jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, this is anecdotal information as my professor, he had worked at Ford, in our finance engineering class made a lecture that raw materials and labor for a vehicle would be $1,000. The additional costs are from tooling, r&d, and other items that ensure a profit margin for the company.
I have very unreliable page here: http://www.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_it_cost_to_manufactur...

I tried to find additional information to back up this claim through the web, sadly, sources will either be:
1. Sales representatives within car sales pointing to an invoice sheet from the manufacturer showing a percent difference or dollar difference, but this would include the tooling, r&d, and operation costs. http://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/2bvxn5/how_much_does_i...)
2. Manufacturers who make statements about profitability. http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/how-much-does-a-new-...
3.

You can find further information about how the $40,000 Volt obfuscates its costs: http://www.treehugger.com/cars/how-much-does-chevy-volt-cost...
Yes; the Turkish "I"s under discussion here are the most immediate case, but there are other cases where you have two almost-aliases in one case that aren't present in another case even ignoring composition. E.g. the ohm symbol "Ω" lowercases to a standard omega "ω", but that uppercases to a standard uppercase omega "Ω", because there's a distinct codepoint for "ohm symbol" (even though it's "just" omega, perhaps because some legacy codepages included it as a symbol without including a full greek alphabet) but no corresponding lowercase codepoint.
If anything that makes me a bit better. Somehow a $3B industry has been stalled somewhat by The Process. I mean, that is a hekuva lot of money to pull the brakes on.
23% would not be bad if it increased your chances of avoiding the flu with near to zero risk. I've been a strong advocate of the flu vaccine, because why not putting all the odds, even if they're not 100%, on your side. But... Have you read the article? It lookalike getting vaccinated is actually not zero risk, on the contrary.
Great list here. I also love:

- Things That Have Caught My Attention by Dan Hon - http://tinyletter.com/danhon (He's the content director for Code for America and writes beautiful, thoughtful and personal commentary. Very smart.)

- Taylor Davidson's Newsletter - http://taylordavidson.com/letters (Writings at the intersection of tech and photography. Similar to Benedict Evans' format.)

- Deb Chachra's Metafoundry - http://tinyletter.com/metafoundry (An engineering professor who writes a combination of personal notes and smart commentary about tech/science.)

- Weekly Gold by David Sherry - http://davidjsherry.com/ (A nice reminder to step away from your computer and take the world in + a cool startup recommendation every week.)
Its bad compared to how effective the vaccine normally is, its good compared to no vaccine at all.

The idea that its one vaccine in the first place that is being "hyped" is wrong, each year a new vaccine is created, and its done based on the strains of the flu that seem likely to be prominent. One of the reasons this year was worse than normal is that the strains that were prominent weren't what was predicted.

I don't think anyone would be against developing a better vaccine, though I do think lots of people would be opposed against trading off efforts to assure that each years vaccine made under the current process gets well promoted to the public and distributed to achieve that. Those aren't the only possible uses of resources in our society, and there is no reason that efforts to develop are better flu vaccination system need to be traded off against efforts to assure the reach of the current system.
"To me IT is more on the operation side while engineering is on development side. "

In my company (a big Fortune 500) engineering and IT are totally different things if you look from the bottom of the hierarchy. BUT (this is a big but) when you talk to management the higher you get, the more SW engineering and IT are the same. I have been in several meetings where the CEO always referred to the CIO whenever a tech question came up. So the CIO answered all these questions although in reality she has no input into any software development decisions that are being made for our products and her knowledge basically consist of reading vendor whitepapers. It's quite annoying because this way IT often gets multi million dollar budgets for fancy AI/digitization/ML projects that are all wasted because they have no clue about SW engineering.

In summary, there is a very common perception that everybody that uses a computer is part of IT.
Pools and parks have longer opening hours in summer than winter too. That's not really the same thing as DST though; it's orthogonal.
> "Hard to scale" isn't really a coherent argument against any mainstream programming language.

It is odd that you would say that, because it is a very common complaint about languages with dynamic typing. As the program grows larger static typechecking becomes more and more helpful.
You might find https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smo... interesting and relevant.
It's anecdotal, but I've replaced the battery on my Pixel 2 and it works like new again. I've also replaced a friend's Pixel 2 battery and they held off on buying a new phone for another year or two.

Phone batteries generally lose 20% of capacity every ~500 cycles. So lumost may well have a battery with only 1/2 the original capacity or less. [1]

[1] This is for iPhone, but I imagine it's similar for all devices. https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT208387
> I’m not sure how well it works on the “inside” edges of a multi-monitor desktop though.

Like you would expect + some gripping when reaching the edge before passing over so it's easy to know if you're snapping or moving over the other screen.
I've spent a lot of time playing bass on stage with band's I've never rehearsed.

I heard a saying the other day you might like...

bass players aren't paid to play quickly, they are paid to hear quickly.
I've been in this position many times. The only things I know how to are...

- post in relevant online forums

- targeted advertising (throw 1k or 2k at it and see what happens)

- targeted reach outs on linkedin sales

- cold email campaigns at scale (better follow best practices here so you don't get your domain ruined)

- spam your personal/community connections

- reach out to "non techy businesses who want tech" or other people who sit in your customer acquisition channels about partnerships

Yeah that's kind of it. It's not pretty stuff, you have to have thick skin and be ok getting rejected and annoying people.
> I watched your demo video and I don't see any advantages over using named branches, and you describe no specific advantages in your README.

It's hard to motivate a workflow change, especially since this one adds no fundamentally new capabilities to Git. In the same way, the git-flow workflow offers no new capabilities, but some people still find it useful.

As per the README, I find that it reduces the friction for dealing with these use-cases, compared to a branch-based workflow:

* Switching between work tasks.

* Separating minor cleanups/refactorings into their own commits, for ease of reviewability.

* Extensively rewriting local history before submitting code for review.

* Performing speculative work which may not be ultimately
committed.

* Working on top of work that you or a collaborator produced, which is not yet checked in.

* Losing track of git stashes you made previously.

Of course, you can do all this with branches too, and many people will prefer branches for these tasks. You have to be the kind of person who performs extensive "surgery" on your Git history.

> but are names so bad that you're gonna adopt a non-standard git workflow?

There's no interoperability problems between using this workflow and collaborating with others. In the worst case, you can always make a branch if you need to.

> `git undo` is cool. There have been a number of fun variations on it over the years, and yours seems fine, but it's usually a leaky abstraction. I expect that yours is, too, but that's just because git itself is a leaky abstraction; it's just really hard to build a strong foundation on sand.

The particular feature that this `git undo` provides that others don't is that it can undo bad rebases/amends/merges/etc. (without having to resort to the reflog). This seems to be an area that many beginner to intermediate Git users struggle with.
Yep, Vim is the first thing to come to mind. I'm not sure there's any program with better undo-ability.

I also am not quite sure what the post above means by "GUIs support undo". Yes, most apps,e g., on Windows, support CTRL-Z for undo. But this functionality depends on each app implementing its own undo, nothing OS-wide, and results will vary. I'm not sure what there is in GUIs that supports "undo" other than an app/user convention like CTRL-Z, which hardly seems to rise to the level of "supports undo".
Find's syntax is really annoying and clashy too. It makes sense. -- for extended syntax and - for shorthand. Why can't it follow this. Also fuck dd
Both CPU and GPU are in large part limited by power delivery and heat. Putting them both in one chip tends to make both of them worse. I wouldn't count on that reversing any time soon.

It is however curious how CPU and GPU become more similar over time, with CPUs getting ever wider SIMD instructions and GPUs becoming better over time with branching code, integer performance, etc.
Pure free-market healthcare is something nobody wants. Even now, the vast majority of people want to be able to buy insurance even if they have a preexisting condition. So we've already seriously meddled with the free market and we're unlikely to go back. And that's not even counting the multitude of other places in the system where free market forces do not apply appreciable pressure.

For non-emergency, non-chronic health conditions, the free market is great. Otherwise it kinda blows. There's no competition for emergency services. You don't choose your hospital or ambulance or helicopter. You can't shop around--not that it would help since they don't tell you prices ahead of time. No competition, no prices, no free market. And if you want to change that, you have to regulate--which also means no free market.

Not everything has a free market solution (e.g. flood insurance).

But there are plenty of other systems in between these two extremes that work quite well. We don't have to go all-in on one or the other.

I will agree, though, that the Frankenstein we have in the US is actually the worst. We pay more tax for healthcare than almost every other country and we get a lot less back for it than they do. And in addition to paying the most tax, we pay huge prices for poor quality insurance. And our prices for care are among the highest in the world.

We could definitely do better.
There always have and always will be people that need more help than those around them can provide.

The key to helping those people is having lots of options so that we have the best chance of meeting some/most/all of their needs. Educational programs, jobs programs, cash payments, assisted/managed living, institutional facilities in someo cases or some combination of these services depending on the person.

Some may say we already have these options - we don’t, at least there are many places in the USA and the rest of the world where they are not generally available to everyone who needs them.
This exists. https://identity.foundation/
Can this be used to replace Photoshop's Content-aware fill as well? Or does it require some sparse sampling of the whole area that needs to be reconstructed?
Here you go: http://www.int33h.com/test/mi/index.html?lng=de
what it is being used for? I can't figure what that fwrite part does
Walking through LIC makes me deeply unhappy but I agree with you completely. In terms of its ability to deliver on raw numbers of housing increase it has been a total success and arguably helped keep rental pressure off my crappy Alphabet City apartment (and by extension the cheaper apartment I would have moved to and so on down the chain) by drawing away midtown finance types.

I do wonder which is harder: changing zoning laws in Gramercy and the West Village or fixing capacity problems on the F/G/NQR or LIRR
this makes me feel uneasy.

> "The law also imposes penalties on those found to be purveying fake news through the use of false online accounts. Individuals can be fined up to 100,000 Singapore dollars ($73,000), jailed for up to 10 years, or both, while companies can be slapped with fines of up to SG$1 million."

SG is a small country which can easily be policed, so this probably works for them. I wonder how they deal with meme and parody accounts. (will making fun of people this way now be criminalized?)
Porn has existed since the first parchment, and even cats and dogs and seals and dolphins kind of masturbate.

What about movies, music, books, games, sports?

Why do you think porn stars should not be treated like any other actor, artist, author, musician, developer, sportsperson?
As someone who has spend a lot of time working on graphics on linux, I can safely say this is nvidia's fault.
If you back your case against change with real arguments (like “There will be massive downtime.” and “Extra maintenance will be necessary.”) you certainly aren’t naïve. But you are very naïve indeed if all you ever say to anyone proposing any change to working systems is “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
I second. I have some flowers outside my house and they never got stolen. I think a lot of hackers overrate security just like a lot of nurses see diseases everywhere.
sure great Idea, I'd be glad to have all hackers add their Blogs here: http://www.gmbhnews.com/addsite/ under the category Hackers, it's my mobile blog network webapp.
They have a demo up at their parent company

http://www.boxador.com
Here's Napoleon's cartographer's view of the Russian expedition, atop google maps:
http://hci.stanford.edu/jheer/files/zoo/ex/maps/napoleon.htm...

Wikipedia has the original: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Minard.pn...
More than once, when I had a Lenovo ThinkPad that needed depot service for a hardware fault, Lenovo has told me to remove the HD and keep it; at the depot they insert a temporary freshly-imaged HD, complete the repair and battery of tests, and send the ThinkPad back to me empty, for me to replace my own HD. (If I were still to have a problem, then I could complete the repair myself by replacing the HD.) This has always worked flawlessly.
I remember spending unhealthy amounts of time on that site in my 20s. I don't know why I did it. Friends would tell me "just use reddit" and eventually I did (for a time, no longer).

Ive got to say though, good riddance.
As an American that moved to Canada for school, I highly recommend it. Canada has very good schools (and more importantly to me, very cheap in comparison to the US) and as of the past couple years, its pretty easy to get work permits if you are a student or have graduated from a Canadian university (and as a grad student, if you're in the sciences, there is definitely grant money to be had).

Also, its fairly straightforward to immigrate here if you have a degree or get shacked up with a Canadian (I went the latter route, its a bit easier than immigrating on your own laurels).

But there's no Hulu.
The title text in the title bar at the top of each image isn't reversed, instead each letter is reversed individually...

Sorry to for being pedantic.
Quite possibly. I'm not concerned with power transmission so much; that's just engineering, and the tiny Centennial Challenge teams were doing well enough over a few years that it seems quite soluble. We will probably have UAVs flying on beamed power regularly within a few years.

The tether materials are obviously the long pile in this tent. We have theoretical materials that will work, which is great, but we really need practical materials. The day you can go buy nano tube thread you can formulate an actual timeline for a space elevator. Until then, its only a dream.
reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junger_v._Daley. Need to write digital content on paper and claim 1st amendment
Hmm, just out of curiosity, what do you find not sufficient enough to support this with existing systems like facebook?
A FeedBurner "User" is not equal, this was a publisher service.

The real target were the feed subscribers, or maybe they are where can I check the data?

The same goes for Youtube, how many visitors did they have? They bring in the ad revenue.

Compared to Facebook/Whatsapp where you can usually only participate by being a user.
Ugh. To whomever is currently wasting their time and effort on differential privacy, take a good long look.
> For example, you could create a fork of C++ that merely compile-errors when you use a pointer and not a reference unless you enclose it in some `unsafe` block that you invented -- anything you want like that is possible. One can simply start with C++ augmented so that everything is const by default; that is the ideal progress to me.

But then it wouldn't be C++, it would be something else. You would very quickly end up with a language incompatible with C or C++ if you set off to implement the safety mechanisms of Rust on top of them.

I mean, look at how long it took to get modules into C++, and that's a feature that is opt-in and won't change the semantics of existing code. You can't "simply start with C++" for anything.

> There's still no justification for Rust to be completely hausdorff to the last 50 years of established C systems and start over.

C and C++ aren't static either. They're evolving too and modern iterations of the language aren't compatible, or even recognizable, from the earlier incantations.

(Is the big hangup here that Rust puts the type on the right side of the variable name?)

> If Rust doesn't really offer anything substantive for this amount of divergence I feel it will always be relegated to wrappers and a niche community.

If you're coming from a background of C++ development it's not that hard to pick up Rust. The borrow checker can be a bit of a pain but it isn't mysterious; it's got a well defined set of rules it plays with. There's a lot more to Rust than memory safety, it has a well laid out feature set that is refreshing and probably not implementable in C++ in my lifetime. The trait-based generics are great, the metaprogramming facilities are great, pattern matching is killer, that (nearly) everything is an expression is something C and C++ desperately need, and the out-of-the-box tooling is phenomenal.

I get that Rust isn't for everyone, but painting it as irrelevant and unnecessary is too extreme, and arguably wrong if it's inspiring linting tools that bring some of Rust's rules to the C/C++ world, or inspiring language features.

On a side note, what do you think of Apple moving away from Objective C toward Swift?
Names can and do lie, types are checked by the compiler. Also in you example, is an entry a string? a dict? its own class? who knows.
These skills are not hard. 3 months of apprenticeship, 1 day in college, 4 days in a job.

Just start building one, learn as you do it. All I do is insist that the students do it. They're all like you, "Oh I don't know if I can." .. I just force them to do it.

Another bunch of non-coders - first assignment is to send a waether balloon up (50,000 ft) and take picture. You've just got to want to do it. Posting on HN isn't enough. Start typing in code. Don't stop until you are an expert.
Not everyone who buys trucks uses them as work trucks, but for the people who are looking for work trucks, why wouldn't they use this truck?
Barring something like a city decimating earthquake - for every foot you ascend, you must also descend. There is just as much uphill as downhill. This is true for any trip with any two destinations on the planet (a round trip between a beginning and a destination). This is equivalent to conservation of potential energy in physics.
The guy is getting $1.7bn.

That is gluttonous. To put that into perspective, if you took even just $100m and divided it among the 1,000 workers laid off each one would get $100,000.

Yet they get nothing. And this one man gets $1.7bn from a company that isn't even healthy enough to survive while nickle and diming janitors who get paid $24k/year.

This is what late stage capitalism looks like.
I eat Doritos and Cheetos with chopsticks. It keeps the flavoring detritus off the fingers.
Thanks. I think I understand the background much better now. When we think easy, we always take the "my" and "now" perspective. When we think simple, we often take the wholesome point of view. Thus the need for differentiation.
AText for Mac.

I only wish there was something similar for Linux.
You wouldn't want a new hire tackling some hairy mess of a bug. But this is common practice in open source projects - there's a massive backlog of minor bugs and nice-to-have feature requests, stuff that's pretty easy to finish if you had the time and the will.

Having someone take care of some of this stuff first to familiarize himself with the project and get used to the processes before jumping straight into a big task seems like a good idea to me.
Not infinitely, but divisible to 8 decimal places IIRC.
I think the iPad could be Apple's set top box.

You can see pieces of it in place already.

- content: The recent apps from TimeWarner and Comcast. iTunes is obviously another source. Games are another source of content.

- AirPlay: Extending AirPlay to support video out doesn't seem to farfetched. This would only really be needed for non-video applications (ie: games).

- Integration with TVs: Presently, you need an adaptor (the AppleTV), but it would not be farfetched to see the AirPlay functionality built into the TVs (like the Samsung TVs with wifi and apps already). There is precedence for this on the music streaming side with AirPlay.
It could be improved with a browser plugin, or perhaps by registering a URL protocol with the browser.

For instance, there could be a link like:

bitcoin://1MvtfpuCtfDb2EfbevDB1Ep6Z2X1h5nskf?amount=10.00

This could open up your Bitcoin client with the "Send Coins" dialog box open with the address and amount already filled out. Then the user could just hit the "Send" button to confirm the transaction.

However, this is just an example, and nothing like this has been implemented yet to my knowledge.
You can also check http://eduardo-xavier.com , they have some good designs and prices are affordable...
Here's spencerfry's fantastic list of what non-programmers bring to a startup:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=779448 <- HN post

http://spencerfry.com/whats-a-non-programmer-to-do <- full article

If you're looking to add someone to your team, you want someone who will do as much from this list as possible.
If it takes 5 minutes or less, do it immediately, because scheduling it takes more time.

This is the one piece of advise I follow religiously. The dividends are amazing. Less clutter, a feeling of accomplishment, appearance of responsiveness to others, and a happier girlfriend.
3. You can't read ebooks in the bath (yet)
tl;dr loudmouth with a penchant for social media and oddball cowboy shirts made a lot of money investing in startups
Honestly I don't think either metaphor makes much sense. It is what it is, and there's no analogy to soft drinks or t-shirts.
I know you're only picking on Digital Ocean incidentally here, but their managed Kubernetes offering is Pretty Okay. I use it for my personal stuff and it's pretty much everything I expect from a managed Kubernetes offering.

Just don't use EKS. That is managed Kubernetes in the checkbox marketing sense only.
It's OK, customers can use the backup system which is sending in 9-track tape reels via FedEx.
Dear Craig,

Thanks for for making me smile like crazy.

Bye

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