jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately people have to get an important idea in their head. The police are not there to help you for the most part.

In the UK we call the Police the filth for good reason. Law enforcement's job is to incriminate you. They are not there to "protect and serve" that is just marketing. That isn't true of every police officer and isn't true of every police force, but it is safest to assume that it is the truth.

If law enforcement are "wanting to chat" that means they are trying to push something on you. You don't tell them anything, you ask for legal representation and the answer to every question should be "no comment". Anything you tell them will be used against you in the court room.

It shouldn't be that way. But unfortunately that is the truth.
haha, thanks. Didn't expect anything, beside private, that low.
If I remember correctly the original landline audio was 64kpbs, 8000 Hz. So Lyra is 1/20 of this. And probably still sounds better.
Excellent, because if you doubt my story of living in the area, your wife can walk next door and see if the name of the track 3200m record holder matches my user name. It will also tell you how long ago it was that I lived there. :-) (Loooong time ago.)

Anyway, best of luck with your current work situation and may it only improve.
The slashdot effect triggered Cloudflare’s DDoS protection and is returning errors for that page.
> You initially wrote that the UX would be so bad that you'd have to convince users to bear with it anyway. I don't know how they implemented it on the client side, but it's possible they kept it light, as they've been doing since the beginning. We'll see soon enough.

I think you're confusing UI and UX. Yes, the UI could be kept light but the user experience can still be confusing because a payments feature is… surprising. Why would a messaging app come with a payments feature if not to make money and exploit the user?

Not saying that this is happening here but this is what people think, i.e. the emotional experience.
There are many, prolific users who submit primarily flamebait and generally 'negative' content. In fact, a full 15% of the most recent 100 submissions are by users who primarily post such content. I try to flag egregious examples, but it requires constant vigilance. It's quite unfortunate.
Because one is a piece of data that anybody can create and distribute, while the other is a harmful practice that people are fighting for generations.
>But Signal needs to keep core feature parity to remain competitive with WhatsApp, Telegram etc. And that includes a payment mechanism.

A payment mechanism just isn't a core chat application feature.
In that case, in the US you need to live in a state with a good medicaid program and infrastructure.
It's not just opposition to cryptocurrencies per se, the choice of Mobilecoin is also problematic[0]. On top of that you have to trust Intel.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715348
I agree with this. I use XMPP at work and it is great on a desktop, but it is a failure on mobile and a PITA. PGP is also ALWAYS complicated.

Much easier to tell friends / family "invite to Signal."
I don't see this concerted agenda to remove white men from positions of power. If you stand back and think to yourself "if we had a perfectly meritocratic world, what percentage of business leaders would be white men?", I don't think the answer is 100% (as was the case at the turn of the century).

Today the answer is about 70%. So yeah, we are trending away from 100%. And within certain groups of white men, this has created a lot of anxiety about losing their privileged position in society.

Some other evidence that the shift away from 100% white men is not some concerted agenda, but rather people who deserve it being put into positions of power.

Companies with female leadership tend to outperform the market.

https://www.consultancy.com.au/news/2362/companies-with-wome...

You're claiming that Sundar was chosen for his skin color with no evidence other than speculation. Chrome is one of the most important products for Google. Who else was passed up for his job? How are you so sure?
A key difference would be that I don't pay for Gmail, thus I pay through my data and ads. If I want a paid email solution that doesn't harvest my data, or serves me ads such things exist.

Also, having any OS collect your data is an incredible privacy violation, since, Operating systems, by their very nature have incredibly overarching access to essentially everything you do. And then, on top of it all, they serve ads.

Essentially, so far, software was either "sold", ad supported, or data supported, or both ad and data supported. Windows is trying to triple tap.

And again, the OS has access to absolutely everything. Having a platform have access to a slice of your life feels very different from having a platform have access to everything.
You are just confused about how parliamentary democracies with proportional representation work. What you are spreading – this simple truth – is also very much a myth.

The whole story is complex and full of details. Was Hitler’s rise to power fully constitutional within the framework of the Weimar constitution? Probably not. But that’s a complex story where the details matter. One thing is true, and that is that Hitler took great pains to make it at least look constitutional and legitimate. His rise to power was obviously not a democratic one, if for his goons on the streets alone, but he did manage to get the necessary majorities in parliament as long as he needed them (and did that via working together with other, more conventional conservative parties, as is regularly necessary to get majorities in democracies with proportional representation and just normal – well, the stupidity of those other conservative parties in cooperating with Hitler is very much not normal, but they thought they could control him).
I don't recollect being asked for my ID while riding Amtrak on the Northeast Corridor in the last 2 years. I don't even print the stubs anymore - I just use the Amtrak app / Passbook on my phone to display my ticket.
I've worked remote for 2 years and I miss it deeply today.

I keep trying to find another position like that but most of them pay a lot less the on site. So...
When we went from predominantly fixed-width to predominantly variable-width for both professional writing drafts and, more widely, email.
Comments are usually written off the cuff, and take place within the context given by the story.

Stories are usually more considered (yes, I know people link to tweets sometimes, personally I find that tiresome). They make their own context and are often (mostly?) written by people who haven't heard of HN.

Also, I think you misunderstand my usage of a "ranking system" --- it includes not only the method of crunching the numbers, but also the way the votes are solicited.
If you want to go low carb, I would suggest making it up with fat instead of protein. High protein diets can affect the kidney by increasing the load, especially important if you do not have perfect blood pressure. Milk thistle (silymarin) can help alleviate it.
If you currently use a 13" MBP wait until the next revision of the MBA and buy because right now, the differences don't justify the expense
I always believed that failure is the first step towards success (https://ivypanda.com/essays/failure-and-success-in-teacher-c...), because even the most successful people around the world have had an experience characterized by failure. So, all my failure stories I try to interpret from this perspective.
I've been reading (and 100% agreeing with!) these "here's why crypto is a giant Ponzi scheme doomed to collapse Real Soon Now" articles for ten years. When is it actually going to happen?

I'm not a crypto guy. I've never bought, sold, or mined a cent worth of it. I really can't stress that enough. But it's gone on an awful long time now. At this point these articles are starting to seem more like the "Here's why Facebook will die out like MySpace" articles I used to see circa 2010.
Stallman and the FSF see closed source software as unethical.

Imagine if someone asked you for help and said "I don't see how to free my slaves while making a living, paying my rent, paying for my children's education". Would you tell them "You shouldn't have slaves, it's unethical" or would you try to help them find a way to run their business with fewer slaves, but still some?
At its peak, Netflix accounts for something like a full third of internet traffic in the US (almost double Youtube's haul).
What's new: http://www.sikuli.org/sikuli-x.shtml
It's not a blogging innovation - it's just a stream of activity that happens to be related to Q&A. It looks somewhat similar to someone's FriendFeed activity stream, or Twitter conversation stream.

Quora and StackOverflow might have improved the traditional Q&A site by making it more about conversations than just "HOW DO I GET BABBY" questions, but it's not blogging. Blogging is more about writing about what's on your mind. In some cases your blog entries are part of a conversation, but it's at the same level that a newspaper editorial is part of a conversation.
Quora's relevance and absolute focus on completely revolutionizing the Q&A sector is fascinating. They've done so many innovations in that space.

Counting that as an innovation to blogging seems too far-fetched...
Those are good ideas. LFE is still in active development, and I don't think Robert has completely fixed those things in stone yet.
I read your blog post from Dec 2009 and your predictions were pretty dead on. Please write another post for your predictions in 2011 for the iPhone and iPad.
He can't be too bad a dopamine junkie considering he got tenure at an ivy league institution.
3.1% of Americans are either in prison or on parole. When you realize that kids and the elderly are going to be underrepresented in prisons, and that prisons are like 90% male, it's not surprising that a group like 4chan would have a lot of people who had been convicted of crimes there.

And then you have self-identifiers. Between filesharing, underage drinking, speeding, and pot, you're going to have a hard time finding anyone between 18 and 30 who hasn't committed at least one crime, even if unconvicted.
That's... ridiculous.

Thanks for the info :)
Monthly gun sales have about tripled since 2000, and we had a lot of guns even back then: https://www.google.com/search?q=gun+sales+per+year&client=sa...

As to regulatory changes: support for a handgun ban is the lowest its been since Gallup started tracking the statistic in 1959: https://news.gallup.com/poll/150341/record-low-favor-handgun.... It's just 26% today, versus 60% in 1959.

Unlike with tobacco, there's no big scientific study or educational campaign that's going to drop. Guns are a well-ventilated issue.
Nope. Mother Nature doesn't have to care whether her rules are popular, the laws of thermodynamics are actually very unpopular, but they apply anyway.

However people can disobey our laws and so if they aren't popular enough they're worthless. The UK used to have laws controlling the ownership of dogs. Each dog required a license, licenses were taxed and you could be refused a license. But that law was very unpopular, and so it was abolished - not because licensing dog ownership wasn't a good idea, but because even if it was a great idea it was too unpopular to succeed.
Wouldn’t that mean an end to a lot of free services? If I want to pay for email there are plenty of services. If I want to trade viewing some ads for free email service shouldn’t that choice be up to me?
You don't edit raw png values either, with rgb/index values in a list. SVGs are meant to be created and used like any image file.

The fact that they are almost human-editable and can be inlined means we are bound to be disappointed when working with them in this manner
Is there any country in history that prevented its downfall because its civilians are armed to the teeth?
Wow this is super amazing (and little horrifying). Never knew SVG can contain Javascript. Always thought of it as just a little safe vector graphics markup.
Genocide is a perfect word for this. Keep in mind that the situation is probably a lot worse since we are talking about China.
Just like how "mad" became "angry" instead of "crazy" in American English, or how "bade" more often rhymes with "fade" instead of "sad", the meaning of "begging the question" is becoming "begging one to ask the question".
Amazing, this thing is exploding on campuses and I still can't figure out how the hell this site even works.
Seems a bit limited and expensive. Pumping water uphill when there's a surplus seems like a no brainer, doubly so when you are already using hydro and hydro production is already tied into the grid. Seems like pretty much the only way to cost effectively bank substantial amounts of energy for 6 months.
refugee = outside not inside the country.
> Tesla doesn't advertise.

Of course they do. They advertised at you and it worked. It's worked so well that you're even parroting their marketing messages for them, including the myth that they don't advertise.

> Why would Tesla spend the minimum tens of millions of dollars to get into what is at best a side diversion from their main business?

Formula E doesn't cost tens of millions of dollars. Team budgets in Formula E are $10 million. And Tesla doesn't need to own a team. They can be a powertrain supplier just like other car companies are suppliers and not team owners.
But you do make mistakes. All humans do. Maybe you had an argument with a family member earlier in the day, and your mind wanders and you don't notice a red light. Maybe it's night, and raining, and some unexpected glare combined with debris in the road causes you to crash. Maybe you do drive tired, just once, even though generally you're strict about not doing so. Having a perfect driving record requires both luck (that no one else around you screws up) and constant vigilance on your part. Blemishing that record only takes the tiniest mistake, just once. No one, literally no one, is immune to these factors.

As much as I dislike the term "accident" when talking about car crashes (because, to me, the implication of the word is no one has to take responsibility), sometimes things just happen, because we are imperfect beings with imperfect nervous systems and imperfect perceptions and imperfect reaction times.

Self-driving cars will be better at a lot of things, but, yes, possibly worse at others. They have the potential to eliminate many causes of crashes, but might add a few new ones.

When you're on a plane, you're trusting not only the pilots, but a ton of complex avionics software. Why is that ok, while trusting self-driving isn't? I get that the two tasks are very different, and self-driving will require more sophisticated, nuanced software, but in both cases you're turning your safety over to a computer. That didn't work so well with the 737-MAX, but no one is talking about scrapping modern aviation because a bunch of people died due to bad software decisions.

The problem is the illusion of control. People think that driving their own car means they're in control of nearly every possible outcome, but in reality, they're not. Plenty of things can happen in a car that are out of the driver's control, even without another vehicle involved.

Another part of it is that people (Americans especially) can be excessively individualistic. Many people will balk at a solution that will result in (just making up numbers here) 25% fewer deaths if it means they personally will have a 0.001% greater chance of dying. Frankly, I find that mindset really worrying in a society, even if it can be understandable.

(Somewhat relatedly, I recall an episode of Star Trek TNG where one possible solution to the problem du jour was to give the computer full control over propulsion in order to save the ship. And we're talking about a futuristic computer that could probably flawlessly simultaneously self-drive every car currently on Earth without breaking a sweat. But in the end, blatantly pandering to our "human control is always superior" biases, the computer was found to be not good enough, and humans saved the day. Even more telling, I believe it was Captain Picard who took manual control; they didn't even have Data, the android, do it!)
If you allow user uploading files, i'd suggest you get started with Amazon S3, as once the number of uploaded files grow big, your slice storage might not be able to fit.
Interesting graph. The "bubble" goes parabolic right in 2009, as the financial system is awash in QE money, searching for yield. Almost textbook.
You argument assumes inefficient advertising invades privacy less, which I'm not certain is true, or that an invasion of privacy is necessary to be efficient. Again since it wasn't really defined either way I suppose it's debatable what is meant by efficient or inefficient.

I would suggest that ideal advertising/marketing should have a viral or organically promoted component to it. I'm always going to be more likely to be interested in a product that someone I trust recommends or that I'm directly seeking rather than is being pushed to me. Efficient advertising would ideally be more passive rather than pushy and active and rely on and encourage organic promotion by having the right fit for the audience.

Still I'm just speculating what is meant here.
I think when he says depth of offerings he's talking about the number and variety of different lenses available, rather than the depth of field of any particular lens.
This is the best performing interactive animation I've ever seen done with web technologies.
git ls-remote will help you to get the hash of HEAD. It's much cheaper than doing a zero-depth clone.
LiveJournal solved all these problems years ago (at least, I found it easy to use).
I really don't get where this too many data types canard comes from - all you need to know is vector, matrix, array (1d, 2d, and nd homogeneous data types) and list and data frame (1d and 2d heterogeneous data types). On the other hand, the OO systems are somewhat bewildering.

I disagree that no one will have the chutzpah to fix R - I know of at least three groups including one driven by an extremely serious computer scientist, who are either working on rewrites of the internals or complete new implementations of the language. Even though R has been around longer than languages like Python and Ruby, it hasn't excited the interest of so many CS people, so it's at an early stage of it's evolution - it's only now at a point where serious alternative implementations of the core engine are starting to come out.

Personally, I've been working on making many of the core library more cleaner and more consistent. I'm completely biased, but I think if you use my packages (ggplot2 for graphics, plyr for apply functions, stringr for strings, lubridate for dates, ...) you'll have many fewer problems. And if you do find inconsistencies, I'm committed to fixing them.
I have heard some complaints about this, but it tends to be on the NYT domain - which can be avoided by opening it in incognito mode.
Rather than finding a prettier band aid, I would follow Ubuntu's lead and just drop the X protocol all together. Neither Windows nor Mac OSX use X and both of those managed to make really nice looking systems that have a relatively clean direct API. And they can easily handle the desktop running on a different machine than the OS.
The rationale for the 50 person limit is:

> Because your personal network is limited to your 50 closest friends and family, you can always trust that you can post any moment, no matter how personal.

But as others have pointed out, 50 is just an arbitrary number. There might be more than 50 people someone is happy to see a photo, or there might be less. For risque photos, someone may only want a subset of their friends to see it. A better system would be to allow users to have multiple overlapping subsets of visibility, with one being the default.
How to reach your audience without one-at-a-timing.

Example: I'm trying to build an audience for my project weddingbudgetbuddy.com, I'm posting on wedding forums, I've been blogging to get some google juice and I plan to start emailing some related blogs for link exchanges etc.

But these all feel like I'm aiming for terribly small wins. Like, even if everyone I email puts a link up, what can I expect, ten links? a hundred? We're not talking about massive PR here are we really!?

So yeah, I have no money to spend at all and I want to get to number one on a google search for "wedding budget", how can I do that?
I might add: Freelancer is 500 EUR to 1000 EUR (and above) a day depending on your skills (obviously ;-)
YOu also get the better battery life.
A few horizontal lights remained in the small towns of my state when I got my license, so I did have to learn this. I've long forgotten, though. A color-blind guy I worked with said that he worried about forgetting.
I wonder to what extent the mortality is a proxy for length and early onset of the occupation.

As for tendency to vote Communist, in areas once occupied people might tend to remember the Red Army fondly.
Where did you find the installation instructions and build and install guide? I didn't see them on the github page.
In a game design mentality, you would instead switch them with a explicit crossover having unique signage so there would be a memorable moment, and other indicators or challenges that will clearly (and safely) shake them out of the former driving mode.

For example, there could be roadway exits or green arrows on the customary side for the driving direction, fake parked cars on the other side of the street, lights that flash like runway lights to simulate traffic and even a "challenge" intersection where there is no oncoming traffic (or warning sign!) on the former driving side. Vehicles that do enter the wrong side of that intersection could trigger lit in-roadway arrows that direct the mistaken driver to enter a center lane to merge.
I have had my 13" MBP for 12 months, 7hr battery. Generally get 6-8 hours use when doing dev/test work. With VmWare Fusion running I'm lucky to get 2 hours. On days with lots of meetings (note taking & giving presentations) I can get through a 14hr day on a single charge.

I suspect that disk activity has a big impact upon power consumption. But when doing heavy development (and using Fusion) I power from mains.
If you are aimed at the enterprise user, I think a less web 2.0 name might be better. It seems like some companies I have worked with will just pass based on that (which is a shame, but that is how it is).
Just double click in the field to have all the text selected, then paste

Unless you are a certain nameless firewall manufacturer which doesn't go with convention, and mangles password fields into something like single-click-select (but only if changing the focus to them).

Then you just double click, watch it be highlighted then unhighlighted, then single click, which does nothing this time, then try to click and select and paste and realise it doesn't accept keyboard paste, only right-click-paste.

The problem with your UI suggestions is that even when they're logical and seem to make sense, they wont for every program. ;)
Why not just hit mute and watch the closed captions. What sounds from a soccer game do you actually want to hear?
Yoga. I was in depression for a few years and I started taking yoga classes a few months ago and it really helped.
Fair enough. My memories of it are very dim, I could have sworn arrays were 1-indexed, too.
Yesterday Schneier was trying to make sense out of the British authorities' play to detain Miranda...

"Schneier: The Real, Terrifying Reason Why British Authorities Detained David Miranda" (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/the...)
As a side note, I really have a hard time figuring out what was it that Gerstner did at IBM. When he started, IBM was the mainframe company. What is it doing today? They say it's services, but what are services? When I did an internship there, everyone I asked just shrugged their shoulders.