jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The only time paper books become easier to use than paper books for me is when the book makes extensive use of really fine print in tables or has extremely long lines of monospace text such as badly written source code.

The resolution of an iPad Mini 3 or iPad Air is sufficient to render all the technical books I use quite adequately.

eInk devices do not have the resolution and screen size required for comfortable technical reading. With "Retina" displays on a decent form factor, magic happens.

I use the iBooks reader almost exclusively since it has very good note-taking and place marking tools.

The only thing iBooks can't handle is position sensitive layout, such as some "art" books which rely on specific typography and layout for conceptual flow. PDF can handle some of this, but if the format is not exactly the same as the iPad screen we're back into "I can tell I'm reading a PDF on an iPad" territory rather than "I'm reading a book".

The Kindle is optimised for flowed text. Of course it is painful for technical books.
> If anything, you're making an argument that female football players have a more "pure" reason behind playing football. (Though I would never make that claim, so as to insult our male counterparts that are just as passionate about the game

This is -exactly- what I'm saying. Exactly. But I would add that for males struggling for social status is a very old and pure pursuit in and of itself.
That's a good idea. It could be an option in your account preferences.
>Over the life of a typical contract, this amounts to less than 10% cheaper than an iPhone. Not a substantive price difference... and significantly inferior quality.

There are many people to whom $99 vs $0 up front would constitute a substantive price difference. And again... quality isn't a big factor for many, i.e. Mcdonalds (and the "quality" argument depends on use-case... voice search and turn-by-turn nav quality on Android, for example, are considerably superior).

>If you don't believe me, buy an Evo 4G and try to use it all day for a few calls and occasional surfing or app use. It will be dead by 4:30pm.

Yes, EVO is a battery hog unless tuned. Luckily there are other models of Android phone.
What are the rules for this in Australia?
Is there an optimal rejection rate? How would you calculate such a thing?
Penumbra itself was awesome (your examples are proof for that), it's just that I didn't really enjoy writing the game logic itself. My approach was basically manipulating huge hashmaps each frame. When I started out that was really manageable but I ended up with one monolithic hashmap for my game state (storing other huge hashmaps for the game objects) that was just not fun to work with anymore.
I'm by no means an experienced Clojure programmer, so maybe I did miss something. Maybe I'm also too deeply rooted in object-oriented programming to fully embrace FP for architecting a game - my high-level architecture was very similar to what I would have created in an object-oriented language (methods, polymorphy, ...).
Anyways (as I said in a comment above) I really enjoy having functional tools at hand, but at least for game dev my favorite paradigm is still OOP.
Maybe you can give me any pointers about writing more advanced games in Clojure?
Yes, I'm not sure why the government chose not to do this. My guess is that the large companies effectively have too much influence over reelection of congressmen to allow anything like this.

The government seems to have chosen instead to increase their power in handling these crises.
So the rule now is "you need at least 1khours to make customer development"? is it impossible to perform "customer development" in less then 1khours? I've not finished reading Steve's book but I don't remember anything about this limit.
Was anyone else unimpressed with his delivery? From the transcript:

THE PILOT HAS A GUN IN THE COCKPIT AND HE'S MANAGING THIS AIRCRAFT WHICH IS A MISSILE AND WE MAKE HIM GO THROUGH THIS GROPING X-RAY EXERCISE, HAVING PEOPLE FEEL IN THEIR UNDERWEAR.

It just gives the impression that he's more excited than thoughtful. Then again maybe thats more important on the floor of the house.
I'm a pragmatic liberal entrepreneur who believes in a social safety net and who does not believe that, left to its own devices, discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and religion (or, for that matter, monetary policy) would simply resolve themselves optimally.

This doesn't explain fully why I think Paul is dishonest, but it spells out my politics enough to make the dots easy enough to connect. Obviously, I'd prefer to avoid a political argument on HN.
Yes, but... you can be sure there's a business plan lying around somewhere at Uber that accounts for the fact that some % of drivers won't do the math...
I can't speak for the rest of the planet, but in America it happens quite a lot.

I drove for Uber for almost a year when I was between jobs. The hours I chose were generally 3am-noon (early because I like mornings, but late enough to dodge most of the drunks). The majority of my passengers were people going to and from factory jobs.

A large number of those passengers were people who didn't speak English whose English-speaking children would order the Uber for them. I didn't notice it at first, but after a few pick-up confusions where the passenger handed me a phone to talk to the person who actually ordered the ride, one of them explained it to me.

I live in a transit-sparse city, and a surprising number of poor people use Uber as their main means of getting around. It's simply cheaper than owning a car, especially if you don't have money up front, a steady job, or exceptional credit (Notice how car ads on TV are now disclaiming their advertised interest rates to indicate those rates are only for people with the best credit).

Even for me, now being an office-dwelling developer, if I factor in the cost of just a car payment and fuel, Ubering to work would be cheaper than owning a car. And that's before factoring in insurance, repairs, maintenance, etc... If I didn't enjoy weekend road trips, I'd ditch the car altogether.
I wouldn't compare Oracle and Office: office is a monopoly, with LibreOffice being David against Goliath. Oracle is big, but it's not at all a standard, it's one of the players of database market, which is quite competitive: there are open source alternatives(MySQL and postgres) which are widely used (not like LibreOffice), and also big corporate players (DB2 and SQLServer).
I think it'd be cool to access my home machine from anywhere without bothering with port forwarding stuff.
I enjoy how your DMCA link is just for show.
Sure, you can impersonate someone (or even anyone). A botnet can impersonate everyone, and make robocalls to everyone.

If you're doing a targeted attack, you might need a significant chance of success - if you can target 10 000 users, you might get away with a 1% success rate, and still make a significant amount (say 60 times 1 000 USD in "emergency" funds).
They use a heatspreader (solid metal surface, the "top" of the chip) soldered to the actual cores. Then you slap a heatsink or water block on and tighten it down on the heatspreader with the help of a thermal interface material (metallic goo). The actual cooling done by the heatsink or water cooler is pretty basic and similar to what you'd find inside cars or home A/C units.

With "280 watts" you can still use an off-the-shelf Noctua air cooler or any number of all-in-one water coolers.
> IMO, the entire problem with the US education that I experienced is the insistence on a bullet pointed list of things to cover, a minimum grade on how well the students retained that specific knowledge until the test, rather than gauging students' understanding and ability to learn and adapt.

I 100% agree and I think the educators I've spoken to (several friends are teachers) would also broadly agree, but that's not what the post advocates.

My understanding of your reply is that your school had many of these elements, but they weren't quality or weren't emphasized appropriately to students which is fundamentally different from the post's view that these things didn't occur.
They also think caldo verde was invented after 1935.
Subtly different arguing for an invasion of another country. A better analogy might be "imagine that BLM protests have been raging for several days in Pittsburgh, write a speech defending the use of federal troops to clear the streets(+) and the use of drone strikes against suspected sniper positions."

(+) yes I know this is unconstitutional, that's the point
It is and it might have been mine once upon a time. I actually could take mass transit to my first full-time job although I rarely did as it took much longer and I had free or cheap parking. And when I first moved to the area where I now live, I lived out by the office mostly because I didn't want a close to an hour commute.

That said, if you live in a city and get a convenient job in walking distance or on a convenient mass transit line, it's probably worth considering that this state of affairs probably won't last if you switch jobs because it's not the norm.
When the Senate declared we torture people and the president decided not to prosecute.
You can use toothpase to polish the bottom of a soda / beer can, which you can then use to focus sunlight to start a fire. I've done it.

There are better ways to start a fire.
No you can't. If I invent a self driving car, economic growth is inevitable. What is the difference between now and 1800 other than technology and growth (hint, technology is growth).

Of course, there is also growth that doesn't come from technology. Like building shopping malls, employing people, and letting the economy operate at full tilt, producing things that we can then either consume, save (a form of growth), or spend on investment (another possible form of growth).

You might not think building a shopping malls advances society, but it's second order effects 100% do.
This poem does in two stanzas at least part of what Hamlet does in five acts. It's even more brilliant once you 'decode' it, one of my favorites.
Other phones have had better resolution, but they have never increased the definition of the interface elements themselves. Those "better" screens just made everything smaller and provided more room for stuff.

-- Edit --

Apparently I was wrong on this point. Android does have some support for resolution independence, but most apps are not built for random pixel densities and therefor do not look stunning.
> I expect if Parler et. al. took similar stances against hate speech and open calls to violence, they would see similar results.

I haven’t really looked into those platforms, but they’re new enough that they probably don’t have the tooling to do any of that. It took fb and Twitter years to build that.
> So, in general, the field of biological anthropology has leaned towards identifying new species when possible.

Cite?
Great comment! Thank you! :)

We love each day we spend working on this, so yes we definitely see ourselves working on it in 5 - 10 years. ^^

You're right about about the fact it may be hard to sell spiritual derivative at the beginning.

We realized many Minecraft players only play for a few weeks when there's a major update (~once a year). Mainly because of the lack of renewed content and the lack of very diverse experiences. This is where Roblox excels.

We want Particubes to become an alternative for them, when they're done playing Minecraft and still want to play in a familiar environment where they can interact with everything.

We're still big Minecraft fans ourselves (as players and server admins). Particubes is a way to fix some of our own frustrations with it, but will end up being a very different product.

Also, sorry to read about the licensing agreement issues with Valve. :(
We thought about building a good scripting environment for Minecraft instead of building our own engine, but depending on it felt risky, and since we're in for the long run...
It makes a lot of sense. The anti-competitive dynamics of these big tech companies is obvious to everyone now. It's time to reconsider how these big tech companies relate to capitalism so that the rest of us can shift our focus back to value creation instead of rent-seeking.

If you allow these big tech companies to leverage their attention oligopoly to profit from rent-seeking, they're going to become hotspots of economic parasitism and this will subvert all the incentives which capitalism relies on to function properly.
Much of ecommerce would go down the drain, if they got rid of remote storage of your details. No recurring billing, no "One-Click", no address books, etc...
I didn't know Macs were running iOS... Ah... The things you learn form the web...

Now, how is that surprising? Each and every x86 PC shipped (Macs excepted) comes with Windows 7. How is that surprising that the combined sales of x86 PCs surpasses the sales of Apple devices?

To be fair, it's a little surprising it's only 3 times bigger, but, after all, Apple sells a lot of non-x86 devices.
If you like this you should check out Ron Fedkiw's research at Stanford and with ILM: http://physbam.stanford.edu/~fedkiw/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Fedkiw

The images on his page link to videos, publications list is about 3/4 of the way down.
That's interesting, but I suspect it was biased a bit by the affordability and ubiquity of Android devices. It's hard to turn around in a mobile store these days without bumping into a load of extremely cheap Android phones.

Perhaps people are planning to get Android devices but would love an iPhone if it was the same price. It's the same with cars. If you surveyed people most would say they plan to get a Toyota, but only because Ferrari is outside their price range.
I agree. Here's a crazy idea: App creators are limiting themselves. They don't think in the big picture. They play it save. All because previous App denials have made it terribly expensive to create something and then be shut down at the last step.

Where is the next Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Hypercard, Eclipse, XCode, Visual Studio, browser extensible with plugins like Firefox, vmware, Bittorrent, Protools, Cubase, Live, Avid, FCP, Maya, Blender, Max, Aftereffects or Dreamweaver?

Well, quite a few of them have been actively banned by Apple.

I haven't seen any really complex new Apps for the iPad, where somebody invested heavily. Games don't count, they are very rarely killed by Apple. Ports don't count neither, there is less investment there.

Where are the big investments?

I've seen 5 so far: Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Garageband, and TheDaily. 4 from Apple and 1 from Murdoch, created with the personal guarantee by Murdoch's buddy Jobs that it will reach customers.

Could somebody comment? Are there app creators that indeed play it save? Are there others that are investing big time and have just not reached their 1.0 yet?
The smart money IPOs just before a market transition, and the retail-aid market is s-t-a-l-e for change. We've got the various players all lined up, but where it goes is anybody's guess. Yelp is preparing to do something, whether it's Groupon or GoDaddy remains to be seen, and an IPO would fund it much more easily than what they have now.
See my other response above http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2487412
Thankfully that's what's great about credit cards (and let's not forget that) - you just ask the bank to deactivate the old one and no more transactions can go through. Also, you should in general not be liable for any fraudulent use of the number. Just dispute it. (my contract said I could be held liable for up to $50 of fraudulent use only in the case where the CARD was stolen and used prior to my reporting it.)
looks like a troll article to me.
It's a lot more complicated than that, that's why the UN supports the OSCE group. The pre-war consensus of the group was that a final solution would be an official status for NK, while armenia would return the surrounding territories that were occupied as buffer zone

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid_Principles
Every single minute detail is exactly equally important, because you, nor I, nor anyone, has any idea what will be important or why it will be important.
Hi everyone,

a few days ago @DoubleMalt, @mitschabaude and me did a one-day hackathon to see if we can get a minimal WebRTC based version of a Clubhouse-style "room" to work.

Since then we added a TURN server, bug fixes ("can you hear me?") and a bit of ui polishing. It is still early (please don't be too harsh) but you should find Jam to be quite usable as it is right now.

Jam runs in any modern browser, at least the ones we could get our hands on. But the long-tail of browsers and operating systems is … long, so please let us know if it does not work for you, and what you are using. We want Jam to run if it can run. If your toaster supports WebRTC it might run Jam as well.

We tried to keep the implementation fairly minimal, I'm sure there is more we can remove and simplify once we spend more time on it.

https://gitlab.com/jam-systems/jam

Please give Jam a try and let us know what you think. Any thoughts, comments, feature requests, hosting-deploy-target requests etc etc highly appreciated.

(for those who are not familiar with Clubhouse yet:)

A room in Clubhouse (or on Twitter Spaces) is a bit like Zoom without video, without screen sharing and without text messaging.

You see a grid of all the people in the room, who is speaking, who would like to say something (slow mute/unmute flashing), who is clapping (fast mute/unmute flashing) and that's it.

Over the past few years I experienced what we all now call "Zoom fatigue". I just don't enjoy video calls. When the pandemic started it felt like even people who in the past were happy with phone calls also wanted to jump on Zoom calls. I'm glad that eventually slowed down again.

I'm super excited about Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces and the activity around audio spaces and live calls.

In hindsight it is fascinating how the ui for group phone calls on smartphones has not advanced much compared to the non-smart phones for such a long time.
yeah, but I don't think it's analogous. First, buzz is only useful if your friends are using it too. This isn't true for coupons. Second, there will be a whole lot of non tech savy people that will buy an android phone and click the big icon that says "coupons". I think this is a very different demographic with a much lower barrier for a new user to find it useful.
Ditto, we're just in the process of moving to EC2, and were happy to find our staging environment (the only thing moved over so far) is happily healthy (of course it gets minimal load).
I have found Linode disks to have the best performance in all

http://pastebin.ca/2049137

You are correct, I/O is the challenge in administering systems in a virtual environment. My database which does not fit in memory does fine on a high-load site because I cache it responsibly. For comparison, here are awful results from a new player called ChunkHost, who I signed up for with the purpose of testing

http://pastebin.ca/2049142

The sequential write throughput there is troubling. This comparison from a couple years back is interesting too

http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison/

I've linked this URL before but it really does the best of breaking it down. What cloud providers have you tried? In my experience there are vast gaps between certain ones, Amazon no exception. Hard to stereotype cloud with gaps like those.

Even if SoftLayer could provision me a new box in ten minutes the improvement to my sleep from not waking up for every disk failure and submitting a remote hands ticket at who knows how much per pop far outweighs anything else.
I saw a big billboard ad for the Chrome browser on a UK motorway a couple of months ago. I was very surprised, at least until I saw an IE9 billboard in a petrol ('gas') station the other day.
Indeed. Take a look at http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=en#TXS-ndgbCls/trunk/j... for instance: if you weren't looking for an incorrect cast, it would be very hard to notice. Two out of three casts are correct: only one is missing the parentheses.
It's a law of nature that you can build up a lot of energy in something by adding just a tiny bit of energy each pass. This was a bitter team that was beaten and decided to use physics to add this tiny bit of energy each time the tape rewound--mind you, at a steady rate chosen to add in the energy perfectly-- to embarrass somebody who had beaten them.

Or is my understanding of a tape drive incorrect, and they would wind and unwind at a set rate? Because the original article said that it would often stop, rewind, move forward to retrieve data.
Our database (RDS) is completely inaccessible -- so our website has been down since 2am or so, showing our maintenance page. It's backed up -- but we have no way to download the most recent backup and move to another server. We tried rebooting our db about 11 hours ago -- and it's been stuck in reboot mode ever since. We tried creating a copy from a recent backup -- but it's stuck in boot mode. We can't move the snapshot to the West Coast farm, so we're really pretty blocked until Amazon gets things in order.

A lot of people on the boards suggested Amazon make the automatic backups of RDS available for download for instances like these. Having a backup is great, but not if you can't access them in an emergency.

On the message boards, someone said that they had selected to have RDS automatically keep a copy in multiple availability zones -- and they said that worked for them. I'm not sure however, since a top post on HN is saying that all of the Virginia zones were effected -- so your mileage may vary.
No effect at all that I've noticed. Tarsnap doesn't use EBS.
Searching for "the black team ibm -mustaches -infamous" on google returns (nearly) nothing. I find it astonishing that there is no record of such a team that doesn't mention mustache twirling.

I suspect that some hacker wanted a version of the Black Watch to look up to, so he invented one. I don't object to the invention of legends, but we should include some traditional legend-flagging phrases: "long ago", "never heard from again", &c.
If a twitter user blocks another user, is the blocked user being censored because they can't speak to the user that blocked them? Is this infringing on their free speech?

If someone spams twitter with billions of messages, to the point where just about the only thing anyone sees are this one person's messages, would it be censorship to ban that person from making posts? Is this infringing on their free speech?

If someone posts instructions on how to make explosives using common household items, is it censorship to ban that person? Is this infringing on their free speech?

If someone posts information that misleads people about when and where to vote in an election, is it censorship to ban that person from posting? Is this infringing on their free speech?
While I understand that that's primarily a normative statement, you have to have something significant to lose to be worried about the potential losses. It's going to make more sense, initially, for a company to invest in activities that they expected to generate revenue than it is for them to invest in activities that secure the source of that revenue. It would only be once you already had significant liabilities that it would start to make sense to invest in security, and even then only if you expected breaches of security to result in significant loss with respect to the source of that revenue (questionable, if you've achieved significant market leverage then people may not be that worried about breaches to their data. I'm reminded of this sort of thing: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kyle-mccarthy/32-data-breaches... .)
Do you know if this was ever considered?
This event will just get doctors to end up wasting vaccines if there are any left for the day. I am surprised that the bureaucracy in place did not account for there being remaining doses in a vial as part of the roll out plan.