jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Gruber gets it exactly backwards here. Google is pushing Android exactly because it needs to mitigate the impact of moves like Apple's iAds. Google goal is protecting its search business from a potentially hostile monopoly, not killing Apple's phone business. Would it be smart of Google to sit on the sidelines while Apple becomes totally dominant in the mobile computing market and to trust Apple to leave all the money it could then make from advertising on the table?

It's interesting how profoundly the backgrounds of the company founders affect corporate strategy. Steve is fundamentally a salesman and thinks in terms of products. Google's heads are engineers and think first about platforms and protocols. Last time these two philosophies clashed Apple leaped out ahead but eventually lost to a cheaper, commodifiable platform. I expect this time will be no different.
As a color blind human, I think I might resent "Even the color blind know," but you're completely right. I've never had trouble (even with overall poor vision) figuring out when to stop and when to go.
I enjoyed checking it out, although it seems to be a very short loop.

On the topic of annoyances, we have white noise generators in our offices - these are terrible. I hunt them down and turn them off wherever they are nearby.

Apparently the thinking is that it is better for the entire environment to be noisy than for it to be library-quiet such that you can distinctly hear a conversation down the hall.
I have a story that backfired. I had a team of 5 developers that were working in a product. The company had been trying to build the product for several years. When I saw the architecture they were using I tried to convince the architect to make some changes. They wouldn't do it. They wouldn't even let me touch the code. I was a manager I wasn't supposed to get involved. So I thought. "It is better to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission". So I started to build the product from scratch. I had plenty of time and no one cared what I did. After 5 or 6 months I already had a product that was way a head than the official product. When I tried to show it to my manager he got really mad. He literally screamed at me. That was 1.5 years ago. I went in a depression for a long time. They fired the architect. They fired my manager. The developers had to spin their wheels for a long time. Then they left. And the product is still not ready.
Exactly. Sometimes I fantasize about being laid off, so I can have excuse why I am leaving this cushy job...
This is a good article, but I think you could argue that the point is that this bubble isn't like the last bubble. No bubble is the same as the last bubble. The sources of investment, and what is being invested in, is different in every bubble.

Bubble is such a loaded, judgemental term. How about over-optimistic? A lot of new things have been doing really well: Facebook, Uber, etc. So many investments are priced very optimistically. Some will succeed, many will fail. Many useful investents will be made. Much money will be lost. Unless you are an angel investor I wouldn't lose a lot of sleep over it.
General Taguba's report showed that a man was forced to have sex with a teenage boy.

It did not. Please do not mistake me for someone unwilling or unable to do my own research, or someone interested in being lied to. This will be my final comment.

The finding that you are misreporting is on page 17, item I, under the heading "I find the intentional abuse of detainees by military personel included the following acts": "Writing "I am a Rapest" (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee and then photographing him naked;"

If you believe that events transpired differently, that is your right, but it is not supported by the report you cited.

The distinction is meaningless.

Let me reiterate with different emphasis: The distinction is absolutely crucial to what can and should be done about it. Having a clear picture of the problem and being accurate and precise about what is actually going on is essential to finding a solution. Obscuring the problem under a blurry haze of blame is not a solution and doesn't get you any closer to one. It's like trying to untangle a knotted mess of cables by trying to decide which cable's fault it is and then pointing at it harder and harder in the hope that it will resolve itself.
Microsoft bought a license to Version 7 Unix from AT&T. They mixed in some BSD stuff. Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) was originally one of the licensees of Xenix and ended up inheriting it from Microsoft around 1987.

SCO bought Unixware and some licenses for SysV from Novell. They ended up selling all that to a Linux and DOS vendor named Caldera. SCO ended up changing their name to Tarantella.

Caldera changed their name to The SCO Group and under the leadership of Darl McBride, they became one of the most annoying patent trolls ever.
And the AP courses I took were and had multiple tests, like the example given.
My business (LabSlice) was just announced as a semi-finalist. I didn't even realize it was publicly announced until I clicked this link in the poster's blog: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2010/11/aws-start-up-challenge-20....

I am just a data point, but it's worth mentioning that LabSlice has no VC funding at all, and is truly a startup (ie. the website has only been online for a month or so). So on the one hand I can attest to some success, even without serious VC backing. On the other hand I will admit to surprise that the AWS competition classifies a startup as a business with less than $10M in revenues or $10M VC funding. Sure, they may technically be a startup, but they are in a much different league to the guy in the basement.

In some ways it would be pragmatic to have a VC funded tier and a non-VC funded tier. That's the only way to differentiate businesses to give a better chance to the little guy. But in reality this is a competition that Amazon funded out of their pocket and they can call whatever rules they see fit.
Penny Arcade summed up nicely why I'll never play such a game:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/11/29/
You should check Alastair Reynolds, specifically the Revelation Space series.
Massive Attack, Prodigy, Fron Line assembly, Assemblage 23, Covenant, VNV Nation, Front 242, Hallucinogen, Infected Mushroom

something like that...
Very sad news. At least, delicious has the export option.

For someone with almost 9000 bookmarks it came out to 1.7MB .html file. (and yes, tags are in the source)

I wasn't using Delicious to full extent, as my needs were simple, just cross browser, cross platform, cross machine bookmark service.

Will have to check out Pinboard, Historious and other alternatives mentioned in this thread.
Yeah I had to pay this much just recently. I was annoyed as I knew the same item would be avaialble for roughly $10. But I needed it that day - not an option to wait a couple of days for delivery when you have no display.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. When I studied quantum physics, I definitely thought it was beautiful, in the same way that I find some algorithms astonishingly elegant.

Simple though? No. They are not simple.
For more photos like these check http://start3d.com

They can also generate 3D "images" (they call them piku-piku) from two images. You can find more details and instructions on their website.

Cristi
If I could upvote this 100x, I would! I've just spent an age trying to find the name of that font to post here - kept on thinking it was Eurostile too (which others here appear to dislike too...).

Handel Gothic, the choice of backstreet internet cafes around the world.
Another reason is what I believe economists call it "the law of decreasing marginal utility". Every extra dollar you have is (usually) worth less and less, since you pay for the things you want/need the most first, and money is only worth what you buy with it.

Your expected utility is not your expected dollars. The average person will pay more into insurance than they get out of it. However it's worth it for the small chance that disaster could strike and you could lose everything. Better to sacrifice a small amount of utility to prevent losing a large amount from becoming homeless.
This isn't corporate taxes.
> In the last decade, GWAS analysis has now lead to the ability to identify the gene combinations responsible for intelligence (as well as height, various cancer predispositions etc), and predictive ability is high (i.e. predicting cohort differences in income, years of education etc just from genetic material)

That you seem to think GWAS operates at a genetic level, just for a start, leads me to doubt very strongly you will be able to provide any supporting citations for the claims you make here, which are wildly heterodox verging upon eugenicist.

I am no longer close to the field of bioinformatics, though, so perhaps you will surprise me!
Everyone always talks about London, but misses out some of the other cities/large towns.

Manchester maybe a better option than London. Manchester is cheaper and has almost all the things you want from London without a lot of the negatives. Pay isn't nearly as good but the costs of living in Manchester are about 1/2 to 1/3rd of what London is.

If you want better weather the south-coast has Bournemouth (lots of smaller to mid-sized companies that do web development and insurance).
recreating html node declaration in JS with janky and verbose syntax for attributes and child nodes is not an answer to a problem anyone has.
IMHO, gmail (or android) contacts are not "friends" or people one wants to share things with. Gmail could morph into a rolodex, like linkedin, but unlike facebook.
If you're socially outgoing, I think there's a role for something as simple as "Mixergy for Makers."

I'd tune in to an interviewer with some domain expertise and the ability to tease out of people the how-did-this-really-turn-into-a-product answers that no one is really trying to find right now.
>Googleburgers!

I don't know if I should be afraid of the "I'm feeling lucky" button for that, or if it's incomprehensibly brilliant.
During times when there's competition for spot instances that's going to be more money for less ram, less cpu, shitty disk IO (esp vs. our blazing raid10), and no included bandwidth. And at any time we might not be bidding enough to actually keep them...
I tried a few sites I own and it somewhat points me into the right direction.

My biggest surprise was trying out zbug's own website which produced a rather ironic result: http://yfrog.com/h71e9bp
What about informed consent ? People participating in experimental drug trials with control groups give informed consent that they may not get the medicine , did these RCT participants do the same ?
I predict Cloudflare will be the first major provider. If they don't already count (they have already done phones).
I'm skeptical people are maliciously rating products 1/5 because they have an agenda against USB-C.

More likely, they dislike it because it's inconvenient and difficult to use with their devices.

Hell, APPLES OWN DEVICES don't even support USB-C.
It is not the great taste of the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches which you enjoy, it is the idea that 'pb&j tastes great' which informs your enjoyment of it.
The article you linked mentions that the rules can be found at the library here, box 21 folder 9: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/index.php?p=vonne...

And someone on BoardGameGeek[1] says:

> A few years ago, after hearing about Mr. Vonnegut's GHQ game, I attempted to get access to the appropriate boxes at the Indiana Library. Failing that, I tried to persuade a fellow wargamer who lived closer to Bloomington than I did to go and have a peek for me. And failing that, I applied to the library for photocopies of the essential documents.

> This was all in aid of an article for Simulacrum.

> The library advised me that they could not photocopy any information from Mr. Vonnegut's files without the approval of his lawyer-cum-copyright holder/protector. So I contacted the lawyer, who wasn't aware that the files contained a game designed by Mr. Vonnegut. Then I never heard from him again.

> So I abandoned the effort to get, if nothing else, a copy of the rules. Perhaps someone here who is near the library could stop by and check it out.

> John Kula

And later:

> John Kula's enquiry got as far as the librarian at the Lilly Library at IU. She pulled the folder and said that it contained about "100 pages of different documents about the game, including multiple drafts of the game instructions, letters and notes about the game, etc.". So it appears that Vonnegut did do a bit of thinking and testing of the game, for sure.

Someone also mentions that an "interpretation" of the rules is available at generalheadquartersgame.com, but that URL is gone and even archive.org doesn't seem to have a single copy of it. It's also unclear what exactly that "interpretation" was based off anyway.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/883385/kurt-vonneguts-board...
Seriously? As someone with purchasing power, I could only assume they were slower than alternatives in that case. Anything they quoted me would have to be considered marketing fluff without independent numbers.
No, I'm talking about Google Analytics which is the topic of the article and parent comment.

Heat maps are great too but Google Analytics is still used as the foundation for figuring out which types of users are clicking and not clicking on what, both in isolation and as part of a pathway between elements/pages/etc.
The patents on Trackpoint must have expired by now. I need 3 physical buttons, at minimum.
Sure, I’ll bite. I downvoted you because it’s not partisanship or divisiveness that should be decried, but the immense wealth inequality in the United States. And perhaps Teen Vogue is progressive because that’s where their readership already is, as opposed to them simply preying on a vulnerable population.
I miss having beers with people.

This whole saga feels like one of those things where "I've heard this story before, I think I'll sit this one out and hope it's not too long" situations.

We all prioritize what tech we're going to spend our time on, but I think there's something qualitatively different between, "that could be interesting but I don't care", "That'll never work!", and, "I understand this enough to know it does not meet my criteria for job satisfaction, I'm out. Call me when the Trough of Disillusionment hits."

So we come back around to Rails, 15 years on from its launch…

I think turbolinks hit too close to the AngularJS launch, and got swamped. People who were trying to make everything happen with jQuery skipped straight to Angular. Now Elixir is trying to resurrect turbolinks-plus in Phoenix.
+1 these days I need to wrangle two inboxes. Thanks google.
There's plenty of evidence/public court rulings which thoroughly debunk these claims.

Why should I believe anything that supports trump. He said "we have the virus under control." Yea, let's believe his cronies. Give me a break.
Anti-union tactics are so... nasty. It's crazy to me how any of this is even tried in the 21st century. It's so obviously wrong and in a ton of cases illegal, the only reason I can think of that this is done so aggressively is that these tactics are "effective" based on their invention in the early-to-mid 20th century, and nobody's bothered to try and innovate since.

Does Amazon really see unionization as an existential threat? Surely at some point, a company as large as Amazon or Walmart can handle a worker's union.

What other perceived "existential threats" are they handling with these kinds of tactics, that we just don't know about because it's not as public?

(Disclaimer: I benefit substantially off of Walmart's continued ability to make money.)
The same people lump themselves together as maximalists. Not every piece of language is some micro aggression identity attack.
Huge congrats! Been following Dracula for a while :)
I would like to become more "cultured" and just aware of more words, forming sentences, communicating, and have more to call on for expressing my feelings.

What is the best way to get into poetry more? Read a couple a day or something? I would actually really like to read Shakespeare, but most seem to be of the mind that you really need a class or something to really get the translation.
I'm from the US but I have spent time in HK and in mainland China (mostly Dongguan and Beijing). I can say, as many others in this thread that nothing in the US is close to HK's MTR, or Beijing's Subway.
Nope, this is binary compatibility. The apps you see in the screenshot are binaries straight from Windows 1 install media. Literally every 16- or 32-bit version of Windows from 1 to 8 will run Windows 1 apps.

I'm sorry if I was unclear in my wording, I mean the modern Windows version must be 32-bit to be able to run 16-bit Windows apps.
Maybe...but it was green a couple of times on March 27 as well. Time will tell.
It is pretty hilarious. Ben Thompson (who I usually like) was all bullish on it and kept using it and it just seemed sad...like old men in tech desperately trying to be "hip" and find the next hip thing and how the rest just "don't understand". Pretty funny.
Most of the stuff I do on the remote side is in the shell and Mosh helps alleviate most of that so I generally don't have a problem with latency. For gui stuff I either run it locally or I use things that are client-server oriented (like ParaView). Last resort is to use X2go, which is really phenomenal remote desktop software with great performance, but Linux only AFAIK.

Might not work for everybody, but something worth considering. For me, the trade off versus lugging around one of those monstrous "portable workstations" compared to my dinky little plastic Lenovo is well worth it.
SunSpider is about one thing and one thing only — cold code performance. The benchmarks are all so short (the longest in Spartan is 19.7ms, albeit with a large uncertainty) that it's all about how quickly you can JIT code and get rid of the dispatch overhead of any interpreter you have, and how many optimizations you can do in that very quick first compilation. If you're interested in longer running code, where implementation quality makes a far bigger difference, look at Octane and Kraken.

Chakra, Spartan's JS engine, has long been good on SunSpider.
That's a really good question. If I feel that there may be a dispute over this then I'll ask for an escrow and detailed release instructions.

In all the years that I've been doing stuff like this professionally I've had one customer that didn't want to pay the full amount (they asked for a discount after the work was already done) and I told them to tear up the invoice but never call again. Everybody else was more than happy to pay. Maybe I've been lucky in that respect but I think that it's more of a way business is conducted here than anything else. You stand by your agreements, it's a small scene and word really does get around.
You can buy a lot of Monoprice cables through Amazon at the same price but with Prime shipping.
When I think of what I want in an operating system, "I wish it would lock up occasionally while everything garbage collects" is not high on the list.

When you think of what you want in a discussion forum, how high are sarcasm and snarkiness on your list?
icanreadstufflikethis without a problem.
Yeah this is mainly the reason. I have a lot of trouble both reading and typing camel case. I know a lot of the JS world prefers camelCase but_I_really_can't_stand_it!
If you think doing a PhD in CS is about writing software, you don't know what you're talking about, dude.

You started your post with a coherent argument, but the ending was completely WTF material.
You know, most people I've met don't mind being called by their nationality or hearing a joke involving nationalities. Now, granted, I've met many more Russians than any other nationality, but I think we're more like the rest of the world in this regard than Europe or USA where political correctness gets insane. And what the hell could possibly wrong with "The Lady", let alone the other two, if that's the way she calls herself?
I suspect ChromeOS syncs the nominal 'local storage' up to the cloud, as well. (Or if it doesn't, it will.)
> people think of things like MRI 1.8 as being "interpreted" and expect those things to be slow. One could just as well take the same language and run it on a tracing JIT VM. (after some considerable engineering)

Off topic, but in case you weren't aware, that "considerable engineering" exists, and is called JRuby. It works (almost) exactly as you describe. And yes, it is rather fast :-)
Twitter is trying to control politics where they live, that's probably why.
Their balance sheet? Or their earnings statement?
It's unfortunate that all those permalinks to his old tweets are dead. A lot of other tweets, blog posts, and news articles are now broken.
A large portion of extremists are not willing to discuss the results of the election even with other Republicans. People were calling Pence a traitor, boycotting Fox, etc.

Those people are not willing to talk to or listen to anyone who's supposedly on their side but has a different opinion. What makes you think they will listen to the "other side"?
Trump would not have stopped generating revenue for them after leaving the Presidency.
How do you decide which of the violent and/or damaging speeches to deplatform?

I see nothing done except “use tribalism to decide.”
Other validation:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parler.par...

Gone.

I can't find the official statement. The tech journalist is the best I could do.
Fragmentation is definitely high. Although if you can seamlessly fall back to other services, a handful of bank integrations can get you ~80% of the customers.

I haven't worked with Open Banking, how is it? In the US, for bank transfers, NACHA files are fairly easy to work with, as long as you can access and verify bank account numbers (ideally get balance and identity information too). I think all the APIs support this, eg: https://developer.wellsfargo.com/apis/payments/account-valid...

It's hard to tell how quickly things will change and improve. Banks should have an incentive to work on this, since it will give them more control of their data and logins, potentially lowering liabilities and hack potential.
Real life is hard to deal with. However, if you look at what other people do, then you can learn from their mistakes. But there's still too many scenarios that occur and too few people to watch. So you can listen to the stories that your peer group tells. You're second hand watching the people your extended peer group is watching. And bonus points, you can get tribal knowledge where people remember what others have said long after they're gone.

This makes being a person who people listen to an important aspect of being part of a society. If you're listened to, then you and your "social lineage" get to survive to the next generation of how to live. This also means that you don't have to relearn the lessons of a competing "social lineage" in order to stay compatible with your peers.

Getting likes is an easy feedback mechanism to know if people are listening to your ideas. Additionally, some people will listen to people who others listen to. So getting likes can directly feed into your own social fitness.

Likes are much more real that most other things that people deal with in their day to day lives.
I think most people are assuming that the user breaking this device is the owner and therefore don't see the potential threats this hack realizes.

A perfect example of how this could be a problem would be the modification of a utility providers smart meter. The home owner hacks the firmware of their electicity meter to show a 10% reduction of power consumption.

Im sure there are several more applications of this exploit that would allow end users who are not the owners of the hardware to make it a threat large enough for manufacturers to consider using a more secure device.