jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was on the forum in October, representing Tropo, with Danielle at ITExpo West in LA moderated by Thomas Howe (http://thethomashowecompany.com/). Danielle did make the statement that Twilio could not, and would not, catch up with Tropo on features. Instead, Twilio would focus on simplicity for the broad web developer community.

I respect Danielle and Twilio for making this statement at the time. As it is clear today that Twilio has a wide gap with Tropo on features. Twilio's focus on their core strength, simplicity, was smart. 37Signals has pioneered the idea of less is more with great success (albeit with an eye to staying private without VC funding).

The issue is, I think Twilio has come to the realization that to compete in this space they need more depth of capability. Further, the ITExpo statement was made before Twilio received their latest round of funding. They may very well have changed strategy and now regret having made this statement.

It is much easier to close the gap on simplicity than it is a wide feature gap. We are working regularly to make Tropo simpler, while maintaining its deep feature set. We are built on a platform, PRISM, that allows us to focus on the platform features rather than internals allowing us to innovate rapidly.

A Twilio individual confirmed at CloudCamp QCon in San Francisco that they are working to replace Asterisk (http://asterisk.org) as their key telephony engine. Further evidence of this is that Twilio, for the first time, is working hard to hire telephony experts. Whereas previously they were proud that they did not have telephony experts in-house and would actually plug this as a benefit.

It will continue to be hard for Twilio to catch-up to Tropo, given that they are having to spend time replacing the core fabric that they built their platform on. I suspect that they are most likely targeting Freeswitch (http://freeswitch.org) since Asterisk SCF (http://www.asterisk.org/asterisk/scf) is still a nascent project. I wish them luck with that, as replacing your core telephony engine is no trivial task.
Does anybody know where I can buy a template that's similar to this? I've looked on ThemeForest but they all violate some of these rules.
This article is worth reading: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/09/there-is-no-pla...

It explains things like why having a IPv6 capable computer doesn't solve the problem, why we can't just use the class A address space etc etc.
http://www.rootbsd.net/ is another choice. I'm happy with them.
I second that as a latte-drinking, gay-marriage-backing, gun-banning liberal. Regarding the gun-banning, I would note that many gun owners overestimate the utility of firearms for protection in exactly the same way many liberals overestimate the risks of a modern nuclear power plant. Perhaps we all have a common interest in encouraging our fellow citizens to rely on enlightened reason rather than blind fear in making public policy, regardless of the question at hand.
It is true that we all live in a bubble, and that people with past success get a disproportionate about of attention for their future products (I sure have!).

That being said, in ever other industry (music, film, etc) this seems to happen as well.

I love the fact that folks are excited about the LAUNCH conference because of my work on Silicon Alley Reporter, Engadget and because i created TechCrunch50.

Keep in mind it is also a slight burden, in that folks expect your projects to boom overnight--and that's not how 99% of launches go.

folks ripped Mahalo.com apart at the start, and it's only since we hit the top 200 sites and 20M+ video views a month that we've started to get a little credit.
One would expect any ad blocker that actually blocks ads to reduce memory consumption significantly. Ad blockers that merely hide ads exist and have succeeded in earning reputations as ad blockers despite only doing half the job.
One interesting nugget: more than half of the 200+ employees at Stack Exchange are working on StackOverflow Careers.

Has anyone used SO Careers? Opinions?
Congratulations, and (more importantly) thanks.
i find proper error handling to be just as interesting as coding the actual algorithm, especially server-side. debugging big distributed systems often boils down to how errors are handled. throwing an exception loses too much context and feels like cheating.
Is this signaling or what? What straussian message are you sending: don't accept invites? Sorry for the obtruse comment but feel lost.
Nice! Can you share about how much did it cost to host the conference then, even approximately?

I wonder if your stack can become a pattern to host large-ish to large conferences on-line!
When I recommend, it is for the long train car ride in silence during which the film imperceptibly switches from black and white to color. And, for the long shot looking down at the stream...

The rest is a bonus on top of these experiences.

;)
I think that all these small factor laptops should just use JJ50 layout[1] for the keyboard. It makes no sense to arrange them into old QWERTY-style, you can't use it comfortably anyway.

1: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32957204924.html
I mostly agree with you, but I think there are forms of this that I would definitely consider dark patterns -

The one that immediately jumps to mind is "Add this item to your cart to see the price".

There's no good intention there, just manipulation. The statistics show a user is more likely to buy an item after adding it to their cart, and this forces them to do that before revealing pertinent information to the user.

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Basically - If it's not a solution that can be customized to the user/customer, I find hiding the price is almost always a dark pattern.

If it is a solution that can be customized, it may or may not be a dark pattern, but I still tend to avoid companies that do this - it often means they want additional information from me, or that they're hoping additional sales and marketing information will make me less price sensitive before showing me the final price.
The article suggests as much so you're probably right. Could even be both.
Indeed. Stenographers regularly hit 200wpm on chorded keyboards, with a record of 375. We haven't adopted that tech en mass because speed isn't the only factor
I once worked with an engineer who implemented the card game hearts in every language he learned. After the first implementation, you don't have to spend so much time thinking about the problem domain and can focus on finding the most idiomatic solution in the new language. The other benefit is that the project always has a clear endpoint.
so, where are they ?
While I find the article interesting I am distracted by all of the dropped 'th' through out. Is this something intentional or a kind of strange error?
"If our own minds were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be too dumb to understand them anyway."
English has no problems saying that a circle is an ellipse, though. Neither does math. I'd like my programming languages to be able to express math.
Private in this context doesn't mean "not open". Private means not owned by the state/public. A cinema is still a "private[ly owned] place" despite its raison d'etre being to attract and welcome the public.

Private land usually means that the owner can control some of the activity on that land, such as photography.
The idea, it seems, is to get half of the spending, by providing more value per view, as well as mandating both a minimum level of quality of advertisements (I recall hearing that Apple's design team was doing the ads for the first batch of companies on iAd) and implicitly supporting them by allowing them on the platform.
You do have 2 pipes - one to Sydney and one to Hawaii.
LLVM is not really a virtual machine, at least not in the same sense as the ones we're talking about.
I may have mentioned this before, but the multivariate version of GWO doesn't change your URL space and doesn't need to be keyed off of page views.
Here is the relevant code: http://github.com/fitzgen/wu.js/blob/master/lib/wu.js#L574
I don't understand why NZ doesn't build another pipe or two.
After using it a bit I want two things: 1) Integration with iBooks 2) Full screen.
> The crux of the problem is that there isn't a way to directly quantify what is absolutely needed for a job position, and in turn, there isn't a way for an applicant to demonstrate they meet those qualifications, short of the person doing the job.

This varies according to job. E.g. for a programming job, the employer could ask applicants to solve a programming problem, such as FizzBuzz (or something harder).
Exactly. The only time I have ever wanted to use video chat was to talk to my partner and kid whilst on the road. They nailed it, as usual.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409028

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/cd547/i_was_one_of_the...

clicky, clicky
I'm all for replacing BIOS. Your parent was discussing the suggested changes to the interface used to interact with it, not the actual BIOS.

BIOS is all about functionality, not about interaction, so features are debatable, but user interface improvement? WHY!? That's like trying to improve the user friendliness of the insides of your engine. Some people will see the insides of your engine, but they are either professionals or hobbyists who accept the risk and difficulty.

(I say extended features are debatable because features means bugs and bloat, and if there's any one thing you NEED TO WORK on your machine, it's the BIOS)
Well this would only work if your wifi router was on the far side of the house and you want to direct the signal to the rest of the house. If it was in the middle of the house it wouldn't work as well.
If brevity dominates your desire for quality, you may be misplaced.
FYI this post is a year old.
> And since most of those phons had physical keypads, the UI mechanism for doing it was fairly intuitive

Are you joking? I never even realized my old E70 could copy/paste (then again, I never quite looked for it either, but it definitely wasn't obvious), and on more recent efforts for the Pre the copy/paste implementation is an utter disgrace. And yes, it does use the physical keyboard.
Repeated - clickable:

http://subtextual.org/demo1.swf

http://subtextual.org/subtext2.swf - most interesting. Recommended.

http://coherence-lang.org/Onward09video/Onward09video.mp4

Sites:

http://subtextual.org/

http://coherence-lang.org/
This has been here before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322401 and guess what? hoax: http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/03/17/thinkmodo-the...
For what it's worth, their job site now says you paste your resume into a box:
http://www.amazon.com/How-Apply-Help-Careers-Homepage/b/ref=...

I don't know about 6 months ago, perhaps their policy has changed.
Are we going to run out of oil to power the extraction, production and shipping of the materials before we get around to doing it? Probably not, but still, the costs go up more and more the later we leave it.
I don't matter. But - goodbye tumblr.
This is actually pretty helpful, in that my approach to programming in a new language is "Try to do X with the new language, and if I can't, read the docs until I can." That is, I try to actually DO something, and gather incidental knowledge along the way.

This is a really good post on how to do something useful with Haskell (plus it has IO, which is nice). One of the nice things about this approach is that the incidental knowledge can be useful, e.g. I didn't know about the "-e" flag to GHC.
No. I would not need it from day one. On day one, I would expect to have no connection to development tools. I could just enter a milestone when we release it and your tool would insert that milestone into our timeline. Going forward, it would be great to do automatically.
The API for JSC has stayed unchanged for years. JSC is a public library on OSX and there are thousands of Apps that rely on it.

The only reason it's not public on iOS is that Apple doesn't like scripting languages on a mobile device, as they are potentially slow and energy hungry. At least that's my guess.
That site would be better if it was "cringe.ly"
Interesting. Either way my opening seemed to be more problematic as the computer still went out of its way to checkmate itself without the en passant. Still a cool achievement.
You just have to use ngx_headers_more instead of the built-in headers module.

That add_header would get fixed (as a sibling comment states it should) is unlikely as it is intended to work that way:

> There could be several add_header directives. These directives are inherited from the previous configuration level if and only if there are no add_header directives defined on the current level.

It really is too bad that the functionality provided by ngx_headers_more isn't available out of the box, since it makes it a pain to use nginx on distributions that don't package it.
That is true, I guess in my head I had assumed that somewhere like GS was just full of traders/ private banking, and not really a lot else - but thinking about it, that doesn't really make sense
Interesting they bring up a comparison with Scraping Services:

"If you're popular, people will make a third-party app that scrapes data from the service, for example all the third-party programs that scrape information from Twitter," Mr Potter told the BBC.

There is still no word from the Supreme Court on LinkedIn Corp. v. hiQ Labs Inc. so it's an open question if this is a good argument.

[1] https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/linkedin-corp-v-...
Apart from recording group calls when some people can't attend (you can already do this with any video call software), I don't see a good use case for this. Video is strictly worse for async communication than text - it's more difficult to review, more difficult to extract the important points, it's much more awkward and time consuming to record yourself speaking than to write an email or a message.
> doing their bills and things

Like bills do require a full office in 2021.
I pay all my bills by pressing a button on my smartphone. And that's because I like to review them, I could pay them automatically if I really want to.
Yeah but you need to be a top engineering/CS kid to get those high-paying tech jobs.

All you need to get a job in IBD is go to a top school, have a high gpa, and be able to memorize some basic accounting and finance and not blow your interviews.

Getting a technical degree like CS and then passing the interviews at a place like Google or whatever the hottest unicorn grads wanna work at is way tougher IMO
> But now consider a counterfactual scenario – a ‘safe first strike’ – in which some technology made it possible to completely destroy an adversary before they could respond, leaving them unable to retaliate.

This is why I have been opposing Missile Defence. Strategically missile defence is a highly offensive technology, since it allows a safer first strike capability.
It's not, really. People get confused about this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1088440503622909...

I've personally no problem with them protecting their investment this way.
Gruber at his best!
Savings.com != Mahalo.com. There is no reason to rank Mahalo... if that is the site being looked for then rank Savings.com instead.

It is what is known as a "thin affiliate" site, and it adds a layer of navigation to the user and middleman payouts to the advertiser, lowering user experience and driving up advertiser costs.
If Trump frequented sex workers surely some evidence would have shown up? It’s not like he’s discreet about his marriages, affairs and dalliances. He doesn’t appear to be capable of shutting up.
I wasn't aware that existed and obviously that would make any scraping utterly useless
I know your questions were rhetoric but on importing Spotify to Tidal, I've recently tried it and it was not as smooth as I hoped so gave up for the time being. Tidal recommend a 3rd party. I went to their website, selected Spotify -> Tidal, then read something about it only transferring 500 songs for free. You need to PAY for a SUBSCRIPTION to do this one off job and it isn't cheap ... so I quit the process before signing in with auth0. I scoured GitHub for good Spotify to Tidal python libraries and couldn't get any to work. I then thought I'd just make my own since I have the nice JSON export of my Spotify data, but then then couldn't find details on an official public Tidal API so totally gave up and now my free trial has run out. Tidal have lost a customer and I'm stuck with Spotify when what I really want is for bandcamp to have a better app, more geared to long music listening sessions, with playlists.
I've been writing Go since 2009, so I'm not late to the party. I was there when it started :-)
I did watch Fravor's interview; this is mostly what I'm basing my thoughts on. He does say he thinks it's extraterrestrial, but goes on to say that he 'doesn't really care about things like that' and he just decided to drop it, or something. Isn't that kind of being nonchalant?

I'm not trying to be overly argumentative here - I want to believe, as they say. I was just left a bit disappointed by Fravor's testimony.

Re: being decades old, I think that's easily within the realm of my theory. Basically my theory requires a few precision servos with lasers to align them and some kind of maybe visual targeting system. This has certainly existed for at least 2 decades, probably 4 decades.

Let's say someone was testing an analog, remote-projection system using lasers in the 60s. Is it possible that this system heated up the mechanisms controlling the nukes enough to temporarily de-activate them?

But no, I haven't watched most of the videos in your Youtube playlist. I am actually interested and I will check them out.
Ask someone more experienced to suggest a framework.

Read documentation and implement.
Perhaps not in a general sense. But that they were certainly good enough at C++ that my employer was quite happy with their performance at those tasks. They just weren't very good at translating that to areas they were less familiar with.
It is interesting to keep these numbers in mind, but these facts are not sufficient to think correctly about climate.

The earth is a dynamic system, and the rate of temperature growth is as much, if not more, important than temperature average here. A car going from 100 to 0 kmph in 15 seconds is definitely not the same as a car going from 100 to 0 kmph in 0.1 seconds in terms of damage.

the temperature rises described in the article (e.g. during the eocene) are about a few degrees every few hundreds of thousands of years. Flore and fauna had time to evolve.

Today we are talking about 4 degrees in less than a hundred years. That's more than thousand times faster.
If anyone is interested in an antecedent to our current climate change situation, BBC's In Our Time did an excellent deep-dive into the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hpmmf

The kind of carbon ejection and correlated temperature change we're seeing today hasn't really been seen since the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. That atmospheric event happened over the course of 50_000 years, we're looking to replicate it in a matter of 100s of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm...
Do you guys have a bug reporting system available? You really need to disable Django debug mode, btw.
Very cool! However, it didn't return my activity (egomaniac that I am), but worked perfectly for other users.

Just a minor nitpick: this project would profit from OpenID/Oauth/whatever sign-on. There is really no reason why I need to create a "real" user account with a username...
Update: The page at http://www.dwheeler.com/readable/ appears to be the project's homepage.
I actually let it on intentionally for now so that our (hopefully) helpful users might also send through actual error text when they get a bug. This'd be something we remove a few hours or days from now.
DHH, Petercooper, and spolsky
Cheer faramarz! I'm doing the same sort of searching too. Some kind of 'people search' might be nice but not sure how that would be implemented.
Genocide of 1 milion of your own citizens - this is what Putin did. You say American presidents are as bad? Really?!

So Hitler saying Roosevelt is horrible because of racism in the US is perfectly fine in your book?

Or what about murderer being a judge in a thief case?

I wish Americans were so ready to see issues in Russia, Iran, China as they are to see very small errors in the US policy.

Russians are banned to even watch CNN nowadays but you guys buy Russia-TV fed propaganda day and night.
I tried a new tor a few times, they all got blocked.
Remember, no referring to Meta Inc. as "Facebook"!
I love the 12 Pro. The updated 5-esque design really withstands the test of time.
While not world changing, it did allow for the paying for of illicit drugs over the internet. Silkroad was the peak of bitcoin usability IMO (regardless of my moral perspective on the matter). Ever since, its slowly transitioned into a Ponzi scheme built on the back of future "decentralized finance" promises.
what's stopping a connected miner from bribing the right people to get a discount on electricity and skip the carbon tax?

International sanctions. Civilize or die.
Rate of growth. For bitcoin to be useful as currency, it needs to be used by many more people, while idle devices may not grow much more.

However idle devices power consumption also needs to be addressed.
I think it does. Here's an article introducing Liftoff [1] with the relevant parts:

> With Liftoff and TurboFan, V8 now has two compilation tiers for WebAssembly: Liftoff as the baseline compiler for fast startup and TurboFan as optimizing compiler for maximum performance.

> Immediately after Liftoff compilation of a module finished, the WebAssembly engine starts background threads to generate optimized code for the module.

[1]: https://v8.dev/blog/liftoff
I suspect one lifetime would not suffice to mine Grin with pencil and paper. Its Cuckatoo32 PoW puzzle is to find a 42-cycle in a random bipartite graph with 2^32 edges. each defined by 2 siphashes.

https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
"best: Select the best quality format represented by a single file with video and audio."

Not the same as bestvideo+bestaudio which will merge separate sources.
Let's just say there is a specific slant to the politics here and far too many people would rather down vote than refute an argument.
"I'm guessing"

Yes, you are. I'm saying this is a more interesting question, and one that isn't answered. Because the reality is that if you're appending just a handful of things together, the idiomatic approach is to concatenate them, and this optimization comes into play. If you're concatenating a lot of items together...you probably already have a list, and the idiomatic approach to join them is probably faster than a for loop to concat them over and over. So the question then, is is there a point where idiomatically it makes more sense to join things (putting them in a list if they aren't already, but they might be; depends on the example), but this will be more efficient?
Yeah, Posterous numbers always seemed to be inflated. I once tried posting my blog link using Bit.ly URL shortner as it also offers analytics for clicks per hour. But Bitly's stats were way less compared to what Posterous was showing during few hours of observation. Unfortunately I didn't do more analysis, but from that point onwards, I started not to believe in Posterous' numbers.
I'd have to look at it more, but I think doing the 2nd factor auth before a simple password auth will have problems. What you really want is they login like normal, but then they get a txt message or use an app on their phone to do the 2nd factor.

2 factor auth though is very much possible with this, actually with any service. I may try to hack that up as a demo this week. Maybe use twilio for it and have it call you. Fun!