jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not suggesting that you worry about scalability and maintainability first. I'm saying that only a fully-invested and skilled engineer can solve those problems for you, and they are probably not interested in working for you if you aren't also working just as hard.

Aren't your same gripes just as valid against venture capitalists?

Arguably. But, good venture capitalists give you not only huge sums of money that you wouldn't otherwise be able to pool, but also advice and access to their professional network.
Let me get involved in this conversition. I am an entrepreneur, for long time. I always find the easy way out, but uselly it means piggybacking. If you find creativity is not important. My metaphore, you can have great building skills but no ideas to build and take socalled risk you are airbuilder.

If you got ideas but no building skills you are airwaster.

As entrepreneur i know it is very important to have the developer skills. So iam building that, because the internet will stay and i got billions idea how to
influences that.

But to build one company and stay stuck at that.. It will bore me. But keep on building and creatibg ideas for the rest of my life is my passion.
The quality of something working >> any other quality of a project.
I agree with most of your points, except...

Use gedit as your text editor. It's the default GUI text editor in the Ubuntu operating system, and works well enough for programming, and is significantly easier than Emacs for someone just starting out programming.

I'd also suggest MySQL instead of PostgreSQL, for the same reasons (works well enough, significantly easier for beginners).
That reminds me of Ask HN/Slashdot/Reddit. Ideally I'd prefer most of them to be non-anonymous, but I know in the real world it isn't possible.
And usually such transactions are heavily covered by law for the very reason that the paperwork can be deliberately obfuscated. If you buy a car, for instance, or you buy anything on credit, there are clear legal requirements for what has to appear on your receipt -- because it can be so misleading.

As a side note, I'm really sorry I used the word "deceive", which implies intent. Misleading is a much better word. I don't think there was any malevolent intent in that graphic at all.

There are a couple questions here: first, is the metaphor being used appropriately? I think not. I think it could be done a lot better. Second, does the metaphor of a receipt even work enough to be useful at all? I don't know, but if you want to try to use a metaphor for cognitive leverage on this particular problem, a receipt is probably the best thing you've got.

As computer guys, we have to deal with and talk about complex systems all the time. Using metaphors is part of that. It's probably the best tool we have. The reason I commented in the first place was to show that if you pick up a metaphor, you have to run with it as far as you can, then clearly point out where the metaphor no longer works. To do otherwise is to invite a lot of confusion, and, well, to be misleading.
Semantic search? a bounded data set? Hasn't this problem been solved a million times? Surely Apple has a team with exactly this specialty?
I can't down vote this sort of snark enough... insolence doesn't look good on anyone
sigh

>I said that Apple is the largest tech company. Yes, the normal measure is market capitalization.

And given that is a very recent development what possible relevance could it have on anything?

You seem to be claiming that Apple is doing an "old school Microsoft" when they literally just beat MS with market cap in the last couple of weeks. Things are going Apple's way right now because they're executing. No other reason.

>See the panic when there were worries that Apple would consume ARM.

I've seen rumors but no panic. Maybe panic from people who are desperate to see Apple fail (which at some point they will, as everyone does).

>Your whole argument is against nothing I've actually said, and you seem to be arguing for Apple of 2003. Well guess what, loewenskind, it's 2010. I'm here with reality, you're not.

No, I'm arguing about you calling people out for "spin" and then serving up a double helping of it yourself. With every post.
Good question. I know the reason I don't use those services, and why I find even bookmarking to be troublesome. Please keep in mind, what follows is my perspective on things. =)

Here's the thing, there are two types of bookmarks: Daily and Archive. Daily bookmarks are things I want to visit often. I have a Tech News book marks collection, and other book marks I for Documentation, and one for work (amongst a few others). I keep them organized as best I can, and they don't get changed much. I use the browser bookmarks for that.

I also have Archive links. These are links I want to keep, but reference later. Maybe. Not sure. I want to remember them. I use Delicious to store that. But honestly, I haven't really used it for retrieval. It's also annoying. I click the bookmarklet, and it pops up a window, and takes some basic defaults, but won't just use any default tags. It's annoying clicking all those tags.

Then there is the other issue. I'll remember this article was found via HN, so I'll think HN when I think of this article. At the very least, I'll have it stored here.

Instapaper is also yet another bookmarking service I'd have to use. So, now I have bookmarks in my browser, Delicious, HN Saved, and instapaper. It's a mess.

Here is what I'd want:

* A bookmarking/archiving system that saves locally and to the cloud. I can use something like Dropbox or Live Sync to move the archive to other computers. The system really needs only save the links.

* I want to click the bookmark button and have it work. I don't want to 'install' a bookmarklet. Hook into the browser's existing functionality. An addon that adds another button is annoying as well. I have too much cruft in my chrome as it is.

* I want the service to intelligently determine what keywords to use. I want it to save the article. The entire article, pages 1 through 8 if need be.

As it is it's still easier just to trust search engines will find what I need or want. Most often, I can google my way to victory much quicker than I can find where I put the bookmark.

Anyways, these are just my thoughts on an annoyance. You might ask why I don't tackle this problem. The thing is, I just don't have any interest in doing it. So maybe someone can make this work like it should. I haven't found a solution that works like I'd want.
Thats great! I did not know about this.
It may be a good summary, but I completely disagree with author's (implied) assertion that all these should be lumped under one term. All these concepts are different in their mechanics, which is the reason we have different terminology to describe them. Just call overloading overloading. C++ does not need more ambiguity, it needs less.
Yes, Henry Ford also was one of the big business man in history, that realized that also his well-being was depending of the well-being of his workers. But since that time, the shareholder value has taken over the government.

(Edit: Tried to correct my bad English, sorry!)
𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘆
𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲: 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲
𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲: 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲
𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀: 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲, 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮, 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻, 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁, 𝗶𝗢𝗦/𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗱, 𝗖#
𝗥é𝘀𝘂𝗺é/𝗖𝗩: 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘂𝗽𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁. 𝗜 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀.
𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀, 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗢𝗖𝗣 𝗝𝗮𝘃𝗮 𝗦𝗘 𝟴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗜, 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗤𝗔, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗧𝗶𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁+.
𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹: 𝗷𝗷.𝗳.𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗹@𝗴𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱𝗜𝗻: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jj-reibel/
𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁: 𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗮, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗲𝗿
𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴/𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗗𝗲𝘃: https://bit.ly/gamellama
𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼: https://bit.ly/audiollama
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲: https://bit.ly/hardwarellama
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲: https://bit.ly/aillama
𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀: https://bit.ly/gamestoplayllama
𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁: 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴
𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯: https://github.com/JJFReibel?tab=repositories
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁: 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮/𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱, 𝗰𝘆𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗔𝗜, 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲/𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀
Another option, used by large teams at Facebook, is to only use fast-forwarding but squashes all branch commits. You can still roll-back a merge, but your master's revision history is still linear (for what that's worth).
A very good essay! What's interesting is that I have this vision of Richard Stallman as one of those people who has lived that conscious life and avoided inner rings, by standing by his principles.
> (on p3; is there a pages=all type URL hack for wordpress?)

If you have Safari its Reader View works. Unfortunately none of the “readability”-type bookmarklets I know of work in this case.
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I would imagine that's similar to VLSI, Very Large Scale Integration?
Yeah somewhat sloppy. Honestly that was mostly flamebait from me. Wondered if such a statement could provoke a conversation on those issues. Beliefs I hold but always trying to challenge them.
Agreed. The only alternative (in terms of OS) would be Linux, but as soon as you open a browser the vultures will still get you.
I was getting enthusiastic about Fediverse (ActivityPub) use case, for small-ish federated instances. But these probably are still rather write-heavy even with lurker users due to the synching of federation msgs with other instances.
I don't know if that's true. Look at the Rambo movies. The first was a harrowing story of a man dealing with ptsd. The rest were just violence porn.
The Atari 8 bit had its own BASIC (Atari BASIC).

While Microsoft BASIC was available for the Atari 8 bit machines, it didn't come with them. You had to buy it separately. Not many did.
If a company has fewer than 15 employees, it's exempt from the ADA's requirements.

If it has 15 employees or more, then the law assumes that it's reasonable for the company to provide service (e.g. by reassigning a non-allergic employee to work with a customer who has a service dog) except where it would demonstrably create an undue hardship.
Ads are fine.

Have you tried clicking through those deceptive dialogs and have you seen the list of "trusted partners" that will receive and gather tracking data about you?

Do you at least know roughly what the number of those "trusted partners" is?

Take a look, it could be an eye-opener.
i see =/
well, ppc is drifting slowly out. but iam looking forward to buy a intel mac in the future, hopefully your application is still maintained =)
Which fork of GitX would you recommend?

Maintaining a tool like this is basically unpleasant. You either need to be maintaining it for internal customers in a large company, or you need to sell it as a product - in other words, it's one of those products you really want to get paid for.

Maybe having a paid project will help keep this app actively developed.
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I'm very familiar with Debian (and Ubuntu), and Arch.

Unless you really need capitol S Stability, I would recommend running Arch, assuming you're comfortable with a unix environment, or willing to learn. It's a very clean minimalist distro, and there isn't very much to wrap your head around that isn't just common unix stuff.
Good to know it hasn't moved...

http://articles.cnn.com/2010-10-28/tech/china.supercomputer....

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/10/made-i...
The crux of the argument made by the post is that a restaurant makes $10 profit on a $200 4-person cover yet OpenTable takes $10.40 for that booking (I want to call BS on those figures but lets ride with it)

In an earlier part of the piece, the author states that "[his restaurant owner friend] believes that if he stops offering it, his customers will revolt and many would stop coming to his restaurant. So he keeps paying, but carries a grudge and wishes for something better."

What's the problem if the customers stop coming if by servicing their business via OpenTable you either only break-even or even make a slight loss?

If that is the case, it's not worth servicing the customer in the first place.

GroupOn does this too - you loose money by servicing the business obtained via GroupOn, but the idea is that future business from each customer will be at market-price thus off-setting the initial customer acquisition cost (CAC) as future CAC is $0.

The difference here is that OpenTable customers continue to book via OpenTable, thus each booking creates further CAC that doesn't go down.

What I find sad is that for all the long winded post on this subject, the author gives no concrete quantitive specifics of the OpenTable tariff structure so everyone can get a clear understanding of the issue.
The rankings are not completely worthless, but they certainly are overrated. But you ask for them.
A violet situation sounds like code for a homosexuals.
We protect the Sugar industry from Brazilian sugar mostly because the Florida Sugar growers have clout. We subsidize the corn industry to make fuel at 3 times the cost Brazilian sugar would cost because the Presidential elections start in Corn country. We protect the peanut farmers for God knows what reason, and we subsidize the cotton producers because that area also is critical in early elections. We depress the price of milk, too, mostly because it plays well with Middle America.
> had a coincidental a minor effect on fiscal reporting.

It probably had a much more relevant impact on executive compensation ;-)

When someone goes out of his way to do something that makes no sense, it's probably because we don't understand why it was done and, after all, it actually makes lots of sense. As it is now, it's weird. But the problem is probably in our perception of its weirdness, not in the number manipulation itself.
The Laffer Curve also says that there is an optimal tax rate for which tax revenue will be maximized. It doesn't say that reducing taxes increases revenue, as this requires the tax rate to be sufficiently high that it is higher than the optimal tax rate.
I lived in Hoboken and worked in Manhattan for years with a shorter commute than most folks who either lived in Manhattan or Brooklyn. 10 minutes apartment->PATH, 11 mins PATH (Hoboken to WTC), 10 minutes WTC-> Wall & Water sts.
There are some solutions to this, right? For example, you could solve the problem for FireFox by writing a GreaseMonkey script to verify the JS is the same as last time, or just has the right hash.

Another way would be to make it an option to only use the GreaseMonkey encryption - trust it to rewrite the JS on the page, so the user can control updates to the JS.
And it also requires that you pay attention to your evolving toolset. I've worked on x86 code that was hand-optimized back in 1995. Once I reverse-engineered it and handed it to Visual C++ the code gen'ned by VC killed it, by like a factor of 2x.

I emailed the code to the guy who originally wrote it and his response was brief, "The compiler wasn't that smart before". But yet the code sat there for like 10 years, untouched -- largely because people don't like to touch x86 assembly code that is working.

The moral, you may get a benefit today, but you don't get any future benefits of the investment at MS, Intel, the Gcc folks, etc..., who are improving the compilers. Sometimes it is the right call to hand optimize. But when you do, I suggest having a C/C++ version alongside of it that one can test aganist it whenever the compiler revs.
I don't think I would refer to a language that has its roots in the first high-level programming languages ever devised as "web-oriented." You may want to look up the words "Lisp" and "Scheme" in Wikipedia.
I parsed it as "The overall lifetime of a phone is generally limited by the death of it's battery rather than the glass. If the battery could be replaced, the durability of components would be more of an issue."
So I understand the delivery part of this technology and the appeal to app developers, but what does the ad creation side look like? I mean is someone (at Apple?) hand-coding html/css/js for each of these ads? Or will there be an authoring tool analogous to the Flash dev environment?
There was a slide pointing out that it was based on existing technologies already.
Though it probably helped as well.
I love how the article mentions Danger, Andy Rubin's company before Android.

Even in a 2002 article about iPhones, Andy Rubin lurks.
In network engineering, systems quite often use RED (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_early_detection) - proactively drop a percentage of connections/packets/... when loads begins to climb, scaling from 0% (any easily handled load) to 100% (at capacity). In practice, this results in pretty robust systems. (But note that TCP et al. have mechanisms that help this, e.g. slowing down when packets are lost and retrying a connection with a backoff.)
"something like [Facebook] is practically required for most women to communicate over the internet."

Can you please elaborate? I honestly don't know what you mean.

Do you mean that women prefer to communicate in this particular medium?
The site reads in my mind like Andy Warhol on computer UI/UX design.

I think Canonical has a clean design with Unity, just fix some simple things as default:

1) Menus should be per application to reduce user mouse movements.
2) All menus and buttons should have icons on again, these provide valuable visual cues and reduce eyestrain.
3) Return scrollbars to the normal ones seen on other desktops, remove the scrollbar overlays, they are confounding and confusing.
What is the learning curve on UE like? Unity took some time but it seemed reasonable for the tiny game I made.

Also, is UE something to consider for 2D games? Or is Godot more the pick there?
I love those writeroom style apps. (I use WriteRoom on mac, and Q10 on windows). I also wrote my own free writing-motivator software:

http://code.google.com/p/write-attack/

If this kind of app is the "carrot" approach, write-attack is the "stick". :) It's not for everyone but it works for me.
If every browser uses the same engine, then what's the point of web standards? We can replace HTML with binary blobs and make the web so fast!
Not huge drops, but going down at all is pretty amazing in that area. You can Google it for the details!
I'm glad I ditched Firefox half a year ago. Safari under Big Sur is actually not that bad as a daily driver, and with the upcoming webm support it will do everything I want it to.
Firefox is just not the same anymore. It used to be tech focused. Now they pretend to sell you "privacy" and virtue signal every chance they get, but it's clear Mozilla Corp is just after more money and behind your back they use every chance to monetize you. Technology doesn't even come second.
In hindsight I'm glad they failed at making a successful mobile browser, it's time for them to bite the dust.
>>> The US subsidizes military costs for all of our allies.

Speaking as one of those allies... not really. Often times US allies spend money they really don't want to in order to keep the US happy. Canada and the UK probably wouldn't have invaded Afghanistan if not for their obligations as US allies. That certainly wasn't cheap. Canada is soon to replace its fighter fleet. Will it buy to cheaper Saab Grippen? Or will it feel obligated to buy the 35, a US program that Canada has paid into (aka subsidized) for many years without actually receiving any aircraft?
Here's where the coordinates on the outer rim point to (For the lazy) https://goo.gl/maps/MCqYxngeQLJRMNeK7
For many countries they have no choice - you either spend the money on Military or you get invaded by Russia/China/North Korea.
I'm not sure how the F-16 is an example of "building one thing to do one thing well," it's a great example of a multi-role fighter. Almost all combat aircraft developed in the last 30 years are multi-role aircraft too. And by what metric the Eurofighter is a failure?
I really wish they would just base IE (or whatever this ends up being called) on WebKit or Blink and call it a day. They could immediately solve 90% of the actual problems people have with their browser, instead of tacking on crap that nobody's asking for.

Once the real problems are fixed, feel free to tack on crap because IE is basically only exists as a way for people to download Chrome anyway.
This particular person believed that going out and getting drunk was a basic human right, and that having to be responsible for your own transportation infringed on that right. Less of the pragmatic concessions and more of the bizarre notions of fault.
This seems like a backwards incompatible change to the Internet in one browser only. While data-users shouldn't rely on user submitted data's accuracy (including the refer[r]er), unless Mozilla can show support from the W3C/other browser vendors, this seems worth a discussion.
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> You'll have to be a bit more specific in terms of what exactly people are saying that "belittles the question of consciousness", I haven't see anything in this thread that I took as such.

When I first opened the comments, the first few comments I saw were:

dominotw 58 minutes ago | link[-]
> i can't take anyone who uses the word "consciousness" seriously, given noone has any idea what it actually means.

Marazan 57 minutes ago | link[-]
> Predicated on the concept that the Hard Problem of Consciousness is actually a problem.

crimsonalucard 44 minutes ago | link[-]
> How can we solve a problem about a word that isn't clearly defined?

Regarding my other comments, I focused on deterministic Newtonian physics because that is what first sparked my interest in the question. Yes, since that time I have learned a bit of quantum mechanics and relativity. Around the time that I found myself trying to grasp string theory is when I gave up the physics thread (pun intended). I'm not a physicist, and frankly I'm not smart enough to fully grasp modern physics.

For what it's worth, I'm in the "emergent property" camp. I certainly don't think there is anything non-physical necessary to explain consciousness. I just think it's a fascinating topic and was shocked at the early dismissiveness I saw. Even in the original article, there's at times an undertone of "consciousness is an illusion and therefore not interesting". Just because we don't need to resort to the supernatural to explain consciousness doesn't make it less interesting. To me, that's exactly why it is interesting.
I'm running 2.11.498 (just updated) on my Android phone and the menu option is there. The new web.whatsapp.com just started working for me this morning.

(I'm on Chrome OS.)