jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I never said there was a connection between them. If they both occur together in some case, they do. If they do not, they do not. That's pretty obvious. And no my mind does not need widening on this point. Everything I've read so far in this thread where somebody thinks they are enlightening has not revealed something I didn't already know. Instead, I seem to be getting persecuted here karma-wise, in a sense, because some HN'ers are attributing viewpoints to me that I do not have, nor have I claimed to have. It would be funny if it were not so frustrating and lame. For example, to be real clear: I do not think homosexuals are bad people. And I think pedophiles are mentally sick, in a way, at a bare minimum, and sometimes can also be morally evil, depending on the particulars. And I do not think all pedophiles are homosexuals or vice versa. So I don't understand why some folks, if they really read what I said strictly, get miffed.

What my original comment, at the head of this thread, was alluding to, in the real world, is the issue where it seems a rather large number of Catholic priests seem to be either (1) gay, or (2) pedophiles, or (3) both. Are all? Of course not. And of course every situation is different. If a middle-aged priest has sex with a 17-year old altar boy, or whatever, then yes by the official psychological definition he is not necessarily a pedophile. But from a legal standpoint, it's an adult involved with a minor, and the media coverage and community reaction around that will blur into it being an adult with a "child", and with the courts now labeling them, in many jurisdictions, as a sex offender. Which then means he is given the fuzzy and technically innacurate, laymen's label of "a pedophile". I'm confident in predicting that a significant percentage of Americans at least would consider a 40/17-year old sex encounter as pedophilia, regardless of whether that is the official definition or not.

Also, I ask all HN'ers to stay polite. We should all write here as if we were conversing with someone face-to-face in the same room. Thanks and this has been a public service announcement. :P
They did that back in 2004 when iChat AV was introduced, and AV didn't disrupt or shift habits away from traditional audio and text.

I think video conferencing is a great feature no doubt, but it's largely too intrusive for most people. Certainly making it more accessible and standardized will help some however, even amongst the most savvy early adopters (and MM+ of college students with MacBooks), video chatting has remained a niche.
>> Dude that is a really ignorant and insulting thing to say.

>Why?

You obviously have absolutely no idea of the range of reasons people have for being vegan do you? Here are a few

- Visceral disgust at the though of consuming animal flesh / produce

- The view that a vegan diet is healthier than a diet with meat. Also a view that meat products are a significant cause of many of our chronic diseases. Both of these views are well backed by a large amount of science for example 'the China Study'.

- The view that plant food is significantly more efficient to produce (5-10 times) and far less harmful for the environment than meat. This is true not just in term of calories but also for protein.

See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_vegetarianism

- Religious beliefs

- The view that human control of animals represents a kind of slavery.

- The view that it is immoral for humans to knowingly and unnecessarily kill and/or cause pain to another being. The fact that humans are intelligent enough to have a choice and understand the consequences of their actions is the important thing. Many vegans feel especially strongly about factory farming which is often cruel in the extreme.

See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_eating_meat

So now do you see how ignorant your point about lions is? Veganism is primarily about humans relationship to animals not about animals relationships with each other.

> I'll bite. How is it a fallacy?

By definition, that's how. Look it up : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy

> Citation needed

There are so many but I'll just stick with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Study cause I'm lazy.

> Because the market would provide?

Yes there would be numerous vegan options with the nutrient mix customized to suit vegan diets.

> Either way you still have to work harder and be far more careful with what you eat in order to pull it off so my point still stands.

You have to work pretty hard with a meat based diet to avoid the chronic diseases it can cause.
I've also tried lots of different tools.. The best one so far is to stop spending time thinking and writing tasks and just start executing them.
@roadnottaken

China is consistently listed with the 10 or 20 most repressive countries in the world.

Whether you prefer to live in China over North Korea is irrelevant.

Personally, I would prefer to live in neither country.

Communist China and North Korea both suffer from the former's world leading pollution problem in addition to the lack of basic human rights. You would probably die young from the pollution in both countries.
> Then they should have a backup.

That would be the part where you turned mitigating the IT guy's screw-up into the victim's responsibility again.

> Assuming the IT staff was supposed to wipe a different device, they either misread or misremembered the ID or misclicked (or were misinformed). One click.

If you have a system that can do that much damage because of a single missed click, then it's not just negligence, it's gross negligence.

> If you put your life on the line where one click can destroy it and you have no backup, and you still connect your device to systems you don't understand

If you don't understand the system, how are you supposed to know that one click can do this? It's clear from the article that the victim in this case didn't understand that it was possible at all.

> They could well be someone who had it explained, agreed, then forgot.

Seriously? You think that an employee was told, clearly and unambiguously, that by connecting their phone up to work e-mail they ran the risk of having their entire phone wiped including all of their non-work-related stuff at any time just because someone missed a single mouse click over in IT, and they forgot this?

If the discussions about this article everywhere I read other than HN are at all representative, most employees given a clear explanation of this policy would have immediately turned around and told corporate IT to shove it, demanding a company phone to use instead of allowing their personal one anywhere near such a system.
They were asking for english translations of words in various languages - hoping to determine the demographics of the workers solving the captchas.
Typically by that they mean they take the hard drives out and slot them into some spare servers.
> Lamebook and Facebook are very confusable.

Oh come off it. Next you'll be saying that people think "Microsoft sucks" is an official Microsoft site, or that "Chimpy Bushitler" is the official name of the previous US president. It's called parody, and anyone with two brain cells to rub together gets it.

> just take a picture of the two websites

You don't even need that. Would any company call its own product "lame"?
dho seems to be correct. Sadly, we as the authors seems to be the last to know the answer to these types of questions. :-(
Good point. It's a bit of a wonder why so many people think of them as equivalent (perhaps they thought currying was a convenient shorthand for partial application). I'm comfortable with a simple campaign to clarify the difference, and I think my suggested terms would be helpful to accomplish that (so rather than replacements, simply informal descriptions of the term).
Which does you no good if you need the specific components of that person's name. That is the issue with using a free text field for addresses.
Ahh, I see where the confusion comes from. I meant initializing in the Ruby way...which is analogous to construction. There's no way for you to specify how to construct the object being deserialized from the stream, and so you need a no-arg version of the constructor (or can allow JOS to generate one for you) and have to do the logic that would be in-constructor in a separate piece of code like readObject. And in my latest experiments with Externalizable, the JOS code being unable to construct objects the way I want it to has become the latest bottleneck.

It also interferes with us serializing objects for which we do want to have final fields initialized on construction. If we want to avoid the reflective construction, we need a no-arg constructor. To have a no-arg constructor, we can't make important fields final. And if we want a particular value to be passed into the constructor, we always need to do it in readObject, without any context provided as to where and when serialization is being called. That's so cumbersome that we simply can't do it.
Veering off-topic, and I don't mean to personally attack, but this exercise of limiting the ways in which your description is "dull" is completely futile, e.g., here you are engaged in making the rather dull act of liking not being a fan of anything into part of your identity.

What I'm trying to say is that I think your preferences will always be a large part of who you are, like it or not.
Postfix has a simple configuration syntax and supports SQL backends.
You guys really don't see how misogynistic these articles are, do you?
Does anyone else have the urge to go and compute this independently to check the answer? Of course, if I did that I'd never get around to these:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383169

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394751

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1401117

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1404347

...
So, is this guy merely pointing out a few mistakes in an otherwise valid field (the study of supposed golden ratios in art/design), or is he actually refuting the entire field and is just too polite to say?
What about programming on top of it, such as triggering incoming/outgoing messages and manipulating them externally?

Does it provide an easy to use API?
I can't comment on the specific flaws mentioned in this article, but it is a good anecdote to illustrate one of the general reasons that iDevice style platforms can't completely replace the old fashioned all-purpose home computer. Computers have acquired thousands of little niche uses like this and there's no way an iDevice could support them all without compromising its cherished simplicity. And I would speculate that a good chunk of the computer buying market belongs to at least one niche.
It is the characterisation of moral systems as either 'deontological' or 'teleological' which I find invalid, thus undermining the usefulness of this here debate.

In the articles terms, you could be moral according to the category of your actions, or according to the consequences of your actions. The first one ignores reality ('whatever happens, don't lie'), and the second one negates judgement ('the right action depends on the consequences, and the consequences of the consequences, and the consequences of... ad infinitum' an endless, useless subjectivism). They can be sidestepped by applying judgement according to reality and a measurable standard of value, eg. self-interest. You could call this contextual or objective morality.
This is for ionosphere research, leverages doppler shifting of the broadcast signal.

http://elpub.wdcb.ru/journals/rjes/v10/2007ES000227/2.shtml

Scroll down to "Doppler Radio Sounding of the Ionosphere", note the broadcast frequency.
I'm not debating automatic vs human approaches as much as how code reviews fit and why blind focus on them misses the forest for the trees in regards to other human approaches. When it takes 20 minutes from starting compilation to getting to the point of change, the Dev/QA/Review trifecta looks a lot different than when this takes 3 minutes. (Ideally,) developers are a lot less likely to make errors out of fatigue. They are more likely to pay attention to detail (when it takes 20 minutes, it's easy to go "whatever QA/reviewer will verify"). Reviewers start checking out the code and testing the change manually, rather than just looking at the code and pawning it off to QA. QA gets more time on their hands to proactively eliminate issues by being part of the design, instead of being the guys pointing out mistakes after the fact. Having shorter compilation cycles paves the way to increase the quality of all three segments of this cycle, yet it is often overlooked the most despite seeming so obvious.

The part about QA is perhaps the most infuriating. Most business logic is so simple it can be presented as test/result matrices, which generally translate cleanly into requirements and automated tests, are easy to reason with, implicitly have three parties with different perspectives, and should be blind to technical details giving devs more freedom. Yet instead, this piece gets relegated to "software requirement engineers" writing walls of text, who tend to forget even the simplest cases (null, empty list/string, etc.), and any automated tests are then designed by the same developers making the implementation and only caught after the fact by manual QA a few months later.
Only with the consent the author == if my code is GPL, not if I'm copying the code into my proprietary code.
Huh?

If you have enough $$ to buy a passport then you are probably not using HN or a jr developer. This means a multi multi million dollar investment in a country and some amount of bribery.

Next also unrealistic option is to buy a “Golden visa”, which starts around €250k in real estate investment in Malta and takes 2 years.

The “easiest” shortcut is to marry an eu citizen.

Another route is to get a 1-year student visa by attending a full time language school, then finding a local company to sponsor you for a gig.

Or, they could just apply for jobs online.
Perhaps it's time we think of a tax tier for large companies that generate over $1B in revenues. This tax would apply on gross revenues, not on profit, to close potential loop holes, and it should reflect the social and environmental impact that company ($1B+) has on society.

Large companies ($1B+) that have a negative impact on the environment and society, should pay more taxes to disincentivize the harmful behaviour. On the other hand companies that have a positive impact on the environment and the society should pay less.

Also, any billionaire person who labels themselves as a philanthropist should pay double digit % taxes. After all, through taxes we contribute to public good, infrastructure, social support and public institutions. Privately controlled investment funds labeled as charities don't count. Everyone knows.
Highlighting or keeping lists of people one disagrees with in various ways have a long history of being used for persecution, and worse.

That nobody is calling for that now does not mean it is not chilling to see someone want to highlight someones political views in a context where they are not relevant. These things have an ugly tendency to start out presented as something much more innocent than what they turn into.
Just a tip. If you're in a big city, Urbanspoon has a gluten-free tag you can search for in restaurants.

For example: gluten-free friendly in Dallas http://www.urbanspoon.com/t/13/1/Dallas/Gluten-Free-Friendly...
IDK why you were downvoted, this is absolutely true.
It comes down to where you apply the phrase. In my experience, back-end under-the-hood type stuff is either broken, has to be done manually, or works automatically. So long as performance is not an issue, once you've reached automagicality, there's no reason to fix it until it breaks!

Front-end and performance type things benefit more from continual improvement, and "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" isn't as useful.
> Did I miss something?

Just the part about explaining it to a layman in simple terms..
Try doing that a couple times in a row, recording the audio and video. Can you do it the same way twice, with a measure of "same-ness" that can be trivially computed? No, humans cannot do that.

Error rate in the context of computing does not need to mean invalid, just different. Our astonishingly high abilities to compensate for variations in input data do not result from an ability to produce output data repeatably.
> Google isn't actually evil or even close to it, only someone seriously mentally unstable could believe that

Personally, I think anyone who "trusts" a corporation as large as Google is mentally unstable. There are very clear, well-documented instances of Google being objectively evil, and there's no sign of this changing. Maybe you don't follow that news?

> She isn't some faceless Voice of Google, she has her own reputation to consider and one she has built.

So you're telling me that if her boss instructed her to read a prepared statement or be fired, she'd give up her position atop a mountain of gold just to appease some random fanboys on the internet?

> and would such a person harass political opponents by leaking their private lives onto the internet (presumably to somewhere they hoped would cause those employees problems?). Absolutely they would.

Now you're assaulting the character of a person you don't know for no good reason.
Obligatory (for you) xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1732/
Agreed. This is what Excite looked like: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a3/Excite_...
Yeah i think i'm reading that wrong, but it seems like the students are attempting to study in the country and applying to University through legal means, then getting deported as it's a fake university.

I'm clearly missing something here.
Agreed, I was really hoping for some discussion on this.
I think the main attribute of a hero is courage.
I'm not sure why this comment is downvoted (at the time I started writing this) without any comments at all.

To me it presents an alternative view and interpretation on the article. Even if I don't necessarily agree with some of the sentiments and/or how opinions are phrased, they do remind me that I should read things with caution, which is probably something that even the most cautious of us need to be reminded of every now and then.

I'm not entirely sure at what point one can start downvoting but I vaguely recall that it's a privilege that's given for having been recognised for a certain amount of contribution (presumably due to points). For this reason it seems irresponsible to downvote something, without commenting, just because it doesn't match your worldview and that you are too lazy to think of it as an opportunity to at least think about why there are people thinking differently.
Kind of a pity they didn't include Scandinavia in this.

Also those prices don't seem right. At least the last time I was in Prague 0.5L bottles of beer cost well under a dollar in super markets. Same for Germany where you can easily find beer for 0.5€ a bottle.
Any beer consumption index that doesn’t include Australia is suspect...
I would always give Wittgenstein the benefit of the doubt on such relatively trivial things given 1) this work was checked thoroughly by the likes of Bertrand Russell 2) the topic has evolved considerably over the last ~100 years, or at least the language and notation used to talk about it, which may lead to misunderstandings for today's readers.
> ...arguably the first _powered_ flights were done by the sky cranes of Opportunity and Perseverance

Not the Apollo 11 lunar module? In contrast to the sky cranes it actually lifted off again.
I have dozen named workspaces on i3. Limiting them or not providing the ability to (re)name them or create them on the fly makes the whole experience of virtual desktops pretty lame.
To give some contrast Windows 10 + Visual Studio (not VS Code, but C# workload only) leaves about 15GB from 60GB primary SSD.
An income tax that doesn't discriminate among forms of income doesn't discourage labor, because any other options you look for have the same costs.

Now, the specifics of the US system of taxation on income discourages labor/employment quite heavily, by tax favoring income through gifts and inheritances (up to a very large quantity) over capital income, which itself is favored over general income, which itself is favored over labor income. But none of that is inherent in the concept of an income tax system.
The sudden "thing" that happened was Mongol Invasion[0].

Imagine Germany in 1945 losing the war, only having one major library, and the allies burn it down, decimate the population to 10% of the prior count[1], and throw the books down to Rhine River "...in such quantities that the river ran black with the ink from the books"[2].

The Mongols just invaded, pillaged and killed in a mind-less fashion. Middle-east was unlucky cause it was just geographically near them. They also wreaked havoc on China, Korea and Russia. Japan was lucky that storm sank their ships (which were forcibly built by conquered Chinese)

I have not studied al-Ghazali but I think the good'ol war had the major role in this decline and the current state of the middle east.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wisdom#Destruction_by...
A lot has changed over the decades, security models and stances have traded a lot of flexibility. To smooth some of the rough edges of purely compiling from source take a look at homebrew (https://brew.sh/). Spacemacs (https://www.spacemacs.org/). I don’t develop desktop software any more and didn’t rush get into it on Mac, I’ve played around with swiftui a bit for iOS and server side (https://vapor.codes/). Perhaps the server side will scratch the itch?
I've wondered if I have synesthesia. When I play music I don't literally "see" colours anywhere except in my mind's eye, but I definitely associate certain notes with certain colours. It's not something I think about actively or even notice unless I'm paying attention, but it's definitely there.

And it's only really when I'm playing music (I play guitar), not when I'm listening to it. It's less about keys than it is about specific notes. A is red, B is blue. C is more yellowy orange. E is... I'm not sure, just dark, maybe black? G is kinda dark blue, maybe turquoise.

This is the hardest I've ever thought about it and the first time I've ever tried to write it down, but those associations are definitely there and have been there for as long as I can remember, and I've been playing guitar for at least 15 years.

Do I have synesthesia?
The fact that Mozilla used Rust for Stylo is not evidence that C++ is not usable to solve this problem.
> to Apple at all times (to APNS, for the receipt of push notifications)

Push notifications can't be implemented otherwise... so you'll have to trust Apple for that one.

Mozilla Push Service is the Mozilla equivalent for example. Push notifications are an expected feature of every device nowadays, routed through a server owned by the OS/browser provider by design.
I do unless proven otherwise
I mean, if "the FBI supplied high explosive for these people to bomb a civilian street" doesn't meet the bar then nothing is going to satisfy you, is it?
Not being shown yet another crappy ad sounds like a favour.

Otherwise, the extreme flexibility of Google ads is ripe for genuine discrimination: by age, income, place of living, hobby, profession etc. It’s basically their product!
For non-Australians: A small number of media companies (often Murdoch-owned but others too) absolutely run the country. They'll do whatever is necessary to support Australia's ruling class, and the government will reward them handsomely in return, even it it means displeasing tech giants.
What games shall we play today? ;)

Flora Purim has such a beautiful voice.
These numbers seem pretty underwhelming to me.

To me, as well, which is why I insist on a fair salary and consider the equity portion as pro-forma icing on the cake.