jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>I think the SD card example encapsulates the issue perfectly

It does. Micro-sd-card reader fits even in raspberryPi Zero ... Neglectable "space saving" advantage vs huge usability disadvantage.

> The point of a laptop is to strike a balance between portability and usability.

I think MacbookPro should be about philosophy of amplifying creative person with power tools for creativity in a portable way. Not a dumb machine mimicking more and more some TV . While this it should also do easily it shouldn't do just this, I think.

Look at my use-case:
https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=26271855

From my perspective of extensive use of a laptop some people barely use laptops at all and thus perhaps they better be designing something else because for me it appears they have no idea what 'Pro' usage is. When you travel you never know what environment you'll have and therefor ports and connectivity make a difference between: Creative idea done/ not done.

>Requiring the extra like two cubic inches of space in your bag for a dongle is assuredly not a design concern.

It's not 2 cubic inches. It's huge adapter with all missing ports. Why Pro Laptop should consist of two parts is beyond me.

Again look at my use-case. I have no place for dongles nor time for dealing with them.

If those real 'Pro' requirements are not a design concerns then perhaps MacbookPro should not have 'Pro' in the title in my opinion.
Walt Whitman ..

AH POVERTIES, WINCINGS, AND SULKY RETREATS.

AH poverties, wincings, and sulky retreats,
Ah you foes that in conflict have overcome me,
(For what is my life or any man's life but a conflict with foes, the
old, the incessant war?)
You degradations, you tussle with passions and appetites,
You smarts from dissatisfied friendships, (ah wounds the sharpest
of all!)
You toil of painful and choked articulations, you meannesses,
You shallow tongue-talks at tables, (my tongue the shallowest of
any;)
You broken resolutions, you racking angers, you smother'd ennuis!
Ah think not you finally triumph, my real self has yet to come
forth,
It shall yet march forth o'ermastering, till all lies beneath me,
It shall yet stand up the soldier of ultimate victory.

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/index.html

original manuscripts :: http://www.whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/transcriptions/ind...
Agreed. It will probably be what pushes various grandparents of my children into getting iphones (given that my partner and I have them). The reduced friction of it vs getting out the laptop, starting up skype or iChat, etc., is a huge win. The friction of wifi is a bummer but exists for our current video solutions too.
There were somewhere between 1 and 10 thousand people living in the zone. If we assume it was 10 thousand, and there were 2 murders inside of 10 days, then that works out to a rate of 73 (2*36.5) murders per year per 10k people, or 730 murders per 100k. That's approximately 7 times the rate of the most murderous city in the world[1].

I don't know what the murder rate in the neighborhood was prior to the occupation, but I'm pretty confident it wasn't nearly that high.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
Well, I know in my own garden that fully ripened food doesn’t last long even with only a 20 meter trip to my refrigerator. It’s so delicate and tends to be prime for breaking and/or decaying.
Coming from Chase and Simple, I've found Ally's mobile app and website both to be delightfully functional. None of the obnoxious advertising that plagues so many of Chase's user interfaces.
I have personally found that as you get serious about keeping your own archive of email you need something like fetchmail, but not fetchmail.

I used getmail for years and it is solid. duckerude posted this elsewhere in the thread, where the author of getmail rants a bit about fetchmail. http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/faq.html#faq-about-why

Once I left Gmail I was interested in something faster and more efficient, because I was using the transfer tool for more than just backup, it became the main way I receive email on my machine. Then the mail gets indexed (for text search) by another program and displayed by a third.

Anyway I found mbsync, which is just this amazing, efficient, very solid transfer program that's been around for many years just quietly doing its job. I almost wrote it off because its homepage is on sourceforge but if you poke around a bit you'll see it is actively developed, there's an active mailing list, etc. I love it. It's kind of interesting how this project I had never heard of just does its job well and works and the program by the semi-famous software pundit whose programming essay went viral really does not (from what I have heard).
If you are self employed and itemize your deductions (like everyone working for this company I assume), your health insurance premiums are already tax free. Don't need an external service for that.
More frequent service on the subway doesn't require vast amounts of land to be removed from productive activity. At most it might require a small expansion of stabling facilities for extra carriages and engines.

Induced demand means that when you make the drain pipe bigger, the bucket gets bigger as well, so the sink gets even more full. This is not sustainable.
Drivers are an untenable problem. eGPU on regular Macs is helped by there being existing x86 drivers needed for first-party Apple hardware. There’s not much incentive for Apple or the third parties to write drivers targeting Apple silicon for external solutions that aren’t widely used. The cost would far outweigh the income.
Well, I don't think anyone claims that electronic voting systems should be the source of truth for vote-count; it's mostly there for convenience and if there is any doubt at all about its integrity, the paper ballots can always (and often are) busted out to be counted by hand.
On a daily basis, when it comes to messaging, I simply text my friends.
Or, it's a coherent philosophy of corporate ownership of the economy directed by government dictate, as it has been known since long before your identified method of deflection.
> Who else feels like the TSLA price is a gigantic bubble at this point? Not that it's not valuable or worthy of some of the growth it's seen, but

It's a classic "there will be a greater fool down the road" theory, like the tech companies that proclaim they will never issue a dividend (in which case the only reason for buying the stock is that you believe someone else will buy it later).

The correction will be painful for all concerned. An overlarge market cap isn't really that great. Sure, for a while you can raise capital extremely cheaply and that's nothing to sneer at! But it leaves a couple of problems: when it's big it's harder for it to grow, while a smaller mkt cap leaves more room for growth. And people are buying growth. The other problem is that it traps the leadership. 20 years ago when Time Warner bought AoL there was much discussion in the press about the various business logic/synergies (or lack thereof) between the two businesses. But really the primary motivation seemed much simpler: the only way that Steve Case could retire (without cratering the stock price) was to sell/merge the company into another entity of at least similar size. Tesla can't merge with any car company, or many other companies for that matter.

As for the shorts:

A couple of years ago my kid worked for a billionaire with whom he remains friendly. The other day he joked to me, "My greatest respect for XXX is that he is the only person I know who has made money shorting Tesla"
Perhaps the missing piece of information is that: nobody makes any of these drives any more. The 3.5 drives sold are either old stock or refurbished. Heck I bought my last one (to make bootable floppy images for some patent litigation project) probably 10 years ago and that one was a refurb.
Doctor's dislike when patients come in having tried to figure out something about their condition or treatment on their own. It seems to knock them out of their routine.

I have personal experience with this as a patient and a family member of physicians. I wish I didn't know what docs say and think about their patients. It's a really unfortunate characteristic of the US medical system.
Yeah, bummer. There were some iOS 14 changes that made this stop working as reliably, which was unfortunately right around the time people were getting new devices. It should be better now, and we're working on more stuff in this area.
thank you, very nice performance!
Dirtier power generation doesn't work because physics. Frequency gets too high (a few Hz or so), turbogenerators/turbines blow up. Frequency gets too low, resonances destroy them. Frequency shifts quickly, massive torque and current spikes ensue. Load is dumped, frequency ramps up quickly and voltage rises very quickly. There are a number of control and monitoring systems in a power plant which ought to prevent these from happening, but in the bigger picture this means that grid power needs to be balanced continuously in order to keep nominal frequency. This becomes challenging when an interconnect fails, because this leads to very fast load changes.

The reason for 50 Hz +- 0.2 Hz isn't so much about consumers; it's about being able to run the grid. In Europe there is a long-term control loop that makes it a quite accurate 50 Hz, so synchronous motor clocks work, but that has essentially nothing to do with the normal frequency control.
Yes and? Sci-Hub is a resource whose value transcends American IP orthodoxy and their contributions to Twitter are a gain for humanity. If Twitter can platform totalitarian governments that commit crimes against humanity why not a mere IP violator?
I think you would vaporize it. Not sure the fibers would hold together through the force of anything impacting it, at that speed.
>No argument that Facebook is currently within its rights to censor anyone they want for any reason they want. I think the debate is around whether they should have those protections,

But if they can take away Facebook's First Amendment rights, they can take away yours or mine. And I'm not okay with that.

>given that at present they are virtually a monopoly within their sphere and people don't have viable alternatives to use once they are kicked off of Facebook.

I don't use Facebook (I did, ever since they opened up to non-university emails until 2014) and I have no problem staying in touch/sharing/communicating with other people at all.

And until there's a decentralized, privacy and content ownership protecting social media platform (I do have a Diaspora account and even ran a pod for a while, but I don't use that anymore either) that I want to use, I'll pass, thanks.

So no. Facebook isn't required at all. There are many other ways to communicate with others.

Don't like Facebook? Vote with your feet. It doesn't hurt. Really.

>BTW, my private property rights can be overridden whenever the government or utilities or even neighbors can show a public need.

That's absolutely true. But your First Amendment rights cannot be overridden by the government. Of course there are noise/disturbing the peace/public nuisance ordinances, but your (and my) free speech rights aren't absolute either.

Edit: Fixed typos.
This already exists in Android.
Posting this again: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/

They did redeem from 2.8bn to 1.7bn. Which is like 40% of their total value at the time. Is that significant enough?
Let's be honest, no one (rounding down) cares about vanilla android and microSD ports.

The only thing that's going to move the dial for an Amazon phone is exclusive hardware or software features and you can forget about third party software. They tried this angle and because they aren't that good at this in the first place (like Facebook), what they came up with stank.
That’s not the parent comment of the one pointing to “the parent comment”, nor even the parent comment of the comment four steps upthread from your “the parent comment” reference accusing its parent of advocating murder, nor is it from the same poster as either of those.
yes, since 2014. But this wasn't widely known
Academic journals pose many problems:

1) They restrict access to research with paywalls.

2) The research they publish is usually funded with public funds. Governments do not get money from journals.

3) The work being published is produced by researchers. Researchers do not get any money from the journals.

4) Journals rarely verify what they publish.

So, in short, Sci-Hub is a necessary disobedience movement that aims to end with the most pointless institution in academia: paid journals.

This is not the same as Napster.
This doesn't cover sound or video editing, but there are programs to do that as well.

...like emacs. :)

http://1010.co.uk/gneve.html
Can't recommend this highly enough. Am using it to teach my 9 year old daughter trig over the summer; I dip into it every other week or so (last week to re-remember polar coordinates, for instance).
Interesting ideas and great detail to back it up. I'd like to insert my 2 cents, which is that people have widely varying experiences using exercise for weight loss. In my case, exercise suppresses my appetite. My overeating is mood-driven, and exercise is known to improve mood, so this isn't surprising. Anyone whose overeating is driven by depression (mild or serious) or another mood disorder should consider regulating their mood through exercise.
Heavy bias against Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple.
http://www.trunews.com/obamacare-law-creates-data-services-h...

The federally-run exchanges, euphemistically called “new health insurance marketplaces,” are accompanied by collection of a wide variety of personal data, which can now be legally shared numerous faceless government agencies — agencies which previously had to snoop, steal, or spy to get it. No longer will any of our intimate medical details be reasonably considered either private or protected.

To facilitate this forfeiture of individual privacy, the Department of Health and Human Services has created a massive, comprehensive database to record and store Americans’ personal information called the Federal Data Services Hub. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the purpose of the Data Hub is to provide “electronic, near real-time access to federal data” and “access to state and third party data sources needed to verify consumer-eligibility information.” No longer will any of our intimate medical details be reasonably considered either private or protected.
It's not HIPPA compliant. Really, did you think the government follows its own rules? Get real.
Mulling over the idea of remote system administration as service:

http://remote-sysadmin.com/
Google's a great search engine, and its all due to their brilliant algorithms and codes and everything.

I get that.

The programmers at Google are tackling a lot of problems and coming up with birlliant solutions.

I get that.

I just cant imagine someone has fun writing those thousands of lines of code. Even more so when the code isnt for a cool new feature but for a mundane fix.

I image a lot of programmers at Twitter spend hours writing code just so their site/product can handle all the traffic. How it that fun?
Isn't it easier to just build up breadcrumbs from a nested structure that represents your menu and just walk backwards from the current element?

I've got a simple little rails plug that builds meny, submenu and breadcrumbs from a yaml file and can handle privileges/visibility.

http://github.com/sunkencity/joels_menu
Regulation cuts both ways.
In theory everything you've said is accurate. In practice it's usually really hard (if not impossible) to know exactly who "the reader" will be in six months. Nothing says "prima dona" to me quite like encountering a few thousand lines of someone else's code that they couldn't even be bothered to document the major functions.
Encoding is dirt cheap. You probably pay more just for a TCP stack that isn't perfectly tuned for your workload.

And you can't pre-encode a string without baking in bad assumptions that you know how it may ever be used. You're going to regret having your data store polluted with HTML-specific encoding as soon as you build an API or integrate a third-party tool (e.g., analytics or sales support), because they will need either raw values or some different encoding than HTML text (SGML entities).
Is it really sweeping under the rug? Not only the author of the bitrot paper himself answered the question on stackoverflow by pointing out the problems, he also gave the impression that they're working on eliminating the limitation: "can't abstract over the variance annotation (yet ;-))"

Scala mailing lists are open to everyone ;)
From what I've seen, the Canadian stipends range from a low of about $15k, for those on research assistantships (paid out of their supervisor's research budget) or on provincial scholarships, to a high of about $21k (NSERC or other tri-council federal scholarships). There are a limited number of higher-paying tri-council scholarships as well.

Some universities will top up a federal/provincial scholarship (Waterloo tops up by $10,000), and teaching assistantships are available as well. However, part-time work hours (TA or otherwise) are usually limited by the terms of the scholarship/assitantship, so there is a limit to how much a student can reasonably earn while doing a degree (NSERC limits to 10 hours worked/week, the expected hours for a TA).

Tuition is paid out of the student's stipend amount, though it's often quite a bit less than undergraduate tuition in CS and similar programs. My fee bill dropped in half when I finished my BASc and started an MASc.
Two things I promise I'd pay for if you can offer them:

1) Site that would allow you to edit CR2 (Canon RAW) files online in a manner compatible with use from an iPad. Bonus points if you can also allow the files to be displayed directly (IOW - Flickr supporting RAW and using iPad Safari controls)

2) Site that would allow me to track other sites that post links to Anime/Manga available through MegaUpload and such, and then let me use my premium account to initiate the DL away from home - but direct the file to be DL to my home drive. IOW - uTorrent has a Web Interface, need something that would work similarly for identifying MU and FileServe files, and let me start the transfer using my iPad on the road, but DLing to my home machine.

Number 2 could also be used for other episodic type releases. Number 1 would get you a whole slew of amateur and pro photographers who right now have to wait until they get home to see what they got, and work with it. Imagine if I could take a couple minutes during a shoot now, upload my files, and on a big enough monitor decide if I need to reshoot something while I'm still there to do it. (Or I could take a monster notebook - but an iPad would be SO much friendlier for this).
Here is an article by David Sirlin which gives some insight into the Scarcraft 2 ranking system:

http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2010/7/24/analyzing-starcraft-2s-...
So, how is this different from exactly the same question being asked yesterday?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018391
By a loose definition of a startup, I'd say Facebook still is one. They haven't had an exit and took money from DST as recent as last year.
Now I can figure where the colors of Google's logo came from.
That's the maximum I could come up with after trying many suggestions. Still ugly for me. May be my eyes are sensitive but observe w, v and x. They're faded out. Also most letters look choppy for my eyes. I can't stare for long.
"Now you're thinking with clouds!"
I'm starting to use wingware wing IDE. And i got wing working with web2py with code completion, etc.

Is pycharm for web2py development better than wing ? Since it is focused on web applications it has potential to be better.

Thanks.
Consider that you have $70k/yr in living expenses, and many people don't even come anywhere close to earning $70k/yr.

Food is one of the places you can cut a lot of your spending without needing to make major lifestyle changes, so it's one of the first places people look.

Also, I think you will find different people place different value on food flavor. I personally am very, very deep into "eat to live" territory, and I take a certain amount of pride in that approach.
A good presentation for mobile apps marketing (not websites but quite similar in general concepts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBwomf0ZBlE
I agree with most of what you said. However, violence can only break the status quo. It does not necessarily lead to a better place, even we do not count the expected ugly process before that. The best ruling party can do is to strengthen the current deadlock. Yes, it is a deadlock. Given our lifespan, there is little light I can see. When the cheap labor margin exhausted, the end game begins. As natives, we know best that what competitive advantages we left except cheap labor. Oh, someone must point out the dynamic domestic market. By that time, it should be pretty much dead already. Those big market caps will totally gone.
It was in a 3rd world country with 3rd world access to medical care (and he lives there)...

Anyhow, health and other factors matter more than mosquito nets... Malaria isn't too different than the flu, and the flu has killed millions in the past.
Okay, let's assume we were willing to offer substantially higher salaries than the market (though the practicalities of our funding certainly limits that to some degree).

How would we communicate said information in a way that doesn't actively distort the hiring process? When was the last time you saw a job ad with salary listed?
HQ4X and Ours are the clear winners if you must resample like this; the downsides are that HQ4X occasionally has jaggies and Ours makes makes a lot of fine details look "blobby".

The Vector Magic results reminded me a lot of this:
http://www.cowboybooks.com.au/html/acidtrip1.html
> the trick of "let's make posted flight times longer than needed, so most of our flights we'll land in time".

I might be alone, but I like that policy.

First off flight times are gate to gate (not airport to airport) so while the flight time is known and quantifiable there are a great many "ground issues" which are not. For example, the gate's motor malfunctions, push-back is delayed (while they "manually" move the gate back), and the aircraft misses its take-off slot.

The nice part about building in 10 minutes extra is that worst case scenario you arrive EARLY and you have to kick around for 10 minutes. Best case, you arrive on the stated time and your expectations are met.

Regardless this seems win/win. They're better meeting or exceeding your expectations more of the time, and the only cost is that you aren't able to min/max your travel quite to the same extent (e.g. build in even shorter transfers between flights).

Currently the minimum authorised transfer window is around 30 minutes for most airlines. While at some airports 30 minutes is fine (Dallas) at others it is terrible (Chicago). Arriving on time in the latter type of airports is a "must" if you want to make your second flight at all.