jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How far are you going to atomize the students? Grade level, proper pacing, emotional development, what else? The logistics of what you are suggesting is simply impossible. I have been involved in the education space and I know people that are still in it. If we had more resources and a lot more teachers then providing a customized education experience for students would be possible but the system is simply not there and won't be there for a very long time because everyone is focused on making the system more and more convoluted. There is no push to simplify and streamline standards and processes because there is more money to be gained from making things convoluted. The problem is that politicians treat it as a business and consider tax dollars spent on it as an investment and naturally they want to see a return on this investment so they start to measure things which almost always ends up being the wrong way to approach the problem because an education is a holistic process and treating it in six month chunks makes no sense whatsoever.
> If you want to be formal with someone, send them a letter.

That, right there. That's where I stopped reading. They're advocating basically building an asynchronous (in the sense of people) chat client instead of Gmail because you're supposed to "send people a letter" if you're going to begin a message with "Hello" and end with "Regards".

This article is so stupid that I don't even have the courage to dissect (or read) it further.
I predict however he finds his business to succeed currently will be utterly destroyed with this article.

You cannot possibly have your name published in association with fraud accusations and not expect knocks from government agencies.
I've seen a few sites that take a cue from Facebook and limit the selections to "male", "female", and "it's complicated".
Well, I agree with you. It is physically possible to be a fantastic web designer without knowing how to write any sort of code. But I have found that this combination of talents is extremely rare in practice. Generally a non-coding web-designer is a good graphic designer and good with Photoshop, but is actually a very mediocre web-designer.
Just want to say, thank you Monty and Co for the work you all do at Xiph. Ogg, Vorbis, Theora, Speex, FLAC, Opus, Icecast, and Daala... it's a seriously impressive portfolio. It probably would not be a stretch to say that billions of people use these daily, often without even realizing it (which is often the best kind of tech).

And thank you to Red Hat, Mozilla and all the others who sponsor this work too. It really is incredibly important to have these open codecs, not only for their own sake, but for the significant pressure it puts on the MPEG cartel. As bad as they are, without stuff like Xiph I think they would be much, much worse.
The curious thing to me is it took me 3 months once to get one of my apps through the app store because reviewer thought it was too similar to the app "Draw Something".

My app was called "Draw Wireless". It was a super dinky app that let people iPhones connect to each other via Bluetooth and draw on a shared whiteboard space in real time. It had a dark blue grey icon with a wireless symbol on it.

Other than the fact the icon had a dark blue background, it looked and behaved nothing like the app "Draw Something". But yet I had to redesign the icon three times and rewrite the app description four times before the reviewer felt I had distinguished enough from "Draw Something" and let it through. It took 3 freaking months.

TLDR; if your app is prominent enough then Apple will only let will go to extreme lengths to protect your app. I guess it's only if you are a small guy like these guys you need to worry about fakers.
Yes I think it is.

Quoting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble

"Net Result of a Bubble: The one true constant with all bubbles is that they create excess demand and production. Once the bubble deflates, which it always does, a contraction or consolidation has to occur to alleviate the excess. Two examples are the dot-com bubble and the current housing bubble. In both cases there were huge consolidations, bankruptcies, and deterioration of asset values."

This statement sounds a bit more authoritarian on the topic than I like, but the "excess demand and production portions" are demonstrably true, in fact, I would almost take them to be a better definition of what a bubble is than "trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values", which is a difficult definition because what determines an intrinsic value?

I don't think such a thing really exists for several products that can experience bubbles.
In Google the employees on the same level in the whole company are mixed and randomly split to smaller groups, and stack ranked with people working in completely different teams, which means that teammates never compete with each other, but rather help each other to get promoted....this is totally different from what Microsoft does according to this post
home page: http://knockoutjs.com/

would be interesting to compare with backbone, which has facilities for automatically updating views:
http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/

flapjax was one of the originals- porting functional reactive programming to javascript, but has never caught on in a strong way.
http://www.flapjax-lang.org/
1800 was the year ... :)
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=tits%2Cboobs%2Cbr...
But a few weeks later, when we were almost ready to submit Osmos (for iPhone) we tried the submission process again and - lo and behold - the name Osmos was available! We’re not sure what happened actually, but we suspect we owe someone at Apple a thank you.

I'm pretty sure it's because of this rule in the system that exists to prevent name squatting (from the iTunes Connect Developer guide pg.70):

"Once you have created your app, and it is in the state Prepare For Upload or Waiting For Upload, you will have 120 days (4 months) from your creation date in iTunes Connect, to deliver a binary to Apple. If you do not deliver a binary before the 120-day deadline, your app will be deleted from iTunes Connect. As a result of this deletion, your app name will be able to be used by another developer and you cannot reuse the app name, SKU or Bundle ID."
I personally believe that it would, because you can then generate the site and allow what the site looks like to be external from that generation. Managing what the site looks like, independent from what the site says, is good clean separation of concerns and does in fact promote maintainability.
Israel also has military control over the Negev (Southern District). Few would say that Israel 'occupies' that region -- just like England doesn't 'occupy' Sussex.

I have no opinion about what to do with the West Bank, but by saying that it is 'occupied' by Israel, I feel you're implying that Israel's presence there is unjustified.
I had to Google "Knockout JS" to find a link, then I found out the OP was referencing the same thing. Seems cheap to call it just a UI library.
It's not true, but I don't think it's disastrous or anything like that. Saturated fat is practically impossible to cut out completely, and our body can produce it anyway. The more dangerous belief IMO is that fat in general is bad.
Are you referring to http://Witcoin.com which is like a HN where every time you upvote or reply, the poster gets commission?

Or are you referring to YouTipIt.org which is fairly close to a Flattr except for using bitcoins instead?
I tried quinoa for the exact reasons you mentioned, but didn't find it nearly as palatable as more "traditional" staples. Compared to rice I found it didn't gel together when cooked, had a stronger (slightly unpleasant) flavour and a gritty texture.

In the end I couldn't justify the cost to eat something I just didn't enjoy. More power to those who enjoy it.
Um, the potential to lose in arbitration? Possible state and federal criminal liability? Civil enforcement actions by federal and state agencies? Bad publicity? Competition?
This is the biggest problem in Australia, unless you allow everyone to access things on the same day the hardcore fans are of course going to be getting there hands on it any way possible. If I was running a TV show I'd release the show worldwide for download at the same time or just after the initial US(or wherever is local to the show) TV run.

Only issue being networks syndicating the content probably won't want to pay as much for the rights, really though they are getting the same thing, the people buying on ITunes same day weren't going to wait weeks for the local network to get around to playing it anyway.
Trying Oracle's JDK often helps with such things, as well.
I think cable misses an opportunity by forcing you to have a heap of channels you don't want just to get the stuff you do. I'd pay somewhere around $20 a month to get the probably 5 or so channels of any interest.
Avoiding feature bloat is indeed one of the goals of this move, as explained in the blog post. Several users are requesting features in the Google Group, others like me maintain forks. With user-defined procedures, hopefully we will no longer need all this.

As for clustering, Antirez also explained in the blog post that it will work as long as you use a single key per script.
The whole point of granting taxi medallions in the first place was to provide a semi-monopoly on the service, in return for requiring taxi drivers to act like a public utility. There’s a societal benefit to being able to get a ride from wherever, to wherever for a pre-determined fare, without having to worry that your destination is a “bad neighborhood” or your skin is the wrong color or your guide dog might not be allowed.

We should not let ride sharing services just gut this aspect of hired car service.
"Western imperialism"? How exactly was fighting against Germany in WW2 "Western imperialism"?
Reminds me of Shoe Store Fluoroscopes. http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2011/ph241/birer2/
To be fair, lampposts are extremely interesting.

They're a bit unusual. They must exist in urban areas, but their form doesn't really matter as long as they can provide light.

Sure, highways and parking lots have cookie-cutter mini stadium lights. Sidewalk/street lights can vary a lot based on locality, though. My favorites are the variations on spherical lamps with domed tops. Overdone ironwork is a close second.
You don’t need fields for everything that’s printed, you only need to specify fields of interest, the rest are automatically discarded. You can also use alternative json parsers like fastjson that are more dynamic instead of upfront.
> store-brand adhesive bandages "Band-Aids"

On a tangent to the topic of adhesive bandages, as a bit of a connoisseur of tapes myself, I want to mention that the best band aids I've ever found are Nexcare Waterproof Bandages[1]. Even if you don't care about waterproofing, they stay in place massively better than any other type of band aid I've tried. Years ago, Consumer Reports rated them as the very best as well. Most other adhesive bandages, especially cheap ones, are ridiculously awful, coming undone within minutes.

[1] https://www.nexcare.com/3M/en_US/nexcare/products/catalog/~/...
They work farm work, with little to no job security, the bosses are most insulting etc... I haven't heard about Qatar taking passports in actuality from what I gathered from friends, but you are NOT ALLOWED to work for whoever, and if you do you pay a fine to the one who "imported" you.

In France it is similar, except that you just get deported if you leave to work elsewhere, also you are forced to work only 6 months then get back, that's why a lot of such workers feel inclined to marry older French women, so they get some job security. It doesn't get so hot in France, but it does get so cold.

To be fair to France they get paid a livable wage, like livable in the host country, but in the flip side such workers pay +10k to get such contracts. Also to be fair to the French, North Africans are complacent in such a business, and often than not the company that act like a middle man and hire the workers to the French farmers are often owned by North Africans.

You gonna argue not all foreign workers, which apply to the Gulf too.

Same goes for Thai berry pickers in Sweden, they go through shit, but it didn't happen to catch in the news and redditors did not type the same comment about workers every time they saw a Sweden news story so no one cares.
Have you ever had a conversation with a parent of a small child? They’re like “Yes, very nice, we should totall—PUT THAT DOWN THIS INSTANT GREGORY—totally get together next week or so. <smile>”.
I've made several games in Godot and continue to use it, but it has serious issues that hamper it from prime time. Here are some I've encountered in my latest project, a point-and-click adventure in the vein of Myst

- When playing non-OGV video files there will always be a black screen in the first frame of the video, no way around it

- OGV video streams suffer from sound stuttering problems on playback

- There are some performance bottlenecks around 3D and occlusion culling, which will hopefully be fixed in 4.0

- No browser web view so you cannot use HTML for markup or design, meaning making interactive pages (like an in-game wiki) is a massive slog

- Font-rendering issues with blurriness and lack of pixel-perfect sizing (if you are doing retro pixel art fonts they will suffer from anti-aliasing)

- Importing 3D assets is wonky and you still need to write custom import tooling scripts in order to make it even slightly usable. Even then you will most likely have to redo all the lighting on your models

I think Godot 4.0 will be a great leap forward and I'm very much rooting for them. But if you are trying to make a big 3D A-level game, you will spend a lot of time with your head in your hands. At least with Unity and Unreal they have large asset marketplaces and very active communities so you can get around a lot of frustrations. Godot is still quite small in that regard. However for 2D or smaller scoped 3D indie games, it's really powerful and versatile. I personally enjoy the Godot workflow with nodes and signals connecting them much more than my experience with Unity and prefabs, which I found to be a bit convoluted.
Congrats Brian, Fred, and team! Quite an interesting funding round, and, quite a blooming market. Keep up the good work! I have to say, this sector is one of the most interesting to watch.
the blackhawk used in the raid on bin laden had stealth capabilities.

my guess is that stealth now includes keeping it out of public's knowledge, to minimize risk.

with helos sound comes into play as well, as detection comes down to human ears if used in rescue or raid situations.
"I'm sorry but my employement contract with my current employer doesn't let me talk about my current salary while I'm employed. You wouldn't want to employ someone who breaks contracts, would you?"
Many comments on this previous post about the letter:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4372563
Fair enough, I guess I should have said next big release.

I really want a language that can replace C++ but ATM Rust doesn't feel like it would be more productive for the things I want to do as a language and then there's the tooling/libraries/platforms.
Auto-updating is possible even without using addons.mozilla.org, sites like Pinterest do it all the time for their plugin.

Mozilla rolls that option into their CFX builder - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Tools/cfx#cf... - the update file just needs a consistent place to live. I use CloudFront for it.
Reminds me of a large particle physics experiment I worked on. One of the detectors had a critical flaw, IIRC the output voltage of the detector modules was proportional to the number of particles passing through it. At every readout, it was reset to 0. Now, if you didn't read out the modules often enough (every few seconds), they would fry themselves. The problem wasn't noticed until the readout system crashed and a couple of modules were destroyed.

When the bug was presented in a meeting, there was one guy who insisted that we install a big red button to shutdown the system. There was even discussion on whether it should have a little lid or not. When that guy left the meeting early, they briefly considered to install a fake button.

In the end, what happened is that they built a "heartbeat" system that just zeros out the modules every second or so. The information in the modules is lost, but since there are millions of collisions each second, this had virtually no impact on data taking. But it prevented damage when the readout system crashed again.

They also made a little GUI in the control room showing a beating heart probably just to calm people down :-).
I agree, this way seems the best. The reason people like WordPress so much is because it abstracts away everything except writing content. Users don't care how the site is served (and most nontechnical users won't even know).
All of them are a steaming pile of cowshit?
I like the doorstopper Fire In The Valley a lot and have read it several times. It hits basically every part of SV history, following personal narratives of major players in each time period. This style makes it very interesting to read.

Disclaimer: I have no idea where it stands with regards to factual accuracy.

http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Valley-Personal-Computer-Edition/...
Undeveloped film, which is the topic of the article at hand does not have any copyright. It was never "authored" as a duplicable work until the new owner of the film (whoever bought it at yard sale or auction) had the negatives created.

This is simply wrong. The image is fixed in a tangible form upon the negative at the moment the shutter closes and terminates the exposure. The necessity of washing it in a development bath later in order to view the film does not in any way transfer authorship to the person doing the development. As JacquesM points out elsewhere, the image was sufficiently 'fixed' as to last for decades on the undeveloped film.

I've included a link in another comment to you upthread referring to the 1880s court case which delineates the basis for authorship of a picture belonging to the photographer as opposed to the printmaker.
Sources are already on github - along with the actual book itself:

> The book's LaTeX sources, Java/C++/Python sources, and build scripts are available through github[1].

[1] https://github.com/patmorin/ods
If I understand the case correctly (I am not a lawyer) Vinod still needs approval of the California Coastal Commission to restrict access. I believe the case only struck down the argument that the previous owner formed a precedent since they charged for parking.

I will go back to not worrying about this case. I was worried Vinod was overturning California law which would really irk me.
Can you elaborate? Any good examples?
Could you please stop using HN for ideological flamewar? Your comment would be just fine without the nasty bits at the beginning and end.

We've had to ask you this before, and eventually ban accounts that keep ignoring such requests, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of the site more to heart, we'd appreciate it.
Wow this is quite smart. Never thought of that
This is why I really don't like the recent trend of third party sites dynamically embedding tweets on their own page when a screenshot plus direct link could have sufficed. The internet has already lost a great deal of its past with many historical image hosts that went down or rogue (looking at you Photobucket). Why are people making the same mistake again?

BTW Facebook have had the option to memorialize the profile of the deceased for a while. Things seems to have worked out fine for them.
I quit my job at a growing unicorn startup this month. It was my third tech job in an IC role and after working for four years out of college I felt just like you did. Completely bored going into work each day but making so much money for my hourly work output it felt too trapped to quit.

But I did eventually because the decision to trade time for money felt worth it. I felt that if you don't give yourself a break to try something besides big tech work it's hard to do so again at a later point in your life with a mortgage, kids, etc...

Now I'm surfing every morning, running a lifestyle business (https://www.interviewquery.com), and hanging out with friends.
Thanks. Beat Saber appealed strongly to me, specifically because of my escrima/kali training.

Pistal Whip doesn't have the same kind of draw (sic). ;)
Perhaps, we should quit trying and only build “small” communities that can self moderate.
> after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic

That's just... creepy from the developer.

Also how is living next to Mark Zuckerberg a perk? Unless you want to build an illegally zoned Startup Incubator focused on IoT and the main acquirer you're targeting happens to live next door and notices your product everyday...
Quite.

John Quiggan has one of the better responses, and lists others:

https://johnquiggin.com/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-the...

Also at Crooked Timber, with extensive comments, some Worstall than others:

https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-t...

Nabokov's response (similarly titled "I, Pencil"):
https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-t...

"I, Residential Mortgage-backed Security Collaterialized Debt Obligation."

https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-t...

The Freakonomics critique is weaker, but not bad:

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/
https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-t...
Yes! Postgres permissions are a huge pain to manage! You have to worry about table ownership, grants on existing objects, and default grants on new objects. It is a huge pain to manage.
Congrats!

Your story is amazing, but there is this tendency to conflate bootstrapping with re-investing-your-own-earnings which you admit to doing (from your other businesses). I'd rather call that "expanding" your existing business or "pivoting" rather than bootstrapping.

Sure, the line is fuzzy no matter how you look at it, but if you are not drawing from a fixed pot (eg. your personal savings), I don't like it being called "bootstrapping": the core difference is in the type of safety net you've got (and thus the risks you are really taking).
If we remove and automate away as much red tape as possible, is the remainder really that bad we still need a dedicated manager over a hybrid? Will somebody of the team not feel the urge or the will to pick it up instead?

Do we still need a manager who has power over the developers and partially decides which jobs exist, giving them not only an incentive to create extra work, but have a trump card on anyone who would call out their BS?

Do we truly need all this manual syncing and negotiating? Or has part of the corporate machine become addicted to all this red tape so much, they believe it is not only a necessity, but an insult to the individuals participating if the red tape is removed in its entirety?

Frankly, as much as I despise management work, I have a hard time buying the argument it really would be as terrible as it is now once you get rid of that red tape. Hybrid roles don't have an incentive to inflate the amount of red tape: they can go back to doing the other side of their role instead, and have an incentive to remove any existing red tape if it becomes suffocating.
yes, the "common cold" can be carried by rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, influenza viruses (maybe a mild case of 'flu' mistaken as a cold), and adenoviruses.

this list is not comprehensive.
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