jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Tu Quoque really doesn't work here, because you can't compare a riot - no matter how unlawful - with the storming of multiple national symbols of government, complete with pipe bombs, nooses set up on the lawn, gunfire, the trashing of at least one official media enclave, and intimidation of lawmakers. Plus injuries and deaths.

And the implication that there's more to come if the machinery of government isn't handed over in full to the leader of the insurrection.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691631
Please link to where BLM protestors stormed a federal building with weapons while chanting about killing their representatives. Bonus points for planting bombs.
> both IRA and ETA had strong geographical and cultural components to their identity, which is not true of right-wing extremists.

A funny detail is that plenty of the treasonweasels who decided to storm the Capitol also decided to document themselves doing so on social media. And since they come from all over the country, they're being identified, named, shamed, and outed by people who know them. They're being fired from their jobs. They're being arrested for their crimes.

They thought they were simply the bravest spearhead, enjoying the support of the massive silent majority of Americans. In reality, everyone is tired of their respective crazy racist uncle, and are gleefully outing them.

The internet has made it possible to surround yourself virtually with like-minded people, thinking you're one massive family. But if you're actually disconnected in reality, if you're actually surrounded by people who really don't share your views, thinking your echo chamber is representative is a massive mistake.
Ascorbic acid is vitamin C.

Citric acid is also found naturally in citrus, it was not available economically in chemical form until the late 1970's/early 80's.

Now citric acid is a commodity after experiencing cartel-like activity before we got to where we are today.

It's the common tangy additive to food in all kinds of formulations.

I don't like it since it's an insidious buffer where each gram you consume would require a compensating amount of additional true alkali intake to fully neutralize.

If you wanted to be as neutral as you would be otherwise.

As an example natural orange juice has a fairly strong pH which can be moderated toward neutrality by adding citrate (the "alkaline" form of citric acid).

This is sold as "reduced acid" orange juice. You can tell the difference when you taste it because it is not as sour as the plain orange juice.

Often the citrate added is calcium citrate which also acts as a calcium supplement, but I still think it's not worth it.

Since pH is not total acidity. pH is simply a measure of how far away from neutral the solution is at the time. Often chemistry students have difficulty understanding this. There's lots of equations, they are confusing, plus quizzes and exams. Even the X-Prize for "ocean acidity" was awarded to the operators who had the most outstanding performance in pH measurements under the proscribed real-world conditions, but none of the participants actually measured total acidity at all, just furthered the capability for meaningful pH measurement. There were a number of PhDs involved and it appears to have slipped past them all.

Counterintuitively, the more of the "reduced acid" orange juice you drink instead of the plain stuff, the more you will need to include additional alkaline intake to remain as neutral, that you did not need when drinking only plain juice. Even though the plain stuff tastes more sour because it is.

As a commodity, like sugar, the supplier may have only one product to sell and there are excellent discounts when you buy citric acid in quantity. They've got plenty and can really deal. For instance if your recipe is attractive using one gram of citric acid per serving, if you scale up you could get a price break where putting in two grams is less costly than it was when putting in only one gram at first.

So the incentive is there to use more than you need if you are a food processor.

Still recommend citric acid for cleaning glass cooktops on kitchen stoves. It's not too abrasive and works pretty good for that.
News outlets can make their own calls on who to name. If naming brings more readers and one outlet won't do it then that's an opportunity for another outlet, provided everything else in the article is legal.

I don't expect NYT or any outlet to be free from bias and that doesn't mean I want any of them to disappear. I want them all to thrive.
Downvoters, what am I missing? I'm not saying cops shouldn't be held accountable, I'm saying malpractice is a convoluted way to go about it. The default method (getting fired when you screw up) isn't really done effectively today; while it might be hard to implement, developing some equivalent to malpractice for cops, and making it stick, sounds an order of magnitude harder.
Emerging markets and value stocks are historically cheap on a relative basis, see the What to Do? section at the end of the article.
> Pornhub deleted videos that were unverified because a number of them involved children and victims of human trafficking and abuse.

Indeed, but they through the baby out with the bathwater on that one. A tiny percentage of the content they deleted met that criteria.
"Thiel Fellow" says it all
I don't think it's as much the cost as it is the technical difficulty to install and maintain certs.
If the attacker "0wned" the servers the fact there was encryption between you and the server doesn't really help a whole lot, they can just insert them selves in the stack post encryption (or even use the private key to decrypt the encrypted traffic if they wanted to minimize the number of points they touched).
Put another way: marginilization of fringe positions could be considered a desireable quality of a voting system, as long as sufficient free speech protections are in place.

In a sense, elections act as a sort of filter between ideas and actions. Freedom of speech can be used to disseminate ideas, and some truly awful ideas will disseminate rather widely. However, they won't usually gain enough adherents to get enough votes to make it past the "filter." That's why there's little harm in letting people espouse "dangerous" ideas with their speech[1]: most people will recognize bad ideas for what they are, and the proponents of the worst ideas generally will not be elected to positions where they can influence policy directly.

This "filter" is far from perfect: some bad ideas will become laws nonetheless, and some good ideas will get blocked. More of the former than the latter, though: if an idea is good enough, it will eventually garner sufficient support to become a significant factor in elections.

There have been cases in history where entire societies did adopt bad ideas (e.g. fascism). However, I think that when an entire society takes such a dramatically wrong turn, even the most perfect voting system will not save it.

[1]It's important to draw a line between espousing ideas and encouraging actions.
When you get to a scale of hundreds of millions of users, providing
support must be an absolute nightmare. I'm really not sure how it could
be done effectively. On the other hand, it is a fascinating problem to
ponder.
Well, this will be interesting to see what happens.

They have min. 1.5 MM in funding - assuming they are all taking between 75 and 150K salaries, that should be ~24 months of runway -- shrink the salaries back a bit, and expect equipment / development costs and I'd expect thats realistically 12 to 18 months of funding.

So far, skull ninjas have produced (3?) projects, two of which seem to be about sharing (locations, and ranked lists)...

So we have 3 co-founders on the list, one of which appears to be biz-dev focused, a couple devs and some idea guys.

What I want to know though, is what they showed the investors to push them off the cliff to the tune of 1.5MM - divided among 22 people is an average investment of 68K per person, lets assume that the range is 25K++ as a base.

That is both a lot of faith in Milk, and a wide spread on the total amount...

I certainly hope they come up with something killer, but I just get the feeling that Kevin put a lot of work into getting investment into his own little idea incubator solely based on cult-of-personality and not based on the-next-big-idea, that is awesome, and I know that every geek in the valley would wish to do the same - but lets see what they actually produce.

(p.s. Kevin, if you were the Kevin in the wompt chat thread - you should reach to to that kid from MIT)
I'm not moving, Erik (hueypriest) Martin is.

Everything else in your tracker is right on :)

I'm bummed this is such a story, though, because the real story is Erik's promotion (congrats, dude!) and Max (chromakode) joining the team. He's been a longtime code contributor (socialite) and active redditor for even longer (he also donates time to help breadpig, building stuff like WTFCNN.com for me).

I was simply asked by Conde to formally advise them from time to time about reddit & their general web strategy (and possibly consult on future mascots for new web properties). The chance to have some input on my baby was hard to pass up, but this is not even a part-time gig -- managing and growing the hipmunk brand & community is my fulltime commitment.
The ones already listed are pretty great but others that haven't been mentioned:

http://ilovetypography.com/

http://k10k.net <--Awesome site back in the day, unfortunately little updates for awhile :(

...and a few others that I can't mention on here due to the HN affect unfortunately :(
Unfortunately I don't. Space has a lack of most of the basic things needed for humans to survive. Like air, water and land. Trivialities I know.
Why not just use a fixed-wing RC aircraft?

Multi-rotor copters are great for stability and easy to fly, but suck for, say, flying over a border.

And depending on your noise requirements, you could even use a fuel powered engine, which would give you much better height, range, speed, and payload.
The javascript community seems to live by the motto "A framework a day keeps the doctor away".

Is anyone keeping count, we must be in the hundreds by now?
“important national symbols”

It’s not just a symbol.
This will certainly give boost to the decentralization movement in general and to Mastodon in particular.
Just to keep things in perspective, Twitter was founded in like 2006 so Twitter has only lived through 3 presidents.
Absolutely it's possible, but as it was a shared computer, it's also likely to be one of the oldest in the fleet. It's also likely to be one that no one bothers to ask for specific attention to. As a result, it's likely that no full disk encryption was ever applied.
ratww, I didn't intend to suggest perfection from either side. But, only one side wants to censor the other for their opinion, the manner in which they convey it, or broad association with extremists by way of similar beliefs on a much narrower subset of ideas.

My example of climate change was merely a "for instance" rather than for the topic of the example to become part of the discussion.

Point being, silencing one side doesn't work if the alleged reason is their ideas are so wrong they are too dangerous to be read unless you can properly show what you claim is "right".
Alexandra for the Nobel peace price! The opportunities she creates to do good in society are unmatched. No sarcasm. Seriously, we should make it happen.
Folks keep saying lots of logical things like this (for decades). And yet TSLA p/e is 1800.

And there are a dozen TSLA on the horizon.

And the market keeps making new ones.
I remember reading Sun’s financial statements at the time and bragging about huge 50% margins and thinking that can’t last. In some alternate timeline, Sun would’ve lowered their prices, stayed in the game, and we’d all have rock solid Sparc laptops by now.
Ok. Can you name the three top radical ideas of each side? Just curious.
I feel like I was once where you are. Find your passion. For me it was realizing that broken things that make me angry also can imbue me with the passion to fix them. Once you realize your passions, you only have two options. Do something you are passionate about, or don't.
I'm glad someone pointed this out. It's really not hard to save that much if you have realistic goals/expectations.
I am using Office 2010 since last two months and I think it is solid. In fact use a non-IE browser to try the online versions from office.live.com. Try OneNote. Despite the article I do not think Google docs compares that well.
What exactly were you expecting?
You might consider a type of incentive program or a revenue share approach. If people refer others, then you give them a certain percentage of whatever money they yield.
Would HN be better or worse if it were just a category on Digg?

The specialized domain/community allows users to get into much more detailed discussions about their topics and it helps filter out contributors with just a passing interest. This increases the reliability of the information shared and the quality of the discussions.
False. Capitalism features property rights. Unless the oil company owns all the polluted property, they are liable for the damage to the property of others (at least under a capitalist system).

The problem: Nigeria is a corrupt third world country. It has nothing to do with capitalism.
Wish I had this logic when I was 16 and working my awful minimum wage jobs. Sure, that money ended up in an IRA eventually, but $1k gets made much faster as a software engineer than it does frying chicken wings for minimum wage, to the point where the trade off from having a bit of fun in high school or college would vastly outweigh the small gains I made.

I remember thinking my friends and peers were wasteful for spending their earned money on a new graphics card or even buying a $2 drink when they stopped at the gas station instead of saving what was required for necessary expenses, setting aside a little bit for fun, and saving everything else. Turns out I was the fool.

I am happy for that habit of saving, but I wish I had more perspective and reduced my savings rate to focus on having a buffer instead of saving for retirement at 16. I guess that's what growing up is for.
Stupid question: can you report your income as illegal on purpose in order to pay tax on it because you fear the wrath of the IRS more than the police? If you don't specify the exact nature of your crimes but only that you wish to pay them more money, will you get audited or get in trouble with the police/DA?
Surely you don’t think we should include questions about which race commits the most violent crimes proportionally? Because in this thread your claim is that dry simple facts should be fine even if they raise eyebrows. It seems to me that context is important and often people don’t agree on what the statements mean, and that these concerns have no place in a math class.
Time to stop using LizardWare and only use Telegram and Signal. A few years ago these were pretty exotic but now most people have them.
>I said fragile but I would've mentioned efficacy - it's past midnight. The NHS isn't even that good, but it's hard to bring it up because it's the sacred cow.

NHS does well in the Commonfund healthcare comparisons (https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/other-publicat...), especially given how small a share of UK GDP healthcare spending is. That's certain an argument for its unitary, top-down structure. That same integration, however, makes it vulnerable to the sort of political grandstanding that Private Eye satirized.
The Viennese coffee shops were such a third space, before the 20th century came crashing down upon them.

One thing TFA doesn't mention is that town squares even provided the equivalent of Tinder: convention in many areas was that girls and boys would perambulate the square, circulating in opposite directions, one set clockwise and one set counterclockwise...
Pretty much all of the archetypal examples of trademarks becoming "genericized" are actually examples where the trademarks are still fully enforced. I'm not going to be able to get away with selling Bob's Kleenex or Happy Sheep Q-Tips anytime in the foreseeable future.

That entire lecture that everybody gets seems to me to be for the purpose of rationalizing sometimes extremely aggressive trademark enforcement to prevent something that has never happened.
Hmm. I've been in the capitol building. From memory you can't just waltz in there like it's grand central station.
Both parties are beholden to mega-corporations.

The public disagreements are over things that the corporations absolutely don't care about one way or the other, or that they are divided over. The one thing neither side will ever even hint at doing is make corporations and their officers responsible for the consequences of their actions and choices.
> because their real goal is usually to disenfranchise voters who will vote for the opponent.

This is the crux of the issue. I think there should be a constitutional amendment not only guaranteeing every citizen (felony convinction, in jail, or not!) not only the right to vote, but also requires them to vote. There should be a federal department in charge of finding you and collecting your vote. Too much politics is about getting people alternately mad, apathetic, or lazy, and we need to stop that.
I expect they'll make a few units and give them away as a sweepstakes, or maybe a few dozen/hundred to be sold as a novelty.

It can be a product without being a mass market retail product.

Their Japanese division offered a custom keyboard in ~2014 as a contest prize.
Shameless plug: I didn't invent peanut butter, but did invent the first half-calorie peanut butter.

www.ownyourhunger.com

AMA.
If you're mostly working online and able to pull in some work from that, you could get an apartment from $600 - $800 in Albuquerque, New Mexico area. Or if you prefer to buy a house, you could get something for under $150k if you're only looking for 1-2 bedrooms, kitchen, and bath.

The further away from Santa Fe you get, and even Albuquerque itself, the cheaper everything is going to be. I love the hiking, the Sandia Mountains, and access to 25 (north and south) and 40 (east and west) can take you all the way up to Canada and down to Mexico or to
California all the way east across the country to Virginia.

Weather is relatively stable, though windy at times, however it is beautiful during the day. Desert can get cold af to the point of hurt at night. Women are nice and friendly, but the state itself is seemingly isolationist: everyone tends to keep to themselves.

While I'm not self-employed, I work 2-3 jobs from home which affords me more of my paycheck. I am originally from New Jersey, where if you made 2 paychecks a month, 1 paycheck usually went to rent while the other paycheck went towards food and going out. Instead, about 1/4 of one paycheck goes towards my rent, while the rest is for other things and has afforded me the ability to do quite a bit.

My only issue that I find myself having to do is correct my W-4 with the state to offset taxes, as the state itself tends to have a higher employment tax rate which can add up, but offsetting it by $10 or $20 usually keeps everything under control. I'm sure self-employment taxes are a bit higher as well. However, you can definitely get a nice luxury apartment or house and likely afford it on a single income.
Yeah, meat in moderation can actually reduce emissions because animals can use resources that would otherwise just go to waste. It's unfortunate that our meat consumption is so drastically above that threshold that we use giant agricultural areas just to provide feed for our animals.
am I understanding this correctly that Flask-stormpath (and stormpath in this use case) is meant to provide Flask-Security like interface but hosted?
Culture does matter. In India, boasting about ranks/marks of one's kids is
pretty much a cultural thing, everyone does that, with an enormous pride.
This breeds a batch of kids who want marks and not the knowledge or
understanding of things.

Fair enough. I agree with this.

Almost everything is a darned 1/2/5/10 marks question. Even the
interested ones are forced to conform and be one in the herd.

This maybe true, but I'm also not completely convinced. I don't think we lack creativity - there are any number of stories of 'jugaad' I could bring up here to make my point. We do attempt to conform a lot though - but even the Japanese do that and they don't seem to lack any creativity.

Indian social framework by large kills creativity and promotes rote
learning, and the effects thus seen are quite well known and obvious.

Perhaps, I'm misunderstanding you, but the claim that the Indian social framework kills creativity is not at all obvious to me.

My thinking is that the middle class promotes rote learning because it values education and doesn't know the difference between real understanding and rote learning.

I once heard a really well-known American professor say "most people don't like thinking" and sometimes I think is true pretty much everywhere in the world. If you look at the Americans and kind of dumb ideas a significant minority of them have about any number of issues (evolution, Islam, Obama's birth, Saddam, the Iraq War) it's quite clear they lack some basic reasoning skills.

Therefore, I suggest the following (intentionally controversial) hypothesis. Only the smartest 25% of people are actually capable of thinking. Perhaps, in the US, it turns out that this set is a superset of those employed in technology companies. In India, through an accident of economic circumstances, this is not the case. This is probably why we see so many instances of "dumb Indian software developers".
Removing comment scores seems to have increased the amount of mediocre/poor comments around contested topics: I am noticing more more brother/sister comments that are basically reiterating each other and more debates that veer to uncontrollable levels of indentation when the key points were already covered in the top level post and first child.

The relative absence of these black holes of discussion is one of the things that brought me to HN in the first place, and I think that showing comment scores discouraged them on multiple levels. Public upvoting lets people express their view on the topic without posting points similar to those already expressed. When two comments have a lopsided point spread it lets one "side" of the debate feel more comfortable letting the other have the last word.
Thanks, that's interesting. It is really hard to find these kind of systems in the wild.

I've read a bit about the SCID (source code in database) paradigm, and it seems similar, representing the code as a graph database. But it seems mainly about people talking how great it would be instead of implementing it and putting it to the test :P
I have noticed Google has one service which has responsive support: Google Project Hosting. <http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting>; It may be just due to low volume of requests.
Your page is too wide. At least with the scribbled text on the left hand side that distracted me.
You can see how agreeable a comment is by how far up the page it is.

Except if it's nested.

Sometimes the most useful comments are replies to less-interesting top-level comments. In this case the lower-scored item is positioned higher up the page than the higher-scored item.
How would you prefer bloggers to measure success? I assume that most writers would measure success in readership, influence, or money. Traffic seems pretty close to readership. Influence is harder to measure, but generally the more readers, the more influence. And money from a website is generally proportional to traffic.
Decades in, I don't think we have a meaningful (or at least measurable) definition of what productivity actually means (the article touches on this).

So it's hardly surprising that we don't pay in accordance with something we still don't know how to measure...
Way to alienate customers, Dropbox. I gonna cancel our teams account and refrain from using dropbox alltogether.