jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wow, I hadn't heard his name in years.

Just like that you sent me back to '99. 8th grade, me, a 1337 hacker wannabe. I used to subscribe to 2600 magazine.

As a side note, he got his name from the fact that he figured out that a toy whistle in captain crunch cereal boxes produced the frequency he needed to game the telephone system. I'm sure I didn't do the description justice, but that is the gist of it.
Of the top developers? Well, okay, but what about the percentage of all developers (not just the ones whose apps are downloaded the most)?

I mean, if you reverse the number, 37% of the top developers think that publishing on the Ovi store is a bad decision. That doesn't seem so great.
This distinction between being in the "hardware business" or the "software business" is what much of the rest of the industry follows and, as a result, has allowed Apple many of its inroads in the last decade. People want and buy products, and good high-tech products are a result of good software running on good hardware.
That works for you b/c your stuff is something an individual can find and buy/sign up for on your site.

If you were producing something more complex, such as software for companies or organizations, you would need a different approach.
Thanks, I will keep that in mind :)

Also: congrats. Your business model is great, execution even better, and you provide an amazing environment/culture for your employees!
Steve Jobs isn't so much big brother, as he is passionate about the user experience.

Open = Security Issues, Performance Concerns, Viruses, Battery Concerns, Piracy Concerns (resulting in poor software availabilty)

Closed = Secure, predictable performance, virus resistant (if not proof), well known power utilization, and commercially friendly.

But, the good news is we have _both_ now - Android is the open version of iPhone (minus a bit of UI polishing that will be cleaned up, soon).

I'm looking forward to seeing how this all works out over the next three-four years, particularly if the iPhone is available on a reasonable wireless provider in the Bay Area. (AT&T continues to be the bane of my existence.)
Mibbit said...

Sorry but the spec for this is just ridiculous. It's insane. It contains the code to parse HTTP headers, translated into english. You could easily condense this spec down to a couple of pages, and it'd actually be usable.

Once again, sorry, but this is just ridiculous.

June 3, 2010 10:31 AM
The answer "because they want to make more money" doesn't seem particularly insightful.

AT&T is moving from an all-you-can-eat data structure to one where the people who consume the most network pay more.

Of course this wouldn't be a problem if Steve Jobs hadn't made an implicit promise that you'd be able to get all-you-can-eat data from AT&T for $30 on an iPad, motivating many people to buy one. I almost bought one last weekend based on this assumption, now I'm glad I didn't.

But does anyone know whether a high-bandwidth user really costs AT&T significantly more than one wandering around with their phone on downloading just a trickle of data. AT&T already paid for their infrastructure, right?
What's the difference between an artist and a Perl programmer? 364 days and 23 hours.
These are great points. You may be onto something. But (and it seems like so many ideas ultimately come back to this!) how would you market to these customers that don't know that they want these things to be monitored? It seems more like something that a blog platform would make as an offering, anyway - an integrated feature. Because it's hard to imagine someone getting paid monitoring on their free blog.
NUL is in ASCII an abbreviation for null.
Yeah. This seems odd. I get you're running a business but ostensibly the reason for this report is to allow people to view the legitimacy of the program and not as a means to get people on your mailing list.
All Microsoft was doing is integrating a browser into the operating system, and trying to make it impossible to separate them.

I don't regard that as grounds for anti-trust, but I do view it as ridiculous. And it's equally ridiculous for Google to try to trip users into using their other services by leveraging their overwhelmingly dominant search and video products. It'll be interesting to see if Google eventually claims that you can't separate G+ from YouTube and search, going down the same conceptual road as MS.
Also websites that intentionally block content if JavaScript is disabled should be banned.
Why is the japanese government letting TEPCO deal with the disaster on their own? Why is the rest of the world letting Japan deal with the disaster on it's own? Contaminating the Pacific Ocean constantly with radioactive water surely affects a lot of other states.

This is something experts (TEPCO is obviously not in this position) should handle.
The bill for handling the disaster could then be presented at a later time to TEPCO and Japan.
A mainboard with such a feature just needs a hidden remotely accessible subsystem that is completely protected by TPM and which has access to your system through DMA, to read bytes and to write bytes in whatever system (RAM, Harddisks, SDcards, USB, WLAN, etc).

Consider it a "dual system" mainboard with the usual hardware where you have full control, plus a controlling subsystem where you have no access at all. Everything could be done remotely but you couldn't see any evidence.
There's no reason to slavishly imitate a spec

You're forgetting the feeling of smug virtuousness you get when you end up being incompatible because you're more technically correct (the best kind) than the other components you're interacting with.

You get to say the other guys are all wrong, wage wars against them, blacklists, all the usual religious crap etc.
>Except that the Fukushima disaster is about 100 times worse than the New Horizon spill.

Really? Everyone is terrified of the radiation bogeyman, but I'd bet there were more injuries and deaths as a result of New Horizon.
> The various journalists involved will not send the data over the internet for obvious reasons - even if encrypted, it allows the various agencies know who has what.

Question out of my ignorance: couldn't the Tor network obfuscate such things sufficiently?
I'm curious, how many of the naysayers here have kids?
Still, not too many other American business leaders were personally awarded a custom-designed Iron Cross by Hitler himself. So there's that.
>> I don't see why web apps should be handicapped compared to their native versions.

For starters, native apps have too many permissions already.

Second, if you run a native app it should require explicit permission for internet access (perhaps at install time) so you have some idea if local data is going somewhere. Web apps are implicitly assumed to have internet access.

This should be fairly obvious, and the notion of granting more local access to arbitrary outsiders should be distressing. The fact that google and web sites feel entitled to everything on and about you computer says a lot about them. If they were humans with that lack of boundaries and sense that what's yours is theirs, we'd label then narcissists or psychopaths (not sure which).
Fullstack does not mean that you will burn out. Fullstack can mean 40 hours a week, never overtime. Also, for smaller apps, after you had at least few months of experience with all technologies, it is not difficult to switch modes.

People who specialize will be better at their specialization, but you will be good enough for majority of apps.
Well they sang the star spangled banner all while storming the seat of govt ... oh the irony of it all.
"if you did get hired for this role and managed to keep it, you'll be a master at this stuff within a couple of years." I wholeheartedly disagree. I have a total of 14 years of experience. I've been at Google for the past 6 years. I'm an L5 (Senior Engineer) and I get good performance reviews. I interview candidates on a fairly regular basis on behalf of Google. I am fully confident that if I had to re-interview for my job today, without extensive pre-prep like the author suggests, I would have a very slim chance of passing. The fact is, these algorithm quizzes have nothing at all to do with our job. On the off chance once ever 5 years you actually do need to apply an algorithm, you would do extensive study into the possible options and solutions, write a design doc, have it peer reviewed, and then go down that path - not pull something out of your ass in 15 minutes.
Don't you think women would just not use the dating app though? I think most of them enjoy not having to risk approaching guys. It's also known that many women like the ego boost of getting all the attention. I have a hard time seeing how you could convince them to pay to get less attention and force them to make the first move.
What could they do they make them not broken?
>"exclusivity" thing isn't really driving anyone anymore

unless you don't have an iPhone. you can FOMO until the cows come home if you're an android person.
Also, we are again defaulting to assume that Pat is the problem here. He's likely an average software engineer, and if not then we've done a terrible job at education, hiring, or promotion, which again is not necessarily his fault.

The problem is the system, and certification would potentially resolve some aspects, but he still could be ranking himself incorrectly against other engineers and therefore we might be right back to square one.
1 isn't exclusive to them, so doesn't add to their point of being "native." 2 comes with a ton of caveats, if I'm not mistaken. Other browsers also take advantage of graphics cards for certain kinds of rendering.

I have no evidence for this, but I think that IE is trying to ride on the positive association people have for "native apps" on mobile phones.
one criteria is the prepress process. Before committing to print, good quality printers usually have a whole prepress process - from checking the correctness of file formats (I think this is why you were missing certain things on your deck - maybe they can't read your file, or had outdated and/or pirated software), to generating digital proofs - the best printers have a way to let you check the proofs before they even print up a sample. Some even let you come in and check it on their proofing workstations at their press. That's what you're paying for when you go for the "expensive" local printers - it's not really expensive when you think about it - by getting it right the first time you go to press.

As you found out, samples don't always turn out right, and it's great to be able to "double check" their work.

As for the print run size - if you look locally, you should be able to find a good quality press that does gang run printing - basically printing multiple clients' projects together to save on overhead.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Gang_run_prin...

In your case, the special card stock for playing cards might make it difficult to find someone to do this type of printing for you - but in your case, you should be looking for a specialty card printer - maybe even printing on plastic (not paper) - which would involve searching within a whole different industry all together...
Much of their advertising is very much larger CPMs as part of agency buys across IAC's entire network. Certain "party" brands such as Bacardi target Evite on a regular basis given their obvious alignment with the audience. The direct sales team there takes them to task on the rates in comparo with a Adwords. Big G pays out only 25% of ad revenue to content partners (and that is weighted more towards their higher converting brands than lower publishers). Direct sell + high CPM works relatively well with a large network, affinity group of sites or a niche vertical master brand.

Advice (roughly 10 yrs in media/content) would be to completely own a niche or vertical with a strong brand and loyal spend-oriented audience. This can be through traditional media, aggregation, gaming or utility. Adwords will never truly support a product of this scale of effort, which is probably why its utility, benefit and opinion for publishers ranges near the bottom of the toilet. Push relationships...with your product...with your users...with your customers.
So the government gets to indict you; then sieze your assets; then take you to court (where you cannot afford a lawyer anymore, because they have already seized your assets).

I guess it's nice to be the King.
The people that I know that work on IE seem to take my ribbing of them in stride. When I complained about having to fix IE7 bugs, they suggested that I throw up a "get with the times" banner. Also, I think the whole IE6 team was disbanded and the new IE team looks much different, if it even includes any of the original members.
So far the US is only cracking down on domains in the .COM TLD. Do you guys think the US will eventually crack down on non-US-owned TLDs that are operated by US entities, such as .CO (operated by NeuStar)? And after that, perhaps a doomsday scenario, will they eventually force US-hosted DNS caches to expunge records that are related to criminal activity as, in a way, they are aiding and abetting..
Rather a conflating of the concept of free speech with the First Amendment.
> receives any power from a free online publishing tool

i respectfully disagree. imagine FDR without his radio fireside chats, JFK without his television appearances, or even Trump without Twitter.

the usage of media platforms and ability to communicate directly with constituents is a source of power.
Incorrect, you CAN NOT make someone listen, you can only take advantage when they are willing to do so. No one will believe anything they're not willing to. If they open the door, only then does communication work.
All of those things are true of established industries with mature products. But that's also why established industries with mature products don't innovate and die.

There's too much bureaucracy to innovate. A potentially great idea could be snuffed out because it threatens the internal ambition of a middle manager, or the silos required to overcome results in burnout and good devs leaving. Even if a good idea is approved, you need 20 different teams, requiring 20 different meetings, and overall meetings, and then you need status meetings to watch the budget, etc etc.

> Also, strong, small teams usually don't scale well - which is why they sell themselves to megacorps who can

They sell to megacorps to make money, not to scale their product.
The legal system is certainly a flawed creation of man, but it isn't a magic wand. I'd go so far as to say that most legal systems, extant and otherwise, won't (absent corruption) serve as a vehicle for you to do literally whatever you want. I'm not a lawyer, but I get a strong impression that the Trump campaign's attempts to have the election results invalidated or reversed in various jurisdictions were in that vein, and literally laughable.

I agree that revolutions are real, that many have happened in the past, and presumably more will in the future.
>It's not even in downtown, lmao. "killing and assaulting people". What a joke.

Anti-fascist activists murdered an unarmed black kid in the CHOP. They shot him to death with assault rifles. Then they shot and pistol-whipped his critically wounded companion, an unarmed 14-year-old black boy (warning, video is disturbing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K0tXOBPMHA&t=1m25s

This was one of at least four shootings in the CHOP. Bullets entered the homes of neighborhood residents, a group of whom are now suing the city for neglecting to provide law and order.
Algorithms that don't use machine learning aren't dumb. The point of machine learning is you need to implement some function, can't derive it directly from first principles, but have lots of examples of correct inputs and outputs and can use that build a function estimator instead. But in a whole lot of quite sophisticated and intelligent applications, you can derive the functions from first principles. Not easily. One of the projects I spent the first few years of my career working on was the common image formation processing for spy satellite collections, and you need to take into account special relativity, orbital mechanics, curvature and velocity both of earth and of the arrays, midnight crossover in time keeping, temperature calibration and the impact on reported voltage detection of each sensor cell, parallax effects of rapid altitude changes, polarization of light. There's a ton that goes into it, but we know the physics and don't have to use statistics to make educated guesses. We can compute "given voltage levels x1, x2, ..., xn on sensor cells y1, y2, ..., yn at times t1, t2, ..., tn, that is what we were looking at" exactly.

Mind you, I'm talking basic level 1 transformation of raw data streams to human-intelligible images. Once you get into automated object recognition, that's when we start to use machine learning, but the algorithms upstream of that are still plenty smart.
It's not that disruptive. The planes affected are a minority of Boeing 777 models, most of these planes are already idle due to the pandemic, and many spare planes of comparable capabilities are available.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/boeings-777-problem-is-no-max-1...

"The affected 777s are the kind of big, old jets that airlines have kept in storage during the Covid-19 crisis. Out of 127 in operation, according to Cirium, 67 were already parked."

There are ~1450 Boeing 777s worldwide, mostly using GE90 engines, including 250 idle ones. The GE90-equipped planes are also generally more capable than the ones with PW4000s, and suitable for longer flights.
Soundex is a useful option for reducing the search space (the blocking stage, with aims to have a high recall).

TF-IDF is a useful option as part of a high precision pipeline _post_ blocking.

A two step pipeline is typical and necessary because the high precision pipeline, while more accurate than the blocking algorithm, suffers from being slow.
Thanks for the tip, will do.
As I reach the age where some of my friends are starting to have kids in a Western country, one thing I've noticed is that they all seem to have different ideas about raising kids, between diets, sleeping habits, baby bjorns, what language(s) to read to them in, how to get them to walk/talk, etc. I wouldn't call any of them weird (although I honestly don't have much of a baseline understanding), but I have a hard time figuring out how exactly you can generalize a Western way of raising kids.
> What are the pros & cons over vanilla s3

Mostly that you aren't bound to AWS IMHO. You can run it on-prem, or in a cloud provider with no object storage service.
Fast - cheap - quality, pick two. That rule always apply.
> "I think ..." already started subjectively

But fundamentally me saying "I think the sky is blue" and "the sky is blue" are the same thing: the latter just has the "I think" implicit but clear to anyone who stops to think for a moment about what it means that _I_ am saying it. Maybe most people don't think, of course.

> But courts decide who is a criminal or not.

Sort of. The courts decided OJ Simpson is not a criminal by the legal definition. The descriptive statement "OJ Simpson committed a crime" has fairly contested truth value.

> hopefully in an unbiased way.

I guess the key is that the US approach starts out by admitting that the "unbiased way" is an unattainable fantasy and then works on routing around that problem. The real discussion here is whether the cure is worse than the disease in this case.
> The baby cried and cried and cried.

What did you expect having a child to be like?
I've given up using downvotes on HN as a meaningful measure of information quality. Reflexive users will downvote on keywords. Whatever.
Here's a case in point of how it's utilized in practice:

https://www.vox.com/22252625/america-racist-housing-rules-ho...
On 40 inch+ 4k tv monitor or laptop, even compact mode might not be small enough. There is no justification for wasting so much space.
I agree with much of what you say here and I think it would be an improvement. Personally, I still wouldn't use a tracking-less Facebook because:

1. I don't trust Facebook to not track me. When I left Facebook for good in 2014 it was because, for the second time after setting all my settings as private as I could (show photos only to friends, etc.), Facebook somehow reverted everything to "public".

2. Their algorithm is still aimed at generating controversy rather than truth, and that's enough for me to not use it.
You don't want it to end up on an Earth orbit (let alone a decaying one) so you'll want to give it escape velocity. That's a lot more velocity than usual. And fission byproducts are heavy..
The link is an example of a woman eloquently explaining why she prefers "Ms". It is not meant as "evidence" to support my assertion that there are many such women, as that's uncontroversial in most circles.

However, HN is overwhelmingly male (and threads like these illustrate why it is likely to stay that way), so what is obvious elsewhere may not be obvious here.
> so using such titles is only "appropriate" if you are deliberately trying to anger some portion of the population.

It seems to me that the passengers themselves were selecting their own title.
Enjoyable read. I like how the Q&A playfully abstracts that Robert likes beating his meat to feet.

Sometimes you don’t need or want to know the low level details of your implementation :-)
Isn’t that the same solution? Change the name because of how it sounds? I can’t see how that isn’t a name change.

In fact, on the list of new proposals for a successor name, a few proposals are pronounced “coke.”
I have to wonder if you are male.. I'm a transgender woman, and honestly before transitioning I would have thought the same thing. But that's because I was really lacking in perspective. I didn't know what it was like to be a vulnerable, marginalized minority.. and if you've never been vulnerable and marginalized (like women and minorities are), things like this seem like "no big deal" when they actually are in fact a big deal. You've probably never been threatened by someone in a sexual context, so hearing "cock" doesn't have the same effect on you that it has on me.

I've been shocked by the daily harassment and hostility that I have to put up with now. The jokes people make about me that they think are "no big deal". People can be unapologetically terrible, and yes pre-pubescent level harassment happens all the time, even in professional environments. It's just not something that you can understand unless you've been in that position.
Sure, but if an executive is under-performing, you fire them. You don't go back and change their deal.
It's been the same since the extension started being developed.

Reddit comments are mostly the same info being spread again. One redditor must have posted wrong info and other users spread the same thing. Never trust them blindly.
I think it's more like that quote from a supreme court decision about porn, it's very hard to define but you know it when you see it.

I play violin, and know and admire many masters. What makes them so good is fun to study and pursue because they are worth emulation.

But it's not some secret or hack. It's a million small things and a lot of feel.
Hmm, I don't think you want the IMAX projector lens, you want the IMAX camera lens. I don't think it works exactly "backwards" where a lens designed for the limited purpose of projecting onto a known static plane is what is best to actually acquire the images (?)!
Pinochet, Franco, Musharraf, Gaddafi, Hussein... Recent history says military dictatorship. Then they can loot in the open, instead of hiding it behind a matryoshka of shell companies and nonprofits.

Lean times ahead for the lawyers!
"Officials are investigating whether the company, founded by three Russian engineers in the Czech Republic with research labs in Russia, was breached and used as a pathway for hackers to insert back doors"

The claim is that intelligence agencies are investigating. Unless that's a total fabrication, there would be no basis for any kind of suit.