jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why we're all pretending we don't know what the cause of the partisan divide was. It's all very clearly documented.

https://theweek.com/articles/880107/why-fox-news-created

> If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration. In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create a new TV network that would circumvent existing media and provide "pro-administration" coverage to millions. "People are lazy," the aides explained in a memo. "With television you just sit — watch — listen. The thinking is done for you." Nixon embraced the idea, saying he and his supporters needed "our own news" from a network that would lead "a brutal, vicious attack on the opposition." Alas, his fantasy network did not come into being at that time, and the 37th president was soon engulfed in the Watergate scandal. At first, Republicans dismissed the scandal as a Washington Post "witch hunt." But then the White House tapes proved beyond doubt that Nixon had used the levers of government to pursue vendettas against his opponents and cover up his extensive skulduggery. Disgusted GOP leaders, including Sen. Howard Baker of the Senate Watergate committee, chose principles over party. Nixon was forced to resign.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gi...

> “One of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty,” he told the group. “We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal, and faithful, and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the campfire but are lousy in politics.”
I remain confused why people think cops would treat anti-cop and pro-cop protesters the same.
Our parents invented the transistor, radar, computers, operating systems, telecommunications, ...

We invented social media.
Could someone with an M1 try and run some Spectre gadgets?

Obviously read the source first but there are a few implementations of the basic ones on GitHub, not sure about the higher versions of spectre (I don't know whether CVE's require an implementation to be published).

If I can find I'll link a paper that describes a system to try to automatically characterize these types of side channels.
Why can't there be a Giant Lever on the side that inputs a variable into the Magic Algorithms that you can adjust. Up down, left or right, whatever you want to call it. Why would you do this - even if people never touch it: because at least people KNOW there's a decision-tree at play here.

Also there MUST be some randomization or more generalized content introduced. And I'm not talking Trending Now or Hit Songs That Just Came Out. I'm looking at you, YouTube and Facebook. Sometimes I actually want new stuff and it keeps dragging me back into a virtual rabbit hole.
Wow if twitter is that important you should probably stay in their good books and follow their rules, hey?
This is being discussed extensively at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25661474 and there are many comments along the same lines, though you may have to click More (at the bottom) once or twice to get to them.
Google AppEngine and Cloud DataStore

Free tier. Schemaless. Frees you up to focus on your app. Infinitely scalable. And you can train sophisticated models with AutoML. Best of Luck ;)
Are you saying it was "quite peaceful" in absolute terms or relative to other extreme events? I took it to mean absolute terms, but I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. If you lived there as I did, I don't see how anyone could look at the CHOP and say it was "quite peaceful" in absolute terms (eg, relative to an average day).
"For all of the appearances of the golden ratio, there may be even more erroneous sightings of it. The spiral of the nautilus’ shell is often said to fit precisely within a golden rectangle regardless of its size. But that is untrue. Each nautilus shell does maintain the same proportions throughout the animal’s life (that is, it’s a logarithmic spiral), but that proportion is generally not the golden ratio. Many have also claimed that the golden ratio is found in the proportions of various parts of the human body, the shape of the Gutenberg Bible, the Mona Lisa, and the Parthenon. None of these assertions have stood up to skeptical scrutiny, yet these myths stick with us. The mathematician Keith Devlin once gave a talk about the golden ratio, discussing numerous misunderstandings and debunking them, but when a radio station re-broadcast a portion of his lecture, it crucially omitted the fact that the examples were all false. Why does this myth persist? What makes it so resilient and appealing?"
- fbterm

- tmux

- urview

- nvi

- lynx/felinks

- nail

- irssi + bitlbee

- fbi

- fbpdf2

- mpv

- rclone/cadaver

Perfectly doable.
I don’t understand who would buy this. If you’re a game developer buying stolen code isn’t going to help you. Most of their titles are offline focused so I don’t see value in using the code to write cheats. I could see someone who hates them paying for email to release and damage the company but even that seems thin.

Also having worked in games i had a chuckle when I saw the “test framework” folder in Gwent and my first thought was “hmm probably fake then.”
There have been hundreds, maybe thousands of local privilege escalation vulnerabilities on Linux. People still find bugs in basic programs like sudo that have been there for decades. Still, nobody would ever suggest that Linux should have the same security approach as Windows 95 or that it's generally unsuitable for running code you didn't write!

Sandboxing code is hard, regardless of what language, runtime or operating system approach you use.
I'm curious if there are other approaches to artificial scarcity of decentralized digital assets.
Its design is based in thermodynamics and math. It’s the best design out there, regardless of what amount mostly to invalid comparisons based on misunderstanding the potential utility of BTC.
Looks like I can't edit any more. All the books have been claimed at this point. I hope you all enjoy them!
Join the future, not the past: put the newest statements on top.

True, most other live-chats do the reverse. But Twitter, blogs, and feeds are training people to read upward – it's the layout with momentum.

The old way was dictated by handwriting and then typewriters; it's no longer required with most written communication keyed-in. Even where a physical reason may exist to prefer a text entry box near the keyboard, as on smartphones, it's still easy enough to compose-at-top (as evidenced by URL bars and search boxes). Or, a covering animation could cause messages to visually 'whoosh' from bottom-entry-area to latest-on-top upon send.

I expect at some point a tipping point will be reached – perhaps as a generational thing, or when some other post-Twitter channel takes off – after which even older interfaces will flip. (Is there an IRC client that's latest-on-top yet? If not, I expect one soon.)

Eventually, even prose that seeks to create a strong sense of time-falling-in-from-the-top may reverse its usual line-ordering.
Thanks for going into detail on this. I've been putting off getting a recommended sleep study done and this is good motivation.
From the article:

"I did this because I hate uppercase characters in the middle of identifiers and I'm too lazy to type shift to get the '_'. In addition, I find it more readable."

just-use-lisp-style-identifiers-then
Coppola directed a film about Tucker sedan starring Jeff Bridges, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams. I remember it being pretty good, but I think I was probably 10 when I last saw it.
IMO 1password got this so right. Use Dropbox, make it work great. I'd wager a large % of things users are already hooked up with Dropbox.
Making good Turk tasks is a science in of in itself. Figuring out the incentive is the key, and sometimes you have to think a bit out of the box.

We actually used turking at my company for some really nutty stuff, logo generation. Basically we'd give people a URL and ask them to generate a 160x40 logo for it. We had some base rules, like the background had to be solid, have no scaling artifacts etc..

We assigned each logo to five people.

Our reward was essentially this:
- anybody who met all the rules, got .25c
- the best of all that met the rules, got a 50c bonus

It took a few days for people to get the hang of it, but after that we consistently got excellent results, with some really creative stuff coming back. Yes, we were paying up to $1.50 for the logos, but we weren't using them for every site, only the really popular ones, and having it automated made it worth it. Every day we spent maybe 60 seconds picking the best logo of five submissions for a few dozen sites, everything else was automated.

The product that used these by the way is NewsRoom, a pretty sexy RSS reader available on Android. All the logos you see for sites there were generated by Turkers.

Anyways, finding the right equation for that task took some experimentation, but I was impressed by the results in the end.
I'll bet that there are language issues involved as well (with many of the "Turkers" not having English as a first language.
I read "self-assessment" as: "how good I think I'm with the language" and/or "how much I think I know of the language"
People publish books about crimes all the time.
I'm actually writing an article on this now. My career in web development started over a decade ago. I'm done with it. I'm currently moving on to specialized interests (theory, ML, and BI). As for keeping up my chops, I've also switched to mobile and desktop development, as they aren't such a moving target and it's just so much more pleasant.

Web technologies were fun when I started back in the late 90s early 2000s. Learn the basics, build a server from scratch, throw a few languages and frameworks under your belt, and you were good to go. Of course, you can still build things simply, but good luck getting hired without the latest arcane tech stack in your resume (that will no doubt be forgotten in a few years). In addition, web development skills have become a worldwide commodity.

I am done with the web.
Google built their brand-new email product Inbox with GWT apparently. GWT might not be hip but it was still their technology of choice to build an extremely complex, intricate and convoluted web application.
Angular 1.x is still highly useful right now, and will be for a years going forward. I don't think we'll see much 2.0 adoption though, but we'll see.
It's an interesting argument that has some merit in my view, that violating copyright on games was just the "carrot" you needed to learn a useful skill, the manipulation of computers.

And yet, doesn't this mean that you owe your skill to defeating copyright schemes, and that if they didn't exist for you to defeat, you wouldn't have the skill you have today? :)
> The far more likely grounds for a ruling against a sloppy proxy operator will come from something like a HIPAA violation or perhaps one of the financial trading companies.

In general, I don't think a proxy operator would be covered by HIPAA; if there's any HIPAA issue there, its with the HIPAA covered entity with which the user is communicating using a communication mechanism vulnerable to an MITM attack in the first place.
I don't like the tone of this article. Articles like this were written after each and every single crash, which eventually led to sharper requirements, more certification, added security gizmos and thingies and more safe-ropes in every single corner of the aircraft. Most of that was reasonable, but care must be taken when making systems more complicated and static by taking what seems to be the easy route of "just adding a fix".

The reason why most of these systems seem anachronistic is not due to the high costs and financial pressure on the airline companies. Most systems seem so anachronistic because they have to be incredibly reliable and robust. Flight recorders are built to withstand about any disaster you can throw at them, which would be quite hard to do achieve with a modern cloud-enabled micro-electronic device. Even if we threw billions at the problem, it would most likely take five years to build a mass-deployable remote aviation telemetry system of the required quality level, just because making hardware is hard, and a half-assed solution helps nobody. It's particularly unlikely that a niche solution like the one suggested in the article works for everybody.

Don't get me wrong -- added safety is always nice. But let's take a step back for the moment. Let us not just put another whole new box into every aircraft after every crash. Instead, let's try and make the smallest possible adjustment to what is a well-proven, existing system already.

There have been reports after the MH370 loss that turbine telemetry data had been transmitted even after all other systems had failed. An small adjustment would be to lower the interval in which this signal was transmitted, down to say 30 seconds, provided the comm satellites are prepared to handle this. I'm not an expert on avionics, and I'm not claiming that this is the egg of Columbus, but surely there has to be a nice, small, lightweight and elegant solution, which incidentally is cheap on top of this.
Remember when we'd have one of these almost every year? Those were the days.

Kids today... Get off my lawn.
There are already precompiled headers. They are a big speedup as far as I know, but semantically problematic. Maybe if you use them, you will not see a speedup.
One of the unfortunate side effects of Affordable Care Act was that retail jobs nowadays don't provide you with any health coverage if you work part-time and they now try to limit your weekly hours at 29.5, which is the max before they have to treat you as a full-time employee.
Hmm, I wonder if the justice system has any reason for why some kinds of evidence aren’t admissible?

Nah, they probably just want to let a few criminals off the hook for funsies.
From memory, there was a whole thing where pipenv, created by Kenneth Reitz of requests fame, was misaccurately portrayed as the official successor to pip when that wasn't true
You need density, flat-ish terrain and often nice weather for mass cycling.

You can solve for density, but the other 2 aren’t in a cities control.
We struggle with this. And as an older, second time around parent, I definitely feel the struggle on both fronts:

Many poor videos, and just general patenting energy required.

Down thread, someone put the watch it with them email queue idea out there. Awesome! I am going to do that.

Overall, our best success is to have activities that are not screen time.

Many parents who may struggle financially, and there are way too many who do, in my view, lack time and potentially resources.

This is a growing pinch for a while now. Tepid wage growth coupled with cost and risk exposure growth mean more labor and or fewer resources, both of which come right out of parenting.

Some of it lands in the schools. The pandemic made that a mess and maybe for the better?

By that I mean a whole lot of us have had to pick up the slack and or are doing more parenting right now. (That may come at a high financial cost due to lack of work, which is not good either)

It is really hard to put costs on all this, but my general take on it all, comparing my childhood, that of my own kids and granddaughter now is:

Opportunity costs are going to be huge!

The squeeze on parenting, coupled with the general complexity of the society our future leaders and caretakers are expected to take part in, Shepard and grow to greater success, looks increasingly grim.

I came out of high school computer literate, could code, but also with a ton of other skills. Fix my car, or many things really, work with wood, metals, and in general could take most work and thrive.

My own kids got a fair amount of that, but I had to provide way more than my parents did.

Today, I see I will have to provide a lot more.

The general idea of so much greater information availability means less work educating has merit. I know what I would have done with that kind of access as a kid.

But does it mean less parenting?

Does it mean less exposure to basic skills?

From my point of view, no. It does not.

And to be clear here, my own parenting goals are to get the kids to a place where they can thrive and that means basic competence on many fronts just like I got.

It may also mean part of the education burden is curating all this stuff and to teach them what to look for and how to make use of it.

Most of us know. My kids mostly know and will ask for help sometimes. Less often as they grow in life.

In my view, emphasis on broad, basic competence is more important bow than ever. If they can relate to things, have some experience, they will seek and be able to make use of the information resource and it will seem achievable too, not foreign, or unattainable.

For now, I am making sure my younger one gets outside and is experiencing a broad set of skills. Just getting a handle on this world and the things in it.

Parents need to be able to do that, and or for the many struggling parents who may not have a base to draw on, even if they do have time, need help, and may well benefit same as their kids do.
> Support for poetry environments is currently our highest upvoted feature request on GitHub.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/wiki/Support-poet...
What a load of bullshit. Photoshop for students is $10 a month. That's $120 a year. Most students at most schools are throwing away probably $1000/year on textbooks (in the US).

Krita doesn't even work on OS X for crying out loud. This is not good for the students. Not good at all.
Should mkdir be first (so that it short circuits if $the_dir is unset?) I haven't done anything in bash in a while but that seems to be how it works on my computer (Debian Wheezy, bash 4.2.37).
You write as if what I said about browsers and DNSSEC wasn't right there in the thread above your comment. An odd rhetorical strategy.
There are recent AAA games around that attempt to get away from the kill-kill-kill dynamic. A good example is Dishonoured - there's a bonus for completing missions without killing anyone, and the entire game can be completed non-violently.
A quote of a similar nature:
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
On this particular machine I'm using, some distros have excellent sound out of the box and some require snoop=0 added to the snd_hda_intel options in /etc/module.d/ to avoid stuttering audio. I didn't discover this bug until after I'd bought the motherboard and tried various distros; in my research it never came up.

And on a completely different note, I have a Dell Latitude laptop from around 2000 or so, a Pentium III machine, that has no built in networking unless you count the dial-up modem. I picked up a random CardBus wifi card for $5, and OpenBSD recognized and configured it flawlessly.

It really all comes down to whether the OS developers have access to the hardware the rest of us use. If, for example, your wifi doesn't work, it's not likely to until enough bug reports are submitted that the kernel hackers responsible for wifi drivers get their hands on the hardware and write or improve a driver. It's the same for those trackpad issues you had; someone somewhere has to debug that.

This is why it's a good idea to research your hardware if you intend to run anything other than Windows or OS X. And even with research, it's rarely 100% working out of the box. That's the tradeoff for having what (in my opinion) is a very productive and comfortable working environment.
SEEKING FREELANCER, Vancouver, BC (no remotes please) for updates/changes to the One Degree iOS app. This is on an ongoing, as needed basis so if you have some bandwidth from time to time, let's meet! http://www.onedegree.co
>Does anyone have any pointers or suggestions regarding laptops of comparable build quality and design as a MacBook Pro?

Check out the Razer Blade 14". It's like a black/green Macbook Pro with a real GPU, higher res screen, and thinner chassis. It could use a magsafe and thunderbolt, but after reading about thunderstrike, I'm not missing that last one so much :D
You cannot get better. About as close to Bash as you can get on Windows.
AFAIK, there's no way to link to the Windows Store, just the phone store (which is marginally better). I've written Satya and the PM in charge of the store. Many devs are in contact with them about it. There's even a third party report on how bad the situation is, and in August, MS announced they were cleaning up and published reportapp@Microsoft.com, which seems unmonitored.

It's so bad that Netflix required three takedowns for the same publisher before MS decided not to allow scam "official" Netflix apps. The second hit for Facebook is a scam (FB has no way I found to report stuff if you don't have a FB account - lame for security.)

I'm betting that some high level people at Microsoft have a bonus tied to "number of apps published". That's the only way this crap makes sense. Even unpaid 14yr olds would do s better job cleaning up the Store. It's far worse than Android Marketplace ever was.
Cliché and truth aren't mutually exclusive concepts.
Here's a video about it:

http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2013/08/21/t-police-we...
Its like motor vehicle accidents Vs airplane crashes. More people die on car accidents but infrequent airplane accidents get a lot more press and strict government regulation.
In the real world, nothing goes that well.
I seem to be part of a small minority of HN participants who have actually lived through a transition from

1) an authoritarian regime with pervasive surveillance, direct governmental control of all mass media organizations, secret police who tortured and killed peaceful dissidents--even dissidents based in other countries, and a ruling party organized essentially as a terrorist organization

to

2) a government constrained by rule of law with broad protection of individual civil liberties, a free press, judicial and legislative oversight of the police, and multiple political parties based on voluntary participation.

I have tried to tell the story before here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5985720

of what life was like under the dictatorial regime, and I have repeatedly recommended experience-tested tips for freedom-fighters

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizationsde07.html

about how people around the world can, and do, organize to overcome authoritarian repression.

It's up to everyone here on Hacker News to decide whether or not to pay the price to organize to secure liberty. I know what the cost is, and I know what the reward is, of a successful freedom-fighting movement. I don't know whether or not Hacker News participants will mostly set aside their desires for comfort and entertainment to struggle successfully for freedom, but I will watching meanwhile, and I am always willing to help when dare to take a consistent stand for freedom.
and that, kids, is why making APIs is so darn important!
Agreed. My question was even more fundamental though - why would I even want traction and revenue? I've been working on what my girlfriend calls my forever project[1] for a loooong time. I used to think I'm going to raise money to work on it full time, get crazy rich and buy a Ferrari and get laid or something.

Given what I've read about the hell that is fundraising, I'm happy that I've got a hobby that makes me happy.

[1] https://www.wittenburg.co.uk/Entry.aspx?id=218fb45c-591a-441...
How did you discover the mastermind group, Brennan?

- Matt Goldman
I recently did the same thing: switched my personal laptop from Mac OS (since 2004) back to Windows. Couldn't be happier.

All my development environment transferred without a hitch (bash and git worked right out of the box) and compared to Windows 8, Mac OS feels like a clunky, antiquated OS.

I still use Linux (work desktop) and Mac (work laptop) but Windows is really where I feel I'm the most productive these days.
Yes. Only tested on Mac, but should work on Linux as well.