jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it is this, precisely. And I think legislatively we should clear the way for small business by reducing the burden of regulation and oppressive bureaucracy.
It is more complicated than rich people gaming the system to get richer, but that's definitely part of it, and the generations-long monopoly on land ("ownership", as much as any human can claim that a piece of the earth belongs to them and them alone) enables basically unlimited rent-seeking priced at whatever the market will bear.

http://m.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/What-San-Francisco... goes into what happens to building codes after e.g. an earthquake. TL;DR not much, and I'm sure SF will get absolutely wrecked in the next "big one", people will die because stuff is old and not up to code, there will be public outcry for safer buildings, developers will lobby against it and basically do anything they can to continue to slap apartments up as cheaply as possible while charging $3000/mo for a 500sqft studio, and they'll build even-more-expensive yet not much safer buildings in the ruins. Then repeat.
This is the first time I am hearing about FNA and I follow the MonoGame developments - thanks for posting!

How is the accuracy of porting is achieved? Is this the clean room kind of development?
Mistakes aren't deterministic, they are largely probabilistic.

While ritual suicide might make the victims of an accident feel better, they are ultimately unproductive - there are many classes of disastrous errors that have nothing to do with negligence.

Not to mention also, even in incidents with a preventable cause, it is exceedingly rare for there to be a singular cause. Chernobyl, for example, was the culmination of a vast number of errors and safety lapses. Should the entire plant workforce kill themselves?

Things like nuclear meltdowns are black swan events, with a multitude of causes and guilt. What you're basically suggesting is that, in the case of such a black swan event, we will kill off a large proportion of the only people who can prevent it from happening again.
The ribbon is far more productive as it is at least discoverable without much effort.

Most people have no idea what the toolbar buttons do. To find out you have to play mystery meat with tooltips for ages.
I wish people would just come out and say, "Humans can change the climate. The question is how we deal with that from a economic standpoint."

I understand that argument and would like to have the debate about the trade-offs. But flatly denying isn't helping us move forward.
Hehe looks like I need to get some visually interesting demos up, I've been pretty lazy about that. I started looking to input and event propagation and got lost in a sea of frp and data-flow stuff for a while.
Isn't that called a "paycheck"?
There's plenty of land, the problem is that everybody wants to be in the same dense urban cores. Drive 3-4 hours north or south of San Francisco and you have lots of cheap, beautiful coastal land available.
There's an update from Jan 24 (today), at the bottom. Very relevant items.

Only got around to reading this over a day late, but I'm glad I did. Very clear and well written, the insider's low-down on the new-media realities that are replacing the old ones.
I've heard that durability is an issue on the Z3. I'd love a phone that small which is tough enough not to need a case. (Currently I have an LG G2, which I find too large, despite my large hands; I had to get a case for it after dropping it twice and smashing the screen).
The premise of this article is incredibly short sighted: it doesn't factor in the long-term health effects of eating such food, or the sustainability of those ingredients, or the environmental impact of all those to-go food packages on landfills. In short, the article has set the bar very low when it comes to describing the impact of the McDouble and associated foods.
This is all well known stuff. But I am glad people are writing about it. Sometimes people seem to worship the past without realizing the incredible poverty people lived in back in the day.

Also, I like the jpeg of the black mask mag featuring the Maltese Falcon at the end. The best american modern literature is pulp fiction.
School only dates back until 1914 or so.

In the US, tax-supported public schools have existed since before the Revolution, and Europe and China had high-quality school systems hundreds of years before that. Education wasn't available to farm workers or other laborers, of course, but there were enough middle-class people to support reasonably competent education.

Modern psychoactive drugs weren't around until the 50s.

People have been getting high for thousands of years, on anything they can find. It's probably the second oldest recreational activity, next to sex. If anything, modern strides towards quality control and safety have made getting high safer than it ever has been.

The Internet and lack of exercise are both new.

The Internet is new, but scholarship isn't. Monks spent years copying manuscripts by hand, which is difficult but involves very little physical effort.

Can't comment much on our diets, but I know crops from modern farms have a lot less nutrients than food grown the traditional way.

[citation needed]. Seriously, this is the sort of absurd claim you find on health-nut sites. Do you also believe cell phones cause cancer, or that vaccines cause autism?
Facebook is constantly pushing the envelope trying to get people to believe that
they want to share absolutely everything with everyone –
including the advertisers.

Your privacy settings are irrelevant with respect to advertisers. The targeting means you see ads targeting some aspect of your profile without advertisers getting your identity. This kind of ignorance in a post about how a social network should do things makes me stop reading and ignore the rest.
I see your point, and agree, well said, but not all social networks/web apps should aspire to be the next Facebook, some of them should try to do something different, not necessarily for the masses.
It's not just about HTML5, it's about browser support and speed for the features they use. Browser performance has increased dramatically in the past few years and many people have upgraded to browsers with much better standards support. They still have some hacks, but they can also take advantage of HTML5 when it's available like they do with @font-face.
Here we go yet again. They did not patent "A networked computer system [that] provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users." That's just the abstract. Gotta read the claims, people. The claims are what tell you exactly what the patent covers.
I think the actual position almost never lives up to such a breathless description.

Back when the economy was a bit more dire, I interviewed with a place that called itself "funky", with a team of "ninjas".

Turned out to be an accountancy software house with some typical line of business apps that needed to be ported to the web because a local web startup was eating them up for breakfast and converting their customers like crazy.
I just find this interesting. the fake military uniform of the father, the bride rebelling against her royal roots by marrying a commoner and so on, what do you think?
Can i know which source you ended up using for man page?
It's uglier in Java:

minVal = a < b ? a : b;

I never use them, and typically enforce coding standards preventing their use as well. Good code should be easy to read, and if/else blocks are easy to read.
If you do end up going this route, and you're not a windows user; if you want the nvidia card to work in linux you must set SATA mode in bios to legacy, yes, I know that makes no sense but there you go.
This is a preview of the future without oil. The North Koreans lost all their oil subsidies from the Soviets in the early 90s. That's why they had the famines in the 90s, nobody drives cars and why there are no tractors.
here is a quick screenshot comparison http://grab.by/4UDZ
No chance. Chinese people are not exotic enough :( , we are as common as Chinese restaurants.
I know a number of Indian, primary out-sourcing, tech companies who employ folks I know as "token white guys". They are technically knowledgeable for sure, but magically there's always one token white guy presented as the project architect or tech lead during client meetings, who ends up shifting to the next project in the sales cycle without actually fulfilling the tech lead role.

Not all companies do this, but enough do that it's more the norm than the exception.
Wish zed would have a date on the blogpost of when he posted that.
Thanks, Rishi -- and, I just checked out FlyingCart.com (saw you mention it in your HN About Me section). Looks great. Do you white label that for other sites, too?
> The best indicator that you're going to give money to a charity (or political campaign) is that you've already done so.

This ignores why you gave the money though. Example, I donated to a particular children's hospital because it was the dying wish of a friend that donations be made to that specific charity instead of sending flowers to the funeral. I don't care about or have a connection to that charity in any other way and I'm not going to dontate to them again but they hound me incessantly for more money.
Yeah, that's a fair point. I imagine this could be better than what's there now.
That the extra doses were administered in a different county (Fort Bend) probably exacerbated the response, plus the very plausible bias of the local officials in Humble. The Harris DA Kim Ogg is a Democrat (tellingly not mentioned in this article) who is painted by opponents as a “Soros DA” who is soft on crime.
I did read it but I cut out the irrelevant part.

He's not disputing the per-transaction cost of Bitcoin OR Visa, and is explicitly pointing out how looking at it on a per-transaction basis is misleading.

He is disputing the overall total network costs, not considered on a per-transaction basis but in terms of the total value provided by the network to all its users.

Transactions per second is just one of the factors that could add value to a monetary system, but it isn't the only one.
Technically yes it is possible. Very, very unlikely though.
We had a good snow last month - about 6 inches. But yes that kind of thing is so exceedingly rare (about once every 10 years) that the entire city economy basically grinds to a halt so everyone can go outside and play in the snow. The last time that happened was probably the incident you are describing.
The cookie policies and laws are broken. The ever-annoying cookie popups are breaking the internet in more ways than it fixes it. The choice to make each website show their own cookie selection screens is part of all this.

I am one of the few that (most of the time) actually takes the time to click "Reject all" whenever possible. Some websites are EXTREMELY shady when it comes to this though and hides their targeted advertisement and user-profile building into their "legitimate interests" section that IS NOT automatically turned off even if you "reject all". You have to manually go trough them and "object" to each and every one of them. Often no "object to all" button.

Imagine if sex used the same notion of "consent":
"Ok so you rejected having intercourse with me, but I have a 'legitimate interest' in fellatio that you didn't specifically say no to, so now you have to!". It is just terrible..

"Legitimate interest" is a broken term in those cookie forms. Legitimate to whom? Of course any company has a legitimate interest in making buckets of money.

Every browser should have a mandatory "cookie preferences" section where you can set your preferences for each of the typical use-cases for cookies.
Strictly functional cookies? OK. Targeted advertisement? NO. Tracking between websites? NO. Measure site performance? OK. etc.etc.

Whatever role the current cookie panes now fill, the browser should take over using some standard. The preferences could get sent directly over HTTP with the initial page-load and the server/site would have to comply or face extreme fines.

With the browser approach you could maintain your own allow/blocklist for site-specific settings. All this could be synchronized across your various devices.

Only then would we not be annoyed by those popups again.
So if I opt-out, it (basically) sends my ip address to lots of trackers?

Why? That sounds illegal.

Why doesn't it simply not load the trackers?
No. One particular flavor of politician wants you to believe science is just "opinions". You're simply highlighting that those people are liars. That has nothing to do with the scientific method.
> The observation of sunspots predates modern astronomy by at least three millennia.

Any idea how they watched those back then? With the naked eye seems too painful.
is this post quite old?
Thank you knieveltech and chrismcb for enlightening me.

You made me feel very stupid though.
You are right, it won't change, if someone want to use SQLite or another option (even Redis) they can fork it, this is an app for learning purposes.
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=y&prev...

and

https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...

Seems like my memory was a bit hazy. The issue was that not that they inserted their own ads on top of mobile content, but that they inadvertedly blocked some ad content in the actual sites.
Nope. It's just your fault the you've told him "this is what it will look like" before having the content. It's not the truth.

EDIT: He's not going to "sign off" on it until the content is in anyway… right?
Could be completely unrelated, but I seem to recall that anyone who bought certain lines of Chromebooks was supposed to be given 10 free complementary wifi sessions through Gogo. I wonder if Gogo was given the cert by Google for that.
Some days it just feels like every "scientific" article posted to HN is just someone's opinion with no data, and the only reason they even get upvoted is because people who probably didn't even read the article wanted to argue about it.
Yes, the definition of "runner" is somewhat blurry but you could argue that you need at least some training to qualify, just like the 10x programmer is compared to an average programmer, not the entire population.
In my mind, the issue isn't the ability to buy IP and sue, but the fact that there is shitty IP out there that can be bought and misused.

The best IP a non-practicing entity gets is from legit companies who sold off their IP or lost it in bankruptcy. When that happens, it's just monetizing the R&D the company invested in.

The big issue is dogcrap patents that granted to garage inventors with way too big a scope or after there was already a ton of prior art. The trolls take those patents and then extort the shit out of everyone they can.
Interesting. Makes me wonder if there's value in shipping multiple pivots of the same concept when keeping multiple paradigms in a single app could be confusing. Sort of like a/b testing at the app store level, or purposefully unbundling yourself.
As an anecdote, I'm teaching my first class this semester, and had a similar-ish experience, but with a much worse outcome for the students. To avoid this issue of people not knowing how the test is going to look like (and hence not knowing how to study for it), I decided to make two versions of each test question (and each question focuses on a simple part of the material that I want them to take home) and randomly assign each version of a question either to the actual test or to a practice test that I give them out a week or so before the actual test and then solve the practice test in front of them, clearly stating what I do and don't expect them to do.

Now, in the first test they did well, but in the second test a significant fraction of the class (like 60+%) just wrote in their tests _my_ answers to the practice questions, and some argued that since there was some similarity they should get half credit or something. My reaction was, and still is, wtf?
That's a more inefficient solution to your problem. I wouldn't say suicide is the simplest solution either. The easiest way is to just change your attitude.
Kickstarter - I can post a project, and potentially get thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars...without loosing equity?! Game changer.
If you're preventing SQL injection, you do need to run the variable through a filter (mysql_real_escape_string, parameter binding, etc.) in order to prevent a successful attack.

The other issue is that if I encode entities when inserting html, that means I have to call this on every page view. For simple strings that's not too big a deal, but if I have a lot of content, this gets resource intensive pretty fast for larger scale sites with lots of people hitting a page at once.

In this case I'd rather due the encoding once, which handles a majority of cases.
You're not going to see me using an OS where I have to use a SSH-client written in Javascript where I have to upload my keys to a random site on the internet.

By not supporting local applications, lots of the "cloudy" stuff I do, for instance by hooking up to remote sessions via SSH and RDP, is not viable or is inherently much more complicated and less smooth. The "everything is in the cloud" goes both ways. Prevent me from accessing it and your OS is actually less "cloud-capable". Like ChromeOS is.

Edit:
To come off a little bit less rantish, what I think is the key point here is that the proponents of ChromeOS, who wants it to succeed, has their vision somewhat clouded (pun intended).

I don't think anyone here questions the potential of the web as a platform. For certain kinds of applications. We have all seen the amazing stuff happening on the web, while the desktop has been at a relative standstill. We know what this technology can do, and it is finally getting some momentum. Change is happening at a fantastic pace and we're moving forward towards a new web with even more capabilities.

But in all this excitement it's easy to forget that just because a platform can do something doesn't mean it's the best fit for the task. Certain things just works better as local applications. Remember the catch-phrase "use the right tool for the job"?

Why do you want to shoehorn everything into the web, even where it doesn't provide you any benefits? Why should we scrap all out working applications, just because someone out there has written the same application, somewhat limited, in HTML and JS? And why are you so eager about losing control of your data?

Lots of common computer use-cases depends on reasonable IO-capabilities. Until everyone has at least a 100mbps synchronous internet-connection and the internet as a whole has a backbone to support this, these kinds of applications will be severely impaired.

The web is nice. Being forced to go web only when it's not practical is less so.
Disagree.

Trademark nothing until it matters.

No investment, no profit, no trademark.
Get rid of the pilot and then you aren't constrained to the limits of human survivability. Extend the track to achieve Mach 4, and the plan is simplified, plus no more horrific memories for school children as it blows into tiny bits on CNN.
Not that I dis-agree, but do you consider facebook a startup? They seem like they've entered out of that phase to me.
Hacker News is a big part of that research on big life decisions. This site attracts a certain demographic, and it's very worthwhile to know what opinions and experiences people of your demographic have.
I think the answer to both your questions is that the only way Google will succeed with ChromeOS is if they consider it a long-term play. The goal should be to have the most refined cloud based system 5-10 years from now. When looking at your questions from that perspective I’d give you two answers…

On Peripherals – Google is already addressing that problem with Cloud Print right now. The same concepts could easily be translated to other peripherals. Anyone whose tried to use it will tell you the concept is very rough right now but it has promise and several companies have agreed (in theory) to support it in their hardware with future versions.

On Large Files – I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t think our current bandwidth is just a fraction of what will be available to us 10 years from now. For video editors who need to use raw files I don’t think Chrome is appropriate but Google’s said as much by targeting the OS at the netbook/low-end notebook market to start. Again the point is to refine the OS through iteration (as Google does with all their products) so when editing video in the cloud is a possibility they'll already have the most refined OS for it.
"Israel captured the West bank in a war."

Israel captured it from Jordan in 1967, which had taken it in 1948. Jordan's occupance was recognized by practically noone. Up until that time, it had been part of the British Mandate of 1922, which was an international effort to create a Jewish state.

"The territory now known as the West Bank was a part of the British Mandate of Palestine entrusted to the United Kingdom by the League of Nations after World War I. The terms of the Mandate called for the creation in Palestine of a Jewish national home without prejudicing the civil and religious rights of the non-Jewish population of Palestine. During that time the area was called by the historic names of its two regions -- Judea and Samaria." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_bank#History

"Judea (from the Hebrew: יהודה, "Tribe of Judah") was the name of the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea

"Samaria (Hebrew: שֹׁמְרוֹן‎) is a term used for a mountainous region roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank. [..] "Samaria" derives from an ancient city of the same name, which was located near the south of Samaria, and was the capital of the Kingdom of Israel." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samari
Of course Groupon is amazing and Word Lens is jaw-dropiing but I really am fond of intersect.com because it is such a good idea.
For god's sakes please!
The announcement on Dabble DB's website:

http://blog.dabbledb.com/2010/06/140character-dabbling.html

http://dabbledb.com/

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Windows Update installs new software in the domain of Windows and other Microsoft products. It is not expected to install updates or extensions to any 3rd party software.
So if I made a system that traded automatically and I was convinced that it would beat the market, how would I go about connecting it to the stock exchange? What costs would there be?
Did you know you can actually post a real poll?

http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
it took acura/honda a while to figure that out. they used to have the integra, legend, vigor, etc. and then renamed all of them to have boring names like the rsx, cl/rl, and tl.
Santorini
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorini
I absolutely love postmortems. I think it's because I love seeing the complex ways our dear friend Murphy works. Also, it's really nice to be able to see problems other people run into, so you can avoid them or plan for them yourself.
What's unstable about Abu Dhabi?
Yes.

On a bad day can't solve some of those interview problems. (and I think of myself as an average coder although I try to mitigate that handicap by building from the ground
up and testing those components well)
The analogy doesn't hold. The problem is not so much that your school assignment is 1 million times easier. There's also:

1) There's not such a huge variation in the time necessary to complete an assignment. Your professor knows that some people can finish it in a couple of days but others need a whole week. But it's much harder to estimate the time to get $1M.

2) You can finish a school assignment on your own. Assuming you have access to the necessary resources (books, net, etc) it depends only on you. You don't need any luck to finish it. But to get rich you need favorable market conditions, meeting the right investors, hiring the right people, the government not screwing you up, etc, i.e. "luck".