jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A recent example of snark against Apple. Gruber had generally seemed to think that has been reasonable in deal with Gizmodo and the acquired iPhone. However, when Jobs was reported to have said that Apple had to stand by it's core values in dealing withrge situation, Gruber said he wasn't sure what core value that might be, other than "don't fuck with us." ( http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/02/jobs-slide ). That sounds just a but snarky to me. You can read this snark againt Apple on the current front page at DaringFireball, not far from the one about Google. It's not unusual for Gruber to write snarky things about Apple. People who say otherwise: a) don't read Gruber and have no idea what he says and are thus unqualified to comment on his content, or b) do read him, but are so biased against him that their selective memory taints their ability to make objective comments.
"If 95% of the country assigns a meaning to a slang term, well, isn't that what defines it?"
As much as I want to disagree, what's wrong with this viewpoint? Could it be that it's time to give up on sending letters RMS-style to journalists who use the term "incorrectly?" The technology community is creative; why not just let it go and come up with a new word? Not really being a hacker myself, I don't feel qualified to have a serious opinion, but I'm interested in yours.

(I do recognize the silliness inherent in asking this question on _Hacker_ News)
What about when you're doing development work on a site that uses content you'd normally block (Analytics, ads, etc)? When I spend a day working I don't want to have to toggle Privoxy every time I want to search for something.
Revolutionary, sure. I just think it solves a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. Like if we could prevent cancer, we wouldn't need revolutionary cancer medication.

If I go into Google Docs, I can watch different people edit a document at the same time and nobody is really thinking about version control. I think software development should be the same way.
Where "flexibility" means dropping a constitutional requirement.

"... no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

We'll just invade a computer hiding its location, your honor. No, probably not in your district. Sign here.
Jacques Valee has a number of books on this subject. He's a bit on the spooky rather than skeptic side of the fence though, and argues for some sort of common underlying phenomenon.

I think he might be right to some extent -- even if it's a psychological phenomenon, that fits the bill for a common underling cause.
> When do bitcoins really get "stolen"? When terrible things happen, like if people install malware or trojans by accident, or don't apply security updates to their systems.
> This, to me, is the equivalent of leaving the door of your house wide open. Not simply not putting an alarm system, you know.

In that case, you should think more carefully about the problem because you're conflating two unlike things. Even ignoring the fact how many bitcoins have been stolen were compromised by previously-popular third parties, your current position is the equivalent of hearing about someone's house being broken into and saying “Oh, your stuff wasn't really stolen – everyone knows that you shouldn't buy a Kwikset lock/ever invite guests over/forget to arm your alarm”.

Designing a system which assumes humans will perfectly follow the best operating procedures is the security equivalent of hawking a perpetual motion device. In the real world, people delay updates or get let down by an unreliable updater, get hit by zero-days or suckered by scammers, etc. Anyone serious about building a financial system needs to plan for that and build in layers of safety precautions.

I get that you really want Bitcoin to succeed but the way to do that is by taking problems seriously and working to fix them rather than pretending them away.
- If you become senior manager of an existing project, learn from the rest of the team!

- If you end senior manager of a new project, you probably shouldn't also be new at the company period, but at the very least, you start with something there is expertise somewhere on the team on.

- New tech, new team, new org all at once: that's a terrible idea. The project shouldn't happen, or you shouldn't be the sole senior manager on it.

All that said, if we have some team continuity across the industry, that should allow enough on boarding time for everyone to a be a non-pidgeonholed generalist. Just because there are derivative bounds doesn't mean we can't abandon change and pigeon-hole people in myopic specialist roles.
> As I understand it: The bill would not allow Google to simply drop Australian news sites from search results (hello Spain News!),

I suspect your right. I'm not a lawyer and I would not trust my reading of a legal document as far as I could kick it but the public discussion of the bill is so poor I don't have any choice. I would have thought forcing Google has to pay regardless of whether they link to news sites or not was a fairly fundamental question every voter would be interested in. Apparently not. So we are left with me quoting this, from the act:

> 52Q.(1) The provisions of Subdivisions Band create obligations in respect of every designated digital platform service

> 52E.(1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, make a determination that: (a) specifies one or more services covered by subsection (2) in relation to a corporation as designated digital platform services of the corporation;

So you are a digital platform if the minister says you are (he puts it in a schedule). And we have this from the explanatory notes [0]:

> 1.34 The Treasurer’s instrument is expected to specify the following as designated digital platform services: • Facebook News Feed (including Facebook Groups and Facebook Pages); • Facebook NewsTab (if and when released in Australia); • Instagram; • Google Discover; • Google News; and • Google Search.

So yeah, Google shall share their ad revenue with the newspapers whether they link to them or not seems to be a reasonable interpretation or what is actually happening here.

> hence really only leaving the option to block Oz altogether.

I suspect there is another option: remove the legal presence of Google Search et al from Australia. They are then out of reach of Australian law. Australians will still be able search, pay for ad words, access their google docs, look at their google pictures as before. My guess is it would have stuff all effect on Google's revenue. Most (all?) other search engines operate that way now, Australia's used amazon.com instead of amazon.com.au for over a decade - I doubt it would effect Google's revenue at all.

https://www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Exposure%20Draft%20EM%2...
>> So you believe that corporations are people and that individuals with low skill sets and spare time even know how to represent, let alone index, what their best interests actually area?

No and probably not, which is why your assertion that "negotiations should be between two people" doesn't really apply in this scenario
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Chernobylbug: the dangerous code is encased in a concrete sarcophagus and there's a 30km exclusion zone. Anyone who goes into the code, dies.
Probably an adage invented by a humorist named Coleman Cox in the 1920s:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/
I don't think it's achievable, most people would rather not inconvenience themselves, but why is not a reasonable thing to consider? It's stupidly easy to be vegan in a first world country.
Do you have some examples of that? Maybe a link to discord discussion?
Please don't perpetuate flamewars, regardless of how provocative another comment is or you feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
An ETH crash will happen, but I doubt it will be permanent.
You are not required to file a 1099 if the payment is less than $600. Even then, I can't imagine it's that hard to send out an additional 1099 if needed.

[0] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
Do you've any resource country wise pricing for digital products and services (or how does a large company does it)
(not big mac index)
When I bought my house here in the US, the wire transfer was quicker than it took me to drive across town to my real estate agent's office, and I sent it via fax.
Like rent control versus housing over-supply (in California)?
I have. New account, greenfield project, the org had never touched it before, and we only had a double-digit number of issues.

Every page load still took 30+ seconds.
It looks like Vice author is unaware that luxury iPhones existed from day one, the only difference being that they were produced by companies other than Apple.
Fuck.

I'm never leaving my house ever again.
You can pay a GBP5 "deposit", which is inconvenient to get back without registering, but cash top-ups are available from machines and ticket offices under certain circumstances.

Also, like with most things these days, we're sold on the convenience that registering adds i.e. no loss of funds if lost or stolen, and "auto top up" from your registered credit / debit card... most people don't care enough to pay an extra GBP5 to make their transport history "disappear" every so often - especially when there are so many other ways we're tracked.
Nokia's still standing strong with quite good profit, just not in the market people used to.
"Madly going wrong" is historically the case: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms04-02...
"In 1954, Roger Bannister set a world record, running one mile in 3:59.4. The 4 minute mile had become a white whale, with medical experts arguing that the human body wasn’t capable of completing it. Prior to Bannister, the previous one mile record had stood at 4:01 for nine years. Less than a year later, someone else ran a sub 4 minute mile. Today, hundreds of American runners, and likely thousands around the world have achieved this feat."

This is often noted as a mental breakthrough, but what isn't told about this story is that Bannister had the advantage of a better running surface and pacemakers. Those that broke the 4-min mile after Bannister did it because they too took advantage of a better running surface and pacemakers.

http://sportsscientists.com/2014/12/2-hour-marathon-4-min-mi...
"The difference that track surface makes is enormous – biomechanists estimate that modern synthetic tracks are worth 1.5% compared to the cinder tracks that Bannister and Landy ran on (some cinder being better than others, of course). And that’s why, as my friend David Esptein so elegantly presented at TED, of the 1,034 men who have broken 4-min for the mile since 1954, only 530 would remain if you applied that “correction factor” that predicts that synthetic tracks are worth about 1.5% per lap compared to the cinder tracks of the 1950. It means only 10 men per decade have joined the club since Bannister created it, and that should give you some context to this argument that “Four minutes used to be impossible, and now it is easy”."
I was disappointed by the content... Most of it is somewhat obvious and something I just skipped. I expected to find something valuable at least at the end, some insights for example in the front end concerns section (e.g. ideas for dynamic ranking, something I am currently working on). But again, nothing really valuable.

So to put it briefly, Faceted Search for Dummies in 100 pages (which probably could be halved without losing anything).
Because a large section of the php ecosystem is cgi and inline HTML. That was part of the original appeal and the reason it endures on budget hosts.
I don't subscribe to the view of humanity that we'd all be raging maniacs if we knew that we wouldn't get caught.

Most people are decent and most criminals are not smart enough to evaluate their chances of getting caught rationally, if they did then the prisons wouldn't be as full as they are.

The chances of getting caught if you're committing a crime are plenty high as it is, and yet we still have repeat offenders. As rule criminals are not capable of seeing the consequences of their actions, don't know the penalties for the crimes they commit and are frequently not even in control of what they're doing.

It's a complex situation, but surveillance does not seem - to me - to be a major factor. If it were then the crimerate in London would be around 0 today.
How about we all use Airbnb instead?
Thanks for the explanation. To my understanding, that's only necessary when I actually use the certificate, not as the part of certificate validation. I assumed the validation would happen with me setting some DNS record with particular value they can validate or something similar.
Can you tell us more about what kind of market this app is going to be? B2B/social etc? And what stage your product is in? Such as, have you designed/developed mockups/prototype etc? Since they take up a lot of time aswell if you are not familiar. And its not even coding. Just curious.
Wow, Fred Wilson DOES use punctuation sometimes.
"a deeper analysis of the sort you aren't going to get from Cook"

It's nice to see that you're now putting words into (or removing them from) people's mouths. How presumptuous.
Long-distance is not impossible, it's just known to be objectively inferior to in-person interaction. I think it is silly that mainstream tech is flirting with this idea of "remote 100% forever". The best people want to be in the same room as the best people. This is human nature. The only people promoting "remote 100% forever" are the people working in big tech that stand to gain from forced-remote.

People don't want to sit at home all day in zoom calls. You can try to prevent people from being able to see each other in person, but those attempts will always eventually fail.
I forgive all.
Please make an app recommendation.
This level of incompetence is bound to come out and so given the lack of any high profile security fails from Amazon, I am inclined to not believe the article. I hope I am right because they have a lot of data, a lot.
Or you keep trying to get time for refactoring and cleanups, but instead the product team keeps pushing for urgent new features and the project manager keeps questioning why development is getting slower and the defect rate is getting higher.
As I say to all the goldbugs, unless you have the gold in your physical possession, owning gold is meaningless.

And if you have it, the government has already shown it is willing and capable enough to confiscate it.

The only way to make money is to be willing to sell when things look like they are going down the drain.

And if things are ever that far gone, we are back to a barter economy.
Even more so when there aren't really all that many non-problematic companies!
Have you tried Hyper-V as a client hypervisor?
Harvard (and most of its peer institutions) give ~free education to anyone who can get in and comes from the ~middle class.
Yup. In fact, that's more or less what I have done. I think by one-way street OP meant foreign governments as opposed to U.S. governments, though.
Interesting article.

Also wasn't aware that Hacker School changed their name.

https://www.recurse.com/blog/77-hacker-school-is-now-the-rec...
I see you are new here. My first smartphone, a BlackBerry 6210, ran for a week between charges. Its predecessor, a BlackBerry 957, wasn't a smartphone per se, because it didn't contain a phone, but it was a programmable PDA with a 2-way data radio and an i386 CPU and it ran for three weeks before I had to plug it in.

The reason that smartphones now have 1-day battery life is because that's the _minimum_ that the market will tolerate.
What tech support market? I thought Google Search was it!

I have never encountered tech support that was acceptable. The phone jockeys typically have very little real knowledge and they assume that the caller knows even less than they do. Vendors treat tech support as a cost centre and even if you pay up for some plan, it hardly gets any better.

I'm sure tech support could be improved, but the costs will probably escalate to the point that very few people will be willing to pay it.
You mean for the SQL layer and client libs and the other things that were open, right? The core code was all closed.

I would imagine maybe the SQL parser would be of value if it could be ressurected. Standalone SQL parsers are hard to find.
A SO employee told me this was still true less than 3 years ago.
Wow, just last week I was thinking how useful having embedded prolog in Go would have been, for a very particular problems that maps very well in Prolog. I'm super excited by this!
In 1963 (SketchPad)? Or 1967 (Simula)? So when OOP was created in 1967, I'm not sure modules and interfaces were in wide spread use, considering that they didn't really even appear until the 70s (definitely not in Algo 68).
You obviously don't punish your poor system as much as I do. ;)
> the media becomes impossible to consume without Intel Management Engine

That's why Intel management keeps greenlighting this project. Intel thinks that it if it can convince content producers to distribute media as blobs encrypted with Intel's public key (and maybe, say, Samsung's or Apple's), then we can transition to a world where consumer video files do work on most consumer hardware, but can't be decrypted outside the protected media path and ripped.

There's no reason this scheme can't work. OEMs and content producers just haven't been able to cooperate well enough to piece it together yet. Once they do, game over, except for the analog hole.

This scheme also has the side effect of creating a "moat" around existing OEMs. Sure, a new player can begin fabricating new CPUs, but existing media files won't be encrypted for these CPUs. It is literally a conspiracy against the public.
at the end of the article he does express some doubt about the thoery
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You can always go on Gab. At least they don't ask users to submit copies of their driver's licenses and social security numbers.
I don't understand what people don't get about the 1st amendment. A right to free speech, is set in stone in the US Constitution, a private company can enforce their own censorship, but having a company that wants to have the 1st amendment and is being forced to be shut down is not what the US is about.

Threats and actions to commit treason should be handled by authorities and prosecuted. But someone saying they don't believe the election results should not be silenced. Its their right to free speech and the US constitution guarantees it.

We had 4 years of major media and almost all journalists saying Russia stole/meddled with our election and none of them was criticized as saying they are trying to deliberately sabotage democracy or silenced via social media platforms. Lets also not forget the "resist" movement which was to openly defy a democratically elected president, is that treason? No its free speech.

The whole reason you had a bunch of desperate crazies storming congress is an extreme effort to silence speech and whole communities by big tech and the media. Happy content people that are doing well and are well represented do not do these actions, things are not going well in the this country and censorship about ideas someone does not like is like dousing a blazing inferno with gasoline.
Finally ... ding dong the witch is dead.

I would like to know how much revenue Twitter and Facebook made off of this POS. Doubtful we will ever hear such things.
Can you remind me how long ago has antifa / BLM started its owned armed insurrection (especially in Seattle & Portland) ?
You have to draw a line somewhere:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

* 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24082241
That assumes files weren’t downloaded. Even if access is revoked, saved copies still are accessible.
The only reason these sounds are being added to cars is because some people want the noise. Some for safety reasons, some for aesthetic reasons. In the latter case, it's no different than music.
>The fact that a given closed tech is winning does in fact support my argument: open wins, eventually.

Huh? I fail to see the logic behind this.

>And the fact that protocols and standards prevail is precisely because they need to be open to become protocols and standards.

Well, yes, but that doesn't say much about other levels of the stack, like applications. And besides, we've had lots of succesful proprietary but de-facto standards too, from the .doc format to .mp3 (patent encumpered), to GIF and h264.
Noone cares anymore about the left rioting
We'll see if that attitude changes once the US has a one or two ethnic/cultural genocides that was preceded by a lot of hate speech against said ethnic/cultural groups.

That is to say, the US attitude towards free speech is not somehow the result of some very wise collective, it simply hasn't had the history to affect its attitude towards it in the same way that European countries have.
"Well, now that everyone else is doing it, we won't face as much heat, so..."
> The killer app is decentralized, permissionless, open source, and censorship resistant network.

That’s like saying the killer app of the internet is the internet.

The web gives me access to information quicker and easier than going to a library or bookshop. Email and IM means I can communicate with people in other countries quicker and easier than I could by post. Crypto doesn’t change anything.

A few drug dealers and some people living in countries with hyperinflation may care about “permissionlessness” and “censorship* resistance”, but for most people, actual money is far, far more convenient.

* That’s some Orwellian newspeak, btw. If someone defrauds me and a court of law ensures that I am restituted, the reversal of that fraudulent transaction isn’t “censorship” because stealing money isn’t “speech” or “expression”.
This doesn't explain why the Governor of Maryland was prohibited from moving its troops into DC by the Pentagon while Senators were begging for backup; and why it took Pence, who was in the middle of the siege, to make the call.