jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
People often defend companies with explanations of how the world is, when common folk often expect (or just want) the world to behave differently.

Is it unreasonable to want, or even expect, an incognito window to disable all forms of tracking?

Wouldn't the world be far better if a phone alerted me to an app scanning my local area network or contacts? Or if I got warnings when it took such actions?

I think us tech folks need to, collectively, stop defending companies reasoning and explanations for the world they created, and start standing with and for a world which matches common folks expectations. It really seems like a better world.

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EDIT: Ask what the layperson would think tracking is! Imagining the answer is pretty simple "a website [or the web at large] learning or remembering anything about me." If we start from there, rather than the mumbo-jumbo thrown at us, we can make progress.
I would love to do something similar. I recently switched from Weechat to ERC, and started getting into eshell more heavily.

However, I must have a browser window open at all times. There is no way around this. So, unless another solution presents itself, I will continue using dwm with Emacs / Firefox.
Out of curiosity, are there any online courses that one can take/watch to learn more about battery chemistry and/or battery economics?
I'm not suggesting each of these stomps on resolv.conf. I'm suggesting the functionality in the daemon is instead in an executable that just doesn't run permanently, it's just started whenever an event happens and does its thing.
I'm hoping we can stop pussy footing around and engage in a REAL thermonuclear war with Russia. It was the point of this whole coup / proxy war, wasn't it? To provoke a full scale global exchange of nukes? I'm really having a difficult time understanding what the last 16 or so years of activities in the Ukraine were for, if not for this.

Hope you all brought a hat!
Yeah, I think you'd want a home charger option for this thing.
Well this is my opinion.

I always thought CouchDB offers a great RESTful interface to communicate with their database. CouchDB also offers great multi-master replication, this also includes your local data.

There is a JavaScript implementation of CouchDB's data sync called PouchDB. I always thought it would be a great idea to just use CouchDB as your API layer. Anything your backend needs to do goes through Couch first and get synced to the client through Pouch.

I haven't experimented on the idea yet, but maybe you can take it further.
> Conscious use of collaboration tools

The key word being "conscious." Finding good developers is hard, and finding good ones that communicate well remotely is even harder.

Shameless self-promotion: we (nearly 100% remote) explain some of soft skills we look for in an engineer here: http://www.staunchrobots.com/blog/staunch/

There's probably a training business opportunity in this sector.
Actually, for my purposes, having batteries that I could charge indoors and swap in and out of the scooter as and when needed would be neat.

But "swap station", no. That's just as bad as having to get petrol. Refueling already only takes about 60 seconds, but any station that's on a commuting route will have a queue during commuting hours.

I commute by scooter. My scooter, along with our 4 other bikes, live outside, and not conveniently placed for plugging in.

As to 30 miles, I've toured Scotland and Ireland by scooter, round trips from London. But I understand your point. Most days, for most people, scooters are used for commuting single-digit mile trips. Of all the vehicles you could make electric, scooters makes some of the most sense.
A light field camera.
When I was in college, I raced SCCA style with an late-60s MG Midget I picked up for $900 and put maybe another $2k in (engine rebuild, Weber carbs and other assorted tweaks). Great fun.
Lots of noise, and very little signal.

For every interesting announcement from a friend, I had to wade through weeks of "What NATO country are you most like?" results, past their expiry memes, political grandstanding, videos of puppies and people falling over, and endless pictures of food. There's just no compelling use-case I can see.
Not a problem. Did you also see lifepath.me? Good to know who are also in the same space.
so this is essentially the science behind why we "feel" tired. neat.
It was on Reddit before it was here.
True. I think it's all about how important saving money is to you. Everyone has a price-effort curve that depends on their financial situation and how frugal they are.
What makes GNU tools standard (other de facto)?
The article argues that the Supreme Court interprets the Federal Arbitration Act as superceding state class action rules. It's a borderline thing, I suppose (5-4 decision), but it seems like a fairly straightforward ruling, predictable for this court, and a pretty defensible interpretation of what the law meant and Fed > State precedent.
Link to the trademark registration: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4009:7n...
It seems to read everything off the phone's mini-USB port. If that were to be modified in a way not immediately accessible it could be one way to thwart this.
Of course, doing that would probably make the police even more suspicious.
They boiled down demographics and social issues to a bunch of "categories" but I'm not allowed to call them a "type"? That seems unfair.

They point out that in the last two months there's been 2 different Capitols, one stormed by the right, one stormed by the left. On face value, that's true, but they're implicitly declaring them as equally bad. It just lacks the context or nuance of _why_ each of them happened.

One of them was a response to police brutality and extra-judicial killings of their community members, and the other was an attempt to overthrow a democratically elected President, or at least stall the process for it. You can be critical of the CHAZ (which I am) and still recognize that it wasn't anywhere near the same as storming our nation's Capitol with the intent of stalling and disrupting the election process for our President.

I'm probably what most would call a socialist, and I'm all for discussions about labor and wages and class consciousness, and that seems like what this author is, albeit in a hamfisted way, getting at, but they're just coming across as a smug to me.
Nor fat, nor carbs are an essential nutritional component. The body can not synthesize certain amino acids, but it can convert protein to both fat and carbohydrates by means of gluconeogenesis. If anything, we should have cravings for sources of protein, not sugars. One could argue that sugars provide the burst of energy for the metabolic pathway that could be make it or break it in cases where that burst gives an advantage. This, and not the scarceness argument, which seems just thin to me, although mainstream opinion.
> With pot roast, internal temp is going to 190 degrees or higher and the proteins denature (in addition to the collagen breaking down). [emphasis added]

For a bad pot roast, maybe. I've never cooked a pot roast so hot that it would reach that internal temperature, and I've never known anyone else to either.

EDIT: Looking up recipes now, apparently some recipes do call for taking pot roast to much higher temps than I cook it to. Maybe that's why fast food roasts are so bad, but also why I don't eat them.
Agreed. The eTron overtook the Model 3 in Norway in 2020:

https://www.reuters.com/article/autos-electric-norway/electr...

I'd note that in terms of market share for BEVs vs. ICE globally, the pie is still very large for BEVs. There is room for multiple winners.
Maybe the parent was talking about how artificial insemination might stem decline, not necessary about how it can grow the population. For example, artificial insemination might help the population remain unchanging.
100%. The market is fundamentally different than it was the last time "green tech" tried to become a thing. Solar is nearly at price parity with fossil fuels. The space is currently exploding and will transform the world in the next 10-20 years. In many ways it already is (see: Tesla).
There is no correct way to turn "1 cup flour" into a mass. For one thing, you can fit more into the same volume by compressing. But more importantly, the material is ambiguous. There are many different kinds of flour with varying physical properties.
Some people use chat software for more than just chitchatting and want the history as a memory.

This is the reason why mattermost exists - the devs lost their chat history of some enterprise solution and thought: never again. So they created mattermost.
Let Dart stay and transpile. Let them continue to make Dart better. Even if it exists only to transpile into JS like CoffeeScript and TypeScript and not run natively in the browser -- as long as they keep innovating with the language, the ideas can inspire the next version of JS with ES8 and beyond.

Evolution by inspiration.
If this is in the carriers plans, I would be certain that their lawyers make sure the definition of service is sufficiently vague.
Most useful equations don't have a closed form solution. This is why things like machine learning exist. More specifically PDEs are a hot topic in DNNs at the moment. See physics informed neural networks: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics-informed_neural_netw...
Psychedelics and Traveling.
So the author is surprised that an open-source application is 'even' in F-Droid? :) Why?

But anyway yeah KDE is amazing. I use it as my daily driver. It's so configurable. I don't want any opinionated software anymore.
Back in 2007 I would've said try and sell something in World 2 on Runescape, but I guess that doesn't really apply anymore.
I felt the same way when I worked for a semiconductor (memory) manufacturer, who also (at least said they were) quite environmentally conscious. Helping lower the market prices for a life- and world-changing commodity, and helping make the jobs of esteemed fellow employees somewhat easier, and supporting a family, felt rewarding.
Nitpick: the font on the landing page is really weird (Linux Chrome) -- the baselines of the letters don't line up, giving it a really strange appearance.
Yeah, its also framed as a good thing in the Wired article. "Helped". Only when its their political opponents is it not a concern.
I've been annoyed in my job search how companies insist I fall in love with the company at step 1 of the process, when they know that 90% of the people will be rejected.

But it goes the other way as well. Why should a company spend a lot of effort on me before finding out if I am at least interested in the job?

What's the equivalent of speed-dating for employment? Job fairs?
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Experienced developer with a focus on real time data pipelines and dev ops.

- Extensive work with AWS and Google Cloud
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Good question. I pay the $99/year for a terabyte of cloud storage for everyone in my family, I use the web app versions of Office 365 on Linux, and everyone gets up to date Office apps for iOS, Android, and macOS. For me, that is a great deal. I especially like the Word app on my iPad Pro.
It's a taboo subject, because the Japanese aren't very open to non-locals.
I don't understand why this isn't a red herring. Minimum wage may be remaining stagnant but total employee compensation has been rising steadily, it's just that most of that compensation is in the form of spending on employee benefits like insurance. If people quit expecting employers to provide them with anything except for cold hard cash then you'd likely see wages increasing with time.

To expand a bit more on this, large companies in America can negotiate rates with the insurance companies they interact with (assuming they don't own one in house). This creates a scenario where a dollar into the insurance budget yields more than a dollar worth of value and so it makes much more sense to invest heavily in the insurance than in outright wages because a dollar paid to an employee only ever yields a dollar with of value to the employee.
This looks outstanding.

I am a math professor, and I need to choose a book next time I teach linear algebra. It may well be this one.

If anyone has in-depth experience with the book, I'd be grateful to hear about it.
Munich didn't fail, in fact they actually saved some 11 million Euros in the process.

It was just politics 101. Their politicians when facing the choice "keep using Linux => bye bye huge Munich MS Offices", didn't think twice and axed the penguin.
Admittedly, it wouldn't have been an easy pick even for FOSS enthusiasts as many of us are, if we were in Munich politicians shoes: letting one of the biggest corporations out there build their huge headquarters in your city doesn't just mean bribes but jobs (almost 2000 in the HQ alone). As long as you're being identified as the one who let all this happen, you have just won a huge PR boost for creating jobs, plus all those people -and their families- votes, not to mention strong ties with MS high profile execs which would be of use one day. Honestly, Linux would have lost no matter its convenience.

If I had to, I'd bet all my horses that we'll see finally one day Munich and other cities adopting Linux, although it will be Microsoft branded and mostly FOSS.
How has the USD-YEN exchange rate impacted your income and year over year numbers?
It's built using Node.js fyi.
"I’m not sure why Ruby doesn’t have named parameters yet (See disclaimer up top on my ignorance), but the language certainly seems alive and active, in that perhaps the next version will?"

Matz stated during his keynote at Rubyconf 2010 that Ruby 2.0 would have proper named parameters for methods, although in practice they will be largely the same as they are now.
it would have been entirely improper for his name to appear on work he hadn't contributed to.

I do agree with that, but I think it's far from rare in academia.
If they ported this to iPad, I'd pay big bucks for it.
I don't think anyone is advocating for comments explaining that $i is a loop index.
Wouldn't it have been great if Google bought/made WebOS in the first place? It's the perfect combination between Chrome OS and Android.
From reading the description above, I don't get the sense that pankratiev has fully fleshed out what he/she is looking for. What is the goal of the site? If the answer is "to be the one stop shop for programmers so they don't have to visit any other programming-related site" I would be pretty concerned. That sounds like a "throw in the kitchen sink" mentality that goes directly opposite to the lean/agile/customer development.
While you're typing the word the text box don't show it, when you complete the word then it shows on the text box. Brave, Android.

Besides that, amazing results. Congratulations.
I won't bother to give them the page view for that, but isn't that post a few months old? I believe by someone called Orr something? He was quite berated by many on Twitter, and I think he backed off on his statements a bit. I think he even posted a follow-up to address that.
The quality of investors varies dramatically so be mindful of who and what you're getting involved with.

With regards to sounding out investors; talk to the companies that they have invested in before, especially the companies that didn't do so well.

That'll often tell you all you need to know.
Third, go out into nature if you can. Preferably with just your friends and not a lot of people around. It's pretty cool.

LSD impairs your ability to feel cold. People have died by taking drugs and then going out into snow. I sadly can't find the proof to back up my claim, but I read about a case of a girl taking ketamine and then going outside and succumbing to hypothermia.

Here's another case of someone dying from drugs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._M._Turner

Turner died after injecting an unknown quantity of ketamine while in a bathtub, presumably drowning while incapacitated by the effects of the drug.

Before jumping down my throat that ketamine isn't related to LSD in any way, I know. It's true. But when you get into a mindset where taking LSD seems like a good idea, taking other drugs starts to seem like maybe-okay. It's no coincidence that the psychonaut I linked to was taking a ton of different drugs including LSD.

I know people are going to be upset with me sweeping LSD under the classification of "drugs." People die from heroin and other hard drugs, but nobody has ever died from an LSD overdose. But I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the mindset that you're tempted to get once you delve into this scene.

Let's talk about psychedelics. Here's a video of someone jumping out a window after taking a hit of salvia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_v26zC-1eCo

People have near-religious experiences after taking LSD, and they'll espouse the wonders of psychedelics while downplaying the risks. But there are risks.

Before taking LSD, ask yourself: Are you sure you want to be a different person afterwards? People everywhere talk about the transformative nature of LSD, so that's what you'll be doing: transforming into a different person. Exploring land is fun because you get to go places you've never seen before. Exploring how chemicals affect your brain is fun if becoming a different person is fun. So don't do it unless you're sure you dislike yourself.

People have often credited significant breakthroughs to taking LSD, but your chances of getting rich from bitcoin are significantly higher than making a huge impact on the world by consuming LSD. It'll certainly have a huge impact on your personal life, though, for better or worse.
What we need in the US is tough enforcement of the existing labor laws. The Wage and Hour Act, classification of employees vs contractors, and the right to organize are all in US law, but the penalties are weak. Did you know that you have the legal right in the US to organize a union whether your employer likes it or not?

In Canada, those rights have more teeth, and that alone produces much higher unionization.
The link to Amazon Prime in that article is an affiliate link. Here's the part that gives it away ?tag=slicinc-20

If this was intentional it's basically an ad for Amazon without a disclosure.

If it was unintentional, they just linked to amazon with a random person's amazon affiliate link, and probably made them quite a bit of cash.
For one thing, they could threaten legal action against people using the word 'Face' in a wide variety of circumstances -- and censor their links on FB, using the same justifications they've given against Lamebook
Now this is getting serious. I was considering porting xul for web apps (with the default and obvious coffeescript dsl, so that no xml verbosity would be needed), but gtk3 is even more outstanding. Any idea when it will be out?
How do you generate sequential IDs a quadrillion times a day if they're coming from 100 different computers? Lots of very fast coordination.

In the new system, they don't have to coordinate every server just to make sure IDs are sequential. They just use the time stamp and some machine-specific information.
Sure, abstract high level thinkers _can_ actually do something. But Google is a one in a billion. The majority of abstract, high level thinkers are, and always will be, underemployed: there's only room for a handful of Googles, but there's plenty of room for those that don't make it.
[Update: RIM has now responded with the following comment,
referring to a breach of "contractual obligations," but is
not specifying what those obligations were: "RIM became
aware of a number of issues and customer concerns regarding
the Kik app and service. Following discussions with Kik, the
app was removed from BlackBerry App World on November 12.
Upon further investigation, RIM concluded that Kik had
breached contractual obligations. Based on the broad scope
and seriousness of the issues and concerns, RIM terminated
its agreements with Kik and withdrew RIM’s support for Kik’s
service.']

http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/11/23/23ven...
For me, tangling cursors with strangers seemed somehow icky.

Mind you, I also avoided chat roulette...
Very interesting. But the class of the trademark is limited to "online chat rooms and electronic bulletin boards," so maybe the only impact would be to expanding FaceTime to teleconferencing.

Then again, I can't imagine a company better equipped to go to war over trademarks than Apple.
I didn't know about the themes with bootstrap, but then again it's been a while since I actively looked at it. I see now it's evolved some and there are more visually appealing versions out than the vanilla.

Cheers!
I would be very surprised if this report holds true. He writes he heard about it before Christmas. I simply can't believe such information didn't leak deliberately or unintentionally during the month since.
A highway is not a German Autobahn.
Tunnelbear is owned by McAfee https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/tunnelbear_joins_mcafee/
Completely agree. I'm saving time and feeling a lot safer biking through Copenhagen compared to driving a car.
Actually clever hack without needing a landing page to target and remarket, thx for sharing!
Ok, I'll bite. How does my car own me?
I call this DDT (Defect-Driven Testing) :)
Support may be?
For those who haven't heard the term (which isn't in the article or paper), it's also known as Frisson:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson
This is more a opinionated design document for HTTP than it is for REST. There is not a single word about semantic formats and HATEOAS. I really expected more from Microsoft in this area.

Had I the time to write such a design document, I would start with ressources, versioning, URI and semantic documents. I would write about entity models, linking (links, link templates) and actions. I would write about representations and about how represenations can support optimizations, embedding of resources and entity expansion, which would otherwise be addressed by inventions like GraphQL.
And only afterwards, I would write about HTTP as a transfer protocol. But that part can be brief, because there is already the HTTP specification out there.
Yes - you could regard Dropbox as simply a different pricing model for S3

Amazon, you pay for what you use, Dropbox you pay (more than S3) for 50Gb, you use less than that Dropbox make money from you. They also aggressively hash data chucks to avoid storing the same data from different people twice - while charging both of you.

None of this is bad - they have a great product - but it's how they do it.
Yeah, you can give any answer when you know you'll never need to actually be put through any of the options.

If everyone who flies, and I do mean everyone (regardless of whether you'll be boarding a personal plane), had to go through this every time, we'd see this go away.
Well, Apple already has iDisk, which is Mac/iOS only and Microsoft has SkyDrive, which I've heard performs horribly, so it's already happened, except for google.
V1 is not important as far as design aesthetic goes. It can be totally rough and made of standard components. Function is much more important. Then you can test it out in the field and go for customer acquisition.

Once you've gathered feedback and have a proven (somewhat) potentially successful product you can work on design.

Then, once you're in a position that says "Hey! This just might work!" you should have a list of designers you've already identified through their portfolio sites to contact about working for you. Really good design isn't cheap. It's an art. Mediocre design is cheap which means it's really expensive since you'll just throw it all away anyways.