jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
and isn't the other side remembered for making the same claims for FL and Gore? or is that even part of this now it's gone so far?
I believe the classical meaning of "free speech" as it pertain to government, democracy, and as has roots in Ancient Greece is great. The government shouldn't be able to restrict the flow of ideas or persecute people for them.

I also believe that same meaning of "free speech", that binding of the government, can't also be applied to private citizens and entities. That's a paradox; you inhibit their free speech by trying to force them to be a party to others speech.

I believe in very, very narrow exceptions to the above in the vein of what we currently have.

I also believe private citizens and entities being able to decide collectively on what is and isn't acceptable and not giving quarter to what they deem as bad actors is.. Both good and a type of free speech. It's not perfect, and we don't always agree with it, but it seems that over time we've been living in more and more liberal, socially, times while government has become EVEN MORE tied on the subject of free speech(Larry Flint? etc).

I believe it's also okay, even though I don't necessarily agree, to think we should do nothing within the public to restrict or discount others speech and opinions. But then, I'm also betting on society working that out on its own based on the above :)
After the official @twitter account carried the race baiting terrorist #BlackLivesMatter hashtag in their bio throughout the best part of 2020 their excuse on this rings hollow.

I expect the platform to wither, alternatives to flourish and both Zuckerberg and Dorsey to require security wherever they roam from now on.

If I was staff at Twitter today, I would resign.
I mean, IRC can do the same damn thing in a federated way.
Also, see Hofstadter's law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadters_law
I'd agree with that, but I'd prefer the term "energy conserving."
Okay, this is really sad. I got into his music a while ago when I was exploring classical and traditional guitar. His rendition of Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is absolutely brilliant.
We had a one year cliff. He left some time after it.
You say he contributed nothing to your current product

Actually, I said

A's contribution to our current efforts is zero

It's an important difference and I chose the word carefully. Our early efforts with him did not succeed, but based on my experience it is almost impossible to succeed without making mistakes first and learning from them. We value his contribution, which is why I am trying to determine a fair way to compensate him for this efforts.

Edit: Let me expand on what I said. It is hard to talk about separation while sounding entirely positive, because separation is not a positive event. I wouldn't even have met my other cofounder if it were not for A. So, rest assured, however this separation is structured, in my mind he will have earned his keep.
I want to hear more about the site and how it makes money and less about the man. The title could easily be "The mega-money world of Megaupload founder"
Dear Music Labels and the RIAA,
This is the kind of cool stuff we could build if you guys weren't so draconian about licensing. This is a great idea that would lead to people listening to, and buying, more music every single month. But you would have us load it up with DRM, or make it so you can't skip songs, or some other bogus restrictions in your fear of anything new.
(I also wrote a desktop flash-card thing to do the same
thing, sliding into view every N minutes.)

I've looking for something like this for Japanese Kanji.
I built a six-figure education company doing these four things:

* Learn and practice effective non-fiction reading techniques: http://personalmba.com/10-days-to-faster-reading/. Once you've got it down, reading a book takes 10-30 minutes with very good comprehension.

* Synoptic reading: read 5-10 books about the same subject from different authors in a short period of time.

* Note-taking: after synoptic reading, take detailed notes about the key themes and concepts, as well as noting ideas you have about how to apply or extend the material.

* Writing: once you've distilled the essence of the subject, write about it to lock it into your brain and share it with others.

The useful bits of knowledge often come at the intersections between topics, so exposing yourself to many sources of information is key.

It even works for technical topics: when figuring out how to set up my VPS, this approach helped me learn which combination of programs to install and how to configure them correctly, even though there wasn't a pre-existing setup checklist to use. By compiling many different resources instead of relying on just one, I got much better results.
> I'd rather have one of the printers listed as having yellow tracking dots and yank out the color cartridges.

The trouble is that, for one dubious reason or another, a lot of modern laser printers will refuse to print without a complete set of cartridges that report that they contain sufficient toner. Whether the colour in question is actually required and whether enough toner is physically present do not seem to be relevant.
Re 2: Supposedly the manufacturer is supposed to keep track of which printers go to which stores, and the stores are supposed to keep track of the credit card used to purchase the printers.
You shouldn't feel uneasy about quitting within 90 days. Most employes have the 90 day provision to fire you if you don't work out, so just use the same logic.
It's an arc backend. (http://arclanguage.org/)
> Wanting small run cool stuff and not wanting to be pre-billed are mutually exclusive.

Why should customers have to provide financing? If it's so small run it can be financed post-hoc by a few customer orders, then it's small enough that it can be financed by a few friends, too.
it isnt completely wrong, just slightly confusing. I am guessing he means using innerHTML over working on live dom nodes which are very expensive. documentfragments should definitely be worth mentioning though.
Gross generalization alert. True ever? Probably. True always? Absolutely certainly not.
In the end, we went with the Indian company

You asked what you did wrong. I present to you what you did wrong

could someone explain to me, where the racism lies in the above sentence? Seriously, it may not be a well thought out response that highlights the perils of outsourcing, but it is well know that outsourcing increases risk.

India, being one of the largest software outsourcing recipients, just bear the brunt of this well know reality. I have rescued many projects from "India" and not one of them has been because of some genetic inferiority of "Indians", rather there are real logistical and cultural issues that many people are not aware of when they sink into the lowest bidder trap.

Unfortunate, individuals that make comments like the quoted one have seen this far too many times and instead of offering constructive dialog, tend to take an I told you so attitude without offering a explanation as to why. Meanwhile the overly sensitive politically correct immediately jump to the racist white guy explanation for criticism.

The fact of the matter is that outsourcing to India or anywhere else is fraught with risk, more project fail than succeed. It is not racist to be a realist and to deflect from the issue by crying racism does not fix the underlining issue, which is really that people need to be educated on how to outsource successfully.
That is a cool trick! Does that work via pipes and maybe also unix sockets? I suspect latency might still be slightly better with a pool of pre-forked processes/threads.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you could get away with:

I don't think your second example is much at all like Lisp and I think to actually achieve something lispy, JSON would need some kind of symbol type, so you can do:

['Foo, ['Some Text', ['Bar, 'more text']]]

Though, mix in attributes, and it's just a nightmare.

After all, it's not like:

'(Foo "Some text" (Bar "more text"))

Or with an admittedly not-very-well-thought-out attribute:

'(Foo "Some text" (Bar ([] (name "Baz")) "more text"))

For:

<Foo>Some text <Bar name="Baz">more text</Bar></Foo>

Though there may be a better way of representing attributes....
Even if you feel that way, remember part of the philosophy of C++: You don't pay for what you don't use.

You don't like this? Fine. It's pretty easy - don't use futures, and it won't be in your face. You can ignore it completely and use the rest of C++ as you see fit.
They'd love it; Any opportunity to print borderline inappropriate pictures of scantily clad teenage girls.
In Newcastle (UK) they went through a period of playing classical music in the Metro stations for the same reason. They stopped doing it after about 6 months; I assume inconclusive results (which is a shame, given that it had the added benefit of being very pleasant).
I was very careful in the way I worded my argument to avoid this strawman rebuttal (see the part about computing elites).

Of course you are right that we should rise to the challenge of shipping excellent free software, but experience tells me that it doesn't matter how good we get at this, we will still be undone by the transient nature of software stacks. Patches will be necessary unless people never upgrade, which of course they will because sooner or later they will desire new features or it's necessitated by security. At best we can asymptotically approach the amortized cost of having someone else manage your software for you, and even that is dreamland until free OSes finds a way to approach the UX provided by Apple/Microsoft/Google.

You're welcome to devote your life to proving me wrong, but I'm not holding my breath.
> Texas' weather is colder now than in the past 40 years.

Yes. Thus "Extreme" weather.

I was going to suggest it is likely due to climate change, but that is largely conjecture.
The bottom line is that you must take care of the IP aspects of your online business. We tend to forget such things as registering your copyright, your trademarks and maybe some patent (if you came up with some groundbreaking stuff, such as the "buy now" button).

I married a lawyer, so she handles this for me. That's a potently dangerous strategy, so if your risk aversion is higher, you may try reading this book instead:
Legal Guide to Web & Software Development
http://www.amazon.com/Legal-Guide-Software-Development-CD-Ro...
That makes plenty of sense to me based on what they used to mean. Nowadays, most people seem to think of the domain as the part they put into the browser to see your web page.
After some more testing, in Chrome I can make it work by just closing the Dev Tools windows, but Firebug gets caught up on it as long as it is enabled, even if not open currently. This means I have to disable Firebug entirely in order to use this on my page. I don't really want to do that, as I am using it in my workflow for otherwise debugging the code I manage.
In NYC, there's http://www.refactory.co/. I used to work with these guys, and they're great.
This brings back fond memories of the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic [1] that I used for two years. The battery lasted a week, and using T9 on that phone was the fastest I've ever typed on a mobile device. It's nice to know that the 215 exists if I ever want to return to those days.

1. http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5310_xpressmusic-2087.php
Carnegie was new money.
Very nice. It makes me want to switch to vim as well.
A "pendant", actually. Which amuses me to no end.
Games are not copyrightable, assets are. That said, i can't see this end in anything else other than a C&D unless he actually talks to nintendo.
Interesting that the marketplace they talk about (Evolution) closed down a couple of weeks ago with evidence of a huge Bitcoin scam. Seems you can test the honesty of the sellers but not the market :-(

http://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/03/18/interview-with-nswgreat...
In my book, LGBT orgs are political and don't get to be classified as charity.
If only git was a decentralized rcs, you could have both.
And DDoS the end sites?
The core problem is that the set of safe programs is considerably larger than the set of programs which pass a tractable, maintainable, and (potentially) provably safe compiler (including borrow and type checkers).

You want to enlarge the latter set, since that lessens programmer frustration and increases expressiveness, but in the context of a non-garbage-collected language that often requires adding complexity to the type and borrow checkers which may in turn end up introducing bugs.

A discussion of various run-ins with the borrow checker and some details of attempts to reduce the friction:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6393

'Both @pcwalton and @zwarich spent some time trying to actually implement this work (with a possible RFC coming hand-in-hand). They ran into some unexpected complexity that means it would take much more work than hoped. I think everyone agrees with you that these limitations are important and can impact the first impression of the language, but it's hard to balance that against backwards-incompatible changes that are already scheduled.'

[added on edit:]

In particular, here is a very nice statement of the issue(s):

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6393#issuecomment-2...

nikomatsakis: 'I'd also like to have more progress on a soundness proof before we go about extending the system.'

And here again is the tension between complexity in the compiler and the coverage of the space of safe programs.
Yes, I find it hard to focus on the truth (or rather, believe they are telling the truth) when the agenda gets in the way.
There are small game-dev shops around here and they seem to do okay, not terribly successful.

Let's recap:

- EA Burnaby/Vancouver laid off twice in 2 years

- Disney Propaganda laid off 100-200 people recently

- Nexon (or something) close the door in 2009, 90 ppl gone.

- Radical, 2008, laid-off 100 people, 2010, laid-off 90+.

- Nokia, mid-2009, closed its vancouver game studio, 100 ppl.

That's a lot of "technical" workers for such a small city like Vancouver.
Even without an ID in the post, you could hash the input and search for a matching value in the DB, right? So not having an ID along with it isn't proof they aren't hashing tokens, but... I think hashing tokens, especially session_id, is a good defense-in-depth practice which almost no one is following.
Where are the terms used like that? I've only seen statement used as "a thing you do", with expression "a thing that evaluates", and optional conversion in each direction.

I'm not sure what you mean by sentences being "recognized" by the grammar. Keep in mind that there are languages where only a series of 'statements' is allowed, no freestanding expressions.
The fact that "proles" even exists in the modern vocabulary should indicate something. Bin the population into wealth centiles and observe the curves. The Gini coefficient is not a magic arbiter of inequality. See the Great Gatsby curve for a better example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility#Housing
I'm unwilling to give you my email address for a demo.
In Canada KN95 masks are easily available but nobody in the medical community will use them. I have friends going to work with vulnerable populations using nearly worthless surgical masks because there "aren't enough N95s" even though KN95 is basically the same spec.
Sure, the tax thing is probably one of the maor component here. In addition to local taxes, my understanding that SAS's current plant is in free trade zone where they also receive exemption for import/sales taxes, etc.

The whole US semi industry is worried that the lion share of semi production is stlil occuring in Asia, not in the US -- which is probably why Trump admin started twisting TSMC and Samsung's arms few years ago:

https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20...
> So what if it's scarce?

So that allows it to be a medium of exchange with a stable number of outstanding units, which is an improvement over USD.

> Why should I be transacting using a record of someone's solution to a useless math problem to begin with?

People who want to transact don’t wonder why they need an exchange medium.

> As for it "not depreciating," I claim that's because people believe it should go up, i.e. BTC is worth something (meaning you can exchange it for USD at a favorable rate) because people say it should be -- by fiat of the speculation market rather than fiat by a central backing agency.

Why should anyone care about your opinion on btc? You don’t even seem to understand why a currency should be scarce (in the economic sense).

> If it were only worth something because it "didn't depreciate," it BTC rises would correlate strongly with inflation. Since there's been essentially no inflation since BTC has been created, that's obviously untrue.

Obviously, you’re mistaken about inflation.

> I would also take issue with the assertion that it is, in fact, scarce. Scarcity means nothing when you literally have something that is arbitrarily subdividable.

“Scarce” here refers to the economic sense of the word, not its common analogue.

> PS, the USD is also "ledger money." Well over 90% of USD only exist as bits in a computer system. It's essentially the same as a private blockchain.

This would be a good opportunity for you to reflect on why USD are decreasing in value while BTC are increasing.
The USA has 630 billionaires and the world has 2,825. I think you are vastly overestimating the impact they have on any housing market. The poster above is 100% correct it is the millionaires that inflates prices of normal goods. There simply isn't enough people at the top end to matter.
A fairly unique and interesting feature of LinkedIn that I've noticed: posts seem to have a much longer tail than, say, Twitter or Facebook. If I share a text-based post with useful info, it's often still getting engagement 15 or even 30 days later.

And because the median quality of LinkedIn posts is so bad, good, non self-aggrandizing posts really stand out. The algorithm is GREAT at elevating them.

I guess what I'm saying is, posting on LinkedIn in good faith is the new attention economy market inefficiency.
What is, for a nation / union, the benefit of having a "top stocks centre"? Why does the EU care about EU company stock being traded on an EU-based stock exchange?

Is this somehow tax related? Or does it give the EU power over those companies in a way?
This went exactly as predicted and we’ll hear many more Brexit stories like this in the next 5 years.
Yeah...no. Standardizing something like this is useless and only full of edge cases. Keep API's free form and flexible without imposing some sort of restriction. That's how you end up with bigger messes than what you started with. API's are not a mess currently anyway. The point of building a unique application isn't to create uniform systems across the map.
Your analysis is very good. I just want to add that dynamics of "more searches -> more revenue per search" also holds for every individual niche. In order to make good money, one can build substantial market share either in certain geographies (e.g. Indonesia, India, China, Russia...) or verticals (shoppings, deals, travel, cars...).
Do you mean that you don't agree with my reading of what he said in the example I gave? (It's about half way down the linked page, right after a ' * * * * * ' divider, or you could just search on the text I quoted.)

Greenwald does go into some detail about why he considers Manning to be a 'whistleblower' - a term with legal meaning, as used in eg 'Military Whistleblower Protection Act.' It certainly sounds like he's suggesting it would be a valid defense (as in, 'yes, I did those things but I am not guilty because I was acting as a whistleblower'). If not, what do you think he means?
But letting people ride 10% more rides is pretty significant, and they don't have to compromise by making less money.
I'm gonna guess that it was a Garden of Eden reference.
What a weird thing to say, only a day after nationalists stormed the nation's capitol with the intent to disrupt the democratic process in favor of an autocratic dictator.
Thanks for the response. For me, that's not strong enough a case to say that Trump's social media posts should be censored or blocked. I simply don't see it as incitement of violence. His claims of fraud are misleading for sure, but if the standard is around "violence" specifically, I feel that blame cannot be laid at his feet in a provable manner - because this is a highly political, highly emotional situation, I am looking for evidence that would almost meet a legal standard, like beyond a reasonable doubt (https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Beyond+a+Reas...).

I also think the actions taken by tech companies here reflects a double-standard. For example, why isn't AOC being blocked for supporting rioting? Why weren't Democrats called out for attacks on federal property in Portland, Seattle, and other cities? Look at https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/07/aocs-comms-director-ask... for an exploration of this.

To me, it just looks like big tech companies picking winners and losers in an ongoing political and cultural war, and are reacting to societal or political pressures in taking action rather than acting in any principled manner.
> Only the Signal on my desktop rings when I’m called, while the phone doesn't ring.

Doesn't https://signal.org/blog/ice-forking/ deal with that? Hasn't it been implemented yet?

I've had the desktop app open all day, and answered a Signal call on my phone earlier. I'll do more tests.

EDIT: just tested it, phone rang, I answered on desktop. Seems to work as intended.
Yes, this is a well-rehashed example where the NYT seems to have erred. But, poignant as it is, it is also increasingly further in the past - people born after some of those stories were written are adults now!

I think that giving more recent examples would strengthen your argument.
Bitstamp is up and running.
The crucial part of that whole post is this caveat:

>Second, the cost structure matters quite a bit. It happens in our first example that making lemonade compliant with Kosher laws doesn’t change the price by much, not enough to justify inventories.

Might makes right. Being intolerant AND either needing little economic/physical power, or bringing with you significant economic/physical power is what effects change.

Which is the problem with convincing people to switch apps. Either you are important enough to the person that needs to switch apps, or switching the app is so low cost that the person that needs to switch doesn't care. Unfortunately, the switching costs is usually too high for most people's tastes.
Where are you seeing $10 usb/floppy drives?
Cargo cults: not just for code!
"Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous." -- Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
From this consumer's point of view he's wrong in saying everyone loses.

I use Opentable a lot and I like not waiting for a table.
"Wasted"? Who else is paying for the R&D that eventually every network user will benefit from? You?
For whatever reason, this doesn't seem to be available in the UK app store.
Considering that his proposal is geared towards defusing their anger as opposed to entrapment or proactive punishment, this seems like a pretty decent idea. And it's not like conspiracy theorists don't foment criminal and even deadly behavior sometimes.
> Gates foundation gives back less than 1% of the wife’s fund to the nation that birthed him, and provided a comfy launching pad for that privileged life. (I get you need to help developing nations, but America is dying. I have never seen so many homeless.)

Alternatively, why should Gates spend charity money on America if that money would go have a greater impact on helping people and improving lives elsewhere?