jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Anyone who is talking about how much of a loss this is means they haven't been to a Frys in the last 3 or 4 years.

I have fond memories of them from 95-05, but this is literally a textbook case of a business that got ran into the ground by their management. They weren't able to evolve with their customers needs and would probably still be around if they weren't so awful.

In fact, I would argue they were one of the few retail companies that stood a chance against Amazon in their niche, mainly because they owned many of their properties.

The thing that killed them is they ramped up their hostility towards their customers and treated them with utter contempt. I still remember going in there a few years back to pick up a couple hard drives and the manager refused to price match their OWN website, while standing under a giant sign that said "We price match Internet retailers" or something to that effect. That was the 2nd to last time I stepped foot in a Frys and I vowed not to shop there going forward.

The very last time I stepped in Frys almost 2 years ago, I was looking for a common resistor to fix a part, since I wasn't at home and there was one around the corner. I literally couldn't find some of the most common value resistors and the store was literally bare of inventory.

It was so bad that they had shit like paper towels and water bottles stacked 1 deep across like 4 or 5 aisles. Again, this was nearly 2 years ago and I literally thought they were within days of closing back then.

I'll be honest, the only thing that surprises me is that it took this long. Sure, their format was huge stores, but the thing is they owned a lot of them, so it wasn't very expensive. MicroCenter appears to be doing quite well, so it definitely isn't specific to their retail segment.

Long story short, I will always have fond memories of doing some of my first computer builds there and salivating over their newspaper ads, but good riddance.
China has two Gen5 fighters in serial production right now. And show me a manpad that can take down a Gen 5 fighter at 30K feet. No manpad is energetic enough to do so.
He got something like a 30m severance. He'll live
> that'll be really really hard and take a long time

It probably is hard and intensive. Engineering shouldn't lie and promise that it will be easier. Product has to take that engineering estimate and determine whether to work uptime or some sexy feature (and sexy features usually win because of perverse incentives).

Moreover, I have a hard time believing this for a couple reasons: first of all, I've scarcely met engineers who were opposed to improving product reliability, maintainability, etc. The portrait of Google engineers arguing that database services fundamentally shouldn't be HA (and customers are "using it wrong" for wanting HA DBs) is particularly incredulous. Secondly, I've never heard of an organization where engineering held political power over product decisions, but I have worked in several places where product dictated engineering solutions. Businesses trust product more readily than engineering because the things that engineering is always petitioning for are abstract and "costly" (deferring some immediate profit for reduced costs in the long run) while the things product wants are usually tangible and profitable.
We’re all complicated humans.

What’s amazing about the child rearing is that each of us has such a small n. Yet we (me included) think we know the secrets.

When my kid has a kid I hope I will be smart enough to keep my trap shut until asked.
Price is value if you sell at that price. You then would gain currency which you could exchange for something that you think is a better value.
Is there a possibility sites just begin blocking Firefox?

It's only ~8% of the desktop market share and ~4% across all devices. It doesn't seem inconceivable sites just give up supporting it if they're not getting the ad revenue.
> every building project should include parking

How much would it cost to add parking under each building?

Could that money be used toward light rails or bullet trains.
Though it could be said in a much less offensive way, I agreed with this in the article

"I read YCombinator Startup News. I read that thing that Paul wrote saying that anybody who contributes regularly is going to fare better. That’s shit from a bull! Anybody who is spending time posting on a site that is a collection of links to dream money instead of working on his project is never going to make money. Anybody who cares about “karma” on that site instead of spending time reaching users for his product is an idiot."

I've been checking out these threads for a few days and have started leaving comments because that apparently gives you a better chance. Paul has a lot of tough choices to make and I understand his reasons for using comments as one of the many tools in filtering prospective startups, but I really hope its a small small factor. Sure it proves I read blogged advice and other mumbo jumbo on the subject of startups and am interested in the funding, but it also might indicate that a person has way too much free time or has a serious net addiction (a major development killer). I've been getting ready to kick start my startup this summer for over a month now. During that time I've read a lot of these startup articles, all of Paul's entries, Founders at Work, bought a few other books and searched the net for VC firms and how to get in touch with them. One article at the beginning of the process affected me greatly. When I was making the tough decision to do the startup or take a very appealing job offer I read Paul's article (not to brown nose) "A student's guide to startups" which said the best time to start one is when you're 24, fresh out of grad school, and hopefully have a solid internship behind you. That was something I didn't know and hit me hard because this summer that will be my exact situation. If I hadn't have read it I might have missed my perfect window! I made my decision right then. Every article, book, or resource since however has been repetitive and more draining on my energy to get started than helpful.

My point, and the article's author's point in the quoted paragraph is, use these articles to get yourself inspired and confident about doing this thing and then stop reading and commenting! You're inspired now don't kill it and waste your time with reading more and more of the same crap, go make your own stories. This is most likely my last post here. I hope that doesn't effect my rating :).
Druggie is an utterly disgusting term. I urge you to indulge in some form of empathy.

Btw. Everybody I’ve met in above average positions of our (US) military do drugs. Often, lots of them. In my anecdotal experience, it’s typically amphetamine stimulants, excessive alcohol, & various forms of sleeping pills. Opioids in those who have seen multiple combat tours or received injuries in various ways.

Talking O-4’s and above.
I didn't read the actual Myth of Sisyphus, but I've listened to some lectures about it and read some descriptions of it. I can't quite convince myself that studying it is worth it, and I'd like to hear why exactly it is worthwhile.

From my perspective, absurdism seems like Greek stoicism, but created by a deeply depressed person. The stoic perspective is that we're capable of persevering through the worst possible situations in life and that our intelligences, minds are able to handle such problems, that if we just listen to ourselves we can see how to navigate the most difficult scenarios and to thrive despite them. What is also appealing to me about stoicism is that it's not only a perspective on life, it's a set of practices which can help you adopt the perspective (sort of like Zen koans are supposed to help you adopt the Zen mindset).

On the other hand, what I've heard of absurdism seems to tell me that its overall outlook is very similar, but it sounds far, far more depressive, which is quite impressive if I'm comparing it with a philosophy that tries to convince you it's good to think about your child's death when you're telling them goodnight.

Sorry if the take seems too hot.
A parallel situation appears to me as, someone on the street is talking to people walking by, to avoid hearing them I put on noise canceling headphones and walk away so I don't see them.

Am I censoring them, no. I am not interrupting their ability to speak freely. I'm simply exercising my right not to listen.
Slavery is not the argument, it's an example of something you find reproachable.

Try to imagine something that you find unethical but some others do not: burqas, abortion, war, public schools, private schools, eating meat, rolling coal or whatever it may be.

If you start from the position that such a thing is unethical, you can't enter an argument with someone who asks you "how should I do X to make you happy?", because you simply won't be happy if this gets done at all.
in europe there are many taxi companies that have started to do uber app features and prepayment and all the jazz that make uber so great.

the main issues i have with uber are that it's now almost more expensive than taxis, there's almost no regulation, the drivers are taken advantage of / not making profit and also not getting proper benefits. just because taxis suck doesn't mean uber should replace them.

government should invest in better public transit, more livable and walkable cities, and less car ownership instead of propping up either taxis or uber.
Thing is, it's not just having an approacheable/hireable language, its about the availability of tutorials, learning materials, community, and existing code. That takes a lot of time and its Unity's moat that Epic can't really replicate by creating yet another Unrealscript

You absolutely cannot use UE without ending up with C++, blueprint only shines with animation rigging, material, vfx where you need a lot of quick feedback loop by exploring possibilities.
Scarcity is about the rate of supply meeting demand. In most commodities, as demand increases, suppliers will move to increase supply to meet that demand. Even with gold (of which the earth has some unknown finite supply), the rate of which it is mined and extracted will increase as market price increases.

Bitcoin has a fixed supply, Bitcoin's daily rate of creation cannot be increased or decreased unless everyone agrees to it.
Processed food became a problem at the same point that the internet did: when we sacrificed everything at the altar of almighty profit.

Two hundred years ago, we processed food to survive the winter, now we do it to make a few extra bucks from each ton of corn and wheat.
> It's just to which degree you want those rails to be.

In my experience as a queer person, lots of vocal pro-trans types take issue with anything and everything.

It's not as though this is an issue of rails, because frankly, in my opinion, that whole activist group has derailed themselves.
>If every transaction that everyone does has some outputs to darknet markets (because they’re popular and high-volume), and some outputs to legitimate businesses (because they’re also popular and high-volume) then that really is reasonable doubt that any particular individual did anything bad.

The problem is that transacting with a darknet market will still bring your illicit output % above average. Right now monero has 10 decoy outputs per transaction. If the proportion of illicit addresses to legitimate addresses were 50%-50%, then a legitimate transaction would have an average of 5 illicit outputs but a illicit transaction would have an average of 6 illicit outputs. The same applies to inputs. The difference between 5 and 6 might be small enough to be indistinguishable from background noise, but that result is heavily dependent on the proportion of illicit vs legitimate address. If the proportion is something like 95%-5%, then the difference would be 0.5 vs 1.5, which is significant. I won't bother to do the probability calculations for this, but I'm going to estimate you can get to 95% certainty within 10 transactions.

>It’s like how you can’t charge someone with possession of cocaine because there’s cocaine on the US dollar bills in their pocket: there’s actually trace amounts of cocaine on every US dollar bill.

The interesting bit is that they don't have to charge you based on that alone. If they're 80% sure you bought illegal drugs, they'll either get a warrant to search your house or perform surveillance on you and wait for you to slip up.
> I have never been more impressed with a human being

Nelson Mandela.
I suppose I could see the "most up to date" argument, but Intel looks like it has the most complete commercial compiler at the moment for C++11.

But certainly, the next most complete support for C++11 in a commercial compiler might just be from Oracle Solaris Studio (which, despite the name, is available for Solaris and Linux both):

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37069_01/html/E37071/gncix.html#s...

It supports all C++11 features excluding: C++ 11 concurrency and atomic operations, and User-defined literals.

Notably, Oracle Solaris Studio is also one of the few compilers to include full C99 support.
If true, then I know of at least one local police force in Missouri that's in egregious violation of this. Can you drop a link to the relevant state code?
There are always touchy Lisp and Smalltalk fans who must vent their spleens at the earliest opportunity, but barely a sliver of active developers today have used a Smalltalk system and only marginally more, even with Clojure, have used a Lisp in anger. So, when you are not actively trying to read the literal worst into something, you will see that Ruby does in fact do quite a lot that "we," in the general case, are not terribly used to. That's a major reason I use it, for example, where performance isn't a big deal.
As of last month, I was still receiving emails from linkedin that contained http links.
What is unethical? What are they funding? Why the emotive language? Who are you or the EFF to say that it is anybody's business to know about two other third parties agreements? What difference will it make to consumers to know what the contract stipulates?
The problem with the article is that exactly the same argument can be used to recommend that women shouldn't learn Math or Physic.

I heard horror stories of Math departments in USA with only one or two female professors.

I have a different perspective. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Each faculty inside the University has its own Math department. For example in the Exact and Naturals Science Faculty, the 30% of the Math professors are females. http://cms.dm.uba.ar/depto/profesores
Great idea; it's a bit unclear to me how to become a user (rather than advertiser), there's reference to an app but I couldn't find anything. I wouldn't mind getting photos printed for free with ads on the back. Still in beta?

I'm also curious to see what the auction prices end up being - they may start at $0.01, but I doubt you'll stay in business long printing+shipping at that price.

I also wonder - if an advertiser bids for 1000 ads, are those spread among 1000 different people, or 50 people x 20 photos (or whatever)? As a user, would I upload all the photos I want printed and then sit back and wait for a bundle to come in the mail?
Because Mike Pall is a genius and likes working on LuaJIT so doesn't take much to sponsor him to work on it: http://luajit.org/sponsors.html
Well put. The same goes for comments, too. Someone else asserted that good comments should reflect "Why" more than "What". "What" changes more.
A slightly bigger problem is with employers using credit score to grade applicants. I'm also pretty close to the same zero-debt blank slate he is (and I'm fixing that), but it can be a problem when people think that a bad credit score makes you a big risk for theft/embezzlement/etc. when you're not.
Thanks. Though I think, in fairness, not too many people are arguing that any one event actually won the war.

The problem, I think, is that it is very easy to look back and see how things "should" have gone differently. Hindsight is a bitch :) I know a few people who have started a sentence with the words "If I were Hitler I would have...", and you have to turn round and say yes. Any sane man in Hitlers shoes could have won the war. But Hitler was in Hitlers shoes, and he didn't.

And then there are those who are often forgotten when discussing of the war. For example what about the Australian contribution; the Japanese are known for being resilient, refusing to give ground under any circumstances. But the Aussies had the same attitude and theirs was one of the most successful armies in the war (even in all time I think). They harried the Japanese on a number of flanks, that arguably kept them at bay where otherwise they may have won (or prolonged even further) the Pacific war.

Then there is the more complex matter of things which would have lost the war. This usually ranges from the sublime to the ridiculous; with all sorts of theories. But often ignores simple things like, the U Boats could have got lucky and hit 3 or 4 convoys in a row. Logistically that could have won Germany the war as easily as anything else. It's simply impossible to predict.

A lot of Brits will argue that us holding out for those crucial few months was what won the war; I'm not entirely sure I disagree, it was certainly an extremely important thing. But so many people forget the country was full of US, French and other soldiers at the time; it was multi-national resilience. And, at the same time, the supply convoys kept us going, again a multi-national force.

At the end of the day my History teacher at school summed it up best:

You will meet all sorts of people who claim they won the war. But the truth is people won the war; lots of people from different nations pulling together in the same direction for once. It's a thing to be proud of. But also to be sad that it is only in the face of war and eradication we can truly band together like that
No, Basecamp is missing a couple "small" features that would take it from "Ok for 'swindsor" to Zoho.

Seriously. Not kidding. You want a different app. Basecamp don't want you. There's nothing wrong with that. Or you.
It's only creepy when men do it. When a woman does it she is just being meticulous about her own interests.
Many of us outside GFW/Cn are aware of the "decoration" (we call it Astroturfing in the US) - it's so transparent that it's often joked about on Reddit and similar sites.
That is one of the scariest aspects of all this: there is an aggressive Internet mob that does nothing of value for Free SW, but will come in full force any time that an issue like this one is debated in the open, and will stop at nothing to ruin the life of those they identify as enemies.

Encouraging civility and attracting new contributors are very important goals for the future of Free SW. Achieving that will help us create better products that can be useful for more people.

Therefore, having all this harassment and hate come up whenever there is talk about improving the community is tremendously hurtful. It is sabotage, that's what it is.
A related way to learn is from git's initial source, which was quite small.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8650483

Warning: the file format has changed slightly.
A tremendous amount of human labour?
That's the thing when you get to use a powerful game engine: there is value in the game mechanisms, game assets but not so much in the code.
Used Simple for a signup bonus, was fine, was weird that I could only see certain details (the exact amount of ACH trial deposits) in the mobile app instead of the web app.

They declined to open an account for my wife (who was also angling for a signup bonus) with no explanation; response to a CFPB complaint was "we will not explain"; no response to a CEO email. Was very weird. Nothing apparently fraudulent or weird in her application, credit, chexsystems, etc., just a "we don't want your wife's business".
The name of the country was derived from the fortified trading hub, Great Zimbabwe, which was built in medieval times and was used by the people of the ‘Shona’ tribe
This one fact alone means you have WINNER written all over you. Bravo!
True. Now that you point it out, it is odd that I chose to focus on that one divergence.
Congratulations! Way to not only capitalize on your talent, but to make sure you're not encumbered by debt in the future. Best of luck to you and your soon-to-be-wife.
I don't have to read anything into it, I was raised in part by people who spoke that dialect. I can speak it. I can creep out people my age by using that dialect in its (creepy) nuances. I've got the grey hair to prove it and everything.

As it is used in that film, straight up, I assure you, it reflects sexism. And "boys" referring to soldiers isn't symmetric. How can I convey it... hmm...

"Men" as used here are tough, full adults. "This man does ..." means we're talking about someone plausibly a head of household. He's an individual. He's a complete adult.

"Girl" as used here means we are talking about females who aren't quite kids but neither are full adults. By default a "girl" is young and unmarried and in some ways fragile. She might be older and married but its a little sad she's still working then and, anyway, at most she's a mother hen to the girls who are younger and more typical of the group.

A fully (recognized as) adult woman in the workplace might be a "lady" or a "woman" depending on role and context. She could be "fine woman" and you oughta settle down and show some respect if you want to get anywhere in this organization. If youre gonna act like that why don't ya just head downstairs to the chat up the girls in the secretarial pool. Learn your place.

The jocular "the boys in this unit take a smoke break while the tanks get cleaned and readied for the next advance..." is a sign of camaraderie. It doesn't (like "girls") signal that they are juvenile, per se, it signals that they're an anti-hierarchical tough team. "girls" back then could be stretched to that same connotation but usually wasn't, especially in a non-wartime workplace.
> The same steps you would take in your own datacenters to ensure high availability would work in the cloud to ensure the same availability

If I'm engineering the same steps in the cloud as I am in the data center, then I'm going to skip a step and just engineer the data center, because adding machines on demand is not rocket science. But maybe that's just me.
Some false premises:

That a B student shouldn't learn physics, mathematics and can't be an engineer (whether software or even electrical or mechanical engineering).

That it isn't worth it for a B student to study the classics.

That entrepreneurship is easier than hard sciences or engineering: from what I've seen, the skill-sets involved are orthogonal, and such a blanket statement can't be made.
I'm sorry but I don't know how to make it more clear than I already said before: some AGPS implementations are not capable of operating in standalone mode. The Wikipedia A-GPS article states:

A typical A-GPS-enabled receiver will use a data connection (Internet or other) to contact the assistance server for aGPS information. If it also has functioning autonomous GPS, it may use standalone GPS, which is sometimes slower on time to first fix, but does not depend on the network, and therefore can work beyond network range, and without incurring data usage fees.[3] Some aGPS devices do not have the option of falling back to standalone or autonomous GPS.

I've added emphasis. The last point is all I was saying.
Just as fun : send high rate updates via websockets from your embedded system to your browser.

http://code.google.com/p/cwebsocket/
More than a replacement for learning Arduino, I could see this being more useful as a rapid prototype tool for interfacing between the web and a piece of hardware or circuitry. If all you need to do is check some states and flip some switches, why bother doing the same thing over and over in C when you can do it more reliably in jQuery?