jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The environment has changed.

Previously theoretic risks are now manifest, demonstrated, and cognizable.

Actual riots, insurrection, disruption of government, assaults on law enforcement, damage to government buildings, theft of government property, violence, and deaths, have occurred.

The instigator is unrepentent and non-credible in what are at best tepid disavowals.

The totality of context has changed. If "he has tweeted worse things in the past", the undeniable impact is abundantly clear.

The ban is absolutely warranted. If anything, it is many years too late.

Twitter specifically address these points:

Due to the ongoing tensions in the United States, and an uptick in the global conversation in regards to the people who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, these two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President’s statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks. After assessing the language in these Tweets against our Glorification of Violence policy, we have determined that these Tweets are in violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy and the user @realDonaldTrump should be immediately permanently suspended from the service.

From TFA
For (b), why should individual companies and platforms do anything but follow the law? Many countries have laws against inciting hate speech. Others, including established democracies, have laws against sedition and such which would address this. Wouldn't someone bring a legal action based on such laws and thus end such behaviour via the proper channels, such as the Courts?
I have barely any biology/medecine nor Machine Learning knowledge (though some physics, maths, programming), yet I might have to do an internship in the field of ML applied to leukocyte classification, where would you recommend to start ?
When they said, "Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files", they were saying they were incapable of complying with a subpoena.
Thank you for the data on the Bitcoin market, that is indeed informative.

As for China though, I would like to point out that those trades must be seen in relation to the massive net flow of goods from China to the US (and other parts of the world). The trade you claimed is actually bigger than Chinese net exports for that quarter (which I find somewhat surprising, I have to admit, but probably that just balances out with what was happening in the past), but it's in the same order of magnitude.

If China did not do such trades regularly, the Yuan would be expected to appreciate in a noticeable way, making current trade arrangements more difficult to maintain. Essentially, if China did not make such trades, it would be forced to restructure its economy towards domestic consumption, and it would force the rest of the world to start producing more of their own stuff again, or swallow the price increases.

So to claim that the impact of those trades is not big is problematic.
Okay, talk to me after getting feedback for a few months :)

Sounds like your mind is made up.
Prices start at EUR 9500 so it must be a niche product ;)
I can't say whether much has changed within the last year, but when I worked at FathomDB we had serious issues with EBS. You couldn't trust it. Odd things would happen like disks getting stuck in a reattaching state for days and disks having poor performance.
Because interest rates are at a record low and will be there for the foreseeable future. Any startup with even a hint of success is still getting funded.
I think the CyberTrunk will prove expensive to build, and on a very practical level not a very good trunk.

I'm trying to figure out who exactly the cybertruck is for - it reminds me of the Pontiac Aztek.
> FP is easier to grok than OO

For you. But I think this is far from being a given. At some point programming is a complicated thing and both OOP and FP get weird in their own ways.

I wonder, are there toy FP languages for kids, like there is a ton of imperative ones? If not, maybe there is an opening ?
I imagine you can't just take a crack pipe from a previous case out of a police evidence room.
A single bitcoin transaction uses ~ 600,000x as much energy as a single transaction on the Visa network.
There's a small amount of people in every single profession and walk of life who break the law. I mean look at priests.

That's just human nature and is a constant throughout all time. they need to be punished but the extent of the rot.

The most critical problems in my opinion are when the system itself is rotten.

A no knock warrant is much scarier than a handful of cops who lie.

Because the system does not punish them for their actions.

it sanctions more than just a bad seeds.
> We build mental models of everything - from how to tie our shoes to the way macro-economic systems work. With these, we make decisions, predictions, and understand our experiences. If we want computers to be able to compute for us, then we have to accurately extract these models from our heads and record them. Writing Python isn't the fundamental skill we need to teach people. Modeling systems is.

I think he's missing something. Modeling is only a small part of what people learn when they learn to program. The real lesson of programming is to be able to to create models that stand up against the cold asphalt of reality.

They, first of all, have to be consistent enough to execute and secondly, they have to be tested with data.

The hurdle everyone goes through when they learn to program is the unforgiving nature of the machine - it's not what you think you are saying that counts, it's what you are actually saying. And, that's an important lesson.
Ehh, I think the whole iOS7 UI thing is overblown.

Anecdotally we've been installing it on non-dev (tester) devices internally to help thrash our app pre-iOS7. The results have been very positive - people love the new design in general.

Even those of us on the dev team who've had it for a while have mostly gotten over the annoying bits that bothered us at first.
Tell that to senator Hawley
It's a prelude to a "Two State Solution".

Probably not a bad idea to keep the peace.

Or more practically, greater freedom for the states, and less federal power.
Speaking of K, Celsius to K is also "nonlinear" math: you add or subtract a constant, around 272-something.
While I saw that the police is clearly on the side of the maga protesters (making selfis with them etc.) I don't have the impression these are enough people for a coup. And the few people who are there don't seem to motivated to do much more than chanting and standing around.
Not necessarily.

There's a difference between asking a girl out to a specific event and her saying that she's already committed that night, versus asking a girl out with an open-ended invite and having her turn you down. In both cases, you aren't taking her to the event, but in the former, you might be able to take her out the next night.

The non-acceptance of YC is like the former — it's not going to work this time, but you're more than invited to try again next time.
Facebook is the new AOL, and will suffer the same fate.
@YC Leadership:
The Chinese Article [1] reads synonymously to: YC China was RENAMED, not aborted. That's highly different from your English statement.

LOL: even the website ycchina.co redirects to MiraclePlus.
http://www.ycchina.com/

[1] https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/SnSsli_ZGo0yI58YD-ddaw
> The researchers take private-sector non-manager jobs…

Any idea why they exclude government non-managerial jobs?
Man just roll with the PR

Its a half truth divided by two, with the other two fourth’s being convenience of Qi’s own transition, we all know what we were expected to read and didnt which is the final quarter

Just have a little chuckle at what they chose to say and get out of a hairy situation
The downside is this hides who reacted to what, and in what way. Usually that's more important to me than the count. If I know several pretty sharp people (dis)like something, and I disagree, I stop and ponder why. It doesn't mean they're necessarily right, but helps me identify potential holes in my thinking.
Why has this been flagged? Yes. I also struggle to think this is real. I'd love to see a Tesla truck, but a over-sized document shredder with 33" tires must be some kind of april fools.
Fair enough, but that still doesn't make it a track car.
Both of those are much newer than Rust. So it appears Rust was valuable after all, even if all it did was influence C++ static analysis developers!

I will also point out that these are still much less than what Rust offers — read through the list of caveats in the MSVC post. Or the fact that “analysis is only function-local” in Clang...

Oh, and for these to catch everything you would need to only depend, transitively, on things that also used them. Just like in Rust you need to only depend transitively on things that don’t abuse `unsafe`, but that seems less unreasonable to me.
Well, according to Wikipedia, Zork was the best selling game of 1982 and continued to increase in sales year over year (selling 150,000 copies in 1984). So it seems like it was pretty popular.

What I mean by archaic is people aren't used to playing text-only games now. They were then, so much that Zork was the best selling computer game. I mean, Minecraft is pretty archaic in terms of technical capability, but it's not archaic as a style of game. It's actually pretty popular, and a lot of people would call it beautiful and innovative.

Hadean is bringing back a long-dead (for over 20 years, again according to Wikipedia) style of game with a modern twist. Text adventures were popular three decades ago, then died out, and this game hopes to bring them back to a modern audience.
The Jeffrey Sterling case is another one of those interesting cases where our government is using the ruse of process and perceived legitimacy to railroad someone with little basis in provable fact. They went so far as to subpoena Condoleezza "I'm a liar and complicit in war crimes" Rice to sway the jury through celebrity.
That's grand. I can't see an image for it anywhere, though...

(edit: found the instructions for it on the SDK)
$199-219 depending on airport and time of day.
> Laws that limit the ability of or outright ban organized labor

Are you talking about "Right to work" laws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law), which seem pretty benign to me, or something more extreme?
The Gotham Air app will revolutionize the way you travel. Our iOS and Android based technology will allow you to enjoy crowd sourced helicopter flights when you want. Call your friends or meet some new ones on board. A beautiful new Bell 407 helicopter is just minutes away!

Is it really hard to describe services in plain English?

BTW, it's a good idea. Lagos used to have one before.
Nobody can touch their price/performance ratio.

I don't know about nobody, but it seems very good. I downsized one of my machines from a dedicated server at Softlayer costing $234 a month to a ~$40 a month Linode and.. it's doing fine! (Though it's not like I was maxing out the dedi.)

I now have several Linodes, a couple in London, all the rest in Atlanta (which, by my research, seems to be the best US data center for them).

Disclaimer: Linode advertise on my Web site now, but I pay for my hosting and chose them independently - no deals :-)
I think the coming decade will see the evolution and widespread adoption of true question-answering machines. If we could combine that with auto-drive cars, it could mean an incredible leap forward in magnifying the human brain.

But auto-drive is going to take quite a bit longer, I think.
You're off a little bit, though this is a HUGELY unclear area in law right now. The term is the "plain View exception" or "plain view doctrine." It's why your trash is searchable if you put it out for pickup. It's why your trash is searchable over a fence if the lid is off.

Horton v. California, while executing a narrowly issued warrant, officers found additional evidence "in plain view" and the Supreme Court ruled the evidence admissible.

This question is particularly relevant to IT because different courts have ruled different ways on how "plain view" applies to computer searches. http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleFriendlyL... for a little on that particular question.
This is true; But good support is a difficult (and thus expensive) problem; I'm providing a alternative where if you are willing to have slower ticket resolution, you get a discount.
I doubt it. Most people who would be good customers for them would realize the complaint was far fetched. They don't need customers who whine about things that far off the gamut.

People have suggested that 37signals would suffer from their attitudes towards implementing new features or crap like Gantt charts in BaseCamp, but I don't see them suffering for it, despite the ongoing rants and raves by "high maintenance" potential customers.
I'm not some anti-carb fanatic by any means, but the near complete lack of fruits and vegetables in this diet can't be healthy.
I doubt the US will ever invade Iceland. It will have massive consequences for the US government, it might be controlled by interest groups, but they are not all powerful, the people still do have a say.

It will be much more difficult to convince a Kentucky farmer that the US should invade Iceland with it's white Christians, as supposed a strange-sounding nation with non-white non-Christians(sad, but true).

And though Iceland doesn't have a military, it does have friends who do. It is interesting entertaining the idea of a US invasion of Iceland. It would result in an immediate hostility towards the US from many nations, as it would be to attack a friend(if they attack Iceland, they can attack us), especially from the Nordic region(whose commercial powers are not to sneeze at).

Anyways, data safe-heaven, great idea.
Why is his credibility gone ?

imo not knowing about the flagging feature doesn't remove anyone's credibility. Btw we do have a lack of transparency with regard to the criteria for killing posts. He says it got 10 upvotes, do you know how many people flagged it ?
imo it is not unreasonable for him to say "the fact that apparently they censor articles because they disagree with the content is incredible."

Note that I don't know who he is, which post got killed, why it was killed etc. and I'm not making judgments on whether it should have been killed or not.
Yeah, you would think the private company destroyed the gulf of Mexico or something for the way the president was acting.
Scala is brilliant in a way in that it hides all the incredible complexity you incur when you try to statically type a programming style evolved in dynamic languages. That is, it hides it to a point. It's easy enough to get started writing simple scripts and sprucing up old Java code but before long you get a compiler error that sends you scurrying away to the reference books and then it hits you that you really are going to have to come to grips with the type system and it's a doozy.

I'm still not persuaded that all the gymnastics Scala has to do to allow Ruby-like flexibility really result in a more productive language overall. I need to spend more time with it to be sure but at first blush it really feels like the faustian bargain Scala has had to strike to merge expressive, Ruby-like syntax with strong, static type-checking and java compatibility has resulted in a language too complex for most working programmers.

Clojure seems a lot more elegant and comprehensible.
France be like what the hell are you talking about.
Small, medium sized businesses?
The article doesn't name any names or provide any evidence whatsoever. Just lots of vague threats, implications, and rhetoric.

I would be willing to believe that there are endemic problems in this industry. But you're going to have to actually make an accusation, or you're just wasting everyone's time.
The details are all available in the whitepaper here (pdf): https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qmbeiekum8XBeLrVBioKo8gqC1T...
Bs. You choose to be stuck. Resist.
Instead of testing it myself, I will go to the clubbing district of Hong Kong, and pay drunk users to test your website. You can tell me how many users you want to test. Starts at 3USD/user.

P.S.: This way I stay away from alcoholism, too.
I would say his readers count towards his network. I don't think this is any different to somebody announcing on linkedin that they're looking for opportunities.
Do you imply that it was excessive short selling between 2006 and 2009 that lowered the price of Citigroup? It seems much more likely that the 2008 financial crisis had a lot to do with it and that Citigroup (which famously only escaped bankruptcy due to a government bailout) indeed lost 98.2% of its equity value.

So it wasn't the stock price falling that brought the company low, it was the company failing that brought the stock price low.
Both of those platforms have perfectly reasonable languages available (Java & Swift or ObjC), why would you use JavaScript over them?

Cross platform UI has AFAICT never worked, so you won't be able to reuse code from one platform on another, or is that what you intend to do? In that case you could still transpile from either Java or Swift...
What about using a unique salt for each user. For example, if you use the user's login name. Then, the hacker would have to make a rainbow table for each user, in essence.

I think bcrypt is probably still more secure? Or maybe the best would be to combine both.
Study finds 'language with a lot of phenomes'.
My wife brings up the Unibomber as well... That is one of the difficulties - social development. I wonder if anyone has actively made attempts to focus the child academically, without taking away from social development.
How does this compare to PredictionIO?
The problem is that as requirements grow, class structures are often kept the same but the 'glue logic' which operates on these structures becomes increasingly complex (you have to handle a growing number of edge cases).

There is a point where the glue logic becomes very complex (and brittle) - At that point, the best thing to do is to redesign part of the system's class structure.

If your components (at all levels of your class hierarchy) are specific about their own behaviors, it means that you can use simpler glue logic to make them work together.

When you need to handle a lot of complex use cases, it's often useful to have many specific classes which share the same interface and can be used interchangeably.
The banks wouldn't allow this type of education, we will be doomed to repeat!
A .NET developer recently was telling me the .NET community tends to be very insular, a lot of interesting ideas are ignored unless Microsoft makes them first-class citizens of the ecosystem. That's unfortunate IMO.
Can't Rust just use the OS to start a JVM?
We sponsor Matz, Nobu, and Koichi. Of them Koichi works pretty much full time on speed. He implemented partial generational GC in Ruby 2.1 and incremental GC in 2.2. He also implemented faster keyword arguments https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10440.

There's actually been a bunch of great performance increases in the past few years in addition to the GC. Optimized method cache invalidation by the late James Golick, frozen string pool for hash keys by tmm1, using vfork instead of fork, etc, copy on write GC. There's also new features, like Ruby's ability to GC symbols that let developers use symbols in more places and spend less time converting back and forth between strings.

So yes, money is a factor. Having employees work on it full time helps. Despite only having 3 full time employees Ruby has made some pretty impressive improvements recently.
Tangential - Just want to give you some feedback on your comment, since you are wanting to improve your second language:

First: you've overcome a big hurdle in learning a second language, I understood what you are trying to communicate, and I did so on my first reading of it. To me, this means you're already good at english! (By comparison if I tried in my second language, which is German, I would need a few drafts and a proof-reader).

Second: You're doing commas better than a lot of native english speakers. That's pretty impressive.

Third: There are a couple of grammatical/phrasing errors I'll tell you about in your comment. These are really common errors amongst people who learn English as a second (or Nth) language, and I'm not doing it to belittle you, but to help your stated goal of improvement.

I'm doing it since 09/22/2014

This is one of those wierd places in English where the verbs "to do" or "to be" combine strangely with tenses and idioms. I'm not so sure of the technical way of stating the problem, but here's a couple of examples of a more natural way to state it:

* I've been doing it since 09/22/2014.

* I've done it since 09/22/2014.

but something in me tell me that

This is a small one, and maybe a typo, but it is part of a pattern I've seen a lot. Again, not great at the technical grammar terms, but it should be:

* but something in me tells me that

(notice the 's' on tells).

Anyway I'm always impressed with people who can learn a second language well, and wanted to encourage it and help if can.
How is the Broadwell CPU in it compared to Haswell chips in performance? It might say Core i7 but I thought Broadwell was basically a warmed over Atom processor. Performance from Broadwell on inexpensive tablets and laptops has not been great from what I read (battery life is of course quite good).
As much as the other comments here might disagree, HN is subject to the same situation.

Early comments dictate the tone and focus of the conversation.

For example, its trivial to highjack any thread about security with a well written comment about the connection (however fleeting) to the NSA/snowden leaks.
The app that this data was "stolen" from is a big java mess. The files are encrypted with AES but it takes about three seconds to find the key in the jar file. It doesn't really take any thought or effort to get.

The app also contains material from other carmakers, because of mergers and acquisitions. For instance, there is material from BMW so that Ford is able to support certain Land Rovers built by BMW which have BMW engines and electronics.

I'm sure that the developers of the free "Forscan" app have examined the material in question too.
As someone who has built products that used both Amazon Payments and Stripe, I have to say this is definitely the right move, even if the impetus was that the former service is meeting its end.

I built essentially a Kickstarter copycat in all but positioning and the amount of work involved there was dramatically more difficult than setting up a non-trivial implementation of Stripe marketplaces. But the developer pain is not nearly as strong as the customer pain. Amazon sucked for creators, and Stripe is pretty painless.

The right move, and further cements Stripe as the rightful market leader.
Agreed, these services or even outsourcing can sometimes lean towards getting done just to have it done by the date than by actually being complete with the task.

I have actually worked with people before that turn in projects incomplete just to have it in by the business due date, then later say sorry it has this or that bug. They do the pretend it is working dance.

Services like this tend to be the done rather than complete type of programmers unless it is an easily verifiable task.

Any programmer knows, there are many stages of done and only one complete. Is your developer you get a done type of doer or someone who completes something?
s/union/management/g

And your post is still true. So I think its time to do away with management roles too.
The problem is that you can't get very far into the discussion before all the available options involve overhauling the entire system. And there's no way, realistically, to do that.