jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I love the idea of an heirloom computer and agree with many of the author's points. But I don't think choosing a microcontroller and virtualizing a fringe operating system are the answers. I still build standard ATX style desktop computers with basically the same architecture as I did in the 90's. I install Linux and other open source software because I know that it won't break because the company selling it wants to force me to buy a new version. I would contend that the heirloom computer exists and has quietly become more and more accessible. It just isn't fashionable.

I think we're already at a point where we have quality open source software that does basically everything we want to do with a computer. The only way forward for big companies is to covert customers to SAAS with monthly rents. We need to keeping pushing for the open standards that allow individuals to build computer systems (hardware and software) outside the walled gardens that can still interact with the larger network.
Do you think that he wouldn't have done what he has done if there was a wealth tax in the US? Do you think he can put money to better use for all of society than a good government? (And we can discuss if the US government is a good government in that sense, but that's beside the point I'm making).

I'm pretty sure the answer to these questions is No (he would have still done it) and No (a good government can put money to better use for all of society).

Or do you think the single mom with 3 kids working 2 jobs and still can't pay rent and health care cares about electric cars and rockets?

Edit: I still think what he's doing is important and impressive, and it's ok that he is one of the richest people on Earth. However, that doesn't mean the US needs to have a better tax system for the rich and better social pillars.
What makes a good spin instructor?
Nintendo is a 132 year old company (111 at the time this happened), with a "war chest" of $10 billion. They've been successful for far longer than Microsoft have existed.

I don't know what Nintendo would get out of being acquired, and I'm not certain that Microsoft would be able to put together a convincing acquisition deal.
Data on how much this can generate in aggregate; I chose EFF for my 2020 donations and Amazon Smile sent a year-end report on 15 Dec.

$45,901.14 was donated to EFF in 2020
$655,382.45 donated to EFF in total
$217,644,976.48 to all US charities
$237,615,915.89 to all global charities

Amounts in USD.
Have you tried looking for them yourself? It's not really that hard. Here's the video, judge for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBa5b1Xri8w
Don’t attribute ignorance which can be safely explained by malice

I think it is much more likely that this downsizing had everything to do with who the protestors were—i.e. their political views and skin color—in each case.
I'm not entirely familiar with the protocols in use, but I assume the cell towers publish their GPS coordinates.

When my carrier installed a new tower in my area, Google Maps would start with my location hundreds of miles away until the GPS locked on. It eventually corrected itself, but I assumed at the time that they had the wrong GPS coordinates entered for that cell location.

There are dots on my map for places I have never been, so I don't think it is coming from the on-board GPS receiver.
I can vouch for its Lisp binding.
I'm going to file this under "come on, are you kidding me, read the FAQ before you write a blog post."

The FAQ: http://petewarden.github.com/iPhoneTracker/#9

The wonders of following links.
Even if everyone is skilled, there can still only be one #1.
It will take some time, until facts like these about German history will be more wildly known, for example the liberal time of the 1920s. The NS era is just such a huge part of history lessons in school, militarism and just pure evil is by far the dominating notion of a German thinking about history. While glorifying their own shortcomings in the past, the English view on Germany [0] is much more differentiated, acknowledging the good parts like the Hanse [1] or thousand year old organizations like the Teutonic Knights [2] without just thinking about 20th century Germany's imperialism.

Anecdotally Wagner, whose 200th birthday would have been 2 years ago, is casually mentioned in the article as being able to be interpreted liberally, while he is viewed much more critically in Germany [3]. Questions like whether or not one should enjoy art, whose creator was evil are not that uncommon.

I think recent events like the reunion or the comeback of German football starting with the world cup in 2006 changed peoples perception about Germany quite a bit. With the Euro crisis Germany finally stopped behaving like an awkward giant Switzerland and took some responsibility in the world again.

[0]: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/germany_me...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Knights

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner#Controversies
That article seems to start with the assumption that the only worthwhile jobs are manufacturing jobs. It's taking a bit of a different slant in context, I think. Above I'm talking about how all jobs in some way enhance the company's bottom line, taking a company-centric approach. The article is talking on a societal level. Corporate lawyers don't help the public much, but they sure as hell help the companies that hire them - it may be a 'bullshit' job, but it's a 'necessary' job (from the fiscal point of view).

Still, I think it's ironic that in one paragraph, dog-washers and pizza deliverers get caned for being bullshit jobs, and two paragraphs later the author bemoans the loss of workers that move things (pizza...) and maintain things (dogs...) :)
Just think of all the GDP that's tied up in investment banking. We'd probably all be better off without a stock market. Imagine if those people had to actually introduce wealth into the economy for a living instead of just pocketing percentages.
Not just that: China uses lots of unskilled labor that can work with concrete but not very well with steel frames. They also use more concrete per floor (we have thick walls and floors) as a form of over building since the quality isn't that great.

Singapore, a modern city by any other definition, uses concrete in the same way so they can import cheap construction labor from India.
But Apple has thousands of developers producing high quality apps. There's literally zero chance that all, most, or really even a significant some of them will be enough to earn their developers significant amount of money.

How many Windows developers make enough from their one-off piece of software that they can quit their job and work full time on it? Hardly any. How many Linux developers? An even smaller amount, closer to zero (you want to talk about a platform where people expect to get free-as-in-beer software, when was the last time you paid money for any non-enterprise Linux software?). Now look at the difference between a PC and an iPhone. On a PC, you can have meaningful, long-term engagements with software. I've put hundreds of hours into each Civilization and Elder Scrolls games, thousands of hours between the entire series of each. And iPhone games advertise a huge game at under 10 hours of gameplay. I spend $50 to play a game for 500 hours. If I want that kind of return from an iPhone game, even 99 cents is way too much to spend.

I'm not arguing that the apps need to be more engaging. It's just the platform doesn't lend itself to that. It's about small bits and bites and sporadic usage. And for that, apps are even massively over-priced. And you want to argue about discoverability? How is the discoverability on Windows? And the discoverability on Linux... on Debian the package is apache2, on RHEL it's httpd. Same package. That's poor discoverability.

I'll go against the article: I'm not an Apple fanatic, I don't own a Mac, I have an iPhone as one of the many phones I use, I don't have an iPad, I've never published to the store, and I have no relationship with Apple. But is there anything wrong with the App Store? If there is, it's in developer expectations. I've written Windows and Linux software and put it up for free on my website. You know how many views it gets, let alone downloads? Zero. I get around that lack of income by having a job and developing as a hobby, like most software (except, I guess, the App Store). The App Store is an incredible thing for developers, but many developers see it as nothing more than a gold mine that they can exploit, then get upset when they only make $100/mo, even though they put in all that effort. Effort doesn't guarantee success anywhere in life.

If you feel Apple owes you anything, that's your own damn fault. There has never been a better time to be an independent developer than there is right now. But if you go in expecting people to throw money at you then blame Apple when they don't... well just because you play guitar doesn't mean your band is going to get a recording contract.
Exactly. Shouldn't we prioritise humans? Fear of dogs isn't exactly an uncommon thing. Neither are allergies (and we got rid of peanuts on planes for those people). I have a dog, which I have no fear of, but walking down the street will usually cross if I see a large dog coming (even on a leash). It's irrational but if I was on a plane and there was a dog somewhere on board I would be on edge the entire flight unable to concentrate on anything but where the dog was. If you don't wan't your dog kept in the planes hold how about not bringing it with you? There are plenty of options available - pet hotels, sitters, family, friends. To be clear I have no problem with guide dogs etc. as they are expertly trained but people lying to get their pets onboard is disrespectful.
Especially in light of what Bitcasa pulled this year...
I don't think it's unfair, IIRC they were quite explicit about the fact that they were using crowdfunding as a way to measure the market. They would quite definitely have had to "put their own skin in the game" (I want to know what games you've been playing) alongside the crowd funds, but now they know that there isn't a keen enough market outside of nerds and they haven't wasted their money. As a nerd I'm disappointed that the product won't make it to the market, but as a businessman I think they've found a sane way to determine what punters are prepared to unfold their wallets for.
Why do you "apply" for conscientious objector status? Surely that means they can decide whether or not to accept it.
There's a language button right on my Nexus 4 keyboard for fast-switching between languages.

I would never need to write in more than one language in the same message, so it's as simple as 2 taps to switch the entire phone dictionary. I'm not sure how it could get any easier?
Only if we start from the premise that there is no middle ground between totally infallible and too stupid to take any responsibility.
note that i'd totally pay for support

So why didn't you? Nginx Inc. had support available for some time.
It's not exclusively about the architecture (granted fully fledged x86 out-of-order cpus have some junk to carry around but the architecture overhead isn't that big). The assumption that always is made ARM = low power is just not true. At least not in all scenarios. Nobody expects a typical workstation x86 grade cpu to be competing with a designed for mobile arm-chip. But it's not about architecture, just look at the upcoming Atom chips. They seem to be very competitive with their arm counterparts.
On the other side it is probably no problem to build a big arm processor like the typical intel/amd desktop cpu (not talking about shoving 5000 small mobile arm cores in it because that is just programmers and everyones nightmare).
TL;DR
You design a processor for a specific purpose regardless of architecture.
They work well for most of us. Consumers have expressed a pretty clear preference for large screen size over any inconvenience of virtual keyboards.
SwiftKey for Android has worked really well for me when typing in different languages
> One can hide behind the fact that it was Iraqis doing this but given our sway over their forces this doesn't hold water with me. We did nothing to stop these abuses.

Realistically, I'm not sure there's a lot the USA could do. When US forces arrest an Iraqi within Iraq, then it's a violation of Iraqi sovereignty not to hand him over to the Iraqi authorities. Given where Iraq is now (a history of repression, just becoming democratic), it would be extremely naive to expect Iraqi forces never to violate human rights.

Unless the USA wants to stay in Iraq forever -- which would be unacceptable to both the American and Iraqi publics, and would make the situation worse anyway -- they have to accept that some torture and other human rights violations will occur.
"there Lorem Ipsum text"
Is Racket good for learning Lisp/Scheme or is it better to start with something else?
yup, it's independent, you can get more context on why I created dynjs here: http://blog.qmx.me/the-release/
The interesting thing is that they would accept pull requests (presumably from the devs they offered that "restricted" access), but might not share the profits from charging for atom.io.

Food for thought.
Still, when I saw the location requirement, (as I do with many apps) I backed out of trying even the lite version. You guys should consider removing that requirement until you gain more trust from the community.
URL aggregators online/offline are also good for keeping resources in one place, you can use tags for fast search.

It's imporant to find one which can export data to "human format" to convert it later fe. when service is going to be shutdown or you need other functions.
>Good at what they are good at and people are apt to use what feels right. More power to them.

That's just wishy washy "let's everyone use what's best for them" etc.

It's not like there's not something called computer SCIENCE, and PL research, that has studied Generics and what they bring to the table...
But what can the grandparent poster do? It would be better if a mod could rename the post and delete this subthread.

(I also came here expecting to read something about the f.lux competitor :) )
ASM doesn't have much in the way of type restrictions either...
I have a side business, being run out of my home. This is the "mixed use development" that is fetishized by the people who want to tax me out of my home. I will do a lot of fucked up things to protect that income stream if it comes down to it. I can't "just move" because my business and processes are highly refined for my location. It would take me a long time to make a new operation equally efficient. And I would lose my network.
So many participles at play here
I think the median case is exaggerated on both sides. But both sides are gradually radicalizing. One probably doesn't want to bump into extremists from either side. Both are overhyping their respective persecution complexes. Both are using extreme events and individuals to try to justify extreme behavior in non-extreme median cases. When neither events nor individuals are mentioned, many of the complaints people raise can be applied to either side.

I do agree that the left lacks self-awareness of how much it behaves just like a religion -- I moved away from my religious home state to try to get away from dogma, and just found another breed of it. The right lacks self-awareness of how much influence it still has.

Both lack mutual awareness of how to relate to one another, and that's something we need to work at from all sides. Neither side has 100% of the "truth", whatever that might be.

I don't really know what a solution looks like, but I do know that it has to start somewhere, maybe with believing that an amicable solution is even possible. We've spent a lot of time airing grievances. What do we want to happen next? Would you (and others reading) be willing to help brainstorm some ideas to try to bridge the divide?
I'm not an American and I don't identify with the political sides that have formed up but it is terrifying to me to see about half of the population being silenced.
More specifically, it gets the order of events wrong. Trump's comments about "very fine people" came after the deadly white supremacist rally, so it's misleading to imply that those comments were in encouragement of the killing.

However, it's perfectly valid to construe Trump's comments as praise after the fact for the white supremacist rally, even though he specifically condemned the killing that resulted. Because Trump's assertions that there were "very fine people" on both sides and that there were many people on the alt-right side of that event who were not neo-Nazis or white nationalists are simply not credible claims. Trump was praising somebody. Even praising or encouraging the kind of white supremacists who don't get violent is abhorrent conduct on the part of the president, but the comment upthread exaggerated beyond this.
Maybe you're the one who's wrong, ever think of that?
I'm writing my first C99 compiler. IOCCC sounds like a great source of test material.
Fair, I certainly can't endorse a lot of the headlines I've seen. Headlines are just very bad and we as a society have got to find a way to fix them.
Why do you say not Moderna? Are they not equally effective?
Embracing the full range of experience available to you, and using tools to achieve those states is intrinsically human. There's nothing superior or desirable about not using chemical tools to alter your state, and it's silly to think that way. Teetotalling is masochism.

You might not like changing from your baseline, but maybe you don't like blue or purple and prefer red cars. You don't have to like everything, and not everything has to be to your taste.
you mean like a larger pallet? it lets you search for more (three character minimum search string) but remembering more than four, atleast in the 'find a token' popup, seems pretty important

otherwise the search is nice, though not having anything under 'goblin' is pretty unfortunate
Just fun, really. There is not much serious about it.
I short SPARQL query on wikidata would answer this
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Ai Weiwei is not living our future. I'm a big fan of Weiwei but being the best known opposition figure against the worlds largest dictatorship is something that's unlikely to happen to most of us. Also his "Fuck your mother, the party central committee" themed photos are obviously trying to wind them up. Here in London we have CCTV everywhere and the secret services no doubt have the ability to bug me and read my mail but it effects me and most people not at all - no one is interested especially. I'd be honoured to be Weiwei.
The most egregious cost with these cars is not the thousand or two over in profit to the dealer, but rather the massive depreciation over the first two years. That's a substantial expense that almost everyone overlooks and one that can be easily avoided but just buying something a few years old.
I was asking because that's exactly what I did last year on January 1st. I quit Facebook (500+ "friends"), Twitter (3Ksomething followers) & all social networks cold-turkey. Deleted my accounts, no recovery possible. My motivation was personal & not political/ideological (social media burnout) ... All it did for me was:

* give me more time for side-projects & a clearer frame of mind (good)
* actually made me think & write MORE. not everything you think should be thrown on social media immediately. I appreciate having learned to shut up when you don't have anything to say (good)
* made a bunch of people angry at first (good I guess if you want to provoke a mind-change) ... but that seemed to last only until the next cute cat picture came along.
* I'm sure I made no one reconsider. Zero effect. So that's why I was asking.

"Changing the world by beginning with yourself" is not a valid strategy here. So what do we do instead?
Highly recommended: The Zero Theorem if you haven't seen it yet.
I think you're missing the point of the article.

What he's getting at is that timezone rules change, so the function to go from local to UTC when you save the meeting is not the same as the function to go from UTC back to local at the time of the meeting.
Please don't do this here. We're trying for something different.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
No it's not. The amount of bandwidth available on a wireless network is a function of the amount of spectrum ($$), the sophistication of the cell equipment ($$), and the density of the cell sites ($$$).

Sprint's network is slow because it spends a fraction of what AT&T and Verizon do,[1] while trying to get the same nationwide footprint. It's a simple math problem.

As for prices--every company charges what they estimate people might be willing to put up with.

[1] Last year, $6 billion versus $17-20 billion. These are combined CapEx, but most of it goes into wireless.
A surprise?
I'll do you one better. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drCAiTSAYdc
I think you misunderstand - I don't mean 'smoozing' with people. I mean connecting with them in a real, meaningful fashion. Meeting people just to ask them for jobs is not real or meaningful.

E.g.: I got my last job when I mentioned at a group dinner that I was looking to move on - one of the other attendees said they had an opening doing interesting stuff. I'd known him for almost 4 years at that point, entirely because of the group dinners - never thought I'd get a job directly from him out of it.

When you go through a person in your personal network, you get a bunch of benefits - this applies equally to hiring and looking for a new job. If I hire someone because I or someone I trust knows them, I have a very high amount of confidence in them. If I pick someone up from Monster, then it's a complete crapshoot (in both ways - they may be way better than their resume, or way worse).
Not sure why Android gets pulled into this, however in addition to the fact that Android 2.2 has far and away class leading canvas and JavaScript performance -- the poor performance on iOS is why so many apps go native on that platform for trivial needs -- and brings virtually all of the Google Gears functionality that became the foundation of "HTML5" to Android (web databases, web workers, geolocation), the next version of Android is going to feature optional javascript access to the camera, among other improvements.

Android is innovating heavily, and your comment is way off base.
Or you could just use Webnumbr

http://webnumbr.com/