.
Different students have different needs. It doesn't make sense to provide the same experience to every student. Homogenizing the experience is a disservice to all students, not just the gifted.
More regulations need to be put on industries that emit high levels of carbon, such as the meat and dairy industry. Additionally, I think it is important that us as global citizens take responsibility and take action to mitigate the consequences of climate change. Our government needs to promote alternate forms of energy, such as solar, geothermic, and oceanic sources. There will be consequences for the many years where climate change and protecting the environment were not a priority, but now we have to make it a priority.
> You can make good Electron apps if you care enough.

That defeats purpose of Electron, though.
The .aws tld is widely used for services on AWS.
My ~2013 macbook pro has this issue where, if AppleThunderboltNHI.kext is loaded, it will crash and restart every couple minutes on batteries. I'm not the only one with this issue. If you google that kext you'll see it's an issue with a lot of us and it's a shame that it's such a dumb problem because otherwise this 9 year old laptop is absolutely great to work with. SSD, 2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16 GB RAM. Magsafe and good keyboard.

So anyways, this locked-down system volume is a real problem because typically after a system update I reboot into recovery mode, disable CSR, remove the kext, re-enable CSR and then I'm good until the next OS update where the kext is re-added and my computer starts to crash again.

It seems like a bigger issue now to remove that kext, to deal with Apple's own software problem, to keep using my old laptop. What a pain.
> SDKs and simulator OS disk images for macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS

Yes, the vast majority of Xcode's size comes from inside the folder Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms
I'm happily using Dokku[1] and another one in this host your own PaaS space is CapRover[2]

[1] https://dokku.com/

[2] https://caprover.com
And their combined income is $15/hr?
It's a valid consideration, but I'm sure you can't quantify what percentage the market has shrunk by in light of this (nor can I). My gut would say no more than 5%. Until you can run Zencart/Xcart/Wordpress etc on Appengine or Heroku, there are going to be a lot of people who need monitoring. :)
I've never looked at a comment and then a username and thought to myself "wow, there is so much consistency in what you wrote and what your HN name is"... well said my friend.
I bet Christopher (prawn protagonist of District 9) might be able to grok the bizarre utterances in the 1000th video... but I can't.
I don’t think that’s what he’s talking about. You’re describing industrial-strength professional therapy; sounded to me like he had more informal counseling/advice/community in mind.
What do you want to do with their money though?
Right, Python2 is still the default on Debian, so I didn't notice.
Taking the bigger picture, those rewards and disputes aren't free. These things get paid for by transaction fees, cardholders that carry balances, and vendors taking a loss. On the whole, prices for everything go up, but people fortunate enough to have "good" credit cards get a slight discount at the expense of those who don't.

I'm not necessarily saying this system is better or worse than some alternative, just pointing out that it's not all upside.
Not as lucrative as profiting directly from it.

I respect non open source software very much. They put hard work into it, and I have absolutely zero, zilch right to ask for its source. I am willing and happy to pay for a service if it benefits me. OSS and non-OSS can coexist. There is no need to bash on non-OSS software. It's folks like you and me, writing code, providing for the family.

Github1s, I could see myself paying $50 for a yearly fee. I would use this thing all the time.
Additionally, there is EverythingToolbar which integrates Everything to Windows taskbar.

https://github.com/stnkl/EverythingToolbar
The fraud is entirely due to the structural problems (like hard cut offs) of these programs.

(I mean entirely, because if there are people living comfortably on the program without no motivation to do anything else in their life, then a) maybe that's okay, b) maybe that's a mental health issue [and fixing it might cost a lot more], c) at some point the fraud becomes so encompassing, that it's not the program's fault, but it's someone literally robbing taxpayers via whatever means they can. Furthermore any social program that only addresses and takes into account some narrow slice of people's life problems will be easily gameable, so let's have comprehensive integrated programs. Yes, they are hard, but it's not like putting people on the moon is that much easier.)
They could just as well hedge the "PayPal-Bitcoin" they hand out to their customers with unbacked Bitcoin futures. They don't necessarily have to buy the underlying as long as they can find some other party who's willing to engage in a bet about the future of the Bitcoin price.

Though I must admit that it's doubtful for them to find enough cash to take the other side of this bet, so most likely they have to resort to actual Bitcoin bought from liquid exchanges or OTC.
If for some reason you do want a terminal, you can run `stty -onlcr` to turn off the NL → CR LF conversion.
they're working on servo(written in rust) as pointed out already, but firefox continues to be the choice for power users, no other browser allows the same level of addons and being so customizable

also, you don't sell your soul to google as a plus
All the major browser vendors (except maybe Apple) are doing similar things, like https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Beginners (created by MS/Google/Opera) and http://www.html5rocks.com/ (run by Google). Does that make them "disconnected" too?
That's not particularly weak as proof to the person who controls the DB that you have access to the phone, which is what the device factor of a 2FA scheme is intended to prove, since you have to have access to either the DB or the phone to get the key.

Conversely, SMS's weakness is in the communication channel, which can be compromised without compromising the things for which the factor is intended as proof.