jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> regulatory agencies allows experts to decide those issues in a neutral setting

It is difficult to talk about "regulations" in the abstract but I would suggest that many regulations aren't about a perfect solution devised by an expert. They are more often about finding a tradeoff, a balance between competing goals. Those sorts of decisions can be informed by "expert" knowledge, but I think it is a mistake to think that domain experts are necessarily best positioned to resolve tradeoffs in public policy.

I'm not arguing against expert knowledge being incorporated into construction of regulations -- just pointing out that expert knowledge may be necessary but not sufficient to finding a workable public policy.
Wait, someone actually cares about performance these days? I'm not sarcastic here, this was a really cool read evocative of Raymond Chen and the old NT Debugging blog.

I'd like to read more blogs where the solution to bad performance isn't just 1) throw more servers at the issue 2) rewrite the service in a different language / framework and hope to not hit the same pathological case again.
Is it really wise to build a financial transaction system on top of an unsecure GSM network?
> searching for a malicious virus that somehow makes us obese or some other obscure reason is just overcomplicating the issue.

Either there is a malicious virus contributing in some way to obesity, or there is not. Let the scientific evidence speak for itself. If that makes the issue more complicated than we'd like, then so be it.
of course it's not too late. silly title. i agree with the conclusion though:

"It would be an outstanding thing to see an open platform challenge the Facebooks of the world. Without a doubt, smart purveyors of such a platform could leverage the openness, and potentially win users over with it. That idea already prompted our post "Why Does FOSS Development Lag the Innovation Curve?" The funny thing is, though, even though open source platforms and applications compete in so many other application categories, there is almost no real competition from the open source community in the social networking space. That needs to change."
it's great to see IEEE spectrum laying out the technical issues so clearly along with the legal perspectives. it's something that any startup in the web space needs to be tracking to understand the likely risks moving forward.
Is it an explicit fee increase, or a removal of a fee cap already in place?
I really like this - very simple (although I am guessing there is a lot of complexity behind the scenes to make it so simple).

One idea — what about making people authenticate with Facebook Connect to post? This would help with concerns about bad content being uploaded, as well as give a little bit of info about the author, and down the road you could subscribe to posts by a particular author?
> I can't tell if you've left Facebook and feel these solutions replace it, or if you've just read the list of features, and decided you're covered.

I've got an Fb account, and I do use it lightly. I tend to have random conversations with people because of posts they make on twitter, or on their blogs.

I do watch my Fb news feed on my phone, so if I spot something worth starting up a conversation about I have the opportunity to.

My discomfort with Fb is that to even view content requires an account. Content is only shared amongst account holders. If I post some photos, or an event I don't want to require people to sign up to Fb to view that content. Hence I post my content on more open services. My concern is more for the other people who don't use Fb than it is for myself or those who already use Fb.

If I post content on a blog, I sometimes post a link on Fb. I don't see any problem with that. Some people choose to follow me via Fb, and that is fine, but I also want to remain open to those people who don't like Fb and I give them the option to follow me in other ways.
The quote from Engels (1820-1895) dates from 1849. But whatever the text may mean, it would be absurd to claim that it is an expression of 'Marxism', whatever in turn that may mean. (I would have thought that Engels invented "Marxism" -- about 30 years after writing this newspaper article.)

I don't care to defend Engels early middle or late, but this text doesn't have the murder-favoring aspect you are pretending it does. It is a commentary on ultra-complicated post-1848 politics; there is little here that wouldn't have been accepted by an American observer of the time.

Interpretation is again helped by the preceding sentence (at a bare minimum) which might be thought just as creepy: "The general war which will then break out will smash this Slav Sonderbund and wipe out all these petty hidebound nations, down to their very names."

The disappearance of a 'reactionary class' evidently means: the coming to a social order in which that is not one of the classes. The disappearance of a 'dynasty' doesn't mean murder of the ruling family. The disappearance of 'nations' (Nationen) and 'peoples' (Voelker) is the same: not the destruction of individuals, but the formation of some wider social unity, in which those distinctions of Volk don't arise. It is like the disappearance of the Confederacy.

The language Engels is employing is indeed ugly. But it is impossible to believe that he or anyone in the mid 19th c. would be arguing for something in the nature of genocide. They were simply too naive to envisage such a thing.

That the Soviet Union was a death machine that murdered millions is obvious. It has nothing to do with the materials quoted, from Marx or Engels. The question why you continue to fabricate connections is still open.
My company is just a "tenant" (just rent space), so we don't get the full incubator experience. However, the full iLab experience seems to be good for 1-2 man operations who are lacking areas of expertise - business expertise in particular. They'll set you up with a mentor that will help with writing business plans, discussing grant options, that sort of thing. They hold monthly CEO lunches, where they bring in a "successful" CEO to pick their brains.

"Do you need to give anything in return for the services they offer?" - except for cold hard cash (not sure of the pricing), not so much. They have virtual membership, which allows you to attend the lunches and sets you up with a mentor. No desk space though.

Do you attend any meetups around Brisbane? I've just taken over organizing the CocoaHeads one recently, always on the look-out for new recruits :)
>“Pirated handbags? Yes, I do buy them,” she said. “I feel that the genuine Prada bags have such an inflated price.”

I feel that lumping handbags in here is wrong. There's probably a trademark infringement as well with the handbags. But, whilst there is copyright infringement in the design does the design have an artistic quality or is it "just" a design. The fact that there is a skill and materials expense in producing the handbags gives it a different quality IMO.

The important part with the handbags is the infringement of the Prada trademark whilst with the books and music it is the copyright infringement.

A fashion designer would probably disagree?
From tfa:

>> If we include tablets in our PC unit forecast, then our estimates suggest Apple’s combined iPad and Mac market share would reach 12 percent in 2011.

That is not what you argue against (and it also contradict the submission's title, sigh.)

This was written on an iPad, btw. :-)
Yes, they're both based off the open source WebKit Web Inspector (as mentioned in the second sentence on that page.)
I think on the graphing tool its as simple as the need to support IE6, 7, and 8. There are decent Canvas wrappers for relatively static content on IE (excanvas etc) and an increasingly interesting SVG wrapper at http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ but for more dynamic graphics with sliding and zooming I've never found one that's good enough for production.
Keep in mind that "PC market" means the total number of PCs sold in 2011. And many people who currently own PCs aren't buying new ones (I'm typing this on a 4-year-old Dell laptop and I don't have any need to replace it).
The "ordinary banking system" is not meant to be a public utility. Large or small, if the Fed is supporting the market, it is making decisions about resource allocation.

I'm not even always against the government making such decisions.

It's just the bailout involved the government making these decision in the worst possible circumstance, the least democratic, the least open and the most remunerative-to-bad-actors circumstances.
I'm willing to bet a lot of those commenting on that post have their parent's credit cards on file with Sony.
60 million users isn't "a few million"
Yeah that's true but you have to be found guilty first, they can't just (I hope) pick you up and put you on a plane without a trial of some sort or a valid reason that can be challenged in court (If you are a PR, that is or a visa holder).
That's a patent, not a trademark (well, I mean, they might have a trademark too since Amazon owns the whole idea, but it was the patent that got their lawyers so heated up). Amazon patented the idea of buying the items in a shopping cart with one click.
Exactly. The defensiveness in other comments here just isn't warranted.
It may be that the attackers pwned the servers and skimmed the numbers (including CVV) as they were HTTP POSTed in plain text.
How did you first connect with the customer?
I went from ~280lbs to 170lbs a few years ago. Still ~185lbs. But smoking I fear will eventually kill me :)
I've cut back recently supplementing with a vaporizer. Not sure it could replace cigarettes, but they're impressive enough it's possible.
>> would that necessarily result in higher wages for everyone else?

Unless companies like Google relocate ( to where? ) then yes, wages would absolutely rise, because they don't allow WFH [1], ergo the only engineers available would be those in the Bay Area, NYC, etc. No, they wouldn't outsource critical infrastructure to places like India or China, who hacked them. I also don't see them picking up and leaving and going to e.g. Vancouver.

I think the only way to address this "great engineer" thing without American engineers crying foul is to gasp introduce standardized testing that all the American tech companies -- who can't get the amazing talent -- agree upon and then select the 99th percentile of the candidates that pass it and pay them in the 99th percentile of wages for the bay area. This would be an objective measure and Americans wouldn't be suspicious of whatever criteria VCs/founders use to measure "great programming ability". Make the interviews and the criteria public, bring it to the light, then people would be more inclined to believe them. Right now I simply hear a bunch of hand-wavey math and see a bunch of rich people whining about how they don't have engineers to build their things. Yes, I know there are flaws with standardized tests, but it's the best of bad things.

[1] Most companies. Yahoo notoriously, but most companies aren't in favor of allowing WFH.
Off the top of my head,(and I'm sure you will get better responses) you could trawl the PHP forums and pick up some simple work that you can bash out quickly? May be a way to make a few bucks.
That'd be fine if the applicant pool was first sorted by profession and geography and like compared against like. But how do you decide the distribution of visas across those sub-groups?
> click-to-play add-ons like Flashblock

You don't need an add-on for that. Firefox and Chrome both have this as an optional built-in feature. I think it should be on by default (which it sadly isn't).
> One thing you can do is make your peace with the fact that it will take a couple of minutes or so to refocus.

This is very important. It takes me three minutes to adjust after an interruption. I sit in my chair with my eyes closed to avoid distractions. Even if I make notes, I have to process the interruption and then shift to the previous task. It really helps to work on a big project so that you can ask, "Where was I?" and get back into it.
Fuck me, Independent. I've not got all day.

Want to load some content in at any point or are we just gonna get a few more random videos and other guff loaded in first?
You weren't following that rule, because requesting an invitation is not playing with the product.

The Show HN guidelines repeat more than once that there has to be something for people to actually try, and mere signup forms are explicitly excluded. How could that be clearer?
Prestige should accumulate to anyone who does good work, of whatever kind. Stable software libraries can help science as much as producing papers (if nothing else, because of their effect on future production of papers!).
I feel like I should go back and do this to a lot of my old projects
If you're staying near Paddington then sure, it makes sense. But for going to Canary Wharf the tube option is pretty nice - just change at Green Park (step-free since the rebuild) to the Jubilee line.
I doubt it. I think their motivation is to prevent WebM from replacing h.264 as the dominant web video format. Microsoft don't care about licensing fees - their cash cows will be earning them orders of magnitude more. But if WebM replaces h.264 then Firefox on Linux (or ChromeOS or whatever) will be able to play that quite happily, whereas I'm sure MS would prefer h.264 to remain dominant since it's patent-encumbered.
Lisp had a several-decade head start in many useful programming language features that are now commonplace (and some that aren't yet so commonplace).
This is a great presentation, especially from slide 14 onward. Exactly the kind of practical advice entrepreneurial developers need to move towards a MVP. I wish there was more regarding how to set the stage before launching something (aside greyhat/blackhat techniques), i.e. having some eyeballs waiting for what you might be creating.
When I say Apple doesn't compete on price, I'm talking about pricing aggressively as the OP suggested: "they can do so with price cuts deep enough and long enough to drive most potential competitors out of business."

When a company has profit margins of 24.27%, as Apple does for the last quarter, they are not competing on price. Companies that compete on price typically have profit margins down around 5% (see Dell, Walmart).

Apple will not cut into those margins to make market share. They never have. That's not to say they won't do whatever they can to gain market share. But deep price cuts is not one of those things.

BTW the iPhone is subsidized by the carrier, not by Apple.

Also, this is the first time I've heard that the iPhone "didn't take off" until the price came down. I kind of remember people lining up overnight to buy it when it came out -- no price drop necessary.
It seems reasonable to think that the cable companies at first saw Netflix at a threat only to Blockbuster, etc. Too bad for them that they did not take a broader view of their competition. When a person says, "I want to be entertained by narrative" (not that they would really say such a thing explicitly), cable, Netflix, movie theaters, live theater performances, novels, etc. all compete with each other for the person's attention and dollar. Cable had the advantage that it was always there and required little effort to consume on a per-unit basis (meaning, the effort of turning on the TV). However, it had the disadvantage of lacking variety -- much like the airport bookstore compared to a "real" bookstore (purposefully ignoring Amazon to keep the historical perspective intact). It was this unique position of availability which allowed Cable to survive alongside Blockbuster, and everything else I listed above. Netflix tipped this balance.
Yes, if all three can get along then no problem, cost cutting also come into play.
Good news for these guys, but I don't think it's a happy ending if one has to first create a media shitstorm in order to attract the attention of a Google CSR.
It feels like a spam page. Pages that look like this usually are littered with AdWords. In fact, after my one-second initial scan, I thought the category links were AdWords. Aside from that, here are my quick thoughts:

1) The banner / feature being incorporated takes away from the initial impact. Separate these out and place the feature image with the headline text. Here are some WooThemes that illustrate this:

http://demo.woothemes.com/?name=sealight
http://demo.woothemes.com/?name=delegate
http://demo.woothemes.com/?name=optimize

2) Spruce up the "Start watching on Topchan.tv..." section. The typography isn't too bad, but it's bland. Play around with backgrounds, borders, and images, to make it more visually appealing.

3) The logo is blurry and the Topchan.Tv text next to it doesn't really feel like a logo. Make your logo stand out a bit more. To do this, try making the text and image work together. Also, don't feel like the Topchan.Tv text part of the logo needs to be HTML text. It can, and probably should, be an image.

4) The category links don't stand out at all. The text could be bigger. I'd play around with styling that a little more as well. Mix bold with regular text. Use lines to separate them. Let them breath with some whitespace.

5) The "Try it Now" button: make it orange instead of blue and change the font. I'd make the bevel a little more subtle as well.
In about 1988, I tried to write a language named after me, in Microsoft BASIC on a Sharp MZ-700 (creaky 8-bit computer). I didn't get very far.
Weirdly enough, I just finished reading about how NBA players overwhelmingly wanted to play with Bill Russell over Wilt Chamberlain, as part of an argument that Russell was the better player.
I think keeping your expenses down is important. Even if you are independently wealthy, running a tight personal budget will help you think more frugally about your business expenses.

I live in NYC, and you will be surprised at how expensive it is. Take a look at some of the surrounding areas. Around Hoboken (as Hoboken itself has gotten expensive), parts of Queens and parts of Brooklyn are all relatively cheap. You can find parts of Harlem that aren't too bad, and if you're willing to go very north on the island, there are actual houses that are pretty cheap once you get above Harlem. I would definitely suggest living together if you don't think that social issues will be a problem (which would be a bad sign for your startup regardless). I think getting yourself a little farther away from Manhattan might also help keep some of the social distractions from popping up--it can be tough to code late into the night when you see/hear people out and about having a good time.

That's just my opinion and how I would approach the subject... I'm sure people will have different suggestions.
Author of blog post here: Thanks, good point! What I meant was, "Trying to impress with the complexity of your code..." I'll change that in the blog post.
And 1 liter steins, I've read. IIRC there is a German name for them.
I hear ya- we just had to go through this whole process and thought it absolutely ridiculous, but didn’t feel had much choice since we’d like our kids to be able to play.
The composition of that radiation is important - Earth's atmosphere preferentially filters out a lot of the higher-energy particles that are likely to permanently damage electronics. The sievert as a unit is weighted based on damage to biological systems, not electronics.
>The Big Sur 11.2.2 update is a good example of what’s almost a null change, yet requires ... 3.1 GB for an M1 model.

What Is the change?!

Official site doesn't have entry for 11.2.2 or am I missing something ?

GUI says this:
macOS Big Sur 11.2.2 prevents MacBook Pro (2019 or later) and MacBook Air (2020 or later) models from incurring damage when they are connected to certain third-party, non-compliant powered USB-C hubs and docks.

Then for more details it sends here:
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211896

What about massive writings to SSD? has it been addressed? Or it's not a problem?

PS: GUI says for my M1 it's 2.17GB and article says 3.1 GB who is correct?
Interesting fact: In a quantum algorithm you can not really delete information, which is why quantum algorithms are always defined as reversible computations (unitary matrices).

Also, here is a reversible programming language someone made (which has nothing to do with quantum):

https://wiki.c2.com/?ReversibleProgrammingLanguage
The JSON patch took out more of the elapsed time. Granted, it was a terrible parser. But I still think JSON is a poor choice here. 63k x X checks for colons, balanced quotes/braces and so on just isn't needed.

Time with only duplication check patch: 4m 30s
Time with only JSON parser patch: 2m 50s
They can't actually stop them can they? Right of first sale.

Or is there some custom in the supply chain by which these firms waive that right for priority in sourcing? In which case, this sounds like an unethical buisness practice solely intended to create market inefficiencies...

Or is there something else to it?
IMHO re-implement these using modern ES6 javascript targeting browsers above IE11 (so ES module support is good) and a simple canvas library (or even P5.js) to really capture the original spirit of BASIC. It's supposed to be a modern language that's available everywhere, and web browsers fit that mold nicely. The dev tools window in your browser is the new QBASIC, just sitting there waiting for a kid to open it up and blow their mind with what's possible.
It,s almost like they,ve gotten smart enough to play dumb ;)
I have the same view.
I can usually go through the comments without reading the article.
Also, the comments will usually provide more insight with first-hand accounts or analogies.
In that 16 years, we got new (and mostly unnecessary) layers of abstraction on what existed previously. Whole single-page-application crowd (eg. Sencha, React...) is busy reinventing things that already exists three layers of abstraction down from the level on which they code.

DirectX was interesting in that age because of exactly the thing in article: you can allocate sound buffer and one surface and view that two COM objects as hardware and not care much about performance implications of the abstraction in between. Once you start drawing to (to borrow X11 terms, as I'm not too familiar with GDI/DirectX) IndexColor surface that is shown on TrueColor display, you get slowdowns in the abstraction layer on the order of "2005 highend Windows NT workstation renders at 2FPS what random office computer from '94 on DOS rendered at 60FPS" (see OpenTTD for example of exactly this performance regression).

For last 25 years hardware acceleration for graphics is readily available for all performance tiers but still, you need to have quite low-level understanding of how the hardware works to get reasonable performance (and as for working-around hardware and driver bugs, we are currently in mostly same situation as 25 years ago and it was better in the meantime).
The last person who hired me as a consultant confused Square with Squarespace. The confusion is real, but not as much to us because we deal with keeping track of namespaces every day as programmers.
Whistleblowing on mgmt is a great way to get blacklisted, and one person's ability to quit their job does not address the root cause of the abuse.

Why should the burden be on the worker to find a new job anyway? If the abuse is coming from mgmt, it should be their responsibility to make it right.
"Great...now I'm a party to this ugly little secret."

http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-07-12
Yes to @eof's response. He does know me well, and should be able to clarify in my absence.

There is going to be an AI engine that we use in the future in a similar way that we use Linux today. I mean that "future Linux-ish AI engine" and unless Linus has been busy ML-ing, it won't be called Linux.
The problem is still power though. The power requirements are too big to be anywhere near what's feasible for the foreseeable future.
No, this is just what happens when you try to hit the page from a US IP address.