jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes. We had free speech but we weren't prepared for unedited, viral free speech. We weren't prepared for cameras in every ordinary person's hands. We also weren't prepared for our free speech to be archived and searchable forever.

I think it's easy to blame the symptoms of social media for the issues we have. But the internet, video quality bandwidth, smartphones, and social media together have combined to dramatically change who publishes and who finds it over the last 10-15 years.

In my mind, it is going to take us time to adapt, maybe a couple generations. Things will be difficult during that time but I hope we don't make regressive changes in our values based on what is fundamentally (in my opinion) an issue adapting our approach to free speech to the rapid advancement of publishing technology.

EDIT: "most people are not equipped to understand what is reasonable" -> This is the kind of dramatic conclusion I don't think we should be drawing.
How can you charge maintenance for SaaS?
You missed the bit where I said "confirm receipt".

You'd verify each bit before you proceeded to travel.
I like the idea, but providing the notes is extremely tedious here. In my old PCSpk (PC-Speaker Server & Client) I made up following notation (excerpt from README):

first 3-digit number is integer - tempo (bpm)
next are space seperated values TOL, where:
T is letter - tone: C,d(des),D,e(es),E,F,g(ges),G,a(as),A,B,H,P(pause)
O is digit - octave: 0-9
L is digit/letter - length: L=0-9,A-Z <=> 1/(L+1)

J.S.Bach - Fugue in D minor (fragment):

240 A47 G47 A47 F47 A47 E47 A47 D47 A47 d47 A47 D47 A47 E47 A47 F47 A47 A37 A47 H37 A47 d47 A47 D47 A47 d47 A47 D47 A47 E47 A47 D43

I've written also Siemens ringtone converter to above format in gawk (GNU awk).

http://git.io/siemens.gawk

EDIT: I just realized that you may wonder what is H there. For conciseness I'll quote Wikipedia on that matter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(musical_note)

> However, in Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia, the label B is used for what, above, is called B-flat, and the note a semitone below C is called H.
> Last time we talked about SaaS pricing, focusing on people paying in the tens to hundreds of dollars range

Where can I find this?
> I'm personally getting tired of folks who ride the coat tails of "open source"

Says the .NET developer with empty github and bitbucket accounts. Meanwhile, there are those of us who live and breathe open source software, building industry-transforming businesses around open source software and contributing to the open source ecosystem. Don't even try to pretend you are anything other than an outside observer.
It's more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy .
Fig 7a, is there a device that does this stuff (Detects user's fingers after they leave the touch screen)?
Journalists the world over are taking this very seriously.

The EFJ has released a statement regarding the affair, but I can't find an English text copy of it. Here is a dutch article referencing it, google translate probably required:

http://www.nu.nl/media/3556146/europese-journalistenbond-hek...

One choice quote from all the material about Miranda's detention is this:

"One US security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the British government's detention and questioning of Miranda was to send a message to recipients of Snowden's materials, including the Guardian, that the British government was serious about trying to shut down the leaks"

It looks like it has sent a message alright, every journalist in the world has been made aware of how serious this issue really is and that they and their family members (active or otherwise) are potential targets. This is the media equivalent of sticking a baseball bat into a hornets nest.
It's not surprising from Cade Metz - he has a long track record of being deeply unethical.

https://medium.com/@garyweiss_86200/cade-metz-pulls-a-deep-c...
Choppy water is hard to meditate to ;)
I don't want to see your dick, but I don't have a massively funded standing army or insane amounts of money to sway those who do.

Like it or not, this is the reality of our world now: control belongs to paranoid career bureaucrats more interested in preserving their budgets than any measure of civil liberty.
So much for bit.ly.

And this is great news, as far as I'm concerned. Generic shortened URLs are becoming a plague upon the web and are marginally useful at best outside of Twitter. Even more props to Twitter for demystifying links where applicable instead of taking the easier route of pure obscurity. The sooner third-party shorteners disappear from Twitter the sooner they can disappear from the rest of the web and we can have link transparency back again.

On a related note, I'm actually quite happy that Twitter is starting to close up their platform. People can stop pretending it's some open platform for global communication and finally realize it's a novel service thanks to its popularity, but little more.
http://justintv.com/ kind of cracks me up.
On the other hand it doesn't seem that much when you consider todays storage density.

You can fit around 0.5 PB into one rack nowadays.
200 racks then sounds a bit less impressive than 100 Petabytes.

However, that ofcourse doesn't account for redundancy, nor for doing anything useful with such a pile of data. Both of which impose some interesting challenges at that scale.
it must be different for your state, here all we do is fill out a form, and that's it...you get your paperwork a few days later in the mail.

then one day to hit up the bank to open up the account
I just type Ctrl+Enter to append the .com, works in chrome, ff and IE at least.
I can't speak as to the policies of the US government, but aren't blocks like these related to the more typical physical sanctions of delivering products to a country? With the Internet, you can just VPN around these blocks anyway, so anyone in NK who wanted to access this stuff and had a connection could do so.

That said, since the only people in North Korea who are likely to access the Internet are the people in charge (who we "don't like"), it doesn't seem unreasonable to block their access to software they might use even if it's easy to circumvent anyway.
Fortunately, you probably won't be seeing ads if (b) is true. Or if you are, demand a refund.
I agree. This mess is exactly why people pay for KissMetrics, MixPanel and other analytics tools that do funnel reports really well.
Because most people don't have blogs these days and it's not worth setting one up for a one-off short thing like this.

It's also perfectly readable for its target audience of people who use twitter.
Why not impeach and remove him?
Everyone repeats this orthodox line as if it's true, but there's rarely any evidence for it.

Can you post three Parlor links that supposedly contain "calls to violence" here?
Honestly I make pretty heavy use of /tmp. Almost all downloads go there, along with anything that I won't be using again after the next hour. Self-cleanup whenever I reboot (which is rare).

Anything of importance, I have broad directories under Documents, and then sub folders. Or sometimes I'll put them on my fileserver with similar directory structure. The Documents folder is backed up with Spideroak.
I'm not equivocating the two, although re-reading my post I can see I left that impression. The violence in each case is disturbing to me, in different ways and for different reasons.

I'm merely trying to sort out why the response to, and consequences of, the violence of one side seems so disproportionate to that of the other side, seeing as we both seem to agree violence is harmful to a civil society.

So far, the only answer I can discern essentially comes down to "because I agree with my side more than yours", in which case, the side with the bigger mob will always win, rather than an honest discussion of ideas.

Even if you disagree, if you set aside your hostilities and assume I say this in good faith for just a moment, I don't think it's that great of a stretch to see why this would be confusing.
Smithsonian museums are federal property open to the public and they have better security.
"I welcome their tears."

Hopefully we have mathematics and physics on our side.
I think you're mixing decentralised and unmoderated here. You're free to run those accounts from another instance or provision your own. But you can't force someone else to carry that account, just as I can't force your Mastodon instance to carry mine.
But you can't use that blackmail tool without revealing that you were spying illegally. Revealing that would be worse for the blackmailer than the blackmailee.
I totally agree. Community has totally been lost in many of these "social" apps. The best social network I interact with is a motorcycle forum still running vBulletin.

I think the huge challenge in these sites is that they start off simple and targeted (like Facebook), then grow, and find they don't have a sane way to deal with that growth.

Of course, trying to solve it before you need to is just a pointless waste of time, because odds are very against you ever needing to solve it.
I will second comments of this being an admirable question. Unfortunately, conserving v4 addresses probably won't help given the rate we're burning through them (10 /8s this year already; compare with a total of 8 /8s in total in 2009 [1]). Transitioning is probably the best thing we can do now. Note that the v6 transition process (which has been theoretically going for about 12 years now) should be a case study motivating the design of backwards-compatible protocols in large, distributed, and decentralized computer systems, in case we ever have to do something like this again.

While I don't run/work at an ISP, the biggest claim that seems to be made against v6 is that there is no business case for implementing it -- it's simply providing (at best) the same connectivity with added capital and operations expenses. While I think this is awfully short-sighted, it may make sense to management of some ISPs. Regardless, how can you create incentives for the entities that you depend on for internet access?

As a consumer you can start by asking your residential access ISP about v6. If they're on the ball, like Comcast, you should participate in their trials [2]. If not, ask them what their strategy is and/or when you can expect to have some form of IPv6 connectivity. If you want to be an early adopter, turn on v6 on your own equipment and use Teredo or a tunnel from Hurricane Electric or another tunnel provider. Be prepared for things to be slightly broken, and to need to navigate to special urls like ipv6.google.com in your browser/etc. But you should keep doing this even if things are broken, to help sites you care about work through the transition. If you need to buy new home networking equipment, consider looking at v6 support (though you may want to hold off until residential providers announce their plans regarding their transition technology of choice (ds-lite, 6rd, etc.))

As someone with purchasing authority at a smaller business/etc., you might consider doing much of the same as noted above, though you may have the additional option of switching providers if you feel so strongly about it. You will probably also want to think about experimenting with and eventually deploying v6 internally so you're ready to go when the v6 Internet comes knocking.

Finally, if you're a software developer like may readers of HN are, you should make your application IP-version agnostic by replacing calls to v4-era functions like gethostbyname() with getaddrinfo(), etc. and not store IP addresses as ints [3].

[1] http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...
[2] http://comcast6.net/
[3] http://people.redhat.com/drepper/userapi-ipv6.html
You can get almost all of that, minus the graphics and RAID array, for not much more than 1k.

Just saying. I'm on a dual core that I originally got for under 1k 18 months ago and I'm happy. Will probably pick up a desktop for power but this realistically does most of what I need, and there's EC2 if I'm getting really serious.
i watched this a few days ago. clever story.
My Mac Mini is easily the best computer purchase I've made. This is coming from someone who used to build own PC systems with the fancy cases, fans, etc. some years ago.

It's tiny, it's quiet, and it works like a charm with two 1600x1200 displays. It takes no space on my desk.

I did upgrade RAM and the hard drive myself, though, and don't recommend it for the faint-hearted. It was incredibly nice to see Apple introduce an openable case in the latest update.
Nice interface. How does Trokam index pages?
You can change the implementation of the protocol, but then it's changed (in that it replaces the prior version). When you see something of type X, the protocol says what to do when you encounter a function on X. If you want more than one kind of thing to happen, then you shouldn't use a protocol.

For instance, it would be perfectly feasible to use a multimethod that dispatches on both type and output format. Or a protocol that dispatches on type, then dispatches a different function on format.
Hiya, I went and looked this up for you:

"
Intel segmented memory

This usage should not be confused with that of the x86 memory segmentation used by early Intel processors such as the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088, as they did not provide any protection. Any program could access any segment with no restrictions, and a segment consisted of only a starting location and a fixed length of 64 KiB. Segmentation in the Intel 80286 and later provided protection.
"

I think Dr Turner's description of segments is a bit rough and ready; I guess he was just trying to make the post simple.
For the uninitiated, what does this do that spotlight doesn't?

The mac is the only platform where I haven't felt the need for a decent launcher app!
If it's illegal, I'd report it to the police / regulatory authority.
A lot of my designer friends love Drupal, and they wonder why the veins in my neck and forehead start to bulge when they mention it. They love it because it allows them do things that they never could have imagined, whereas I despise it because it does badly what any competent Django or ROR developer could do in more quickly and maintainably. (Yes, I know, there's a Drupal module that solves that problem…)

I mention Drupal because I find its "the node is our hammer and all solutions are nails, er content management systems" approach to doing things is a perfect example of the PHP google-then-copy-and-paste programming caricature that is all too often true.

But the author's correct: to the extent that PHP sucks, it sucks not because of PHP itself but the culture that surrounds it. In my experience, everyone's a noob, an advanced noob that is eager to share their bad habits, or callused actual experts who assume that you are one of the aforementioned noobs and assume you have the cognitive capacity of an overripe banana.

I know several PHP developers who I respect—Hi, Sunny and Tom!—but they seem to exist outside the PHP space-time continuum.
I guess the answer on Super User is a nice summary of the whole discussion here on Hacker News ;-)

Does your head start to hurt even more after seeing me comment here as well? ;-)
Oh, I'm almost certain it's true. Apple has always been uncomfy with the pay-per-install business.

Unfortunately that was one of the only measureable ways to cost-effectively market iOS apps. Now the best strategy is to try and curry favor with Apple and get a front-of-iTunes promotional slot. Good for Apple but pretty unpredictable for developers.
The Dark Side of Dark Mode
https://tidbits.com/2019/05/31/the-dark-side-of-dark-mode/

"To summarize, a dark-on-light (positive polarity) display like a Mac in Light Mode provides better performance in focusing of the eye, identifying letters, transcribing letters, text comprehension, reading speed, and proofreading performance, and at least some older studies suggest that using a positive polarity display results in less visual fatigue and increased visual comfort. The benefits apply to both the young and the old, as that paper concludes"
Keep looking, you've almost grasped it...
I think I read it has to do with having astigmatism. Which I have, and I also prefer light mode for the reasons you state.
>would need to be decrypted using the original encryption key

A small correction. Decryption is performed with a decryption (private) key which is kept in secret and only known to the data owner.

In contast, encryption key is public and known to both data owner and "the person who runs the model".
A related, but possibly simpler-to-answer question: can you copyright work created by computer search techniques?

Many years ago my roommate in grad school wanted to participate in RoboCup. The problem was that my university had no RoboCup team. So my roommate, who was doing his doctorate on genetic algorithms, arranged to borrow time on the university mainframe on Sunday nights from 1 AM to 4 AM, got the RoboCup virtual simulator running on it, and set up a GA to evolve a set of strategies for a team. All by himself.

He came in third. It was an astounding achievement. Clearly, he deserved the award and all the credit and glory associated therewith.
It's just body hacking.
Who got fleeced exactly? No one force them to buy it. Seems like Aol destroyed all the value the site had by losing to the competition.
> If you want to FIX America, start by teaching people to think for themselves and dislodge themselves from the meme that everything in the political arena has to be constructed under an "us versus them" mentality,

This is, I believe, not possible.

Our media has every incentive to carve out a demographic and get them angry at others. We have a winner-take-all political system with two political parties, which creates polar arguments. Duvarger's Law makes fixing this impossible.

And I think you have the wrong impression of what these are. They are very limited, but the newspaper story doesn't go into those rules. It's a way to remove differences so that one group, say people who believe Obama is the Anti-Christ, can try to achieve something for themselves free from those of us who prefer reason. In any peace process, there a few tried and true steps. One is to separate the two warring sides so that they can't escalate fear or damage.

This is a massive undertaking, but i don't see anyone trying to bring America back together. You ask good questions. Your worries about where we're headed are justified. And I'm going to add at least four answers to the FAQ based on this. Thanks!
I'm a student at Berkeley, but I'd love to come (though I barely qualify as a hacker).
This article doesn't really tell us anything. He could be drinking coca tea once every few months, or he could be smoking crack every day. Or he might just be a collector who doesn't even use the drugs. I wouldn't jump to any conclusions.
weev is a trolls' troll, so I wouldn't take anything at face value.

weev on trolling and troll culture: http://www.corrupt.org/act/interviews/weev
In case you've never dealt with real people before ...

WP designs are hard to modify in case you want little modifications here and there, and you have to be a developer to do it. WooThemes can assist you with customizations, and knowing they can do it matters.

And people in general always have ideas ... especially when they don't know shit about publishing (like when some people, everything they do or write on that website has to have a visible place ... ever tried to explain to such a person that the site's readability will suffer? good luck with that).

Also, when you're setting up a website, it's great the first time ... and many people want more. I have a friend that's a psychologist, and she has something like 5 blogs (I shit you not ... it's like she's setting up a new blog every 3 months). She also bought something like 30 shitty stock designs that she never used (thinking that she will someday).

Having a central place where you know you can find good stuff when you need it is valuable ... instead of searching for it all over the web (you can find gemstones for free, but you have to go through shit to find it).
"Something you have, something you know, something you are"

Fingerprints are neither. As several people mentioned in this thread, the only thing I see a fingerprint suitable for is replacing a username.
Biometric security on your cell phone is still a great tradeoff between security and convenience when compared to four-digit PINs.
This is absolutely false. There is a high cost for copying a fingerprint and it is time consuming to perform, conspicuous and difficult to deploy the copy.

Therefore fingerprints are not a good tool when there is a lot of time for the attack, and the value is very high. However when the attack value is low, and the time available is short, they are currently a useful check.

One day, we will probably have a portable fingerprint cloner that changes the economics of this, but until we do, fingerprints are useful.

Since you dismiss biometrics as 'useless', what alternative would you suggest?
Yeah, the best example is YouTube - sometimes more than 100 elements shows up in AdBlock. There are afaik 3 blocks of ads + possible few trackers. Then what is the other 90?
I believe he's referring to the product he's selling [1].

I've been struggling with digestive issues all my life. The recent findings on gut microbiome have interested me. I checked out the site below and appreciate the rigor behind the product development. Enough that I'll part with $37 to see if it helps.

[1]http://www.generalbiotics.com/
"It is better to think of it like a username than a password"

Biometric passports with fingerprint data are common in many EU countries. The fingerprint is used to verify a person's identity, so in a way it's used as both a username and password.

Allowing the state to capture and store something very private to every individual is not without controversy. A few years ago, a German man called Michael Schwarz had his application for a passport rejected when he refused to have his fingerprints taken. He took the matter to the European Court of Justice (ECJ). In October 2013, the ECJ ruled in favour of fingerprinting for passports. The ECJ agreed that fingerprinting was a privacy intrusion but that this was outweighed by the need for security and protection against fraud. Strictly speaking, the fingerprint data should only be held in the passport, not in a central database.

Whether you agree or not with fingerprint capture will probably be influenced by how much you trust the authorities in your country. And of course, many countries collect fingerprints from visitors entering their country.
You mean you were surprised at how much professors at public universities may make.

Certainly, the stars will be offered a lot of money, and professors in the top medical and business schools will be paid quite princely sums. But you might just as well argue that a career in sports or acting guarantees a future of wealth and fame.

I'd be very interested in find out more about your Minnesota engineering school example. If you can't link in, maybe you can paste specifics here or on pastebin?
How can you define it as "hype" when there already exist people selling controlled substances for bitcoins through a Tor secret service? (n.b. it could have been fake and I certainly did not order any to try and find out given I have no interest in either drugs or bitcoins)
It's right for good comments that are read by more people to receive more votes.

I don't agree with this. Just b/c someone was first to post a mediocre comment doesn't mean it's good or worth reading.

Also, early posts are often knee-jerk and among the least thoughtful of the thread.
I'm going to be generous here and assume they meant authenticated encryption rather than just encryption between the user and the first DNS server they hit.

Which, given how DNSCurve was designed, is a non sequitur :)
While true, it's not particularly relevant. When you acquire a company you're taking on its liabilities along with its assets.