jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Some of the first-gen SATA SSDs (based on the JMicron 601 and 602 chipsets) had nasty stuttering problems with lots of concurrent writes, but pretty much every SSD made in the past 12 months is going to blow away any spinning-platter disk when it comes to random writes. SSDs based on Sandforce's 1200-series controller can do 30,000 IOPS, sustaining more than 150MB/s with 4kB random writes.

You should probably investigate the current hardware (OCZ's Vertex 3, Crucial's m4, Intel's 510 series); it might surprise you just how much better it's gotten in such a short time.
You’re proposing that the author is Arab? Hardly likely.
"Electricity demand is already way higher during the day than during the night."

yes and no. Obviously it'll differ from place to place, and climate to climate, but here the highest demand occurs in the early morning and the early evening. Both peaks are caused mostly by domestic consumption - hot water and food preparation being significant.

Now depending on the time of the year this may coincide with daylight, or night time. Either way solar performance at this time of day is poor.

Of course commercial use keeps demand up through the whole day, but during this time domestic use (including heating and cooling where required) is either minimal or sufficiently random to "smooth" the demand. There is also some use all through the night (lights being an obvious source, although more efficient lighting is becoming more common.) But there are also all-night commercial and industrial requirements.
That's a good option, I might consider that. The advantage is that it makes the documents accessible from everywhere.

On the other hand, as it is a cloud service, you have to trust them to keep the data. Do they make it possible to access/backup your documents through some API?

Hm I guess in that case I could simply use Google documents as well. Seems that it even (experimentally) supports OCR:
http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/3.0/developers_gu...
I recently got a Kindle and I'm convinced. It's the future. I'm reading much much books. Reading on a Kindle is superiour to reading a dead tree.
The radio/TV comparison is a little off. Radio is a fundamentally different experience than TV: it doesn't require sight. So that allows it to occupy it's rather substantial niche.

Paper books still have some interface advantages over ebooks (as several people have described in this thread) but they'll go away as people build proper, well designed ebook readers.

When that happens, all books will have going for them is nostalgia and a pleasant physical experience that can't be replicated digitally. I think a much more apt comparison is records, which don't provide a fundamentally different sonic experience, but do have nostalgia and physicality.

So I think a handful of book lovers will still have collections, and visit the bookstore down the street, but like record players, and unlike radios, I think the vast majority of the population won't have any.
Your grandkids are going to web search for your name and find digital scraps of your life.
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Looks like it got added to the Debugging page in the docs yesterday: http://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/debugging.html#c...
I think that stereotype comes more from outsourcing IT helpdesk to third world countries to pay a tenth in wages. And surprise, you get what you pay for.
I was hoping to see scans of the actual silicon, but I guess that requires more exotic equipment. It seems to me that imaging the chips would be easier and better using a DSLR and a good macro lens.
I think it's when you try to separate code and documentation that things tend to get out of sync quite easily.

For example; we have a settings system; all keys are defined as constants in code and they have attributes that clearly describe every aspect which is the used to generate the documentation. If you add a new settings, you instantly write the documentation for it as well; so far, it has worked great and I think this could/should work for other parts of the code as well.
1. I don't think having a registered company is really important. You can get started with Paypal without having a company. Atleast in Vietnam, you can get a bank account by just showing your passport

2. Be on a lookout for local barcamps/tech events. I attended Barcamp Saigon last month and it was big - http://twitpic.com/3f8gn0

3. Start off by staying in a hotel and then move into an apartment if you want to.

4. I think this depends mostly on where you come from. Since I come from India, I like the hustle bustle of a place like Saigon. Also there are a lot of clubs there and I like that. The best part is that you can easily move to another city if you want to. You just have your backpack to carry around :)
Yeah because it's usually boldly terrible and inconsistent.
Ah yes the Smith Chart. The physics equivalent to programming punch cards.
Out of curiosity why is that not a solution? Why is it inherently better for them to live on the streets of SF than someplace with running water and electricity? It's also obviously better for the citizens of SF to not have to deal with human feces, dirty needles and massive amounts of property crime (at the least).

There's tons of empty space in the US, it seems reasonable to move people who are breaking the law, causing chaos and public health hazards out of highly populated areas.
There are simply too many puns are floating around in my brain-- and they're all terrible. My wife has always said, "everyone likes a good poop joke", but I think that may have been targeted at preschoolers and not adults.
Your work negotiates which services are covered under their group plan.

My last company had a blanket "Not Covered" for all of the family law services. My current company's plan is a lot more liberal and expansive in covered services, and covers all of the family law services offered to some extent[1]. The only things in the family law section limited to just advisory coverage vs. representation are related to the messy world of divorce (divorce, custody, support orders, etc).

https://imgur.com/6elP3jL
It’s easy for the product team to to fixate on the core technology that enables a product and lose sight of what’s needed for the “whole product.” This article is the result of an ongoing collaboration with Mary Sorber that started with her metaphor that raw pasta is not enough to create a successful Italian restaurant. Key take-aways:

1. Raw pasta, like raw technology, is really only appreciated by a small part of the market.

2. Some assembly required” is a product failure for a mainstream market.

3. There’s a market for both components and whole products, but each has a different set of customers.

4. Solving the “hardest problem” may not represent what enough customers value.

5. There are some things that can only be tested by getting into the market, but a limited launch can balance learning against the cost.

6. Prior customer experience with your category of product establishes expectations and mental models.

7. You can be too close to the problem to see where you have gone wrong.
Sounds interesting. I was thinking about something similar for my current location and biggest social network. Execution matters more, of course.
Once you fix the design (seriously) some tips.
- Offer the converse: gift suggestions for your friends, on a mail.
- Offer birthday reminders.
- Try to understand the level of connection between a two peoples, so you can experiment with gift pricing.
- On the other side, offer retailers a deal for a cut of their profit.

Good luck. Execute fast. This is now public :)
do f and j bumps enable you to touch transcribe this string?

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not for me. these keys are the bottlenecks that break my flow and force me to think for a few moments about where things are.

your tactile union with your keyboard may be 100%, but mine is more like 80%. congrats if you've mastered chopsticks, but fork is a no-brainer. i admire the simplicity of those little f and j bumps, but they're just no match for a glance.

why not a choice: a backlight to turn on if you want, off if you don't? i don't want a backlight on all the time either. if i'm banging out email, no need. but if i'm coding, or something else that requires lots of special characters and finger-fu, then a backlight is handy.
Probably not in public, no.

The next time you get called by a junior analyst at a time when you're not raising and haven't gotten any tech press, it's likely because someone else is raising -- ringing up competitors is a pretty standard part of due diligence.

You can sometimes figure out who's out raising just by asking your own investors -- they tend to know what's going on at other firms.

Not everyone is sweetness and light in this situation. Really, blocking a competitor from raising is the only reason why you should take the call.
I was just going to say thanks for reminding me about TD, I haven't listened to them in a while...but now I'm back on them ;)
The 10,000 hours theory relates more to the human lifespan than any specific training method. If you can be really good at something at 25, then at most you had ~15 years * 52 weeks per year * ~40 hours a week of practice = ~30,000 hours. Now, change that to deliberate practice and your looking at around 10k hours. However, some things like go blow those numbers out of the water. You can focus your life on the game a 8 and still be improving at 50.
I hope people don't see this and think it was the same submission that was put up when Fred Wilson first published his piece. This is a great comment to that post and offers more helpful information than the original post.
I've often felt ostracized at my employer just for not following the rite/folklore of lunch together. Joel has a conflict of interest. As owner of course he stands to benefit if his employees went for lunch together, because inevitably they'd be talking about work, maybe even solving work-related problems in the process. While lunch is a great occasion for socializing - it'd be best to be up to the individual on how to spent that time.
I didn't mean that as an insult to YC companies, or YC, but when YC started they were literally funding teams with ideas. In Reddit's case, YC convinced the team to do a different idea than what they had presented.

I'm thinking YC now funds more mature companies, but that probably is a sign that there is less of a "bubble" now than there was before.
I had no clue, and that sounds really interesting; a write-up would be a very nice thing!

Wasn't there an article on here a little while ago about how most jobs seem easy to the worker because the "common knowledge" is fairly trained in?
This isn't a language difference, it's a coding style difference. There's nothing to stop you writing it in java as

public int[] seriesUp(int n) {
return range(1, n).concatMap( x -> range(1, x));
}

(assuming a suitable range function and concatMap method, which is a library question rather than a language issue)

Java won't allow the special [1..n] syntax, and method application is a lot more explicit, with a more rigid argument order than Haskell. But to my mind both these differences are places where Java is the more consistent, readable, and yes, beautiful language.
T-Mobile is a news story because the MVNO's don't advertise. T-Mobile can't touch Republic Wireless or Ting prices in most cases.
Efficiency and progress is ours once more

Now that we have the Neutron bomb

It's nice and quick and clean and gets things done

Away with excess enemy

But no less value to property
You are now reading things which were simply not said nor implied.

It is also quite ironic that while you talk about "being nice/kind" your posts are the ones containing inflammatory phrases like "uncontrolled lunatic", "arrogance and obnoxious attitude", "my ass" and "obnoxious aholes" !

Coming back specifically to Linus, he has never been any of the above. He has been direct and harsh when needed (there is a world of difference between this and the phrases you have used), otherwise he has shown a lot of restraint. For example, he has said that due to the nature of email communication, one has to be direct since a lot of non-verbal and personal nuances cannot be conveyed which is exactly right.

I am sure we can all recollect email chains/discussions/meetings where nothing was ever achieved because people did not want to offend somebody with thin skin in spite of the fact that they were squarely to blame. Being direct and calling them out is not being obnoxious/arrogant but simply moving things along towards a goal. To be nice/kind does not mean everybody has to be mollycoddled and tip-toed around due not wishing to "hurt their feelings". Engineering is a hard science and while we have to follow social mores and etiquettes this should be regulated (i.e. we should know when to break them) so that progress towards the end goal is not derailed.
Not sure what you mean by this but the post was upvoted and flagged by users.
It's perfectly normal for a sensationalistic post to get lots of upvotes (indignation routinely attracts them), and then lots of flags. Moderators never touched it btw.

Since the users mostly aren't in contact with each other, I don't think anyone was "pushing a message". It's extremely easy to imagine that such things are happening when they aren't, especially if you cherry-pick specific examples out of the randomness. Most of what happens is just stochastic.
i'll take a stab at what the author of that comment might have meant - how I understood it at least

there are 2 ways you can define "walkable"

1. it is physically possible to walk there - e.g. there are paved sidewalks

2. it is convenient to walk from the place you are to the place you need to be

i think that the misunderstanding here might be that you and the comment above are thinking about 1 while the problem is actually 2

to pull a quote from the article:

"students who live in dormitories are able to work, eat and worship all within walking distance of their homes"

there's also a link to this concept of a "15 minute neighborhood"[1] where everyone can walk to their basic daily needs w/in 15 minutes, or beautifully summarized as “Put the stuff closer together so it's easier to get to the stuff.”

so the proposed problem is that the set of things w/in that "daily needs" category, AKA the "stuff", might grow, due to the increasing diversity of the population you're servicing, to a point where its not possible to give that to everyone

[1]https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/9/6/7-rules-for-cre...
My sister choreographed this dance, and I’m a little unhappy that she isn’t mentioned here by name. She’s brilliant, and I want her to get credit.

Her name is Monica Thomas. Her dance company is called Mad King Thomas. Here is her brand new Twitter account: https://mobile.twitter.com/onetruebonc

Her sense of humor is captured by her choice of the song “Do you love me”, which is a winking but still charming reference to the fact that this is a PR stunt to get us to love scary robots.

Dancers and choreographers are poor, and struggle to build careers. A public acknowledgment of something of this magnitude would be so impactful, and would require so little from Boston Dynamics. I wish they would do it.

They could even brand themselves as helping artists, could be good for their image.
Man, I’d love to hear more about those details if you’re able to share.
I’m really not surprised by this news : Unfortunately, global warming is consubstantial with human activity. In fact, the only thing that is ecological, is poverty. I'm not trolling, I'm serious : By the laws of physics, the richer you are, the more you consume, the more you pollute by producing CO2. All the people who tell you that you can keep the same GDP while producing less CO2 are wrong.
I'm comfortable with those terms, and just as i said, I'm not going to debate it but I'm happy to hear different perspectives. None have been proposed, and just as i expected, the commenter is pretending, and does not have the courage of conviction.

Nothing in the comment faults my words. And what I'm saying is too important to tarnish with a dishonest discussion with someone being dishonest.

I know you hope you can dismiss this view with some metacommentary, but nothing raised has challenged what i said, and i think you're wasting your time by continuing to comment because you're not succeeding in dismantling the ideas i presented.

I have a solution for you, that i proposed initially. You don't want to believe this idea, so simply don't. Just refuse to believe it. That will be easiest for you and i really do not want anything to be hard for you.
I don't really understand why the story sorely needs those details. It seems like I would come to the same conclusion given any likely combination of answers to those questions. Even if his sunk cost was zero, it would not change my feelings about it at all. Also, if he's misrepresenting the truth in order to get people to donate to the American Cancer Society, that kind of sucks, but it's not that big of a deal to me.
There are substantial differences between the resturant and housing situations. Short of burning it down for fun there isn't really any way to consume a house. Also, the person who sold the house got paid for it, its the person who loaned the money to the buyer who is fucked. It would be more like if you took out a loan from a bank, used it to go out to eat, then couldn't pay back the bank. Maybe you are an asshole for not being able to pay, but the bank is incompetent for thinking you would be able to.

Anyway, as far as I can tell resturants are all about experience, and maybe forcing the customer to prove they can pay would degrade the experience to the point where the resturant makes more money by just accepting the occasional dine & dash.

Also in a real resturant if a customer was sitting there baldly refusing to pay, you could probably just call the police (I dont know, I've worked in resturants and have never even heard of this happening).
There appears to be an ongoing low-level diplomatic conflict between the UK and Russia since the FSB guy who was killed on British soil - I'm sure that plays a part in his comment.
Wow. Watching the speed at which he goes through each step and bangs it out makes me feel stupid. Humbling. (Unless he read it from a script.)
I suppose if you subscribe to the labor theory of value this figure could be accurate - but what a mean and pessimistic way to think about it! If the tools are actually useful to Java/Eclipse developers, they could be worth far more.

(and if not, they could be worth far less)
I've never seen the lock break in this case. It's always the jam or the door.
a response from greg perry:

http://blogs.csoonline.com/1296/an_fbi_backdoor_in_openbsd

I was the lead architect for the site-to-site VPN project developed for Executive Office for United States Attorneys, which was a statically keyed VPN system used at 235+ US Attorney locations and which later proved to have been backdoored by the FBI so that they could recover (potentially) grand jury information from various US Attorney sites across the United States and abroad.

he mentions pf, but also that he left the company in 2000. pf wasn't even created until 2001.

and now jason wright (the developer in question) has responded:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129244045916861&w...
Exactly! Good consultants are subject matter experts in process/project management. I guess this is what MBAs and PhD consultants are really good at: they have a big toolkit of industry best practices because their employers advise so many (often market-leading) companies in any given industry and they are good at doing in-depth research to apply these best practices to the specific requirements of their client. Not being a subject matter expert can sometimes be quite helpful when assessing a project/process as you have more room for free associative thought than a SME.

Oh, McKinsey and others are also experts in downsizing operations (i.e. letting people go) under the umbrella of efficiency improvements. When a new CEO comes in, they know that their compensation is tied to the share price of the company. Often one of the first things they do is to call in McKinsey to assess the efficiency of the company and then cut/outsource a few thousand jobs together with implementing some process improvements. Cutting expenses is easier and faster than delivering real value through innovation! Also, McKinsey - the experts - recommended this! At the next financial earnings call, the CEO can talk about how they increased their profit margins, investors like that the CEO is already delivering results so quickly, the stock price goes up, the CEO receives his bonus.

It's similar to what Bain Capital and other Private Equity investors do: they are not subject matter experts in a specific industry, but they are subject matter experts in capital extraction. I think this form of abstractive capitalism has done a lot of damage to many great companies, but as long as the system rewards this behaviour, there will be a lot of demand for consulting companies and private equity investors...maybe we should go back to the philosophy of old Greece, where the pursuit of knowledge was valued and the pursuit of wealth was openly derided (but use robots instead of slaves for day-to-day labor).

In the words of Plato (in his lat work, Laws): "My dear Clinias, small is the class of men—rare by nature and trained, too, with a superlative training — who, when they fall into diverse needs and lusts, are able to stand out firmly for moderation, and who, when they have the power of taking much wealth, are sober, and choose what is of due measure rather than what is large. The disposition of the mass of mankind is exactly the opposite of this; when they desire, they desire without limit, and when they can make moderate gains, they prefer to gain insatiably; and it is because of this that all the classes concerned with retail trade, commerce, and inn-keeping are disparaged and subjected to violent abuse."
I couldn't justify buying stadia, until I realized that the bundle (controller plus Chromecast ultra) is comparably priced to an Xbox controller and Roku. Then it became an easy decision, and showed me how unattractive the actual game streaming service was.
They might be alluding to the "Paypal Mafia".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
Well, with the Quran, you've still got the destruction of pre-Uthmanic variants, ahruf, qiraʼat, ...
Also not a smart idea because you’re in for a world of trouble if someone decides to register that tld you’re using.
I'm not sure I agree the gains are so small. Since automated order taking is already solved then once you remove the need to wait for customers to physically present payment you can largely remove cashier roles entirely unless one is requested by a customer. This also has a lot of interesting potential for servicing individuals who might be prone to losing money/cards such as the homeless. I'm all for demanding they retain the ability to take payment in more privacy respecting mediums but personally I'd find this wildly convenient.
You can only wish... The same thing happens to stock brokers and they don't get investigated, most of the time.