skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At some level maybe it is a bit like selling shovels during a gold rush.

Many would call that a "wise business."
Hate isn't an event. Its a process these people undergo over years. If you browse their history and activities over the internet, like say on twitter. You will generally see they go in search of new stories to justify their theories almost every day.

Over years they build a case around what they believe and why that's true.

If anything their belief in what ever they want to, just grows stronger by the day.
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Do you do byte-by-byte comparisons between the original and backups to makes sure nothing was copied over incorrectly? This is my biggest worry is that I back something up and the backup has bit errors and it's essentially ruined but I won't know until I try to recover it.
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> Isn't the referrer field sufficient?

referer isn't sent in a lot of cases, including when a link on an HTTPS page goes to an HTTP page.
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> I've never understood why keypad locks haven't been more widely adopted in the West

They have been adopted widely. In businesses. It's mostly a perception issue, where such locks are perceived as a product for a business.

That said, it's a lot more convenient to walk up to a door and have it unlock automatically because it detects your phone ... than to stand there and enter a code.
Well, it only boils water. For that purpose some competitors would be:
- Backcountry Boiler, which is also wood-fueled and 1/4 the weight.
- Jetboil Sol, half the weight including fuel canister. canister good for 20+ boils
- alcohol or esbit burner + titanium cup and fuel - less than 1/3 the weight including fuel

The only scenario I can think of where the BioLite makes sense is if you have no access to electricity for weeks at a time. Even then I think solar panels make more sense.
I think it's well understood that the leadership styles of leaders like Mao intentionally involved encouraging the kind of "cargo cult" attitude you're describing. Ambiguous instructions, hints and implications rather than clear directives - all of these create conditions where the leader is never wrong (instead, subordinates make wrong interpretations) and the leader stays flexible to ride any wave of fanaticism like n this article. It's fascinating.
Good visualization of what any aware surfer/bodyboarder/bodysurfer/etc. has likely noticed.
Out of curiosity: if they weren't YC, would you be more or less skeptical of the claim? I'm wondering whether you bought it because you believed the team (based on your understanding of the problem and solution) or because you believed in YC
I got to the end of that article and thought "boy, I've really benefitted from the work Jay has done. I should send him some lunch money as a thank you" and there was the link right at the top of the page!

I sent you $20 for all the work you've done to teach me more about the inner workings of iOS, even if I have never installed Cydia. :)
What provider is your favorite then?
To reiterate (because although I had the same thought as you it took me a moment to realize what you meant), OP is measuring the wrong thing for multi-user scenarios. Losing 10 ft from 1000 ft radius due to a 20% power loss might sound inconsequential (only 1%, right?), until you realize that's ~31,000 ft². That's ¾ acre, or 20% of your users. Nothing to sneeze at.
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I want to know the thinking behind it, as it won't be much an effort to build one for this page. I guess.
It is strange, because you are almost exactly restating the central thesis of the paper, but phrasing it as though you are saying something different.
What year was that?

Because that's how it USED to be, their reworked network and peering have excellent performance now.
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I've inherited a few minefields. I can see how they weren't always this way. Some very smart people designed the project, and then a dozen or so engineers came through and, failing to fully understand the project structure, made their additions/modifications in totally harebrained ways. The fault lies with the original developers, who failed to create a robust, understandable codebase (no tests, no documentation, zero code comments(!)).
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I'm looking for a super-simple and pretty/customizable web portal for my product customers: I need to make files available to them every so often and want to just upload them to a SFTP account and have the web portal provide access to those files.

Before I build something, I thought I'd check if you might be aware of something that might meet this need (nearly) out of the box. Not required, but if its in PHP, that'd be a plus.
solar panel > induction cooktop > pressure cooker

or just skip the intermediary steps and conversion losses and use a Solar Cooker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cooker
Highly doubt it will go unnoticed since it's election year. Hopefully the media will be all over it no matter what.
Or a non-thermally-conductive handle.
Prodigy got me online when I was about 7 years old. I played some maze game on there on my family's 386 over an expensive 9600 baud modem. I also remembering reading a lot about video game cheat codes on their BBS system ... good times.
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The correct URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
> The reality is that Apple makes money because Apple sells hardware: they make more money on a single iPhone than they could ever hope to win back in a lifetime of application sales, and most users purchase a new iPhone every two years. You'd have to buy hundreds of $1-$2 apps every year for Apple to care about that business.

Is this true? I was under the impression that Apple makes the majority of their iOS money from royalties on the app store. What on earth could their expenses be to offset 30% of $1,000,000,000/quarter[1]?

1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2014/01/07/apples-app...
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As seen previously on HN...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7221530

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6861343

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944223

And the first and seemingly most successful go at this page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936320
It would be nice to be able to "follow" news related to this story, and more generally any story that will have a future outcome that you want to hear about when it happens.

As far as I can tell, there is no easy way to do this. Is there?
6 hrs? Man, that sounds horrible. I'd never get anything done. I'd rather have 4-10s. And extra two hours of maker time to offset all the bullshit meetings, plus a real weekend.
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"Certainly"? I don't think that's the case. Can you expand on what you think I'm missing? There are countries outside of Europe--entire continents, really-- that speak a European languages. Do you really think Chileans have less in common with Spaniards than Lithuanians? I'd even guess that African-Americans and white Americans are more similar than white Americans and Danes in terms of language and culture.
> How would the autonomous delivery trucks you are talking about actually deliver the packages? The very difficult part would be getting the packages from the vehicle to the person's door. It would not work if it required the customers to come outside to pick up the packages, people wouldn't be home, they might be busy at the moment, it would be difficult to ensure they don't take the wrong or someone elses packages. I've considered that before and I just can't figure out a way for that to work.

Tightly specified mailboxes.

Imagine that if you installed a special "UP-EX" mail box, you could receive packages securely when not at home. The truck has an arm that places the item directly into the receptacle.
How is #1 not always true? In its early days, YouTube extensively benefitted from (then) copyright-infringing music, perhaps not directly via ads but certainly indirectly via a larger user base.
I don't think that "Whatever Rich Hickey feels this year" is a serious pain point. Rich isn't fickle with changes; quite the opposite. Clojure has evolved, but Rich explains himself well.

What changes have bothered you?
The MUD that I played on in middle school and high school, Viking MUD, is still around. http://www.vikingmud.org

I think the directions to the main areas will be burned into my memory forever. On this MUD, when you reached level 20 (which took around a week) you had a choice to make your character "eternal" and continue adventuring or you could choose to make your character a "wizard" who could create new areas yourself and write scripted actions for your area. However, you could no longer take part in the actual game itself. Scripting the areas I had created was some of the first programming experience I ever had.

A big difference between most of the games today that I play and some of those old MUDs was that there were very serious consequences to dying. You lost a level and all your gear if you died and it was extremely easy to die in the game, both from NPCs or other players in certain zones. Dropping from say, level 28 to 27 represented a solid week of hard leveling effort that was lost. I remember I died 3 times in one evening and almost wanting to cry I was so upset. It did make the game that much more intense though because the stakes were so high.

I still login occasionally but it is rare to see more than a few players who aren't idle. I remember that the quality of the community was very high. I don't know if it was because there was a relatively high bar to join and interact with the game that self-selected those kinds of people or what. You had to have the technical chops to connect to the internet, download and install a MUD client and then connect to the appropriate server. Then to be successful at the game itself you had to have a lot of patience, have a good memory and be able to read and react quickly.
the path loss exponent is 2 in line of sight conditions.

These are relatively rare in typical WiFi deployments.
Thanks for you detailed response. Our goal is to continue to improve our product. Indeed this is why we talk about our problems (and solutions) such as in the above post. We have discussed much of what you have brought up here over the past few years. If our implementations on these matters are different than your opinions I think it must be due to the closeness that comes with building and iterating on the concept rather than commenting on one generation of it.

I am not quite sure how to respond to your other claims in this thread that suggest we are acting irrationally other than to say we have an "EE that had experience in product development", we did consult with multiple other companies to check our "sanity", the "pitfalls" we encountered are common to many other products which don't disclose development details - we are no worse for having addressed and solved them, and that we don't engage in used-car salesman tactics.

Regarding your questions above:

Lockitron enters power save mode when not in use for a few seconds.

Using a pre-fabbed gears or gearboxes from other vendors on one level can introduce complications with motor selection, housing, industrial design, and yield between batches; on another level it provides a gap for manufacturers to shift accountability. Simpler is to use standard gears from a gear manufacturer which also makes your gearbox which is what we do.
There are likely quite a few underutilized Espresso printers out there today. Just noticed that http://www.ondemandbooks.com/ is a search engine that links to the handful of stores which have a printer.
is also why commercial GPS receivers will refuse.

One can, of course, out-design all of this with software and a decent front-end.
I think monopoly power is especially difficult with digital distribution because the company is using technology that everyone else has access to. If Amazon suddenly started overcharging, it would not be difficult for Barnes and Noble or someone else to take over their business.

This is why free software like Apache and Linux is so important. However big Amazon gets, as long as other companies, however small, have the necessary technology to provide similar services and the option to scale operations with increased business, Amazon has to offer superior services and prices to stay competitive. Book publishers, on the other hand, use specialized factories and distribution networks to throw their power around. With commoditized servers, free software, and an open Internet, Amazon can't leverage those same unique advantages.
or even the simple analog beam forming we did at Vivato.
I bought it because of YC comments. I was sorely disappointed when the wifi unlock did not work like it was stated because of the battery drain. I returned it and have just made my own with a wired arduino. Faster, instant unlock, and no batteries to worry about :)
Actually owning a jetboil makes me want one of these pots. That thing just sips fuel.
I'm not staying at the Pennsylvania, either.
> Is anyone surprised that so many of those are payed services instead of OSS projects?

Not surprised, as developer time is expensive. At the same tie, I find it funny and contradictory that many on HN complain about Microsoft's stuff not being OSS.
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Wouldn't it be 4 8's? Why are we constrained to requiring 40 hours/week when productivity has skyrocketed over the last 30 years?

Hours/week should be indexed to a productivity index, just as entitlements are indexed to inflation/CPI.
I hope to find a job that will let me work this schedule some day. As long as those extra two hours were as if everyone else in the office had already left so I wouldn't be interrupted.
I've worked extensively with both ELF and PE systems --- I was on the Windows Perf team and the Windows Phone core team, and now I do low-level Android goo at Facebook.

I vastly prefer the Windows shared library model. In addition to the advantages you mention, the Windows per-DLL symbol namesystem system is much better than ELF's hazardous model: in ELF, accidental interposition is a big hazard, so you have to very carefully namespace the symbols exported from a shared object. In Windows (and in OS X), symbol name collisions are simply not a problem: there's no global namespace in which symbols can collide. Yes, you still have DLL _name_ collisions, but SxS addresses that problem nicely. As a result, hosting unrelated bits of code in the same process is very common in the Windows world and uncommon in the ELF world. RTLD_LOCAL and RTLD_DEEPBIND are completely unnecessary.

Another advantage Windows has in practice is default symbol visibility. Windows DLLs export only the symbols you explicitly instruct your compiler and linker to export --- through export files or compiler annotations. The default in ELF systems is to export everything that's not file-static. This configuration is particularly fun when combined with the namespace problem. While Unixish compilers can be configured to work like Windows and export only needed symbols, I've found that very few people do. These people then go on to wonder why shared libraries are slow and the binaries so large. (-Bsymbolic helps, of course.)

If I were benevolent POSIX dictator for life, one of my edicts (although not my first one) would be to require an OS-X-style two-level namespace and hidden symbol visibility by default. Yes, LD_PRELOAD interposition gets harder. Just deal with it and modify functions directly.

The ELF dynamic linking mechanism is designed to emulate static linking. That's like designing cars to neigh and occasionally kick people to death with robot legs that exist only for this purpose.

Also, it's a minor thing, but LoadLibrary in Windows returns a pointer to the PE header. dlopen is nowhere near that simple, nor is the in-memory representation of a shared object as useful. (It'd also be nice if dladdr1 got some documentation. Also, it'd be nice if Bionic weren't even more awful than glibc in this respect.)
I am in the process of using Celery with Django, awesome stuff. Can't say exactly what I am working on but I can say that some big jobs need to be run, rabbitMQ is my queue server of choice and celery is my worker. Celery with Django is awesomely easy, you should be up and running with a prototype in just a few days.
Question: if I select my Google Drive or MS Cloud Drive as a backup folder, will that work? (too lazy to test) I suspect it would since both of these have hooks into the default filesystem, but I am unsure.
I totally agree. In the tech industry at least, stock performance seems totally driven by growth. Companies that stop growing for a few quarters are seen as failures, when maybe they just reached an equilibrium for a while.

I would think that equilibrium was fine, maybe even a good sign- it's a successful business that's humming along. But short-term investors want to see growth, so they can cash out their investment in a few months or years.

The positive aspect of all of this is that it constantly drives evolution and innovation through competition. The part that sucks is that businesses are forced to constantly grow (or waste lots of money on failed attempts to grow), until they get so big compared to their optimal size that they just stop making sense as companies and crumble under their own weight.
Prodigy is what got me into programming. While trying to find something to do online, I came across their message boards for game programming.

I vividly remember following directions and downloading files to play a game someone else uploaded for QBasic. The first page of code were nothing but comments, so I naively assumed that computers could just "understand" prose and display it on screen.

The message boards were extremely helpful (where Red Baron was released!), and even had gurus who wrapped their names with tildes to distinguish themselves.

~Eric~
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Totally agree. I did give them full access. I guess I would say it was an alternative to doing Godaddy forwarding addresses. Since Apps was free, it made sense to just set it up through Google and give them the benefit of having a rock solid system that was doubling as cloud backup.

In the past I've had countless scenarios where clients lost their entire computer, or mobile, and they didn't have any backup. The first thing they want to get back is their email. After digging in, they commonly had forwarders setup via their domain registrar, meaning they effectively had no backups on the server.

Apps was basically the free solution to that, with the added benefit of what you said-- having access via IMAP/SMTP.

Since most of these clients were local/small(one owner) businesses, most of them simply said "can you forward it to my personal email?"

Most of my larger small business clients accessed it like I would-- IMAP/SMTP.

My complain here is that Google wiped these accounts calling them inactive. In my opinion, inactive accounts should have been accounts with zero email activity, not zero login activity. But I guess it's too late now...
There is a Github you can use to open issues, specifically #96
https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/96

There are also these mobile-web alternatives:
http://hnmob.org/
http://ihackernews.com/

You can also look at the source for HN,
http://arclanguage.com/
And some other places on github likely; it's not easy to get that code running.
Also, I'm not sure it's easy to make the updates.
Plus, Nick is very busy.
This site is inspired by Github time graph. I spent my weekend to build this prototype and would like to hear any feedbacks from HN. Thanks.
It would be useful for implementing Julia parsers.
all services - do people still pay for code? i.e. commercial libraries

or has open source finally killed that business model?
Sweet! An article from the future.
Yea, I just found out over the past 2 weeks or so. Apparently the warnings started coming through about 2 months ago or so, and they were shut down about 2 weeks ago. I've gotten a few emails from these clients over that time.
What about Standard Oil? Exxon Mobil is still the 3rd largest company by revenue in the world. If it was combined with another baby Standard Oil, Chevron, it would be the largest company in the world.
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I'm seeing dangling, single item columns in the graph.

Also, clicking on different dates the view still shows 'Jul 13'

It looks like, when it's polished I'd be able to see where I'm spending (or wasting) my time - which is awesome. Can it connect to other time tracking services?
Anything with "font" and "calculation" is exciting (really!)
The entire point of unconditional surrender was to humiliate Germany and Japan for starting the largest war yet known to man, leading to the deaths of tens of millions of human beings.
if you think that's crazy, you should know an experiment I worked on had approval to fire an electron accelerator directly into the sky. Of course, we called it an "electron light source".
Keep in mind that you don't need text relocations for code sequences that are naturally PC-relative, like jumps on x86, or pretty much anything on ARM and amd64. Windows DLLs don't need text relocations for references to other modules: the IAT (Import Address Table) does pretty much the same thing as the GOT and in pretty much the same way.
I got into computers and programming during the era when several of the more popular microcomputers booted up directly to the BASIC prompt. Perhaps out of nostalgia, I've always had an interest in little computers that blur the distinction between programming language and operating system.

So, I'll keep an eye on this project, and maybe it'll spur me to give Lisp one more chance.
After digging, I found the ones that came to me but I missed mine the first time. Again, my fault though. My clients who experienced problems didn't recall seeing anything. My guess is they saw it and didn't care (like usual), or they just missed it altogether.
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A private Wordpress site?
Good luck stirring in that.
In my experience, they are not common in many businesses either.

As for the convenience factor, it might be more convenient, but I don't think it's a lot more convenient to have Lockitron instead of a conventional keypad lock. Unless Lockitron can also automatically open/close the door for you, I just don't see the difference as being that great.

In any case, I think the real business opportunity lies in figuring out how to market keypad locks to a broader audience.
The lock was fine. The Lockitron's motor apparently would not pass a certain amount of rotation if the batteries died mid-rotation and no amount of force I could exert would open the door. I bent the key pretty good and I had to stop as soon as I noticed that happening.
So is this a derivation of scheme, or an actual implementation of a given scheme spec? Would be very useful as an on-the-go tool for those of us on SICP treks if it's an actual implementation of MIT scheme.
Agreed, a simple login to the account would have prevented the deletion. Still wish Google didn't assume the account was not being used simply because of not logging in. Some of these accounts were receiving (and forwarding) 20, 30+ messages a day.
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