jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think people are missing the point of this post. Yes, it most likely is an employee matching contribution scheme at its source. But this is a literal trillion dollar company giving less than $250 to the operating system that they essentially based their whole software stack on.

Yes, at the end of the day Apple didn't do anything _wrong_ by using their software and making money off of it. It's just a little on the nose to be making a donation that small.
> Retyping out programs from magazines isn't even something most programmers have considered these days

I'm still retyping stuff from stack overflow instead of copying. I find it really effective to really think through the code you're borrowing from somewhere — because once it's committed under your name, you're the one responsible for it.
You're twisting things. Amazon can alert you of the storage use and threaten to charge you in a few days, not a month. They can give you grace once per year so you're "on notice" after your first goof.
Link to the actual plan on City of San Jose Website https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-office...
No “pre-mine” doesn't mean fairly distributed. Bitcoin is a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme as well. Early adopters mine or buy large proportions at negligible prices while late adopters mine or buy negligible proportions at large prices.
No, they just pushed today. They presumably didn't want to talk about MobileCoin before it was ready.
You point is true for all organisations that cover many issues, and do not concentrate on one single small issue. You end up not donating to anything, even if your donation would have a large net positive.

Tagging money for specific issues is problematic because the organisation doesn’t change its budget percentages for small donations (money is fungible), and organisations find tagging difficult to manage [TODO insert article link here].
I've DNS-blackholed trace.svc.ui.com (maybe it's slightly different, this is from memory) and plan to entirely wipe and sell all my UI gear within the next two months.
Of course, in a post-IAP world, you can just charge users multiple $50 "best value" virtual currency purchases over several months, which they can then use to roll for video game items that will 99% of the time be of no use to them.
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The moment you lose your key, WebAuthN becomes terrible and the UX is atrocious. You may literally have to go to an office (in the middle of a pandemic!) to restore access to your account.

This is bananas. We absolutely should not be recommending them to normal people until security researchers come to their senses and fix this problem.
You should absolutely ask the diversity question to members of minority groups because they are not immune to having strange ideas about diversity, inclusion and especially equity.

When your interviewer is a genderqueer woman, and she tells you that she has trouble working with men (that really happened) you appreciate the honesty, and then you run as fast as you can. That was a bridge-burning move from that company.
The mortality rate is roughly 1.7%. You took the result of dividing deaths by cases and added a percent sign instead of multiplying by 100 to get an actual percentage.

That number is actually 0.017 people die for every one person that gets it.
It's not secret, more like private. He quit because he didn't like being a celebrity and having people pry at his personal life.
From this framing, though, there's only a few reasonably moral possibilities. Like, surely the system of "feeds" as described by the author is not good and should be destroyed, right? The only way for users to have control over "feeds" is for them to not get their content from businesses at all.
> Do note that "Free Speech" doesn't exist over there as a concept.

1. Free speech as a right isn't critical to the Streisand effect, and

2. "Free speech" as a concept certainly exists in China. The formal orientation of the government with respect to the concept (and quite possibly the public perception of the value of the concept) is very different than in Western liberal democracies, but the concept certainly exists, just as the concept of, say, "theocracy" exists in most places, even the places that don't practice it.
They could just mirror all the git repos minus what they find objectionable. github isn't immune to pressure. They would probably like to sell a lot of github enterprise and whatnot in China.
Actually you're right, magic was the wrong word. Maybe it's less mystery and more magic.
There's also some more information about this on Twitter's developer mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/brow...
Basically no minimums and no merchant account. My account is with whoever is providing the service and that's it. Apple does a great job of making is seamless -- so I would want the equivalent of that for the web. I feel like Google Checkout + app engine could get there, but they don't do subscriptions.
You may run afoul of the credit card companies if you try to verify ID on purchase.
Consulting maxim: You must give the customer The Warm Fuzzy Feeling (tm).
Consulting maxim: You are primarily in the customer service business, not the technical business.

Here's the most counter-intuitive part of it -- or at least it took me the longest to figure out. The "aha" moment came after two or three years of full time consulting.

So, you're missing the final deadline on the project. You're missing it bad, your customer needs it done like a week ago. No matter how hard you try, you'll need another week or two to complete the project.

Now, your options are:

1) get a metric ton of coffee, disconnect the phone, lock the door, go completely into death march crunch mode, work till you start seeing things and hearing voices from sleep deprivation, and deliver the product in 5 days, or

2) visit your customer every day in person, looking normal, spend 2 hours with them discussing what is done, what problems slow you down, what will be done next, etc, and deliver the product in 10 days, probably cutting features like there is no tomorrow.

Now, if I am the customer in this scenario, I totally prefer (1) -- especially since I need it a week ago. The thing is, some of my customers look much happier if they get (2). In fact, they are nervous, unhappy and angry when they get (1), and they look calm, satisfied and friendly when they get (2).
"it's fairly well acknowledged that Apple's copy/paste is the slickest/easiest implementation out there on a mobile device."

I strongly disagree with that. Provide some evidence. For me, it has a false positive rate of about 50% - eg half the time I'm trying to scroll and the copy thing pops up.

Also I think that in the past Apple has innovated. The magnetic power supply connector on the Macbook is still one of my favorite features. That's a 'wow cool' feature other laptops don't have.
> suicide-inducing
> mildest winter climate in Canada

I'm confused, these two things aren't mutually exclusive.
I don't think they "con" people.

I bought the Dyson. I like it. I'm not looking to clean my air that much because I don't have problems with air quality.

It's a misleading news program. CADR is not the biggest factor that matters to many people who can afford a Dyson.
>I can argue that every rule in the App Store contributes to making it a more effective developer->user market than the open web.

Really? What about Apple banning an Android magazine app? The user must be shielded from alternates for their own good so that they won't get tempted to shift to an inferior device?

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/26/apple-bans-android-ma...

And what about a prototyping app like this one? http://blog.robrhyne.com/post/1015614125/google-voice-says-h...

Those are just the tip of the iceberg. Taking a year to judge a Google voice app? Good for the user!

>: the App Store is oriented towards exposing and supporting great apps, not just apps in general. It’s a philosophy that says “What users need is 50 great apps, not 10,000 average apps”.

Taking a 5 minute look at a few of the 300K apps in the app store is enough to dispel this, Apple approves trite apps all the time.
I am just coding the same thing right now (began a week ago). Also had the idea to use bit.ly as shortener (because of its api) and make use of multiple shortened links to store the data. Right before looking at HN I was doing some research for a good js compressing algo.

On the one hand i am a bit disappointed (that i am too late), but on the other hand hashify.me is made far better I could make it. Great realisation.
Wait, isn't Zend the opposite of a rails-style opinionated framework and basically just a collection of classes that you can assemble however you want for your project? I've only done a little bit with it, but that's always been the impression I've got from the literature I've read.
I'm going to be very curious to see if this is monetizable. If so more power to Chas, showing a market where I would never have guessed one to be.
Check out W3 if you get a chance, and if you ever want to talk about it feel free to message me on Twitter @evanw.
CAPI is for creating clusters only. It doesn't offer any orchestration.
worth a short read: https://franceisbacon.com/ (not about this Francis Bacon)
> As the number of programmers increases, the demand for programmers grows exponentially faster because we can create whatever widgets we want on our phone and sell them for whatever. It’s just infinite leverage at infinite scale for basically free.

Just because software doesn't have the same physical limitations, doesn't mean its usefulness and market value are unlimited. We use software to get physical output, even if only to draw pictures and make sounds. Said another way, there isn't infinite attention or need.

So pay to produce it will likely fall off as the market becomes saturated.
Thanks for your reply. I never thought a NASA engineer would answer me, but one of the things that blows me away about this community is truly knowledgeable people are participants in discussions and often weigh in.
That doesn't make it illegal, there are plenty of jurisdictions where non-clean-room reverse engineering is perfectly legal.
My initial suspicion while reading the book was that he outsourced the research and writing for most of 4HWW. I reckon he asked one of his virtual assistants to write up the draft of what you can use virtual assistants for...and went from there.

Still, I respect the guy for maxing out the idea, and he's certainly hugely driven.
>Just because there are better alternatives now for distributed version control, doesn't mean that the centralized approach has suddenly stopped working.

Except that a distributed RCS can do everything a centralized on can. The funny thing is, this is the last argument used by people religious about SVN but even this doesn't stand up. SVN isn't even particularly good at doing centralized revision control. Do you work somewhere that you'll have to be able to prove what was in a given release? SVN can't do that since you can rewrite history with no way of detecting the rewrite. If this is not acceptable you'll have to buy Fisheye.

SVN on it's own isn't useful for much of anything. It's only after applying several other commercial products that you finally get something only substandard.
>Hey, at least they're using something.

Bad attitude in my opinion. At some point they will have to do a costly and complicated migration to a modern system, and that could have been completely avoided by simply using a modern system to begin with.

>There's no need to waste time on a religious war within the church of version control, when there are non-believers who must be shown the light.

The only religious behavior I see here is claiming that a two systems are equivalent when they clearly are not.
Except there's obviously not enough talent density in areas where companies claim they can't hire anyone. Or there is and no one wants to work at those companies because the pay is too low, or conditions are abysmal.
If you are willing to work for free, why not consider to work on some open-source projects that interest you? Those projects have a lot of stuff that you can help and it will look good on your resume.
Absolutely. Of the 5 services mentioned:

- Zencoder - I'd use these to minimise costs at the beginning, but I'd build my own system along side it and replace Zencoder with that system once I started to earn.

- Twilio - Spend the time you'd use learning Twilio to learn how to configure up Asterisk instead. Set it up with multiple SIP providers with multiple PSTN gateways.

- Saplo - I'm not familiar with these guys and it's not fully clear what they do to me.

- Adaptive Payments - Paypal? You're kidding right. Don't use Paypal. If you absolutely must use them, make sure you have a drop in replacement for when they fuck you over.

- SimpleGeo - No need to use a web service for this. You can get IP to geo data for free nowadays, and every programming language has a library for it.
Use the right tool for the job.

Google Docs is not project management software, so you waste time and energy setting it up to do what you need. I've just moved to project management software and found that because it is structured to manage a project, it gets out of the way and lets me think about what the project needs.
OK, so I gave AppSumo my email because I trust patio, and they said they aren't spammers. Now they've sent me a welcome email, saying in part:

> We ONLY email you a few times a month about our exclusive deals for the best web applications.

There is no opt-out link. Going to my account on their website, there is no way delete my account or unsubscribe. So here's what's going to happen: they will email me. I will curse their name, mark it as spam (because that's what it is), and gmail will learn that they are spammers. But I'm scratching my head: why would they do such a thing? EDIT I've now marked their welcome message as spam, so hopefully that will save me the trouble of seeing their emails in future.

In addition, I can't access the video - it says something about share/tweet, but the buttons don't appear for me. I'm not even interested in doing this thing - just interested in learning what the basic idea is, especially since it's patio's.

Overall, I do not rate this experience highly. :/
There's been plenty of information on container support, matter of fact it's being developed out in the open on GitHub - Project K.

https://github.com/aspnet/XRE

Then just use docker to run your code on EITHER windows or linux.
I suppose 'minus' makes things slightly longer, but is there a way to distinguish between R and r without three extra syllables? Both are likely to come up when chmodding.
I was thinking exactly the same thing (as others seem to have done). As a competitive gamer, what the post describes certainly sounds like flow. Unfortunately, as others have mentioned, it's not always easy to replicate. The best I can do is turn on music and let my fingers do the rest.
For what it's worth, at my college it was taken pretty seriously, and professors absolutely did have the power to fail students for it.

The About page sadly doesn't say where he teaches beyond "Giant Public University in the South", which is unfortunate because, as cool as this blog may be, I would never want to send any of my hypothetical future children there.
Yeah, but why use landing pages at all? I never understood why some sites have a page whose sole purpose is to make you click something again. The only worse thing is a landing page with some sort of flash intro that, only if I'm very, very lucky, I can skip.
Why would I need to provide a better analysis than this? The benefits of scientific advancement to the individual are so numerous and ubiquitous that only an idiot would dismiss them.
> I can't say that I find this particular blog post that interesting. "Teacher applies firm standards, which a spineless administration then undermines" is a well-worn subject if you have spent time reading about education, and this particular post is not a strong introduction if you haven't.

I find this subject very interesting. Could you point me to some, in your opinion, strong introductions?
But every one can be valuable in it's own sphere.

So do child labour laws protect premature code?

Does iterate entail disiplining a child or trying to have another?
I don't speak for the company, but I don't think we're going to respond to an attack piece by the Mozilla CTO by disclosing how our search algorithm works. ;)

In any event I'm not a person who can decide to release that information. All I can do here is to ask people to think about what evidence has been offered and the motives behind this article.
Ethics and morality aside, I'm curious what allows the EU to "enforce" laws on a US company. Let's say Google and Microsoft don't register entities in the EU. Can they do anything?

Can Microsoft and other US-based technology companies theoretically just keep doing their own thing, tell the EU government "to hell with it, we're abiding by US laws, you have a choice to stop importing Windows and invent your own OS if you don't like us"?
This is a good idea, so I tried it and it failed ... because I had already frozen my credit reports [1]. I guess it worked and I should sleep soundly.

[1] http://www.clarkhoward.com/news/clark-howard/personal-financ...
Anecdotal evidence of course, but I am happy to confirm I have ingested all four ingredients on numerous occasions and am still alive (as of the time of this posting).
It means what you probably think of as "year".
Inflation would be a way to get rid of debt, but it literally takes money from the poor and working class and gives it to the rich.

10% inflation is equivalent to a person's salary going down by 10%. Also, any savings you had would be eaten up by 10%. Inflation is the same as taking people's money to pay debt. It's not some magic thing that makes debt go poof.
> Finally, they told me that at the moment someone allegedly bought an option for a screen version of the book. But, reading between the lines, I realized that they just do not want to work with an unknown person.

Maybe they were just trying to blow you off, but if someone else already owns the option on the original material you're stopped before you even get started. You're definitely welcome to have written your screenplay adaptation, but until you get the TV rights to the original material from whoever owns them, you don't really have a legal leg to stand on for making a commercial adaptation. If I were you, I'd try to track down who owns the rights, and see if you can't sell them your adaptation. Or try and negotiate purchasing the rights.
Cryptography is a tool that enables applications. Cryptocurrency is an application of cryptography.

While I don't believe this myself, I could see a logically consistent case for supporting the development of ciphers and banning something like TrueCrypt. It's not about the technology, it's about how you choose to use it.
Thanks! I didn't knew about that feature
What is output?

That's the big question. What gets measured?

Capitalism optimizes for - something. And what it optimizes for matters. Think of the "free market" as a system for evaluating an objective function. You get what you optimize for. That may not be what you want.

"Externalities" are not in the objective function, which is the cause of many problems.
> the sale of .ORG

Wait, what???
Previous days:

- Day one: https://kate-editor.org/post/2019/2019-11-22-kf6-sprint-day-...

- Day two: https://kate-editor.org/post/2019/2019-11-23-kf6-sprint-day-...
The only feature that I use google search for nowadays is extension filtering.

Ext:pdf is great for finding about technical topics
If you have a chance can you test again? Also do you have the exact version of iOS?
I don't want to bash or put down anyone, but frankly I don't see any point with Makesite.py. But, why do we have a toy project that openly admits that it reinvents the wheel on the first page of HN?

Makesite.py is "sold" as an alternative to Jekyll for people who prefer Python. Yet, it completely fails to mention Pelican [1]. Why should I bother with this instead of going with the featureful and well-tested Pelican?

[1] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican
Sure, but mark-to-market is a commonly used method of valuing assets. Of course what you’re saying is true, but there’s nothing inherently wrong with valuing a portfolio like this. Even with real currency, you can’t directly measure value in another currency for the reasons you gave. So it’s probably just a better idea to ignore slippage and bid-ask bread when talking about value.
My team (Spring Boot / Angular greenfield app in an enterprise) has a guy that transitioned over from .NET and is totally new to the Java ecosystem. He has 30+ years experience with SQL and can't stand entity frameworks or make them do the best-practice stuff he knows we should be doing, but with JOOQ he's had a lot of success bringing his extensive knowledge base to bear on our project.
I guess if you write technology predictions like people write horoscopes, and then interpret them years later like people interpret horoscopes, you can call yourself a brilliant futurist.
That's merely a symptom, not a cause. The cause is that US prisons are for profit organisations, and that laws are written by lobbyists and passed by bribes. This shows how effective market forces are.
No. If I spend €400 on this and get shot down, I've got nothing. If I spend €400 on an MVP that I can test in the marketplace, I've taken a step forward, I have an asset, and I've got something I can pivot from.
If smart is pursued to the detriment of other positive characteristics - then 'smart' can be considered overrated.
No.

I'm way more interested in what potential users think of the idea.

To be quite honest, I don't even care what a business type person wearing a suit has to say about my projects/ideas. I'm also highly skeptical about so called "Market experts".

Perhaps you might want to consider arranging your idea so that you take the money from VCs in exchange for meeting potential startup founders.
I meant that we've been through most varieties we could considering the environment so far. Of course new forms of societies will appear as the environments (technological, sociological, environmental, biological etc) change.

My whole point was that it's impossible to create a "frozen", immutable form of society. There is no ideal form, it's always a compromise of some sort, and it always changes.
At worst he's only out by about 2 years with that one. That's pretty damn close.
Commendable effort but as someone who has spent significant time dealing with closed hardware, I believe that it is more efficient and beneficial long term to build a platform that supports linux. I support this project anyway because non-linear outcomes occur often enough in the marketplace of reality. Who can really know what will evolve from this work?
I don't think there is a single tipping point the way you think. The same is true now if you consider the other ways you can spend your capital.

a -1% rate on a mortgage with 20% down payment is effetely a 4% annual return on investment.

If you can make 10%/yr in the stock market. and your mortgage is 3%/yr you should be maxing out the loan already and putting your cash back into stocks to make the 7% difference, not another house, if mortgages are 0%, you are making 10%, If mortgages are -1% you are making 11%, ect

The downsides to this strategy in a negative interest rate scenario are the same as they are today: If all your capital is locked up in down payments, you are missing out on stock gains entirely. If all your capital is in the market, you are vulnerable to bubbles and swings there.
If this is a social network then I'm a militia!