jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I actually think there's a strong argument that regulation is more to blame:

Part of the reaction stemmed from a little-known New Jersey law passed in 2002 by gun-control advocates. Once a personalized weapon went on sale in the United States, the law said, then within three years, all guns sold in New Jersey would have to include such safety features.

It seems like greater adherence to free market principles could actually have avoided the problem -- without that law, intense opposition to smart guns would likely have not occurred as it did, or at least not to such an extent.

Gun rights activists focus their energy on regulation and practically nothing else, which is why smart guns were so strongly opposed -- it was opposition to regulation, not safety.
I tried to address this in the article:

"If a generated password is ever compromised, you don’t need to memorize a whole new secret key and update all of your passwords. For that service only, just add an incrementing index to your secret key. For example, if your key was bananas, just use bananas2. If you can’t remember which iteration of your secret key you used for a particular service, simply try them all in order."

In particular, you don't have to use the same secret key for all websites. It's okay to slightly modify one if that password is compromised.
The simplest jamming method would be to emit sufficient noise on the frequency used by the RFID. I don't know why you say radar gun jamming is impossible. Jammers exist, but are illegal to use.[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector#Radar_scrambling
"We need your help searching for new objects at the edges of our solar system. In this project, we'll ask you to help us distinguish real celestial objects from image artifacts in data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. The real objects are brown dwarfs and low-mass stars, the Sun's nearest neighbors. You may find an object closer than Proxima Centauri (the closest star to the Sun) or even discover the Sun's hypothesized ninth planet, which models suggest might appear in these images."
A person can have different views on different topics.

You should be able to recommend a good article that you agree with from someone, even if you disagree with that person on other topics.
Guess we found something we agree on :D I totally agree with healthcare being over-regulated to death. Its ridiculous we have a constant (and ever-growing) shortage of doctors, but you still can't pick up basic medicines without a prescription, order your own tests etc. Its incredibly frustrating because you can't take control of your own destiny even if you want to because of all these stupid paternal laws. "There's no budget option" about sums it up. I do see some signs of it changing with wearables, continuous glucose monitors, DNA testing kits etc. people are taking control of their own health. But the medical institution will take a long, long time to kill.
https://youtu.be/Jzfpyo-q-RM

Edit: Further reading if you prefer it to videos.
https://sites.google.com/view/sources-nuclear-death-toll/
If your boss is in your house at 3 AM putting a half drank rocks glass of tequila in your shitbowl.
> it's slightly alarming to hear that Altman defends the promulgation of such ideas because "people need a forum to debate ideas". Too many of these ideas seep into the discussions even here on Hacker News.

Can you unpack this a bit further?

Are you saying that {a select group of people} should be allowed to discuss a controversial question, but {a wider group of people} cannot be trusted to have such discussion?
The fun thing is to go to the actual graph referenced and assume you drive less:

https://www.carboncounter.com/#!/explore?distance_per_year=4...

Imagine you drive way less in an small gas car (you ride your bike more, use transit, etc) - your net carbon becomes nearly on par with EV ownership. But...what's missing are:

- material flows related to urban living, if that's what it takes for you to use a car less.

- possibly more flying related to urban living, which has a much higher carbon output. (I've made a personal carbon ledger for fun, realized my car carbon output has been negligible compared to flight miles of being an apps engineer).

- the other domains of issues beyond carbon, as offered by things like the planetary boundaries framework - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

There's also the problem of 'personalizing' carbon in the framing of all this around a vehicle purchase that doesn't ask harder systemic questions.
I'm going to scale this with Rust and MongoDB. Do you have any advice before we spend millions on a prototype?
And the cost has to fit in to your budget. I'd rather spend my budget on learning emacs, for example, instead of spending it switching to a new shell.
Yes, you should.

The positives (e.g. learning something new, getting feedback, improving, etc) far outweigh negatives (the worst that can happen is that no one will care).

>I however feel that for every program I develop I find that my previous programs lack in quality

You're not alone, it's normal. No one likes being judged, but it's one of the main ways of improving and should be embraced.
We'll have stupid laws as long as people who doesn't understand technology continue with those stupid analogy. Guess what, maybe defacing a calendar in the digital world is quite similar to, wait for it, defacing a calendar in the real world. No one is walking into anyone's home.
How does this actually indicate it had to do with the redesign? Sure the trend may be going up, but the site is increasing in popularity so that makes sense that it is going up. There are more people there to interact with and more communities people can join that they may be interested in following and discussing things in.

I am just wondering how this rise is attributed to the CSS change? It may have had some effect, but I'm confused how this single graph says that it is because of a CSS change?
The CFAA is a very broad statute, but the US legal system still does focus heavily on intent both for charging and sentencing, as well as deciding whether to charge at all. Even if in theory 2 people are convicted under the exact same law, they could get drastically different sentences based on how the judge perceives the defendant's intent.

In this case there's almost no chance law enforcement would charge the researcher unless Moonpig decided to press charges. And even then, they may decide not to charge due to the facts of the case (though of course they legally can).
Thats good, thats their entire business down, so they are going to have to pay attention.

I wonder who made the decision to take it down. I hope they don't get fired.
Yeah, the project could have been completely different. And the CNI marketing department sucks :-)

Like most things in Open Source, it’s a product of whoever showed up to do some work.
Reminds me of people on Twitter being outraged because the color of an item was written on its packaging in multiple languages:

Black
Negro
Nero
Preto
-pix_fmt yuv420p

Every damn time I have to export from after effects and need a file I can actually open.
If there was a project called "fuq", and people were being harassed or finding it difficult to discuss, I think anyone could understand that this was an issue.

Given this, "Coq" is clearly a fuqing problematic name, and unless it's absolutely intended to have the double meaning, it should probably be changed somehow.

A clear alternate pronounciation of "coke" (with optional circumflex), would seem easiest to implement. At least, try it for a while and see if it works?
Women weren't turned away, they did the turning away. I don't see what was misrepresented. The person you're chastising seems to have edited the quote to ensure we know they're replying to one specific part of it. After all, if they had left the part about women turning away, it might seem like they were asking "what's wrong" with the women.
I solved it by buying a UK layout keyboard for home. At work I confuse the hell out of people by using a German keyboard but UK layout.
It looks that they have this functionality in Beta, but I haven't really tried that. All my jobs are in containers.

https://docs.drone.io/runner/exec/overview/
The first thing to do is add a link to the MVP to this post.
React itself is quite small but react-dom is much bigger: 121KB minified, 40KB gzipped - https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=react-dom@17.0.1
To point out just one thing: Why do you think it is ok to ignore votes that arrived late but not too late to be counted? Is that not more like a technicality only? These are, even if late, votes by people.
"... and play chess sometimes."

My wife makes fun of me when I propose that.
By Spanish you mean the language or the country?
A modern app that looked and worked great, a customer service team you could call and you'd recognize their name because you worked with them before, low fees, and a killer envelope saving feature.
Sorry for your troubles.

If you don't mind me asking, I'm interested in how much traffic has dropped since the blocking?

Are you seeing people come in around the block, possibly?
Because they were last to sell.
Thanks to everyone for the feedback and signups. We agree that there are lots of potential pitfalls to avoid. We have plenty of ideas, but I guess everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

This was no.1 in Show HN because it seemed to be generating quite a lot of interest (and, quite rightly, scepticism), and for some reason has been downgraded to no.63. I feel like this perfectly illustrates the need for a platform where the majority of users aren't overruled by moderators and algorithms.
I don't disagree but the idea of equating software development with some sort of artistry also allows the existence of the 10x programmer as, you know, a more gifted artists. Whether any one of us believes in 10x'ers aside, there are a lot of problems with this from the perspective of those paying the salaries, not least of which it means developers are not simply interchangeable cogs in a machine/process.

The most horrendous application I ever worked on was a java servlet app where the original developers didn't understand thread safety. They didn't let that stop them though. Every collection was a synchronized list or concurrent hash map, every access was wrapped in a mutex or synchronized{} block. It was really really bad; lots of race conditions and deadlocks, lots of production outages and a lot of "add more locks". In the neighborhood of 200,000 lines of this. It was "artistry" of a sort.

That application got the company to IPO, so the business owners were overjoyed with it. What's the point? Gatekeepers can gatekeep, artists can create art, but even the most banal garbage can make someone a lot of money.
The office is such an archaic appendage of manual labor and management’s desire to oversee and micromanage it.
It clearly is a thing people do in small numbers. It isn't, and never will be more than small though.
What kind of office was this person working in? Having to breathe jet exhaust fumes while suffering through 85 degree indoor temperatures and drinking algae-filled water is nowhere near normal.

The company he’s describing is severely broken if everything he’s describing is true. Most of what he describes are not normal office problems. Some of them are even health and safety violations. Working from home will only distance him from those problems, but it can’t fix an inherently broken company that doesn’t care about employees. He should be searching for another remote job ASAP
Is Amazon really a model company?

With all of the horror stories about their warehouses I have to imagine the offices aren't great either. Like I would expect them to be as miserable as Amazon leadership thinks it can get away with.
Don't assume it, then. That said, the scope of what the can do with the collected data is pretty much limited to selling it to a broker, unlike Google which can and does do incredible things with their corpus of collected data over the years.

Unless there is a better option, I know which one I feel safer using.
Whether you think the experiment itself was good or bad (Zimbardo recognized its failures and ended it early), the lessons it taught were invaluable and that's why they brought him in as an expert witness for the Abu Ghraib trial. Your suggestion that "lots of people write books" is a silly pooh-poohing in that context, especially considering that Zimbardo was already a Stanford professor by that time in 1971, 50 years ago.
"How do you explain C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, Javascript, and PHP? None had very extensive marketing budgets."

I think a lot of these have larger marketing budgets than you imagine. I can't fathom the amount of money Microsoft spends promoting its C++ language tools, for example.

Regardless of whether languages other than Java become popular or not because of marketing, I still maintain that popularity and worthiness are not correlated. The majority of people may not eat cow dung, but they certainly don't eat really great pudding. They eat the same so-so pudding everyone else does, and most of them don't realize or don't care that it could be better. You will have nothing to "show" for coming up with a better pudding recipe unless you spend money on advertising, manufacturing, distribution, etc..

As for an example of worthiness, Lisp's advantages have been detailed one metric kerjillion times elsewhere. Macros, conditions, and the MOP are the usual suspects in the case of Common Lisp.
Good artists copy, great artists steal. To develop good taste you need to observe lots of other, better work and try to understand what makes them so. Taste isn't something you inherently have.
Looks awesome. I small issue though: I tried collaborating with a friend and everytime I have to hit refresh to see the changes he has made. I'm not sure if this is intended.
I worked at an enterprise software company with a Scrum system that used two-week sprints. This means we would estimate all the tasks for the next two weeks in a big meeting at the beginning of the sprint, then at the end of the sprint we'd have another big meeting to close out the tasks and do any analysis on met/missed targets.

Tasks tended to get separated so there wasn't too much direct collaboration between coders within a sprint, and the estimations were mostly a group effort, but the person who was getting assigned a task had final say to tweak the numbers. In this environment, it was fairly easy to see who was the more productive programmers. Some people got their tasks done quickly and could easily take parts of other features, and other people were usually late and needed others to help them finish their features. If you were a programmer there, you could easily rank the programmers based on productivity. I bet QA could do the same if they tried.

However, management focused on it being a team effort. As long as we finished everything up by the end of the week they did their best to reward everyone and fire no one.
Good point, I guess I knew a few people who wanted to quit and start a startup or work for a startup but their green cards hadn't quite come through yet.
The Convore team is so BALLER. I had no idea Leah was behind https://github.com/leah/PullToRefresh
Or OAuth. Or everything else.
Were they afraid of violating FB TOS?
> I don't think we lack creativity

Yes, I am not saying that Indian's lack creativity. I am just saying that Indian societal/familial framework by large kills and curbs creativity, right from the tender age; and forces one to conform with practices of the herd and accept rote learning. We have lost many young minds in this mindless pursuit of that promised IT/iBank job.

> stories of 'jugaad'

I was about to speak of it. :) We have the 'jugaad#' culture. And at times, it causes us to overlook the importance of solutions and settle down with workarounds. We see that in everything and everywhere, administration/education/infrastructure/social practices/anything else. We will have a workaround but never invest in finding and putting in place a proper solution. And slowly, we have become so fiercely proud of this jugaad culture that we resist any attempt in implementing a proper solution but would gladly accept a workaround. (The greatest trouble for India, bribery and corruption, is a form of our 'jugaad'. Push in some money and get things done; but never implement accountability/transparent practices/strict punishments, cause they are quite difficult to adopt. We spent 60 years post independence using those workarounds, and we would continue to do so for eternity)

#a quick hack; not the solution, but a workaround.
> There. Fixed that for you.

Please don't do this here.
This is on top of HN and I don't understand why does no one notice the recommendation of setting the root level CNAME records. While this might work in practice, it is against the DNS standard and causes really weird bugs, like not being able to set up email on the same domain, as for example you cannot set up TXT records.

Unfortunately, solving this problem isn't easy or obvious. You'd need to use ALIAS / ANAME records, which are only supported by a very few DNS providers (DNSMadeEasy, Rage4, Amazon Route53 if you are hosting on S3). Also, you need to set a low TTL to make sure that you are not caching an old cloud instance's IP address.

The best writeup I found about it is here: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/aname-records/
We don't have a constitution like the one the US has which has protected them so well against the NSA alas.
What is everyone's opinion on the Chilean Miners getting a runner up place (as opposed to none)? I was a bit surprised. It is incredible and inspiring that they survived, and the feats of engineering required to save them were remarkable (although those people aren't receiving an award), but do you think even they feel they should be runners up to this prize?

It was fortunate that they survived, and they did what anybody in their position would by trying to stay calm and hold out, but their circumstances were not that unique. In West Virginia in April this year 29 miners died, but that is "old news" now to everybody except those in the immediate area. How many people are tortured, raped, wrongfully imprisoned annually? It is horrible but I'd rather suffer being in a dark, hot and humid mine for a few months and escape a hero and celebrity (with book deals) than be tortured or raped continuously, with nobody fighting to get me out of that situation.

Maybe I am missing the point of the prize; which is to reward media attention. In which case why not reward X Factor, American Idol or whatever winners instead? Far more people know them.
This is important because if you are targeting B2B sales then most wont be able to / wont want to create a google account.
Yes we do have casual employees, the term is "part time" in America. They generally work less than 20 hours a week, no benefits like time off or holidays, but they usually don't make more money than full time employees though.
Too bad this thing fell from position 15 to 40 so suddenly (while I was writing reply, AFAIK in 1 step). I really appreciated the feedback I was getting.

I guess the internals of HN are more mysterious than I thought ;)
Sam Harris offers a great counter argument to the idea that "science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be" in the Moral Landscape. Essentially, many aspects of human emotional wellbeing are counter-intuitive and can be best studied by empirical means (fMRI, psychology studies, etc.). In that way science offers a better alternative to religion in defining societal rules and ethical behavior.
They give him all the credit because that is the story given by FB, its a large part of their marketing strategy.
It's carrying the large library around that appeals most to me. I'm attempting to solve the space issues around having many tech books around.

So far, I find the Pragmatic and O'Reilly ebooks to be pretty nice on Kindle. Code examples don't always look super. But I sometimes landscape the view (especially on pdfs) and it's much better.

But I also tend to read and hack separately anymore these days - reading to drink the bigger picture, then hack and use Google as my language reference . . .
several hack attacks, he says he's discussing them tomorrow: twitter.com/prof3ta
"What could define God [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature."

I don't understand this sentence. Does he mean "We could define God as the embodiment of the laws of nature."

"When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible."

Here something got lost in the transcription. It should be "... how insignificant and accidental human life is..."

"Science will win because it works."

I think science and religion are two different domains; they don't deal with the same questions. Only academic physicists are still fighting this 18th century war.
I suspect MS is trying to keep Bing as a separate entity. Perhaps to avoid feeling like the big monolith threatening to over compete.

Alternatively it might be just trying to make Bing feel like a new brand... who knows.

If you look at bing.com the only overly obvious reference to MS is the MSN link at the top left, and the microsoft copyright.
Expressions using arithmetical operators

Operations on integers (and floats) include addiction[sic]
Not that I know of, but I was hoping someone on HN might know why.

(While today it is #1, it has been in the top 100 a lot recently.)
What was invented in 1853? The potato chip.
No, minus four means that five people decided that the comment did not contribute. To indicate that you appreciate a post on this site, you upvote the post.
So pay us (lawyers) lots now or pay us more lots later.

Last time I heard an offer like that it was some italian americans commenting on how flammable a restaurant was
I heard that Glenn Beck did a show about it.
The Bing marketing people may not be interested in promoting the fact that it's a Microsoft product - their aim is only to get more people using Bing.
That may be the reason that large organizations are difficult to maintain. How many of the Fortune 500 companies today were still there 4 years ago?

As an organization grows, it requires people in support structures that are less linked to the ultimate bottom line. Ludwig von Mises proposed the idea that an organization requires a level of bureaucracy, in the absence of market signals. So to the extent that an employee is removed from from the direct market operations of the company, a bureaucracy is required.

Now, the reason companies don't outsource all their work to bidding contractors is that there is some value in holding resources in reserve. A bid-contractor is only as good as the next assignment, he may leave for another company when you need him the most. The solution is to have a contract where the particular individual will reserve his time and energy to one company (a.k.a. an employee). The employee will be effectively "slacking off", but will be on call for when his resources are needed.
What I have an issue with is this assumption that Apple is trying to do evil platform lock in. A lot of what they're doing makes their devices much more convenient to use than they could be otherwise. Perhaps that's a happy coincidence, perhaps it isn't. How would you tell if they were doing it to be "evil" or not? It would look about the same.

Of course you could say that they could just make a way for power users to get by all this stuff and that's true, but based on Jobs behavior in the past he seems to be terrified of someone having his stuff crash and blame it on Apple even if it was totally the users fault [1]. They nearly died to Microsoft because of this very thing and history may repeat against Anroid.

[1] You might say that's really silly, but most of Windows reputation for being unstable came from 3rd party software.
Apparently VNC does it better. And most X apps these days use D-Bus for communication anyway, so you can't run those over a network link.