jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would A/B test, but they all sound spammy, sorry.

I'd recommend coming up with a totally new headline
The event was big and changed a lot... but not for pokerstars or other services.

The client can use ips to auto-update with new domain names probably (it's got a pool of addresses to try). In a few days enough new links will be created to pokerstars.net that it will be reasonably visible on google. Service itself will buy loads of domains and start advertising as pokerstars.{your_tld}. In the meantime, pokerstars.net is still available as usual.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/currency

1. something that is used as a medium of exchange; money.
2.general acceptance; prevalence; vogue.
3. a time or period during which something is widely accepted and circulated.
4. the fact or quality of being widely accepted and circulated from person to person.
5. circulation, as of coin.

Currrency can refer to physical money. But it also refers to gift cards, visa cards, and any thing else that is, quoting the first definition, a "medium of exchange". Since you called a gift card a "medium of exchange" while saying it wasn't "currency" the dictionary proves you wrong.

Your understanding of my mental state and argument is also wrong, and I think you're projecting.

Since you apparently aren't familiar with the dictionary definition, I trust you will apologize for your assertions about my lack of knowledge.
Did you realize that the term "blugging" has apparently mostly been used to mean "low quality blogging"?
The US doesn't so much try to stamp out gambling as to regulate/profit from it. I suspect the dim view of online gambling stems from the fear that they cannot control it effectively.
Stop hyperventilating, they did nothing of the sort. .com is based in the United States, and (whether or not you agree with the US's stance on online gambling, I don't) they seized an asset that they claim - probably rightly - is within their jurisdiction and is assisting these companies in committing acts that are illegal in the United States.

If they seize a .co.uk, then there's something to be worried about, but as far as I am aware that has not happened.
Because the world is a complicated place where a single (short) document is unlikely to fairly represent anything other than guiding principles. Having guiding principles is hugely important and valuable, just as giving people the leeway to make judgement calls on those principles is. Justice shouldn't be black and white.
off topic, but as a developer, I still have not figured out what is the difference between a website and a "progressive web app". I just don't get why a bunch of different features makes websites any different. It really just sound like a marketing buzzword too me, not backed by any meaningful technical paradigm change. What makes them 'progressive'?

To me the problem with webapps in general or (rich internet applications) is that the developer has very little control over caching or storage since it's very dependent on the whims of browser engine.
Upsetting Trump’s base is not some unforeseeable or mysterious accident. “When you are used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
I think people from at least some countries of the world would disagree with you about communism being dead. Is there any major fascist political party in the west that has any kind of msm support? On the other hand, almost every western country has a socialist party in their respective parliament. As liberal doesn't it bother you that ideas which were the cause of so much misery in the world when implemented in communist countries are still being recycled over and over in parliaments of western countries at least as much as a few fascists do?
this is a contract dispute. Do you not believe in free enterprise?
Equities don't keep growing indefinitely without underlying economic growth, and GDP represents that economic growth. There is no immutable law that SPX needs to keep growing 10%.

It has been outpacing GDP because increasingly, production is being concentrated in fewer, larger companies. So right now, they are growing. There are limits to that growth if GDP isn't growing as well - there are only so many smaller companies you can put out of business.

This - investing into SPX, or VFIAX, or any other market aggregate - is a viable strategy in the face of unlimited growth. It's a reasonable mid-term strategy. It's entirely unclear that there will be unchecked economic growth for 40 years. In fact, there's very good reason to assume there won't.

As for "get some portion to work higher yields" - those yields carry risk. They're not just making you more money, you stand a better chance to lose money, too. Which in turn means much less return, even if you manage to maintain 4%.

And to make matters worse, you're timing dependent - if you'd invested $1M in 1999, you would've been back to $1M in 2012. Except, if you'd lived off it for those 13 years, you'd be down to half your initial investment, ~$480K.

FIRE is a high-risk strategy. I'm not saying it can't work out, but over 40 years, there are a lot of things that can happen, and most FIRE proponents have very small safety margins. The crux is that that doesn't seem particularly problematic in your 20s and 30s - worst case, you start again, right? Except "start again" in your 50s, 60s, 70s is a really sucky proposition.

Ultimately, everybody takes their own risks, but let's not underplay those risks.
> It was a political demonstration that erupted into spontaneous violence, which we've already been seeing for months. I don't want it to be justification for further authoritarianism.

It already happened, it just doesn't seem to be punished if its done or incited with State approval (Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and constant lies about a stolen election).

What you're describing already happened, long ago actually; its the selective application of this authoritarianism that you should be worried about now. Don't be surprised to see more heavy handedness like we saw last year when any form of dissent takes place in DC now with this as a justification, the thought of 'free speech zones' once seemed like conspiratorial hyperbole, but after this I'm not sure its not a given under the premise of curtailing 'domestic terrorism.'

Take the case of this 28 year old disgruntled 'black panther sympathizer' Colorado citizen who colluded with what was later revealed to be an undercover police to shoot the Attorney General [0]. They're making it seem like its this massive success and they foiled an assassination and made him forfeit his firearms to the State for merely stating what he would do if he had the chance, by contrast you had those 'protestors' armed with actual firearms and IEDs show up to one of the most surveiled places on Earth, and with the help of LEO to enter to overthrow Biden's confirmation and in the case of the Q-anon ex Navy vet/woman who was shot by secret service trying to enter the building letting 'liberty ring and bring light to darkness.'

That is the most blatant conspiracy to increase the budget and incentives for the Police State since 9/11 in my view, and it was all recorded and they were simply let off with no repercussions thus far and you have this feeling if impending doom for something that already happened?

I really hate dwelling on race based things and white privilege as its over used in most respects, but it is without a doubt apparent for all to see that non-whites are on the lowest of the 3/4 tiers of the US legal system that systematically seeks to put them in the for profit prison system. Especially when in comes to question the crimes and wrongful deaths of the Police State.

0: https://coloradosun.com/2021/01/05/denver-police-guns-weiser...

EDIT: 15 have were arrested 'so far' and are awaiting sentencing for the event that happened this week.
"The Belcerebon people used to cause great resentment and insecurity among neighboring races by being one of the most enlightened, accomplished, and above all, quiet civilizations in the Galaxy.

As a punishment for this behavior, which was held to be offensively self-righteous and provocative, a Galactic Tribunal inflicted on them that most cruel of all social diseases, telepathy. Consequently, in order to prevent themselves broadcasting every slightest thought that crosses their minds to anyone within a five mile radius, they now have to talk very loudly and continuously about the weather, their little aches and pains, the match this afternoon and what a noisy place Kakrafoon has suddenly become."

Douglas Adams, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Wow I imagine that candidate didn't get the job... I'd appreciate him if it were a personal policy more so than showing a lack of understanding for the past.
You have Wal-Mart, Target, Wal-greens, CVS, BestBuy, MicroCenter, tons of mom-and-pop stores (until all the world leaders drove all of them to bankruptcy due to COVID)

Say you had two stores: Walmarket and Toget. That's it. That's all you got. Toget stops telling a brand of ice cream and you literally cannot sell it anywhere else other than Toget and Walmarket because someone would have to drive 2 hours out of their way each time to buy your Ice Cream.

You have Android, iOS and PinePhones.
Some times when you rephrase an argument, it becomes a different argument.

Some times when this happens, we call it a strawman argument.
One of the greatest proof of concept languages out there. Yes, please do not discover.
I could have provided a clearer intent in my post, but here goes.

These are simply usability guidelines that I've built up over my time interacting with hundreds of websites. I find myself annoyed by certain things over and over, so I decided to put them together in the form of a list. I don't believe I am more qualified to write this than anyone else who has spent a decent amount of time on the Internet.

Furthermore, there are always exceptions. I'm not implying (or I hope people are not inferring) that no site should ever provide a sign-in/account feature. You may have a compelling reason to provide this, and that's great. But don't allow or require people to do this when it offers them no value.
Are they real swords in the cartoon?
Those have nothing to do with iMessage though. If they aded them to the iMessage list people would naturally think that if they didn't use iMessage those things would be disabled, which is not true, so what you're asking for would be highly misleading and disingenuous.
Beat the dead horse - news sites need money and show ads.
Disney World is open and there are no COVID-19 restrictions in Florida as far as I know.
There's a lot of room for delayed fraud, same as when banks fail.

Imagine I secretly remove the contents of everyone's safe deposit boxes.

I get rich selling what I stole, but no one is any poorer until much later when they try to cash out their treasures and realize they are gone.
USDTether is an empty safe deposit box.
Of course!

I would note in passing that a description of industry trends is not an endorsement of them. There are lots of reasons for trends beyond pure rational technical strategy.
What makes you sure that the BBC, Economist et al. are not genuinely more reliable than, say, Russia Today?
If we went to be "better than average" then yes. You must do something to stick out in order to get better jobs, more money, more fame, more power, etc.
True, but you would expect it is the ratio branches vs other code which is relevant here.
He also needs a lesson on not "burying the lede". He doesn't get to why Apple is beating WhatsApp (privacy labels) until almost 800 words in .
App idea: Qwitter, for Twitter rehab.
that is astounding! Makes me think of not smothering out a smoldering wick let alone a vibrant living man. Written in 1931, wow.
It is BTC that has never moved before. It would reveal at least one piece of information about the author of the bitcoin whitepaper - they are alive and engaged. Intent would be unknown, and destabilizing. Many pretenders would claim ownership. It would break a 12 year expectation in the story of Bitcoin.
> you should spend some of your engineering budget making a really good driver Linux driver for your touchpad, and open source it

It's funny how completely random this suggestion feels (I figured you were going to suggest a customized distro based on Ubuntu or something), and yet I completely agree. Most everything uses libinput these days, and a whole lot of the "feel" is baked into the driver at compile time. Getting it right yourself (or even just making it more configurable for users) would be an enormous step forward.
How is bitcoin an improvement on money? Why is a standard on a physical or digital asset desirable, especially when the asset is rare. Wouldn't this unnecessarily restrict monetary policy?
This is very believable, because information in prison spreads instantly and everyone knows what everyone else is doing. One inmate figures out a way to make money, and sells this information for other favors, and soon it becomes "viral".
> It would be interesting to think about what set of tools gives 80% of the plain text benefit.

My experience with binary protocols is that one of the first tools you write is one that converts it to a text format, and you then receive nearly 100% of the plain text benefit, as long as you can use that tool.
Right, but understand that its not that restuarants don't mind these food delivery bandits, its that they have no choice in the current environment. In truth they want nothing to do with them, because they give customers the habit of 'lets check ubereats for dinner' rather than 'lets check Papa Francisco's', and the outrageous fees are beyond belief on top of that.

Restaruants HATE internet food delivery companies. Claims to the contrary aren't true at all.
The biggest advantage is that shovels are not worth zero in the event the whole thing crashes (and in a gold rush there is a big chance of that happening, by definition). The idea is to take advantage of the upside (to some degree) but also have your downside limited. It's a risk averse investment advice, not necessarily one for maximizing returns in the best case scenario.
Hey, I'm another one of the developers, thanks so much for the kind words! I agree, it sounds like PencilCase would be a perfect fit :) We definitely want anybody to be able to use PencilCase: Studio, even if you aren't a programmer.
The list of notables is way longer. I am surprised that Bill Gates and Paul Allen were missing. And Aaron Swartz. And Paul Graham. And ....
Really? What about ticketing systems? Certainly when I add a bug or a feature to a ticketing system, it isn't just as difficult as fixing that bug or feature.
I think it will be a lot like email - what is undesirable about appending a domain? That's how the internet works.
but their robots.txt says that you're welcome to scrape it:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /ac.php
Disallow: /ae.php
Disallow: /album.php
Disallow: /ap.php
Disallow: /feeds/
Disallow: /o.php
Disallow: /p.php
Disallow: /photo_comments.php
Disallow: /photo_search.php
Disallow: /photos.php
incredibly easy.

and not only can the bot lie, it can disregard the robots.txt file altogether. just like the terms of service document for humans, you can choose to disregard it & deal w/ the consequences (blocked IP's, lawsuit, etc).

robots.txt is just a version of the TOS that computers can read.
I'd like a simple, efficient, scalable HTTP server written in C ...

Check out libebb - http://tinyclouds.org/libebb/. It was created by Ryah Dahl (node.js fame) and is a solid piece of software. We used it in our WebROaR server for ruby web applications.

Sidenote: libebb's Ragel based parser is derived from Mongrel.
Pretty simple really. Instead of trying to control how I spend your time, I try to take advantage of whatever time I have to do what I'm feeling like doing. A key part of this is reducing the amount of bullshit and setup time necessary to do the things I want, and combining activities.

For example, I try to practice guitar 4 hours a day. I also like watching TV. So, I have a little practice amp in my living room that's always plugged in and has a cable so I can just grab a guitar, and noodle while I watch TV. That alone gives me about 2 hours of practicing mindless stuff.
Take this with a grain of salt, but I'd imagine that RescueTime's users are early-adopters, and as such may be the tip of the arrow indicating future trends. Hence, this is fairly interesting data.
I agree. While someone on the server might be able to read it, there's no need for everyone with a sniffer to be able to.

Regardless, I like this.
You are missing out on the fact that 'intellectual property' is a figment of our collective imagination.

Would you respect intellectual property on the wheel or the hand axe in a stone age setting ? I know that sounds ridiculous, but intellectual property has its basis in 'information can be property' and that's so fraught with error that we would still be living in the stone age if it were true.

If you want to keep your stuff to yourself: don't publish. Have it die with you, please do not make your thoughts/writings/music/movie/whatever available to the public in order to then turn around and claim it as your own again.
I just had a small vision when I read this article.

In two years time Voddler (or something like it) will be big for movies, Spotify will be big for music and people will stop purchasing things entirely.

The "Pirate movement" will see this as progress and smart people going around the old geezers in charge, because we don't have to pay outrageous amounts of money for a piece of plastic we don't even want.

The media industry will call it a success in their anti-piracy harshness and will cite cases like this as the reason for the new ways to crop up.

Both parties will think they're right, and in the end the only thing that has changed is the distribution-system.

The 2 year timescale is probably off, but i'm pretty sure everything will end with those idiots saying "It's a good thing we put kids in jail because otherwise we wouldn't live in the wonderful world we do today."
The author seems to concentrate on the link between computer science and software/development, but I do think that CS helps in a couple non-tech areas as well. The ones I can think off the top of my head are being able to break large problems down to their component processes, being able to foresee the effects manipulating those processes can have, and being able to effectively communicate with others (both technical and non-technical) about your work. Those characteristics and thought models aren't unique to CS, but play a key role in the science and engineering fields in general. A field that requires the application of mathematics and logic will tend to produce or attract people that value rational and procedural thought.
Why do the police need special powers to do this? Why can't they get a court order instead?

Is the reason that the court would not permit it, because doing so would not be just? Perhaps "reasonable grounds to believe..." is not good enough for the courts. Why should it be?
Well, we at OpenDNS could make this work for all our users today. And I think we're large enough that they wouldn't just seize our domain.

But it's a slippery slope... Once you fragment the DNS like that, it's hard to go back. And then we're put in a position to make editorial judgements of which version of the domain to follow which we prefer to not be in. So we don't, for now.

There's a lot more thinking about this subject that I and others have discussed, but fragmenting the DNS is not the ideal answer. Making ICANN independent of the US is, however, of critical importance.
The article starts off "Police to get major new powers...". Then it says "Police could soon have the power...". Finally "SOCA wants Nominet to change...".

So, in conclusion, they'd like these powers (which we already knew), but nobody has approved anything (which tells us nothing).
I used drop.io on occasion - although their free size limit was a little too small. Having unlimited, or as the terms of service say 2gb makes this way more useful.
I recently requested the slides for a talk I unfortunately missed at a recent conference. There were plenty of areas that didn't make sense without hearing and seeing the actual talk, but overall I was able to get enough information out of it using common logic to make it useful.

Who cares if some guy requests your slides. If he is unable to figure out the gist of the talk, or at least the gist of snippets of the talk, then that is his problem for missing the lecture and not taking personal notes. If he's able to get some information out of it, then great, we all win and the presenter doesn't have to do much more work except provide a link.
>That is intrinsic to most tools that dare call themselves "source control".

Bullshit. 'Merge' is one of the most complicated operations in every versioning system. I'm pretty confident svn is 'inconsistent'. Or is that too niche?
If eating such meat were the equivalent of the engines falling off a plane, then it should be trivial to show the actual harm it is causing.
Has anyone ever thought about how nice it would be to have one really nice strong, static, inferred type system that ran from the javascript in the gui all the way to the db and even spanned any rpc stuff? Then imagine if there was a single IDE that could catch type errors anywhere in the stack. In my opinion this is why there are no trivial webapps. Even something that wants to add up a list of numbers and store in the db has to deal with so many type systems (or lack thereof), even though all your data becomes strings as it is posted over HTML.
I definitely don't regret shutting down Tipjoy. I think about opportunity cost a lot, and the cost of not shutting down was huge.

This comment is somewhat ironic because I'm with Dropbox now. It really is a great company.
Another perspective on the same basic point: The average neural message transmitted in your brain is trivial. What arises from the sum total of those messages is not. But there is probably no way to get to human-scale cognition without a lot of triviality at lower layers. There's probably no way to have a civil human society without these "trivialities", and if that is true, are they really trivial interactions?

Declarations of triviality encode an embedded value scheme that may or may not have actual utility for any purpose. I hesitate to label things "trivial"; it may be missing the forest for the trivial leaves.

I don't do Facebook for various reasons, but I don't look down on those who do use it.
As vladd pointed out, one should be comparing Rhino with V8, especially since there are other server side JavaScript platforms running on V8 like http://www.akshell.com

Apparently the new Dynamic Invoke feature in Java 7 has resulted in significant performance improvements in the latest patches of Rhino, but it still lags behind V8: http://twitter.com/hannesw/status/39677300169515008

That being said, performance isn't the only factor, since Rhino offers the ability to utilize the wealth of well designed and production ready Java libraries, a much better garbage collector and ability to use more than 2GB of heap. However, these advantages that Rhino has over V8 will be eroded with time as more and more of these libraries are reimplemented in pure JavaScript.

A much more interesting question is whether asynchronous I/O will trump synchronous I/O for web app development. At Akshell we believe that the concrete advantages that synchronous I/O offers in terms of ease of development outweigh the potential benefits of increased performance offered by asynchronous I/O.
I upgraded our app from Vue 2 to 3 and I have no idea what this means in practice. I think they were talking more about how the Vue team curated their codebase, not the developer experience.
I definitely was not coding when I was 14. Dang.
They can, but they shouldn't have to. Leaking data should be a conscious decision, by default.