jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not necessarily that the older technology is inherently more stable, but that there's a survivor effect. Old technology that wasn't stable fell to newer technology that wasn't stable. Stuff that "just worked" (like the radio mentioned here) didn't see much improvement, because the stability was the issue (not the audio quality, as evidenced by the lack of uptake on HDRadio).

It's an example of the classic software graph -- on the y axis, there's stability, on the x-axis is age. As age increases, so does stability.
States like California and New York are mostly the victims of politicians in the 60's - 80's who deferred all sorts of costs to the future to make the books work. Welcome to the future.

Examples:
"No money to give raises to state workers, cops and teachers." Solution to get contracts signed: Richer pensions, bigger benefits

"Crime is out of control. Drugs are bad. Rural economies are collapsing from de-industrialization." Solution: Build prisons.

"We're enlightened and want the poor to get better healthcare." Solution: Spend more on Medicaid. (In New York, pass the bill down to the county while you're at it)

"The Mayor can't afford a 7% raise to the Police and Fire Departments. The arbitrator will give them 6% that we can't afford if we go to arbitration." Solution: Allow employees to bank unlimited sick time that gets paid out at retirement and free healthcare for life.

Hopefully a crisis will fix things.
I tried to register mib.by

They took the money, then a couple of weeks later said it "had been denied" for some reason or other. I think they said that someone local owns a trademark on 'mib' or somesuch.

It's still unregistered and unused.

Trying to register these types of domain is more hassle than it's worth.
I did get a refund (after I requested it).
Interesting. Your goals are similar to ours and your choice of name for the technology is also (too) similar. Are you using any of the concepts and ideas discussed at http://artificial-intuition.com and/or http://videos.syntience.com ?

Syntience Inc. is so far concentrating on understanding (written) text in any language but speech recognition is an obvious extension to any competent language understanding technology.
He still was all too happy to adopt the term, and not make any reservations on its use, wasn't he?

Of course it's technically a neutral term. But in this context, it is a scare word. When you write a blog that seems to be a pop topic blog for a wide audience, in today's world 'derivative' is a scare word. The average news paper reader hadn't heard about 'derivatives' before 2008, and since then he heard about it every week, usually in the context of how much money they have cost some firm, how much money they have cost the tax payer, how much money they have cost pension funds, or how much money they have made for those greedy bankers in Wall Street, London, Frankfurt or wherever - or a combination thereof.

So yes, 'derivative' is a term with negative connotations to the wider public. It is one of the words that are now associated with irresponsible risk and money out of thin air. It's irrational to blame the use on the instrument, but hey, it's an irrational world out there.
There are open source text editors of all levels of "easy to grasp". I've contributed to one myself. With Atom I simply don't have the option, and that's unacceptable as a professional in this craft.
Exactly how much do you think is fair for "amazingly great people" who "[are] expert[s] on The System" and "can oversee your entire healthcare"? Some contractors on HN no doubt get paid more for less.
What system to use for development is a good question. Both popular commercial OS's (OSX & Windows) [& Canonical with Unity, FWIW] are moving inexorably towards a more mobile/tablet/touchscreen feel, with an ever-expanding set of bells & whistles for their core consumers. I think OSX became fashionable again among devs over the last few years due to its out-of-the-box UNIX-like terminal and underlying software stack, plus installation tools such as Homebrew and PIP (along with base level disdain for anything Microsoft).

Presently I run Mint in virtualbox on my Surface pro 3, because native Linux support does not appear to be there for multi-touch screens and features such as the detachable keyboard. Multi-touch and some sort of tablet mode (ie virtual kbd) are critical to be able to develop and test apps that are destined for anything other than desktop-only status (meaning basically all of them).

Is there a decent combination of hardware and FOSS OS that really fits today's agile/mobile developer?
But in all honesty, can you name another manufacturer who does have good technical support? I have dealt with tech support people from Dell, HP, Panasonic, Lenovo, and Apple. They all have the same roadmap of denial:

1. I don't see the problem.
2. Oh, I see, that's a feature!
3. Hmm, not a feature you say, then it must be those pesky 3rd party apps you are using.
4. Ok, ok, it's a clean install, have you done all the upgrades?
5. You have? I see, well we will probably fix it in the next driver/software update, wouldn't you like to just wait?
6. You wouldn't???? Ok, fine, I guess it might be a hardware issue, but it's probably not covered under warranty, because they all do it.
7. Ok, I guess it's just your device, but are you sure you have warranty?
8. Ok, fine, will fix it, but just this once!

Apple is no more a pain in the ass than any of the other major manufacturers. At least they have an Apple Store in most markets, so you can go and bitch at someone in person, rather than engaging in a futile argument with a bangladeshi call center operator. At least with Apple you have an option to choke to death the person who is "assisting" you, when you eventually snap, instead of just threatening to do so :) Ok, I am not sure if that last bit is a plus.

That being said, I do agree that Genius Bar people are mostly idiots, and are trained to avoid fixing your problem, if at all possible. But honestly, can't you say the same about all of the other companies.
I completely disagree. Only agree on Launchpad and it does not decrease any usability either.
Speaking as a former game reviewer, I think Disney's inability to enter the game market with quantifiable success is that they're still being reactionary.

Games are stories, regardless of how you look at them. They're either stories you're told or stories you tell. League of Legends is a story you tell so it's the originality of the game that makes it. Starcraft is a story you're told, and truth be told in the intervening years between the original and its modern iteration the gameplay is stale and generic it's been cloned a dozen times, but the modern iterations are still fun an playable.

So I think you're right. They just don't play games.

You see a change in Disney's movies when John Lasseter takes over. He took over prior to Meet the Robinsons release, and at his behest they scrapped over 60% of the movie. It was the first thing Disney had put out in a long time that was actually a good story, and it did it by shirking conventions. He scrapped what would become Bolt entirely. From then on everything just got better.

Why? Because Lasseter loves movies, he loves stories.

Square Enix manages to use Disney characters, but they're doing it in a massively unconventional way. So the characters themselves aren't an issue, it's the way they're used in games.

Disney puts out movie tie ins and the only game that was decently received was Epic Mickey and instead of solving its flaws and building on it they tanked it with #2 by falling into sequel mania.

Honestly Disney needs to find out what story it wants to tell and tell it through a game. They've got enough franchises under their belt that they could find a story that people want to hear - they've been doing it all the time with movies lately.

Disney isn't going to be original in game play. It's too big, it's too slow. The only way it can be successful is to tell a good story, and it just doesn't try to put even it's B-material into its games.

Starcraft 2 continued a great story. People don't play through a dozen near identical levels for nothing. They do it because it unlocks more story. It worked for Brood War. It worked for Mass Effect.

Fallout 1 and 2 are still the best games in the entire franchise because of how tight their story was. To highlight the power of a good story, TES fans still frequently call Morrowind the best game in the series. Most of the talk over Skyrim is good graphics and gameplay mechanics - lots of which were inherited from mods from Morrowind.
hackpad is an awesome collaborative writing platform:
https://hackpad.com/
> extra piece of code that does things like send all data entered in forms to your server

Assuming you're injecting JS, the site isn't SSL meaning all that data is available to the proxy anyway (its part of their operation). The botnet angle is much more interesting than the loss of privacy one.
Who'd have thought unaccountable private companies would act in their own best interest?
Many comments are arguing saying this already crossed the line and that FB are not the good guys here.

There are (or were) comments on this page with people saying they deleted their Facebook accounts over this.

Of course I disagree and find it hilariously ironic that this would be the straw that broke the camel's back, but that's just me.
it's a market? A market exists to support large buy and sell orders
I tried asking my parents to switch to Signal, but it did not fly. They are in their 70s and are used to WhatsApp. They don't care about privacy.

My Mom yelled at me for endorsing Signal to her. She said: "All my friends are on WhatsApp. I don't want to install another app just because of one person."
Well, the N64 controller's analog stick had a tendency to get really clunky after some time of use (it amassed some kind of "frictiony" feeling in its joint).

But then again, the my old console is still going strong. OTOH, my original Xbox refused to boot some years ago…
Crypto is already a "scary"* area for a lot of people so going with the largest brand name exchange possible makes them feel less scared.

*scared to put money in something they don't understand
So there is no truth at all?
> It's very hard to make discoveries at sites that you aren't allowed on!

Not as hard as it used to be: https://houseprices.io/lidar/SU1025069970
1/FUD
It looks like mine somehow wasn't leaked. I never enabled 2fa (sms 2fa is worse than nothing) and didn't use whatsapp (which I guess didn't scrape my friends contacts as aggressively as I expected?)
http://yayeveryday.com

http://drawar.com
A better response:

stop linking to John Cook.

Every John Cook blog entry I have ever read turns out, upon inspection, to be an almost-content free restatement of an accepted consensus -- motherhood statements at best.

Whereas Jeff Atwood at least gives credit to the books he reads and summarises, Cook merely regurgitates unsourced factoids and leavens with a few unimpressive anecdotes.
Agree with sentiment. Also, why is the term PMF restricted for only enormous markets where if team found PMF then that means extreme growth.

What if I'm building a product for a niche market?
My Mum wont upgrade from windows 95, please keep supporting Internet Explorer 6 SP1, Stop it with any of your fancy tools/websites.

The flipside is that one just accept that the users who are not able to upgrade are not your target audience and will use other systems to get their work done.

Don't carry others burdens when they self impose their problems.
It looks like a rebranded and enhanced Dashcode.
6. Need to educate the refs on the cheapness that is Revis island and Chromartie
Make a few iphone / ipad apps?
Start an ebay business?
I wrote that two years ago in the form of a Paul Bunyan tale. (http://www.vivtek.com/fiction/singularity_tales/tale_spambot...) Got BoingBoinged and everything. For once, Charlie posted something I found kind of old hat. (Normally he's way out ahead of me.)
So approach entrepreneurship differently.

I am aiming to build businesses, sources of revenue and value.

You can do like 37signals and provide a service that you can eventually build upon to make a team capable of building a product.

Just build something, you don't have to participate in Valley insanity.
Seems like the common thread here is to 'start a web app, charge a recurring fee'...

Any suggestions for such an app that people here would find useful and willing to pay, say, $10 a month for, that would be small enough to be developed by one guy? I can't think of any ideas off the top of my head.
Excellent
:-]
Take a few hours to scan the "recently sold" listings on flippa.com and you will have a few answers to that question.
Sorry, but — why still 3.0?
From what I've seen, Uber has successfully got my friends as their users by a super low price. The price is slightly higher than the other local limo car services in China. But people think the experience from Uber is still much better. When they have time to wait for Uber, they would try Uber.

But low price is not sustainable. Users can transfer to the other service easily if they have offer a much lower price, which is actually easier after the merger. Kuaidi-didi also have significant advantages on payments. Alipay and WeChat makes things much easier.

Recently the government has been trying to control the "black car market". They define "black car" as the drivers who don't have a legal running taxi licence. So apparently a lot of drivers on Uber will face the risk. Uber will have to pay more to have the drivers less worried about the fine. Right now Uber is paying a lot to the drivers.

From an answer on zhihu about "what is it like to be a Uber driver in China", I don't think the experience of becoming an Uber driver in China is that good. It requires you to watch a video on YouTube and the video is in English.
NO reason. After all the only thing going into the database ought to be base64 encoded hash. So why not allow anything? No need for a max length, by the same token.
Let me broaden your argument: because everyone does everything a different than everyone else with different tools - such as artists do - everyone is an artist.

No, programming is not an art. Painting is also not an art per se, etc. Don't devalue art by attaching the label to every creative task you do.
My process of getting into the zone is completely different. I absolutely need my environment to be chaotic and random. I'm always on the hunt for my "coding mojo".

This usually means changing the desk I work at every few weeks, possibly going to a sofa for a few days. Today I even went to work at a coffee shop despite having a readily available office. It's just too boring there.

Another thing I seem to need is enough low-grade internet to quickly refresh my mind when I get stuck on a problem. It lets me delegate whatever I'm thinking to the back of my mind while I mindlessly surf the internets until the problem is suddenly solved and I can get back to work.
Saying that there's a difference is a tautology. Of course there's a difference. There's also a difference between someone trying to decide between getting an apple or a blueberry danish.

The important bits are whether the difference is detectable in a manner that is convenient (putting each passenger through an MRI machine is out of the question), reliable (minimize false positives and false negatives), and so on. Just saying "there's a difference" adds no new information to the conversation unless you're able to expand on the quantifiable aspects of those differences.
Neither of us have statistics on that, so a yes/no battle here is pointless. I and many others find it to be a useful signal when someone demonstrates intense anxiety under pressure, you and many others do not. Agree to disagree.
There's a limit to the amount of serious, concentrated thinking that you can do in day, so it should be fairly obvious that pressurizing coders in to working long hours is counter-productive.

With other jobs it might be less of an issue. Although I've never done 14 hour days, I did once have a warehouse job assembling cardboard boxes for 12 hours a day, and I don't think the hours harmed my productivity. (My recollection is that I worked as hard as I could, just to make the day pass more quickly.)
Schmidt personally seems to have political-power aspirations and has been practically transparent about using the chairmanship of Google to that end for himself and as a proxy for the company.

The motivation for all this freelance diplomacy doesn't even need to be for specific favors - it can be to raise his and Google's stature with the world's political power machinery.

Consider that, while it doesn't make it any less troubling, they might even have good intentions in what they're doing. I'm not trying to be an apologist for it, just thinking about what would motivate a company like Google -or rather, people at the top- to do stuff like this.
Shouldn't this be

complete -o default -o nospace -F _jump jump unmark

and then it simply replaces the existing _completemarks(), instead of needing both?
Indeed. But it does have rather a lot of information.

If you're interested in this, and e.g. Google history you might want to read it; I had to decide I couldn't justify the time and energy.
I'm afraid you picked a pretty terrible example. That PHP code is 414 lines of getters and setters - the code does nothing of actual value. It's a mess of design patterns and OOP verboseness, which mainly suggests that the PHP community are determined to copy the worst aspects of the Java ecosystem.

The Python code, while a little heavy on decorators for my personal taste, spends the same number of lines of code implementing a whole swathe of useful application functionality.

I'm not saying your particular example proves anything about PHP vs Python, I just think you chose an apples-to-oranges comparison to illustrate your point. It would be much more interesting to see some PHP code that implements business logic similar to that Python.
Yes, thats exactly right, but its an impressive figure nonetheless.
Sure, but that‘s not what OP is using.
Did you find they don't work well with Linux? That'd be a big shame, I think the Foss crowd likes these kind of initiatives.
Do you not have the imagination to think of any situation where the majority of workers may want something that's not in your interests?

For example you morally support allowing new people to enter your field but the union is mostly comprised of more established people and they vote for credentialism to restrict supply.

Probably I'm very aligned with my employer on wanting to lower barriers to entry for the field!
Yeah, it embodies Shirky's principle- "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

This would apply similarly to google/TurboTax/Colleges Vs.MOOCs as well
Easily possible. Show up for one hour, ever other hour, to perform task X. I pay you for four hours and you need to be on call for eight daily.
I spent about a year doing this to the Telefang translation patch itself. No, not Telefang, the patch to Telefang. It was made with a version control system of "hex edit the last patched ROM to do what you want and post an IPS on the forums"... even though we were also writing tools to compress graphics and reinsert scripts (from MediaWiki, no less); as well as hand-assembled patches to get VWF text going. Needless to say this made fixing certain bugs or revising old work extremely difficult. For example, there were multiple versions of useful custom functions sitting in bank 0 (which had around 200 bytes free); developers had recreated certain utilities independently and assembled them separately into the HOME.

Also, this was a multi-version game, because late-90s mongames demanded it. We only had worked on Power Version, so anyone who wanted to play Speed Version in English was SOL. Fortunately, both versions were similar enough that once I had disassembled our own patch, and modified the title screen a bit, Speed Version just "worked". Such is the power of having source code.
Oh, thanks, I was not aware of Lightsail at all. It seems like this brings them much closer to being a competitive offering.
Please be careful with labelling wind and solar cheaper. They have zero fuel cost which is true however there are a slew of other costs - mostly balancing the grid and dealing with the uncertainty and unreliability of wind and solar - that are not paid for by the wind and solar generators. Those costs are paid - by consumers but if you add them to the wind and solar farms, they suddenly aren't as cheap.

Nuclear power needn't take that long to build. China is building them in five or six years. Standardisation helps immensely with timelines and safety.

Batteries are not an energy solution. The current largest batteries around the world can only provide minutes of power for typical western grids. Yes, minutes.
Are you generating the configs for all these apps? Having a method of turning a universal theme spec into specific app configs might be worth more than the theme itself.
I'd second netmau5's first point.

Designers actively refine their craft on the job; especially in startup environments, where one regularly attempts the unknown. Having pride in your work can be the elbow grease that keeps you learning after Photoshop quits.

Moreover, consider the position of a designer in a startup. You are often outnumbered by engineers, who can mindmeld to solve really tricky problems; you are responsible for the coltish first days of the company brand; you are the de-facto copy-writer, publicist, and user advocate. You are the weak link in the iteration chain; if you call in sick, there's no one to put lipstick on the pig. Engineers will force you to defend decisions you experienced as intuitions, and there is little expectation that engineers learn your professional vocabulary. (See: for example, the sneering aside the author makes about typographic leading)

In response to that pressure, I've learned that it's important to refocus on what the user needs. If most users are newcomers, and the front page has a gigantic bounce rate, then it's time to throw down some dank design work. (If the engineers balk, explain and continue). If most users bounce on the FAQ, maybe its time to think about "vertical rhythm," or typeface choices, or navigation schemes.

As long as you're fighting for the user, there's no harm in picking your battles. You're the design professional; make a professional design, and the company succeeds in helping the user.
(article seems to have been shown incorrect/outdated as of today: http://www.zdnet.com.au/wikileaks-removed-from-acma-blacklis... )
The rumor has been swirling for about 10 days.

http://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us...

It's not a source, but enough outlets have been reporting this story for enough days that it seems a good bet the two are at least talking.
Out from my crystal ball :

Financial markets can't beat the real economy forever. As a bet on the future growth, they must return to reality from time to time. Furthermore, as growth as we've known it will most probably soon end forever (or for the long term at least), financial markets are on for some future "correction" of humongous proportions when the sovereign debts will be wiped out by inflation.
Please don't make this the new normal required to get funding. It's already insane as it is how much entrepreneurs are expected to carry the expense and risk at this point.
Came here to say exactly this. Adding to the money supply increases the nominal cost of assets because more dollars are available.
Yeah, there's some kludgey workaround for this that is definitely 80/20 kind of material...pg_upgrade will generate a script that does progressively more accurate re-ANALYZE so you're not flying your early queries totally blind. Maybe look into running that.
In terms of PCI lanes efficiency, there is no competition between Intel and AMD. Intel is much ahead wrt AMD. Don't not be impressed about number of lanes available on the board.