jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>There is no argument for censorship, suspension or banning, based on our 1st amendment—- on any of the multiple platforms doing so.

Free speech absolutism has never been a thing on the internet so I'm not surprised he was banned after inciting a mob to attack the nations capital.
Yeah, completely agree.

This year, for a site I knew existed, I had to use a very obscure search engine to find content on that site, for the other search engines it was omitted from the results. This only happened a couple of months ago, before then they listed that site. The site did not violate copyright.

YouTube has drastically increased its censorship this year, with both soft and hard censorship. Things that users found relevant that turned up first in search results are now replaced with MSM videos and people have to put very specific search terms in to get the video to show up in the lists, effectively removing it from most peoples results even if it is the most relevant thing they are looking for. There is altering recommendations. There is the hard censorship where a video doesn't even have to violate TOS or guidelines any more. YT now uses an AI from a very powerful lobby to decide which videos to censor.

This all happened very near to something that was called VoxAdpocalypse. Censorship was increasing the years before that but the sudden increase this year (2019) caught a lot of people by surprise, I think that was quite intentional, ram it through so fast that people didn't have time to react. This was all supported by MSM and the unity among the mainstream media organisations was very noticeable.

Where I live this year the largest ISPs have blocked a lot of sites on the flimsiest of pretense, sites like archive.is , zerohedge.com , and a variety of social sites that say they support free speech.

With the way things are heading, if you have something unorthodox to say, woe be unto you. Just look at what happened to Julian Assange, and CNN calling people don't support him being imprisoned as 'free speech activists', I would almost expect CNN to call them 'free speech extremists' if they could get away with it.
For a kid, their parents are often unaware or unsympathetic to their struggles. And just to be clear, the same tactics are applied to Han Chinese (well, the high schools are more harsh, but the Chinese work camp model was already well developed before they decided to do this en masse in Xinjiang). It is horrible, don’t get me wrong, I’m not going to defend it, but I also hope it instills a bit more awareness in our own shortcomings (as well as that of China in general).
It's nothing to do with the hosting or portability and everything to do with talking the language and navigating the interface. You can set up a bare VM and install your own OS and manage everything yourself and avoid any kind of lock-in, but if you don't know how to navigate AWS your entire operations collapses with bad IAM policies, world-readable S3 buckets, and VPCs that let the entire world in.

On the other hand, enterprises don't care as much about vendor lock-in or portability as people on HN do. As a consultant working with many Fortune 500 enterprises, "we're an IBM shop" or "we're a Dell shop" or "we're a Windows shop" is more common than you might think. Enterprise companies want relationships, stability, and a business partner. They don't care about anything else. If they're an IBM shop, your default choice is IBM and any exceptions have to be run up through management. If they're a Windows shop, any request for Mac desktops or Linux servers has to be an exception as well. I've seen clients ditch million-dollar products they've used for years just because their digital transformation was AWS-only and that product didn't support running in AWS.

Enterprise companies WANT to be locked to one vendor, as it makes choices easier, makes the relationship easier, and provides stability to their IT operations. Cost and portability doesn't even factor into it. Lock-in is just a part of enterprise IT, has been for decades.
Not all countries are equal at this. Some push police country level obedience, like with "detentions" modeling jails.
So you’re providing stuff that people are willing to pay for - ie capitalism.
But why wouldn't Google's secret ML sauce gradually learn the right dose of Quora vs Wikipedia to give to the public? That seems more principled (data-driven) than doing a blanket ban on Quora based on gut-level (possibly correct) intuition of search experience.
The only way you're breaking functional purity is by doing IO, which none of those suggestions are doing.
Those containers were attached to the deck or other containers, and inspected. That requires humans to have access to the containers to lash them down, at least for those which reach above the deck. This requires a surface meant for humans.
Metaphorically, because we're really talking about whether "liberty" implies a "right to offend people" that precludes Twitch from being able to ban any account for any users' behavior. It does not. Especially not for the kind of egregious reasons they're stating.
Consider a small commit with spelling error. If I turn this into a patch and apply it to another branch it will be a different commit even it will be the same patch.

As such, the concept of a "commit" in Git refers to a complete state of everything; a snapshot.
Ok, that's enough—I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's right, although in my experience the staff at Hetzner were quick to replace faulty disks in the past. You should be fine if you keep an eye on your disks (e.g. SMART status reports via cron or systemd timers) and contact support before a disk fails entirely.
One thing that deeply frustrates me is that I simply don't know which things are slowed down by Defender. I can add my source repos to some "exclude folder" list deep in the Defender settings, but I've yet to figure out whether that actually does something, whether I'm doing it right, whether I should whitelist processes instead of folders or both, I have no idea.

If anyone here knows how to actually see which files Defender scans / slows down, then that would be awesome. Right now it's a black box and it feels like I'm doing it wrong, and it's easily the thing I dislike the most about developing on Windows.
Please do not post nationalistic flamewar comments or other flamewar comments to HN. Your comment would have been fine without the last paragraph.

Btw, people's generalized ideas of the community are hopelessly dominated by cognitive bias: the bad (what you dislike) stands out more than the good (what you like), so you are far more likely to notice it and weight it more heavily. Everyone is subject to this bias, and nearly every dataless generalization people make about HN is an expression of it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
> Suppose I have a directory that is 100MB in size. If I take a snapshot of it, my snapshot would be 100MB in size.

Not with `btrfs subvolume snapshot`, it won't. If that's not a snapshot, I don't know what is.

From a storage perspective, no dammit, Git commits are snapshots, look at the bits on disk if you don't believe it. This isn't something that people who like to write blog posts about Git made up for pedagogical purposes, it's how Git actually works.

As you point out, it's wonky for pedagogical purposes; what does it mean to "cherry-pick" a snapshot? When thinking about cherry-picking, yeah, a diff makes more sense than a snapshot. But saying a diff is better pedagogically doesn't change the fact that a commit actually is a snapshot (and when cherry-picking, it diffs to snapshots to create a patch, then applies that patch).
I agree. I am not worried about perverse incentive to let your reactors melt down so you can dump the waste, because these are highly public events that cause much outcry no matter how the waste is disposed.
The need to reload thing is probably not Firefox's problem. I was annoyed by that too on android. But then I disabled battery optimizations for the android app. It's kinda a hassle because I have to disable it in 2 or 3 places. The 'don't kill my app' website helps [1]. Now it's working fine. I could keep many 10s of tabs open even for a day without reload.

I think that bottom 5% issue is fixed now, not sure.

One annoying problem is that sometimes it jumps around the page when collapsing comments in sites like HN.

Another problem is occasional random crashes when private browsing. Only on android. Anyone else here have the same problem? 99% of times, I send crash report. Hope they fix it. Or maybe it's a problem with my phone?

Love Firefox though.

[1] https://dontkillmyapp.com/
Considering the media propping up stories about how free speech is unnecessary and barbaric in our new and modern society, and making censorship a cultural norm - giving an inch is more than giving a mile.
I can see why women on the whole might drive smaller, lighter cars. But why would the following be true?

> they’re more likely than men to be driving the struck vehicle in side-impact and front-into-rear crashes
When you have hundreds of engineers putting together models to create the result page there will be nobody who understands the entire thing.
All you have to do is wrap multiple futures into a single one and then await on the combined one. There is no programming language on earth that can prevent this.
>Basically throwaway (or keeparound) rootless containers

Toolbox emphasises "keeparound" containers since it's intended to be the primary command-line environment for image-based systems like Silverblue or CoreOS. Such systems try to keep a small, atomically updated rootfs and push users to install everything in containers.
Flagged for editorialized title.
We can and do, they're called stablecoins. It's not possible to send fiat around unless you digitise it first, and this needs to be done in such a way that it's impossible to mint more in the process and such that this is verifiable by everyone - hence (most) stablecoins.

Edited to add:
Also XRP is used as a bridge-currency to automagically do what you described, but with XRP in place of NANO. This is a product that due to regulatory uncertainty is not widely used yet, but it is still offered to, and used by various banking and payment firms who have signed up for it with Ripple. It's been hampered by the SEC in the US, but is still used elsewhere.
The statement from the NSA as quoted in the article was that:

> NSA cannot confirm that this incident—or the subsequent response actions described—ever occurred.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it but to me this looks as if they were in fact tacitly confirming it (at the very least, it's a steep departure from the standard "no comment" response typically employed in such situations).
HTTP2 is a layering violation because it implements a new layer of multiplexing and flow control on top of the existing layer of multiplexing and flow control. Rather than solving the problems with TCP they slapped a band-aid on top because that allowed them to get to market faster. In the short term it's a win for Google et al, but in the long term this sort of thing will turn the internet into (even more of) an unmanageable mess.
Some of it is interesting. Some of it is opinions on what has worked for HIM. There are many ways to lose weight, each person will sell you their way as the best. Doesn't mean it is wrong, but it may not be the right way for you.
Not sure if I can really explain a complicated economic system in a comment section.

Please feel free to invest however you see fit, if you think that VC, stock markets, interest rates, speculation, investments are not intertwined, best of luck.

In the meantime I'll just leave this right here.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/22/j...
Then there's RDD, resume-driven development, wherein you choose your stack for the new app based on what you want to add to your resume.
Yes, that was it. Thanks.

I hope a similar issue doesn't arise here.
bazaar works well for me.
I concur. That site's documentation is the best I have ever seen. The documentation on the main page is pretty good too:

http://clojure.org/cheatsheet
Less is more. Ask yourself: is your product more like 140 characters in Twitter or the MS Office ribbon bar.

- Bijan Sabet (@bijan)

http://startupquote.com/post/4767481734
13" Thunderbolt Macbook Pro running OS 10.6.7 and I am using iOS SDK 4.0. I'd rather not have to use a Mac but Uncle Steve has rules.
That sounds like an interesting pairing setup. Would you mind expounding on the details, both technical and logistical, if possible?

Specifically, are you sharing a screen session with VIM in a terminal or what?

Do you rotate pairs or is it always the same person? How would you compare your remote pairing setup with live, in-person pairing?
Hell yeah!

If you are lucky they might even ask you about it in an interview, and then you'll get a chance to explain how & why you'd do things differently.

More likely, though, they'll see the name of it and go oh, I've heard of that - it seems to be used a bit so it can't be total crap and put you in the "interview this person" pile.
Just ordered a t420 that will be running windows 7 but also have virtualbox VMs running Linux for when I'm doing Clojure development, which is all done in emacs with Lein. Also use Visual Studio Shell for F# and Express for C# development.

Home built desktop already running this setup. The biggest downside to not paying for VS for me is the fact I have to run both the IDEs and if I want to use an F# DLL in C# code I have to compile one and then feed the results into the other as a reference.
Why is this at the top of HN? Didn't the 3rd edition come out ages ago? What exactly is new?
> the first crisis

Don’t worry, this may be absurdly obviously false but it’s probably not going to get your speech regulated in any way.
well put.

it is now clear we must all defend our democracy. we can’t take it for granted.
No offence but maybe the country that drone-strikes children in middle east, south america, and asia should be destroyed and the one who manages that should be named a hero.

It has become tiresome seeing americans (both left and right) whine all the time about every single thing while they silently ignore that they are bombing civilians.
International Hat Machines
> And just now you've insulted him saying he doesn't understand OOP.

The laws of politeness are like the laws of war: once you violate them you forfeit their protection.

> You know Linus Torvalds is not very fond of OOP as well, right?

I would emphatically advise beginners not to listen to Linus Torvalds, and be very concerned if he started writing programming tutorials for beginners.

> Always use OOP where it makes sense. I don't think he ever argued that.

I'm thinking specifically of http://learncodethehardway.org/blog/AUG_19_2012.html as that was where I first encountered him. This article is a) something he wrote by himself, not in response to being called names b) self-confident and abrasive in a way that I think it is fair to describe as "arrogant" c) wrong, in a way that seems to reflect not understanding polymorphism - particularly given his replies in the HN discussion of that piece.
It's a public link... I'm not sure how you want to go about fixing this. If you share with other dropbox users it forces them to have accounts and give you access control.

What you created was a public link. Not sure what you're wanting them to do. At least you can't access other files in the PrivateFiles folder by simply modifying the end of the URL. Now that, I might actually consider a "leak".
"In the class of 1970, only 20 of the 75 students who began the class finished it due to its difficulty."

Now I am curious if either BG or RS successfully COMPLETED the course (and hell, while we are at how well they did!)
Talk to your ADC rep. She can probably escalate it if necessary.
Of course not, but Wikileaks is an adversary with an agenda, not an independent government oversight organization with the peoples' interests in mind. Certainly not that of residents of the US.

We need oversight and transparency concerning policy, prevention of the violation of constitutional and human rights, and any actions that violate the sovereignty of our allies and friends.

Not transparency of every communique between our embassies.
The article says that Groupon has inspired hundreds of clones... Why do you think some of them (LivingSocial) have taken off and others have been lost in the dust?
Indeed. Diesels are much worse for air pollution.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30381223
My first thought was "this already exists, it's called HN/reddit/producthunt/etc" then I realised most of the times I upvote items just because they have a lot of upvotes/comments.

Side project idea: HN/PH where the ratings are hidden. This way you still get the curation bit, but people are free to make up their own minds about your website.
I've seen this in the "social network" of code reviews where I work. A "downvote", i.e. a negative comment, often has the opposite effect of the one intended by the reviewer. The code author will dig in their heels and over time contribute lower quality code. Alas, I don't have the luxury of simply ignoring lurking bugs.
I think a macro implies something that can be executed, and (rightly) ought to cause security-minded folks to double-take.

Conref isn't something we invented, it's straight out of DITA: http://dita.xml.org/arch-conref
It still as worth to read as it was 598 days ago. :-)
See my reply to eranation
This is true of some founders. Zuckerburg and Gates both very smart and driven people. Though if Gate's dad was not a wealthy lawyer, Gates would not have gone to Lakeside a private school in Seattle. Which also had a computer, something almost no other school had at the time.

I believe Zuckerburg's dad funded relatively large server costs in the early days. While without that I am sure some form of FB would be around but maybe a little different and probably with Zuckerburg own less of it.
My experience with LinkedIn is remarkably positive. I am contacted a few times a month for professional opportunities and two of my most recent jobs started from recruiters contacting me on LinkedIn. LinkedIn is a chance to put forward your best self to the professional world. It is a serious force multiplier - do the work once to make your profile really shine and reap continual benefits.

Knowing who is looking at your profile (and hence who might be interviewing you for a new job) is incredibly useful information. Does this person have a technical or a business background? Do we know the same people from previous jobs? Do we have similar interests or did we go to the same school?

All of that information is very powerful when meeting someone for the first time and can give you that 5%-10% edge during an interview. It's the kind of information that allows you to make a great first impression.

I am not affiliated with LinkedIn but would recommend it to anyone struggling to find the right opportunity in the technology world.
Apart from the ^...$, it's exactly that.
Sounds like a great project.

I do wonder why I can’t find any “about” page or reference to _why, whose work was so clearly inspirational, at least?
Flash drives have two weaknesses:

1. The complexity of the USB protocol enables certain kinds of attacks that aren't possible through a floppy interface.

2. The circuitry present in a USB drive is capable of being partially replaced with other kinds of circuits in a hard-to-detect way, whereas, it's pretty easy to verify that a floppy disk contains no malicious circuits.

These two vectors can be combined (along with other vulns) to do things like momentarily connect an unexpected modem to computers that are thought to be airgapped. (There are other, simpler, attacks such as having it exfiltrate data to a secret portion of the flash memory at the same time the drive is operating "as expected", by simply connecting itself as two devices.)

This isn't a problem for most people, but it's entirely possible that there are materials at the White House which need to resist this level of sophisticated, can-create-our-own-silicon-with-hidden-radios level of attack.

Remember, the NSA catalog was full of ordinary seeming devices that were meant to exfiltrate data or create radio links in to the computer.
This is of course why there are two options, vertical and horizontal scaling. Eventually you have to stop upgrading one server and split it up.
how can i develop people skills
My preference is still Slack, even in this case. Send a message prefixed "URGENT" and I will write down where I stopped in the next 30 seconds and then get to you nearly right away.

I can skim the first few words of a Slack message without losing context and if those first few words demand an immediate response, I can "save" what I am doing to my notes.

I had a co-worker who did this in a past job, even though he sat behind me. It was quite helpful.
Ignoring the fact that obviously you've got a chip on your shoulder with regard to the judicial system, what the judge was doing makes total sense. They're trying to see if you were actually "field training" your dog or if you just wanted to play fetch. Expecting you to play fetch with a leashed dog is a whole other issue entirely.

> we had a letter from a game warden saying the activities would be acceptable under the law

State laws vary but in mine, Game Wardens have identical powers to any other police officer. They have all the same arrest powers and have state-wide jurisdiction. Assuming it's the same in your state, and assuming you received some sort of citation or arrest that landed you in court in the first place, the judge at best has contradictory information from two equally relevant officers of the court. It's not exactly a slam dunk acquittal.

> The judge also misapplied facts that had nothing to do with the law, such as if we have a license or training on how to train dogs, yet there is no state license nor does the law mention any requirement to be trained (it's customary to self-train). And saying that we didn't have any special equipment with us, which again is nowhere in the law and isn't required.

The judge wasn't trying to determine whether you were following the law, this all goes to - as earlier in the thread - intent. If you just want to play fetch with your dog, you won't have any of this. But if you come loaded to bear with a bunch of training implements, treats, balls, whistles, etc., it's hard to argue that you're just playing fetch and not actually engaged in training. Any licensure or equipment would have supported your case.

> There were other issues and misapplication of law related to rights violations, a motion to dismiss

Almost everyone who has ever appeared in front of a court has claimed their rights were violated to the point where it's practically a meme. It's almost never the case.

> Also, at the lowest level the magistrates aren't even required to be lawyers.

Same in my state - they're elected, and mainly hear traffic infractions, zoning disputes, and very small summary offenses. Thankfully, you can appeal to Common Pleas from a magistrate court for something like $30. But I know some states it can be hundreds for an appeal.

> They can violate rights, misapply law

I mean, there are (again, in my state) censure and impeachment proceedings for magistrates, and while not super common they do happen often enough that it's not a huge scandal or anything. Misapplication of law is exactly what the appeals process is for.

> even yell at you

My goodness!

> There's zero accountability for the police, DA's office, and the courts.

Simply not true.

> We witnessed multiple rights violations, documented lies, and gross misapplication of law, but nobody cares.

What's more likely? 1. Every police officer, attorney, and court house, as well as every politician and all the media, doesn't care about widespread systemic violations of basic rights, documented wrongdoing, and misapplication of the law. 2. You're misinformed about the law.