jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Unlikely. Employees could be gone in <whatever their notice period is>, so you can't put that much accounting value on them. Factories are worth something, sure, but they're pretty much a commodity; if they were destroyed in an earthquake or something SpaceX would just rebuild them. Most of the value of SpaceX's assets will be in the designs (particularly the engine/turbopump design), not even the design itself so much as the fact that it's been validated and proven (and is cheap to produce). That and, perhaps even more important, having an organization that's proven its ability to solve rocketry problems and continue to make improvements.
Ah, awesome - I'll be giving that a try.
I mostly agree with that take. I just think the discussion is more complex when we're talking about a pandemic - acting personally in a reckless manner is imposing your risks on others. Base jumping off a bridge with no expectation of medical care is a personal risk - taking the subway without a mask on when you're feeling ill in the middle of a pandemic is a shared risk.
I’d read it as being a combination of dividends being re-invested over 40 years (including indirectly for share buy backs) if you did basically nothing.
I laughed so many times reading this that I had to stop sipping my coffee. Having recently had a similar experience trying to upgrade 2 lines from 3G to iPhone 4, I felt the same way. Great piece.
RIM has been the entrenched market leader. Abandoning all that made it successful would be equivalent to the Digg redesign. Instead of placing bets on RIM's comeback play we'd be analyzing the wreckage of RIM's sudden implosion.

Google and Palm had no users. They could afford to completely change focus and abandon the existing user base.
It's not just this.

I could have the best job in the world and because I'm not working for myself, I'm not going to be happy.
Parent is correct - it's a matter of staffing - you need extra people to load & unload all of those boats.
>I envy people who love their jobs. It seems like a simpler, more satisfying life. It's just never been that way for me.

We don't have some mental deficiency, absent in you, that stops us from hating our jobs. We have simply found jobs that we don't hate. Just like you.

Just because you are self-employed, doesn't mean that you don't have a job. And if you don't have a controlling share in your company any more, you aren't any more self employed than me.
More recent stats, from earlier this month:

http://gs.statcounter.com/press/blackberry-overtakes-apple-i...

Key points:

* Blackberry now has more share than iPhone in the US, just behind globally.

* iPhone down 20 percentage points and Android up 15 points in the last year.
I think it comes down to what your motivations are--money or fun. Then there are companies like Twitter that have no obvious revenue model when they get started, so do you call it a business? And how often do the Twitters of this world really scale up enough to actually call themselves a business. Given you're a developer, you're going to focus more on the creation of the product. Whereas someone without those skills is going to approach it from a business perspective in all likelihood. If it's just a weekend project, I would say go have some fun with it. But if you're going to invest some time in it as a way to make a living, it's worth doing that ground work before you even get started to make sure people are willing to pay for it.
No, that would be much closer to a reasonable penalty than they attempt to incur.
Why are those introverts here so going extra about it?
I wanted something that is

-similar to my real name

-available on as much websites as possible (signing up early for a service and getting your first name as a handle is nice, but it's unlikely you get it everywhere)

-Easy to have a similar one in case it's unavailable

-short
Good to finally see this story told in all of its gory detail. As a witness to this story, I was frustrated to see how Arlo and AJ never had a chance to win on the merits of their case, let alone on the merits of their technology. I can only hope that this story inspires others and drives needed software patent reform. And that Arlo and AJ both go on to do great things -- as I am sure they are doing already.
Is this like the "Sample" button in Activity Monitor on OS X?
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>Second, there are so many different diets, fads, foods, etc to eat or follow that's it ridiculous to even argue one way or another.

I hate to invoke the name of Tim Ferriss for fear of the downvotes, but that's exactly one of the things he puts forward in The Four Hour Body.

To paraphrase, "Here's what works for me. It might not work for you. The only way to know if something works for you is to try it, and measure your results."
I know this is kind of a joke, kind of a way to bring publicity to whats happening in Lybia, but if the bit.ly domain disappears you can always just rewrite "bit.ly" to "j.mp" and the short URLs will keep working.

Then again, this presumes that the company is still running (which we can't really put a ton of faith in), which is why i use http://isshort.com (shameless plug) to find publisher-provided short URLs where possible.
I'm sorry but your statements are completely ridiculous and based on nothing.

The problem your are seeing in the us is not really due to misinformation being available, but to the country on its way to Idiocracy.

The issue is the real lack of intelligence. A long tradition of corrupt leaders have pushed for the suppression of critical thinking in the population as it is way more convenient to control the population.

Trump leds to having people acting like that because everything now is about reacting and not thinking anymore.

Imagine one second that Google leaders were friends with Trump that would protect their interest.
Which truth would be enforcing?

Look at the situation in China?

Look at Russia that poison its opponents but decide that the state truth is that it is a 'fake news'.

Read farhenheit 451 and 1984 and you will understand!
Got the email earlier today, been a customer since 2012. Love their app, savings plans, etc.

Felt like the first time a banking app was modern, and even my BoA and Discover apps are woefully behind Simple to this day.

I doubt BBVA will provide a good replacement sadly.
>My family hates WhatsApp

Wish I had your family. Telegram's new Group voice chat feature (Push to talk) might push them over though.
Yeah, but is a bit different when you are so big that you crush everywhere you walk.
You logic is flawed. MacBooks and mac computers have existed far long more than iPhone and their price isn't getting lower. I fail to see why the iPhone, another great premium Apple product, will drop it's price in the future.
It clearly does not.
That made me think more than the article. Why anyone would assume that I find it strange that the articles subject would would be so good at math and yet so willing to disregard Occam's razor. It is a good example of how peoples desires shape their thinking.
By MG's usual standards the post can actually be called borderline reasonable.

The trouble with getting a handle on the mobile phone market is that most analysts often pick up only the US market or the smart phone market and form their conclusions based on it.

Another issue is when most of the online discussions on the iPhone/Android competition turns into an all-out brawl with only the usual talking points thrown in.

I use a Galaxy S I9000. I like the phone. It is not perfect. I could probably have aimed for the iPhone, but it was at least $100 more where I live (India). Keep this price in mind, it is very important.

What is the cheapest iPhone you can get today, without a contract? Most of us India buy the phones pretty much at the full price. Even if I assume that the iPhone will be priced at half of what it costs here, it would still be more expensive than some of the Android phones made by the local manufacturers here. I don't ever see Apple doing an iPhone Starter Edition.

There were some 100 million-plus mobile phones that were sold in India in 2009. I am sure that 99% of those were not either a Samsung Galaxy S or an iPhone. Between iOS and Android, the odds are much better on Android to tap into those potential 99 million sales.

This is the reason why Android will grow even stronger next year. But it won't be at the cost of the iPhone.
My first thought reading the article was that his prediction in 1996 was wrong. Then I realized that most of my work now is on desktops, specifically related to development work on the command line. That's not a mainstream use-case. I build web applications ... and people who use the apps I build don't care about the underlying filesystem storage. They are interacting with a SQL database.

When I go into my Gmail account, I have filters set to label my email. I don't use folders there. Half of the documents I care about are on Google Docs, where I use search instead of a file browser. I don't use a filesystem metaphor on my non-jail-broken iPod Touch either, except maybe to access the apps.

With mobile web apps set to explode in 2011 -- Android is predicted to go to sub-$100 retail price, it means a lot of people's first experience of a personal computing device will not be a filesystem.
It feels weird knowing I will never be 5% as productive as TJ is. (At least not without amphetamines or something.)
And yet my ISP still doesn't support IPv6...

Until something forces the transition nothing is going to change.
You can have an open source driver without mainlining it. This was what the whole discussion between the Linux devs and AMD was over the AMD HAL. If you want to maintain it yourself, you can do it however you want.

Linux has modules, and had very good support for out of tree modules.
Everything has risks and tradeoffs. Excel means that you can communicate with clients and vendors in their preferred tool, it means you can onboard new hires more quickly, it means you need less internal support staff, etc. Switching from Excel adds those things back in as risks for your business.

Good business is about managing and understanding risks, and not about eliminating them at all costs.
Well, it's regulation.
First, start something massive and unrelated to space, like a paypal. Then ride your dividends straight into your burn rate, securing idealistic investor money to go into the furnace along the way.

Seriously, that’s the playbook for what you suggest. The only playbook. Anything else in these threads is going to be baseless presumption; if it were as the commenters said, they’d themselves be doing it and not sharing it online.
I’ve never had any throttling occur. Are you using a free plan or paid?
English side ruined, must use French instructions. Le git? What the hell is that?!
OKCupid has really been pushed to adopt the tinder based swipe approach in the past 2 years or so. They've also had a few big PR screw ups with forcing users to present their real names and really shifting the feature set to be more like Tinder now.

It's really not the same as okcupid from 4 years ago
>GM has been part of many morally questionable practices. I think GM was on a terrible course from the mid 1970's to the early 2000's

Yeah, erm.. about that timeline.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/02/18/gm-cobal...

I think it's safe to say GM didn't exactly clean up its act after the early 2000's. If I did that same thing with my small business, I'd probably be charged with manslaughter by gross negligence... or perhaps outright murder since I knowingly allowed innocent people to die in order to rake in more cash.

> If it was, I wouldn't work here.

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Apparently doesn't work if the words are just in your signature.
Will the icons and other text scale seamlessly or do I need a magnifying glass?
How few seconds did you spend on the site? Your comment makes no sense.
Probably has more to do with the fact that tech companies in general actively try to portray a progressive, benevolent do good image of themselves. Because of that, when they run amuck it's more news worthy or at least more salacious than when your typical scummy corporation does the same.
Actually I wonder how Facebook's user tracking is actually dealing with mobile users who only use their mobile app. It seems like they'd potentially lose a lot of tracking info unless they can track an app login through the mobile browser.

I wonder if this is part of the reasoning for their increasing centralization by offering a browser and supposedly actually hosting highly shared content.
I commend you for your honesty. If more employers were this honest up front, the workforce would be a much better place.

Since we happen to be in a sellers market for IT talent, I suspect you would not have very many takers if your prospective employees knew up front that this was your attitude towards them, and they'd be valued so little that asking for what they thought they were worth would mean they would get fired.

You attitude would fly much better in a buyers market, where the employer holds all the cards. Then you could demand whatever you like, and the employee would most likely be desperate enough to lick it up.
RMS's stewardship of GCC most certainly includes re-licencing it under the GPLv3, it's all one of a part.

And don't one or more of the BSDs have problems with the GLPv3 GCC? It's just not eeevil Apple (and that's part of why I swore off their products in 1987).
Reminded me about http://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/

If you're disappointed with walkers' performance, try cars, they improve much more. The principle remains the same of course. Attention: addictive.
Enabling sleeping is a difficult thing to actually do, especially in a stack of bodies. You have to enforce a minimum movement threshold over a series of frames usually, and group bodies together to go to sleep, and also wake the same group up when there's motion. It's not always easy to do
If I were to do this, I'd try the following:

First, lets examine what we know. Further objects will exhibit less relative movement then closer objects when looking through a slowly moving video camera (parallax motion). We can reconstruct 3d scenes using more than one image of the same scene from slightly different angles.

I imagine your question is for single images rather than multiple images of the same scene. Thus parallax motion will not help us. However, unless the images are taken using a tripod, there will be some kind of micro blur introduced by pushing the "take picture" button on your camera. These blurs can be analyzed. Using the same principal as above, further objects will be less blurred due to the motion. This can be used to reconstruct a 3d scene from a single image.

Next, we will likely know the characteristics of our lens and the focus/zoom settings that were used to take the image. Using this, plus the 3d scene from above, we should be able to calculate the distance to any object (recognized or not).

(disclosure: I am not an expert in this and do not know if this would work)

𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕: This may actually work (see research below)

http://www.cv-foundation.org/openaccess/content_cvpr_2013/pa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Le0pxfRo80
What pain does this solve? Is that pain worth the money?
"I appreciate the question, but I do not feel that my previous salary nor my living expenses impact my ability to perform my duties at this company. Now, what do you feel that this position is worth to this company?"
They must have bought an expensive ping-pong table with all that money they raised.
I'm an engineer at one of those companies you mentioned who worked directly on the Mesos+DC/OS platform.

Mesosphere's support was pretty much nonexistent as far as we were concerned. We had major issues open for years without any significant action. They were never resolved. We had to solve most problems ourselves.

We got so fed up that a few of us worked late nights (often up to 2AM) on a bottom-up skunkworks project to replace Mesos with Kubernetes. That project was exceptionally successful. (I'd like to point out that we are not in the Bay area and are adults with families and small children- we hated Mesos so much we were willing to stay up anyway.)

In short, Mesos has a lot of great theory but we hated it in practice. Kubernetes has some theoretical flaws but it is better experience for practitioners.
Software as art is the most apt analogy I have encountered so far.

If you want to build nuclear reactors, sky scrapers or semiconductor manufacturing lines, go to college for 4+ years and follow the traditional paths.

If you want to compose a symphony or non-trivial software, skip the college and go sit in front of your instrument(s) for as long as you can stand to every day.

To call programming "Software Engineering" and building coursework around that term would be similar to developing coursework around "Music Engineering". The rigor of science/engineering (while certainly at the foundations of everything) distracts from higher-order and more human understanding once you get past the basics.

The entire game with software is managing complexity in a way that is sustainable for the participants. Effectively, this is what art seeks to accomplish as well. Capturing many raw emotions/ideas and integrating them into a single solution.
Scope creep? Perhaps. But then so are voice calls, video calls, sending pictures, GIFs, etc. None of those things are core to the experience of sending "lol" to a friend. Despite the very correct statement that there already exist services which do those things.

Yet, those features have almost become synonymous with messaging apps. The market and consumers seem to want these services combined, so here we are. My point was that sending money is a feature that more and more messaging services have. Hangouts (or whatever the hell it is called these days), Whatsapp, Telegram, etc.

Personally, I would have liked it more if this wasn't tied to some no-name cryptocurrency, but oh well.
I still don't understand what Google did? What does it mean to copy the Java API? I thought Android works with Java as any other platform built on Java.
Azul publishes a decent comparison matrix: https://www.azul.com/products/zulu-enterprise/jdk-comparison...
Django (and pretty much any other framework) is usually "fast enough"; typically you'll hit the limits of your datastore first, and even if you reach the point where the framework becomes an issue it's trivial to scale horizontally due to its stateless nature.
Don’t blindly set stats to 10000, an intermediate value between the default of 100 and the max of 10000 may give you the best plans; experiment to find out.
Most servers are doing things for human beings, and we have irregular schedules. Standard rule of thumb is that you plan for a peak capacity of 10x average. A datacenter that doesn't have significant idle capacity is one that's some kind of weird special purpose thing like a mining facility.
So this is another benefit for me. If I'm feeling sluggish, I'll hammer out some light accessory work that compliments my programming for the day and I can do it while working. It takes me 30 seconds to hammer out a set of dumbell presses or hammer curls or whatever while I'm actively reading an email/teams message/looking at documents to figure out what to do with a case. Or sometimes I'll just go down and back up the basement stairs when I go to the kitchen to top my water off, takes less time than walking to the breakroom at the office and lets me fight gravity a little more than walking.

I can't do that at an office.
Unless you have scraped past posts to perform some kind of sentiment analysis, this is pure speculation intended to move the goalposts on GP.
I've done this for years and it's kind of shocking how many people feel free to ignore the "hey, trying to work here" signal sent by headphones.

But I also have to admit that I've typically worked at companies where I was part of a smaller technology team in a larger company. As opposed to working at tech-oriented companies where the majority of my coworkers were fellow engineers who would (theoretically) be a little more understanding.
The study is fundamentally flawed and the article (headline claim in particular) is nonsensical.

The study is flawed in that it lacks a control group and is missing information about relevance. You say people don't see the road when you tell them to look at a screen. Wow, color me shocked. But if you're going to demand change, you need to be able to put that fact into context. Like, what are the measurements when asked to perform the same action in the built-in head unit? And is this a contrived example, or does it represent typical use.

The headline has a similar problem. We already know that driver reaction time is effectively infinitely high for distracted driving. If the driver doesn't see the obstacle then they aren't just slow to react, they don't react to it at all... because why would they react to something that they don't realize exists? So you're comparing that fact to delays caused my chemical impairment? How? A driver with phone integration will have no impairment at all if he's not looking at the display at precisely the time of the incident, but intoxication has a persistent effect.
Hopefully, Shingy will have one of his "brain farts" and things will get better at AOL.
All done by Australian scientists while the government slashes their funding left and right. We're going to be left with wheat, sheep and a bunch of holes in the ground once the mining is finished.
American culture is awash in thinly-disguised fertility rituals, from cheerleader routines at sports fixtures to selection of 'prom queens' who are stereotypically paired with the quarterback of the football team. From a non-American's perspective, football is massively sexualized.
yeah, you don't actually need to have 'tabs' as a permission - most of the tab functionality you need is there by default
It didn't / did (not sure myself) affect the PM's career?
Week numbers are a very common way of talking about time in some locales.

For instance in my native Sweden, it's very common when e.g. scheduling things at work to talk about which week something will happen.

Sites like http://vecka.nu make it easy to check the current week number (the domain name translates as "week.now") whenever you have internet access, paper calendars include it, and so on. It's really very common.
Tramp’s experience gets better when you configure Emacs to keep autosave files somewhere other than alongside their parent in the same directory - unlike the file you’re actually editing, which is indeed only transferred on save or revert, the autosave file is updated very frequently, and this can be painful over a slow link. Keeping autosave files under ~/.emacs.d/auto-save or similar solves that problem; if you can configure Sublime to do something similar, it might improve the experience there as well.
My team came up with using Pixar characters for server names but were told no by the Universities hostmaster. Apparently the University had previously gotten C&D letters from Disney for something similar.
I feel anyone who abstruct justice by withholding evidence should automatically go to jail. This guy was railroaded on so many levels, the DA should go sit in jail for same amount of time this innocent person did.
This post is basically a copy/paste of the latest book of Rifkin:

http://www.amazon.com/Zero-Marginal-Cost-Society-Collaborati...

Book, which is by the way very good.
They only have 8 GB of RAM don't they? Seems like a major limiting factor for many applications at the moment.