jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have a Windows Mobile phone, and after that painful experience, I'll most likely get an iPhone 4g, though I'd consider an Android too...

1) It’s expensive: Agree

2) It’s anti-technology: no surprise there from Apple.

3) No Flash: Putting a proprietary feature onto a proprietary platform - two wrongs don't make a right. Elsewhere, I read that Flash on Android is slow and a battery hog. It feels that this is less about wanting Flash on the iPhone, and more about a backlash against the iPhone's closed platform per se.

4) No multitasking: Tried multitasking on a Windows Mobile? The phone reduces to a crawl. I looked around Android Apps and noticed quite a few memory and task management utilities - I want to use my phone, and not think about killing apps hogging CPU/RAM in the background.

5) Its battery life is terrible: Possibly because people play with their iPhones throughout the day. Possibly because power consumption is tweaked for performance rather than economy. Possibly because users are accustomed eye-candy interfaces that impose much overhead.

6) Developing apps for it is costing you money: At least when I use that app, it has a high probability of working. My WinMob has these browsers: Opera, Opera 10, Skyfire, IE, Opera Mini, Opera Mini 10, Bolt. Why do I have so many? Because none of them are much good at rendering reliably. I'm by no means a fanboy - much the opposite, I'm quite an Apple Disliker - but I want Things That Work!

7) It comes with offensively bad headphones: Most likely true

8) It’s not very well designed: "It’s a computer that happens to have a phone bolted on" - as are most smartphones now.

9) It charges for satnav: I didn't know this. But I thought Google Maps had turn by turn satnav?

10) Those iPod docks are holding back better technologies: Completely agree. Get rid of that silly connector and use the micro USB connector!
> expressing actual ideas (as opposed to ad hominem insults)

I think this would be a reasonable working definition of civility.

Semantics aside, I agree with you except about the vitriol. It's an arms race: if vitriol gets you taken more seriously, people are going to be vitriolic whether they feel it or not. And then when it really matters to them.... (And eventually the ideas get drowned out by the take me seriously! metadata.)
Pseudonyms are good for a various reasons. Most of people, for example, are biased towards foreign names or a certain nations, even if they don't aware of it.

Also, some people may be biased towards their own natives (because of remarkable combination of ignorance, selfishness and nationalism) or whatever, and a nickname helps them to feel like a some sort of a different person. Everyone are playing their games anyway. =)

And, last but not least, exposing real names in a content which will be indexed by google is not a good idea for various reasons. Someone may don't like to show up or broadcast his presence on a certain site.
I think a good number of hospitals have that infrastructure in place already. The doctors at ours all carry around laptops, then have to balance them awkwardly or find a table to set them on. Aside from being physically awkward to use at times, there does seem to be a lot of benefits. I can go to one doctor at one clinic and he can pull up my medical records and see what medications another doctor has prescribed me. Basically, any doctor I go to at any medical facility here has instant access to my entire patient history if they need it. This seems to me like it would be particularly valuable in an emergency situation. I'm not exactly in a big city, either. It's a rural area of eastern Kentucky. I tend to think the medical profession is one of the markets with the biggest potential with regards to tablets, the other being schools.
You're missing the point. It's about unlearning things you've been told which are wrong. Like the point about buying a girl a drink, it obviously doesn't "work", yet boys keep doing it anyway, because, umm, well, that's just what you do, isn't it?

Sure there is a lot of bullshit around, but the basic principle of all this pick-artist business is, you're using a "routine" anyway, just without being consciously aware that you are, instead you should take conscious control of it.
Oh comeon, the Church of Scientology had enough power to take on the IRS and become tax exempt. Surely it is impossible to kill an organization powerful enough to take on the IRS. But Chanology accomplished its goal of spreading the word and harming Scientology's public image enough to put a huge dent in the supply of would-be-converts.
Beats me. I had to leave the South Bay because it was driving me insane.

I worked on an acquired events-related startup, and when we lived in the South Bay, none of us went to any events.

Although SF is tantalizingly close, it is always too much of a hassle when you factor in transportation or parking.
Rectangle (https://rectangleapp.com/) is Spectacle's successor, works great, and its source is available as well (https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle).
I think their different enough from newspapers to need specific regulations.

Striking the right balance could easily take 20+ years, but social media is here to stay.
I agree with you. However it won't solve the problem of privacy regarding Facebook. Other issue that I see here, people want an unified messenger, with a great user experience, 100% secure, open-source, multi-platform, free (as in beer) and no monetization included. I'm sometimes shocked that here - hacker news - people underestimate the price of good software development, infrastructure and maintenance.
What about SMS? It's free for most plans.
It's not evidence in any direction. It's perfectly possible votes were stolen from Biden, from Trump, or neither. We don't know. I wish we did.

In this context, though, security is NOT hard. We've just made the decision not to do it. I see no excuse for why I shouldn't be able to see the source code and design of the voting machines in my state, or audit any part of the manufacturing or voting process. This should all be open and transparent. A not-for-profit should be able to spot audit a hundred random machines around the US:

- Swipe a credit card to cover supervisor time

- In a secure facility, confirm the source code and hardware are as advertised on local voting machines

This just isn't rocket science.

Judging from downvotes and comments on HN, building political consensus around that will be neigh-impossible post-Trump. Click on my post history. Most of my comments are in the +3 to +15 range. Virtually all my comments in this thread are either 1 (not voted on) or between 0 and -4 (having gone to -6). None are swinging Trump conspiracy theories; merely pointing out the obvious: we need robust, auditable, secure voting.
Yeah I'm not suffering under the illusion I could have been him. In 1996 I was a drop-out philosophy student who got web-programming jobs through a friend who saw my potential and I moved out to Toronto to try to make a go of it, got caught up in rave culture, etc instead of focusing well on my career. My programming interest was in the MUDs/MOOs and the potential for that kind of synchronoius multiuser environment; not the web (which I was only into because that's where the $$ was and it kind of sucked then.) Then as now I didn't/don't have the personality type to be an entrepreneur or manager of that kind of stuff.

It's just interesting to look back at those early days and think of how green field it all was, and how there was at least the semblance of opportunity.

But as you point out, it wasn't really a level playing field either.
No reason to apologize, just trying to add some context/clarity
You are assuming a model where they would have something like an ad sales department that deals directly with advertisers and so might try to put pressure on the editorial side to keep big ad clients happy.

There are other advertising models. For instance, why not Google ads or Bing ads? I don't see how there is much danger of those influencing editorial content.
Just tried it, doesn't have the Mac look, drag control is laggy on my iMac.

I think I'll pass.
Bookmarked. Will be back as Forlue looks good. What's the story behind the name?
That would be a case of "something was always there."
For the uninformed Vim/Emacs die-hards like me...

What's so great about UltraEdit?
The latest I've heard is that it wasn't due to expire for another year, but Network Solutions decided it was expiring anyway.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.general/184...
why not do exercise that makes you sweat for 20 or 30 minutes 5 days a week?

Mainly because getting fat is not the only thing that happens to us when we eat thing we didn't evolve to eat.
Blight is a strong word, but it definitely doesn't fit. The background is a different colour, it only has a border at the top (and it's differently coloured compared to the other borders), and it's a sharpened rectangle when all its neighbours have rounded corners. It does stand out a touch.
You need to be honest with him and tell him things aren't working out and that he was originally brought on as a technical cofounder and he hasn't been working out for that role and he wants to switch to being a business cofounder which is not what you need.

Talk to an attorney about something called the Termination of Service agreement, have him sign this agreement along with the Convention Invention Assignment agreement. You'll need to compensate him some dollar amount for signing the agreement in good faith but it'll be the cleanest way to separate and vitally important moving forward.
I've been on the other end of this spectrum too. Working with a very high profile company (that I unfortunately can't name) we were paying what I'm going to call an astronomical rate for managed cloud operations. Dedicated data center admins, systems administrators, the works.

We would have a problem with something like IO throughput on database instances. We would open a ticket, wait a little while, get a response. If we claimed it was hardware related (because we couldn't tell from our host's perspective) we got the response "it's not the hardware, everything seems fine." This would go on for days. Then eventually, after we had to prove the numbers were erratic or unresponsive we would eventually get a more helpful response. Maybe.

It's a very cold splash of water in the face when you realize that your hosting company, cloud provider, whatever is not in business to hold your hand. If you need more than their minimum level of support or require human interaction you will be sadly disappointed. These companies maintain their margins by automating hardware provisioning, homogenizing infrastructure, and making it as turn-key as possible. Which is all fine and good until you need something their infrastructure doesn't provide for. Like switch bandwidth. Like larger instances. Like all your VMs in a local rack.

You will have hardware problems in the cloud too and they will not be obvious. You will need the same degree of monitoring software you have anywhere else in any other environment.
Glad I got mine recently. I was freaked out by the fact that when I handed them my birth certificate, they didn't hand it back. "It will be returned to you by mail" they said; I'm not sure why they needed to keep the birth certificate, but it did in fact come back to me. (I was more freaked out over the fact that I had paid 50 dollars for the birth certificate and didn't want to lose it (plus dropping another 220 to get the passport rushed))
Recently? They are a billion dollar product for some time.
We have a bot at work that does exactly that.
I had the exact same thought with Google's announcement.

On the other hand, the problem's been that Yahoo wasn't actually the best anything. Casual web? AOL. Search? Anyone else, then Google. Email? Copied Hotmail, then GMail came along and they never really caught up. They purchased a bunch of top-notch companies and then let them stall into obscurity.

So, perhaps the comparison isn't going to hold up. Still, these companies should be warned.
Netflix.ca is pretty dismal, half the stuff is unavailable or doesn't even exist on the Canadian version I may try Zip.ca

The Netflix.ca free trial was OK but only two weeks in and I watched everything that was interesting, now what. And Netflix.ca doesn't update the content very often.

Maybe Zip.ca is better. If not back to torrents and try to resurrect the corpse that is ushare.
And people need to stop thinking that Ive was responsible for every design decision.

They have a hardware engineering team who are far more culpable.
I half jokingly expected GoT to end with the Colonial Service starship arriving to figure out why Valiria lost contact a couple centuries prior and how to fix the mess the colonists put themselves into.
What do you use for math document formatting and presentation? The publishing world I'm aware of is still running on Adobe.
Real people worked on it, and you’re calling their work poor.
Yeah, I use it to see if my old remotes' batteries are dead.

They can see in IR, but they can't distinguish it from other light. Maybe that's good enough.
We’ve already got it on killedbygoogle.com

Open Source moves quick. :)
True, but there's some difficulty using codegen. If macros can do it, it's often nicer.

But not always, and it's subjective.
I just tried Makemake.io, it's pretty neat. One thing I'd really like with it, is to be able to save on my hard drive the page I just made, so I could use integrate it with my own website not hosted as your subdomain.

Anyway, keep up the good work!
Well, in Britain the majority of newspapers are owned or were bought by Murdoch, total media control seems to be part of his ultimate goal.
I didn’t say that I consider you part of the idiotic masses. I said that I hold that opinion if you’re part of the “woke” crowd. I don’t pretend that all idiocy comes from the left, but what does come predominantly from the left is the suggestion that anyone who doesn’t adhere to a rigid (yet tenuous!) ideology-be it feminism or Marxism or intersectionalism-is not only wrong, but hopelessly stupid or malicious or both.
Wow, I whole-heartedly disagree. This is a constructive criticism of a communication technique.

If a person is lacking in the mental fortitude to be exposed to unexpected information- but that person is still putting themself in unexpected information situations, it certainly suggests that they have judgement problems.

I don't think that many people have judgement problems when it comes to avoiding pain. I agree with OP. Virtue signaling seems like the far more likely explanation for this behavior.
At work I use Vivado. It's proprietary but I've never had any problems using it on Linux. I believe there are free editions as well. It has the same problems all FPGA tooling has (bloated, slow build times, not user friendly). Maybe some of the open source tooling improves on that, but I've never heard of anyone using it for real projects. Last I checked the open source stuff also only supported Verilog (not sure if it supports SystemVerilog too). Not the end of the world, but a lot of projects use VHDL or are mixed language.

Edit: Mostly people just use whatever software the FPGA vendor provides. So for Xilinx you use Vivado. For Intel/Altera people use Quartus. Some people do development in an IDE like Sigasi (which I've heard is much better than the vendor specific IDE's, but I've never used it), but they still build with the vendor tooling.
>- Call their API through ipv6, because they may not yet have a proper, ipv6 subnet-based rate limiter.

Clever. VMs with IPV6 are cheap as a bonus :)

Same for non-js mobile. Thanks for the tips
Through shadow profiles, third-party submissions, cross-site cookie tracking, and integration of offline data records, this almost certainly is absolutely false.

Unless you've directly pursued all legal (or otherwise) mechanisms to ascertain this directly, the best you can say is that you're unaware of any information that's been acquired, and that you didn't knowingly or intentionally contribute any yourself.

The article here describes precisely this practice, in its fourth paragraph and following, in the section titled "Data Enrichment":

For a very low price, data enrichment companies allow you to take a single piece of information on a person (such as a name or email address), and expand (or enrich) that user profile to include hundreds of additional new data points of information. As seen with the Exactis data breach, collected information on a single person can include information such as household sizes, finances and income, political and religious preferences, and even a person’s preferred social activities.

Please let's put this canard to rest.
I don't like having a lot of emoji in it either, but if the words are still readable then it can still be readable and seriously enough.
> I really appreciate trigger warnings on content that includes it.

This is fine as long as it's kept within reason like certain more commonly occurring traumatic themes such as sexual violence, etc. Conversely, it's also possible to go too far and let this get out of hand. If, for example, we were to let everyone define whatever they feel may personally trigger or offend them, we could end up with half of everything needing various warnings for each one-in-ten-thousand person's particular sensitivity. That could grow unmanageable pretty quickly and become an unreasonable burden on publishers, performers, teachers, comedians, etc.

I feel there needs to be a healthy balance between the responsibilities we expect speaker/publisher to bear and the responsibility each individual must bear. It's reasonable to expect individuals choosing to participate in the public sphere possess a modicum of resilience. Otherwise, we risk diminishing the diversity of our robust marketplace of ideas.
You are right. But to add, these laws are lobbied by large corporations that don't care about much other than their profits.

Change is hard and it's okay, not everyone will fight for it. But some will.
I started running goaccess on the reverse proxy in front of computer.rip and some other sites just a few weeks ago... it has answered basically every question I've wanted from simple website analytics and it was very fast to set up and very response. Just a great tool all around.
I don't have any sources for that but I have an anecdotal story.

While I was volunteering in a support group for transgender people, I once spoke to a woman who had a lot of complex issues with her hormone replacement therapy.

She was on a mix of medication that I had never seen before and I got worried that her health provider was prescribing an incorrect treatment.

This got me to ask questions I would never ask usually out of worry.

She told me that the reason that her medication was not the usual treatment is that she had a condition in which different parts of her bodies had different chromosomes. She told the exact name of the condition at the time but I did not write it down. I do remember the word "chimerism" being said during this conversation.

From experience, stories about weird conditions said by trans people are almost always true. She seemed very sincere about her struggles.
Could instead be 1400 reddit millionaires.
There is this: http://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/
I think you're begging the question. The more steps between an action & an outcome, the more other people need to be involved, etc the less guilty you are. If someone is beaten as a child & then turns into a child predator, we don't convict the parents as guilty for the child predation act. One person killing another is a crime. One country choosing to wage war isn't generally considered to be such.

With a charity, the inaction is offset by those that _are_ taking action. The inaction is also mitigated by an awareness of the impact of diminishing returns (there could be other things more worthy of investment in the long term).

The trolly example artificially makes the outcome solely dependent on your action, which is extremely rarely/never how things work in reality.
I know an engineer who is a stay at home dad married to a professor wife. They have over 10 kids. Logistically it made more sense for him to decide to focus his problem-solving skills on the children for a decade or so.
> Analytics isn't just about conversion. Analytics is about the entire product experience.

... which you can entirely do by analyzing web server logs.

You dont need google for this, pushing your users (with violation of GDPR consent) into google monstrosity. Dont do that, I block every freaking google domain from cdns, fonts to analytics.

But I don't block 1st party analytics.

I have no reason to. I have visited your site, I dont have anything against YOU following what I read. It is your site. But you will ask me for consent for giving those data to google. And I will say 'no'. And I am not the only one.

Just to inform you, that the person/entity that allows Google to gain access to PII data is directly responsible for this - if google is fined due to GDPR violation, you can get fined to by providing it the way to get users data. They will survive. You might not.

Have your analytics, but you will not sell my soul (which GDPR explicitly forbids you - you are handing over my PII data to 3rd party that is known for violating it and that makes you accomplice) for you having your graphs.

You can get those data from web server logs. You will have all the data that you need. Actually more data, as no one will block them.

Needing "google analytics" is just a huge, giant, hype driven, lie. You don't need them to analyze what you already have in YOUR logs.

chaos_emergent: please do explain, what data google analytics is offering to you than what is already in your server logs? Without violating GDPR even more? Yes, you can surely track something more, again "on your side". Dont give it to google as it WILL get blocked and you will have a distorted picture of how your site is being used. If you want real data, skip 3rd party analytics. Found a way to require to be unblocked? I will skip your site, you have just lost a user. A paying user if the content is worth the money. And sites with selling my data for a graph or two are not worth it.
WiFi specs refer to the maximum theoretical link-layer rate in perfect conditions. The actual amount of data (not link-layer bits) transferred is less than the headline number.

In the real world, 1G ethernet isn't going to hold back a WiFi 6 router. The only exception might be a multi-radio WiFi 6 AP that is within several feet of WiFi 6 clients on both radios.
I usually use the DSL Reports test [0], downstream is similar (CF: 193, DSL: 205; I pay for 200, but speeds do vary from slightly more to slightly less over the day), but the upstream for CF is plain wrong, it gives 25 Mbit vs. the correct 50 (both what I pay for and reach normally) for DSL Reports

[0]: http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
Nano (nano.org) is the cryptocurrency that could actually work as a means of payment. The transactions are fully confirmed in under 1 second, there are zero transactions fees, it's scalable, and there is no mining. It achieved this by using a block lattice where each account is its own blockchain.
So clearly the Internet (nee ARPANET) should live free of government interference.

Sounds about as logical as "get the government out of my medicare".