jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
claiming that somehow Facebook should have known ECOT had no money.

The lawsuit doesn't claim that "somehow Facebook should have known." It claims that Facebook actually knew. Big difference.
> My parents, my in-laws, and to some degree my wife and kids.

Until they want to play some music not on youtube, dig up some pictures they didn't upload to facebook etc etc. Or just actually do a slideshow of pictures, since most web-pages don't really allow you to do slideshows.

There's a ton of use-cases I see most people do all the time which a no-local-storage platform will simply not support.

> She lifted the lid, it was on instantly, she signed me out and signed herself in and was reading her mail in probably about 10 seconds.

I fail to see how this is different from any other laptop on the planet. I have a regular Windows laptop and this has always been my experience. Heck, switching from my GFs account to mine I can be on in about 5 seconds. A cold boot however will take me 10. SSDs are pretty cool that way.

Regardless. Back to the topic: I also fail to see how any of this relates to a platform being locked down to not allow local applications. Just where does the Linux-lockdown start providing real, actual benefits you don't get elsewhere?

I'm not saying you must be wrong or mistaken, but what I do suggest is that there are normal use-cases which will benefit from having local-storage and applications and that I see absolutely no use-cases where having the local option completely blocked and removed provides any benefits.

Your "google laptop" is my Windows-laptop. Amputated. Without any benefits added what so ever.
Also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003377

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002742 <- This one has lots of comments.
You forgot complaints.
Google cached it: cache:micheljansen.org/blog/entry/955
No, they weren't. According to the "Release Notes", they were using a DES-based crypt scheme. Read up on tptacek's (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek) comments on the matter.
There have been a couple of Europa missions which got cancelled in the planning stages, which is why we don't have one in the works right now. Europa missions have a habit of getting extremely elaborate and expensive and then getting cancelled.

We'll get there eventually. In the meantime, the big (and very expensive) mission in the works which the grandparent didn't mention is the Titan Saturn System Mission:

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

which is currently planned to have a Titan orbiter, a Titan lake lander, and a Titan hot air balloon. If this one launches in its planned form it's going to be impressive. Mind you, it's not due to launch 'til 2020 and it's got a nine-year flight to Saturn, so don't hold your breath either way.
this seems to be a new trend, redesigning instagram. Interesting how the design changes are purely visual. I'd make one actual interaction design change to Instagram, personally: When you're choosing the filter, swiping on the large image itself should change the filter, not just swipes on the narrow row of icons at the bottom. Currently there's a huge interaction dead-space in the middle of the screen. I always find myself swiping the middle trying to change the filter...
They also seem to be sending out emails to all the email addresses they have on file. I ended up with four copies of the same message.
Enterprise software is definitely an area where there is plenty of opportunity. They're aching for good software; they pay exorbitant amounts for software that just isn't very good.

If someone can find a vertical where they can penetrate and provide real business value, they'll do well.
That's really weird, I did that multiple times in the last week and it's taken 5-15 minutes - albeit with a simple, plain JS, ~1000 loc extension.
If I remember correctly the claim was from a Chinese citizen who pointed this out and when Signal didn't treat this as a major security issue (which I felt was understandable given that her concern was mostly along the lines of "you can't say that Signal is secure given that people install other software on their phone that could be a keylogger so you should have a disclaimer") she decided to continue to escalate on social media until she was, IMO, harassing Moxie for his "lack of engagement". I didn't come away particularly impressed by that exchange.
how do you locate real problems?

In my case, I tripped over them. I always hated the common advice that before you can understand a language, you have to "use it in anger." I.e. you need to use it to build something real, where you'll inevitably run up against some weird construct that frustrates the hell out of you as a beginner. I just couldn't think of anything worth building.

In the last year, however, I've had three ideas. I think two of them are at least sort of decent (the other is kinda crappy, but since it was the first one, I was in love with it for a while because I finally had an idea!). These two were just things I discovered I wished existed. I just sort of tripped over them.

The first of the "good" ideas came when I thought I was going to have to move across the country (Canada). I found what looked like a popular site for finding apartments in my would-be adoptive city. The interface turned out to be horrible, with little to no proper search abilities. This was incredibly frustrating because my girlfriend smokes (nasty habit...) and we have a cat. Without proper search, I just ordered available apartments by ascending price, and go through them one by one to see if I could find something decent. I actually got so fed up with it, that I ran wget on the site and grepped the shit out of it to try to make my own limited search. Also annoying was that sorting by price sucked, since many had extra fees (animal deposit, animal rent, parking, etc.) that weren't included, and you would often find a one bedroom listed that had details in its description saying, "oh, we also have 2bd for this price, or 3bd for that price" so even limiting your search by room count wasn't reliable.

That was sort of rambling, but the point was it was painful enough that I just decided I would build a better mousetrap for that city, using the funds from my shiny new job. Well, I never got the job, but the idea stuck that there are a lot of less than ideal apartment search sites out there, so maybe the market could use my better mousetrap.

After that, I had a battle with RSI leaving me coding-disabled for a bit, and I came up with a new project that I'm building now (literally now - I'm procrastinating by writing this reply) that I liked better. In fact, the new idea was borne of the old idea, since it's related to learning programming and based on my desire to learn more to build the first site.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that inspiration comes from the damnedest places, but it seems to often be rooted - at least for me - in just a sincere desire to have something that doesn't exist, to solve a problem you have encountered.

Think about your daily life, or just keep your eyes open for the next week, and analyze the things around you. Are there any tools/resources you wish you had access to, but don't yet exist? Build them! Have you used something recently that was more painful than it needed to be? Improve it!

It's not easy for everyone, it certainly isn't easy for me, but there are opportunities out there if you just keep an eye out for them.

Best of luck.

* And if you really get stuck, just build my damn apartment site. :-P
There's one alternative now at $179, I think (Envi). It's a terribly limited product, and requires a connection inside the breaker panel. Their newly release connection (to Google PowerMeter) seems "gangly" and is still in early release.

BlueLine has the non-connected version (meter connection and display) for $99. But this is only part of the equation, and they have been beating that horse for many years. The new WiFi connected device is OK, but brings the price up to parity with Wattvision, with far more components, and complexity.
Ugh. I take it that the lesson to take from all this is "stay away". Got it.
"I keep my eyes peeled for potential statements made in blogs or on websites that might make me think something could be a great idea."

You asked for 'new' ideas, and now you're looking for 'great' ideas.

Stop.

I'd suggest going after neither. This presumes you're looking to potentially make money at something.

Find an idea that a few other people are already executing, and copy that idea, and make improvements. It may be a boring project/topic/idea, but if others are doing it, it's probably worth doing, or at least investigating further.

If you're not looking to make money, and simply looking to play with new tech - not sure what to tell you. Just go play with new tech... ?
I had a brief e-mail chat with Eddy about that and it didn't sound to promising, though largely because at the time all of the existing meals were very under-subscribed.

If anyone wants to try and set something up outside of grubwithus for Saturday night, myself and my two co-founders are probably up for it. Comment here or drop me an e-mail at my HN username at zettabytestorage.com (my previous product).
Check out in Windows:
- open console: Start > Run > cmd
- right-click title bar, select Properties
- select raster font 4x6, which is actually smaller, has more characters and appears to be even more readable

:p
Telepresence robots are getting pretty easy to build now. http://samratjp.posterous.com/look-ma-im-controlling-a-telep...

Wouldn't it be cool to have one of those for every remote worker so they can roll around the office and find people they need to talk to/point the camera at whatever is needed. Plus you get a screen to do screen sharing onto.
> Roughly translated, 250k in SV is 120k in the Midwest.

I'll believe this only insofar as $120k in the Midwest means you are "set" in the sense that you can max out your retirement, buy a home, have nice cars, etc. and basically live on autopilot from a financial sense.
I did this to mine. It no longer throttles under any type of regular use. I did an hour long encode using Final Cut Pro and the hottest it got was 83C. The hottest the battery got was 44C, so it is doing a fine job of dumping the heat outside of the device.

The bottom cover does get hot, but I don't keep it on my lap.

I don't do any gaming with it, but I tested Rise of the Tomb Raider and it handled it very well without throttling. My XPS turned into a leaf blower in seconds with the same game and still managed to throttle at times.

I'd recommend the MB Pro M1 if you want to do longer projects. I'm pretty sure the MBA would become heatsoaked after encoding for a few hours. The Pro has a fan.

It's a good mod that takes a few minutes to do and really delivers.

Apple really killed it with the M1. I have the base model. Affinity Photo is another app that has been optimized for the M1, and in some operations manages to be faster than my 8 core/16 thread Ryzen 3700 with 32GB of ram.

It simply curb stomps my XPS in every single performance metric while being totally silent and never throttling under what I use it for.

Safari has also been tuned for the M1, and it is the fastest browsing machine I have ever used.
How about any public sector union? They do services that have no competition, allowing them to extract taxpayer money with no substitute providers.
There is an argument that the rationing/prioritization scheme that is currently in use is inherently unjust, and that no one is entitled to faster vaccination than anyone else.
To be fair, they just recently slightly improved their stance on homosexuality, but saying "the LDS church doesn't think anybody is damaged goods" is whitewashing at best. Here's the new, improved policy:

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/joannabrooks/37...

In short, gay people are sinners, are "subject to church discipline", but can be forgiven if they repent for their sins (i.e. stop being gay -- i.e. stop being themselves). Church leaders should tell them to "control unrighteous thoughts". And they aren't allowed to attend Church. The only substantive positive change is that church leaders are no longer told to send gay members to counselling, which they were up until a month ago. How is telling someone "you can't be a real Mormon or go to heaven unless you stop being gay" not telling them they're damaged goods?

I don't want to say you're lying about your gay Mormon friends, but presumably they can't actually go to church, and through some kind of Stockholm syndrome consider themselves a member of an organisation that thinks that "Homosexual behaviour can be forgiven through sincere repentance".

Sure, you can talk about how you think everyone is good and precious and deserves love, but beyond platitudes, the Church's policies on homosexuality are pretty clear.
Thanks for trying it out! This is the ecard site I wished existed for years...no spammy ads, and no confusing sign up where you don't really know how much it will cost, etc. The main incentive right now for creating an account is to be able to have all your cards in one place (on your profile) and be able to edit them.

Re: the Flickr images, all the images pulled in via the API are not edited, copied, or saved in any way on Card Karma. They are actually loading right from Flickr's CDNs. I've tried to get feedback from a number of Flickr photographers and a Flickr admin to make sure I'm inline with their terms, and so far it's not been a problem.

It took me forever! I went to school for Jazz Performance on the banjo, so I had to learn Django, working with AWS products, etc, as I built the app. See my comment below for more tech details.
Spot on. The article is garbage.

The Declaration of Independence is about 8000 bytes, without parity you could encode the whole thing in 378 bases. With a little more care you could avoid generating open reading frames (ensure that the sequence 'ATG' never appears). There is nothing novel or exciting about storing this amount of data in bacteria. If you grow multiple copies of it, you haven't stored 90gb of data, you've simply made copies of your original 8k.
It never occurred to you to sell your ebook on Amazon? I'm not trying to be disrespectful or anything but whoa.
Yes, but why keep reading an article that insults people ... the reason for the low accuracy was not the point of my comment.

My own father is "not smart enough" to operate a browser. Lack of English skills don't help him. But he can read French and Russian just fine, he has a Ph.D in his profession and a carrier in politics (former advisor to the prime minister, currently a senator in a eastern-European country).
>Still, if you were motivated, you could get paid to sit and browse BoingBoing all day.

There are a lot of much easier ways to achieve this. As if you'd want to...
It became a blanket approval to address anyone on the team as a motherfucker.

Sure, one crass dude is one crass dude. One crass manager sets the tone for the team.

Pretty soon people starting pushing the boundaries on how insulting they could be.
People love renaming things and coming up with some reasoning why a name is offensive. A similar issue came up at one of the companies (in which I've worked) hack-a-thons, which is called Code Rage. A single person expressed how rage makes them think of road rage and not coding. Anyways their longer argument was that rage seems like a negative connotation. Even though rage probably refers to a "rager" or party, not aggressive driving.

There's another incident recently with a building proposal in NYC for a building called Penn 15. Because so many Americans still latch on to grade school humor, we can't get past the fact that if you remove an "n" it looks like Pen 15, or Penis if you squint and make enough puns.

They should rename the language to Cock, as in cocking a gun, cocking your head, or another name for a rooster. Grow the fuck up already.

Maybe the offending name as you personally initially interpreted, made you think it means something else. Perhaps you just need to seek more context around a name? Perhaps Coq needs to provide a more upfront representation and information of their chosen name?

I honestly don't disagree or agree and think we could all grow up a bit and have a more mature society if we didn't focus on petty insignificant changes to things like this.
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Only that caste names not just socioeconomic markers, but plain racial bigotry as well!! Regret what happened to you, but please don't defend caste which is almost mean the same racism in India.
> I actually drink medium roasted Columbian

No, you don't. You drink medium roasted Colombian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia
Quite handy - thanks for the tip!
Lawyer yes, safe deposit hell no.

Three reasons:

- Banks fubar safe deposit boxes all of the time, in a variety of ways.

- Once the bank figures out that you’re dead, it’s sealed without a court order.

- As you get older it’s more likely that you’ll screw up payments, lose keys or codes, etc.

Also, the attorney will advise your loved ones on what they can do. For example, you need a power of attorney for many things.
> The point of a company is to make money for its shareholders

It is from this premise that your other (mis)understandings arise.
Returning to the OP question now, what do we mean by "successful"?
> Market share does not a monopoly make

That's a common refrain from the people holding the monopoly. It's simply untrue.
If you are the market leader by a wide margin, you end up dictating the landscape.

> Do you really consider Bing to be so bad that you don't even count it as a competing product in the same product category as Google Search?

I can create a car in my garage, but I'm not competing with Honda. What's the point here? That because something exists it is a market force that influences others? Search (and the associated advertising, data collection, etc) exists as a momentum driven product^ via the network effect. How easy it is to switch to Bing or buy the car I made, is wholly irrelevant.

^That wasn't always true, as in the beginning of search circa the 90s, but it's true enough today.
Yeah, obviously "chronological order" in the original sentence is a mistake for "geographical order".
What would you do as a hands-on approach but instead of learning him how to code?

Regarding your two projects - did you write about them online? I'd be interested in reading them.
"Given that it's impossible to produce more senior developers in a 1-2 year timeframe, what alternatives do people suggest to immigration?"

Don't limit yourself to local candidates. Especially somewhere like NYC.

You, likely, couldn't offer me enough money to move/live there...especially for an early stage startup.
anyone else tried the linux tarball? The binary named ltbin seems to be missing.
> Given that it's impossible to produce more senior developers in a 1-2 year timeframe, what alternatives do people suggest to immigration?

Why do we operate under the assumption that these companies are entitled to as many unicorns as they want? Why shouldn't they just go out of business?

After the whole collusion ordeal when it became abundantly clear that on one side there are VCs, founders, and C-levels who work to suppress our wages -- and on the other side, us, I actually want to see them lose and get hurt after all the terrible things they did to us.
Bezos has taken a page straight out of Big Tobacco's regulatory capture handbook.

In 1997, as part of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, the 4 major tobacco companies agreed to sweeping restrictions on cigarette advertising. This ensured that it was almost impossible for a new player to enter the market, because they had no way to create brand awareness.
Honestly, I think this is somewhat of a crapshoot/hard to tell from the job description and the reason I say this is the job I'm currently in functions exactly how you describe but the job description/everything else from the outside gave me no clue before I actually started the job.

"Ideally being done in 2 hours in the morning then chilling would be perfect" -- in fact, for me, often it's 2 hours on a Monday morning the first day of the sprint, then just being present on Slack for the rest of the two week sprint. I wait and submit PRs etc at the end of the sprint.

My previous jobs in tech absolutely did not function like this, so I was somewhat surprised when I fell into my current position/groove. My coworkers/managers seem to think the amount of work I get done every sprint is actually above average, even though it rarely takes me more time than six hours max every two weeks. I mostly work on backend stuff (85%/15%) and am in a senior position at a relatively large (non Silicon-Valley though still very tech savvy) company with tens of thousands of employees and billions in revenue, though based on the East Coast. My salary isn't bonkers but I'm comfortably in the 150-200k range before bonus.

There was no way for me to know, going into the job, based on the job description, interviews with team members, etc, that the expectations of my managers and co-workers would be so low. And honestly, I'm still confused. I'm not a genius software engineer, I'm maybe above average but still not anything special. My coworkers aren't lazy or bad either - they're all sharp, proactive people. All of this is to say, what you're looking for does exist, it's my job, but I haven't the slightest idea how I would've been able to tell this is that type of job before actually doing it, so alas I can't help you very much, though I am willing to answer questions if you may have any.
I do not see how this changes anything.
The browser itself takes far longer than a day or two to learn to program even without tooling, considering that content is roughly the size of MDN; there is so much js tooling and documentation and of such wide variety that a year or two would not be enough for even a light review (roughly the content of github/js). And even that is not enough time to develop heuristics for deciding between approaches. And it doesn't begin to touch tooling, like editors, or deployment and runtime.

Here is a video of a lovely man who invented Erlang, Joe Armstrong, expressing confusion about how to build a "modern" javascript program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4 (hilariously he was using grunt - a tool which is now entirely out of favor).
You are right in general, but the case of climate science is special, because in many places of the world you do not need to be a climate scientist, but it is enough to be old and have a good memory.

Where I live, in Europe, there is a huge difference between the climate from 50 years ago and the climate now.

During these 50 years, there has been a gradual transition from winters when there were 3 or 4 months of continuous snow coverage, like they have been during at least the preceding several hundreds of years, to winters when it might not snow even once, much less cover the ground.

So the problem with the belief in climate science probably affects only the people who live in places where the climate change is not obvious yet.
Don't you know you go faster if you don't wear your safety belt?

Especially when you hit something. Much, much faster.