jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not OP but in a similar situation.

The main lock-ins for WhatsApp with my friends/family/colleagues are:

1. Group chats. SMS group chat doesn't exist (or it's next to unknown) in Australia.

2. Sharing images and videos. SMS destroys images/videos/gifs (if they even send).

3. International. Messaging friends/colleagues when they're overseas is easy.

4. Videochat (however, it's usually FaceTime with an older relative).

I attempted a shift to Telegram with a few close friends and family members. Eventually, we started to drop back to the "normal" comms route because our extended network was on WhatsApp/iMessage and juggling several methods was irritating (e.g you message a friend on Telegram and get no response -- they then message you later that day on WhatsApp -- it's irritating to move the conversation back to Telegram).
>Linus, as the namesake for Linux also made a huge impact on the field... and comes off as somewhat of an uncontrolled lunatic.

Ha! Would you consider Musk also as a Lunatic? :-)
The first two paragraphs are reasonable. It descends into conspiracy fueled guff from then on. By the final paragraph they're alleging that "mountains of fraud" took place.

Twitter has permanently banned people for far less. Showing that the President is an equal seems like a fairly American concept from over here.
>Tell me, if you were a lawyer, would you have defended the neo-nazis right to march down Skokie's Main Street where tons of Holocaust survivors settled down after escaping Germany?

If I was a lawyer I would have done that if that's what I was employed to do.

Hayes code seems irrelevant: what was being discussed was people feeling less positive about censorship when those who they thought were moral were being censored (rather than those thought to be immoral).
> All of this begs the question, when does a definition change of a word change?

(This is a perfect context for “begs the question”)

I think that form of the question isn’t a useful one and that’s the issue in the broader discussion. A definition is a useful yet leaky abstraction. If you
take the viewpoint that a dictionary is merely descriptive, then “the” definition isn’t really a thing. “A” definition is more appropriate. If a definition is an attempt to capture one of the common ways people use and understand a word, your question becomes this:

When do the ways people use and understand a word change? At what point is there close enough to nobody left using a word in a given way?

The distinction is crucial here because a word can mean many things, and it can mean different things to different people. I’d answer your question by pointing to that phrase about science: It progresses one funeral at a time.
The RPi uses chips originally designed for set top boxes which kinda explains the video focus (that and every SoC has video decoding these days).
What is preventing health care from being able to scale up?

In the US, politicians, bureaucrats, and doctors have been working together for decades to artificially limit the number of doctors.[1]

[1]https://qz.com/1676207/the-us-is-on-the-verge-of-a-devastati...
"For the first time any person can own a financial asset completely decoupled from any government."
I did too, but that’s obviously not contradictory unless I supported the federal prohibition, which I did not.
Right but I'm talking about very specific hints for one codebase

"Function X will only ever take two arguments, they will be of types Y and Z"

"This object will only ever have these properties; it will never have properties created or deleted"

"This prototype will never be modified at runtime"
I am well-aware of these.

The issue is the joint-packaging.

If we went hard on Microsoft for packaging IE and WMP into Windows, we should go equally ballistic about iMessage and SMS being fused in together. They should be broken up.
It's satisfying to roll your own?
Many have guarantees of 20 years. Whether there will be someone around to honor that guarantee is another matter, of course.
Apparently carrying one's phone in one's pocket is less common than I thought.
I don't disagree with any of the other criticisms here, but seeing the headline and source together was enough. It calls to mind a harness-maker sneering "Horseless carriages? Nobody will ever want to drive those!" Who are they trying to convince?
The Secretary of Defense is Ashton Carter, who's a physicist that's never served in the US Military.
Many years ago (in the 80s), my parents took me on a road trip which happened to go through Tillamook, OR (yes, famous for cheese). At the time there were two huge WW2-era blimp hangars there, one of which housed a company building a blimp that had a rather novel solution to this problem. The blimp itself was neutrally buoyant and had four wing-like rotors with propellers at the end; the whole unit spun slowly. Lift and angle/direction were controlled by changing the blade angles like a helicopter. They were out field testing it, which is why we stopped by and chatted for a couple hours (yes, I am the son of engineers).

Picture a cross between a blimp and a Triebflügeljäger.

I heard they went out of business before getting it into production and I can't seem to find any relevant information on Google. Anyone know what it was called? I imagine that it would be much easier to develop the control systems today than it was back in the early 80s.

Since then, one of the two hangars burned down and the other has been converted to an air museum. The structure itself is actually worth a visit on its own - one of the largest wooden structures in the world.
Anyone who thinks programming with tables is a neat idea hasn't had to write a complex Windows Installer/MSI deployment.

The horror...the horror...
The link seems to have dissolved; now redirecting to the front page of oscon.
I stick with Hover which is excellent and Slicehost which gets the job done. YMMV.
Or we could take the 2.5 million for SETI and help people get access to safe drinking water, food, and vaccines. After all, people on Earth suffering should be a higher priority than looking for spacemen, right?

edit: This might have come across as snarky - that wasn't my intention. I just wanted to show that you can argue that any government spending can be spent better, and/or more morally, somewhere else.
Really cool! In the repo I see that nodejs is used for Twitter. Are there any other dependencies? Just checking how 'pure' this CouchApp is :)
Google customer service is an oxymoron.
Thanks for the pointer - I've been looking for something similar (DSP being to general).

While this course describes the mathematical background of music signal processing, does anyone know of a practical extension to it - i.e. resources that demonstrate the basics like FFT, parametric EQs and so on in such a way that one can write a time-efficient implementation of them?
Line of sight is a bit of a pain. So is needing sky in all directions to 10-20 degrees of elevation.

Satellite is great for A) where it's not worth putting up towers to reach just a few residents, and B) filling in where there's little holes in tower coverage. (This is what I tried to say in the comment you're replying to).

> The other problems haven't really been an issue for Starlink, even for being in the early phases, it's really just the density issue that bites it.

Capital costs are high per simultaneous user served in an area. Densification is hard. Spectral efficiency is the key figure of merit (how many bits you get to users per limited bit of radio spectrum). That is, the things I mention *are* the reasons for the "density issue".
Paracetamol doesn't have any significant anti-inflammatory effects. It's just an analgesic (painkiller).

There's even some interesting research on exactly /why/ it isn't - but like many drugs there's not really consensus on how exactly it works (a summary is available: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-9592.... )

I've seen lots of people confuse paracetamol and ibuprofen - maybe that's what's happened here?
If you haven’t been on HN recently, there were lots of articles about that already. Also not everybody agrees with you.
going from "Sequoia's strongly-worded opinion in 2008 proved to be wrong" to "nobody knows anything" seems to be a bit of an over-generalization
Actually, use this URL to bypass the setup page: https://www.iptrust.com/demo/?code=a33b9

This is good for a one-time shot, and if you like the app please sign up.
Do you actually use it this way (with uzbl, for example)?
The headline is a little misleading. The word "hygiene" means more than just "cleanliness", although the two are frequently used interchangeably. In this case, it refers specifically to "sleep hygiene", which is a medical term for sleep-related behaviors conducive to health (setting a regular sleep schedule, getting enough sleep, not consuming food/caffeine/alcohol too close to bedtime, etc.).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_hygiene
This is why Linode is better than many other services I've used. Every data center has outages, but at least Linode makes a point to update the server status promptly and (it seems) implement the fixes as quickly as possible.

rbranson is right: the responsibility for redundancy lies with you.
All I can ask is please, try not to submit/vote up stories which are not particularly related to tech. It's not what I'm interested in discussing in this particular venue.

As a community, is that true, or is it "submit/vote up stories which are not particularly related to technology, startup culture, and programming?" That's my preference, but I also came in a few generations after HN started.
That website is just god awful. No, I don't want to download a freaking zip file and dig through it. I expected snippets and readable code on the site.
There are a tremendous about people today, without $12k/year for free, who do not work and have no plans to.
I think there's also an opportunity here to crowdsource UX testing to our moms. They're the ultimate litmus test when it comes to being able to use technology.
I just submitted a kindle version to Amazon for review. I'll also be adding the epub version to gumroad for those who want to read it in that format.

It's not as nice looking (personal opinion) but it is functional at least.
I don't see why you would use DO it's vastly inferior to every cloud provider, the only reason people use DO is for the price, it's cheap compare to AWS, Google or Azure.
Oh hey cool to see you in here! Thanks for referring me all those years ago - I'm still there! :)
It’s a very large tent party though sparse in density.

Some of us see the need for aspects of regulation and frameworks, others prefer the more idealist semi pastoralist view of the world. I’m more in the Johnson camp ;)
Compatibility and upgradability (together with maintainability) is why I stopped using laptops. Your offer sounds interesting, but if it's a platform, instead of a free standard, it's a far cry from the freedom and competition in the stationary PC market. Maybe that's what it takes to move the issue along. I don't know. But that's my knee-jerk reaction.
> Why don't you try to start one

Why should I? You can start an organisation if you want, but you'd need to argue why it's in my interest if you want me to lend what little individual power I have. And the employer can present their arguments as well, which is fine. But if you think I'm going to trust you've got my interests at heart just because you're not my employer, then you're delusional. Why should I trust you more than them?
Finally! This is amazing what you do! I like the philosophy and share values! This is the machine I wish to have and this is the machine I was dreaming to help making. Is there any way one can help/contribute/join? I have knowledge in sw-dev/ hw / design and speak 4 languages. May be there is a way to help distribute them at least?
The website says that it’s by members of the founding team from Oculus. You know what else is from the founders of Oculus? A company making AI-directed killer drones and other toys being pitched as essentials for World War III.

In 2021, the ethics of your products are as important as the products themselves. And yes, there’s a ton of hypocrisy if we compare to $BIG_CO, but that’s one of the tough parts of being young and new in an era where the young new guys have gone from 0 to 100 and gotten old and evil real quick.

Sorry to be so harsh, but Oculus connection that wins you VC dollars will get in the way of a lot of other things in unexpected ways if you want to tap consumer / prosumer. If you go after the defense market, however, you’re golden! Not kidding. Call me crazy, though, but I’d rather have my dollars end up as far from war lobbying as possible.
epub on the way!
Good to see Max Headroom found some work.
OTOH, I recently heard a speaker talk about improving your writing, and she used "bewildered" as an example of an arcane or willfully highfalutin word.

This left me, well, you know ...
PayPal does have something quite a lot like this though the business model is a little different.

The kids these days call it eBay.
"Unsolved" is very different from "unprosecuted". The question here is why the courts are overloaded, not why there isn't additional load due to the 80% of property crimes you mention.
Assuming you are the author (nice work!), any chance you'll consider adding support for the 'famicom disk system' ?

It's a bit 'exotic' but there are some interesting NES games which only exists on the disk system, like '3d hot rally' (super mario racing game), 'doki doki panic' (the game from which super mario 2 was remade), here's a list of all the disk games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Family_Computer_Disk_Sy...
It's actually one tip: Be concise

irony
I think it's because RoR allows one developer to make an app quickly while .NET is more for a team. If you're someone who needs only one developer for your Rails app - because you were the only developer and have to move on to do something else or your current developer is leaving, you are more likely to tolerate his not being onsite if you can give him high level instructions; however, a remote team is much complicated to handle.
International news sources, especially state-funded ones like Al Jazeera and RT, are just as biased, just in the other direction (US and Europe are teh suxx, Russia and OPEC are your friends!). If you can handle the cognitive load of filtering out the biases from all sources and have the perspective and knowledge to synthesize them into some objective truth, then my hat is off to you because I can't do that.
Literally every other interview on film, audio or in writing he's ever done. This guy literally rehashes interview questions, word for word, in a particular order. It's actually hilarious once you've seen 10 of his interviews, as well as mind numbingly boring. But I keep listening to them hoping he'll say something new, as the things he does say are pretty powerful.

Hell if someone took 10 of his interviews and just made a video of the exact same question answered the exact same way, that'd be pure comedy gold. You'd trend on social media with that for sure. Things like 'lived on 1 dollar a day', '5 most important things for humanity' and 'reason from first principles', are just a few of the things he manages to say in every single interview.

Anyway here's a quick transcript:

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/elon-musk-tunnels-could-ma...
Agreed.

I would not use local state apart from fine-grained performance optimizations or temporary, always-can-be-thrown-away state specific to the component itself.

Example: email field input before passing validation.
A friend of mine (mid-West redhead) spent years in China doing research. She came back to the US to do her PhD, and FBI started hassling her, asking if she was spying for the Chinese. Finally ended when she called that agent's superior and implied the agent was coming on to her.
Push notifications are pretty standard, though - this is an issue with the app store model, if anything.
By this definition, every company stock is a multi-level marketing pyramid scheme.

In fact, company stock is WAY worse, because the majority of people are legally prohibited from investing in private companies unless they're an accredited investor (already rich). So, only rich people (other than founders and early employees) are allowed to buy in at super low prices before handing off the bag to the public.
The arguments against federation would also apply to this solution. Given that they don't like federation, it's logical that they also reject this approach for their payment solution.
Fiduciary duty is about acting in the best interest of the company. Amazon only had a profit in 2003, like nine years after being founded.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042915/what-are-som...
Nearly all human behavior is irrational.
There's a lot of paid content on those two sites. Is that what you're referring to? If it is that's fine; just want to know whether it's worth paying for or not.
I had to think about this one for a while,
but "twitter" and "google" are real (rare) words,
and "facebook" is just not a word. A discovery that shouldn't come surprisingly, but does because we're so inundated with branding!
> But the truth is, the same holds for Marx, who held to an entirely conventional moral system, basically that of Aristotle.

Really?

Marx to Engels: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/letters/48_1...

"I have devised an infallible plan for extracting money from your old man, as we now have none.

Write me a begging letter (as crude as possible), in which you retail your past vicissitudes, but in such a way that I can pass it on to your mother. The old man's beginning to get the wind up."

Explain how in the hell someone with a moral system that's "basically that of Aristotle" wrote this.
I find the story very telling. The NSA is one of the largest employers of mathematicians, and yet it appears that the NSA has had more success simply by using backdoors.

I have to wonder if academic progress (like defeating cryptographic algorithms) can be achieved under a climate of secrecy. Without the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, how much progress can be had?
The dollar numbers being talked about in the article are kind of stunning, for a website that dropped off my radar more than a decade ago. Who are all these people with all that much money and where are they getting it from??
Next time reproduce the comment:

"
I did google the guy who put the fake app. He seems to be from the same country I am, Moldova. I doubt there is any company behind this app, maybe he is just a lonely hacker with lots of free time...

I found also a list of 23 apps he has done http://www.appdata.com/ios_apps/devs/3706221-petru-plesca

and his linkedin www.linkedin.com/pub/petru-plesca/55/13a/380
"
Reminds me of this glorious quote from http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...:

"I can’t even say what’s wrong with PHP, because— okay. Imagine you have uh, a toolbox. A set of tools. Looks okay, standard stuff in there.

You pull out a screwdriver, and you see it’s one of those weird tri-headed things. Okay, well, that’s not very useful to you, but you guess it comes in handy sometimes.

You pull out the hammer, but to your dismay, it has the claw part on both sides. Still serviceable though, I mean, you can hit nails with the middle of the head holding it sideways.

You pull out the pliers, but they don’t have those serrated surfaces; it’s flat and smooth. That’s less useful, but it still turns bolts well enough, so whatever.

And on you go. Everything in the box is kind of weird and quirky, but maybe not enough to make it completely worthless. And there’s no clear problem with the set as a whole; it still has all the tools.

Now imagine you meet millions of carpenters using this toolbox who tell you “well hey what’s the problem with these tools? They’re all I’ve ever used and they work fine!” And the carpenters show you the houses they’ve built, where every room is a pentagon and the roof is upside-down. And you knock on the front door and it just collapses inwards and they all yell at you for breaking their door.

That’s what’s wrong with PHP."
Misleading title, does this article dig up some dirt about mayer or not, I don't get it.

The title sounds like people have been lied to about Mayers, but what lies ?
I forget where I read it, but "Pud" of FckedCompany and Adbrite fame explained how he used to run a BBS back in the day and the techniques (similar to the blog post) he used to get traffic carried over into how he got traction for FckedCompany.
I'm guessing they meant they implemented a websockets application, not the actual protocol.
Amen, I poked around on c-64 emulator one time looking for a nostalgia rush, all I got was headache; that inexorable blinking cursor. Living in the rural midwest, my 80's where an exercise in frustration due to lack of information and resources. Is there a word for good nostalgia and bad nostalgia? Remorse I guess.
"* How much media do we 'need'? A lifetimes' worth? Two? How about we just restart broadcasting from the beginning and repeat it all. It will seem new again, to new generations who weren't exposed the first time around.*"

That's classic rock. Any new rock musician is in competition with the best ones of the last half-century. Few will beat the best in the past.

When was the last time someone wrote a new symphony and made money from it?

If it weren't for copyright term extensions, all that would be public domain. In the countries which still have 50-year copyright, it is.
I think it's funny that the author used such flowery language, yet seems to be of the opinion that "criticism" and "critique" mean "opposition", a common but incorrect belief.

The author isn't talking about people who oppose technology, he's talking about people who evaluate it's evolution, which is in line with criticism in the sense of "film criticism". The people being cited here are clearly not against technology on the whole.

Then again, the author also thinks that 'Silicon Valley' is synonymous with 'technology'.

It's called synecdoche. The US Government isn't relegated to Washington, DC either.
Why not a jelly donut with powdered sugar? Boom recurring revenue stream!
You can at least configure some basic sanitizations, so you'r app doesn't have to deal with them. Examples of the top of my head, are normalizing slashes and removing invalid headers.

Whether that's worth it is another question.
but what if you don't know it is a magic trick?
It's not magic; you have to work at it. (For example, make sure that zip doesn't put timestamps in the file.) But it's designed so that code generators should act as pure functions from input files to output files, and many generators actually are, especially the built in ones. If you do this then the build system will help you.

Writing generators to run this way is kind of a pain, actually, sort of like writing code to run in a sandbox. Also, the generators themselves must be checked in, and often built from source. But we consider the results worth it.
GA is a fantastic tool.

Problem is (not really a problem, but a fact of life) most of today's interactions that are pertinent to your product's success (and the ROI) are taking place outside of your properties that are trackable by GA (e.g. website).

If you look at apps like Meerkat, their meteoric rise can be attributed almost entirely to a handful of influential VC/celebrity figures, who loved the app, started using it, and actively promoting it. Product Hunt may have played a role in the beginning (those referrers would show up in GA of course).

GA is great at tweaking your conversion rates through the funnel, but as far as magic is concerned (what makes something explode), GA is helpless.
Why? To me this just sounds like intelligent marketing. If it's not lying, what's wrong with tailoring the message to the audience?
Did you get a response? The author mentions that he wrote to Panasonic and Amazon and was basically brushed off.