jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
While I agree with the police officer example I do feel that is different. If I am getting arrested or am in a position where I have already broken a law then by all means I should be frisked in a way that allows them to verify I have nothing that could do any bodily harm to them. I have very limited rights when I am under arrest.

It is the pre-emptive before anything happens TSA security theatre that makes it worse. By traveling I have not broken ANY laws yet I am still being subjected to a search that is extremely invasive and could be considered sexual assault.

It is as if I was a bouncer (instated by the government) and each time you wanted to go to a bar or club I would need to frisk you in a way that made you highly uncomfortable and in any work place setting is considered sexual assault. People wouldn't stand for it. That is the case here as well, people won't stand for it.
Maybe it's be better if people stated it as they would like it to be 'stop treating us like terrorists'.

That's essentially what has happened. The government has decided that everybody is a terrorist unless proven otherwise. Any high ranking official who does not believe this idea is 'supporting terrorists'.

Will there be metal detectors at supermarkets if something happens at a supermarket. Would that be so strange? Some high schools already have metal detectors. Where does it end?
Ableton seems like it would be a great place to work. Enabling creative people appeals to me a lot more than putting yet another spin on social networking.
Remember when you left on vacation without a care in the world and didn't touch a computer for 2 weeks? That's not happening for quite awhile.
Totally agree with your security theatre point, even all of this does nothing.

However, to keep in mind with the police, they must have a reasonable suspicion in order to search your person. They cannot simply stop everyone walking down the street and frisk them. And pretty much anything that the police do to you can be challenged in a court (obv whether you win is another thing, but the recourse is there). I think drawing parallels to (traditional) law enforcement practices is misleading.
Cubase user here cough
Anyway I'd imagine that working for Ableton is fairly cool.

Although I am not qualified enough for such a position I am curious what requirements they have. I check your link and they ask for at least 2 years of experience.
Is that "all" ?

As a CS drop out I can't even provide bachelor's degree. The point I am trying to make is:
As far as I know here in Germany employees always ask for degrees. Am I way off?

Could I train myself the necessary skills and then work my way up and then some day I'd be qualified enough to work for a company like Ableton?
What's a rough range for web/python programmer salaries in Berlin. Any idea?
Do you think picplz can beat instagram to having an API? I'd like to give this user an alternative: http://ourdoings.com/burgerlife/
There's a simpler way to look at the problem, which also demonstrates why your analogy doesn't work.

If we went with your analogy, the best thing for everyone is for that company to fail and fail fast because it is a burden on the economy. I would assume neither you nor anyone in the world is willing to accept this scenario. Therefore, you have no choice but to try to save the company. The only question is how.

The fact is that due to the housing bubble $8 trillion is gone from the economy. You can either choose to tighten the belt, save money and wait for the Americans that still have jobs to re-earn the cash, or you could try to borrow in order to invest and grow your way out of this. The reason I favor the latter approach is that the human cost of not spending money is too high in my opinion.
It's going to be closer to filing a Form S-1 (like with an IPO) than submitting a url and such, unfortunately. And it's probably going to cost tens of thousands of dollars in lawyer/accountant time before you can even start with Reg A+.

Users having ownership in a company can be a powerful thing, and I think we're going to see it more and more. Hopefully with the new SEC regulations companies like Reddit will be able to legally do what should be easy (gift people equity).

The upside is that the SEC reported to congress that they're going to get Title III (the part of the JOBS Act meant for startups and small businesses) implemented by October this year. I think that's going to be a much better fit for what you're looking for.
I feel like that is taking that line of logic too far. These aren't being created so that people can look over the suffering and alleviate the seriousness of the crime, they're to reduce the suffering that couldn't be prevented in the first place. These shelters aren't going to be pointed at as reasons why actions resulting in refugees aren't that bad, because that obviously wasn't a large enough factor to stop it from happening in the first place
There's a startup in Austin, TX aiming to compete in a similar space: http://www.reactionhousing.com

Full disclosure: I work there. ;) And if you find this sort of mission compelling: we're hiring software engineers! (firmware, backend)
http://www.reactionhousing.com/careers/#embedded-firmware-en...
http://www.reactionhousing.com/careers/#software-engineer

Our design is quite different (and geared towards a shorter length of stay) but all the same, I'm excited to see these go into production.
Because why would a company make a blog post on what color adjuster their company uses, and if they did, why would anyone care?
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=0x5f3759df&sort=byPopularity&p...
I don't think the claims were "spurious." There was enough meat there where just because she lost doesn't mean there was no merit to her position. Also, I think she was an unsympathetic plaintiff. Being rich and sleeping with a married man shouldn't prejudice your case, but it does.
Why would pre-IPO Facebook take their money? Once they got going they never had any problem raising money from serious traditional institutional investors, so why bother dealing with 50,000 casual investors from the general public?

The main companies who stand to really benefit from this are those that cannot raise cash from tradition institutional investor. And companies that cannot raise money from tradition institutional investor don't have the best track record.
I was totally sympathetic to Ellen Pao therefore I'm interested to hear why the jury sided with the defense. Does anyone know if there are any undisputable facts or was it basically he said/she said?
Whoever at Kleiner decided to pay her $33,000/mo for 6 mos as severance was a genius.
I've been publishing my gmail address in clear view of harvesting spam bots for years. I hardly ever see spam.
Please explain why? Both links work, both videos are identical.
Good point. This is where a light gray "http://something.com/ in the background of the text field (disappears on focus) is nice.
Buy a Prius Hybrid. It's like half-quitting.
Well, that assumes you are willing to work in that hour and had the work available, but chose not to do it because your were implementing the system.

If you do this instead of watching mindless TV, factoring in the opportunity cost is inaccurate.
Here's the problem with that: most people will use this (I assume) only once or twice, to, say, create instructions for their web app (like commented above), and would be happy to pay 20/40/60$ for the software, but there's no reason for them to buy a subscription. Unless you're aiming at an audience that creates instructions multiple times a month?
The job post referred to x.264, an open source video encoding/decoding library, while the commentary was directed at H.264, a proprietary video codec.

Yes, they are obviously related, but if you already know x.264, as the post asks, then it shouldn't be amazingly difficult to do. As in, the offer should have two more zeros on it, instead of four.
This is an incredible hack, kudos!

And for the Apple fans who might consider this a dangerous act of hardware sacrilege, I hear ya! But please consider this as not so much of a practical hack, but rather as a protest hack against the stupid, continued exclusive hardware lock-in to the low quality, over priced phone service of the Death Star Orifice—AT&T.

Everyone knows AT&T simply can't provide the same high level of innovation, service and quality as Apple. It has ceased making sense for AT&T to get exclusive bottom line say-so on what Apple can and can't do with the mobile platform.
Apple needs to embrace polygamy because AT&T represents the antithesis of Apple's core mission: beautiful software.

All AT&T can do is fuck up software. (Bell Labs doesn't count.) And it's usually done by imposing stupid, consumer-unfriendly restrictions on the hardware so they can stick to their old telco monopolist business model of nickel and diming all of their customers.

Apple needed AT&T to get a toe in the door to the telco's monopoly. But now that iPads and iPhone are spreading all over the place like a blown out BP oil well, and the entire mobile industry is playing catch up to reach or emulate Apple's tight UI & design in software, it's time for Apple to throw AT&T to the Feds over something. (As much as I despise AT&T, I recognize they are so entrenched that the only way to change them will be another Federal breakup of their monopoly).
case-by-case, angry young Padawan.
UI wording nitpick: "publish" is a much friendlier word than "deploy" :)

Question: is this aimed at desktop apps (it looks like it)? In a world where everything is moving in the browser, do you think that's a good market?
There is a proposal for an Economics Stack Exchange site that's in the 'commitment' phase:

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1618/economics?ref...

The site will go into beta when enough people 'commit' to participating in it.
Care to explain?

I have been using Thunderbird for 3-4 years at this point. I have indexing on and that sort of stuff. But searches that include the body text is remarkably slow. It does not seem to search inside attachments as well.

It would be awesome if I could fix these.
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Rather than writing thousands of words about what society should do, my point is much simpler. To give an analogy: a private payment technology can be a powerful system like a general purpose web browser, or it can be like a more hobbled system that can only browse pre-configured web pages and image formats chosen by the developers. Both options are viable, however: the problem comes up when your use case (or your country’s use case) calls for a “browser” with a very specific set of restricted functionality that is greater than the functionality offered by the hobbled system that’s available.

In this case you have a choice. You can ban all browsers entirely. You can use the hobbled browser that doesn’t meet your needs because that’s what’s available. You can try to add new functionality to the hobbled browser, which can be a hard path to follow. Or you can hope that instead of a hobbled browser, there is a more powerful full-featured browser that you can strip down to have the specific set of features you want. In the best case this is easy: just a matter of changing a configuration file. In the worst case maybe you have to snip away some code. To continue this silly analogy: it’s vastly easier to remove PDF support from Chromium than to write a brand new PDF renderer into software that chose not to have one.

Obviously I’m going to have to ask you to take my word that in this case a powerful privacy-preserving payment system stands in for a full-featured browser, and it’s relatively easier to “strip (privacy) features away” from a strong privacy system then to make a weak system more private. I’ve spent a good chunk of my life thinking about this exact problem so I feel confident making this case.

The remaining point you raise is essentially the following: the mere existence of privacy-preserving payment systems deprives societies of choice. This holds in the same way that the existence of, say, Chromium or Firefox makes it impossible for some country to plausibly mandate a browser that can only visit selected web sites or use file formats chosen by the government.

The best thing I can say about this argument is: tough luck. Better (centralized) privacy-preserving payment technologies exist. You can’t make them go away, any more than you can hope that Chromium or Firefox will stop existing. If the success of your preferred system depends on the non-existence of other technology, and that technology is already out there, then you need a better plan.
It's confusing but "the University of California" as used here actually refers to the entire system of ten schools, from Berkeley to, uh, Merced. The system collectively negotiates for journals.

There was also a big fight over prices with Nature about 10 years ago.
Beta user here. We use this at the management level. One of our core mgmt team has Android. They get the emails in the meantime. The benefit has outweighed any inconvenience - obviously any new product comes in stages - and we've used this as a force function to better understand how and why we work the way we do. HN more than anybody should get that tech takes time to developer even in parallel, but it's always entertaining to see people go off all the same. Our one Android user is cheering you on. Every nudge helps :P
I would love to see a parallel universe where mass transportation was never developed or desired and population levels remained low with an emphasis on local production and self-sustainability.
Different people in different situations use different ways to refine 'the thought that went behind that code'. Some like to write on paper/whiteboard, some like to draw graphs, some like to research for similar solutions on the web, some like to directly code. Time in IDE/Editor is easy to quantify, time thinking about solving the problem is not. That is strictly individual work, though. Time spent convincing the PM/stakeholder to reduce/change scope is one that is very productive but rarely quantifiable/counted.
Could you be more specific? Ted who?
> why they are using a Shanghai-based startup

Maybe, because that startup does a good job for an reasonable cost.

> Clubhouse is a honey pot for CCP

No it's a fancy life style app which doesn't care about censorship resistance at all. As far as I know
you can be pretty sure that any service operating in China will have backdoors or similar of some form, through potentially only for their Chinese users.

So as long as you don't use a service which explicitly cares about censorship and privacy which also operates in China you shouldn't trust them with any sensitive information at all especially if part of the "conversation" is "in china". I mean I would be seriously surprised if the key-server of e.g. zoom doesn't leak encryption keys for "(partial) in china" conversations to the government.

And coming back to clubhouse while they might seem to be privacy orientated on the first sight they are, as far as I can tell not. They just use "exclusivity" as a way to sell there product and mistaking this "exclusivity" with privacy would be a big mistake.

I mean some of the most common usages of club house are basically a fancy form of a pod-cast "just more exclusive".

> Or prove me wrong

Your argument is as much based on biased assumptions as is mine. So this discussion is pretty far away from any prove in any direction tbh.
Hmm I don’t see a market pullback happening any time soon. Honest question, Why would this information lead one to believe that? This information leads me to believe that the market is reasonable priced, given that it suggests the recent price increase is not a bubble but rather due to dollar devaluation in the asset marketplace.

All other things equal, unless they start burning money I expect prices to grow or remain stable.
ING Bank forces me to use exactly 5 numbers as my password. That happened after an update 2 years ago, when I had a long and safe password. They forced me to "update to a more secure password".

So 12 characters is not secure, 4 numbers is not secure, 6 numbers is not secure either. 5 numbers is the best security!
Thank you for saying this, because it is incredibly easy to overlook.

However, we must also remember that dollars are effectively debt—banks create them by loaning money. So while it is true that dollars cannot be “parked” in assets since there are two sides to every transaction, if the seller goes on to pay down debt with the proceeds then the money in circulation will decrease.
Glad to help!

1) ooh cool! I think simply having that default prepopulated at $1000 goes a long way to making decision quick- that value immediately gets me deciding if I need to go higher, lower or the same.

2) those changes sound like they'll really help. How about also having a badge on the public pages to show a project has done that step, and saying that on the admin page as a reason to do it as soon as possible.

3) maybe also a link to set up a wallet. I realise this is extra development and payment fees, but enabling regular card transactions would be great - maybe only have it for some projects where anonymity isn't useful. PayPal (or something similar) would be a good compromise.
Why do you think that is inevitable if the Chinese government continues to obfuscate?
But this isn't accurate either. Gold is highly correlated with interest rates. Why would I want to hold a rock that yields nothing if there are bonds that yield a real return?

As of now we haven't hit a regime of negative real yields on long dated treasuries in the US. After being at ZIRP for decades with new inflation fears, I'd bet gold will continue to be punished as yields rise, so you may never see that same signal from Y2K.
interest in bitcoin can completely evaporate, and the same is true for gold.

you needed to hear it, so there it is. having more bitcoin than you need isn't for you, owning bitcoin when you don't need it isn't for you.

the reasons people own bitcoin are all of the reasons people own gold and more. it inherits the same sentiment and does it better. do with that what you will.

just remember that the oft cited tulip bubble and the beanie baby bubble are not examples of irrational behavior. Tulips was a derivatives contract discrepancy that ended in a few months after the bubonic plague killed the traders, the spot market was unaffected and we dont know what would have otherwise happened. Beanie babies had accurate proce information from expected permanent supply chain failure, which ended from a surprise supply increase flooding the market. Only the equities bubbles were irrational.
If that’s the case it’s not nearly as scary!
There are plenty of user-written styles that will give you a dark HN. I'm using this one [1] right now, using Stylus[2] (Chrome extension) to apply it.

[1] https://userstyles.org/styles/22794/a-dark-hacker-news

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...
The pro-Beijing camp expected the support of the "silent majority" in the election, which did not exist, but was reported by the Liason Office.

The problem: "The people in charge of manipulating Hong Kong public opinion for the CCP [the Liason Office] are also the people charged with reporting on their own success." Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/25/hong-kong-election-beij...
It was more abandonding languages that are a slog to write without somewhat advanced IDE tooling. Committing thousands of lines per PR was common for the typical Java project, and much of had to be aided by IDE tooling to keep your sanity. I'm sure there's some amount of plugins I can throw at emacs or vim to get good-enough Java assistance or I can use languages with a higher productivity-to-lines of code ratio.
I started tinkering with programming in the 80s (Vic20, Commodore64, AtariST), but didn't get into it seriously or for work (Assembly, C, C++, Pascal, Java) until the early 90s.
Automator, Time Machine, Spotlight.

All are major developments, all are so well-defined that they’re banal. A good design is one for the ages, and I assume “improvement” is churn.

Apple’s work with WebKit, LLVM and OpenCL is the interesting development for those working professionally with computers.
The most difficult hurdle is that there's never that direct communication between the finance guy and the tech guy. Projects tend to get lost in translation, where you have multiple layers of departments and emails and roles playing telephone. If an organization can have that direct finance-to-tech guy/gal link, it would be the most effective way to provide the most effective value imo.
>As a reminder encrypted messages aren't easily searchable

Pretty much what I said.
I'd assume most of the people posting this happily instal random packages from npm without second thought.

Surely it can be a potential threat but in most case there is a VERY long list of things you need to secure before it's reasonable to worry about your IDE
Never heard of amazon smile before, but there registry of charities to donate to is really hard to ensure you got the right one.

I set mine to "Signal Technology Foundation" which I am fairly sure is correct, but there is no link, no description or other method to verify; it doesn't spark a lot of confidence.
Unrelated meta-side-rant: this leak exhibits one of the two types of naming conventions for internal tools that I really dislike:

- Unrelated historical/comic book/movie references, e.g. "Project Morpheus" or "X-37" or "Calligua", "Wolverine Project" etc etc. Meaningless.

- Things like this Nissan leak where everything is an acronym that is meaningless on its own. TTBA. SSKLR. URA. PIIY. What the hell?

Both are awful. Please please please if you are responsible for naming something at your work, please choose something descriptive.

E.g. instead of picking something "clever" or "cool" like "Boudicca Project" or "Skylark" or some useless acronym like "CTITT" please call your mundane CRM system something meaningful like "Customer Management Tools" or something understandable without knowing the backstory (e.g. "we called it Team Sofa because it replaced and old CouchDB instance, and everyone used to hangout on our sofa in our office when we did meetings - duh") and easily searchable.

Future users and engineers trying to figure things out will thank you.
This is utterly non-responsive. I was noting it's wrong to interpret these people's actions as QAnon directives. Perhaps they merely have a brain and therefore have low confidence in the legitimacy of 2020 election results in contested states.
You're absolutely right. Which is why any alternative we DO deem worth evangelizing should absolutely not have the same vendor lock-in problem as WhatsApp has. Which Signal and most of the alternatives listed do: they are single-service clients.

If we do manage to migrate some/any of our friends away from the embedded plethora of contacts they have on WhatsApp, I really hope it's towards something like Matrix, or similar, that doesn't have that same problem.
yes, it's double-talk, but...

> "Even if he didn't think it, as what he thinks shouldn't matter..."

no, that's called lying, and we don't want presidents (or any person with even a modicum of power) doing that, even if we disagree (sometimes vehemently) with what he says. we have checks and balances on what the president can do, which is what matters. it would be great if trump were gracious, but he's not, and the people have (admittedly narrowly) spoken against him. our system has actually shown that it can tolerate a presidency like his intact.
So Anthony Levandowski got 18 months in prison for stealing self driving car secrets from Waymo (Alphabet) and passing them to Uber. Live Nation did $10B in revenue in 2017 and they're fined 0.1% of annual revenue for a CFAA violation which has sentences up to 20 years for individuals.