jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> How would you change it? All media is powered by engagement. Look at the covers of most magazines at the checkout counter. They'll are covered in sensational titles.

Sure they are, but a magazine is liable for what he does, both from a social stand point, but also a legal one.

We all have a similar power as theses magazines through social media, but Facebook promote the worst kinds because they are the most sensational ones. If something wrong come outs of its, they just push the responsibility to the one that made the post/ads. A magazine can't do that, because they still chose to publish it nonetheless.

> If 15% of Ford drivers started running over children is that Ford's fault?

I'm pretty sure that would certainly trigger some kinds of major investigation which would certainly affect Ford itself. There's no way there wouldn't be any kind of regulation added on Ford cars in that case.

> The difference is, at least at the moment, few Christians are actually calling for things like stoning your wife for various reason where as

Why do you think that happens? Is it because we hated Christians for theses older beliefs or because we hated theses older beliefs? It's pretty hard to make someone change his whole belief at once, I'm pretty sure it's actually impossible. What you can do though, is to change the issues that come from that belief and for that, you need to accept him to be able to interact with him in a civil manners.

> The majority of muslims want to stone adulterous women and force them to hide their faces and bodies therefore I don't want them here

The issue is with the end of that sentence. them is the muslims or the majority? The thing is, most people is saying the former, which is the racist part of it. Condemn the wrong behavior, that's fine, but don't put everyone in the same bucket.

I find it funny that you believe that Ford shouldn't be liable for belief of others, but you certainly believe that if it's a Muslim.
Fanboism that kills is generally frowned upon, by all those who work in majured safety relevant industries.
We do hop all the safety hurdles every day, for very good reasons- and to call these proofen right processes slow by someone who lives only because they exist- it has a certain sting to it.

Speedy development is all fun and games, until your luck runs out and you toast a whole highway filled with familys in one afternoon.

After that, nobody is going to hold cheery fanbois liable who enabled this culture. No, it will be engineers, who where forced to make fast decisions. Remember Toyota-Bar - why dont you justify your senseless optimism, in the face of physical danger and accidents, to the victims of sloppy development?

Why is the burden of proof not on you? After all that blood at least should be on your hands.
In fairness, you would likely be more of a danger to yourself and other innocent bystanders than the shooter if you had a gun in that position than not.

edit: to clarify - most people in that situation would likely be more of a danger than a benefit. Carrying around a loaded gun on you at all times doesn't mean you're mentally prepared or well trained enough to be able to effectively engage in urban combat at a moment's notice.
Looks a lot like what VoltDB has for stream processing.
Will definitely make developing streaming apps a lot easier.
Will be when BIDS formatting is complete.
You've not justified this. I'd be very interested in understanding why you make this claim.
Cook is correct. If Apple does everything the Communist Party wants in advance, then there's no need for pressure.
How about if you only have one arm? You can’t drive? That’s fucked up.
I mean, sure they can. They just make the parents miserable until the parents comply.
Worth noting is that cargo and npm weren't "settled around"; they were developed and presented, from the beginning, alongside the relevant compiler and runtime. There was never a question; the batteries were included.

Leiningen is the weird one where people did actually settle fairly well around an unofficial solution in the absence of an official one. I think the norm with languages that forego official tooling is closer to what we've seen in Python.
My perception of Reddit change radically after I had some comments removed from a popular video game subreddit (from which the larger post was removed).

I expressed a critical opinion on a video game that I, overall, greatly enjoy, but have been feeling increasing frustration over how the developers have been supporting it. The comment certainly wasn't racist, sexist, political, etc. It was simply critical of an aspect of the game that I felt was holding me back from fully enjoying the game.

What made it even worse was my comment was shadow banned. It shows up on my profile. It shows up when I'm logged in. But, it doesn't show up in an incognito tab, it's [removed].

I started noticing this happening in a lot more places. I add a comment that I'd expect would get some sort of reaction (either positive or negative), but it gets nothing. Turns out, these comments were being removed without me be aware.

In the past, content removal would almost always come with an explanation - and that reason was likely clearly justified.
That page, including the thumbnails, would load in under 18 seconds over a 56kbps analog modem. I remember watching the JPEGs emerge from the progressive blur as pages loaded.
Seems to me, at least on cable, people are only as insulated as they want to be. They can always change the channel to one of any of several hundred others. There are more views being expressed on cable than were ever allowed on the airwaves during the fairness doctrine era.

Some of those channels are spewing hateful horseshit, but with dozens of channels to choose from, you can't blame the medium for people being insulated. They keep the dial tuned to Fox News because they like it.
Bingo. It may be tempting to take control of speech and think it wont backfire against you one day, but it will
Think this story is a developer who submitted a patch to they guy who wrote the manifesto for open source. The patch was rejected for non-technical reasons, which led to the developer pointing out the irony of the situation. It's actually funny, and if you ever used fetchmail, you'd know just how accurate Terry Lambert's assessment of fetchmail ("abomination before God") was...
+1

My team actively screens out FB applicants.
Great, now show me the money.
Maybe check what the Republicans are saying, for example Bill Barr said:

>“Orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable. The president’s conduct yesterday was a betrayal of his office and supporters.”

https://twitter.com/GingerGibson/status/1347213610406313986?...
> they can't kick someone out just for wearing a MAGA hat,

Actually they can. In most jurisdictions that's not a protected class. Nightclubs are well-known for having dress codes with vague guidelines such as "no gang colors". Some fancy restaurants require men to wear jackets or women to wear dresses (this seems politically fraught to me). Some bars don't let you in if you're wearing shorts. And so on.

Generally a protected class is an unchangeable attribute.
For example, saying we should march on congress and 'cheer on' congress?

The problem is you will brand anything you dont like as intolerant or hate, and might makes right!
Yeah this is my main beef with Signal. I don't want to end up in yet another walled garden. I see much more benefit to the open standard approach that made the internet great. Matrix is where it's at for me.
The trigger for controversy on HN is quite fine.
I read somewhere that the "neither genes or families" part is mostly peer group growing up. Also if you randomly get hit by a truck etc.
Idealistic professions done "for the greater good" typically struggle. These days, anyone with internet access can do low-paid writing through various services or publish their own thoughts via a blog or social media. There has been tremendous downward pressure on writing and many local papers have closed, among other things.
The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, 2nd ed., in the same category.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321968972
Yes, it’s rather surprising that it can be done at all. And no, you train the model normally and then express the application of the model in terms of the set of primitive operations that the encryption scheme supports. Broadening the set of operations supported by the encryption scheme is an active area of research since having a better “instruction set” allows more computations to be done efficiently.

It is also possible for the model to be provided by the user and encrypted along with the data rather than being fixed and public. That way the service can apply a model that it doesn't know to data that it also doesn't know. This allows a fairly general service in theory, but it remains a challenge to express more than fairly simple models in a way that can be computed efficiently.
IIRC Lego were originally intending to produce something entirely different with their newly acquired injection moulding machine. Then they discovered the successful bricks being sold by Hilary Page, pivoted into counterfeiting, and produced an identical rip off of product, packaging, marketing, and branding:

http://hilarypagetoys.com/Images/articlestock/article875_Ima...

Pretty sure there's a little more of the tale on the site.

I have a bit of a thing against Lego's popularity given how litigious they are, and how they themselves got started.
Good reporting, until this paragraph:

Now consider what a well-funded adversary could do on Election Day armed with a handful of .gov domains for some major cities in Democrat strongholds within key swing states: The attackers register their domains a few days in advance of the election, and then on Election Day send out emails signed by .gov from, say, miami.gov (also still available) informing residents that bombs had gone off at polling stations in Democrat-leaning districts. Such a hoax could well decide the fate of a close national election.

Why the need to specify "Democrat" strongholds? Doesn't this attack work for any other political-party strongholds as well? Seems like an unnecessarily partisan position to take.
Lego copied the packaging, marketing and branding too.

Page's suicide was unconnected, and I'm not sure he knew of the Lego counterfeiting, or the full extent of it at the time.
> Darwin is based on XNU from NeXT, which itself is comprised of OSFMK Mach microkernel but with many of the things pulled into the kernel itself for performance.

And amusingly, the syscall interface from FreeBSD 4 or so.
Depends if you want something that's marketable now, or more if you're asking what's interesting learning for the future.

Django and Rails are still powerful in web development territory, but I don't find them particularly exciting anymore.

I'm quite interested in seeing where Go and Rust evolve to provide developer-productivity and performance at the same time. Previously, we've had these kind of splits where we have Ruby/Python/other at one end, and C/C++ at the other, and things in the middle have felt like compromises (Java, etc).
I'm thinking we can get to a nice happy medium, once their standard libraries mature. Still, there's not a lot of job opportunities out there in these yet. But interesting!

To me, a lot of what makes a language usable is how big the standard library, and community libraries around it grow to be. So, for now, a lot of the cool stuff would require more legwrok on your end to make it work for certain applications.

On the UI side, JavaScript remains absolutely pervasive, but I wish there were clean alternatives that didn't require something compiling down to JS. It seems that Angular is going in the right places.

I'd be interested in people's takes on whether Scala/Clojure are no longer gaining any interesting traction or whether I'm wrong about that - there's still a giant ton of Java out there, obviously.

If you just want to hurt your brain in interesting and useful ways, functional languages can be great fun.
Such people populate many call centers. Yet, if you call repeatedly, you will eventually find a competent human who can make an independent decision to solve an "irregular operations" customer problem. You can usually recognize them within the first minute of a conversation -- a modern Turing test.

The future call center may consist of algos with voice synthesizers, and that one competent human :)
13" Mac Pro 16gb ram, 256gb SSD.

When at my desk it is connected to 2 - 24" monitors. Usually on one monitor I keep my IDE open, generally Webstorm and on the other I have a terminal window with 4-5 tabs and email etc. I also keep a browser for testing open on the same monitor I have my IDE open on.

My second machine right now is a Toshiba 17" Windows 7 laptop with 16gb RAM, 256gb SSD, VS2013. I generally don't use it but do when I have to deal with a Windows project. I have been wanting to move this to a VM on my Mac but just haven't gotten to it.
1% is a colloquial way of saying "those who own capital for a living, instead of working for a living". The high income of athletes and highly trained professionals has little to do with our situation. However, most capital and expenditure is controlled by a small group of people that have asymmetric power in employment agreements and political process, and that is concerning
Safari, Pythonista, Mail, Editorial, WolframAlpha
"accusing open source of being intolerant or whatever is like an alien race accusing the human species of being intolerant "

Following this analogy implies that women are categorically Outside of the open source community, which I bet is actually what you meant to say.
> Mark Evans is a principal with ME Consulting, a content and social media strategic and tactical consultancy that creates and delivers ‘stories’ for companies looking to capture the attention of customers, bloggers, the media, business partners, employees and investors.

The Globe and Mail lets PR shills pose as reporters?
And, just like the case of ebooks, few people think that it's worth buying the images. Instead they torrent them. The market is broken.
That's an odd thing to say without knowing how much they paid for the CGI version.
I beg to differ. It's sluggish. Depends what you are used to I guess.

I don't find it even a decent calculator, try doing a division!! It launches the calculator and doesn't even both to pre-fill the question.
If you've read, "Catch Me If You Can", by Frank Abagnale Jr., then your opinion of Swedish prisons might be that they're country clubs where you get to sew parachutes and go to school for free, in comparison to those in the US. This doesn't sound so terrible, considering that this is a large scale criminal organization (whether you think what they did is a crime or not, the Swedish legal system has officially deemed it one).

The owners would have far more personal protection from legal in the US, though.
Are you sure that jails even exist in Sweden? I would be surprised. Isn’t that some kind of weird American quirk?

This brochure from the Swedish government [0] differentiates between remand prisons and correctional facilities (of varying security levels), no mention of anything else at all.

[0] http://www.regeringen.se/content/1/c4/33/41/0feab306.pdf (PDF)
If we could make everyone understand, we wouldn't need computer programmers. We could just have computers talk to each other, and all their formats would be magically compatible, and the vast body of data conversion code wouldn't exist.

The problem is that computers are made for humans, and humans are often wantonly illogical. You're not going to change this, short of Skynet and the rise of the machines. So it makes sense to put up with a fair amount of coding pain to make things easier for your users. It's lucrative, at least.

Think of it as a full-employment theorem for data-miners.
I keep going back and forth between the Google Quick Search and Spotlight as my Cmd + Space shortcut.
Although it doesn't do so without complaint. I wish you could suppress that warning.
Sounds like it's a market place, so that's the money the sellers(creators) received.
Just got an email that Azlo is closing too.

Messaging was almost exactly the same as Simple's email.
And somehow proof of stake always remains fully outside of the discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_stake

tl;dr More forward-looking coins, like Ethereum, will get rid of the energy intensive mining via a completely different consensus mechanism.
Yep, and remember due to the peer-to-peer nature of torrents it's trivial for someone to monitor the IP addresses of the seeds and leeches. This is how people have gotten mean leaders from RIAA for torrenting music for example.
Are you sure about that? Appears to me that you need a registered trademark in Cape Verde, which Marcaria also has a process for (costs a lot and takes up to a year). I'm fairly certain your domain will expire within three months after purchase without a valid trademark certificate.
Nothing will calm those people down. No amount of evidence will change any of those peoples minds.

Especially not 10 days of "investigation" by congress who they already do not trust.
I expect the security personnel to be trained and the mob to not be trained.

The latter assumption is a serious mistake. Sure, the mob is not as well trained as professionals, but when you consider the number of vets with some military experience, the fairly large numbers of militia organizations which provide amateur levels of training in both virtual and real contexts, and the high availability of training materials (military manuals etc), it's smart to assume that any given mob will contain some people who know what they're doing and are able to direct others.
Coinbase, Kraken, Gemini, Bitpanda (and probably more).
It's a very subtle distinction, but I think that really only fits under A if you assume that whatever is being contributed by the free users is valuable to the paying users. It can be valuable in other ways.
I'm working on an android (and maybe in the near future, iPhone) app, as a starting ground for a geo-based startup. Nothing's started yet. I'm doing this in my spare time from my regular work and school. I am working on the finer details (architecture, frontend/backend) on the app now.

I have been a programmer for at least the past 7 years and am interning in a "sexy" startup in Europe. If you'd like to hear the details, feel free to hit me up with a message or sth ;)
Just curious, if you've never had a Facebook account how can you have an informed opinion on their product?

Personally, I can't stand Twitter, but I still have an account so I can poke about, see what's new (mostly because I have a professional interest in knowing what's going on in the world of UI development).
I'm sorry but don't you a have a Project Manager position in your company for overseeing whole projects?
Does anyone here have already used it? I wonder about two things: file attachments, are they there?
and 2nd thing: multi-persons conversation: can you add a new person to an already existing conversation? how does it work with chat or phone-messaging?
I'd say most people would be far less afraid of someone with a wooden weapon than someone with a steel knife, when a wooden weapon would be far more harmful.

A wooden mallet with tapered ends could easily crack a skull or break joints and limbs if used properly and would be easily concealable compared to a high density knife blade.

Considering that a war hammer is still likely the most dangerous weapon to an armored soldier today, there are worlds of weapons that are not routinely used or thought of that could be deadly in the right circumstances.
Too many gems in here to count.
Someone always points this out in these threads, but HN uses tables...and we all love this site. Theres no morality in web design, just results.
$77 per passenger is a huge amount, especially compared to the cost of a cheap domestic flight. But what is the hidden cost of the clusterfuck that American airports are becoming?

I would gladly pay an extra $38 per flight if it meant going through a sane, competent, and, if not pleasant, at least not overtly hostile system.
Thanks for the suggestions! Not specifically portable drive, any app or device can meet her demand should be fine :)

Probably it will be good enough for her ;)

With portable drive, I think user still need to constantly clear up the drive to enable more video storage.
If I'm correct you are suggesting that the external observer "sees" the object falling inside whilst the object itself perceives time as frozen. This is wrong, as far as I know. The proper time in the free-falling frame of reference ticks in the usual manner, and it is quite easy to compute the time it takes the object to fall inside a black hole (the textbook computation being usually done for an object which has zero velocity at infinity). The external observer on the other hand will see the falling object to slow down and the wavelength of the object's emitted photons to be redshifted by an infinite factor as it approaches the event horizon, so the object will disappear before crossing it. This is true both for massive and massless particles falling in. Also, to nitpick: thinking about massless particles i.e. objects moving at c has having frozen time is often misleading: the "usual" definition of proper time, i.e. the square root of time squared minus space squared is not a good parametrization for light-like geodesics.
Seems like a lot of lights, compared to a roundabout. I don't get why people don't like roundabouts, they seem to work quite well, at least until traffic backs up (at which point nothing really works). They also avoid the left (or right, where they are most common), but typically with fewer lights. The second light in this system seems like it will really slow things down, but maybe it works. I'd love to see video footage of it in action during a busy period.
at 0:31 the guy says "I always have to tell people that bikes do stay up by themselves." I find that surprising... that people don't know.
I've always found, as a marketing guy, that I'm most helpful once the developers' initial prototype is up and running. That's when folks like me can start helping carve out the minimum viable product, identifying and communicating to the target market, and crafting the story to help get the product out there.

I've found that engaging earlier--and attempting these efforts sooner--is a mistake. It tends to cause more conflict than not. To me, engaging too early is like standing there and telling a painter "maybe you should use more green" or telling a musician "try a different chord."

I find I'm most helpful when I can engage with a developer who has realized the initial iteration of his/her vision.

Admittedly, this may result in a little wasted time and some backtracking. But more often than not, that's a small hurdle for the benefits of a) having someone realize their vision and b) reaching a point of being comfortable with, seeking, and accepting criticism and guidance. It just starts the whole relationship out on a much better footing.
anyone interested can already contact him
Apple today is one of the biggest gaming companies out there (because of the iPhone and iPad)... But they don't really act like it. You see it all the time -- they push enterprise work apps on their devices, even though the vast majority of Apps purchased are games, games and more games.

Think about all of the Wiis and XBoxes out there -- those people would gladly buy an iTV for their existing TV if Apple would embrace the gaming market. Integration with your iPhone and iPad and computer would give amazing opportunities -- much more than the Wiimote and maybe even Kinect.

This should be their entry into the TV space. I don't know why they don't see this -- probably because their senior management is too old to take the gaming space seriously.

And moving the gaming market away from PCs / XBox / Nintendo and to Mac and iOS -- it could have great ramifications for several Apple lines of business.