jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think the difference is:

Apple sells a vertically integrated device where they profit on every level.

Google is working to create and grow a mobile market that just didn't exist. I don't think you can compare the two approaches directly. Google is making sure their primary business profit center has a market while Apple is maintaining a top to bottom ecosystem they can control.

And they are spreading that control style to desktops.
This post, factually correct though it is, just shows the absurdity of setting up these arbitrary contests.

How can you possibly compare Google's business model with Apple's? Google seeded the world with Android to jumpstart the smartphone revolution faster. That means that more people will see more web ads sooner. For every day that X people view web ads, Google makes money; this is especially true if that day is tomorrow, rather than five years from now, because Google's share of the web ad business is really good now and doesn't seem likely to go up from here. [1] So Google increased the area under the smartphone-users-vs-time curve for the next few years, and will then make money on that.

Google also makes money on Apple's products, of course. If Apple were capable or interested in saturating the near-term market with iPhones, Google wouldn't have needed to bother with Android, and maybe they wouldn't. And, to the extent that Apple does eventually saturate the market with iPhones, Google might slack off on Android. Though that also depends on what happens with iAds.

Meanwhile, Apple primarily sells gadgets. They make money by selling more gadgets or by maintaining high margins, or both.

Their businesses are intertwined, and the actions of one affect the other, but they're not in the same business and you can't run a horse race between them. Companies don't win some prize by having a higher market share, or higher total market cap, or higher total revenue. Zappos isn't a failure just because its $1B revenue is 65 times smaller than Apple's.

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[1] Though who knows? There are other ad businesses in the world than the one Google currently dominates.
Here's the discount argument.

Just to be clear, so people can sign up for $3000+ contracts, but they just can't afford that $159 for the iPhone 4? (on contract at Rogers. Or they can get the 3GS for $99)

That ridiculous argument doesn't pass the most superficial of consideration.

Further, the Galaxy S costs $179 on contract. I guess it's for the really rich. Even the miserable Dell streak is $149. The Blackberry Torch pushes in at $229.

If cost were a serious factor, Apple would have long had a iPhone 4LE or something of that sort. Right now they know it doesn't make a difference.
From what I can tell, RMS asserts we have the right to inspect the source code of the software that runs on our machines. What is the source of this right? Is it a universal human right? A self-evident inalienable right? Did RMS want to hack a printer one day and found he couldn't so he made up a right for us? Why are people who ship closed software evil? For someone who goes around moralizing and judging others, RMS always seemed to me on shaky ground. Does he have a better way for programmers to earn a living for their hard work besides writing closed software for companies to sell? He comes off to me as a crank and a scold on a power trip to control people.
Same here.

So much to do, so little free time...
The WSJ editor who picked the headline doesn't understand anything about systems. There exists a plausible explanation by which any system failure can be described as a human failure. Just say that one of the human designers screwed up!

Despite the headline, the article itself is good.
I used to be a big Nokia fan. Back when phones were simple. Just calls, text, a game of Snake, and maybe a camera. But then features started being added.

Some phones handled it gracefully. Nokia did not. I find them difficult to use, and in a place where iPhones, Androids, and BBerrys have taken over, today's Nokias don't stand a chance.
It's very easy to keep the data intact, if you know when, exactly, you want access to it again: as in the book referenced in the article, The Forever War, just put the data on an object in space, relativistically accelerate it...

It's "easy" to relativistically accelerate something!? (Macroscopic, not fundamental particles or ions.) This is the old wag about how, in Google engineer speak, "trivial" means the theory is known and all that lies between now and implementation is 300 million dollars of planning and engineering.
Did you read my source? The American Time Use Survey measured both time spent working at home, as well as a number of other activities (e.g., sleeping, household labor). So your wife would appear to be exceptional as far as hours worked.

As for whether the summer is paid or not, so what? Your wife earns $54k/year, she just doesn't work all year.

Your quoted salary also completely ignores the fact that teachers in most states get benefits (e.g., defined benefit retirement at age 55, gold plated health care) which are vastly better than average. Teachers get more fringe benefits but less wages. Cry me a river.
A spec is more than an Idea though It's the plan for your execution. Otherwise it's useless for Apple.
I actually didn't mean to imply that there aren't situations where something like UML can be useful e.g. documenting business processes.

However, my own view is that as you actually get closer to code the benefits of the "UML as blueprint" style of thinking become less obvious to the point where they actually can hinder a lot of projects (e.g. artificial distinctions where you get "architects" who only create UML and through it over a wall to "coders" who attempt to turn these designs into working systems).
Look at the bottom of the list under "Some Online UML Diagram Generators".
Here's the alternate content, which I saw before allowing scripts:

Once upon a time, in a land of sputtering dial-up connections, websites took ages to load. Folks yearned for the 100% mark. But as soon as that figure arrived, the beloved (or bemoaned) preloader disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. Until now.

Pretty Loaded is an archive of preloaders that preload other preloaders…which in turn reveal yet more preloaders. Copy that? It’s a tribute to a vanishing art form amid a constantly changing digital landscape.

This infinite loader is being put together with help from friends across the interactive community. We’ll continue to add to it over time, so keep on coming back.

Pretty Loaded is created and curated by Big Spaceship. Kindly direct your observations and inquiries right this way: info |at symbol| prettyloaded |dot| com.
Just want to point out this is a letter to the editor, not a WSJ-authored article.

As to BP's corporate culture, who is to blame for it's failures - isn't the culture created by humans?

I think the distinction being made here between "human failure" and "systemic failure" is incredibly subtle, since any system has to be created by humans in the first place.
that seems to be for software only though. Im looking for have people provide the benefits of say, an apple vs. an orange. Or a specific shoe with another shoe... etc.
http://alternativeto.net/ kind off does this. Although it is not for programming only so I don't know if this is what you're looking for.
Like I hate writing people off due to tangential issues, but when the dude comes in wearing a mushroom for a hat and that we could all just use mushrooms for hats...
> A ranked queue of brands

This is actually something I could use with a project I'm working on now. Would you be against sharing what sources you used?
I mean, this is literally just a leak of data that People Data Labs is selling to anyone who signs up to their service. The 'leak' is just bypassing their payment requirements, so by definition all the data leaked is available for purchase.
> he feels that these companies should be trusted to regulate speech to a degree beyond what they already are doing

My extended interpretation: he feels that, if we are going to tolerate them, we should at least require them to dampen the worst of the ill effects they have on society. If, in doing so, they lose presence and that leads them to wither and die, too bad^W^Wthat's ok.
Isn’t it telling that a former bookseller was able to execute better in the cloud market than Google?
Then that means that you stopped somewhere along the way.
I think they do that to avoid that thing were Chrome/Safari/etc do not draw the underline where the letters are: https://thepracticaldev.s3.amazonaws.com/i/er57ioliwktkhzeq7... (they want it to look like Firefox does in this screenshot but on all browsers)

It's funny because, back when Safari had just launched this, designers went crazy with ways of emulating it for those who didn't have Safari. Now they do the opposite. Designers are a plague on earth.
It's not even close to the same.

> fuck knows how many

~38,000 [1]

> migrants (and children) in concentration camps

People who violated immigration law. (Also, many are free to leave, via voluntary departure.)

> "terrorists" in concentration camps

People who violated international law.

> slaves in overcrowded prisons

People who violated federal or state law.

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In particular, those laws do not prohibit religious faith or speech.

I'd suggest a closer analogy to the Muslim re-education centers would be Japanese internment facilities in the U.S during the 1940s.

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[1] https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/immigration-detention-in-t...
Postman is so horrendously slow when using a quite large "team space". I should really explore the alternatives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia was mentioned in another comment
Those kinds of professionals won't be comparing it to other MacBooks, but to other computers of the same form factor. The M1 Macs still aren't the leader in multicore performance or multicore performance per watt.

If you're a programmer that mostly relies on multicore performance, the current M1 Macs aren't the gold standard. Unless of course you are drawn to the OS or something else.
Apparently that was just the best available notion domain when they first launched, and I guess they never got around to transitioning once they acquired notion.com: https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/f6x9mk/why_the_so_d...

"we'll be switching to .com as soon as our engineering team has the bandwidth." - 11 months ago
I finally checked out the link. You're looking for material to use in a comic? And I'm trying to give you a serious answer. Maybe these experiences will help:

Had a coworker get promoted way past his level of incompetence. He never accomplished much before, but afterward he spent all of his time lobbying for his ideas and undermining those of us that were trying to get work done. Wasted a lot of time dealing with him until mgmt got a rare clue.

Another coworker would ask a 5 minute question and an hour later come back and spend a 1/2 hour telling me over and over how my answer helped him solve his problem.

Incomprehensible emails from corporate telling us something that might or might not be important. We had to try to decipher them to be sure. Much unproductive discussion ensues.

Had an company exec that liked to go around glad handing everyone. Nice guy, but man could he blow a couple hours of our time.

Woman in the next cubicle arguing with her kids over the phone - loudly - for two hours.

A loud snuffler in another cubicle. Still can't understand how he didn't give himself brain damage.

Yak shaving: get a bug report. Run the debugger: crashes with no message. Research debugger failure to no avail. Go to file a problem report: reporting tool is down.

I'm sure a lot of people have this problem: naming things. Can't code until you figure out what that variable should be called.
If I recall it correctly, Cloudflare was/is one of the few that are not trying to mine your data for sale. At least that's what I felt when their DNS surfaced. Hope the same goes for the rest of their services. In @ around 30$, out around 58$. Now I have some regrets T.T
Other than math...

Conduct Based Questions - Lead to an insight into the probable behavior of people in the workplace...

Everyone should read... https://amzn.to/3aetw0p
Team Of Rivals maybe?
You buy a dishwasher from Best Buy. They send your name and address to Maytag. You buy soap from Walmart. They send your name and address to Johnson & Johnson. You buy a sandwich at your local deli. They send your name and address to Boar’s Head. Cool?
So basically it's some kind of entry point with arguments? Wouldn't that be a huge security hole? I mean it's just buffer overflow, without even a need to overflow, in plain sight...
Nice job! A couple questions... Is there a way to manage mutes (so you can unmute something that's been muted forever, for example)? Also, if I do mutes, etc., on one computer's Proxlet will they also take effect on another computer I use the Proxlet extension on?
Since it's such a large number and difficult to comprehend Voyager 1 is about 116 AU away. 1 AU is the distance from earth to the sun (150,000,000 km). Earths circumference is 40,000 km. Space is big.

Also, a neat summary of the computers on Voyager can be found here: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html

I'm still trying to track down the article on the comm used.
I've been doing this for years. I have two categories of passwords, and for any site I don't care about it gets one of my weak passwords. But even still, I believe I am going to switch to 1Password or something similar.
I wonder how much overlap there is between the packages I've used and the ones you've used. I've only been in the Java world for about 3 months, so my perspective is definitely raw and incomplete. Maybe we just have different criteria for what we consider good documentation.
I.e do you decide on your business moves with 10 year plans about what MIGHT happen...
I agree.

>>You have to isolate the components that you're showing otherwise it's just a big mess that's hard to understand.

That's for sure. No way to depict all of it at once...

>>I think the implicit "there's actually a lot of stuff in between there" is not a big deal, much as the implicit "these molecules aren't really colored" is not a big deal in the service of explanatory power.

I disagree partly here. I imagine (hope! ;) "professionals" do know about the missing and false color "stuff" BUT every picture flushed towards broad public (vs professional publication f.e.) consumption should contain as much context as possible, context "disturbing" the mechanical picture presented of bio-molecular actually all natural reactions today. "knowing where to go" is wrong as you say and it would not "fit" / "work" / "be accepted" / "look believable" the moment the surrounding soup gets visible.

Leaving this kind of context out, i think, propels many misunderstandings about the way science is actually understanding nature.

>> which I suppose could be 'beauty' in its own way, but very different from the way it's presented.

Very true.

cheers
It's happening as we speak (since a few days, based on the crowdfunding campaign). It seems like there's quite a bit of people (volunteers and would-be volunteers) participating already. Voting about the preferred voting style is about to end:

https://github.com/neovim/neovim
Interesting point! I hadn't thought of that, I simply put it down to lazy journalism.
Right, but surely if he wanted to, he could hire someone to do it his way for $5 million. He probably just likes the way the furniture fits the house or something like that.
I started intermittent fasting around a year ago, and usually I do do reasonable amount of exercise. I had a health review as part of my work three months after I started. I really wanted to stop, because the fasting was difficult (I was doing two days a week). While before I was fairly healthy, my blood pressure has always been a bit high, as with my cholesterol. After fasting they were both gone down to good levels.

Anyway I cut down to one day a week, which is far more manageable (I am pretty skinny, and I was struggling to keep my weight up). Now it feels good. I have a feeling it is to do with insulin sensitivity, as I no longer feel hunger pangs, and don't get the sleepy feeling after having a huge lunch.

So yes, I consider myself reasonably healthy, but even so I had blood pressure and cholesterol that were bordering between normal and high levels.
Where are people getting this "10x" figure from and what is the significance?
Thanks for the link. I think this is a fascinating question.
I definitely would like to see an open tournament. My friend and I are going to be participating but neither of us are students. Just doing it for the fun and educational value.
You keep putting up a silly proposition just to argue against it. I know it's easier for you, but it's also intellectually dishonest.

I've had a small bit of dealings with political "pirates", and I have yet to encounter the position you describe. "Information wants to be free" (which I guess you really mean) is really an old catch phrase more associated with the cyber liberty movement of the early 90s and the crypto wars, more than with modern political pirates.

Nobody has suggested movie theaters run on donations alone, but there has been suggestions that movie theaters should be free to license movies outside the distribution agreements. Again, the underlying idea is that distribution will become commodity. Argue against that instead and I will gladly explain the situation further.

The situation with sites like The Pirate Bay is not a matter of letting them operate or not, but a matter of where the common carrier status lies and where the legal responsibility falls (with the uploader, the downloader or the various infrastructure providers).
More generally, though. "Bitcoin core discourages address reuse." I work for the company of the future and I get paid in bitcoins. I'm supposed to log into the payroll system and enter a new address every two weeks?
> A better approach for this is government to fund researchers for areas that private sector has abandoned.

yeah, like Ebola research funding done by the government ? That was an efficient model.
I do wonder about this when writing posts. On the one hand, your audience generally knows this stuff (in this case Skrenta is blekko's CEO). On the other hand, an announcement post is likely to venture beyond your audience, so it is a balance.

I tried to make this more clear in my post on the same subject, http://ye.gg/blekko -- I wonder how good a job you think I did?
At Demdex, we use Java very heavily on both the back-end (e.g., Hadoop) and the front-end (e.g., Struts, etc.)
Where do you get that data from? The numbers on that map are based on reports from Amnesty, so they should be pretty accurate. But if you have a better source, let us know so we can update it.
-1 all you like. It's engineering, not hindsight -- when building a system, I always ask myself "how does this scale" which usually translates to "on what attribute does this shard".

Look at e.g. YouTube and many other sites around the same time. They knew what they were doing; Twitter didn't.

I _have_ actually designed such a system in 1999, that used 48 bits, and it worked perfectly well. (Only had 28 bits for the user-id, which would have been broken at the 250M users -- alas the system never had more than than 5M; This was in the years 1999-2003).

The only way you can shard absolutely monotonic is (effectively) randomly, which is an option however you assign ids; but other assignments let you build a much cheaper, much more robust system.
Webapp, webapp templates (just like django) and datastore.

I like it barenaked and closer to the metal.
Would love to know if you have any particular design ideas or areas where you'd like to see improvement.
Maybe, but it still seems like a fairly valid point. The key is in Sequoia's msg being "strongly-worded", which it was. The presentation read like the author knew the future for certain and that it was all bad news. In all likelihood, some partner had worked himself up into a tizzy and then got all the others whipped up too. Cuts were not necessarily advisable; I think a call to arms may have been in order, but not the drastic acts of desperation that they were calling for.

No one knows anything: it's true. The more I claim that I'm sure of what's going to happen, the less you should believe me. That's this guy's point. Sequoia was full of it. Downturn? Sure. Downturn with a slow recovery and soup lines for a generation? Please.
People complain about two things:

First, they complain about things that ought to work well but don't -

"I can never find that option"

"it crashes when I try to do this"

"it's counter-intuitive to need this"

"the defaults are not sensible"

"it takes too many button presses to do a common task"

Then they complain about things that they want to be able to do, but can't -

"it should support multiple timezones"

"I want to be able to sync across my devices"

"why can't I export it to another format"

"I want more privacy control"

The point is that no matter how much you work on the second list, if there is notable stuff on the first list your users will be unhappy regardless

I am not convinced you can completely evaluate by yourself the importance of list A against list B. I really recommend polling users in controlled and well-thought out ways.
But note that Intel Macs use a similar but completely different system, also redone in Big Sur, with a set of "kext collection" files in a different location and format. Because that makes so much sense.
Even if the person turns out to be exactly as you've described, I think that they will have the resilience to overcome these devastating downvotes.

Maybe this person could even use the downvotes as a signal that there is something seriously wrong with their belief and learn something new.
Nope, not at all, I was just pointing it out as a frame of reference to anchor the conversation.
Very reminiscent of that Netflix tweet calling out a small group if people for some extraordinary binge watching.

“The first rule of the the surveillance economy is don’t talk about the surveillance.”
That amount would likely require universal health care to make it comfortable to live off of. You would still not be able to afford decent housing in a major city though, as you would have to split a studio apartment with several people.
I don't know that there's a "correct" number, but it's highly inflated to all other countries and even US historical standards. That it's applied extremely unevenly by race is even more of a problem, especially given the history of policing in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra...
I've always felt like VLC has one of the better UIs in OSS - not that the bar is traditionally very high, but I've found it pleasant to use and I haven't had to fight to make my admittedly happy-path usages work. I'm excited to see where this goes but tentatively cautious about modern UI refreshes in general.
If you're revisiting Chick's music due to this event or learning of him for the first time, here's a duet that may introduce you to another electrifying pianist, Hiromi Uehara:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRU1o-sCnqY
Seems to me that you need to use the max of the team rather than the average. The better player can tell the less good player to do, up to a point.
Pipedrive helps. I sync it with calendar and contacts and integrate it with gmail. You get a great funnel to push leads through by default. I have a few zapper hooks set up for special things like new lead tracking direct from the website but you don't need that