jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. But if I had said that I wouldn't be getting sweet Internet points right now.

I joke. Reddit is the best example, I think because of how subreddits usually follow a very specific cycle of creation to focus on a specific topic, then the upvoting dynamic creates a strong hivemind, then the dissenters leave and create their own even more narrowly focused community (see /r/politics to /r/conservative), and then it starts over.

It's destructive. HN is a little better because there are actually some limits on democracy if you will (thresholds, flagging, etc), which goes back to the heart of my mention of political science. Different political philosophers have been discussing the dangers of overly simple voting scheme since Plato or earlier.
The economics are definitely not there yet. The insurance alone would make it prohibitively expensive. Then you need a lot of infrastructure due to low range. Light drones also can't fly when it's too windy, too rainy, too cold. And they can only carry a very small subset of usual shipments (limited size and weight).

Automated cars on the other hand...
So your argument is yeah we torture and murder people without cause but this other guy over there, he tortures and kills even more people so it's okay.

America is also recently responsible for hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties in Iraq and surrounding countries. We continue to support a military junta in Egypt -- anyone want to dredge up Obama's beautiful speech about freedom he made in Cairo?

No one has really responded to my question, how bad must your employer be, apparently torture isn't bad enough, before you refuse to work for him, or at least stop applauding people who sign up to go help out at the torture club.
^ agreed 100%
There exist reasonable arguments against term limits for members of legislative bodies, which arguments hinge on term limits greatly increasing the power of lobbyists, by effectively lowering the average skill and expertise of lawmakers.
If you ever go to an office, you're in the same boat. ADA support dogs are allowed in offices as well.
The reprehensible act is the tweet. Keeping records and archives of what people do in a public forum is not.
I don't think that would work in the long run either. If it becomes expensive to own a lot of land due to taxes then the simple solution is to not own land and it's easy to implement as there is no requirement to hold land as an asset, it's only a convenient store of wealth at the moment. The minute it becomes inconvenient you would see the wealthy divest their ownership of land in favour of some other asset with less tax burden.
I identify as a corporation.
I already wrote a response to the sibling comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26703472

> your rhetoric has pushed me further towards unions being bad.

This sounds vindictive and selfish to me. I wish it wasn't this way. Personally I'd rather just play video games and screw around with Idris than get involved in labor disputes. But to turn against unions because someone who is vaguely pro-union said something that kinda offended you? Come on.
"If white pastors encourage vaccination directly, 'there are people in the pews where you’ve just attacked their political party, and maybe their whole worldview'."

Based on my decade as an Evangelical, this reflects my understanding.
>You should learn to protect yourself by keeping it offline.

Those are two entirely different issues though. Just because your house requires keys to enter, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't have a house because somebody might break into it.

Educating people about security of their data is as important as educating them about the ethics and risks of sharing your data, they are not contradictory.
Marketing shows that a project has some money behind it, which is a good sign it's going to be supported for a while, which allays the biggest fear most people and organizations have when selecting an open source tool: "is it abandonware?"
Little research? We had been trying to make heavier-than-air machines for centuries, if not millennia. Even the specific concept of the modern airplane as a fixed-wing flying machine with separate systems for lift, propulsion, and control was put forward in 1799, more than a century before the Wright brothers flight. If we talk about flying machines in general, the Bamboo-copter[1] is 2400 years old.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo-copter
Men are routinely the subject of death threats and similar style trolling. Men who die have their rememberance pages trolled. Young men are entrapped by criminal gangs into sending them nude photographs, which are then used to blackmail those young men.

Sexual violence online appears to be mostly aimed at women, and mostly from men. But it's not hard to find examples of men receiving those threats or women making threats of sexual violence. This is especially true for non-hetero-normative men.

It's a hard problem. Well funded companies full of smart people have tackled it and failed (youtube comments).

Just for clarity: the experience of women online is likely to be pretty miserable. Many people, of both sexes, experience hatred.

PS: I hate it when people ascribe bigoted opinions to mental illness. That excuses the behaviour whilst also stigmatising mental illhealth. Arseholes are arseholes because they're arseholes, not because they have a mental illness that causes them to be an arsehole.
Fair enough. Now, I use Clojure(Script) which is somewhat less paranthesy than your average Lisp, but I see far fewer stacked parens there than in the equivalent JS.

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Business is built on a lot of fragile things. Your business consists of your mutual obligations: What others are obliged to do for you, and what you are obliged to do for them.

To that end, of course, the "speed run" strategy for building a business involves roping a whole lot of people into various tenuous obligations, delivering enough on your promises that the whole thing doesn't collapse, and then terminating contact with people as they cease to further your life plans [0].

The survival truth is that if you were going to behave socially like most mammals do, you'd remain shy and hesitant before trying to interact with a stranger - you'd keep physical distance, take a gentle posture, run away if startled, and only gradually get closer. And in a group, you wouldn't try to push other members around too casually, lest they catch on and get you exiled.

But what we keep telling ourselves is to encourage trade with everyone from the first instant, which is ripe for aggressive strategies like the ones depicted in the article, and also more opaquely predatory ones like panhandling, cons, blackmail, or protection rackets. It's so ingrained that we can barely see how toxic and abusive an environment it creates.

You can do business the slow way. It takes a lot longer, you miss a lot more opportunities, and it diminishes your probability of being part of the global elite from "slim" to "none", but you'll also rest easier at night, and you're less likely to be taken in by someone who will use your good nature against you.

[0] http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/comment/column/9497/why-i-rank...

Edit: And I should add that sometimes you can find a good, solid reason to step up and socialize - just, you need to plan it in advance with the understanding that you're going to be making win-wins.
Thanks for finally convincing me giving uBlock a try. And for those crying web developers here -- if you respect your visitors, learn how to use server side analysing and profiling without a use of 3rd party tools by companies known to use privacy violations as a part of business model.
If you're interested, shoot me an email and I will be happy to go through our setup. You can find my contact info at kristian.io
Let's be honest; Most people network in order to gain something--period. That something is wealth(an individual
who is wealthy can be financially wealthy, good genes--yes I will take that over money, or has something of value(teach me?) the Networker desires.) I have a sister who lived her life networking before it had a title. Yes, she is financially successful, but no one really likes
her--that includes ex-husbands, "friends", and I think, her kids are losing respect every year they age? That's the networking I grew up with. This new type of networking--where the objective is finding friends; I think is wonderful.
I just don't see it. The networking I see is still ugly, and
so obvious. Good luck, I personally couldn't stomach it.
A few months back I wondered whether one could have an introduction to programming based on the language equivalent of "Evoland"[1].

For those who don't know this, it basically recreates the history of (console) role-playing games. You start out in something that resembles Zelda, then you'll get color, 3D movement and other perks.

One could do the same with a programming language, by using different features, or even slightly tweaking syntax and semantics. One approach might be similar to how some BASICs operate: line numbers and goto in the beginning, than subroutines, objects etc.

Or something where people don't have to follow actual history and we're going at things from a more mathematica/functional point of view (shouldn't be a problem to do this with Racket dialects).

Then again, IANAT. Never mind that I would think that the environment is actually more important than the language itself (for most normal values of "language"). So please don't inflict Eclipse on newbies.

1: http://evoland.shirogames.com/
some more context:

1) i live and work in downtown seattle. i do a lot of data work, and a lot of deep research and analysis. feel feel to use technical terms, though i may ask for clarification from time to time (and will most likely appeal to the community to help resolve a dispute). i am a free-market libertarian, but i'm also a fiscally-conservative bleeding heart (classical) liberal with a strong bias toward environmentalism warped through the lens of smart modern government and free markets (for products, services, and information). i am of and from the northwest, for better or worse. and i would like to see downtown seattle become a vibrant community (it's almost there, it just needs a little PUSH...).

2) i propose the following three non-profits for the experiment (assuming they are cool with it, which i will check before actually launching anything):

(1) the fisher house (https://www.fisherhouse.org)
(2) seadrunar (http://www.seadrunar.org/)
(3) real change seattle (http://realchangenews.org/index.php/site/about/org)
If you are in the UK you can remind them that the current anti terrorist law is used to go after people who watch television.
Clearly, the sane answer is to shut down YouTube until it can be remade in an artist-pleasing way. That this will mean creativity is stifled and everything has a "BUY" button on it is incidental and not at all important. Who wants user-uploaded content when you have artists?

/s

Realistically, the position of artists tends to be that any and all money involved should go to them. This tends not to sit well with tech companies that do things like handle the money and pay bandwidth bills.
As a non-native English speaker, and a programmer, I thought this was a piece about version control at first
I am. It's imaginary - er, intellectual - property. As a result, it makes absolutely no sense to use physical property analogies.

If you don't want to use the services offered on the terms offered, that's your choice. If you don't want other people to use those services with bits that have "your" color on them, then you're up shit creek, because you shouldn't have let other people have them.
https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...

That was a kernel null dereference, it really has nothing to do with creating a mach-o that puts code in the first page and there are valid reasons to do it, SheepShaver and BasilliskII come to mind.
Most of the Lyft drivers I've spoken to recently lived in Walnut Creek or further out. I only occasionally seem to get someone from Oakland, let alone SF.
I'm getting $75k as a Python engineer with 5 years experience. Am I absurdly underpaid?

My job feels easy, I have flexible hours, little oversight, independence to build cool things, good benefits, and I feel very lucky that anyone would pay me so much money to sit in a climate controlled office playing with a computer.
Thanks for your response, it's very helpful and answers this question I've never understood.
> UChicago, on the other hand, has a solid engineering school but doesn't promote it at all.

UChicago does not have an engineering school. The U of C considers itself a university in the classical liberal arts mold, and that means they don't bother themselves with applied programs like engineering.
I don't think the Facebook landing page is better, but more people kind of know what it's about.
You're starting from the assumption that the manipulator will be effectual.

It is reasonable to expect that arbitrage will tend to make manipulation harder. The basic goal of arbitrage is to recognize open bids that are 'wrong' according to some estimate of the broader market, and to then act on the profitable ones. So in the presence of arbitrage, the manipulative bids that are against the market will quickly disappear.

If a large segment of the market is simply fraudulent, all bets are off. Fraud may well be a better description of what was going on at Mt. Gox than price manipulation (for instance, it isn't really simple price manipulation if their stated customer (dollar) account balances were 10x greater than the paper currency that had ever been deposited).
It's hard for me (especially having never worked at google or followed the story closely) to judge on the merits here, but I'm curious on the broader subject. It seems many tech workers have strong opinions about politics or how work should be organized or what kinds of work their companies should take on. These concerns appear to be similar to the drivers around the unionization movement a century or so ago, why not have unions in tech?

Maybe it would be structured a little differently than traditional unions, or maybe not. But it may be better than the scattershot protesting at one company, then another and total silence at yet another. It doesn't seem like there's a great vehicle for the tech community to speak with one voice in a publicly facing way.
#gumdropsonrainbows
I worked as a Disney "Imagineer" for several years. Don't underestimate the sophistication of Disney fans.

I've met many elitists who look down upon anything that's popular. These people miss out on many great things, from profound art to good clean fun. Disney has both.
who cares about internet points? Say what you think.
> There is no database of PR spending, but it’s telling that a study conducted by Edelman, the worlds largest PR firm, found Tech to be the most trustworthy sector. A cynic might say they are pandering to an important client base.

Survey showing that people trust tech is evidence that tech is corrupting our politics. Jeez, talk about confirmation bias. A PR firm could also use a negative trust score to sell a firm on how they need more PR.
Why is this "comedy"? That's exactly what they are trying to do. Moreover, the US taxpayer is paying for it all.

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-11-18%20PSI%...
You're misquoting him..

> The foundation’s move from Delaware to Switzerland may foreshadow further technology flight because of U.S. restrictions on dealing with some Chinese technology companies, said William Reinsch, who was undersecretary of commerce for export administration in the Clinton administration.

> “There is a message for the government. The message is, if you clamp down on things too tightly this is what is going to happen. In a global supply chain world, companies have choices, and one choice is to go overseas,” he said.

What's controversial about that? If Chinese companies want to contribute to Open Standards and US laws put all of the IP at risk, of course they're going to move to a better jurisdiction to serve their purposes.
At least as far as development goes, the United States supercharged the postwar economy in Japan which directly lead to where it is today. If, say Indiana got the same investment, it too would look like Japan today with high speed maglev rail criss crossing like a fisherman's net and be a dominant position in high tech manufacturing.
It's not surprising to see that people use the keyword 'sex' in countries where anything of or relating to sex is considered taboo.
Yep, that was my point with the 'handful of servers' line.

But even that is pretty darn hard. You still have to deal with split brain situations, do all the right things in those cases etc.. If you are a tiny startup that isn't going to hire a dedicated sysadmin (very few of which can build that type of thing without buying some expensive hardware) then EC2 is probably a better choice.

Even just the hardware costs make it pretty braindead. We just shut down the dedicated three system setup I built because it just didn't make sense financially, and that despite me spending a month learning the intricacies of heartbeat it still had odd failure scenarios that we don't experience with EC2. Again, I'm just not that smart. :)
SO in other words Nokia gets to screw up another mobile interface, SWEET!
That's the second time in 24 hours that I've seen someone censor "porn". What's up with that? Why didn't you censor "sex" as well? Of course, it's not like we can't read it anyway, so the censoring is quite pointless in multiple ways.
I was an early user of the technology back when it was Riya. It recognized the people in my photos with a 95%+ success rate. The riya team was a dozen solid AI experts from various US and Indian schools, together with Munjal. Google made an offer to buy them before they even launched, apparently just for the tech. So there is definitely some technology to it, I think the only difference today is that the technology is not as unique or special as it once was when Riya first launched (~5 years ago).

As for this story, I don't understand the investor reaction. You would think that finding that Google fear you would be even more a reason to invest in the company and to raise a boatload. They should have raised the 500k with a view of raising a larger round a little later on - who knows, part of the patent settlement may have been that Google buys the company. Not unheard of

ps. software patents suck. i wish there was a mutual agreement amongst valley companies not to enforce against each other. a bit like mutually assured destruction with the soviets. most people here understand it is the execution and not government idea protection that makes you successful. google has their own history of this with adwords and adsense, so i am sure they could be bought around :)
The very best make fewer errors.
This is now live, you can activate it using the workplane tool and selecting "Adjust". The UI will change a bit, give us feedback through the app if you have input.
If nobody uses it, will it really be screwed?
Yes they do. Read the law.
Oops, you are correct. This clearly pressed a button of mine; something that apparently switched off irony while switching on ire. Similar articles were deployed with total seriousness during the Web 1.0 boom, sad to say.
> It absolutely does if it is only one team in the organization. If the entire organization is using PHP and, let's say, you acqui-hire a team based on NodeJS, unless they are doing something absolutely fundamentally different they should learn PHP and push code in your existing infrastructure.

Substitute PHP with Java, and you've described the situation at my company exactly. The acquiring company had a legacy Java application and a lot of automation invested in making that platform work. The acquired company was a NodeJS shop that was using it long before this article or the comments in this thread would advise (this was pre-npm days). To give you an idea of the numbers, the acquired team was 4 engineers as compared to the 100 engineers of the acquiring company (50/50 split with an off-shore development team). I won't say which side of that divide I was on or go into the full year of culture shock that we went through, but fast forwarding these past 4+ years and now the bulk of the company's main product has been re-written in Node and developers are significantly more productive. Features that used to take months to push out in complex releases using a convoluted process of branching, meetings and tons of arguments are now delivered continually using the Github flow with little-to-no drama and far fewer production bugs/downtime. Our customers have never been happier with us and developers have never been happier to work here. All of this came from the fact that the CMO who advocated for the acquisition supported the small team of 4 in every effort to pervade the small team's technologies and practices across the larger organization. Having been in organizations that performed at a much higher level, he recognized just how much opportunity there was for improvement and recognized that the team of 4 had the vision to create the necessary blueprint for the rest of the organization to follow. It wasn't easy, and most of the developers who were here at the beginning of the shift are no longer part of the company. But it worked...and while a sample size of one is hardly conclusive, I have a hard time agreeing with your point having seen it play out so well in the real world.
That's why this is working in Amsterdam. There is no space to park your car. Parking will cost you up to 8€ an hour. Most streets are narrow so they will get jammed.

All in all going by bike is much faster. That's why this is working in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities.
Probably someone just throwing the words introvert and extrovert around.
the requests are coming from the computers outside of china (that access chinese sites), thus you cannot simply BGP null-route all Chinese prefixes to mitigate this.
> Can we stop using "China" and be more specific?

Unfortunately, it is common usage to refer to the actions of a government as the actions of the country itself.

You don't hear people say "The US Government invaded Iraq"; you instead hear "US invaded Iraq". You don't hear "The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's government committed airstrikes in Yemen"; you hear "Saudis committed airstrikes in Yemen".

To the broader point, about citizenry -versus- government: to some extent, as an American, I do feel a little responsible for my government's actions; and periodically do approach my senators and congresswoman to express my disagreement with the policies they have espoused. Maybe Chinese citizens can also chime in and ask their government (via Weibo or whatever medium is possible) why it's doing this to GitHub? Though probable most people on this planet would have no idea what "GitHub" is, so I'm not sure if anyone outside the tech world cares.
Honestly QEmu is a better choice for this kind of things.
Congratulations, you just attributed luck to skill and established that when you had luck you somehow have any idea what you are doing. Nokia was very big once. Was.
I thought Linux also had a very strict ABI compatibility policy also.

Executable formats have changed some, and I don't know if recent Linux systems would support the a.out format of early Linux. And shared libraries change too. But if you had a fully-statically-linked binary (and enabled a.out support if necessary), I think Linux should also support very old binaries.
it depends really, do you want your broadcaster to be answerable to the market?

one of the strongest arguments for the BBC is it's under no obligation to meet any commercial or state interests. Some people may beg to differ on that viewpoint, but the BBC is generally highly regarded in the UK and abroad, especially for its news coverage

If the license fee didn't exist then the BBC would have to make programmes that satisfy the mainstream, which is usually the lowest common denominator.
"Quad core" + wireless + storage for 100$.. what is going on here?