jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The advise I have always given is you must have credit history to apply for any sort of loan. To get a good history apply for a credit card even if you don't need one and use it, but no so much that your utilization is too high that will reduce your score. Merely apply for a loan your credit score goes down just cause you applied!. How is this consumer friendly ?

It would be one thing if Credit Score for a government run central thing, couple of private companies having all your spending data without your consent at all seems major invasion of privacy.

Scoring methodology depends on sharing my private spending data to others, data that I cannot control being resold or have full visibility into its use. CRAs will try to charge you to "freeze" your credit or even see your own data!.

This is extremely anti-consumer, CRA industry did not develop for consumers or their protection, it is merely a tool for businesses to improve their operations.

Imagine if FB had a "social credit" and that is now used every social gathering as an eligibility criteria, and Facebook charged you to see your own data, that is how the current system feels.
>As a terrorist, you have no reason to fly stuff into buildings if you know it won't buy you anything.

All that it has bought them is death. Their goal was to take down the US and it tremendously backfired, but we kind of squandered that goodwill. If they want to make money they kidnap Europeans who they know will pay the ransom.
It's really the Chaos Communication Congress. 8)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Communication_Congress
The piece that moves before checkmate takes the king.
You’re drawing a false equivalence both between the people detained and the condition of their detention.

> Any modern society should be able to say that concentration camps are bad, or that rounding up or punishing children, families people in the basis of race, familial connections, etc is an affront to human dignity that should be condemned.

Of course. And modern nations should condemn China on that basis. But what does that have to do with detaining people apprehended while illegally crossing a sovereign nation’s border?

Self determination is also a fundamental right. People have a right to have a country, and govern themselves according to their laws. Concomitant with that right is the right to enforce borders, because those dictate where one polity begins and another ends. People have a right to decide who comes into their country and in what terms.

There is a reason the UN Declaration of Human Rights reads:

> Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.

Of course it should be done as humanely as possible, but detention in enforcement of a border is fundamentally moral and legitimate, in the same way as detention pursuant to trial and investigation of a crime. It’s a necessary corollary of protecting other peoples’ rights. Saying that people can’t detain other people who trespass on their border strips people of their rights.
I always get skeptical about stories that suddenly show up on scores of MSM websites, rather than the slower spread over a day or two or three that usually happens with 'real' news.

I've been fooled too many times by stories about 'weapons of mass destruction', 'gas attacks', 'Trump's pee tapes', 'Tonkin Gulf incidents', etc, etc that I withhold judgement for some time till the bulk of the back-story arrives.
So you're suggesting applying for jobs just for the sake of interviewing? That sounds mean and misleading to the companies that actually want to hire someone.
Recently there was a huge backlash in Poland over the translation of the anime series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power on Netflix [1]. There's a non-binary character named Double Trouble and the translators decided to change its gender to male and named it Kłopotowski (Mr Trouble).

All this despite the fact that we do have neutral pronouns in Polish. Unfortunately not everyone agrees on the use of neutral form because it was sometimes used as an insult. There are other options though, for example you can use the plural version (just like they/them in English) or Dukaj's pronoun (introduced in the hard science fiction novel Perfect Imperfection [2] by Jacek Dukaj, “a space opera to end all space operas”) which is similar to the neutral pronoun but replaces the “o” suffix with “u”: it was / ono było / onu byłu.

The discussion about the infelicitous translation started on social media [3][4] and eventually was covered by mainstream media. One of the translators gave an interview [5] and said that the reason for the unfortunate decision was organizational chaos and lack of information flow.

1. https://www.netflix.com/title/80179762

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Imperfection

3. https://www.facebook.com/MistycyzmPopkulturowy/photos/246543...

4. https://www.facebook.com/catusgeekus/posts/2450286248592517

5. https://wyborcza.pl/7,75410,25383618,awantura-o-meskie-konco... (paywall)
The problems Pika aims to solve don't sound like registry problems, and I think we could run into trouble as a consequence. For example, I've written code where I ES6 import an SVG file that, using webpack loaders, automatically becomes a React component.

A tool like Pika isn't going to understand that without making broad assumptions of my project's structure. This is more than just, oh "Do I need ES Modules or Common JS?" or "That file needs to transpiled since it uses the spread operator, and I happen to be rendering on IE 11, which doesn't support that."

In other words, I find this to be an interesting solution, but not something I'd feel comfortable with in enterprise-grade applications.

Just learn how bundlers and transpilers work. It's going to be easier to do that, then understand why Pika won't do what you need it to, having to go through yet another layer of abstraction. I've been disappointed by tools in the past that try to abstract away the "difficult" parts of maintaining a webpack.config.js and babel.config.js file. I truly believe it is more beneficial for developers to learn these things, instead of trying to be ignorant of them and then fighting with a tool like Pika or a toolkit that doesn't meet your needs.

Choose for yourself the better choice, and make your own toolkit: https://kentcdodds.com/blog/concerning-toolkits
+1. I don't know about cancer, but having kids just makes you more productive for a given amount of time. Not necessarily at a coding level, but at the meta/self-management level where you decide what really needs to be done.

It's probably aligned with the "ask the busiest person you know" type of thing.

And yes I am more passionate about coding now, but that came from boredom. I learned Ruby then Haskell because I was bored of churning out C# all day, and I am glad I did. This lead me on to Elm which is my side project engine.
Take the issues surrounding filming police officers in public is an example.

Right, and that's a good example of what I was talking about in my earlier reply, with regard to any attempt at "fixing" the Ring situation leaving us in a worse place than where we are now.

Currently, in the US, you have the right to put up a doorbell camera and record anything that happens on your property or in public areas adjacent to it. This is a GOOD thing. Rest assured, any restrictions on public/private recording will serve the police, and no one else.
Aren't exterminators, aka rat-catchers, still around?
Kind of off topic, but I'm have been a big fan of Steve Losh's writing. In particular his long, structured essays on technical topics have been a delightful read[0]. Sadly, he hasn't posted anything late 2013. Does anyone have clue on why's that?

[0] - His "Caves of Clojure" series is one of my favorites - http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/07/caves-of-clojure-01/
Also http://xkcd.com/882/
Nice use of OpenStreetMap on the map page. I wonder if the system utilises the collection of places, buildings, pubs, shops etc that is also mapped.

Edits - looking at it in a bit more detail, it appears that it does allow people to create new pages based on features from the map, my guess is that these "seeds" would be from some spatial database (OSM?)
So this is why he bailed on the Angular team?
As person trying to creat Strong AI I'm really afraid somebody will beat me to it. It really feels like we are quite close. Like within a couple of decades if not less.
You know Stripe attracts great talent when an API company has some of the best front-end work you've seen.
Learn how to use the alpha testing and beta testing options in the developer console for the Google Play Store. That should get you coverage of popular devices.
What exactly will Erik's new duties as GM entail? How does it differ from what he and Jeremy already do?
How did Sputnik come into the picture? I didn't see Sputnik mentioned by the NSA article. It just said that the messages were received from outer space: "Recently a series of radio messages was heard coming from outer space."
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Imagine for a moment these two had secret chats over yahoo, Skype, text or email, recorded by GCHQ and passed on to the NSA. Now imagine how much power this would give anyone in possession of the damning evidence while Blair was in power and deng still married. This is why we can't trust the gov. or spy agencies with this sort of widespread surveillance - with it comes tremendous power which is more damaging to our civil society than the threat of terrorism ever will be.
Clear example of fear of the unknown
"I would be shocked to learn that anyone speculating in bitcoin today has asked Senator Manchin for help."
Apologies in advance for the table of contents going way off the screen. This is the biggest post published so far. We'll be doing some UX work on the table of contents widget in the next week.
yes, and we would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!!
Uber will collapse, in my opinion. How much time will take for many others doing the same? Come on. Such investment is just nonsense.
So this will totally break any deeplink protection.
Where deeplink protection by referer checking (where an empty referer will allow the resource to be downloaded as well) was always effective enough since the web page author had no way to control the browser’s or users choice of sending a Referer header or not, now the author of a web page that is deeplinking resources is simply able to prevent a Referer header being sent, circumventing the protection mechanism.
I'm not sure they're using that second layer -- is there space to put optics behind that layer to focus it into the eye?
Localism, or some generalization of that; it also feels like there's a kind of "principle of least privilege" here. Moderation should happen at the most local level where it's practical, with a community enforcing its own rules according to its own culture. Once you're offering a platform for people to build distinct communities on, you're assuming the position of an infrastructure provider or a government, and you have some of the obligations that go along with that.

Allowing posts on a single board doesn't carry that obligation, because that's not what you're offering; the individual posts aren't and aren't meant to be communities with their own culture. I would still say that moderators have a moral obligation to be open, accountable, and representative of the community they moderate (even if it's a community they didn't want or ask for), and HN does a particularly poor job in this regard (lobste.rs demonstrates that it's possible to run a site like this with an open moderator log).
I'm also a RefControl user, I've blacklisted only about 15 sites. I'm surprised how little the Referer header matters these days. Of course it should never matter at all, it's so easy to spoof.
In what way can you possibly infer the parent you replied to is a spammer given such little information?
The thing that would be interesting here is a browser that doesn't have to support internet explorer's backwards compatibility problems. That covers more than just the css quirks...

A new browser would be able to take advantage of the new security model in "metro" apps that can't really be used by IE and still support all their app compat scenarios. A new browser could be standards compliant and incredibly locked down.
Founder stock agreement boilerplates restrict founders from encumbering or pledging their shares without the approval of the board.
"want" is a superset of "useful/life enhancing" which is itself a superset of "need". We probably know our needs, and getting things we want but don't really help us may not be a good outcome, but discovering things that help us in our lives that we weren't aware of is definitely a good thing. I would like to see more of that.
Ah, but we get but one life, and if something you are passionate about is illegal, other than by fighting to change the system, surely given the eternity of death, it makes far more sense to risk prosecution than go forever having never sought ones dreams?

We act as if the government is a legitimate, democratic entity, which of course it is on paper, yet the system is neither pure nor fair, and should we all be prepared to sacrifice everything to gain the simple personal liberty that was taken from us at birth?

Our wrath should be directed not at lawbreakers, but at the lawmakers who cause exceptional and unprecedented amount of harm through their corruption and stubbornness. Almost every problem associated with drugs other than the petty crimes of addicts are due to backwards drug policy which causes deaths due to poor/tainted drugs, alienation and fear for junkies, allows cartels and gangs to control production, and countless collateral damage.

On paper, you may be right, but it takes a callous and short sighted view to presume that any person deemed guilty of a crime are deserving of the punishment landed down to them not by the direct consequences of their actions, but other humans bent on exacting the will of those who's interests are neither rational nor inline with the general population.

It might be a comforting thought to hide in the mentality that if you break no law, you are safe, but life is far to short and precious thing to limit oneself to the life sanctioned for you by the powers that be.
I think that part is easy, but making the tech stack affordable is the problem. Serving a 5Mbps stream to 10,000 users for 8 hours a day is 120TB of data, and if you do the naive thing and just use AWS for that, you're looking at egress costs in the range of $180,000 per month (that's 5 cents per gigabyte). So you need some specialized solution, and that spirals into being a hard problem for content creators to solve.

Having said that, you can certainly build a CDN that pays less than $200k/month in transit costs (the ISP I worked at charged $1000/month for 10Gbps IP transit) -- obviously that's not what it costs Twitch to provide the service. But then you start hiring software engineers and network engineers to build all that, maybe take some VC funding because you have an actual business model and tech stack now, maybe sign some advertising deals to placate your board and attract more streamers that want revenue share, and then the advertisers start being upset about content, and you create a content policing team, and boom! You're Twitch! You ban someone, the Internet hates you, and all you have to show for it is a 8 million dollar per month AWS bill :)

Thought long and hard about how to build an open source tech stack for streaming video and somehow monetize it, and it always seemed like either I would become Twitch, or I'd just be UNIX helpdesk for some gamers with million dollar AWS bills. Didn't do it, but I wish those who are doing it the best of luck.
Same. I particularly found the use of a bong-rip sound effect when the car was in the paint very odd.
> We may be arriving at a time and place where we must consider broadening the scope of the First Amendment to not just apply to government.

It would be a violation of the 1st Amendment to require Twitch to host objectionable content against their will. Freedom of association and freedom not to speak is part of the 1st Amendment. I am very doubtful a proposal that mandated that Twitch had to host certain streamers would survive a court challenge. This is like looking at declining church membership and arguing that the only way to preserve Freedom of Religion is to mandate that everyone needs to go to church.

And there are ways to attack censorship that don't require throwing out the Constitution. Ways like antitrust, like expanding Internet access and building infrastructure to make self-hosting easier, like providing government-run alternatives to certain services like financial payment networks -- services that would be subject to the 1st Amendment. We could revise copyright so it's easier to build content mirroring sites and migrate people off of social media/streaming sites into other services. We could revise the CFAA so that it's easier to build migration tools without getting sued by Facebook. We could start putting even a tiny bit of effort into not allowing Amazon/Apple/Google to look at new markets that are attractive and just buy the entire space.

I don't think you're mad that Twitch is moderating, Twitch has to moderate to some degree. You're mad that there are realistically only 2-3 usable streaming services and that our Internet infrastructure and Internet laws are set up in such a way as to encourage that kind of consolidation, to allow companies like Amazon to buy anyone who competes with them, and to sue anyone who builds compatible wrappers and services in a way that might make it easier to migrate off of Twitch.

And sometimes I bring up antitrust and decentralization and people accuse me of not being realistic, but honestly, does anyone really believe that antitrust is harder than passing a Constitutional amendment? Because it's not, antitrust doesn't require 38 states to ratify it. I genuinely do not understand the point of view that looks at mass media consolidation and says that revising the 1st Amendment is a preferable alternative to breaking up Amazon.
Doesn't evolution also work this way? Looking at the vas deferens, clearly a case of addition over subtraction.
It's unrelated
what would be the implications of that?
Who are the "people" who really want that, are responsible for a CI build, and are not able to use a full programming language ?

I used jenkins pipeline for a while, with groovy scripts.
I wish it had been a type checked language to avoid failing a build after 5minutes because of a typo, but, it was working.

Then, somehow, the powers that be decided we had to rewrite everything in a declarative pipeline. I still fail to see the improvement ; but doing "build X, build Y, then if Z build W" is now hard to do.
And yet you completely just proved my point.
I don't really want to speak for him, but what I got from his post was that he was saying that the unary syntax is as bad as C++'s (imho retarded) cout syntax.
Thank You. I have been a senior developer for quite some time now. I want to get an MBA and move into a lead and then to a software development manager role. Who is more valuable - a development lead/manager in a product development firm or a development lead/manager in a consulting firm?
Depends where you are from.

If from US just sign up at coinbase, add bank account, and buy them.
I've actually abandoned evernote in favor of zim wiki for almost a year now, and have been quite happy. Admittedly, I don't use pdfs, deferring more to text and basic image-style notes. (So, my requirements are admittedly simpler.) Also I haven't synched across devices (yet!) but zim can be set up to simply save the content/notes within a directory that gets auto-synched by another app (such as owncloud, dropbox, etc.)...so I would recommend you try these features of zim wiki before writing something yourself. I think if you gain some direct experience with these features will either motivate you to adjust the zim code to your liking...Or, give you experience to know what direction and specific feature set you would like to code via your own, separate project. Either way its a win for you, and the open source community!
Two thoughts.

First, I'm currently in the process of remodeling my basement. And, it's quite expensive. What I'm spending on remodeling 1500 square feet is approximately the cost of 5 inexpensive cars. Although some of these costs have come from the building supplies, most of the costs have come from labor. Labor in expensive areas is more expensive.

But, then the cost of land is expensive. There are network effects. Upper-middle income people want to live around people like them. Educated people want to live around other educated people. Educated people want to live in nice climates, in places where they can go out into nature, where they can have ready access to nice shops, art galleries, clean cafes, etc. There are not enough of these types of areas to meet the demand.

Alternatively, one can buy an old house in a rust belt city for $25,000. People don't want to move there. It's cold, the people are less educated, there aren't fancy shops around, no good coffee, no hiking, no pleasant strolls around the neighborhood. There are fewer high-paying jobs.

In a rust belt city, you can build a brand new house for less than $90 a sq-ft. Sure, it won't have the nicest fixtures, but you can.

In rural areas, outside of the rust belt, you can buy an acre of land for $1000. You can build a nice place for under $100,000. But, do educated, upper-middle income people want to live there?

Some possible solutions: 1) reduce the costs of building. Services should pop up that import labor from less expensive areas. The rise of more modular housing, 3D printing of houses, etc. should lessen the costs. 2) create more areas where upper-middle income, educated people want to live. This is harder, because there needs to be jobs, first. It's a chicken/egg problem. How do you get employers to set up shop where there aren't any educated workers?
That's not flawed reasoning in and of itself. It's just an unrealistic expectation passed off as a realistic one. It implies that capturingb x% of the market share is only x% as difficult as capturing all of it.

The inverse of your argument is an actual logical fallacy, known as the continuum fallacy. Or, "if we can't do it all today, and tomorrow is the same as today, we will never be able to do it."
We currently don't support recurring payments, but it is in the plans. It won't be as easy as in US-based gateways since recurring payments are not really supported by RBI.

Harshil and shk answered this here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250136
Could it be CYA legalese because there’s a screen sharing feature?
New York is now testing more daily per-capita than South Korea and China, so naturally due to the higher test rate (which gives ability to find the clusters) New York is going to pull ahead of the rest of the country because it will have the ability to actually show the cases that are active but weren't able to be tested.