jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've edited my post to more clearly reflect my opinion on the matter. I agree that people have the rights to disagree with and attempt to change laws. Though I haven't seen any arguments that are more than people feeling entitled to things. If someone uses their time and effort to create something it is up to them to distribute it as they see fit. I see piracy as nothing more than denying the owner of content the distribution method of their choice. Of course they may pick a method that isn't the most profitable, but that is their choice to make.
Is Facebook profitable? I heard they were cash flow positive but that doesn't mean they are profitable (see GoDaddy). Besides, all we can do is speculate about Facebook revenue at this point - they aren't public and don't publish legally binding financial reports.

Besides, the whole independent division comparison to a whole entity is a little ridiculous. Every company, including Facebook, spends a certain amount of cash flow on R&D, it's a competitive necessity. The fact that Microsoft structures a large part of their R&D into a division shouldn't necessarily be the fault of the division when they don't immediately turn a profit.

As long as they are meeting their internal (revenue/profit/growth) goals, I don't see the problem with giving out bonuses and rewarding the players involved.
I had a snarky reply about how anything could be patented, but this invention is actually different than the (extremely cool) Wiimote thing we saw earlier.
I am reading Saturn's Children.. It makes so much more sense now that I know he is British.
It seems your definition of "it is possible" seems to be "he got immensely rich". Being rich is a comparison: you are only rich compared to poorer people. So, by definition, only very few people can "make it": you only value the mansion that he bought if nobody else has it. Or, seen from another perspective: 99.9% of human beings are incredibly rich (compared to 99% of the middle ages inhabitants), but who cares? We all feel poor.

So, if we all "make it" and buy 70$ million dollars homes with bay view (an impossibility in itself), we will nevertheless all be poor.

Sorry to be negative, but we can not make it.
Surely these are issues to do with phone manufacturers and not with the carriers?
Im not getting the idea of monads here. From my understanding monads does series of transformation( composition, unit , lift ) of a function to do its task. So does monad is similar to Adapter pattern in java? which does make two classes work even though they aren't meant to work.

Because it does transform the class/ interface to work with other class, right?

Am I missing anything here?
> How is this worse than starting a business without a patent?

The argument in the article is that if you don't have the resources to commercially exploit a patent yourself, then no one else will pay you for your invention, because a) the frictional costs in licensing from you are too high, especially when b) they can just steal the idea, since you are too poor to defend yourself in court.

That creates an inefficient market.

Personally, I think the effect of b) is smaller than implied, since an inventor could always sell the patent to a troll who can afford to defend it (though discounted by some large risk premium)... nevertheless I've heard of it happening.

The effect of a) is very real. Just consider any software product given away for free... even a requirement to count how many copies are distributed for the purposes of computing a royalty may be inimical to the business model.
i agree, but in a world where "going viral" determines what people pay attention to (almost always stupid shit), maybe figuring out how to make socially valuable things go viral is an important approach.
I'm looking for a solution that allows database access from the client (the browser) directly. As far as I know, you can't run PHP on the client (at least efficiently).
Our business side uses MS Office simply because the rest of the world uses Office and we frequently get sent Excel documents. Engineers use LibreOffice and boy oh boy, it's a tremendous pain when the business side sends over Excel documents of reports that they would like to get done. Even Word documents are formatted correctly and it's been a painful experience overall. Sure, they save money from the software licences but what about the poor experience and time wasted? I agree that I don't believe that F/OSS is cheaper. There's a lot of costs that don't get quantified in the analysis.
(not from the US, in case that wasn't at all clear).

I have some respect for the ideas of the French revolution, but it ended in a serious dictatorship, a reign of terror and a lot of death people instead of freedom.
VMware is preoccupied with stealing Linux code, not fixing bugs.
My initial thought is that funding those participating in an ineffective scheme does not strike me as the most helpful option. But I really don't know enough about it to comment on whether that is the case here, or if it might indeed make sense for me to do this. Do you know of any research (doesn't have to be published, a blog post with a good analysis is just as helpful) that looked into whether this is a good idea?
> Now you're making up a narrative that doesn't fit the facts.

The point I was making was that the assertion of "Winning the election" was made first, only when it became apparent that in fact he had not won the election did people start looking for evidence of fraud. Evidence was only gathered with the intention of supporting that fact and was then presented as proof of something much more widespread than it suggested. This has lead to things that are absolutely not evidence of fraud being conflated with acts of fraud.

The website you posted was torn apart elsewhere in this thread. From the outside it looks like a desperate grasping at straws.

> You have attempted to effect an air of condescension multiple times in this conversation. If you truly believe that half the country is living under Trump's spell and needs to be freed, and you also believe that condescension is going to help win them over, then it is not your opponent who is in need of introspection.

You've repeatedly refused to accept any criticism of your arguments throughout the conversation. Your evidence has been evidence of a few isolated incidents and fraud that has been detected by the safeguards already put in place. It is not evidence at all of any kind of widespread fraud.

The Capitol building was raided by Trump supporters directed there by the man himself. Inspired by this "stop the steal" rhetoric and calling for Mike Pence of all people to be hanged, they are being lead into a very dangerous situation that is not designed for their benefit. They are very much in need of some introspection before more of them die from this.
You can choose your own adventure there. Rupes or <Nameless>, it's honestly all the same.

They A/B test you for outrage and optimise. When was the last time the news told you everything was actually all fine?
Awesome. I use Unicode symbols as a shortcut/prototype for icons. I always look them up in wikipedia, which is painful. This makes my life easier. Thank you!
I'm worried by the diesel we have, let alone a rush to further adoption. I think medical research has a way to go before it educates us fully on what inhaling all that <= PM2.5 is doing to us. The stuff has been found inside our blood cells. Can't imagine anything good coming of that.

I'm skeptical that any filtration system is going to solve that problem. All of the practical systems I've read about either allow a substantial amount of small particulates through, or require some kind of regular maintenance which will screw the rest of us when it's not done.

If we were serious about all of this we (in the US) would convert our heavy duty truck fleet to natural gas. I read one study stating that this would reduce our oil usage by 20%, which would be a strategic accomplishment. The air quality improvement would be a welcome byproduct.
What about skyframe? http://bazel.io/docs/skyframe.html looks like an overview without any examples. Couldn't find any references to it in the bazel code at github too.
>why Pigeon needed to develop their own system instead of piggybacking on GV

Who said they aren't piggybacking on GV (or somebody else)? They were vague about the tech behind their VOIP. Which is what I would expect from somebody doing exactly what you suggested. They wouldn't be honest about that or they'd be telling their customers they could just use GV instead...

What they've done is found a market and figured out how to market to them. That's huge. If you can solve those problems, you could do it too. Not every business has to make a huge technological leap to be successful.
The technical failings Sony has faced demonstrate, I think, conceptual flaws: if they understood the PSN's importance they should have exercised more care in designing it. I know that what I'm saying sounds like a cliche of 20-20 hindsight, but these are some pretty obvious security problems they've been dealing with. Giving trusted access based solely on firmware is one thing, but they've been sending plain-text credit card numbers with every transaction.
Start with _The Little Schemer_ or _Land of Lisp_* . It's really not hard, less difficult than a language like Java. It's different, though, like APL or Erlang are different.

* The former uses Scheme, the latter uses Common Lisp. While you could get caught up in the lengthy debate over which (if either) is superior, it's probably a better to just pick one and learn the basics. Then, you'll be able to make an informed decision later.
I don't think the location game is going well for anyone. Since techcrunch stopped pumping 4sq I haven't heard about it in a long time. I've never felt compelled to check in anywhere either.
Check the timestamp on my post.
Does not work that way if a reply has 100 upvotes, does it?

Also I love the discussion in this post since, when with Georgify (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2410195) I had tried first to seperate the upvotes with points of a comment, everyone (and yes a blanket term) had said it was a wrong thing to the extent that I had to make changes.

Of course it is not my site to make decisions for the users of the site, but still almost a dual reaction when the same decision was taken on HN by two different people in a very nearby time span, one being me (for Georgify) and the other being PG himself (for HN).
Actually, programmers can be paid proportionally to their productivity... they just need to run their own businesses (which has the downside of requiring the programmer to learn to be an entrepreneur... but it can be very financially rewarding). http://swombat.com/2011/4/26/productive-programmers
Why do you live in NYC if you like being alone (at least occasionally)?
Evolution happens to be an observed natural law. Like gravity or heat dissipation.

If I said "I don't believe in heat dissipation" you'd think I was just as much a moron as I would be.
If there's a MIDI of it out there, maybe they would take a request!
Well, it's hard to deny that the work done by the program is O(n) (or even Ω(n)) in the number of objects created by the program. That's almost tautological.

The thing that is interesting about the asymptotic complexity of garbage collection, though, is that it gives you a peek into the future of GC overhead as heaps get larger.

Consider a program with some bounded steady-state memory consumption, and a GC that takes O(1) time to free unlimited amounts of memory. In such a system, you can reduce your GC overhead arbitrarily simply by enlarging the heap. A larger heap gives a larger time interval between collections, yet doesn't make the collections any slower. Don't like 6% overhead? Fine. Make the heap 10x larger and you have 0.6% overhead.

This time-space trade-off is always available to the end user of such a system. It's certainly not available with more primitive systems like malloc+free.

[These are my personal opinions, not those of my employer.]
The Mythical Man Month is damn correct.
> People like him should be "attacked", if you want to dilute the meaning of "attacked" to include non-violent criticisms of character.

Attacking isn't purely about violence, it never was.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attack

> to criticize (someone or something) in a very harsh and severe way

To be honest, you are a prime example of the article's point. There is more to education than just STEM. The fact you failed to realize the person you were replying to used the word "attacked" correctly, for instance, can lead to a failure of communication. Failures of communication lead to things like this:

http://www.wired.com/2010/11/1110mars-climate-observer-repor...

Perhaps you shouldn't be so quick to dismiss something purely due to your own arrogance.

Additionally:

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

> Ironically the author has none of these skills, and the best thing for him to do would be to avoid the humanities and take several rigorous math courses -- maybe then he will learn how to define his terms and stop writing things that mean essentially nothing.

Yet another flaw in your style of argument that could have been corrected with classes in the humanities.
It's interesting that you say Hacker, because it is really the avenue we've used least. Facebook was a good start, because friends can invite friends, and so on. But it tends to seem like spam there which is an immediate turn off.

How did you go about contacting the writers? Did you have prior relationships with them or some sort of contact?

Thanks a lot for the great response!
I don't have a source for this, but I remember reading about how the "autistic" brain dedicates more of its capacity for more intellectual, rather than using it for social purposes.
This seems like pretty old glory to trumpet in 2011.
Wow, great! Thanks for all of the details. Really helps to put things into perspective. Sounds like you're doing all the right things and hustling away.

The reason I'm curious is because I "launched" my first web app a few months ago. In actuality it was just a feeler to see how the product faired in the wild - core functionality was there, but greatly lacking features. The only place I shared was HN and it was received tremendously well. It hung out on the front page for the majority of the day, resulted in thousands of hits and hundreds of signups, with more trickling in during the weeks following. At the time, I was reluctant to promote anywhere else before incorporating a few new features. Unfortunately, I was pulled away by more demanding projects, so I haven't had time to make all of the changes and features I had planned on (or marketing), resulting in significantly decreased traffic.

Now that my other projects are winding down, I can focus more time on building and promoting this app. Stories like yours help a bunch, so I appreciate the details.

Could I get your e-mail address? I'd love to stay in touch, but I don't see it anywhere in your profile.
There are also obscure stocks that not many people look at.
These are great suggestions, much appreciated. I will be going into "pitch mode" soon, which means creating my Angellist profile among other things.

Information like this is why I'm glad places like hackernews, quora, stackoverflow and even Git are around.

There aren't many other industries where people are so willing to help potential competitors. Internet win.
We went through exactly this at Page99Test.com, a 'micro-critique' writing community. (Well, in fact, I doubt any startup under 3 years doesn't go through the same thing, even those with funding.) Here's what we learned, briefly:

DON'T UNDERESTIMATE TWITTER

Prior to our launch (i.e., when we had just a sign-up page), we used Twitter a lot to get the word out. I was totally floored by how well it worked. Cost nothing more than time -- which is admittedly a resource in short supply for startups. Worth every minute spent. A lot of bloggers and journalists online found us and wrote about us before we'd even launched; in fact, The Guardian (big UK paper) wrote a full spread on us that continues to pay off, six months later.

We have a new 'startup' in the works. Although we don't see ourselves launching until mid- to late-summer, we're already starting to tweet about it.

DON'T DO PRESS RELEASES

If you want to pitch some writers, pitch them directly. No one seems to give a crep about press releases sent out over the wire. Very expensive if you're bootstrapping.

TRY TO GET HN TRAFFIC, TOO

Around the time we launched, one of the HN contributors (Shereef at bettermeans) wrote a post about us and sent some fab amounts of HN traffic our way. Of course, that traffic showed up just to check us out and then left, never to return again. Which was fine. A handful of uber-smart peeps from the HN community actually gave us stellar feedback that we used to optimize the site early on.
Whether you co-lo or run in the cloud it seems to me that you would still want the same types of redundancy/failover processes in place. The advantage of EC2 is you can easily set up servers in multiple places across the globe (or at least across the country if you just want to host in the US.)
Platinum Amex I doubt. Maybe with a Centurion card.
Photos from Mars are all composites of red, green, and blue images. The way they put the colors together back on Earth depends on the purpose of the image. They might have learned a little from SpaceX on PR and started biasing published images of the Martian sky toward blue.

Using three separate filters that are each one different wavelength lets them capture more information than something like a Bayer filter where all three colors share the same space at the same time. Mars doesn't change fast enough to make three separate exposures a problem.
Right, and it's important to remember that mathematics is sharply optimized for human understanding, whereas programming languages strike a careful compromise between human understanding and efficient execution by machines. I don't think anyone could seriously argue that programming languages are "more expressive" than mathematical notation, which has the powers of ambiguity and hand-drawn graphics.
Electric cars will still need service, and if Tesla is any indication they will need a lot of it. Sure they don't need oil changes, but that's not really a big deal overall. Dealerships still make logistics easier when you pump out cars at the big three level.
You don't. But I did and now get paid 3 times more than I did before. There aren't enough high paying bay area jobs to go around for all developers in the world, so as they say, early bird gets the worm.
You did not dispute a single thing I said.

All you did was drop your standards to the ground.

I hope you are proud of what you are defending.
That said, when I went with my daughter almost every person I spoke to said they were travelling from California, were season ticket holders and were coming to Disney World because Disneyland is closed down. Unintended consequence for sure. We already had COVID in March so felt the risks were acceptable for us, and as you've said Disney was extremely serious about mask requirements, and so many of the things little kids would be interested in were closed down. They really don't want a super spreader event at "The Happiest Place on Earth".

And to preempt people who think I'm acting irresponsibly, you're right. It was a spur of the moment trip and sort of a mental health crisis, I felt trapped and crazy in my home in the middle of winter, if I could go back in time I don't think I'd go. The airplane was completely full and I'm guessing drink sales are way up on planes because that's the only reason you're allowed to take off your mask. Also prices were insanely cheap for flights, $250 for round trip tickets for me and my five year old daughter.
wodenokoto’s post specifically mentioned not knowing which color is for which service. That’s the confusing part. I can’t recall off the top of my head, either, so I tend to agree.
Why is it necessary to have layers of NDAs on a product datasheet? Many of the people who might write software to integrate with some hardware are not the people manufacturing high-volume products based on it!

Because obscuring the use case and the customer of a cutting edge chip is a semiconductor company's most reasonable moat these days. If you telegraph what big customers are buying by freely sharing your most cutting edge product portfolio, someone else will copy it. (Probably someone in China with a hefty dose of subsidy from the gov't.) Classic case of "Your margin is my opportunity."

ADI or On Semi can, and will, catch TI after 18-36 months of development effort. The longer TI can keep them off their tail by making it hard to see what customers are buying, the more profit they can make without a reasonable competitor on the market.

Software is a commodity that TI distributes as a compliment to the thing that actually makes them money, which is selling chips. For analog circuits, this is completely irrelevant, and doesn't affect their operating procedure. For processors and peripherals that require drivers, it's a cost of doing business for them - not an enabling feature.
Googler opinions are my own.

I'd disagree. There is a trend in HN comments to remind people that a company is a collection of people. Google is a collection of people. There are those of us who care deeply about privacy at Google.

First: it's interesting talking with googlers or reading their thoughts on how Google does ads and data collection. Many people definitely feel the same way as commenters on HN feel. Lots of people are torn on the fact that ads lets us build lots of other cool products for people. I would say this helps motivate other teams, like cloud, do you find other revenue sources for the company so you don't have to be as dated collection focused.

Second: I have seen googlers fight the privacy of users even within my division (payments). Many of us want to do right by our users, and be as privacy focused as we are capable given our constraints. We also know there is a general thought that Google is data collection focused, and one slip up will cause a big drama out on the internet and in the news (Google would likely receive more scrutiny here than some other companies). This helps remind us that we need to treat user data as best we can and minimize what we do collect.
^ We all assume that's why, it should perhaps be said. Although I think the circumstantial evidence is pretty strong. :)
Doist (http://doist.com) works similarly.

See https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/what-remote-work-looks-like... (paywalled) for a good description of it.
The UK military might was pretty strained by 1944. It was with great reluctance that the British agreed to an invasion of France in 1944.
The argument for HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, etc isn't an argument against Flash. I don't see this page as suggesting HTML5 is bad, either, and that we shouldn't work on it.

However, you have to admit there is a LOT of backlash against Flash for HTML5, and a lot of people suggesting that HTML5 can replace Flash now.

Everything I've seen from the Flash community has been pretty reasoned: they are fine with HTML5, and want to see it succeed, but they aren't throwing away Flash now. Let's face it, Flash is still useful now. HTML5 cannot replace Flash now. Heck, even video isn't solved as a standard yet.

And no, I'm not a flash developer.
I've got the somewhat unpopular opinion that its probably too late for us Americans to put something like that together. I live in DC and have witnessed the nearly 2 decades of political whinging it took to get started on a 20 mile extension of DC's already sorry little system out to the airport.

It would take a change in attitude so radical to get national high speed rail to a decent number of cities that I'm not sure it can be done. Perhaps the end of cheap oil could do it in a generation or two?

For good or bad, we've cast our lot with asphalt tracks and rubber wheels.