jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There's also the whole frightening frame of thought that as people who were alive to see nuclear detonations being performed in the 50s/60s continue to die off, as a society we're going to slowly forget what makes nuclear weapons so awesome (in the original definition of the word), and the willpower around their restraint will slowly be eroded away until it's too late.
We are running a few of VMware machines, gotta check to make sure we're up to date.

Thanks for sharing.
paper handing at $69. should have gone with call options. more potential for gainz

fyi 167 in the after hours
And yet Google Cloud has some great features that AFAIK AWS still hasn't, presumably due to different priorities.

Like regional disks [1] or live migration of compute between hosts if problems are detected with the host.

1. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks#repds
> We are slowly squeezing a significant segment of the population out of public debate

Or maybe just a loud segment of the population.

~22% of the US population voted for Trump (75M out of 330M).

How many voted because they love Trump and his dangerous brand of politics? How many voted for him as an FU to liberals? And how many voted for Trump because they want conservative judges, lower taxes, a ban on abortion, etc. and are willing to hold their nose and vote for him?

Trump rallies were dwarfed by Obama’s crowds. Trump marches were dwarfed by BLM, climate and women’s marches. But the media loved every non-traditional thing he did and America was happy to watch the train wreck.

It’s an emotional time right now, but my neighbors with Trump flags are still nice people and are a far cry from the few hundred (or thousand) lunatics that are drumming up trouble.

If we can give folks direct representation or at least something other than winner take all voting, we might start getting the politicians we deserve.

Don’t forget, Trump had the lowest % primary vote share of a presidential candidate. He simply won because so many other candidates were splitting the vote. Put him head to head against other politicians and he loses. Give republicans ranked voice voting and I doubt he ever gets nominated.

This too shall pass, but I doubt it gets as big as the civil war some fear. A Republican will step up to fill the political void and reprint the party in their own image and voters will fall in line.
Article I, Section 9, Clause 1 is even more damning I think. Basically saying that importation of slaves must be allowed for at least the first 19 years of the country's existence.

> The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Let’s put this in more context.

Of course slaves weren’t allowed to vote, and 3/5ths meant that the South would get more representation as recognition of the economic strength they were bringing to the union.

It’s not like the Northern vs Southern states were arguing about whether a slave’s vote was worth 0, 3/5, or 1. This was about ascribing more (or less) power to slave owners.
I agree that the process has been engaged and the verdict delivered. However the concerns about election integrity greatly predate this election, and in my lifetime the controls have been getting weaker not stronger. I don’t think the broader issue is going away anytime soon.
I'm sure you'll get a wide variety of answers here.

As a software engineer, I like solving complex technical problems and learning software, management, and people skills. It doesn't matter to me what I'm doing as long as it's ethical and I can grow.
Ask your employer if he can pay you in cash or Bitcoin off the record. If you're a business, sell for bitcoins and give discounts, certainly pay employees in Bitcoin if they ask you to. As far as I know, there's currently no law that requires you to pay taxes on bitcoins earned. Even if there was, it'd be prohibitively expensive for government to track everyone's Bitcoin addresses (data mining on the blockchain is certainly possible, but a great deal more difficult than reading your emails, I suppose).
That was reported in a bloomberg story also:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-t...

It obviously gives the Govt time to protect themselves, but could also exploit it on other systems.
As a UNIX newbie and owner of an Android device, could you give an example of typical use cases of SSH on a phone? I may give it a go myself. EDIT: I just noticed this is a SSH client rather than server right? Can you really do much on such a cramped keyboard or is it for use in emergency situations?
In theory every browsers that support the CSS property "transform-style: preserve-3d;" can run the app.
But in practice it's not that simple, for example Firefox has some serious performance issues with 3D, and the overall experience using the app was really bad.

I built the app with cross browsers in mind, so it will be really easy for me to expand the list of supported browsers in the future (hopefully).
It's a technical demonstration of the W3C WebAudio API. By your logic we shouldn't have great demos such as these because a subset of vendors haven't pulled their finger's out of their collective arses to implement a spec that's been around for a couple years.

Sorry you're pissed off, but your rant is directed at the wrong people. Go file bug reports with Mozilla and Microsoft instead of chastising someone for making something cool.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469288825958850...

"This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can’t be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence"

That's a new one. Twitter openly admits the content is dangerous, but they still don't want to ban him so they carved out a special quarantine mode instead.
It isn't meant to be. It's meant to be an existence proof to allow people the freedom to work.
Many payment processors (at least a couple of years ago) do not require the CCV #. Providing it merely gives you a discount on the transaction fee, since it reduces fraud.
Perhaps I forgot to mention, this is the .Net world, those versioning tools are not at all popular; doesn't mean one isn't used but versioning and publishing to production have little to do with each other.

Can you use a pull from version control to do an automated build and deploy it, sure, but that's an unnecessary hassle for a small team. It's more productive to simply build on your machine and push up the new version. An automated rsync deploy is more than sufficient.
The problem is precisely that it's too difficult for grassroots volunteer groups to put measures on the ballot, while at the same time being too easy for well-funded private interests to get things on the ballot, which has resulted in the current distorted use of the initiative system.

Most initiative signatures are not collected by volunteers, they're collected by paid signature gathering organizations. And that's the problem the article was getting at: that anyone with enough money can get an initiative on the ballot by paying people to collect signatures, and once something's on the ballot, they can spend enough money to try to persuade people to vote for it. As a result, rich people and organizations can effectively buy legislation, or even constitutional amendments. That's not how the initiative process was intended to be used, but that's what we've got.

I'd also challenge you, if you're a fan of California's initiative system, to take a look at all the initiatives that have passed over the last 10 years or so. Now, remove the ones put on there by the state legislature (which is a lot of them), and of the remaining ones, ask yourself: how many of these represent a positive, populist change versus how many of them represent some corporate special interest or populist outrage attempting to do something that is more properly the responsibility of the legislature (like, in my opinion, the three-strikes law or sex-offender laws) or even just out-right discriminatory laws (like the various illegal immigration ones that have passed)? My personal calculus has been that the initiative process has, on balance, done more harm than good.
Yep, this indeed caused some "fun" issues with Appointment Reminder. Off the top of my head, it broke DelayedJob and one other gem that I am forgetting.

Edited to add: Now I remember. The second gem was actually A/Bingo (a plugin). I fixed this back in January.
> Can't really hope for any impartiality when it comes to reporting on MS

Have you taken the trouble of actually reading the patents?

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
I think the source of this is that they use third party tools that automatically store/index/rip apart your resume for keywords. Theres obviously no reason why the third party tools don't support plaintext files, but it seems that they don't.

Considering Amazon didn't develop the system, I don't think the choice of software by the HR department is really something that is safe to make generalizations from.
The confirmation email about my agreeing to the transfer included a humorous bug:

"Originating IP address: 127.0.0.1"
Exactly, many people cannot differentiate front/back and up/down with general purpose HRTF, something that is much better with a custom HRTF.

For basic experiments, put 2 small microphones into your ear canals, hit record, then go for a walk. The result will blow you away :-)

To record your custom HRTF, get an anechoic chamber, put 2 small microphones into your ear canals, then record impulse responses from all directions. Not quite as simple.

Good luck! Post your results here!
It would be nice if the documentation described or at least linked to explanations of why all the things it highlights are bad. It's relatively obvious why deprecated elements are bad, but what's wrong with links to "#" or links without a title? If you have time, don't just reply to my comment with the answer; Fork and Edit the docs on GitHub (https://github.com/redroot/holmes/blob/master/README.markdow...) so everyone can learn.

The Browser Support section wonders if Holmes.css works on IE9. I tried the bookmarklet on this very Hacker News page, and the only colored borders I see are grey, whereas in Firefox 4 I see all three colors of border - so, it seems IE9 only partially supports Holmes.css.
You're right that 90% of the clients on oDesk are absolutely horrible, but so are most of the developers.

There are some, however, who are genuinely just trying to find affordable talent in places where it's available. I know plenty of great developers in Russia and India making $40/hour as programmers for US companies.
Doesn't matter. It's equivalent to buying 76% today.
That's what money is.
He should accept GME stock as payment medium. 10 stocks per year
> but so is human ingenuity. We're constantly discovering new facts and approaches, and this is the major factor doomsayers never bring up in these discussions.

There's an abundance of new facts, approaches and ideas. And the vast majority of scientists and activists advocate those facts, approaches and ideas. They have been doing exactly that for the past 60 years.

Your human ingenuity counts for nothing if the only ideas that humanity is willing to accept are those which can be marketed to consumers (electric cars, solar panels) rather then those which are boring, maybe even painful to some, but absolutely necessary to sustain life on Earth (sustainable development goals per the U.N. [1])

[1] https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-develo...
>I think the most important thing to realize -- before we look at statistics, which we definitely should -- is that if a number of people, our coworkers, feel uncomfortable at our workplaces -- and it doesn't matter whether that number is large or small -- then we should feel terrible and do something about it.

Or maybe they should. The legitimacy of their reasoning matters. I don't mind making changes for people who have a legitimate issue, but work is for adults.
This is what happens when you take something good (patterns) too far, and then keep going.
Craigslist has (had?) no deadlines and no (formal) meetings.
IIUC the Library Genesis project mirrors SciHub (i.a.), and Libgen is mirrored on IPFS and has torrents for every 1000 files or so.
For anyone curious, some googling found me this:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/1014#issu...

> This feature is unavailable in Germany due to patent concerns:

> https://www.teltarif.de/whatsapp-chat-exportieren-iphone/new... (article in German)
That's funny. People use Whatsapp because outside US and Asia is the worldwide de facto standard for messaging. The new TOS does not state that Whatsapp is going to read your messages, actually even the non-techo-savvy population in Europe knows that Whatsapp uses end-to-end encryption (they just know that "it cannot be intercepted"), so they use it for good reasons, and will continue to do so, because 99% of people don't give a shit about Facebook sealing your profile image and list of contacts or stuff like that. So it's not going to happen that there is a mass move outside of Whatsapp anytime soon. I also find very curious that people are concerned with that, but not with the fact that Facebook and Twitter can decide who can talk and who not, to te extend that one person can be the president of US but not writing his thoughts on social networks. You will hardly find somebody more against Trump than me, but that's not the point, the point is that is a lot more concerning that social network owners can decide what "free speech" is.
Nope. You can't even use it on a tablet without owning a smartphone.
That’s a lot smaller than I expected, means they’re spending a lot of money on something
> OP gives no proof that Tether is not holding 1:1 reserves.

Other than, you know, they themselves admitting under oath that they did not.
Naturally. I'm just wondering if there's a convention for capitalization of lower-case names in a location (such as a title) where any other word would have been capitalized.
This is really good to know. I always seem to come up with ideas that have already been done. But it's possible my new approach would be better than the competition, like TweetingMachine.
BULLSHIT! You are jrockway, shooting from the hip is your trademark. As for context to this comment, tl;dr.
Ad for their service or not, the title is misleading. There "machine learning" = "how we use google translate".

It was well written, but the content let it down.
Color makes all the difference.
startup.com
The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
Isn't that impossible? You can redirect to a page (under your control) that redirects to itself, if your goal is to get the user stuck in a redirect loop. Until their browser decides enough is enough, that is.
CPI includes all of those things. Can argue with the measurement and the composition of the basket, but real inflation isn't much higher than CPI. Asset price inflation on the other hand....
> It's super weird that your list just assumes the Windows way for things is "standard" or "normal" and the Mac way is wrong, when both paths are (most of the time) entirely arbitrary. E.g., Home and End behavior, delete key behavior.

To be fair, most "mac is better" list do the same.

Ultimately to each their own and let's all be glad we have both alternatives.
Robinhood allowing easy, fractional purchases probably has a lot to do with it. That with the gambling nature, 10 million people playing with 1000 bucks each is a billion dollars.

All Bitcoin are not worth $50k each, but a Bitcoin is. Someone who can't afford to buy a Bitcoin, will buy 1/50th of a Bitcoin for $1000. That's affordable. Then they'll sell that 1/50th to the next guy for $2000. That prices a Bitcoin at $100k. Try to sell 1000's of coins at that price and the buyer pool will eventually dry up, prices will begin to go down, and all those white knuckle retail investors who can't afford to lose $1k dump and the price collapses. Millions of people each lose a grand here or there. Hedge funds sold long ago to those fractional buyers. Pump and dump 100%.
I think you've summed it up nicely when dropdowns should be used vs buttons.
Users can choose to adopt the trade-offs of second layer solutions if and when it is convenient for them, and with whatever portion of their wealth that they like.
OH nice, finally, i have more motivation now to create more bookmarklets to automate chrome tasks
Does this apply if you run this action on your own hosted runners?
By my understanding, a superconducting computer does consume less power than a traditional computer, even taking into account the cooling systems.

However, superconductivity requires either extremely low temperatures (a few kelvins at most) or even more extreme pressures (think many kilometers underground), so it is currently outside the realm of possibility for a mobile device.
Before reading the article I had no idea that so many forms of capitalism existed:

late capitalism

21st century capitalism

wellness capitalism

white patriarchal capitalism
Google Trends shows that GoodReads seems to get at least 100x the popularity LibraryThing does.

Both sites were founded around 15 years ago.

But they're both still going. (GoodReads, of course, now being owned by Amazon.)

Which seems like a pretty unusual situation to me -- can't think of too many parallels where the extreme underdog doesn't either a) just call it quits or b) keeps innovating until they get some kind of "reasonable" market share, whether that's 10% or 30% or 50% or 80%.

Above all in a social network. (A big value of GoodReads for me is seeing my friend's books and activity too. As much as I'd be curious to try LibraryThing, I don't think any of my friends have even heard of it.)

I'm quite curious how LibraryThing has managed to keep going despite such a tiny userbase, comparatively? I'm genuinely impressed.
A strike now would incur the hatred of the public in general and a bipartisan political wrath. Nope, their best position of leverage will be just after the crisis when appreciation is at its highest, people haven't forgotten what they've done, and they have a strong argument to say, "look how essential we are, we should be a happy & valued workforce"
I have a couple of projects.

Right now I am trying to make an archlinux IPFS mirror. There are existing projects like this but I wanted to save more history to avoid the issue where you get a 404 when installing a dependency if you haven't synced in a while. https://gitlab.com/kevincox/archlinux-ipfs-mirror/-/blob/mas...

I've also been updating a first-player-picker app that I made a long time ago. It's very lightweight, delivering the main functionality in <2KiB. https://gitlab.com/kevincox/playerone/-/blob/master/README.m...
Am I right in my understanding that hand sanitiser in this context is just white spirits (eg. white rum) and a gelling agent?

This should mean any distillery should be able to trivially switch to productions sanitiser?

Edit: fixed a word
What is the significance of this video? It sounds like puffery to me.
> The people & the decision making are the most important. Good leadership is also of vital importance - one bad leader is enough to sink a team, especially at a startup.

I agree. There was one startup I worked for about two weeks. The boss keeps on asking me updates every once in a while and I had to stop coding just to explain to him what was going on with my work. It was frustrating coz I had to gain momentum/focus again. After two weeks I quit. I can't survive with that kind of work environment.

I think everything has to do with personality and it happened that my type didn't fit to that culture.
They say they don't for "most" stores

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8707904
In addition to the steps mentioned above, one thing that has kept me safe from my own heedlessness is to never, ever store credentials in a source code tree.

If your project is reading credentials from a file, rewrite it so it reads them from environment variables.

Most IDEs make it very easy to do that, and Python's virtual environments can do that work for you. Yes, it takes more effort, and sometimes it will be a little convoluted[1].

However, it's well worth the effort as you will have a system that you can put your faith in rather than having to double check every time in order to make sure you're not about to inadvertently commit your API keys.

[1] Example of my own: Pycharm does not read variables stored in a virtual environment's configuration, so I have to set them twice.
While rare, LSD trips can result in a psychological meltdown. A rough guideline for reducing the chances of a bad trip down to almost zero is to make sure your mindset is good, and your setting is good. This is what people mean when they say "set and setting". If you are severely depressed or paranoid, or you have schizophrenia, you will probably want to avoid LSD, as it could amplify these characteristics. Even if you are not, being with an experienced individual who has a positive mindset will bolster your own trip. Regarding setting, find an open, comfortable, and safe environment. Avoid dirty, cramped locations like small unkempt apartments, or overly crowded clubs. Daytime in nature with a few good friends is ideal.
Variant on #3: git diff master origin/master just before you git push.
More reputation for everyone which keeps everyone at the same level as they were. But the investment is awesome nonetheless. :)
The solution above works even if your graph has cycles. Of course if you know that it doesn't you can just build the graph with unique_ptrs.
There was a good deal of discussion about this in an earlier thread about the slide deck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7291877
Yeah I'm a little confused now too. If the operator of the job bank isn't interested in connecting with job seekers, then what is the point of it? Is it somewhere you send your unfilled jobs for safekeeping -- so that they won't be taken by uppity youngsters -- because that seems to be how she's running it.
The funny thing is, to me the 20 something does come of feeling entitled, after posting this personal message everywhere because she did not get here way.

Now obviously the original lady was a rude, but so what? Somehow being rude to someone is grounds for public evisceration these days? Of course being publicly humiliated is way worse than being rude to someone.
I created a website that automatically generates documentation and examples for libraries in Go (and Python, Ruby, and JavaScript). Here's your project on it:

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sergiotapia/smitego

For Go, godoc.org is also great.
This is not a summary. It's an explanation that lacks a great deal of important context. If you're considering taking this at face value, go read the actual content of this exchange: You'll see very quickly why an apology was warranted, and how incredibly shallow it was.
Do you have anything similar to the KS-2G that you can offer at a similar price point?
Oh, having syntax is absolutely an annoyance when writing macros. There's a reason that Lisp is where real macros came from. But it's not so bad – syntax quoting with interpolation helps a lot.
If you take a look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6KITGRQujQ and associated tutorial, it will give you an example of binding to the RouteChange events for exactly this use case.
Tea isn't everyone's cup of .... nevermind