jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
People sure talk a lot about heat pumps, but from what I read, they're best suited to around 10 C, which in my climate is a brief interval between the seasons changing and hardly requires heat at all. It may be two or three times as efficient, in a sense, but if it's not usable all winter, it can't save much energy, can it?
> Unfortunately, it was not possible for IPv6...

Given hindsight, I think there is a ton of coulda-woulda-shoulda in bumpy transitions like ipv4 -> ipv6 or python 2->3
I've been using a reactive websockets over HTML in Kotlin implementation that I wrote myself, and it's been the least unpleasant web development experience I've ever had. There really is a huge advantage when you don't have to marshal/unmarshal/validate a request for a simple callback on a button, and page loads can be much faster.

That said, there is more operational complexity (though given my site is relatively small, not much yet). State that lives with the server dies with the server, so deployments can take longer if client sessions live for a while.
The maintainer may see issues as "something that they should fix", vs "something that could be fixed". If they see it as the former and have no intention of working on it, then closing makes sense. I don't think there's a universal code of conduct on how to handle Github issues.
Trying to contact you from one of your old posts regarding real estate investing. What’s the best email / Twitter to contact you?
Well, it wouldn't be the same effect. Similar, sure—but e.g. laser printing looks different from physically pressing an inked plate against a piece of paper. For one thing, you have the physical act of pressing; for another, you have different kinds of ink, and can do things like mix a color before you print instead of getting a bunch of CMYK dots.

The difference is often subtle. But sometimes, it can be striking.
Why would I take a screencast of myself reading HackerNews?
So don't use Hadoop to crunch data that fits on a memory stick, or that a single disk spindle can read in few seconds.

Why is this first on the HN front-page?

Reminds me of the C++ is better than Java, Go is better than C++, etc, pieces.

Yes, the right tool for the right job. That's what makes a good engineer.

Somebody who thinks there is _no_ valid use case for Hadoop is a fool. (The author did not say that, but many of the comments here seem to imply that view)
I hate developers who over engineer everything and then when it's time to perform some of that support and extensibility, they leave because maintenance is beneath them.

They put this behemoth together with a thousand moving parts and then walk away from it.

This, too, happens often.
Would it be possible to add a "Battery Life" slider? That is, for me, one of the biggest factors for buying a device.

Even without that feature, this is one AMAZING tool! I wish you the best!
About 5 years ago I worked at a company that took the "pile of shell scripts" approach to processing data. Our data was big enough and our algorithms computationally heavy enough that a single machine wasn't a good solution. So we had a bunch of little binaries that were glued together with sed, awk, perl, and pbsnodes.

It was horrible. It was tough to maintain-- we all know how hard to read even the best awk and perl are. It was difficult to optimize, and you always found yourself worrying about things like the maximum length of command lines, how to figure out what the "real" error was in a bash pipeline, and so on. When parts of the job failed, we had to manually figure out what parts of the job had failed, and re-run them. Then we had to copy the files over to the right place to create the full final output.

The company was a startup and the next VC milestone or pivot was always just around the corner. There was never any time to clean things up. A lot of the code had come out of early tech demos that management just asked us to "just scale up." But oops, you can't do that with a pile of shell scripts and custom C binaries. So the technical debt just kept piling up. I would advise anyone in this situation not to do this. Yeah, shell scripts are great for making rough guesses about things in a pile of data. They are great for ad hoc exploration on small data or on individual log files. But that's it. Do not check them into a source code repo and don't use them in production. The moment someone tries to check in a shell script longer than a page, you need to drop the hammer. Ask them to rewrite it in a language (and ideally, framework), that is maintainable in the long term.

Now I work on Hadoop, mostly on the storage side of things. Hadoop is many things-- a storage system, a set of computation frameworks that are robust against node failures, a Java API. But above all it's a framework for doing things in a standardized way so that you can understand what you've done 6 months from now. And you will be able to scale up by adding more nodes, when your data is 2x or 4x as big down the line. On average, the customers we work with are seeing their data grow by 2x every year.

I feel like people on Hacker News often don't have a clear picture of how people interact with Hadoop. Writing MapReduce jobs is very 2008. Nowadays, more than half of our users write SQL that gets processed by an execution engine such as Hive or Impala. Most users are not developers, they're analysts. If you have needs that go beyond SQL, you would use something like Spark, which has a great and very concise API based on functional programming. Reading about how clunky MR jobs is just feels to me like reading an article about how hard it is to make boot and root floppy disks for Linux. Nobody's done that in years.
I am not saying don't educate yourself. I am saying don't self medicate, which is what this site is encouraging ( wither it means to or not ).

For every story you have about a bad experience with a doctor or vet, any medical professional can recount to you hundreds of accounts of people who worsened their condition by either ignoring the advice of their "corrupt" doctor or by self medicating. Find yourself a good vet ( one who went to a good school and did an actual residency at a hospital ) and follow their advice.
The problem with shell scripting is that nearly nobody is very, very good at it. The Steam bug doing an rm -rf / is an example, but it's very common for shell scripts to have horrible error handling and checks for important things. The shell is just not suitable for extremely robust programs. I would bet that 80%+ of people who think they're good at shell scripting... aren't.
Try taking a look at the "privacy" page under your live.com account.

They know _everything_ you do on your computer. It's of course for "your benefit". They know every application you lauch, how long it was running for, and if it had input parameters, they also know which files you opened.

They know what you search for (if you use IE/Edge), and lots of other "telemetry" data.

Here you go : https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/activity-history
Highly recommend looking at the specs of the helicopter. It masses just 1.4kg. Each blade is 35g!
And we have seen, that is to the detriment to the chip maker. It’s said that ATMEL chips became way more popular than PIC because of AVR Dude and cheap knock off programmer boards on eBay. A modern day architecture would be competing with these already established open source tool chains so they would either remain obscure like FPGAs are now, open source their stuff, or be on the scale of Apple or Microsoft where they are able to outcompete them open source stuff (for what purpose though)
Signal has been rather flakey the last 24hrs in general
I never learned that my country used forced labour in its colonies until the 60s, or that we dropped napalm on civilian villages as a reprisal. I'm very skeptical about the quality of history lessons in school, no matter the country.
What I just finished is the layout software, I'm hoping to start some CNC work soon.

https://github.com/alanbernstein/dymaxion

After starting the project, I found this: http://www.spiralsbysteve.com/globes.php. If we can produce something that looks half as good as this, I'll be thrilled.

See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbQsOneX-8c
In that case you could run into the problem that your citizens mint/adopt a competing currency. That's a big problem that Bitcoin faces. There are lots of competitors so the insistence on Bitcoin being the ultimate store of value is unfounded.
I was assuming that someone used the string as a name in the test?
We had this 21 years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Enterprise_Server
Can you pay for those cards with cash?

In NL they do everything possible to avoid you buying the cards with cash (and there is a surcharge for disposables).
And after the backup don't forget to detach the external storage and logout from the cloud storage otherwise they could just encrypt those too.
I see people do this from time to time and I've never understood it.
Another discussion of this topic, though on a different article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8794476
The linode instructions are pretty up to date. Feel free to shoot any questions to @boothead if you give it a try.. *

* source: followed said instructions to get my linode vps running on nixos.
> Edit: For the record, we e-mailed you "Opbeat launching out of Beta (action needed)" on 21st of Nov.

You mean you emailed me to tell me you were going to automatically upgrade me to a paying account unless I explicitly cancelled my account?

You know how many emails I get from services I signed up for and never used again. No one else I've dealt with has tried to pull this type of crap.

Your terms of service did not state that this was possible -- that you automatically upgrade accounts, from free to paying without explicit permission.
HOORAY! With CSS editing web inspector now has feature parity with firebug as far as I'm concerned. Now they need to work on making the "resources" panel less arduous to get information from, I'm sure it's significantly more clicks to get at HTTP headers than in firebug.

EDIT: Missed the header overriding thing, I need to read harder. That is amazing, and will prove so very useful. Now all we need to do is wrap up the common caching headers into some sort of simple menu...
Undeveloped negatives are considered tangible for legal purposes, and the creation of the negative has been considered the primary work of authorship almost cince the inception of photography:

See Burrow-Giles Lithographic company v. Sarony, 111 US 53 - Supreme Court 1884, quoting Nottage v. Jackson, 11 QBD 627, High court 1883:

Brett, M.R., said, in regard to who was the author: "The nearest I can come to, is that it is the person who effectively is as near as he can be, the cause of the picture which is produced, that is, the person who has superintended the arrangement, who has actually formed the picture by putting the persons in position, and arranging the place where the people are to be — the man who is the effective cause of that."

Lord Justice Cotton said: "In my opinion, `author' involves originating, making, producing, as the inventive or master mind, the thing which is to be protected, whether it be a drawing, or a painting, or a photograph;" and Lord Justice Bowen says that photography is to be treated for the purposes of the act as an art, and the author is the man who really represents, creates, or gives effect to the idea, fancy, or imagination.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=177944096715959...
I don't like existing application analytics services, maybe I'll have to make a simple one for my own use.
If you're from Sandstorm, can you please add Restyaboard?
I know a guy
https://youtu.be/C8JyvzU0CXU
Or, to use a personal example: My pediatrician was Dr. Raper. To my recollection, the rather infelicitous nature of his last name never came up in conversation among his patients, although I’m sure the oddity of it crossed some minds...
The answer is: it is not acceptable. Humans are awesome! Including you, even if you don't realize it!
Perhaps I was not clear; I'm not saying that it was ever necessarily what I'd call the "gestalt" or "consensus" view. I'm not sure there was ever a time in the US where that was the case necessarily; always the local concerns have some good reason to override freedom today.

But it was at least a voice at the table, and while it may not have "won", it had influence and was a generally credible position. I don't even hear that voice today, and proposing something like "Hey, what if we just didn't force individual citizens to do X?" is just a recipe for getting cancelled because of how you're for or against X, because of course you must be if you think that we shouldn't be using governmental power to enforce it; that, alone, is sufficient proof. Now the only argument is what X should be.
Even dumping uranium wouldn’t be so bad if you ground it up really finely and dispersed it thoroughly. There is a lot of uranium in the oceans naturally. A few kilos here and there is literally nothing in comparison, as long as it’s not in one spot.
We had a saying at my old job: if something’s broken it’s never Redis. Redis is such a tank in my experience. We set it up. Secured it. And then forgot about it.
I worked full time maintaining a huge COBOL system in the 90s. Seeing how a massive code base could be elegantly structured around COBOL gave me a new respect for the language, and the original developers. I always felt a warm sense of pride every time I managed to improve upon their work.

It's not so much that languages are good or bad, it's developers that are. COBOL can be made elegant, Swift can be made ugly. Even driftwood can be made beautiful.
> I've done two quick passes over this transcript, and a theme stands out to me: Thiel and company repeatedly claim that there is no meaningful difference between the Chinese military and individual Chinese nationals who work for American companies, because China is essentially a fusion state where the government dictates the flow of capital. In this account, America is supposed to be distinct: there is a clear division between capital and state, and the US government (overwhelmingly) does not interfere with capital interests. I don't think this is particularly accurate (in either direction), but that's the claim that I see staked out.

The fact that Google and other companies have declined to work with the US government in various capacities proves that there's a distinction to be made here. Do you ever hear about Huawei declining to work with the Chinese government because of its treatment of the Uighurs?

Of course there's no bright line. There is intermingling between US private companies, US defense industry, and US government/military. But that doesn't mean you can't make a distinction between the situation in the US and the situation in China.

> So my question: what gives? The latter is very explicitly a "fusion" (i.e., Chinese) approach to state and capital; isn't that exactly what the Thiel and paleoconservative types are claiming to be against? Is there some inner logic to this that I'm not perceiving, or is this all just Kissinger-style realpolitik?

There's an element of realpolitik, i.e. Thiel doesn't seem to be explicitly against a "fusion." He's arguing that a "fusion" exists in China and not in the US.

The inner logic you appear to be missing is "the United States is an open society" and "China is a closed society". Again, a bright line can't be drawn. But isn't it true that the US is more open than China?
Watch this video and you will become enlightened as to why this is the case:

[Linus Torvalds on Git] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Regardless of the Thiel Fellowship, this is the guy that I would want on the inside taking academic ideas from research to revolution. Ito represents a kind of energy and enthusiasm that higher education direly needs.

More creative, free-thinking skeptics of academia should definitely be empowered to lead it. I see Ito as one of them, and I think this is an inspired choice.
Unusual but interesting choice. Joi is a real networker and has lots of friends in tech. Maybe the Media Lab under Ito will have more direct influence on and be influenced by people who create outside academia.
I love these vintage interviews from back in the day.

Can one conclude from this interview that Steve Jobs is an example of a non technical founder or probably the most successful non technical founder?
I don't understand your analogy. One case involves making yearly payments regardless of use, while the other involves only paying when you use it. But from here it looks like cloud is to colo as hotel is to timeshare (or purchasing property).

As a small startup I'm happy to host in the cloud because it removes a lot of the up-front risk of buying physical hardware. Just as I get a hotel when I go on vacation because I don't want to purchase a beach house outright. But at scale, the economics change and it most likely goes the other way.
+1 this idea as well
Just in case here are a few other mirrors:

https://github.com/apperoid/dropship

http://min.us/mvjl61c

http://www.mediafire.com/?6gplpdpib6zg5dm

https://rapidshare.com/files/459187624/driverdan-dropship-56...
This won't make the nightly news. This will only be reported to the types of people who 1) already know about dropbox, and 2) understand the significance of DMCA takedowns made in bad faith.

Bad publicity.
Well, not surprising that was down-voted, but seriously - if somebody contends that we're 'not designed for X', yet we have actually evolved to be able to do X, I think it's reasonable to point that out, even if the fact is that we do too much sitting down.
Companies like Google and Apple have been eager to collect data on the GPS locations of cell towers, wifi access points and other network locations. In fact, there are entire companies (Skyhook http://skyhook.com) that drive cars around major cities mapping these things.

Why? So that their mobile applications can provide you location even if you don't have GPS. GPS doesn't work inside, GPS doesn't always work in big cities with a ton of buildings. Providing you location without requiring GPS is big money.

Unfortunately the cheapest way to gather this data is through crowd-sourcing. By having every iPhone record this data they could, in theory, help provide you location when GPS isn't available.

I don't know if that's why Apple is doing this now but I hope someone finds out. I'm all for location based services but using people without their knowledge seems like a bad way to go about it.
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I've always thought that Coq type checker was small enough to be formally verified.
There's an extension language in bazel named Skylark, which will be familiar to you if you wrote build_defs internally: http://bazel.io/docs/skylark/concepts.html
Apple should have built this in Cupertino instead of that horrible spaceship monstrosity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_Tower. It would have been a lot cheaper, too.
I would agree with your first statement. I do not agree with the authors proposition that you do not need to understand a bit more than just the surface of something like complexity theory in order to be a good programmer. Being able to develop software is different paradigm altogether, not being able to fall back on theories and a least minimal understanding of principles, wil llead you to not only forget it, but being able to test such assumptions like discussed is not optimal, especially in a work environment >> considering the agile mindset so revered in Silicon Valley..Thank for allowing my inout but thanks for a interesting article.
"1" is 49 is ASCII.
Would be nice to know what this means for existing customers. Did we just waste a bunch of time with FDB? Is it going to be open-sourced?
For context, Cass Sunstein is a prominent law professor (formerly at U Chicago, now at Harvard). He writes a lot about law and economics and also about the mechanics of democracy.

He writes a lot about behavioral economics and is a proponent of government mechanics to get people to do the right thing when they would ordinarily fall prey to fallacious reasoning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_%28book%29.

The referenced article arises from the intersection of his interest in democracy and his interest in behavioral irrationalities. Essentially, it asks: "how do you have democracy when lots of people believe nutty irrational things?" E.g. most people, when polled, regularly believe that the U.S. spends > 5% of its budget on foreign aid. They also think that something like half the U.S. population is black and the other half is Hispanic. How do these ideas impact democracy?

The article tries to paint him as some scary pro-surveillance type, but he's not. He's no anarco-libertarian--he has a very strong belief in the ability of the state to improve society. But he is a professor and likes to throw out ideas and the paper should be viewed in that context.
Go: "Don't share a bullet by shooting, shoot yourself by sharing a bullet."
Astigmatism, possibly? IIRC, dark mode is worse for most users (though they may not notice it, and the placebo effect is powerful in this sort of subjective rating) but it's particularly bad for people with severe astigmatism.
I think we should. At the very least, our children should.

That's why I'm planning on having my daughter learn Mandarin along with English - to prepare her for the shape of the economy she'll be living in.
You can do it directly with OpenSSH, no need for third-party software. There are many good blog articles / tutorials on the subject, e.g. search for "ssh ca certificate". Most people don't know that you can do this but it's actually quite easy.
Perhaps to expose the horrors that comprise the slavery that he is unwillingly engaged in.
Agree, if I ever become fully remote and leave the UK I'd definitely consider Portugal, the quality of food, beauty of the cities & countryside, people are all great, costs are ultimately incredibly low for living in a European capital, and the public transport is pretty good if you're not walkable to wherever you're going already.
In other words author is a Hack Fraud. Reminds me of The Verge PC Build Video tutorial done by another "tech journalist" while wearing a _wireless anti static bracelet_ https://youtu.be/0vmQOO4WLI4?t=46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-2Scfj4FZk