jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> These sort of things probably fall under the category of fraud, wrongdoings, crime etc. any ways

No they did not. The scandal is about the reclaiming incorrectly and government institutions not doing anything for these people to have any recourse etc.
This is the story:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/15/europe/netherlands-govern...

> But having a lower tax rates etc. clearly is bringing in more business and more trade to Amsterdam and non of this is due to a scandal or fraud

Not really, these businesses are just post boxes with no to only a few employees to be able to claim Dutch residence for tax evasion purposes or to take advantage of the lower tax rate.

> You can definitely be proud of that achievement

It's not my achievement. It's hard to be proud of a scheme that deprives my own and other countries of tax income that could be used for the greater good.
You may be interested to know that ‘Pastime Paradise’ is a Stevie Wonder song that was then sampled for the Coolio song. It’s fantastic.
Ancient Sparta is exemplary on this point
You really can't find a web designer who can't wait until the you're making money to be paid? Hell, I'll do it- for sure. There's so much software out there to build web sites, most designers have knocked prices down to around $500 for a 30 page / 500 product e-commerce site right now. With full proper design & templating. If you can't find a deal like that in the states, contract it up here to Canada- no such thing as a border when it comes to designing web sites.
How often does this happy (at least initially, as noted by dhimes) an outcome happen?
maybe he backed up to icloud by accident
Yeah, but my 2017 Subaru does all but the steering with adaptive cruise control in this situation. Given that a driver needs to pay attention anyway, it's not that hard to just sit back and move the wheel a little when needed.
It's plenty random enough for non-cryptographic uses of randomness, like shuffling a music player.
In a small company (a startup for example) the boss will know who knows who. To make that kind of information available to the CEO in a big company seems pretty harmless.
i've added that link to the top of the sheet. The sheet is still useful because it's exportable, printable and so on ...
I thought that was urban legend and that they just contain "natural flavor" which is unspecified and McDonald's is very tight-lipped about what it actually is (to the chagrin of vegetarians who would actually eat at McDonald's).
Since the 3GS (and 3rd generation iPod Touch) has both more RAM and a faster processor, you don't see checkerboards much. You still see them a lot if you scroll while the page is loading.

An example, I just did: take a big, long, complicated page with lots of Javascript (say engadget.com, the regular non-mobile version) and wait until Safari is 100% done loading. You can scroll at skimming speed and I only saw the checkerboards once. But if you scroll like a madman trying to get to something near the bottom, it'll still checkerboard and make you wait for the roughly 500 milliseconds to render.
Pretty damned fast on my Sony laptop. Go figure.
theres an "i kid, i kid" around that states that a portuguese engie is the thing you keep in the wall behind a glass that says "break in case of emergency" :)
The point is - many people have very poorly behaved animals. Even if the animal was otherwise well behaved, bringing an animal on a plane is a whole nuther matter.

The people who bring out their animals in inappropriate places and allow them to do inappropriate things ruin it for everyone. Otherwise dogs wouldn't be a big issue.

Some people are abusing the law without taking other peoples considerations into account.
Don't forget the sand, which is technically an aggregate[1]. Using the wrong sand is a classic mistake being rediscovered in China:

http://www.wired.com/2013/03/poor-quality-chinese-concrete-c...

[1]-The concrete recipes I remember always had sand and rocks, gravel and/or pebbles (depending on local availability)
Wood is a popular choice for smaller (1-3 story) residential buildings in areas that have large timber production and therefore cheapish timber. That's a minority of places, but in addition to the U.S., includes Canada, the Nordic countries, and Russia. It gets less practical for taller buildings, though, which is why the Finnish countryside has predominantly timber-framed buildings, but Helsinki doesn't.
"I hope you find a solution to your problems, it's not fair if you work really hard at something and get nothing back for your effort."

That implies I could spend a year writing a million godawful poems and it would be unfair not to pay me for them.
Some of the applications on my computer that are bigger than Gitbox: Google Chrome, Wireshark, Inkscape, iPhoto, Komodo Edit, etc. My hard drive barely noticed when I downloaded Gitbox, so practically the only difference was a few extra seconds of download time that I didn't notice, that's all I was trying to say. Your comment was helpful to the developer in the end, so kudos.
I think I'd prefer Chrome's approach to have the content translated in the browser. That way I know that the content is being machine translated and it can be undone.
No worries, it just seemed short for the HN front-page.

Have you read Lisp in Small Pieces, btw?
I agree with most of what you're saying, but I don't see how you can say Apple and Skype exist because of Blue Boxes and Kazaa. That's like saying "The Pianist" exists because Roman Polanski raped some 13 year old...
Apparently false. See the above comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945885
If you're an emacs user, why don't you just use org-mode for todo lists?
"Much less of an emphasis on the "enterprise-y" languages and frameworks like Java"

Take a look at tag distros on stack overflow. Java is by far and away the most tagged language.
I have as much understanding of IPA as one gets in a college gen-ed requirement linguistics class.
I can usually understand the IPA transcriptions of English words (and sometimes a romance languages), but if the transcription includes non-English phonemes, I go to the respelling.
You've never found a book that was good beyond the basics of a language? Have you read any books at all that aren't specific to a given language? I'm a little dumbfounded that you can't come up with one that isn't language specific.
Interesting use case for Sia of Skynet etc. Something like about 3 dollars a terabyte at the moment.
Things might change big time in this space. Apple and Facebook are slugging it out on tracking personal data.
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-vs-apple-heres-what-you-n...
They have no problem with other people using it, and they have no problem with renting such services.

They just don't want to own it, or make the access too convenient. So they might have a telephone - but it's at the end of a 10 minute walkway.

PS. How do you know the term Ordnung, but not know the basics of their belief about technology?
I agree. Art is very loose term, when line between when craft becomes art is very blurry. Same with the meaning behind it.

Someone might argue that author interpretation was intentionally stated in bad faith as a artistic performance etc.

But in the end an interesting discussion is probably the thing of most value (for me at least).
High school isn't much about learning all the different subjects, it's much more about learning how to behave with people aka social skill. The author should put his daughter back into high school again in order not to have a socially incompetent daughter when she's older.
That's a surprisingly good tweet thread that does an excellent job of pragmatically walking the line between "quantum computing is impossible" and "real quantum computers are only 2-3 years away".

Advances are being made, but we're still very much in the primitive science experiment stage.
American exceptionalism at its worst. “World beating”, “One of the top countries (apart from the ones ahead of it)”. The US is doing well, very well, but it’s certainly not world beating by any metric.
This is a great answer, but it's also very important to remember that the IP range you're locking down to may not be the CIDR block you think it is if there are BGP or rDNS shenanigans occurring.
For people working in Microsoft Office only places that will be HUGE. (used M$ but got 3 down votes for using that acronym)
De-escalation is part of why I'd want that kind of camera system - the signs would serve a dual purpose, A) notifying and hopefully at least heavily clouding charges of "he had no legal right to record, we weren't in a public place, charge him with wiretapping" (I'm in Illinois which is an all-party-consent state) and B) putting police on notice that even if they aren't using body cameras (or they're prone to "malfunction") there will still be recordings.

Given the apparent change in officer behavior that accompanies body camera use, perhaps having explicitly noted video and audio surveillance disclosed in advance will serve a similar purpose.
"We'd all forgotten within a week."

[citation needed]
> (average debt of a student now is around £18K. I estimate this to increase to about £24K)

I think the increase will be more than that. Tuition fees are due to rise from the current £3000 to a maximum of £9000 pa. This is on top of a loan for living expenses of £4000. So a typical student debt may rise to £39k. Furthermore the government is increasing the interest rates on loans.

All this together will make a well-paying job more attractive to a programmer having just left university than a startup.
Also called 'Embargo'.
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pyRL80h...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks#Notable_leaks

some of those had a little bit of impact
riding my bike to work is good.

i find i do my best thinking in the shower. nice hot water and no distractions.
Off topic, but I had to ask this: Am I the only one here that thinks that this upcoming leak will pose a threat to the national security and should be stopped?
I think the author has done a great job pointing out a need: science tools for Ruby.
... or it might get worse!

Potential informants, no longer trusting the US to be able to keep their identities secret, clam up. Intelligence dries up. Bombs go off. People die. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria.
> Might the reason not be that the difference lies with the people and not the environment?

There probably is an element of that; British people tend to be less entrepreneurial than Americans.
You forgot to add:

???

Profit
Yes you do!
Old physics joke about using approximations to model a farming problem... "Start with a spherical cow in vacuum, ..."
I don't see how approximate popularity is better than popularity for the first three factors. It would achieve the 4th in individual threads, but amplifying randomly-selected niche viewpoints in different threads adds up to the same biases across threads (unless the selection of blessed users is thread-independent, in which case the community has a randomly-selected group of first-class citizens).
> That sounds great on paper but XAML Islands introduces insurmountable airspace issues. For example, you can't have a nice acrylic window--per Fluent design--and draw your existing WPF XAML on top. It's a non-starter in most cases.

If you are already using XAML, the WPF => UWP XAML transition shouldn't be so much of a hurdle as to be a "non-starter in most cases". In most Enterprise CRUD the biggest problem is DataGrid, but you pull one in from the Community Toolkit or one of the 3rd Party components vendors like Telerik. WinUI is talking about first party formally "Fluent" productizing the Community Toolkit's version sometime later in the 3.x timeline.

Of course, my view of it is biased by doing a bunch of WPF <=> Silverlight XAML transition work by hand for a few years, and compared to that era, WPF <=> UWP is a lot more civilized.

> WinUI 3 has yet to be released. (It's only barely in alpha now.)

I forgot that part. Just replace WinUI 3 with WinUI 2 for "today" (up until 20H1, supposedly), and my statement stands.
> IPv6 is identical to IPv4 in terms of what "freedom" you have on the internet.

It is easier to offer services on IPv6 IMHO. If you want to have some boxes at home to SSH into, you need to provide port forwarding after the first.

So for the first system in IPv4 you would have pubip:22 -> inta:22, but then you have to do pubip:23 -> intb:22, pubip:24 -> intc:22, etc.

With IPv6 you can just use the hosts' IPv6 addresses and punch holes for :22 for each individual system as desired: no port tomfoolery needed.
I've been behind a CGNAT for years and I haven't had a single problem, perhaps your problems lied with something else?
The last decade has been pretty stagnant in CPU development. That AMD has gotten ahead, and is making significant CPU advancements in each generation for the past two years, is something we haven't seen in 10-15 years.
Works fine for me on FF/Linux.
> How would you recommend doing it if not by ip?

Not at all, it's a stupid idea. You are trying to nail down an identity without authentication, that can not work. If you use credentials with sufficiently high entropy, which you should do anyway, you don't have a problem that this could be the solution to.
Thanks - that's awesome. Pandora is back.

Nice piece of code - tons of interesting possibilities there.
That's why, in theory, I like OpenID. It's decentralized, anyone can be a provider, and I still choose when logging into your site which provider you should use to validate my credentials.
By your argument, should we not also abolish crimes such as manslaughter and causing death by careless driving

Well, if you want to be silly about it, by your argument shouldn't we make mistakes illegal and then slaughter everyone because everyone makes mistakes?

That is not my argument.

You see where I said "an erased phone is not a serious problem therefore it doesn't need legislationg" Where did that give you the idea that I think manslaughter is OK?

It is certainly possible that the same action could have caused loss of much personal data of sentimental and/or direct financial value, cut off communications at an important moment with all kinds of serious consequences

Even if it did cause those things, those are not serious consequences. Problems serious enough for legislation are things which are likely to result in a high rate of injury and death, or be long term dangerous/injurious to a lot of people (eg. shoddy building codes).

If you really want nationwide legislation forbidding companies from letting employees use personal phones to read email because they might lose their only copy of sentimental pictures, and prefer that to suggesting the person have a second copy of their pictures, then we have incredibly different views on how life is and should ideally be.
Sure, all possible, but actually the Backwoods smoker we use is very nice -- its insulated, it can be 300 degrees on the inside, and cool to the touch on the top of it -- you can see in the photo that we sat a plastic tub on top of it, without any worries.
Should we really consider how it's done in a country where people drive on the wrong side of the road? :)
Did you try getting into rooibos?
I keep track of everything by using TSheets (http://www.tsheets.com). It allows me to report on time spent based on projects I've worked on. That way at the end of the week I know what I worked on and how much time was spent on everything.
Are you OK with your kid taking a FedEx bumper to the face for the team?
If you don't pretend to understand the details, why do you feel comfortable making political arguments that rely on them?
Heh.. you don't say... it's built with Sun ONE's UDS FORTE development environment (on a language called TOOL), which stopped being supported years ago.

Fortunately I don't maintain that one very much, but yes, it's "run-for-the-hills" worthy - sadly, the current job offers job security and pays above average for my country.

I'm keeping an eye open, but I haven't found an adequate niche for me yet - my skills don't translate well to a remote environment, I'll probably try my hand at consulting.
Didn't he make that comment about the engines before the launch failure?
Here is my comment on Mashable: None of these social networks present a viable business model to be attractive from a shareholder’s point of view.

That said, I think all similar startups should hold off until Facebook or LinkedIn go for their IPO. Bebo’s valuation would sufficiently increase or decrease depending on how other players in this market perform.
I have the same question, but think we can answer it by reasoning.

If it could be purchased for $0, only the first stock would cost $0, and the price would then rise, but how would we calculate the price increase for a stock purchased at $0 that is now worth $0.1? So that's not it.

If it were not for sale, why would it be listed?

I think it's the third, and I'd further guess that any bid for the stock will be accepted, thus setting the price.
The nature of DNS is redundancy. every domain must have redundant servers. Most top level domains have multiple servers that can serve results.
I honestly thought I was about to read an article about research linking daily blood-sugar to willpower/intelligence... (which, BTW, is a thing, so try not to make important decisions right before lunch.)
I don't do b2c e-business, but friends who do tell me that there are no good solutions in HK right now aside from PayPal, but good luck if they ever freeze your account.

There are company structures possible though via a second company in a EU country with a double taxation treaty that would make things easier if you need more than PayPal, but the cost for the whole setup is probably prohibitive if you're just starting out.
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I guess I kind of expected it since the past 6 months were probably very though for him with all the negative attention the site received.

I wish him a happy retirement and all the best for what he's going to do next.
That’s no longer possible now because Uber withdrew from South-East Asia. You can use Grab and Gojek in Singapore, but they don’t operate in the USA.
The various public agencies involved are restarting a project to bring commuter rail service to the area: http://www.greencaltrain.com/2015/02/dumbarton-policy-commit...

The project was originally intended to connect Redwood City Caltrain to Union City BART in the East Bay, but the (partial) funding was redirected to the San Jose BART extension. There was no real chance of the project being built before now anyway; rebuilding rail bridges is pretty expensive.
what on earth language is that?
I was but I made it through to the promised land. But still bearing scars. Whats the angle?
A government doesn't have to react offensive against threats. It's also possible to provide defensive measures. In this specific case it could provide infrastructure, computing resources and personal to fend off the attack.
I haven't worked in a specifically microservice environment, but I am currently working in a company that has quite diverse technology choices. One of the problems we have is that we're pretty small, and sometimes there is a lot more work that needs to be done on one component than another, in those cases you can't really have people who are relying on the work help.

E.g. we use erlang/cowboy for our web server and when there are bottlenecks changing that, they pretty much fall on two people who know erlang well enough to work on it.

It seems like it would have been better if the web server was written in something a larger chunk of the engineering org could modify so that when people needed changes to it for their project, they could make the changes, get them code reviewed by the maintainer, and get it shipped.

The other concern I have with microservices is that doing any wide-ranging changes is hard. Maybe it's always hard, but microservices seem like they would exacerbate the problem. I feel like I already run into this issue at my current job where we mostly have small (~10k) codebases, where people don't really want to make changes that will require making changes to more than two of them at once.
I still don't really get it. What's the actual goal behind the attack? When the Chinese government decides to block a website, I can at least understand their motivations, as bad as they may be. But DDOSing Github just seems to be pissing the whole world off for a few hours without any actual long term consequences.
The loss wasn't unanimous (it was 10-2 and 9-3), but your point is valid, I think. The narrative is so strong, evidence doesn't seem to matter. For example, the article says,

> “Ellen’s story is the exact same as everyone else's, which is the story of a club that is not open to women,” said Rebecca Eisenberg

If Ellen's story is in fact the exact same as everyone else's, and if a jury of unbiased people (half men and half women, not that it should matter) found that there was not discrimination against Ellen, then that seems to argue against the popular narrative of everpresent sexism.

I'm not saying, and no one should, that sexism doesn't exist in tech. It does in some places. The questions are how common it is, where, and what we can do. But one of the sad things about sexism is that women find themselves thinking things like "did I lose that promotion because of sexism?" and they can't know for certain. This case shows that yes, it's sad and unfair that you can't tell, but sometimes things look like discrimination to you, but an objective eye from outside concludes that it just looked that way. Again, this isn't fair, but that's just how it is.

Ellen's story might be a common one, but that is a story in which the sexism is sometimes real and sometimes not. The verdict brings us no closer to knowing how often sexism is real in tech. It does show us that the narrative about sexism in tech is a big leap to an unproven conclusion.
I wonder -- does scratch removal software help in such cases?

It seems to do wonders with certain cases of slide scans, so I wonder if it helps with these kinds of wet-mount scans as well.
Check out blueprints[1], they pretty much do what you just talked about.

[1]: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/blueprints/
This is why beginners should not design crypto, much less encourage others to use their creations...

Do not use this, it's a textbook example of how to not do it.
Well, I have an interesting innovating idea concerning eInk electronic book readers and I just happen to look for investors. I cannot disclosure all details in public, because there are no patents yet. If it's interesting to you, let's get in contact.
and my 3 yo cousin would still be alive if it weren't for a pool in her backyard.

I don't blame the pool, I don't want pools banned.
Though while exercising, most people feel a suppression of hunger.