jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And that makes me believe Microsoft will do anything to gain share there (or to, at least, extract some revenue from the other players in the space).
That's a stretch. Especially since the largest players over to past decade haven't been attacked in this way by MS... Apple, Palm, RIM.

In the tablet space even Android is a niche player compared to the iPad. Additionally until recently the Nook was pretty much just an eReader, with the most popular software client running on Windows.

My point is this is a stretch, like any good conspiracy theory.
A few months ago the NY Times wrote an article about how they did static generation for their election results mini-site. The HN discussion was here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025611
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https://www.redpitaya.com/f135/spectrum-analyzer

> Frequency span is from DC up to 62.5MHz

This seems rather limiting.
Being a watermill, it’s totally uninsurable - so the risk is entirely ours. The place had been on the market for years, as none of the interested buyers had been able to get a mortgage on it, for the same reason. Paid cash, got it for a song - 5ha of land, beautiful old buildings, streams, ancient olive groves and terraces and pools and channels, permission to build as many anythings as we want under 100m2, and all for less than a new midrange car in the U.K.

I did discover that you can totally immerse a lot of modern electronics in muddy water, and so long as you wash (urgh, heatsinks) and dry them thoroughly, they live on. Hard drives in the NAS lasted just long enough to get the data off them - NAS itself was fine. Getting silt out of microswitches is also a PITA. Thought the tv was trash, but after a few months, the water that had gotten inbetween the layers of the display dried out, and now you’d never know.

Our main losses were things like mattresses and bedding, the car, books, and a whole bunch of time - took days to hose the mud off the walls, inside and out, and we had about 10cm of silt to shovel out - it took until summer to dry out! The damage outside was also extensive - lots of clearing of debris and chainsawing of huge treetrunks balanced improbably all over the place - at least the flood delivered construction material for the tent platform, which became our home last year while we worked on clearing up the mill and groundwork for the cabin, and taming some of the utterly overgrown forest. This year, as the flood was much smaller, it delivered commensurately smaller wood - but all in all, enough firewood to keep us going until the nights are warm, and some awesome driftwood that’s becoming light fittings in the new cabin.

So far, spring is gorgeous - the valley really benefits from the floods, leaves the banks super fertile - it’s a strip of luminous green in a grey and brown surrounding.
That makes me feel less bad about the VW Golf I had that would spontaneously turn it self off while I was driving down the road.

Fortunately this problem manifested itself early enough (6 weeks after purchase, with ~200 miles on to odometer) that we were able to win a lemon law case and get our money back.
Or even in the same field really. Being an "expert" doesn't make you omnipotent. Millikan, Rutherford, and Einstein were experts in atomic and quantum physics, but it turns out they lacked the imagination to predict controlled nuclear fission. To be fair, it's a very non-intuitive process, but it just shows you how difficult predictions can be.
Have you ever maintained HTML? It doesn't sound like it.
I mean there’s likely no convincing you - but there’s plenty of scholarship to disagree. The Constitution quite clearly gives Congress the power to “coin Money and regulate the value thereof.” It of course makes no additional statement as to how that should be done. It’s a pretty tortuous reading in my opinion and one that would basically be invalid going back to McCulloch v. Maryland to say that coin Money, must only mean metallic alloy coins.

Between Expressed Powers and Necessary and Proper there’s certainly enough justification - it relies even less on the Commerce clause.
What then do we do with all the people that are suddenly deemed surplus to requirements.
> What it does do is prevent people from effectively profiting off IP theft.

Totally wrong. Utterly wrong.

Suppose Alice has an NFT of an image, whereas Bob has legal ownership of that image.

Charlie makes a series of T-shirts with the image. Bob can sue Charlie and win. Alice has no rights, not even legal standing to sue.

NFTs have zero legal value.
Yes that's why no one is going for 100% currently yearly production match with renewable, it will need to go higher in production :).

Then you'll get times with overproduction with very low prices, this will prop up "power to storage for power later" (liquid, gaz, whatever) with buy low sell high usual market stuff.

Note that France has currently 130 TWh of gaz storage capacity for about 473 TWh of yearly electricity consumption.
Are there any kids book that explain these money concepts to elementary school kids? I feel one the big failings of the school system is that these are not taught early on and instead a lot of time is spent teaching things that kids will never use in their lives.
Ahh, the good old Gell-Mann Amnesia
I don't think it was caused by bad intent. But a combination of VC money, pressure to execute and not having awareness of local business code and practices is a sure recipe for violations. It was not an isolated violation. The company had mistreated a local summer intern, among other things.

Luckily, there is some natural limit. In that particular case, after transitioning from a balanced, diverse international team into a mono-culture, the company instantly stopped advancing. There've been no new hires, the product and the company stagnated and an aquihire was arranged at some point.
Question the premise.
For comparison, from https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Salario_m%C3%ADnimo_en_A... the monthly minimum salary in September 1976 was AR$11200 ~= US$45.34.

So the AR$1228 of the author were like US$4.97 in 1976, that are like US$25.11 today https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1976?amount=4.97 .

Also, the price of gold was like $120/oz https://sdbullion.com/gold-prices-1976 so it was like 1.2 grams
How are you measuring "successful?"
It is appeared that clickhouse-local is faster than all of the rest, with a huge margin: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1pGmfpNdGyzE1KEXDnSS...
That's how democracy works, alas.
This is exactly what I came to post. I had the same experience in wanting to see the opportunities available before signing up. You're definitely not alone.
This is not correct. There were multiple MVC frameworks on top of ASP.NET years ago, including Monorail and FubuMVC and a lot more actually. All of them were open source. Some of them were quite good, actually.

Were you active there? Did you contribute something? Did you commit fixes/features. No, you did not. But of course you do contribute to the complaining.
"I just can't figure out how to get it windowed"

You tried the -windowed option?

I can't run it at all. It says "Missing required OpenGL extension".
Being as a core asp.net developer for 7 years and now working as a python/django from last 5-6 months; I can say every .net developer should change his development platform at least for couple of months, because it make you more mature developer.

.net is a good platform, but the real problem is you have to wait for MS to develop something. For example before "asp.net mvc" there is no option to use mvc in MS world.

For me learning python/django was not a big pain; but running them on ubuntu is a real pain; and i think this is true for every ms developer who want to change his platform.

On linux platform options are great and there are lots self motivated developers and fun projects which is not true in the case of MS.

One more thing - lots of start-ups work on the non ms platform. Once people talk about asp.net mvc they only talk about http://stackoverflow.com/, but we can find more successful example in rails, or django or php; which makes every ms developer on back-foot.

PS: I love c#, asp.net mvc and VS as a developer tools.
I use LastPass; but, the fact it's file format is a per-record encrypted sqlite3 database makes me nervous.
Chris, would you mind sharing the name of the friend's blogging network?
I have the impression that google claims that personalized advertising somehow benefits users. I think I saw this kind of claims in some of their campaigns or somewhere. But is this really the case?

Well I can see how personalized ads benefit advertisers. But users? I mean at first, it seems like it make sense because personalized ads are based on what I'm interested in. But more I think about it, I'm not really sure if it is actually beneficial to me.

For example, if I want to buy a hard drive, the ads don't tell me what kinds of hard drives there are and what the pros and cons of each of them are. The ads are just what an arbitrary company X wants me to think of their product in order to change my behavior. They are rarely actually informative. Can someone give me an example why personalized ads are beneficial to users compared to non-personalized ads or no ads at all?

Edit: I'm afraid I haven't elaborated enough. I'm not saying that non-personalized ads are better than personalized ads. I just think they don't add much informational value. If I want to buy something, information access is so trivial these days that I can easily look for products myself, and the information I find will likely be a lot more helpful than ads. So what I'm trying to say is that personalized and non-personalized ads don't look a lot different in terms of benefits they bring to the viewer.
Predictably the problem here is a centralized education system. Break up or decentralize the school system. Make the decision making hyperlocal. Anytime you centralize power, crazy power-hungry people will try to capture it.
> That a solution technically exists is less important than the accessibility of the solution.

No, it's not, and I really want to emphasize that. If the alternative is _no solution_ then the accessibility of the solution is a rather moot point. That is the point I was trying to make.

What you want to say is that it does not matter if free software makes it _possible_ to solve your problems, because (you claim) you don't have these problems with proprietary software, or (you claim) you have a simpler solution available for those that is only applicable to the proprietary software.

I am not going to enter that particular discussion.
I just wanted to point out how it is absurd to simply claim that "as long as people keep recommending recompiling stuff open source won't work" when actually A) people recommend it _because you can actually do it_ , unlike alternatives B) being able to recompile stuff is actually a major if not the main strength of free software, so it is a strange argument to point it as a negative.
I worked at two companies with hard percentage targets on the basis of race and gender for engineering roles. The goals were for an umbrella category of "diverse" people which was all women plus Black and Hispanic people of either gender.

What this meant in practice was that White and Asian men were only interviewed of they already had industry experience or went to a top 20 college if they were a new grad, and majored into computer science, EE, math, or something akin to that. For diverse candidates we also interviewed candidates from boot camps, less selective universities, and people who changed interests late in their studies and minored in a tech major. Diverse candidates also got two chances to pass the phone interview. The on-sites were mostly fair, though a handful of hiring managers were known for being particularly lenient towards diverse candidates. I wouldn't say that we ever hired anyone who wasn't capable of doing the job but it was clear that some candidates were more desirable than others.

I don't think it manifested in much in the way of people having their capabilities doubted for their race or gender. At the end of the day people's abilities are demonstrated through their work. When you're trying to fix shit you're not going to stop and wonder whether someone got a second chance at the phone screen. I'm Latin myself and I never felt judged for it (though to be transparent I'm of almost entirely Iberian descent and don't have an accent).

But there was definitely friction with HR. Our head of HR (or people ops) was very against any mentioning of these practices, and repeatedly said that saying our hiring process is favorable to some people is offensive and could fall afoul of our code of conduct. We held a poll on whether or not employees thought our hiring process was unfair to men. 83% of men responded that it was. Curiously she refused to share the results from women (rumor has it it was just as high). And to put the cherry on top, HR had the worst gender diversity of any org in the company, >90% women.

The fact that the same org that was responsible for resolving harassment allegations and other such disputes had goals aimed at increasing the share of women and URM also caused friction. Some suspected that this would lead to impartial investigation.

In the end it wasn't something people spent much time thinking about. I was pretty irked about leadership's dishonesty and hypocrisy. But I, and probably most people, didn't resent diverse coworkers for it. They didn't choose this, and many didn't approve of these practices either. It was mostly HR that was a laughing stock in private throughout much of the company.

Personally, I think it's fine to see more potential in a underprivileged candidate who came from a poor background vs a candidate with better interview performance but great education. But percentage targets aren't the way to go about it.
Imho cost of the infrastructure and cooling the hardware will be cheap.
> some people like it

well, it is liked by the perpetrators, not the victims.
The user chose Microsoft's Azure product to run Canonical's Ubuntu product. The user has relationships with both vendors.
I love all things RSS but I don't get it.
What is this thing aiming to do?
What is the "it" you are referring to?
However some map-reduce implementations implicitly expect reducers to be commutative, which the author became appropriately suspicious of because of the "typical examples" of map-reduce.

I found this interesting paper on the subject of non-commutative reducers: "Nondeterminism in MapReduce Considered Harmful?" https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
The thing you really have to watch out for here if you have lower prices published is the big guys seeing that and thinking they can get your services for that much too. You have to have your story really nailed of why the 2k-5k services are worth that much more. Usually this is in the form of service level agreements, support levels, response times, security, etc.

As an anecdote, we had "small business pricing" published on our site and organizations like The World Bank, Koch, and a few others were paying $279/month which was insane. We made a few thousand a year on those plans, and a few hundred thousand on "enterprise" clients.

We don't have small business plans anymore.
You can't criticize iOS for doing this, because you can't see their issue tracker.

Instead, Apple's forums provide a crude approximation of one.
On Comcast. Can't see anything either.
No, which is one part of the reason why I make no particular claim whether or not that's the case.
I am not a lawyer, but as long as your local laws do not prohibit you from pinging a given IPv4 address, then I can't imagine any issues. Being technically legal doens't mean you won't step on some toes though. Everyone who runs full internet scans has reported getting lots of exclusion requests, (baseless) legal threats, and even retaliatory DDoS attacks coming back at their source IPs.

Massscan ships with an exclude list which you would do well to utilize:

https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan/blob/master/dat...

If you try to run an internet wide massscan without this list, it will stop you and give you a warning about how to use the list. You then either manually override the warning, or use the list.
In that vein, some of those are decipherable, even though they're gibberish in Chinese. There's a handy chart with the bogus Chinese "alphabet" many of them are using here:

http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/2006/08/gibberish-asian-fon...
I get really defensive when my intelligence is on the line. I read this entire article with a combination of pretend aloofness and childlike fear of getting gotten by the gotcha-questions.
Apparently, my ego plays into my dysrationalia (for better or worse).
I think I'll go with "Software Alchemist" :-)
It's really interesting to explore the past like this. We often forget where we have been and who we were. It's easy to remember the time when 1024x768 and 256 colors was "workstation grade graphics" and 8 megabytes of RAM were only found on expensive RISC machines, but it's not so easy to remember how we did things and how we accomplished our goals with that kind of tool.

I remember my joy when I discovered my college had (in the mid-80's) a fairly complete collection of IEEE's Computer, Software, Communications of the ACM and BYTE. I spent countless hours diving into the past, understanding how we got where we were. That knowledge, not only of what is, but of why and how, is incredibly valuable.
But you made the point much better than dataflow. Their comment is borderline incendiary.

And yes there are exceptions, that's why my comment had so many rhetorical devices to defuse those silly arguments. My comment is specifically about "booleans and two behaviors" and even then I don't affirm it as the only valid way, only as my opinion and not in all cases.
You can figure it out with a basic Algebra calculation. Not that hard.

But I doubt any employee is comparing your offer on that. They are going on the top line number.
So, the OP asks about non-english sites, and the _first_ reply is a "you should do that in English". WTF?
It’s often honestly much better to attribute it to luck and hard work (often because it just IS luck) - trying to get lightning to strike twice precludes you doing something new.
That was the first one I noticed, and if it was only that word in isolation (without the rest) I wouldn't have bothered making the comment.

Regardless of how it was born, I don't think it qualifies as anarchy now, especially with how it can be tracked and regulated (indirectly, i.e. it can be banned, transactions taxed, exchanges subpoena'd for transaction information, ledgers tracked, etc) by governments.
Or, use Readability (like Apple did)

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/08/think-safari-reader-...
Saying RIM missed mobile would be like saying the Wright Company missed aviation.

...that is to say, it is a fairly reasonable thing to say. They just "missed it" in the opposite direction from how companies usually miss things. They came and went too soon. They sold smartphones and airplanes before everybody was buying them.
Probably the differences are only noticeable for non-native English speakers like me only. It's way too good that it makes me feel Siri is such a failure.

Native speakers might not see a huge difference though.
Here's the deal (and I'm sure that this is the same for most programmers): release something that uses this paradigm and let's me get something done and I'll use it. It's getting something done that matters. That's the same motivation for me using Go (easy concurrency), Perl (easy text mangling), Lua (easy embedded stuff), and on and on.

If Flow-Based Programming is the next big thing then great. Let's get at it.

But please don't sell me bullshit like: "The paradigm was so disruptive that it was suppressed by computer scientists for decades."
I have the same monitor and connect over usb-c with a 2018 13' MBP running 10.15.4. I have not experienced any such issue, even though Catalina broke several other things.

In my case, if I use the usb-c port of the monitor to connect the ethernet adaptor, it works for a few minutes and then drops all the packets. This was never an issue before Catalina or with a windows machine.

Another weird issue that I have with this monitor and Mac OS (not only Catalina) is related to the Microsoft sculpt ergonomic keyboard receiver, when plugged to one of the USB ports of the monitor. If I unplug a the MBP and connect a windows machine to the monitor, when I connect the MBP again, there is a >50% chance the receiver will not be recognised . Plugging and unplugging does not work. I have to do a restart of the MBP.

The above make it very annoying when I have to switch laptops. Sometimes I have to work on 3 machines at the same time, which by coincidence run 3 different operating systems (Win 10, ubuntu and mac). The reason I got this monitor is mostly for the build in hub. If it worked properly, I would just plug everything on the monitor and I would only need to plug the usb-C to the laptop and be ready to go.
Sometimes it does work and I feel like I am in the future, using a dock that can support every device, with just one universal cable. Now I often have to plug and plug things directly at the laptops.

One last thing for people who might consider a similar set up. Due to USB limitations, if you plug any storage device on the monitor and the monitor is at 4k@60Hz, you are limited to USB2 speeds.
OP here :)

Would really love to hear the kind of things HN'ers would like to hear in these interviews, as I'll be reaching out to the hackers named as "next up" by the first three guys I initially interviewed.

I never would have created this site without HN and my small contributions to FOSS, so any feedback to make it better for you guys would be awesome!
How would you propose they should differentiate?
Your story was fascinating, thanks for sharing. If you ever want help with learning to code or looking over your projects, feel free to email me (I wouldn't charge).

It's tough learning how to code out of school, and we could use more business-oriented people who grok technical stuff.

Thanks for sharing, I had heard stories like this, but never knew it was that bad.
Where do you live?

I just went to Yahoo.com. I believe this is my first time. The frontpage articles are "Jennifer Aniston's vacation bikini", "Bizarre Russian beach scene", "Horned sea monster is a mystery", "Forgot something, Lindsay?", and "Tycoons giving wealth away."

And that's the last time I go to yahoo.com