jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> I think Verizon did the right thing by turning down Apple at first.

It would be helpful to understand what actually went down...

Back in 2006, Apple wanted a new way of selling handsets. Apple did not want to do subsidized, they wanted to supply the handsets to the carriers, charge a fair price to the purchaser, then share in the revenue (that was received by the carrier). VZW declined that deal. AT&T (which at the time was still Cingular) liked the possibilities, liked the prototypes, and decided to buy in. The 'revenue sharing' deal ended up being a bad thing for Apple, because a very large number of original iPhone handsets sold (perhaps as many as 30%) were never activated on AT&T. A few were jailbroken/unlocked and used on T-Mobile, but large number of them ended up on the far side of the Pacific (in various countries). So Apple had to go back to AT&T and renegotiate a more conventional deal. Now that the deal is similar to what VZW normally has (and exclusivity is about to end), we will (hopefully) see some competition in the US iPhone market.
The concept of "node.js cloud hosting platform" is already conveyed by the company name, domain name, and logo, so the tagline should say something else—that's why I compared it to Heroku. Heroku's name and domain don't tell you what you're getting, and yet their tagline doesn't just describe itself, it also characterizes itself. It's not just a "ruby platform". It's "rock-solid". They're not just offering to handle your deployment and scaling. They're saying you can deploy and scale "with confidence".
There are two sides to the market though as well. What the music industry wants you to pay, and what you think you should pay. The music industry would like to get every penny it can from you, as would any share-holder based profit seeking company. It used to be able to dictate what we pay via the cd hard format industry.

Paying $30 for a CD with 12-19 songs, and not all songs being equal, it seems that there would be some dissatisfaction with the price per product.

You could view the current pirating activity of the general public as a back-lash to this long lasting penny pinching business. Couple this with the celebrity high-life led and promoted by the musicians and record industry, I for one don't want to be lining the pockets of these rich people. When I only get paid the equivalent of $30/h before tax, why the hell should I spend several hours of my time working in order to support the lives of richer people. Producing a remixed version of an old 80's song and adding the words 'dirty beat' does not mean you deserve several cars and houses and gold teeth. Its the fight club generation that does all the hard work, so we are going to take what we can from the corporate overlords.

Pirating will lessen when the market properly reflects the actual value of these products, and the industry embraces the ease of the digital format. Online subscription services should allow several cds worth for $5/month. If they are worried how easy it is to copy mp3's, then find ways to make the actual music a by product. Offer sneak previews to new albums, and discounts on concert tickets and merchandise. Imagine if I was one of 50 people to attend a private gig of some awesome band. It would make a lot of other people sign up as well.
Could you do a logo for $15? I'd really love to get a new one for my site.
"For example, if you take a material object from me, you deprive me -- directly and physically. That is the core justification of normal property, and there is no such justification for IP."

What about identity theft? You aren't actually "stealing" anything. The original identity is still there.

Counterfeiting (currency and things like ipods) is another example. It's illegal and you aren't actually depriving anybody of anything.
In order to write backtick, I have to shift-click the key left to backspace and then click spacebar.

Tilde ~ is similar: option-click and then space.

This makes the out-of-the-box keyboard shortcut for switching window on macOS unreachable on my macbook pro.

There are several default shortcuts on osx that are unreachable from international keyboards.
OS X's solution works perfectly: Dvorak + QWERTY shortcuts layout. It's brilliant and elegant, Windows needs to implement the same thing (revert to QWERTY when holding the ctrl or windows keys).
@lmueongoqx Can you tell if you got your answer here or not and if not which answers you best liked?
The sad thing is, there is >0% chance that CCP will invade Taiwan one day using the weapon that TSMC help them build.
> JSON is a pretty simple spec a

Yet there are no proper implementations because it's too simple, sometimes ambiguous, and there are several standards. JSON parsing is a minefield, http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php
I think that it's not so much "collapse" as being put back in its normal position in the world. That will seem like a collapse.

Up till the 1400s, the West was a very minor player in the world. The 'big boys' of the time were India and China. Recall Marco Polo's amazement at the riches and technology of 'Cathay'.

As India and China regain their traditional places in the world, the West will 'collapse' back to its minor, pre-1400 role in the world.
If you design for it from the start it makes your system much less complex. Consider all the errors, special cases, and ultimately data cleanup you need to handle about if your transactions are not idempotent. Idempotency is table stakes for any production app.
As far as you want to interact with them, yes.
My guess is that you didn't seriously learn functional programming in any language.

It is not just about memory management and data structures.
It is about functions as first class objects, no side effects, lazy evaluation, closure, monads. The fact that you can basically write a compiler in an hour as a first year student (that was exercise 3 in my course).

I'm not a programmer, I'm a DBA. The code I write is mostly short and ugly scripts in Perl and Bash. I can do very little Java and almost no other language. The one and only time I used Lisp was in my first programming course in the university. Incidentally, it was also the one and only time I enjoyed programming.
As I said, "they wouldn't talk about what might improve productivity."
You've articulated this position about as well as I've seen it put.

I'm far from an unbiased party on these issues. I've been thinking a lot on how they should be analyzed. There certainly have been quality issues, and it's vital that patents serve their intended purpose of nurturing and protecting innovation.
'You've got an idea. Now what?'

Don't have any other ideas and certainly don't let them distract you - that's been my biggest obstacle.
Not just controversial. Getting Flattr'd for things you didn't create can get you banned (1). Comments would be ok though.

[1] http://flattr.com/support/faq
> We also use an embedded networking device with 8M of flash, which is about the sweet spot for Lua...Perl, Python, and Ruby are all too bloated for this context.

That sounds plausible. We had a 512k dsPIC (I think that's as big as they come) and considered Lua on it, but it wasn't quite practical.
"Correlation does not imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there!'"

http://xkcd.com/552/

Even if she was just a monster at predicting project success, I'd still want her on my team. Can you imagine how useful it would be to have someone able to consistently predict project success working with you?

(Interestingly, there's a less flattering interpretation of the data as well. Given a large enough organization that promiscuously shuffles people onto new projects, some of which randomly succeed, someone is going to have randomly ended up on all the successful projects. We'd then look at them and say "Look how awesome they are!", when really they just got lucky over and over again and we're looking because they got lucky. This requires that the organization size be large relative to the number of possible combinations of projects, though, which becomes increasingly unlikely over time. It's like the people who look at Warren Buffett and proclaim "he just got lucky for 40 years in a row", then do out the math and realize that the chance of someone being that consistently lucky is several million to one.)
the phased array WiFi switches have interesting feature - adaptively found best beam direction to your computer may actually be not a straight line from the switch to you, instead it may happen to be a reflected beam.
I believe that there are a couple of ways to get in, but for those you need to be outside of the US first. What country are you originally from?

I'm not based in the US. Out of interest, how can you live (and presumably work) there with a tax ID without being in the country legally -- is this never verified?
> as far as I can tell the degree of measures we're trying to take are unprecedented even in non-living memory.

This is exactly my point. Nobody in the west has ever lived through something that has necessitated these kinds of measures. People thought this kind of thing only happened in the movies, Asia, or Africa. That it couldn’t happen to us. And that lack of personal experience is why, in my opinion, our response was probably always going to be slower than it needed to be.
Yeah, exactly. It's similar in other counties. Instead of enforcing, they're basically telling people they won't enforce. It's actively making people not take it seriously.
I guess maybe the original version of something like this was cord and cord2, done at MIPS in the mid-80s.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mips/RISCos/3204DOC_RISC_os_Use...

I wonder if those have been open sourced.
PHB (Pointy Haired Boss) is a recognized expression in some circles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss
An online tournament of FIFA 20 (soccer game by EA Sports) just finished between the 20 teams from "la liga", spanish league.. Each team sent their best player and it was streamed at twitch.tv

At some point I think it had over 50k viewers

Heres the link of the channel of the one behind the idea:

https://www.twitch.tv/ibai

I think its worth to mention that all the profits of the stream and donations are going to charity

It was casted by actual tv commentators and it had media coverage from major sport newspapers:
https://www.marca.com/esports/fifa/2020/03/21/5e763cd522601d...
https://esports.as.com/fifa/Torneo-FIFA-20-Ibai-LaLiga-Chall...
Not a tautology but yes, that is essentially what I am saying.

I just found it weird that people seem to be focusing on all sorts of factors like family structure, median income, winter holidays, Fasching/Karneval celebrations etc (which of course also play a role) while completely ignoring that higher population density facilitates the spread of a novel virus.
I've changed my web browsing habits quite drastically: I usually just click "Save preferences", as opposed to the "Accept all" default on the most common form of Cookie dialog which hopefully opts me out of most shenigans. On some sites, I used to accept their defaults even. For example, heise.de (respected German computer news) used to be among the latter group, but when I saw they're carrying Facebook videos/pixels I've stopped going there. I'm leaving many sites when their draconian tracking/Cookies seems not worth it so overall, I visit a lot less sites than I used to, and in particular I find myself ignoring the one-time content marketing sites/blogs often linked from HN submissions greeting me with heavy Cookie dialogs. So for me personally, Cookie dialogs work as expected I guess. But I've yet to see actual figures on surfing behavior post-GDPR published anywhere. And I'm entirely unsure if people across the pond or publishing from other non-EU locations are even aware.
The return on capital is always greater than the return on labor. Piketty does a great data driven analysis on this in his book Capital in the 21st century. This phenomenon was occurring long before the US was even a glimmer.
I am continually perplexed at the swallowing of exceptions in certain FP communities.

Result types, Either et cetera make it extremely easy to swallow errors by flatMapping thoughtlessly losing the context of where they were - you typically /want/ the call stack when you hit into an exceptional flow.
This is an important point I missed, thanks.

I am totally on board a pegged crypto currency that tracks US dollar. For me and many others I presume, stability is far more important than anything else that crypto currencies have to offer.
There's an interesting tension in your proposition - mindfulness meditation is at least partially about growing your self-awareness (awareness of your internal processes), but social situations tend to make some people self-conscious (aware of their external presentation). Combine that with up-tempo music and I would've thought that kind of environment would make it difficult to attain present awareness. Have you run into this as a real (rather than theoretical, like in my head!) issue, and if so how do you avoid/address it?

Sounds like a great proposition though - anything that bring more people into the meditation fold sounds like a positive to me.
We shouldn't forget that there are other cryptos that don't have these ridiculous fees.

Also, your credit card pays you 2% because they extract a larger fee from the merchant, who will raise prices to cover that expense. So you're not really saving money.
The "loopholes" are there for a reason. They allow the government to indirectly further their policy goals without much effort e.g. tax avoidance programs for real estate investors to encourage the building of more housing, tax credits for parents to encourage people to have more children, credits for electric vehicles to encourage the development of renewables, etc.
Yes, I was going to add there are tons of older engineers keeping legacy stuff alive until retirement.
Also less you think I am being paranoid have a look at this.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/south_korea_activex_c...

How would you like to be required to use ActiveX on IE6 in 2017 for banking? The government mandated this control back in 1999 and everyone had to use it. They only killed it in 2020.
> SPOF redis node with a full key scan every 10 minutes acting as an intermediate data store before transferring to postgres

On the one hand, oof.

On the other hand, the number of massive software architectures on extremely well-known platforms held together by exactly that system (not an equivalent one, exactly Redis-in-front-of-RDBMS-with-cronjob-flush, no RDB backups, AOF, Sentinel or anything either) I've seen is also depressingly high.
Plan 9 source code (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/), mostly for its historical value - created by the same team that made C and Unix - and for an insight on how those people envisioned the evolution of Unix.
That's probably true for Netflix, but it may not be for people with a short runway who want to "fail fast".
Saving you a click, the first bullet point is they're going after uber.
And do read the Sequences on Less Wrong: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
> I put that as a rule in the grammar file

What are you using the process the grammar file? What type of grammar?
There's a nice used bookstore near my home which has an unusually good legal section that is always worth a look. I've noticed some beautifully printed briefs from state supreme or federal circuit courts going for a song - $1 or free with a few books - but never bought any because none of the cases rang a bell. After reading this, I've decided to pick some up - I had not realized the historical significance of the printing methods themselves. I imagine that the US Supreme Court briefs are already collector's items.

The law's slowness to adapt to changing technology is a frequent topic of debate at HN. In this case, the changes are literally taking place beneath the judge's noses. I wonder if members of the judiciary consider the changing feel and smell of the papers landing on their desk in relation to the new and complex legal questions argued within their pages.
I question Facebooks place in this market. While rather interesting move and actually a forward thinking move, what happens when other small web companies spring out of nowhere like Groupon and the BEAST steps in called facebook and takes over. I think it Compares to MSoft in the early days.

Maybe with the huge mountain of Cash groupon is sitting on, they should push some money into creating a solid, yet open-slightly closed source of a social network to even try to dethrone something as big as facebook.
Disagree mostly. I’ve never paid for any of the paid modules and continue to use Laravel on a daily basis.

I do feel the docs are a little minimal at times, maybe to make them prettier? Could definitely benefit from a little more explanation in places.
Note: The DOJ said it was able to seize the funds after an FBI search warrant of one of Lichtenstein's cloud storage accounts found a file containing cryptocurrency addresses and their corresponding private key that granted access to funds stored within.
programs are precise, but not unique. so a little messiness can be tolerable.
Yes, but I meant an average person's salary.

I did this, in a sense, though I paid cash (mortgage would've been ~5% of takehome though). But I work remote which helps.
Uber was a good service for me until for some reason it appeared to have flagged me internally as a sort of driver beta tester, and from then on would only give me drivers with less than 2 weeks on the app. The experience was awful and dangerous so I abandoned it for good, but the good thing out of it all is that it sprung up competition and it was easy for me to jump to another app with better drivers (for me).
> Another person notes that ddg is inferior

I'll agree with this too. Thing is, 99.XX% of the time DDG works fine. 1% of the time if I can't find a thing, I try with google and probably 50% of the time I can then find what I wanted. E.g. DDG has a 99.5% success rate, Google has a 99.75% success rate. Not too bad by DDG, as I know that last .25% is REALLY hard.

Either way, google is seeing only a tiny % of my search queries, so I'm happy.

Of note, I switched to DDG earlier this year. I've tried to do it in the past and found that the DDG/Google ratios were like 80%/99+% in the past, which is WAY too much of a tradeoff to make. DDG has MASSIVELY improved, I'm using google search <1/day now.
Wow, this is as close to escorting as it gets.

I could think of a gentle spin where the money would go to pay the date (restaurant/drinks/activity), which is expensive anyway, but the way it's framed I am speechless.
> With the bar situation you can literally leave immediately with no social expectation that you should have to interact with that person again.

There are plenty of first date options that make this easy. I was fond of minigolf because it goes relatively quick and you can either opt to play more rounds or hit the eject button with a half decent excuse.
A no BS image host would:

1 - be free

2 - require no login or javascript

3 - give you direct links, without ads or tracking

This site fails at least the first two tests.

There used to be sites that passed all of these, and really were no BS image hosts. Sadly, I haven't seen one in many years.

Now pretty much all of them at least require logins or javascript.
At this point maybe even longer than a substantial chunk has been alive.
Go uses a lot less memory than java in general (generally due to having real value types and usable pointers).
Go has clean multi-threaded code baked into the language.
Go requires no external runtime, so you never have to worry about what version of the runtime is on a machine.
The implicit interfaces make it easier to keep separation of concerns, and prevent your code from turning into spaghetti.
Short answer: No

Longer answer:

What exactly is a 'blogging innovation'? Something that helps you run a better blog? I don't think Quora qualifies as that. I know a few people who are attempting to use the posts feature as a sort of blog, it is not quite the same as an open blog. It is more like a Twitter follow on a access limited account.

As someone loves Quora and is very grateful for it (so far, at least), I can say that they have innovated mostly on the technical front.

Their differentiating factor is actually not technology. It is something that even the best of technology can find hard to solve - curation of content and the community.

One thing I can certainly think of that Quora has done right is to dis-incentivize the A-list. There is no reputation score in Quora, your follow count means nothing in your ability to participate anywhere. You contribute most often because you genuinely want to.

To conclude, I like Robert for his sincerity and passion, but his take on most technology and products are pretty poor.
Oh, you win the internets. I loved this series when I was a kid and never got to see quite enough of it. I went looking for it a couple of years ago without success. This is great!
Adam Kennedy did a comparison between Mojolicious and Dancer a while ago - "Pitting Mojo vs Dancer in a competition to build Top100 2.0" (http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/40270, http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/40292, http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/40312)
Ahh, meld. It's awesome! After searching for some good diff (visual) tools, i found that one and never had problems.
My money is on Mossad: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/63225920/
Well butter my biscuit
If the NYT was fabricating their anonymous tips, like parent suggested, why would they publish outside anonymous tips? The fact that they don't publish every anonymous source doesn't mean that all of their anonymous sources have to be real.
I still don't understand which titan keys I have and whether this affects them.
Every post on this topic goes like this: You can't cry fire in a theater! But we don't want Facebook being arbiters of truth! But we must do something! But you can't cry fire...
It heavily depends on the country people are in. In the USA and Canada, Facebook Messenger is by far the most popular, but globally, WhatsApp has the most active users.

See:
https://www.messengerpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/s...

https://www.messengerpeople.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/s...
SCOTUS rejected Texas for standing. Wisconson and PA SCOTUS both rejected for standing and laches, multiple states had courts immediately dismiss because they said they were not the correct court for this and in the cases I saw immediately offered the paperwork for the appellate process.

Which fraud cases were actually lost vs dismissed for technical or procedural reasons?

If your claim is "the courts proved no fraud" you need to show me where the courts actually investigated and heard evidence. Otherwise, I can't agree with your claim.
I'm over here confused about how so many people are using Whatsapp. Is this is the United States or other countries? No one I know uses Whatsapp over here.

I did however do what others are suggesting. I installed Signal, and told my close family and friends to install it to communicate with me - and to not use standard SMS anymore.

While I did get a bit of grief over it initially, we are all happily using Signal now, and more people I know are moving to it all the time.

It's also a great middle ground for iPhone and Android users to communicate.
Exactly. The primary system we have in place is an abomination - it's tailor-made to elect lunactics.

Some sort of approval voting or instant-runoff would probably provide better outcomes.
Sahil says they pay $50-$250 per hour. I would not call it low-price:).
I would imagine for most use cases, Linode would be a better and more cost-effective option in place of Slicehost, and their level of support is just as good.