jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> In Japan, the word otaku refers to people who have obsessive, minute interests—especially stuff like anime or videogames. It comes from a term for “someone else’s house”—otaku live in their own, enclosed worlds.

Wow, when Glenn Greenwald spoke about the "worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired", I didn't realize it also included being too lazy to spend 1 minute looking up the subjects of articles on Wikipedia.

The use of "otaku" by the Japanese community and foreign communities interested in Japanese culture to refer to nerds (often themselves) actually originates from the (absofuckinglutely awesome, if I may add) 1982 anime series Super Dimension Fortress Macross, in which one of the characters used it to refer to other people. The original meaning of "otaku" not only includes "someone else's house" - it can also be used to politely refer to the person you're addressing.

It spread from there, first into print media geared towards the otaku (though it didn't go by that name yet) community and then into use by the community at large. In fact, the polite word for (someone else's) house, 「お宅」, and the slang for "nerd", 「オタク」, while both pronounced "otaku" are written differently and have very different connotations in contemporary Japanese.
There are a few shortcomings here. One is that the calls to list() in #16 and #20 are unnecessary - strings are sequences in Python. Another is that the second solution for #19 isn't correct (it might output the right answer, but if so it's a fortunate accident).
Why offer collateral if the person doesn't deserve it or could give fake info?
Wow, I'm thoroughly confused as to which way to go with Python and web frameworks now. We do a fair bit of Python work, primarily for back-end processing (our main work is still in PHP) and we've been trying to move more to Python. I did a LOAD of research into frameworks and had chosen to go with Pylons, and then I saw that they were becoming Pyramid. This announcement obviously means three of them are merging together, but it does make me a bit nervous. I want to stick with Python, because I love it, but this is all making my head hurt a little!!! Anyone on here done a load of research/experimentation already and care to help me make some decisions :) ?
> As all data increasingly goes digital, it is wrong for our society to present a conflict of interest: either keep my data myself, and lose out on modern technology; or use modern technology and be subject to omnipresent surveillance.

This is a false dichotomy regardless of the state of fourth amendment jurisprudence. There is no inherent reason why you have to store all of your data on Google's servers rather than having your own storage device(s) just as you didn't need to keep your papers in your associate's office a hundred years ago. There is no insurmountable technical reason why your data can't be stored and processed locally.

The problem is really economic. The problem is that you are about to buy a television and it won't change your life one bit whether the television is made by Samsung or LG, whereas that decision of yours will change Samsung's bottom line to the tune of a couple hundred bucks. Which means that Samsung et al are willing to pay more to influence your purchasing decision than you are willing to pay for e.g. email service, and allowing them to doesn't cost you anything. Which means that it's more profitable to offer "free" ad-supported email (and document hosting and blogging etc. etc.) than it is to sell you a product that allows you to seamlessly operate the service using your own hardware. That's the problem -- economics. The fact that the economic value of invading privacy in order to target advertising exceeds the value of not having it invaded for that purpose.

But once you have a system designed to allow surveillance for the purpose of targeting advertising, which most people have no significant objections to, you get every organization and government lining up who wants to do surveillance for purposes people do strongly object to, and the infrastructure to do it is already in place. So now there's trouble: Either you have exclude from government surveillance the data shared with corporations for targeting advertising, which governments don't like, or you have customers withdrawing that information from the advertisers in order to keep it from being exposed to government surveillance, which cloud companies and advertisers don't like.

Somebody is going to be unhappy. And there's a good chance that it will be the cloud companies -- even if the US government relents and announces that it's going to discontinue SIGINT operations against Americans without a warrant, there is very little chance that they'll actually stop against foreign citizens (though they may claim to officially), and even less chance that China and non-state actors (i.e. organized crime) will refrain from doing something similar. Which means that the cost in privacy is no longer just privacy against targeted advertising, it's also privacy against surveillance by governments and criminals.

On the plus side, new market demand for data hosting products without third party central servers.
My favorite part of this response is in the footnote on page two, which states:

>If your client sincerely fears that this depiction is too realistic to be perceived as parody, Krazam’s video should be the least of its reputational concerns.

Followed by screenshots from the video showing the DocuSign "Docustage" and Meme Center (Sponsored by GE). At the end of the video itself, the Coachella participant is banned from the event because their "vibes are not compliant with the Coachella policy".

Glad EFF stepped in here to protect small creators such as this one.
Alright, now try building a business on this.
It's a real shame to pin to Lua 5.1 but not use LuaJIT.
PasteMonitor is intended to act as a general purpose complimentary service to @dumpmon and Troy Hunt's haveibeenpwned.com.
Even if we had the operational knowledge, you'd still be trying to assemble a rocket that is half a century old. I would be amazed if the commodity parts, things like screws and washers and whatnot, were still being made.
I'm thinking mainly of EFF, Bamford's books, and the Snowden releases. Are you claiming that parallel construction isn't SOP? Reaching way back, why do you think that the Weathermen got a pass in Chicago?
Have a look at https://plus.google.com/+ThadStarner/posts/HQfRCMALr2V , especially the comments. "Upton['s] '67 hack" is evidently http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/lizzy/timeline.html#1967b .
The Economist is extremely moralizing. It represents the point of view of a city dweller with a high paying job who buys into liberal sensibilities but smugly thinks himself wiser and more prudent than the radicals on the streets. He is a modern day Girondist, at times alarmed to find his kind under the guillotine (we are on the same side! he might protest) but finding comfort in a magazine that reminds him he is part of the moral and economic elite who really know how to run things.

The political viewpoint of The Economist has shifted. Twelve years ago it was right-liberal, today it is left-liberal, but that is only because the above character has shifted in his views.
You should take that into consideration before taking on a job that might require you to drive around dogs.

As a country we decided long time ago, that people who require seeing-eye dogs shouldn't be subjected to substandard treatment by society - as was the case before the law protected the visually impaired.

If you want to completely avoid dogs, then don't take a job that involves having to interact with dogs.
Yes... Sanity prevailed, no thanks at all to SCOracle.
They said “tend to”...
Once you are notified of a possible SESTA/FOSTA violation, you are required to act.
Excellent! Well, I guess we have the first article for the wiki then.
Totally agree, And having your own cloud is another practical choice.
I think it is mainly to catalyze the certain interaction among users.
Yes, but we are powerless to change anything. It is not like that we can vote or have any voice in the governing of ourselves.

And even China doesn't block GitHub. It tried once, but backed down soon for unknown reasons.
I have ADHD. I haven't smoked marijuana and wrote code in years (smoked && write code), but I have before. It generally just slows me down. In the beginning (peek high), it makes code seem more exciting, but once the high wears off, I lose focus.

I've drank alcohol while doing system administration work. For example, I recently was migrating my web application to a new hosting provider (Digital Ocean).It was a bunch of tedious little tasks that had no abstract thinking involved, so I had a few beers and everything went ok.

As for drinking, and doing anything serious that requires me to challenge myself, no, alcohol or marijuana do not help. I'm prescribed Dexmethylphenidate, and that really helps me be productive while coding.
Wait, you're saying you'd prefer undocumented bugs and a constant stream of breaking changes to the runtime that force you to constantly port and report existing, working code?

I don't get it... the Java way seems pretty right to me. That said, I will allow that they might have been a little bit too rigid about not allowing breaking changes. At the very least this policy has resulted in Java evolving more slowly than it might have otherwise. But I don't necessarily find that to be unacceptable, all things told.
Happy New Year from EST!
The line between legitimate business and an illegal operation can be as thin as the line between genius and insanity.
I think you're myopic enough about your position that you're failing to understand the objection. jonnycoder wasn't saying that the USA isn't belligerent and aggressive. If I may be forgiven for putting words in his mouth, I think his point was that you're using for a negative connotation a characterization of a person who is serious about defending himself and his family while seeing that the authorities do not (and cannot) do so, and who believes in the freedoms guaranteed in our Constitution.

Your projection of aspersions on such a person is likely to force that person into defending himself, and hence disagree with your position purely as a defensive stance.
But the basis is still in there somewhere, right?

I mean, here in the EU being conservative means wanting to literally conserve established power structures, with a big emphasis on religious and social rigidity or even regression. It means having the desire to pass laws that benefit powerful centralized interests and marginalize minorities such as poor people or those deemed ethnically inferior. This is absolutely the direction where draconian and arcane laws come from.

Along those lines, I always took "liberal" to mean literally being of a laissez-faire attitude, being secular or at least open to science and advancement, big on personal freedoms and individuality but also often paired with an egalitarian desire for social justice.

I can't shake off the feeling that these words have been redefined in recent discourse in an attempt to prevent people from having a meaningful discussion about issues.
In algebraic notation? IMO that’s really not particularly tedious.
First, they can get impeachment done inside of a week if they have the votes in both chambers.

Secondly, the real point of impeachment probably isn't to remove, so much as it is to give the Senate a credible threat to use to rein Trump in. I opposed impeachment (both times --- on the politics, not the merits) but seen in that light it makes a lot of sense.
stop programming.. go meet a woman. NOW!
You're the one that wrote PHPBulletinBoard??? :)
Hey, thank you so much for that link, I just bought the book. I think I would pursue redditgifts as more of a business if there were a business cofounder involved with me. As it is right now, the fundraising and monetization world is not something I feel very good at, though I am trying to learn about it time permitting. My main goal as it is is to just make redditgifts as cool and big as I can. We're growing at a very fast pace and I'm excited about it.
I thought you weren't supposed to really "sit" most of the time on a bike -- mostly more of a crouch type of thing.
On the off chance you're reading and you want to pursue more IF, allow me to suggest the following really exemplary works of the past decade and a half which require only a modest time commitment of perhaps 1-3 hours. (Of course, there are many more; a lot of the best IF is more in the 5-10 hour range, depending on how broadly you explore the possibilities and/or how good you are at solving puzzles.)

Adam Cadre - Photopia http://iplayif.com/?story=http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-arc...

(these two aren't on Parchment, unfortunately)

Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster - Slouching Towards Bedlam http://www.wurb.com/if/game/2186

Dan Schmidt - For A Change http://www.wurb.com/if/game/605
I have the opposite problem. There's always a new programming technique I could apply to make my product give users a better experience. It's hard for me to act according the the idea that a good product is only one ingredient in a successful business, even though I know it's true. Programmers want to program.
What is it that you like about rackspace?

I have never tried them, but they seem pricey, and I get the feeling that when you try to get technical support in this very big providers you deal with some intern or temporary worker who has been there for 6 months, not the people who set up the datacenter from the ground up.

Also small companies know their only chance is to never loose a customer.
This is true. I think that people should have the capability of being successful, but only if they do approach it like a full-time job. That doesn't, however, guarantee success, even a large operation like the last one I worked for can fail.

If it were easy, and everyone could do it and make as much money as working full-time, without actually working full-time; then everyone would.
takes the bait

Q: "How to go from a nobody to a somebody"?

A: "Learn that everybody is a somebody."
Yes,I do believe in the God of heaven. I've read the Bible practically as I learnt to read, and found the Church failed to teach the Bible as it is, but is standing on the sand of human thoughts and traits.. I still read the Bible a lot in case I'd been misguided by my own thoughts but as I found too many lies I resigned the Lutheran Church and joined the SeventhDayAdventists. ..but after it was evident I really know what the Bible says I was promoted to teach them the Bible. After several years I found the people in SDA Church have even more sinister measures than my former Church I got greatly disappointed to human established and maintained Churches and as the Bible says, if any of you are gathered in the name of the Saviour, He is among them. I have some guys believing mostly as I do so that is the only Church I need.
I kind of see logic or the laws of nature as being "higher forces," but I can't bring myself to believe in sky wizards, ghosts, time travel, psychic powers, and the like.

As a philosophy major, I think something dissuading me from the religious persuasion is that most attempts to define/describe God are either different kinds of logical games (God = Beauty; this is what beauty is; therefore, god is // God = Perfection; this is what perfection is; etc // God = Nature, Light, Truth, etc etc) or completely illogical ones (The Bible says that God is true, so he must be!).

The Problem of Evil, in particular, sways me from placing faith in a god like the Christian one.
These are the crashing statements:

SELECT n()AND+#0;
SELECT strftime()
DETACH(SELECT group_concat(q));
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS t0; CREATE TABLE t0(t);
INSERT INTO t0 SELECT strftime();
SELECT quote(t) FROM t0

See https://www.sqlite.org/src/info/fe578863313128 for the patch.
Operating cost I can see, presumably as part of licensing or rev split (not in the industry), but shouldn't production costs be part of budget?
Frankly I think the last thing the world needs is another one of these, which is why I never hosted the one I wrote.

Increasingly I think the real need is in self-curated media.
I think it was the version bundled with Google's Chrome browser being referred to, and not the standalone Adobe Flash Player for Linux, which is quite old now.
You're saying that 06-03-2021 is shorthand for 2021-06-03 and are confused why people don't get that?
Your experience closely matches what I’ve seen in another Korean company, in a different industry. Tedious manual reports (for cover your ass reasons), PowerPoint used for everything, crap internal tools because of a strong ‘not invented here’ culture, mid 40s to 50s guys of mediocre talent but often inflated egos, and so on. Thanks for typing it up.
I've told that it's a 20 year old Ford because most of the cars (Fords) of that model year share the same electronic infrastructure. But, here you go:

"2001 Ford Focus MK.I"
Weight limits, and then electrics. A lot of GA planes have multiple things - lights + radios, wired into the same circuit because there's not enough circuits to keep them all separate.
It really is wonderful. I was forced to wrap my head around it in the past year while writing a tree-sitter grammar for a language that supports Unicode. Calculating column position gets a whole lot trickier when the preceding codepoints are of variable byte-width!

It's one of those rabbit holes where you can see people whose entire career is wrapped up in incredibly tiny details like what number maps to what symbol - and it can get real political!
Something about this story seems suspicious. You know that feeling you get when a news story hits all the right notes and confirms everything you thought to be true about the evil of the other side?

It is also surprisingly light on key details in a few areas:

> Treviño-Wright said since the lawsuit she has faced personal threats and on one occasion, assault, by the extremist Virginia Republican congressional candidate Kimberly Lowe who visited the butterfly center last month and demanded to see “‘illegals crossing on rafts”.

What was "the assault"? It doesn't give details.

>In an audio recording of the visit, Lowe is heard claiming baselessly that Treviño-Wright was “OK with children being sex-trafficked, raped and murdered”.

This is a rhetorical trick being misinterpreted as some baseless claim. The implication is that if you oppose The Wall, you are enabling all these things and are therfore complicit. Have you ever encountered hyperbole and pearl clutching before?

In any event, I don't want to go down the road of delving into this old news story. I guess my point is that there is probably much more to this than it seems, and, isn't a good justification for policing misinformation as strongly as some people want.
If he goes somewhere which doesn't have extradition, FED's will just call him and tell him they will go public that he has $4B bitcoin and ALL criminals will be hunting them after that.
>That just sounds like another strange all or nothing type measuring stick.

But yet that's what's happening. Trained virologists are getting strikes for daring to talk about things that aren't strict CDC narrative.

I think banning things like say ISIS recruitment and things that are dead pan, unarguably and immediately dangerous is tolerable censorship. Outside of that, it seems like a political tool.
I think the school system is a failure for many blacks, but they aren't denied an education. I think we need a system where black parents can send their kids to a better school than their local school.

The problem is this is not a black problem, but a poor problem. Poor areas, regardless of their racial makeup, have worse schools. This has nothing to do with race, but class.

I agree that just giving a day or month or whatever doesn't solve the issue, but when the people involved are all dead, we can't exactly hold a Nuremberg Trial equivalent. We also have a first amendment so we can't ban racism like Germany did with Holocaust denial.
Maybe open-source does actually need marketing and an appearance of quality and modernity to 'succeed', whether you like it or not. Code quality or complexity is often invisible and largely irrelevant to end-users (as long as the tool does the job), and it's a known fact of life that people are (at least initially) attracted to things that look good.

If I just look at myself as someone who's been using OSS for years, and absolutely depends on tools like gcc for my day-to-day work, even despite all that I still sometimes find myself discarding certain OSS software solutions I have no prior experience with, for nothing else but a crappy amateurish logo or an ugly website. I know it doesn't say anything about how good the software is, but somehow it's an instinctive reaction, which I think is pretty universal among humans.

In a broader sense, if you look at some of the reactions this article seems to trigger, I think you can safely see that tunnel-vision and a complete disregard of the differences between OSS developers and potential OSS users is a huge missed opportunity. You can be confident in the quality, complexity and utility of a piece of software whatever you like, but that doesn't 'sell' it to end-users.

If OSS wants broader acceptence and ever become a real-alternative to commercial software it needs superficial polish and marketing. This may not be relevant for compilers or debuggers, but it is relevant for tools facing non-developer end-users.
This post was flagkilled off the front page, and then unkilled after mgj59 raised a stink about it.

<mjg59> Hey @paulg you've created a website catering to people unwilling to even discuss the existence of an abusive culture http://t.co/1vnEA27kKL
I had to solve a real world problem for my current employer in my assignment. However, when they usually say it takes 20% to make a nice demo and 80% to make a the demo production-ready, I'd say the distribution for my assignment was even more uneven. It's just a PoC, a toy, nothing that can really be used. I did not know the tools used, the coding style or anything when I coded the assignment.

I see nothing unethical in it.

3 years later the feature has still not made it to production. I hate that every time it would have made my working day easier :)
One should read a book—or perhaps even many books—on mathematics, or any subject, to call oneself proficient in the subject matter. In fact, if you do not read books on subjects , you are part of the code quality problem to begin with.
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I run a small business in BI/data science, we saw every single lead we had fall through. All prospective projects are cancelled. I'm now looking for freelance jobs, but all the freelance jobs that were posted online at the start of this crisis are also wiped out by now. I'm now planning to eat up my savings.
Most home offices don't have 16 displays attached to the desk
Your practice deviates significantly from what other people are doing in the ecosystem, but if you like it for your personal projects, more power to you.