jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But this isn't about copyright, or those snippets. In fact the hypocrisy stinks.

Newspapers are news scavenging machines. They regularly copy entire stories from each other, with journalist changing just a few words to get around copyright issues. Surely you've noticed? Every newspaper covers the mostly same stories, with the same facts.

The reason it didn't matter is this isn't about copyright, linking, fairness or any other the other smoke stories you hear. The newspapers had a wonderful business model: they sold ads on dead trees. To entice people to buy their ads laden dead trees, they added news as bait. It's common knowledge in the newspaper the amount of "copy" you have to carry is determined purely by the number of ads you sold - you had to dilute the ad / news ration down to a palatable level.

The people they could sell these ads on dead trees to was limited to roughly how far you could transport those dead trees after they came off the press (at midnight or so) so people could read them over breakfast. Maybe 100km at best? If someone started moving on that territory it was open warfare, but if they just copied your stories so they could sell ads to people outside of you territory - who cared? Rampant copying is how they collectively kept costs down.

Now the internet has moved in, and nobody looks at ads printed on dead trees any more. The newspapers business model has gone. That would be true whether Google was the 1000 pound gorilla on the internet or there was no Google like company. Moving the 100's (1000's?) of mastheads that thrived because of the 100km dead tree transport limit was always going to result in a blood bath that would leave just a couple standing. We are nowhere near that yet.

In the end this is about the internet taking their ad revenue. And that's not because of Google - it's because where before it was read the newspaper on the train or nothing, now you've got a while internet to browse, and most people don't choose to look at news sites, so they lost their audience. In particular it's got nothing whatsoever to do with copyright, linking or fairness, which is why apparently the legislation says Google has to hand over their ad revenue to the newspapers whether they link to them or not.
> I have the impression that google claims that personalized advertising somehow benefits users

there is literally no evidence for this
In life, every so often one hears of a concept that is so simple and so elegant that the fact that one had not heard of it before today makes one’s jaw drop in disbelief:

> Reversible USB-A. Well this maybe wasn't the most critical feature anyone expected, but, consequence of our new PCB & case combined construction, it was easy to make USB-A reversible. So why not!
My shoulder, shoulder blade, and elbow hurt. Overworked and under exercised. :-/
Concentration camp (KZ) sounds about right. The term for places like Dachau and Auschwitz is Vernichtungslager (extermination camp). A concentration camp is not set up for industrial mass-murder of its prisoners.
It obsoleted the CLI for 99% of computer users, just like PCs obsoleted minicomputers and mainframes for 99% of server operators.
Profiteering is too simplistic of explanation. If you read up on the various regulations and how they create incentives for hospitals to do this, it makes more sense.

And you have to be careful with the regulations you institute. A LOT of the current problems with the US healthcare system are due to gov't regulations. If you want to see an example, just google "average selling price ASP" and see the utter mess that regulation created for Medicare. Doctors and pharmacists milk the hell out of that gov't regulation. Same with 340b.
You can buy a gold coated filter plate from a welder's supply for less than ten bucks.
To be clear, they absolutely should have given him water. I just don't find some of the comparisons and adjectives that people are using to describe their failure to do so warranted. The only part of what happened to him that seems truly unjust and worthy of outrage is the purely speculative accusation that they broke into his apartment.

There is very little consideration in this thread for the shittiness and stressfulness of the TSA jobs, especially when faced with passengers who refuse the scan and set off the bomb detectors. If you want to argue that TSA should employ highly skilled workers and pay them better, I'm all for that. But given that's not the case, workers being incompetent and rude to people who set off bomb detectors, and holding them too long, doesn't seem like human rights violation to me. It's just a crappy and annoying and stressful situation.
Used it here - http://www.eastofcleveland.com/flashcards/notereading.php
To follow up with another anecdote: Every time I'm browsing some random Python module documentation, it's almost always on Github.
Anyone can check themselves, gawker's quantcast stats are publicly visible, in fact its the example url quantcast gives so you can just click it.

Go here: http://www.quantcast.com/
click the gawker url
click the 'gawker media network' parent organization
chose 'impressions' from the pulldown
click 'week'

voila, the exact numbers he's quoted.

As much as the general perceived reaction to the gawker redesign has been screechingly negative, the actual traffic impact was modest. Denton claims this was a deliberate one step back two steps forward kind of thing and traffic will return in a couple quarters.
I can't comment on the website itself somehow. But here is my comment.

While you may be correct (and I think you are, because Apple has previously mentioned that they use such data to map tower locations) but I have a few counter points to your article (may not refute your main conclusion):
1. Even Cell Triangulation can be way off depending on a lot of factors. I use it regularly on my Android phone with Tasker for some profile purposes and it gives me worse results most of the times than actually working with exact tower ID that I am seeing. I've seen it being as off as upto 5 kms

2. The location data is collected for other countries as well, not just for the parent network within US. Out of the various articles from various people, they have seen data from all places where they used cell services, including abroad like Japan, India, etc. The data only seems to be missing when they don't have a cell service.

3. What irks me is that why they need to store this data on the device and PC? Even if they were building their own cell tower database, it should be done and done once apple gets the data. Why would they keep a whole history about it on the phone and PC? Maybe it is an oversight? But I can't find any reasonable explanation for this.
Secret Apple undercover propaganda blog!
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Fair points all around; I agree wholeheartedly. Here's what the problem has been thus far: do we focus on making the framework better, or do we focus on selling it? Personally, I'm much more comfortable with making sure we deliver the goods before we try to sell it. That's what SproutCore 1.5 is about. This is the first smoke signal of where we want to head with the framework, and people can take that for what it is. The core of the framework is amazing and fun to work with, but a lot of our demos are old and ugly. In many cases, our documentation has been or is still lacking and we're working on that too.

This obviously makes it a tougher sell. However, when people actually start building apps, their responses are overwhelmingly positive and they're very happy with their decision. I would much rather this problem than vise versa. We're going to work on the outward facing stuff, I promise.
Using Caddy _does_ solve the problem of "Common Nginx misconfigurations that leave your web server open to attack". Currently Caddy's defaults are secure and you don't need to worry about fiddling with settings to keep it that way
It’s a comparison to your traditional bank account. At chase bank you don’t physically own the money in your account - it’s in a banks database. With Bitcoin you own that coin and it’s stored in your own digital wallet. Like cash v bank account, but Bitcoin is safer and easier to store than cash.
I never got quite the problem was with a browser engine monoculture if the engine is OSS and there are multiple parties with conflicting interests working on it.
I never thought about it like that. Learn something new every day. Thanks!
Every corporation has contempt for its workforce, it's why labor unions are so necessary.
> In the final round of interviews, one of the executives asked if I would be comfortable working on a device that could deliver a potentially dangerous dose of radiation to a patient

Automotive software engineer here: I've asked the same in interviews.

"We work on multi-ton machines that can kill people" is a frequently uttered statement at work.
This is really worth a look. My experience was very positive; it took only a few seconds to compute, and the decisions about what detail to suppress were made very insightfully. (This was for an address in San Francisco--streets were selected for all the approaches into the city, but very economically.) The result would be MUCH better to give someone than a standard Big or Google map. No bugs, no problems with silverlight. (From Bing Maps, I discovered, you find this feature by clicking on the "Map Apps" button at the bottom of the left column, and then choosing the app "Destination Maps".)
I see the Apple fan club is on duty.

It's amusing. Any negative mention of Apple takes about an hour to be recognized. Then it gets modded down. The same thing happens on Slashdot, with about the same amount of delay. Then, if the comment is any good, it gets modded up again over the next day or so. Apple's operation seems to have a fixed moderation window.
For work:
13" Retina MacBook Pro, i5, 8gb Ram, 256gb SSD.
Connected to a decent monitor, not sure of exact dimensions.
Magic Trackpad and keyboard.
Tab between WebStorm, IntelliJ, Chrome, Hipchat, Limechat occasionally and Terminal. (This does get annoying because I mistab often).

For School:
15" Retina MacBook Pro
2.6 GhZ i7, 16gb Ram, 512 SSD
No monitor. Gaming mouse and keyboard.
Probably a combination of immigration reform + remote developers.

I'm a software developer originally from a rogue nation, so living in SF bay area is really awesome.
The time zone issue can be solved easily.find a south american country that is immigration friendly and open an office their ,recruiting from all over the world.
I stopped using mice, knobs (IBM/Lenovo) and touchpads (built-in or external) probably twenty years ago. A few months into an intense design project I started to feel burning pain on my wrists. I was working 18 hour days, 7 days a week. Yes, if I was awake I was in front of the computer.

This was a hardware and software project and I was doing it all. This meant lots of precise motion at times. Running Solidworks or Altium Designer often meant very accurate tiny movement while pressing down on a button. Horrible stuff for your wrist.

I had been exposed to just how bad this could get. I was friends with several people who did visual effects for motion pictures. Same kind of work. They ran 3D workstations for a dozen or more hours per day, every day. One fellow had to have surgery on both wrists due to the damage he caused. His was always in pain after that.

I decided I had to deal with the situation. I didn't want to end-up like that.

First decision was that mice and touch pads where horrible input devices. I tested everything and concluded that low friction thumb-operated trackballs were the best.

Beyond that, the relative angle of the hand to the forearm seemed to have a HUGE effect on causing inflammation, pain and injury. The flatter and more relaxed,the better. In fact, the most relaxed position had my hands drooping over the keyboard and trackball with virtually no tension on the upper tendons. This meant my standard desk had to go.

What I needed was a desk with a cavity into which my hands would droop and meet the keyboard or trackball. My forearms had to be fully supported in order to remove pressure from shoulders and posture.

I welded together a few iterations of the idea and ended-up with a desk that was just fantastic. I could work on this thing for 16 to 18 hours a day and have no wrist burn whatsoever. Of course, I also implemented regimented breaks and exercises, but the desk, as well as switching to a trackball, made the most difference.

I can't help but think this girl did herself huge damage by using the touch-pad for long hours. I particularly dislike touch-pads on laptops (of any make and model) the are in the wrong place and add tension to your tendons precisely where you don't want it.

As for Michelle, wow, what an amazing person she must be.
KFC sells mojitos in Cyprus
Very good advice, thank you. I'm going to put what you've said into practice. Like I said to someone earlier, I can't wait to be learning under some experienced programmers. It's going to be fantastic, and I believe it will happen.
Whew, I'm glad you have parents you can return to. It would make me sad if you had said otherwise.

This is my opinion: since you're 18 you have a God-given right to mooch. :) Consider how hard it is for college grads to get good paying jobs these days.

Be humble with your parents and try to get work such that you can pay some rent and maintain your dignity. If they don't require you to pay rent when you're working, you should pay them something anyhow.

As others said, your side projects are going to help you get into companies. Work like a bastard on them when you're not working your day job. Work like a bastard on your side projects in any case for as long as you have the energy and passion - it will set you apart.

College is an option too since you have your GED? Community college is more purgatory don't do that if you can avoid it, but state or private college isn't. You'll actually learn real computer science fundamentals and wire up your brain right technically and socially.
Go is closer to old versions of Java than C.
There fortune test is weight 1.5 while others are weighted at 1 or .75.
This is covered in the article in the cash flow aspect. Outside of a total economic collapse that took out "real" investments and collectibles both, the reasons the value of an Apple share would fall, or the price of land would fall, would be much more tangible and understandable.

The relationship for land is more obvious and immediate that business investment (you can charge rent!) but someone in 2010 who said "this iPhone thing seems to be generating a lot of cash flow for Apple, I think this is a good time to invest" is doing it not solely because they think the number of people interested in buying stocks is going to increase, but because they think Apple in particular is going to continue to do well financially because Apple is producing something people want to use.
I agree with this. My experience was that the learning curve for Rust has a huge kink in it right where the borrow checker is.

Type checkers provide tools that make it comparatively easier to ignore when they could be wrong or are getting in the way. To do something in a type-safe manner often doesn’t require re-abstracting behavior.
At the cheap end, it's ARM too. Chromebooks if you need a keyboard, tablets if not. It's only enterprise corporate office drones that are tied to windows. I've got a gaming rig too, but we are also a minority. Most people don't need a $1200 Macbook air, but also most people don't need a $800 RTX3070. PC Gamers are already a niche. Mobile gaming is where the money is, then console, then PC games, and mobile is 10x the both of them.

So to the point at discussion: Apple uses their common tech across their entire Market. The M1 chips are the result of making the fastest mobile phones. The M1 is going into tablets. They are just printing money and pumping that money into chip design. If your DIY PC Building is what is going to keep Intel/x86 alive, then I agree with GP: Intel is the walking dead. And it really is just us gamers.

Who needs raw CPU/GPU at their desk? I had one of the first nehalems under my desk (NDA and everything). Then I heard about AWS and started running my shit on that. Back then, that was intel. Now it's Graviton ARM: more processing per $.
Translator name is an alias; maybe that's a clue that they're not real. So what could they be? An author pretending to be a translator...
"The first principle for would-be networkers is to abandon all shame. Be flagrant in your pursuit of the powerful and the soon-to-be-powerful, and when you have their attention, praise them to the skies. Academic research has found that people’s susceptibility to flattery is without limit and beyond satire. In a study published in 1997, B.J. Fogg and Clifford Nass of Stanford University invited people to play a guessing game with a computer, which gave them various types of feedback as they played. Participants who received praise rated both the computer and themselves more highly than those who did not—even those who had been warned beforehand that the machine would compliment them regardless of how well they were doing. Yes, even blatantly insincere, computer-generated flattery works."
Is "full benefits" comparable across time? You couldn't buy 2010 medicine in 1985 at any price. Survival rates for a host of deadly diseases are much higher today.
Downvoted by accident (damned iPhone), but I think this is a reasonable question.
Fine for a free application, a wise decision.
A long sleeved Canada t-shirt, a hoody, a word and number puzzle book, a wooden 3d puzzle, lots of chocolate, and I bought myself some ice skates and a trip to Ontario to see 2 of my sisters and their families.
I'm a Jew. I got Chinese food.
EDIT: I did in fact get the email, but gmail is classifying as spam, FYI.
Thanks for the advice; I've previously only developed Firefox extensions, so am a bit new to Chrome, but you're right: it certainly looks easier :)

Maybe people in your target market use Firefox more often and if so that may be a better choice

That's what I'm struggling with - it's going to be targeted at people marketing on the internet (I shudder just writing that, but honestly - not spammers ;)) and so I would've thought it'd be a good split between FF and Chrome. Oh well, think I'll flip a coin and be done with it.
Perhaps Google would want to acquire Adioso (YC) to compete?
As an aging user, who has been online every single day for the last 15 years, I disagree.

I think this page is far too cluttered.

I like less and less content on a landing page for anything other than a link aggregation(LA) site (HN/Reddit/etc)

I am at your place (if not said LA site) for a specific reason; get me to that reason asap.

More and more, I have less time and less attention..
Their MailChimp API key was hardcoded into their source, so I think they've got an established relationship.
Not really a lisp variant but interesting nonetheless, for any common lisp:
http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-weblocks/
http://trac.common-lisp.net/cl-weblocks/wiki/UserManual#Brea...
I wonder if their content was determined by A/B testing?
Maybe this is a silly question, but: Is this a common way to buy apps?

ps. Also this is a reason why the Mac App Store is needed
The whistle-blower may prefer another candidate for governor. Both entities can be politically motivated.
It may not apply in your case, but in some cases, you can give a GET request a body - Elasticsearch relies on this.
Greenpeace and the environmental movement have a lot to answer for,

thanks to their knee jerk reaction to nuclear one of the technologies (note that I say "one of", there is a range of choices, not an either/or black/white choice, as is so often case on internet discussions nowadays)

we ended up with more coal/oil power plants contributing towards climate change

nuclear could have been the bridging technology buying us decades to build up real renewables (and/or fusion) and provide base load, but no cant have that, ideology trumps pragmatism
According to EIA global emissions are growing and predicted to grow through 2035. In 2035 global emissions are 40% higher than today.

When the developed world can gradually reduce CO2 emissions, China, India and the rest of the developing world will continue to increase emissions.
Nuclear would be good but here in California nuclear waste is stored on the beach making it less enticing. Most people would prefer home solar.
> fully homeomorphic encryption

I think you mean fully homomorphic encryption, that is, f(x.y)=f(x).f(y).

A homeomorphism is a isomorphism of topological spaces. If you do mean the latter then it would be something new (and I am curious to hear about it).
Messy code is easy. See "Simple made Easy" talk mentioned at the top.
Very interesting article, if horrifying :)

As someone whose only experience is in corporate service IT development, from the outside the game dev industry looks incredibly cowboy-ish; it would be nice to read a story where a team built a game where they met their deadlines, had no crunch times, followed excellent coding standards (CI, unit tests, peer dev etc.) and maybe even used a modern language (perhaps, heretically, a non-native language like C#!)
my browser opens on Yahoo UK which has normal headlines. the rest i get from HN. i have been experimenting with Twitter a bit, but some sources just announce way too much stuff. i odn't want 150 new tweets every time i open the client. so i'm trying to build a follow list of people who say funny and/or informative stuff no more than a few times per day
I'd like them to use Time Capsule to accomplish the offering of backup/calendar/contacts/etc to people that don't want to pay them a yearly fee.
> Never give up. Regardless of how technically challenging or impossible a task seems, they will work tirelessly to find a solution.

That is actually a failure mode - the engineer that tirelessly works towards an impossible goal.

The 10x engineer has the critical heuristics/intuition/skill to avoid dead-ends, and also the engineering taste to concentrate on technically hard but possible tasks and the skills to deliver.
Playwright is awesome, it’s great to see more tooling evolving around it. I evaluated Playwright vs Cypress and Playwright won by a lot. The WebKit support is a big plus. But mostly, Cypress was way too opinionated / prescriptive for my taste, with some deal-breaking trade offs (which, to its maintainers’ credit, they openly document) [0].

Playwright feels much more like you’re simply driving a browser because you are — it gets out of your way like any good tool should, so you can debug your tests instead of your browser automation toolkit. The trade-off of Playwright is that meant, at least early on, that it wasn’t “batteries included” and the ecosystem around it is only just now starting to mature. This is a great time to start using Playwright IMO.

One gripe with Playwright is that you lose the ability to easily deploy your tests to services like Browserstack where you can do true multi-device testing. For that you need to use Selenium, or (recently?) Cypress. Because of the nature of Playwright only targeting specific browser engines, it seems unlikely that Browserstack would ever fully support it.

But there is probably a place for both, with Playwright closer to the bottom of the pyramid and Selenium / Browserstack toward the top for only the most critical e2e acceptance tests. You could also write your tests in such a way that they could mostly run on Selenium with just a few changes to how you orchestrate them, although then you might end up chasing the “lowest common denominator” of what’s available in either paradigm.

As an aside, I’d love to hear the story of how the Puppeteer team left Google for Microsoft while taking their toys with them. I wonder if there is some drama there? :)

[0] https://docs.cypress.io/guides/references/trade-offs#Permane...