jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't believe intellectual property is a matter of ethics any more than arguing whether it is right or wrong to drive down the left side of the street.

The basis for IP law is to encourage the production of creative works. The moral imperative is to allow science and art to improve people's lives. IP law should be a practical set of rules to create a free market for these works.

Does the current system do this? Not very well. Neither does infringement in most cases.
I've known about and used these for a while too. Does that mean it's not news?

The upvotes decide what's news. Flag it if you disagree.
Is there a reason to believe the viral load in the throat and the lungs would not follow the same trend? And you also forget to mention this (CQ and HCQ concentrate in certain organs):

> It has been reported that oral absorption of CQ and HCQ in humans is very efficient. In animals, both drugs share similar tissue distribution patterns, with high concentrations in the liver, spleen, kidney, and lung reaching levels of 200–700 times higher than those in the plasma10. It was reported that safe dosage (6–6.5 mg/kg per day) of HCQ sulfate could generate serum levels of 1.4–1.5 μM in humans11. Therefore, with a safe dosage, HCQ concentration in the above tissues is likely to be achieved to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-020-0156-0
APS has given tanks a new lease on life. Not sure whether it would work against aerial threats/projectiles though.
There will be chrome-almost-tablets. I am waiting for Chrometabs and Chromephones (I know there is Android, but well). I am not joking really.

I expect that, Chromephones would undermine Android, but Chrometabs could be good idea.

Chromebit is great idea! I am in process of searching what to buy for my father. His computer is broken down Athlon machine with Linux (I maintain it). I don't have time to properly maintain it (I don't have time and energy even to do it for my own computers). I am from Poland, so these prices have for me 4x multiplier attached to them. I now consider buying used workstation and try to maintain system myself. Or buy some Chromegadget and call it a day. My father can't put more than 100 USD on this and even 100 USD is stretching a bit. I will probably add few tens of dollars to this sum and maybe buy something like Chromebit or used Chromebook.

I want to buy Chromebook for myself also. I am thinking about used Pixel or Toshiba Chromebook 2. Or I will wait a bit longer for new greatness. My requirements: max 500 USD, 12-14", at least 1920p. I am not sure what I value more: performance (Pixel) or quietness and lightness (Toshiba).
If all you need is a web browser its amazing.
They run windows95/2000 how can that ever be secure :)

p.s my reference is a blue screen of death on one :)
The intent seems clear to me; "You can't build + sell the app on its own. But, if you want to use a part of the code in your own app, go for it."
A New Order DVD, Alexsander Orlov's biography 'A Simples Life', a Wacom Bamboo, some hand-sewn leather gloves, and an orgasmotron.
Everyone likes the efficacy of the bite-sized quips and trivia, but the main problem with them is that they tend to become domain specific, and border on non-sensical when you shift domains.

From my standpoint, the best that can be done to further the engineering side of software is to educate on a paradigm basis, and to avoid misleading case-by-case tips. Read, teach, or create definitive guides to coding styles, architecture strategies, and the benefits and drawbacks of making data more or less structured or "smarter" (more code-like). Demonstrate not just ideal use-cases, but imperfect ones, since real world code usually ends up with a lot of imperfect solutions.

It should be fun to explore all these different techniques. As it is, they're spread out in bits and pieces, and the really comprehensive works tend to be found with "getting-started" tutorials and CS literature.
>"This is not an injustice"

Others think differential returns to people of differential abilities is an injustice (or at least, the existence of differential ability in the first place). The fact that you don't just means your not a leftist. It's an a priori assumption either way.
I too remember that comment, particularly the bit about creating. It came across with a force that just's not normal, and got me writing poetry. Thanks DBM.
And saw a movie :)
Wealth != Inflation-adjusted dollars.

You can buy many things for $100 today that would have cost $5000 in 1985 (or more likely, that didn't exist at all). Life's necessities, with the important exception of homes and apartments, have gotten cheaper in inflation-adjusted dollars over time.

I'd argue that the truest measure of wealth is the distribution of 'happiness' over a population, but that opens so many cans of worms as to be near-useless. I'm guessing the average happiness has decreased over time, but I wouldn't chalk all that up to a decrease in inflation-adjusted dollars.
The loss of civil liberties is a matter
where it's very hard for a person to effect change

I disagree.

In short I think good work in software and internet communications tools, like Tor, can actually have a profound effect on shaping government policy. (Tor is one of the darling s/w projects of the Swedish government.)

Slightly longer: I thought it was essentially impossible to influence government policy four or five years ago. I was interested in environmental issues and thought I would have to become a politician to be able to change things (heavens forbid). Then I fell into an opportunity where we started an open source software foundation to build online project, transparency, donation, visualisation tools for development aid.

Fast forward four years and we are working closely with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Get invited to publicly review the work of the Swedish counterpart and sit in on bilateral talks between the USA and the Dutch on aid transparency. I see public policy change before my eyes. Of course, this is not only because something which we did, but we are at the right time and place with the right effort. However, I do know that our work changes the way policy is being shaped.

If you are curious to read more check out a couple of my blog posts:

http://bjelkeman.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/law-is-hard-code-i...

http://wearefuturegov.com/2010/11/19/guest-post-where-open-d...
Ten years for an orbiter? Feasible. For a lander? Very, very hard.

They can do it, but they'll need some luck.
That book is: "The Case for Mars"

http://www.amazon.com/Case-Mars-Plan-Settle-Planet/dp/068483...

Strongly recommended for all areophiles.
FYI, Ruby's class model is almost directly copied from Smalltalk, which is the classic object oriented language, and is where the phrase "object oriented" was invented. Therefore there are no grounds to suggest that Ruby somehow does not have "real" classes because they don't look like Java's.
It more or less worked out of the box with latest emscripten, the only thing I replaced was the call to getline with an inline version pulled from google code.

More work needed to make the REPL more user friendly in HTML (emscripten uses browser prompts to get input when you follow basic instructions to output to HTML but could tweak to have a more user-friendly REPL experience).

Additionally you can do things like the what has been done with the emscripten port of Lua and supply wren with a bridge interface to work with the DOM directly. From that it's a short path to having

<script language="text/wren"> with a bootstrap script to parse them out and feed to the wren engine :-)

Of course if it were as easy as typing this out i'd be doing it already!
The problem with time travel is paradox. If you go back in time and tell your younger self to change things, -this- you doesn't exist any more.

So you tell that younger you to just pick an idea and go with it, instead of waiting for the perfect idea. You know, the one that started you on the road to success. He runs with it, fails, and the rest of his life follows from the lessons he learned from that failure. Perhaps that lesson is that he's not fit to be an entrepreneur, and he goes on to be a wage-slave the rest of his life.

Don't mess with success. It's dangerous enough to try to correct failure, but changing things in the chain that led to your success is incredibly foolhardy.
decisions to cut taxes on the wealthy and give very little help to the non-wealthy

This incorrectly characterizes what's been done, because you're failing to distinguish between cutting tax rates versus cutting tax revenue.

Yes, the tax rate was cut on the rich. However, the result of that was that the rich wound up paying more, but as the amount of revenue they contributed, as well as the portion of the total revenue that their contributions accounted for. Since they were accounting for a greater portion, they most certainly did help the non-wealthy.

It seems to me like you're trying to cut off your nose to spite your face. It's not good enough for you that the wealthy paid more, and paid a greater portion. I believe that you actually want to punish them somehow for being rich, even if it means that the whole system has less and operates less efficiently.
No Google APIs are currently used.
He's not serious. It's a classic Slashdot troll.
It could have been done with software updates only, to routers and hosts.

The problem is, you can't just update IOS on your routers, you also have to add IPv6 configuration to the routers.

If two 32 bit addresses are talking to each other, use IPv4 packets. If at least one address is 128 bits, use IPv6 packets. It could have been that simple, with software updates (and hardware, in the case of many routers) over the past what, 15 years, we could have been running ipv6 effortlessly.
http://www.kalzumeus.com/category/ab-testing/
I didn't notice any mention of DRM in the article. I know that HDMI can be more DRM-friendly than VGA. Ditto DisplayPort.
I don't like it, and don't think it'll work. Judging by my past results on this, I'd suggest that means there's a market and that you'll do well - give it a try :)
Has there been any analysis from network/security communities posted to HN on the Sony hacks? All I've seen is reporting and opinion pieces, none that attempted to do research.

This is the closest I've been able to find, some random guy on reddit from a couple weeks ago:

http://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2puo8h/bittorrent_...
No, the BeOS rights went to PalmSource when it was spun off.
Are you comparing a plane, filled with people, with a combined net worth in the millions, with a truck filled with cardboard boxes?

Which worse case takes out a minivan with 6 people in it? (Unlikely)

Why would we need truck drivers in a world of self driving cars?
Somewhat dated now, but this is a good review from 2006.

Cytokines sing the blues: inflammation and the pathogenesis of depression

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147149060...
Can't you just base64 url safe encode it and get the same result? Aren't URl strings limited in their length as well?
Is there a chart that shows the progress each nation is making year over year to cut emissions?
Yeah, i understand that, but the point of a placebo is that you don't know whether you got the medicine being tested or not. I can assure you that you will be left with zero doubt about whether you received a psychedelic or not, unless it's a very small dose.
School is determines by your home environment, hence it is a part of the home environment bucket. "other" is not: "everything except home environment and genes", it is: "everything not determined by the home environment or genes".
It used to be funnier... it changed between the time I saw the headline and clicked on the link. For the curious, it used to read: "Waymo says self-driving cars have been overhyped."
To some extent so that is worth making it a habit, makes everything easier on yourself and saves a lot of mental energy that in a stressful situation a surplus extra energy could help. I think that tiding one’s workspace also abstractly hints toward tiding one’s life which you probably agree is a good thing.
Wait I'm confused, does he own the beach or just the gate which accesses the beach? And why is he responsible and needs to be insured for people using the beach, or maintain it?

It feels like either you own the beach and can do whatever the heck you please, or you don't, and then it's not your dime nor your responsibility...

PR nightmare though, anyone made a flash-game where you try to sneak upon Khosla's beach while being hunted by him and his security guards yet?
> You'll get 18-wheelers harassing you, even if you stick to the slow lane and don't mind paying extra attention to the on-ramps every mile. And those semi trucks almost never get pulled over; their job is hard enough.

Where I live (Aotearoa) trucks do not act like that. They are heavily policed and drive to the speed limit.

It is very common to see a truck stopped on the side of the road with a police officer checking it.

Good
I guess I don't understand the distinction or how the second one isn't a positive right. By your own rule of thumb, if you take away other people then the right to tell others what they can/can't build disappears.

> Also the former does not exist in reality

Irrelevant, we're discussing how things should work not how they are.
Probably a significant chunk of the larger European community was represented there too - don't forget that traveling to EU countries is relatively easy for EU citizens
>Something is wrong with my current worldview

Had to grin at that. My views of the existing startups are essentially the same. I suspect all the low hanging fruit are dealt with hence those 3 categories. Most people, even the rich ones are what I'd call as white collar 'street' smart, otherwise IMHO they are not particularly even insightful about life in general. By white collar 'street' smart I mean, they certainly are fast with many things including raising/making money, but they are otherwise quite banal. Being white collar 'street' smart and profound is a rare combination. Among the well known figures I would rate Peter Theil and Elon Musk in that category.
I wish you luck on your journey with this. We were in the similar space as a YC S20 company - trying to create a Heroku-like experience on AWS. There's been plenty other attempts as well.[1]

After working in this space for a couple years, I realized that unfortunately the market just doesn't exist. Small enough teams will typically hack their way through building an MVP and early versions. They don't need/want the complexity of kubernetes/terraform, most literally run their MVP on a couple of instances. On the other side, once you get big enough, you hire dedicated people to start solving these problems. The middle market in between the two is very small and you most likely will be beat by the services already built into AWS such as Amplify.

[1] https://github.com/debarshibasak/awesome-paas
He is asking for proof of your elaborate claims, not changing the subject
Can’t speak about the others, but Rust’s C interop is nothing like Zig’s, not to mention that Zig can also compile C.
Sort of left it to the readers and hopefully encourage people to investigate for themselves. It's far too easy to get into "this benchmark vs this benchmark", etc. Memory usage is overall a complicated topic, which I think Andrew's comment doesn't do justice to. Granted the Zig team has done some impressive work, much of the memory usage & bloat in the C++ world comes from real world programs and libraries and the inevitable drift in program architecture over time.

However, I could believe Zig's stdlib and culture encourages low memory footprints, but there isn't anything novel in the language that makes it inherently lower memory footprint. Though to name a few languages I'd say that can be directly comparable are Rust, D (esp. BetterC mode), and Nim. Even Julia & Go in the right context. Though honestly I often prefer wasting a few hundred bytes of RAM here and there, even on a microcontroller, for pure convenience.

edit: forgot Odin. Another comment mentioned it, though I've never used it. It looks like it's used in production.
I was so excited about VRML in 1996. I thought it was going to take over the world of molecular graphics -- all we would have to do is write molecule-to-VRML translators, rather than writing free-standing OpenGL applications. It's taken a surprisingly long time to get to the point I thought we would be 25 years ago. Three.js turns out to be what everyone was looking for back then.
Yeah, LFP is arguably good enough for 80% of all EVs is my guess. Arguably it is also good enough for energy storage as well. However, for EVs, LFP doesn't have as high energy density. Something like 70% of all cobalt is mined in the DRC. I still think there will need to be more advanced and affordable battery chemistries before there is ubiquitous battery energy storage and EV adoption.

This is why something like Li-S is the holy grail of batteries.
“Spam-filters, actually. Once they became self modifying, spam-filters and spam-bots got into a
war to see which could act more human, and since
their failures invoked a human judgement about
whether their material were convincingly human, it
was like a trillion Turing-tests from which they
could learn. From there came the first machine intelligence algorithms, and then my kind.”

I Row-Boat, Cory Doctorow, 2005: https://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocke...
The problem with your argument is that what you call "expanding functionality" can easily have negative effects. Nobody's "choosing not to consider" anything. If you have a specific idea that you're confident would help HN to optimize better for intellectual curiosity, I'd like to hear it.
So any language compiling to Java bytecode is OK?
"Images of naked people" and "sexualised images of naked people" are different things. A six year-old reading Playboy is totally different to a six year-old visiting a nudist beach.
Why do you think life is less meaningful if we're not suffering? Why is suffering necessary for growth and prosperity? Where do you draw the line between suffering for suffering's sake, and suffering for growth?

And trees can totally grow without wind and resistance, take a look inside any greenhouse that's go one in it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23472870
It could be real business serving well off IT professionals like in FAANG+, or a slice of finance/legal/medical professionals. These folks can spend few hundred easily on fitness along with few thousand dollar devices.

But if they want to scale to much larger then as you say they would be competing with 200 dollar bike + ipad.

I'd think that just enticing people who could spend 400 dollars / month might be financially viable then reaching out to masses to justify 40 dollars per month on top of already expensive equipment.
It's as if there are many different people who use the internet.

I personally like using a credit card because it creates a data trail I can use to review my spending and budgets.
The monthly cost on top of the high cost of the bike is why I didnt jump on the bandwagon, er, bicycle in 2020. I probably went to enough cycling classes pre pandemic that I was paying roughly 40 dollars a month in costs anyway but paying for an in person class is a lot different than paying for access to video content.

I would get a bike tomorrow if that cost was $15-$25 a month.
An abstraction in a pragmatic field like engineering is only as good as its utility.

Haskell is unapproachable, and its abstractions are complex. More complex than most engineers actually need. From a utility perspective, these abstractions are bad.
Sinatra is a framework, it's very light in that it doesn't dictate where you put your files in directories (but neither does, say Phoenix, which is definitely a framework). In sinatra, the system calls into the functions you write and you have no choice but to organize your endpoints the way that sinatra wants you to, even if some things are light relative to rails.
Swallow your pride and watch those videos. Even if you already know everything there is to know about business, it is sheer joy to watch Patrick geek out over his evil Bingo empire.
Actually, there may be something of a trend towards transparency forming.

http://paulgraham.com/airbnb.html
--- http://www.bvp.com/Portfolio/AntiPortfolio.aspx
I'm blocking on Twilio to offer that. They have not publicly announced timelines for when their first class service will be available where. I would love to support the major markets where economically practical to do so.
Off-line attacks (when the password database has been dumped) are much faster than on-line attacks (depending on how the passwords are stored). For example, unsalted, non-iterated md5 hashed passwords can be tested at a rate of 600 million guesses a second on a modern video card with the right software.
I was subcontracting a few years ago and the parent company asked me to code a kill switch into the web app because the client was not paying their bills. I told the parent company they could just give me a call and I could shut off the web server at any time. They said they would rather just have me code the switch because they didn't want to involve me in the situation. I thought that was nice of them. I don't know if they ever had to use the switch.
Yeah, it's not a knock on what they're doing at all, just a bit of correlation that I wondered about.
IDEs have a high cost (learning curve, complexity, etc) that is not worth the benefit for dynamic languages.

I'm not sure what the gaping hole is the op is talking about. Textmate is an awesome editor and it doesn't matter that there hasn't been an update in a while.

The only thing I really miss with text mate is good git integration.
I wouldn't partner with him. I am assuming you are already incorporated, is he a partner or not? If not then I don't see a reason to not cut ties.

If you do decide to do business with him, vest his shares.

Good luck with your meeting :)
It's not easy for everyone to catch a cab in New York, and unfortunately the unlucky ones are more likely to be going to "somewhere out of the way". Better to prohibit discrimination for all reasons, not that it helps me even though I live in Midtown.
The limiting factor is not people seeing a market opportunity or not but in the availability and interest of requisite software talent. To a lot of developers, text editing is a solved problem. To really talented devs? Also, mostly solved. Enough. Perfect? Maybe not. But what's available now goes so far that there's not a lot of draw to taking a whack at making the next Better Mousetrap.

Also, the market is probably not large enough. Paid market. There are lots of free editors, and commercial editors, already available, and there's a skill learning curve required to switch editors, that I think all of this adds up to explaining the unexploited "gap" you described.
Giving people water should be a bare minimum requirement in any interrogation.

They could be a member of Cobra, who have devised a way to make explosives out of water so they can turn the world's oceans into bombs.

You never know.
Reconsider your premises. The starving artist may be thinner, but better? Palladio, Shakespeare, and Bach all did pretty well with their art. As for Socrates, no he did not philosophize for pay, but he had a day job.
Does "almost everyone" mean the retail brokerages, like E-trade, TDAmeritrade, etc, or just the HFTs, hedge funds, etc?
Correction: they claimed he triggered the detector.

It's not a wise course to take government employees at their word.
your tl;dr leaves this out

"Interestingly, it was just several weeks ago that Feinstein was the one expressing her distaste for one of Conway’s projects. He’s a big backer of AirBnB, and Feinstein penned an opinion piece in The Chronicle urging Lee to veto the Board of Supervisors’ legislation allowing short-term rentals in private homes. Lee sided with Conway and AirBnB."