jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
$14,000 a year is actually a ton of money when you are traveling. I traveled/lived for two solid years in Central/South America and Asia for less than $20,000. It's pretty easy to do. Just don't fly much, stay in cheap rooms $5-6 a night was usually my limit, eat the cheap (and delicious) food you find on street corners in so many other countries, and plan to take the cheapest transportation you can find. That's about it.
Because he isn't lying. Stuff comes up all the time. He was being polite and I'm betting he genuinely wanted to get to it. I'm sympathetic because I've done this often - told someone I'll get back to them and then been absolutely drowned in work. I always hold out hope I'll get back to to it but I never do.

I feel like the Apple engineer is being penalized for being polite. A lot of people would have just said "Thanks but we're busy". It looks like he genuinely wanted to look at it but never got around to it. The OP demonstrated some bad behavior by jumping multiple levels and CCing Jobs. When someone does that to me and CCs my management chain, he or she rarely gets the help they want - they've ticked me off and my management chain is going to trust me to deal with things.

The OP mentions that he posted this just to show how bad Apple's corporate culture was. Though I doubt that's why this was posted, I actually thought this showed some good culture from Apple. The CEO CCes someone down the stack and then trusts his call. That's what you want your management to do.

Across all this, I can't believe the OP thought he was looking at a possible acquisition by AAPL. At best, Patrick Gates was demonstrating polite engineer interest. The OP needs to learn to take a hint and how to deal with email communication.
If it makes you feel any better:

The iPhone 4G does not look like the iPhone 3G

Google has reinvented their entire crawling infrastructure at least 4 times.

When evaluating leaders historical actions, historians often say that it is unfair to evaluate their decisions in the light of information which they were unaware of. Perhaps you may like to consider something similar.
I'd say the opposite is more prevalent. People assume that HN is dominated by Bay Area thinking—which is to say, whatever caricature they regard as Bay Area thinking, since there's no single such thing—and then post what they imagine to be their contrarian view against it. Usually they do so angrily or sarcastically, since people get defensive when they think they're going against a dominant view.

It's been many years since HN comments have been Bay Area-centric, if they ever were. HN now has far more users who identify against it than with it, at least among commenters. That's why I tell people that only 10% of the community is based there; it usually comes as a surprise.
Huh, that's incredibly useful. I'll have to keep that in mind!
I'm positive it wasn't Staroffice. I know that story ... painfully ... well.

It might not have been MS office, but MSIE or a specific application. I'm finding researching this online disappointingly fruitless, though I've got inquiries in a few spots.
Does anyone know what camera they use is?
What happens if you try to knock on their door? Did anyone try this?
Picky, picky.

Semantics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype#Semantics
Great point. Most people can't even get over the fear of starting, as it's safe not to start - this way they can't fail.
You are right, I did not make myself clear. I was trying to keep my description as general as possible as to not make it entirely self centered.

By "diverse" I mean going beyond software engineering and touching on graphics, AI, simulation, AR/VR, hardware architecture, and so on. My main worry is ending up in cookie cutter classes for four years. Then again, my idea of what college is truly like may be skewed due to the romantic idea of higher education that is sold to us in high school.

Thanks for the suggestions!
I blocked Reddit, Slashdot, OSNews, Cracked, Facebook, Twitter - everything except HN - for a month. Now I don't feel like going back to any of those timesinks. In fact, I've unblocked pretty much all of those websites in the last week, and I still don't spend any time on them (except short trips to /r/GoneWild :p).

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: /etc/hosts is your friend.
This is blogspam, source is http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music...
"Why the tab in column 1? Yacc was new, Lex was brand new. I hadn't tried either, so I figured this would be a good excuse to learn. After getting myself snarled up with my first stab at Lex, I just did something simple with the pattern newline-tab. It worked, it stayed. And then a few weeks later I had a user population of about a dozen, most of them friends, and I didn't want to screw up my embedded base. The rest, sadly, is history."

-- Stuart Feldman
When developing, I try to think what it'll be like to return to the project in several months and how hard it would be for someone new to start contributing to the project. I try to document everything I think that will help and, even better, automate those steps with scripts. For example, deploying to staging or production should ideally be a single command so if the documentation for this grows too lengthy I'll take steps to automate it.
I believe they're still widely used in government.
> My speculation for the next 100 years, that Wilczek does not propose, is that a notation revolution will happen.

I thought that I was inured to future speculation (except in the sense of "what wrong things are intelligent people thinking today?"—a comment on general such speculation, not Wilczek's in particular), but I think that this is one of the most exciting ideas I have ever read. I'm being quite serious.
You mean: holy shit, it has a functional SSH terminal!
Bowline is being developed for Taskforce (http://taskforceapp.com), a commercial application, so Windows support is definitely coming. Estimation... well, I think we'll have support by September.
Have you seen the chatter about MikroTik vulnerabilities as well? Everybody has security incidents. What matters is how you handle them.
Gary Burton was also a Berklee local, as were composers of many of the other seemingly obscure selections. Those tunes probably were in fact "standards" in that time and place, and through The Real Book, likely achieved more prominence than they would have otherwise.

I find it curious though that General Mojo didn't make it in to the Hal Leonard "6th Edition". I find it hard to believe that they couldn't secure the rights; did they just deem it too obscure? For trying to recreate the old book, seems like an unfortunate loss. Those tunes gave the book part of its character.
An Apple TV can't be used without an Apple ID, which requires a phone number to create, and transmits the unchangeable Apple TV hardware serial number to Apple like a supercookie you can never delete.

It's just trading one type of tracking for another. At least your smart TV isn't demanding your phone number (which is a simple data broker API lookup to name, address, purchase history, income
level, et c...).
If the virus mutates enough that it develops a completely different method of entering cells, it's essentially a different virus. This would change its rate of transmission, it's incubation period, its infectivity, even symptoms. It's no more likely that covid-19 mutates into the next pandemic virus than any of the other coronaviruses already in circulation do.

Yes it's good to get people vaccinated quickly, there's certainly no good that will come from unnecessarily prolonging the current pandemic, but it will end.
Wouldn't it be even more effective if they were to cease using and distributing any software Mr Stallman helped with? Or software compiled with such software?
I think that that strategy is roughly how drugs all end up with such odd names.
Totally agree, needing to groove or follow harmony in some ways is a limited way of thinking about music. And my job is to teach people how to groove and follow harmony! One of my favorite types of music is electro acoustic because it is soooo far from the ideas of western music, probably most similar in formal structure. That being said Radio Head’s ‘Amnesiac’ is a superb example at bringing together the extended sonic pallets of electro acoustic in a main stream setting. What are some examples where you feel technology has enhanced traditional music forms?
Allowing companies to buy any companies has issues. Not allowing companies to buy other companies also has issues.

You seem to reason in really absolutist terms. You can have an open economy, where a government can still intervene if the current market situation has an extremely negative effect on society.

E.g. breaking cartels, monopolies or oligopolies where they seriously hurt a population does not throw away all the benefits of capitalism.

The disadvantage of one extreme is that you cannot have free enterprise, the other extreme is that you might end up with a few megacorps who control the market and ultimately society. In the middle you have a situation where there is free enterprise, but as a cooperation you also have to play by the rules that were set up to maintain fair competition and avoid centralisation of power.
> The more utility in the item, the less I care about a separate ID number associated to it

I completed agreed to the point you were making and then I got reminded of sneakers. They are supposed to be of high utility and yet 'limited edition sneakers' command a high price and are never used (in fact they lose value on being used).

I think other threads in the discussion point out the difference between the price people pay for 'owning' an artefact versus 'enjoying' an artefact. In the music case also, I can totally imagine a successful artist taking out limited NFTs on their music and their super fans buying it, trading it amongst themselves. Most people who want to 'enjoy' it won't care but I guess a case can be made for die-hard fans wanting to own it.
blog.google makes it on this site somewhat often
The frustration is fair and understandable, but his characterization of Rust is wrong IMO.

Side note, has anyone read a Java textbook? They are notable for not being able to go more than a page without extolling Java's virtues in a way that is repetitive and annoying.

(My experience with Rust textbooks was not like that. They tend to explain the drawbacks of Rust's "radical wager" with the stipulation that for the authors, the payoff is worth it.)
I don't think that Tim Cook has the power to "really change the world" by donating money. He's not a billionaire, so presumably he'll be giving away less than $1 billion. That's certainly two, and maybe three, orders of magnitude less than is necessary to make really noticeable changes on the scale of the world or even a large country in the world -- even if his money can be used efficiently.

If you gave $1 billion to the bottom 10% of just Americans, they'd each get around $33.

This isn't to detract from charitable giving, or from Cook. It's admirable that he's doing it. But let's not underestimate the scale of the problems of the world, either.
>And no, he doesn't mock people who read the standard. The discussion was entirely about something else.

Allow me to quote for you, since this comment[1] was downvoted to the bottom of that thread and maybe you missed it:

Ahhh the "undefined behavior" trope, whereby a C "expert" who's memorized a standard trots out the abstract machine to justify his point. An abstract machine that doesn't actually exist and that no computer actually functions as.

>Just because he hadn't thought about that particular language horror side effect doesn't mean he doesn't understand C.

No, really. Somebody who isn't aware of undefined behaviour can't claim to understand C. The fact that he has now changed his position on the entire language (now advising people not to use it, advice I broadly agree with BTW), indicates that he wasn't aware of these things prior to that discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8834947
> Games are not copyrightable

I have no idea why you think this.
It's also quoted, which seems okay to me.
All of the other examples given weren't Fortune 500 companies or weren't CEOs.
Tarnished? No.

Twitter was in the news every day. They profited massively, but now that his presidency is over there is no interest anymore.
Kids have parents who are ready to pay to make them "happy"
What was the Visor like? I never used one.
> Everyone I know who's had it is fine and reports no/very limited lingering issues.

"I know someone who survived a car crash with no injuries, so car crashes are not dangerous and we don't need seatbelts."
It's all fun and games until you're in the prison shower with a bunch of Bootstrap goons
We really need a public utility alternative for electronic discussion and multimedia sharing. There's no argument that internet is an essential service so where's the internet post office?
The article does nothing to mention the general population beyond suggesting that the difference between the incidence of psychiatric orders in covid vs cold/flu patients was 'significant'. It provides neither the title nor a link to the original study.

The significance and quality of the study are both impossible to elucidate from the article's text.
It's like with C or C++. Most people that do write it shouldn't, because they are not good enough or the process is broken and they will shoot their leg. SPAs are the same way, because you have to implement all those normal website things again by yourself. There will be casualties.
I'm okay with that analogy, if we understand that the USPS made an agreement "You may have 250 heavy-duty trucks arriving to your door per month", of course allowing for changes to be made in said contract. Once those 250 heavy-duty trucks actually got rolling, if it became deleterious to the USPS, I can see it being reasonable to change the terms of the contract according to the contract itself.

I'm purposefully arguing for the unpopular side here, btw. I'm definitely in the 99th percentile of bandwidth users and likely on verizon's own enemy's list. I can see it from the other perspective is all.
So does this lend credence to the theory that the attackers compromised the network to the point that they were able to install compromised firmware on users machines?
In Canada the constraint is going to be the number of doctors that we have, not the number of ventilators or the physical space to house patients.
Rating: "mixed", i.e. "true after a fashion", admitting that guidelines allow for that, but ignoring that the real claim is not "Italy officially abandoned the elderly", but "Italy's healthcare effectively doesn't treat them", and the latter is corroborated by at least two interviews with staff on-site that appeared on Twitter and in the news.
There is an official directive to cut off the 80+ year old and people with a certain comorbidity index if... I guess they are unofficially doing it already and the cut-off age is based on realities. There is a thing called triage, doctors and humans practice in tough times.

"The criteria for access to intensive therapy in cases of emergency must include age of less than 80 or a score on the Charlson comorbidity Index [which indicates how many other medical conditions the patient has] of less than 5."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/14/italians-80-will...

Please note that is the richest area in Italy and hospitals are top notch. Just the volume...
> In China ... everyone wears masks on the street ... there are a lot of people couldn't buy or afford surgical masks, let alone N95 masks.

Sorry to nitpick, but it's N95 respirators not masks. There's be a lot of terminology confusion on this topic, and I think it's making communication significantly more difficult on this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR2uLfEVD2w

https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/956213O/differences-betw...
Yes. Actually during Christmas break, me and my friends in Michigan drive A LOT!! For breakfast coffees, then casual hangouts at places like zoos/museums, then for lunch, then for coffee again, then for dinner, all of us in separate cars.

Of. course that's not everyday, but it's many days. When we're back home from college, it's nice to see the friends from back home, and often it will involve all of us driving separate cars. This is I believe archetypical of the Midwest.
You might try Processing as a language, gives them a platform to experiment with coding with quick audio/visual results: https://processing.org/

Another is give them a old PC or laptop with a blanked HDD and a distro disk/usb (or balank medium and instruct them to choose one on distrowatch) and let them a taste of setting up a system.
What is making you live there?
This is not a true representation of the population served ads. Are you confident the small benefit most receive is worth throwing out to avoid outliers like this?
I don't know about linux but it works with Chromebooks. Since chromebooks are common in education and zoom is big in education, I'm sure they will keep that version going for a while. On a chromebook it asks you to download a chrome addon but it gives you a link to the web-only version too.
I've used json1 in SQLite for a bunch of different things and it's great - super-fast, has all of the features that I need. Since it's part of SQLite core I trust it as having the same level of reliability as the rest of SQLite.
It has nothing to do with their investment. It was because nbas market share in China is huge. I think you are upset with the NBA here, they chose profits over geopolitics.
Today I learned that Python does interning of shorts strings too :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26097732
So hire a cabinet maker to build a nice box around it.

For that price of a good cabinet maker, I could buy a whole fleet of Dysons.
1. Too expensive
2. Safety unknown at large scale
3. Production facilities insufficient

And many more reasons...
I'll take "Suffering Stability and Features" for $500, Alex. As long as I can bet everything on chance to get rid of X 5 years sooner.
I've heard great things about Two Sigma, they sell themselves as having a very academic environment (lots of PhDs, tech talks, etc.).
People use a lot of different construction materials and techniques across the country, but I don't think this "sarking" is common for residences.

People don't want to live inside Faraday cages though, for the reason you already mentioned: their mobile phones wouldn't work. Not to mention broadcast television, AM/FM radio, garage door openers, etc.
Dangit I need my drawing table back. Loved being able to stand or sit at my desk as needed.
Absolutely. The idea that the pious and self-righteous are more interested in moral superiority than in actually helping any one is deeply hurtful. The pretentious have a right to be taken just as seriously as anyone else.
Are you worried about parts of the TLS handshake being intercepted, or something? Because even then that's non-sensitive information like public keys and cipher lists and stuff, no? Or are we worried about side-channel attacks, or weak ciphers being chosen?

Just curious about your reasoning for why TLS alone isn't sufficient.
I guess that means that you will be forced to publicly disclose any more vulnerabilities that you find... /s
The claim was that everything that isn't generating cryptography does not need security.
Actually, we'll never find out who the winners and losers of Brexit were.
Yankees Jan Kees?
It takes something beyond hubris to trust a dealer's claim on an issue like that.

The OEMs are always creating crafted studies to underlying claims like that for their advertising campaigns. Dodge was running a similiar claim in their ads awhile back.
7 years old and lives on as promotional material for someone’s design consultancy. Not worthy of Hacker News IMHO.
It’s absurd, in my opinion, to think that the society that created the opportunities you have to earn money ought to be enjoyed by you at no cost. We can’t all be free loaders and leeches. Acting as if taxes are immoral is nonsensical.
"The language you use here is concerning and not empowering. Why would someone 'give' you $100k? Despite some arguable edge cases (hft, etc.) money is only earned by creating value."

Where are you looking away each time they pour another few trillion into the stock market?
> There is an alternative. Go somewhere else if the cost of living in this society is too high.

What if the cost of living is high somewhere else as well?

> Earning a tax free living clearly isn’t a right according to the U.S. Constitution.

The US Constitution recognizes rights, it doesn’t confer them or exhaustively catalog them.

> Go elsewhere if the cost is too high or advocate for lowering the cost.

This discussion could be an example.

> It’s a strange position to take that the benefits of the society you live ought to be free to you when those benefits have costs.

Its a strange position to be accused of wanting things for free when one identifies unnecessary waste.
I don't really understand why this is worth thinking about. It's not like I can't have people over to my house 'cos my floor and couches are covered in emails. It's not like I'm signing up for everything I possibly can just to increase my collection of emails that I dream will one day be valuable. They don't get deleted because, well for no reason at all. It's just not worth thinking about. Worried about your kids not having precious correspondence to hold on to? Print it out. Worried about google having all your emails after you die? Pay a will executor to delete them for you. I just really don't understand how this is anything worth even thinking about.
This is great. I hate maintaining a fork of gitx myself, and actually gitx is markedly inferior to a high-quality commercial Mac application. There just haven't been any of those for git yet.

For Subversion, there are Versions and Cornerstone, which are really much more pleasant to use, but nowadays of course most of projects are using git. So I am stoked to see a promising developer take this on. I'm sure he will make a run at adding missing stuff like optional inline diff viewing and whatnot.
He's talking about 'hardcore' players having a colossal advantage over casual players in terms of the amount of virtual goods they can accrue.

In terms of gameplay this means your toon has better weapons and perks giving your character an artificial advantage.

By buying these goods for real money you get rid of the advantage, but 'hardcore' players, otherwise known as students and schoolkids, traditionally considered this cheating.

That's not preserving game balance, there's no skill there.
I'm using the Git Tower beta and I have to say, it works like a charm. It does everything that GitX does, but provides a better UI for everything.

The only thing I miss from GitX is the ability to discard changes per changed line/block. In Tower, it is possible to stage per changed block though.

[edit] One thing that I forgot to mention is that the developers are very active and responsive, even though it's a closed source project. I made a few suggestions and got replies for each of them within a week. (Compared to Gitbox, Git Tower is built by a whole team of devs.)
Ah, I saw the Lisk topic, and while agree that Haskell's very exact whitespace could be annoying without a good editor (mine automatically indents correctly anyway so I never have problems), if its such a big deal you could just use {} and semi-colons as that is valid syntax as well. You only have to do exact whitespacing if you don't use those, although it might be easier to just use a decent editor instead.
From what I understand, accreditation the result of a mix of desires from the different companies that support the accreditation. Java exists as a major language because companies want to be able to look at a degree from a certain, accredited college and trust that that degree means the person knows how to do {x,y,z}. If Java is required for accreditation, that means that companies want someone claiming a Computer Science degree to know how to work with Java.