jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How would you feel if Arrington failed to cover your tech startup (even though you are getting other coverage) and you found out he was heavily invested in your competitor. It isn't likely to be about what he writes as much as about what he doesn't write.

Nobody is suggesting he shouldn't be allowed to invest. The question is how much investing in the companies he is covering will cause problems. The fact that AOL is saying nobody else gets to do it implies they tend to think it will cause problems.

The most interesting twist to this, though, is that there is a lot of potential value from Arrington being directly in the game instead of watching it. But to brush it off and say there is no potential for significant abuse here is naive, IMO.

EDIT: One other thing, we aren't talking about some writer at TechCrunch. We are talking about the guy to drives it. That also colors it significantly, and not in nice hues of rose.
I have a very different perspective/experience: in a new business (without explicit domain experience) it's difficult to know what actions gives the better company outcome. Sometimes a timely 8 hours of work and luck gives a better result than weeks or even years.

So, it's important to know that everybody is in the same boat.

I can give you an example from my little experience: we invested in a technology for two years with a team of 3 without any economic result (although we believed in the importance of that specific technology).
One day, 1.5 years later after we put on hold the work this technology is the core of one of the products of a fortune 100 company.

So, it's difficult to estimate what founder work will give the best outcome in advance.
Being non-social for some time is not the same thing as being anti-social.
Yes, this is done transparently, and most people won't have a problem. As with most things Ubuntu, as long as you go with the defaults, everything will work smoothly.

What I'm saying, is that flash, java (plugin), and nspluginwrapper can be broken. It happens; and when it happens, it's not obvious what went wrong or how to fix it. Going 32-bit simply removes this support issue altogether.
An alternative might be afternoon tea.
Yes, I will need the passwords in clear text when doing logins later.

I was thinking about storing the password as cram-md5, but that will require the server to support that.
http://www.inter7.com/courierimap/INSTALL.html#crammd5
It's much worse than that. We enjoy a special status with the dollar as the reserve currency. We'd probsbly lose that before we defaulted, just the fact that we were considering defaulting would be enough. And without a reserve currencey the world economy would go into a tailspin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency
This article is great. I have fought with social anxiety for 5 years as a result of family complications and high school drama. I have been doing talk therapy for 6 months with very positive affects on my previously negative outlook on life.

I've always viewed it as a disease, but this article portrays anxiety in a new light. Maybe my ability to view the world this way enables self creativity that I never knew existed... That thought is exciting.

Thanks for sharing!
Have you heard of anyone who has been unable to trade, travel, or transport because he could not use Vinod Khosla's beach as a loading dock, port, and harbor? Waterways have ports which are often publicly-owned or operated for commercial use.
adoc formatted mirror from before/while this got destroyed from its chat getting DOS'd: https://pastebin.com/tAWNuRL7
If you use a virtual table and only render the content that is visible at any given time, the number of rows ceases to be a bottleneck for rendering. Filtering/sorting becomes the new bottleneck, but you can generally optimize that via specialized indexes/views and other techniques, depending on the shape of your data and your business requirements.

Source: I built a virtual table implementation a decade ago that scaled just fine to tens of thousands of rows, and browsers were a lot slower back then. But my requirements were also relatively simple, so YMMV.
Eventually! Don't rush on buying your future mountain view property, though. It'll take tens to hundreds of millions of years to happen.
I'm from Sweden, and our rules seem quite a bit less permissive than California's.

You're allowed to move freely on most land, and even camp there. But that right ends when you're within sight of the owners home.

https://visitsweden.com/about-the-right-of-public-access/

California law has no such exceptions. You're allowed on the beach up to the high tide level, regardless of if somebody's home is right there.
Thanks for teaching me a lot on this topic!
While a bunch of people have thrown their personal wealth into crypto speculation, it hasn’t been what has driven the stock price of the stars of today. Regulators have been somewhat good on locking down obvious frauds including the gazillion ICOs that happened a few years ago.

In summary, smarter investors and better regulation seems to have kept the market in check, for now.

The troubles start when a sizable chunk of the market suddenly goes underwater, disrupting existing supply chains and shaking investor confidence and predictability. Those events have not yet occurred.
You remember the Millennium Falcon at scale for the mini figs a couple of years ago? I was that close buying on, but I said to myself 500 buck is tad expensive. They now sell them for more than 3k last time I checked... Maybe next te around...
agree, Twitter is also making it harder to use it without an account + it is terribly slow webapp
Changing MakeRoom to be inline (gcc 4.6.3) turns out to be a significant speedup.

Also appears to be a small benefit from modifying the Lev struct to have Room first.
Unsure. Two years ago we bought two zenbooks and two MacBooks. Two out of the four are still working, two don't. The broken ones are not made by apple.

This also happened to the two Lenovo workstations we bought. Needless to say we've stopped buying non apple products, primarily because fixing them is a hassle.
This frightens me about as much as "peak oil".
Can't they just be copied? It's not like other distros use a different kernel (maybe a different version, but that's usually easy to adapt to).
This seems like dangerous advice -- the flip side of this auto-correct-by-experience coin is creating entrenched bad habits. As a common example, take posture: "Just stand up and walk around 5000 times and then ask me what correct posture is." Yet the majority of people have problematic posture, both when standing and when sitting, despite a lifetime of practice.

While there probably are examples where your martial arts teacher's advice makes sense, in my personal experience it seems wrong for most physical movements (walking, weight lifting technique, posture, dancing, etc).
In terms of design, hell even story, Monument Valley is an absolute must have.

That VentureBeat list had a pretty nice looking cocktail companion app.
A combination of ( sorted from more to less relevance):

Trello

Workflowy

StackOverflow's favourites

Pocket

Goodreads

Delicious ( I hardly check it)
Seems about right. It looks like an HTML template language, not a layout language.
So, you're not in college?

I know this will be a controversial suggestion, but I am offering it as someone who takes his own advice (I'm in the Army). This suggestion isn't for the faint of heart.

I would say if you're not a conscientious objector, you should go down and see an Air Force recruiter. They have a pretty good selection of technical jobs you could do.

Then you'd get out with the GI bill in a few years and they'd pay your rent the whole time you're in college. 36 months of tuition plus a salary stipend of an E-5 (sergeant).

Just something to mull over. The military does actually have some pretty cool mentally stimulating work, if you have the brain, which you obviously do.
I beg to differ, democracy and legislation allowed vested interests and cronyism to occur/take place/take hold. So it is also to blame for what most, including you, blame on "vested interests and cronyism".

Of course, this sort of thing would never happen in a "True Democracy". Maybe they have it in Scotland, run by the Scots, perhaps?
I have a notebook (moleskine atm, but I've used a lot of other brands/kinds) for sketching out and expressing ideas/insights and I use Evernote for long-term storage, project management, and to store reference material. I also use Safari's reading list to hold on to things I want to read, but don't know if I want to save permanently.

Edit: I seriously keep everything in Evernote, whats up with the down votes?
For contrast which countries have successfully tackled obesity? Or gun control from a similar starting point?
What system and/or application(s) do you use to help you remember things?
It’s an expression to warn a young person about the reality of car ownership, that you become a slave to it. It requires a certain amount of imagination. Cars are not a barrier to good jobs, one simply moves to where the commute is acceptable.
You're getting to the crux of the issue now. If you don't have log files to recover corrupted data anyways, or that is you never saved it in the first place -- you CANNOT recover it. If you risk irreparably corrupting old data and new data, what is the value of your software system in the first place? Why not use google forms and google spreadsheets, data entry analysts and a call center and be done with the whole thing anyways?

My point is that the very root of what gives software value is something deeply industrial -- it is a machine that can do something over and over correctly, reliably and without regressions. If you take away that reliability to be depended upon by a business, you are no longer building an industrial strength solution -- you're building a toy.
This series is also quite good, a bit more modern:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/09/inside-bro...
I don't know, it seems like an arbitrary line to me. If I logged everything about your visit in a file, then wrote some code to analyze and reconstruct a picture of you as a user, would it be OK with you because I call it a server log?
It's not a meme, it's true. Anything that subsists on advertising and user expression is going to end up taking a stand of some kind.

If you don't want to take a stand, make something yourself.
> It's a scam. Full stop.

Imagine you said the same thing about web certificates prior to Let's Encrypt, does that mean Let's Encrypt is just a scam? No, web certs have inherent technical value everyone was just getting raked over the coals on pricing. Same thing here, there is no "full stop" as signing certs have value but the companies are charging far more than is reasonable.
I think that is more or less a canned response, got nearly the same thing about a year ago.
You can try gEDA topological autorouter Toporouter:
https://youtu.be/NqT4ZYGB3VY

You can also use TopoR autorouter for free:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopoR

Topological routers make really interesting board designs looking like something retro or biological in its nature :)
Do you work at a startup?
That does nothing to prove your original assertion.
Is that with client hyper-v? How does it compare to vmware workstation?
It's not only me, even notables are saying it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/30/nobel-prize-...

https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/the-nobel-prize-why-it-is-not-...

Even the eminent science journal Nature is in on the act:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0256-3/figures/

How many more references like this would you like?

Enough said.
I 100% agree with you. As a Polish-American, Leopold II is what I lean on when someone tries to pretend Europe has clean hands from atrocities... which I've personally met here in the US. They seem to act like the US invented atrocities.

But I disagree with you on the other spectrum. Mostly how the argument is presented. "If only those nasty Europeans never existed, the world would be at peace". Yea, no. Every civilization, whether Asian, Persian, African, Pacific Islands, pre-European native Americans and everyone else I missed were perfectly cool with destroying some other tribe/clan/city. Hell, Hawaiians were a very warrior centric culture before Cook arrived.

We suck as humans. Doesn't matter where you were born, you suck because you're a human. No one's hands are clean. Pointing at one culture as the cause of the world's problems doesn't solve much and just spins the wheels of hate and war some more. And hey, dont get me wrong, when Merkel has negative things to say about how Poland and the US conducts themselves, the first thing I always think of, "Really chancellor kraut?". It is laughable when Brussels or Berlin or London or DC wants to take the moral high road. However, at some point we have to cut our losses and just quit being douches to each other or we are forever doomed to repeat the bad parts to history.
I’m inferring it because it’s basic knowledge that search engines use algorithms to show good stuff and avoid spam. There’s a whole seo industry dedicated to gaming the engines.

Inference almost feels like too big a word there. Anti-spam is fundamental to what search algos do.

The point of the link is google says this:

>“ While we recognise that the Government has made tweaks to this provision, it’s still not feasible for Google or consistent with our ability to offer quality services. We make thousands of algorithm updates every year, so providing 14 days’ notice of any significant changes to algorithms or “internal practices” in the way the Code prescribes just isn’t workable. This provision also continues to put every other business that relies on Google Search at a disadvantage, all to benefit one group of businesses—news publishers.”

They’d prefer not to say “we’d be overrun with spam if we made this change” but it’s part of why it would be unworkable. The tweaks google makes are part of the cat and mouse game with spammers and gamers.
>Your chart takes all of Amazon into account, not just AWS. You'll have to actually dig into earnings to understand that.

Yes, I'm aware Amazon continually buries their AWS profitability. It's 57% of the overall margin, it's not significantly better than NetApp.

>Second thing is gross margin is not the same thing as net margin. Net margin is a far better indicator in the case of pure profitability / revenue.

Net margin is a dial they can and do turn by shifting money in and out of R&D and sales staff. Furthermore you can't simultaneously say that for Amazon we only take into account AWS and not the rest of the business... which is a part of the engine that drives the AWS business. That's no different than saying we shouldn't account for hardware in NetApp's number because they also sell software.

>It's very expensive to design, build, ship and house inventory of hardware for purchase. There's no way around this, which chews through that profit margin.

What exactly do you think Amazon's datacenters are full of? Hardware they design, build, and ship inventory around the country for. They are working with the exact same ODM's that NetApp or any other storage vendor works with to design their custom hardware variations.
Yeah for unlocking it within a host OS as a data disk, not for booting from it... you can set auto unlock at boot or a pin to boot, both of which use the TPM

But try move a bootable bitlocker encrypted disk to new hardware and you’ll have to enter the recovery key

I would really like to be wrong about this since it would make my life much easier, but this understanding is based on experience using multiple work machines with encrypted boot drives every day :(
But why not call out the specific niche then? Pro does not equal high demands. And audio has very different demands then 3D work for example. In fact for audio work the M1 is perfect hardware wise.
It's refreshing and somehow comes off as more respectful to me that this death wasn't announced via Twitter.
Yeah I got that now. I feel pretty stupid after I found that out... :)
Yup. I will say though, as someone that never left FF, the new Edge is really good on Windows. I'm impressed. Edge is missing some features that make browsing for me, a far more enjoyable experience though. For Firefox, "It just feels right" is the best way to put it.
Back in the day ('80s) worked at Logica with colleagues who did Xenix support!
If document didn't have specified time format, I never had issues using YYYY-mm-dd from ISO 8601. And the ones that had specified time format were upfront about expected format, so...

Would be interested where anyone encountered issues with ISO8601 dates
It's pretty disrespectful to game developers to imply that their 'dreams are easily manipulated' when they take less money to work in a field that's more interesting to them.

This is a simple function of supply and demand, not naive developers too weak minded to resist executives. Developers interested in gaming are in high supply, while gaming pales economically in comparison to the fields where most of us work (presumably tech and fintech).
many submarine cables have powered repeaters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable...

Repeaters are powered by a constant direct current passed down the conductor near the centre of the cable, so all repeaters in a cable are in series. Power feed equipment is installed at the terminal stations. Typically both ends share the current generation with one end providing a positive voltage and the other a negative voltage. A virtual earth point exists roughly halfway along the cable under normal operation. The amplifiers or repeaters derive their power from the potential difference across them. The voltage passed down the cable is often anywhere from 3000 to 15,000VDC at a current of up to 1,100mA, with the current increasing with decreasing voltage; the current at 10,000VDC is up to 1,650mA. Hence the total amount of power sent into the cable is often up to 16.5kW.
To be clear, Google shutdown in-house game development.

Stadia itself is currently still available.
>> The highest cost for taxis is not the cars, nor the gas, but the drivers.

Do you have any source on this?
This is so lame, in 1997 Brazil's president wasn't "Lula" he took office in 2003. Lies and lies...
Hah! Looks like the Independent is tired of envying the Guardian for all the free publicity they've been getting!

And I also learnt it's okay to use 'learnt'.
I agree with you entirely - that's the correct kind of test to employ. My point is that getting a positive on such a test doesn't give you grounds to believe someone has handled explosives. Out of every 1000 positives provided by such a test, approximately 1000 are false positives, give or take 1.
I'd say that among people who take cabs, not necessarily wealthy, Uber is growing fantastically in some markets. Here in DC - almost everyone I know prefers and uses Uber now.
> JS has plenty of faults, but one thing it's never lacked is convenience. Conversely, C++ has many virtues, but one thing it's never had is ease of use.

That is a weird thing to say. Maybe it is just me, but when I use JavaScript, I cannot stop worrying about the possibility that there is yet another corner case I have not contemplated. Admittely, C++ is full of corner cases too; but, in my experience, it can be coerced into being a more or less civilized language by making a list of strictly verboten constructs, including, but not limited to, void pointers, manual resource ownership management and casts other than static_cast. When you leave these out, you actually have a smaller language that is easier to reason about. With JavaScript, no list of bad constructs can do - you need to actively rely on the semantically crazy stuff to do anything useful.
As someone in a similar situation as the OP, I'll jump in.

I've been a Technical PM for a while...

I've grown tired of dealing with Clients on a daily basis. I'm tired of the days of back to back meetings or meetings every half hour on the hour to deal with 8 different clients that want attention to piddly problems.

For me I'd much rather switch to a technical management route.
Thanks, and a really interesting perspective.

I find Ruby's rules on scope (and pretty much anything) pretty confusing. I really like the way Ruby does a lot of things, but it doesn't have simple rules like JS.
Doing what we can to gum up the works, and don't mention it : - D
I'm trying to become a better interviewer, and it can be very hard. Here's a story of a badly wasted phone screen I did this week. I screened a guy with a graduate degree in math who worked in a network analysis group for a telco. We talked about the current project he was working on, and his previous project, and while it was really cool statistical modeling of network failure and recovery, he didn't actually do any of the modeling or mathematical work. As best as I could tell, he just wrote scripts to munge data into convenient formats for his teammates to import into the modeling software. He knew next to nothing about statistical software. I described what we did and asked him what kind of work he thought he could do for us, and he basically said he'd do network modeling and analysis for us -- exactly what he wasn't doing at his current job, it seemed.

Afterwards I told my boss, "This guy is a total miss. He just writes Perl scripts to munge log files. Why did we even talk to him?"

"Oh, he's a really sophisticated low-level network performance guy. He has a lot of hands-on knowledge of networking hardware and protocols."

Well... shit. I guess munging log files can be more than just munging log files. I couldn't tell that from his resume, though, and he didn't give me any clue while he was talking to me. Was that my fault?
Where did I advocate not asking technical questions? In the ideal situation, you've already looked at my code, and know the work I've done from the recommendation. (Note I said "highly recommended").

WRT convincing. Sure you start off in buy, since you're hiring. But you should be open to the thought that a great candidate probably has other great options on the table, and they need to vet those out. Ideally you would provide them that opportunity.
> 1. Person A has position X.

> 2. Person B disregards certain key points of X and [...]

> 3. Person B attacks position Y, concluding that X is false/incorrect/flawed.

> Person A doesn't need to be present or even know that his position is being spun for Person B to establish and attack a strawman.

In the degenerate case, person B only identifies person A by the position he claims that person A holds. It should be obvious that there is no strawman here, since A does not exist unless A holds the position B claims.

It could be argued that, as B gives A more and more distinguishing characteristics, he slides closer to strawman territory. But I don't think the OP was close enough to be in danger.
But these are only dirty tricks in the context of a monopoly. If they weren't a monopoly (which they were), it's just smart business. See Apple and Android today (Apple won't let AT&T put random AT&T software on the device. Android has blooked 3rd party competitive apps, like Skyhook, from being packaged with Android phones).

The toughest part about being a monopoly is that the regulatory agencies won't give you any guidance on what is "over the line" (Microsoft at one point went to the EU to ask if they did X, would that be legal. The EU said that they won't tell them. Try it and you'll find out.) You just have to do stuff and see if you get sued or not.
Great idea. Would be great if you had categories for the groples - just click on a number of boxes: programming assistance, training, handyman, etc.