jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Motorola makes a phone called the Droid. However, they don't own the name Droid, Lucasfilm does (Motorola licensed it.)

If you look at pages for the Droid Incredible, you'll see they also licensed the name:
'DROID is a trademark of Lucasfilm Ltd. and its related companies. Used under license.'

My guess is that Motorola didn't get any sort of exclusivity from Lucasfilm, so other companies are free to call their phones Droid as well if they pay Lucasfilm for a license - and piggyback on Motorola's marketing spend.
If she always satisfied you in bed, but you found the rest of your life suffered because you were always in bed, then that would be a rational reaction.
Question: Why combining indicators doesn't work?
This is excellent. Is this your original theory? I would like to read about it in greater detail because I have some questions.
The most interesting thing I ever learnt in Psychology was how attractiveness is judged/recognized and how it affects peoples' reactions. For instance, one study showed that people can smell a more attractive person from their clothes alone. Like 'smell these shirts, and tell us which one you suspect has the most attractive owner.' And other things like how attractive people are less likely to be found guilty by juries, or tend to be given lighter sentences.
I've earned a lot of ill-will on Hacker News by stating the obvious. The kind of behavior described in this article bothers me for several reasons, and I've posted plenty already about most of them, but one that doesn't get talked about enough is that Y Combinator and Facebook are in business together now. (See http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/26/facebook-working-with-y-co...)

Facebook, Inc. has in the past taken, and appears to still be taking, a number of actions designed to crush entrepreneurship. I would think that Y Combinator would do anything but support such radical and destructive behavior. My note to Paul Graham expressing this sentiment several months ago remains unanswered.
Thanks! This is a bit easier than hacking the DOM. Could have saved a few seconds.
Confession time: I have "lucky" numbers on the gas pump that I am willing to stop at, and ones I refuse to, even if it means spilling gas on the ground.
>> Article is better than expected.

That's because usually people use click-whoring titles to try and get you to add a page hit to a crappy blog post.

This guy used a click-whoring title to serve you up a totally awesome article.
He's a blogger, can you blame him? He got my click from his Twitter feed with it, because I was interested to see a non-IT guy's take on the recent spate of Apple-bashing. Yglesias is usually very measured and insightful. I just didn't think so this time.

Edit: Odd, when I submitted it, I titled it with something other than his post/page title to describe it as "Matt Yglesias Asks: Is Steve Jobs Big Brother? (Matt says no)", but it didn't take for some reason.
The problem isn't the job market --- although it is pitiful, and it is dreadfully hard to hire talented developers, particularly in C.

The problem is that the hiring process is necessarily ineffective. You have a very short period of time to come to a sweeping conclusion about the entirety of someone's capabilities. Dev interviewers do a notoriously crappy job at this.

The specific problem "FizzBuzz" tests solve is this: candidates who can talk about development (including people who know that the difference between otherwise equivalent for() and while() statements is whether the increment runs when you hit a "continue"), but who, when asked to sit down and code something, fumble horribly.

These people, all of whom are smart and extremely knowledgeable about software development, have not developed the real world programming survival skill of being able to sit down and just code when they need to. Most development shops want to avoid these people. Hence: a test that isolates specifically your ability to just start coding, apart from any domain knowledge or computer science.
Ah, I see. This isn't the worst oil spill ever, so it's really no big deal.

Kind of like if a tornado destroys your house, it doesn't really matter, because it wasn't the mythical F6 tornado.
In Syria, however, you do get an error page saying the page was blocked. Facebook, for example, is blocked in Syria (or at least, it was when I was there in 2009 - of course, I had a VPN to Ireland, so it didn't affect me at all).
Straight into the hands of people who learned early that you can earn more by having Washington stealing it for you than by trading it honestly.

The 20% or so left after that is used to do a number of good things, such as helping the poor, ineffectively.

Too bad really, the US could have been an awesome country, once we get rid of most of the politicians.
Substantiating the old adage that the best camera is the one you have with you.
I was actually looking for a Windows equivalent to that when I found this wesite.
It's not an ad hominem, since I wasn't trying to refute Rand's arguments (such as they are).

It's quite telling, however, that that was the sort of man she idolized.
Yeah, most of the compression seems to come from converting from RGB to colormap with pngquant.

I wonder if it's possible to do all this with an ImageMagick one-liner.
Well then they are busy professionals. You almost make it sound like they are professional because they need a calendar :P That surely is not a criteria I'd use to consider one professional.
I was listening to a podcast once where people were saying "C number". It took me a long time to realize they were talking about C#.
If anybody is interested, with the revival of HEMA, we're starting to end up with longsword players who are getting up there with good Kendo players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFGPCTMp2cw
Cool technology like this feels cyclical. Now we want what seems like a fancy graphing calculator.
I did a lot of searching for this awhile back. The UFL program seemed encouraging (and appeared to be fully remote):

http://distance.fsu.edu/students/computer-science-bs

Definitely not cheap, but the syllabus looks solid.
The wiki article is a reasonable starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equity_and_gender_feminism
I think I’m lacking context - what’s the non-literal meaning behind that headline?
up nord :
- you cannot park here on even days from Dec 1 - April 1
GV Mobile+ still has a lot of features that this official google app doesn't match, like the ability to paste phone numbers into the dial pad and ability to rout numbers via Skype.
Moral: evolved complexity ≠ designed complexity.
Accelerated vesting upon termination is your friend here. Have your lawyer look over the contracts.
> without [anticheat], there's a client-side arms race against the server code

This exists with anticheat, too.
I've been involved in an $1B+ acquisition that stretched out over 12 months. The initial deal, that was announced publicly, had language of the form "All assest required to run the subsidiary will be transferred to the acquiring company." The next 3-6 months required us to determine exactly what was actually purchased. And finally, the last 6 months was us transferring those assets.

The CEO doesn't get involved in the line item details - just announces the high level strategic decisions.

There is a likely some perceived value, to both Microsoft and Nokia, in communicating this strategy to the market/developers/partners - I'm not sure _what_ that value is, mind you, but that would be one reason why the high level deal was announced before all the nitty gritty details were inked.
The unlimited size of Apple's cache is probably just a mistake. It makes no sense to store it on the device for tracking purposes. I assume they log this info when the device requests the info from Skyhook (or whatever location provider they have now) anyway.
That is absolutely wonderful. I still think we should be producing books like that. There is NOTHING which replicates the feel of a book made using a linotype.

I think recently, since anyone can publish stuff any old junk cheaply on that scale, that the quality of books has declined.
Outrageous proposal time: NSL DDoS.

Let's say I own a business. Every week, I get two dozen letters purporting to be from the FBI requesting information on my customers. Some of the requests are clearly ridiculous; others might be genuine. If they are genuine, I'm forbidden from discussing them over the phone; the requests aren't a matter of public record, so I can't look them up; I don't have a secure fax, I run an internet company. I could tell my lawyer about it, but he'd be subject to the same restrictions as me.

My only options are either to submit an individual request for verification for each letter by delivery service, or comply with every request I receive, deluging the FBI with frivolous documents. Either way, thousands of companies attempting to comply with dozens of such requests every week and the secret police system would quickly grind to a halt.

To be followed shortly by a lengthy prison sentence — if they're lucky — for anyone participating in the fabrication of government documents, of course. Still, it's a fascinating prospect.
Sure, but all "large, well-written JavaScript applications" are not created equal. This test in particular tests JSLint's performance at parsing its own JS source file. How many large Javascript applications spend most of their runtime parsing Javascript rather than traversing the DOM? I suspect not many.
Now that you are back on your feet, have you considered declaring bankruptcy or defaulting on the credit cards? It'll ruin your credit and stress you out, but saving $70K while building a $6K a month nest-egg seems worth considering.

Maybe he thinks he is part of a society larger than just himself, perhaps he has some kind of moral framework, some notion of wrongness, or some self-respect that would stop him from reneging on his promises.

Not to mention that declaring yourself bankrupt when you have such a good income is almost certainly illegal.
If I was trying to think of something less representative of large well written javascript application I would have a hard time thinking of something better than JSLint.

It doesnt touch the dom, is not event driven, doesnt involve loading lots of files and does not render anything
This won't be your average job fair. Think SXSW meets a job fair.
Doers can of course criticize, but serious devs won't bash a new and unfinished language, just because the author of the project had the audacity to promise something "so unrealistic".

Healthy people saw V, maybe read about it, saw the great promises, and thought "Ha, that sounds unlikely, but it's not a bad idea, it would be insane if this worked! Shoot for the stars, aim for the moon.".

For others, the promises were outrageous and anything remotely close to them "impossible". I don't get why it got personal for some of us, and it's stupid how involved people were over the years (hey Xe, you're so skilled, why waste your energy) into bashing this random project.
> it works perfectly out of the box.

Did you install a specific version of Ubuntu or something? I have a recent XPS 15 that I installed 18.04 on, and I have had a fair number of problems. My USB-C hub (from Dell as well) doesn't work properly for USB pass through. My bluetooth headphones require me to connect, disconnect, and reconnect every single time to work properly. My wifi drivers will randomly disappear from time to time. And I have a scattering of other random issues with it.

Most of these feel like "minor" problems, as I can still work productively with my setup. But I definitely couldn't describe my experience as smooth.
Do you use cloud print?
is this just latex math or the full latex?
Not really.

I'm a well-compensated white collar professional in the bay area. I drive a 23yo bigass diesel pickup that I use for offroading, towing, hauling, camping, etc.

I don't get judged hard at all. Most folks thing it's quirky. I'd say I get judged more positively than not.

In NorCal outside of the bay area there are plenty of pickup trucks and the culture that goes with that.
Is this satire or are rich car people really this insufferable? This may be the best/worst comment I've ever seen here. The level of status projecting and suburban truck guy cringe is through the roof.
The average consumer of a truck cares about the looks. Unless the Cybertruck allows buyers to address a use case that is so compelling that they're willing to excuse the looks, Tesla is not going to sell many of these.

Maybe Tesla is banking on luring people who don't usually buy trucks, or that truck buyers are so hungry for an EV that they'll go for it. But someone who doesn't usually buy trucks, would just buy a Model 3 or Y.

Traditional truck buyers tend to be fiercely loyal to their brand so they'd probably be more likely to wait for EV versions from the favorite truck brand.
Well, each type of force is mediated by some type of boson. And the fact is that the new particle would be a new kind of boson - not fitting in existing categories. So it really is a new force that they would have discovered.

As each type of force correspond to one type of boson - which mediates the interaction - it is indeed right, in this meaning, to call them also types of interactions.

Also important is the fact that the discovered particle is a fundamental particule, so it is not a composite of other fermions and other bosons. That excludes the possibility of mistaking a mixture of existing forces for a new one.
Distributed bot and scraper networks. Thousands of IPs geographically dispersed throughout the world. There is only so much you can do with rate limiting.
According to wikipedia there's support for Silverlight on IE9 through to 2021 - that doesn't seem too bad?
Is that a "no"? The comment you're linking me doesn't say much other than:

"We tried this, now we're selling it."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuangou seems to be it!
For a very broad cross-section of design, I like to read
http://designyoutrust.com
This is the animated TED talk that I referenced before on motivations. I'm sure you've seen this before, but still interesting in this context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
I completely understand. Unfortunately, I'm too busy building cool shit to market it like crazy. I look for clever ways to market, like getting my company to promote it or including it in presentations.

I know it's human nature to like prettier things, I'm just surprised when localtunnel was posted on Hacker News originally, it did not get as much attention as showoff.io and it does the EXACT same thing. I guess I'm disappointed in the community for that?
What I posted on the Flippa site:

To make showing the stats easiest, I'll focus on the past 90 days:
From Jan 25 to Aprl 24, we've had 1916 unique visits. The average time per visit is 4 mins.
From those visits; we've had 319 signups to our product. That's a 16% conversion rate.

We also ran some SEM campaigns, Facebook + LinkedIn ads. We had a 13% conversion rate from Facebook ads. And a 5-40% conversion rate on LinkedIn depending on the ad. With the right marketing budget, you should be able to drive a lot of signups and usage to the product.

Our actual application (app.socialblazeapp.com) has had 737 visits in the past 90 days. Average time spend inside our application, per visit is 11 minutes.

The tech is all Microsoft based. The application is ASP.Net MVC 2.0 C# using SQL Azure. We are hosted on Windows Azure although you can easily move the application to dedicated windows servers and to use MS SQL.
Have you tried Allegro CL or LispWorks? They come with IDE.
I know that evolution doesn't have a goal. I may have antropomorphosized it too much, but my goal was to follow a sort of temporal/casual trail that we find interesting.

The way I imagine my idea is that, if you pick a species and its interesting descendants, and order on a timeline like such:

A --> B --> C --> D

What really happens is more like:

[bunch of other spinoffs]
^
|
A --> B --> ...

And that some of those spinoff could be viruses. Imagine a mutation to A causes a bunch of functionality in the organism to shut down (and in subsequent generations disappear), while leaving a viable organism. For a sufficiently uncomplicated A, the result of such mutation could be a bundle of genes wrapped in a shell with an injection mechanism. That's a virus.
Yeah, even a local cache in front of the serial link would go a long, long way into making this more feasible
That sounds like the flawed reasoning behind every business that says "The X industry is Y billions. If we can just grab a tenth of a percent of it, we'll be super rich!"
Yup, it's classic monopolist pricing.
It amazes me Paul Allen ever managed to become filthy rich in the first place. He just doesn't seem like a savvy person. Why even bother criticizing Gates at this point? True or not it just doesn't make much sense to attack someone who is now primarily recognized as one of the individuals doing the most good in the world right now. Between this and his ridiculous patent lawsuits I think he's just getting old and mad that no one worships him as a legendary figure in technology the same way they do guys like Jobs, Woz, Ellison, Gates, etc. Sad really. He made out like a bandit -- he should be happy with that and stop trying to tear down other people.
Thinking about the important task can be done in the shower rather than before/while going to sleep.
These terse responses are always open to misinterpretation, especially by non-technical users who may not fully understand open source. That's the problem. "We have a backlog, but you're welcome to contribute to speed things up," or "I do this as a hobby, so take it or leave it," at least expresses some reasoning.
Yeah, I'm having trouble seeing any problem with it.

He wanted to do things the right way, made an effort to figure it out by himself, and then asked in the appropriate forum.
Your image reversal point is a good one. It might be that it was reversed in the images, I don't really remember.

I couldn't find the photographs, but they are mentioned at some pointsin the "Battle for Chernobyl" movie: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-battle-of-chernobyl/ (Highly recommended movie, btw. Very freaky.)

(Also noticed that it's at Google video. Watch it while you can!)
During my 6+ year stay in Taiwan, I regularly went to a tailor for custom shirts and trousers. I usually paid about 750NT/shirt and about 2500NT for the trousers. that comes out to about $25 and $75 in USD. Strangely, prices were pretty much the same in HK (which has a higher per capita GDP than the US).

I love having tailored clothes and if I could buy them over the internet, all the better! Even if I left Asia, I don't think I'd use such an expensive service, though. At least not until after achieving some business success myself. :)
Tron: Legacy (2010) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/

"I was asked to record myself using a unix terminal doing technologically feasible things. I took extra care in babysitting the elements through to final composite to ensure that the content would not be artistically altered beyond that feasibility."

"So we went with posix kill and also had him pipe ps into grep. I also ended up using emacs eshell to make the terminal more l33t. The team was delighted to see my emacs performance -- splitting the editor into nested panes and running different modes. I was tickled that I got emacs into a block buster movie. I actually do use emacs irl, and although I do not subscribe to alt.religion.emacs, I think that's all incredibly relevant to the world of Tron."

Source: http://jtnimoy.net/workviewer.php?q=178
Quite genius actually.
I love this idea, years ago I tried ordering from Target's custom tailored shirt site (measurements were pretty inacurate, but concept was clever, it unfortunately was discontinued).

As someone who has a tough time finding properly fitting dress shirts (big neck,broad chest/shoulders, narrow waist) I would be curious as to what the return policy is. Some custom shirt sites seem to cater to certain crowds.

I've had several friends ask me if any companies make clothes tailored to bodybuilders physiques.
Parallelism deals with program running at the same time; by definition, it runs on multiple CPUs. Concurrency deals with the non-deterministic order of running multiple threads of execution. Concurrent threads might or might not run on multiple CPUs. You can have multiple threads running on a single CPU system while the OS schedules one thread after another randomly. You still have concurrency and the order of execution is still non-deterministic, but you don't have parallelism.

Parallelism's goal is to max out the overall throughput. It deals with partitioning data and algorithm to keep all the CPUs busy while minimizing the inter-CPU communication cost. It deals with efficient data transfer, cache coherency, data locality (out of the 10K CPUs, your neighbors can faster serve your subtask's need), and data dependency (which nodes need to go first). Parallel programs can be surprisingly deterministic. Some examples are cracking password (partition the dictionary in N ways and have N CPU hitting them), web crawling (partition the URL address space N way and have N CPU hitting them). Most of the map-reduce stuffs are parallel programs.

Concurrency's main concern is to bring consistency to the non-deterministic nature of multiple threads of execution. Mutex, semaphore, event, monitor, and transactional memory are some mechanisms to bring order to the chaos.
I tried to test this hypothesis but quickly encountered the problem that what I believe to be a good life is based on facts and knowledge about the world.

I propose an alternative: any arrant nonsense that people insist on believing despite facts and knowledge is likely to be willful ignorance, which people may seek to protect by calling it religion.

The arrant nonsense no one believes anymore is called "mythology".
The NHS is being privatised anyway.
I believe they're referring to the phrase "embrace, extend, extinguish":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extin...
This sort of behavior is a natural result of the VC funding model. Companies are forced to either explode in popularity by any means necessary or fail fast. Stable, linear growth via word-of-mouth is impossible.
> Didn't Nature decide to allow free real-only access to all papers? It appears that only the first page is freely accessible.

This is Nature Physics, not Nature. They are separate journals, albeit under the same publishing group.

Email me (my username @gmail) if you want a copy, or look at /r/scholar.
It's unfortunate that languages are so monolithic. You want to make a language that does concurrency differently and you end up having to design date format strings! Sad that we still don't have any kind of common libraries or whatever it might take to just do this a couple of times and let language designers pick and choose the preexisting components they want.
The Go date format is one my huge annoyances about the language (not generics, interface{} magic, or the lack of immutable types). My biggest issue is that despite the fact the designers call Strftime bad because no one remembers the letters, and has to have documentation handy - the Go docs don't even document the magic numbers you have to use.

Why 2006? How do I represent a day? When do I use _2 vs 2? Its very poorly documented and thankfully all I use is RFC3339 and Unix timestamps.
print is IO so of course it is hard to eliminate side effects.
It is. The fact is that we really don't spend much on space.
This reminds me the HTML5 terminal component, which didn't get much attention. I've used it for some API works and is indeed useful / cool