jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think patents just need to last less time in an age of faster development and communication. Drug patents would need to have some sort exception that doesn't start the clock ticking until FDA approval, with caveats to prevent abuse like intentional trial delay.
You also have to ask whether a lack of the door lock would have prevented the crash. Can a rogue pilot crash the plane fast enough that the door locks are irrelevant? Can he crash it while the other pilot is in the cockpit? I remember other black box recordings from another crash where one pilot was merely confused, steering the plane into a crash while the others tried to save it, and no one realized what was going on until it was too late.
I'll start by improving the current implementation and see how far I can go with it without making it crazy.

I'll start tokenizing after a concrete use case.

Definitely keep this in mind. Thanks!
My worry is that this like saying (in the 90s) that Apple (or Honeywell, Novell, Amiga, whatever) should make a Microsoft PC - 'focus on the hardware, stop asking developers to make an entirely new version of software for their losing standard' - instead of taking due anti-trust action against the fixers of the market.

That's akin to saying "Okay, we found a winner - all OS sales will be to this one (or two - whatever) companies. Everyone else can compete underneath the vertical on the final consumer product of this mono(duo)poly but they can not compete to make a better OS/platform/marketplace/social website".

I mean, I think we both understand each other here. We both understand that there are companies that monopolize parts of the software industry, and prevent others from competing.

Can I try to say what I think you're getting at? I don't want to put words in your mouth, so please correct me if this is not right.

Your analysis, I think, is trying to say that there are other places that a company can compete when corners of the information industry are monopolized; and that companies can bide their time in an attempt to win the 'next big thing'; that the nature of the information industry and its companies is to leapfrog one over another by 'disrupting' the current paradigm and finding a throne in the next (wary, thereon, of being similarly usurped). In this analysis someone would point to competition being fair in the sense that everyone has some relatively fair chance at being the next big paradigm setter.

Maybe someone who believed that would say to someone like me that I'm looking at competition in the market on too small a scale. That I'm look at a fair phone market when soon everyone will be wearing smart glasses (or whatever) instead. Someone who believed that might say to Blackberry that if they want to be a top dog again they can't do it in phones - they have to go make some digital glasses.
> Krissler pulled a similar stunt in 2008 with a fingerprint of then interior minister and current Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.

From the article.
I think the solution would be to add triggers to the dtrace probes.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/dynamic-trace.html
What makes you say IOS does not allow a choice? I’m writing this from Firefox on an IPhone?
I wonder how hard it is going to be for employers to accommodate those who seek to be private. Specifically, I was going to switch from using an iPhone to a phone running Graphene OS but I must have a few apps (Okta Verify, Duo Mobile, Splunk On Call, MS Outlook, MS Teams) which aren't available via F-Droid. And this is separate from the HR bribery of adding fitness trackers to your device that give your medical insurance company a 24/7 fix on your location in order to verify you're doing the walking you say you are in order to get the HSA bribery dollars being waved about.
Actually, often you can tell him. It is way harder to get fired than many technical people think.
Your logic is not lost on the people at Firefox, I'm sure. The fact that they are willing to risk pissing off Google when it contradicts Mozilla's stance about the open web is precisely why it is principled.

Imagine working for a boss and you find out that he is cheating customers for millions of dollars. Say you objected to your boss, or reported him/her to the police. Would that be ironic because you might lose your job?
You can change browsers, just not browser engines. This might bother me if any other browser engines seemed to give a damn about battery life, but since they don't, it's justifiable for the reason of preventing people from "mysteriously" having terrible battery life because ads on Google properties convinced them to install Chrome, at least.
Brazil has one of the most effective public health systems in the world. Specially considering the country's size. It's not perfect, but it's very, very, far from letting anyone die from an infection in the toe.
So you're just replacing a profit tax with a revenue tax? For low-margin industries that'll have a significant impact, and grocery stores for example will be heavily hit by it (Tesco, for example, made £1.3B pre-tax profit on £64.8B revenue, which is roughly expected for the industry), with consequential rises in the prices of food.

A revenue tax disproportionately hits low-margin industries, which typically account for a disproportionate amount of expenditure of low-income households, which is likely a bad thing.
I'm not a manager, but as a SWE I often hear that employees cost many multiples more than just their salary. $2M might account for <5 employees
Ha. Fascinating. What's even better is the bracketing in the two videos - the guy offered $20 and went on a date with "an attractive female" yet the female only accepted the $100 offer.

So as a man you're primed thinking your date will cost you on the order of $20, but the woman is expecting offers in the order of $100. Expectations are already mismatched before you've even signed up!
I tend to agree with the commentors saying that culture is secondary to business reality.

Most startups and even a lot of established companies have a nebulous and weak business model; success or growth is not assured. Culture moves the deck chairs into different patterns but the odds are still that the ship goes down.

People who want culture to drive growth are misguided.
A series of barefoot running events sounds viable.
Sounds like allot of jobs, low pay, no real responsibility, no future. But how to get a job like that:
Lately, I see allot of jobs where the title is "engineer", but role is actually tier 3 support, because all the real engineering is done offshore. The only requirement for those jobs is to speak English reasonably well, and have your two feet in the USA.
"Right, so before cars were widespread (~50 years ago) people just didn't go to work?"

People lived a lot closer to their work then..,
Who is paying money to target kids that young?
Hey you! Nice to see your work on the front of HN. That said, I disagree with the thrust of your thesis :) I'm a professional writer, it's pretty much my only monetizable skill as well as my passion, and writing first drafts is like pulling teeth. It's arduous and I rarely enjoy it in the moment. Very satisfying when I'm done and get to show off the result, though! I am exactly that cliché about "hate writing, love having written." This is not exactly an uncommon sentiment among writers, either.
Yes, it is. The main reason I can think of for using subdomains would be for super low value content that isn’t worth $10-30 / year for a real domain.

There could also be a setup / maintenance angle I guess. Specifying a big list of custom domains is more work than *.example.com.
> Success and "loving your job" have nothing in common in my experience.

This was something I have been "feeling" to be true recently, but really needed some independent validation.
It's because those "creators" are absolutely replaceable - there's no reason not to simply jettison them if there's any issue. There's an army of people willing to try their hand at being a similar "creator", and the vacuum caused by the loss of one of these "creators" is so miniscule people will just watch the next available stream.

The replacement cost is so low and with such low impact, you can save even more money by not spending someone's time to review the appeal.
Wow, I think Mickens may oversimplify a few points for comedic effect, but that is a wonderful read!
Nevertheless, Mongolian cities of 12-13 centuries had lots of gardens, hospitals, they had plumbing, sewerage system...
Nothing sets you up for the day like a cold shower in the morning!
Yes it does. Even assuming you meant "Keplarian mechanics" (circular orbits give horrible predictions for planetary movement), Newton's theory of Universal Gravitation provided much more accurate predictions of the Moon's movements.

Not the movements of Mercury though. We had to wait for Einstein for that.
That's one million consumer accounts with no FDIC insurance, no surety bonds, and no other backstop in the event of a problem.

I'd love to see a Coinbase blog post about why Coinbase doesn't need to be licensed like every other MSB registered with FinCEN.
The cats and dogs line was a joke. In this case, I added the word literally to mean "usually when people utter this phrase they actually mean it figuratively, but I'm making such a strong statement that I'm really trying to say this time it's for real". Its extra hyperbole for comedic effect.

I take your point that a lot of pensions hold real property, but they also hold a significant amount of dollar-denominated assets. They don't have to go to zero for my raining cats and dogs point to hold, they just have to decline a significant amount.

Your second point is actually missing my point. I'm specifically referring to the transition in which anyone holding dollars will find their dollars worthless and anyone holding bitcoin will become filthy rich practically overnight. Think of it like a bank run. After the transition, business will continue as normal in the new currency.

Also, it is a good point that anyone holding debt denominated in dollars will find their debts disappear. I'm not sure this is a positive outcome.
I know some might accuse you of spamming but this is extremely useful. Been using boomerang but that only remind me and then I have to manually send them an email. I hope it remains free though.
It's not clear that the presence or absence of kiva affects the calculus at all.
I realize it's all startup-y to pat yourself on the back about growth, but aren't you painting a target on your back for those that want to perform the next heist?
FYI, China is a country.
You've unkilled that post, but left it buried on the third page.
"real language"...
And I was expecting an article about Dungeon Crawl. Blows everything else out of the water for many years now.

Also playable by ssh.
Please do not delete and repost stories. That's an abuse of deletion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
UPDATE - I removed the Thomas Jefferson quote as it's evidently a fake:

http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/democracy-will-ceas...

I’m also a big fan of Occam's razor when it comes to politics because people tell themselves all kinds of imaginative things to justify their beliefs while a five year old child would see right through them. The simplest answer may be unpopular even if it’s the right one, and I think that’s why people so often ignore it.

The truth is that US taxes are about as low as they have ever been for any developed country, there are more loopholes than ever before, and money has corrupted politics to the point where the wealthy determine elections now instead of the voting populace.

The reason this matters is that the poor don’t have capital. They don’t even have good credit. How can they be expected to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and get an education when people even on this site (one of the densest concentrations of intelligence in the world) constantly demand privatization? Take away the entirety of a people’s wealth and what do they have left? Their inalienable rights, their community, their heritage, in essence their government. I think any attack on what we’ve traditionally thought of as government services (like public education) is only going to lead us faster to aristocracy.

I have an inkling of what could be done to reduce wealth inequality but the pragmatic view of these things has become unpopular. I just ask that anyone who is passionate about something like school vouchers or inheritance taxes take a step back and look at the big picture. Instant runoff voting, publicly funded elections, and treating all net income equally under a progressive tax system are just a handful of newish ideas that would do wonders for leveling the playing field. My feeling is that people don’t want it leveled, so the disparity between rich and poor today basically comes down to prejudice.
I have been working over ideas recently on how to solve the problem of people podcasting in different geographic locations. I think the big problem is latency and audio quality. The audio quality one seems like it is easily solvable with local recordings on both ends adjusted for said latency.

The other thing I think would be cool is if with something like the oculus rift you could tune is and sit as the third person or at the table that it was happening at and actually look around. For example imagine sitting at the table with Charlie Rose interviewing Bill Gates.
Be careful not to fall down into one of the sex slave pits that bespeckle western civilization.
Which part of "He did not mention their firings in his farewell note." did you not read?

The poor HN headline is the only thing trying to connect the two.

Of course he likely left because of all that, but he definitely didn't mention any of it and it's only up for interpretation.
> I'd rather see arguments against his arguments than against him.

Attacking people, affixing labels to them, and othering them into adversarial tribes is unfortunately the most dominant form of discourse in modern society. I feel like social media made it worse but it’s always been an issue to some extent. I wish it weren’t so.
Much safer than constant slow poisoning from coal plants. Number of people that died from Fukushima (which is an older, much worse design) can be counted on hand.
This looks awesome, I wish someone told me about this tool earlier.
Local first is often just plain the better technical solution.

E.g. you put a pin on a map to mark the parking spot, and want to share it with somebody standing right next to you. But it does not work because the connection to some data center 1000 km away is flaky. This is just plain bad design.

Or you want to print something or get two machines to interact. Any remote third party you bring into this interaction is going to increase latency, reduce bandwidth, increase the probability of failure, etc.

That is why we use the local first approach for factory shop floor software at actyx.com . You don't want your factory to stop because the link to the cloud is down.
>>Bitcoin Cash foolishly believes they can wave a magic wand or “jazz hands” away the unavoidable technical constraints that inevitably led to Core’s roadmap.

Nodes can handle far more than 7 transactions per second of throughput, even if you 4X the data size of that to account for propagation to multiple peers. 10 KB/s is nothing. Keeping nodes so light so that you can validate with a Raspberry Pi with a dialup connection, at the cost of preventing 100X more people from using Bitcoin, is a terrible tradeoff.
There is no technological bottleneck preventing a 100X raising of the throughput limit: not Initial Blockchain Download, which is already being expedited with trusted third party set checkpoints, not computation, not storage and not bandwidth.

The vast majority of Bitcoin agreed with my sentiment, and that was the sentiment expressed by Satoshi any time he commented on it.

It was just irresponsible, overly timid leadership allowing a loud minority to sabotage Bitcoin's widely supported roadmap.
That's actually a pretty interesting idea. I wonder if we could make a lite version of Caddy bundled with your website embedded...no need to mess with file systems or permissions or devices and folders to run a static site. Might need some massaging to become a truly pleasant workflow though.
A regulation-free market at work!
I used Docker for embedded.

Running a cluster across your IOT fleet (1k+ devices; 5-10 apps each) gives a nice interface for pushing out tasks, choosing applications for a device, configuring supervisor-device relationships, etc. It turns out from scratch Docker containers on ARM are very portable.

I think you’re being dramatic — embedded is notorious for crazy builds of weird config flags to even get “hello world” to compile, and you’re waving your arms pretending that concepts from Erlang abstracted away from the language are too much.

Docker is just cgroups and namespaces, with a zip file of code. More or less literally.

Orchestration is the same mess it’s always been — back to at least the telephone days, when Erlang used the same concepts.
For those building their new homes right now, or updating the electrics, Schneider, Leviton and LeGrand have smart circuit breakers in their offer, which not only measure the consumption, but offer additional monitoring, like the load or tripping. With LeGrand you can even trip them remotely, which, combined with leak or fire sensors, can definitely save money – or even lives.

LeGrand has an open API and is not cloud-based. Leviton, last time o checked, was cloud only.
I would like to hear female users chime in. I don't think one-handed operation has been feasible for a large portion of female population even on iphone 5. Once you get used to using two hands, I don't think it matters if something is 4.7" or 5.5". You just have to use two hands.
Yep, I recently lost my 5s and I'll be replacing it with another one.
Would love that exist a feature read the text with Simpson's voices!
"if you have non-strict semantics (by which I presume you mean non-sequential)"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_programming_language

"Haskell's the one that insists that I have to do it Haskell's way."

... when you're writing Haskell. But I am the one who sometimes wishes I could manipulate actions in that way when I am writing C.

"But I suppose you'd say that I have the choice to not use Haskell, so stop complaining."

I'm saying that it obviously doesn't make pragmatic sense to require things in contexts where they don't make sense, but that 1) some things can make sense in more contexts than you might think, and 2) that you would do well (for pragmatic reasons) to actually learn about this stuff before deciding you don't need it.
TPB hasn't facilitated connections in a long time. They still got shut down.
Within Manhattan, you can usually get where you're going for under $20 sans tip. When I lived there, I wouldn't necessarily call that "cheap" compared to the underground alternative... but definitely just cheap enough that, after a long day, I would raise my hand if I saw the light on instead of walking the next block to the subway.
The way they treated him is appalling. Even if he was Muslim, this shouldn't have happened! I travel a lot and have seen things like this happen before my eyes in the UK and Australia. People that look slightly ethnic and taken aside and "randomly" stopped.
EDIT: Sorry for the typo.
"This project is based on two other open-source projects (see References below) and has the following goals: [...] 4. The ability to be red-boxed."

I don't care if it's pointless nostalgia, I just turned into a 13-year-old again. Where did I leave my radio shack tone dialer??
Somebody get fuckpatenttrolls.com (or something like that) and create a site for us to be informed of such evildoers.

Boycott is the only weapon we have to fight them.
The 6809 actually has two stack pointers, S and U. S is the hardware stack (used for calls/returns) and U is basically another index register with dedicated push/pull instructions. A Forth implementation typically uses two stacks (the return stack and the parameter stack), this maps very well to the 6809's register set.

Here's the first of a great series of articles from 1993 about implementing Forth on 8/16-bit computers:
http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm
How is this different to frid.ge or neetly.com?
It's frustrating on a lot of fronts, man. Over on Windy Citizen, we're asking local political bloggers to help moderate our Politics channel as we need some extra hands.

We got a volunteer who said she'd help moderate, but then all she wanted to do was post links on Facebook that pointed to WC stories. I explained to her that we were looking for her to help edit stories, post cool stuff, and participate in discussions and she kept asking if we could just move it all over to our Facebook page. I tried a few times to explain why that was counterproductive but she kept giving me blank looks. I asked her what web sites she visits, and she said, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. That's it. Turns out, she doesn't even visit political blogs, she just visits their Facebook pages and talks about their content there. Unreal.

She's still posting her Facebook links, but the idea of her hanging out anywhere outside her "big 3" is just anathema to her. She's got X bandwidth for web sites, and it's all being consumed.
It's not even costing them $100,000 to do this. What does $100 of service cost linode- probably very little. That's about 4 months worth of the basic hosting plan, which is 1/40 of a server (so their FAQ says). The cost to linode for this promotion is probably much lower.

This doubly makes me wish they offered this to existing customers buying new nodes, however it's extremely similar to the Amazon deal a few weeks back.
This was referred to as an extreme sport in IEEE Spectrum Magazine and I cannot agree more. How then hell did this guy manage to debug any problems he may have.
Yep, got it now.
I'm not sure it was a great idea. The email comes off as condescending if you aren't aware of Derek Siver's personality (he is a great guy & an HN member) or haven't seen his TED talks (http://www.ted.com/speakers/derek_sivers.html)
Play around with GIMP is simple to learn.
Like many others have mentioned, the client companies don't want to be involved in hiring 1099s directly because of the liability (lookup google/odesk). What our startup http://www.oncontracting.com is doing instead is making the staffing space more transparent and empowering contractors with information- so you can lookup the various preferred staffing agencies that service certain clients and then shop among them to go with whoever charges the lowest markup.
The "1" part of the road is always wide enough to just barely fit 2 vehicles so an ambulance can always pass a broken down vehicle.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8783103

Any good?
Conversion to 2+1 isn't very expensive as the starting point is a 1.5+1.5 road without dividing fences, where overtaking takes place at least partly in the incoming lane. There is normally no need to widen the road to convert to 2+1. The lanes in the 2+1 is just narrower and it has less shoulder.
my nexus 4 voice craps out for random reasons.
I have to factory reset my phone every 2-3 days.

I've even tried building my own rom, examining logcat to no avail, using Cyanogenmod, using Paranoid Android doesn't matter voice cuts out at seemingly random intervals.

Damn you LG