jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Microsoft's approach was different: let others innovate, then we'll dominate. Others would come up with new stuff, and Microsoft would "embrace and extend" whatever got traction in the market by adding it to their near-monopoly OS/app stack at whatever price served the purpose of eliminating the inventor and taking their market.

This strategy always made Gates paranoid, because the risk was that some alternative to the MS stack would take off too quickly to be killed. Without their near monopoly power as a weapon, they would have no special competitive advantage.

What they feared happened in the mid-90's when the Web took off and the browser/Java combo threatened to be a universal VM on top of every PC. Gates fought back with every weapon he had to fragment the universality of the meta-platform. He was able to greatly slow, but not stop, the emergence of an OS-independent Web, because he controlled the majority of the OS market underneath it.

But then the second shoe dropped. Mobile came along and MS was not able to stop its explosive growth. The growth of mobile made MS just another minority OS underneath the Web, and they lost their ability to disrupt the standardization of the Web platform. They were in the position they had always feared: having to support the standards of others or be abandoned by their customers as the Web became the new monopoly platform.

If Ballmer could have created the mPhone and mPad and given away for free an mOS for phones that was a mini, modified version of .Net, maybe they could have kept the Web fragmented and continued their platform dominance, but whether that was even possible (MS did things second, not first, was only a minor hardware developer, and seldom gave things away except when tied to something they sold), I'll never know. Gates got to wield monopoly power; Ballmer didn't.

MS's monopoly-based business model has to be abandoned, but do they have any other? They'll come up with something, as IBM did, but I don't think they'll ever be leaders again, because they didn't really "lead" before, except in market share.

Google's business model (expand the Web platform for free, dominate Web advertising, and employ an army of PhDs looking for something besides advertising to do) is nothing like Microsoft's. If they ever lost advertising, they'd go down harder than MS, and they could lose it if they ever lost much search mindshare.

And Facebook? They're a website. They are completely dependent on the psychological inertia of their users, which I wouldn't bet on long term.
So we should ban the lottery for poor people.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9173171
> The license… will terminate… for anyone that [claims] infringement of any patent… by Facebook… whether or not such claim is related to the Software.

> The license… will terminate… for anyone that [claims] infringement of any patent… by any party if such claim arises… from any software, product or service of Facebook.

> The license… will terminate… for anyone that [claims] infringement of any patent… by any party relating to the Software.

> The license… will terminate… for anyone that [claims] that any right in any patent claim of Facebook is invalid or unenforceable.

Wow.
I saw that they were deprecating the XMPP API right after they announced it, and I have been having nightmares about losing the ability to use Adium since. Still have no idea what I'm going to do if they truly don't release some type of client.
I tried using the unlimited photos service with my prime account and auto-phone-photo-backup service. It works great when uploading or browsing your photos online, but once you go to download your photos, it's one by one.
Direct word-by-word translation of the hieroglyphs China uses as the name for Russia is "temporary administrators of the Nothern pipeline" (the joke is by Russian writer Pelevin - highly recommending to anybody interested in understanding the Russian mentality)
For every complaint of that which you can document, I could provide 100,000 developers who hunger for a closer relationship with Apple. It's a non-starter. Developer relations contact? Yes please.
If I were israel, I would say, I have to figure out what I want. Do I want the territory from the river to the sea? if so, we annex all the land and it becomes 1 person/1 vote and you have to accept that all the refugees return to the land. Israel doesnt want this because there will be an arab majority (I wonder how that happened...). That's what I would do if I were israel.
The Other option is 2 states (which is actually what is written in international law btw), 1967 boarders with east Jerusalem as the palestinian capital, stop occupation and remove all settlers, checkpoints, military bases, etc from palestinian territories and maybe no right of return to to refugees who's houses and land were stolen inside of what is now called israel. They will return to palestine 1967 boarder.

How about we start there. No justice, no peace.
True. At the same time I don't think there is any rule set in stone that says everything that is not strictly explicitly in the article is "off-topic". Discussion can in my view include discussion about the discussion itself, its implicit preferences and assumptions. Putting too much effort into discussing what is off-topic and what is not, is kind of off-topic itself, I would say :-)
> Obviously food is a renewable so you will never run out of it.

Food relies on soil, a resource that we are depleting between 10x to 40x the replacement rate.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-...
There's an ongoing joke about every time a manufacturer announces/releases a new performance car:

Internet car enthusiasts: "What an awesome car! It's RWD, great power, stick shift, awesome handling! It's going to sell amazingly well! I'm definitely going to buy one......."

".....used in five years!"

Meanwhile all the consumers that buy (or more often these days, lease) new cars are snapping up FWD (or FWD biased AWD) 4cylinder automatic CUVs.
Softmaker have a free version and a pro version. The former is available in the public proprietary repos (for Arch, at least). The latter is a download and requires an activation key. Their free version converted me into a paying customer.
The passage I quote above speaks of "out-of-sample" generalisation, not "test-set" generalisation. These are not the same.

Unfortunately such terminological confusion is common but "out-of-sample" should really be reserved for data that was not available during development of a system, either as a training, evaluation or testing partition. That, because "out of sample" suggests that the data was drawn from a different distribution than the, well, training sample (where the training sample is then subdivided to training, evaluation and testing partitions), i.e. the true distribution, so the real world.

I guess the OP is instead using "out-of-sample" to mean "test set" (which is not uncommon), but in that case we don't need to look all the way to learning theory to figure it out: published results are well known to select for successful experiments, in machine learning as in many areas of research, unfortunately.
I don’t think this is black and white between owners and workers. Corporate America is much more complicated.

The owner and worker narrative sounds like communist take. I’m an American who values individualism and hard work. I fundamentally don’t believe in what you’re trying to say here.

You don’t have to “own” a business to understand how to manage people. If someone had issues and they take those issues on to stop your entire business and halt productivity, you remove that person. It’s really that simple.
I open-sourced the aggregation pipeline : https://github.com/arnaudsm/fbleak

The system I implemented is similar to https://haveibeenpwned.com/, and could evolve into an open-source clone of Troy Hunt's tool.
Note though that the Ubuntu store is only for discovery, it doesn’t have any support for paid applications. It did, but this was deprecated a couple of years ago as the then Ubuntu store service started changing to accommodate snaps.

Paid applications do exist but they must implement their own post-installation payment mechanism - the snap store doesn’t provide any facilities for this.
In two weeks, all Uber drivers will indicate that they are allergic to dogs. Next move?
Comprehensive means centralized. This provably cannot be fair. We can’t have everything. I use bing for difficult searches (google can only understand 1 or 2 words it seems) and yandex for image search. Not bad
Without a doubt, you are correct that alcohol is not universal either. I have never had the "luxury?" of working for a company where sponsored happy-hour was a thing.
>the remains of the hard disc and Macbook

Yet the picture shows a (PCIe?) extension card, which can not be found in Macbooks. The green PCB isn't a Macbook part either. And no part of a HDD is shown at all.
You're right, of course. I typed that on my cellphone, and were a little quick looking up alternatives for @double_application_turns_this_into_an_identity_function -- that made more sense, and was a little more succinct.

Maybe @left_inverse would be more appropriate? It's been a while since I had to classify functions.
I was going to mention multitail as well, which is a fantastic utility. That and rsstail, both by Folkert Van Heusden, are quite slick. The mark it leaves (a red line across the screen) is even more visible than those given by less.

I've commented a bit more on them (in the context of other RSS tools) here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1udv6i/further...

Folkert's site: http://www.vanheusden.com/ http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ http://www.vanheusden.com/rsstail/

Though not quite applicable to logfiles, I've written a script to tail my Newsbeuter feed URLs with Multitail support, for a console / terminal-based RSS feed.
How many pot-heads have you known who would chew your ear off about hemp? It's innocence by association.
I've ran Windows 3.1 in DOSBox before. I can't say it was a fun experience, it's not very stable. Trying to use The Way Things Work, a multimedia CD-ROM from Dorling Kindersley, would crash it occasionally.

If you want to run old Windows, I suggest a proper virtual machine.
I've tried many of their playlists. I've found some that are very good and was thrilled to find them, however the content was easy to exhaust and I ended up picking apart those playlists for new artists. Back to square 1 if you will.

I know it sounds like whining, but I really think the 'killer app' of music will be something that can effortlessly pick out the unknown gems from the ocean of new music. I'm continually surprised about the quality of new music but I don't like to have to dig around for it my self.
This is a good reason why decentralized alternatives to sites like Reddit are needed.

It's one thing in a country like the USA where there is a (sometimes dubious) code of ethics and rule of law.

It's a completely different matter in an authoritarian society.
Interesting idea, letting someone more familiar with the project make a bug report. It's almost like crowdsourcing tech support.

I wrote about how open source project bug trackers aren't as inviting as they might be a few months ago: https://www.benburwell.com/posts/open-bug-tracking-empowers-....
Read up on FIPS, Federal Information Processing Standards. They're a sort of baseline for everything else in this space.
Up-and-coming artists seem to be quite happy with Bandcamp these days.
You single out Taylor Swift, the number one recording artist in the country today. She's sold millions and millions of albums. Her brand in this country is certainly bigger than Spotify's.

If spotify had 100 million active users you bet your ass Taylor Swift and every other professional recording artist would be in their catalog. But it's just a fraction of that size. Streaming music is still a fragmented market. Spotify is not the platform your comment suggests.
Original author of the hack here. Several changes:

1) HTTP 1.0 vs 1.1 and lack of the Host: header, as you've all deduced

2) Additional encoding info tacked on after the Content-type causes parsing issues

3) Many sites now redirect to HTTPS by default. While Netscape 1.0 and Mosaic 1.0 both support HTTPS, it used SSLv1, and well, remember POODLE? :P

Newer versions of these browsers tend to work in native DOSBOX but present problems when running on the web. We're working on it.

Biggest problem right now is that the virtualized dial-up ISP is a bit flaky. For some reason PPP over TCP over Websockets via Trumpet Winsock isn't as rock solid as it should be :P
"Progress is chugging along but I have no one to guide me. I've razed the project and rebuilt it half a dozen times after finding some fatal architectural flaw and recently I've just found out using tables to layout pages is a bad thing" - can you trade books with it? If so release it and start pushing it. No one who uses the site is going to care if your using CSS layouts or tables, they are going to care if it can save them money.
HN is an international US-based forum, that's why I used I. As far as Quebec (and Canada to a certain extent) is concerned these policies are generally popular which is why they were not struck down.

There is also the idea of food independence from the US. Trump and COVID showed that when a crisis occurs the US interests will be put first and I don't see anything positive coming from outsourcing our food production and transformation to a southern neighbour that might cut the tap with little warning.
You could also look into astronomy classes at a local community college. I took an intro to astronomy class at a community college when I was about 18. I think it cost about $4 at the time, and I learned a lot of basics that way. You'll learn about the celestial sphere and constellations. You'll learn basic terminology: right ascension, declination, hour angle, sidereal time, celestial pole, ecliptic, meridian, transit, opposition, conjunction (inferior and superior), quadrature, elongation, occultation, and more. You'll learn the basic geometry of how things are oriented and move in the night sky, lunar phases, orbits, etc. It's a good starting point, and then you could subscribe to something like Sky & Telescope and understand much of the material.
"Anyone with even a basic level of martial arts training knows that if a knife comes out, someone is getting cut."

I think that is a bit overdramatic.
I would say, most of the time when a knifes come, nothing happens, except for exchange of bad words. (seen that)

And a professional would not show his knife. The great advantage and danger of a knife is, that it is a hidden weapon. Revealed (and used) only in the right moment, if necessary - as a surprise.

And self-defense against a knife. Well, the basics are actually quite easy - if you see a enemy with a knife - grab a stick. Or a chair. Or a rock. Keep distance.

Only if you are really superior trained and you face against a drunken idiot for example, about to do something stupid against someone else - then you should consider doing some of your special moves to disarm.

But talking them out of it, should be prefered.
They will certainly try to expand into different markets as well.

e.g. open a store a la amazon with all the shops they features, etc, while having still a groupon deal each day on their site.
Related (but for doing the visuals, and not the audio) -- Fluxus: http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

I suggest trying this stuff out, because it's a ton of fun.
I'm expecting it no later than Apple's next quarterly earnings report (mid Jan iirc).
Over time, they will improve their targeting.
Checked out your blog some time ago when I was looking at Citizen Space website. It's interesting, just posted some comments ;)
I found myself nodding in agreement as he described what it's like as a beginner.

I hacked in basic lightly for years in Jr. High and High School but i didn't seriously start picking up our craft until I was 18. Actually, it was January, 2001.

I started back-then with classic ASP and a (gasp!) Access database. I recently went to an old messageboard I used frequently and looked through my first questions:

I had a HECK of a time figuring out how to easily alternate row colors when I iterated thru a result set. I can't comprihend why it was so hard for me, but I remember for hours working on it before I posted the question. The answer I liked best, the 2-liner using modulus, is still the way I prefer to do it.

Another was actually writing a Login system. Having to validate both username and password, for some reason, boggled me. I said, in my question to the group, "Does this have something to do with arrays?"

And oh man the THRILL I got when I finally got these things working. It was a calling, no question about it.

One of the surprising things to me after doing that a couple months was that it felt like the way I think, the way my mind works, changed in a big way. I stopped being as interested in fiction books, I started thinking though things in a more... linear way.. more logical, and I used my first programming metaphor when my best friend had a baby, "congrats man, you forked your process." Hard to believe it's been 10 years ago now and I still get my mind blown sometimes. Now it's things like continuations instead of alternating row colors but the rush i get when I master a technique hasn't changed at all.
But "business methods" are.
Kinda simple. We finance this bullshit by paying taxes. Why do we pay them? Because they force us to and convince us it's a good idea. What do we do about it? Use any form of money that is problematic to track and tax: cash, gold, Bitcoin. Pretty sure it's possible to live just on that - would be a little uncomfortable, but certainly less so than some violent action. And it would be a major blow to the government if the majority of people started doing it.

Also, if you're serious about doing something - don't just throw the usual "but who's gonna build the roads and help the poor". Think and find solutions that don't involve government. Don't just say it's impossible. Nothing is impossible and certainly not this.
Seems very sensational. Where in my 6 year old Core2Quad machine would I find these fabled chips? Or for that matter, where on a modern motherboard would I find one?
I will gladly work to destroy the bigoted and heartless sort of society that conservatives and so-called "libertarians" seek.
I'm curious to know why they chose to use MongoDB? Is it because its free & fast? Or is it truly faster than a propriety SQL system?

Either way, it's nice to see that computation in science isn't stuck in the 90's, which is sometimes how it feels.
The Rap Genius site is a clever idea, but the interesting and insightful annotations are completely drowned out by the lousy comments and dumb pictures people decided to upload for base topics like money, or someone's appearance.
The teams I was a part of most definitely were not just for minimums (Chromebook/Glass). Google has incredible support for their hardware products.
Freedom of speech isn't fought at Michelangelo's David; it's fought at Larry Flynt's Hustler. Freedom of speech without the concomitant rights to privacy in one's person and papers, and the right to free association with others, privately or publicly, is severely hobbled. The War on Some Terrors has set back free society more than anything else since "The Red Scare".
And if the user withdraws their consent (clicking "No", DNT headers, etc.) that should be the end of it. Don't locate, don't track, don't subvert user's consent.

Just flag it as "no location information available" if you need to use it for an access control/fraud prevention mechanism and be aware that determined bad guys can spoof almost every signal you receive from them.
Has anything changed in Enyo recently?
Curious -- how is this technically possible? Does Netflix simply maintain a blacklist of IP's they know belong to certain VPN services? If you used a VPN that wasn't popular enough to be "on the radar" (e.g. your corporate VPN based in the US) would Netflix have any way of blocking it?
The most convincing piece of evidence that telomeres are important in aging is that lack of telomerase (the protein that extends telomeres) or otherwise shortened telomeres causes progeroid (premature aging) disorders.

But there are problems. First, telomerase is activated in many cancers to allow cancer cells to divide indefinitely, so there is a fear that adding telomerase as an anti-aging treatment would increase cancer risk. It is assumed that the finite length and existence of telomeres is an anti-cancer mechanism by cells.

Secondly and even more problematic, aging occurs in tissues, and aging-like gene expression signatures in cells, which still have ample telomeres. There is a lot of evidence that other things like inflammation and metabolism, which have no direct connection to telomeres, are critical to aging.

So telomerase/telomere lengthening is exceedingly unlikely to be a "silver bullet" for aging. Experiments show that it can extend lifespan in mice modestly. Conversely, though, upregulating or downregulating many other proteins which have nothing to do with telomeres can also increase lifespan.

It is possible that telomeres are important in stem cell maintenance, since stem cells have to last a long time and replicate repeatedly (stem cells themselves are a very hot topic in aging right now).
Average or marginal? Most PG&E customers have a “baseline allowance” with a higher marginal cost as you draw more energy over the month.
Silently? This isn't that dramatic.

edit. title has been fixed.
This always seems to come up when space exploration is discussed. The US spends more than $14bn a year on plastic surgery, more than $134bn on computer games, $48bn on tobbacco, $11bn on ice cream. But you want to cut space exploration?

Total global spending on space technology and orbital infrastructure is over $400bn, dominated by the US, and the vast majority of that is commercial activity that directly contributes to improving life on Earth. Mostly Earth observation satellites and communications systems.

The NASA budget is less than 10% of that but is a vital investment that catalysed this whole industry that has reaped massive rewards for the US and mankind. If space resource utilisation such as Asteroid capture do end up being economically viable NASA will have catalysed another industry potentially worth hundreds of billions. Jeff Bezos wants to move industry into space and zone Earth for residential and recreational use only.

Just cigarettes would pay for the entire NASA budget, but you'd rather cut NASA than cancer sticks?
Are you in the USA? I have a few Digilent Atlys [1] boards going to waste here. If you would like them I can send them your way. I don't have the power adapter, but it just needs 5v.

[1]: https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/programmable-log...
Thank you, and a tip of the hat to them for doing square roots the hard way.
Fairphone is doing interchangeability for... phones https://www.fairphone.com/en/
Although the feature/price is a bit below average brands, they are greatly priced if you take into account the sustainability. I Hope more brands will go this way so concurrence could help get better products and reduce electronic trash.
Many have forgotten why we used the internet in the first place. The original promise of the internet was to become independent from media/science/gov monopolies.
In the end FAANG (like most popular websites) is a great product, but just the same as before. It's centralized, hackable, has economies of scale, etc.
What shortage of outrage, energy and money is there? What necessary action is not being taken which you want people to demand?

I struggle to think of a single issue with more universal public support at all levels of society. But there isn't really a way to prevent an unknown and variable group of people from sharing an unknown and variable set of files over an unknown and variable set of communication channels.