jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Right. Apple made a great phone. But my point was I don't think they changed the industry structure. Even to this day the industry structure is pretty much as it was in 2006 (see the points I listed before). But we do have much better phones, thanks, in part, to the iPhone.
The entire world would be a much better place if we listened to Thomas Jefferson a little more often. In general he's about 300 years ahead of his time in terms of civil liberties and other basic human rights.

The necessity of patent and copyright law is best explained by William Pitt, 'Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.'
What a powerful insight. Only now do I see how truly wrong I was. I don't know how I could have been so blind.
Even if Apple did that, I imagine they wouldn't share co-branding prominently on the packaging/marketing, which would make it #3.

How many devices have you seen in the last decade which include an Apple logo AND another manufacturer's logo? I can think of one: the Apple/Nike+ http://www.apple.com/ipod/nike/ . The Apple logo and the Nike swoosh are cited as two of the most recognized logos in the world. I suspect that's about the only caliber of partnered branding Jobs would allow on an Apple product at this point.
Lol @ "they actually like talking to people more than pushing to github"

I consider myself to fit in this category. I've always been a hobbyist programmer, but it is my damned penchant for humans over social code hosting platforms that has prevented me from becoming a professional developer, for better or worse.
> Just like casinos in Las Vegas

It has nothing to do with a cassino. It's not a zero sum game. It generates value from profits, it makes the general market more liquid, pricing assets. Not everybody is day/swing trading with futures.

> rich people taking money from poor people

That's a pretty strong affirmation, do you have sources with backtests? otherwise, well, it's enough to have 01 consistent counter-example. Of course, if you day trade, you'll give your money to whoever knew how to properly price an asset first. But that's just being unwise.

The article bases its theses on the fact that there is insider trading - and its variations - which is a failure on the judicial system, not markets in general .
Yeah, I've messed around with Method of Loci off and on over the years, but it hasn't done much for me. Probably I'd just need to put the effort in to it, and I haven't. My natural tendency has been a grab bag of sorts; if I want to recall something, I think about a category -- "people", "projects", "trivia", etc. -- to kind of prime my brain in some way I don't really understand, and then it just pukes out a bunch of stuff until the thing I'm looking for pops up. Like, if I'm trying to remember an actor's name, it goes, "face -> action movie -> movie box was dark blue at night -> heat -> Val Kilmer". It's usually pretty quick.

You're right though, brains are pretty fallible. If something's really really really important, I do have backups. Usually email, or text, or paper.

...but, honestly? I'm scared to death of old age. It scares the piss out of me. One of the things about it that really gets to me is the idea that I might be 90 one day and not recognize people I care about, or remember anything about myself, or have any idea what's going on around me. The smartest elderly people I know are all very mentally active, and always have been, so even though there isn't good scientific evidence for the prevention of alzheimer's through puzzles and brain teasers and the like, I do it anyway.
There are between 100 billion and 400 billion stars in our galaxy, which puts the odds of life developing at between 1 in 400 million and 1 in 100,000. That doesn't seem wildly out to me - particularly now that we're finding more and more extrasolar planets.

Would you prefer odds of 1 in a trillion? or 1 in 1000?
The colour is actually the same as your HN colour that you can set in your settings page.

Making read comments a lighter shade of grey would, unfortunately, not go well with how HN handles comments with <= 0 score.

If you have any more ideas please share them, I know this isn't the optimal solution right now, but I can't find anything better ...
Some of my favorite speakers at the latest Startup School were Ron Conway, Tom Preston-Warner, and Brian Chesky. Last year my favorite speaker was Paul Buchheit.
As someone who occasionally edits wikipedia I can't relate all that much. I added a fairly a new chunk of info to an article that has a lot of head butting between bored nerds, and it's still there.
>quality, honest feedback

Friends, but not in general. Friends can be a source of feedback aside from just publishing it. Full disclosure: I'm on team just-publish-it.

>how does one know if the content's any good?

Just publish it!

>What's been your experience?

Comfortable obscurity so far.

>Do you know of any good resources

The War of Art
Might I suggest adding it to the list then in addition to this comment? You seem to know more than just "it exists" since you cite use cases and advantages.

Be the change you want to see.
The only Star Wars action figure worth having:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/708113857/aunt-beru-and-uncle-o...
That part doesn't surprise me, it's just the sheer magnitude of 41% of modded servers that's shocking.
> For instance, some projects have offered a chunk of their fees from resales to users, or offer a token reward for staking the NFT.

Something feels off about that, but I’m not sure what. It seems like a fundamentally different kind of “cash-flow” than what the article is referring to. It’s still capped by the total appreciation of the asset.
We ask candidates to review and criticise 2 pages of really buggy, badly written C++ code. It is a great way to find out how experienced a C++ developer is and how good they will be solving hard problems. Writing new code is easy. Fixing problem in code written by other developers is much more of a challenge.
As someone who sells and genuinely enjoys collecting NFTs, it always boggles my mind when I find people who genuinely believe that they're good "investments".
I'm trying to understand our comment and failing. When I get a common cold or flu, of which I have had hundreds in my 4 decades of life, I don't think I once ended up with organ scarring. What are you on?
Please don't do this here.

Bike vs. car flamewars are surprisingly close to the nastiest things we see here. Not to mention tedious.
Consumer please select one:

[ X ] $99/mo - make Comcast-NBC-Universal content faster, 100 GB/day
[ ] $199/mo - make all content the same speed, 1 GB/day
As an interviewer of entry-level technical ops folks (think datacenter tech who we hope to train to become junior sysadmins) I love this question. Hiring a high-end network engineer or developer? I'll only ask if it they are otherwise struggling, as to gauge if the interview should even continue.

> I've now learnt to see such interview questions as a sign of a workplace with little-to-no learning on the job. Most places that actively encourage learning don't try such things.

I strongly disagree with this statement. The folks who we hire starting out in ops nearly always get asked this question, and the responses vary drastically. That 19 year old kid in community college that can nail it down to the TCP level means they are pretty much hired instantly (at least based on technical chops and interest in the field), and many of those types have grown into very senior level roles in the company.

I will make the caveat that this has to be a discussion between a highly technical interviewer and the interviewee. It being asked by an HR type is pointless.

The other reason why I love the question? It's important and extremely relevant to the job in question. When a customer submits a ticket, it's nice for the front-line folks to be able to identify a problem likely to be on the browser, dns, network, or server layer.

You would also be surprised at how many otherwise supposedly "experienced" interviewees have no clue.
While there's a limit in the amount of (highly toxic) TEA/TEB hypergolic fuel that's carried in the ignition system I'm not sure it's the bottleneck.

The limited number of times the Merlin 1D can be relit is probably referring to the re-usability aspect (from memory they tested "cycling" the engine something like 40 times in qualification testing, but it's a little unclear exactly what a cycle entails). It's the associated "coking" of the engine with hot and sticky carbon/soot from the incomplete combustion of the kerosene that's been speculated to be a major hinderance to the long-term engines survivability.

Other than consumables, it's probably the high (and variable) latency in the switching time that restarting the engine in quick succession that would make it problematic, in addition to the engine damaging aspects you mentioned.

Hover-slamming a first-stage with a Merlin 1D has been heavily tested by F9R-Dev1/2 - it's a completely workable solution that minimizes engine restarts over the flight profile to 3 (boostback, re-entry burn, hoverslam).

While the switching the engine may be made to be workable solution which can effectively throttle the engines between 0% and 70%, a hoverslam with a vehicle with thrust/weight ratio > 1 gives less stress on the entire (~$40 million F9R first stage) vehicle to be reused.
I apologize, I was being a bit presumptuous.

When it comes to quantum physics I do see your point.

For astrophysics I view the math as a stepping stone to understanding those things in the sky that we see at night. In that sense there's a bigger picture behind the big picture of the physics and we can all share in it. In QM, maybe not so much.
I think it's common for people who are bad at it--who don't have the correct knowledge or skillset. I've been considered a wizard at jobs before because I knew how to read a JProfiler graph. And similarly, I hated, hated, hated debugging in Ruby until I learned about Pry and Byebug. Similarly, I love debugging in C#, because the tools are amazing. (I don't even hate debugging in C++ anymore, so long as it's on my Mac...)
tel·e·com·mu·ni·ca·tion
ˌteləkəˌmyo͞onəˈkāSH(ə)n/
noun
communication over a distance by cable, telegraph, telephone, or broadcasting.
the branch of technology concerned with telecommunication.
plural noun: telecommunications
formal
a message sent by telecommunication.
plural noun: telecommunications

But sure, let's pretend that the FCC shouldn't have the right to regulate ISPs, or that somehow ISPs aren't telecommunications companies
It might be frustrating for you personally because you know so much that you could talk for hours about what happens, from keyboard interrupts to DNS to HTTP(s) and what-have-you, but in the absence of a personal recommendation, interviewers have to operate under the assumption that any and all claims of knowledge/experience/skill are suspect. I have interviewed people who claimed to have "deep algorithm design experience" who could not articulate what a set is, "network experts" who hadn't heard of NAT, and several "top graduates from a respected CS program" who froze when asked to talk about some basic tree operation.

If you'd responded to the question with the shocked response above, I'd probably have said "don't worry about it, let's pick X and Y" and mentally marked you as having knocked the question out of the park.

I can't stress enough how little the average applicant knows, regardless of how long they've been in the industry. It's helpful to have these questions as some sort of filter if you're looking to hire into a more-senior role, because many people either lie or obliviously overestimate their skills.

That said, if I was interviewing for a junior position and they bombed the question, I'd probably just make a mental note to buy them a copy of TCP/IP Illustrated when they came onboard or something.
You're not being insulted, you merely are trying to argue about things that you admit that you have no clue about and you persist in doing so regardless of the effort made to show you that you are wrong. So either stop arguing (I do know a thing or two about mechanical engineering) or start researching what I gave you above as the bits and pieces of the solution.

What else do you want? A blueprint? A cad design?
I don't like to give details on a public recorded forum, but yes, you can assume I am experienced in re: psychedelics.

I'm also experienced in non-chemical, uh, procedures that have a dramatic and reliable healing effect. In this connexion I should mention, I was cured of depression by a single intervention by a hypnotherapist. I've talked about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20371167
There is a very interesting case of a man who spent more than one year without eating solid food: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast

He lost 125kg.
You are mistaken.

From the code

> Why is this code necessary?

> The code seeks to address the fundamental bargaining power imbalance between Australian news media businesses and major digital platforms. This imbalance has resulted in news media businesses accepting less favourable terms for the inclusion of news on digital platform services than they would otherwise agree to.

"inclusion of news on digital platform services" - the mere inclusion, nothing about the presentation.
If the drug can be administered long term, perhaps there is hope they will keep the weight off.
> No one's hands are clean.

My hands are clean. I washed them.

On a more serious note tho, I particularly don't like the mixing of people and time. For example: There is no point in accusing German people for the war crimes of WWII when they were born decades later.

It does make a bit more sense when you look at current (war) crimes of your country (or collective in general) tho, but the extent to which you are to blame is probably still very very low (but not zero) and gets lower the bigger the collective is, if you have (close to) no political power.
I'm in a search for that kind of service, to be able to send interesting findings and articles to my family and friends.
Did you found any solution/servuce for this?
I haven't read the whole thing but stopped at this sentence:

> So if men are more likely to work from the office, and managers retain a bias towards in-office workers, we should expect to see managers over-rewarding male employees at the expense of female employees

This is frustratingly wrong in at least 2 different ways.

1. If an employer over-rewards a group of employees, it's at the expensive of the employer, not the other employees.

2. Even if you believe that other employees are responsible for paying the wages of the over-rewarded employees, then if the over-rewarded employees are those who work from the office we'll just see managers over-rewarding in-office workers at the expensive of from-home workers. A woman who works from the office would be over-rewarded, and a man who works from home would be paying. To say that men will be over-rewarded at the expense of women is to throw away a high-quality signal in favour of a lower-quality signal.
Not an idle risk either. Search engines are not a big feature of the net in China for example. At least not relative to the rest of the world.
This sounds like a pretty desperate move
This is a great book and one I constantly reference. The newest editions drop clock-based framing like ATM, but whenever I need to go back to looking at what's on the wire or considering what considerations were made in design or convention, I reach for this one!
Also, on the subject of safety in the free market, think Underwriters Laboratory and Consumer Reports. People don't want coffee makers that burst into flames or cars that roll over.
It’s the ultimate resume

This is absolutely true, and the heart of the distinction. If you are happy with a regular job, then definitely go that route. Building weekend apps and such will keep you up-to-date and you'll be highly prized anywhere you go.

However! For many of us, we simply cannot be happy in a regular job. For whatever reason, it rankles and chafes us. For lost souls like this, we need to find a way to monetize and build businesses in order to escape.

I envy people who love their jobs. It seems like a simpler, more satisfying life. It's just never been that way for me.
How deliciously meta.
I like the idea of economists betting on future prices etc - it makes hypotheses much more testable.

That said, I'm not entirely convinced that pretending that the oil supply is infinite is wise.
First, the original comment is spot on with his/her analysis.

I don't think you get how search and advertising works. Clicks lead to revenue, but you need clicks first. In order to get clicks you need to be competitive. With Google just a URL away they need to be nearly as good, if not better (due to name recognition) than Google to get a large share of the pie.

So the problem is that they must effectively spend (or outspend) Google on search (data centers, employees, etc...) pretty much all the way to the point where they reach parity and beyond. All the while they bring in a lot less money than Google.

If Bing can continue at its current pace and couple it with some real marketing strength, I think they have a real chance of flipping quarterly income from a $500M loss to $500M in earnings.

The two wildcards in this space are social (Facebook) and mobile. I feel like mobile is a bigger deal than social. IMO advertising is the current and future business model of computing. I think MS gets this and realizes that this is the one fight they have to continue to fight.
I think he's saying that the result of his learning experience, while valuable to him, is not something that you or anyone else would find usable or enjoyable.
That's strange, because most of the people I know spent less this year than ever before. However, much more of it was spent online, which might be easier to track? Or perhaps the use of credit, rather than cash, makes it easier to track?
For me, the best motivation to stay up late working is the feeling of "I don't understand why it doesn't work."
Actually spent more on my kids than ever before, but less on myself. My wife didn't seem very conscious of it at all, though I cringed every time she returned home from the mall :)
Except, it doesn't, really.

I imagine that if you surveyed bookstores, you'd find that there is a strong correlation between the best-selling books and the most-shoplifted books. Does this imply that shoplifting should be legal?

If you want to argue against the MPAA, you're going to have to find a better argument than this one.
As best I remember from the last time this came up, the cost of both the bandwidth and retrofitting hardware (which then needs the plane to be recertified, IIRC?) was prohibitive when set against the really quite good safety record of airline travel.
This comes from being on a current version of V8... Node.js has always been a little behind, and since 0.10 has become very stagnant. Part of the reason for the shift to io.js
TL.DR :-)

The best reason to start a company is that you are obsessed with solving a problem-- there is some pressing issue that you need to fix, or some product that you need to exist. Don't chase hot new technologies or perceived market opportunities (especially not as a 21-year-old newbie to the real-world market). The road to a successful startup is so long and hard that, without insane levels of conviction, most will fail. Don't start a company for the sake of starting a company-- start one because you honestly believe that you have to.
That's the sort of thing I was expecting to happen. Ouch.
Right now, the top post is about how FoundationDB got acquired and promptly taken out of circulation.

This is currently 2nd, and is written with the idea of helping people form communities on top of a proprietary system.

Slack seems like it might be a good thing for companies, but for public stuff, I'll continue to stick with IRC.

I'll add: this site seems like a cool idea and good work by whoever created it, but I'm just averse to building on that particular foundation.
I gather that it runs builds inside a chroot where the only available files are the dependencies you specified explicitly (including the compiler[1]), at least in "strict" mode[2]. Or else it must monitor what files are opened during the build step and fails the build if it saw an unexpected file being opened.

It never explains any of this explicitly, but there are hints. [1], [2], [3].

[1] "Many rules also have additional attributes for rule-specific kinds of dependency, e.g. 'compiler'" -- http://bazel.io/docs/build-ref.html#types_of_dependencies

[2] http://bazel.io/docs/build-encyclopedia.html#cc_binary.hdrs_...

[3] "The build system runs tests in an isolated directory where only files listed as 'data' are available" -- http://bazel.io/docs/build-ref.html#data

Edit: A comment below seems to suggest that this is not the case: "Within Google we use a form of sandboxing to enforce that" (emphasis mine). -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9259147
Let's find out! I doubt I'll remember the thought process.
Yes, we understand that. Not sure word2vec does.

From memory the default word2vec implementation and data gives you ~500 dimensions. I think some of the examples given are failing because of that limitation.
If everyone and every object in the world is connected to the network continuously with high bandwidth, why would they need to visit a building in the middle of a city in order to work with others?

That's a post-office world, and one which will come before our concept of work as the necessary foundation of an existence is eliminated (though on a long enough time frame, that's probably coming too).
Loss of network connectivity sounds like it could be temporary. If you have long-running calculations and want to wait for the result, it might make sense to wait a bit longer and see if the network comes up eventually.

And there's no indication that the hardware and software "issues" are permanent or even fatal.
Because then you're running an entire browser when all you really need is an HTTP library and a parser.
I'd like to see a genetic algorithm evolutionarily figuring out what parameters give you best performing walkers in shortest time ;) Meta-genetic if you will
Nobody declared war on a concept. The war on terror is just a PC euphemism for "war on stateless radical Islamists."
I travel a lot around the world, so I digitalized my entire library, University notes, everything...

I used a Fujitsu ScanSnap(amazing scanner with automatic feeder) to digitalized them using a Wood saw to cut the back of the books. I stored them in boxes in a locker room.

I love it because I control it. I could analyze my documents, I could index them, I could organize them as I want. I could mark them too on my tablet.

Much better than paper.

But most people can't do it(each of my kids going with a USD400 device to school sounds ridiculous to me). A tablet is expensive just for reading, and more expensive if you are going to add an active pen, like I use.

What is quite shocking is that the device I use the most for reading is a new 55 inches LG OLED screen, rotated 90 degrees. I use software that converts black over white "paper" to green on black.

Einks are slow, very bad resolution, monocrome(exchanging resolutions for tones using halftoning), and very small screen.

If only Qualcomm Mirasol or other technologies were cheaper it will be totally different. Not ready yet for the mass market.
No, its not tax code. Its expensive to drag food to the middle of nowhere. Its expensive to drag fuel to the middle of nowhere. Both have externalities that aren't paid for.

It is not anyone's right to have everyone pay for their choice to live far from infrastructure that already has a sunk cost.