jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We're talking about consumers here. I don't think anyone doubts the term has been around for a long while in development and business circles but typical consumers never used the terms until the Apple campaigns. My mom also knows what an app is now, only because of her iPhone.
What about Jaiku?
You're wrong. The code ratio is about 1/3, for large applications.

http://www.slideshare.net/Arbow/comparing-cpp-and-erlang-for...
It depends on how well Google Me does.

If Google Me indeed takes off, as a social layer (on top of application and presentation layer), they could just make buzz more prominent.

But if it doesn't, which it may, considering Google's failed investments in Buzz, Wave, Me, investment to buy twitter would seem compelling.
Addendum: my favorite part was Berkeley Breathed showing a letter he received from Watterson, which has a drawing of Breathed fueling his motorboat by pouring dollar bills into the gas tank. Breathed notes that it’s meant to be commentary on Breathed’s willingness to pursue merchandising to make more money.
> probably

Government funded things go up in price. Prime example: eductation and child care.

Government funded problems that lead to government funded solutions.
Tremendous illustrations.
Not just an old person thing. Anyone who’s brain functions for longer than 10 second bursts prefers a blog post over a series of tweets
I've been the white guy in that situation, and it can be not great, but it was specifically with a 90% Chinese team. I can tell you who never quite fit in and who got laid off first...

I wouldn't join a team like that again because of how much harder it made things. Maybe this is an argument for why diverse teams are good?
I'm on antibiotics for an infection right now, how badly have I disrupted my microbiome? How will this effect me down the line?
I am trying to choose which pet project to dwelve in.
Prototyping takes less time than writing up the requirement in paper. And customers can give more accurate feedback watching the prototype than reading the docs.

It rarely happens that once a prototype is written, the developer finds out it was all a wastage and the customer wanted something quite different.

Think of the prototype as a Photoshop mock, but interactive like the real application.
I'm sure

I'm not.
I'd use 'upswing'
Hey Praveen, this is out of context, but is there any way I can get in touch with you. I seem to match most of the things mentioned in your one-line bio on HN.
Thanks
Most of the recent VC funded Internet companies that have gone public have never been profitable in their life (which sometimes stretches a decade of existence). For e.g. -

DemandMedia
Makemytrip
Zillow
Envivio

According to a recent WSJ artcile[1], 11 of the 30 tech companies going IPO this year have been in red and 19 reported some profit last quarter.

That is definitely a sign of bubble if we take a cue from the 99-2000 bubble.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/04/19/a-look-at-the...
Name a company in this "bubble" that has wasted $100 Million dollars like Boo.com or pets.com or $50 Million like flooz without producing even 1% of that in revenue.

If not, then there is no bubble. Facebook makes in the ballpark, if not close to, two billion dollars in revenue a year. Hell, even Groupon would be a better buy today than, say, hotmail was, and Groupon got offered 2x the price to be acquired and turned it down. 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. During dot-com bubble, AOL had the most that I can recall, and their peak was something like 26 million or so.

Repeat, there is no bubble.
Sorry about the awkward title, I had to reduce it to 80 characters. This is the full title:

Was the iPhone location logging put in by quiet law-enforcement / intelligence agency request?
Sure. HCI encompasses, and is heavily motivated by, cognitive psychology.
directly from the yt comments:

"Donald frickin Knuth in the room and look at all the people still tapping﻿ away on their notebooks. What would it take? The Queen of England?"
I suspect most of his effects were psychological. He expected going vegan to have wonderful effects, so it did.
Ok, sorry. title is indeed missleading. It should have been:

This was Larry Page! 1996 is perfect and then he decides to use Python after the Java mess ;)

Like I said recently http://twitter.com/#!/timetabling/status/59909520436117505
And get btrfs done
Because nothing else is as massively profitable?

I mean oil is insanely, massively profitable, nothing else can touch it, so why would big industry bother until they actually run out of it?

BP alone made nearly $2 BILLION the same quarter they had to pay for the deephorizon cleanup That's AFTER paying for it. Normally they make close to $10 billion per quarter.

Instead they can just run commercials before PBS shows telling us how they will "keep researching alternatives". Much cheaper.
We (the people involved in making decisions on behalf of politicians and the people who buy IP for tech that greatly improves energy efficiency so they can prevent everyone from using it) would rather keep using oil.

If we (people more generally) wanted to, we could do this - http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?singlepost=2491667
Not to sound all flamebait-ey, but this reads like you didn't think about the answer very hard after asking the question.

Facebook's suggestions suck because:

1. It already suggested everyone you wanted to find that are already on Facebook. My experience was like this; I found most people I wanted to connect with, a few surprises in the extended results, then highly irrelevant results later. Sometimes it seems like it's trying TOO hard to find a connection, in my opinion.

2. It's possible that the people it's not finding that you want to connect with because they're not on Facebook, for whatever reason. Really, it's not that farfetched.

3. Maybe there's no way for Facebook to connect someone you once knew. You have no friends in common, didn't go to the same school, and never worked together. How would you be linked in a social graph if the connection only exists in your mutual experiences?

Just because Facebook suggests someone, doesn't mean that it thinks you "should" connect with them (though I'm sure they'd love to see the confirmation of a connection). I click "not interested" (or whatever the button is called) for anyone except close friends and family. You seem to use it differently, but don't really say what that criteria is.

How many friends do you have? How many have you clicked away? How many is it suggesting now?
I'll be using duck duck go till they revert.
http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/

looks really cool. anybody using this?
If your email has something interesting to say, then absolutely it's still worthwhile. It seems to be a growing area, at least from my perspective. It probably depends on the product, but most likely you'll get some value out of an email newsletter.
I've heard it has to do with the fact that the majority of demand for LCDs comes from televisions, so laptop manufacturers can't buy decent shapes anymore since they don't account for enough demand.
Have you actually done this?
http://www.fotuva.org/online/frameload.htm?/online/science.h...

When he talks about his time at Cornell:
"She went on and said, "Suppose you have another line coming in from the other side, and you want to figure out where they are going to intersect. Suppose on one line you go over two to the right for every one you go up, and the other line goes over three to the right for every one that it goes up, and they start twenty steps apart," etc.--I was flabbergasted. She figured out where the intersection was. It turned out that one girl was explaining to the other how to knit argyle socks. I, therefore, did learn a lesson: The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry. Those people who have for years been insisting (in the face of all obvious evidence to the contrary) that the male and female are equally capable of rational thought may have something. The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it."
Lots of evil has been committed under the guise of defense.

However Apple's potential here is hugely overstated. ARM licensees aren't at the whim of ARM -- they knew to sign generous IP agreements that essentially allow them to fork the technology. You have Apple on one side, with essentially a unchanged A8 created by Samsung, and virtually every other tech company on the other side -- Apple would quickly find themselves in another PowerPC situation if they bought ARM.

Speaking of PowerPC, Intel has been showing off some very impression demos of a smartphone powered by an Atom. Android of course is built from the ground up to be generally processor agnostic, so it wouldn't be a huge migration.
Nicely done and much more in-depth than I expected.

I generally find that I don't need to spend much time dealing deeply with query planners, low hanging fruit is quite easy enough to find in the enterprise db world (what, no index . . . bad hacker). I also have the advantage of working primarily in a batch oriented world, where my big data moves are simple nightly jobs. On a good day, I get to hack hierarchical data in a relational model and even blow the dust of boolean logic to do cool if . . then and case logic in the where clause of a SQL query. Good times.

But remembering the simple fact that you can see an access plan generated by the RDBMs of your choice will provide you many "heroic" opportunities when some random application blows up. Add them to your general toolbox along with a generous dose of decent SQL (Celko's books have worked for me) background.
Here are my best 5 tips that I can think of off the top of my head:

http://togger.com/breck/tips_for_freelance_developers
Which were working in the same as the parent describes for the PC.
> Don't spend money on insurance, spend it on stopping your house burning down.
Or do both (it's funny how IT types love those dichtomies).

And if you tell your insurance about your extra measures for fire safety, they likely lower your rates. They might even consult you about which fire safety measures are actually useful (and they have the data: data driven fire safety, how does that sound?).

Since fire insurance tends to pay for damage repair when things didn't burn to the ground, they're also useful in situations that are not as life threatening as your example. We had a warehouse burn down in town, and the neighboring house was affected in that the windows on two sides of the house melted enough to be useless. The cost of replacing all those windows can easily exceed an individual's short-term liquidity (a single event might even exceed the rates paid for the insurance over its life-time) - for the insurance that was pocket change.
It's changed to "direct links" rather than "urls" now.
Teutonia!
La petite mort?
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini
non-lethal car accidents happen more often than those with casualties. And they often are fairly expensive, especially if you manage to involve more than your own car. That's not to say that you shouldn't drive carefully (and I guess your insurance company certainly raises the price once you start driving into other cars twice a month).
Wordfence is a security plugin for Wordpress. Depending on the settings, if the threshold of allowed connections for minute or second is set too low and you breach that, you'll be limited or temporarily banned.

Looks like a configuration mistake confusing some requests for a Ddos attack.
> just tax the payment of dividends from that profit

My dividends are already being taxed as income. I agree with you, but good luck trying to convince Big Gov that they need to eliminate a revenue stream without picking up a new one.
Yeah, I don't know that I made it clear in my original post; I do not like having to depend on our benevolent overlords like Google and Twitter and Facebook to determine what I can handle. I think they have way too much power, I'm not opposed to breaking them up into smaller entities, and I don't think it's a dumb idea to push or require companies to use open protocols.

I like Mastodon, but part of me worries that the reason that Nazis haven't ruined it is largely because a lot of them don't know about it yet. That said, if we used a decentralized protocol like Mastodon, then theoretically individual servers could moderate their posts however they'd like, and if you don't like it you could hop over to another server.
> This is the Democratic party and Mainstream Media line

It was in 2016, but after 2020-11 it's become a prominent conservative position as well. People disagree with respect to their specific concerns about how the social media giants might use their influence, and that's actively a good thing because it means that our solution space must be nonpartisan--we're looking to reduce the power of social media giants irrespective of the giants' political alignment.
They don't hire the drivers, and pretty much anyone can join the platform, so I don't agree that its 'pretend'.

However, I do think we can do more to make sure the disabled are taken care of. Maybe riders could mark themselves as needing assistance, and drivers could get paid a few more pennies per mile for taking care of them - at the end of the ride, when the passenger approves the 'bonus'.
> Everyone thinks tech platforms should be regulated...

Do they? I think this turns on the definition of "regulated."
I’m saying we should change it so you have one of two choices for your website:

- let users upload cars, puppies, and funny videos of their kids (video platform; common carrier; immunized from copyright claims, etc)

- accept editorial control, and only post puppy videos, but assume liability for copyright violations (video provider; not common carrier; no immunity)

You’d be allowed to do either of those, but not the case now where you editorialize to just puppy videos but maintain immunity for that content.

As a business owner, you’d have to choose:

Are you a platform for others to host video or a provider of exclusively puppy videos?
Does anyone know of a simple code example that demonstrates the original predictive coding concept from 1999? Ideally applied to some type of simple image/video problem.

I thought I saw a Matlab explanation of that 99 paper but have not found it again.
Hopefully there will be at least one company that will offer a hackable car. I'd hate to be locked into doing only the things the designers want me to do with a thing I own.
This is cool. My personal website (https://iamlocaljo.com/) is visually a terminal, though it doesn't support ls, cat, etc and only has commands for page names. Maybe I should add support for ls, cat and other typical shell commands. Good idea.
The people developing the vaccine have no control over how individual countries distribute it. They were tasked with "this can't fail", and understandably so. They did their job, why some countries can't handle distributing it is a whole different can of worms that would require a discussion country by country.
“Hindsight is 20/20.”

Of all the failures in the system that could have prevented lives, this seems like the least egregious.

What people need to realize is politically inclined or no, restricting political involvement to an election every 2-4 years, letting it optimize for fiscal efficiency, not resiliency and reliability, has killed a whole lot more people than extra caution over dosage.

None of the general public control drug companies. They could control the government.

I’m all in on being a big corp sycophant because the general public are clearly incompetent political agents by enabling a bigger mess than necessary in the first place.
I'd be first in line to get a vaccine even if it was less than 10% effective.
> Jumping the queue if you belong to a group that is not at risk is incredibly selfish and immoral. You can wait a couple of months, it won't kill you.

Per the NYTimes, medical ethicists disagree with this viewpoint.

1. People often are bad at measuring their risk level.

2. If you turn down the chance to get vaccinated, someone even less at risk than you might get it instead.

3. Active folks who are out and about might spread the disease to hundreds of people, many of them at high risk. As we now know that the vaccines do in fact influence spread, prioritizing vaccinations to active individuals can and will save many lives.

4. I care for you and hope you and your loved ones can get vaccinated soon.

"If You’re Offered a Vaccine, Take It", from the NYTimes:

> If you turn down a vaccination based on the belief that you’re not particularly high risk, you might also be fooling yourself. It’s difficult for people to accurately measure their own risk level; research has shown that people underestimate their risk in all kinds of situations. These optimistic biases, as they are called, often lead people to perceive, wrongly, that public health campaigns are more relevant to others than to themselves.

> In other words, the notion that other people need vaccination more than you do may simply be a product of irrationally optimistic thinking. After all, the science on Covid-19 is not yet fully understood, and it is evolving rapidly, especially given the emergence of variants of the virus.

> When you get a vaccination, you’re not the only person who benefits, either. Scientists aren’t yet sure how much vaccination thwarts the transmission of Covid-19, but preliminary data suggests that it reduces spread to a degree. When you get the shot, then, you’re not only protecting your own health; you’re also likely slowing the spread of infection in your community and reducing the chance of overwhelming hospitals. In addition, if you are inoculated and friends or family members fall ill with Covid-19, you are better able to care for them, since you probably won’t get sick.

> Still, people may yell at you for getting a shot when you’re eligible if they feel you don’t deserve it as much as they or their loved ones do. And you may not be able to appease them with rational answers. Deep down, individuals who are angry about unfair vaccine allocation are upset at the system, and understandably so. In that situation, you’re just an easy scapegoat. “I think the best thing to do in a situation like that would be to say that you care for that person and hope they get the chance soon, too,” Dr. Ferguson said.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/opinion/covid-vaccine-eth...
Yep, it sure matches if you actually pay attention to their actions.
I can't find a single thing to disagree on in your excellent comment but there's one more nuance:

"When is the time to let go?"

This goes for all areas of life: intimate relationships / marriages, employment, being part of a hobby club that's not the same anymore, local community help (donations, voluntary labor etc.).

We the people are extremely bad judges of when is the right time to leave -- and 99% of the time we leave way too late. Usually after getting some deep emotional scars as a bonus.

In hindsight (which as they say is 20/20) every time in my life after I left any kind of interaction between me and other people / companies, it was well after I should have. But only in retrospect.

I gradually learned to recognize the signs and started to escalate problems early. And if they aren't addressed, leave early.

Life is too short to keep a death grip on things that are poisoning you. It seems every one of us learns this lesson very late in life.
With the founders heavily involved in open source, the notion of giving back is one of the OpenTeam's core values.

Thank you for your suggestion. We could not agree more with you!
A /48 is the minimum folks will pass via bgp on the internets (it's the /24 of the ipv6 world).

Also another fyi: if you're rolling commodity hw (bcm tridents etc) after a /64 up to /128 you are dipping into another constrained forwarding table - can't fill your box with too many of those.
classic understatement but yes it helps to have a population that is well off, educated and can wisely make the decision.
If more of our pundits were as sharp as this kid, I'd have less anxiety over the future of our republic.

Instead, we have Maddows and Kristols and Matthews and Schapiros--venal persons, who make camps in Siberia seem like maybe not such a bad idea.
ICANN is the biggest legalized mafia today! The domainers (just like Bitcoin junkies) are the worst human material. When it comes to domains, imagine yourself not paying your phone bill on time, and in 30 days it goes on an auction and your competitors buys it and routes all calls to their sales team - that's what GoDaddy and most registrars do today employed by the crooks at ICANN! This has to stop! Don't just stop at .org, wipe out all the assholes at ICANN!
I wish someone offers email2nntp for newsletters. I love reading with Gnus.
Did not mean to be rude at all. It just seems you're misunderstanding how differently Uber operates in each market.

There are multiple markets where Uber is not ripping their drivers off in any way, because if they did they would be running to competitors. The problem with gig economy workers nearly always stems from the core issue of lack of legislation in self-employment.
I was able to read my neighborhoods unencrypted power meter data within an hour of receiving my first rtlsdr. I also live under a flight path and found it pretty fun to listen to the pilots overhead obtain their landing clearances. Building a dish and downloading satellite images from NOAA or GOES also looks fun.
Thank you for the suggestion. I'll check out Tinfoil.

On the whole my FB interaction is fairly minimal and I expect social companies to push the limits so to speak. Such is life. This particular case was just so blatant that I can't help but react with "go shove it a place the sun don't shine" (colloquially speaking).

If they added new functionality & put that into a new app...cool. But to strip existing functionality, block it from existing users and add it to a new app with extended privacy intruding permission...that is simply unforgivable in my books. (FB employees reading this - and I know you are - see sun reference above for exact instructions).
I'm not an expert on the topic; just a Tokyo resident. But it seems clear to me that there are advantages to this stance, too, which you may not be considering.

It's not possible to eliminate organized crime entirely. Not anywhere, unless you go full police-state with cameras inside every home and business. (And probably not even then.)

So keeping it semi-open and well-known makes it more manageable. It's a tradeoff. One reason we don't have much collateral violence from organized crime here, I think.
Since I'm dreading the coming of a cashless society, I'm really rooting for the German to push back against it as long as they can so that I can keep using notes and coins in euros.
This is a Guardian labs site claiming to "inspire a new generation using unique insights into into the formative moments in the careers of some of the world's most celebrated innovators".

It appears to work in Firefox but not Chrome and comprise interviews with Tim Berners Lee, Ranulph Fiennes, Alice Roberts and Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
Actually you can normally get away without resorting to "big data" techniques at 1PB scale, it's probably around 10PB that you're really forced to start thinking about things like hadoop style map-reduce/rack-locality.
Whenever there's a question mark in the title, the answer is usually no, and the article is linkbait.

I don't know if this rule of thumb applies to this article.
Free Network Foundation, https://thefnf.org
This document documents official endpoints (green for POST, blue for GET).

It also documents "secret", unofficial, undocumented elsewhere and unsupported endpoints.

These "secret" endpoints were found by reverse-engineering Twitter.app for iOS.