jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That's because a lot of these ""tech"" companies are just other business models in disguise. My especially favourite are the unsustainable business model food delivery apps like Deliveroo and JustEat, or the retail apps that are classed as tech for some reason like online consumer brands such as Victorian Plumbing and whisky seller Artisanal Spirits.
It's clear to me that IPO's are no longer about long term equity, and more about short term gambling. This is especially true when you have both US and UK markets actively trying to attract more retail investment, just to swindle the public out of more money. Until we see a radical shift in the way we think about and measure the performance of companies, IPO's and equity markets will continue to be a wild ride.
Works in XFCE too
Can you illustrate for a lay person the difference between research and development in pharma context?
You would be surprised/disappointed at the amount of abuse the bigger sites have to handle

Things like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26072025
Because our theory of justice and government include property rights. Those rights include the privilege to gift legally acquired property, while we live, to our children.

Turn that question around. What is society at large going to do for my children if I die today that I couldn't do better if I was living and directing my efforts toward them?
Hmm, I have not read his paper, but based on the article's mention of "divided into 13 channels" this is clearly speaking of the 2.4Ghz spectrum. Rather than try to distribute that evenly, you are FAR better off upgrading your AP and switching to a 5Ghz channel. First, there are far more potential channels in 5Ghz. Second, they are wider bandwidth (40Mhz, 80Mhz if 80211ac). And third, 5Ghz does not propagate through walls as well (a _feature_ when you have neighbors also using the spectrum).

My other thoughts: if he is using 8 channels instead of the standard 3 (1,6,11) then there will be some overlap; 80211 devices tends to better handle in-channel interference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
Everybody in the Western world that supports increased surveillance says "I don't have a 'sex disorder', and we're no more likely to elect Vladimir Putin or his local equivalent than Adolf Hitler"...

Arguments against surveillance are on much better footing when based on actual misuse of power by authorities and their employees in the UK and similar countries than hypothetical scenarios involving the election of autocrats. Frankly, if the UK elects an avowedly anti-democratic ex-spy chief with a fondness for populist social conservatism in the next decade, we'll get a much worse version of the Communications Data Bill, and ISPs already holding records of my browsing habits is going to be the least of my problems.
Doesn't it look cooler now because it's "retro"? I'm sure the people who were forced to use it for hardware reasons would've loved to have all 24 bits available to them.
No, it's using twilio. The code is open source - as mentioned downthread. https://github.com/bigboringsystem/
The scan is for detecting additional, nonmetallic threats, especially explosives. Just one problem: nothing in the new procedures can prevent moving the same thing via your rectum.

So if we want to pretend everyone will adhere to a specific conception of the threat model, sure, spend a bunch of money and alienate the traveling public.
As I just ranted on my blog: call your Congressional representatives and ask them how they would feel about their wives and kids being groped.

BTW, the backscatter scanners might prove to be very unsafe.
The thing that I find the most interesting is that a few people on the fanfiction groups I frequent absolutely loathe the story, and there's a sizable group that are ambivalent to it. What I haven't seen, however, is anyone here or on reddit criticize it in any way.

Probably because this is not really Harry Potter fanfiction - the main character of this story is not Harry Potter, so many aspects of the story are radically changed from canon, the author even admits to not having read some of the books, etc. Harry is your basic self-insert in this situation.

So this isn't really fanfiction - it's original fiction set in the Harry Potter universe, and I guess that's what makes it appeal to readers who don't follow fanfiction, and repels some people that do.

Along similar lines is Alicorn's Luminosity[1], which replaces Bella's character from the Twilight series with someone more rational and introspective. Where MoR was based on Eliezer's sequences on Rationality, Luminosity is based on Alicorn's sequence on Luminosity.

1:http://luminous.elcenia.com/
Facebook is five years old. Holding them up as a exemplar of "monopoly" seems a little misguided.
Is Google a serious monopoly when it owns only 64.4%? http://content.usatoday.com/communities/technologylive/post/...
To me it reads "if you want airport security to go faster so you can get to your plane on time and see your family in time, listen to and trust TSA personnel"
This is interesting. One might also assume an increase in autism rates among babies developing in the womb during winter months and babies developing in northern climates. Is this true? Do spring and summer babies have a higher rate of autism?
Giving toddlers video games or movies stunts their brain development, their attention span, and is a terrible idea.

There isn't substantial evidence for the view that video games stunt brain development in toddlers, and they've been shown to have a positive effect for older children:

https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2013-4021

Further, given that video game therapy has been shown to be successful in mitigating ADHD, your claim of video games universally negatively impacting attention is also patently false.

The thing that infants and toddlers want and need more than anything is loving attention from their parents or other adult figures.

This is practically parenting-magazine pseudoscience, and taken to its implicit conclusion is incredibly harmful. Toddlers do not need constant attention from authority figures. They need some, not a helicopter, and they need external stimulus.

Toddlers are not infants.
What makes you think desktops and laptops are going to stop being relevant within our lifetimes? In reality, Microsoft is in a very safe position, only facing competition in markets they never had a strong hold on to begin with. In the markets Microsoft is really dominant in they are in almost no danger. Let's put it this way: top business-user reasons for virtualization on GNU/Linux are running Windows Server to run Exchange and running Windows to run stock market software. Try taking Office away from the big business customers who bring major income to Microsoft.

The comparison to railroads is apt. Railroads are still immensely important, even if people no longer romanticize them. Innovations in railroad technology are still very important. The financial difficulties railroads faced in the middle of the 20th century had more to do with the government promoting automobiles than with the superiority of cars and trucks. If Microsoft is the technology world's' equivalent of a railroad they are in a pretty good position -- they might not be the company everyone is talking about but they will be the company that everyone is dependent on.
I guess he finally opened the '3rd envelope'
.NET and C# are the brainchild of Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of Delphi who moved from Boland to Microsoft.

Kinect was invented by an Israeli company before being bought out by Microsoft.

Your point still stands though :-)
"I’m not sure I can say this more clearly: we’re not in cahoots with the NSA and there’s is no government program that Google participates in that allows the kind of access that the media originally reported." - Drummond

One do wonder what NSA paid good money for if not for a government program which Google participated in.
Elop started with Nokia in a bad position compared to when Ballmer took over Microsoft.
The failed Yahoo! acquisition could be seen as a positive.
Actually GitHub does have a binary release system. You can upload binaries tagged to a commit and provide a markdown description for the download.
It's a bit silly that the article presented him as basically godly. But perhaps if we too, like the author, had a chance to sit down and talk to him and really learn about his adventures, we would be in awe as well. All in all, it was still a good read.
Nope, he screwed up even bigger than that. As recently 2005, IE's browser share was well into the 90's. Now, it's hovering roughly 40% depending on whose stats you trust. This on the desktop, to say nothing of mobile which would make the comparison between years even worse. This is after Microsoft recognized that the web was their big challenge, after the so called Tidal Wave memo.
Same here. Fill every empty space inside the thing with wax, and you have a waterproof phone! Wonder if that would really work.
It is never a good idea to install a brand new release on a production system unless you have to (i.e. if it is the only easy way to fix a show-stopping usability/security/compatibility issue) - this goes for any software. Play safe and let the pioneers get scalped, and/or try it out on a less critical machine first.

I recently bought a new netbook and rather than waiting a couple of days or installing the beta to upgrade later I put an older release on. 10.04 in fact, rather than 10.10, as that is an LTS release and I was in a cautious mood.
I use Vim for essentially everything, what I would kill for is if I could integrate a debugger similar to eclipse pydev, PyCharm or Komodo's.

PDB is great, but having to manually type and remember to remove breakpoints can be a pain.
Here is a proof in Haskell: https://gist.github.com/946245

The function fib is abstracting away all the details of calculating the nth member of the Fibonnaci Numbers. Sadly we are working with machines, not pure mathematical concepts - so when poor Bob will try to do something like [fib x| x <- [1..9999]] with the first implementation and will see his computer grinding to a halt he will have a leaky abstraction.

Basically the law of leaky abstractions just says that if you don't know everything about the abstractions you use you will eventually get hit in the head by one of them.
>A developers rate factors in a number of things, including cost of living.

When deciding what your price floor is, yes cost of living figures in. But what development is worth is its market price (perceived value). It doesn't depend on where the person lives.

The main thing you're actually highlighting here is that if we move to more telecommuting, developers will need to get better at understanding how market pricing actually works and that their development time is a market resource like everything else.

>The guy in Iowa knows he can work for less, but still make more, in terms of disposable income.

Sure, and if all programming jobs went telecommuting this guy would have so many more job offers he would have to push his own prices up.
This is actually a thing though. They eat blackberry. No one would be cruel enough to make an April Fools joke and suggest they have a way to remove blackberry without destroying your land.
Try updating your video drivers, that sounds like a crash caused by exercising hardware acceleration.
No, I was mainly just thinking of dial tone. I have experienced "all circuits are currently busy" etc. but that's not quite the same thing in my mind as an "outage" as local calls, etc. still worked.
As long as it works for all browsers you plan to support and the site begins rendering quickly, i.e. people don't perceive the site as slow because your fonts aren't showing up quickly enough, it should be okay.
(Since I don't particularly care about my karma at the moment, I guess I'll continue beating this dead horse :-))

And here's my snarky rejoinder: Hey look! There are bug fixes and new features in the latest beta. How did they do that? Perhaps they misunderstand the software development process!

What you have described is some ideal model of the development process based on something you think should happen. It doesn't exist, and it doesn't happen that way.

No one is reading what I wrote: their priority is messed up (in my opinion). Software development is very much about priorities.

You can decide that youtube functionality might be important for mac users for them to even continue testing the beta (e.g. no they(I) aren't(am not) going to keep launching another browser for every you tube video when they could just use safari). Or you can decide WebGL and audio (audio? really?) bling which a precious few will be using even in a year, is somehow more important.
"Why" comments are often quite useful, but the example in the article was filled with "What" comments, and doesn't seem to be talking about that at all. "Why" comments are often infrequent enough that there's nothing wrong with putting them inline with the code.
> In other words, HTTP2 sucks because it simultaneously
> includes too many features, and not enough features.

No, they are agreeing that it's a heap of extraneous features.
It's detected with ultraviolet spectroscopy done by the Hubble space telescope. I encourage you to read http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2013/1212-fletche...
Of course you have a point - the books were written in different times when very enlightened people held beliefs that would earn them approbrium today. In Tolkein's defence though orcs and elves are actually the same race. Orcs are elves who have been perverted and warped by Morgoth; it's all rebel angels (Tolkein said that elves were meant to be angels) and war in heaven. Orcs have to hate elves and men and there is no prospect of redemption or reconcilliation for them, only victory will allow them to claim an endless life and other dubious rewards.

LOTR is framed by the ideas of original sin and free will. Frodo is able to master and relinquish the ultimate power of the ring; Sam (the true lord) is never even touched by it. Both go back to accepting and being obedient to their destiny. It is not a clash of peoples or philosophies; Tolkein assumes that there is no battle of ideas because he is right. I think that where it is racist is in that it simply does not include people or things external to the European mythos, they are seen as irrelevant and external, no one cares about them and whatever happens just doesn't include them.
There are a large number of canonical, succinct examples of monads. Are you interested in use or definition?
Think deeper. The American dream died in 2008. We could have let the inefficient corrupt behemoths crash under their own weight and free the market for the next wave of companies. But instead we printed more money and bailed them out. Ans we keep doing it ever since [0]. It's not about Asian, Black, Russian, Jewish or whatever. It's that if you haven't bitten a large enough chunk of the pie before 2008, you are second class and are bound to working for those who had. And when people across the society get frustrated with their lives, the racial differences is the easiest thing to spot, so it metastasizes first.

U.S. is now as much "a land of opportunity" as Democratic Republic of Congo is "democratic" or People's Republic of Korea "people's".

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m0, switch to the 25Y view
...which have been vaccinated by now (unless they are young), so why penalise kids for a risk assessment which doesn't exist anymore?
Yes, but certain groups of people who's job it is to confront people in the public are the recipients of orders of magnitude more complaints than the average individual.

The legal system is unfortunately set up such that there is a significant burden (time and cost) on defendants, even when cases are brought without merit.

In that way, the legal system can be "weaponized" and public employees can be influenced to act a certain way under the threat of a sea of PERSONAL lawsuits. ...something that seldom happens to individuals.

For that reason, immunity was created. I think we'll see a very sharp increase in lawsuits as a result of this change. ...and a lot of resignations. I wouldn't be a police officer if I didn't have immunity. At the very least, I would refuse to work shifts/neighborhoods with high crime.
Note that in my comment, when I said "costs" I was referring to the loose layman definition, not the legal definition. Depending on the circumstances if you are awarded anything, it could be for the costs you refer to, attorney fees, both, or some other mixture (it's particularly frequent to see judges award less than what attorneys charged on the basis that you overpaid).

And of course, nothing at all. And yes, I agree that having only some types of costs awarded and not others can easily be absurd.
I share the same feeling as parent post.

The video where they sit down listening to various string gauges and nod at the obvious tone change comes to my mind. I'm 99% sure they would not see any difference in a blind test.

He also has plenty of videos about his past, his achievements, very opinionated tastes about what is good, etc. I find it quite annoying and over self centered.
Trying to enhance or disable healthy genes isn't the same as fixing known disease-causing mutations.

Moreover, identifying harmful mutations can't tell you how to build superhumans. So I think the similarity is only superficial.
C with Asan or Valgrind is faster to write and just as performant (usually better) as Rust or C++. There's a reason the world runs on C, and only part of it is historical.
Last I heard, the UK had very aggressive mass testing amongst school-age kids regardless of whether they showed symptoms, and it didn't seem to be spreading much aside from a brief spike when schools first reopened for in-person learning.
Maybe the third parties have handlers that don't block? There isn't any need to, after all - simply record the file details and return immediately. The virus scanner can always check that file later.

In fact, it makes more sense to do it that way because if the same file changes multiple times, the scanner will only check it once. Just have to make a trade-off on the duration - wait too long before you check the written file and it may have already gone on to infect something else.
It is true that we do have people like that. At the same time catering to them will also do nothing and chances are they already made up their minds about getting vaccinated.
It is very well written. A technical book. Not a textbook. Well written in the way Bell Labs could produce to bring its cadre of technical staff up to speed...written to create competence not differentiate for the purpose of assigning grades.

You can probably find a pdf online or a used copy from a bookseller.
> Apple no longer respects when the user wants to update

Huh? You set exactly if, how and when to update in System Preferences.

You can set it to never, always, to ask, to download but not install, etc.

It's been that way for as long as I can remember, and Big Sur doesn't appear to have changed anything. All the checkboxes are still there.
> There is an entire sub-industry of hedge funds which explicitly expect to underperform on an absolute basis for long periods of time, but which service their clients with highly bespoke risk products. Clients are frequently well-informed and happy with this arrangement.

Care to expand on this with some examples?
Whisper, patter,
Netbot doesn't support it. I don't know of any application other than whisper/patter that does.

My basic point is, the app.net vision is fundamentally flawed. It's not just a matter of positioning/marketing. It's the same fundamental flaw that google wave had. The vision is that app.net is a protocol, but you can't market protocols to people. you can only market apps. or more specifically, you can only market specific solutions to specific problems, or some fundamentally human vision (rather than a technological one)

With the app.net vision, any app you get that happens to use app.net as a back end will be subtly and frustratingly broken in some way because there's this feature, or that feature that your friend used that you can't see, because you have the wrong app. There's no commonality, there's no ultimate app that does all the things. With twitter, at least you get a link, something everyone understands, to a webpage, read in the ultimate universal client-a web browser. On app.net you just get mysterious silence. and "oh, that didn't work for you? huh..."

app.net is the linux of social media. Nerds love it but mortals will never get on board.
London, UK. Full time

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They paid for the seat. It's not disrespectful to buy something you don't need when the supply isn't limited. And the supply of plane seats isn't limited; the more people buying seats, the more seats there are for you to purchase, on average.

Looking at a single possible outcome and using it to complain about the entire practice is foolish.
> this looks like an ad for a different cryptocurrency I’ve never heard of.

I think Taler is this: https://taler.net/en/. It's a GNU project, and I don't think it's a cryptocurrency.

Recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26261314
Seems like there's a bit of exaggeration here. "Not willing to pay" != "not willing to pay 10+€/month for 30 distinct semi-random numbers each month". There are plenty of people willing to pay low prices (comparable to a barely warm cup of some really bad coffee) for analytics to help them make decisions.

Imagine, you write one blog post per month. How much would you pay if I told you which of your blog posts this year has been the most popular one, and on which social media it got the most attention? 120€? Unlikely. Then what do you think would be the fair price of this information?
Did you look at https://sorare.com/

They are creating scarcity. Only one card for a player created that season. It's less a digital picture and more "this is limited because we can verify the date it was created and how many we made." It even has an element of fantasy sports or pokemon, in that the cards are useful in a game and you can play with them. An element of scarcity is not only necessary to give the digital assets value, but also to make the competition function.
This might be a cliché answer, but the (ISC)2 CISSP CBK Reference. Among cybersecurity certifications, the CISSP is notable for it's focus on cybersecurity policy laws & implementation frameworks.
I think it's got to be a little bit of both. My experience has been that the trackpad experience with Win10 on a MacBook is poor, and the trackpad experience on a hackintosh is also poor.

I realize a sibling poster had a different hackintosh experience. I think that maybe supports my suspicion. Good hardware and good software are both necessary, but not sufficient, conditions of a good overall experience.
I'm not sure I get it either. Maybe just simplicity / path of least resistance in that NiceHash provides a quick way to get up and running potentially without needing to install mining software and decide on a pool to participate in etc?
Mining Bitcoin can be done with pencil, paper and the ability to communicate with others also interested in Bitcoin.
The biggest gotcha with these kinds of demos is, and always will be, keyboard input. Unless browser vendors are willing to relinquish all keyboard controls for a special kind of popup window, HTML5 VNC type solutions are dead in the water.
Why would someone implement such an awful protocol as X11 when they could just directly render. They could make application-level X11 clients for legacy X apps running on some server somewhere if they wish, there's no reason to cripple the whole experience with X11.
Anyone got a link to the toc and sample chapter that doesn't 404?