jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Is it really that odd that "innovation" is slowing when the most lucrative professions for those with technical acumen do not further scientific knowledge, or technical capability?

I think the hubris that "innovation" requires technology is, while common, unwarranted. Although Christiansen use technological examples in his book, his thesis works without it.

Thomas Cook produced a major, world-changing innovation with no technology of his own. Sears was an innovation. MacDonalds was an innovation. The key idea of YouTube (aggregate by content type rather than topic) was not innovative (and wasn't even Youtube's idea); likewise Amazon's original idea did not involve developing technology (use pre existing technology to jump on a curve early, which is not having to manage retail inventory in small amounts).

Personally I have a technocentric approach and am uninterested in companies or models that don't involve developing new technology but I recognize that technology is rarely innovative in and of itself.
I think you are replying to misleading title and some other article. There is no "TFA" here; it's a little game.
Try submitting an essay on a mobile phone, while simultaneously engaging in an online lesson. How many of us here use dual monitors just to cope with work? Could you meet, write documents, and submit them to your boss, all just on a shitty phone with a limited data plan?
Trust science, but, unfortunately, not scientists, many of who have shown to be just as capable of letting their biases override their reason as the rest of the unwashed masses.
I think most proposals - at least right now the serious ones - are only talking about those already receiving similar value government assistance.

Personally I see something close to universal UBI way down the line assuming we can eliminate a large % of human jobs and reduce the amount of work significantly so even if you wanted to work there isn't any work to do. Take the profit dividends and redistribute it.
Gold has had value for as long as boys have been trying to impress gals with shiny things.

So, pretty much since we invented fire.

Name another asset that’s protected purchasing power that long...
Is that never context dependent? What about in a rebuttal to flat-earth "Theory"?
I don't know if it's yet been tested in court, but the robots.txt conventions have over a decade of widespread custom behind them. It would be hard for anyone competent enough to do sophisticated crawling to plead ignorance of them. Custom counts in law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custom_%28law%29
It depends on their exact formula. Roughly, though:

Probabilty of Team A beating Team B, given that Team A has 'A' Elo points and Team B has 'B' Elo points:
100/(1+10^((A-B)/400))
Especially if you search with quotes, the article won't show up, since his last name only shows up in the context of his mother's name (since she's the author). But now that you've typed it here, it'll show up ;/
I would like to read what he removed. I think that always we can learn something new.
From the company's 'About' page:

Do you seriously make your stuff in the USA?
Yep. We worked long and hard to get our designs and
chassis so they could be assembled by first-world labor
for prices similar to the Chinese. ...

But wouldn’t it be cheaper doing it in China?
Maybe. But we’re not going to find out.

Well, hell, all your parts are probably Chinese anyway,
right? Um, no. The majority of our parts, on a total
cost basis, come from right here in the USA, from
companies manufacturing their products in the USA. ...

As the Least Interesting Guy in the Hardware World, I don't always start companies, but when I do, I always make sure to insult 75% of my potential market.
Node.js's sole purpose was to lower the barrier to entry of server-side development.

async nature of nodejs, prototype based OO, callback hells and scope chain make JS harder than Ruby and Python, IMHO.

I dont think nodejs lowers the barrier. Or am I mistaken?
>next 20 years

do you mean next 30 years? :)
Node.js is great for REST API development but hey who's using those these days right ?

But I agree that this project fixes a non-existing problem.
TLDR for those only interested in the technology aspect: There's no brain connection. Just a chip with a vibrating element to conduct sounds based on colours picked up by a small camera via bone to his ears.
Apostol's Calculus would probably fit your needs. I do not remember its discussing applications at all, unlike the Salas and Hille book according to online descriptions of it. From what you wrote it does not look like you are concerned with that, though.
Voted up for referencing The Wire.
gmail, news.ycombinator.com, fanvibe.com, localhost:3000, and a million google search results
Try removing (backing up) all folders from ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS\ DeviceSupport. It helped for me.
Get my first subscribers (launching in a few weeks).

Beyond that, create a business that allows me to work from anywhere and can sustain my current standard of living.
Tech hiring has a changed significantly in the last few years. At the dawn of the recent start up boom (2010ish?) the best things on a resume were a great github profile, popular blog posts, and conference speaking. This is because startups needed and benefited from unique developers who could individually bring a lot of value to a company.

Small, disruptive companies benefit from having a handful of really great individuals that can give them a competitive edge.

But as FAANG becomes the norm, hiring has shifted towards desiring good but ultimately hot-swappable engineers. Being a talented individual developer with something unique to offer has shifted from the ultimate asset to being a liability. On small teams at companies that value unique skills, you being featured on the front page of HN is a source of team pride. But on a team of generic engineers it's a source of jealously and resentment. I've had more then a few posts on the front page here and have personally witnessed these two extremes.

As the Misfit's once sang "Is it time to be an android not a man" and the answer is right now is leaning toward android. What can you do with this information? There are two things you can do:

The first is to make yourself the shiniest android you can. Practice leetcode (it's honestly a lot of fun) and get really good at technical interviews. Learn to think like a robot: creative answers at non-creative places will hurt you. Being an expert will hurt you. I have personally worked at a place (fortune 500 company) where a case study was technically wrong so answering with insight and understanding would cause you to fail. Instead think "how would someone with less experience answer this?" because someone with less experience wrote it. And realize that for robots this is a very stochastic process so just keep applying.

The second is even better: target interesting, smaller companies that benefit from you being the developer you are. These interviews will be easier and the job will be more rewarding. The only catch is that currently the number of these jobs is much smaller than it was 2-3 years ago. Compensation might also be less (but doesn't have to be).

Don't let the occasionally negative comments here get to you. People have a lot of anxiety about the job market so they'll want to make this your fault to reduce their own anxiety.

Good luck! It will take more time than it used to but you'll get there!
Maybe it’s controlled by a cookie. On my tablet now so can’t verify, but I definitely still get that landing page even after using the site for quite some times (I didn’t look into settings).

It’s simply strange that they would try to coerce a first time visitor to install their app, and hide the search box behind some fine print.
Can you explain your feelings on YouTube in more detail?

I find that I am often looking for information in video form (generally because I am trying to learn how to do some physical skill or to learn about something that is innately movement based such as dance). Although I often use Bing's video search in order to not just get YouTube results, the majority of them end up being on YouTube anyways.

In general I haven't found a good way to search for video content so it seems whether irrelevant whether its on YouTube or not since I cannot find it either way.

Am I misunderstanding you?
...as is actively demoting entire classes of content (like critical commentary on politics) from the start

The closest app TikTok is comparable to is Vine. What kind of critical commentary on politics are you expecting on these apps?

People watch these apps for the memes and hot girls.
"I did the calculation how many coins we needed to become the richest person on the planet," Igor says. "I said to Andreea, 'We need to build it up to 100 million coins, because when this coin goes to €100 and we have 100 million, we are richer than Bill Gates.' It's mathematic. It's easy as that."

Great math-guy.. wonder where he got info on Gates wealth.
Unless there is a very specific and valid reason I never try to make applications database agnostic, but my designs usually are to some degree. I do like to avoid features when I know they are non-standard and other options/designs exist which are more standard. In the past on projects that has meant we wrote a bit more code a few times but it has paid off every time. At least what I have found generally is features which have no common analog in other systems are originally added for an Enterprise client and so the stability, integration and support are much less friendly to work with, so avoiding them is just smart IMO. Of course, once those features hit mainstream and other systems mimic them then obviously things change.

But in most cases we used "special" features where they just made life easier, better or both, a good example of this is back when SQLServer released CDC, we used it heavily for a system we built. Yet, not all competitive DB systems had a direct analog to it at the time. More common examples are some of the stored procedure functions available in SQLServer that weren't in other systems that we used regularly. Any of those could have made a DB porting job a pain in the ass.

Overall though, almost every system I have ever had input on or control over architecture we have hidden the database behind either an API or data layer of some sort that made the application ignorant to how data was stored, accessed and where it was located. The idea behind this isn't that I think switching databases is a normal thing, but more so we could change data location, structure etc all without affecting application design. I've been doing that since the early 90's, it was something I was just ingrained with because when I started writing code all our data was stored in flat files and so our code was the database, so isolation was critical to not affect consumers.
Thank you for finding a non-Daily-Mail source!
You think? A huge chunk of work at Google is Java.
Why on earth is he naming them "GOOG", "FB" and "AMZN"?
If I can trust 2018 OAuth-as-a-service vendor literature, it seems popular to signify "use grant flow X because your app has no backend."
> But hey, good job trying to twist my intent! I love a good intellectually dishonest conversation!

Please don't do this here. It's neither civil nor substantive.
A quick thought: use surround.vim plugin for this.
The numbers don't add up. 5k hours of skilled work must surely add up to at least 250k USD with overheads, more likely 500k USD. So they are really saying that it cost 1M USD per helicopter, still a lot better than 10M USD but stillmisleading. Nonetheless, it's an impressive feat and exceptionally praiseworthy. Nice to see a government run organization (actually any big organization) saving money while getting things done.
Abe Tusk's program seems repeatable https://www.mechaelephant.com/microgrant
I just tried converting our Chrome Extension and the process on the surface seemed pretty seamless. It doesn't seem like Safari supports web Bluetooth yet though, so aside from displaying my icon and accessing my config page, I can't really do much else.
14 years "late" is not exactly accurate as the initial time projections were based upon full funding from the initial moments of the project - which was never a realistic goal.

Similarly, the 20x budget overrun number makes two errors - 1. that the initial numbers were in today's inflation adjusted dollars (which they were not), and that project scope remained exactly the same - which it has not. Numerous aspects of the telescope have been enhanced/improved to accommodate additional science.
Maybe. There are plenty of attempts to explain g-2 and LFUV in B decays in one go.

But really there's no way to know for sure yet.
Yes, I got into the habit of using books in this kind of instrumental way during my PhD, of just taking what you need and nothing more. It can't be avoided, but in the long-term it's healthy to select some choice books to read in their entirety, if only because otherwise you'll learn nothing new. There should be some balance between focusing on what's immediately valuable to you, and exploring new ideas. Books are also usually written as wholes, and are for that reason are often best understood when read from start-to-finish.
Short version: Texas state law establishes the right for cities to decide whether their police can engage in collective bargaining.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LG/htm/LG.174.htm
Vaccinating at-risk groups first is a good tactic but isn't enough to stop the outbreak. At this point it's probably the correct choice to stop the epidemic locally first.

Though obviously the earlier we can eradicate the virus globally the better.
I'm currently using zappa and lambda for supporting about 25 b2b users. It's a django / react application and I use cloudwatch for scheduled cron jobs. My overall cost is <$20 a month.
I have a mental image of people setting great store in which platform Douglas Adams has moved to lately, given his tendency to hop between media and delight in the new and interesting.

I can certainly see him both being delighted by Twitter and also becoming incredibly bored with Twitter, over not too long a time period...
I know right. A hundred million dollars (pounds) is just a single useless contract award for your friend. Basically pocket change.
Why not just make the logo an obvious rooster and lean into the jokes?
Why does it need all these permissions?

This app has access to:

Photos/Media/Files

modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

read the contents of your USB storage

Device ID & call information

read phone status and identity

Storage

modify or delete the contents of your USB storage

read the contents of your USB storage

Phone

read phone status and identity

Wi-Fi connection information

view Wi-Fi connections

Location

precise location (GPS and network-based)

approximate location (network-based)

Other

full network access

view network connections

control vibration
Awesome deep dive ! I wonder how one can debug this without deep insights into the networking stack. I hope i ll never have a problem like this myself ;)
When I ranted about how the transfer of DNS power under the Obama admin was a bad idea and stuff like this would happen I got called a crazy conspiracy theorist... I'm getting really tired of being right about bad things, the "I told you so" is very hollow.
Yes, but most of the internet is exposed to users via the web anyways. OSs would need to follow suit, sure — to make everything that’s not a browser work so that the alternative lookup mechanism is used instead of traditional DNS. How long do you think that would take? Not too long methinks.
Judging by your demeanor here, i guess that might be the problem why people are not comfortable around you.
Not sure if the HP Veer is supported (it had original webOS), but it was certainly the smallest smartphone I've ever used. Though the keyboard was hilariously cramped it represented a curious and strangely enticing challenge!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r34-89BtmQA
As much as I like silk and wool, considering that it very rarely goes below freezing here in Copenhagen I wouldn’t say it’s an issue. Besides, the town is completely flat, so not much sweating.
I like it personally. I don't particularly care for reading fiction, but I enjoy creative writing. It gets boring reading too many technical articles that are dry as sawdust.
Reminds me of an intro to programming book in German that I once had, covering different styles from imperative to OO. Not even that old, late 90s I guess. But I guess the author just had to use C, even if he'd have preferred Pascal. So the very first thing the book does is introduce a boatload of preprocessor macros to make it look like Pascal. A weird way to start out if you had some prior C experience…

Then again, for short academic programs it probably won't cause that much confusion, having running code is more a side-effect of that, so it's a bit like executable pseudocode.

It does make me wonder what's the biggest program out there that's been written with heavy preprocessor abuse. Then again, not sure whether I'd really wanna know…
As opposed to... what? Communist systems, where the government directly owns the businesses?

Capitalist systems are the ones with the LEAST amount of involvement between government and business. Yes, those relationships are often still too strong and even unethical, but at least they're not part of the government's basic mandate.
We're using Python with Django. AppScale (similar project as TyphoonAE but a bit more mature) has done a decent job of writing a layer that implements all datastore functionality on top of variety of databases (some SQL, some not.) It's not too tricky actually since in most ways the App Engine datastore interface is a subset of SQL (kind if like SQL without joins actually.)
From a new-buyers perspective (i.e. my own) this is actually good advice.

Right now an average sized house is about as much to rent as it is to buy with a mortgage (at least here in the UK anyway). There is no sane way anyone should be renting a whole house.
In the interest of securing our oral history about the web, Tim Berners Lee had layout and images. And built-in click-to-edit. http://info.cern.ch/NextBrowser1.html
Beautiful is relative, but I am quite proud of my implementation of a BASIC DSL in Scala. http://github.com/fogus/baysick
Like any budding game programmer who cut their teeth on the object-oriented, endlessly flexible game creation system "ZZT", I will always see Tim Sweeney as a personal hero.

Perhaps a little off-topic, but if you're interested in a slice of history, have a look at what Sweeney made before the Unreal engine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT
Ideally, yes, i agree with you. But when the site's users are not necessarily computer litterate, a few hints can prove helpful (sometimes it is also a designers responsibility to take people gently where they have to go). And for some playful designs, rich on graphics and taking the conventions a bit further, it can be complicated. <br>
Hover also works as a confirmation: mouse pointers turning into a finger, that means 'yes, click'. This has been conventional for a very longtime, and it works. Watching touchscreen users tapping blindly on their ipad, checking what works and what doesn't, will probably become a frequent spectacle :)<br>
But you know what would really annoy me with the disapprearance of hover? It's slightly like the bit.ly scenario, only worse, and it's unrelated to css or submenus: The mouse over a link have since ages showed the link's url. A reasonable part of the website-reading process is made of avoiding bad or irrelevant links, not speaking of nastyspamsite.com/fakeapp.exe addresses, and hovering hover links is capital. How do we do this on a touchscreen?
I'm not convinced that Zed was suggesting that programmers should be famous for what they do (or that anyone should). The idea of programmers being like rock-stars is wholly preposterous. It's much harder for us to convince anyone that we're cool. I highly doubt I will ever get a coterie of groupies and sycophants to feed me drugs and sleep with me because I have a high wpm and can write a 2000-line report script without a single bug or syntax error.

What I do think he is suggesting is that industry should give us recognition for what we do. I honestly don't know who designed the car my taxi driver drove me to work in this morning. However, I'm pretty sure that if the design of the car was a significant feat in engineering then the engineer who designed it probably has a shiny little trophy above their desk. And if that person ever went looking for a job I doubt their interviewer would waste time asking them questions to ascertain whether they're an engineer. This person would have the industry recognition to open certain doors implicitly.

There is some industry recognition, sure. Amongst us programmers. I just finished reading "Coders at Work" not too long ago. There are names in there that I'd expect most geeks would know and be familiar with. It was a very inspiring read.

Now as an experiment, ask your boss if they know what any of those people are recognized for.

I know I'm probably begging the question. The point I'm trying to make is that the people we work for that make so much money off of what we build... they don't know who these people are. They don't take time to familiarize themselves with these sorts of things.

I think industry awards, trade publications, and the like would go a long way to bridge that gap. It has worked for pretty much every other industry. Why is programming such an exception?
How'd I miss that?

Marrying smart means to marry someone as cheap as you are.

That would require me to marry someone from the intersection of the sets WomenWhoWouldMarryMe and WomenWhoAreAsCheapAsMe. I suspect that the population of that intersection asymptotically approaches zero.
Testimony in court had BETTER be paramount. If the NSA's secret orders can force court proceedings to be conducted falsely, we are in big trouble.

Although, if I were in this situation, I would ask to speak with the judge privately.
I don't understand the whole botnet fluff. Hackers would first have to create a custom signed image that runs a MiTM attack. Next, they would need to magically break into the Sony update servers and pull a switcheroo without anyone noticing. Wouldn't it be easier to "simply" break into the Microsoft/Google/Apple/etc. update servers and slip in a fake update?
Merchant services is even more old-fashioned than the gateways, as far as I can tell.
How much CPU does memcached use? I.e. is this 1.6GHz Atom with 2GB of memory a good match; it's got 1TB for a fully populated $139K box,
People are impulsive, but businesses aren't. If you're some guy wanting to start transaction, you might need a smaller solution. For businesses, I think they want a big set up process because it makes the managers feel safer.
#1 questions: How prevelant is Android at your startup?

Most Android: Do it.
Not Android: Use Grasshopper/Phonebooth
And they publicly donated $100k to fight against Prop 8.