jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This happens with "bacalhau" (norwegian codfish). It's appreciated by the europeans for ages, but overfishing made it prohibitively priced.

Now you have 5 or 6 different fish sold under this name at markets, fished on Alaska and China, but they taste all the same so it makes no difference (only on the price).

The word "bacalhau" now refers more to the kind of preparation (dried fish) than the species itself. It could be the same with tuna ("tuna" being, any red meat fish with the same consistency and similar taste).
>why I can't get a wine glass today made this way //

How many thousands of dollars do you want to spend?
Yikes.
Good thing I never liked Tuna.
I had completely forgotten about the KIN. In all reality, I was hoping that the Surface would compete and bring Microsoft back in the competition (I hate Microsoft, but I'd hate to see them die off I'm also not a fan of Apple... but that's, I guess another story).
The Wikipedia article claims air pollution from living in New York or Boston is 30 times worse than the risk from living with a smoker, though that was in 1979. Presumably air pollution has become much less severe since then. Does anyone know the figure today?
Replace "analyst says" with "area man says" and you get a story from The Onion. I'd be more impressed if an "unnamed Microsoft board member" was the source.
Such as Digital Research, Borland, Novell, Netscape, AOL, Sun, and Palm. IBM isn't what it used to be, either.

Any more?
on the one hand you are totally right. on the other hand there are many companies trying to implement their BI solutions from scratch, this foundation could be a good fit for them. anyway, thanks for your feedback, I highly appreciate it.
I think that would be a mistake. There's a reason why the Principle of Charity doesn't add "except when you feel provoked". Human bias always sees the other person as having started it, being more inflammatory, etc.—so a principle which said "just do better than the other person" (or, to translate into the present terms, "just don't be as low-quality as you feel the article is") would never get applied at all.

So no, the onus is on all of us to contribute substantively even in response to something we consider unsubstantive. When we can't do that, posting nothing is a fine option.

The reason we're considering adding the Principle of Charity to the HN guidelines is that it gives practical guidance on how to comment substantively, which is what HN has always called for. I'm racking my brains trying to think of why anyone would object to having this rule, and so far haven't found a good reason.
Where do you live? It's interesting to hear about an area where most people are running signal.

Here in the UK WhatsApp and messenger are the only ones that most people I know are using.
There are reasonable questions about the rules, process and procedures used in the last election.

There was a lot that was done over the last year that eroded trust in this election, the objections on the day of the electoral count being the final perfunctory domino.

Trust in a system has to be earned, and the way that we go about setting the rules for voting, counting valid votes, and reporting the count has been frankly a very chaotic process. It’s no doubt millions of people doubt the outcome.

But this isn’t really anything new. In 2016 50% of Democrats believed that it was somewhat or highly likely that Russians directly altered vote totals to elect Trump.

Harry Reid said there’s “no question” in his mind that Russian hackers covertly altered the 2016 vote count. “I think one reason the elections weren’t what they should have been was because the Russians manipulated the votes. It’s that simple.”
The OWC TB3 dock I'm using is also powered externally. Docks by CalDigit are different docks than OWC, but I think they are all using the same chipset underneath.

It also does not happen with Intel Macs, which use Intel TB implementation. With M1, the TB is brand new, so some issues are to be expected. I suspect that with sleep and wakeup, there is some state mixup with previous link training, so it doesn't talk to other side the way the other side expects. This might be - or might be not - fixed with firmware updates.
Mainly because of the fact that it is de facto controlled by Google (via Jibe).
> Aside from survival, there is no greater motivator for pushing oneself physically than competition

If you're a competitive person. Not everybody derives motivation from competition.
I don't use WhatsApp, I always thought it sounded like some flimsy "what's the current popular app"-app, so well..

That said, they're a private company, people still have a free choice whether to use them or not, use another communications platform if you're unhappy with their terms of service.
Roblox is a platform, Boston Dynamics is not. Boston Dynamics in Roblox can exist.
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Asking for a real-world identifier is breaking privacy from the get-go...
Because typically you want politicians engaged socially with their electorate?

Businesses fear liability. Governments should be built on it.
> I would imagine that your job description, if it exists, includes language such as "teamwork," "mentoring," and "problem solving"

Yes, all of those things are true and I do all of those things. I am speaking specifically about interrupting a coworker who is doing productive work.

> "siloed," "completely independent," and "unanswerable to anyone."

I didn't say anything about this. Respecting your coworkers time does not require any of it.
We've all heard similar propositions, but at least this request is written by an eloquent persuader who clearly has ambition; it includes social proof and trust factors.

Unfortunately naivety is something everybody has to work through.
I actually know the guy who made this, and he has a very convincing Korean version of it working.
TechCruch: a silicon valley based tabloid with an axe to grind against Yahoo! Inc for some unknown reason
It surprised me so much I took a screenshoot of it:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5815494/GW-Deutch.jpg

I cannot understand what heuristic would translate the complete German sentence "Nein." into "Yes.".
I find your comment interesting, but I'd like to underline something : one beauty of the "Today you, tomorrow me" story is that it was a family of mexican fruit-pickers helping an american man. Not the same club. Not the same community. Helping anyway. That is simpler, better, and very noble. Superior hearts (if I may say, in the sense that they are good examples to follow in order to improve ourselves)
BBEdit beach balled for about 30 minutes on my 7 million line, 500 meg test file, before I gave up and killed it.
>> for some unknown reason

AOL bought them, that may be one known reason IMHO.
look up "thegun" editor (windows)
And that is a great example of why career advice that uses words like 'dreams' and 'love' is such bullshit. People who follow it end up turning themselves into little more than slaves.
Vae Victis!

Today Youtube has almost a monopoly on video content on the Internet. If you have a monopoly the priority of power is controlling it and censor "dangeorus information".

From now on it will be impossible for anyone to post anything substantial in youtube that goes against status quo or that offends anyone, specially those in charge.

A new window of opportunity has been opened for a new service that provides uncensored content over the internet.
My understanding is that early humans were substantially closer to the equator than South Africa is, but you could be correct.
I once tried to start a car that was already started because its engine was so quiet.
There are many related problems to the one pointed out by Kamp. But I'm left asking, does the cathedral scale? Does it handle evolutionary complexity well?

I'm a believer that a much simpler/cleaner set of software tools could be created. But their wide-scale adoption would be more difficult.
I pretty much wrote hash0 (https://github.com/dannysu/hash0) for most reasons you listed. Would love more auditing if you're interested to take a look.
That's fair. It seems police forces across the US have learned to be less confrontational against protestors, and in general this has been a good thing.

I've expressed this in a sub-optimal manner, but I'm concerned about what I see as an erosion in the degree to which we give police officers discretion about how to do their jobs in the name of what amounts to a political ideology. I'm also concerned about what I see as a mentality of fear and distrust against authority (of all types, not just law enforcement), and the tendency to act on this fear rather than trying to ensure that those who have authority have it for the right reasons.
The LOC/month amount depends heavily on the problem at hand.

With new code and familiar domain I'd say I can hammer in a few thousand LOC a week.

With a horrible legacy stack I've spent weeks on work that in the end resulted in a single new function call at a particular location.
This doesn't work.

The company will be valued primarily on the final year's revenue. To be a "good deal", the total amount of revenue over 3 years must be <= 8% of the valuation. Since companies are normally valued at 3-5x revenue, that means that the final year's revenue represents 20%-33% of the valuation. No one will ever pay 20% of the value of the company to own 8%.
Sometimes aquihires are just execs at big companies helping their VC or angel friends save face and keep the deal pipeline open.
> You used to be working on AI powered eye glasses that could tell when fruit is perfectly ripe but now you work on an in house travel expense system the Apple sales people use to log their Uber bills.

Is it that realistic? Why would anyone take such a deal? Why would Apple expect those employees to stay, and given this why would they pay a premium?

My sense was that generally teams are hired because they have proven that they are competent in something specific that Apple wants to do, even if the actual code isn’t used directly.
It's a smart business strategy to buy smaller companies with great potential, it probably has something to do with why Apple is the richest company on earth, but that strategy also snuffs out that potential company before it has a chance to reach the prodigious scale of a WhatsApp or a LinkedIn. Presumably, Apple knows how to pick winners, so it's likely that at least a small fraction of Apple's acquisitions would have gone on to become ubiquitous house-hold names had they not been sold. Alas, it was fated not to be, but who knows what could have been?
I really dislike this layout. I find it difficult to scan horizontally and know I’ve seen every element. I would prefer this not be in CSS so that less people choose this layout for their site. There may be legitimate cases for masonry layout being the best layout but I can’t think of a single one. I suspect if Pinterest hadn’t popularized it very few would be asking for it.

But what do I know...
Being Apple-built software, Safari/Webkit will always take advantage of all the hardware accelerated graphics capabilities and optimisations available in Mac laptops.

Firefox/Gecko has an excellent rendering engine but Mozilla has often been late to the party with hardware acceleration on Mac.

It's also worth noting that Safari doesn't necessarily support all the same video codecs as Firefox, so for example Zoom might be using hardware accelerated h264 in Safari whereas in Firefox might use a more advanced codec (e.g. VP9) for which your MacBook might have no hardware acceleration capability. If this is the case, Firefox ought to give users the option to disable support for these non-accelerated codecs when running on battery power.
I just think that if it is hard, it's up to the parents to deal with, one way or another. They should either suck it up and slog through or change something in their lives so they can handle things better and it's not so hard anymore. I just hope they won't do something that they know is worse for the kid because it's easier for them.

In my opinion, sleep training generally falls in this category. People do it because they're exasperated and neither parent is willing to do something hard--like live with sleep deprivation or put a career on hold. They generally don't do it because they genuinely believe it's best for the baby, though they will try to come up with rationalizations to that effect after the fact.
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agreed. having ff funded by not google /ads will be huge
What about the Diebold case?
Wow, the monster link in the footer is terrible. We're they required to do that? That's BS.
Ha! That's great.
Not trying to be snarky but the pic was posted in connection with the news being out.
Random guess - this is probably because many people have a their homepage as a SSL'd google site. In order to be able to show the "login or pay" message to someone when they fire up their browser, Gogo needs to have a cert to communicate over 443 without the browser refusing to display a page.

Not condoning the practice, but thats my guess at the motivation. I also imagine it doesn't work very well, as many new browsers will refuse to display if the cert chain is broken.
Hi. I recommend to set up proper social accounts, make them containing clean one-liner/tagline of your web app and link to the page. Then post few tweets with hashtags somehow related to the problem your product solve. Then try to follow 50-100 guys in Twitter who could be your prospectives. Try to get follow backs. Post again. Look for forums and threads where people discuss tools like yours.

To support this campaign, try to write press release and send it to bloggers and magazines popping up on your key search request, set up links with them and ask to post on some date, then buy some targeted Ads in Facebook and Google.

More aggresive you will, more prospectives you engage. The better way is to make natural links on forums and boards related to your product. Better to make it the part of viral loop or even better part of user daily workflow.
It might be the other way around.
Purely tactics to get their filtering bill passed? In the end we'll all be thanking them for being such nice people that they are only filtering our internet...
> you haven't given it any real thought

Please don't do this here. Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.

Snark isn't welcome, either.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10614354 and marked it off-topic.
It might be a defective phone. Plastic housings almost always have a cheap feel no matter how well they are built. I recently got a droid x which has a metal housing which is actually kind of nice as it just feels well built.
I do agree with you on just about every point, but to be fair the author did mention that Gates is an exception to the "don't help the poor" deal. And although Zuckerberg is a good example here, it is also one that HN is inevitably aware of. Can you think of any other charitable donations to the poor so that you might strengthen your argument?
Yeah, from the article it doesn't even necessarily sound like she's incapable of a panic response to highly negative situations so much as she doesn't consider that many situations to be highly negative.
That's because Dorfman is not in philanthropy for the sake of helping anyone, he's about power and control. When pioneers of industry enter into his field with their own money and do a much more effective job at allocating it, it removes the need for the social and economic moochers that Dorfman represents.

Agree with you completely, people like Dorfman disgust me. I guess he forgot that Gates etc never had to give any of their money to anyone, much less their own personal effort and time.
I saw this tweet earlier but I am not clear on how the data is stored in Github. Does it create a new repo? Does anyone have any working examples?
It is hard to have an intelligent discussion about charity with someone who's main point is that someone else is a jerk. We can only have a conversation about whether someone (or someone else) is a jerk, or something better, or something worse.

Try again, Sebastian.
Fedora Linux "just works" for me on my laptop (a 2 year old Toshiba Satellite), and I don't necessarily fall into the "fiddling with stuff and rebuilding stuff for grins and giggles" routine, FWIW. I will concede, however, that I am one of those people to whom F/OSS is an ideology, and I strive to avoid using any proprietary software as a matter of principle. Hence my refusal to own or use anything put out by Apple. :-)
It's not terribly difficult to backup your bookmarks using the API. I wrote a script a while ago that does just that and dumps everything in a neat little sqlite DB.

I'm sad to see delicious go as it's a great collaborative tool and has awesome powers when combined with instapaper.

(btw, if anyone wants a copy of my script you can get in touch with me through my site listed in my prof)
I found the description here (football game) to be pretty informative: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080823052742A...
Some interesting emails are transcribed in the comments of that exclusion list. I liked the one from General Dynamics.
It is argued that one implication of Coase's Theorem[1] is that firm size is inversely proportional to transaction costs. If transaction costs are falling due to Internet enabled communication, this may contribute to reversing the tide of centralization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem
That's partly why the rebels have been somewhat resistant to accepting US help...
A martian colony need not have an Earth-equivalent industrial base immediately. Imagining that it should is merely self-limiting.

At one level a martian colony needs only enough of an industrial base to survive given continued trade with Earth. Longer term it likely needs enough of an industrial base to be self-sufficient indefinitely. However, this level of technology and industry could be considerably far behind the state of the art on Earth or very much lacking in a great many categories. It's not necessary to replicate a 21st century Earth on Mars in order for a colony to be feasible.
Two of the bigger ones:

1) if you're using a popular CMS platform, ELIMINATE ALL FOOTPRINTS. Change all url strings from the default, remove standard text/descriptions on signup and comment forms. Kill anything that can be scraped against the rest of the installs to hide your own sites from the scrapers the spammers use to find you.

2) Tap into distributed spam prevention systems. Akismet is probably the most popular example. Your single site will most likely miss the indicators of a spammer, but a system like Akismet can see the 10000 links all pointing to the same url in one hour and lock things down for you.

I've legitimately thought about doing a talk at a Wordcamp one day called "How I Spam You" that just walks people through how to spam wordpress, so they can then go protect their sites.
Speaking as a mad scientist, it's clear to me that the best solution is just to adjust the Earth's rotation to be exactly 24 hours.

Maybe 24 and a half, so we can all have a bit of a sleep in every morning.
All of the AI and character control in Way of the Warrior and the first 3 Crash Bandicoot games was written in GOOL 1&2, my first and second generation LISP systems: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/03/12/making-crash-ban...

I have all sorts of articles on Crash 1 on my blog: http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/category/games/

For Jak & Daxter 1-3 + Jak X I did a new Scheme based compiled language (GOAL) in which 99% of the games were written. I haven't yet done a big write up on that for my blog, but I will one of these days.
My problem with "digital decay" is that it's much more "binary" - it's working or it's completely unusable. When the reception gets fuzzy on digital TV, you simply can't watch the station where as an analog signal has varying levels of decay.

If you have a hard drive full of images and it fails, it's all gone (better have a backup!), but if you have a box full of photos and your house floods, some of them may still be around.

Analog fades, digital dies, unless it's constantly resuscitated. When you think about it how many times have you found an old photo that you probably wouldn't have kept if you had the choice? Or some old photos or music at your grandparent's house.

What are my grand kids going to find at my house?
I think it matters. Wasn't one of the reasons MySpace lost vs Facebook the fact that users could edit their page to look like a vomit smoothie on MySpace but things were kept clean and uniform on Facebook?

Regardless I think it matters. There have been a few threads on here about how developers can't design for crap, and engineer developed sites look ugly. So I give up. I'm going to finish coding my project, then pay some design firm to make my ugly baby pretty and launch.
Hard drives are much more likely to fail without warning than SSDs. Modern SSDs use wear-leveling along with spare flash cells to increase reliability. To give one example: Intel warranties their X25-Ms for 3 years. They claim you can write 100GB/day for 3 years without exhausting the flash cells.

The typical failure mode for a hard drive is for it to work fine and then completely die. No reading or writing, just dead. Flash cells usually become "stuck" after too many writes, turning an SSD into a read-only drive. Compared to hard drives, SSDs are much more tolerant of vibration and shock. I've had several hard drives fail, but no SSDs die on me.

Most importantly, I cannot overstate the performance benefit. Any machine without an SSD feels broken to me. Considering how much time most of us spend on our computers, $300 amortized over the life of the SSD is completely worthwhile.
Chrome and FireFox (together) have the majority of the browser market full stop.
yes. And more to the point what happened to the people who used to _work_ in them? 'Cause those jobs are now being done outside the US by people prepared to work for far less. If decentralizing is an option then the US border certainly isn't a barrier.

Understand that a telecomuting job is the easiest job to offshore. At the end of the day if you never come in to the office you might as well be living in India. Cause then we'd have to pay you less. Oh wait, there's some super-keen, super bright chap in India who'll do your work for a tenth of the price? hmm let me think about that for a while.
I generally put a very high stake of credibility in fivethirty eight. They ended on 71%.
If only Servo would be picked up by the community and Firefox could base itself on it, i think it would be of major help.

Everyone is turning Chromium these days... and when we look at it we can only be amazed about the workforce behind it.

How can Mozilla fight back such thing?

Users should support Firefox more by using it as it is the ONLY browser that is chromium independent and that really cares about privacy...