jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What IBM does is not exciting? Granted, they might not be working on self-driving cars, or motion-controlled video games, or God forbid, a tablet.

But the scope of IBM is almost breathtaking. Look into the capabilities of mainframes, consider for one second the amount of engineering required, and you will nerdgasm. They do tons of research in electronics, semiconductors and fabrication. They are at the forefront of computer science -- they beat Jeopardy, beat chess, and sequenced the human genome. Then they sell a ton of other things like huge, robotic tape libraries. Seriously, go see one in action.

A few $billion in profit per quarter is nothing to sneeze at either. (http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:IBM) I think the economies of scale play a big hand here -- I'm not sure if multiple smaller companies could eke a comparable, combined level of profitability, much less allocate resources for exploratory projects like Watson.

At the scale IBM operates at, Apple is essentially a one-hit wonder, being in a few very closely related consumer segments. It remains to be seen whether they can sustain their current momentum.
Maybe the beam is wide enough before it is focused so that the soot wouldn't block enough of it to be a problem before the soot is blown out of the chamber.
Isn't the tile of pretty clear on that: "… a system written in Lisp". It doesn't say the game was written in Lisp.
Yeah, hadoop is a bear to get working. One of the benefits of working at a more established company like quantcast, google, or presumably facebook is there are internal infrastructure teams to smooth all that over. I pretty much get to type submitJob and it more or less just works...
OK, I'll bite. The tough part is that this is Hacker News, not Start-up News, much less Idealist News, etc. This probably isn't the right forum for evaluating a social/community ventures. Many people here have a deep understanding of how to start a business and make money, but not everyone knows how to address gaps in society (for lack of a better way of putting it).

Hacker News is many things to many people (I'm not in the start-up world right now myself) but it can't be everything to everyone.

Please don't take this or the (lack of) responses in some threads as a snub to the many ideas for improving society - I'm sure many of us have had and continue to have ideas for improving the world around us.

As for the title tag idea, hmm. Sure, why not give it a shot? I don't know that it hurts. Just know this may not be the best forum.
What exactly is the appeal of Convore?
Not sure if over-emphasizing the site title and the navigational layout at the expense of the content is the right way to go. As a HN reader I came to the site for the content, but in your screenshot the content is small and hard to read.

That said, +1 for applying what you learned, even if it may still need some tweaking...
Fear of terrorists sells better than fear of ice storms.

Especially for the states (and representatives) that the ice storm is 100 year. Dams fail, and when they fail, they don't affect the people that didn't want to live near a dam.
wallstreetbets has been feeling up to it irrespective, and the mgmt change was definitely noticed there way earlier than near-close/after-hours, which is when the last ~$150 of the current $180 ticker gained..
Frontend Masters ended up being _exactly_ what I was looking for! I am super impressed with their content, and I just signed up. Thank you!
I'm sorry I wasn't around, could you please explain why?
Cupertino school district is planning to close some schools[1] because there aren't enough kids - fewer and fewer young parents can afford to live in this area.

There are multiple ways to destroy a community. Apparently, one way is to artificially cap tax on long-time residents until only old people are left.

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/14/cupertino-district-pl...
I don't mind at all if Firefox wanted to propose a standard way to declare cross site sharing, and then allows the user to overrule my settings as a dev (or even if they pick more restrictive defaults, if user opt in is a problem).

There's a standard in place, so arbitrary exceptions and heuristics don't create incredible headaches, and there's a clear path to resolving the issue in support/triage with the customer if they create a rule that does actually break my site's functionality.

I do mind, quite a bit, when Firefox essentially goes "Fuck the standards", and starts playing fast and loose with the rules. And I mind for two reasons

1. I expect better from them. I'm old enough to remember how much steam Firefox picked up from IE by just treating a standard as a standard. It was novel, and transformed front-end development in a great way.

2. They are not the market leader, and non-standard, site breaking bullshit only does more to sink their ship, and I desperately want a competitor in the browser ecosystem that is not Google Chrome (or a rebranded chromium port).
Pierre Sprey has been trashing the F35 persuasively for years
https://youtu.be/N1Z_DuF87Sc
I suspect this wouldn't be that big of a headline, if it weren't for crypto-kiddies seeing it as an argument for crypto.
Because it would have still passed, and they'd look bad in the press.
I agree with you 100%, maybe offer to write it up for them.

It's hard to write from a different point of view from that which you hold, or at least that's what I find
Let me give you an example from my own experience. I live in Philadelphia, a fairly large city that's still extremely walkable in certain parts.

Before I moved recently, I was paying around $900/month for a studio apartment in the city center. From there, it was a short walk to any number of nearby restaurants (including a corner store on my block), a <5 minute walk to the nearby commuter rail station, a <10 minute walk to the nearby city subway station, a <15 minute walk to a major regional hospital, and about a 30 minute walk to my office (this was generally the longest trip I'd have to make with any frequency, and honestly a walking commute was pretty nice). I did keep my car around largely because I have friends and family outside the city, but if it weren't for that it would largely not be necessary. Within the city, the subway system gets you pretty far outside of the immediate walkable area near my old apartment; my only complaint is that there are parts of the city that aren't as well-connected by public transit.

Philadelphia is an extremely human-centric city, which makes sense as it was established well before cars were invented.
So, what do we call it when the compiler transforms a call immediately followed by a ret into a fall through into the to-be called function? And which compilers ever do that?
Just like on device image recognition which Apple is already doing.
Is Google known to use AdWords in this manner?
I don't think dmix was quite saying "go back to sleep." My concern is that "The NSA also has a program with which it claims it can sometimes decrypt the Secure Shell protocol (SSH)." (something I'm very much interested in) is in the very next paragraph. And still part of the "Hockey sites monitored" section (why??).

Do I take the ssh claim seriously? Do I just pretend the hockey monitoring paragraph isn't there?

Perhaps I should read the source for myself. http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35515.pdf

Alas, there's very little in the way of detail. There's exactly one slide (19) dedicated to ssh, which says it can "potentially recover usernames and passwords." That would adequately describe a simple mitm attack where somebody either accepts an unknown server key or uses a client that doesn't even check (e.g. Prompt for iOS). Slides 35 and 36 mention ssh and decryption, but it sounds like they're talking about further processing after decryption. How is that decryption being done?
I've heard of rules similar to this, except that the coach is reprimanded in lieu of handing out a loss. All that happens is that the best players are only permitted to play defense.

I suppose that's better than providing an exploitable victory condition, but it doesn't really help anyway.
My daughter's second grade team would come to the own-goal conclusion within about 3 minutes of being told this rule. Winning within the confines of the rules is a very big part of sports. :)
It would turn into a game of defending your opponents' goal to keep them from scoring and attempting to score in your own goal. It's like real soccer, only goalies can only pick the ball up when they're trying to score.
Just to clarify - it wasn't my study. I was just pointing to some flaws in the conclusion based on methodology, and noting the there was some data only Smashing Mag could provide - thank you so much for doing that!
> This is useful because I cannot remember the emails of all my friends

But a mailto: link should pop up your default mail client - which does know your friends email addresses:

mailto:?subject=cool%20link&body=Here%20is%20a%20cool%20link%20to%20http://example.com

i.e. it should do exactly this if set up correctly.

So - is this really just that most clients don't have mailto: configured to launch the application which knows the email addresses of their friends?
FWIW, I find myself up/down-voting less without the scores. I guess I mostly tend to vote to rectify imbalances. If a comment has a lot of upvotes already, I probably won't upvote (I figure once it's near the top, it doesn't matter much anyway). But if its popularity seems unwarranted, I may be more likely to downvote.

Conversely, I tend to upvote mostly what appear to be underrated comments that are low on karma. Not saying there's anything admirable about this approach -- what am I, some kind of Karma Robin Hood? -- but the new system definitely discourages it.
I wonder if showing the rating of a comment only after you had voted on it would work? That would prevent some level of groupthink by forcing people make their own evaluations before seeing what others thought. That would require a +0 vote option, though, to prevent some obvious failure modes.
Right click the console text in Chrome and click Inspect Element.
Right click <div id="console"> and click Add attribute.
Paste the following: style="font-family: monospace"
Looks to me like they plan to use this particular hotline as a demo of their service for providing other similar hotlines for businesses. Seems like a great plan.

One thought: you currently suggest that the experts who volunteer get paid for their support. As an alternative model, you might consider providing credits for priority support. In other words: experts answer the easier questions so support staff don't have to, and then those experts get priority access to ask trickier questions and/or bug reports. Developers really want to interact with those experts anyway, without opening themselves up to handholding-level support questions, so everybody wins.
I know it's a bit OT but if anyone really does want to charge for offering skills in this way, you should check out a startup called www.minutebox.com which offers pay-by-the-minute video calls which are intended to work like this.

Props to these guys for doing it for free! I hope it works out for you.
"Nobody went to his aid at the very beginning when he first collapsed -- that just perplexed me beyond reason," USC senior Alastair Fairbanks said. "Instead, I saw students texting and updating their Twitter statuses. It was just all a very bizarre evening."

I fear for the future.
Surprisingly, the type of job you're looking for does exist - I know someone in a role where they spend very little time actually working - BUT you may not like to hear what I'm about to describe.

The role is at a unionized utilities company. The reason there's little work is that seemingly simple tasks are usually estimated in the order of days (or sometimes weeks). There's little opportunity for career advancement since the unionized nature makes every role stable/comfortable regardless of contribution to bottom line. But through the same token, most work can be considered busy work: tweaking header font sizes to please the whims of some higher up, re-fixing regressions caused by mediocre peers and the like. Decision making is done by higher ups and for the most part you just work on tickets that are triaged for you. The work is on the flagship product, but it's so dysfunctional already that it doesn't really matter if you care about its quality or not.

The upside is the job is fully remote, and the workload is typically in the range of 10-20 hours per week, if that. Pays above national average too.

The downside is, don't expect to come out of this job with up-to-date skills. It's also extremely unfulfilling and meaningless work. It's easy money but it's also easy to get trapped in a rut if later your career goals change (yes, this happens as you get older)

My advice is actually to look for the opposite type of work: challenging impactful work. Happiness is a function of accomplishments. It's alluring to covet for less work, but IMHO that's the "grass is greener on the other side" phenomenon.
As mentioned in all of the other comments any major company at < $5,000 is almost certainly a donation matching benefit program (bob donates $50 so bob's employer matches it with a $50 donation as well) or similar not e.g. Adobe/Apple going out of their way to donate to FreeBSD and deciding $5 was the right amount.

The reason Apple is pulled out is they are probably the heaviest user of the code in the world and being in the $100-$249 range means they (effectively) donated $0 not that they were the only company to do so.
I don't think the author is drawing any connection between great company culture and great company ethics. The culture refers more to group dynamics, which values are embraced and which are ignored, the kind of leadership, etc.

In this context, great has more to do with efficacy and consistency. The author would probably say a company can have a great culture and still be very polarizing or controversial.
That depends on whether it tilts inwards or outwards when turning a curve. It could be a ship instead.
Just don't follow toxic sources, that's all he's advocating. If someone's sharing memes from a crazy political page, either block that page or remove the friend.

People say social media like Facebook is toxic for the most part because they only deal with toxic people.
This sounds like the ‘this virus evades detection by hiding in a jpeg, until you manually extract it using this tool!’ stories we got 10 years ago.
This might be a legitimate reason to keep the source code non-public temporarily. However, the communication strategy by Signal about this was horrible (or rather non-existent).

People in the user forum (https://community.signalusers.org/t/where-is-new-signal-serv...) and in other places on the internet were upset for months, because the server wasn't being updated anymore. At the same time, Signal regularly tweetet that "all they do is 100% open source", even at a point in time where no source code was released for almost a year.

Just 2 days ago this was getting picked up by some larger tech news platforms:

https://www.golem.de/news/crypto-messenger-signal-server-nic...

https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/04/06/it-looks-like-signa...

It's normal that Signal ignores its users, but apparently they didn't even reply to press inquiries about the source code. All it would have taken is a clear statement like "we're working on a cool new feature and will release the sources once that's ready, please bear with us". Instead, they left people speculating for months.

This communication strategy, combined with the cryptocurrency announcement, may cause serious harm to Signal's reputation.
A friend basically had exactly this for a while. He was an analyst at a big company who primary needed to run manual analysis on excel spreadsheets.

He learned a bit of programming and found a way to automate it almost it entirely.

He enjoyed the extra free time for a few months before feeling guilty telling management. They ended giving him a small promotion and cutting the team by 1/2.

Maybe you should try to find a non-tech analyst role somewhere. So long as you keep the automation to yourself, maybe it will work out.
Congrats! Thanks for sharing your story. I was using Missive in my last job between 2018-2021. Thanks for always being responsive with customer support and adding features. My team was genuinely thrilled to read the "What’s new in Missive?" email.
I saw a video once, the goal of which was to sell to Microsoft execs how to market the first Xbox. The video explained that the target market wasn't fortysomething guys wearing suits in cubicles. It was skateboarders with tattoos on their neck. (And many other demographics that varied significantly from middle-aged IT people).
Yeah, my first draft of the API was really complicated. Then I decided to cut it down to the minimum-viable-product and later add features that my customers need. I spent a little too much time building the prototype. Looking back on it, I could have spent more time on this announcement page.
Any plans of open sourcing this? What other features have you planned for it? Versioning? Like gist.github.com?
You're right. It was a consumption transfer away from Madoff's victims and to Madoff and his beneficiaries (with some blow-off to the rest of the economy when Madoff lost money in bad investments). Although there is some value lost whenever anyone invests in unproductive activities, because investment is an encouragement to those inefficient activities.
I say kudos if they can pull it off. Ignoring the possible meddling of the various device manufacturers, they have their work cut out for them.

I want to be optimistic here; it is just I've never seen such re-engineering done before for any OS.
Especially if one of the species turns out to be homo sapiens. :)
16GB storage is pathetic. I think of these as terminals connected to the giant Google mainframe in the sky. The System Administrator will be monitoring your activities.
>>I will state a view that (sadly) may very well be heresy on both sides of the political aisle: the success of Tesla is not a blanket validation of government intervention in green industry any more than the failure of, say, Solyndra is a blanket indictment of it.

I don't know why you think it would be heretical to say this.

Government intervention in and of itself is neither good nor bad. It can be used well, and it can be used badly. But at the end of the day, it is just a tool.

In the case of emerging technology players going up against incumbents, the government should absolutely intervene and help the newcomers.

In the case of established markets such as agriculture, the government should stay the fuck away and refuse to subsidize anything.

I mean, seriously... when it comes to spending taxpayer money, the thought process should be purely pragmatic. We should think about the result we want to achieve, and then determine whether we need government intervention to achieve it.
To be clear, this is benchmarking a go-like channel abstraction, which is nicer than callbacks or promises imo, which is why it's nice to see it's performant.
Bundle of sticks = Tree computing?

There is another, less-PC, name for a bundle of sticks but I don't think they would go that way.
I worked on the camera/3d bit, and I can say with good certainty parts of the UI were stubbed out only for integration purposes. When a feature was good enough to dogfood, it was in the builds all the testers got.
I suppose someone could steal your FireTV shipment from your doorstep and watch movies on your account.

Personally I'll take that risk any day over having to type my password in using the remote.
source:
https://github.com/r0nk/ward
Well, good for us.

Without Android, the iPhone would suck. We finally have the competition everyone wished for in the Windows 98 days.
I'm pretty sure Broadwell supports 16GB, but it may take extra board space and thus not physically fit in the X1.
"Peak CPU utilization dropped from about 70% to 12%, almost a 6x improvement."

That is substantial, and HHVM should bear to rest some of the claims (trolls) that PHP is not performant.
You are just choosing to ignore that.

Wow, you really don't see it, do you? Huh.

It sounds like he avoided responsibility for anything that might have carried risk

That directly contradicts the description GFisher gave, which was "he didn't shirk "hard" projects per se, but he'd only take them if they were very high visibility". You can't take projects without assuming responsibility and you can only say they carried no risk unless you assume that any and all high visibility tasks were low to no risk. I can speak from experience and say that's very much not true.

It sounds like you've projected onto him your disdain for people that move up ladders instead of make things. And you don't even realize it.
> What they're getting at is that services should leverage open technologies so that nobody's platform gets shut out

While I agree it would be nice to live in a world where everything is based upon an open standard, it's laughable at best for Blackberry of all companies to call for this. Blackberry dominated the market for years by locking other systems out, and just because they ported BBM to iOS and Android doesn't all of the sudden give them the moral high ground. If they truly cared about "application neutrality" or whatever term they coined, they should open the BBM spec and let anyone who wanted to build on top of that.
In what part of the world do companies openly tell everyone the products in their pipeline? Wouldn't their competitors just copy any features/products they plan on releasing?
Yet the demo videos show some virtual objects that are darker than their background. That may be vaporware. So far, there seem to be no images on-line actually taken through the device. Has anyone seen any?

This matters. If it can only brighten things, it can only overlay bright things on top of the real world, which is what Google Glass did. Fine detail won't show up unless the background is very dark or very uniform.

If you look carefully at Microsoft's pictures, the backgrounds are subdued gray, black or brown, and free of glare. The press was forbidden to take pictures of or through the device, and their cameras and phones were confiscated for the demos. Microsoft used custom-built rooms for the demos, giving them total control over the contrast and lighting situation.

It could still work, but it's probably not going to look as good in the real world as it does in the demos.