jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think Google have any incentive to control the mobile OS experience, and they largely don't and are incapable of doing it anyway.

It doesn't matter if people are going to Google's ad-supported services via Android, iOS, Symbian, or Blackberry (or others) - and as long as at least some of these platforms have a focus on the end user experience it creates attention for mobile services which Google will benefit from.

People will see things like Google Maps on an iPhone and try it on their own phone, even if they're not using an iOS device.

And even if Google wanted to control the user experience in the same way as Apple, they simply can't: Android's open nature means that the networks and device manufacturers are free to screw around with it in any way they please, up to and including pushing their own partner's online products over Google's.

Mobile phone networks have a very long tradition of cutting off their nose to spite their face, and Android's openness unfortunately can give them a bigger knife.
I would do the big co whilst moonlighting and only after funding comes in jump ship esp. considering the visa.
My apologies for the lack of clarity: I was following the thought path that was concerned with the validity of the four color theorem proof because of the Coq bug.
This is exactly the sort of weak-minded chest-thumping I fully expect to see from venture capitalists. Way to live up to your stereotypes, both of you.
I'm pretty sure you're not making any claims in other jurisdictions implicitly — that would be somewhat terrifying.

Whether the clause is triggered or not shouldn't matter if the patents aren't valid in your jurisdiction.

You don't have to state your rights — you just have them (there might be exceptions to this).

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I'd love to get an answer to the bigger question as well.
Because they take more than a few tap/clicks.
Growing up in the late 20th century, I cannot imagine not having gone to university. Without it, I'd still live in a small village and probably doing some menial work in a factory or on a farm. I would not have had the experience of focussing on a subject for five years straight. I would not have had the experience of being able to reflect on society and my role in it. I would not have had the experience of discovering ideas far beyond my imagination during my teenage years.

Was it worth it? To me, certainly. To society at large? The society being a post-industrial society morphing into an information society, having yet another worker for factories or farms that do not need it, does not seem to be a good contribution. I went to university, and because of that I contributed in ways I would never have been able otherwise: I've taught in high school; I've done historical research at a university; and I've done research on how to better prepare our children for participation in the information society. But was it worth it?

To be honest—without being a reductionist—, my contributions to society are slim. Maybe I've effected one or two students in a way that will set them on a path true contribution to society. Maybe I've effected others to take a wrong turn. I don't know. And my research? In the end its target audience was a small research community and, although I've been cited enough, its impact is just a drop, if that at all.

But that is just me. I imagine that your stories and those of other who went to university are similar in a way. Our contributions might be tiny, but what about taking together all of our tiny contributions?
thanks... very interesting. i'm going to try and figure out why they failed lol!
Given Tesla has axed their capex to almost nothing due to their liquidity crunch it is highly unlikely this ever gets built. Same with the semi truck.

These “Product” unveils are designed to pull in cash deposits to fund current expenses and massive cash incineration, not future development.

This will likely never be built and if you are thinking of giving Tesla a deposit for anything they currently are not producing I implore you to look at Tesla’s balance sheet.
There are no systems to my knowledge where the server will compile and execute a .c file from a directory when accessed.

Yet that seems to be the default configuration for many PHP installations unless you specifically guard against it it. A common PHP vulnerability is just the user uploading a php file and then accessing it.
Yeah my point is, if you’re migrating to kube without using some service that handles all the details, even the 5 person start up needs a dedicated devops team.
My understanding is that it's very rare for an advance clawback to take place even if sales come in under.
I am really not sure why is it only fb whose name pops up in media. IMO, this update will affect entire advertising industry. Be it giants like Google, Tradedesk, Amazon etc. In the end it is loss to the advertisers as lack of data will be hampering their measurements and targeting. Not sure if for internet platforms it matters. Will this be good for businesses in streaming TV like roku, apple, firetv?
The salary range was small so they properly got an relative okay wage. Demands of workers was heavily suppressed in the east bloc though, so the soviet system is not something championed by organized labour nowadays.
My browser history is NCSA Mosaic->Netscape->Firefox. Even when Firefox had its downs I stuck with it. Not sure why. It just felt right. It was always perfect for me.

The only thing I miss are subtitles in Picture-in-Picture mode.
>I believe a VM centered on the app (WebAssembly VMs) or functions (serverless approach) is the right computation unit to allow proper scalability and a simpler and more powerful system on the long term.

Docker's co-founder agrees:

"If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn't have needed to created Docker. That's how important it is. Webassembly on the server is the future of computing."

https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/1111004913222324225
> But things look stormy on the horizon

What do you even mean?

Be explicit

It certainly wasn't China the one that started the tarrifs debacle throwing the world economy into disarray
Sort of. I was thinking how tracking will respond now. And the answer is known: device fingerprinting, i.e. collecting all accessible device details to uniquely identify it. But since Apple fights fingerprinting too to certain extent, this sort of tracking will not be as accurate as the current identifier tracking. Also, it is significantly harder to implement. So, some monetary losses for the likes of Facebook are given.
It would be nice if people just posted because they had something worth saying instead of worrying about all this nonsense. Karma: some people should lose it when it matters, but most of the time, too many people care about it when it doesn't mean anything except a number.
I feel the same way. His arrogance is strangely reassuring though heh.
That's one stupid infographic
What we see here is that more and more uneducated people gain Internet access, so naturally the Internet is getting extended with localized content.

On the other hand in countries where English-learning is mandatory in school (like most of Europe) people (especially teenagers) are using and reading English websites without problems. English is already the default for the European Union and comes first (on the Internet) before Spanish (second most spoken language in the world, after Chinese), German or French.

One problem with Chinese that I can see is that it's a really hard to learn language. I could learn English and Spanish without even trying, with my native language being one of the Romance languages.

I also don't think the sheer number of Internet users counts so much. Buying power counts for a lot more and while China is on the rise its citizens are not the consumers you want (at least not yet).
Merry christmas HNers. This is from a fellow HNer half the world away in Asia that feels more connected to the greater global tech scene because of HN. Thanks HN
I'm wondering why it says that it has "no threads, coroutines or other crap", and then complains about difficulty with "tr[ying] to patch Fapws so that it would support threading".
Every international website / service starts with English by default, then gets extended to other languages.

But localization doesn't go very well, with the example I'm thinking about being Wikipedia, where the English version is still the place to go when searching for information.
Did you really just say that not being able to speak English means that an individual is uneducated? I'm having trouble understanding how your first sentence could mean anything else.
"One twitterer mentioned that a copyright notice helps deter people from stealing content and another stated that it helps make a case for willful misuse. Both are valid points, but thanks to the current international copyright laws both are false."

Wrong. The first IS true. Having a copyright notice DOES deter people from stealing your work. Especially if they don't already know that everything is automatically copyright.
I agree with some points, but I also see the benefit of learning real programming from Java/Haskell.

I graduated from UTCS and I see too many web programmers just load up RoR Gems to perform something that takes 10 lines of code. Same thing with jQuery libraries... young programmers are not learning how to program, and if you tell them there is this shortcut they will take it.

Foundation is needed, that's the hidden secret. After you master foundation, then you can hack any code no matter the language.
Are those "free" as in "public domain" respectively "CC-BY(-SA)"? Or are they just "free" as in "freeware, please don't touch"?
Computer Science != Software Engineering. Sounds like your beef is with Software Engineering.
I want to move the refresh button to the right of the address bar, since that's what I'm used to. I can't.

Back/forward together makes sense. Refresh next to back/forward isn't any better or worse than refresh to the right of the address bar, so it comes down to personal taste -- Chrome imposes its own taste upon me, while Firefox is happy to let me decide.
No, he never says that.

He says that the current system is handing out Oculus Rifts and water-jetpacks to everyone. Which means... any number of things.

I understand why people are supportive of the idea of basic income. But I dunno how to interpret his description of the current system. Is the current system wasteful? What is the analogy to Oculus Rifts actually mean? Are we really trying to teach people how to swim with virtual reality headsets?

Maybe if we stopped handing out Oculus Rifts and Water Jetpacks, we'd have a good system? Is his argument that we should improve our current welfare system?

Somehow, I don't think so. By the end of the blog post, it becomes clear that he's a supporter of basic income. But it takes _far_ too long to get to that point. His thesis needs to be earlier, and he needs fewer analogies and more facts.

Anyway, I think it is clear we need to reform our welfare system. But the blog post is almost the perfect textbook example of how to NOT make an argument. So much analogy, so little substance...
> (if you have at least $100k at Vanguard, you get it for free, also through many employers)

Actually, the people my employer go through just dumped Vanguard and a few other funds and would've automatically enrolled us all in a fund that changes every single year to be "optimum" for your age.

I opted out and I informed my coworkers that there were good reasons to be incredibly suspicious of this move, but I wonder who actually took my advice.

All I could think was that they were going to churn everyone's funds every single year so that they could get huge fees under the guise of "optimizing" our portfolios.
What you are missing here is that the Euro only works if the stronger countries support the weaker ones financially. Without this, the Euro could not be a stable currency.

If a country like Greece or Ireland is basically collapsing, it survives because countries like Germany and France pay for it. There is no such thing as a free lunch. What Germany gains now because of the weak Euro, it had to pay a few months ago to help Greece.

However, Greece has been paid by the government, not small businesses. Small businesses only have to bear that burden gradually by paying taxes.
Given that they absorbed the whole of East Germany only 20 years ago, it seems a little unfair to measure their unemployment rate over that period. Today they are doing pretty well - what an amazing achievement that is, given the circumstances.
Brand name. If Wasabi has taught us anything, it's that brand name is the only thing that matters for a company.
It's all about how good they are at marketing and sales. I can't speak for everyone but LivingSocial is very good at optimizing their landing pages, builds great PPC campaigns and has a very strong affiliate program.
Thanks for the link. Totally missed that.
It's an effective answer to a question he didn't ask (why is it less fuss and more effective?).

The simplest clear answer to "why give it to the rich?" is: you're giving back part of what you taxed, that's a fairly cheap no-op, it only went through two levels of bureaucracy (tax, distribute).

Really it only looks like generosity to the rich if you ignore tax; otherwise, simply subtract it from their nominal tax bill to get their actual tax bill.

What reacts against giving money to the rich is ape-mind fairness instinct; humans should be able to do basic arithmetic and rise above this.
webgl apparently doesn't play with my Ubuntu Firefox.
Well they requested a quick response and it was a bad time for me to negotiate with my employer. They made it pretty clear that I could contact them if I ever needed a job.
I used Hadoop a few times this semester for different classes and it seemed like the code was so easy to write and then because everything is either a Mapper or a Reducer, you just read enough of the docs to figure out what is intended to be done and then build on top of it, can I ask how it wasn't maintainable?

Just curious
Your account is never "handed off" - all of those schemes are based on openid or similar. All the site gets is a token.
Or even "Startup Title Junk | Hacker News" -- that keeps the full title, and makes it show up right in your tab.
I've been reading a book called "How to Change Your Mind"[1] which contains a collection of history, anecdotes, trip reports, and some of the science behind these types of drugs. The book mostly discusses psilocybin and LSD, but it also touches on some of the other related drugs. If you're curious and want to learn more, it's worth a read.

The one thing I'll say is that it seems like these drugs affect the brain in a way that's more akin to a super-placebo, rather than being therapeutic on their own. In other words, you would need to use the drugs in combination with therapy to obtain good results.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Change_Your_Mind
Matrix.to should remember your homeserver, but a "matrix://" url scheme is being worked on [1]. Work on that is caught up a bit in the backlog however, but there are folks in the ecosystem pushing that along in 3rd party clients.

Communities are going away in favor of spaces (relatively?) soon. That was the topic of Matthew's talk at FOSDEM [2], and the entire experience should be vastly better.

[1] https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/2312
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzUfS08lMek
In BOTH the UK and US contexts, too! Pretty comprehensive
Research into what about meat consumption in the US causes heart trouble, on top of the known sugar problem, has just started. About all we are sure of, so far, is that the sat fat isn't it.
The main failing he has, which is clearly on display in the article, is that he utterly ignores all externalities. It is almost as if things don't happen or don't matter if he isn't personally observing them, perhaps it is a type of solipsism or extreme egocentrism.

In his mind, he's not wasting water because he never does laundry, while he totally ignores the environmental impact of having his clothes producing in China and shipped to him.

He refuses to cook and is genuinely offended when the apartment he is looking at has a kitchen, because why would they assume he would want to cook? He finds cooking horrible, bordering on torture, so surely that must be the Correct and Rational way to be.

He seems to think he can just figure out everything from first principles by doing a few web searches and reading through a bit of literature and extrapolating from there.

Every article from (and by) him is an absolutely fascinating and genuinely horrifying look into a mind that is just fundamentally out of whack, but has never faced enough adversity in life to properly recognize that.
That's an incredibly kind comparison. Thank you! Do you have a reference where Feynman talks about this? I'm finding this [0]:

"Arline entered the nearby Albuquerque sanatorium, from where she wrote him letters in code — for the sheer fun of it, because she knew how he cherished puzzles, but the correspondence alarmed the military censors at the laboratory’s Intelligence Office. Tasked with abating any breaches to the secrecy of the operation, they cautioned Feynman that coded messages were against the rules and demanded that his wife include a key in each letter to help them decipher it. This only amplified Arline’s sense of fun — she began cutting holes into her letters, covering passages with ink, and even mail-ordered a jigsaw puzzle kit with which to cut up the pages and completely confound the agents."

[0] https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/17/richard-feynman-arl...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26124337
I don't think you see the point in my argument. Anyway, this isn't going anywhere. I am out, have a nice day.
Except the files with Korean names in Backgrounds/* and Wallpapers/*, everything else seems to be generic.

Names of the said files ran through Google Translate, with some minor corrections to the English output (I don't know any Korean):

Dabaksol Guard Post Snowy Scene 다박솔초소의 설경
Sea of Potato Flowers in Taehongdan 대홍단의 감자꽃바다
Mt Paektu Sunrise 백두산의 해돋이
Beom'an-ri Scenery 범안리의 선경
Echo of Woollim Falls 울림폭포의 메아리
Night View of Changja River 장자강의 불야경
Azaleas of Cheoryeong 철령의 철쭉
The Horizon of the Handdreval 한드레벌의 지평선

Fly Higher 더 높이 날아라
Dandelion 민들레
Mt Paektu Heaven Lake 백두산천지
Blue Sky 푸른 하늘
Landscape Painting 풍경화

Edit: Incorporated corrections from @sanxiyn and @terrorOf below
The ones that weren't picked in the high performing class had the same teacher, but they only studied what was in the standard manual, they did not go above and beyond what they were capable of. At the same time they were not pulling back the ones more capable.
I never uploaded my contacts, nor would I have.

But it is highly encouraged by the app, for sure.

Of course it is.

It builds their social graph.

Having built a dating site just before Tinder launched, that only used FB for auth, we had hundreds of millions of connections within weeks. It was a trove of data as we could sort matches based on it on the theory that people in your 'friend circle' are more likely to match with.

Probably good that the site didn't last due to founder issues.
No, I don't think "participation in social media" is the goal.

For me blogging etc. is about either showing off (my work etc.), helping others with similar issues, self-expression etc.

Following "stars" on social media is about being close to ones idols, to see some life one can aspire to (oh they are so great!) or to help onselfs ego (oh that star isn't better than me as well ..) Same old voyeuristic reasons as all the magazines.

For the "stars" and "influencers" it is a way to build their brand under more control than with traditional media.

Social media is just the medium. Just as one isn't reading magazines to read magazines, but one reads a specific magazine to have some form of satisfaction.
Bro, the amount of time I have wasted trying to rice a wm and fix broken AUR packages only to say screw it and just go back to working on Windows + WSL (well, ubuntu these days, but STOCK ubuntu).

At the end of the day, the purpose of some things is just to get out of your way.
> Foss version of Visa/Mastercard basically?

Yes, but it's better. On one hand it's centralized and vendors are regulated, BUT it implements anonymous payment for buyers using a type of blind signature in cryptography (originally envisioned by David Chaum's digital cash), it allows you to pay for things without being tracked and analyzed. In my opinion it's the best compromise between PayPal and cryptocurrencies, I hope one day I can buy things via GNU/Taler.
Narcotic may be whatever you want, but the debate has to be honest and transparent, not shady and criminal: if you want to legalize heroin, make a case to the people, get it approved with safeguards, say like Portugal or France to some extent (Methadone), and make sure it won't profit people who also do other things with the proceeds of sales.

The problem with Narcotic is simple: people lose freedom when getting into addiction, then with hard narcotics they also lose the ability to make important life choices, minors and generally disfavored people are targeted by addictive substance sales people, production is rarely done well (because most fields should be used for food, if they are used for more profitable narcotic purpose legally or due to lax enforcement, ALL FIELDS become opium fields like in Afghanistan, which can cause food safety issues etc.

You can't just talk as if narcotic consumers are innocent party goers. Many are absolute victims and we must talk about it without crypto entering the debate. Crypto is just a weak way to try to hide the source of completely illegal funding for narcotics without going through the painful discussion with the population that we may have to sacrifice a lot of victims for the sake of spending less on narcotic enforcement.
I can't speak for why anyone else would disagree, but there are plenty of people who are competent to disagree with how mathematics is taught in elementary schools in the United States whether or not they have personally taught in them. Let parents have power to shop for teachers who really meet their own children's needs, and much of the complaining will stop--but people will be seeking out the teachers who can really deliver results.

An article link I was just posting in an edit in my comment in this thread[1] relates just how hard it is now to find elementary school teachers in the United States who can even give a general description of how to find the area of a rectangle knowing the lengths of the rectangle's sides. That's bad.

[1] http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf
Andrew Kassebaum has written a couple of articles on the role that men of faith have had in the development and spread of the physical sciences:

Scientific Geniuses and Their Jesuit Collaborators

http://www.strangenotions.com/scientific-geniuses-and-their-...

How Catholic Missionaries Brought Science to China

http://www.strangenotions.com/how-catholic-missionaries-brou...

He's also writing a massive, probably multi-volume work on the same broad subject, but I suspect it won't be published online and may take him years to complete (it's a side project!). I look forward to reading it if and when it's finally published.
They should consider dropping a line to their parent company.

"Modernizer.js. This is unacceptable in 2010. This is why people laugh when they hear AOL, I'm sorry, Aol. http://imgur.com/F8gGS.png.

Not even a friggin override ability. Are you kidding me?
I deleted it 8 years ago when it first became obvious what was going to happen. Have never missed it for a second and I feel a bit sorry for people who think they can't do the same.
It seems to have new bugfix releases every two years or so.
The press has been running stories about random people managing to get guns past airport security for literally decades.
I don't use it, but most of my peers would use Snapchat instead. It doesn't fill the exact same role, but it's the closest I can think of.