jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
OP's points are valid but it ignores the core of Apple's strategy whenever they've had a home-run: getting partners to do things they would almost never do.

They might be able to do the same with TV, but they might not choose to partner with cable companies.

If they are indeed building an iTV, they might partner with the major networks... or maybe just one to start... ABC. The networks might be motivated by dropping revenues from their current channels. Apple might promise them an AdSense style platform for selling TV ads. They would now be able to monetize content that very niche audience would be interested in. If they promised them the same 70/30 split or higher, it might be enough to get the networks to take the risk of pissing off their local affiliates. I don't think they currently get that high of a split from their affiliates.

There are a number of ways they could potentially get the networks on board (though it'll be super difficult.) Regardless, I think the thing that they have to crack is the demand side. How do they make a TV that is so much better than current TVs that it redefines the category and get's people to give up their current TVs. I have an awesome Pioneer plasma screen from 3 years ago. It's going strong and I see no good reason to throw out the $$$$ that I put out for it. However, if anyone can make me do, it's Apple but it would have to be a fantastic product.

Part of the mix might be incorporating the gaming advantage that iPhone and iPad has benefited from. If they just used their other iOS devices as controllers & remotes, they would have a gaming platform that could rival XBOX & Playstation. The only thing it would need to match it is a konnect style device. Who knows if they'll go there with the first few versions.

They also would need to offer a new modality to TV that really changes the game. I would hope that at the least, they would offer a hulu + netflix style service.
We have a three person startup with one programmer, one design and marketing person, and one "other." The "other" person on the team had the original idea, pays the dev bills, and is our primary non-technical tester.

We value all three partners equally - literally and figuratively. Sure, we could outsource the code, or outsource the design, or decide no idea has value if you can't build it yourself, but that is just not how we are constituted as people. We're very comfortable with our configuration.
I’d argue that no one cares about the Canadian, Australian, etc leaders. When’s the last time one of them was assassinated? They don’t have a nuclear briefcase with them, they aren’t the ones leading military engagements across the world, they aren’t the ones with a super important economy.
i honestly want to know what people are smoking . We've had these things for 30 years, with SL and minecraft and VRchat etc. it's a small niche
Internal US government documents estimate something like a 90% population loss after a war that only targets our ICBM silos. (Ie not one missile hits a populated area.) The fallout destroys our food supplies and wipes out livestock, making farming impossible: most of the US population starves within a year. There is a reason the US government doesn’t spend a lot of effort preparing the population for a nuclear war, and it isn’t because of “anti-nuclear activism.”
If all of the nukes in the world went off at once, strategically spaced out to cause the most land coverage (I.E. some kind of Dr Strangelove situation), the world would look mostly the same. Green grass, blue oceans. It wouldn't be scorched earth. But, of course, those unlucky enough to live downwind, within 100 or so miles of a nuke, would get a healthy dose of radiation to their internal organs, as radioactive dust would be unavoidable. For decades, that fallout region would be uninhabitable, because radioactive isotopes would be incorporated into plants and animals.

So yeah, not the end of the world, or even civilization, but I wouldn't want to live in that world.
And the average yield is just 300-800 kt. A lot less than the megaton size bombs of the cold war.
Its very hard. This post is about compiling a much simpler language with well defined semantics. Ruby and Python are simply not very well defined or simple, unlike Lua, which is why PyPy is a much more complex solution than LuaJIT (indeed Lua was chosen for LuaJIT for these reasons). Simplicity has performance benefits.
They are looking for someone with the level of experience that allows treating the problem as trivial.

That means plugging in the data to the tool they use all the time, adjusting a few parameters, and writing the 1000 words while waiting for the results…that’s possible because they know the tradeoffs they made as they made them.

If it looks like a hard and interesting challenge, that desired candidate isn’t you.

Nothing wrong with that.

They want someone who can knock this class of problems out before lunch on a Tuesday when the boss asks at 10am.
It should be possible to change ones mind about something.

Lots of conscientious objectors do so from a religious viewpoint, but having a conscience is not exclusively reserved for people of some religion, you are welcome to have one all by your lonesome. And that conscience can start to ask annoying questions about your actions and affiliations which can cause you to change your mind about something.

What is more worrisome to me is that it would be something that could be refused. If someone states they have no will to obey the government entity they have applied for then they should be allowed to leave. The alternative feels too much like ownership to me.
I don't understand your comment. Are you refuting that semiconductor fabrication is capital intensive? Are you comparing it somehow to building high schools? Like... what?

The new fab TSMC is building in Arizona is 12 BILLION DOLLARS - for a single fab.

That's 100 of these high schools for the price of a single fab facility.
How does it differ from Apache NiFi?

https://nifi.apache.org/
-long = -l -o -n -g was probably a mistake. But then again, tar xvzf should have been called untar, so it’s not like there are a shortage of opinions and historical mistakes.
In the last couple years I've come to realize that nearly all POSTs should actually be PUTs, sometimes with a client-provided uniqueness token in the URL (like a UUID) that becomes part of the newly-created resource's ID.

Now that I think about it, all the situations where I'm fine using POST are also idempotent, such as changing an object's metadata (technically PUT or PATCH), or sending a batch of HTTP requests to an endpoint bundled as a single request.
Alfred[1] (Mac app) w/It’s ‘Power Pack’ add-on gives you a clipboard history manager, text expansion, launcher and more. Very power. You can even navigate your file system, copy, move files... Easily the most crucial piece to my setup and keeping my hands on the keyboard. It’s been a solid app for a very long time.

[1]: https://www.alfredapp.com/
Problem is, all of us including GP are primed by poorly trained AI to take comments in a divisive direction.
It's significantly better than k-12 or the first page of Google.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-m&q=how+to+...
User-Interface Oriented Frontend Engineer.

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Practices: Responsive Web Design, Cross-browser Compatibility, Single-Page Applications (SPA), Web Applications, Optimization + Performance, Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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This tutorial blog posts acknowledges that.

> in general, determining the distance from a camera to a marker is actually a very well studied problem in the computer vision/image processing space.
Straw man and not even funny.
The idea that there is one "thing you are supposed to do" that defines human experience is ironically a pretty modern reactionary mindset. They were smoking cannabis in ancient Scythia - it's "what you were supposed to do".
It's an open source project. Feel free to pitch in, sponsor, or shut the fuck up .
Store the lock files in a ram disk, or on some other partition that is wiped on boot?
Greenhouses are competitive. Greenhouses with supplemental lighting can be competitive when growing specific plants. Multi story agriculture is only going to take off after most Greenhouses use supplemental lighting.
It's a bit unclear what I am getting for $11 (over say a flickr stream).
This is not really on topic but I find it initially cute that this article is on msn.com
To be frank I hardly use the dock: I simply use it as a shortcut for the "Download" folder and to re-launch the three apps I'm actually using (Firefox, X11 and Songbird). I use it as a status bar on my Linux desktop (running WindowMaker) but I only ever click the email icon :)
Correct, they will never stop doing it. But they will eventually start seperating it more, letting the user chose to use the standard home screen and dialer for example.
Not sure of the Sense UI but it shouldn't be no problem to make it just another (preinstalled) alternate home screen where the user can chose to switch to the standard home.

Also work on the UI side hopefully also means faster portation of those UIs. Not sure why it takes Motorola/HTC/Sony so long to port their versions to the latest Android code, but i guess this can be improved on the Android side of things, too.
Yes there was some minor sarcasm there. I don't think a pre requisite to generating useful online properties is being a coder as much as it is fundamentally understanding the internet, how it works and the economy surrounding it.

An open source internet will never work anyway. People need to make money.
that and the article - basically the author wants 20,000 coders to work for her to create some "open source" internet because we are digitally enslaved. Basically she thinks coders are douches.
No, the conservative approach is to look at past extinctions and see that there is little or no impact. Too many extinctions in too short of time may have different results, but the environmentalist whining is just plain irrational.
I gather you are referring to the Ecademy site?
I tend to agree!
You could still make a notepad.cc/new link and call it "Start new doc." The /new page just does the same thing as main index page (i.e. creates a new page and forwards to a new url).
yeah, those can be turned off already
Even better if they can get the customer service people suggesting it to people who are buying office, like how they always try to sell hdmi cables with tv's.
My Dad got me a ahem pirated copy of visual basic 6 when I was about 14 in 00/01

While I'd hate to develop anything in VB these days, it did kick off my interest in software development. Especially when my friend was into it as well so we'd make stuff and share it with each other.

Java developer by trade these days, and I use Ruby or Objective-C for personal development.
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-blogs-about-data
Visiting India is a mental game. I'm calm, even-tempered, have traveled quite a bit, and was prepared with stories from Indian and non-Indian friends.* The first 2-3 days in Mumbai were killer. You're assaulted by humidity, heat, smells, sights, sounds, culture, a total lack of personal space or privacy of any kind, and above all: emotion. It's intense.

Eventually, you learn the ground rules: 1) You're never alone. 2) Nearly everyone wants something from you (preferably cash). 3) You're never alone.

If you don't accept these ground rules, you will have a horrible time. You will also miss the best part of India (the people, rivaled closely by their food), because every interaction will be a battle... and the numbers are not in your favor: 1.2 billion to one, and they have unlimited time.

As with all games, coming to terms with the basic rules allows you to really enjoy the sport. When someone strikes up a conversation, talk with them. Even better is to approach people pro-actively. Use your gut, and talk with the people who seem the friendliest.

Examples:

An ayurvedic "doctor" hung out in the lobby of my hotel, and was quite persistant (I still get emails from him). I wasn't interested, and told him so, but every morning there he was! Talking with him gave me an insight into what it means to be an entrepreneur in India, which almost everyone there is.

Another "tour guide" was rather horrible at his profession, but is possibly one of the most interesting people I've ever met. He's learned (quite proficiently) around 7 languages simply from talking to tourists and getting them to send him textbooks (he has never traveled). The man was hilarious, intentionally and non-intentionally, and absorbed information like a sponge.

Another auto-rickshaw driver was trying to scam us at first by taking us to a storefront instead of our desired destination. Finally he admitted that if he took us there, he gets a liter of gasoline from them even if we purchase nothing. After knowing that, we made a deal: we visited several of these high-pressure stores (bought nothing, drank some nice chai) and he drove us around for 4-5 hours, showing us things we never would have seen on our own. Total cost: $0.

Almost all of these people also invited us into their homes, which we usually declined (see rule 2). The few times we didn't we saw a very different picture of India than the author did.

* Pro tip: Things Indians tell you about their country say much, much more about them than about India itself.
Same here. I vividly remember entering type-in MLX programs[1] to the C64. I later learned C64 BASIC.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ComputesGazetteProgramPage...
All I wanted for my seventh birthday was a computer. My parents got me a second hand ZX81 which came with an excellent user manual [1] which was mainly a tutorial for programming in BASIC.

[1] http://web.ukonline.co.uk/sinclair.zx81/
haha. . does it start with a 4 by any chance ;)
'91, first with QBASIC, and then with GW-BASIC because I couldn't get QBASIC's editor to exit after running a script. :)
They do matter, I think our experience does match. This is part of the problem I was alluding to.

All I am saying is, that I do no longer take for granted the paper/IF (& other Thomson ISI Corp.) science metrics as the golden standard, because it is being actively abused (clique self-referencing, grant business etc.). This is not a new controversy, and I think it is much like the RIAA/MP3 shift, which is not only taking place in publishing (web daily news, kindle etc), but also in scientific publication (NIH publication policy etc).

arxiv.org seems to be one of the best technical compromises, but unfortunately, it doesn't fit very well in the establishment's established authoritative scheme (IEEE, ACM etc), which is a racket by anyone's standards. And it can be misleading too (there was an ARS report on this, about the level of trust in the result being published).

Long story short: I, for one (and I think you too) are very unlikely to get tenure based on papers on arxiv.org about volcanoes, transportation, urbanization and JIT. No matter how good we are in Linux sysadmin an distributed systems.

Though back on topic, publication per se is what early stage training is about (and not PhD), in my experience. Of course, one can always ''downgrade'' an EST to a PhD, but then one has to go through all the post-docs, to get to be staff again. Short of luck, of course. For those with tenure, it is very rare to actually write papers to publish (though it does exist) -- that is what students, assistants and fellows are kept around for.
> Unfortunately being first to market is key (I think)

No knowing the first thing about your product or market, I'll still go out on a limb and propose that you're most likely wrong. If I had a nickel for every time I thought something was absolutely key, and it turned out to be a wrong assumption - well, I could probably buy a Starbucks latte.

Hey, by all means, work hard, push forward and do awesome stuff and win, I'm all for that - but don't lie to yourself, especially not if it's impacting your health and your family.
> Their momentum is nowhere near that of a building.

True, the inertia of the building is much greater, but we're not talking solid body mechanics here. With the right point of impact centered within a floor, I imagine the fuselage could punch right through the glass on both sides with minimal energy transfer.
In the blog

David Heinemeier Hansson of 37Signals is known for lambasting businesses that seem oblivious to the concept of profitability. I don’t really agree with him.

In his website

About me

Short answer: I happen to like doing fun things for profit.
Surely it depends what your goal is.

You wouldn't leave your job to build apps, but you might to build a business.

Of course apps are fun to build. But making something profitable involves doing a lot of things which are not fun, marketing for example. At this point, someone simply making an app is likely to walk away and just build another. After all, their goal was simply to have fun.
I haven't had a smart-phone yet, but I made a similar observation once about antennas - I would much rather have a stub antenna and better reliability than an internal antenna and have to worry about reception. I wonder if there is a market for a really reliable, long battery-life, etc, phone that was maybe the size of a small walkie-talkie?
I already put the credits for Douglas Crockford at the bottom of videos, and now i puts the credits to YUI for every video .Thanks for your interest to mention about this
While the most profitable movie was the most pirated, if you'll notice, the second most pirated movie was far from the second most grossing movie. I would like to have seen a more consistent correlation for pirating vs grossing, but second place breaks the trend.
Almost no one goes back and checks the predictions of economists. When they do it's a bad scene.
Playing back a 1080p h.264 video using the 24″ Cinema Display (in full screen), the computer drops a lot of frames doing this.

That was the only thing that really surprised me.
Oh wow, that'd be why they don't appear, then. It used to be PR 5 or 6, now it's 0? All the old URLs (/node/<something>) are now redirected to the canonical ones, which is as it should be...

/tutorials/ points to / because I removed the page that was there and linked to them in the sidebar. I have no idea why Google would take the site from 6 PR to 0, wow...
its more like instruments and shark tools that you can find in xcode
'If a company sees diversity as important'

Maybe they seek success as important. How does a focus on diversity help a company succeed?
Congrats to the dotcloud team! I already had the luck to work with seb and sam from the dotcloud team and I can testify that they are extremely skilled and reliable guys. They won't fail you nor your servers :)
My 2 cents
They didn't say anything about spelling...
This book review didn't interest me in the book in the least. Most of the issues considered pivotal are best forgotten, and the reviewer offers little praise.

Tangentially, the author of the review, Louis Menand, is certainly qualified to review history. I highly recommend his book The Metaphysical Club about the origins of American Pragmatism.
And then ACS was pretty much abandoned not long after that.
I already don’t accept any calls. The robocall stuff in the US is out of control.
I’ll give my counter-anecdote. I have made three close friends at work who I frequently talk to about relationship issues, etc, and would happily help them move a couch if they asked. One of them is currently my roommate. I’m 41, so these things can happen as an adult too. It might be different if I had my own family though.
People allergic to dogs should also get consideration though, and have the ability to reject a ride with a service animal.

The ADA should protect both sides.
> (offer void in the Netherlands.)

The big island of Hawaii too
What's been disappointing to me throughout this experience is the fact that a large percentage of people don't seem to understand contagion.

The idea that a young person is safe is convenient for young people, but irrelevant. We never seemed to communicate to a segment of the population that we are trying to keep them from spreading it, as well as keeping them from catching it.
The plan was to dump it on retail investors which Benchmark managed to do.

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/report-adam-neumann-benchma...
Dokku will allow you to host multiple applications on subdomains for which you can create CNAMEs in your DNS settings. Dokku is more of a mini self hosted Heroku without a dashboard so you'll lose out on cpanel features like email hosting.

But If you're not uncomfortable using docker, you can check out Cloudron [0] which handles email [1] and gives you access to quite a few web apps you can easily install on your server. It supports PHP app deployments [2] out of the box but for Django, you'll have to dig a bit deeper into their docs to learn how to deploy a custom docker based app [3].

[0] https://www.cloudron.io/

[1] https://docs.cloudron.io/email/

[2] https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/lamp/

[3] https://docs.cloudron.io/custom-apps/tutorial/
This article is a great example of why people should be able to downvote stories on HN.
The mem column is memory used for compression.
VPC-only sounds like a giant caveat, and it is, but this is a good opportunity to note that this is the trend now with AWS and the direction they're heading - (non-VPC) "EC2 Classic" is being gradually phased out, VPC is now the default for new accounts, and most new features are being added only to VPC. So, time for everyone to start thinking about migrating.
It's not finished, either.
Stock != flow
>What if they are using the intel they are gathering in order to influence the public's opinion as effectively as possible?

Then they're even more incompetent than any of us could have ever imagined.
Would you go into more detail about this? I recently developed an annoying level of anxiety (complete with panic attacks) after a pretty long course of antibiotics.
The “retina” iMac is 5120 by 2880 pixels at 27" diagonal, or 218 pixels per inch. (And it’s amazing.)

4K (3840 by 2160) is pretty nice on a 24" display, but I’d rather have a 20–22" diagonal for it.

At “8K” resolution (i.e. 7680 by 4320 pixels), you’ll get a great result for a display at like 40–44 inches diagonal (220–200 pixels per inch), or even 50", as with such a big display you’ll tend to stay a bit further back.
God, what a mess we are in.

I can't wait for memristors to become commercialized and get TBs of register speed memory on every processor core. None of this cache, paging, NUMA nonsense.
Of course, Uber is trying to dump the cost of this on their drivers.

Loaded language aside, I don't see any other arrangement making sense than the driver being the policyholder; after all, (s)he can be driving for any number of companies, so whose insurance would pay if there was an accident during "Period 1"? It would be a liability mess, and probably much worse for the victims of the accident, who would have to wait out for that to be resolved.

It makes much more sense for drivers to demand a raise than to have the companies cover the insurance, in my opinion.
Maybe this is a silly question, but how do you login?

If one needs to be invited, is that a standard process the visitor can initiate?
Thanks for the details. It still stays that the original Varnish design was also less than optimal, even for the computers of 2006, and that the more recent changes made it using the hardware better.