jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This article uses language which far overstates the case, and ignores many facts. For instance, it claims that the government is "seizing" the land, which indicates taking property without compensation; eminent domain, however, requires paying fair market value for any land taken (it's basically just an offer to buy your land that you can't refuse). The article uses incorrect terminology ("public domain" when "eminent domain" is meant, though it uses the correct term later). The article sets up strawmen, like the politicians who denounce property rights, without ever quoting any politicians as actually denouncing property rights.

The article tries to position Columbia University as a big bad meanie, only catering to the rich and wealthy; while Columbia is a large institution with considerable resources, it is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and while it does have many rich and well connected students, it also provides need-based scholarships so that anyone who gets in will be able to afford it regardless of their financial status. For many less well-off students, top tier and Ivy-league schools can be more affordable than lower tier or state schools, as there is much more need-based financial aid available.

Now, I disagree strongly with eminent domain being used to buy land and resell it to private for-profit developers. For an educational non-profit like Columbia, it's more of a grey zone. Using language like "seize" and implying that Columbia is a big rich bully doesn't really help to clarify this situation.
> Assuming that there is no capital gain or loss and that your return on investment is 5%

That doesn't seem to make sense, as a return on an investment is a capital gain.

> Half of that would normally need to be paid as income tax to government.

How exactly do you figure that? You don't pay income taxes on investments, you pay a flat 15% capital gains tax on investment income. I don't see how you think he'd lose half to taxes, it'd be far far less than half.

Beyond that, giving away 5% of 35 billion (total wealth) costs a lot more than paying 15% of 2.5 billion (investment income that year), so it's not saving him money on taxes which would only be in the range of 350 million a year given your example.

Choosing to spend a billion and a half a year on charity to avoid paying 350 million in taxes doesn't make much sense as a motivation. So I highly doubt that's why he's doing it.
The original purpose of the XBox was to kill the profit margins on Sony's cash cow, the playstation. It succeeded in that, and Sony is no longer threatening Microsoft across a range of areas.

What areas are those and why do we we think that spending billions with a "b" on Xbox to kill Sony's profits was a more effective defence of those areas than spending those same or fewer billions with a "b" making those areas more competitive?

And more importantly, are any of these areas Sony threatened actual cash cow businesses like Windows or Office?
That's good advice. I guess it can't hurt to try.
Freudian slip. Vint Cerf really wants a beer.
There are also people switching to lots of other systems, but those aren't nearly as visible since you can't see that by their hardware.
How do you know that, if those are so many people?
I'm a Mac guy, I'm a developer, I use the terminal, I use tab completions and most Mac developers I know also use them.

But I also use Linux on the server and to the terminal it makes no difference. I could be on a Windows laptop and the terminal would look exactly the same.
"Previous studies with this patient revealed she can't recognize fear in facial expressions, but it was unknown if she had the ability to experience fear herself."

People have been say "it takes one to know one" for a long time, but real evidence that we can't recognized something unless we have that same capacity within ourselves would be piercing.

Tell me again why are so many self proclaimed good people are convinced that everyone else is evil?
Oh my goodness, yes, horrible typo, I meant decrease.
I'm co-founder and research director of a mobile AR software company, Zappar.

I blogged on Magic Leap a few weeks ago, and came to some of the same conclusions as the author of the gizmodo piece - namely that a device that can be like Google Glass and Oculus and everything in between could be a real game changer.

I chose to call the concept "Controllable Reality" (I make no claim that I've invented the concept or the term!):
http://www.zappar.com/blog/google-glass-magic-leap-and-the-i...

Edit: I also talk a bit about the requirements for an AR experience, existing approaches to AR HMDs and the big problems to be tackled on the road to consumer adoption. I've got a PhD on the software side of AR but am not an expert on the hardware, but have sufficient knowledge to hopefully offer an interesting perspective.

I'm new to HN too, so let me know if I should be posting this as a separate item or not!

Simon
Here's a happy one, for a change: the Focus Fusion guys actually succeed, and we get radically cheaper electricity that can be mass-produced in a big way. This would change everything. Aluminum would become a lot cheaper with cheap energy for refining it. The various water shortages in coastal areas would be easier to deal with, thanks to cheaper energy for desalination. We could replace gasoline with carbon-neutral synthetic fuels. I'm probably still thinking way too small here.
if he made the product for himself (solving his own pain), then sure he could.
The biggest solar flare known occurred in 1859: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/06... probably a 500 year event. It set telegraph paper on fire and would have fried any exposed electronic equipment. however anything in a Faraday cage or underground should survive.
I was going to say the same thing. Its not about being a single founder, its about experience. I knew what to do when I started my startup. The people I employ ask me questions. Its all because I have spent considerable time learning my skills beforehand.
>kill two birds with one stone. First, don't let orders queue. Customers, particularly ADHD tech types, are very sensitive to shipping delay

this is what I do with my decidedly unglamorous, price-competitive commodity service. It works fairly well. If I don't have space, I shut down ordering and have them email a 'preorder' address (I mail a link to everyone who emaled preorder as soon as I have space.)

sure, I turn away some customers, but my god, it's a lot easier than dealing with the customer service nightmare of having someone's money, and having no way to get them the product or service they paid for.

> (Every time you open up orders, expect a burst of Twitter/links/etc, as folks try to get in and then lament that they missed it again

this actually happens, even for my service, which targets the low end of the market.
It is sad. But that is about the only thing you can do to become an american citizen.
mullet is to hair as Comic Sans is to fonts
The lack of lazy evaluating is an issue as the Nixpkg grows. I don't believe anyone has a solution to this yet.
It's right there, in front of them, all the time
Nothing's preventing you or anyone else with good graphic sense to jump in the team and propose better logos. That's what OSS is about: sharing and improving each other's work.
I have no idea how much of the content I read is paid for (and how). A large part of it is certainly summaries written by people who aren't paid to do so (copied, digested and filtered for me).

> My internet would quickly become a very small and geocities-like place.

It's funny that you named FB, Twitter and SO as important sources of content you "rely on every day". Who actually writes the content and who gets paid for it? Do you really think it's impossible to get the same amount and quality of content from the same people without some (sometimes evil) corporate entity provding servers and bandwidth? (think P2P)
Stealing exists at a culturally-defined threshold. One must be brought up (or assimilated) with an understanding of what is 'property' and what is not. Then, one has to also understand what is 'ownership'. Most of us learn this stuff implicitly, from the people around us, but in a globally connected world, this is much more difficult.

I know this first-hand because I grew up in poor Appalachia, in the US. There, property and ownership and rights were much differently understood than in metropolitan Virginia where I live now. Even though we were under the jurisdiction of local, state, and national laws regarding such things, we followed the norms of the people around us. But, as I became assimilated into the urban 'middle-class', I had to re-learn these things.

I think this is why file sharing in the US became so popular in the 90s/2000s. Kids (and adults) who were otherwise raised with an understanding of US 'property rights' were nonetheless stealing media. The media that was being shared just didn't have a cultural foundation as property, to them.

Anyway, there are a lot of people on the internet that don't necessarily have the same understanding of property and rights and ownership than us. Some people just don't know that what they're doing is bad and/or illegal.
This is a better (video) introduction for programmers: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/jeeves/talks.php
Oh, we're talking past each other. Sorry. When I said "post", I meant the story this thread links to, not the comment thread. I believe you read the comments in their entirety. I think if you reread the post, you'd see that it rebuts your argument.
I went in the other direction.

The average amount of maintenance time is very low, but the distribution is not even - if it breaks, Murphy's Law guarantees it will be at the least convenient time. Like when you're on holiday or expecting an important email.
Calling something "World's Worst" is, IMHO, not a very nice way to start a discussion about improving it.
Wrong. Absolutely wrong.

Steve Jobs adopted Mach when he started NeXT because it was available and good at the time. If it hadn't existed, he would have gone off in another direction. If C, hadn't existed he wouldn't have used something else. People on HN always bring these up but they fail to realize that Steve would have simple done something else.
GOBBLES is a trolling/security outfit of sorts. They've given talks at Defcon but as far as I know their members are basically anonymous.
No, no, no. What you're describing is Barry Boehm's Spiral Model from the early 1980s. If you look at a single Agile sprint you should not see a miniature waterfall. In Agile, activities like requirements, design, coding and testing happen at the same time. This is the essence of Agile, and what separates it from the Spiral that came before.
They don't eat those.
Hmm, in the same way that this girl strongly was able to have a strong moral stance for being a vegan before she has also been able to justify a strong moral stance against it, pointing to large scale farming now as the enemy.

I'm all for the overall feeling but it does show that people can very easy justify contradictory stances at different times.
I applied to TS too! Just added you to gtalk. I'm nicogarcia at gmail. Cheers
> I'm wondering, what is the vegan's position on eating: fish; oysters/mussels; squid, octopus; crabs etc.

It's complicated. The largest problem is that all of these animals are killed either by suffocation after they're removed from the water, or by having their organs explode from decompression sickness. Sure seems to me like the least possible humane way to kill an animal. (I guess I'd go with the organ explosion, if I had to choose.)

On the other hand, I think that we should care about animal suffering proportional to how capable of suffering the being we're considering is. Animals without nervous systems are clearly less capable of suffering than, say, mammals, so I don't think it makes sense to be as upset.

Anyway, I don't eat any fish. :)
> So if animals were raised and killed in humane manner would you be more willing to eat meat?

Yes. It seems plausible to me that I'll start eating meat again within a decade or two, once industry practices improve.
Blackmail. Virtually all sealed court records are sealed because someone would be harmed if revealed. How many elected officials are out there with sealed depositions alleging sexual assault, etc...?
https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7
Great resumes can be purchased for $200 - $300 in many places. Only 6% of customers purchase, though, even though 97-98% really have the need for a better resume. I've run the largest paid resume writing business in the US previously, so I've been through this ringer.

That 94% of people who would use a bad resume through their interviews and job search really bugged me though. Hence… Leet Resumes. I'd prefer to see 100% of people with a great resume, as it makes such a difference.
Yeah but how do you get your listening device to work over all the interference from the CIA listening devices?
They had no problem throwing peaceful protesters in unmarked vans in Seattle last year.
> Trump haters keep justifying that FB is private they can ban whoever they want. Then, when a theme park bans a gay couple, they are screaming violently.

1. One of these things is not like the other.

2. “Screaming violently”?
> In Canada the waiting lists for mri and other advanced testing can be long where the same tests/operations can be done as a walkin option that day in the US.

Are there no private MRI machines in Canada? In many countries with free healthcare, you can still "just walk in" to any private hospital/clinic and get an MRI done.
That's true. Windows oriented developers don't realize libre codecs are everywhere, even under Windows and OSX. Ditto with graphic and text handling libraries, I am pretty sure Freetype or Harfbuzz exists on some way under Windows and OSX.
another cool bit in interview:

What is Sergey's hot button?
He cares a lot about the culture. He cares a lot about deal structure. He is the better negotiator of the three of us.
Larry is the deepest of the thinkers in terms of the strategic technology.
For example, today, I said, Larry "Larry, what are you doing tomorrow?" And he said, "I really need to work -- I need to go talk to these three teams." And he has this face - you work with people long enough you can sort of tell - he’s thinking “ I don't have good enough touch (with the teams) on an issue.” What that really meansis Larry is going to gofindtheengineers and torture them until he is really, really sure (they are all in sync). And he's very good at that. He's very, very good. I mean, he is really extraordinary.
And that talent is a useful leadership skill because?
Well, here's another example to illustrate what I mean. We're arguing over the structure of our datacenters -- this was yesterday -- I thought the presentation was excellent. They had the datacenters, the components -- absolutely brilliant. And Larry says, "I just don't think that's a very good strategy," and I go, "What's wrong?" I'm a computerscientist. Ithinkit'spretty good. And he comes up with this thing that nobody had thought about -- that he and one of the engineers had been cooking up, which involved changing the way the data centers are built that was the next logical evolution.
The point is he ignored every possible chain of command. He didn't tell anyone. He went to this particular engineer who's experimenting with this idea in his 20 percent time.So what I've learned here is you don't say “no” to that.
All renders, no reality.
Having the ability to properly operate any machine is not 'elitist'. Computers and the internet were not made for the purposes they are used as now - and therefore they are heavily exploitable for others profit. People that don't understand how it works are significantly more suspectible to apply real world principles in ways that are entirely non applicable.

The average person trusts what others say and does not have a basic understanding of what constitutes facts and evidence. Therefore they cannot navigate truth through the internet.
I have FDE enabled on a laptop with an m.2 ssd, and I don't notice much (if any) slowness compared to an unencrypted install. but since the m.2 ssd's are so fast, YMMV on other media types.
Maybe, but only if you have control over that, and it's only a great deal if you can control it. Usually you control that if you're either a stakeholder, or you make smart choices in terms of what you work on and who you do it for, rather than to what degree you suffer. If you have no agency, and no way of getting that agency, then it's not worth displacing yourself past a certain point. If advancing your career because you suffered x amount only means you suffer more for the chance at a bit more money, bad deal.
so let me get this straight, this is a single camera, single point of failure device that you mount under your rear view mirror and trust your life with? ok...
OpenBSD explicitly supports Pine 64/64+ and even ships the firmware to boot it with the install media. ROCK64/ROCKPro64 are also supported, but it's necessary to separately install an UEFI capable U-Boot. [0]

[0] https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html
Why is it "Times" and not "Dictionary"?
I would recommend having some indicator on which sections of the tax form you've completed, as you're able to skip forward to different sections.
This kind of whataboutist counterargument is so tired and asinine. Multiple things can be bad. Bad things do not cancel each other out.

If someone is murdered in one city, that doesn't suddenly become less bad when someone else is murdered in another.
I recommend Unipath for dealing with the os.path.join issue:

http://sluggo.scrapping.cc/python/unipath/
We can rollout our won Google search engine via http://aspseek.org
Erlang was originally a Prolog dialect. To be specific an external dsl for concurrency implemented on top of a Prolog interpreter.

The language moved on and dropped some of the defining features of Prolog (such a backtracking), but the syntax still resembles Prolog.
There's an app for that! No, really. This website categorizes Mac apps, and lots of folks mark apps they use, so you get an idea of which apps are most popular in a given category.

http://osx.iusethis.com/

If you register, you get a profile of all the apps you use. Here's mine: http://osx.iusethis.com/user/briandoll
Yep, can be made with any stream cipher.
If so, then it's all the more true that now is the time to invest attention in learning how the internet works at all of its layers. When the time comes, you can be part of those who build the next internet-like thing with full knowledge of all the weaknesses of the previous one.
Traditional journalism doesn't try and mix advertising and content to the level this does. This feels closer to BuzzFeed's infamous organic content (http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/12/buzzhome/) than it does to what a newspaper might do.
I had heard that Watson had a hiring freeze over the summer. It sounded strange given such a high profile bet on the cloud.
For birthdays we receive a card signed by the whole office and a $10 Starbucks card. The people who don't drink coffee find it insulting.
I thought this post looked familiar, and sure enough it's a straight copy-and-paste from an identical piece on a different site last year:

http://www.boredpanda.com/extinct-jobs/

Not sure if it's licensed copying or blatant plagerism, since they technically give "credit" at the bottom, but if it's the latter, it would nice to see links to vintag.es banned from HN, since this is the sort of thing that just sucks the air out of the web.
Yeah, it's a good one to think about. I imagine massive swings in traffic speed with a frequency of a few minutes as the cars get into various interesting feedback loops.
That's a bit disingenuous. Bitcoin's price has dropped over 75% over the past 12 months, in a constant decline.

Despite a lot of VC money pouring into BTC startups, there just doesn't seem to be any traction. My guess is that Mt. Gox irrevocably destroyed faith in the system for the "common user", because even the biggest exchange couldn't bother with hiring some security people (well, at least bitstamp seemed like that, what exactly happened at Mt. Gox is still a mystery to me).
> But nobody likes That Guy. So stop.

I think you are confused about who is being 'that guy'.
And "marketers" these days isn't just "people who create adverts", marketing should be the whole point of your business, to quote Peter Drucker :

“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.”
> russias invasion of ukraine was unprovoked

How is this hate and/or a conspiracy theory, even if it was true?
The Pi is definitely limited in terms of CPU. This is a fairly old, but beefy Xeon chip on my unraid box. Might be native vs Python code on ARM?
Tbh as far as lobbying goes this bothers me less as it seems to be driven by something beyond just self interest.

But maybe I'm just being naive.
Is this Chicken Day?

In some cultures, yes. Children re-enact the traditional Great Unhatched Chicken Hunt, etc.
If that's the case, tongs are your friend.
No argument from me...
Good point, we had thought about it but wondered if users would find it. But we'll look into it based on your feedback...
The argument would be that the $75mm deployed towards creating the $100mm could probably be better used elsewhere.

If deployed towards something that would have a 33% margin, you would be making about $38mm instead of $25mm.

Of course, the argument sucks because it ignores the fact that there are massive risks and therefore discounting associated with an unproven revenue stream. And if it is proven, then there should be absolutely no difficulty in getting financing for it with a 33% margin, and that financing would be much cheaper than the cost of shifting the money used to drive the 25% margin earner. Shifting this money means you’re basically paying for the new 33% margin product with money that has been borrowed at a cost of 33% itself...25mm profit on 75mm investment. You can get money from the market at a small fraction of that cost. Borrowing 75mm in the US should not cost more than 7-8mm per Anjum if you have such an obvious opportunity that you were willing to forsake 25mm of earnings for it. And if you’re unable to borrow at a reasonable cost for that project maybe it indicates that the project isn’t as much of a sureshot as you think it is and therefore the 33% margin that is being projected needs to be steeply discounted due to the risk factor.

Unfortunately I’ve seen a lot of people learn the metrics, and the ratios but never really understand what they mean and what information they provide, and therefore, what they are useful for.
This is a great idea, and your implementation of it looks awesome! I don't have a use for it at the moment, but I'm bookmarking it for later.

A bit of feedback on your website: the yellow you've chosen is nearly impossible to read on my monitor, especially with the thin font used in "Sign up".
Thanks for the question. It was honestly a close call and we knew we couldn't do both at the same time (this is a side project).

The reasons where:

1. Our personal devices were Macs at the time we started.

2. We felt that the first use case for CoScreen would be agile developers who collaborate with UX designers. The latter seemed to mainly use Macs (https://austinknight.com/writing/designers-prefer-macs) while the former are mixed e.g. also depending on the region. In the SF Bay Area Macs quite popular among developers so we ran with it.

In any case, we hope to be able to support all 3 OSes soon. For that reason CoScreen was built 95% in a platform-agnostic way (nwjs) so we're optimistic.