jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Oddly though, what you criticize me for is exactly what the iPad is. It's taking iOS and scaling it to a tablet form-factor.

The key question is, what is missing from my suggestion? The internals of the iPad are basically a computer. Like literally, you can probably rip off the shell and put a Mac OS like shell on it. That's how Apple designed the iPhone too.

It's really simply an issue of the shell and the ecosystem. Note, MS didn't take this approach with all of the other tablets that existed. They did NOT change the shell nor attempt to change the ecosystem.

Now maybe you think Apple sucks at design too and the iPhone and the iPad are total failings. I think many would think otherwise.

Not being a bad designer isn't a failing. But being able to recognize that you're talking to someone who does understand design could be a problem. :-)
Certainly not, but he was ignorant of the most important fact, that these were unsolved problems.

This is one of the greatest stories ever. If it weren't true it would have to have been invented... but it is true.
How do we fix these blockers...for example, blocker 1) At some schools, if you make it on campus, for campus, or with resources from campus, guess who owns it? Campus

I went to a state-owned institution, so doesn't that mean that the tax payers ultimately own it?
Don't fertility rates _decrease_ with prosperity? Poor families have more kids because they acts as financial security in the old age. How do we reconcile these two theories?
Discrete Math is on youtube along with a few others (maybe all?). Here is a playlist for it:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuiNgIIMOY3d1b92udRuo...
There are currently 6 posts in the last 24 hours on this, of which 3 (including this one) point to variations of the same URL.
I was born in the 1980s in Ukraine, so I have both an experience to share and questions to ask. Questions first: how common was it to build your own shelter in the US? Was it something that most people did? Most people talked about? Were the people who built them considered as irrational as people who build "zombie apocalypse" shelters today? Were they stocked with guns the same way that today's shelters are?

Experience: I grew up in Kharkiv, a city with roughly a 1m population, and the second largest city in Ukraine. Most people lived in large apartment complexes that were organized into planned neighborhoods. Imagine four buildings surrounding a common area that was laid out as a small park. Inside this common area that my building was surrounding were three bomb shelters. We called them "old", "weird", and "new" based on their outside appearance. The entrances were fairly small: just a triangle structure with a door and a staircase going down. We never went too deep into them when they were open (the authorities would periodically close them up), but at one point I remember using an iron bar to break the chain on one of them and leading a few of my friends down into it. I really wish we had good flashlights, rope, etc. (we were all around 11 or 12). We went down two levels and looked at these huge rooms. Some of them looked to be set up for bunk beds and it looked like the beds were at some point taken out. I did wander into a random room without a flashlight and almost took a step into a darker area before realizing that it was an opening with a step ladder down to the lower level. I would have been badly hurt had I taken the step before checking. This naturally scared me enough to get out of there in a hurry. The next week this particular shelter was closed up with a better chain so we didn't get to go in again.

Edit: I tried to find some pictures of what it looked like. Surely someone has taken some photos at one point, but sadly I cannot find anything that resembled the bomb shelters I explored as a child. I do have a strange fascination with the Cold War, so now I really wish I could go back and take some pictures/explore things as an adult.
Depends on what your name is. The John Smiths of the world don't have anything to worry about on that front. I know of at least two other Vincent Guidrys. One's my father, the real-world consequences of that naming collision far dwarf anything Zuckerberg introduced into my life.
Which would you rather have? Police enforcing the laws, or police enforcing whatever they personally felt was right?

If you disagree with the morality of a law, fine - but your assertion that enforcing drug laws is as immoral as enforcing slavery laws is debatable
This is ridiculous. The article spends 9/10ths of it explaining the current video infrastructure, then takes one paragraph to say "Apple has to create a youtube killer. Expect it to be called iVideo and unveiled at WWDC."

Maybe this guy has sources he doesn't want to burn, and he wants to be able to point out that he was right, but for us readers, the people the guy should be writing for, he's burning us w/ conjecture and a story about the recent changes in video, not about the future.
I've travelled through places like Mauriania and Mali, where AQIM pays local gangs a couple grand if they manage to nab some westerners. Not too long ago Spanish aid workers were kidnapped this way (traveling in the last car in a convoy) and reportedly the Spanish government paid millions to have them released. The Germans have done the same.

Can you imagine what a couple million euros is to a bunch of former goat farmers now brandishing AK's? It's very lucrative business in that part of the world.

A Belgian prime minister was kidnapped in the 90's and a ransom was paid for his release.

Whoever kidnapped Anthony de Clerck also here in Belgium got paid 250 million Belgian Francs, also back in the 90's.
I think your analysis is flawed. While I think your costs are probably on target (except for compensation costs, which I think you are short by about 50-100%) your revenue guesses I think are grossly off the mark.

Dropbox has 25,000,000 users. If 5% are converting at $100/year then they are making $125,000,000 a year in revenue.

You're numbers are nowhere near that mark. And I think Dropbox probably has a much higher conversion rate than 5%. I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't on $200,000,000/year run rate.
Unrelated. CoffeeScript is a language which compiles down to JavaScript; jQuery is a JavaScript library.
Paranoid, functional, existing, and "unsuitable" trumps vaporware. :)
Is it just me, or do these businesses sound kind of boring? I read their pitches, and after the first sentence my eyes began to glaze over - I couldn't really tell what some of their businesses were all about. Loggly and zoombu (not a fan of the name) seem to be exceptions, since I knew exactly what they would do for me if I signed up.
Insurance is a ripoff if you are an ecommerce company. In my last company we shipped $5,000 a day in product and insured all of it for the first couple of years. One day I got a postcard that was trying to get me to insure with an outside company when I shipped UPS. I got wondering how they could do that, did some math on what we were spending and then asked my warehouse manager how much we had lost (in actual costs to us) in the last two years and was stunned at the answer - $600 total out of several thousand shipments. At that point we began self-insuring.
I absolutely love Give Me Something To Read and Longform.org! There are a lot of great articles that didn't make it to this list, so check out the archives on both websites — the articles are (mostly) timeless.

Instapaper and GMSTR/Longform.org are streets ahead of casual games like Angry Birds for my commute.
What if my ideas are smaller parts of different things (i.e. a cycle, which can not be in a tree)?

Maybe I'm thinking about it the wrong way.
There's a pretty common transliteration system for writing Klingon using latin characters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_writing_systems
TurboTax handles my RSUs fine (although I use a script to convert my Schwab 1099 pdf to a .txf file because Schwab's equity center and 1099 reporting is a bit half-baked).

However they have a longstanding and very annoying bug that screws up the deduction when you refinance a mortgage worth over 375k
I completely agree, and that's why you're not getting my old Gen one Kindle DX from my hands any time soon. Dedicated devices that do just one thing to me seem like a great area for somebody to pursue.

I do not want or need everything I own to be an all-purpose, voice-controlled, spend 40 hours on the internet device. I might just want to read, or write, or listen to music. So give me something that does that and stop trying to create another content delivery system or way to push ads in my face.

This is a very simple request. I can't imagine that it's somehow strange or weird. The problem here is that marketplace momentum is going the other way.
DRM is a disturbing trend. In the future everything will have DRM...
What is stopping you from using GPL'ed software freely?
"This context" is the original article, which is discussing data races specifically.
The activity on this story seems to have triggered the flamewar protection mechanism - any chance of vouching for it to get it back on the front page?
http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/06/estimate-of-network-ba...

The existing 3G network infrastructure wouldn't be able to take the beating.
The military has a lot of people.
HP Research and Intel both do a lot of basic research as well.
People are downvoting you because your response was so acerbic. This reply isn't helping.
In the list of urls that are in the search results includes hackaday. It's not the only one. I was actually curious about how some of those sites had the mahalo content on them. Some of them are older than mahalo.
Yes, I've been thinking for a while about building an extension that shows you stuff like:

IP, location, host of the site you are viewing
whois details for the site
caching rules
robots txt rules for the page
page rank
blah, etc

Probably as a dropdown info panel.

I'm surprised if this doesn't already exist, though.
I don't think I would have clicked this if I didn't recognize the name from the shirt Gary Vaynerchuk was wearing at RailsConf. See? T-Shirts are useful.
A couple relevant facts from this case:

• the employee was a senior executive

• the contract had a “choice of law” provision that selected Delaware law instead of California

• as you mentioned, the lawyer was represented by counsel

This result was not necessitated simply by legal representation — it was also based on the choice of law provision.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the employee sued the lawyer for malpractice following this result. I haven’t practiced law in years, and I was never an employment lawyer. But I know that CA has many employee-friendly protections, and that DE is company-friendly (that’s how they get so many companies to incorporate there). The lawyer should have known about this issue and advised the client.

Based on the fact that the client brought a lawsuit over this issue, it’s clear that he was not told that he was potentially waiving CA employment protections by signing a contract with DE choice of law.
Yes, that’s definitely more noticeable than an app charging $1k to do nothing
Unbridled data collection is a requirement for a startup? Maybe in the US, pump-and-dump-startup schemes; I like to think other countries found companies that actually do something useful.

I mean Spotify has been one of the biggest driving forces in reducing music piracy, in part thanks to being more convenient.

On the other hand, they don't pay artists nearly enough so the flipside is that to the artists it doesn't actually make that much of a difference whether someone listens to them on Spotify or just pirates the music.
I tried the unnoficial Spanish translation and it's really bad.

I may try the original English version, but I think it will be very difficult to grasp some words without WordNet.
Because it's literally their job to take such a risk with your own life to stop a crime against somebody else. To say that you'll refuse to do your job if there is a possibility of being liable if you commit a crime without explicitly being told it's a crime then maybe it isn't the job for you.
> Which seem like pretty typical reactions to an extreme emotional trauma like hospitalization during a pandemic

The article covers this:

>> Anxiety, at 17%, and mood disorders, at 14%, were the most common, and did not appear to be related to how mild or severe the patient’s COVID-19 infection had been.

So these disorders aren't caused by the trauma from hospitalization.
I had the original Eb version but later bought the licensed C version. Some of my favorite tunes disappeared, now I understand what happened. Great article.

I remember learning to play classics but also just enjoyed reading along with stuff I had no chance of learning myself.
I can't wait until I'm literally forced to use qwant.com. I love daily frustration. It's good for the health.
Crev is a very cool idea, if I was building a new dependency manager - I'd look into integrating something like crev as early as possible.
Does it have the same glowing effect though? In college I used to get like euphoric energy after the first few. Now I just get kinda slow and have a little headache after 2-3 beers... Although I do enjoy an Aperol Spritz on a hot afternoon in the summer or something.

Idk i think i'm basically done with it.
Oh, very nice.
I heard Robert Bigelow speak at a conference on Capitol Hill years back. Interesting guy.

I really think that space entrepreneurship is insanely exciting and I'd love to see more people get into it. I think in our lifetimes we'll see some incredible progress in private space exploration -- if we all step up and use our entrepreneurial energies in this direction.

Sure, I'm insanely excited about the iPhone's video chatting features, which Steve Jobs raved about today in the context of growing up watching Star Trek and seeing this sort of thing on TV. But if you're talking Star Trek, let's talk space travel!

I spent a summer in college working for Space Adventures (http://www.spaceadventures.com), which at the time had very much a "startup" feel despite having arranged for "space tourist" Dennis Tito to fly to the International Space Station (and in more recent years, sending up people like Microsoft Word developer Charles Simonyi and signing up Sergey Brin as a future client). (Forbes has details about the early days here: http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0509/058.html.) Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Paul Allen are dabbling in space ventures. And Richard Branson, with Virgin Galactic, has made space entrepreneurship sexy.

But I'd love to see a lot more young entrepreneurs and investors focusing on space entrepreneurship. Sure, iPhone apps and websites can help improve people's lives. But do you really want to have an impact on the course of human history? Do something in space! Space Adventures was founded by a young entrepreneur in his 20s, Eric Anderson, just two years out of college, who dared to think big. It started in his basement. We should all think big, too.
time to write a blog post about this... these "vendettas" from people outside the U.S. against startups that won't let you sign up so annoying. Maybe you should channel all that energy towards convincing your own country to make it easier for us to operate businesses within your borders... the limited resources of a startup have to be carefully spent, and thinking about foreign exchange, taxes, and laws (especially on stuff like telecom) is not a small undertaking
Haha, try su to root, then rm -rf / and see the results.
It's also core competency. If the startup does something way better than what the big company is trying to gain market share to, why not buy it than trying to figure it out from scratch. It can be more cost-effective that way.
I am sure there are millions of other things that do not work well with ipad, but it doesn't mean the end of them.
The point of the fee isn't to make money. Imagine how many people would have applied if it were free? They still need employees to read all of those applications and they need to keep the quality of student up as high as possible (so they can't just outsource it, or use a lottery).

Basically, your tuition could be even higher if they dropped the fee to apply.
No.

A lot of the assets that will be replaced (vehicles, power plants, etc.) would have been replaced anyway, because they are or soon will be worn out. That's just business as usual.

The difference is that instead of being replaced with carbon-emitting tech, they will be replaced with modern low emission technology. That's just Schumpeter's gale of creative destruction at work.
Please don't break the site guidelines yourself, regardless of how badly some other commenter has behaved.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
But, was the paper factual?
The next quarterly will be interesting to see what actually went on. DAU will be key.
Yikes, that is dumb.
I know, its my knee-jerk reaction :( But this is how I feel right now and so many Americans.

Trump is getting banned left and right as we speak. We have freedom of speech, just not for seditious, insurrectionists. No country in the world would tolerate what US has tolerated so far.

I also recognize, fully, this is a slippery slope and there should be a pretty high bar for banning people on social media platforms. I would say Trump and Trumpism, QAnon and all this has crossed the line.
I said I don't need those things, but I want them, and I think a world where people only buy what they need is a world where those things don't exist.

If I misinterpreted what you meant by "stuff you actually need" then maybe you should explain what you meant, because I don't see how else it could go.
" I'm sad that America is maybe the only one to go the other way"

Ahh, you Americans can be quite funny - being exceptionalist even when you're slagging yourselves off.

The fact is, it's not just America where inequality is growing and elites are entrenching themselves. I also don't think your analysis of why America ended up uniquely having inequality/elites is convincing one, even if it were true.
Can anyone paste the content? Site seems down here
In Europe it's gone:

Anarchy -> Democracy (Greece, early Rome) -> Aristocracy (late Rome) -> Monarchy (imperial Rome, middle ages) -> Revolution (brief partial anarchy?) -> Democracy -> Aristocracy (Eurozone) -> ???

I wonder if it's one of those "wheels of reincarnation," kind of analogous to the mainframe/PC cycle of centralization vs. decentralization. Decentralization creates problems that can only be solved by centralization (tragedy of the commons, paradox of thrift, etc.), but then centralization creates its own new problems that drive decentralization (corruption, arbitrary power), rinse and repeat.
In the US, a "mobile phone" is a cordless phone with a base.
> all this "avoid crossing to the kernel" optimization is becoming a drop in the ocean

Here is an example of a small single threaded program beating out a number of distributed graph frameworks running on 128 cores, with a 128 billion edge dataset.

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/02/...

Performance matters because it enables simplicity. If your language forces you to pull in multiple machines to solve your problem then its turned a simple program into a distributed system and life gets complicated fast. Just throwing more cores at a program without understanding why its slow will just get you into trouble.

Multithreaded programs and distributed programs should be a scary last resort after making absolutely sure you can't get away with the simple solution.
Risk is independent of prior events, habits are not - I think that was what the anthropologist story is about
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I hope remote (telecommute) ones exist too.
Today: $1 million will buy you an overwhelmingly average house in an overwhelmingly white bread, middle-class suburb in Melbourne or Sydney. 15 years from now, that million dollars isn't going to mean much at all.

Live to be happy now, because the future is never what it's cracked up to be. Not that "live in the moment" do karaoke bullshit, but look after "you".
Aha that makes sense, so it is a carrier branding.
Cool.. though it only seems to return 6 repositories...
This is good advice, and I agree!

Anything larger than a small project will need to be put aside for a while from time to time (for whatever reason), and I've found that making it easy to pick it up again is one of the most important things you can do.

My strategy for this (admittedly most suitable for software projects):

1) Write down your large, fantastic vision for the finished, complete project.

2) Write down the smallest possible feature that would bring you some utility. MVP, if you like.

3) Take this requirements and write an automated test at the highest level of abstraction possible. It should almost read like the MVP requirement you just formulated. That doesn't have to mean BDD, just something you can read easily.

4) Implement until the test passes.

5) Go to 2.

What I've found over the years is:

- Quickly reaching milestones of utility are key for keeping motivation while working. This is obvious, of course.

- The written down vision brings the motivation and big picture plan back when picking things up: Get your blood pumping again!

- The automated tests help keep implementation going when your drive falters. What should I do know? You should just make the test pass. Nothing harder than that. No need to think super hard. Just try to make it pass.

- The automated tests help you get hacking again without the immediate fear of breaking things: Get the ball rolling again, quickly and easily!

- The automated tests also serve as your requirement specification so far: You can easily see what already works.

Side projects are so important, and one should make it as easy as possible to sustain and restart them! Good luck!
This should also be a healthy reminder that prices do not signal subjective value.