jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You had me until the Google / Apple remark.

My feeling of Microsoft is that they didn't understand their innovative success; XBox - or how to capitalize on it going forward. The 360 was likely the last product of theirs I will ever buy. The new console - not innovative and if they weren't paying attention to the fall out around the Sim City debacle then that's just added injury to insult. Baller is a bad CEO by today's success standards. He has always come off as arrogant and assuming. Not something an innovative company strives for.

The real dilemma here is that the general population has two unique metrics playing on them in a different manner today. One is a burgeoning idea of rights, ownership and privacy (which Microsoft Flys directly in the face of, in a very bad way) and then there is the subjective problem of attrition and interest that is eroding much faster today as consumers expect "the next big thing" every time a release comes ton market. It's one part "innovator's dilemma" with a sprinkle of fast flux perception.

Microsoft is a dead brand. I started saying this in 2004. I still believe it today. Why? Because instead of having more interest annually I have less. If Gates wanted to leave a mark on the world he'd buy back pieces and parts of the behemoth and set them free for the open market, but the reality is it will continue to fade away and generations coming into the world today will view the giant as relevant as tape decks and CDs.

The technology industry is in a period of change and maturation. It may not feel like it but my thought is 5 years out products will be more cohesive because consumers demanded platforms that were interoperable. If not, then the future may be a very stark and gloomy state of affairs dictated by a few who hold self-interest and money first.

I hope this industry doesn't follow in the footsteps of the financial industry...
Those demoscene guys are probably some of the most impressive programmers I've ever seen. It's amazing the kind of visual displays they can produce with just 4kb or 64kb of code.
This is the primary reason that I think that restricting commercially farming Tilapia on-land, in large scale closed systems, in states like California is ridiculous.

I have been looking at all the amazing open space on the Island of Alameda - where the old Navy base was; I think that a company using the warehouse/open space to create an industrial sized version of Gardenpool.org's closed loop Tilapia setup would be an amazing opportunity.
I would attribute the efficiency to Amazon's frugal e-commerce culture translated into the cloud services industry.
I can see how it would be a good way to rid the company of dead wood, but depending on the employees are grouped, it can work very poorly. When it was first implemented in an organization I used to work for, group A already had almost all dead wood (when compared with the overall company) and group B had almost all stellar employees (when compared with the overall company). Some of group A will ended up "at or above the curve" for their group, while some of group B ended up "below the curve" for their. So some of group B got bonuses while some in group A ended up on "performance improvement plans". Poor implementation? I assume so. But it was painful and infuriating to watch. I was in group A and did not end up on a performance improvement plan, thankfully. But my blood still boiled - for myself AND my co-workers.
IBM had been around for something like 22 years by 1933. Facebook has only been around for what, 9 years?
okay, now solve the problem where my socks don't wear evenly.
Flow based programming is actually heavily used in music technology, where it actually is a good paradigm for the domain. Max/MSP and its open source cousin Pure Data are interesting, and have dedicated if small communities of not-exactly-programmers using them for real, creative expression.

But most of the proposed use cases are clearly bullshit, and using these languages/programs makes it clear why: organizing code in a single dimension is already hard... organizing it properly and sensibly in two dimensions much more so, as well as a number of other issues with order and tracking race conditions. For anyone who wants to really evaluate this technology, I would give these products a try.

Really though, functional programming and OOP both have sufficient support for data flows that it isn't really an issue for programmers.
Ah. Turns out Obormot wasn't using Safari at all, which is why he hadn't noticed. I've never owned any Apple devices at all, so I can't test either. It turns out Safari (still, thanks Apple!) has poor flexbox support so the SVGs just vanish... We've fixed it, we think.
Why does everything have to be discussed in absolutes? It can be the default choice for most people most of the time and yet you've decided that it can't ever be because of a small set of scenarios in which you've decided it doesn't work. Like I said, not advocating for bikes and nothing else but the default choice for most people should not be owning and driving a car everywhere, electric or not.
I honestly need help understanding why you'd like to rename GIMP.
Even if harassment isn't commonplace, hearing Coq pronounced can be jarring. It is less than ideal that you need to be mindful of how you use the name of a tool that is the gold standard for a particular niche.

Others posted similar things, but imagine that you're a female PhD candidate and your male advisor asks you: "How familiar are you with Coq?" or "Are you good with Coq?"

Sure, the advisor could have asked "How familiar are you with the theorem prover Coq?" but it shouldn't be necessary to do so.

It seems petty and childish to be considering a name change over this, but it is far from unprecedented (e.g. "Beaver College" changed their name to "Arcadia University" in 2001). Having a more utterable name can lead to more widespread use and discussion of the tool with laypeople.
Similar: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/132349/travel-age... also https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/149323/my-name-ca...
having a type system reduces the bug space, so there's an objective argument for it. I don't see such arguments for tailwind, it's more subjective
As in it overflows over the sides?
Many video conferencing/calling applications already do this, allocating more bits to regions recognized as faces when encoding. You can test it out in FaceTime for example by showing your face vs obscuring enough of it that face detection fails.
I totally agree. WhatsApp right now affects a lot of people a little. SpaceX right now affects small amount of people a lot, but if that satellite project pans out this will turn into affecting a lot of people greatly. SpaceX has a much, much bigger prospect for benefiting humanity than WhatsApp can dream of.
So now Karl Marx was an enterpreneur.
Surely writing a minimal init in C (or Go if you like) is better than using Python... it is not a lot of code, and frankly I would trust it not to die and kill your container more. Plus Python has a chunk of dependencies you don't need in a minimal container.
Slower DNS responses with big hosts file is something to be expected.

The solution is to feed the data to a DNS caching resolver such as unbound or dnsmasq, as I have explained in reply to UserRights.

Answering here also to point out I originally implemented this on a 5y old netbook (Atom CPU, 1GB RAM) because I tend to have a lot of tabs open in firefox, and ABP's memory usage quickly becomes noticeable, and then comes the swapping. Running unbound+nginx scales remarquably well, without hogging too much memory at startup. (Sorry, I don't have access to the netbook right now to report real numbers).
No one nowadays is going to make a delivery platform without considering (and optimizing) thermal, audio, and radar signatures. Stealth isn't a "technology" we apply; it's an accepted, fundamental part of design. That it isn't perfect, and that other nations are working to compromise it, isn't a reason to give up; it's the reality of any military technology. And there is always a compromise between different desired capabilities.
Correlation does not imply causation, however. There could be a more complex relationship between the two than direct causality.
Not necessarily other creatures, GMO technology is often used by selecting genes from same species.

The so-called "traditional" method of crop development, on the other hand, takes genes not just from other creatures but from totally random mutations, often induced by carcinogens and radiation, and then selected.

With GMOs we know much more about what has happened to the genome of the species.
Just leave out the tl;dr part. You don't need to justify your posting of a link. Just post it and say what it's about.
I read the article and I was wondering if you've tried the blue-light blocking sunglasses ( https://www.lowbluelights.com/detail.asp?id=48 ) or something similar?

Also you could check out BluBlocker sunglasses which can be gotten cheap on eBay. But, I'm not sure if they will work for what you want.
Given Singapore's reputation of exacting harsh penalties for what many would consider minor offenses, I expected to find that performing an illegal U-Turn there would result in some outrageous fine or even jail time, which would account for the strict adherence to the rule by their citizens. However, an illegal U-Turn in Singapore will cost you $70 SGD, or approximately $50 USD. [1]

In contrast, here in California there are a variety of fines for U-Turns, depending on context, but the most common ("at Controlled Intersection," "in Business District," "in Residential District," "Near Fire Station," "on Highway Without Unobstructed View") will all run you over $200, and over $250 if you intend to go to traffic school. [2]

Of course, this doesn't address the myriad other "offenses" in Singapore which may result in steep fines, jail time, caning, or worse, and how those collectively influence the public's adherence to the law. But a little unexpected and interesting nonetheless.

[1] http://www.singapore-drivers.com/index.php?option=com_conten... (This same list of fines is posted verbatim on a number of other sites, but I couldn't find a more official source. This article on the Singapore Police Force site has some interesting info, but nothing specific about fines for U-Turns: http://driving-in-singapore.spf.gov.sg/services/Driving_in_S...)

[2] California Uniform Bail and Penalty Schedules, January 2010 edition. http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/reference/documents/2010_jcbail...., P. 33.
For me, at least, waking up by using the sun as an alarm clock feels good. I wake much more alert than if I wake up in a dim room with a blaring alarm clock.

Waking up with the sun is a slow process, whereas an audible alarm is abrupt.
tongue-in-cheek

Fuck him. Who is he to tell other people not to write? He's just a writer.

If you want to be a writer, do it.
Thanks for the links, guys, I will look into them.

I'm not worried about Apple for two reasons:

- The layout engine I have prototyped (there is no binding, only layout proper) operates on native iPhone controls, i.e. it does not create a new abstraction layer on top of UIKit but rather extends it form the side with smart sizing and positioning. I think it's very important to avoid creating leaky abstractions and I plan to keep doing things this way. In other words the layout description describes layout of native UIKit controls, not some abstract presentation of data.

- I'm no Adobe, and I'm not likely to attract attention to myself.
I wonder if cream of tartar would work. (I really hate vinegar, it smells like rotten food to me.)
I remember seeing this back in January, actually. (I believe here on HN, but maybe not.)

The content is cool, but it was also a clever marketing strategy of Board of Innovation. I actually happened to be doing a presentation on business models some short time after first seeing this, and this presentation inspired me to use their tools to create some of the visuals.
Getting an error (500) when trying to sign in with facebook - just a heads up.
Yeah, same here. I really hope that Wacom goes for the Thunderbolt.

My current rig includes a 12" Cintiq which has a mess of cables, a breakout box, a wall wart, needs a Displayport to DVI adaptor, etc etc.

The mess of cables is exactly like this:

http://www.photofacts.nl/fotografie/foto/et/wacom_cintiq_cab...

Hate the cables so much.
Great idea love it :D
They compared it to last years MBA, not the one released 2-3 weeks ago so I'm not sure how it really compares.
Along the same lines, the Mythbusters had an episode about swimming in syrup. Here's a link to the first part of the episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs4Q5jZSJbA
I'm guessing this fellow is just a little different, and very very stubborn. That might also be the reason he solved the problem.
It would be pretty cool, as it would make iPad development easier but that would mean Apple would have to give up its tight grip on the device, which I very much doubt will ever happen.
>Bing Maps will do fine. Bing search will do fine for a large percentage of users.

Assumptions that Microsoft is cozy with Apple are flawed. Microsoft is more at risk from Apple than they are with Google
I Submitted this article as i thought some you would find it useful - but they unfortunately missed off www.crossbrowsertesting.com which would take my vote.
Here's both letters: http://elzr.com/posts/wolfram-feynman
Lot of people said that, in a way or another.
You have to look at the history of unions in the UK as well then if you think it's only in the US they've done good: http://www.unionhistory.info/timeline/timeline.php

Strikes hurt the strikers far more than the negotiations they are an alternative to. No one wants strikes.
There was fascinating discussion about this already on HN (several times), anyone have links to those discussions?
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution provides for a federal district (distinct from the states) to serve as the seat of government.

The location of the federal district was a result of a compromise between Hamilton, Madison, and Jefferson. The U.S. capital city was New York at the time. Jefferson didn't want the federal government controlled by one of the largest Northern states. So he struck a bargain with Hamilton, agreeing to support Hamilton's plan for the federal government to assume the states' debts in exchange for the creation of a federal district apart from the power of any one of the states of the union (and further south).

You can read more about the reasons for removing the capital from state territory here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residence_Act

(Full disclosure: I wouldn't mind Eleanor Holmes Norton getting a vote in the House, but I would be against DC having senators.)
> A 1.75 ton load, especially raised as high up as shown in this prototype, would flip the truck in the slightest of turns.

The battery in this truck is probably incredibly heavy, which really moves the center of mass down. The suspension is also computer controlled, and at high loads you could lower the vehicle to be closer to the ground. Carrying 3500 pounds off road isn't a good idea even if the vehicle can corner so you don't need the clearance.

Actually I think your overestimating the total weight, but it goes to the above point when you say

> Second, this is going to be a very heavy truck, 6000 pounds or more.

> Musk is imagining that battery technology will advance a lot before this thing ships

Unlikely, more likely he is just planning on putting a lot of battery in it. Unlike you, Musk has lots of engineers working on this and has a pretty damn good idea of what is possible.

Pickup trucks are ideal for packing a lot of battery, lots of space along the bottom to do so.

> Finally, the claim that the bed will extend to the ground to form a useful ramp. Nah. These folks have never lived with a pickup. No object heavier than a bicycle is going to make it up that 45 degree incline and into the bed without crashing into the cab before it can stop, especially given the polished floor of the demo truck. That's fantasy #3. No telling how much more reality distortion lies beneath that funky exterior.

ROFL - you realized they literally live demoed doing so on a ATV right?

Moreover, the main use of ramps, at least in my mind having unloaded and loaded a pickup truck, is making it easier to move heavy objects in and out by hand.

I'm pretty sure the only person fantasizing here is you.
It's less about the actual changes made and more that one person is maintaining a branch that diverges (significantly?) from upstream, on a project that is fast-paced and constantly under attack. If I'm using this tool to run tests on the network, and I'm several patches of Chromium behind, that makes me vulnerable.

That tradeoff can be worth it, but all I'm getting out of it here is reduced application footprint? I'd rather use the bloated tools or wait for someone with deeper pockets to make a less bloated tool. Or a similarly small project that writes it natively.
Californians are approaching a knowledge saturation point at which the overwhelming majority will understand on some level that the bulk of their data is available for sale any number of different ways and effectively ubiquitous. Transparency is unavoidable; if you don't want anyone to know you have 3 cars don't buy so many cars.
Did your dad buy a car for Uber?

The question is whether that is economically rational. Once you are stuck paying for a car, Uber looks a lot better going forward.
There's a difference between valuing privacy and being willing to pay an extortion fee.
A few years ago I would have agreed with you, however not anymore. Memorization is an integral part of internalizing some concepts and subjects. Check out this thread from Michael Nielsen on the topic:

https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/95776322945477427...
I wrote React Table and have never heard of those.

So no, React Table is not a reimplementation.
Perhaps I spoke a little too broadly. What I meant is that the bulk of blind users don't use lynx. This particular one appears to -- sometimes? -- but this usage is not typical.
I've edited my comment.

I've used HOCs to share behavior between React components in the past. You can also accomplish similar things with the Render Props pattern, depending on how you want to organize code. Using hooks is new to me. Anyway, my point is there has always been ways to factor out the behavior from React components. I'm pretty sure the reason they don't encourage factoring it out completely is so that DOM events are still handled in the domain of the UI, since they don't deal with types in your model.

https://reactjs.org/docs/render-props.html
Part of the joy of podcasts is that listening is kinda like hanging out with friends when you find a good one. Sure, that may take a while, but I don't get why this dude is all butt hurt about it, or why anyone should care about his opinion. Look at how popular radio was back in the day.

That said, too many businesses are making podcasts now, and I really despise how true crime stuff exploits victims and their families for listens/views and makes celebrities out of serial killers. We have an episode about this on my podcast ;-)

https://accidentallyfasting.com/
I just spoke to someone at Amazon, and Synchrony Bank has learned of this and told Amazon about the issue. It is 100% fraud and both companies are working on it. In the meantime, I'd manually go to the synchrony website (they manage a large amount of store accounts like Victoria's Secret and New York & Company.. I think also Old Navy) for any account access, login, payment. Don't click any email links right now. They're likely trying to steal account info during the black Friday rush.
You take the good, you take the bad.
I like that Suricata is open source but haven't used it. You can close all your inbound ports and link listeners, e.g. locally resolved DNS and outbound-only https, only for authorized sessions.
Can't have turtles all the way down. Or can they ?
No it's not. Point out what was so "acerbic" in my original reply. I've read it twice now and there's nothing out of line in it.

The only emotion I injected was "I am startled". Yeah, really `acid in temper or mood`. Especially when * ironically* I was addressing the acerbic comments being pointed at the author for ACTUALLY BELIEVING people when they told him they were interested.

Is it opposite day on HN or did I miss a memo?
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440220 for previous discussion on Don's post.
That's because in this part of world, the "provincial lords" are the police and local government.
I'd echo this experience; I have a drobo fs with the new wd caviar greens. It works like a treat and is very quiet. I'm next looking into a tape backup solution for longer term storage, but for now- the drobo is an excellent way to work with.

Tip: don't buy the old drobo, get the new one. Don't get the drobo share, use an airport extreme or similar disk-sharing network device.
Write an IM app for the iPhone 4.

You're wrong. These are the same excuses that people always make for apple, that simplicity and functionality are mutually exclusive. This excuse seems to usually be made ONLY for Apple. Why can't they have their easy to use APIs but ALSO have the ability for real developers who want to write "that same for loop over and over", or who, you know, what to write something like an Instant Messaging application do so?
But have you thought of the power costs for running that machine? That's why I in addition to protocol and other feature support, I also look at power consumption. These things will most likely be running 24/7/365 and the energy costs add up over time.
I've sent them an email to get more information. Thanks for the tip.
This is a clear example of "good enough." Low security for low value targets -- if you need more you can get it. Setting a password, remembering a special email address, not posting via blackberry/mobile, all of these add friction.

EDIT: Although it is fun to think of solutions ... Posterous could mail you back a link; when you hit the link the post goes live. Then you would clearly need control of the sending address to post. And the link could just go to the new article, which you'll likely want to look at anyway.
The rendering quality is sub-standard compared to Safari on OS X at the moment, but I'm really excited there is another browser vendor trying to solve this problem!
open source finance is crypto. arbitrage provides information everyone can use.

Practical example: get free price every minute from cryptomarketplot.com/api.json then you can figure out the EUR/USD spot using BTC/USD and BTC/EUR without ever needing yahoo finance or anything
"Hey, this book contains a graphical description of rape" is very low effort, just like how telling somebody that a food you made yourself contains peanuts is very low effort.

The only time lecturers wouldn't know when something might trigger someone is if they haven't actually read or looked at the content that they're about to present, which I find pretty hard to believe.
ARMs are usually used little ended
For those looking for a pretty decent (and small) wrapper around IndexDB, I've had some good luck using localforage

https://github.com/localForage/localForage

I believe its maintained by Mozilla still.

There's also idb-keyval

https://github.com/jakearchibald/idb-keyval
"Remembering Phillip H. Smith on his 100th Birthday" - https://faculty.up.edu/ainan/aps2005inanMarch05.pdf

>Smith approached a number of technical magazines for publication of his transmission line
diagram; however the acceptance process was slow. Finally, after two years, Smith’s article
describing his chart was published in the January 1939 issue of Electronics magazine. In a
second article, published in the January 1944 issue of Electronics, Smith incorporated further
improvements into his chart, including its usage alternatively as an impedance chart or an
admittance chart.
Google got loved by offering tiny things like these... I don't get it.

Why stop there, just shut maps.