jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The "protection" you speak of is that consumers can associate a producer with a product. In this case the producer of the original product was Sun which is now part of Oracle. Thus someone who gets an update for "Open Office" is getting it from the one true source for Open Office.

The freedoms provided by the Open-Source license allow someone to fork that code to create a "new improved product" - but that product can't be called "Open Office". In this way consumers can't think they're getting x and end up with y.

If the consumers are concerned about Open Office, then it's their choice to go to Libre Office. They are in effect opting-in to a change. Changes of this nature have to be opt-in, there's no way around that.

Allowing multiple people to use a trademark, or worse encouraging court battles over who is the "one true heir" to a trademark would not be in the consumers interest.

Clearly a fork can not have any claim on a product name because if it did there exists the possibility for infinite forks, and infinite products with the same name. This in no way serves the consumer, and specifically it does not facilitate the identification of the product, not does it serve to identify quality or other characteristics.
Cool, I'm glad you see my point :-) - it's just that there seems to be almost a meme going round, not just on hn, that 'hey this stuff just doesn't matter because the customer doesn't care' which seems fallacious to me (see other posts for why :-)

I think the term 'code beauty' is a poor choice though; that seems to me to implies something subjective, when in fact I fundamentally believe code quality dictacts product quality.
>In order for a speculator to lift the price and sustain it, they'd need to actually take delivery of oil and remove it from the system.

No, when they buy a commodity on futures they own that product. It is out of the market at that point. Further trading can't go on on oil that was bought on futures, it's been sold before it was produced.

>This thread was about speculators pushing prices higher, and I was outlining the only viable way where I saw that they could push prices higher

But this can be done via futures as it has been with Gold. There is more than 10 time more gold "owned" by people than actually exists.
So... we're ditching Coanda and going back to Circulation Vortex?

A question I always had about the circulation vortex: where's the energy input to power the vortex?! (or why does it not need one?)
It lacks some stuff like when you search for a name, say you wanted to search for Richard but you just remember his name started with Richar. Gmail usually won't show you any results for Richar but it will work, as expected, with Richard.

(This might not be the best example but Gmail is blocked by my company so I can't try this before posting.)
The market prefers it because there is a 100-year head start on distribution networks and standards to the consumer for gasoline.

The only thing that could compete with that is the ability to plug it into the wall yourself. But battery technology has not improved much in that same 100 years and there's no universal battery standard to swap out for a new one during roadtrips.

In a half-dozen generations there will be complaints from gas station owners as they go the way of slide-rule manufacturers and have to get government subsidies to stay open.
Re: "Integration with TVs" - I doubt Apple would depend on a 3rd party for a core piece of the overall solution. So iPads as set top box is pretty much farfetched.
I'd say each of the annoyances has a historical reason for being there, but not a real reason as in "this is just the best way to do it". You make it sound like it's a cohesive platform that was designed to fulfill particular goals from the start, but it definitely wasn't.

I agree with you about the value of the web platform. It has a lot of advantages, especially from a business perspective, but it doesn't mean that it's a good platform.
I think the denial to credit for DDG is less about credit worthyness and more about "deplatforming" based on personal details. Or thats what it'll become.
As a kid in Texas reading Calvin and Hobbes, the snow aspect always seemed so magical. I know as an adult it is probably a beating most times, but still fun to think about.
We actually got snow in DFW this year and my first actions were to have my kids build a snowman, and then find the steepest hill we could to sled down :)
No, I refused the surgery and I do not regret it one byte.

The accident atty had arranged a chiropractor who hurt me, and being homeless, to me it was clearly greedily intentional in order to 'Maximize my monetary recovery'. because the atty takes a % of the award!

The timing is critical to understanding the conveyor of terror I was on. The chiro did this to me after my accident MRI was taken.

So then the atty arranges a surgeon to perform c2-c5 spine surgery based on the old MRI and he tells me "it's routine. A piece of cake."

Felt like the perfectly plausibly deniable way to put me in a wheelchair as a quadriplegic and then charge the insurance company $2 million instead of a paltry $30000.

"Oh there were complications during the routine surgery.." is the risk I was facing.
In the case that you're using MySQL 5.6-compatible Aurora RDS, you need to enable a special flag to get lock-free nullable column additions.
I've heard this "unfair" argument since forever. You know what's tremendously unfair? Mental illness. And homeless are vastly more likely to suffer from mental illness. I'm sorry, but these people are actually suffering and need help. They need help. What part of that is so hard to internalize?

And I've heard soooo many people argue "you know what the real cause of homeless is, right? X!" And then, "no, the real core problem is X's cause!" And then, "no, it's Y that is to blame!" And then "well ever since Z happened, we can't do W". And on and on...an unending stream of excuses, a mountain of reasons to not do anything about it, to not spend any money on it, and certainly not to actually study the problem. Instead, it's just more punishment for being stupid or poor and blame. Because everything else is unfair to those working saps.

You know what might actually have half a chance of solving homelessness?

Giving a damn about them. Not arguing over how fair this or that is, not quibbling about core reasons, putting things off until the unfixable things get fixed. GIVE A DAMN.
Fans of Calvin and Hobbes might like the documentary “Dear Mr. Watterson”, which includes a lot of his art work and interviews with several cartoonists, (though not Watterson).
2.5 the requirements fifmg sort themselves out over slack/meetings, so now I'm writing a doc to close them out.

-> my afternoon today
This is an excellent question but I don’t think I would trust anyone to measure it accurately.
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Wanderlog (https://wanderlog.com) is building tools to make leisure travel easier. We believe that travel makes us and the world better, and are trying to lower the bar to it. Our product so far is a Google Docs for planning travel and sharing recommendations.

We’re currently a team of 5, including 4 engineers (counting twin-brother founders Peter and Harry as engineers) and 1 designer. Our stack is Typescript with Node.js, React, React Native, and excellent front-end and back-end test coverage.

We also love traveling. Whether it’s a short hop to Austin, Seattle, or New Orleans; or a longer jaunt to Australia, Hawaii, or Banff National Park (all places members of the team have traveled to in the past year!), travel broadens our horizons, builds empathy, allows us to bond with others on our trip! We’re working to bring these experiences to more of the world.

If you're interested in joining us, email me at peter@wanderlog.com or check out our job posting at https://wanderlog.com/blog/jobs/full-stack-engineer/
I am in the same boat. 4 year old and a very active 7 year old. My partner, as I'm lucky to have one, is also home full time as her place of business has been temporarily shuttered. I'm a software engineer and she teaches fitness and dance.

Between us I think we're doing okay. We're not going hardcore on structure. We're being relaxed on TV/videogame time (we usually only watch TV on weekends for an hour at most and video games are usually played together). We swap responsibility around. I take breaks to horse around with the kids in the yard or go for a walk around the neighborhood. We share meal preparation, chores, etc. While I need longer stretches of focused time I also dedicate a part of the day for household distractions.

We're also keeping the neighbors in the loop. Some of the parents, such as myself, have offered to take the kids out for a regular "recess" during the afternoon. We keep our distance as usual but go for walks, kick a ball in the field, count birds, have races, etc.

And at work I keep the team up to date on our situation. Everyone is in the same boat more or less. Some have high-risk dependents. Some have kids. Some are simply not comfortable working from home full time.

What I've learned about working from home for a period of about 5 years was: don't worry about the structure of your day. Wake up at a regular time, work out if you can, and realize that nobody can see you -- only your results. You can find a routine that works for you and yours. I hope most employers are smart enough to know that for some people this may mean less output but it can also mean more. Flexibility and responsibility are key. As long as you're communicating with your team I don't see the problem of fitting work around life. I find that without the stress and expectations of being "on the clock" enables me to have more opportunities for my mind to wander which often leads to insights that solve my problems that I'm working on.
I'm a lot more concerned about people's health and well-being. Once the health crisis passes, the rest will probably take care of itself.
I'm curious what the distribution of time offsets between servers running NTP is. Properly functioning NTP should maintain an offset well under 100ms, but what fraction of the time servers are "properly functioning" is a question I'm interested in knowing.
I think this response is connected maybe to yesterday's facebook (f8) event...
I think college is a fun place to be until you figure out something productive to do. A lot of people feel that this is a "wrong" reason to do a PhD, but I actually agree with this view.

"The hopeless ones become college professors" - http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2015/02/25/hopeless-ones/
One thing directly connected to this history is why the x86 is little-endian. As the article explains, the 8008 was designed for the Datapoint 2200 terminal. The 8008 was intended as a compatible replacement for the existing Datapoint processor, which was built from simple TTL chips.

To reduce the chip count, the Datapoint 2200 used a serial processor, which processed one bit at a time, so you had a 1-bit ALU among other things. One consequence is that you have to start with the low-order bit when doing addition, so you can handle carries. And for 16-bit values, you also have to start with the low-order byte. This forces you into a little-endian architecture.

Thus, to be compatible with the Datapoint 2200, the 8008 was also made little-endian. Unfortunately, Intel was very slow creating the 8008, so Datapoint had moved on to a parallel 74181-based architecture and didn't want the 8008. Intel decided to sell the 8008 as a stand-alone product, essentially creating the microprocessor industry. As the article explains, the x86 grew out of the 8008, so x86 also inherited the little-endian architecture
CDC has there shortcomings, no doubt but let’s not forget who’s truly to blame for the mess we’re in now. The trump administration’s disbandment of federal institutions created to combat this and the ongoing denial of a serious problem have led to a collapsing economy and isolation of millions. Good article here for sure but let’s not pass the blame to the CDC. We know who to blame...
in europe and a lot of the rest of the world they are not refrigerated
The message to commercial entities is clear: don't bother responding.
In his time as today scientific consensus is that Goethe's work on color was that of a poet and not of a scientist. My sense is that Goethe wanted to be a kind of DaVinci, trying his hand at everything from poetry, fiction, drama to painting and dabbling in science. Personally, I think his fiction is pretty great but as an optics guy I'd rather he stayed away from that field.
Masks should just be a given.

If we consider a place like South Korea, or Singapore, the executive actions contrast wildly with the executive actions that our city, state, and federal governments have taken.

If I'm not mistaken, in Singapore they even went so far as to distribute packs of masks to each and every family. I don't ask for that level of efficiency, but it does illustrate an example of effective executive action during times like these.
isn't the census about to start this year? this is some "same shit, different toilet" scenario. all these so-called secure government institutions or private companies or wherever this database came from. always promising a lot, and delivering little.

that's what happens when non-cybersec people are in charge of cybersec things
I hope one thing that comes of this outbreak is that all nations develop the processes and capabilities to quickly stop the spread of outbreaks in general.

COVID19 is worse than flu, but not as bad as it could have been. We could get hit with something worse in the future. Imagine a strain of Ebola that gestates asymptomatically longer, or another coronavirus with higher mortality rate. This outbreak is good preparation for that one.

Anytime you’re dealing with a harmful exponential growth process like an outbreak, the best way to handle it is to overreact early, quickly and briefly. Kill it hard while it’s still small and easy to kill, or it will get out of control fast.

Put everything on lockdown/shelter-in-place for a few weeks - [max(gestation period|time to develop and deploy test kits) + safety factor] - test extensively, isolate and treat the infected, stop the outbreak, and then return to normal. Outbreak stopped dead in its tracks, economic damage is minimized and mostly short-term.

This is basically what South Korea did and they got their first COVID19 diagnosis the same day as the US:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testin...

That needs to be become a social and political norm everywhere, not just the Asian countries that have faced a widespread outbreak before.
I hope by seized e means try bought them at market price.

While supportive of strict social distancing measures I do not think any governor or president can suddenly start tossing basic civil rights. The rise of authoritarian language from state leaders is very concerning
Because you’re able to pass benefits and productivity presumably to US citizens.

Not just that, but fine, you win your arguments as they are perfect. So now, this founder/owners have pallets of US dollars. Where does one spend those funny looking pieces of paper?

Poof. There goes that argument of “sucking billions out” as those dollars are FORCED to come back to the US.
how girl get archeived?
Shutdown Corner has been my favorite source of reasoned NFL power rankings for the last seven years if that counts for anything.
Yes, it is

https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/mastca...
The Chicago region has dozens of very large rail yards, with construction of new yards and expansion of existing yards ongoing. It would take a lot of investment elsewhere to eclipse: Russia/Moscow is making a strategic investment that will pay large dividends for them for decades to come.
> Those 11,500 lines, however, are only 0.4 percent of the entire API at issue, which consists of 2.86 million total lines

This marks jurisprudence
I see this stupid response in every thread about taxes. Do you have to personally benefit from something to advocate for it?
There are lots of ways to get caught. If you want to buy a house, you either need a mortgage and will have to demonstrate income (which you probably can't), or you have to pay cash. Buying the kinds of houses that drug dealers buy in cash is going to draw a lot of attention that you don't want. Likewise with cars, or really any big purchases. Getting really nice season tickets to sporting events is going to be suspicious if no one can vet that you actually have a job.

Laundering the money is not instead of paying taxes, it's on top of paying taxes. The goal is to make it appear that you're a legitimate business person who makes their money from laundromats or whatever. If the police come snooping about how you can pay for your house or cars or tickets, you can just show them the books for your "business" as evidence that you really are just a regular Joe that runs a chain of laundromats.
That's right. Ronald Reagan liked to describe the sequence of actions that government typically takes toward private business:

"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it."
Looks like an interesting project. Any reason why you chose Chrome over anything else?
yeah, right. Google says about 14,000. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
why so many webdesigners put irrelevant information in their website like "I love sandwiches"? Is this some trend?
(Native Spanish speaker here.)

First: This app is amazing!

But I think that this app is doing almost a word by word translations, without a list of usual expressions or grammatical analysis.

For example, the correct translation of 'Dead End' is 'callejón sin salida', that means literally something like 'street without exit'. Translating word by word 'Dead End' you obtain 'Muerto Fin' that is unintelligible.

Another example from the video is the translation of

'Lengua boliviana con una salsa picante de anchoas'.

The app translates this as

'Tongue Bolivian with a sauce spicy of anchovies',

But the correct translations is something like

'Bolivian Tongue with a spicy sauce of anchovies',

because in a translation between English and Spanish you must reverse the order of the adjectives and nouns.
Is it bad to be prudish?

What's the upside of fully exposing the skin? I don't think skin exploration is the goal of this project, and this way they aren't alienating part of their audience.
I like it for screen real estate purposes. The shorter stuff is, the more text I can view in a single window.

I wish monitor real estate progressed at the rate of Moore's law, but I suppose we'd need bigger rooms to put them in before too long.
Yep, you beat them by 20 minutes. TechCrunch story is up as well. :)
People are tracking all the evolution of startup visa on http://startupvisa.com/
I've signed up for Pinboard, it has most of what you want - 3 is http://pinboard.in/u:philfreo/t:git/t:tutorial. What concerns me is the 4, due to the proverbial "network effects", delicious was so good for searching others' bookmarks because so many people were using it. I'm afraid there won't be a clearcut "winner" that everyone uses, the "go to" place to look for links.
It’s also free (not the translation part but the word recognition and replacement part) so there is no excuse to not try it out yourself or getting a friend to try it out for you (should you lack an iPhone).
Most people shopping at the supermarket could not see the difference between human meat and cow meat. Kiddie porn is not that hard to spot.

It's interesting how we tie the act of consuming a product to the act of producing it. Sometimes it's more obvious, like when you buy your meat straight from the butcher. But is it as unethical if you buy the meat vacuum packaged from the supermarket? How about possessing kiddie porn, does it make you a child molester?
It's cute but I don't really buy it. You think he hasn't asked his engineers what the chance of success is? And that they haven't calculated it using actual numbers based on the previous test landings?
I don't think the tor client itself is insecure. They're pretty serious over there.

However, it definitely increases the attack surface.
This is one of the best charts library I've seen lately judging from docs/examples. Response nicely to change of the size and adding data into already instantiated charts seems super easy!
How have you marketed this so far?
A friend of mine with no formal programming training had volunteered at her previous job to edit her company's Wordpress stuff. When she was about half a dozen years out of college she went to Maker Square in Austin where she learned Rails and JavaScript and HTML/CSS and how to use Git alongside teammates. She got a job at PROS Pricing in Houston and was able to fit into a team that built front-end functionality primarily with HTML and Clojurescript and even though she has talked about it being a learning curve I get the sense she has been doing quite well.
Hi Lee,

Do you mind me asking what the development process was like behind this? You have a landing page and a great idea for a product in a good space. Specifically, did you develop the application yourself? If so, what language did you use and what were some challenges you came across? I am looking to start developing some SaaS product and have a few basic ideas, but don't exactly know where to start.

Thanks in advance.
I've left some comments on the Disqus thread on the blog, but I'll reiterate my concern about the security of the cookie being set.

The cookie being set is unsigned according to the documentation[0] on rails, so a user could modify it and send it back to get a different cached response. Say that they saw that the user level was being set in there (like in the blog post) and they change the value to the 'staff' value to get the staff cached response. Probably not a good idea!

With that said, I don't think that this technique is adequate right now when you have user access level concerns and you're relying on that piece of unsigned information to not be tampered with.

[0] http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionDispatch/Cookies.ht...
Blackberry Passport (previously Q10) user here. BB10 is not a "minimal phone OS". Maybe this was true for older BBOS phones (don't know, never used one), but BB10 converted me from being a longtime Android user, and I've yet to feel like I'm missing out on anything (it does run Android apps too).

Also, Blackberry sells the Classic unlocked in the US through it's online store[1] and Amazon[2] and you can also get one on contract through US Mobile[3].

[1] http://shop.blackberry.com/store/bbrryus/en_US/pd/productID....
[2] http://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B00OYZZ3VS/?_encoding=UTF8&...
[3] https://www.gousmobile.com/blackberry-classic
Sales taxes are a really inefficient way of raising money. More specifically, you end up extracting most of your income from the poor and the middle-class, rather than the wealthy.

We already have a fair way of levying a tax - it's the proportional income tax and it's done just fine in the past. You'd be amazed how those numbers change if you remove the Bush tax cuts from the budget (or, even more shocking, go back to Reagan-era income tax levels).

I, for one, would rather raise taxes to their old levels than do away with government services that I value and that my friends and family depend on. My salary is pretty damn healthy - I would be "unfairly" taxed at a high bracket. That's the way it should be.
There was always a huge first-mover advantage to getting a high scoring comment... so I think your #1 above was actually a misleading signal.