jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sure. The problem is that swords don't have much effect on an armoured opponent. There are three types of attacks you can do with a sword: slashing, stabbing and cutting. Against a gambeson (jacked made of 20+ layes of linen stitched together) stabbing works, slashing is hard and cutting mostly doesn't work. Now add a layer of maille over the gambeson. Cutting doesn't work at all anymore, slashing probably only bruises you or breaks some bones and stabbing only works with narrow and sharp-tipped swords. Replace the maille with steel plates and you're pretty much invulnerable to swords, except at the joints, eyeslits, etc).

So, sending out a group armed with swords on the battlefield isn't going to do much. You want warhammers with backspikes that can pierce steel plate and crush bone, halberds that can hit so hard it crushes anything underneath armour, long pikes to keep the enemy at a distance, bows to pierce maille. The best weapon on the battlefield is actually mass. Get a group large enough close together and trample your opponents.

That's how most battles were won. In viking and early medieval times you would use large shields and short spears, create a shield wall and run over your opponent. Later on heavy cavalry appeared who could easily run over them. Cavalry dominated until the English started using the longbow en masse to kill the mounts of the cavalry. Swiss pikemen started using 6+ meter long pikes in tight bock formations. These pikes were so long that cavalry could be stopped dead before they reached the pikemen in a charge. It's like a wooden cumple zone. That pretty much spelled the end of heavy cavalry. Then soldiers started using halberds to get in between the pikes and crush pike blocks.

Swords were often carried on the battlefield but usually as a backup weapon, not as the primary weapon. Their cross shape granted them a lot of symbolic meaning in those religious times, but there are much better weapons available if you want to win large battles.
"lack the emotional development to know these things"

Being told things (at any age actually, think of having a conversation with your doctor about a medical problem) allows you to frame and put things in perspective. The perspective is what is important and what can be very helpful. So a more experienced person (who could be older or could have just gone through the hoops) tells you "that's not a problem in fact here is a similar situation ...".

An example is PG's "How not to Die" where he says:

http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html

"We avoided dying till we got rich.

It was really close, too. When we were visiting Yahoo to talk about being acquired, we had to interrupt everything and borrow one of their conference rooms to talk down an investor who was about to back out of a new funding round we needed to stay alive. So even in the middle of getting rich we were fighting off the grim reaper."
installed newest Android version. Does not work here. No option for scanning QR
I've used Apples since 1993, with a brief (enjoyable) gap of a couple of years writing C#.

It's the Apple way. They decide you don't want something and it's infuriating.

But the rest of Mac OS is quite good, I quite like Finder, and with bash, a JVM, a good browser and text editor, that's enough to overcome the frustration of "Apple knows best".
I agree about the need for paper ballots. I disagree with the indefensibly broad claim that without a national ID card, it is a joke.
I'm not trying to be mean, but right now my perception is that a guy with an MBA is probably not much more useful to a startup than a thoughtful guy who reads TechCrunch and gets microeconomics.

Could anyone summarize the core insights they got from their business education?
slaps forehead User counts. I have them on my purchasing page, why not put them on my landing page.

I love little ideas like that where I can have the A/B test literally live within a minute.

With regards to testimonials: I have rotated through a couple. They're all authentic so I can't create perfect tests of every element, but my experience has been that a generic testimonial attributed to someone just like the target customer outperforms a better testimonial attributed to someone who isn't. (In my case, a name suggesting an older woman clocks a generic male name. Which in unsurprising with 95% of my customers being ladies and most of them being older.)
This is exactly why I would like to see some new voices on the Indian tech scene. We have got some of the most absurd IT laws and processes of any country. Privacy might as well be absent from the tech debate here. Our record on freedom of speech is abysmal. I so wish there was at least someone influential in India voicing these concerns.
It is! At least 99%, in my experience. The one big difference is that Podman is "daemonless", which is actually a huge advantage in a lot of cases. The one downside is that it won't automatically restart your containers if your host machine reboots.
Oh gosh. If her life wasn't hard enough already.
yeah..agreed. i like the idea of a tool tip "Spreadsheet".
Yesterday, I could get 1kg of sugar for $1. Today, I can only get 0.75kg of sugar for $1.

My dollar is worth less (can be exchanged for less goods) than it was before - I'm pretty sure that's inflation.
Already blocked in India:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/xxx-domain-blocked-...
Speculation is exactly what is required for Bitcoin to take hold as a legitimate currency.

Without speculation it's a product/service no one wants (because it has no value or potential), by definition.

Before today Bitcoin was "just" interesting to me, after reading this I now see the potential it has.

I think I'm going to run an experiment and also accept payment for my product in Bitcoins:
http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper
For all the heat yahoo gets, they are still doing reasonably well. There aren't that many billion dollar dot coms that survived the crash and moreover provided some real value.
Read the first chapter of http://www.quitterbook.com/
My law firm (which is arguing Microsoft v. i4i before the Supreme Court) is hosting an event on the morning of May 4 in Palo Alto to discuss i4i along with two other major patent cases before the Supreme Court this year. Both of the attorneys who are arguing the case will be there.

If you are interested in attending, get in touch with me.
> In my state (IL) it costs $250 annually to keep your LLC in good standing, while it costs $75 a year for an S-Corp.

The other reply to yours is detailed and refutes each of your points, so I'll just address this. If you're thinking this $175 difference is relevant, you should probably just stick with a sole proprietorship.

On seven figures of revenue, my main LLC's tax bill (company + members, the same CPA handling it all) is some $7500 a year, but would run twice that as an S corp, and about four times that as a C corp.

Before this company, the last LLC I was a member of grew to 8 figures a year in revenue as an LLC, and changed to C corp only when we took $27M in funding. Prior to those, and before receiving genuinely good advice on the flexibility afforded by LLCs when pursuing high growth and investment, I used S corps. By comparison, LLCs are fantastic.

PS. "Go look it up" seems a little snide.
There are a lot of things 2to3 can't fix, so the user has to go back and change things by hand anyway.
Scaling a website and scaling a search engine are two very different things. Python websites are OK, Python search engines... well: http://whoosh.ca/blog/fools_errand
the first comment about the sprinter vans shows that its exponential for road wear. Youre arguing roadwear doesnt matter but arguing against busses.

I just wanted to see what weight per person was. Doesnt matter as much for road wear, but as you were saying, pollution etc matters too, and weight per person matters for the other factors. Not weight per axle like road wear
"They are not the same company" is, while true, not a guess. Come on, take a real guess! When was the last time Zuck spoke at YC? When was the last time YC worked with Facebook? How many of the folks at YC either come directly from Facebook or have invested in Facebook at one time?

Your hands aren't clean here, if you actually cared about avoiding Facebook at all costs, you wouldn't be here. The fact is, you don't (nor should you).
technically you keep some session data on the client which would normally be kept on the server
It is actually a continuation of this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21613364#21614731

I have started doing this app last Friday and it's driven by the community feedback.
And yet he didn't explain how JWT differs from session cookies.

I suppose I'll never learn.

(looks hopefully at the HN crowd)
Sadly another site which assumes that USA equals the world.
FYI, the book is available for free here under cc-by-nc-nd: http://www.nltk.org/book/

A Python 3 edition will be released next year.
Many consider me a bimbo thousandaire
In theory the community moderation element forces a user to cite their sources or face the backlash of deletion/downvoting, etc.
> and while I find them very useful to read, I understand why SE do not like them.

This is exactly what I don't understand. If a question is borderline, but obviously useful, why not err on the side of allowing it to stand?

>Sometimes, I also see threads closed as homework questions, but those tend to have several duplicates which do have the answer in them, so it has so far not bothered me.

This doesn't happen anymore. The "Homework" tag was removed and is no longer a valid reason to close a question. That doesn't mean these questions don't get closed using other rationals of course.
How about a working-vacation, where your company pays you to go to a place you always wanted to go.. you work during regular hours, and enjoy the people,food,sites and other amenities the rest of the time.
There are also a couple of cool features. With Near Lock you can use the iPhone settings to set that your Mac only locks when you walk away, or that it only unlocks your Mac when you approach it, or both of those things.
If you guys have any suggestions or bug reports, just shoot us an email.
Terrifying thought: what if the causality goes the other way? What if all the bad are bad because "that's just the way the business works" and "hard choices"?
>It's like me saying I have a choice between two news cars and deciding that I can afford both (by ignoring my mortgage, food, and all other expenses

That is an exaggeration if we look at it in terms of the federal budget. If we compared the annual federal budget to say a median income, this is more a decision of if we should buy a plane ticket or two, not if we should buy a car or two.
I wonder how long before they either reverse or otherwise make it boneheadedly easy to opt out. This strikes me as wholly to appease the gov entities and as soon as it negatively impacts the numbers...
Remedy for this is to bookmark a site you like :)
Thanks to everyone for advice on what other devices work. That's exactly what I was hoping for — I'm tired of the Drobo and I can't trust it with my data.
> Why would the lack of a camera prevent you from wanting to see your newborn grandchild?

Nothing, but then again it's already perfectly possible to collect and send videos using the current 3GS. What is not possible is video chat, because there is no frontal camera making chat not video. You might want to notice that Fring has support for video calls on the iPhone yet it's one-way only due to lack of front camera...

> Why, when switching between the two cameras is highlighted as a useful feature for videoing your grandchild playing, would only having one of them kill the deal completely. Am I missing something here?

That the main point of video chat is to see each other? The ability to switch to the back camera is a feature to temporarily show something to your correspondant. It's a nice feature to complement voice chat, but on its own it's pretty damn pointless and building a video chat application for a back camera makes no sense.

> On open standards, are you really telling me that section of the keynote didn't seem odd?

No.

> Did you consider that it perhaps was a shot across the bow of Google introducing an actual open standard using an open standard video codec rather than H.264?

h.264 is an open standard. And it's in fact part of the open standards used for facetime.

> And that its implicit message didn't clash horribly with the fact that it won't work even with other some iphones or any macs bought in future?

No and no.

First one, because older iPhones do not have frontal camera making video chat not an option. Second one, because it piggybacks on the 3G network for the establishment of the connection, macs don't have builtin 3G access so how could they have facetime?

Second one, would it be nice if iOS4 also had a regular iChat A/V client? Definitely, shame it doesn't. But it will likely get one, and there will more than likely be a Skype or Fring update using the front camera soon, but it's quite a far cry from the seamlessness apple demonstrated (and probably wanted to build) with facetime.
No. It's just HTTP over the top of SSL.
That sounds pretty interesting. Care to share the link? Any plans to turn it into a way for others to run their own sealed bid auctions?
I consider myself lucky for not having to work in a coal mine or something like that. Is that what you mean?

Although I have actually heard stories about coal miners who are happy, so maybe it is just my cultural bias talking.
People are talking about corporate rivalries as a special case of free market competition. Price wars and innovation races benefit the consumer in these cases.

In the case of a monopoly a potential corporate rival gets bought and shut down, or locked out of a market, or has their price undercut until they go out of business and then the price goes back up even further to compensate. Basically the consumer loses.

So corporate rivalry, no matter how fierce, is great for the consumer as long as both are forced to fight fair.
I'm confused by the "all functions are methods" restriction. the "what" seems clear, but the "why" is eluding me, and I'd love to read an explanation.
I have done the same, on my work laptop I specifically asked for it to come with US layout.
But traditionally mainly (only?) in the context of "at [price per unit]", not "at [location]".
The hibernate image is much smaller than RAM: disk cache is dropped and the image is compressed. It of course depends on your use-case (how much incompressible data you have in RAM), but you can expect about one third to one half of RAM size.
Cars merging in front of you is mainly a problem for human drivers; it's frustrating, but the actual time lost is probably negligible. An automatic car wouldn't care -- maintaining safety is more important than shaving a few seconds off your commute.
And you can't have legal limits reflecting anything useful because traffic authorities play catch-up with drivers who are so full of themselves they think they're smarter than everyone and can ignore the rules because they know better. You need people obeying the rules, however bad they may be, for traffic engineers to be able to optimize said rules. That's why I think traffic laws should be enforced ruthlessly and in automated fashion.
For those who may have found the linked article difficult to read, here it is neatly laid out (PDF):

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2740000/2736348/p38-lamport....
Right, and when they represent giant corporations, us common-folk won't have anything to fear; "It wasn't faulty software,but a dysfunctional update"—sort of thing. (my issue is that you won't be able to point a finger at anyone.)
I wrote a rebuttal of the "blueprints for software" analogy a couple of years ago.

http://paulspontifications.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/software-h...

TL;DR: Source code is the blueprint for software.

However that doesn't mean I completely disagree with Lamport's arguments. Specifications are necessary in large-scale software because otherwise you can't know if you have actually implemented everything the program is supposed to do. When you release it the end-users get angry and insist that they told you in that email / meeting / watercooler conversation last year how important it was that the program frobnicate the warbles.

Lamport makes much of formal specifications. I agree that in some cases they do add value; trying to prove the correctness of a distributed protocol in any other way is dumb. But in my experience once you get up into application-level requirements a formal specification is basically source code you don't know how to compile; there is no formal correctness criteria against which you can verify it, and the stakeholders can't understand it in order to verify it.
> This is mostly true, but I guess they wanted to avoid scaling up 16x16 favicons into a blurry mess on iOS, so made icons specially tailored for the iOS homescreen into their own category.

Vista introduced dumping pngs directly into icos[1].

I think Apple went this route to avoid having to download the ico as it contains multiple images and is hence quite a bit larger than the e.g. single 57x57 png you are looking for.

[1]: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn742485.aspx
re: python vs. R

I haven't done python at all, but from reading bits and piece online, it seems to me that Python is a lot more about ML than Statistics.

Also, how does one decide what is a "data scientist"? Is it only people who do Stats+ML+IT? What about a researcher in economics or biology? Or marketing. Are those included? They do a lot of Stats and increasingly a lot of ML. Not so much information technology though (less concerned with data storage and retrieval, because they have other people to do that for them). I'd venture to say that researchers like that are far bigger number than pure play data scientists and would be interesting to see the technical skills for them. I bet SPSS and SAS would look a lot more in demand.
For what it sounds like you want to do, I would suggest coming to the Silicon Valley. There are hundreds of meetups every month and many opportunities to meet and work with talented developers (also there is a hackathon every weekend here).

I am a Russian American (I speak Russian fluently) and I would be happy to connect and show you around once you are here.
The best case scenario is a number of interfaces that are so good that people have a hard time choosing, and the competition between then keeps them all on their toes trying to out-do the other. This may not be the best thing for the businesses (re. profit margins), but it is the best thing for the consumer.
An Internet 'kill switch' is akin to a 'slash and burn' tactic. e.g. 'They' are using our road system to attack us, so we mine our road system. In the end, nobody wins. Even if we defeat 'them' we have to pick up the pieces that we left ourselves.
Even if they are startlingly worse (motoblur seems pretty universally hated, and Sense seems to strongly polarize, some people find it very nice, others find it awful and full of useless gradients and badly polished looks), I doubt they're going to drop them.

And this is terrible for Android as a platform, in my opinion worse than the issue of hardware fragmentation and maybe even worse than the handsets left in the dust re. OS updates, because it means UI knowledge becomes non-portable from one Android handset to the next, which is horrible.
downloadable...completely free???

----> This video is not available in your country.

COME ON, i thought they were over this kind if stuff after splitting from EMI a couple of month ago (must have been US only, don't know their deal in europe)

so here we go again...

PS: luckily there are other sites out there, funny video though, i wonder how much they paid that goose in the end scene...
Jeff should spilit the Amazon in to two companies, Amazon.com and Amazon Research Labs. Amazon.com will be the old Amazon and he can continue his "copy the latest gadget or trend" in Amazon Research Labs.

I think he should shut down everything and focus on AWS and Amazon.com only.
The one major benefit is much lower memory overhead due to having real value types and not needing to box simple types.
With apple charging 30% of revenue [1] for in app purchases I'm sure that Bezos and others will continue to be concerned about the platform as well as the content. Might be a better strategy to partner with android than start a new ecosystem but I'm sure they want to have more control over the platform.

[1] http://www.macstories.net/stories/a-discussion-about-apples-...
The Kindle does so many things right but like many of Amazon's products leaves me shaking my head and asking "what are they thinking?" Case in point is the Special Offers, or ads shown on the Kindle. Initially I kind of liked them, especially when they would occasionally just throw you $5 off your next Kindle purchase or make me aware of new books. But the lack of targeting became so annoying. I had so many ads for titles I already purchased for the Kindle, and so many annoying ads for things like toilet paper and home security monitoring that I lost quite a bit of respect for Amazon and the utter lack of optimization they did around Special Offers.
1) They are not blocking (completely) Youtube. But still plausible.

2) Then why would they be doing it only on video streaming websites? [1] Also, if they are so obvious about their methods from now on, one nice thing is that we won't need whistleblowers anymore.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8839733
I wonder - is there an English class out there that focuses on "rewriting, rephrasing, riffing, and appropriation as real tools of the writer’s trade"?
I wouldn't say the father failed at all. Nothing lasts forever and companies are no exception. Growing and leading a company for 20 years is a huge accomplishment, no matter what happens after that. Companies are not meant to last forever. We've had companies since the middle ages, and none of them exist now. Surely they're not all failed companies whose leaders all failed them?

Besides, there's no way bankruptcy wipes away all the value that has been created. If a company can support three dozen families over 20 years (figures from the story) that's a tremendous amount of value. The few million dollar the company was worth before it went bankrupt pales in comparison.

I understand why the father in the story would blame himself, it's only natural. It's a very human thing to second guess and blame yourself. My point is that people always find a way to blame themselves so I don't think somebody who successfully leads a business for 19 years is any more of a failed entrepreneur than a writer who writes bestsellers for 19 years or professor who does research and manages his group for 19 years or an actor who has 19 years worth of television and movies to his name.

Failed? Pheh.
Affero :/
Wow, really cool. I like the idea and the development process. Very bare-bones MVP, but still useful. You'll even get to have an excuse to market it wherever you go. "Hey, why are you dressed like a cowboy?" "It's for charity. I have this website..."
Funny, last night I watched a West Wing episode where they mention the possibility of a smallpox outbreak. Is it still true that there are just a handful of smallpox vaccines on hand in the US?
Mahalo registered hundreds of domain names that are actual search queries to improve their search ranking. For example, when Mahalo discovered that people searched for "Car Repair" enough times, Mahalo registered "CarRepair.com" and ended up the first result in google search from that point onward, because google regards the domains that match the query very highly.

Then they repeated this for hundreds of other queries.

This is considered bad form because these shell websites are all indistinguishable in terms of substance, and duplicate content already offered by the main site.