jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wikipedia says that the phone is called the Motorola Milestone in Europe, but called the Motorola Droid in the US because Verizon, who have exclusive US distribution rights on the phone, has licensed the name from Lucasfilm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_droid

It also says that the HTC/Droid Incredible is on Verizon too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_Incredible

And the HTC Hero on Verzion is called the Droid Eris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Droid_Eris
In the West, Shaw is getting sued by Telus for calling their service "Fiber +" even though the "last mile" is copper.

https://mobilesyrup.com/2020/06/12/telus-shaw-lawsuit-mislea...
> and they vote with what - dollars

More and more, I am seeing many companies that realize they can do both: take the user's money and feed them ads. After all, that's more profitable than just taking their money.

As examples, T-mo, Verizon, my local gas station, various airlines all both take my money and give me ads. Some are even known to sell my data.

So, can I actually vote with my wallet?
Branch operations should be first-class transactions in a revision control system. In Git, if you rename branch "foo" to "bar" there's even less record-keeping in place than changes to files. Instead, there should be a first class transaction in the repo history that represents this change.
Running code from untrusted sources (Javascript/WASM in the browser) is an anti-pattern. It causes all sorts of problems and vulnerabilities.
Twitter was useful for following people in the tech field but otherwise I do not miss it. The constant 'gotcha' tweets and blue-checkmark posturing... ughhh, so awful.
What you said is not very different from what I said. Read the other thread under the parent comment where we expanded/discussed with another commenter on some of your points.
The angle on the trackpad can be uncomfortable when it’s sitting on your lap.
Ah, then I misunderstood, thanks for setting me straight!
Also, noone will notify you when a sales tax or VAT law changes -- you have to find it out on your own :)

It's not an impossible problem, it's definitely doable, but I'm pretty sure you need a couple of people and won't be able to do it all on your own.

If you're just a small seller, you can "fly under the radar" and just handle taxes in your own jurisdiction.

But as you get bigger, you need to handle every place that you sell to. Especially if you resell your solution to others.
Ha! Missed the tiny "mean" vs "median" difference between the first two. Thanks!
I don't use Dropbox so I recently learned that they performed data deduplication. For me this is still a breaking story.
guest@goosh.org:/web> calculate 1 inch in m
Error: could not calculate that.

:-( fail. But still a really great concept!
Funnily enough https://github.com/tj/n/issues/86
I came across a troupe of Longswording Englishmen in a fencing workshop in Scotland. They mainly practiced mowing down unarmed peasants with longswords, from what I could see. Perhaps you could expand on my limited insight?
So, what is difference between your group and The Society for Creative Anachronism? Is there cross over?
Oh how I am not a fan of the "non-descript icon only" trend... I had no idea there was a filter. Thank you!
Important detail: that $15 rtlsdr stick cannot transmit.
So? Why is it bad that the procedure is patented? That's not automatically a bad thing. People invest money and time into R&D and the patent allows them to protect the invention while they make a return on that investment.

Patent trolls (organizations that patent something inane, never make the product and pray on businesses who can't afford to fight you) are the problems. I don't see an indication that these guys are trolls.
This is just brilliant.
Super convinient when I'm working at my desk. No need to be juggling with two devices.
Interested to see what people think about companies like Gamma?
I believe you may have misunderstood my post. I’m not excusing Facebook’s actions around their users’ privacy (or any of their crooked actions for that matter)

I’m trying to encourage people to remember that this is what these companies do when we use their services for free. They seem to think they are entitled to our private data and they are beginning to respond harshly when we try to keep what is rightly ours to ourselves.
> Many business incorporate in Delaware since they have very friendly business taxes.

No, that's not the reason at all. The reason is that the state judiciary has expertise in corporate law that other states don't, so litigation is smooth and predictable. You don't get a family court judge assigned to your corporate law case, as can actually happen elsewhere.

It is/was the same with East Texas and patent law, until recently at least. It became corrupted by donations of civic facilities by large litigators, so I think some companies have moved on.

> If i remember right, they also have no personal income tax

Most Delaware corporations are used by businesses in other states, so it has nothing to do with personal income tax.
They could still call for a peaceful protest, elsewhere.

This seems to be limited to a place where it's clear protests aren't peaceful and people are calling on / acting undemocratically and are pretty open about it.

Facilitating folks who wish to take undemocratic steps would seem to bring us closer to far more serious restrictions, imposed by those same folks as far as how a democracy is or isn't allowed to operate.
I think the universe of topic-driven forums is the best I've seen so far.

What eventually wrecks any of the "meet friends/family/strangers and chat loosely" MySpace/Facebook/Google+/etc. networks toxic is that they're "unbounded" to serve their business model. They want to show 50% quarter-over-quarter active-user growth, and when that caps out, they need to squeeze the user bases for ever more interaction and engagement. Quality is not on the radar. So they're incentivized first to load the site with bots, desperate virality and recruitment efforts, and low-quality content, and later more and more obnoxious algorithms and dark-pattern design.

A topic-driven forum tends to have different motivations. The definition of success is to be a compelling community and content for a specific, and typically finite, audience. You're not going to growth-hack Hacker News or Deskthority in quite the same toxic way as Facebook does.

A small, but tighter-knit community often can be self-funded via subscriptions or donations, and if you go ad supported, there's a potential for a high-quality non-programmatic-nightmare ad experience, based on direct relations with advertisers directly relevant to the site theme and audience.

There's also granularity and control created by it not being a single all-purpose systen. Each new community is an opt-in choice rather than an algorithmic imposition, and you can punt the toxic ones without having to delete them all.
Ok. Do you think the Capitol Police would have been as accommodating if a largely black crowd had tried to take over the Capitol?
I think it means "the protest was good and legitimate but it needs to end now."
I'm not an American but as a citizen of the world I care about what's going on in the USA. So I decided to click on one of your links and go down that rabbit hole. I picked [3]. This certain Nahshon Garret who claims that he has not voted in Arizona yet somehow did vote in Arizona.

So it seems this dude is a wrestler, and here's a random Twitter quote: "If the CHURCh understood the Laws of God which govern our relationship with Him, our neighbor, and those whom he has given authority to we wouldn’t be in this situation. The Church has failed to represent the lawful nature character and heart of God. Lawlessness is rampant." Anyhow, look him up on Twitter.

If you Google this story you'll see this dude got a fair bit of media exposure. I'd say more than I'd expect. So much for "the media doesn't report on this".

We also have some mystery Arizona law firm involved here. So what's the story exactly in how this specific person got involved with this specific law firm? I'd follow that lead but I sort of got an idea about who is involved here.

Just because we have a signed affidavit doesn't mean its true...

This guy (or rather these lawyers) did have their day in court: https://www.clerkofcourt.maricopa.gov/records/election-2020/... and the Justice offers a lengthy and educated opinion on the issue as a whole (basically while there might have been some irregularities there is no way they would have changed the outcome of the elections). And man, there is a lot of minutes/paperwork here.

Is this your best evidence of fraud? I think it's pretty thin.

Also please vote in your elections, it impacts all of us.
The bomb was found at RNC headquarters, a few blocks away from the Capitol, not the Capitol itself.
I prefer http://www.etymonline.com/index.php - indeed, I have a keyword search in Firefox set up for just this. Also, see acre's etymology - also cognates in Sanskrit etc., but seemingly more direct than pyre etc.
The d9c4 is retracted.
Yep, Apache is great at doing everything sort of alright.
This is the exact same problem HN discussed yesterday with the post on Hiring people with different skills.

You either have to hire people cross trained or you have to be willing to cross train them yourself.

Just assuming that cross training will happen on its own is a big mistake.
I also figured that their data is biased, but the interesting part is that the trend line goes counter to that bias. Say that RescueTime is heavily used by early adopters that are comfortable with cloud-based services, the same people that are likely to use Google Apps. In the beginning, you'd expect that to bias the results toward Google. But as RescueTime broadens toward mainstream appeal - which is already happening, I was an early adopter but then dropped it when it got too corporate - you'd expect Google's market share to drop, as RescueTime's share expanded to include more Microsoft users. Instead, you see the opposite, where Google's share is growing even though the population of RescueTime users is expanding into domains typically held by Microsoft.
Feature detection is the way to go as far as I understand.

See the relevant chapter from Mark Pilgrim's Dive into HMTL5, for a start. He uses Modernizr to do the detecting: http://www.modernizr.com/.

http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html
Pete's right-on about this: "You've chosen to leave all that information out in the open so you can benefit from the search traffic, and instead try to change the established rules of the web so you can selectively sue anyone you decide is a threat. "

Speaking as someone who's working on leveraging the Facebook API in a commercial product, this leaves me feeling like I'm opening myself to a lot of legal exposure if Facebook subjectively decides that my service poses even a minor threat to them. Given that I'm bootstrapping, there's no way I'd be able to put up any sort of legal fight what so ever against a company as well-funded as Facebook.
I admire how tudorw has largely avoided this problem by nabbing "1". :)
Personally, I'm willing to bet anyone a billion dollars that we won't have hyperinflation in the next ten years.
I really don't understand what you're trying to get at. I'm telling you what Basecamp works well for, and what I believe it was designed to do. You're telling me that you disagree with the marketing copy on their website. I didn't write that marketing copy, and I'm not interested in critiquing it.

Regardless of how your mental mapping of their marketing copy works, they've been completely explicit about the fact that Basecamp is not designed for people who want fine-grained schedule-based management. They've written extremely popular blog posts about why they think that kind of project management is evil. You can agree or disagree with that (I do both), but you can't tell them they have to add features they don't want to add just because you have a different definition of "project management".
rconsole provides syslog bindings as a drop-in replacement for node's built in console module along with other useful output (revised console)

If you want to forward your logs somewhere remote you can set that up in your syslog config

https://github.com/tblobaum/rconsole
This is why I always make an active effort to participate in my classes. It generally all sticks better in my brain if there's something I can remember with it - I'll remember the four stages of the 30 Years' War if I can remember my teacher lecturing and me asking questions and my classmates joking around. It has worked so far, so I guess there's something to that.
Although they don't have an ECB func, You can trivially implement it from their AES library. I imagine the thinking goes something like, if you don't know enough to write a couple lines to implement ECB, you probably shouldn't be using it. It really doesn't take a deep understanding of crypto understand ECB.

ECB is the simplest AES mode, you just encrypt each block of your message using the same key. Here is an image of a penguin encrypted with AES-ECB:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Tux_ecb.j...

Do you see the problem?
If PHPNG dies they simply could elect a different environment to be the official one. Just because PHPNG is "the future" right now doesn't mean the fate of the language is tied to it forever.
"Drive" by Dan Pink sort of talks about that. Your purpose should be something that you provide, not external factors, like grades and fears from what comes from them.
> It's amazing how many people don't know we had concentration camps in the USA in recent history.

When you say "concentration camp" people think of gas chambers, crematoria, and genocide, which were not components of Japanese internment. The term is still technically correct, but that may be why people are confused and surprised.

Maybe my school was odd... Japanese internment was at least mentioned every year in US History between 7th and 11th grade.
Sorry, "body { width:940px; }", really?

It's 2011, we should be using fluid layouts (see blueprint-liquid, emastic).
I wonder what would have happened if Indie Stone was using Amazon Payments here? They seem to have better customer service and it seems more clear to me how to differentiate commercial from non-profit transactions https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/helpTab/Amazon-Simple-...
That's exactly what's next. We figured that most users would just want to browse than post but we provide a small call to action for every user at the bottom of the page to sign up (or learn more). Please try posting something... we tried to make it easy to post incorporating the Flickr and Gmaps APIs
fbvideo.com? really?
The design of secondary indexes is much simpler, more tightly integrated, and more transparent than Riak Search. It will feel more like part of the same datastore, rather than something you have to deal with on the side.
> Since I can't see your score, and you can't see mine, I honestly have no idea at this point whether more people agree with you than with me... When this thread is referenced to a week from now there is no way to see what sort of agreement occurred with either one of us.

It's almost as though the future reader would need to form an opinion... for themselves.
Yeah WebCL will be really useful at least for what I'm doing. I know they have a private list right now, hopefully they will open it up soon.

One issue with WebCL is the device support. WebGL is capable of running of pretty much anything but WebCL (unless they decide to make a fake software version for system who don't support it in hardware) is going to be limited to a small subset of clients for a while.
It's the managers duty to create the trust needed for having a constructive discussion of task breakdowns and timelines. If the engineer is "just saying things to get the managers out of their hair" the manager has failed at this.

You seem to dismiss entirely that doing a proper task breakdown is a way to think about the problem, revealing unknowns, clarifying requirements and making sure as many steps along the way as possible are clear and actionable.

In an ASIC project, if you miss your tape-out deadline, your time to market will be delayed by several months until the fab can find a new slot to fit you in. This can cost many millions of dollars. Accurate development estimates are important.
> Trump fans of lots of different backgrounds get along great, because they share what they consider important.

I haven't thought about this earlier, but there is some truth to it. When I'm with my rightish colleagues, I can basically say anything I like, the worst I risk is being called a stupid commie. Of course they know we have very different opinions, but there is no problem - basically I feel free to discuss anything.

With my leftish friends, I really need to be much more careful. Frankly, I'm not up to date about all the current developments especially in the trans sphere, and I'm not sure if the thing that appears in my mind is the right one to say. And when I say something wrong, they are really outraged. They take it personally. So I find myself a bit more quiet when I' with them, and I keep my opinions about important issues to myself.
Was the second part of your comment really necessary?
I see zero evidence that Google cares about G̶S̶u̶i̶t̶e̶
Google Workspace.
I haven't heard of or experienced those issues directly =/ The only issue I've hit myself is lint getting packed into the port which is fairly easily cleaned but annoying if you don't have a tool handy. I have heard lots of stories about the cable fatiguing. My suspicion is that's because of using the phone while charging; heating and bending the cable near the connector. I haven't experienced this (I tend not to charge while using it) but have friends that do.

I haven't seen or heard of an issue with USB-C ports. My beefs are that there isn't enough, you can't get more with a hub, and generic power supplies and cables have only been available in the past couple years. The older devices I had with USB-C I got rid of when they fixed the keyboard. I definitely had them longer then 6-12 months.
"You can only launch 1 concurrent EC2 instance per $100 on your max cap, if you want to launch 1000 instances of EC2 your max cap needs to be set to at least $100.000, or to $unlimited".

There are many solutions to this problem to prevent abuse. All of which are way better for consumers than the status quo of everybody having an $unlimited spending limit.
Shareware scene changed a lot in recent years. The gap between those with ambitions and doing impressive things and those still trying to survive on trivial products is now very big. These two crowds don't mix and those who do well aren't terribly interested in forums to begin with. They do however share some insights here and there, on Twitter, blogs, etc. The trick now is to understand which companies are the one-person shops and ISVs, despite the appearances, and which are in fact larger shops.
"lawsuit would invite the Streisand effect."

That could be fairly good effect for a Substack writer who now strives to be independent.

Unless, of course, the end result is that Visa and MasterCard deplatform Substack.
I had the exact same experience/realization. It's very easy to get focused on work and stop paying attention to the irritation one is putting their body in.

I have two examples.

Recently, I noticed that my neck posture was starting to lean forward again, and I realized that it was because I was sitting just a few more centimeters away from my desk because I had changed the place that I was sitting at. Given that I hadn't changed my font size, I was naturally leaning forward just a little bit. Once I noticed that, I bought a better monitor arm, moved my monitor closer, and now I can slowly return my posture to a less craned position. I've done it before, so I'm not too worried about getting it done eventually. Standing against a wall for a few minutes to calibrate your sense of where your head should be is a good tool for this.

The other example is when I was subconsciously stopping my keyboard from slipping using my right hand when it was on a slight incline. Eventually, this caused my entire right arm to be in pain on a daily basis from not just the wrist, but the elbow, shoulder, and back.

It's little things like this that make a huge difference. You have to appreciate how sensitive a body can be when you're sitting in the same position for so many hours (switching up positions/standing can help with this).

Once I fixed those things, I still had to reverse the damage that had been done, so I took a break from work for about a week and started doing exercises at home again. Mainly just pull ups and push ups (with a form that emphasized triceps more than chest) as far as arms were concerned, and that very slowly strengthed my shoulders and back, which got me to pain free after about a month and a half.

Even simple exercises like that can be enough to help prevent/undo a lot of the pain of RSI.
You mean, we don’t need GMOs to worry about that? Maybe it’s great if we don’t have to worry about some GMOs in addition to the problems we already have.
Nitpick: your comment implies that the DTCC is representing Wall Street, but it is an understatement: DTCC for all intents and purposes is Wall Street. DTCC is owned by (quoting wikipedia here - sic!) "banks, brokers". It's a 6 minute walk from NYSE to DTCC (which shouldn't be surprising).

Given that, it isn't outside of realms of possibility that raising of collateral requirements had additional objectives other than simply limiting risk on the system (which, I should mention, was very, very real - in case RH went bankrupt). Normal people won't have any way to know.
One thing about this is that the money saved by paying employees less, goes into someone’s pocket. Senior management, or the owner. Some people will benefit massively from this. And don’t forget zero office costs since everyone is remote. I’d also expect to see coworking spaces in some of the larger towns to be thing soon too.
> It's not for the EU to be scared. They just need to setup camp in Armenia, then others will not dare attack.

That should be the case but is not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre

Specifically, show me one country in the EU whose internal politics could sustain losing significant numbers of personnel in a proxy war with the second largest military in NATO.
> The business model is simple: you buy smaller independent schools and incorporate them into the growing groups and then make a profit by targeting marketing to easy-to-teach, independent students [...] With a sold-out, simpler student base, the corporation schools can reduce salaries, teacher density, resource staff

> When the profitable students have been absorbed by the independent school, the municipal school is left with a more difficult student base

This is the gist of the article, that private entities are driving up the government's cost of education by attracting cheaper-to-teach students and then claiming the government funding allocated to those students. The municipality is then left to teach the harder-to-teach students. The funding per student is presumably averaged, so this is similar to the concept of privatising the profits and socialising the losses.

But is there anything stopping the municipalities themselves from competing in the same way? A group of municipalities could also pool resources to reduce costs and attract cheaper-to-teach students.

I think the article focuses too much on private profit, with only a small paragraph each about how the independent schools are given an unfair information advantage, and how some of them are controlled by religious extremists:

> National Agency for Education made all statistics about individual schools secret

> a school system that increases segregation and allows jihadist schools run by people with links to Islamism and violent extremism