jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The difference is that I honestly believe that advertising is manipulative (and I think there is good evidence!). I don't stand to gain any money if I convince you.

I am not, I hope, spreading falsehoods. I'm certainly not preying on your innate desires for food or sex. I'm not installing malware on your computer. I'm not building a profile of your interests. I'm not autoplaying a video if you mouseover this comment!

For the record, I am perfectly happy with ads that are just the name of the product and a static picture (a la the Deck).
I submitted this around 9 hours ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8830057
Don't oversell their plumbing ability. I stayed at a pretty expensive hotel (unfortunately built in the 1970's when the world became stupid with respect to construction) where the toilet exploded. I heard this gurgling noise, went to check it out... and there was old faithful!

The maintenance guy told me when the place was full, if people flushed simultaneously, "bad" things would happen.

Wifi is a similar thing. Best practice for Wifi is "it depends". You need to hire somebody with a clue and do surveys. Hotels have been traditionally build around sound and fireproofing, and the methods used to achieve both make Wifi difficult in some places.

At cookie cutter, modularly built hotels (ie. Hampton Inns, etc) Wifi is very uniform in quality.
The article links to the relevant Supreme Court decision. They, in "Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001), held that the use of a thermal imaging, or FLIR, device from a public vantage point to monitor the radiation of heat from a person's home was a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, and thus required a warrant." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States

The article goes on to say the Supreme Court "specifically noted that the rule would apply to radar-based systems that were then being developed."
> It's infuriating and unjust that the wealthy have more rights.

No they don't have more rights. There is nothing preventing you from creating your own private company and sell equities only to poor people.

It's like people having a party and not inviting you. You can be frustrated about it, but please don't start whining about them violating your rights or anything. Just as people have the right not to invite you to their daughter's birthday party, they have the right not to do business with you.

Doing things in private association is a right everybody has, regardless of wealth.
One thing the article gets right I believe is that highly creative people are annoying, almost psychotic individuals. It can't be otherwise. If they cared what other people thought as much as the rest of us do they'd self-censor their ideas.
My strategy is constantly drinking water from a large cup. Being adequately hydrated is only one benefit. The frequent walks to the restroom nay be even more important.
In this case it those specific people and their membership of a particular - fairly famous - team which I found significant.

I agree there are many more non-famous scientists than famous ones.
The Jones act is for cargo. The equivalent for passenger ships (including cruise liners) is the Passenger Vessel Services Act[1], and it has a number of exemptions carved out for popular cruise routes.

For example, http://cruise.expedia.com/Itinerary5.aspx?item=849031 is a foreign-built foreign-flagged ship that departs from San Francisco, docks in Los Angeles, and has a final destination of Miami. This is permitted because the itinerary includes a port outside of North America.

Plus, the PSVA is implemented as a monetary fine. There are cruise lines that will let passengers violate PSVA for an additional fee.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Vessel_Services_Act_...
This article reminds me why I don't like working in a busy office. For me, it's very hard to get into divergent thinking mode with other people around.
That's what I experienced building a static site generator for my dad. You would just dump markdown into a dropbox folder. A cron job would poll from dropbox and generate the website. But even markdown is too daunting for a non-techie. Non-technical users are probably not used to write "code"/"mark-up" and have a good grasp at what's coming out on the other side. The visual aspect, a sort of preview, is missing. There are a lot of options to preview markdown. That's just another hurdle, another tool they might have to learn. It's all just so loosely integrated, even I have a hard time putting it together. Might be fun for us to fiddle around, but it isn't if you just want to put your content out there.
I've started to work on an alternative: Desktop app, with a block based editor (text, images, headings nothing more). Shows a local preview of your site. Outputs static assets and/or uploads directly to Vercel for hosting. Few knobs to fiddle around.
The point is that's a feature that is possible because the chat history is stored on discord's servers.
Yes, that doesn't change anything. Many companies have been taken private that were public, and then went public again. Your choice for going public is either an SPAC or an IPO/DPO.
One of these cream whippers came into my hands recently. It came with a box of 10 chargers, where 1 was missing. I speculate the owner used their new cream whipper once and decided it was too much work to clean. After ~20 years they gave it to the non-profit's yard sale, where I found it.

One charger cartridge is good for maybe a pint of whipped cream. You'd need 4+ chargers for a gallon of whipped cream. A restaurant could easily go through 50 chargers a week.

https://www.amazon.com/iSi-Professional-Whipped-Cream-Charge...
Draft versions of the ISO standard are easy enough to find on the internet. But the Wikipedia article is excellent and covers just about everything.
Mac everything breaks for me on a UK Mac when using an ISO keyboard rather than their non-standard ISO layout.

Page down only sometimes works, and Command+~ to switch same app Windows works in some apps and not others. It's a bit of a train wreck when you want to get rid of their pointless keys.
When you're generating keys you have two options:

1. Generate keys off card and import them (you can then backup these keys)

2. Generate keys on-card

I always chose the 2nd option; not being able to extract the keys from the card is strongly desired security feature.
It's a whole different paradigm and a popular one too. Just being able to look into it and get inspired is enough to be excited TBH.
Yes, the price is not hard fixed in Bitcoin, largely because it is not really a habitual currency, so any fluctuation will directly impact the actual asking price for everyone.

But still, the asking price for the "service" is in Bitcoin as peteretep was asking. They could've asked an amount in US$ payable in Bitcoin, but the price is given in BTC.

I would argue, the change of price is "just" reflecting the deflation of bitcoin, which from my point-of-view is not terribly different to other price-adjustments across currencies.
E.g. Apple increasing the prices in their App Store in UK£ due to its depreciation (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/17/apple-ios...)
Everything has unintended consequences. That shouldn't stop change. Especially considering that the current situation is flawed and already has many unintended consequences.
Sounds like a good solution to me, I hope you succeed, I surely will keep an eye on the project!

I assumed it wouldn't be an open design because the marketing didn't mention it. I would integrate this message in your marketing because it's worth convincing critical audiences.
So far the only platform where I've managed to get threads to work has been Windows. I came pretty close to getting clone() on Linux working a few days ago. Threads are so hard because no API was ever defined for them in original UNIX and BSD, so therefore each modern system today does them in a completely different way. Another blocker is that not all operating systems let us modify segment registers which is something that the Linux compiler assumes is available for TLS. So it'd be a miracle if it ended up being possible to make threads work portably. fork() on the other hand was easy to get working on all platforms. I love fork() and vfork().

As for GUIs I'm still open to merging raw x11 support. One tricky issue is that we'd need to define a new API that veneers framebuffers, and so far Cosmopolitan has mostly refrained from defining novel interfaces, since the focus has been twiddling with low level magic numbers in order to make the textbook interfaces we already have work everywhere!
I use EurKey [0] (I think this was actually recommended to me on HN) so I have easy "AltGr" access to German characters like öüß. Sadly some tools (most notably Microsoft’s) have hardcoded shortcuts for some of those, which is really annoying.

[0]: https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/
Ideally no, but with JSON being used as a configuration file format and being written by humans, I don't think we have much of a choice.
Odd that even he didn't mention that in this statement?
You'd have to pay me more than my cashback credit card is currently paying me. Doesn't sound like an easy task while remaining profitable.
> The sad part is that we have an economy where mature adults are in jobs a highschooler could accomplish. No experience or skills necessary. It should not be that way, ideally, but that's how it is.

As we continue to automate jobs away, the number of jobs everyone competes for is reduced (yes, yes, some new jobs will be created. How many employees did Whatsapp have?).

What do we do when those with a Bachelor's can't find a job? A Masters?

End game: Automation will continue to eat its way up the chain; we either figure it out with taxes, basic income, or some other form of redistribution, or you hope your robotic army stops mobs with pitchforks.
I'm a fan of the branding moves Lyft has been making recently. Will these moves be enough to supplant Uber as my preferred ride-share service? Probably not.

I don't see the introduction of profiles hindering Lyft's progress as some have suggested, but I don't see this as being a huge leap forward to gain ground on Uber either. If anything with more information about my driver the greater obligation and guilt I will feel to tip them more. I am now emotionally invested in my driver's wellbeing. This is an obligation that I don't feel when choosing Uber, but I can still engage in the same conversations with the driver should the mood strike.
True, but that page lists Facebook's projects, but not Nuclide. Nuclide is also not on the Facebook Github.
I spent a total of 11 months consulting with a company that built a large (50kloc) financial system in erlang. They had terrible performance problems that were caused entirely by erlang.

Imagine you have a large amount of data (order books, accounts, etc). You could put it all in on erlang process, but the gc does not cope well with large heaps (multi-second pauses). You could store the data outside the heap (eg ets) but then you pay the cost of copying on every access and have to tradeoff ease of use (more data per key) vs performance (less data per key). You could split the data up into many processes and then all your simple calculations become asynchronous protocols. Have fun debugging the math or rolling back changes on errors.

I went into that contract with a fondness for erlang. Now I wouldn't touch it ever again. A naive single-threaded blocking server achieved 10x less code, 40x better throughput and 100x better latency. I used clojure, but any sane platform would have worked just as well with that design.
Slow and buggy text editing!
The quibble about GitHub not correctly handling files named COPYING is spot on. I have some LGPLv3 projects, and whenever possible I put the license into two files named COPYING (a verbatim copy of GPLv3) and COPYING.LESSER (an addendum that converts GPLv3 into LGPLv3). Because that's what the FSF recommends. I have no idea how GitHub's crawler will interpret this. Maybe it only sees the first file and thinks I'm using GPLv3?

Anyway, the whole "scan the repository for anything that looks like a license" approach seems to be misguided from the beginning. What if the license is in a comment at the top of an ordinary source file, as I often do with short licenses like MIT? What if it's just a link to the FSF or opensource.org? What if it's a translation of a popular license into another language, or a link to a translation? What if the only file that contains a license is a library with a different license than what the owner intended? Approximations and second-guesses are good enough if you're just trying to pull some statistics, but open-source licenses have legal implications for everyone involved.

Just let me pick a license in the repository settings, not only for new repos but also for existing ones. And if I do so, please display my choice prominently in search results so that nobody will misunderstand my intentions. I don't really care about the API, I want to see the options in the official web interface. You are welcome to throw a warning if you detect something in the repository that seems to contradict my selection. You are welcome to suggest that I add a license file. But they should be suggestions, not prerequisites for GitHub to recognize a license in the first place. The owner, not some half-baked robot, should have ultimate authority over what the license is.

Bonus: Forks automatically inherit the license of the original repo, unless the forker explicitly picks a different one. First-time pull requesters are informed that their patches will be licensed under the same license as the repo, and by clicking "Submit", they agree.
https://gwhois.org/zend.com
Uhh, I don't see that in the Haskell 2011 standard, even as a suggestion.

It would be great, though.
A close relative teaches in a continuing-ed masters program. The first two or three times she taught the class, the grades on the midterm were OK, but reasonably distributed. This fall, they were uniformly excellent. She concluded that the students had copies of her exams from previous semesters, and rewrote the final.

As far as I know, it never occurred to her to tell the students off. Of course, these are twenty-somethings and probably a lot less susceptible to brow-beating.
> "X is impossible under the current laws of physics"

I think the keyword here is "current".

While the development of "new physics" is unlikely, those developments have never failed to surprise us before. We have ever increasing capabilities to both explore and observe the world around us. I find it highly unlikely that we have cracked all there is to physics.
I think there's a big difference between defending a principle, which is what the ACLU does, and active support of awfulness. The ACLU is just making sure the government won't stop the KKK from printing leaflets if they want to. The ACLU definitely isn't printing and distributing anything the KKK asks.
When I lived in new england for a while someone asked me how it compared to the west coast. "The buildings smell of mud." For someone used to wood covered in drywall and paint, interior bricks smell like the material from which they were made.
>There doesn't seem to be full hand tracking (as suggested by the demo on stage)

The demo on stage clearly mentioned that you used your gaze to select and then tapped with your finger. Which is also exactly what we saw the lady on stage doing.
The aristocracy in Europe was devastated after WWI&II. And their power was in land ownership. And the massive capital destruction was ... lets say very high inheritance tax.
I think the opportunity cost is meant to be weighed in any question of "is X worth it?"

That said, I appreciate your calling it out specifically (even if I'd have used other words), as that is absolutely the real question.

My answer, I'm sure you'd guess, is "yes" - but certainly I agree that it's harder than the same question but ignoring the costs :-P
Writing a lot of JS makes you stop believing in JS for the long haul. It's just impossible to write anything large without lots of fragility, and the bugs are often incredibly subtle.
Tech people think the problem is analogizing to the real world, because they see computer crimes as less serious than meat-space ones. But ordinary people see computer crimes as worse than analogous meat-space ones. The analogizing helps, not hurts. If you walked into someone's office (and a server can easily be as sensitive as someone's office or someone's desk), and just defaced their calendar, you'd be hit with a misdemeanor, under the corresponding Georgia law.
it's happening.
Here you go new acronym: FNAC - Feature not a company
I like clipperz.com. Completely web based. Encryption is done client side in javascript, so not even clipperz can access my account.
to feed your paranoia:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=129237675106730&w...
These were all things before my time. I appreciate you bringing them up, Lifestreams too, gives me interesting things to read and think about.
If you do take this further, would be very grateful if you could email me next time you post an update in case I miss it :)
Posted something similar a while back:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1580396
5m is not total protection. You can easily get infected like that, the difference is rates of new infection not personal risks. Something that’s 75% effective would get reproduction factor well below 1. Social distancing + hand washing etc is likely between 30% and 75% effective.
But I think comparisons to the natural death rate are correct in all of those cases. If someone proposed to solve the issue of drunk driving by closing all bars and banning all social gatherings, our response would be a lot closer to "come on man" than a detailed cost-benefit analysis.
The business model for a laptop and technology in general has become one of planned obsolescence. Products need to be cheap so that a new one can be purchased in a short time.

I do not necessarily subscribe to that notion myself. My phone is a Samsung Fascinate that was purchased in 2010 and runs Froyo. I have no tendency toward latest and greatest however I do not dictate the market either.

You make an interesting point on housing.
Very true. I used a similar method after my experiments, using JavaScript to fill in a textbox (and degrading gracefully to a simple CAPTCHA for users without JS). The CSS/mod_security trick wouldn't have been as effective with WordPress since some of the bots don't actually parse the form and would submit the form without the confirm_email field.
Rovi, formerly Macrovision.

Just search for companies that have had Steve Blank as a board member.
I'm an ex-MCD, and we never did fries (or hash browns) in the fish or apple pie vats because the taste would carry over. You don't want fishy-tasting fries.
If he had just leaked the footage from the helicopter, and leaked it to congress or reputable news media, and done it non-anonymously, I could buy that he thought he was a whistleblower. I still think some level of punishment would be appropriate (clearly being discharged from the military and clearance permanently barred, and probably a less than honorable discharge, and probation at least). I still wouldn't have done it (if I saw something while working that I thought was a problem, I'd bring it up through chain of command -- there are plenty of legal ways within the military to challenge something, if you're willing to put in the effort).

Wholesale leaking of TS/SCI data, defined as being able to cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security", pretty clearly meets the definition of treason. I don't think a firing squad (actually, lethal injection) would be the best punishment, but life in prison certainly would be an option.

I can't wait for the AFN commercials about this incident!
For what it's worth, I know personally Ken does very well financially with his 1994 website.
Odd, nobody has mentioned the movie Deja Vu in any comments, here or at the site...

Isn't this a similar premise, except the movie was simplified so as not to overwhelm and confuse normal movie-goers with quantum physics?
ok. I stand corrected.

Still. Phones like the G1 and the N1 seem to have closer ties to Google and seem to be updated more quickly and painlessly, hence my next try with Android is much more likely to be a N2 than any Sense-corrupted HTC thing without update guarantees.
Thanks for the link, that field is really something I've avoided as a learning developer and while it's probably kept me sane in a lot of instances, it's probably hurt my "money makin'" chances more.
https://www.blackducksoftware.com
Even I've been looking for a good product that does this! The only one I've found so far is http://www.ohloh.net

As an example take a look at my contributions to Rails: http://www.ohloh.net/p/rails/contributors/146029001134 and my profile: http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/rohitarondekar

It does more then keep track of contributions but that's the most useful feature at ohloh at present.
An excellent way of looking at it: "The goal of the Minimum Viable Product should be to test the founding vision or initial hypothesis. You need to be open to different answers – the answer might be a yes, a qualified yes, or a no. By framing the founding vision like a hypothesis, you remain open to multiple answers."
Ohloh may not be exactly what you want, but it's similar; you can look up a particular contributor and see where they are contributing.

http://www.ohloh.net/

Here's an example person, chosen somewhat randomly:

http://www.ohloh.net/accounts/meyering
A google search to better understand blufferbloat turned up exactly 0 entries.
I would imagine now is when the Haskellers start claiming that laws wouldn't need to be tested if they had a good enough type system. :-P
Wit.ai thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8841340
Congratulations to you for having memorized many unnecessary-to-remember things then, I guess. I have a good memory for detail and have "spent a lot of time in the DOM" and most of the questions I skimmed I had no off-the-top-of-my-head answer for.

I could answer pretty much all of them in under a minute of Googling. Which tells me a) that I don't actually need to know the answers to them in real life, and therefore that the questions measure dumb ephemera; and b) that the questions are more a test of random chance ("oh yeah, I ran across that once" makes you more impressed by me?) than they are of developer skill.
How can you simultaneously claim that nobody speaks well of Anslinger, and that he is lionized? That seems flatly contradictory.
> It is uncharitable and silly to believe that a good person could not have those positions in good faith.

Imagine someone who just straight up punches people in the face without any warning for using the n word. Can that ever be in good faith? At what point is it OK to physically hurt others?
In a few decades, the concept that someone ever needed hearing protection around a robot will be quite the anachronism, similar to how someone used to marvel that a computer could fit into a space smaller than a large room.
For what it's worth, I know exactly the type of thing you're talking about. So I wanted to chime in and say "No, you're not crazy, even though everyone else in this thread seems to be trying to convince you that you are."