jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My gut reaction is that this is ridiculous, but I've experienced the smuggness of Apple users (not all of us!) first hand.

I sat down in a cafe with a coffee and set out to use the free WiFi. I opened my MacBook, observed the AirPort icon as it negotiated a connection, and fired up a web browser once the icon indicated "connected".

Nothing.

I checked my network settings to make sure I hadn't statically configured DNS or some other obscure setting. I created a new "location" profile with the default settings.

Still nothing.

A man sitting in front of me, but facing away from me, was using a MacBook Pro, so I politely asked him if he was able to browse the internet.

"Excuse me, are you able to browse the internet," I asked.

"Yeah," he replied abruptly. I must have interrupted something important.

Somewhat quietly, and feeling bad for having disturbed him, I muttered, "Must be my laptop."

"Get a Mac," he quipped with a sneer.

His response was jarring. Here I was, sitting in a cafe with my own MacBook, being confronted by the fact that the stereotypical Apple user really does exist, watching as a couple across from us shake their head in disgust at his pretentious reply. I'm pretty sure they didn't even notice that I was using an Apple computer too. I couldn't let this stand.

"Thanks, I've got one," I replied with the smuggest, most eff-you tone I could muster. Grins from several people in the vicinity seemed to indicate that I had put him in his place.

I didn't feel much better though. I'd much rather feel the warm embrace of kindness. That's why, when asked if the WiFi is working, I always take a moment to see if I can help the inquisitor, regardless of their platform choice. Pay it forward, friends.
The routers used by SFR/Neuf and Free have the "guest wifi" on by default. There's even a partnership between SFR/Neuf and Fon.
"We will look to provide customers with better tools to create multi-AZ applications that can support the loss of an entire Availability Zone without impacting application availability. We know we need to help customers design their application logic using common design patterns. In this event, some customers were seriously impacted, and yet others had resources that were impacted but saw nearly no impact on their applications."
Love this post but I do not understand your example about frequency response. Are you an audiophile whose friends refuse to believe that one amplifier can sound better than another? or are you a guy whose friends mistakenly believe one amplifier can sound better than another? Or something else?
US apparently seems to be taking itself donw just fine.

> If they want to make money they kidnap Europeans who they know will pay the ransom.

That's not terrorism, that's garden variety kidnapping for ransom.
Midday doesn't have to be that precise, and you centre your day around it rather than move the day around sunrise and sunset. It may be that Swatch Internet Time was rather _before_ its time rather than something that will never catch on, but the current system works really well for pretty much everyone.
The YC founders in the list are detailed at http://blog.ycombinator.com/congrats-to-ycs-sam-altman-plus-... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8840565, which we merged into this thread).
This book might be of interest to you: https://leanpub.com/indoctrinator

I haven't read it though, so I can't comment on it's efficacy.
The core lesson is a good one for startups: don't let the PMs run your technology development. A good engineering idea attracts customers, once customers are on board they want fixes, changes, new features. That's all fine, as long as they make sense within the technology direction. Once the customers start asking for ponies and unicorns and the PMs start listening to them for direction, the product gets stuck.
Uh, I know you're kidding, but a Lamborghini police car is totally a thing, somewhere: https://www.thedrive.com/news/37625/italian-police-use-lambo...
interesting post. really loved how they go granular on MRR etc.
I don't think .su will ever die.

Come 2091, people will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union, and .su will still be alive and kicking.
But they really aren't that predictable. There have been other events after the big house that didn't get a nastygram. Who knows why pokemon showdown is allowed to exist. The Melee community is pretty crazy though I would imagine if nintendo keeps coming at them they might just decompile the whole game and move to new version sanitized of nintendo ip.
Personally, I am more comfortable socializing benefits and privatizing (my own) mistakes. Which might not be the best way of phrasing it, but if someone else made a mistake, whether it's widely known or just something I've been privy to, I'm happier saying that "there was a mistake" rather than pointing the finger. However if I made the mistake, I'm content to say it was something I personally did wrong, it either case I will follow up with the steps we can take to prevent it happening again.

Conversely, if I delivered something of noteworthy benefit for the project I will talk about it in terms of how 'we' achieved the success, and if it was someone else I will call them out by name and congratulate them on the solution.

This ethos is probably career limiting as a dev, but it does help me sleep soundly.
> High Quality is not just limited to 16 megapixels, the photos are also re-encoded at a lower bitrate.

How exactly do you encode a photo at a bitrate? Do you mean videos?
Depends on what you wanna do with it, but a Red Pitaya is pretty good. Wish I had that instead of the hackRF
Yes, I know. I don't remember them from any Usenet groups I used.

Hipcrime destroyed many groups until people worked out how to filter the sporges; snuh made a lot of noise across a wide range of groups but didn't have much effect; Meow army disrupted many groups; and obviously alt.syntax.tactical

The fact that snuh were more disruptive than gnaa is telling because snuh just wasn't very disruptive.

Do you have some search terms?
> I will get a new phone when mine dies because (A) I need a phone and (B) the phone I have isn't being made anymore.

But you'll still have a pretty wide range of choices; last I checked, not every phone available was a smartphone, let alone an iPhone. Granted, the exact model you had before won't be there, but that's true of just about anything. My car is a 2002 model; I'm going to have to get a new one pretty soon, and I certainly won't be able to buy the same model. But I'll still have a pretty wide range of choices; it's not as though I'll either have to buy a luxury model or go without.

> If you do not keep buying new stuff, you don't stagnate, you regress.

Well, of course; stuff wears out and dies, so you have to get new stuff, and the new stuff won't be the same as the stuff you used to have, because stuff is always changing. Everything wears out eventually; that's just a fact of life. But nobody is forcing you to get the fanciest phone available, or the fanciest anything else.
We would fail your rule on so many cases. We run Ubuntu, which might be our mistake, but off the top of my head, I think our installations of nginx[1], Python[2], pip[3], rust[4], mongo, consul[4], openldap[1], gcc[3] and several other things fail your criteria. Not all are on the same server, I suppose, but there's definitely overlap. Most of these are simply because the version in Ubuntu is unacceptably out of date, some are because there are bugs in the provided version, some just flat aren't available, and some are re-compiled with additions. (Like, non-default USE flags, if you're a Gentoo user; Ubuntu lacks the concept.)

I think the issue I have with rules like yours, and that proposed in the article, is that they're fine when you're working with no information, but when an engineer lays out a need, shows how the "boring" package available does not fit that need, and then proceeds to choose an "interesting" package that meets the requirements of the problem, the last thing he wants is nebulous objections over how the choice is an "interesting" tech. For example, the article calls out consul (we also considered etcd and Zookeeper…) as an "interesting" choice, but need a multi-node distributed database with a good consensus algorithm for things such as service discovery and locking; what other techs fit the bill that aren't "interesting"?. Consul fits the bill. It's HTTP- and DNS-interfaces interest me because they play well with our existing boring tools, like http (or curl) and dig…

IIRC,
[1]: default package lacks features
[2]: unacceptable issues
[3]: default package too far out of date
[4]: default package is non-existant
So much contradiction here. So you know that people want jobs and a growing economy, and when they actually vote for something else, it is "crafty populism." Demagogues and uneducated voters are real but separate problems. But the people should remain sovereign, not elevate capital to some level of international rights. Seems like you're mostly arguing that capital should be protected at the cost of people, not at the cost of capital. In your example, the company could buy insurance against certain losses, thus creating jobs in the insurance sector.
I actually asked the IE team about that. They said they weren't planning on doing that.

Which I think is a shame because I like being able to follow comments in Mozilla's/WebKit's/Chromium's issue trackers and mailing lists. It gives you a much clearer idea on what's being put into the browser's and when they'll be available (or why they won't).

Their are other reasons such as not having to worry about them trying to lock me into their OS because websites will only work on their browser and it's exclusive to their OS. Also, making everyone have to reverse engineer bugs to get sites to work.
No, they get poor based on how many previous comments are being averaged in.

So someone with a huge number of highly rated comments, could make a lot of dumb comments before it started hurting them.

I'm sure pg will come up with an appropriate formula.
Cornering on the P85D is pretty amazing due to the low centre of mass. I got to drive it on public roads rather than the track, so I didn't get to push too hard, but even then I was surprised how quickly I could hustle it through bends (for comparison my usual drive is a BMW Z3M Coupe, and I've been lucky enough to drive most of the present M cars on the Spartanburg track).
The last people you want to keep secrets from are your engineers.
I say "force" because a lot of employers simply do not allow developers to choose their workstation OS. Windows is very popular with the non-programmers responsible for making IT purchasing deals within most major corporations. Among programmers, it's not quite so popular.
they can't get that little thing right, it makes
me wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the article.

Given they got a small detail correct like the persons present was Gen. Clapper inclined me to trust the accuracy of the rest of the article.

Same logic?
That article is saying the exact same thing that I'm saying.
An objection that I heard mentioned previously: removing the links didn't remove the actual content, which could be available through another link (or hundreds of links, some in private forums, etc.). So actually getting content off the platform was tough. Mentioned in: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/why-the-feds-smas...

On the other hand, who can say whether content is illegal in all contexts. Perhaps your pirated movie is my legitimate backup.
I used to have that dream, not so much any more. I work in IT but have been programming in vb.net and python for the last couple of years. I've created several in house utilities for troubleshooting of our main software and automation of internal processes. (I work for an electronic testing company) I've started many side projects, however the excitement usually wears off in a couple weeks and they don't get finished. I'm dedicated to finishing my current project (been working on it several months now) but after that I think I'm going to focus on smaller side projects that I can finish in a week or two, or perhaps trying to help with some open source projects. I tend to shy away from sharing my code with others. I'm self taught and feel like it's probably real substandard compared to the "professionals".
Yes. But does every minor release fix bugs AND security holes? If some only fix bugs, the equation "not newest = insecure" is wrong.
And how many times must they question why it's not a movie yet? Spielberg? How did you miss THIS one? (And you will be shocked by what happens next...)
VServer and Jails/Zones are not really the same thing, IIRC, and 1.0 was around 2004 too anyway, while still not offering equivalent functionality.
If I remember incorrectly, I stand corrected on the timeline! I've got no problem with that.

But my point remains: even containers are "old" news, while speaking of "exciting OS things".
It would be nice if Apple would implement/actually enforce this as well. I have ads pushing out notifications on "deals" or whatnot daily. Good on Google for making this happen
There have been 1.5 billion iOS and Android devices activated worldwide.

There are 1.5 billion PCs world wide.

Are all of them running .NET?
There is the Cravath Sytem's "Up or Out" policy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_or_out

In a hierarchical organization, "up or out" is the
requirement that each member of the organization must
achieve a certain rank within a certain period of time.
If they fail to do so, they must leave the organization.
.epub in a Dropbox folder forever. Screw all these guys.
Why is farming superior to properly managed wild fisheries? Over fishing is the problem. I don't see farming as the obvious solution. Farmed fish are loaded with toxins, as I understand it. The pollution is also a problem.

Even farming cattle in the way we do it is not really sustainable. There is a strong case to be made that hunted venison should be a staple meat at grocery stores. There is also a strong argument that a lot of farmland should be reverted to bison range and hunted for sale.
If you have never played with libcaca, you might have fun with it: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca It's a codec, essentially, and it's possible to connect it to VLC to play any video clip.
Note that this is partially a result of the Knight Foundation grant to Development Seed that was reported a couple of years ago. http://www.mapbox.com/blog/knight-invests-openstreetmap/

Nice work!
One of the good things about putting Rust in android is that it's a great way to encourage AARCH64 support in the language.
I think you might be referring to the Method of loci [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
I’m one of the long term PMC / committers on mesos.

In retrospect I feel this was inevitable to a few key reasons:

* k8s was a second system with all the learnings and experience of building such a system at Google for over a decade. Mesos was birthed by grad students and subsequently evolved into its position at Twitter but the engineers driving the project (myself included) did not have experience building cluster management systems. We learned many things along the way that we would do differently a second time around.

* Mesos was too “batteries not included”: this fragmented the community, made it unapproachable to new users, and led to a lot of redundant effort. Most users just want to run services, jobs and cron jobs, but this was not part of Mesos and you had to choose from the array of ecosystem schedulers (e.g. Aurora, Marathon, Chronos, Singularity, etc) or building something yourself.

* Mesosphere was a VC backed startup and drove the project after Twitter. Being a VC backed startup you need to have a business model that can generate revenue. This led to a lot of tensions and mistrust with users and other vendors. Compare this with Google / k8s, where Google does not need to generate revenue from k8s directly, it can instead invest massive amounts of money and strong engineers on the notion that it will improve Google’s cloud computing business.

Even if k8s hadn’t come along, Mesos was ripe to be disrupted by something that was easier to use out of the box, and that had a benevolent home that could unite vendors and other contributors. Mesos could have perhaps evolved in this direction over time but we'll never know now.
Not so long ago, I got detained by TSA because I lost the address of my US destination. Note that I had previously been employed in the US and had no legal issues standing. That's also the day I vowed to never set foot on US soil again. Reading some comments here is a good reminder as to why.
This must be a troll account. No one can be that dumb.
Israel. I should point out almost all of my dealings with Israeli's have been positive.

However there were consistent appointments of Israeli managers and resources, where there were far more experienced and capable resources outside of Israel. Indians were exploited quite badly and rarely considered for any position above team leader. Within a division promotions would be blocked world wide, except in Israel, or Israeli's with Israeli bosses.

Conversations would often switch to Hebrew. If you knew a little Hebrew sometimes you'd figure out they were openly talking about co-workers who were in the room. The company official language was English, but that did not stop many internal job postings /requiring/ Hebrew (e.g. Central American on-site project, Spanish not required, English and Hebrew a must.)

This was not my observation alone, but a general consensus. Whenever it was raised as an issue, Israeli senior management response was "if you don't like it, you can leave". Seriously, go look at almost any Israeli company on Glassdoor etc, and you will find all the same issues again and again.
There's also Object.getOwnPropertySymbols()

At any rate, Symbol properties aren't meant to be a bullet-proof way to hide private properties. They just reduce the default public API surface of an object by suppressing its internals.
Are you using a non-Chinese SIM? In my past travels to China I was able to access Facebook and everything else as long as I was roaming on my AT&T SIM and paying gratuitous roaming fees.
I've actually begun storing all my private information this way and traveling with them recorded to minidiscs.
NY and SF are highly unique. For cultural, personal, and financial reasons a lot of people don't want to move there.

Now, just because of this reality... VCs are entitled to changing this nation's policy on immigration? Why not simply establish an office in Chicago, or Ann Arbor, or Austin, or Minneapolis?
> Then what will you do, if you don't want to tell Big Brother where you are going?

Walk? Bike? Hitch a ride Back To The Future style with your hoverboard?
I remember living in Boulder (now in SF) in the late 80's. They had laws banning more than 2 unrelated people living together - making roommates kind of impossible.
That's absurdly hyperbolic. We can just as easily argue that undertaxation of capital gains is a disincentive to work. I fail to see why an investment of time and labor should be taxed more heavily than the investment of your know-how and money.

I also don't believe that this would kill investment. What are people going to do with their money instead, put it in a CD and sulk? What other market outside the US is going to deliver the same sort of long-term return while also offering the same degree of legal protection?
"Hardware people see software as just hardware that can be easily reconfigured"

Not really, not if you have a realistic view of software. When I was an EE student, about half of my classmates loved software, the other half didn't like it and weren't good at it. And in silicon valley, a lot of EEs ended up doing software at all levels. I've always been jealous of how creative software could be, and didn't have the same limitations as hardware. Lots of hardware is usually programmed at low levels by EEs, which essentially ends up being drivers, and other board support software. They also realize that their training and education is not at the same level as software engineers in software.

BTW, it used to be that if you couldn't cut it in engineering, EE/ME/ChemE, and you wanted to pursue a technical degree, most people would go into computer science. I realize it's not like that today, but that's how it was back in the day.
The San Fran couple chose to live there. Why should th government give monetary reward to those who wish to live in high cost of living areas? If anything I feel like I'd rather encourage folks spread out more. Although I'd be open to hearing arguments as to whether fewer larger cities is better than more smaller hubs.
Already on hn
"Too clueless," or scared for his life?

I mean...geez.
I don't see those valuations nor investor traction in Seattle, Boston, or LA. Not sure I ever have for Seattle and LA.

Part of the reason there is that they aren't in the Valley echo chamber. Farther you get from home, the less press you get, therefore the fewer people thinking "what a great company".
Some care is warranted here:

Advice item #1 is plain wrong (when possible, serve the same content to all browsers). If you do this, the site will not work on the vast majority of the world's phones unless it is supremely lightweight.

There's a good reason why the best mobile sites out there use UA sniffing (Google, Facebook, Yahoo! etc) — it's the approach that gives the best experience for your visitors.

If all you care about is Android and iPhone user then fair enough.
iirc, this is heavily frowned upon. i can't recall what consequences there were, but i recall that there are some if you get caught.
I thought the same thing, but the article is specifically talking about Silicon Valley (perhaps so difference in cost of living isn't an issue?)
They obviously can't do both as evidenced by the poor quality of the results.
I swim faster in honey. Don't ask how I know.
I don't think you quite got it. Only mobile advertisers who also compete with Apple on devices and OSes are affected. This does not make all competitors "kneecapped".

Edit: Really? I'm getting downvoted for this? Gruber's point that Apple's critics won't let facts get in their way gets proven once again.
To be even-handed, both Ford and GM produced ventilators.
yes the bike+ is advertised as being able to do that. But I haven't figured out how to take advantage of that.
Don't know about communick, but this https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy is super easy to setup and supports all the bridges I ever needed.
If that can't happen, companies are better off forking Signal's code and making their own variant.
Furthermore, it's not just about social media which didn't even exist in its current form in 1996 (the Web barely did). Rather Section 230 was more focused at the time on things like ISPs and hosting providers. So it's not just about Twitter and Facebook. It's also about things like individual web pages.
On the ring map, with default settings, just stopping traffic with the traffic light for a second produces the dreaded rubber-band effect propagating forever around the circle. Fun simulator!