jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The bet is only open to the first VC to publicly take it I believe.
HN entitlement never ceases to amaze me
Specifically, they all fall under "Human Resources". While I suspect some issues even for CEOs might fall under HR, I also suspect that large company CEOs may also have unique employment contracts not available to the myriad software engineers at the same company.
There's talent everywhere. Every human is talented but the environment that is around that human kills it.

I feel lucky to have my english to the level that is right now and still live here. But I believe you are right, most of brazilian programmers are into java/c# because you can learn it in portuguese(books)... no problem. But try to learn some node.js or anything new not being able to speak english... It's impossible. There's barely doc in english...

The education system sucks.
This is unreal. What bothers me the most, is that when this happened to me one time before, that particular company paid for a year of credit monitoring services.

In this case, Sony is too cheap to do even that, pointing you towards where you could download your credit report online. Ridiculous.
The problem is audience:

Kids don't give a shit. Privacy is crap, they got their penis pictures on facebook. They want their fucking video games.

People playing games all day don't give a shit. They want their fucking games, stfu privacy and get moar kof33 and fucking get this shit online.

People with money to lose care. They care that their information is stolen because that could lead to their money being stolen.

People who know the value of information care. Thats few people though, since facebook exists.

In the end of the day people are willing to talk shit, when it comes to action that is a different story. How many people were so against EA's rootkits, but how many actually boycotted? Same with Apple? And now its same with Sony. Nobody will do anything. Nobody will boycott, the company will just shrug this off as an "opse".
Credit card info should always be HSM-protected so that it is irretrievable except through a hardware API.

How could you suggest such a thing?! That would have cost Sony thousands of dollars extra!
Does it tell you the chance of rain?

I have a motorcycle; I only have one weather question in the morning - can I ride today? Rain is pretty much the only thing I care about, and I'm on the Florida coast, so "Isolated thunderstorms" is a "no shit, Sherlock" during spring/summer/fall and entirely useless. I want to know if it's the usual 10-30% chance of mid-afternoon rain, or if it's something more.

An alert on my phone ready for me every morning would be ideal. I've found apps in the past that do it, but they always close shop after a few months.
You began with "there's no way to tldr this" then moved on with "Basically the author says" and sumarised it?
Does anyone else find it odd that they "strongly recommend that you log on and change your password" instead of just force-resetting everyone's password and sending them an email with an activation link? Out of 60M subscribers, I'm certain that a large proportion will never see this message.
While I don't know the details of how this happened, it's a sure fire bet that they were not doing something right when it came to securing their infrastructure. How many times have we heard of big name companies running un-patched operating systems and SQL databases or even weak passwords? From the consumer end, this really sucks. Especially if their personal data was compromised.
> It was open source for a while, and was suddenly made closed source when Blackberry bought it

It was never strictly speaking open source. It was a "shared source" model in which people could download the source code, but you had to pay QNX money to use it in production. And you weren't free to redistribute it.

Originally they'd let anyone download the source code so long as they agreed with the license. Then they changed the policy so only paying customers could get it.

> Sadly, no one seems to have saved the open source version. I wish I had. I didn't have enough disk at the time.

Even if someone has saved it, they aren't legally allowed to redistribute it, since it was never open source, just shared source.
Lots of lies can't easily be proven false, but many can, as long as we agree on some really basic principles.

For instance, if you tell me that two plus two equals five, I can count out two sets of two coins, then put them all together, count them again, and see that the answer is 4. So in that case I will be confident in calling you a liar.

You could, of course, say I'm wrong.
Were you not here when the James Damore debacle happened? And he was hardly expressing a political PoV, just trying to marshall some data on good faith to respond to his company's solicitation for ideas people had to solve a tough problem.
The CSA was certainly not half of the United States at that time. They inflated their numbers with the "3/5 compromise". Even with that method of inflating their representation, 11 states with 66 House Representatives seceded, while 23 states with 173 House Representatives did not secede. It wasn't close to half.

On top of which, the decision process for secession was (shockingly, I know!) not democratic in the least. The Union didn't need a "Home Guard" to enforce conscription, but the South did.
other, large, thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25693742

and my comment if anyone wants to discuss

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25693943
NPR? I think that at a certain point you might realize that it would be worth taking a step back and reevaluating your information diet. When you accuse NPR of being a propaganda arm for the left's "authoritarian communist regime" is probably about that time. Way past it, in fact.

I'm really not sure where the whole communist thing came from, anyway. Go to the far left of the Democratic Party and you are still pretty far to the right of communists.
I had no idea there was even a web version. Does it work in Linux? Zoom often leaves me with broken audio and I really dislike having to have more rarely used software trying to stick around in memory. I uninstall it after each use, purely out of spite. This is great.
Every mac laptop is instant-on by this definition. And while I agree that it's one of the features of Macs that I love, it hardly makes my monster 17" macbook pro a "mobile device"...
While I do recognize that the social nature of drinking for a lot of people will pull popularity around this, something worries me about the health implications of the service. Seeing what crazy things happen with the legal system, it wouldn't surprise me to see someone with a liver issue take legal action, stating that this service encouraged them to drink more than they should. Not a lawyer, so maybe there is a way for you to protect yourself, but this really needs to be taken into consideration.
"Until you realize that he wants you to start every line that starts with [(+/-,.* with a semicolon."

Good point, that isn't immediately clear.

To help me understand, the article listed an example where a line started with a [, what are situations where a line is likely to start with (+/-,.* ?
you dont have to be in a $MEGACORP to have tons of useless meetings. You just have to move to a company where the people are proud to do SCRUM by the book, with reviews and retrospective (each one 4 hours long)
Who assigns a problem that requires C and Unix novices to use fork() as their first assignment? This guy needs a teaching seminar soon, but more likely, CS just lost a classroom full of novices.
We're working now on integrating product purchases, such as photos and photo books from the moments saved in the garden.

Additionally, we're exploring a premium version with more advanced features that our users have asked for.
You can also do the opposite to your advantage. For instance, the ad pop-ups on salon.com have the close button on the left, which means I end up looking at the ads a little longer.
Isn't it strange that searching for `unobtrusive' in Google yields "Unobtrusive Javascript" as the first result? Is Javascript the new Lisp? :)

http://www.google.com/search?q=unobtrusive

PS: It was rather a tongue in cheek comment, implicating the Lispy roots of Javascript, and the increasing popularity of it among programmers.
I would bet that interest towards functional programming or Lisps will increase with such movements, and the myth might in that sense be invalid in a near future.
Shutter is a very nice-looking application. I was surprised to see it written in Perl; that's not a common choice for desktop applications.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mario-kemper/shutter/devel/view...
I think you're missing the point. Logic wins arguments not upvotes.
HN already has "modes" for comments. Comments that are two weeks old are in archive-mode: you can't reply to them. Displaying scores on such comments makes sense to me.
Found the code: https://github.com/grantgalitz/GameBoy-Online
And I thought Trump’s rambling and angry improvised speech before the riot was a stupid move. It just keeps getting crazier.
1T company while only a fraction of people used their product, while companies of similar value touched the lives of pretty much all the people in the world.
This line of argument is always going to end up accidentally side-loading authoritarianism into the American system. The logical conclusion is that the government should force Google to carry speech, and that is a bad idea.
Your mayor just got assaulted:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9125107/Portland-Ma...
> If you run a social network and can’t keep up with moderation for calls for violence you shouldn’t be allowed to be in business. This goes for the big tech companies as well.

This is such a narrow minded view and doesn't hold up to historical precedent.

Was Facebook banned from app stores when shooters live streamed on their platform?

Was Twitter banned from app stores when calls for violence against Nick Sandmann were spreading?

Was Youtube banned from app stores when it was discovered that child predators were lurking in the comments and exploiting underage children?
I agree with breaking up companies which are monopolies/duopolies. But why do you think that those broken up companies wouldn't behave the same in this case (ban Trump, Parler, etc). If that's what the majority of users want, then such decisions increase their profit. If there was 5 mobile OS/store companies today, I'm pretty sure the same would happen on all 5.
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
-Some guy from some political party
Personal guess: because switching DBs is expensive and if it works, why bother?

I personally LOVE pg over all other choices, but I've got some 5-year-old apps sitting on a little mysql DB and no intention to move them. Dbs are small, performance is good enough, cost of instances wouldn't be very different on PG, but cost of moving everything over is probably a week or two of work that would be pretty hard to justify given the current situation.
Made an account here just to make this comment: You're going to want to send DMCA notices to both the registrar(s) AND Google.

1. Compile a list of domains and sitemaps that are 100% stealing and mirroring your content.

2. Go to Google's DMCA request page: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/legal-removal-reques...

3. Fill out all relevant data, and submit the offending domains and URL's.

Wait a few days, and you'll be happy to see that those pages are blocked from Google entirely. Not many people know what to do when Google DMCA's them, so it could solve your problem permanently (or you can automate it).

Regarding physically blocking them from scraping your site, you've got a few options. Put Cloudflare up if it isn't already. They've got at least one anti-scraping application (Scrape Shield) that may help.

Another thing you can do is automate the scraping of their websites using distinct query parameters and try to exhaust their list of proxies by automatically logging and filtering them. This might be a fruitless endeavor if they're using rotating residential proxies though.

Hope this helps, and good luck!
There’s not strong evidence-based support for stretching.

NFL and MLB players do tons of stuff like cupping or wearing magnets that are questionable. Doing yoga because it makes you feel accomplished seems about as harmless as channeling your ego into any sport or physical pursuit.
If you aren't afraid of the snake, what's the danger?
Here's an old 2012 article about zEC12 (previous) generation of the mainframe. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/ibm_z12_mainframe_en...
zEC13 was just released this year.

The mainframes have their own CISC type architecture and typically have massive amounts of cache and a high clock speed (5Ghz and above)

Their instructions sets are also different in that its not strictly of the von-Neumann variety. Mainframes can do things like memory copies directly in memory without requiring copying via registers. This kind-of attacks the von-Neumann bottleneck directly and is good for batch and high volume transaction processing.

The software for mainframes is also typically fused into their kernels, things like CICS and DB2 are not "user" programs, they're part of the OS so I/O is handled much better and things don't "block" as much.
Return the favor: Ask them for free money for your new company.
Good thing it never became the official logo then!
I'm a strict atheist, but I'm also a descendant of Western civilization (formerly known as "Christendom"). As such, I spend the Christmas season as my forefathers have for the last few thousand years - enjoying the heightened good cheer of my fellow men, relishing the opportunity to spend time with my friends and family, and counting my blessings.

Hacker News is a news site, but it is also a community of hackers. If a HNer needs a place to stay in Mountain View or is in trouble in some other way, I would try to help them. As such, the occasional touch of a human element is appropriate. I feel it is acceptable to send my fellow hackers the traditional good wishes and cheer as my civilization (and most of theirs) have done during this time of year for generations, while not seeking to be exclusionary or force my beliefs on anyone. I see it as the digital analogue of taking a moment of time at a technical conference to tell my colleague that I hope his family is doing well. I would hope he wouldn't snap back at me that it was off-topic.

It seems that aggressive atheists are more annoying than Christians nowadays.
If it was down (which it's not) I would like to know. My email is pinged to my Blackberry. There is no way for me to know that Gmail is not working unless I am told (otherwise I would just think that I had no new email).
I wrote my own Delicious alternative: http://1r7.net :)

I'm working on OAuth integration with Yahoo for import, some nifty display stuff, and device-aware CSS for clean browsing on your phone or ipad or whatnot. It's a fun project.
If true, this is by far the most intelligent article I've ever read from the Post.
Cavafy! http://www.cavafy.com/poems/list.asp?cat=1
This also makes me think of the problem of legacy code. Once you've written an app, it's feature complete, and it's profitable, expending effort to rewrite it in a new tech is not only a questionable value proposition, it can be actively dangerous. Replacing ugly but works with beautiful but fails is not good engineering.
We sold our cars and moved (back) to Portland. Kids much prefer being in a cargo bike than in a car.
It takes less effort and time than explaining it everytime a dev joins.

We've had some videos on some teams. It works well for stuff that doesn't change often, like high level onboarding.
One Art

Elizabeth Bishop, 1911 - 1979 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop)

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
John Burroughs
From Ray Ozzie himself in a previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846189
The problem is that "you" is not a person, "you" is every person who will ever work on the code in the future. And "innovation" isn't "the code you are writing now", "innovation" is "the code you are writing now, and next year, and the third-party library you want to integrate in 6 months, and the unit tests you don't have time for now but will become critical in 2-3 years as you become unable to ship working software, and the bug you'll spend a month working on because nobody has ever encountered it before."

Yes, you can look at this in terms of ROI. The author's point is that engineers - particularly ones who have never scaled & maintained a system over years and millions of users - consistently underweight the problems that they've never encountered before. With boring tech, other people have encountered them, and solved them, and you can Google for the answer or pull in a library. With bleeding-edge stuff, when you run into one of these, you have to drop everything you're doing and fix it, because nobody else will.
i agree. recently i desired to create an online community for a small game that probably wouldn't have many users or posts.

subreddits are fantastic for that type of thing, and i like the ease of use and PRAW, however, handing over all of the community's data to conde nast isn't something i'm interested in.

what i'd like is a tool with which to create online communities, which would consist of a message board with upvotes/downvotes, user profiles, and perhaps a small chat system, with good mobile integration. as you said, it should be decentralized. it should also be as secure as possible without requiring non-standard software like TOR.
RT and AJ are both pro status-quo for their Establishment. So for me, they're in the same league but I always love to check the perspectives for the big players on the world stage from time to time to see what they're up to.
How well is the BSD world keeping up with modern QoS and queue management? A quick Google search indicates that PfSense probably has CoDel, but none of its more useful derivatives like fq_codel. And do its network drivers have or need dynamic byte queue limits as included in some drivers for Linux 3.3 and later?

OpenWRT is doing great these days, so what's PfSense still got as its key advantages?
So 1000m/s would get you about 7-8 degrees of plane change in low orbit? Sounds about right. That's not a whole lot, but it should be plenty to dodge sky watchers for a while if you have the ability to hide for a bit and change course while doing it.
Sounds like you got a raw deal. You just proposed to someone who literally would dump you over not getting a shiny rock. Coercion like that is a major red flag.
What does true but unprovable mean? What happens if you take such a proposition, negate it and add as an axiom?
Healthy relationships have a multitude of ways to communicate feelings and connectivity. If a shiney finger stone seems to be required to prove something, that should be some self reflection on the relationship.
If you haven't seen College Humor's Adam Ruins Everything about diamonds(or any of the others), check is out.

https://youtu.be/N5kWu1ifBGU?list=PLuKg-WhduhkksJoqkj9aJEnN7...
> reality becomes suspect and meaningless

If you're going to get that hung up on philosophy, reality is already suspect and meaningless. This observation dates back at least to Descartes. His solution involved the ontological argument for the existence of God. My solution is to not get that hung up on philosophy. Take your pick.
Apparently they are launching both an ETF and an exchange("Gemeni")...
Direct link to essay http://www.hnn.us/articles/133910.html

"The Truth Wears Off" http://crayz.org/science.pdf seems like a relevant comparison. Many early studies and experiments based on fresh theories produce dramatic results, but decades later, when experiments are repeated the results are still there, but less dramatic.

Similarly if you're inside the tech world, you can get the impression that things are moving at a crazy pace, but if you step out you'll find the world is not that different. Tech does have an effect, but it's not as dramatic as those with bias claim it to be.
Is that force sufficient to truly affect the capture of an image with as low a focal length as the iPhone has?

I was going to say that using the volume buttons permits the user to hold the phone in a proper camera stance (hand underneath the base to improve stability, no elbows out), but having just held an iPhone 4.0, I saw where the camera is placed and where the volume button is relative it, and how to properly hold the phone. It does not seem like the volume button is in the right spot for where the camera is to even use it like a proper camera. You're going to have to hold the phone weird to take a picture without your finger in the way to use the volume button as a shutter.

tl;dr. The volume button isn't even in the right spot to use it as a shutter, and I wager pressing the volume button doesn't have any true advantage.

For a phone that has a shutter button in what I perceive as the correct location, see the original Motorola Droid.
all I ask is: when? when will they be able to go from $500M loss to $500M in earnings?
That kind of ruling just turns my stomach. The court used a an enumerated power--that was primarily intended to prevent tariffs being erected between the states--to effectively remove all limits to federal power. Gonzales v. Raich (2005)[1] is analogous to the Wickard v. Filburn case that you cite. In his dissent, Justice Thomas said the following:

If the Federal Government can regulate growing a half-dozen cannabis plants for personal
consumption (not because it is interstate commerce, but because it is inextricably bound up
with interstate commerce), then Congress' Article I powers -- as expanded by the Necessary
and Proper Clause -- have no meaningful limits. Whether Congress aims at the possession of
drugs, guns, or any number of other items, it may continue to "appropria[te] state police
powers under the guise of regulating commerce."

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
so: not much. Or not?
I think that there's a certain dynamic with people that work in person that doesn't happen as much remotely; In person someone could walk into a random conversation after overhearing an idea, start adding their own twist to it, and eventually someone starts scribbling on a whiteboard and a new iteration of your product is born. I just don't see that happening as easily over groupware.
Manning didn't refuse an unlawful order. Nor did he reveal other soldiers executing unlawful orders.

Manning broke the law to reveal an indiscriminate collection of State Department cables.
Do they support AV1?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
I killed the morning standup meetings at a former company after I pointed out that we were all on separate projects and so were wasting 3 person hours a day communicating updates that were irrelevant to others.
It is indeed going down the 'tubes' http://www.gazettenet.com/2010/11/16/cooks-source-calls-it-q...