jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not entirely surprised but I don't see where's the incentive for them to behave like this. They double the lines they must carry and are surely to some degree both undercutting themselves and overcharging so reducing sales. Surely they could achieve better results with a mid-range pricing and labelling?
I don't know about the US, but here in the UK the locksmithing trade has a huge problem with what they call drill merchants - 'locksmiths' who can't pick locks, but simply drill out the lock barrel and charge for a replacement. The trade absolutely loathes such operators, on the basis that they're destroying and replacing perfectly good locks and that they devalue the skills of locksmithing.

This anecdote has got me wondering that perhaps the drillers have more satisfied customers than real locksmiths. The driller makes a big noisy mess, gets covered in brass chips and fits a shiny new lock for only a bit more money than a professional charges to put a key in the lock and tap it with a little hammer for ten seconds.

The human mind is weird.
Price controls benefit some players at the expense of others. Who could have known.
When would rDNS actually be useful?

It's probably a failure of imagination on my part that I can't think of a use case where I would want that.

Why not just use normal, forward DNS?
it will be expensive because it liiks like the first teuly
modular laptop. it will get cheaper if it has a big enough market. so in a long enough time frame it does not matter
From the perspective of January 2009, quite a lot.
Amazon literally employs a union busting company from the last century (edit: from two centuries ago, apparently):

> The Pinkerton National Detective Agency was founded as a private police force in Chicago in 1850, and quickly expanded its reach; its detectives initially focused on catching thieves and burglars, but soon became the bane of the labor movement for their work as enthusiastic, vicious strikebreakers. Throughout the Civil War era and in the decades after, Pinkerton operatives left their bloody mark on strikes, protests, and massacres, and gained a ruthless reputation for protecting the interests of capital by any means necessary.

> [...]

> The Pinkertons, who are now a subsidiary of Swedish security company Securitas AB, are reportedly cozying up to 2020’s version of the Gilded Age robber baron: Silicon Valley tech bosses like billionaire vampire Jeff Bezos, who has hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency to reportedly surveil workers in at least one of Amazon’s European warehouses and infiltrate its worksite, according to documents obtained by the publication.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-were-the-pinkertons

And yes, that is a Teen Vogue link, and yes, it’s worth reading.
If it makes tha author happy, Bitcoin doesn't use as much energy as it will in the future.
What about shipping and deliveries to regions other than US, like EU for example?

How will your volumes look during this silicon shortage?
Without 'thermo-industrial' development, a large percentage of 'us' wouldnt even exist. So while predicting the future of technology isnt possible, we do know that technology created us.
> Do they just find 20% smaller houses every year? Just fixing the index would have a huge impact

The opposite, people are in significantly larger and better equipped houses than they used to be.

I also think 20% is pretty steep outside of the most desirable areas in the US, which are akin to complaining about the pricing becoming unreasonable in your country club. The top end of the market shouldn't be used to track inflation, we should use the median.
This is a pretty interesting question, and I think prods at other questions about the actual form that tech worker unions will take - especially in big companies like Google. Will they be actual organized units capable of orchestrating coordinated action to withhold labor for improvement of material conditions? Or will they just be a sort of caucus that issue statements about political issues at work and occasionally organize an afternoon walkout? If the latter, this isn't the sort of thing that will bother management very much. Certainly not at the existential level of "some of the stock dividend/buyback money will have to be redirected from shareholders to workers, my GOD"
You can't have a wind turbine which extracts 100% of the kinetic energy from wind, because after it there would be a wall of unmoving air, and the incoming air wouldn't be able to get through the turbine.

Analogously, if electricity is carried with the flow of charge - electrons - around a circuit[1], when you extract 100% of the energy as heat, the electrons stop moving and build up in the heater. So you can take the rest of the wiring away because it's doing nothing and save 50% of your costs. Then, a buildup of charge makes a voltage, and a voltage potential difference can drive a current. Therefore you can get 100% of the power out as heat, save half your money on wiring, and use the growing potential difference to power something else. Electricity makes no sense whatsoever.

OK, so that's troll-physics nonsense, but does extracting all the "energy" stop the electrons moving? If not, why not, what energy isn't being extracted? If so, why doesn't that stop current flowing - isn't "free electrons" part of what makes something a conductor of electricity?

[1] though the energy is carried in the e/m field around the surface, somehow
Well, 2020 was not a year of Linux of desktop. How many people use Linux AND fail to notice obvious signs AND download malware/viruses common enough to be detected by antiviruses?
Thats what patents are for. API is like designing your own custom plug to your device. You can't copyright that plug design, you can patent it its novel and new.
I am hopeful for Red Bull finally putting up a real legit fight this year in F1... I am not sure Red Bull won't get in their own way just yet... Too soon to tell.
In the reformed community they have a term for this called being a "cage-stage calvinist." I think it's a useful concept in general. New converts to anything whether it's religion, non-religion, programing paradigms, even superhero fandoms, etc tend to be like that. Especially when those new converts are also young people.
>The fact that the Supreme Court decided not to overturn the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that APIs are copyrightable means that binding precedent on every court except the Supreme is that they are.

Federal Circuit's ruling would only be precedent in the 9th circuit. As it does not have original jurisdiction in copyright disputes (only patent cases), it doesn't supercede any copyrightability rulings in other circuits, for instance the 1st circuit's holding in Lotus v Borland that the Lotus macros were not copyrightable as a "method of operation". And today's opinion cites Lotus v Borland several times even though the original 1996 Supreme Court case was deadlocked at 4-4.
Free Speech isn't the direct issue here.

YouTube and other social media platforms are engaged in an exploitive bait and switch, which happens to collide with the speech issues. However, the core issue is one where speech is just the game ball.

Social Media platforms tell creators and their fans that they will act as "platforms" for the creator's free expression -- provided it's in line with the "Terms of Service." However, it the "Terms of Service" is a bugaboo. Social Media platforms are effectively manipulating the speech of their creators to tell their own ideological message, using censorship, the threat of demonetization, the threat of de-platforming, and the manipulative denial of viral spread -- in uncountable cases, with no reasonable connection to their terms of service. It would be one thing, if this were always actually to "preserve the value of their platform for advertisers" or some such, but the record bears out in innumerable instances that many of their actions are the grinding of an ideological axe by lower level company functionaries.

This is a bait and switch. With one hand, the platforms are saying, "We will serve as your conduit," then with the other hand, they are saying, "You will send the ideological message that we want you to say, or else!" Many will say that this is their right as a private company. No private company has the right to say they will do one thing, but then dishonestly do the opposite through murky deception and threats.

The record of illogical, nonsensical, and weird contortions "platforms" go through to hide ideological manipulation is legion. If a full accounting were entered into the record in a court of law, and if discovery to uncover collusion in such activities were carried out, I predict that it wouldn't go well for Big Tech. They know this, are afraid of this, and this explains their behavior to a T.
I'm a fan of multiple big projects of Red Bull, including Formula 1, skydiving and Flugtag.

I've honestly looked for ways to support their activities, as I enjoy this "advertising", but dislike their drink.
Red Bull is one of the greatest examples of successful marketing of all times. They brought extreme sports to the forefront of mainstream media and have built a brand like no one else. Before Red Bull people didn't really know much about various niche extreme sports, but today everyone knows what a wing suit it, what base jumping is, big wave riding or the that you can fly with a jet pack next to real fighter jets.
Thanks for that! I haven't seen this...

I'm glad to see he also has the same thought about floating points.
Also:

> Happily, Moonpig did not have to deal with multiple currencies. That would have added tremendous complexity to the financial calculations, and I am not confident that Rik and I could have gotten it right in the time available.

This is one of the things we deal with which is quite challenging.
And that is a meaningless comment that tries to draw a distinction without a difference and entirely dodges the core of the issue. So - What factors went into the decisions before, and why were they better than the new factors?
> Notepad++ has a nifty feature

Most physical terminals had the ability to show hex or control characters instead of/in addition to text.
There's also teddit.net as an alternative less annoying front-end to reddit. I hope it keeps working for a long time.
Instagram's API TOS has always prohibited third party clients. From the "You Shall Not" section:

"1. Use the Instagram APIs for any application that replicates or attempts to replace the essential user experience of Instagram.com or the Instagram apps."

http://instagram.com/about/legal/terms/api/
I wrote an XSLT transformation for SharePoint that emitted an RTF doc that included tables a long while ago. Damn, I write a lot of that in anger. Another one for DocBook to RTF, for another client. Also written in anger. RTF is painful to try and reproduce rationally.
You know, I still have that 386 in my mom's attic. I'm tempted to break it out and see what it can do.

Ultima VII required a 33MHz 386DX w/ 4Mb of ram, and my computer ran it fine with a boot disk. If memory serves (and I was 7 at the time, so it probably doesn't), a DOS 6.22 bootdisk contained fields for page size, which leads me to believe it had support for virtual memory. That said, I do remember the massive stink that was made about virtual memory when Windows 95 came out, so I could be wrong.

I'm highly tempted to break out that old box and play around with it. This conversation tickles my nostalgia bone.
"The only thing even remotely close to the bubble of old would be Twitter, and they have 200 million users. Name one service during the dot-com era with anything approaching that number."

The raw numbers may have changed (there are more people on the internet now) but the strategy is the same. In the late 90's it was all about eyeballs, actual profit be damned. Nowadays it's all about "social". Twitter, Facebook et al are going down the same road: many ephemeral eyeballs with no discernible path to the kind of profitability tech sector investors expect. They are at best media plays, and over the past 10 years we've seen how unkind the market has been to the likes of AOL and Yahoo.

Groupon may be the standout company of this era (who knows?) but people who boast of Groupon's numbers don't seem to understand that most of the revenue goes into the retailer's pocket. It's an as yet unproven proposition that there's substantial money to be made in dipping into the razor-thin profit margins of struggling local businesses.

We won't know who wasted $100 million+ until it's all over -- that's the thing about bubbles. The oversized VC funds and oversized valuations are relatively recent phenomena and it will likely be at least 18-24 months until the well goes dry. But when you see billion-plus dollar VC funds and a dozen me-too venture backed companies in the mobile photo-sharing space alone, well, it doesn't take an expert to see the froth in the water. Personally, I wasn't alarmed until about six months ago.

Why should any of us care? Because after the party's over the tech sector is in for a rather bad hangover. The jobs and the capital will disappear seemingly overnight. As entertaining as it can be to watch things go boom, I'd much prefer sustainable growth.
Wow, it seems I've gotten about a -11 karma for this comment so far, I guess pg must have removed the -4 limit.

So apparently people believe that the world is just great for the overly-sensitive. Weird.

Anyway, here's your chance to downvote me a second time!
Same happens to me. I'm running Google Chrome 12.0.712.0 dev on Linux, Flash Player version 10.3.162.29.
What's the impact on your biz on being in the WSJ? It's got to be the most serious business publication.
I took some high/junior-high school in Libya: we learned set theory in grade 7. I liked math back then. It's not that I understood the point of what we were learning, but it was interesting; it was fun to ponder how to calculate the ratio of the circle's circumference relative to its diameter, and to think about how to prove the Pythagorean theorem.

Then I came to Canada and took more HS, suddenly math was a pile of confusing "things"; an enumeration of techniques for solving certain patterns of problems. Around that time I realized that I hated math.

In University we took discrete algebra with a Taiwanese prof, suddenly math was fun again. If I remember correctly, he commented once about how they learned this stuff in high school when he was back home, which wasn't very surprising, seeing as how the first half of course was pretty similar to my grade 7 math in Libya.

As far as I can tell (and I could very well be wrong), the Libyan curriculum was based on the Egyptian curriculum, which is possibly based on the British one. At least it was based on it sometime around 50 years ago.
It makes it easier, but it's still possible to lose. The super bricks don't appear all the time
Same problem here, I wonder if it's caused by 64-bit Flash Player.
That explains the old "we sell below cost and make up for it in volume" saw.

Always thought it was a joke, not good advice in light on a crazy situation.
> or a "theme park"/"zoo"

Or it could have been created in their offices, to make the job of maintinain a guide to galactic hitch-hiking easier to maintain.
Git also stores diffs from time to time: http://book.git-scm.com/7_how_git_stores_objects.html
I'm still a bit confused about how a bicycle with counter-rotating wheels can move.
This doesn't surprise me as OpenOffice / StarOffice never really made sense as a business to begin with. Sun invested in it because it allowed them to "eat their own dogfood" (not use Windows) and arguably out of McNealy's obsession with taking down Microsoft.

It will be interesting if the community does anything with it. My guess is that it will be mostly small feature enhancements and integration changes. None of the corporate supporters seem to really want to be in the Office business, so my guess is that any major new release is probably years away, if at all.
How about "goo box" for all your wetware stimulation needs.
The think of the children squad is immune to reason. They'll smear your name and then your colleagues will look at you funny when you wander into the office at 10:30.
It's easy to say "just fix it" but it the history behind JavaScript is complex and wacky - and one persons problem is another persons super-powerful closure. If you really want to know the nuts & bolts then you have to watch the Crockford on JavaScript series: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/video.php?v=crockonjs...

Yes. All of them!
I know this will inspire some backlash but I am sick and tired of all these different browsers and what they can and cannot support. I would actually pay good money every year for a browser if they would all just do the same job.

As a developer all this crap gets boring, day after day, endless checking broswers. And to top that off, Microsoft are thinking of releasing another. IE6 support ends in 2014, are Microsoft trying their best to have 10 active versions before then??

I think, just leave one of the companies to it and let them get on with it, I know competition inspires innovation but its getting stupid now. I think leave either Mozilla, Google or Opera to the job. Operating system supplier, get on with what you are doing and make operating systems!

Microsoft, if you are reading this, please give it up. I use your products every day but I have not actively used Internet Explorer for 6 years, I only use it when I want my blood to boil when I test a website in IE6, IE7, IE8 and IE9. Only to see that it works in every single one but IE7????!!?!?!?!?!

Tests like this shouldn't need to exist. It should just be a case of, "Oh there is a new standard out, {Browser Manufacturer} supports this already and we are good to go".

I wish I could say, "Rant over". But it's not, i'm going grey at 27 and it's all because of browser testing. Yes Microsoft, I'm looking at you.
people who treat JS as assembly because it's
missing features, as a language

Not all features are equal, and what some people might call a "feature", others might call a "flaw". Treating Javascript as assembly is perfectly acceptable.
The Google of 2002 was able to say "don't do evil" because they were a new upstart company that was disrupting the tech industry. Ten years later they're the 400 pound gorilla in the room with their their fingers in multiple industries: So I don't think that old saying works with that beast, despite our romance for the founding myth. And maybe looking back at it that tagline really hid the true ambitions of the company. Which isn't to say that wanting to build an epic company has to be evil...
There needs to be a utility that will set the keymap for you, given a photo of your keyboard.
As mentioned in the article, the idea of intellitype-style code completion in TypeScript actually excites me more than most other parts of it. I know plenty of people scoff at it, but I love it.
Sure, but why this book? I mean, it seems like a nice review guide and all (though probably too terse for someone trying to learn the material for the first time), but what about it is catching peoples' attention?

If I post about Tom Moore's fantastic "Six Ideas that Shaped Physics" textbook series (http://www.physics.pomona.edu/sixideas/), which is based on a career's worth of experience and many of the best ideas from the active field of Physics Education Research, is that also a front page link? (I'm teaching my Modern Physics course out of two of those volumes this semester, and the students seem to really like it.)
The problem is that there's a certain essential minimum complexity to every interesting piece of software. You can't eliminate essential complexity - you can only move it around.

Monolithic architecture turns a configuration management problem into a coding problem. Eventually, coupling within the monolith makes it hard to develop.

Service-oriented architecture turns a coding problem into a configuration management problem. Eventually, the potential combinations of small services become unmanageable and untestable, making it hard to run operationally.

You have two kneecaps. Which one gets the bullet? Because you're gonna get kneecapped either way.
For our corporate API, we the Apiary markdown with aglio to convert into nice documentation. I've tried RAML (I didn't like the giant YAML file) and apidoc (I didn't like to put 100 lines of user documentation next to 20 lines of implementation). I use protagonist to convert the md file to JSON which my Python code can load and compare with the decorated API endpoints -- I can then verify they and all their parameters are properly documented. I don't use the fancy Apiary features yet.
Yay, nanny state!
If a nation or a group was acting towards American citizens the way the NSA (and other TLAs) does, we'd probably assume they were at war with us.
The original I'm seeing on NYT is "In California, a Champion for Police Cameras".
Sure they did. You are just going to use semantics to say they didn't. They got passed classified information and they took it. When you take something that doesn't belong to you in that way, it makes you a thief. They have knowingly received stolen materials and they didn't give it back.
I suppose you're right that he could be considered part of the press, and there are no laws prohibiting the sharing of government secrets. But I'm hesitant to proclaim anyone with a blog or government secret as a true member of the media.
Is there a torrent anywhere with the actual text of the cables? Wikileaks itself is being DDOSed, and none of the news sites are reprinting anything but summaries.
Of course, the Watergate breakin itself was just intended to do a little "information liberating" too. Heh.
They at least put the real time and date the question was posted in the headers.

<meta property="og:question:published_time" content="2009-02-26T17:04:37Z">
The actual report seems to be well-written and knowledgeable, but does not reveal how they assign points.
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Smart phones have poor battery life due to background data sync (radios are expensive to power up) and screen usage.

Turn airplane mode on, leave your screen off, and your phone will last a long time.