jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"It's not a good idea to pick up skydiving when you're in a burning plane and it's the only option."

Well, if it's the only option apart from dying in a plane crash, I'd argue it's a very good idea.
pak definitely knew what an iTouch was, and I similarly cringe when I hear people refer to it like so.
“There are some cool things about the new site, and I like the use of HTML5 font faces and other things like that, but for the most part it's less usable for more shininess. Compare http://scriptures.lds.org and http://classic.scriptures.lds.org and tell me which you'd rather read from.”

Clearly the first one (ignoring for now that scrolling on Safari was jerky when I tried). The old one is fluid which is just a bad idea for long texts. Much more than about 100 characters per line reduce readability, using all the space on a 1920 pixel wide monitor is just a bad idea.

The new version could maybe have about one third wider lines but the seventy or so characters are a good number for texts on the web. The new version is beautifully typeset and has about the right line length.

Using all the available horizontal space on the web for text is nearly always wrong.
Please try it out. I created a "Test Contest for HN users"
Not only is it actively being developed, but they're really working to make it attractive to open source developers.

Moving the proprietary stuff out to a separate "extension pack" (that could easy be replaced with a third party open-source version) is really a nice step.
Fighting the digital dark ages isn't a big deal? I thought the author made it pretty darn clear how revision control would change the face of writing - it would change it back to how it used to be.
Fair warning: Most of this is criticism (constructive, I hope). I'm American and not much of a baseball fan, so I'm certainly not your target audience, but I can give feedback on my impressions. I'm not trying to tear it up - I just want to be helpful. I'm a developer more than a designer, so take my design feedback with a grain of salt.

Initial impressions: I'm not wild about the color scheme. The green background in particular sort of messes up the contrast of the rest of the design. The "learn more" link is barely visible on that yellow background, which is probably going to cause conversion problems. Try something like this: http://colorschemedesigner.com/#2v51T2GtNw0w0

You're billing this as a social tool, but you're missing the biggest potential social leg-up - logging in with Facebook/Twitter. You get social connections and reach baked in with that; doing Yet Another Proprietary Login is going to hurt conversions and make mapping your own piece of the social graph harder than you need to.

Paddings are inconsistent - the "Predict/Join" button is indented more to the right than other elements relative to box edges. "Overall Standing" has more padding up top than similar elements. This leads to it feeling a bit sloppy.

I've got a horizontal scroll bar at 1920x1200, but can't figure out why. Minor annoyance. Sidebar boxes are different widths, which detracts from the page layout.

Inconsistent fonts - serif in some places, sans-serif in others - are distracting.

From a code perspective, the page is littered with inline styles - you'll find it a lot easier to manage moving forward if you do all your styling in a CSS file via class selectors. I highly, HIGHLY recommend Compass + Sass for this - it will streamline style management like you wouldn't believe. It'll also get you a 960 grid to work on, which can help address a lot of your alignment/padding issues.

I have no feel for the market for this sort of thing, but my hunch is that if you can really drive home the social aspect of it - friendly competition between friends - you might have a neat app on your hands. Add in some trophies or badges or ranks or something - you are solidly in "gaming mechanics" land here, capitalize on them to really make the product fun and addictive.
Maybe...or it will simply create a new branch of technical writing such that the performance is just as important as the final work.
Since it seems like your work is about a big shift in thinking, it will require people to spend a lot of time before they start to grok the important ideas. So you need to keep them on board long enough for big ideas to seep in. So you need to work on keeping it engaging and relatable. Sort your ideas by palatability, and start with the most palatable.

Impose on a few friends first to read and comment on drafts. They can help identify the rough edges that will discourage other readers with less commitment.
Only some antibiotics will cause issues. If you have to take alternatives to any of the "cillin" family, the medical community at large recommends no more than 2 full treatments within 18 months. Anything more than that can lead to things like C. Diff and may require a fecal transplant or needing to take probiotics that a pharmacy will carry in a refrigerator up on their deck.

I forget what the terminology is, but broad spectrum antibiotics are generally worse for your gut than something targeted, iirc.
I used to try and raise funds for the UK pycon (I was very bad at it) and my biggest takeaway was that most devs were infavour of their company forking over some cash, but "charity" was a tough sell internally. The best results was selling "booths" at the conference. But that had more cost to the sponsor than just the cash we asked for.

I have been mulling on Something that makes it less charity - purchasing a "not really support" option. This might be a annual membership, in return for which you get ... early access to annual roadmap pdf. Or an online video from the main devs explaining what they are doing for five minutes (#)

What if there existed something to Make the above easy and simply to do - a small foundation who's job is to keep membership rolls and accept payments from companies on behalf of any foss project that signs up (it's something I imagine patreon could offer). They then ensure that the (minimal contract) is adhered to in some manner.

(#) Seriously - you could set up a zoom call with 1-5 devs and just hit record once a year - I promise that 99% will see this as unbearable imposition and then talk for two hours. And that's "actionable paid insights into the future of this tool we depend on"

So the point being, if your FOSS project gets traction, then sign up to this foss-patreon, tell everyone to click to subscribe and you might might get a sponsor or two.
Save yourself a few minutes of your life and skip this pointless babble.
I disagree. HR council is a lost opportunity. The countries on it are the worst offenders, only there to ensure nothing happens.
Couldnt have been worse.
Doesn't read well tbh. Savings in shelter costs where the only good comparison regarding cost effectiveness and even that they did in a weird way (how did the control also save money on shelter?).

Showing how much more cash savings ppl have after you hand them cash is almost ironic :).
I'm waiting for the new F-key layout (layout of the M1 laptops make more sense)
It's a weekend of work to change the spike mRNA in both mRNA vaccines to accommodate a new virus mutation. An additional 4-5 weeks for production to take this new formulation from code to finished vaccine. So in a matter of 6 weeks total, a variant can be countered by a new vaccine variant, if necessary.

Since the results of the regulatory tests and safety and efficacy validations can mostly be transferred for slight vaccine modifications (at least that's my state of knowledge), a variation should not have to go through the entire chain of test phases again before it can be cleared for use.

If anything, the prospect of mutations can only be seen as a significant moat for mRNA vaccine manufacturers, because their technology is the fastest when it comes to such adaptions.
One area where fish is excellent is IMO interactive shell scripting. No more case..esac and friends. Fish adopts a python-like syntax that makes it ridiculously easy to write loops fast in the terminal.
"each process has 4 gigabytes of virtual address space all to itself"

A process does indeed have all 4GB of VIRTUAL adress space to itself. unless I'm misunderstanding you.
Nasdaq is up only .5%, MSFT is up 7.35%. Given that MSFT has high weight on the Nasdaq, a 7% move for them probably accounts for a large proportion of that .5% overall move.
Doesn't matter. He can pardon them before any charges are laid out, or after and he can give a blanket pardon for crimes related to whatever and to anybody involved, because the pardons don't have to be to a named person.
I would so love to have sliders on Youtube to be able to adjust bias filtering, and watch the suggested videos switch sides in real time.
This would probably get me to pay for the subscription.
People mistaking reality for what they want it to be, false sense of morality, opposed to the basic survival interest of the other group.

Done. You tell me which is which.
Excellent analysis. I don't always agree with Matthew Yglesias, but this is spot on.

I think part of the reason why is that, in order to earn "trust", people have to:
1) trust that you are trying to do the right thing
2) trust that you are competent to do the right thing

A lot of the complexity of modern government programs, regardless of whether or not they achieve (1), are more or less guaranteed to fail at (2), for all the same reasons that complexity is a problem in software or anything else.
Held accountable by whom? The government? Which is controlled roughly half the time by a party which you probably disagree with vehemently?
That does not make this a coup. This is a riot. While there is no doubt that the rioters want the election results to be overturned, there is no indication that they have the ability or intention to use force to make that a reality.

These are angry people being disruptive and destructive. That's what a riot is. Calling it a coup is conspiratorial.
There's a longstanding prison abolition movement that insists that that's what it means, and from what I've read, this whole line of thinking originated with that movement, so the distinction you're drawing is not so clear cut.
Keep in mind that half of Mt. Gox's value is in BTC. They tend to receive about 1% of volume (average 0.5% commission on both sides of trade - half of which is fiat, other half BTC)

Last month or so they've had about 20K or so daily volume. So 600K X $100/BTC X 1% = about $600K/month. Let's double that for good months. Hell, triple it. $1.8 M/mo, or $900K cash. I'd assume $100K/mo for salaries, infrastructure, etc. So about $10M/year in profit.

Half of it's frozen. Meanwhile, they have $900K/mo in BTC. That's a liability if they can't properly cash out. They'd probably have to sell about 1/2 of what's in their wallets to get to solvency as people continue to want their money. They control like 60% of the market - so what would be the effect of about 30% of all BTC hitting the other exchanges? Assuming they could handle the traffic, it would devastate prices.

Or they liquidate. 60% of all BTC flooding market.

Or they go under. It'd be good for those holding in other exchanges, but that would be an epic implosion as all those BTC's "disappear".

I can't see this scenario change, unless they can start fulfilling all wires within the next couple of weeks.

Folks will split hairs about the fact that the freezes are on their subsidiary... but how of Mt. Gox's business runs through it? Enough that the distinction is pointless.

All of these numbers are ballparked, but the deeper point: much of Bitcoin's success and attractiveness is based on the Mt. Gox exchange. Too much. It's going to destroy the market as it currently stands.

The only alternative is for everyone to pull out BTC, destroy Mt. Gox, and hold as the other exchanges stabilize.
Why would you give it to Facebook?
My guess is the Venn diagram of parents letting advertisers raise their children and HN users is not two disparate circles...
Not video, but bash.org has some great exchanges.

Like the hunter2 one: http://bash.org/?244321
Depends on if it's jail or prison, and what level of security/crimes.

Jail is usually short term, so is less of a clique/gang issue (except some areas).
Depending on the kind of damage a given person may do when not in prison, the cost of keeping said person in-prison may be cheaper than the damage they do to society. For example, an arsonist that just burns down buildings for the lawls, it is cheaper to keep them contained in some fashion.

Now, do we need to rework how our prison and penal system work overall? For sure! Once you have a felony on your record, you are a pariah within society and it makes it much harder to start over. As well, how we deal with mental health issues still seems less-than-ideal.

But we still have yet to figure out how to differentiate between someone that tries to do better after 1 bad decision/mistake or someone that keeps being a drain on society (due to continued criminal activity). We tried the 3-strike model, that that doesn't seem to have worked out great. I honestly don't know of good approaches here.
> A cyber yuan stands to give Beijing power to track spending in real time, plus money that isn’t linked to the dollar-dominated global financial system
I think there's also a case-load angle here. Don't public defenders usually have hundreds of active cases?
It makes me sad just to think about a world where every pub conversation and class discussion I've ever had was archived for posterity. That sounds like misery to me.
My concern are the usernames, emails and phone numbers that were probably not encrypted
I seemed to recall such Mario clones as well. Nintendo is quite protective of their IP, so I have to think that they must have threatened legal action. Does anyone know? Is there precedent for legally protecting the layout of a level?
Literally was arguing with someone like two days ago that using Slack for sensitive data was a bad idea, guaranteed to blow up in your face sooner or later.

Nothing sweeter than "I told you so".
> Though I think the same trick could be done with, say, <img> or <style>, and those wouldn't allow XSS

You can XSS with SVG "images" [1]. Though up-to-date browsers should be patched against this.

The other option is having an image which said the same as the alert() message. Again, using SVG, this needn't be much bigger file size than the JS response [2]

[1] https://www.owasp.org/images/0/03/Mario_Heiderich_OWASP_Swed...

[2] http://www.w3schools.com/svg/svg_text.asp
Also, most docs are from 2012. Who knows what happened since then. There is a reason, they have an army of mathematicians at hand.

I look forward to the day when they walk away from their jobs.
Factoring RSA-2048 in 2020 sounds impossible.

tptacek said it's extraordinarily unlikely NSA can scalably factor RSA-1024 today [1].

Look at how difficulty increases in the Yafu with GGNFS benchmark on wikipedia [2].

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844239

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_%28cryptosystem%29#Integer...
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I guess that's one plus to living in AR. :)
The concept of a livestream isn't new at all, but there are a thousand subtle things that are slightly different (http://austenallred.com/_site/the-subtle-things/). The way they're tied into Twitter and riding an already-existing social graph, the widespread adoption of mobile, the availability of bandwidth and the acceptance of ephemerality are all completely different than Justin.tv or the many other attempts in this space.
It may also try to do syntax highlighting and other formatting stuff, taking up even more resources and cpu time.
Vim ships with a command called `view` that will start it in read-only mode, and makes it very much a viewer — not just an editor.
That's literally their job. You should want the NSA looking into every protocol. What they do if they find weaknesses is a different question.
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Have a vector of shared_ptr that own the objects in the graph and build a graph with weak_ptr ?

Removing an object is just as easy as removing an element from the vector. (If you test the weak_ptrs on use, that's actually the only thing you would need to do).
This practice is to enable suppliers to perform "value based pricing" i.e. adapt their price according to how much you want / need their offer.
On linux it should be possible to install multiple versions of libstdc++. But newer versions are binary compatible [1] with older versions so you can just keep the most recent version.

[1] modulo ABI bugs and bug fixes of course.
My young country didn't gas 12 million of its own citizens, so I'd say we're doing comparatively better.
And parseInt() also take an extra argument, the "base" of the number—hence the weird results.

(Which also means that a static type checker would not have caught this "bug".)
I like games like Scrabble and Bananagrams. I like games where capturing territory is part of the strategy. This is a game that attempts to combine elements of both. I've been playing around with the idea in my head for years and finally found the time recently to try to implement it.

I'm still working on tweaking the rules and trying to find new ways to make the game more interesting, but basically you place words onto a map which is either random, or a world map, or a map of the U.S. etc., and you try to control more of the map than your opponents.
If I have learned anything over the last few years it's that things could always be worse, and that denialism will exist in any scenario or condition.
No.. This is not a good idea.

Sure there is merit to them being "coordinated and continuous workers", I can see the argument for that regardless of the gig economy. But having to back-pay the taxes for said workers is close to extortion.

My Middle ground would be a mediator instead of an ultimatum.

> Should the platforms hire all 60,000 couriers, there's a high price to pay to catch up on previous, missed social security payments, said European labor law specialist Luca de Vecchi. Social security contributions in Italy can amount to up to 33 percent of an employee's salary and must be paid by the employer.

This is just crazy.. How can the government expect a company to backpay what the government allowed in the past ?

This is wrong.
Why not a firing squad? I’ve never understood why we are so concerned with the pain and suffering of a condemned murderer. I get that the 8th amendment is there and we shouldn’t want to make anyone suffer but some criminals are alive simply because it’s illegal to kill them.
And my claim is that the fundamental tenants of the FSF are abhorrent fanatical nonsense, made clearly evident if you replace "software" with "novel". They are deeply offended by the idea that your computer could be running proprietary software that you're not free to modify, re-sell, or do whatever you want with; but are they equally offended when your Kindle contains a book you're not allowed to modify, re-sell, and do whatever you want with? Do copyrights on novels offend them as much as copyrights on software?

Contributing to open source software is one of the most effective forms of altruism in history -- but it is altruism! Permissive licenses like MIT and LGPL embrace and enable that altruism. Copyleft licenses and the FSF are built around the idea that you are entitled to it, and it is immoral to write commercial/proprietary software. That is fanatical and unhelpful.

Unless you think it's always immoral for anyone to make money from a copyrighted work? In that case I'd be a lot more interested in hearing that perspective, because at least it's not hypocritical.
cool site. youtube appears to be having a service disruption right now but reports "OK" here: https://onlineornot.com/status/youtube.com

maybe it's popular enough to special case the "onlineornot" implementation (ie: "can i play a video")?

thanks for sharing!
In deleted cases, yes, but not in advance. We love archives (and archive.org most of all), but they shouldn't be used as submission URLs when an original is available. For one thing, it's important for the original domain to be displayed.

Of course it's always fine to link to an archived copy from the comments, and we intend eventually to build software support for this.
I agree scarce is not the right word. What I meant is that your ability to sell the oil depends on artificial rules by the government. The ability to sell the product is what's important here, not "having" the product. Having the product just allows you to use it yourself, which in the case of oil and in the case of copyrighted material is mostly useless.

(but it's not true that scarcity of oil is only imposed by physics, it's also decided artificially by OPEC)
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"Benefiting _their_ users," yes. But they're not benefiting whoever else is sharing the smallest-capacity link -- what he's arguing is that Google is crowding them out.

Net neutrality is not the only way to privilege your flows on the Internet: There's nothing to stop me from writing a crude application-layer protocol atop UDP that implements reliability but not congestion control. (You maybe had to implement something like this for your networking class in school; otherwise you could start with a protocol like DCCP.) If I were to use that to send data as fast as I could to some remote computer, I could be sending more data than the smallest-capacity link could handle. Other TCP/IP connections sharing that link would detect data loss and thus reduce the amount of data they put in transit, but my protocol wouldn't have to. I can monopolize that link.

So assuming your physical layer is tin cans and string, what he's arguing is that if you have a link with a capacity of 12 segments, then data from Google will use 10 of them and a client will never expand its outstanding data beyond 2 segments. If both used vanilla TCP/IP, they should share the link evenly.

Of course, speed is a critical factor for Google. Android by default uses TCP Westwood+.

It's been six years since I tinkered with TCP/IP and really focused on networking, so someone please correct me if I'm wrong >_<
No one makes the right analogy for that "crime":

If you aren't particularly crazy about some band,and they release an overpriced album, you will not buy. You will borrow from your friend and listen a couple times.

Why is that so hard?
What are you suggesting? To eliminate copyright law, and thereby eliminate books, music, software, etc?
"It is better to ask for forgiveness than permission" - Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
It's definitely wrong - just ran it in python to check in case I was missing something!
We have some secrets hidden up our sleeves when it comes to the business model ;) In two weeks we'll have more info for you.
Not really, no. They closed their borders but there is some level of collaboration at the moment, for example german states at the French border (e.g: Baden-Würtemberg) started to take in charge French patients who cannot be handled by the French healthcare system.

Comparing the US and the EU doesn’t often make sense IMHO, they have different and incompatible institutions with different goals.

In any case, what is happening now doesn’t define how countries will react after the crisis.