jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is an absurd remark, yet often made.

Whenever a solution to a technical problem is "recompile components of the OS", this means the answer to the same problem in a "non-linux"/non-free system would be "piss and moan and bend over and take it up the tail pipe". aka: no solution whatsoever. The developer's way or the highway.

The point is: once your problem is complicated enough that your only resort is to edit the software, free software _at least_ gives you the chance to do that. It's no wonder people actually suggest doing it. Proprietary software does not. It's no wonder people _don't_ suggest doing it.

If it was supposed to be a complain, better rephrase it.
Case in point: Andrew Wakefield of vaccines-cause-autism infamy.
> That said, I can't see where that legal restriction is

It's probably part of the contract between MS and Canonical.
Yes you pay a monthly fee and get the grid price. Typically this is a great deal but when these surges happen it isn't
I love HN community. Awesome responses!
ElCap Reports also has some nice commentary and lots of great photos. Seems a little light on the technical details you want but there is plenty of interest there.

http://www.elcapreport.com/
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Here's a verification with the mail headers:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2rdbgf/bitstamp_hot...

Also, couple of more Reddit threads with an ongoing discussion around this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2rd6bb/problems_wit...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2rd2xe/bitstamp_is_...
Yes, but you forgot the other important part in her article where she writes:

>But because I had no money and an overworked...

Time = money in the US so it makes sense that if you don't have the money, you gotta do the time.

That being said though, I sincerely hope her publication of her jail adventure and her kick-starter take off so she can derive some value from this otherwise dismal experience.
I loved Mountain Lion and also found it to be very stable. I stayed on it as long as I could, but the new versions of several of the apps I use required Mavericks, and after holding out for a while I upgraded. Mavericks was when I started noticing issues... Graphics driver issues, trackpad gestures randomly not working for periods of time, WindowServer crashing when opening the notification center (wat?), so on and so forth. Mac OS is still my favorite, but I've gotten an irking feeling that in the interest of capturing the mainstream market and making things look pretty and full of features, Apple has skimped on stability and quality. Just my two cents
This blog post explains the different pitches and their progress day-by-day. It gives the difficulty of each pitch.

http://eveningsends.com/climbing/like-dawn-tommy-caldwell-ke...

Climbing big walls (that take multiple days) is a big logistical problem. This page explains the basics of big wall climbing climbing including planning and gear.

http://www.climbing.com/skill/your-first-big-wall/
I have a fairly common surname so I enjoy the same thing. I don't use social media sites either, which probably helps considerably.
On another point, the rust documentation is absolutely amazing for a young language (and improving! [0]).

[0] http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-t...
Chuck isn't complaining about the language, he's complaining about the hostility of big IC manufacturers to sharing their data. For all but the most popular/trivial chips, you have to sign an NDA with the manufacturer which means you have to first get them to give you the time of day, which isn't possible if you don't have large volumes and plans to purchase tons of chips from them.

Except for companies like Alwinner (which isn't "western" by any means), most of the documentation is in English but getting it is so hard we usually have to fallback to Chinese versions, which are shared more easily due to legal and cultural norms.
Calling all flowers roses would undermine the attributes that make a rose special.
Whether your parent's comment constitutes inappropriate objectification of women or instead your comment constitutes an insufficient sense of humor, that debate could fill volumes. Now is not the time for that.

Please stop moralizing.
It seems like this is a course more of the pre-obligated entrepreneurs are taking. With a stable income it is possible to start a company on the side, and hopefully it will become a sole source of income, but you will likely never see anywhere near the explosive growth a dedicated startup would have.
I hate the idea of the term "Rockstar," (or "Ninja") because it implies that by just showing up, you've already done your part; by extension, it implies that you don't need to improve.

I'd much rather see a job ad looking for a "Software Samurai," already possessed of great competency, but eager to learn new tricks and improve himself as a developer.
They weren't "prison camps". They had schools on site, sports facilities, etc. Wikipedia notes "Nearly a quarter of the internees left the camps to live and work elsewhere in the United States, outside the exclusion zone." (the zone was the West coast.)

Wikipedia says 20,000 served in the military, mostly in the European Theater for obvious reasons, and I hope you all know of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/442nd_Infantry_Regiment_%28Unit...) which earned a serious reputation and was the subject of a very favorable movie in 1951 (i.e. before the US was particularly enlightened). 7 Presidential Unit Citations (fine in one month, probably for the Vosges mountains rescue operation, that whole campaign was very tough and fought in terrain that has favored defenders for millennia (http://www.amazon.com/When-Odds-Were-Even-1944-January/dp/03...), 21 Medals of Honor, 41 net DCS, 560 Silver Stars all the way down to 9,486 Purple Hearts for a unit of 3,000 men....

Anyway, the point of all of the above is that this was complicated. The simplistic trope of "we threw them in concentration camps like Nazis" just doesn't hold up to even casual examination.
This happened in the 50s probably so it was after the war. Also the fact that he was 12 at the time obviously meant it was just a ridiculous coincidence. If he really was suspected of being a spy, the security officer wouldn't have torn up form and would have actually made him never be able to get a clearance again.

What has happened is that the security officer simply knows how the system is set up. It cannot handle 'ridiculous' spy stories. It can handle 'no spy stories' or it can handle 'real spy stories' -- ridiculous coincidences don't fit it. So he basically had forced his guy to lie because his story fit better into 'no spy story' bin.
I think that the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad platform has taken off because the mobile Web is just painful to use right now in those tiny browsers.

Apple's fulfilling a niche that AOL did in the '90s. Where AOL provided training wheels for the Internet, Apple does the same thing for mobile computing. Unfortunately, AOL didn't figure out that users would eventually outgrow the training wheels and discover the open Internet.

I guess the same thing will happen with the mobile Web once browsers improve and people start to learn to design mobile Web sites for mobile devices. I think Apple realizes this, since they're putting effort into HTML 5.
As much as I love to wave the 'Canada is awesome' flag, we've got the same dark spectre looming over our history as well. Pretty shameful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Canadian_internment
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So ... Square/Block is not dead?
Print and frame this content chain as a fine example of Poe's law.
This looks pretty useful for getting a landing page up quickly. Do you have any examples of sites built with it?
Zoom is here to stay ≠ Zoom is poised to remain the leader indefinitely.

But I don't see why Zoom would lose so much market share or revenue streams as to disappear or become a marginal player. Something extraordinary should happen for it to cease to be here to stay.
Yeah FTL's problem is that once you fall behind in the game's economy, if you will, there's only very limited ability to take it easy and try to catch up, but it lets you avoid a lot of combat so it's possible to limp along almost-losing all the way to the end (or damn close) and reach the boss in such a state that you can hardly scratch it. The trouble is that if you aren't able to handle encounters, you're already toast, because you need to be handily winning most encounters to stay ahead in the game-economy. If you're avoiding fights out of necessity, you're likely doomed—which is part of what I meant about playing-to-limp-as-far-as-possible and playing-to-win looking very different, so the former not even being very useful practice for the latter.

IIRC (it's been a while) the luck component in it is also largely negative, in that bad things can randomly happen to you but (substantial) good random effects are minor and unusual, so you can't even luck your way into enough resources to have a hope of winning, as in something like Nethack where a desperate prayer or drink at a fountain or something might totally turn your game around. If you're more than very slightly behind, the game's not going to hand you enough to salvage your run, period.

I think part of the trouble is the illusion-of-choice map system. In reality, you have to be taking certain routes to do well, by deliberately seeking encounters, et c. The illusion is that you can take an easy route through an area and still be on a path to victory. IMO the maps are kinda pointless in that game, given how the mechanics work, basically just providing an opportunity to fuck up without knowing it, and also permitting the limping-to-the-end-but-long-ago-doomed effect.

I find FTL frustrating because I like some aspects of it but IMO it makes some major mistakes in terms of game mechanics, to a degree that I find it hard to appreciate the things I like (mainly the tactical combat minigame). I get what they were trying to do with the rest of it—the time pressure cutting off options and forcing choices, et c—but it doesn't all come together correctly. Needed one more conceptual pass to make it all fit properly, which is even more frustrating when it's not that complex a game. All that effort to finish it, but fundamental flaws left in place throughout.
Yes, this is the simplest, easiest and safest approach. This isn't just an isolated protest. Large portions of the populace (including law enforcement and the military) are either supportive or sympathetic with the goals of the protestors.

Trudeau isn't escalating because he can't. He no longer has popular support for his mandates from the electorate or within his own government.

The reality is it's past time to remove the mandates anyway. Even die-hard laggard California is dropping most of the mandates this Monday. It seems like Trudeau is more worried about the appearance of his 'Authoritah" slipping.
It’s also the right thing to do.

It’s disturbing to see how many here on HN are calling for violent/destructive solutions rather than the one that respects citizens rights.
None of the slave owners are alive so we can't have trials

We have affirmative action

We have civil rights bills

We have a black history month

Seems like we have faced our past.
This reminds me of how Piaget's theories of childhood development were discredited. The researchers would spread out three pencils, and ask the kid if there were now more pencils. The kid knew there weren't, but generously tried to understand what the adult might want? Perhaps there's a new meaning to the word here?

And also a recent Facebook puzzle, apparently outside the problem statement were instructions to return answers by Facebook Messenger, then the puzzle question was "to respond, what do you open first?" Trick question, except a bogus answer as my Facebook Messenger was already open.

As a research mathematician, one comes across as a complete jerk if one is too literal about a question one is actually smart enough to reformulate properly. We give others the benefit of the doubt all the time, math or life. Here, the only sensible interpretation is the volume of dirt remaining in what will soon become hole.

If they seriously meant "no the hole is empty" then yes cut the interview short, and run don't walk out of there.
Would love to know why you think R isn't a "real" language.
Huh? This makes no sense to me.

Are you arguing that you have a moral right to consume, without limitation, the articles created by the New York Times, without any restrictions whatsoever?

If not, what's you're argument exactly? That the NY Times doesn't have the moral right to require registrations to access their content?

Personally, I love the Times, and I'd be willing to pay for access, if it came to that. I'm happy that they've been able to find a business model that does not require me to pay, and my registering for the site is an insignificant price to pay.
The internet is good for one thing information. Providing tools to make that information available and easy to understand is pretty much the best you can do. There are several businesses in the make sense of my bank's information category aping them might be a first step(mint and the like.) Budgeting and getting alerts when certain budget limits are met say a text when 90% of my monthly entertainment budget is gone, or better yet be able to check my entertainment budget balance by web enabled phone so I can decide if I really need that new gizmo.
It is relevant indeed, but I am hoping for something smaller and more controlled. There are plenty of low tax shitholes (I think much of S. America) and plenty of high tax super economies (Germany, the finance part of Great Britain), so I don't think the country level analysis is going to work. Again, I don't really know what I am talking about....
I spent a summer with a Symbolics Lisp Machine in 1988. At pretty much every point when Lisp machines were commercially available, they were slower at Lisp tasks than the generic competition. We couldn't wait to get off of the Symbolics onto generic Sun 4s (with 68020 chips, the same as Macintosh IIs).

Lisp machines promised to be unbelievably fast at Lisp because the Lisp interpreter was "in microcode". In reality, the much smaller market for Lisp machines meant that they just weren't developed nearly as quickly as Intel and Motorola were iterating, so by the time they shipped, there were mass market, general purpose CPUs that could interpret Lisp faster than Lisp machines could execute it natively.
It is definitely possible to find work in Europe as an American.

I'm an American who was originally sent to the UK to help open an office there. I later was hired by another company to come work in Oslo, where I am now. Scandinavia in general is very easy to find work (they have a strong need for educated people in IT areas - development, support, etc). Getting a job in the UK is certainly possible, but the paperwork is much more of a hassle (30-60 pages depending on the type of visa compared to 4 pages for Norway).

Pretty much everyone here speaks English, although depending on the company you may be strongly encouraged to learn the local language. The plus side of that, though, is that they will often pay for the classes.

Finding the job itself is going to be more difficult just because the job postings may be in the local language and on local sites, but you can use Google to translate them decently. For Norway, the best place to start is finn.no.
I think you're giving his analysis too much credit. His point wasn't so much that the field remains wide open to startups. It was that, in his estimation, Amazon had no sustainable competitive advantage precisely because the barriers to entry into its business were (ostensibly) very low.

This is a little like saying that anyone can beat Tiger Woods, because all you need to do is pick up a golf club and practice for 10,000 hours, and golf clubs are readily accessible. While nominally and theoretically true, it's also a drastic simplification of many, many factors that have gone into making Tiger as good as he is -- and that will keep him better than most of the competition for quite some time.

Access to resources is only one very small part of business strategy. The rest is what you make of those resources, and how the advantages compound when you're making smart use of them. On the flipside, the beauty of startups is that they can, and often must, use the resources in different ways.

Furthermore, he made the fundamental mistake of thinking that Amazon was just a traditional retailer, but on the web.
I believe he is right. We are not in a bubble.

VCs make big bets, assuming that many (most?) of their bets will fail, but they make it up on the winners. That is fine, I guess. What made the dot-com bubble was that the public did not understand this and the VCs were able to shovel many of these bets off in the form of IPOs, and many of these companies had no business model whatsoever. That is not happening here. These people are smart and learned their lesson, a rare trait in our economy.

There is a lot of exuberance, let's call it, in the VC world right now. On the one hand I see lots of good companies that have a good service and actually make money, or are getting close, but I also see a lot of social media companies with dubious business models, like in the dot-com days.

I get very worried however when I see a sector of the economy starting to defy the laws of nature, so to speak. What worries me are the valuations. Most of the companies he mentions are good companies, as defined above, but few if any of them I believe are worth these amounts. Sorry. I don't buy it.

Accounting shenanigans aside, public companies are relatively easy to value. These startups are black boxes with astronomical valuations. It's really tough to swallow. These valuations are clearly in the VCs interests.

What I see in the future are that some of these companies will succeed, some will be bought at an overvalued price and a whole bunch will die as startups do.

The latter two circumstances will certainly be a drag on the economy if it causes a dip in further investment, write-downs, etc.

I do not see a bubble as I said, but I see a whole lot of risk building up. It's not scary like the housing and dot-com bubbles, but it's definitely concerning.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. Having seen how proactive our support team is and active in seeing customer's through maintenance and upgrades, my guess is that is the context.

All the information and technology is there in SDC. Without Joyent Support, it would require riding the change logs and announcements and taking it fully into your hands. https://github.com/joyent/sdc#community
No development + no source + time = broken.
I appreciate Sam's perspective. He has much more experience with startups and identifying businesses that solve real problems. My perspective is somewhat naively stuck in the viewpoint of a software engineer who used to deliver pizzas.

When I was a pizza delivery driver I made under-the-table minimum wage, $8 per hour. It was very clear to me where that money came from. People would order an everything pizza for $20, we'd subtract the cost of ingredients (mainly cheese), absorb some profit for the business, and pay our salaries out of the remainder.

As a software engineer making upwards of $50 per hour, I question where my salary comes from. If I worked for FB, Google, or Pinterest, surely it'd be from advertising revenue. But isn't there AdBlock Plus, AdBlock, and uBlock? I install uBlock immediately after downloading a new browser. I think anyone in tech does the same.

Which makes me worry about Twitter, Reddit, and Snapchat. These apps are mostly used by people under 40 who are tech-savvy. They are all in the red (maybe Twitter is green now?), but they plan on making money through advertising. Their prime user base knows about AdBlock. What happens when ad blocking is ubiquitous?

That's one way the bubble could burst. Here's another. I work for a company that's venture-backed. My salary comes from venture capital. We've spent the past few years building a healthcare product that's finally gotten some traction. There are currently major incentives for hospitals to adopt emerging technologies. These governmental initiates have made it easier for us to approach customers. Federal funding fluctuates rapidly and while it may be advantageous to start a health tech company today, that could change depending on election outcomes and other spending.

Our investors are keenly aware of this situation. Should the environment shift, they would be unlikely to perform another investment round. Venture capital is not a sure footing to build a business on - at least not as sure as selling pizzas. And I think this defines my idea of a bubble. Too many venture-backed companies with extreme evaluations that are planning on making money someday using strategies that worked in the past (e.g. advertising), or assuming that the next round of capital will be there should their plan fail.
But it isn't his money: VC funds raise money from other investors (aka limited partners). It's like asking a banker or hedge fund manager if there's a stock market bubble. They won't say yes because if investors pull their money out of equities, the banks and hedge funds are screwed.
> Just double click in the field to have all the text selected, then paste.

This won't work when using the primary selection (ie. middle-click paste) in X. Selecting the text wipes out the previous selection.
What made Portal compelling was the learning. And the pacing was slow, frankly, because it was teaching you to learn a new mechanic and think in a new way. I'm not saying it has no replay value, but playing through a second time is so much easier that the jokes are most of the interest - the gameplay itself is no longer compelling. So the sequel will have to step up the pace and the difficulty, or introduce some new mechanics, or maybe both.

I hope the rumors of Chell being a fleshed-out character aren't true. I liked how, in the first game, she was more of an avatar than a character. It wasn't like I was playing a character in a game, it felt I was playing the game. The character's goals aligned perfectly with mine - just get to the end of the level. I don't want to lose that feeling in Portal 2.