jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This whole post seems like contrived bullshit...clearly he doesn't understand the concept of SaaS and recurring revenue. Investors are betting that box can generate a large amountof recurring revenue and THEN reap profits based on those recurring revenues in the future (as marketing and sales costs drop). Free customers also basically cost almost nothing - no support, sales or marketing costs. Sure, some "storage" cost, but really - almost nothing.

Also - Box does not sell "storage" they sell collaboration, auditing, and security assurances (ie: HIPPAA compliance is NOT something Dropbox ever offers).

>>If Box has to spend almost everything it makes from current customers to win new ones, what is the use of giving its product away for free, aside from boosting the size of their user base to impress investors?

Uh, so people who are not paying users who are outside the organization can “see” and collaborate on those files? This also indicates his clear misunderstanding of the benefit of creating corporate users who will not churn - thereby recouping their CAC within 12 months.

>>And, more importantly, Dropbox and Box still have to support all those non-paying customers. There is simply no palatable way for them to eliminate free users, and the costs associated with them will continue to rise as the need for storage increases. As more free customers are added into the system, those costs continue to grow, creating a death spiral.

then three sentences later….

>>Dropbox reduced the price of a gigabyte of storage by 90 percent. That is a clear indicator that, over time, the price of cloud storage will continue to reduce to zero.

So how does something dropping to the cost of “zero” equal “..As more free customers are added into the system, those costs continue to grow, creating a death spiral."

My favorite part is the ending: "Andres Rodriguez is CEO of Nasuni, a Natick, Massachusetts-based cloud storage-as-a-service company.”

Yeah, good luck with that.
Any idea why temporal coverage is so spotty? According to http://landsat.usgs.gov/landsat8.php Landsat 8 repeats every 16 days, but for many of the spots there are only images that are several months old.
> Especially a demographic that is more likely to use ad blocking browser plugins.

I don't think it's just that. It's a demographic that is largely responsible for running ads on various platforms (websites, apps, etc). This same demographic will inherently understand ads, how they work, how they are usually not what you are looking for, what types of manipulations are involved, etc.

I never click on any ads either, although I don't employ any ad-block programs (so I suppose if a site is getting paid for impressions rather than clicks, then they are monetizing in some small way off my traffic).

It's not that I despise ads, like some folks are mentioning. I've just come to tune them out; I don't even really notice them on sites I visit anymore.

At the office, however, a large part of my dayjob is invested in learning how to best position ad content, and re-target users to entice them into making purchases.

Ads are a necessity. A significant portion of the online-population does not employ the same product search capabilities as the folks here on HN -- and because of this we've found ads are a major driver of traffic to ecommerce websites... I don't see them going away any time soon.
edit: I finished it. Good read, and recommended.
Just apply there is only upside :)
This is good for the world.
You are right. Back in the early 90ies, in primary and high school, I often got in conflict about this with my English teachers. Distinctly remember being around 10 years old, and arguing with my poor teacher, that US English would be a much more useful standard for Dutch students to learn :)

PS: So starting age 8 I learned English from adventure games and a bit later from shows like Star Trek TNG (BBC!). Starting written versus verbal (often using a dictionary to find the right words to type with those Sierra text interfaces) did mean that some of my pronunciation was totally off — I'd simply never heard most words spoken before :)
Originally there was no way of abstracting over an arbitrary number of type parameters in the language, so a different trait was required for each arity. The choice of 22 was arbitrary, I think.

This is no longer true in Scala 3, so there will be no such limit: http://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/dropped-features/limit22...
@quartus, you're right, I apologize.

I was referring to the idea that a $40 channel fee might be palatable or even negligible for folks such as those in Malawi whose GDP per capita is $400 per year.
I think there's also a mechanism of the extremist positions driving politics. E.g. Brexiteers that e.g. opposed the trend towards further centralization in the EU wanted out of some of the political influence sphere, but were in favor of e.g. strong alignment on industry and goods (I think Grayling at some point said that he "didn't campaign for Brexit for the right to produce motors slightly differently"). But May didn't get that done (and put herself in a bad spot in many ways by putting out statements then having to walk them back), and lost out to more hardliner positions. And the opposition was also quite useless in helping a closely-aligned Brexit along (or even having a clear position at all, since it was also split between positions). Some argue that if the energy that went into trying to re- or undo the referendum had gone into getting a closer-aligned Brexit done during Mays time, that could have happened. But it didn't, and everyone looked bad while Boris promised whatever he wanted.
The alternative to affording it seems worse. And your figured are rather assumptive, ignoring critical implementation details like “UBI could be written as a tax credit” or so on. But, let’s take your numbers and scenario briefly anyways.

$4T per year is only 15% of GDP, right? 15% is the capital gains tax, and technically GDP is the measure of a country’s capital gained, so just apply the 15% capital gains tax to the country’s capital.

“But that’s a lot!” Yup.

“Is GDP growing enough?!” Not the way we treat workers today; the last time it was above 5% was, coincidentally, right when the wage/efficiency gap started widening.

“How do we make the math work then?” Good question. What figures make your approach work, given historical rates of GDP and growth pre-Reagan, post-Reagan, and in a theoretical world where pre-Reagan rates return once we stop abusing our workers?

I was just making the point that we have a lot of healing to do before we can presume to measure under UBI the contributions and growth and courage and strength of mind and will from the workers we’ve abused for forty years.

You’re making an argument that, I think (?), we can’t afford to allow 100% of our working age citizens to subsist on UBI. So tell us what figures you think would plausibly work in your own terms, so that we can see your complete viewpoint and argument. Is that $100/person/month or $1000? Are you accounting for GDP growth over ten years or not? What percentage of workers can we afford to carry on UBI for ten years? And so on.

Do the numbers work out better if you factor in an imaginary 50T reclaimed through taxation/levy/law from those who’ve accumulated it and transfer the entire sum directly into the UBI payout fund? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26102709

It’s fine to try and use math to argue your point, but being sarcastically dismissive with simple algebra hasn’t given me enough to give your point consideration, as I’m still not even sure I understand it yet. I did my best and I hope the above is some use to others, but I’m not confident at all that I understood well enough to reply to you.
To your point, the FBI memo referenced in the article specifically differentiates the new counterintelligence program focused on civil rights groups from the pre-existing program focused on communist groups.
Usually equity is considered a good thing, but you are literally saying the equitable thing is for more people to die. Hence the airquotes.
This was first computer i was using in school.
Tesla reminds me of Saturn, a car company that rode a wave of an enthusiastic buyers until people started to notice their quality declining after significant cost-cutting.

Unlike Saturn, GM isn't meddling in Tesla's management, but it seems like similar mistakes are being made.

At least Tesla's are more fun to drive.
However, I find it interesting what they say that in desperate times more papers are being printed or at least taken in consideration since one of them might be the key to unlock the situation.
can I contribute to this game or fork it? God I can't stop playing it!
What about RAML ? You can hook it up to json schema validation
My friend enjoy creating visual analytics of almost everything. This time he made for the daily reports by the WHO daily updates. They publish it every day in PDF format (AFAIK) and he update his analytics also every day.

Thought that you might be interested...
I would expect Rust to do well in these sorts of areas involving systems programming and low level development including projects like Firecracker.

The features that are very compelling is that installation is painless, static linking is encouraged and used widely and its APIs aren't tied to any specific platform, thus is a true cross-platform language done right. It would be better to compare it to C++ rather than C since they both interface and surpass the complexity of the language.

While the language is mature, the author fails to mention that most of the crates ecosystem is immature and some are unsafe. Especially in the domain the author is working in, there's a degree of risk in importing some crates which can compromise the safety of the project (use at your own risk).

Cross-compilation is there in Rust, it requires downloading the toolchain for the specific platform and Go has it truly built-in, so I'll give them that one. Lastly, it may be possible to use a cross-platform GUI library like gtk-rs, but it isn't widely adopted unlike Qt, Electron and Flutter. The question around that is whether if Rust is suitable for that use-case? As many ideas and crates for Rust GUI development are coming, for now I'd say soon.

The author is certainly bullish on Rust in general and in low-level development and so am I.
There are at least two other people in my city who have my name

I'm presented with information to parse about technology topics daily. Sometimes, I have to search for them and have all sorts of name collisions.

I never, ever search for information about you.

people just can't resist commenting endlessly and upvoting this content-free bikeshedding at the expense of actual discussion

One man's bike shedding is another thousand men's irritating trend. Personally, I very rarely see anyone called out for the trendy names and awful, buzzword-laden non-descriptions that infest projects.
The ones who'll make you an offer will want you to start in ~2 weeks. Anything longer - you'll increase your chance of sitting between 2 chairs.
I think we're mostly agreeing, but I have a bone to pick with the claim that it's a problem with self-interest. Self-interest isn't culture, it's human nature. Getting people to act against their own self-interest is an exercise in futility. The key is to establish an environment in which people genuinely believe that the common good is in their own self-interest.

So for example, a primary reason why there is such high homelessness in San Francisco is high housing costs. But it's in the housing developer's self-interest to knock down some housing valued at $4000/month and build 50 units of the same size on the same lot, even if the aggregate effect of doing so at scale is to cause the value of each unit to fall to $2000/month, because 50*$2000 is still a lot more than $4000. Which in turn reduces housing costs and homelessness. What's stopping this isn't individuals acting in their own self-interest, it's the local government being captured by local landlords who don't want rents to fall.

The reason racism and sexism still dominate is that they're a wedge used by elites to keep poor black folks and poor white folks on opposite sides of the isle instead of voting together against the corruption that victimizes them both, and sow general discord in the population by dividing any group that contains both men and women, which is just about all of them.

They convince black people that their enemy is the redneck and vice versa so that the two groups don't get together and start asking why it's so hard to start a small business. The true solution to racial and economic inequality is upward mobility, but notice that nobody is even talking about that anymore. As if the solution to race is taking down statues and similarly worthless symbolic voids.

But none of this is culture or individualism. It's purposeful manipulation.
Seems to be working through my Charter ISP, but not my work's AT&T ISP still.
And despite most residents not owning cars, most of the infrastructure is devoted to motorists.
Everybody else was posting maths, science, or science fiction, so I wanted to balance it out a little!
On another sidenote; his autobiography "Adventures of a Mathematician", is really worth reading.

http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Mathematician-S-M-Ulam/dp/0...
Sounds like a great "plan to skip jail and fine".

Well, I didn't say it was a good plan. ;)
I was merely pointing out that I thought they were anticipating that this was how things would turn out.

I would like to add:
The statute of limitations here in Sweden for a jail time of <1 year is max 10 years or so (according to Swedish Wikipedia it's 2 years, but I'm not sure if the fines complicate the matter).
Well it's a two-way street. We could then argue that figurative meaning of "copyright infridgement is stealing" is not the same as it's legal definition, too.
Left the snowglobe open for about 10 minutes in a tab and Firefox hit 2GB of memory usage. :-( Not necessarily your fault, but definitely hampers the charm... pretty demo, regardless. Wish I had a device with support for HTML orientation events so I could try it out there.
I realize that it's technically possible - but what I'm wondering is if icann (or someone else) actually did this without involving the registrar, or if the registrar simply complied with some kind of order.
They follow some logic and can be deduced from first principles.

We would not have culture or have achieved the level of society that we have if 'intellectual property' were the normal mode and could be deduced from first principles.

Copyright and patents are supposed to foster creation and innovation but it seems they are hindering rather than helping our development in these areas.
Agree, though the last one is more interesting semantically. It's not really stealing, it's borrowing without permission... Though the bigger deal there is home intrusion.
Forbidden

Your client does not have permission to get URL /p/fb-exporter/ from this server.
The $5 Guerrilla User Test:

http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/the-5-guerrilla-user-test/
It also helps proving theorems and applying math to areas mathematicians themselves thought to be purely theoretical (aka: hacking math).
They've always said they'll continue supporting X after Mir ships anyway.
it's not Apollinaire, it's Christopher Logue, an English poet
I'm trying to work out why this is published today as this is very old news in the automotive world. Perhaps the last paragraph around the rumours of its resurrection?
That sounds good in theory, but you're making an assumption that people want to make a video call with you at any time during the day.

Example: you're at work and your phone rings. Do you prefer doing a quick chat and get back to work asap or showing your face and doing a nice conversation? Same thing goes when you're outside and possibly at home.

The only time when this is going to work is when two people have previously committed to do a video call.

Again, I'm making an assumption too, only time can tell.
"As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it."
-- Albert Einstein
Well when you start pissing off the people that like to scream "I'm an American!" then there's a fighting chance that things can change.
This may not have surfaced as quickly on HN if it wasn't launched by highly visible Facebook alums, but I read the post, installed the app, and setup an account before I saw this comment.

It all looks quality from here.
Even if it just takes a tiny amount of gold to do this- is our supply that plentiful that we can use it for lighting our streets?
Yes, there are several devices that accomplish the tasks of the individual features that our product includes. But there were no solution with everything integrated in one single product.
The Uber idea is great. We actually thought of something similar. Hopefully we can make it happen soon
Only 10 points for the Paramour achievement.
If we're going to use hindsight, we might as well look at the cause and the effect.

Yes, they missed out some pretty obvious things. And what happened? A few hours of downtime because their restore was slow, plus a tiny bit of inconsequential data loss. Hardly a catastrophe.

The fact is that every site has some sort of problems. Many of them will be completely obvious like this one. And while github could have gone through and attempted to fix them all, I much prefer they spend their time doing things that have more than a few hours of impact on my life.

No doubt they will fix the issues involved today.
> - Not as socially, ethnically or culturally diverse as many other tech hubs.

Chicago is almost an even mix of white/black/Hispanic, and has old money patronage that supports cultural amenities that go beyond what you have in SF. And there's no single social group that overwhelms Chicago's culture, like tech is doing to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Last time I got a haircut in Palo Alto, the woman cutting my hair was talking about startups.

The engineering school issue is definitely a fair point.
No, "Google is your friend" is terrible. You pick a source that you think is of high quality and are willing to stand by, not 'every source that sort of mentions it'.

The top link from your search extrapolated from a self report survey of less than 5,000 people. This article questions how reliable the end figure is:

https://stat.duke.edu/~dalene/chance/chanceweb/103.myth0.pdf
Damn interesting made a great podcast on this.
You can listen to it here: https://soundcloud.com/damn-interesting/andree-and-the-aeron...
Here's an RSS feed: https://github.com/thoughtbot/til/commits/master.atom
Nim can't be a faster Python when it isn't a Python, but a much younger language which lifts a few cosmetic choices but intentionally breaks with Python in large ways. If it is trying to replace Python, many of these breaks are poorly chosen and reflect a lack of understanding of why Python and its ancestors were unique.
Aside from this, many of the practical refinements of Python are dropped in favor of fancy and shiny features that are better for arguing on HN than actually using. If I really want macros, Lisp never went away, but they aren't doing Nim's readability any favors.

Go is much more mature than Nim and encapsulates a huge amount of thinking and experience in language and compiler design. Nim would like to be Go. But it isn't.
You could grab https://github.com/thoughtbot/til/commits/master.atom and select commits beginning with "TIL *" with Yahoo Pipes or something similar. I agree though, other posters' suggestions of gh-pages would be nice.
A wiki might be helpful.
I think getting stuffed into the back of a windowless Russian military helicopter may conflict with some of the appeal that the service is trying to market.
I think that the main reason that this question comes up so often (only to have it's answers essentially ignored) is because, "How do I learn how to program?" isn't what they really want to know. Programming, in and of itself doesn't take much to learn. A person with average intelligence can learn the syntax and basic idea of a language in a day.

I believe the question they really want an answer to is, "How do programs work?".

If you really boil down the initial appeal of programming, it isn't Python/C/PHP/Ruby, it's learning how to make the things that those languages are associated with. People are fascinated by programs that can sync files between computers (dropbox/Python), share pictures on the internet (facebook/PHP), or cause your computer to run (Linux/C).

I think the best way to help somebody with this question is to find out what it is about software that fascinates them, then suggest a language/framework that facilitates that.
Someone should do a 'where are they now' from that video.

Joe Kruas (the guy with the 6-day old spagetti bowl) founded Excite and JotSpot (which was acquired by Google) and now is a director of product management at Google.
The who and the how of the rubbing matters a lot more than the number.
Specifically that Facebook so efficiently reveals our significance (or otherwise) in the wider world. Facebook is perhaps the first technology that reveals to us that the major events in our own lives are, on the macro scale, merely background noise. Learning of an old friend giving birth seems very much less significant when we learn of it not through direct communication but through a wall post that is read by 600 other "friends".

Social Networking is the Total Perspective Vortex. Now, in order to survive its message, we all just need our own universe where we're the most important person in it, like Zaphod.
The former Once and Future Prince?
this is more like macheist. but a groupon system could work too.
The reason people trust and believe the spam search results that come up and blindly make purchases on those sites is the same reason they can't realize that Google isn't some non-profit public service but is in reality an ad-littered money machine: people are stupid.
For those who don't know, longbets sends all the funds for any bets to charity.
Easy: We're expensive, and we don't work 80-hour weeks. (Both generalizations, but both certainly far more true of older engineers than younger ones.)

That said, I've worked for two startups, one when I was 31 and one when I was 38. If you bring something to the table that they need badly enough to be worth the higher pay and lower time commitment, it can happen. As @steveklabnik said, it's just math, though the math doesn't always fall in favor of the young guy. Just usually.
DJIA is a pretty bad index. S&P 500 or an even broader market index performs much better.

"Although it is one of the most commonly followed equity indices, since it only includes 30 companies and is not weighted by market capitalization and is not a weighted arithmetic mean,[citation needed] many consider the Dow to not be a good representation of the U.S. stock market and consider the S&P 500 Index, which also includes the 30 components of the Dow, to be a better representation of the U.S. stock market."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average
> ... greater the emphasis is on the honor code

You bring up an interesting point, mentioning "honor codes" ...

> more affluent schools may presume their students are of a “different breed” so to speak and would not knowingly cheat.

... which might be the case.-

I wonder to what degree the lack of use of proctoring software - cloaked in whatever premise - might become in itself a perverse value proposition, as in "if you go to a more expensive school, you will get away with more" ...

Also, I'd be really really curious to look at any stats / data that might be available on the actual incidence of cheating on both types of schools ...