jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I lost a friend by giving unsolicited advice. They complained to me about being tired/feeling unwell for the umpteenth time and I suggested they take better care of themselves. I was lambasted for giving, "unsolicited advice."
Thanks! As you probably know, c++ is definitely unique in that there is no built in way to manage dependencies and no de facto package manager. I would definitely use it for a cpp project.
I don't understand what's being defended here. The guy already admitted what's on the computer. Like, the EFF saying

> "We store a wealth of deeply personal information on our electronic devices. The government simply should not put individuals in the no-win situation of choosing between disclosing a password—and turning over everything on these devices—or instead defying a court order to do so."

This is deeply baffling to me as applied to this case. The personal information being ‘protected’ is not his property.
I don't call anyone a conspiracy theorist to denigrate them. However, when someone subscribes to a theory that there was a conspiracy, there aren't really any other appropriate labels. It's okay to be a conspiracy theorist, and many conspiracies are real and many conspiracy theories have been right. It's just that in this case it's less plausible to me. Neither of us can really be certain, and it's pointless to talk past each other about what's really just a matter of gut feeling.

> When people start getting punished, then maybe we can believe the people who held them accountable.

The two guards who were clearly negligent have just been indicted by a federal grand jury this week, it's a start.
I do agree with you. I found it amazing to look at, but not very usable if you just wanna look at the code.
The hope is to get a non-corrupt TLD in place that won't raise prices on you with no caps (and if possible while we're at it, won't charge you for certificate signing.) Ideally, a real winner would be a pay-once, own-for-life (say 100 years) TLD. I might be willing to drop $500 on a domain I know I'll never have to remember to renew.
I’m 48 and don’t expect the premise of Rush’s Red Barchetta to become a reality in my lifetime.
Because of the VAX 11/785?
The article means 'file in source control' - the specific context is that the author is one of the co-founders of Heroku where there is a whole separate (really nice) system for handling 'config variables' as part of your app deployments separate from source control.
... and Google.
"AI" that interprets human emotion is fraud. There is no means to determine the inner state of an individual short of asking them, and then filtering for situational context. Unless you're talking about strapping a portable fMRI machine to the subject's head, it's not possible to determine the emotional state of another individual.

And for the point, I've worked with Ekman. This sub-field is not scientifically possible.
Could somebody elaborate the animosity towards being able to pay in Signal, or and perhaps also the animosity towards Signal itself?

I use it, seems like an e2ee and uncluttered messaging app that just works.
Sure, but law and regulation doesn't work that way. It's about the intent, not the technicality. That's e.g. the difference between gross negligence, manslaughter and murder, even if someone died in all these situations.
With the demands for KYC and the legislation for intermediaries handling money this will not end well unless they use a public ledger with private (and not anonymous) chain of signatures that can be audited.
FWIW, the two people who are paid to work on PHP (Dmitry and myself) both only work on the PHP implementation and not other parts of the project (infra, websites etc). The infrastructure is maintained entirely by volunteers.

I am personally not qualified to do infrastructure maintenance, knowing next to nothing on the topic.
Thankfully, as both Substack and Ghost are on Open Subscription Platforms (https://opensubscriptionplatforms.com/), it seems very trivial to move between these two sites.
That's what I ended up doing. I'm pretty happy with the decision.
HN pro tip: do not discuss voting, especially downvoting, for any reason. It's against the guidelines, but even if you don't do it just for that reason: it's super uninteresting, and shows a minor disrespect for the time/attention of others (expecting them to take time reading uninteresting complaining).

(I'm breaking my own rule here but your username is green which means you're new here, so I wanted to help out as you seem to be keen to contribute useful things.)
I complain via my company's slack so they know the observation is from a paying customer

Don't get me wrong, the "you'll get an answer" is almost always the same "thank you for your input" but at least it creates a Zendesk ticket from a paying customer, in contrast to whining on HN or Twitter, where I am about dead certain no corporate OKR is influenced
I mean theres no place for western companies in China as seen times and times again. This literally happens all the time
On the page they also bring up a great point: a bunch of optimizations allowed by JMAP (including storing attachments as blobs and separating their payloads from other content) wouldn't be possible if the individual messages were E2E encrypted.
I completely agree. There have been some improvements in the design (XP and Vista's Start Menu changes, XP and 7's Task Bar changes) but they're incremental ones, and Microsoft's attempts at big changes have not gone well.
Burning a few interns worth of money?
If you're curious, there are lots of people who've written at length about why they hang out with and indeed support Republicans despite being in those categories. Peter Thiel and Marco Rubio would be two prominent examples if you're looking for recommendations.
https://outline.com/98X43P
Sarcastic or ignorant?
Eh, thanks. I think I've been staring at a screen for too long today, completely spaced on that bit.

I guess my position is the same though. In the early days I'd have to go with not giving direct cash to charities. I guess if a start-up can afford to do this then that's probably a sign that they're doing pretty well. Notwithstanding some special kind of startup that might get some inordinate benefit (taxation related or otherwise) from donation.
I suppose good developers should be glad when these basic questions come up in interviews, cause then we can rest assured that no incompetents are nicking our jobs (or warming the seats for a few months until they get sacked, thus slowing the hiring process down for everybody else).
I like the hover over a message for timestamp.
There are numerous online resources most of them have been mentioned here. I agree Python seems like a great way to start, its what I've been working through as well. I'd also suggest to see if there are local classes available in addition to the online stuff. Sometimes paying for a course at a college can get expensive but if you are in a area which is start up friendly and has incubators etc., you can get some cheaper courses there, to supplement your other learning. For example, in my area (NYC) there is General Assembly.

Remember though - entrepreneurship is not a career. You have to have a solid idea that you can develop into a product - developing and then taking that product mainstream and running that particular business (or working on selling it)is then your career.

Just like non-profit work is not a career - usually people who go into a non-profit work environment have a passion for something in particular, that then becomes their career, which so happens to be for a non-profit entity.
Very honestly, how can tracking via GPS (or cellphone GPS) be anything other than a gross violation of the USA Constitution's 4th amendment? How can the US DoJ not feel a little shame at advocating a legal position that requires twisting logic until it nearly breaks? How can the US Doj not feel highly shamed at doing this sort of thing?

After that, I have to ask what kind of weirdos work at the US DoJ? In order to want to track citizens all the time, you'd have to be a lot perverted. Do the strict entrance exams (a.k.a. "background checks") allow the DoJ to filter out honest, non-perverted people, and only let in twisted, evil, bluenosed snobs?
Nice list of productivity lifehacks. I use a combination of Rescuetime Premium, LeechBlock for Firefox to prevent any slacking in case I'm tempted. In the meantime I use FocusBooster (Pomodoro technique) to keep the pressure on :)
Yeah, the iPhone 4 is ok for basic pictures. I hate how long it takes to find the Camera app and then wait for it to load before it can actually take a picture!

Why can't the iPhone allow for a "take a snap" button? Or do we have to wait for the iPhone 5 for this?
....why?

I understand that there are shitty unions out there. But my statement seems pretty factual for the idea of unions as a whole.
I disabled downloading images in Gmail a while ago to work around thism
"Must be a net tax payer" is the modern equivalent that gets thrown around. Obviously nobody on the left throws the idea around but I can't help but wonder if it would actually help them considering how many 16yos have jobs but are net tax payers because they have no dependents.
It's more like PG saying at AirBnB's interview: "People actually let strangers stay in their homes? What's wrong with them?"

It's a zinger and a challenge to the person making the claims. Some people will be turned off by that and refuse to engage. In the particular domain that YCombinator and Bridgewater are working in - finding undervalued opportunities that everybody else is overlooking - this is a feature, not a bug. Anyone who's turned off by a simple offhand zinger or personal attack is not going to have the strength of their convictions when everybody is attacking them, which is usually what happens when you sincerely hold very unorthodox beliefs.
That is the behavior in 3.6; I'm pointing out that the earlier version (3.6) is a upgrade from the later version (70-something?), because Mozilla is making the browser worse over time.
We used to have a far better solution for that, the pointer stick on Dell and IBM laptops. Direct control over the cursor without abrading your sweaty dirty finger skin over a frictive surface.
I guess we're also cowering in fear from Monat and LulaRoe and anything else where earnings are predicated on more and/or bigger fools entering after you.
In the simple "1 person versus 5 people" scenario, I'd almost certainly NOT pull the lever to save five and kill one.

The reason is simple: if I pull the lever, the family of the dead person could likely sue me, which could be devastating for my own family even if I win the case. I'd probably be harmed in all kinds of other ways for taking the action.

In addition, my taking an action like this would help deflect blame from the true guilty party - the one who set the experiment up in the first place. Allowing the guilty to avoid punishment doesn't seem especially moral either.

As for the more interesting case where some of my loved ones were on both sides of the track, I'd simply have to choose randomly, and make that clear to everyone involved.
You already have to be an accredited investor to buy 90% of the tradable assets available.
Who made those accusations, and what evidence did you see?

I've only seen those accusations on reddit and twitter. The only "evidence" I've ever seen in support of those accusations is repeated citation of short interest. Short interest is an aggregate figure which doesn't track specific firms, so it can't be used to discover if an individual fund closed or opened a short position.
For track runners, 12-13 seems to be regarded as slowish, so 15 might not be too far off. http://training.fitness.com/interval-training/what-average-1...

Also note that the parent said "average runner" but you replied with "average man", most men are not "runners", so that is shifting the goals quite a bit.
When I've been in this situation in the past it's because I've been in the wrong job. When you stop improving (your product, work environment, skill set, whatever), you stop caring.

Have you changed jobs much, is this a recurring problem?

I've worked with a lot of devs who haven't been able to settle because they're never satisfied with the status quo of the environment they land in. 6 months and they're onto the next thing. A lot of devs find their way into contracting that way.

I don't think this is an uncommon problem. A lot of (most?) devs suffer from the problem of not being challenged enough, and come up with elaborate ways to complicate projects by many orders of magnitude in order to get some excitement back.

For example, when you here a programmer say
We need to rewrite this app because it's crap.

He means, I want to have a go at writing an app from scratch because the first 20% is always way more fun and creative than the last 80%.

We'll do it in node and angular. It will be isomorphic and restful and awesome.

I'm bored of PHP and jQuery. I want to play with a new toy.

We need to use Riak and EC2

I want to feel like I'm doing big data.
Pretty much as I described -- developers making too many changes without anyone else seeing them and then later doing a big push and now lots of stuff that has changed since is broken.
If you don't know him already, textfiles has one of my favorite people on the internet (Jason Scott) running a lot of things, and hoarding interesting material for our future. As far as I can tell the dude just loves MS-DOS games and hence we have this great project. (I imagine there are a lot of contributors, but he is clearly pushing it forward)

He gave a great talk at DEFCON 17 called "That one time I was sued for two billion dollars." in which he gives a few more details about textfiles if you are interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY
she fired herself early in the history of Netflix due to lack of money. CEO decided to keep her on part time.
I released this app a couple weeks ago, but the initial submission [1] did not get any traction here so I thought I'd resubmit it. Hope that's okay.

All the various sections and categories on HN are supported – the front page, new, show, shownew, ask, best, active, jobs. There's an integrated browser with mobilizer support, and you can instantly switch between the browser and comments with a simple swipe. Comment threads are color-coded and collapsible.

This is my first non-trivial project that I actually finished and released, so I'd appreciate any feedback.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8663913
You can send bitcoins directly to a person's account without going through an intermediary, such as Paypal or a bank. This means that it would potentially be cheaper, but more importantly it would be easier to automate, and easier to start up interesting financial web apps.
100% disagree.

I expect .xxx will be 10x as popular as .co. .co is just a cheap mispelling of .com that doesn't mean anything to average Americans. .xxx has meaning and value (parents can block the whole TLD for their kids).

Obviously, its going to be a long time (ever?) before anything touches .com. But amongst the also-rans, I think .xxx will be a hit.
Don't fixate on a single domain. There's no point. There are always multiple that would work equally well. It's very easy to find yourself in love with one, so try to avoid that.

The procedure is simple enough: email the owner. Some times they have a contact form on their web site, other times whois will give you an email address. If you have a business email address use that. Email from gmail/hotmail/yahoo addresses tends to get ignored more often. If your organization is big and rich though you probably want disguise yourself otherwise people will ask for too much.

Be sure to tell the person that you want to make a serious offer. People constantly try to buy $10k domains for $100 and it gets annoying. Indicate you're not one of them.

Give a phone number if you're comfortable negotiating on the phone. Otherwise keep it to email.

Abso-fucking-lutely use Escrow.com (or Sedo's escrow service) to handle the transaction. Split the fee if you can, otherwise pay the whole thing. It's worth it.

Facebook.com was bought for $200k by not telling the owner who they were. It's covered briefly in The Facebook Effect.
It will when you criminalize it and equate it in the public's mind with "putting Hustler magazine on the shelves of your local library's children's section".
Traditional currency is still too reliable because it is tricky to get a critical mass to give up their faith in government and the economic system. For these boom and bust times we need something that can become completely worthless overnight when someone finds a new mathematical technique, flaw in the BitCoin implementation, or lucrative exchange scheme.
are you @BazookaBen from Minnesota?
Currencies linked to physical goods of limited quantities wouldn't inflate. For example, I could make a currency that represented shares of Picasso paintings. Since there are only a limited number of Picasso paintings, my currency wouldn't inflate.

Commodity-linked currencies (e.g. those that are gold/silver based) don't inflate much in a practical sense, since the amount of gold/silver being mined each year is usually much less than the amount of gold and silver already being used for exchange. That said, the US did experience a pretty huge bout of inflation after the California gold rush, as all that new currency increased the money supply.
nope, my handle is @bazooka_ben, with 2 followers right now

just created it yesterday, don't have much idea on how to manage the account. Basically looking at what other game designers use their twitter and try to emulate them.
Of all the colours available for 3D printing, dark brown was chosen? It is not pretty(tm).

But the shape is gorgeous!
The linux programming interface by Michael Kerrisk. It’s incredibly good.
Would the SEC have even allowed them to issue shares? Hertz tried to issue new shares when their stock price was irrationally bid up but was blocked by the SEC. Its a little bit different because Hertz was going bankrupt but otherwise the situations are very similar.
Apparently, you have to deposit BTC 0.1 (~= $4,700) to be allowed to bid. Presumably, you'd be losing this deposit upon each iteration if you refused to pay.
That doesn't jive on a historical basis when and where enlightenment era thinking and classical liberalism were much higher then they are today. Unless I am misreading your comment and you are simply talking about hedonism.
> Children respond to divorce worse than they do to the death of a parent.

How do they respond to bickering parents who hate each other but don't get divorced "for the children"

I have a friend who's wife seems to hate him. They've stayed together for 15+ years "for the children". My friend was lamenting that he had to try to teach his young adult kids (19-24) not to treat other people the same way mommy treats dad.
It's quite common for users to jump down the throats of anyone who talks about privacy/encryption without sufficient perceived weight behind them. I suppose this could be seen as more of the same. But I also wonder if the comments would be less dismissive and condescending if the article were framed differently. There's a lot more to this story than the journalist has bothered to cover and they are partly to blame for the reaction.

"Former data analyst and engineer creates startup to develop award-winning material over five times stronger than concrete from waste, following scholarship in US university materials lab."
That's not how it works.

How it works is that your brand suffers, and sales drift downwards.

When you attempt new projects outside of your skill envelope - a Maps application, a self-driving car, VR/AR hardware, a move to ARM - you either don't finish on schedule, don't finish at all and are forced to cancel, or you unleash a shit storm of bugs and negativity that costs far more than any nominal savings you might persuade yourself you've made by not doing QA properly.

It's a cultural problem. Not only is skimping on QA
and customer support cheap, it looks and feels cheap. And that's not a good look when you're trying to sell yourself as a premium brand.

To be fair, customer abuse is not unusual among premium brands. Prestige cars are notoriously crap for reliability and build quality.

But Apple is a prestige consumer brand, and the brand experience is the most important asset.

If customers stop believing in the brand, all Apple has left is Dell or HP but with nicer packaging.
The sheer level of damage and instability social media has done to the West in the past decade can only lead one to suppose that it has been intentional and that there has been a powerful hand behind it.

What benefits has it brought about? We know we're increasingly anxious, lonely and isolated despite it, so what "social" benefits have these "social" enterprises actually caused?

Because the list of damage is endless, and the list of victims never-ending.

Watching politicized animosity, done for the purpose of the researched grandstanding, spill over into universities and public life has been horrifying. Careers and lives ruined for not keeping up with the ever-changing morals of the online mob, culminating in events such as those at Evergreen State College, the Christakis furore at Yale, the constant speech policing because non-adherent political speech now makes others feel "unsafe", etc. People who were once the leaders of progressive movement turned into right-wing nazi bigots over publications that were on-narrative, or ahead of it, when published, now resurrected to be held against them by today's constantly changing standards.

Even in this thread, a topic on an objective study of the effects of social media, simply pointing to it has caused an uncontrolled, partisan, shitshow.

None of this ends well. A society full of increasingly anxious and isolated people, seeking purpose in online identity groups known for electing the most vitriolic doomsday preachers as leaders, who are increasingly viewing the "other side" as an enemy, armed with a treasure trove of historical tweets/fb posts/etc. to dig through for evidence of their crimes, does not end well.

Social media may prove to be the biggest mistake we've ever made.
Yes, there are rocks that will "extract" carbon from the air on their own if crushed into sand. They are even reasonably abundant, so it seems like they would be a feasible tool for carbon capture. It would basically amount to speeding up the natural carbon cycle, which normally keeps carbon dioxide concentrations relatively stable in the very long run.
Weird, I'm not having that problem in Firefox on Debian. But it's sure enough true that there's no Content-Type header, either with LWP or with Firefox. Tim, are you doing that on purpose?
Or it means he's got such a huge ego, he considers himself an improvement.
yup, got the same reply back as well. Glad that our voice was heard
There may be valid reasons for installing the trackers, reasons that the writers are ignorant about. If suddenly you remove those 2 companies from the Internet, who's to say the tracking won't continue with other companies. Maybe get both the people installing the trackers and the people arguing against them in the same room and have them learn a bit from each other.
>Doing business with a fascist state or in a fascist state is deplorable

>While I completely agree with you, YC is a private organization and not a political

If you agree that doing business with a fascist state is deplorable, it doesn't stop being deplorable just because you're a private company.
I guess kids these days have to learn H.P. Lovecraft the hard way...

"I say to you againe, doe not call up Any that you can not put downe; by the Which I meane, Any that can in Turne call up Somewhat against you, whereby your Powerfullest Devices may not be of use."

(edited to add, HP Lovecraft was my favorite sysadmin in my youth)