jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You're getting downvoted, but I agree. I think Apple buys much earlier on in the process, like when it tried to buy Audion and then eventually grabbed SoundJam [1] as part of creating the original iTunes.

A more typical brand-preserved acquisition for Apple might have been when it bought Siri (originally an app) or if it had succeeded in buying Dropbox (which probably also would have retained the name).

[1]: https://panic.com/extras/audionstory/
What do you think partners are for if not this?
I didn't cherry-pick anything, those were the examples listed in the article and quoted to me in response to my original comment. As I already stated, I don't have a problem with acquisitions, I am aware that Apple isn't the only company that does this, I'm just pointing out the contrast in tone and rhetoric when it comes to Apple vs pretty much every other big tech company on this website.
The standard model has always felt like a piecemeal built contraption begging for a Maxwell type figure to come along and straighten it all out for us.
Wait until this guy learns about typesetters' ornaments, box characters, TeX, and emojis.
Because the U.S. military basically runs a massive socialized jobs program and every politician works to get a piece of it for their state.

No politician wants to be the one to make the case to shut down the factories that produce these things, even when the military has advised Congress to do so [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-end-of-t...
Personally, I am not okay with that. But also, I have lived in several countries (China included) where the government did exactly this, and I did not object, because I had no power, and anyway it did not much impact my life directly.

When people have no power, it does not really matter whether they object or not. This is why you see Canadian politicians making bold statements about "genocide", but the vast majority of Canadians you meet on the street do not even know what a Uighur is, and even if they condemn the idea of internment of suspected terrorists in theory, they do not feel the need to make some statement on the record about the livelihood of people imprisoned 10,000km away. Many do not even care about people imprisoned in their own country.

This, in fact, is very similar to how most people in China view things, and most people in the US, and many other countries too. Their immediate personal and household concerns outweigh their greater ideological beliefs. This is why I think it is misleading to imply that "China" and "the West" have diametrically opposed value systems.

What might be true is that the political party currently governing China has a different ideology to many of the political parties currently governing other countries around the world. But that's just politics. The special situation in China is "party, government, military, civilian, and academic, north, south, east, west, and center, the party leads everything". So, in China, the average citizen will never have any power, not unless they filter through the party framework. This makes the party ideology a self-fulfilling prophecy.

In my opinion this is why people both inside China and outside China get the impression that there is such a thing as "Chinese values". In reality, I think ordinary people in China have just as much diversity of opinion and diversity of values as any other country, they just have less power to express it politically, so it seems more like a monolithic culture than it actually is. Of course, in any case, many people do not much care about political ideology anyway.
One of the stupidest criticisms of the F-35 was from J. Michael Gilmore[0] former DoD Director of Operational Test & Evaluation. OT&E has a role, and is intended to be critical in their evaluation, but his reports were typically out of date, and didn't seem to reflect the consensus of the pilots and others actually operating the jet.

What made his criticisms ironically stupid was he'd never even SEEN the jet up close, or spoken to an actual pilot, only reviewed documents and read memos, until the very end of his tenure as Director of OT&E. He was not retained when Gen. Mattis took over as SecDef.

I've heard nothing but praise for LtCol. Chip Berke. He is a great fighter pilot, although now retired from the USMC.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Gilmore
I don't think I'd buy a used one, anyway; this manual being available is nice but can you get the parts? I don't even want to think about the tax and license issues...
More "efficient" at what? Business is supposed to be efficient at making money and does so by excluding non-customers.

Government is supposed to be "efficient" at serving all the people -is very hard economically. Post to rural MO, MT or AK wouldn't make it w/o guaranteed service by USPS. Among other services B couldn't do because the "margins arent there"
Apologies, that wasn’t the intention but I take your point. It’s a difficult time in the US right now and it requires difficult decisions on the type of discussions that are useful.
Riots didn't "just happen". They happened because Trump held a rally telling his followers the lie that what was going on in the Capitol was stealing the election from him, and to march on the Capitol. His tweets were part of that message. The fact that those two particular tweets were not the most egregious ones he's ever made is pretty irrelevant.
> "The president was not exonerated!", which is weasel-speak for "The president was not proven innocent!"

Mueller made it pretty clear he could not exonerate the President, and if he could he would have. Not only were there unanswered questions about Trump's involvement and knowledge of Russia contacts, but the report includes instances of probable obstruction.
A big chunk of the Democrat party abandoned liberalism (I.e. against globalism, free speech, etc). So you end up in scenarios where “liberals” aren’t really Liberal and call the Liberal people right-wing or centrist.
The outrage shows that people don't like being banned. Banned people generally tend to be outraged regardless of the circumstances. There's plenty of night clubs, but every person that I've ever seen getting thrown out of one was pretty mad, even if they were completely wasted and tried to get into a fistfight with the bartender. There are real alternatives to existing social media platforms, they're a click away. It's not clear to me at all what coercive power is being exercised here.

Keep in mind that a company having large market share does not imply they hold that position undeservedly. You actually need to show that this is the result of exercising market power, not consumer choice.
Immediately? Wouldn't they give them a "second chance" to implement the necessary changes?
Pretty sure. My understanding is that it was not socially acceptable to be atheist until quite recently. I'm not sure I meant physical danger, though. Ostracism is dangerous enough, there are plenty of ways to hurt people and influence their choices in life other than beating them up with a stick.

> There were still social conventions in 19th century England demanding lip service to religion...

Why isn't this an outrageous infringement on somebody else's freedom? And why should we discount its effect on who rose to the top and who didn't?

We know generally there can be many detrimental psychological effects on people coming from their social circumstances. These effects were presumably the same a few centuries ago, just much less well documented.

> ... people could usually tell who the true believers were as opposed to who was merely following the what-you-can't-say rules

I wouldn't be so sure. First, I'm not sure I can tell myself who's paying lip service these days, I'm just assuming no one is because I would consider it unnecessary. Second, when people read about historical figures, the accounts are really quite filtered: if someone was paying lip service back then and you read what was said about them or what they said in public themselves, how can you be sure these days what was lip service back then and what wasn't?

The author of the article is absolutely certain it wasn't lip service for these two scientists. I'm saying this kind of evidence isn't even remotely enough.
>> There isn't some PCI police that has a list of all their customers and will email them.

The payment processor that the competitor uses can stop processing their transactions. While I was in the PCI consulting space a few years ago, I saw many cases where small and medium sized companies ended on the credit companies black list and no payment processor would dare take their business.
Blockchains allow people to enter into agreements that don't require enforcement. They're enforced by the programs that generate and validate the blockchain. Eliminating the need to enforce agreements will make them easier to enter into. Blockchains make it easier for people to work together.
One cannot be the best possible scientist while maintaining a state of confusion as to what makes statements about reality true or not. Nor can you make the best possible decisions when you deny the means by which science evaluates which decisions are correct.
I remember when the web was still about the long tail -- it made Google extremely useful.

Today I usually know where the information is before I Google it (StackOverflow, Wikipedia, Amazon, etc.) which means their value add has diminished. It's less "search" and more "navigational aid."
This is an understandable position.

At the same time, there's an obvious research project that would bring clarity to this question, which either has not been done (I doubt this) or has not unearthed any evidence that the leaks killed anyone (my suspicion).

That is, compile a list of people's names included in the documents that were publicly released, and see who among them are dead. Among those, see if any could have been specifically targeted (e.g., a minister mentioned in a diplomatic cable who dies of cancer was obviously not; an Afghan educator who was assassinated probably was targeted). Among the potentially-targeted dead, see if there are any who were exposed by Manning's documents (instead of already being publicly-known for their activities.

If were are any names left at the end of that funnel, they would have been hugely valuable to the US government.

Either no one has done this research, or it came out with no results, or there's some other reason the results can't be revealed unknown to me.

I strongly suspect there were no results.
They don't have to support the apps, only the ones that end up with traction, hence revenue. If all 47,000 became popular then that would be a nice problem to have!
Glad you enjoyed it
I wrote about code tests and interviews a couple of months ago. (http://germanforblack.com/post/52224250893/the-perfect-code-...)

Heres a choice quote that I'm still happy with:

"Programming isn’t theatre or performance, “on demand” isn’t how your job works"
I finished my two year stint last June. Since then I've worked on several different startup projects and have been teaching myself how to code. I've been working on a personal finance site for the past few months that's getting close to MVP status. I'm running out of money though, so I'm considering joining a hedge fund for a while and continuing to work on the site on the side. The new coding skills would definitely come in handy.
What they patented, however, is more broad than that still:

1. A computer implemented method of scoring a plurality of linked documents, comprising:
obtaining a plurality of documents, at least some of the documents being linked documents, at least some of the documents being linking documents, and at least some of the documents being both linked documents and linking documents, each of the linked documents being pointed to by a link in one or more of the linking documents;
assigning a score to each of the linked documents based on scores of the one or more linking documents and
processing the linked documents according to their scores.
Dude, your ignorance is showing. Europe is trying to stop Google pushing its own above everything else, which is VERY different.
Unlikely, most data points in presentations are specifically given to paint a certain view! Last weeks figure will be last weeks low or high, not some arbitrary figure pulled from the middle of a session...
I love this. For a couple of reasons.

1/I often discover new things and have new thoughts and ideas along the way of an implementation which hadn't presented themselves previously.

2/I think it's a great way to avoid overthinking a feature or arguing too much for or against it. If nearing a majority consensus (with oneself or team) and there is time to spare, add it to Version 2 -- advantages being point #1 above, and having it prepared should it be deemed worthy to be merged to Version 1. I've heard that having features in the chamber ready to release is something big corps commonly do.
AKA nothing changed and nothing was actually there.
Maybe widen the scope of your question: What are the best sources for learning more about the 2008 financial crisis?
IIRC the thing that makes BPA plastic yellow over time is the gradual oxidation of a fire-retardant chemical added to it. You can reverse this process with bleach+UV light, reducing the chemical back to its non-oxidized form (sort of like how you can use activated charcoal to absorb moisture from the air, and then bake it to re-activate it.) If your 30yo white plastic isn't yellow, that's because the manufacturer skimped on the fire-retardant and it's likely highly flammable.

No idea about why some plastics get sticky, though. I'd imagine it's the plastic's polymer literally breaking down, but it might also be some additive "sweating" out. Maybe it's the very same fire-retardant chemical. (Old yellowing hard plastics don't get sticky, but they don't tend to have plasticizers in them, so they need far less flame-retardant.)
Question: Doesn't this already happen to us all the time every day? Isn't it the essence of all radiation damage to our bodies?
Maybe with efficient fusion you could just push a small asteroid on acceleration, then drop it and use the drive plume as a shield on deceleration.
You give recognition to a toddler when it learns how to use the toilet, not when grown men in positions of responsibility do the bare minimum it's expected of them
This is an OK attitude to young children, not adults.
This reminds of a scene in Homeland. I forgot the season/episode, but the basic plot is that a Media man who was urging supporters didn't think that these supporters would get armed and confront the police/FBI. It ended with one of these supporters killed and the man shocked as he clearly didn't think it would go that far.

In my opinion, Trump is just doing that. I don't think he would have expected armed men to join this. He was probably doing it to save face. It doesn't help that democrats are making the situation worse by calling this a coup instead of taking a calmer sentence.

Here are the possible resolution scenarios:

- The men are disbanded. No one is hurt, maybe some charges against some of these men.

- One fatal shot on one side or both sides. Sad event, but then the men are disbanded and harsher charges against some of them.

The rest is drama.
Here's my advice to save money on good astronomy equipment. Go to 'wwww.astromart.com' and pay $15 for a year's membership that gives you access to the classifieds section.

I am a very infrequent hobbyist but have bought quality equipment through astromart. Good quality telescopes have very good resale value if you take care of it.

The best telescope for the beginner is the one they can take out easily into the field and use it often.

A good quality 7x50 binocular is good to start with and then move onto something a little bit more substantive like a 3" refractor or an 8" reflector like a dobsonian or a newtonian with a tripod.

Also install a good piece of astronomy software like Stellarium or similar to virtually navigate your night sky and become familiar with constellations and the bright stars that you can see with the naked eye.

Beware this can become quite an expensive hobby if you fall into the rabbit hole.
If I'm reading this right, he's asking the "Block Chain" not to process coins that are labeled as stolen.

In the physical world and the US receiving stolen goods is a crime. I mean it would be nice to be able to mark stolen coins or coins used in ransomware as unusable...

I don't see how this works in "decentralized" bitcoin universe. Also signing documents with the name of you LLC is a thing now?
"In the U.S. and other Western nations, white people are socialized to feel that they are inherently superior because they are white," one of the slides read. "Research shows that by age 3 to 4, children understand that it is better to be white."

And the problem is these kids grow up and then one day have a female boss, or minority boss and if they aren't prepared they add subtle dysfunction to the team and it bruises their ego. I see this even today with my team, one of our employees seems to resent and refuse to learn from our developers in Central America. Or a buddy of mine that can't seem to understand the woman on his team is his boss and not his peer/subordinate so she should get to make the final decision.
Which is probably the reason we don't currently have core inflation. If we had inflation then it would be evidence the economy is overheated, so cooling the economy would be appropriate at that time.
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Muscles underneath. Lots, of muscles.
I am using 6S plus as daily driver. More than 80 apps. Everything works smooth except for 3rd party keyboard.
Even better, this episode sums the entire thing up well: https://m.soundcloud.com/alabpodcast/episode-3-faketoshi-the...
Totally agree. Looking at this, it is substantially more complicated than it was before.

I'm guessing up til now, the days of time off earned was done in real time. Basically all you need is the day they entered, divide by 6 and truncate and there's your days. If there are infractions that cost days, you could still probably do it in a single SQL query.

This new system will have to know what kind of crime they committed, which might mean integrating with some byzantine government software from the 90s that looks like it's from the 70s. Previously they only really needed the prison system's records, which may or may not include their past crimes.

I'm guessing they're worried the integration won't be as easy as proposed. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes a month just to get the dev access to everything. I might even be surprised if it was that short.
Iran's, and North Korea's, strategies are working out pretty well for the people making those decisions. Khamenei, like Kim Jong-Il, looks set to die of natural causes at an advanced age.

The people of Iran and North Korea are not doing so well. But if you were an Iranian citizen hoping for a better future, would you really pin your hopes on a US-backed regime change, after seeing the aftermath of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria?
> We have no data for mRNA vaccines except those trials. We don't know if the historical data on traditional vaccines are applicable here.

This is not how decision making under uncertainty works. When you don't have rigorous proof of whether something works or doesn't work you have to make educated guesses based on various priors and make the percentage play. You can't refuse to incorporate priors into your decision making just because you don't have a peer reviewed p<0.05 study validating it.

Uncertainty about the result cuts both ways. You can't claim that we can't do X over Y because we don't have rigorous proof that X is better than Y, when we don't have rigorous proof that Y is better than X either. Regardless of what you do you're taking a leap of faith.

> We just don't know and it would be way worse if it turns out we have to re-vaccinate everyone because we were impatient.

If there's probability p that it doesn't work and we have to spend X extra months re-vaccinating everyone that's an expected delay of p * X. But if it does work then not pursuing the single dose strategy will delay the vaccination schedule by X' months also.

If p * X < (1-p) * X' then the former is a perfectly acceptable risk.
At my company, if you don't check into an on-call ticket within 20 minutes your manager will get paged, who will then likely need to page one of your peers to actually fix the problem.

So it's not like you can just ignore it until morning.
> 6% of MRR

holy shit
I maintain a small extension focused around Competitive Programming niche. I often get requests from users asking if there's a safari version available. As much as I would love to add support, I'm not paying 99$/year as I don't make any money from the product.

My extension for those interested:
https://github.com/nishanthvijayan/CoderCalendar-Extensions/
That's definitely not me. The point is that an effort should be made to make available the data to the fullest extent possible. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect anonymised data to be made available. If the data connot meaningfully be anonymised that might be a special case, but I find it hard to imagine a scenario like that, unless the study only involved a very small number of participants (which would also make it less valuable). Maybe there are such scenarios though, I'm not stating categorically that there aren't, just that it seems unlikely, and if there is I'd expect them to be a small minority.
Signal users: How is quality of multi-person video calls? If it's as good, I wonder why it's still a beta feature.
I spent 10 years in the US Navy and these rioters are a disgrace to my and every other veteran's service. I'm ashamed to be an American today in the face of these traitors.
If people are not equipped to deal with opposing viewpoints and critical thought, then perhaps the social organs of education have failed. Classical Western education prized dissent, debate, and dialectic for thousands of years, but education has changed dramatically in the decades since the 60s. Perhaps it is not for the better. Societies do not always progress upwards towards "more enlightened". Western education has stopped valuing objective truth, dissent, scientific method, and moral integrity. When those are gone, there is very little common ground between those who disagree, because even the method of discourse is gone. That is when force becomes valued by all sides, since they can no longer make any progress by words.
Prototyping alternative solutions is a cheap way to help uncover trade-offs, and you can do this independently.

Attending retrospectives after things go wrong is a good way for experts to introduce their thought processes to less experienced engineers.

Asking "why?" when senior engineers deliver feedback during design review can help you learn that a trade-off existed when you did not see it.
This is probably pretty effective co-marketing on coolermaster's part. I've seen them make cases before with other people's logos.
Would that have anything to do with the disaster of the Iraq War, by any chance?
AnandTech has decent benchmarks for both Tiger Lake [0] and M1 [1].

[0]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16084/intel-tiger-lake-review...

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
Do you have real proof/evidence of this "vast election fraud"? So far none has been presented. And what "proof" is out there are either known falsehoods, crazy theories (zombie Hugo Chavez wants Biden and not Trump to win), or nonsensical (CIA/DOD/NSA radioactive isotope watermarks are applied to all legitimate ballots, any day now they'll show that x million ballots were fakes).

Other than the dishonest (to themselves or others), few are claiming no fraud. There's always fraud (either intentional or not), but usually (and so far this election seems no different) in the tens to hundreds of cases. But there's no evidence of millions of faked votes.