jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> FBI agents (who conduct the clearance work)

Nitpick (since I just noticed it): general clearance investigations are handled by the Office of Personnel Management; special clearance investigations are handled directly by the program or agency granting the special clearance.
What are all these regressions from Andreas Schwab, and why is no one else seeing them?
I'm a fan of Kim Kardashian. She somehow managed to build a an empire based just on her name. Then, she used that empire to fight to release people from prison and spread awareness for the Armenian genocide. I'm normally not one for "spreading awareness", but there are a lot of people who don't know about the Armenian genocide, and the US government won't acknowledge it happened in a unified and official fashion. She doesn't do anything particularly scandalous other than maybe being too materialistic. Her show mostly revolves around being there for your family. Overall, she's a net positive.
- Thank you!
- I've actually thought about that. There's Stripe Atlas though, which I'm probably going to use eventually.
Not well received, but already exists: https://store.steampowered.com/app/357670/Home_Improvisation...
I just settle for ignoring WSJ on general principal.

This would be an interesting premise for an article from any reputable outlet, but the WSJ's combination of two paragraph paywall and the Murdoch's constant editorial axe to grind against big tech, (I assume they are still fuming because they ate shit on Myspace), has turned this "paper of note" into an irrelevance.

Similar to Myspace, and Fox News for that matter, a fish rots from the head.
From the article:
> an individual subscribed to the calendars of a wide range of employees outside of their work group.

Following your manager's calendar makes sense. Doing the same for people outside of your group is suspicious imo, unless you're working with that team/person.
No, they could work somewhere else, while attempting to oppose Google.
One big problem is GHW, Clinton, GW and Obama said we’d be able to sell into their market and we’d come up on top. That the middle class would see more and better jobs as a consequence (we’d graduate from arduous manual labor into more value add).

That’s been nonsense.

Perot was prescient and he was right. But we laughed him off the stage.

Instead, big biz, some bankers some dealmakers, politicians and other value add service professionals made money.

Joe and Jill Bluecollar and Cindy and Ted Middleclass saw an erosion in job prospects, income, job security and future prospects for their children. These people cannot afford the Chinese au pair to teach their kids Chinese.

These people vote for Bernie and they vote for Trump. The pols made that bed, so don’t cry when people vote for the above. It was a long time coming.
Why do they want to do all this?

The cynical view is that they're all cowards, so deathly afraid of the next big one happening on their watch that they won't risk anything that might look like they were soft on national security. One of the difficulties of this issue politically is that it's all too easy to ignore someone whose civil liberties have been infringed as long as it's not someone you know personally, but no-one misses an event like 9/11 or 7/7.

A more dispassionate view might be that right now the British public does collectively favour having intrusive measures available to fight the bad guys and trust that the authorities will use them acceptably. For example, see this recent YouGov poll:

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/08/21/public-divided-over-mira...

It's worth reading the PDF linked from that page, which shows the actual questions they asked, so you can decide for yourself how neutrally phrased you think they were. The PDF also gives a more detailed breakdown of voting by demographic.

Notice that in the breakdown, even Lib Dem supporters somewhat support having having Schedule 7 on the books (54/37), while Tory supporters overwhelmingly favour it (80/12). It's also striking how the picture changes with age, with 18-24s supporting moderately (49/30) but 60+s overwhelmingly (76/18).

Of course, you can argue that the current public sentiment is/isn't based on a sound understanding of the issues, as you can with any political polling, but those are the real numbers they found over the past couple of days.

What is perhaps more striking is that despite the general support for authoritarian laws being available, public sentiment was much more hostile to the specific application of the law in this case. Tories and UKIP were still in favour but by smaller margins (58/27 and 52/40 respectively) but Labour and Lib Dem supporters were quite strongly against (54/29 and 62/29), and the overall opinion was against (44/37). This suggests to me that much of the sentiment in favour of these laws is based on trust that they won't be abused in practice, and therefore that the degree to which public support for such measures continues will probably be based on the government being seen to be using them responsibly.
Perhaps he needs someone around for the validation and it was not a mistake at all? /snark.
That it does. It almost immediately made me realize how much of my earlier thinking was narcissistic, romanticized, self-entitled bullshit.

I'm finding this an interesting position to be in now, because I completely relate to OP, but I also... don't. It's like hearing a teenage boy telling you how much he's well and truly in love with a girl he met that afternoon. You don't want to falsely encourage him, but you don't want to cruelly discourage him either... just trying to be helpful in some way, if that's in any way possible. Cause I think I could've used some help then.
Agreed. As a new father, having the chance to go home at a reasonable hour and have your kids smile at you can be a significant benefit that one would gladly take over increased compensation or options.
And a kindly "Fuck you." for calling those of us who choose to work "normal" jobs mediocre and sell outs. You're a douche. Here's hoping you grow up.
Is this a subreddit by any chance? It says "powered by reddit" so I'm not certain if you just use the OS code or the domain feature.
My advice: forget the deadline. Imposing a deadline on a result that is largely beyond your control will serve no constructive purpose. You should only set deadlines on things that are within your power to control, e.g. I will finish X by time Y. But putting a deadline on the market to respond is just silly.

If you want to be a millionaire, here's the procedure:

1. Pick an activity that you think will make you a millionaire within a reasonable time frame.

2. Engage in that activity for that time frame.

3. Are you a millionaire? If so, you're done. If not, figure out what you did wrong in step 1 based on the information you acquired while engaged in that activity. (Often this turns out to be some kind of mistaken assumption about market dynamics, sometimes about your abilities.)

4. Iterate.

This procedure is not guaranteed to terminate. But it does tend to converge.
Thank you Nash :)

- I actually love anything that deals with customer support. It gives me a lot of insight and makes me feel rewarded.

- Yup, I fully fully agree. Machines can break. When I talk in terms of being a machine, I talk in terms of reliability, not over-working yourself. It's good to be reliable+ consistent. Avoiding burnout is certainly key.
how do you not get arrested after publicly admitting you did something illegal?
Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_rowe_celebrates_dirty_jobs.htm...

A surprisingly powerful ode to people who just do the work. Our jobs may not be dirty but the lessons are still interesting and applicable; connecting to startups isn't that hard.

I like many of the other linked talks too, but as of my writing this one was not posted.
It's not really assembler with hashtables, at all. It's got closures FFS.

However the hashtables are broken: they say they're empty, but they have 'constructor' as a key when you create them.
Armageddon porn.
And when the 100,000 years runs out, what then? Clearly we need to prepare now by eliminating all competition.
There was a brief moment where I thought that I could at least trust Faceboook's open source offering and I was excited about React. Then I read about the sneaky PATENTS license in the other thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271246

So now I'm going back to ignoring anything that Facebook puts out there.
They have no choice. If they used an AJAX call it could be blocked by (lack of) ACAO headers. The only way to hit a remote URL that cannot be blocked is by adding a <script href="//github..." /> tag to the URL, which means the client has no choice but to run the contents.
You probably meant split personality.
Trouble is, the academics talking about deep web don't mean a clandestine corner. They more mean private Facebook pages and uncrawlable product catalogues. Stuff that is part of the normal internet though.

It's kinda silly semantics now though, most people seem to use it to talk about illicit hidden stuff. It's like saying, that's not a Hoover it's a vacuume cleaner.

This particular article is a bit annoying though because the writer is either confused, trolling, or avoiding describing technical specifics for ethical raisins. Best kind of raisin.
The more likely scenario to me is everyone slowly running more and more ipv4 traffic over ipv6.

Home providers will start tunnelling ipv4 traffic over v6 (this is already the case here, termed "Dual-Stack Lite"), computers will start start doing 4->6 translation locally according to instructions given over Route Advertisements, hosters will start providing ipv4 load balancers to make their VMs v4-reachable, etc.

It looks to me like we are heading to world where ipv4 will work forever, but be turned into ipv6 at the first possible opportunity.
I find my personal /64 quite easy to remember (2605:2700:1:1040::).
Every euro we put in advertising we get back 2 times. ;-)
Pictures of the latter usually include the former as well, but not always...
Ryzen is hardly any worse than Itanium, Solaris, EPIC, all names of products marketed at businesses in the past.

Personally, I appreciate the optimism (correctly as it turned out) that it would be the line to turn AMD's fortunes around.

I think you've let your perception of the names be affected by the marketing. e.g. the X Box 360 could be the name for a boring server (maybe someone's tenth gen), but instead it's a game console. PS5 and Core are pretty descriptive name compared to the business product names previous.
Xendi says that observing the contested electoral votes of Florida in 2000, he "ended up thinking that there was something fundamentally wrong with white people."

If one considers broad, negative generalizations about a group to be racist, this statement qualifies.
This clip. Christ.

There are many ways for the conversation to go if you want to get try an understanding of gauge theory. Joe Rogan is not on any of those many branching paths.
Ditto. I imagine there may be limited overlap between people who do the work a given coop could provide and those with the ability to start standing up a service and app. Tech hiring seems hard even for companies with large reserves of expertise...

Interested in doing this sort of work, myself.
Startpage.com, a Google proxy, still works fine in lynx.
The TSA agents who are unhappy about groping strangers are going to be the ones who find a new job. I fully expect that if this policy continues, the people most attracted to TSA positions will be those who derive pleasure from subjecting strangers to a sexualized grope.
First question could be "air" or "sky". I would guess 6 or 8 to the second one.

I would probably fail both, so I guess this isn't the kind of question that would realistically appear.
How is quitting more sensible and ethical?
Perhaps John Lasseter (of Pixar) was on the way to being a loser?
I for one am glad that Lasseter ruined his career at Disney.
Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried it, yet.
I am looking to attend, will make the trip up from San Diego. Any word on who the speakers will be? Would be amazing to have Ryan. Certainly, let's do drinks or something with other HN peeps after.
That actually has been done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YZeX8ti7Io
Not just another one -- the Groupon clone to end all Groupon clones.

And I mean that literally. Once Google enters the game, who else will bother? Either

a) Google will lose against Groupon, proving that it's impossible to dislodge Groupon, or

b) Google will win against Groupon, in which case you'd be crazy to take on Google

David can sometimes beat Goliath, but if King Kong shows up to the fight as well then David should probably just go home.
The fifth amendment only applies in criminal cases. If you are in a civil case where the gag order comes up then you have no such protection.

"...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."
I meant admins in the more general purpose sense of administrators, people who are paid to maintain the system. But yeah I agree, quality:resources ratio is really really high.
If any site can take down time and not lose users, reddit can. And it has.
I find it hard to believe that in the time between the story appearing and your comment you had time to read and understand the patent.
I didn't see it mentioned in this article, but the cable is actually very small. I read this older NASA study that said that for a carbon nanotube tether, an optimal cable would be a thin tape something like an inch across. That has pretty small cross section for being hit by a meteoroid.
It's not that I have a mentality that I "don't want a job".....and I know how it must seem without knowing the details of the stage of the project.

I guess you could consider this request almost like 'bridge financing', except I am trading my knowledge and work output for the financing rather than equity or debt :)

If push comes to shove, I may have to do that....but I am hoping to avoid that if I can.

Thanks for the encouragement though.
The subject I'm responding to is "winning the lotto." That's why it's a poor comparison.
what really enabled Windows to dominate for so long
was it's appeal to developers

This was a chicken-egg situation: Windows appealed to developers because it was popular. It was popular because it appealed to developers.

It got there through other means, like IBM's endorsement, timing, marketing and indeed an open SDK (contrary to other alternatives at that time).

About iPhone development: I had to buy a Mac-mini just so I could run XCode. But all my development for the iPhone starts with PhoneGap (i.e. web apps with some native functionality exposed). I prefer Android just because I can use my favorite tools with it.
Nah, they're just doing it to be cool. Nothing in a quiescent, stable state (ie not requiring attention) should be animated. Animation - even a pulse - pulls your attention. Yes, you can /learn/ to ignore an animation, but you shouldn't have to do that in the first place.
Do you have any preference towards countries in terms of health care available?

I always feel like the lack of a universal healthcare system in the US discourages lots of people from pursuing a startup full-time.
> file browsing

Expect to see less of that from Apple. You don't usually think about files when on iPhone/iPod touch/iPad and I expect the trend to stay: the more consumer friendly system is, the less filesystem is exposed.
You've summed up the technical bit of this perfectly, nothing to add there. Would be a very interesting bit of research, but the speculation really drives me mad, as it's so out there and without evidence to back it up that it's not even worth considering.

I have to go further, though - that the researcher is so quick to automatically draw that line connecting two phenomena that both involve group theory as being causally related indicates, to me, that we should be skeptical even about whether the explanation of the bee behavior is correct in any detail. Sometimes when you already know what you really want to "discover", it's very easy to see connections and patterns that don't hold up very well under further scrutiny.

The "this group has something to do with bees, and it's also in QFT, ZOMG bees must read quantum fields!" line of logic is so naive (yummyfajitas explained why) that it really makes me suspicious about the whole bit of research. Scientists should keep sloppy thinking like that to themselves (analogy is a great way to guide your research efforts, and once in a while two appearances of the same group in seemingly unrelated phenomena will, in fact, be connected), and when they don't even realize that this kind of thinking is sloppy, it's not a good sign...
Very nice work! I've been wondering when someone would decide to go head-to-head with Adobe in the new world of HTML5 while they're still dragging their feet.

I'd especially love to see this ported to Linux. Also, is there a place where we can donate? I don't exactly have $200 to throw down on your other piece of software, and I don't own any iOS devices for your $1 app.
You can have a look in a book titled Thinking Fast and Slow. It is strongly backed by multiple experiences. Profit: it is ok to make profit, but where ifs the limit? Would you agree that companies should not take advantage of children weaknesses to force sell them useless thing (a lot do)? Or mentally deficient ones? I wouldn't, because somehow we are not in a jungle. And the point is that humans are not grown ups in front of rare events. Everyone fears an earthquake during the week following an earthquake, and completely forget about it the next month.

Moreover the fact that insurance are highly regulated just makes my point. We are defenseless and the law puts some limits because a scam is too easy to build.
AFAIK Servo is mostly a DOM layout parallel renderer. I mistook it for a full browser but the dev corrected me saying it's "just" rendering engine. Right now they're using separate css lib, js interpreter, etc. Servo deals with the layout.
I just moved to San Francisco a year ago. I know no one any more since I quit my last job to do my own business. I've been feeling really lonely, so I googled "finding friends in San Francisco." This lead me to Craigslist, and soon I was reading ads in the strictly platonic section where men are looking for other men to hike shirtless together. Hiking is cool, but it didn't take me long to realize this wasn't really what I was looking for.

So I've been scouring Meetup, and I've been having a lot of trouble finding things there, too. Here I live in the East Bay, literally I'm at the most ideal place on Earth for finding the kind of people I'm interested in, and struggling. The problem is me, of course! But still, there is opportunity here for the right kind of startup or community.
Worked for me with Firefox 21 on Linux with Fglrx drivers, ~12fps at my window size. Firefox 23 got about 15fps in the same scenario.
Yes, because of flashy 3d graphics! If you can't see the potential, you are just being obtuse.
Watched a couple, in their 30s, doing this on the subway the other day. She was sitting in his lap, going at his face, for the length of my ride (10-15 minutes). Guess I should be happy for them... :-/
You can't really blame the terrorists for the response. Spain, France, Norway and Germany have all dealt with terrorism over the last decades and not a single one of them has invaded other countries in response to such an attack.

And to say that Afghanistan was caused by 9/11 is a total reversal of what actually happened, 9/11 happened because of CIA involvement in Afghanistan.
Is that really true? I guess I've always seen the meme that our (in the US, that is) food is artificially cheap, because of subsidies for farmers and ag companies.

Or does your "artificial scarcity" phrase really just mean "regulations keeping me from selling water with white food coloring in it and calling it milk?"
Maybe it's nitpicking, maybe not.

But you're saying one unconstitutional, immoral, wasteful program has been deemed useful by a corrupt and inept body, and the other hasn't. That's a really great idea I'll consider carefully.
Same here, the FairTax is a pretty good idea. I believe that Bill Gates even advocated that the US shift away from income based taxation to consumption base. If there's anything our economy that we can bank on, it will be consumption.
Looks almost exactly like what was being recommended to know circa 2005. And not very far off from the ideal list to know circa 1995!
The download wallpaper link doesn't work on mac os 10.9, safari 7.1.

Console displays this on load:

[Error] Failed to load resource: Could not connect to the server. (livereload.js, line 0) http://mudcu.be:35729/livereload.js?snipver=1

No error on the actual download button click.
Perhaps - I hadn't yet even thought of dreaming the similitude of it taking off. Thanks (;-). But shellfire wouldn't be as invasive. Each shellfire script stands alone, a bit like a statically-compiled C executable. Of course, there are still call outs to third-party binaries - but that ordinarily shouldn't be much more than busybox or coreutils, grep, awk and sed, with may be curl. And one can, with shellfire snippets, even embed binaries in the shell script... although whether that's wise is another discussion.

The proof in the pudding will be trying to make libertine linux use it - a not even started project of mine to build a minimal, net-bootable linux with an immutable file system (upgrade == reboot a new image).
We have a proprietary algorithm for assigning foods a "suitability score" based on a user's personal health conditions and body data.

It used to be a fairly slow algorithm, so we ran it in a hadoop cluster and it cached the scores for every user vs. every food in a massive table on a distributed database.

Another developer, who is quite clever, rewrote our algorithm in C, and compiled it as a database function, which was about 100x faster. He also did some algebra work and found a way to change our calculations, yielding a measly 4-5x improvement.

It was so, so, so much faster that in one swoop we eliminated our entire Hadoop cluster, and the massive scores table, and were actually able sort your food search results by score, calculating scores on the fly.
Link to the actual blog post: https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/
>> The secret to winning a negotiation is going in believeing you can walk away without feeling like you missed out.

Well said and always works. In every business.

Car dealers would absolutely hate for people to know that.