jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The government forces businesses to do things against their will all the time. So much so that most big businesses have compliance departments to ensure they're doing everything the government requires them to do.

In fact there have been many laws requiring companies to carry messages against their will, including the Fairness Doctrine, the Equal-Time Rule, and Common Carrier laws, as well as the failed, but generally regarded as Constitutional, Net Neutrality proposals.
Please don't equate pedophile conspiricies with this when the former is demonstrably provable. (just because an obvious psyop like Q talks about the topic doesnt automatically make the topic false, on the contrary that could and lijely is part of the intended effect of the psyop)

It enables such dismissals of legitmate questions such as why was Epstein was seen as an intelligence asset? Ignore the facts and jump straight to calling anything you dont like a crazy conspiracy theory so you can ban it!

Read up on Dutroux - Belgiums Xfiles or the Franklin scandal or the Finders or... if you think satanist pedophile conspiracies arent real.
These people are a little crazy and this is now a declaration of war by big tech. I really hope they're ready because this is a stupid move in my opinion.
30%? Where do you find that number?
Most of the damage from BLM was incited by police, who were 500x more aggressive towards black protestors than the terrorists at the capitol.
No coup. And quite a few employees from those companies were in those protests. And there are different arguments for merit between those protests. And the vast majority of the BLM protests we're peaceful. This one (sample size 1) was quite the opposite. Pipe bombs, small arms, etc.
It might be easier to make the comparison if you chose a single “BLM riot” to discuss rather than reduce a months long series of nationwide and international peaceful protests, and related riots, to a single catchphrase.

Seriously. I actually think making a comparison like that would be interesting and constructive.

Because it’s difficult to compare the events of this summer (a spontaneous response to the murder of George Floyd,choked to death under the neck of a police officer for over three minutes, on video, I’ll remind you) to the armed mob that invaded the Capital, threatening to kill or take hostage the entire Congress and the Vice-President, killed a Capital police officer, and planted pipe bombs in the Capital.

I think it would be easier to compare that event, since it’s a singular event, to another singular event, rather than a long series of events as I said.

What do you think?

[EDIT: Oh yeah the mob was also attempting to stop the process of certifying the results of the Presidential election. So much wrongness to have to remember.]
They have recounted the votes in Georgia like 2 or 3 times. Wisconsin was also recounted once. I didn't check the other states.
Any blog post which sets up a table about currencies, but includes the phrase "too lazy to look up" immediately turns me off.
I just wanted to point out that one of the points is programmers don't like useless participation that doesn't really add value. Half the article's comments(at the point of this posting) are "nice article" and "thanks"
>"I hypothosize that I already know my own opinion"

I think part of the reason for hiding the points is to affect the process of forming opinions and better facilitate changing opinions already formed - I doubt that the use of scores to confirm one's own opinions is seen as beneficial to the community. For people who believe that scores should reflect the quality of a comment rather than the popularity of the sentiment it expresses your argument tends to support the hiding of scores.
Hey Drew, Alex from JDownloader (an OS project with over 15M activeusers, btw) here.

>>"when something pops up that encourages people to turn dropbox into the next rapidshare or equivalent, you can imagine how that could ruin the service for everyone"

You don't want to be the next Rapidshare. I encourage you to overthink this.

They're your competitor.

Sure, if with Rapidshare you mean "illegal file sharing service", which I assume you do, because you use it in one sentence with Torrents, you might be right. Although Rapidshare hasn't hit the deadpool yet and is still around and strong and in compliance with current law etc. But if you mean the highly profitable business of sharing (legal) files, you should think again. They offer the same thing you offer in a way. Cloud storage + backups on a very similar freemium business model. Only for larger files. For some use cases your product might be exorbitantly better (automatically syncing files on a harddrive and not just having it in a filesystem in the cloud like RS), in some ways Rapidshare's product is a lot better though(e.g. sharing larger files with multiple people). But the nature of Rapidshare's product of course comes with a few strings attached. Since the incarnation of filehosting there have been people who try to exploit it for illegal purposes. Rapidshare obviously doesn't have the cleanest image, yet, they comply with the DMCA and offer an incredibly valuable product.

And, most importantly: Rapidshare (as well as the majority of one-click-hosters) learned about the Streisand-Effect (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect) early and did not as aggressively about things like this the way you did. Of course our and your situation is different, yet there are a few similarities you could have learned from.

This time you have successfully dodged the bullet and made a good strategic move, but I sincerly hope you have also learned sth. from this for the next time, because with user base that is still growing like crazy the next time WILL come. And next time it might hit mainstream media even bigger and not only be on HN and Techmeme.

BTW: I can of course understand that you try to fight piracy as good as you can in order to protect the brand as well as the company from expensive lawsuits and their even more hurtful consequences. It's just the way in which you handled things. You should have known better. The Streisand effect has happened to so much companies already. But congrats on handling the situation so well after seeing all the negative feedback. It shows true entrepreneurial skills as well as hard work that some arrogant entrepreneurs don't put in anymore once they have moderate success (in startup terms).
Thank you. Yeah the styling stuff is def not my strong suit. I will give it some more work.
Hoping for the best, but based on some of my own experience, these things rarely work. You can't go home again.
I wonder whether for some merchants the best message will always be "1 product left in stock" and therefore it is in the merchant's interest to restock only one item immediately after every sale...
>>> We’ve been hard at work deploying Brisket to power three of the best and fastest sites on the web — BloombergView.com, BloombergPolitics.com, and BloombergBusiness.com.

Okay so after throwing up a bit at the hyperbole I played around with said sites. They feel fairly slow and loading different sections seems to be random how long it will take to register my click event. UX for showing page loading seems very limited and the differences in times of load for things feels very off.

Content sites like the ones Bloomberg mentions should not be done as single page webapps! The problem of rendering pages that have HTML on them has been solved - probably best to leave stuff like Brisket for apps that need it, like stock exchanges or real time analytics.
Never again ask Alexa,

"Get me some clean clothes!"
That's a pretty poor proposition to make to someone with a family to support. It's poor enough that they're going to ignore you and go on doing work you almost certainly object to.

Also, the skills required to be an effective network attack specialist have very little relation to those required to be a network engineer. I thought I covered this up-thread.
"Collectively, we owe it to founders and investors, and the economy, to create reliable secondary markets. That’s why Equidate was founded."

No we don't! There are no reliable secondary markets and there is not going to be one simply because they are based on pure speculation. It exists for one reason only - shareholders of pre-IPO companies don't want to wait years and hence are willing to trade their shares for immediate cash.

Secondary markets are just another way to create derivates. And we all know how unregulated derivates turned out!
My point is really that I am not even sure what I would expect to happen in such cases. To the point that I will find it hardly surprising when developers on a browser inevitably makes a mistake in implementation.

So, yes, this may all be there in the spec. But this is really just making the spec larger and larger with what seems to be nominal, if not decreasing, gains.
Here's a more serious source (EMET is mentioned towards the end of the blog post) ...

http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2015/01/unpatched-vulnerab...
This is great thanks! I had a few weeks ago the problem of not being able to get a passive verb parser in CoreNLP fast enough to work. Does SpaCy support reduced passives?
Interesting, I am curious if this can be used by psychiatrist / psychologist who need to take patient notes. Notes need to shared between psychiatrist / psychologist / social worker. Typically a patient needs all three. Also the notes would need to be secure (hipaa) compliant. I wonder how much work would be needed to build a MVP using paperwork as a start.
Neuro-linguistic programming.

(Except obviously not.)
imho God is supposed not to be subject to space and time, thus expecting It to be made or born would not make much sense. A believer could as well say that reality was/is/will be always God.
Another great site I use for highlighting regular expressions is regex101.com
It additionally supports PCRE and Python syntax. And has also a unit testing feature.

See the tools website here: https://regex101.com
Bullshit. You carry your purse around the office with you, into every meeting? You schlep your purse onto the dance floor? No. Just no.

It's really nice to be able to leave the house without a goddam purse. Tuck a credit card, a $20, a metrocard, a phone, and keys into your pockets and go for a walk in the park with your hands and shoulders completely free and unweighted.

Oh, and a phone in a purse? Harder to hear ring or beep, and you sure as hell won't feel it buzz.

And that's before even mentioning one-handed use, which as someone else pointed out above, is crucial when you have to hold a subway pole or carry groceries.

Women carry purses? Men carry backpacks and messenger bags. They still put their phones in their pockets and get annoyed when they can't. Or would you say it's ok for a phone to bend when you leave it in your pocket because you could just carry it in your backpack instead?
I haven't searched it too much, but I suspect a lot of devs are just not interested in wading through the licensing swamp. For some commercial databases, the vendor may or may not allow for linking their drivers without a licensing deal. For a database released under GPL, there isn't a way to release into the app store and not get the FSF all bunched up. I do a lot of database work and this is a major reason I crossed this app idea off my list. It feels like a headache in the making.
When you have 2-dimensional scrolling device (trackpad, Mighty Mouse for the first day before scroll ball clogs up) zoom-to-scroll is very awkward and annoying — you expect the 2d scrolling mechanism to scroll the 2d map.
I was thinking on buying one of this, but it seems it is not ready yet.

I love tablets because of the portrait mode. It is way easier to read on portrait(the reason newspapers are multicolums). How is that possible that they make a tablet and design the UI to be landscape?

You won't need tap to focus on portrait mode. IMHO a bad idea designing it like a netbook. I can't understand it.
You might be interested in the lengthy discussion from a previous submission of this item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1382456
Id love to be able to hack a solution to injustices like these.
People were saying that about Yahoo, you can't make money without pop-ups, etc. before Google came along
You can argue that all you want, but Ryanair, which epitomises the application of dark patterns in every aspect of its operations, is the largest or second-largest carrier in the world on a number of metrics (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair).

If you want to tell them they shouldn't be in the airline business, sure, but I'm not quite sure what your argument is then.
I genuinely don't understand the link between your comment and my own.
Do you use Twitter much? Some of those were actual issues that arose when the algorithmic feed was first introduced, but none of that is the case anymore and hasn't been for at least at year and probably more. I can't remember the last time I was switched back to the algorithmic feed. The chronological feed categorically does not show you likes, and only shows retweets from people you follow. And the only replies that will appear on your timeline are when one person you follow replies to another person you follow.
Processes were the original containers.
There are usual suspects for sources. Databases (MySQL, Postgres) and data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, RedShift).

Though data out is more common, we can also bring in data from any given SaaS tool as well. For example, we have a Mailchimp _source_ that will pull in people as they signup through their form.

There is a plugin model and a few Typescript interfaces to implement to be either a source or a destination.
Journalism weeds itself of those not "in the club" via unpaid or barely paid internships in the highest COL cities.
Great site! I love the "What happens if you drink acetone?" article: https://dynomight.net/2020/09/14/what-happens-if-you-drink-a...
Imagine, if you will, that this law was applied to Facebook, Twitter, etc. That you could only see content produced within some number of miles. Without Having so much reach, I wonder if we could devise a system that returns to amplifying local voices and creating community as opposed to louder, problematic voices from afar.
I subscribe to EatThisMuch for a lot of this stuff. I think calorie counting through meal prep makes a lot of sense and EatThisMuch does a solid job of allowing me to do things like set macros, black list certain ingredients, account for my schedule and leftover preferences and also has a good (but sometimes flawed) integration with whole foods delivery.

You definitely need to do some care and feeding on your favorite meals (unless you love eating cottage cheese with every meal) and remove meals for days you know you’re likely to eat out, but other than that it just works out of the box.
The people who get stuck afraid of doing it wrong usually end up launching nothing.
HN links rarely make me laugh but this was hilarious.
No, they were introduced by the founder, and were getting the job done, just not anywhere near as efficiently.
> Not knowing something is a boon - it rallies optimism that one day we will find what that unknown thing is. Religion does the opposite - not knowing something is replaced by faith and god.

By your own measure, this is a religious belief about other religions with which you are not familiar.
Package theft could be solved in many other ways, like having a proper drop-bin.

Or you could impose pervasive surveillance on every house in the neighborhood, inside and out.
I did Soylent for a while, but I wanted something more natural and in line with the traditional "pyramid". Soylent was sort of my default until I bothered to learn the bare minimum about nutrition.
I mean shit, that's not a bad idea for non-CS majors (like myself), considering the ROI of those majors
Is it just browser they discriminate on, or what? That's a heck of a discount. Makes me wonder if I should do some experimenting to see how to get lower prices...
http://www.google.com/support/hotpot/

Google Places and Hotpot isn’t just about telling others what you think. It’s about discovering new great places based on your personal tastes and preferences. Once you’ve rated places and added friends, start looking for recommendations of new places to try on Google Maps.

Next time you’re looking for a new dentist, hair salon or restaurant search on Google Maps to see what your friends have to say. Your Google Maps search results will be prioritized according to your preferences. Then you’ll see explanations from friends, so you can find the right place for you.

So like yelp, I guess. Was I supposed to know that already? The linked landing page has only the barest hint about what it is, and you have to be logged in to even see that.
Paragraph at the bottom.
Yep, and that's why the person best capable of making you truly miserable is yourself.
Interesting note about public keys that are automatically trusted by proprietary operating systems, and the potential for abuse by foreign powers. Reminded me of the discussion a while back about how it's relatively easy to become a root certificate authority in Firefox. Everyday cryptography needs some serious revamping.
I've been using OS X personally since about 2000. Used Windows and Linux plenty at work.

Right now I've been messing around trying to switch over to Linux. I'm using Arch and it's very rough around the edges.

My computer feels a lot faster but still trying to work out the kinks. Fools errand?
I have something very similar set up.

I have a terminal command called "log" which takes a string as an argument. It basically takes this string and writes it into my log file, prepended by the current date and time. This log file is in my dropbox folder. Typing "log" with no arguments will open up the log file in my editor.

I have this set up with an Alfred workflow which works exactly the same way. I find it very useful for keeping track of what I am working on, what problems I was meant to be tackling, quick calculations I would like to keep a record of, etc

EDIT: reading the article more thoroughly, my solution is basically identical.
Agreed. Of course, we can now argue whether this level of granularity is unnecessarily complicated.

However: it's hard to argue that the three cases that I listed are too many rules, yet it's easy to see that they can cause too many signs using the OP's design. Such a simplification made the point much clearer, but I should have made that explicit.
Two weeks ago I gave up on OSX / MBPs too. Consider the Dell XPS 13/15 line or the ThinkPad Carbon line as a replacement.

I opted for the Dell XPS 15 -> http://amzn.to/1JeO1T2

PS: I already own a Dell XPS 13 (2013 model) running Linux
I hoped Nokia E6 would come close to the Palm Treo. The
shape is about the same but slimmed down and without the antenna. And hardware is good. But the software is somehow disappointing (I expected more from a descendant of Psion). If I recall, the to-do lists on Palm were so much nicer, for instance.
Here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=feature/...

Edit: sorry, I mispeak, look at master - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/android/ex...
I miss the excitement but not the uncertainty. We did succeed into becoming a big company with huge revenues, but most startups never leave the basement, we knew that back then, maybe it's just me not missing those times, maybe because I wasn't such a kid anymore, I was 29 at the time we got started and already had my first kid on the way(2 years before that I was working at another startup that failed big time but I really didn't care back then). I loved the work and truly believed we would make it, but it was hard work, taking time from my family, specially from being with my newborn, so yeah I'm good now with being "just an engineering manager" knowing my job is safe, my future is safe. I still work hard but it's different when you don't have to wonder about the company's future I'm sure a lot of you know what I'm talking about. I might be alone here, but I don't miss a thing.
More sweat, less blood and tears I hope :-)
I try to do my best to follow the trends in JavaScript development and do mostly develop with JavaScript and even I can't keep up with the new terminology these days. When looking at marty.js documentation, I was constantly trying to map the new concepts to the ones I already know about.
Not who you are replying to, but I'd imagine your point:

> If you so value your company information, maybe you should start reading what you sign.

Is exactly what people are up in arms about. Even reading the EULA, you may not expect Microsoft to permit data sharing in this way. And if this is entirely unacceptable for you, then it's time to leave Microsoft.

Or you can make noise about it online like this, and cause Microsoft to realise this sharing will lose them customers. I doubt the data is worth the churn, and Microsoft will likely change the policy rather than lose the customers.
I see your point too, and we're looking forward to a world in which low-power (to enable NFC) open source chips with security features exist. For instance, https://tropicsquare.com is a project that is working towards that.

For now, what we mean by open source hardware is on the one hand that all components are freely available (without NDAs, which nearly all secure elements entail), and on the other that the schematic of the device is open source and passes OSHWA Certification (the CERN license https://ohwr.org/project/cernohl/wikis/Documents/CERN-OHL-ve... is relevant here). This means that you can in principle build a device yourself. The certification will be done post-campaign (we want to avoid copycat products appearing before ours is available in the open market). Like we did with our three previous keys (e.g., https://certification.oshwa.org/us000155.html and https://github.com/solokeys/solo-hw).
> They also seem to exercise a double standard in this regard:

Thanks, that's a good article, but doesn't seem to support your claim of a double standard:

> Some will no doubt describe this double standard as an example of political bias, but it's probably better described as garden-variety sloppiness. It seems more likely that the Times does not have consistent standards here, and editors alternate between fostering over-reliance on anonymous sources and forbidding the practice.

i.e. not a "double standard", but no standard.
I don’t know what dislike means, but it’s obviously attracting enough eyeballs from someone to create multi billion dollar cash flow at Facebook and other social media companies.

Anecdotally, all the people who keep their head down and stay modest don’t advance politically. Tooting your own horn is basically a requirement.
I subscribed to some type of MySQL Support 15 years ago. It was about $150 a month and I figured I would never need it. One day I had a really difficult problem, so I emailed support. We went back and forth a few times and then they informed me that their "support" plan meant I was supporting their project, not that they would support me. I guess I got fired as a customer. This was the first time I had heard of this. Calling it "support" made it easy for the company to justify and buy.
The whole point of scams is that money is on the line, otherwise it would just be random woo. In fact early Chiropractic was explicitly framed as a belief from irrefutable doctrine and rejecting inferential reasoning, essentially claiming defence as religious freedom, in order to exempt it from being regulated as practicing medicine without a license. Most Chiropractors nowadays do incorporate a degree of scientific reasoning and evidence into their practice, but personally it's not clear to me to what extent this is genuine or just adopting the terminology to paper over the holistic wellness metaphysics claptrap with a veneer of respectability.

Personally, I'd rather go to a real physiotherapist.
Scientific American went straight downhill in the last few years, particularly devoting itself a great deal to social issues that have nothing to do with it.