jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Google has been selling its own branded phones and tablets for six or seven years unsuccessfully.

The Pixel 3a seems to have been relatively successful.

https://ww.9to5google.com/2019/08/20/report-google-sees-near...
Those do help.

Have you given thought to whether these are the absolute baseline...or actually the consequences of practices more fundamental?
Yep, another $100M deal that I'm sure has already paid for itself... I could have gone on with the examples, but I chose to box in my frustration with the AOL kids :-)
I think the engineer in his example wasn't meant to be an accurate portrayal, but rather serve to emphasize that his approach is more haphazard.
I believe one of the changes for 0.6 is to mark their own Vorbis encoder as experimental so that it's harder to use by mistake.
Adobe gave me a Samsung Galaxy S, and I've been playing around with that.
A workaround for hacked iOS devices:

http://technicalmusings.blogspot.com/2011/04/ios-consolidate...
I think Netbeans is not getting the font settings from GNOME. From what I can see from the panel, GNOME uses slight font hinting here. But the Netbeans window uses full hinting.

The fix would be to roll our own matching ~/.fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/local.conf for all the non-GNOME applications.
Do you really feel that it is a superior idea to give it away for free and rely on donations, though? Both options are essentially the same thing, but one says that you're doing it for free and hoping someone will toss you a buck here or there while the other is establishing a value on your content and saying that if you want it, you can pay for it like you pay for anything else. It seems like one says "I do this for a living and I should get paid for what I do for a living" while the other seems more "this is a hobby, but it'd be nice if I could make a living out of it".

I know one is far more common than the other, today, but I also know that there is almost nobody actually making a really good living with the free model or even the advertising model (with a couple exceptions). I also know that I consume a lot of content and would consume almost none of it if I had to pay $5-$10/mo for it. But many may.

It almost seems ripe for the Netflix model to step in, where you pay a flat monthly fee for a whole catalog of content and then the creators get paid as a result. That that I'd actually want that sort of a giant singular wall between myself and accessible podcasts and video streams, mind you. But I'm surprised it hasn't been pushed, yet.
The patents would have been worth it alone.
Adobe has announced support for VP8/WebM, it did so quite a while ago, but not a timetable for delivery.

"Flash Player Will Support VP8"

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/05/adobe_support_f...
Filter? See also: You Are Not a Curator http://newcurator.com/2010/03/you-are-not-a-curator/
Consdier any family of two engineers in silicon valley. If they graduated from college and joined successful companies, after a decade or so they will be making over 150k each, for a family income of 300k.

But yet they still work 50+ hours a week each, maybe 60 if they are checking email at nights and on the weekends. How have their lives changed between the interview and now? Not much. Meals are still prepared at home or work. Weekends most likely still mean riding bike or going to a movie. Any talk of family causes worry about taking time away from the career or delaying their hopes to be founders. Vacations disrupt work schedules, and the catching up afterward cause more headache then they are worth.

This level of wealth is different than what we hear about from the days of robber barons or Mad Men. Its even different than what anyone images when they prepare for undergraduate school. There is no luxury lifestyle with a condo downtown and home in the country. There are no two hour martini lunches. There are no personal chefs or nannies. You don't spend more time in leisure than at work. You always spend more of your time doing something you wish you could delegate, but you do it because you know it has to get done.

And maybe that is because wealth is very transient in tech. In five years your 100k+ job could be just as easily gone as become a 200k job. But more likely I would think that in tech high income comes with higher responsibilities. More wealth means more work, not less. And that is not about to change.

Perhaps this is the same in all sectors consistently creating new wealth; bio, pharma, engineering and tech. If so I think it is not surprising to see that families in the 200-500k range don't think they're wealthy when their current income level crosses a certain mark, because it has little immediate, and maybe little permanent, affect.
I can imagine a jealous spouse saying now to the other "i love you so much honey and from now on i will do your iphone backups. Just to make sure everything is safe for you" Then the jealous spouse downloads the iphone tracker visualization tool: "So honey, where were you last night? Really ? Dont you dare lie to me" :)
I don't remember the source, but there was a great article that discussed a similar topic and showed that the income inequality isn't really that skewed unless you look at those making above some threshold (maybe top 0.1% of the population or so). For example, the average income for any percentile of the population is a fairly straight function until you hit around 99 percentile, after which there is a sharp discontinuity rising higher.

This wasn't the original source but you can take a look here: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/pikettyqje.pdf (Excuse my Berkeley bias, but Emmanuel Saez has produced great works in this field).

As you can see, the action is in the top 1 percentile, and the real action is in the top 0.01 percentile.

In other words, those in the top 5 percentile do not feel rich because there are people who are much MUCH richer than they are, due to the discontinuity you can see. So those making 240k are only four times as rich (less, after taxes) as those making 60k despite being nearly 50 percentile away. In contrast, those making tens or hundreds of millions are two orders of magnitude richer than those making 240k despite being less than 5 percentile away. Plus, most of their taxes are in the form of capital gains on stocks and dividends.

Crazy world, huh?

This leads me to a different point, which is that politicians' focus on 250,000 as some threshold for "rich" masks the bigger inequality. In my opinion, those making 250k or so are hard-working households who mostly "deserve" what they earn as families of doctors, lawyers, engineers even; and that the real inequality manifests itself above the million dollar threshold. The reason I say that is, a family with decent opportunities, a strong work ethic (since youth) and a decent set of brains can reach those levels through just hard work and persistence, while getting above the 1 million threshold is either reserved for severe luck, entrepreneurship (also heavily influenced by luck), inheritance, or politics.

So my point is that upper income people don't feel rich ('realize they're upper-income') because they are so close to those earning tens to hundreds of times more. In that context, all of us are in their shadows.
Ubuntu is primarily ia32 or amd64 too - there are no PPC, MIPS etc builds on http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/alternative-downloa....

The issue stopping Firefox releases for Ubuntu is that AFAICT Firefox don't bother packaging their app for Ubuntu and Ubuntu wait six months to do their own packaging.

Indeed, you have to update to a major version of glibc every few years, but I imaging most people's hardware will die first.
If Workflowy also produced a time tracker - to monitor how long Workflowy tasks took (and record which task I've been working on, and when) .. I'd pay money for it.
That's actually really cool, thanks!
I started with the raw datastore API and was able to do what I wanted after quite a bit of research and trial and error. I was then turned on to Objectify and couldn't be happier. I know what is going on underneath and the limitations but I have a much easier way to deal with them. Objectify is highly recommended, but my app doesn't have massive scale so I am not sure if it adversely affects performance much.
Heard of GUIDs? Make part of it a timestamp, and the chance of collisions goes down astronomically further.
Also using iambic tetrameter.

share WHAT you WANT with WHO you WANT

The only issue I have is that the comma indicates a break which seems unnatural to me. That isn't always bad if you're trying to emphasize two different thoughts but I think of that slogan as a single cohesive thought rather than two different ones.
I don't think that it should have been marketed or seen as "the email killer" or as an replacement for email at all. Conceiving and positioning it as an enhancement to email and IM would hav been the better move.

You're right, the unification of communication and integration of documents, etc. is a great feature, but for me it lacked of real integration with email and IM.
E.g. Why couldn't I get notifications for my Gmail or Google Talk accounts. Why couldn't I push content (mails/messages/attachments) from my mail and IM accounts to Wave directly.
So, you're right again, Google messed up the execution.
According to some searches and the filename of a copy of the ROM I happen to have, the developer name appears to be Gary Shannon.

https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=855
https://www.arcade-history.com/index.php?page=person&name=Ga...
The doctor rings true. I had 3 separate doctors on 3 separate occasions diagnose my 21 month old son with an ear infection, instead of the plum-sized malignant brain tumour that it was.

From their point of view, pediatric brain tumours are very rare and ear infections are common.

Their 99% heuristic almost killed him.

That was 2010. He survived and is now a vibrant 13 year old, but only because of one curious intern/fellow at the children's hospital ER that decided to order a CT to rule out the remote possibility. Her diligence got him admitted and into surgery within a day.
I took over an enormous system that a third party developer built in Laravel.

Not good code, particularly, and not particularly good database design.

Also no documentation really.

But the implementation was pretty clearly pure Laravel, and the migrations ran without issue. So that was immediately a huge weight off my mind, because I knew I would be able to maintain the live, stage and dev boxes sanely.

The two biggest problems with this app were

1) the number of places they diverged from using the query builder for no really good reason when scopes could have made everything so much more readable

2) a false assumption they made about subquery ordering in MySQL (implicit ordering that worked for them in 4.x but would not work in 5.x, something along those lines anyway)

Because of 1), 2) was incredibly painful to fix. Dozens of bits of arbitrary SQL that could have been handled by the query builder.

And I'm sure the only reason it's like that is because that's the way they started out and they had time pressure that stopped them ever changing course.

Expedience kills software.
I think this is the definition. Though I had not heard or seen the term before.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchunifiedcommunications/defin...

To my mind slack firmly fits this definition but it does sound very enterprisey and perhaps there are other definitions.
As an Italian I can't disagree, cabs not accepting credit cards infuriate me evrytime, but there's also a strong cultural resistance to change here.

Also friction plays a part, Italy is the second oldest country in the World on average.

My mom uses electronic payments, but I haven't been able to teach her how to pay online or "tap to pay" no matter how hard I tried.

I won't even start to talk about my dad, who doesn't even own a smartphone or a mobile phone before the smart ones existed.

They prefer to go to the ATM and pay cash, their lifestyle is very far from globalized even though they are strongly against tax evasion and always ask for their receipt.

Ironically I've know about Telepass because my parents have been using it for as long as I can remember.

My guess is that they trust Telepass because it's backed by a (former) public institution, Autostrade, but they don't trust mobile phone manufacturers or payment processor companies as much.

I'm not sure they are completely wrong.
We can't have a perfect voting system due to Arrow's Theorem, but elections are still preferable to alternatives.
This looks different than the old way

The old way ( as you referenced ) was to replace each disk one by one with a larger one.

If I'm understanding this right, and please correct me, this feature will allow you to add a 5th disk to a 4 disk raidz

And if I'm right about that, then this feature wouldn't really make sense for RAID10 anyway
Since Amazon is large and established enough to take public relations and marketing seriously it's reasonable to expect them to provide timely communication on a large outage like this one. I think they failed in this and some people at Forrester Research seem to agree with me.

http://blogs.forrester.com/tim_harmon/11-04-22-good_proactiv...

There are also a few informative links at the bottom of that note that I haven't seen here.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out when Ubuntu 11.04 which uses 2.6.38 is released.
As Wittgenstein once said (and please, if anyone knows where, I've been trying to find it again for years): You can't have a clear picture of a stormy sea. "This" is an ill-defined concept (illustrated by the 3 categories and 5 subcategories of the OP) which, from what I've seen, often leads to unnecessary complexity.

What really convinces me not to use it is that I can easily write my programs without it and they come out better. Specifically, they come out with less coupling.

Is that like pointers? No, pointers are not an ill-defined concept. People get into trouble with pointers because they're a sharp tool. Some sharp tools are nevertheless indispensable, as pointers are to C. Javascript's this is not a sharp tool, it's a hodgepodge.

Pointers take you closer to the machine. That can be useful, especially for efficiency. What does JS this take you closer to? A complicated evaluation model that has nothing intrinsically to do with anything other than itself. Since its cost is high (in complexity) and its benefit zero (relative to other ways of writing JS), why invest in it? There is a no-brainer here: in exchange for expending less effort, I get simpler programs. Meanwhile I can work at understanding other things that are beautiful and/or useful.
I learned it here:
http://www.dau.mil

So if anyone "heard wrong," it was you.
Yes, it is a, broke relative to what. If human costs are not taken into account, it is a much easier equation.
They can wish it all they want. They cannot force it.

What should blow your mind is people mounting huge campaigns to completely cancel someone and then when unable to really defend their positions having the guts to say "it isn't really an issue, it has 0 impact!"

It either is an issue and worthy of ruining someone's life or it isn't. Either simply "feeling" discriminated against is the bar or it isn't. Some people feel bullied when forced to speak a certain way, shouldn't others also be forced to accommodate their feelings?

You can't have it both ways.
Except the server it seems? I only see the various clients on github.
Because there are mountains of them and nothing has changed about the situation, so conversation ends up devolving into unproductive flaming.
I use this https://krisp.ai/. There is a free tier, but it’s cheap at 60/year given that works pays for it. It’s been great.

It works on PC and Macs. You can filter out noise on your end or the others persons end. I highly recommend it.
But what you are allowed to do needs to be limited. That photocopier might be in a bad spot, but that is the only place where we have have enough power to run it. Marketing needs X, but they are by Y instead because I want them to be forced to interact with Y (at least when getting coffee), a team they would otherwise ignore to our eventual failure. Or worse the person I caught trying to use GPL-3 code in our proprietary code base.

Agency is good, but only if people understand where they have agency and make changes in those areas and leave the others to someone else.
With regards to the first, you see, it's an

> uncluttered messaging app that just works.

Cryptocurrency turns it into a cluttered messaging app, one that gives hackers extra financial incentives to compromise it.
What's your hobby?
Awesome! Just downloaded it and was up and running the server and client auto-update in less than 30mins :)

I tweaked BWHockeyController to always remind of updates regardless, since I don't really want to add a settings page to my app and always want people to update (or at least get nagged!)
That's property prices in London for you...
Wow. It seems this will genuinely help many colour blind people to see the world more similarly to most people. I'm not colour blind, but I imagine that's pretty awesome.
Nice read.

So what's next? Apache will push a not-patent-encumbered (does that exist? harmony?) as the next defacto standard of java. Oracle gets to hang on to its "Java" (a wonderful name for selling to Enterprise). Google goes with the Apache's standard and it's Dravik fork (it provides APIs, toolkits and a mobile operating system leaning on what soon might be know ar "formerly-java").

From the article:

"It may be covered by a GPL license, but the field of use restrictions and Oracle's unwillingness to give Apache a TCK that grants patent protection creates a situation where it's practically impossible to fork Java or create an alternative VM. If you can't fork it, it's not open from and OSI perspective."

GPLv3 would have enough clauses to have prevented this from happeneing... ...but so fa only in theory... right?

Interesting.
If Reddit makes enough to pay the bills, maintain steady paychecks, and keep their users happy, then maybe a huge profit margin isn't necessary. If they can continually do that, that may mean a longevity that few corporations could claim, let alone internet companies.

The great thing about reddit, also, is that it's structure lends itself to accommodating niche communities. If you don't like the Pics subreddit, you read the Funny subreddit instead. If you just want to read about Harry Potter and Ruby on Rails, you can, and you can pretend the rest of the site doesn't even exist. This minimizes the possibility that a shiny new site will attract users away.

If Reddit can keep the lights on, the employees paid, and the community diverse and satisfied, then I'd say they've "won", and I don't think large profits are necessary.

As an aside, I also wonder if web 2.0 has really proven itself, outside of a few exceptions, to be generally profitable the way valuations show that investors expect it to be.
I am safe. "bobobobobobobobobobobobobobo" will take 8 octillian years. Actually, same for "bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb"
It depends of your definition of cool.

Microsoft still host some very cool projects and I think many programmers would be very happy to work on stuff such as Kinect, Bing and Seadragon to only name those.

However, if you're talking about general perception toward the company, then the answer is a big fat NO. I think too many people have been burnt with their tactics over the years and those stigmas take time to heal.

For all things that microsoft has contributed to the advancement of computing and its vulgarization, they are also responsible for stalling in many areas where they couldn't catchup fast enough, using their influence in oft-questionable ways. Lots of bad karma there and very uncool.

They managed to mess up the single most important application, the browser, and did nothing to fix it for years, just because they could. Web developers are only now coming out of this nightmare.

Today, I'm very reluctant to even use something like Bing, that admittedly works quite well, just because the thought of what microsoft could pull, once it gets back into a position of power in the search market, makes me shudder.

I know most people have a notorious short memory span when it comes to such things, but count on people like me, with the ability to hold a grudge, to remind them what hell felt like.

Microsoft isn't cool and it won't be for a while.
VMDK is an open (GPL compatible) specification used by a number of different VMMs.
I tend to focus on long term sales, vs seasonal books. That said, the first 30 days after a book launch is critical to convincing Amazon that people want your books (or so people like me believe, I haven't seen any real data), so I tend to run freebies and $0.99 kindle sales, and promotions to email lists that cater to people interested in those things. I also start off the books at a low price, and raise them as the month goes on.

There are other people who focus on "low content" books like journals, log books, and children's activity books. They tend to more often do seasonal books.

I have done one "topical" book, about a new term that is trending on google over the last year, but it basically gets no sales. My mistake for not following the formula.
Hostages aren’t usually full good will, and hostage takers aren’t the best negotiators.
Robinhood only allows you to trade for an hour into after hours. WeBull, another retail platform, and I believe thinkorswim (TDA's offering) allows you to trade the full after hours length of time which ends at 8pm EST.

edit: These are the only 3 platforms I have experience with, there are certainly others.
Just read the BCH wikipedia page. What does BCH have to do with increasing the total number of coins?
In the contexts of a function declaration/definition/call, comma is not acting as an operator.
If anything, it's been my experience that the bugs from the junior devs are often more obvious and easier to fix. Any junior dev can make a minor logic error. It takes a senior dev to mis-architect a whole system.
I've got a new one too. My guitar follows me all around the house, and I've planted books in a bunch of different places for the in-between time. I'm curious to see how this evolves as the baby gets older.
Except it’s a store that sells only hotdogs in that scenario?
Same. I've never seen a daily that didn't devolve into busyness reports. Sure, with proper scrum master I'm sure it works well but that's not my average experience.
You shouldn't take Magnesium only when you have the symptoms though, it doesn't work like that. You should take the recommended dosage for supplementation all the way thru (I take 120x400mg capsules, that lasts 4 months), because your body first creates a reserve of Mg in the bones, then uses it later as necessary for other issue. If you get constant cramps, that means you've already depleted these reserves.

Prefer some form of chelated Magnesium instead of the more common Magnesium Chloride too, it's better absorbed and doesn't affect the bowel.
If it wasn't for the large swath of statistical packages, R wouldn't have much traction.

I agree, but Community & Ecosystem are critical to any language's success. R's community is great and getting better [1].

You could make very similar criticisms about JavaScript, which is a lousy language that has accomplished amazing things thanks to third-party extensions and a very active development community.

[1] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
Given the business model of credit cards, where the banks eat losses due to fraud, there is some justification for a percentage of the transaction since the liability involved in a $1000 fraud transaction is much greater than that of a $10 fraud transaction.

In some other business model that might not be the case, but on that kind of platform you might have much stronger technical and procedural protections against fraud so it might be like PayPal where if you do anything that is even slightly sketchy (i.e. a crowdfunding campaign) you get kicked.