skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever been to /r/technology lately? Try saying anything bad about Google and you will see the same number of downvotes coming your way.
#erlang on Freenode. They're friendly and knowledgable folk.
God can't speak complete sentences.

I asked if He was racist. "Sports"

I asked if He was worried about endangered species. "Enough stars"

He is slipping into dementia.

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18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 19 But in the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Easier said than done, but more or less agree with your conclusion (not the 1000-core CPU part though).

They could gut out to become profitable, and go long on current fringe market things that could be the future. One interesting market off the top of my head is 3d printing. Would be pretty interesting to have a CPU one could print out to go with their 3d printed A-15's from Defense Distributed… sudo headshot :P
There's a Kickstarter-funded documentary coming out called Stripped about comic strips, which has an audio interview with him. I'm amazed and cannot fathom how they got that, as he's notoriously reclusive, supposedly even more so after he stopped writing Calvin and Hobbes.
My guess would be that it was linked to on one of the many, many Android websites (Android Police, for instance). That would cause the exact same effect (and you'd be able to tell by checking the referrers, but of course that kind of thing wasn't mentioned in the article.
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And if you post an article here or say on Slashdot about Microsoft you'll see a bunch of comments dissing Microsoft. It's like Sega vs Nintendo or PlayStation vs Xbox, people often pick a side and then emotionally argue for and defend their choice and often attack the competing brand.
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I'm not assuming that. In fact, I assumed the opposite and it was after I read most of the comments that it became evident that most people here weren't engaging with the article in any kind of substantive or even remotely sympathetic way (and, believe it or not, good academic reading requires that one adopt the most charitable interpretation of the author's claims -- at least to begin with).

And, please don't assume that I don't understand how science or AI theories work, either. If you email me I'd be happy to explain my bonafides.
161 out of 355 is state run. [1]
When compared to the fees in the US and private colleges in India, the fees are very low (at least 1/5)

[1]http://mciindia.org/InformationDesk/MedicalCollegeHospitals/...
A lot of his posts are completely underhanded or dripping with sarcasm.

Look at the number of negative news about Google or Android that he reported and his only comment was "Shocker" or "Android is winning".
It tickles me to know that there's some dorm room ceiling at Kenyon with a copy of of Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam", done by Watterson, hiding under a few coats of paint -- unless of course that dorm has since been torn down (even if it was brand new when he was a student, it'd be ~35 years old now; he attended 1976 - 1980).
I've got no problem with "ramen profitable" startups doing it out of necessity— after all, there's a lot of non-optimal things new companies do. What I object to are companies that are flush with cash, profitable— maybe they've even IPO'd— and can afford to foster a productive work environment, but believe open floor plans are the way to go because Facebook does it.
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It is perfectly within the fundamental rights of an individual to not want to be cured (or "cured"). I think doctors do recognize it, they are human individuals themselves, but because of the status quo of death being sort of a tabu they just can't officially suggest that when it's the time to go it might be the time to go.
I've had a lot of fun in #haskell.

One time, I was talking with some people about how annoyed I was with not having a natural number type in Haskell. (Really, wtf?) It's annoying, but clearly not the end of the world--no other language I know has a natural number type either.

Can you guess what sort of response a complaint like this would have on another channel? At best, I would get some commiseration. But more likely people would either not care or actually get annoyed with me. I imagine similar reactions even to feature requests and complaints that are less "academic" than natural numbers.

So what happened on #haskell? Somebody went off and implemented a nice natural number library[1][2] right then and there--while I was still online, in fact. Pretty cool.

[1]: http://jeltsch.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/natural-numbers-in-h...

[2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/natural-numbers-0.0.0.0
I would find this a lot harder.

I have 6 applications running on Google App Engine.
I use Analytics to track stats in them.
I use Ad Sense and Ad words to help monetise them.
I have 2 apps for business accounts each with separate gmail, calendar and docs. One for personal life one for business.

Crome is significantly better than both Safari and Firefox on my Mac laptop event though I use both and have all three browsers open, each has a different google account loged into it.
It does not go down that often, and when it does its measured in minutes. This latest outage was maybe ~10 minutes total...
In my experience Google buys something, lures people into using it for years, lets it languish without improvements for years so long as it serves their purposes, then kills it off.

Whether they're "working against the potential of the open Internet" is another question altogether. They like head counts, but like certain fickle people in all of our lives, the idea of actually having a real enduring relationship never crosses their Aspergian heads. It's just business. We've already got enough of that ruining the world. Some of us actually yearn for a better future ... not just enduring life on the way to Alpha Centauri or whatever.
Not to mention that they did it just as Intel was releasing Conroe.
The UK must accept a much greater level of paternalism in health care than in the US.
Do you think it would be better with commentary and unedited?

For instance, imagine watching a 20 minute video of the dev trying to get the discs spinning with the textures? It'll be like the Let's Play[0] videos on YouTube of people playing a video game with commentary (usually unrehearsed) except this time the person is writing code and switching between their IDE and StackOverflow.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya2mm6iwiKs
I'm surprised no one mentioned #bitcoin-market on Freenode.
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FSF is an ideal. The ideal that all software is open source so that it's more secure and has all the other benefits of open source. What you're doing is being childish. "Boo hoo, big bad Google killed a product I liked, so I'm going to make some bullshit arguments to stop using ALL their products."

I don't use all of Google's products, but I use a subset because they get the job done well. If you think killing off reader was a bad idea, why not build your own and see how the cost/benefit ratio pays off. What problem are you even solving by doing this? You're just throwing a childish fit.
Not really. It's kind of the opposite really, because you know that he's out enjoying himself, rather than pandering to the masses. He's done his service to humanity, now let him be free.
Hey Alec!

Zach here -- fantastic post. I'm really happy to see this catching on and more people diving in. Your write-up here is exactly the type of updates I'm going to encourage in our group discussions moving forward.

Shoot me an email if you want to be a part / want to explore the experiment with 15 others. I think you'll enjoy it! ztratar at gmail dot com
Also, latency (a constant lack of resources) and down time (an extraordinary lack of resources) are two very different things. I wouldn't be surprised if some down time had little impact on sales, whereas latency has a lot.
Strobe & Speedlight are to flash what Kleenex are to facial tissues: they are brand names which have become used in some circles as universal names.

Some people will discriminate between "strobe" and "flash" based on cycle times and power source, e.g.: a "strobe" will be a mains-powered flash system that can keep flashing as fast as you can trigger the shutter while a "flash" will be a camera-mounted, battery-powered thing that takes several seconds to recharge.

But in the specific example above, the author is using strobe as a synonym to flash.
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I'm not saying it's wrong, but the fact that only YC companies can post jobs here is the very definition of favoritism. I'm also pretty sure that their posts go straight to the front page without needing any upvotes.
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It is a pity that there is nearly nothing (articles, words, videos) on the web about this excellent engineer.
There are large companies pointlessly squatting on huge allocations; some of them assign routable IP addresses for every desktop in their network, despite (sanely) firewalling them off entirely from the Internet.

Ptacek, I'm a bit surprised to hear this from you of all people. Globally-unique addresses are very useful for things other than direct end-to-end routability.

Financial institution question: "What was the last device to hit that mission-critical system?" Answer: "Well, the access logs show 10.100.1.4, but that's the Internal --> DMZ NAT address, so I'll need to check the firewall logs to see."

Without NAT in play, network configurations become much easier to conceptualize. ACLs become easier to deal with. Things become more clear.

It's a bit of a slur to call even the legacy class-A allocation squatting, being able to do sparse allocation is a godsend. I'm looking forward to IPv6 for this alone.

Finally, I cringe at anything that dictates or predicts what an end-user needs: I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a global communications network to provide globally unique addressing.
doesn't the quadratic timing function pretty much simulate gravity given the right coefficient, and i suppose pixel pitch?

http://themeforest.s3.amazonaws.com/74_jquery/jquerygravitys...
"I dropped out of Stanford. Here's what happened next."
Had downtime yesterdayevening (12 hours ago) as well in the Netherlands. People from Germany were able to load the website (the .com version; .de worked at all times), and after two hours I was able to as well. Upon trying to add something to my cart it returned the same error 500 though, so that was still down the last time I checked (about 10 hours ago). I'm not sure if or when this was resolved.

I didn't submit this as story because I didn't think anyone would care, given the recent call not to post downtimes. Given the #1 spot the story has now, it seems I should have. So do people care or not?
About 6-8 years ago, every Microsoft story was bombarded with pro-Apple comments. This is just (for me) Apple becoming the new big bad, and Samsung the plucky underdog (at least in people's narratives).
I upvoted because I love HN comments that offer solutions. That said . . . how can you charge half as much as Amazon for the same service and make a profit. I assume their margins are not that fat, so what are you cutting that they offer? Or else what secret have you discovered that no one knows? I guess since this is your business there's a chance that you won't answer, but I'm curious.
I'm doing the opposite.
> I copy and paste the person's name from the To: field in Outlook (this ensures I never mistype someone's name), delete the last name,

Oh, _that_ explains the number of "Dear [full-version-of-my-name]", overlooking the shorter version in my own sign off.
Rest API + Restful Resources + AngularJS = ??
The solution
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Bill Watterson is one of my heroes. From what I've read of him he had an extraordinary strength of will. His comics were a major influence on me growing up and the more I learn about him the more I admire him.
Not exactly embrace and extend like MS did it, but similar in spirit: take an open protocol, embrace it for a while, gradually weaken it over time in favour of a parallel closed system, then once everyone is happily using it, kill it dead and watch the migration into the closed system.

If I had to guess, I'd say that torrent support was nixed for fear of offending Big Content; Opera has already showed that it's reasonable for a browser to support it. Also there's already a plugin for that protocol, so it may just be a low priority for the team. Odd that they flagged the request 'invalid' though.

(Please stop telling me that I'm angry about Reader. It's not that I'm angry: I've identified what I think is a pattern in Google's behaviour, figured out what their end goal is, and it troubles me. So I'm abandoning their platform to the greatest extent practical.)
Your comment was posted in 2013
Seems like the simplest solution is simply to pay for what you need. How many businesses are really compute-cost-bound these days?
Yes I know he's just doing whatever makes him happy but I sometimes feel sad that if the internet had come out just 10 years earlier, he may have gone the self-published route which didn't really exist at that time for him. Instead of just being limited to 10 years of his creative expression, he may have had the opportunity to pursue it on his own for as long as he wished.

Although articles about him are very tough to find, I read one interview where supposedly he does paintings and when they are done, he burns them.

I guess my comment would better be rephrased as "It's a shame that by working in a system that is solely focused on profit, it caused him much more stress and discomfort than he was prepared to take on and, as a result, felt the only sensible path for him was to disappear."
Uh.... This is news.ycombinator.com. This is YC's site, not mine, not yours.

Their job listings go straight to number 1 and decay at a fixed rate. Other postings (links/text) are subject to the normal submission ranking formula.
true! latency is also location dependent. so in latency network and health of other external 'resources' also matter. Whereas downtime is only a server issue. So they are two very different things.
I don't think it was a bad idea, I think it was a very good idea from their perspective. I think that what they're trying to do is a bad idea for everyone, which is why I've changed platform.

Why do you assume I'm angry about it?
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The problem isn't in timing functions. It appears whenever the "distance" involved in a transition is dynamic (rather than specified by the designer/developer).
OK, that makes sense (in a twisted way). But then, aren't Google and the media businesses balancing on the edge of something very nasty here? They have effectively made their own legal system alongside the real one. I'm not entirely sure how the US legal system works, but it sounds like something an EU court could strike down on.
How I remember those days! after the complete disaster that were the first PIIIs comes the Athlon. It was just so amazing, so unbelievable that you could get that much power without breaking the bank.

And it was the same story until about 2006, you could get an Athlon or a FX and get more than enough CPU power to run almost anything in the market at the time. Even the Sempron which was the cheap option was good enough, I remember guys in forums getting mobile version and OCing 'em to the very limit.

But then came Core2Duo, and AMD literally had nothing against it. The first Phenom sucked, big-time, there is no other way to put it. The Phenom II was much better but not good enough and the only talk about it was how you could turn on the disabled cores in the X2 and X3 variants since they were the same silicon than the quads.

I really wanted the FX to be as good as the Athlon-era FX, but it wasn't, not even close.
It's a shame if Disqus can't provide statistics about traffic sources versus action. I'd like to see what the referer traffic looks like, as well as the country lookup for IP addresses.
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Hate to be that guy, but Computer Modern [1].

Out of TTF "natives" check out DejaVu Serif [2] and Droid Serif [3]. I've read countless ebooks set in the later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern

[2] http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page

[3] http://www.droidfonts.com/info/droid-serif-fonts/
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This is oft-repeated, but not actually true. Most people in the UK who care about these things (for instance, sub editors in the printed press) hold that companies are singular entities. The confusion comes with sports teams, which are commonly referred to in the plural, so "Microsoft is" but "Manchester United are".

Edit: For example, here's what the Guardian's style guide says on the matter:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/styleguide/c#id-3022716

Of course, with something as flexible and constantly evolving (and as used and abused) as the English language, it is usually possible to find examples and counter-examples for just about anything. There are also edge cases; the Guardian refers to police forces as plural entities, I believe. Suffice to say, when I was running a back bench, singular was the order of the day when it came to company names.
Hmmmm ... the fact that there is no API access, no RSS feed etc. doesn't strike me as a coincidence, or perhaps a consequence of a streamlined user experience. I think it's deliberate, & part of a long-term strategy.

Clearly you don't though.

Perhaps we should resume this conversation in five years time? :)
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Thanks very much. Awesome getting such wonderful support from the HN community.
I agree with the author of the original piece: a good camera phone is often better than a DSLR since you are more likely to have the camera phone with you when you want to take a picture.

The most important part of using any camera to take pictures is balancing composition to the technical limitations of the camera. Poor composition will kill the photograph regardless of how amazing your camera is.

If you're ever seeing something beautiful and wishing you brought a "real" camera with you while you actively ignore the camera phone in your pocket, you are engaging in the belief that it's the camera that takes the pictures.
Thank you for that link, I wasn't aware of that. Even though the reasoning behind their model is mostly logistics it is good to know that every person on Watsi will get his/her treatment regardless of when/if it gets funded.

I believe that information should be on a prominent spot on their website.
At the moment, a large and increasing percentage of total medical expenditure goes on prolonging the time over which people are tortured to death. We need to switch resources away from such negative value expenditure towards research programs like SENS that are aimed at slowing or partly reversing the effects of aging, which would prolong healthspan, not just nominal lifespan.

Or put another way, we need to consider the classic story about the man who wished for eternal life but should also have remembered to wish for eternal youth.
I know this article probably has some fluff in it, but damn if thats not entrepreneurial spirit!
Alzheimer’s will be made treatable, provided there is sufficient money to be made. The oldest baby boomers are now 67 which is old enough for dementia to be a real issue. I predict that legislation similar to Nixon's war on cancer will be on the table within 5 to 10 years.
Change anything about IPv4, and you have to replace all the routers

That's a broad oversimplification. Use the Cisco 6500 line as an example: it's a platform that's very long in the tooth, and through modularity is still functioning quite well, even for IPv6.

Also: let's not pretend that similar issues weren't hit with v4, eg, the routing table explosion.

You can change plenty of things without fork-lifting entire platforms, and serious long-term challenges exist even without considering v6.
Interesting analysis on how f%cked up our gun problem remains in the US
Someone tracked him down after a while and he finally did an interview.

IIRC when asked about how he felt about C&H he said "That was the work of a younger man."

I suspect his take on using the self publish route would be.. interesting.
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> They should have put in the time and money to merge teams at all levels of the company

How would forcing the teams to merge quickly rather than gradually achieve anything other than messing up everyone's development schedules?
It's not just the conference but also how you're networking and with who. I've had fantastic tangential intellectual discussions at tech conferences.
Disquet. That's _exactly_ it, and I wish I'd thought to use that word in the first place.

You're right that Google is still better than Apple and Microsoft. I'm still hoping that Ubuntu for phones gets some traction, I'd love for a truly general-purpose pocket computer.
Well, I, for one, was surprised that CNN uses Disqus.

Nowadays well-managed comments are a real part of the asset, outsourcing them for a site like CNN is outsourcing a part of core competency.
That's not how I read the article. I read the article as stating that, even though you have final control, there are so many players and agenda's and sudden decisive moments, that you still only have a weak grasp on events.

In my opinion, awareness is key. Talk to your spouse and/or parents, primary physician and write stuff down. Make sure (like the mother in the story) that you Know you have a choice and that you and your supporters are able to voice that choice.
If PG allowed anyone and everyone to post job ads, even for a fee, the front page would quickly be entirely saturated with job posts.
> I strongly suspect that very few people would be willing to
> pay what it would cost to build and run a service like
> GMail without ads.

What do you think the problem would be? I'm using Fastmail now, and not missing anything from Gmail. All for $50 / month.
> The only reason AMD was successful was that Intel made a gigantic mistake

I don't think that's entirely fair. AMD has put out some darn good chips that should be considered successful on their own merits.
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