jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can understand this idea when it's an unlimited plan: if you tether, you're likely to use a lot more bandwidth than with just your phone. So, if you tether, you'll impact the infrastructure.

But since they're limiting your bandwidth already, I'm not so sure why it matters if you use it from a laptop or from your phone.

In the end, I know why they're doing it: because they can, and because they want to limit the number of people who do it. It just bothers me because it doesn't make sense technically.
Absolutely agree. Making extensions for chrome is pure pleasure compared to Firefox. I think Google has a good strategy here..
I also point out that the market tends to take its projections of near term events much more seriously than more distant ones. Nobody really thinks that Microsoft will disappear quickly. But they are going to be losing major revenue streams in the fairly near future.

Google's going after the Office cash cow right now. For low end users they have a compelling argument. High end users won't switch, but to threaten the revenue you just have to lose most people.

For another threat, the first video at http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2380-you-couldnt-pay-me-to-wo... points out that Steve Jobs thinks that the PC in its current form has a fairly limited time horizon until people switch away from it in large numbers. That would kill Microsoft's operating system margins. Watch the video to see how unprepared Steve Ballmer is to deal with this threat.
Hey entrepreneurs: pretend for a moment that AT&T is YOUR company. You have a hit on your hands (the iPhone), but one that has crippled your network in major metro areas like San Francisco and New York. Investing in new cell towers means not just millions in capital expenses, but also years spent arguing with NIMBY neighborhood associations who don't want to see any more of your ugly towers. And, you have a way to reduce the monthly fee for 98% of your users, prompting MORE people to sign up for revenue-generating data plans, while dis-incentivizing the 2% who use the most data. What would you do?

As to those who are wondering why they have to pay extra for tethering, are you really surprised that a company would charge more for a service that you value, which will result in heavier usage of their resources? How many Hacker News readers run web companies with "freemium" business models? How do you sleep at night charging your customers for only twice the number of accounts/downloads/records that you give away for free to others?
Having studied 12+ credit hours of accounting in college, and done accounting for 2 companies, I would recommend hiring a part-time / consulting accountant.

While you are probably more than capable of doing basic double-entry accounting, it is a huge nuisance and a mistake can get you into trouble. Your time, as a founder, is better spent growing the business than dealing with the annoyances of accounting, reconciliation, reporting, and taxation.

The hired accountant will suggest software packages with which they prefer to work.

Lastly, India may present a different scenario, but consider having payroll and benefits handled by a firm like ADP or TriNet -- even if you hire a consulting/part-time accountant. The quickest way to get in trouble with federal government is to make a mistake on payroll tax withholding/reporting.

My 2 cents...
I remember seeing Stanford advertise a full semester course in iPhone programmig back when developing for the iPhone got really popular. I don't think MIT had anything similar, and it does show how Stanford is willing to quickly adapt to today's software landscape.
I feel sorry for people that are employed.
I understood the author to be saying that the market doesn't have the ability to predict out beyond 10 years. The ~10 year prediction for AAPL and GOOG is less of an indication that those 2 companies will fall off a cliff in 10 and more of an indication that in that timeframe the businesses/economic environment could change, or maybe that they're discounting future cashflows very heavily in an uncertain rate environment.

On the contrary, < 4 years for MSFT is potentially within the ability of the market to predict and more likely an indication that the market actually believes that MSFT on its current trajectory won't hack it.

A lot of people might agree that trends in open source software, distributing computing away from home PCs to cloud applications, and their inability to compete effectively for search or hardware makes their CURRENT business a dying one.

On the other hand, MSFT has smart people and money and I wouldn't doubt their ability to reinvent themselves and start competing in new markets.
Damn you and your logic! I've been jaded by Chrome/Firefox not forcing a restart for a while now :( I don't use Safari but I always leave it in my 'software updates' box until something important comes in because I really just don't want to restart my computer.
Since Fourier suggested sun light is likely trapped within the Earth’s atmosphere back in the 1820s others began digging into it. John Tyndall showed in the 1860s C02 from coal was especially good at trapping heat.

Fears of MSG were started in a food lab as a racist bet/joke.

Propaganda research during wars was gifted to University rather than let the spending “go to waste”. We’ve been indoctrinated by advertising, marketing, as the move from fear of sky wizards to fear of national economic collapse became the new cudgel.

The Greeks wrote about hoping the masses never tried to check the top of Olympus. It was easy enough to keep the non-technical masses in check over C02 and the rest.

Let’s build more data centers for our start ups. Surely that has no environmental impact!

I’m hopeful now that our fear based flock management has shifted from complete nonsense to at least economic nonsense, making it tangible, we’ll start to collectively accept reality. All that energy doesn’t vanish it just goes elsewhere. All that debt isn’t real; it’s what we’ve been told to believe by the latest system of social control.
Ah, but it's something entirely different when your parents come in, sit down on the bed, and explain to you in detail that your reasoning whose conclusion was "I am safe from monsters in my room" is unsound, before retiring to their own beds.
Pretty sure it was stated sarcastically. It's an exact example of what you said the problem is, so I'd be quite amused if it was meant literally.
> it will also drive to isolationism,

This separation would be good. It would mean that LGBTI humans would be able to find their own communities without cispeople getting weirded out.

Right now everything about my gender is verboten because it is sexualized.

Overreliance on youtube means that medical information around gender issues has to be "coded" so as to not trigger banning.

Facebook outs people with their stupid names rules that puts real people in real danger.

If everyone was being deplatformed then there would be the platform diversity needed.
It's rather that the body punishes you for being too content. One has to be content in moderation.
Agree. It’s amazing how hostile people seem to get about unfavourable articles in the mainstream press. There’s legitimate public interest in this stuff and the problem here is not that the New York Times shouldn’t publish articles about the intellectual climate around Silicon Valley/ big tech/ VC ETC. but that they should do a better job of it. “Sucking at something is the first step towards being sort of good at something“.

That said, The Times’s treatment of Alexander is pretty shabby, I don’t see how naming him substantively alters anything you might have to say about either his ideas or the ideas of those who move with him in “rationalist” circles.

[edited to fix a typo]
One company I work with has a firewall of a certain brand. It only works with windows or a mac, you can't connect to it from a command line it needs some stupid app that you download and install just to make a VPN connection.

Not having a unix specific build system work on windows seems to be pretty much the expected behaviour. As opposed to a firewall that runs linux internally requiring windows or OS/X to talk to it...
Wouldn't the market imbalance of the price of Uber drivers vs regular drives be resolved naturally?

Why don't regular drives switch to Uber?
Correction, on nearly every GUI since 2009 (introduction of the iPad).

Also, compared to the others you mentioned, hamburger menus are the most discoverable.
What is the commonwealth? Its not bad now that it exists, but if it never existed would it be much different? A shared history unites some countries regardless.

But I agree with you, the monarchy cannot win. They have a very privileged upbringing and life, far removed from the rest of us, and it is at our expense. They are no better or different to the rest of us, so why are they treated as if they are. Their ancestors were lucky enough to be the ones on the throne when we, as a people, decided to stop killing off monarchs when we wanted to replace them. And on that basis they have enjoyed decades of power, influence and wealth, and they continue to accrue it too.
Downvoters: So this is not true? Time to cut through the hype.

From [0] (From Preview)

Known issues:
Webview doesn't work
No sound
No device skins
Video codecs not working
32 bit ARM apps won't work
Graphical glitches in some Vulkan apps
Popup on startup about not being able to find the ADB path (ADB will still notice the emulator if you have it installed though)
When building, it may be faster to start then cancel the Python triggered build and then reissue ninja -C objs install/strip versus letting the Python triggered build finish.

This is not even available in the stable release of Android Studio and is still not production ready. What is the point of using this when it clearly says it has missing functionality and is less functional than the android emulators found on macOS on Intel?

Once again, Another thing the M1 Macbook early adopter hype-squad omitted as they are still suffering from a sunken cost while I get a second or third generation Apple Silicon Macbook which will be much more optimised and by then the ecosystem will be better supported out of the box.

Now, explain yourself.

[0] https://androidstudio.googleblog.com/2020/12/android-emulato...
"good" can mean a lot of things. did you mean more competent?

> the ones who are really interested in what we are doing i.e they would still work even if they aren't on payroll

do you mean the one that aren't competent enough to get interesting job that are paid?
“India is Indira and Indira is India” is just a sign of the tendency towards personality cults that the polity suffer from. In fact, it was not Indira who coined the slogan, but rather a particularly oily sycophant, D. K. Barooah [1].

In fact, in some sense, there is an attempt to try to deify/lionize the PM as a royal. I don't think that it is a symptom of the failure of parliamentary democracy, rather it is a tendency among people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._K._Barooah
What do you mean by good? Are you talking about personality and character, or maybe technically good, or something else?

Anyway, here's what you shouldn't do:

- reduce people down to 2 dimensions that are hard to quantify

- assume that those dimensions are mutually exclusive and you somehow have to pick only one of them

- hire people, expect them to do extra work for free and call this passion
More than half of the HN crowd refrains from commenting in order to not inadvertently break their NDA.
> A testimony is not anything you utter without context.

Go ahead and get arrested and say incriminating statements without context. Let us all know how it goes!
seeing as how nobody mentioned nazis, no.
Get a good mount. Also, a good telescope is one you will use. Both of these are profound statements that took me a while to learn. I was gifted a celestron newtonian 4.5 inch many years back (not super expensive). I learned a ton. However, I realised that had I gotten a better mount instead of the fixating on the lense size, things would have gone a lot easier.

If you are a complete beginner, a challenge I'd recommend you setup is observe the rings of saturn. Observing those was one of the early highpoints for me.
I can imagine you could build a cryptocurrency system that handles debts automatically via eg smart contracts, but you'd still have to involve the legal system if the debtors account was empty.
I get this on Firefox mobile every single time I click a twitter link. In my case refreshing always instantly works

If you are indeed blocking from reading for some reason I guess the quote is more appropriate than Greenwald intended
It's sad but true. Googling is probably Firefox's only feature left. After they trashed the dev ecosystem, removed file access, prevented 127. access and prevented ssl bypass for 10. and 192.168. broke markdown rendering, disabled CD access, made development painful, fsckd ftp, banned useful stuff on file:// removed anything useful from about: made developing inside Firefox a nonstarter, borked Web app, and generally broke any use case other than Googling/Shopping.

I doubt many people type much into the omnibar other than input for advertising platforms.

They should probably replace

http://

with

today I want to buy...
It's not really a loophole is it? European drivers are welcome to drive LHD cars into UK via boats/channel tunnel just as we can take British cars to the rest of Europe, American troops just happen to be a significant group who take advantage of it being completely legal.

As to the confused looks, I would hazard a guess (having lived near a US base in the past, now not but still see EU cars every day) that they were over your choice of make/model (e.g. a Chevy of a type that no Brits buy), rather than driver side. Maybe I'm wrong and lots of people give weird looks because of the driver side, but personally I've definitely stood staring at cars that looked weird to me and were clearly US imports, but if I see a car that's common in the UK it's not that interesting noticing when there's a foreign version on the road here.

edit: oh and number plates too. American style is obviously much less common than even most old European country styles, yet alone the more standardised versions of the past couple of decades. So even if the model of car is the same, seeing an EU plate you think "they probably drove it from mainland Europe" which is pretty common for holidays, work, or just people relocating and keeping their car, whereas seeing a US plate makes you wonder who cared enough to ship it all the way here.
That’s sort of a broken window fallacy. A direct stimulus doesn't take away people’s time and materials producing things that nobody wants.
i guess i'd argue that the more abstract something becomes, the more its original motivations tend to be obscured. this is the nature of abstraction, for better and worse.

i'd hesitate to say though that this means more abstract ideas are less culture-bound in the sense of being value-neutral. an abstract idea still carries at least the implicit assertion that this is an idea worth paying attention to, at the unavoidable opportunity cost paying attention to others. and ideas which seem entirely free-floating are probably worth paying special suspicion to.
Anyway the standard deduction is huge now so you’d need to beat that with a monstrous rent and a huge part of the house for it to apply, right?
don't have to move data to another cloud?
The list stops partway through the 18th command on Firefox 3.6.13, IE 8, Safari 5.03, Google Chrome 8.0, or Opera 11.00. Use the "Original Link" in yarapavan's comment below to see the rest.
I do. Of course, for long file downloads. Some programs do it right. But, as soon as I detect that certain progress bar is unreliable, I lose "interest" :-)
One last thing you forgot to mention. zsh is rarely installed on remote hosts. bash is everywhere.

This is a game changer in my case where I can simply download my configuration, load it in the current session and start using all my scripts, aliases on a remote host in less than a minute.

Don't get me wrong, I'm using zsh for personal stuff and computers I have complete control over. But, if I have to write a script, I'll make sure it works with Bash first.
The first two of four Falcon 1 launches ended in catastrophic failure -- Fuel leak and booster hitting second stage during staging. Both Falcon 9 launches have been a success.

India uses the same engines that the Russians have used for their Progress supply ships and Soyuz Rockets. Tried and true, numerous launches and successes behind them - a design that has been mostly unchanged in the last 30 years.

There are two parts to Elon Musk's thesis. 1) vertical process is more reliable - so far, 66% launch success rate. 2) Space cargo would be one tenth the price of existing solutions. One needs only review the Iridium contract to realize that $452 million is not one tenth of Arienespace's bid - it is about 105%. So, that cost savings is not being passed through to the US taxpayer, or, his estimate of 10% of the cost of conventional heavy lift systems was a bit overzealous. In addition, their bid for the ISS resupply contract exceeds the Progress supply flight costs.

In order for any solution to be 10% the cost of an existing solution, you have to get a rocket to escape velocity with less fuel, a more efficient engine using 10% of the fuel or, fuel that is 10% the cost of existing fuel, or some combination thereof. I don't believe rocket technology can become efficient enough to meet those claims.

Even the Delta IV which is the Dragon's direct competitor, had 18 launches, with one partial failure where the satellite didn't make orbit. One might contend that the Falcon project would need 36 more successful launches before he could say his process is more reliable than the Delta IV platform. If he compares it to Ariennespace, he's got another 400 launches to go.
> But it won't be possible for very long.

Which reminds me to talk to more people who lived through German reunification. Especially the East German dissidents and activists.
Figure out a way to cure cancer and you can be immortal-- just consume as much telomerase as you need.
If you want to learn more about Jennicam listen to the second act of this episode of This American Life from 2006:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/312/how-we-talked-back-then

The episode is from 2006 but has an interview from the 90's with the Jennifer of Jennicam. It's fun to hear how we talk about the internet now and how people were talking about the internet in the 1990's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR0pms_mQuY was nice to see
We're working on a heroku proxy API that will allow people to hook into heroscale via oath.
There is some value to revenue though; it represents traction in generating money. It's a step on the road. It's past idea, and getting customers. It's not profit, yet, but it's something.

A lack of revenue means nobody is paying for your service or products, period, which is very troubling. In the first big bubble, there were a lot of companies that sold at huge valuations while having no or negligible revenue.

It's one thing to be in the process of monetizing, another to have your monetization plan as "advertising(?)"

From my point of view, you get an idea first, customers second, revenues third, and profits fourth. Only once you have profits is your business really successful. To command large valuations without even generating revenue... that seems crazy to me.

Because you haven't proved that anybody will pay for what you're selling.

If you have revenue, but not profit, that means people will pay (either for advertising or the software)... which is a very promising start. All you "need to do" from there is increase their number... at least with software, where making more is essentially free.
The labels are so crazy, how can Elizabeth be shown instead of New York?
hm, not sure what I said about eating meat vs grains.
In accounting terms, an "investment", at the time you make it, does not change your profitability. This is because you are assumed to have received in return an asset of equal value. For example, the purchase of equipment results in a decrease of your cash balance, but an increase in your fixed assets of the same amount. An "expense", on the other hand, does reduce your profitability. So profits are not a sign of a lack of investment, but of revenue that exceeds your expenses, which seems pretty desirable to me.
This is nothing against cloudkick. I've never even been to their site. I'm sure their service is amazing. My question is a general question that I ask almost every time I see a company get bought.

The question is, "Why buy, when you can build?"

Let's say I'm Rackspace. I have a cloudkick account that I used when I was evaluating them to see if I wanted to buy them. I know exactly what they offer.

So, let's say I take that and I create an engineering specification. Build a service that does this, this, this, and this, duplicating cloudkick, right down to the screen layout of the dashboards, if you're so inclined.

Now, go hire 10 engineers. No, make it 20. Now hire 5 project managers. Pay each engineer $100K + benefits, say they cost me $150K per year. Pay each project manager $150K + benefits, say they cost me $200K per year. So now I have 20 engineers and 5 project managers whose combined salaries + benefits cost me $4 million a year. Let them work for two years. For $8MM, I have my own cloudkick, right?

Why would I pay more than $8MM? Perhaps they didn't, I don't know. Again, my questions isn't about cloudkick. It's about why you see companies make the buy decision, when it often seems like it would be well within their ability to build it themselves, if they are so willing to spend money.
I'm all for models of parallelisms in high level languages. I was pointing out that writing parallel programs without high level models - such as using Pthreads or MPI directly - will probably remain at the systems programming level.

I think we'll need to add models of parallelism to high level languages, and most programmers will have to deal with it. But, that's not a given. This author is on the other side: maybe the majority of programs will be able to remain sequential, and we can allow the exploitation of multiple cores to happen mostly at the OS level through the scheduler.
I don't get it.

But I do like the design/css.
I got a kindle and a feeling of disappointment that many of the books on my wishless don't have kindle versions :(
Did I say something rude?

I would seriously appreciate a reply here cause I really have no clue at all as to why my previous comment is being downvoted. It isn't offtopic, since the root comment mentions how the software is using websockets. It isn't rude to either the firefox or chrome development teams, as I said I can't really judge how severe the security problem is. So how on earth am I offending people?
Excellent HN material. Out of the 0 startups, that ran Node.js to be successful, 0 ran it to do Scrabble for their day-to-day-work.

Thank you HN for that unique experience. You are almost as good as state school and IT hot-shot series at Martha Stewart TV.
Typing speed is probably irrelevant. Touch typing is probably important for programmers to master, even if it is just so they don't have to break their zen state while programming.
John, Founder/CEO of isocket here - thanks for the mention Bobby!

@bjonathan - confused... why would you want the DFP limit to change if the limit is already above what you'd need each month (thus being free to you)? Or do you mean you're hoping your traffic grows to the point you pay ;)