jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A good corollary question to "How do you know that people actually want this?" is "How are people solving this problem now?"

If founders respond that there aren't really any current solutions, then it usually means that either a) They aren't making something that people really want, or b) They haven't talked to enough users.

If it's a problem people actually have, then they must be coming up with crazy hacks or solutions that are much more tedious/inaccurate/expensive/generally more painful than the one you're coming up with. Very rarely is there simply not some kind of existing solution.
"Well, how do you explain the fact that Web did not win on desktop? I am still puzzled why people think web should take over mobile for some reason, but never mention desktop."

Define "win". From my point of view, the web has not only won desktop, but utterly dominated it, and relegated the rest of the OS to a mere substrate for webpages. The only things it hasn't really replaced are photoshop, final cut and protools. It's only a matter of time.

"Why should I archive anything? I don't archive web pages I visit either"

oh boy.
Paging Jason Scott.
Jason Scott on aisle 12.

" I don't care. I change my phone: they are already there. I get new Mac:"

I'm glad you can thrive only on corporately produced content you license for brief periods of time. Many people out in the world are not corporations, and produce things that they care about. Many use computers to do this. Most care about the thing they made, and not about the tech they made it with. And so it ends up in these closed off little data silos and proprietary formats- not only are these things not backed up, they can't be backed up.

And then those people die, and there is nothing left of that person except what they made on the iPad with iOS6. The apps the things live inside are not compatible with the newer iOS. When that iPad dies, it's like the father, the lost son, the missing daughter- they die for a second time.

But you know, it's good that owning that stuff doesn't matter to you, and therefore should not matter to anyone else.

ta.
If there's no incentive to make it profitable, there would be no critical mass to move the technology and industry forward. There's only so much public money that can be spent and it's fairly obvious that it won't be spent efficiently.

The space shuttle: $500bn, ISS: $100bn., is humanity closer to colonizing space for that money?

Governments have an incentive to spend money, not to be frugal and industrious.
Microsoft spends a significant amount on basic research, like Bell labs used to and Microsoft research publishes a lot of publications. 15% of the research budget goes to universities for research, that could keep the profits lower than Apple.
I live in Europe and believe me when I tell you the general perception about USA has gotten much worse during the last months.
Here is another article about the painted trucks.

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200502/masterpieces.to...

I was trying to find out why people started building wooden crowns on top of the Bedford trucks in the first place, but no luck... Did the crowns come first, and then get painted, or did the art come first, and then people added the crowns in order to create more surface area for the art?
I wouldn't consider a breach of the Capitol by armed protestors shooting into the chambers "generic US politics".

People are in Nancy Pelosi's office taking pictures of her email client and posting them on Twitter. Nothing about this is normal.
No, applying the maximum penalty allowed by law after going through the proper process isn't "murder."

Treason and insurrection are serious matters.
Why is this desirable? It saves maybe half a dozen keystrokes in exchange for less readable and thus less maintainable code.
TPTB want a tragedy to happen to manufacture societal consent for giving up our right to self-defense.
They have halted vote certification. This is the opposite of "being sure there wasn’t any non-sense [sic]," this will slow down that process.

If you actually believed in verifying the votes, you'd be against the rioters that are stopping that from happening.
I find the no-stir sugar-free peanut butters to be much more bland than the ones that separate, likely because the palm-oil dilutes the flavor.
A few more for your list .. https://gather.town, https://party.mookerj.ee, https://www.wonder.me, http://workadventu.re, https://theonline.town/
Isn't a $1M silicon valley house also in suburbia?
I don't believe his point is really "Poor Apple" it seems to be more that his point is, iAds is fair.
If you want to obsess about me please continue... all your doing is making yourself look bad. It's silly to obsess to this level about one person. The Hacker News community is now looking at the account AaronWall as a spammer--way to go!

In terms of traffic we took a little hit when we removed the shorter pages, and we actually have a higher benchmark than anyone in the content space about what we index--and the search engines know this. We only rank stuff--on average--when it's 300 words or more. This means we have a much higher benchmark than About.com, Wikipedia and Google Knol.

we got this suggestion from you and it's actually concentrated our page rank to the high-quality, higher CPM pages.... the end result? When we removed the low quality pages our revenue grew 2.5x!!!

You are responsible for, literally, millions of dollars in revenue for Mahalo.... for that I think your tollish ways!

Sidenote: I've apologized to the SEO community a million times for saying SEO is BS. you're the one who won't get over it. Keep wasting everyone's time with your non-sense while I create more companies, invest in more companies and getting more stacks.

My life is unfairly epic, and your life is spent obsessing about that fact..... sad dude. really. The most attention and achievement you'll have in your sad little life is when you're throwing rocks at me. Sad.
I'm not really into sports but this would have been the first thing I'd have tried as a broadcast engineer (after boosting and sweeping to find the appropriate frequencies). So yeah, it seems odd to me as well.
The extendability of our sensory modes does not disprove that we and other animals come pre-programmed in various ways in both our input and output. I went into a developmental neuro-biology course thinking much as you seem to be, trying to tear all the "it's inborn" B.S. away from the functionally super-flexible neurons. But the experiments and scientific observations just don't support that project in all cases.

To name two: brain regions fully formed for spatial management/processing of visual signals in the absence of any signals from an eye being allowed to ever reach them, transplanting the song/chirp patterns from one species of bird to another by splicing neurons from a developing embryo of the first to the developing embryo of the second. How are these to be explained if not by something that clearly qualifies as some form of "pre-programming" of the neural substrate for sensation and behavior?

Extendability and plasticity are not necessarily defeaters to innateness. They can coexist.
The prices didn't change... you just get more RAM for the same money :).
I noticed there's a worksheet available now for offline use. Roll over the text areas for associated questions (as tooltips).
The Cellebrite website is here:
http://www.cellebrite.com/forensic-products/ufed-physical-pr...

Wonder if they sell to private individuals?; they only seem to list military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies as their target customer on their site.

To defeat over 3000 models of phones it would need to have about 2000 different connection types, based on my experience trying to plug in and extract information from various manufacturers extortionately priced dongle custom connectors.

I found myself inadvertently helping a friend today who's abusive manipulative ex-partner has been sexting their 14yr old daughter and I was helping her recover the messages to present to the police; could seriously have used one of these and avoided a heap of hassle with drivers, cables, custom software. (The NZ police don't seem to have these devices yet)
> I wonder, would anyone take up the offer if it was given, to be in some sort of stasis that allowed you to awake for one year every hundred years?

You mean like Brigadoon/Germelshausen?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germelshausen
(in the original german tale, the time-travel is a curse)

Even if I were into that idea, I guess I just don't have your faith in humanity or modern society even.

My bet is that some x<100 years after you've been put into stasis, the company folds, sells the bodies (assets) to pay off debt and you are forever lost.

This of course, ignores the natural disasters, massive wars (we've had 2 in the past century), or other calamities that might completely destroy society/contracts as we know it... 100 years is a LONG time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_plants_in_the_Mojav...
Lingt had some cool game mechanics useful for the educational market, which can now be found at http://flashcards.dictionary.com/
Even home electrical circuits can have crosstalk.

People sometimes find that LEDs and even florescent lights glow dimly even with the switch off.

The is caused by magnetic induction in lines, which is in turn caused by not running the hot and neutral near each other.
Live updates here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/32030778

Seems the extra traffic has taken down their website too: https://www.germanwings.com/en.html
I've only seen the first season of Black Mirror but I already love the show. I work in tech so some of the "possible futures" are a little scary/humbling. I worry about "Pay $X to skip this ad" becoming common place and similar sensors as were in that episode that detected when the human wasn't paying attention and waited until they opened their eyes or looked back at screen to continue.

I highly recommend that everyone check out Black Mirror, it's less of a TV show and more of a small collection (3 episodes per season) of mini-movies that don't really connect to each other but show possible outcomes of certain ideas taken to the extreme.
It's better than those, if you already know Go.
Just the other day I was looking for a way to do this in less:

yank 10 lines, open a new file, paste the 10 lines, save the file.

Is that possible? My Googling last week didn't find a good solution.
Pretty funny, but I've been working on this post about the same thing for the Wright Brothers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291316. Great minds think alike. Maybe if we could put some guns on a plane...
So much for bitcoin being anonymous... (Yes I know it can be anonymous if one is careful but as it is commonly used it is not and this needs to be remembered).
Personally I think the design is striking, but neither beautiful nor functional as a "Pickup Truck".

It will stand out on the streets and in a parking lot though so I'm not surprised at the number of initial orders. I suspect we'll see them more often parked outside a trendy restaurant than a lumber yard.
Well, if you put it that way... :-P

It's well understood that quantity -- and availability to the masses -- has a quality all its own.

I do believe we're facing an arms race, in which purveyors of synthesized bullshit will likely fight the defenders of truth to a draw at best, and more likely win. No disrespect intended but I don't agree that your Photoshop analogy is valid.
Wow, why I haven't heard of this?
First delicious now this?
I was just waiting for voyurl because of the potential, then bam there was already one and it is now closing...
Australia is one of the few so-called "good guy" Western/democratic countries that seems to be out-creepy-ifying the USA lately. And that's hard to do.
In addition to erik's comment, I'm also concerned about what people can read. What about email addresses in the user table? Deleted posts and edit history? Privately shared content? Does validation allow the restriction of who can view certain content?
The adrenaline rush or the lack of could make a difference between life and death. I am thinking of heart attacks, modern western world notwithstanding. But I am not familiar the inner mechanics enough to claim that fear is a requisite for an adrenalin response. Some define fear as that hormonal response itself though.

Even with regards to perception of danger, one's reaction, involvement and urgency can be quite different when it is accompanied by fear and when it is not. This of course does not always work in one's favor. So you have instances of "petrified with fear". But is it beneficial more often than not ? My gut feeling is yes.

To add to you example of crossing a street: one can be rational about crossing streets. But when you suddenly realize you are about to be hit by a stray car, you do not have sufficient time to reason about relative velocities, trajectories and models of a driver's behavior. You just jump, hopefully out of the way, in fear/reflex.

But I agree that our fear responses have lagged behind in relevance, with respect to our changing world. But that is true even with other biological preferences. Say with our preference for fatty food. Evolution is after all a high latency process.

I believe personnel in hazardous situations are trained not to be insensitive to fear but to be choosy about what to fear and to react rationally to it....atleast in theory.
I also recalled hearing exactly this. In fact, in my recollection Burger King had a vegetarian burger option for some time before dropping it due to complaints of it being prepared on the same grill as the meat patties. Meanwhile McDonald's also offers vegetarian options which apparently aren't prepared separately to avoid cross-contamination. Only their options seem to vary quite a bit by region, so maybe they've just cleverly avoided the scrutiny that comes with a global marketing offensive like this.
And e-mail as a base for instant messaging is not a great idea, as SMTP is not an instant protocol. Sure, most of the time it's fast, but doesn't guarantee speedy delivery at all, and timeout and redelivery timers are quite big.
http://www.diigo.com/ seems interesting to me too.

They offer iOS and Android apps
They're only similar in that they both use markup and code behind. But that's like saying Silverlight and classic ASP are almost the same. With that said, I should have said, at introduction Silverlight looked fundamentally different. Flex has copied what I think is Silverlight (and WPFs) main differentiator, which is lookless controls (which ties into binding).

I think you underestimate the amount of people who have used Flex at some point in time.
> the touch screen levels in Super Mario 3D World

Hey, now, those are vital to the jumpless challenge run: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahyd-tw2s0Q
Not much difference between using 100% of the locally produced doses locally and blocking it for export. Let's rephrase the question: which countries are the US and UK currently exporting vaccine to and in which quantities?
What kind of issues are you seeing? Naively, a fridge seems like such a simple device that I'm curious how they screwed it up so badly that it's developed an anti-following.
My favorite app is KCachegrind - which requires KDE.
http://bropages.org to the rescue!
Occams razor and statistical reasoning. The likelihood that the population contains a (normal) distribution with a not smart mean while also containing enough technical sophistication to create the products they do seems low.

no business skill Implies no intelligence is false

since

Intelligence => Business Skill is false. Business Skill is not necessary for intelligence.
What I'm hearing is, by the time Wayland is actually on par with X, feature-wise, it will by time for a whole new rewrite because something else will be fundamentally different in the way graphics are rendered. Windows went full compositor with Vista in 2006, with all the features and then some of its predecessor (except you can't have windows with no v-sync). 14 years later Wayland almost has a standardized way of taking screenshots.
Being that all publicly sold fares for plane tickets from the airline must have their price registered in advance of the sale, I agree I find it suspect in that case too.

Maybe sites like Priceline or similar places might do stuff like described, but I very highly doubt airlines do, unless they just don’t show availability in some fare codes to specific customers (which I also doubt, with the possible exception of elite status members).
You are describing ways in which the force depends on the configuration of matter. That is separate from how the total force--the sum of all the different forces that depend on different aspects of the configuration of matter--determines the acceleration.
Exactly the same with me.

Need me to write an ETL. I probably can't crank it out in an hour like a data scientists, but I can get it done in a reasonable amount of time. I just need to do some major context shifting.

Have me write only ETL's for a week, I'll be cranking them out after the first few.
"It's a spotless track record, if you ignore all the bad examples"
Can you list any of these exciting alternatives? As a layman, I don't know of anything besides Google, Bing and DDG.
U just graduated with a Masters and u get on HN to ask about what kind of project? Dude seriously look back at your last 6 yrs of life and reflect, if u learned anything at all.
This is fantastic. The search RP displays parks and sites in the increasing order of distance as well as the price from the input zip code, and pulls together places from different government agencies like Fish and Wildlife Service, NPS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, etc.

They also seem to have a nice collection of KB articles under the 'Help' link [0] in the header.

[0] https://recreationonestopprod.service-now.com/external
I hear you. Thanks for the feedback. I'm planning on toning down the color scheme a lot now. I'll post further updates on the issue that you or someone else has raised on github: https://github.com/swalladge/swalladge.net/issues/1

The site should work nicely in reader view or through an rss reader which could be a temporary option until I can fix it. Sorry for the inconvenience :/
In every one of those cases, I support the nonviolent person. But still, we were talking about social media, not the physical world. None of that addresses whether the right is more or less likely to break the ToSes of social media sites.
That's part of the point.

The left was basically allowed to freely enter the Senate building, in an attempt to sway the ongoing confirmation vote of a scotus justice, and met little to no police resistance, and it was celebrated by the media.

Replace "confirmation" with "certification", and "scotus justice" with "president," and what's the difference, politically?
No one is justified in cheating. Incidentally, no one has. Though voter suppression appears to have been attempted in certain areas.
I've also been trying to convince my contacts to move away from WhatsApp. I'm met with lots of resistance, including "but all my friends use it" and "lol I don't care about privacy". I've had a hard time building an argument that's convincing for them.
The "OMG, it's a coup!!!11!" rhetoric is absurdly overblown, so yes.
Almost all people their principles have a price. With an amount of money thrown at you, you cannot spend in a lifetime, most people bend. The stance they were defending or the problems they were fighting are all of a sudden no longer an issue they will ever face. Why would they bother?

Think about your biggest stance. Be it climate change, political affiliation or controversial issues like abortion. How much money do you need to receive to never talk or be bothered about it again? With a few billion dollars in your pocket, most issues are no longer a concern or anything you will care about reasonably.
deleting my comment as parent seems to be uninterested in discussing an opinion that goes against their own.
How likely is this to be used for anti-piracy efforts? I don't hear much about en masse copyright enforcement these days, but it seems like the ability to quickly scan large IP ranges would allow one to periodically (every couple minutes or so) obtain a list of every single seeded file in the US, at least for the people not using a VPN.
> "To win at something you must sacrifice another, and the bigger the win the bigger the loss on the other end."

My wife was a pretty big win, and she was worth the opportunity cost of anything else I could've spent the time and effort for. My son, too. It's not really zero-sum unless you're using a strange metric.
The hardware implementations often have problems: http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestim...
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Except all those others are cross platform. So billions of people can’t use iMessage at all.

The default also is to fall back to SMS meaning people would have incurred costs quite easily.
Tried both, found YNAB far better for budgeting.
>A coup requires that power is taken illegally (usually violently), and held

I (obviously) can't know what was in the minds of the folks who broke into the Capitol.

However, multiple news reports detail that a number of the folks arrested were carrying police-restraint style cable ties, firearms and explosives.

Given that both the Vice-president and the Speaker of the House (#2 and #3 in line of succession to the presidency), as well as both houses of Congress were in the Capitol at that moment, it's fair to ask who those folks intended to restrain with those cable ties?

And once they were restrained, what would they do with those restrained people?

Again, I can't say what was in the minds of the folks who attempted to occupy the US Capitol building, but some certainly brought weapons and tools indicating that they wanted to take hostages and possibly harm/kill them.

Do you usually bring molotov cocktails and police-style plastic restraints when you go sightseeing? Out to dinner, maybe? Or even to a protest rally?

While the protestors didn't storm the Capitol or bring tools to restrain people and destroy property, some segment of the rioters/insurrectionists did so.

As I mentioned, taking hostage and murdering the Vice President, the Speaker of the House and perhaps many members of Congress probably wouldn't have destroyed our government, but it certainly could be considered a coup attempt and definitely would be insurrection.