jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Terms are offered. You can accept them or reject them.

I do see your point, though. It's not really a negotiation. There's not enough money involved to be worth negotiating over. It's a service being sold.
Python's IDLE does this as well. It's hugely frustrating in other REPLs (irb, iPython) to type out a 5-line block only to find that you missed a keystroke on line 2. I'm hoping there's a keyboard shortcut I don't know about.
I used to work for one of these business and it's nowhere near as nefarious as you make out. In their case at least it happened accidentally and gradually.

For example the product starts out simple but grows in complexity, so suddenly you notice the 1 hour install that your consultant used to start his usually 4 day client customisation work with has turned into a whole day and you're now charging for 5 days of consultant time. This leads to the perverse economics that writing an installer, which costs you money in dev time and impacts the development schedule, will actually lose you money. So the installer never reaches the top of the priority stack until it's a real pita as you can recoup the costs compared to the lost opportunity of not working on a new client module.

Also it's the client themselves that demand the extensibility of software. It's almost impossible to perfectly model someone's unique workflow in any non-trivial system.

Say a client has a risk rating they give every new project. Obviously they want to be able to record that rating in their project management software. And then they want particular directors emailed when that project is moved from tender to won. And then they also want accounts notified. And then they want a team auto-assigned. And then, and then, and then.

Enterprise software has to be flexible and extensible for many businesses. Because virtually every business is different.

We may mock it, but getting it right is very, very difficult. And many of these businesses end up with consultants just to manage extensibility and tailoring because getting it wrong severely impacts the usefulness, and thus ROI, of the new software.

I don't think there's any greed motivation as you seem to paint it, I think a lot of enterprise software started with a good, simple product and then gradually got forced into complexity by client sales requirements, big support contract clients and over promising in sales (quite often by accident).

The directors of the company I worked for were proud of their product and genuinely wanted to deliver value to their customers. They did, growing amounts of consultant time was not caused by greed but because every client ran their company differently and so wanted their software to be slightly different. Maybe the 37signals type approach is better, but don't mistake it for a nefarious desire to constantly grow the billable hours.
Kennedy was also assassinated. There is likely a direct link between how inspirational he was and the fact that he was assassinated: Jesus was crucified, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, and Dr. Martin Luther King was shot. If Elon Musk wants to get the task done without ending up dead for it, speaking in a less inspirational style may be the better path.

Edit: It's a completely serious observation, not intended as funny at all. Anyone care to explain the downvote? Or argue the point?

Thanks.
Creating a self-sustaining colony anywhere is hard. Especially, if it has to work the first time.
I very much look forward to that. There a mailing list or something so I can know the moment it goes live? :-D
Think of it this way, it is easier for anyone to write code for solving simple problem. however this does not makes you stand out from the crowd, also at the same time there is no guarantee that the same person wrote the code, i.e. it wasn't plagiarized.

A good metric for measuring ability of git hub user is to look for followers of his repos. Github is useful only when someone is making large amount of contribution or significant contribution, such as solving a hard problem.

A college can give someone A- in introductory algorithms and that gives you some confidence about his skills in algorithms. However github cannot provide this sort of credential, with same amount of confidence. Github can spot "exceptional" programmers, since large or significant contributions are more difficult to fabricate.
Or, alternatively, "Which temporary economic disequilibrium are you arbitraging? What are its properties?"

This actually wouldn't be a bad question for the YC application.
There's something about seeing these pictures that makes my heart ache. I think I'm a little too odd..
Will do. I admire your optimism!
There are very few to no situations where your company or reputation or even your way of life depends on your cleaning service.

Or another way to look at this is that lawyers get paid based on their reputation. Firms with a high reputation only have the ability to hire so many new lawyers. Those positions are indeed highly sought after, because that's how you get paid well, by getting in with a firm that already has a reputation. You're going to have a hard time starting out on your own, building up a reputation. Hell, sometimes you need to have built enough of a reputation just to get a position with a firm that has a high reputation.

While people/companies are looking for the best person/firm they can afford to represent them... cleaners are still just cleaners.
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country.”
In our case (Vertica + streaming big data) we don't need the full data. Most of the time we only need a few weeks of data or even maybe a couple of days, so the amount is minimum and we write scripts to import from PROD to DEV.

We don't have DEV in local laptops though. All data is still contained in a local data center.
There are ads all over the App Store FYI
'Ethical concerns' only covers a subset of these cases and the phenomenon is noticeably similar across the entire set, so I don't think ethics is a convincing explanation.

People reach for the handiest hammer, but it doesn't follow that the hammer is driving the hammering. Ethical concerns are the best hammer, of course, because then one's own motives are unimpeachable; but failing that, you'll see comments about the business being shitty for other reasons—"it used to be good but they've been declining for years and I can't even use it anymore" is one, and "how is this a viable business, look at those financials, doesn't anybody care about profit anymore god this world is insane" is another.

I don't believe Dropbox threads are generally friendly to Dropbox anymore, and I'm pretty sure Digital Ocean has been on the rack here too. Today's thread was a noticeable exception. Most S-1 threads are pretty cranky in general.
On a side note, doesn't that mean a higher sales tax favors larger institutions?
Going on 4 hours of downtime here, this is a disaster. Linode used to be really honest about the status of things, this time, they claim "most linodes should be booted" which seems not to be true.
Alright. I called it a moleskine because that's what we called it on the farm. We ordered them like a dozen at a time and everyone used them. Truth be told, I didn't even consider calling it anything else. I wasn't trying to be smug, I used the term that matched with the image in my head of what I was describing.

Edit: We used the Volant X-Small, which is part of why nobody called it a notebook. (http://officesupplygeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/moles...)
how long will orkut last on the list http://bit.ly/aXAwVT
If you're going to try this at home you should be aware of the dangers of putting water in a clean glass in a microwave oven:

http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/ResourcesforYo...
I smiled. sad that I know people (mostly non technical-guys) who would actually think that these logos are nice
Steve Job's was working at a farm and someone gave him the idea of Apple Computers. Then, years later, Steve Wozniak was on Dancing With The Stars and met the brother of the person who gave him that name. Wozniak also thinks that the lawsuit from Apple Records was wrong because Apple Computers was not a musical device.
Sweet! There's a video in case I don't want to take the time to read a whole article about shortened attention spans.
So... they ever heard of redundant power generators? Does anyone know what happened exactly?
I went with a Blackberry Z10 after reading about its built in encryption and privacy features in the book Cypherpunks.

As an aside, I checked out the new Q5 yesterday and it has refinements in all the right places. Both are highly underrated smartphones.
The most memorable thing from Yahoo Answers is the "how is babby formed" meme.

It never attracted high quality Q&A, and was a joke from day one.
And I know of two people (bitcoin evangelists, lol) who had explosive diarrhea or an impacted bowel on a meat only diet, and had to be hospitalized.

Whereas my athletic performance on a vegan diet has never been better as well.

What to make of this? The body can adapt quite nicely to many foodstuffs as long as you do proper research on what foods to eat so you get all the nutrients you need. Not eating fruit and vegetables just seems folly to me.
No lolz here! I actually need exactly this as I'll soon be starting work on a CMS-style editor for Git-based static sites, and it's all Ruby to boot. Awesome sauce!
This reminds me of the Milkcrate sessions: https://milkcrate.com.au/sessions.html

"Adventures In Homewares Featuring The Mortar And The Pestle" (2009) is quite lovely: https://milkcrate.com.au/sessions-details-032.html
We wouldn’t have those issues either if we would just stop having so many babies.
> Are our kids supposed to just believe us when we tell them how babby is formed[1]?

It comes done to how whell you parend the chiyelld. Good parendets explain to the chyelld how babby is achivet.
EVs can potentially be very low maintenance, but they're still machines with parts that will wear out or break eventually if driven far enough: bearings, cv joints, suspension components, electric power steering units, etc... Plus all the little accessories that aren't part of the drivetrain or steering/suspension/brakes but might cause problems if they break, like motorized door handles or flash memory chips that have been written to too many times, or whatever.

Being able to get access to the parts and information necessary to fix things can make a lot of difference when things fail and the warrantee is expired. This is basically the "right to repair" issue. Some people care about it a lot and some people don't.
The subjects of Nick Ut's “The Terror of War” didn't sign consent papers, the same with countless other famous photos. There is no doubt you have seen it. Aren't you the one of the “shitty people”? Will you repent?
Taxi's do the same thing. Wouldn't come to the location I was in, hung up, told us we were in a bad neighborhood and shouldn't be there. Eventually the bus came, we didn't want to wait 60 minutes with luggage.
Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" has a worthy take on it too, a bit less about politics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23881202 - Amazon price parity policy (it was dropped), didn't think I'd really dreamt it up though.
Did you try reading the thread you are attempting to participate in? The whole problem is vaguely claiming that there's already products that cover the use case of soylent, but not giving a specific. None of the products you linked to provide 100% of known essential nutrients. None of them are intended to be used as a replacement for food, and none of them can be used as such with long term safety. It is absurd to see people bitching about how unsafe soylent is while claiming that products we 100% for certain know are not nutritionally complete already make soylent useless.
Obviously I am being deliberately minimal in my description - which I have to be given that I am indeed telling the truth.

Do you really find it more credible that I am lying than that the massive release of diplomatic cables has had at least one severely negative and unintended consequence?

To provide a bit more context - it is common for any Christian in some countries to be accused of being a US collaborator. Once your name appears in US diplomatic cable, regardless of the reason, it is very bad news.
the spec page says series 30+ I have no idea what a series 30 is, I only know series 40 and 60.
I liked Modula 2 much more than Pascal or C. (for those, that don't know it:) Modula 2 was the successor of Pascal from Niklaus Wirth. It had cleaner syntax and many other good features. Its successor, Oberon, was object oriented. [1]

But the culprit (and that belongs to all Pascal descendants, as it seems (at least until Modula 2)) was, that the libraries where not very helpful. The standard libraries for Pascal (not the extended ones from Borland Pascal or others) and from Modula 2 where a pain to work with and did not cover the developer needs. I guess, that was one reason for the downfall of Pascal -- some niches (eg. Borland Pascal) where successful, but they lacked the broad covering. C had it all: A syntax, that was popular by many, because it could be typed fast (not everybody will agree that it is an advantage) and a library that covered everything you needed. Also with printf it had a neat solution (according to that time) for a problem, that was really cumbersome to deal with in Pascal or Modula 2. Also you could write C code for one machine and port it rather easily to another, because the libraries had nearly the same API.

I account some good part of the initial success of C to the standard C library. After that it was just a question of publicity.

Also one mistake of Wirth might have been, that he took different names for his languages. I guess, the languages would have done a little better, if he called it Pascal2 or Pascal++ and after that Pascal++15 or so .... but that is the other problem: Good engineers are usually bad marketeers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2
Commoditise your complements: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
This is a cool project - must have been fun to do the research on and build. Are you using any optimization techniques for AdSense? Would love to hear them if you don't mind sharing.
It sounds like the main benefits from the spray as opposed to coffee / tea are: 1) Cost 2) Convenience.

The spray will cost about $0.38 per dose.

The competition isn't coffee or tea but caffeine pills, which are cheaper and about as convenient. It looks like you can get 120 100 mg pills on Amazon for $5, or $0.04 per dose. I don't see the benefit of a spray as opposed to pills.
A footnote mentions that @which is not as helpful for functions defined the REPL, because it doesn't give a file and line number in that case. This is not the case, however, in the new IJulia notebook interface (a REPL based on the IPython notebook); there, each multiline input cell is named "In[nnn]" (like Mathematica) and is treated like a file, so you can type "@which foo(3)" and it will give "foo(x) at In[22]:1" if you defined foo on line 1 of input In[22].

Note also that, in the latest versions of the REPL (and IJulia), you can simply type "? foo(3)" instead of "@which foo(3)".
Functional Programming is just composing a program with pure functions, nothing else.

Immutability and closures are required for that, because mutability may break homoiconicity (which is required for purity), and lack of closures means you can't pass state around.

Higher-kinded types are very useful for helping with lots of functional abstractions, but they are a type system feature and have nothing to do with FP. If someone claims that, this person doesn't understand FP or type systems.

OCaml and Standard ML are two examples of languages without higher kinded types but are just as good as Haskell for FP.

(Although they have a powerful module system to compensate for that).
Any chance that you could make the output channels arbitrary? Just yesterday I built a sampler array with Kontakt, in REAPER, that used 28 outputs from a single plugin instance.
Thanks, your story is definitely encouraging!
The point I was trying to make was that there's a reason why regulation exists. Sometimes it's a good reason - solving coordination problems. Sometimes it's a bad reason - giving your buddy a paycheck. Regardless of what the reason is, it's more effective to find and kill the root than to hack away at the branches. I was trying to get at a more general point than "Don't repeal regulations, fire regulators." I was really hoping to point at part of the problem-solving philosophy that generates the "attack the root cause" instinct I've been cultivating.

I apologize for not explaining my point well the first time. I hope this is more clear. I'm not a libertarian, and didn't intend to write something that looks like pro-libertarian propaganda.
That will clear out Service Packs and some uninstaller files, it won't clean up WinSXS.
Now THIS is how a blog should look.
Typewriters had shift-lock, which would have changed the numbers.

http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/64230/why-does-the-cap...
Shh, Jim is coming. hide the PCP.
> Computer experts call this type of problem — when the same action can result in two very different results — a “mode error,” and it is especially problematic when the user is not focused on the mode (in this case, mg versus mg/kg)

Terrifying example of one way AI or computer-augmented decisions can go horribly wrong. A "Mode error" is at the core of the difference between intelligence and common sense.
So there are two models available at $149:

Haier - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00V3DYVLM

Hisense - http://www.walmart.com/ip/44389793#about

Which looks better?
Symbol swearing goes to at least 1900: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2483

Not sure about the Caps Lock thing though.
Beat me to it. I agree, the Chromebit is way more interesting.
Just try to adnore them.
It would be fantastic if I could simply click on the equation and have a mini text box pop up with the relevant LaTeX code.

Emacs' AUCTeX preview mode renders your equations and tables within the emacs buffer. It's not a PDF, but if I understand correctly, there are format limitations in PDF that prevent instantaneous local updates within a large document. Preview mode is fast.
Here is the best explanation I've ever seen (a bit more fleshed out than the OP): http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/posit...

And here's another good one that is specific to layouts: http://learnlayout.com/display.html
Sooner than I had expected, here it is:

http://cdn0.sbnation.com/podcasts/apple-samsung-lawsuit.pdf

Nilay Patel did a write-up:

http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analys...
Although I am by no means an expert in population, there are a number of interesting studies which show a deep statistical correlation between increased income and decreased birth rates over time. Higher income families and high income societies have significantly lower population replacement rates.

That being said it also seems that there is an immediate correlation between suddenly higher income and a individual family unit also increasing (i.e. when a family gets a sudden, large increase in income they will generally also increase their family size at that time).

So, with all of that being said, since in the words of the Gates this is a "bet", we could also potentially bet that by increasing the number of middle class individuals within a given population we will also see an overall increase in birthrate among those populations.
I'm one of the Core authors of the Kite library (library for writing micro services). I wrote an extensive introduction here on GopherAcademy: http://blog.gopheracademy.com/birthday-bash-2014/kite-micros...

I think Gotalk and Kite have a lot of common (for example we have also kite.js, to talk with browsers). The mission of the Kite library is the same as with Gotalk, mainly to communicate two pieces of software in an easy way. However in order to achieve this Kite also has an inbuilt service discovery mechanism. I think this is really important because with time you are app number will increase and service discovery is a must have. There are many differences too, for example protocol (we use JSON).

Congrats on shipping this, I'm really looking forward to see how it evolves and how you solve upcoming problems (such as poor network conditions where Websocket badly fails).
Yahoo has historically been capable of generating 15% to 20% net income margins (before Alibaba contributed anything meaningful to their results). I see no reason why they wouldn't be able to continue that in the future. Yahoo has also become more efficient, having trimmed a lot of expenses from operations.

Even if you were aggressive and pushed their net income down to $500 million on $4.5b in sales, you're talking about a 10 pe ratio. That also would not happen.

Even when things were at their absolute worst in the last ten years - pre Alibaba - Yahoo still carried an $11 to $15 billion valuation. And that's the absolute worst context post dotcom bubble crash.

The parent's position was that Yahoo's core is worth $5 billion. Well today AOL is worth $3.7 billion (with not much on their balance sheet of consequence). It's plainly obviously that under no scenario will Yahoo's business be valued at $5b when AOL is commanding a $3.7b valuation.
Here's a whole list of reasons: http://phpsadness.com
A classic for a reason! If anyone is interested in the more complex brewing process and chemistry of lambic beer, Jeff Sparrow's "Wild Brews" is another great read.
I use name.com for domain names and Linode for DNS and hosting, but gandi.net domains come with a 1 year SSL cert and a year of year whois privacy for $5.
Why care? Because up votes are also coming from the community and I believe we are all here because we respect the opinions of the people here.

Also, comments sort within threads. Sometimes the best reply is to a no-so-great parent comment.
Ok, I've made that edit in the title above. Belatedly but oh well. Thanks!
> If people today don't realize that voices can already be convincingly faked, then that's a really serious problem, and if democratizing that ability causes society in general to become more aware of the potential of disinformation, then honestly that might even be a good thing that we should be encouraging.

I've wondered about that angle as well. You can't put the genie back in the bottle, so maybe the best way to combat the threat of deepfaked misinformation is actually to take the opposite approach and make it as easy as possible for normal people to generate their own deepfakes; that way it becomes common knowledge that such things are possible (similar to how photoshop is common knowledge today).
I like him around just because he expands the Overton window. In the last 10 years the conversion around proprietary (which includes web and mobile apps) vs. open-source software has really taken a back-seat.
WoTC effectively killing Netrunner made me sad too. It was a really fun game.