jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I won't comment on Symbian, I don't know enough about it and it's been covered by others.

The Maemo project was going in a nice direction for a while, but Nokia missed the mark when it released the N900. I was one of those chomping at the bit waiting for it to finally be released... then it was, with a screen that is too small for the phenomenal resolution, and with a UI that is geared toward (finger input) touchscreen and a touchscreen geared toward the precision of pen input.

I'm one of the oddballs that loves the precision of pen input. People I meet are still amazed when they see my aged N800! They are disappointed when I tell them it's not a phone, and even more disappointed when I tell them it hasn't been made in years. Nokia was relying on word-of-mouth advertising for their Internet Tablet platform, but then they changed the platform to something it's not. When I tell these people there's a newer, much more powerful version that adds a phone - called the N900, they get excited! When I tell them that it has the same resolution, but compressed into a smaller 3.5" screen, they are disappointed. When I tell them that it is not subsidized by any carrier, and that you have to pay full price (or if discounted, is still $550), it doesn't matter that it's "unlocked" (never locked in the 1st place), as: 1, the price is too high and 2, GSM limits you to only 2 carriers in the US.

I hope the new direction (MeeGo) helps, but I'm not holding my breath.

Nokia had a "design by community" website not long ago (still up, but now closed for selection), but they guided the input by not allowing you to submit combinations Nokia didn't like! Read the comments on the project's web page and it becomes obvious that Nokia doesn't want to know what people want, they want to tell people what they want. The really stupid part? They didn't even allow people to select combinations that matched up with some of Nokia's most popular products!
http://conversations.nokia.com/design-by-community/

Nokia needs to take the MeeGo project in two directions:
They need a larger screen with the resistive input (and a keyboard that can actually be used, a 5-row like the SideKick) for one, keeping the "computer first, phone second" mentality. The other should be a capacitive input phone with application functionality. Both could share the same repositories (app stores, if you will), with guidance within the selection based on whether the application being viewed is appropriate for the model the user is using at the time.

If they do this simple thing, I'll be buying the computer-first/phone-second product, as that is what I need. I'm tired of carrying the N800 and a phone.
If not, I'll have to settle for a nice Android, as they meet most of my needs. Sadly, the one need Android doesn't meet is the ability to run actual Linux software. Ironic, ain't it?

Oh, and my wife and I started with Maemo on the Nokia 770... and as much as she loves hers, her needs are slightly different than mine. She's considering the iPhone, but I'm fairly certain she would go for the 2nd option in the above paragraph were it made.
And my point is: there are media reports of individuals and small companies that have made a decent amount of money on the App Store, but there is no simply equivalence that I'm aware of on Android.

If these entities are considered "small potatoes" then the situation is even worse on Android. Glass houses, and all that.
Comments on this when it was posted previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196550
I think you've made a good point there. Coupled with JavaScript, perhaps HTML5 as a whole can in fact present itself as competition for all that Flash does.
Planet Money's podcast was about this very company -- they just changed their name. It's mentioned somewhere midway through the episode.
Can you give some examples of cities that don't do this? Every single city I'm familiar with does this, though Houston does it less than most places.
But not by the same person.
You'll have to subtract an average of ~2 weeks of sick leave as well, which is unpaid if you're a freelancer. Thats 46 weeks.

Assuming 100% utilisation is a typical beginner's mistake. You will usually have some time you cannot bill, most importantly time between projects, but also customer acquisition and certifications. There are also types of insurance that you don't need as an employee. If you do the math, the conditions are not as favourable as they may appear from the outset.

I will concede though that a reliable long-term project such as being a paid Zig contributor is a special case, and might warrant some discount.
What’s going on with that website? Is it supposed to parallax (or whatever is happening there) like that?
I held a work-study job while doing my BS working on a NASA Space Grant funded project. I got to program the flight computer for a high altitude research balloon and even participated in flying it (it flew several experiments - those were put together by grad students). As far as fun factor goes, all of my corporate jobs post-college have been a let down by comparison.

Though I'm making a bit more than $9.60 an hour these days :P
I've heard the theory that flow requires periods of struggling with learning or improving a skill, and that the intense learning is a precursor to having sufficient skill to be 'in the zone' relative to the challenge at hand. Does that jive with your observations? Is learning just another challenge that you have sufficient skill for, or do you find that cycle isn't necessary, or something else?
What ever happened to the Async ORM? I thought that was originally supposed to be part of Django's 3.2 as part of their Async roll out.
Are we now okay with a project like this calling itself "Open Source"? Is it "Open Source"?

If yes, why?

If no? What are our concerns and how can we take action?
Don't miss the link to their project website, as this device even has a big brother that can drive speakers directly.

https://cast.otter.jetzt/devices/
I differentiate between preventions and cures (not at all qualified in medicine - feel free to correct me).

If Bolsonaro called it a cure, this still falls in my bucket of (early) "treatment". I don't participate in Brasilian society, but that still sounds to me that Bolsonaro was promoting HCQ as a _cure_. I can conceive that he was (erroneously) promoting cures, while still signing contracts for vaccines (preventions).
I have never understood, either, why something like "new window" is actually "Command N" (as labeled in the menu), when it is really "Command n". "Command N" is actually: "Shift, Command, n" (as the shift key makes a lowercase key uppercase). I know, I know, the keys on a keyboard are labeled in uppercase letters, and the menu-items are supposed to correspond to what is on the keyboard, but I feel this only confuses things even more.

(This is not just a Mac problem, as referring to a lowercase key using an uppercase symbol is how it is done on Windows, and Linux (Gnome and KDE, at least), too.)
Also, I need similar service for my EBS volumes - you would trigger backup of the EBS volume on set schedule and you would purge old backups as needed, AWS will bill me for storage and bandwidth directly while you will bill me a fixed sum for each volume (as you have no variable costs in this picture).
I find that... unusual. the hypervisor eats 64MiB, and few people use more than 1GiB in the Dom0.
I really can't agree.

How long should they keep a backup of every user's virtual machines, after they stop paying? 20 days is reasonable, a month would have been better (If only since it's more predictable) but they really didn't do anything unreasonable.

Keep in mind, even if it's only $2/month (After redundant backus, etc), if you have had 10,000 customers, that really adds up! Keeping files forever "Just in case" isn't a sustainable business strategy.
The MacRuby folk would be wrong.

I actually hadn't looked too closely at MacRuby. It is quite an achievement, but compared to (particularly) Lua it's just not fast enough. Compare that to LuaJIT and the differences are remarkable. If MacRuby could be made as fast as Lua then I'd be all for it, I just don't think it's possible given the language semantics.

I guess what I'm saying is that the idea of a dynamic language like any of Lua, Ruby, Javascript, etc. . . being the default systems language on iOS and Mac OS would be amazing; I just don't like Ruby's chances when paired against the other two.
Seriously? This is a quote on protecting a patent. In other words, they have a piece of paper that legally prevents a competitor from copying a specific innovation. That's different from whining "how dare you" when you copy an idea in a perfectly legal way.

For some context, watch this video, specifically 0:35-0:46 and 2:50-3:43. It's a younger and more "pissed off" Steve Jobs than we know today, however his feelings are clear: He's not against copying ideas, adding value to them, and producing a wonderful product.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK7TQVFSA1Y
Personally, I learn whatever is necessary to do what I'm currently working on now well. When I know how to do that, I learn whatever might be useful in the future.
The last time it was this obvious to me how defective nerd thinking is was Malda's reaction to the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame."

To be fair, that wasn't dissimilar to the response of a lot of people here regarding the iPad - quite a few of whom have gone on to say they were "wrong" after actually using one.

The first iPod really did suck. Its sales were slow for ages and it didn't take off seriously until the color ones hit.
I've actually had customers who've gotten mad at me for storing data after they cancelled.

The concern, of course, is one of privacy. If the feds come knocking with a warrant, if I have the data, I'll give it to them. If I overwrote it, then I can't.
I was really looking forward to the S to replace my N1

Why were you really looking forward to replacing a phone that still works with a new one that's basically the same?
Easiest way is to buy the device at Best Buy and then go to a physical T-Mobile store and setup an account. Go prepaid or request the deprecated "Even More Plus" plan - they still can set one up if you ask. Saves you about $10/month.
Depends on the stage of startup. If you want to work at an established startup, you could probably get a job doing marketing. If, as I'm guessing, you want to work an an early stage startup, there are 3 main things those need, in fairly sharply declining order: hacking, sales, and graphic design. So if you don't want to learn to hack, be good at sales and graphic design. (That "and" was not a typo. It's optimal if one person can do both, the way Alexis did for Reddit.)
The search for highest profits / lowest costs is a race to the bottom. Regulations, whether they be for child labor, working conditions, or product safety, determine where that bottom is located.
Oh, Collatz problem. I usually use Goldbach or twin prime conjectures to explain the difficulty of seemingly simple problems, but come to think of it, Collatz is even better, because it does not involve any complicated concept at all -- Goldbach and twin prime conjectures are about primes, and sometimes people do not even know what primes are.
I think just 'Designer' is a perfectly good title in a small startup, considering all the different hats we end up putting on.
getter and setters are not necessary, but offer nice syntactical sugar to a language.
Yeah, I can't really get with that analysis since I've dropped both NetNewsWire and the Google Reader web interface in favor of Reeder. It's short a few keyboard shortcuts but otherwise it's a lovely app to use.
Yeah, I'm also interested in getting a smartphone on prepaid (or postpaid, whatever, I don't care as long as I don't have to sign a contract). I hear it's possible with this phone, but I'm having trouble finding out all the info.

Though actually, having spent the last week carrying around an iPod Touch in a large building with wifi, I think perhaps I'm better off being unable to access my email.
This is likely why in macOS, you can’t cut files but instead have to copy them and then move them with Command-Shift-V (holding down Shift changes the title of the Paste menu item) — the intention to move the file is indicated on the pasting half of the operation, dodging the Cut issue entirely.

Also, cut never really made metaphorical sense for files… you don’t break out the scissors to transfer documents from one folder to another.
I'd be very happy to receive any feedback you might have. I've been working on this for the past month and holding back on showing it around until it was basically usable. There's some details about the current state on this post: https://senryu.pub/blog/articles/development-roadmap

In reality I've just been building it for myself, but if it scratches my itch then maybe it'll work for other people as well :)
His views are not relevant. Should focus on his ability to contribute and keep personal beliefs out of the picture.
Wow, you know what water cooling is. The next step is that you need to read up on building gaming rigs and understanding that setting up water cooling for cell phone is just the right level of absurdity.
Me too, at 200%. My eyes are getting old.
Odd that this one makes you sign up first, then apparently assigns you a technology. Normally these federal IP commercialization competitions let you pick the IP you're interested in.
> I'm no fan of Stallman, but I do find it worrying that some companies can unilaterally decide to sink the FSF if they don't like what it's doing.

Why? That's like, the entire basis of every organization, that supporters don't have to support it. If a company selling a product behaves in a way you don't want to support you stop buying, if a charity stops supporting a cause you stop supporting it, etc.
People in leadership roles should be held to higher standards than normal employees.
Context is everything. It’s unfair to judge someone in such a harsh manner. Your anecdotal observations are just that: anecdotal observations.

People with a manic depressive disorder can have both great highs and deep lows at different periods.

We should be tolerant of everyone as much as we can.
I remember in my first real job I wrote a GUI for an RTOS (all the way up starting with the hardware, device driver, ...). Not knowing anything about how GUIs worked, or about events, I had a main loop which redrew the GUI on every action. This article tells me I wasn't completely wrong, these are called "Immediate Mode" GUIs!
Any editor worth it's salt will indent with tab and de-indent with shift tab with the cursor at the first non whitespace. Any good editor will de-indent with the cursor anywhere on the line.
Why does this code exist?

What are you working around?

What are the assumptions? What limitations?

If it's complicated enough that I'm only understanding it because of the context of the last week, we need the comments. Anything that can speed the reverse engineering in 6 months when it breaks is helpful, because then you can quickly decide that we got different input or if we missed an edge case or whatever.
My kids are desperate to go back to school and see their friends. We don't realize how much damage the desire for safety over freedom is doing long term.
"most people use equipment to listen to their music, while audiophiles use music to listen to their equipment"

Opus 160kbps (VBR)

:D
Any ideas to make it usable under ATI RS600 on Linux with Mesa drivers?
Well here is an intelligent guy who writes long-form pieces that are fairly influential within a sector of society that is small, but also relatively powerful. But he's not aligned to the NYT ideological agenda. Of course it was gonna be a hit piece, no question about it IMHO.
Was going to donate but there are no crypto payment options.
There is their general intention to privatize everything possible because they oppose "big state"?
Maybe it's just in America but I haven't heard anyone say that children want to go back to school. They say it's important that they go back, not that they want to.

Here's a random example: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-53723611

> He said it was better for children’s health, mental well-being and educational prospects if “everyone” went back to school full-time in September, adding it was “our moral duty”.
"What we do look at are cover letters. Cover letters say it all. They immediately tell you if someone wants this job or just any job. And cover letters make something else very clear: They tell you who can and who can't write. Spell checkers can spell, but they can't write. Wordsmiths rise to the top quickly. Another rule of thumb: When in doubt, always hire the better writer."

Writing is critical in today's technologically, geographically dispersed world. Those who can write well can communicate their ideas and intentions well to their team and to their clients. There has been some ink covering the subject in various outlets over the last year or so.
... and the possible damage to the ecosystem if some of those "chemicals" leech off? Some things are worse than oil.
The "typically embedded" part is where something like this might be useful. PHP doesn't have to be embedded, the FCGI version of PHP runs as it's own daemon and responds to requests from the web server. In that case, management of the PHP daemons falls right under PHP Fog's responsibilities and that is where it adds value.
> Finally, we never let geography get in the way. We hire the best we can no matter where they are. We're based in Chicago, but we have programmers in Idaho and California, system administrators in North Carolina and downstate Illinois, designers in Oklahoma and Colorado, a writer in New York City, and others in Europe. This obviously wouldn't work for customer-facing folks, but for most everyone else, it does. The best are everywhere. It's up to you to find them.

This is so true, I don't understand tech companies from London or Miami or whatever that do not accept telecommuting and require someone from their own city. They're missing out on the best just so they can have face to face? Face to face is not required in programing!
On a Mac, you just print to a PDF, and use that in iBooks.
Yes, I sometime have a strong doubt of my abilities. You're not alone in that.
Lots of people over 40 have at last some mild health issues, over 60 almost everyone. Even younger people often enough have conditions they're not even aware of. So just wanted to say, don't get overly relaxed by these stats.
I don't know if its enough to offset the scenario you're familiar with but there's 1. people moving from other forms of transport to cars thanks to the convenience of uber and 2. journeys happening that otherwise would not have happened.
If we look at previous five years, basically there was constant increase in consumer demand and the supply did reflect to fulfill the same. To come back to that condition will take another five years.
I think that's clear as COVID-19 has seemingly impacted every single country in the world already, and we've yet to see the worst effects.

Meanwhile, not all countries were impacted by the great depression, Spain being one of the countries not impacted because of the isolated economy at the time.
I wonder how effective something like that can be. Maybe for young people who haven't set their mind on the subject yet. I suspect that most atheist people reading this will say "well, duh" while religious people won't even give it proper consideration, or just hand wave it like they do so well.

Faith is all about accepting things without justification and despite contrary evidente. It's explicitly encouraged by most cults.
Honestly, I don't know what I would have done; I agree their situation is quite different. I probably would have done what he had to do. Amazon is a great company that I respect.
If the hospital had had a case of baby switching just prior it sounds much more likely that they also had a bunch of cases that were never solved.

But the switched DNA results actually scare me more: I wonder how many innocent people have been convicted based on DNA evidence that only happened because some labrat switched a bunch of vials around?
Sometimes we are labeled. You may label yourself Harvard graduate as much as you want but if Harvard says you aren't then you aren't. You may call yourself a Catholic but if thevCatholic Church says you aren't, you simply aren't.
Apparently at least until 2012. Someone made a nice observation the other day, it boiled down to 'anything that you connect the raspberry pi to costs more than the computer'.
I don't think anybody is worried about the water being unsafe except for the TSA, who are hastily discarding it. So no, if they are taking the stance that the water might be unsafe, they are responsible for disposing of it safely.
We hit the phones and met a lot of people.

After 100 paid customers, we’ve found true product market fit and are now gearing up for a true SaaS offering - we’ll continue to hit the phones though!
Clear only verifies your identity. You still have to go through the same security screening as PreCheck.
I briefly worked for this group of people who were supposed to be launching a new cryptocurrency right at the peak of all the hype. It was promised to be this next generation technology that was going to make everyone involved rich, and it would never drop below $2 USD a coin. It was also supposed to be part of this new paradigm for society that would usher in a Golden Age.

Only problem was, every single thing I mentioned above was complete nonsense. The cryptocurrency didn't actually exist, and despite having multiple "crypto experts", nobody really understood how a blockchain actually worked. I quit after I started to see what was really going on, though everything smelled fishy from the beginning.
Hello HN! It's Sunday 8 PM here, and I've just finished my little weekend project: an emoji maker using React and SVG.

I wanted to make this project in order to test out how far can I depend on React, React DOM, and SVG for building and generating things while preparing for my upcoming projects.

Most (or all?) other emoji bots or emoji generators depend on the canvas, and thus, end up generating a non-scalable and non-editable image. This is why I relied on SVG for this project.

Oh, by the way, I'm looking for a summer internship :)
MS turning Google owned guns, against them. But I shed no tear here. Browser wars are actually quite amazing battlefield to follow.
It’s hard for Americans to take a high moral ground given that conduct.
“Often” is not a generalization, only an existential of some significant commonality.

Having spent 10 years in China and having actually visited Xinjiang before, I can assure you I’m not grasping at any straws.
> the apple falls because the earth is flat and accelerating upward due to the giant turtles it rests on

Hmm, be careful ridiculing all of this, because under GR the earth is accelerating upward toward the apple; it has to in order to remain in the same spot in curved spacetime.
Not lucky- just deceptive. Deception is what scammers do, and they do it because it’s guaranteed to make money, not because they hope to get lucky.

I’m not advocating this. Doing this was wrong, and it’s not some black hat exploit. It was a scam; pretending to be someone to make money off of an unwitting victim.
I powered on all of my servers tonight and opened the window. I’m probably part of the problem
I've read other studies that show N95s as superior, which you'd expect. They are fitted, they use an extra polyprop layer. But we can stop here, because this finding (like the many I read for N95 superiority among HCWs) did not cause WHO or CDC to advise mask mandates for all. That was novel last spring, and WHO later backed off for children.
Parent said only that it was the daily cost for their apartment. No numbers or units
I think most people are on fixed prices though. The supplier gets a big mark up over the wholesale cost and then is expected to have a plan to deal with situations like this.