jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I always thought the difference now between Apple and Google is that Apple is competing through licensing whereas Google is trying to compete through technology. This is what makes people question Apple - refusing Google Voice and Flash through the app store approvals, refusing Flash cross-compiling and Google/AdMob ads through the developer's license. Google usually comes across as being more open and willing to compete through the actual marketplace instead of in court, which I think appeals more to most developers and technologists.

And I don't think Gruber is making a coherent point here. Why even argue about who started it? That just comes across as whining and a ultimately a semantic argument. Of course companies will compete - let's talk about the implementations, what is best for consumers, and which is best for developers.
Give me Excel 2003. That was the most usable version for me. (Actually I was the most productive by far in Lotus 1-2-3. The reason I believe was the lack of a mouse.)
1) Play word in Scrabble

2) When disputed, produce vuvuzela

3) Blast vuvuzela in disputer's face

4) Disputer concedes. You win.
I was under the impression that using S3's versioned object support, it's possible to set up an account that has the ability to write objects but not to delete previous versions.
Panama has full right to set its own tax rates. Developed countries have full right to deny Panama's corporations from entering their markets, and even forbid their own corporations from dealing with their Panama counterparts.

Or, more realistically, the developed countries will pull any of the dozens of levers to make non-cooperative countries' life miserable.
That doesn't make it moral.

>>"Because many people would automatically dismiss a defense of Scott Adams ideas coming from Scott Adams" (from the link)

He needn't deceive people in order to defend his own case. That doesn't make any sense. If people want to take what he says with a grain of salt because he has an agenda that is their decision to make -- and rightfully so.

Being deceptive so that people won't think you're being deceptive is illogical.
Hey MenaMena123 - in my opinion you should start working on your startup - build fast a prototype and test the market - see if you can earn some money with it.
If you will start erning money very good - you are on the right track.
If not -don't give up, try to find a part-time job so you can still earn some cash bu also work on your startup!
Good like on your venture!
You can put anything into a contract. And in this case (client pays fees, including legal fees, associated with collection of invoices ... Or somesuch) it's certainly enforceable.
| CA | [[any of the above]] | [[any of the above]] |
+----+----------------------+----------------------+

I don't think I've heard two different people refer to them consistently.
If you don't have any savings, and don't have any income other than from working, how do you expect to live anywhere without working? Are you staying at home right now?

The bay area is expensive, but it varies a lot depending on where you are. Here's a hint: don't live in San Francisco. Look for a place in the east bay with roommates. If you want easy access to SF, just make sure it's near a BART station. You can get a decent place for < $600/mo that way.

If you're a good programmer and you can network, you should be able to cover your costs while only working 10-20 hrs/wk. That said, it make take you a little while to get your foot in the door if you're fresh out of school.

If you want to go soon, there are going to be a lot of university kids subletting their places for the summer.

The bay area is a great place. You'll have fun living there. Good luck!
Do you have a large proportion of your wealth at stake here? Do you use many sites or just one or two?
First on the whether it's wrong I wrote a whole big thing here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2452634

But on your point about letting other people jump in and defend him I don't agree with you. When Scott Adams posts something I assume he's thought through what he said. So while a bunch of people might agree with him they won't have thought the issue through as well as he has. So it's entirely plausible that he could defend his ideas better than other people could.

As far as things like Amazon reviews or Game reviews that's a completely different thing because the person doing that is trying to get money out of other people. So if they are wrong and the game/book/whatever doesn't deserve a five star review they'll have caused harm to the purchaser. Adams is just defending ideas which doesn't do such harm.
I apologize but I think this is BS...
This cannot work in this case.

The software is not what is being sold; it's the hardware. The software is free.

Let me paint a slightly sillier picture; imagine your law existed and one man wrote a small toy project in his free time 5 years ago... some company (e.g. Samsung) starts shipping it as part of an appliance they sell. If there are bugs in the software then is the original man obligated to fix them? Is he breaking the law?

Open source software just isn't compatible with laws mandating that it be maintained in a given way and it makes little sense, in my mind, to create such laws.
Hear, hear! As much as I adore setting up and managing systems that scale well, not everything needs massive clusters of hardware run by software that's designed to scale to the millions. Skilled system administration goes a long way.
I for one upvoted not because I agreed with the article but for what I hope is a constructive discussion.

Personally, and without wishing to sound entitled, I would love for it to be a lot easier to dip one’s toe in the water. A great start would be a web dev tutorial that starts from scratch with a sane Prelude that hides away anything I don’t need to know now (or perhaps ever). With of course a database, json, and html.

Coming from Flask where I was well served in that regard (no pun intended).

Aside: Thought ocaml might get there first but I’m not seeing that either
Yes, Haskell had ghcjs long before we even had wasm
You cannot create web applications without JavaScript these days. It does not matter what is your server side programming language, you need to send to the client JavaScript code to be executed in browser. And that in itself is a shitshow. End of story.
In Go pretty much everything is very much mutable. The part that distinguishes Go is exactly the M:N scheduler used for both evented IO and parallelisation of compute.

For _concurrency_ (what the Ruby fiber schedulers are for) what is proposed is probably quite a good idea. We can do as much hatin' as we want on JavaScript but its concurrency story has been much more successful than Ruby's due to evented IO as well - even though everything is mutable. As far as Ractor is concerned - well, WebWorkers are kind of similar - they get a separate thread, but you can only send them "messages" which must be immutable. How the MRI team is going to tackle mutations in those messages is an interesting excercise, because Ruby is ultimately a _live runtime_ - i.e. most of the things can change at any time. Not because it is made for sloppy programming but because it is made for incremental changes to the VM like Smalltalk.
I suppose. I was mostly interested in what the parent post meant, as it was hard to read it as suggesting something other than malice.
Rapescan terminals in the airports, domain names seized with no information provided, wtf, did the 4th Ammendment go down for a reboot or something? If so when can we expect it to come back online?
(Disclaimer: I work for Google, which is probably a bit atypical as big companies go.)

"I mean, in a big company, you're unlikely to actually know people outside of your immediate working responsibilities, so you don't really get the chance to network across the organization."

I work in Search Features. Over the past six months, I've been on a rotation with the webserver infrastructure team, and have gotten to work with people working on Google Maps, Doodles, Product Search, Image Search, Chrome, Protobufs, recruiting, UX research, and compilers & build tools.

Other big companies probably don't have quite as many cross-functional links, but rotations between groups are quite common, as are groups whose job is to consult across the organization.
Oh, that's what I meant - but a million a year will do a few hard-working guys nice to get started with. Tortoise, hare etc. - explosive growth isn't the only viable strategy.
The Apache video was edited to show the chain of events that led to the killing of a bunch of journalists. I agree that the rules of engagement were followed, but I don't believe permission to fire would have been granted if the guys in the helicopter hadn't been so scared and hadn't embellished their account of the people on the ground.

Are you claiming that the film was propaganda because we were shown that there were children killed? Or because we were told that those children were not given access to top quality medical care after they ended up accidental casualties?

If it's propaganda to include such information, then it's surely propaganda to omit it, which is what the US did by classifying it.

As for the leaked information putting lives at risk, Wikileaks offered to let the US Government redact any information it saw fit to. This offer was refused.

It seems odd that a government that negotiates with thugs, warlords, torturers, criminals, etc., all over the world, and let that one guy flee with $42M in US cash, will ceremoniously refuse to "negotiate" in a way that would have removed any chance that the leaks would have caused ANY harm whatsoever.

This is at best hypocritical and at worst stupid. I should be honest it irritates me to hear anyone say "we don't negotiate with terrorists" because so much of what the US does is identical to terrorism -- dropping bombs from very high altitudes into the middle of civilian areas, etc.

The realization I've made after reading the leaks is that the US is a propaganda state every bit as much as North Korea. The only thing we have in our favor is a far more favorable mix of natural resources, etc, so we simply had to deal with $5/gallon gas instead of being called upon to make tea out of pine needles by our illustrious leader.

There's an easy way to avoid ambushes: Send the troops home. The only rationale for staying is to essentially convert the territories into the 51st and 52nd US states. Already we've tolerated ethnic cleansing, etc., and things are far worse under US rule than they were under Saddam or the Taliban. We need to be honest with ourselves about this and decide if we really want two more states at the expense of so many indigenous lives. We should not be pretending that we can wage sterile war with smart bombs and that we're fighting against evil. We're simply taking valuable land. It's neither sterile or smart.

On balance the US has caused far more suffering in the past decade than the Taliban, and perhaps the leaks will allow the public to realize what is going on and call for it to stop. So maybe you're right, maybe Manning would emerge a folk hero, reveal one or two more key tidbits, and run for office himself from behind bars.

My favorite line from Sun Tzu is where he describes how a strong nation has children playing along its borders and a weak nation has soldiers lined up. Ever since George W. Bush took office we've been acting like a weak nation.

Sure the leaks were embarrassing. So fix the major security holes in military IT systems, apologize to the allies that were embarrassed, and move on.
There is also a part 1 (which includes an intro to monads):

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C9-Lectures-Greg-Mere...

I know I've seen some posts recently where people are inquiring about them.
Our eyes already see in HDR
Regarding reddit, that is plainly not true. If you were conservative minded, it would take all of 10 seconds to realise that the hive mind is antagonist to your beliefs.

I'm not from the US, and from an outsiders perspective, it is clear as day that reddit is liberal and votes democrat, and they think you are an idiot if you do otherwise.
No, I mean the people in the institution. The spending in Georgia isn't because of ... whoever the candidates are, I don't know their names. It is to decide which party gets another sympathetic vote in decision making.

The institution of Congress is critical. But the specific people in it at any time are important because of how they got there/who supported them on the way in and not because of who they are. They could be replaced and it wouldn't be a big issue, technically speaking. Practically there'd be huge consequences for whoever was stupid enough to disrespect the US Congress.
Apparently the EU fine wasn't enough to quell this behaviour.
Bottles and fuel? Isn’t the whole city full of people in possession of such materials? The whole country, even?
The next time someone says me "I have nothing to hide" I'm thinking of asking their salary because in my experience when people say that they actually mean they are not afraid of jail but would rather don't have a lot of details being made public like who they vote, their sexual preferences, their wealth or their personal opinion of a lot of their colleagues. Most of these details are easily inferred from their online behavior, not to mention personal chats. Part of the problem is that no one is going to say "I have something to hide". I'm not going to continue this rant because HN is not the audience that needs it but to summarize: defending privacy is an uphill battle and people are not right.
> they should be held to the same standard as NYT and CNN.

There still are significant distinctions. NYT and CNN have a much smaller number of people publishing news, who are hired and paid for their work. Twitter is just a host with a block button. For example Twitter doesn't have a sign-up hiring interview so anyone could have an account. Another distinction is that Twitter is publish first, ban later while newspapers are filtering before publishing.

Demanding a rule that works for few people to scale to hundreds of millions is wishful thinking. It's a different situation requiring different treatment.
Yeah you would be fine at six feet too. But if that person just stopped moving to check their phone, turned around and doubled back my direction and passing me on the narrow sidewalk, all kinds of reasons that they would quickly close in from a safe distance to within six feet of me, that wouldn't be too great. Easier to just throw on the mask sooner than wait till the last minute.
Deplatforming is a persistent right wing fantasy. If you don't openly misinform regarding public safety or very explicitly promote hate you can largely get away with saying almost anything else on Twitter, etc. When Trump blatantly spreads dangerous misinformation about Covid, for example, there is a lot of whining about deplatforming. Don't be fooled.

Furthermore, claiming deplatforming (a delusion) is the cause of political violence is nothing more than a grotesque distortion and justification.
At what point does brutalizing innocent people become a justified response to injustice?

The answer is at no point.

Any way, from what I recall 350,000 white men died fighting for the Union, in a civil war to end an institution that had existed since the beginning of human culture, and that continued to be practiced all around the world into the 20th century until imperialist powers ended it.
As much as I usually hate Apple, I'm with you on this one. One of my coworkers had the phone in that picture, and I almost asked her when she got an iPhone before I recognized that some of the icons were a bit off.
Yes but this (ie your skills atrophying) will happen at any job where your not being challenged enough.

Its part of life. Realize that you've gotten too comfortable and get out of there.

The lowest risk way of doing that is to keep interviewing for jobs you want. This will force you back into learning what you need automagically.

I'm trying a new method - trying to start a company. You'll have to ask me in a year or two whether this is as good a solution :) ...
In the U.S. That is not the case in every country in the world (many have free college education) so it's not an inherent property of higher ed to be "marked-driven commodity". Therefore it's valid to criticize the U.S. implementation for being that given that it doesn't have to be.
Rhetoric is tuned to the sensibilities of the time. We live in a much more cynical time with much lower public faith in government: http://www.people-press.org/2014/11/13/public-trust-in-gover... (75% versus about 20-25%). Which is ironic because we had more to be cynical about back then. After all, JFK was a rapist, and his FBI director was trying to get MLK to kill himself.

It's entirely a function of economics. When JFK gave speeches, the U.S. was on the top of a world in which all its competitors had bombed each other to pieces. When Obama gives a speech, it's in a world where U.S. blue collar jobs have fled to China and Mexico. Idealism just rings hollow under those circumstances.
I only mentioned the 8 cities on that list which I've spent enough time in to form an opinion.

As for the one I gave a negative opinion about, a big part of my dislike for Delhi is due to the lack of density - it's more suburb than city. Going from where I work/live (Pitampura) to the fun parts of town (South Delhi) takes 1-1.5 hours and the metro shuts off at ~11pm. (Other things I dislike are pollution, oily food, and the difficulty in finding a date.)

India almost certainly will be better off after people escape rural poverty and enter the middle class living in the cities. This process is happening rapidly and the results are good.
"Plus" code isn't open, is it?
> but it's well-known there is a heightened alert right now

lol. it's also well-known that the word "gullible" is written on most ceilings.
It's nothing at all like going through a metal detector with your belt on. Metal detectors check your present state, trace analysis checks your PAST state.

False positives are possible, I've had it happen to me. When "the machine beeped", I got a thorough pat-down and re-swabbed, and the next time "the machine did not beep" and I was on my way.

It's my understanding that TSA agents will not allow someone to pass who is consistently setting off the explosives alarm. What would be the purpose of checking for trace explosives residue if the agents simply disregard it when it triggers?

Of all the 'sigint' they collect on each passenger, I would bet a "repeated trace analysis fail" ranks up there with carrying box cutters as one of the more alarming indicators an agent has to deal with.

It sounds like the agents did everything they could to try to get a green light from trace analysis. Failing that, the passenger is obviously red flagged and it's "all systems go" to determine if they are really a threat. I can't imagine how else they would handle it.
This seems to be exactly where progressive enhancement is preferred. If you use input=date, it’ll probably work on mobile much better than s as JavaScript calendar solution. Also, I hope your date picker also allows typing by hand on desktop, otherwise may God have mercy on your soul...
...but your professor was wrong, OP. Wrangling spreadsheets means no permissions (anyone could make changes), no audit trail (and you would't know who made changes), and no enforcement of business rules.
This isn't just a wifi problem it is a general wireless problem. Where there are large gatherings like The Daily Shows Rally to Restore Sanity for example cell service totally failed in the area around the washington mall.
I definitely don't want it to come off as smug or spammy.

I looked up the Google Doc, here's a link for anyone else who's interested: http://meidell.dk/archives/2010/11/25/what-i-learned-from-fa...

I'll give it a gander and see what I can find.
> I learned that I can eke out an extra 5-15% from improving the subject line…or 500% from creating a better offer.

This is something I am seeing people overlook a lot in the startup world. Many small startups are spending too much time/money worrying about A/B testing when no amount of testing will bring them the improvement they need. They would have more success by increasing their distribution, or working on presenting better offerings.
See here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/12/ruckus-wifi-3g/

Ruckus set up the access points MacTech Conference in Nov, I was seriously impressed.

At most conferences I've been at, the wifi tends to die or have performance problems.

In this case, it was actually usable with effectively no performance/signal issues even with 200+ people (probably 300+ devices between laptops/iPads/iPhones) in a large hotel conference room.
[Groupon employee speaking]

It might seem so based on publicly available numbers. The publicly available numbers are outdated.
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I, as a non-statistician, agree that he was bluffing. If I were a student in that class with a high grade, cheating or no (because even the innocent may get accused and face the ostensibly severe consequences), I would be thinking "Hmm... Now how exactly does he plan on proving that I cheated?" Without a confession or third party who could reliably state that they know hypothetical-I was cheating, the possibility of actually proving misconduct on an individual level seems extremely remote.

I would love to hear some statistics folks weigh in on this. Or: speculation ftw!
Fixed. Change committed.
It wasn't a mistake. A google engineer pointed it out on the chrome bug tracker saying you get this feature for free now with webkit
It's definitely not going to replace a search engine when I'm told that I'm posting and commenting on too much stuff I find on the internet (wide variety, but some of it could answer someone's question like the ones you've suggested) and that my feed is clogging up people's screens. People, at least my connections, are not interested in using facebook for anything other than status updates.
Totally right. Man, my bad. Fixing ASAP.
wow!! I'm based in Penang island as well! What a small world!
https://github.com/ry/node/wiki
That explanation would also seem to match the name, if only slightly, aerogel and fog share some resemblances.
Inspections, subcritical testing, and computer simulation.

The Russian solution is much simpler: when their bombs reach their shelf life, they're recycled into new weapons. Like the Soyuz versus the Space Shuttle, it's a lot easier to just rebuild a complex system then to predict how it will age. Of course, it does have the tiny drawback of generating enormous amounts of highly toxic waste, but in Mother Russia you can simply dump the waste in a lake.
EMP? A $5 catapult would do the job nicely.
The mess that got Sinofsky fired, was ultimately Ballmer's fault, as the buck stops with the CEO. So this is clearly not limited to one $900m mistake.
Car franchise laws and taxi medallions didn't exist in the 70s?
How did forcing him out cost $768m?
Just a minor correction: Mads Torgesen was never in MSR.
Beef?

"Show me your work."

"I can't, it's owned by other companies."

"No job then. There's the door."

And so someone who wrote a million dollars worth of software (actually got paid for) gets beat to a job by someone whose work nobody will pay for.

Yeah, beef.
X.org should probably be filing the full 990, especially if they expect to (someday) be pulling a lot of contributions. The 990EZ is more like for small local outfits that don't really expect to ever get big and expect to be mostly run on volunteer labor for the foreseeable future. They could get away with filing a 990EZ, but getting into the practice of doing the full 990 is not a bad idea.
This is completely false. What measure of standard of living are you using?