jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Interesting look at clash of interests. One interesting point (out of several in the post):

> I will be required to release new music on Youtube at the same time I release it anywhere else. So no more releasing to my core fans first on Bandcamp and then on iTunes.

I wonder if she's already agreed to the iTunes agreement, because my understanding was that iTunes required the same thing: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/i... (see section 3a)

I wonder if the difference is in thinking of iTunes as a proper music distribution service and youtube as a place that has incidentally distributed a bunch of her music (as much of the blog post seems to put it) that is now demanding to be something different.
Those don't represent the rest.
Various access control projects were undertaken throughout the life of the housing projects - signing in with an attendant, punching codes, swiping cards, etc. In every case the residents objected vigorously and the systems were all either vandalized or removed. The housing authority eventually gave up.

I unfortunately don't have a published source for this, but it's from a family member who was a social work professor in Chicago during that period.
Fair enough. I've never worked for a company that actually decided to switch, much less one close to the size of Facebook. My assumption was just assumption.
Interesting - I'm not sure that mobile networking really has massively overprovisioned bandwidth, but satellite and radio links might. Can you think of a way to identify these links so that similar techniques can be deployed when they are found?
Sure - it's anecdotal. But right off the top of head, how about Duncan Bannatyne, Peter Jones, Alan Sugar.

> And I think a guy that figured out how to make $100,000 a year is a pretty good source of business advice.

It wasn't a 100k/year. It was a 100 total, over several years, and that's only his word for it. These things tend to be exaggerated. But anyway, so what if he did? I could probably make a 100k a year selling my body, but I'd rather not.
On the flip side of Mark's point, it seems that free-form questions are a great opportunity for the answerer to steer the course of the rest of the conversation.

Next time I'm going into an important meeting like the ones Mark describes in his post I'll make sure to give some thought to how I want to answer these wide questions. I'll make sure my long winded free-form answers plant the right "nuggets" so that when the they start to drill down they are asking the questions I want to answer.
I see you didn't read any of the stuff on mathoverflow. I'm a first year maths student and already the second example was a belief I held :P
But how many other people have done that? Just because something is possible doesn't mean it's probable.

And I think a guy that figured out how to make $100,000 a year is a pretty good source of business advice.
Cool -- have you told Robby about it? Do you envision this being a teaching language or production?
First, I had no idea that "/>" had a name. Solidus.

Second, the article is unclear on the "optional" nature of the solidus.

I'm pretty sure that the use of the solidus depends on whether you are using an HTML or XHTML serialization.

If you are sending the page as content-type text/html, you need to follow HTML format and leave out the solidus (that is, you follow the same rules as you would for HTML4).

If you are using the XHTML serialization you need to be using XML syntax and send the page as application/xml or application/xhtml+xml.
Taken on its face, this is pretty bad advice, especially for technologists. Do you really wish you were still writing DOS bookkeeping apps in Pascal, because that's what you were good at?

Think hard about the things that actually make you excel at what you do, it's probably much less concrete. Richard Branson started several totally different businesses - but he's sticking to his core competencies of being a ridiculously good showman and businessman, and being able to get shit done.

I'd figure a good gigolo might be good at understanding how to give people what they want.. which translates pretty well to anything.
No, those aren't signs of life. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1405812
I like to participate in day long hackathons for this reason. Mentally, I know that I've blocked that time off for coding, and socially, all my friends know that I have too.
Upvoted for recognition of the difference between academia and reality, and lack of spherical cow assumptions.

It's entirely possible that someone might stop at 14 (for example with NTLM based on an incorrect assumption that as LM stops at 14 characters, so must LM for example).

I guess the point is that security's more probabilistic than deterministic, which means that you can take some measures on a given topic up to a point, then beyond that the payoff decreases to the point where you're wearing a tin foil hat and worrying about the RF conductiveness of tin foil versus the alien ray beams it's supposed to be blocking.

Still, thanks for the interesting conversation, it's one of those things that for me makes HN really worthwhile participating in.
Anyone else notice the use of the Arduino symbol on the charging station?
I am also completely spoiled by Mac's now. I don't know how I could go back, especially the trackpad.
That is bizarre. The watch I bought in 2020, lasts me two full days. I go running between 30-60 minutes every day. Battery life has never been an issue for me, and it almost even feels like an old nokia in terms of battery life.

However, I turned off almost all notifications on my watch because they are mostly annoying, except text messages and protonmail. I turned off the “always on” watch face. I keep a very small subset of apps on the watch.

I also don’t have a cellular version of it, wifi only.
To be fair, Signal is also built by somebody pushing a new crypto currency (although with Signal the app came first).
It certainly is. The Korg Volca FM is implemented in this fashion, just to name one. From memory it uses an ARM Cortex-M chip for both the UI, and DSP. Many other modern synthesisers use COTS general purpose chips for DSP these days. At some point around the late 90s synths made the transition from being built around custom ASICs to using COTS DSP processor chips. It's hard to pin down exactly when this became standard. The Roland JP8000 (1996) used custom ASICs for signal processing, the Access Virus (1997) used a COTS DSP processor, from memory (Something from NXP?). The Korg MS2000 (2000) had a COTS DSP processor too. These days you can apparently achieve comparable performance with Cortex-M chips.
It still runs everywhere
It would be cool if pharma companies had charitable rotation program for researchers to volunteer to research these types of things. So the researchers could still get paid and the company could claim the costs as a write-off (not sure if they actually need one) with the results being public use.
Why does Dunning-Kruger come to mind?
I don't know why everybody's assuming that the reason the government interfered is because the United Against organization is a front for a US intelligence agency. Here's an alternative theory with just as much proof (ie, none): maybe the CIA impersonated this shipping company to sell some sabatoged centrifuges or whatnot to Iran. Maybe United Against really is what they say they are, and since they're ex-spooks, not current spooks, they dug up the cover story but not the real story. Explains why the shipping company is pissed about being blamed, why United felt the need to publicly shame them, and why the CIA might not want the world to know about it.

The real point is... we have no idea why the government cares. Don't assume it's the most obvious reason.
No, "industry standard" for sport watches is 50-100 meter depth.[1] All Casio's sport watches can handle that. Rolexes are generally good to 100 meters. Apple's watch can't handle a shower, let alone a bathtub.

There are touch screens that work when wet.[2]

[1] http://www.casio.com/products/Watches/Sports/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVPku-xItv8
I may have a few things to learn about how networking works. However, I was just stating the facts. A technician came out to re-configure to see if the issues of speed could be resolved. They did, and technician said... speed test is hitting ~93/120 mbps or so when wired in but the speed over wifi was much less while the specs say it is capable of doing 120 mbps without a problem. The tech actually said it isn't going to reach 120 mbps over wifi. If they don't have control, how is it they can "flip a switch" while on the phone to put you at 25 mbps or less, if you ask to downgrade? I believe when you buy 120 mbps that they are advertising they are claiming you will hit this speed if you are paying for it. I didn't see any disclaimer next to the 120 mbps saying "speed will be substantially less if using wifi router."
I've been using outlook after gmail IMAP was blocked here in China and it is working just fine. And as far as I can see the block of gmail IMAP is now gone again. It is still a lot slower compared to outlook though.
First: yikes.

Second: It's context. There's no need to talk about deficiencies of browser on a page trying to illustrate bittorent. He could have just said "does not work with IE".
Sure, if starbucks took EZ Pass
9 upvotes and it's already down. Anybody has a mirror? This seems pretty useful.
I would prefer MX Blue over MX Green switches.
It looks like there's no Apple approval process or anything like that, thankfully: http://developer.apple.com/programs/safari/
> While I don't think heavy regulation and onerous filing processes make the system completely fail-safe, it does provide some amount of deterrence to would-be crooks.

How about some supporting evidence?

After all, AIG was regulated by at least two federal authorities and some foreign ones. They got into trouble selling a product that US regulators asked them to sell.

Fannie and Freddie were essentially govt run.

We keep hearing about how banks and their management need to have more "skin in the game". How about making regulators and politicians do the same?
Thanks Mattw for the clarification!
I tried it with some AnandTech/TomsHardware pages, and it worked on their 10+ page articles as well. Makes reading those type of sites a lot less irritating.

I'd love to see this feature in Chrome/Firefox/etc, so sites would stop splitting content into bite size chunks to up pageviews.
Maybe my opinions are a bit baised as a student who spent over $400 in fees applying to colleges.

I would have assumed that my universities' costs would be offset by the $40,000 I'm paying every year for the next four years, rather than erroneous fees that aren't tallied in the advertised total cost of attendance.
"Jason Calacanis
congrats Dan! call me when you do your angel round.... and if you ever need a story on TechCrunch you know where to send the MacBook Air!"

RACK 'EM!
just for the record there is this new high capacity link in the works.. http://www.pacificfibre.net/
it's looking for govt funding (and pretty well backed privately) but not a govt project as I understand
I like how they lost the wading depth, I’m all set for the Oregon trail now!
J.B. Rainsberger's course is what eventually did it for me, after reading about TDD a lot but never managing to put it into practice: https://tdd.training.
I want to see the cybertruck vs wrecking ball and caravan... that would be pretty epic.
You stopped short of the worst of them! e.g. 97 is assembled from 4 parts. Quatre-vingt-dix-sept (4 20 10 7).
The definition of a modern human is someone who does what machines do not do, so as machines become more capable it changes what humans do.

I guess it seems very likely to me that we will have Skynet/paperclip maximizers before AGI. I mean, I think we kind of do right now in what the internet is growing into.

We're like single cells imagining what a brain would be like but we'll never know because probably we'll be part of something brainless that dominates the ecosystem, or if there is an organism with a brain, we won't be able to perceive it because we're components.
I’m not a mechanical engineer by any means.

But all aluminium body in that squary shape? That seems like asking to be dented. I wonder what aluminium alloy they use (and how thick it is).

Can any real mechanical engineer comment on that?
More likely, time to move to governed cyber communities, where taxes will go towards providing infrastructure and maintaining rights.
press the "start" button to stop your computer? i really doubt this was this helpful to new users. it does make sense for most other things though, like launching programs and maybe even the restart option, but for the shutting down option its fairly illogical so its strange that it took them so long to switch to an icon instead.
One of my favourite shows growing up. Hard to believe it was all done 'analog' and no CGI. Adds rawness and charm to the whole thing - Kind of like 'Thunderbirds'.
Pinch to Zoom but it’s quite a rare behavior. Both platforms.
How her mom. Well read.
Forrst (http://forrst.com/) makes more than enough to cover all costs, including some of my salary. The rest comes from a seed round I took in March.
Also, if willing, share your delicious links if you have any.

http://www.delicious.com/csmeder/sass
Google goes for apps you might call big and wide. Broadly useful tools that you can make intensive use of and that capitalize on Google's strengths. GMail is an example of this, but Mail is a well-known product area. Wave and Buzz were attempts to create innovative new ones.

Instagram is a tiny little toy camera app hooked up to a website. It's very narrow-interest. It's not the kind of thing you wrap your workday around or rely upon.
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Walter said it best: "8 year olds, dude".
I think that your example does get a point across, however there are a couple of problems with it:

1. I was hoping for a real world example (if its possible then there should be many examples, right?). 2. You imply that the fruit shop owner has access to the most efficient supply chain of all the other potential, would be fruit merchants and thus the only way he can loose his primate is if he raises the prices too much. How about people who start competing for various reasons like: I don't like the guy, or I don't have a better idea for business, etc. 3. Defining monopoly too locally has its own problems: Grocery store has a monopoly over selling groceries on a block, if there are two groceries, we can say that each has a monopoly over their part of the block, etc. See that's not really a monopoly.

The point is that in free, easy to enter markets monopolies are impossible - by the virtue of free and easy to enter market. What monopoly really is - domination of a single entity over a regulated (possibly by the monopoly itself) and expensive to enter market. Examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly#Examples_of_legal_.28a...

See no village fruit merchants there.
> HN actually is too 'geek centric'

Uh, the internet's a big place. If you don't want "geek", then by all means, don't let the door hit you on the way out.

That doesn't mean we are all geeks all the time, it means that we don't spam this site with every other thing in our lives.

I'm a geek/nerd/whatever, and proud of it, and I have nothing to do with the "in crowd" at YC - I live on the other side of the world.
My uncle took his own life two years ago, and part of his "cry for help" period was him using Google to research suicide. After looking through his internet history, we found it was on more than just one occasion. I'd be willing to bet that many, many people do the same thing.
I guess simplicity is something relative. And your simple may by my complex. I do not do much with online banking but just some money transfers are one password and 2-3 clicks away.

I agree google (and craigslist) are also using the simplicity of the interface to emphasize the utility of the website.

The more I think I find that almost all the websites that are successful ( and my preference is only one data point) tend to have a simple interface. For example youtube has only one search box , minimized options, with two or three clicks you can access the content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

Joel, news.ycombinator has somewhat higher standards for civilized discussion than you are exhibiting here.

Please either participate in a constructive fashion or confine your postings to the roughnecks in the stack overflow forums.
Ok, maybe I'll be the loan dissenter - and a torn one at that. I really think this is a great article and I think this is information that should certainly be shared out...

I have one nitpick with what the author states that bothers me greatly.

Bare with this statement - I am not against what he did, but this is the biggest worry in hiring any outside dev to do any work for you, and thus has a clear and real issue for the market and industry overall:

The only thing that I feel is a little weird is that we have a developer who says he saw a bunch of requests for an application that does X.

he then turns and build the application to do X himself.

This in and of itself is fine -- but it will certainly wind up pissing people off/alienating people entirely.

The point is that the valley mantra is "ideas are worthless, only execution matters* -- then it makes all devs look like they are just sitting around waiting to leach off others ideas and execute on them themselves for personal profit.

I don't think there is a clear win-win situation here, I just want to point out that the way this article is written, it seems to prove out the worry of the non-dev side of the world == "What is the risk of trying to recruit a developer for my idea, then they just turn and build it for them selves?" (MZ Comes to mind)

This means that ideas ARE NOT worthless, they do have value. Surely, only if you can manage to execute on them - but if the ideas were so worthless in-and-of themselves why arent the millions of developers constantly outdoing themselves with utterly amazing works. They aren't. It takes a great idea AND great execution to matter.
Lumping S3 into EC2 isn't misleading?
I can confirm, I moved from Seattle to Sydney. It's not even close.
Totally disagree with this thesis but disagree with the downvotes as well. I think it's important to understand the mentality of the anti- crowd.
One thing is the Core Team Members and their long term plans, which I'm not privy to. The other is the impression generated by interacting with others in the community online, where people disagree with the very premise that there is a problem.

I also see your point that not too much is known in this design space, but I also think that's why it would be good for the community to step up and experiment with this more. Figure out what works. I had plans to do that last summer but life intervened so I am stuck commentating from the sidelines. :P
The only value of Bitcoin is its massive brand awareness. Everyone and their doge has heard of Bitcoin, whereas most people have not heard of any other currencies. That's probably worth a few billion in itself, but not more.
Event happened Jan 2021. "Some had paid upwards of $30,000 to attend a pandemic-year rarity: an indoor, in-person, mostly unmasked business conference, called the Abundance 360 Summit." https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/13/1018374/peter-di...
Interestingly, in the UK the police are explicitly not allowed to unionize. The fire brigade are and have occasionally gone on strike.

Instead they have three different professional organisations, because the UK is ridiculously class-stratified: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Federation_of_England_a...

> Superintendents and Chief superintendents are represented by a separate staff association, the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales (PSA),[3] while the most senior officers are members of the Chief Police Officers Staff Association (CPOSA).
You are correct, it was not applied retroactively:

> Gottlieb, the former head of the FDA, clarified that the change is not going to be applied retroactively, meaning that all vials previously shipped out are counted as containing five doses.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/pfizer-board-member-gottlieb...
It looks like it doesn't implement the input-accepting comma operator!
Love the morphed school bus. I'd just take this idea to the next level and design a nice Volvo/Scania bus into a mobile living space. Would cost a hell lot more but this design is way way way better than any of the custom Scania/volvo designs that I've seen.
Try doing it as days since roast. I like 30 mins old (well, cool enough to grind) lightly roasted (just after first crack). This type of roast seems to get progressively worse for 2-3 days then gets particularly good from for 2 or three days. After that it's stale. The darker the roast, the less effect time has on its taste as far as I can tell.
Yes, we are. It is generally acknowledged by our various Governments at every level that Canada has a history of committing and supporting genocidal acts against indigenous peoples. It's not about the wars either; our residential school systems, ongoing issues with child separation policies across the country contribute to our ongoing complicity with this.

It turns out that when a country is built on genocide and disenfranchisement it's kind of hard to stop.
I sincerely hope I won't have to find out the answer to that. :-)

Anyway, for anyone thinking of getting one, it's worth checking out this as well: https://www.xyte.ch/shop/t25-frankenpad-kit/ and https://www.xyte.ch/thinkpads/t25-frankenpad/
Right, but that's exactly why the parent comment said putting manufacturing in Taiwan is a bad idea.
Just another anecdote, we are a startup that got GCP credits last year which fully funded our first year, and it was an extremely simple process. So far we've been extremely happy with GCP (and Firebase), but in fairness haven't needed much tech support.
I've been whishing for a CMS like that, but i would prefer something selfhosted though. Headless CMSes are not customer friendly at all.
Yes, Telegram Desktop is a normal C++ app: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

So a cross-platform is quite easy, Electron one would need to be tested for different webviews on each system.
Prop 13 needs to be reformed because taxes need to be fair. Taxes can be deferred for those who cannot afford to pay the full tax so they don't have to move. The benefit should be restricted to a primary residence, no vacation, investment, or commercial properties. Deferred taxes can be paid when the owner sells the house if there is enough equity. At some points victims of prop 13 will out number those that benefit from it. One can only hope people will wake up and do the right thing.
The F-117 as well. A marvelous plane, and development program.
Well, but there is nothing that makes it impossible to build logins and the like without 3rd party cookies. Yes, there are certain patterns out there, that use them, but slowly turning 3rd party cookies off and giving major sites time to adapt might help to dump 3rd party cookies one day completely.

I think the whole idea of sharing cookies across origins was a conceptual mistake right from the beginning, because it is also responsible for quite a lot of security vectors which had to be fixed by other mechanics like the SOP (Same Origin Policy) which in turn required mechanics like CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing).

And with all those mechanics in place, modern browsers are pretty tied up and are significantly reduced in their abilities compared to other HTTP/S clients. So when you want to build a PWA (Progressive Web App) that can use a configurable backend (as in federated), you will run into all kinds if problems, that can all be traced back to the decision to share cookies across origins.
So... it's like Emacs but based on Javascript rather than Lisp?
Fighting human nature is rarely a winning strategy.