jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This happens quite a lot these days. I mostly see it happen with international political events where another country/politician/etc is not aligned with the US progressive left. The reason I am singling out this political segment is that they've come to influence/control many US institutions (news, universities, corporations) and also because they are well-organized, which gives them pathways to amplify messages. So activists in other countries tie causes and build coalitions with those on the US progressive left to get their (usually biased) version of some domestic story out into the world.

A good example of this can be seen with India, where the current party in power is regularly unfairly attacked by US media with one-sided stories told from a progressive political perspective. As an example, John Oliver ran a very cringe-worthy segment about Narendra Modi (the Prime Minister of India), without any introspection about how it looks for a British white man to mock the democratically elected leader of a country freed from British colonization only recently (in 1947). This carried on to the farmers protests in India, where US celebrities like NBA basketball players started posting their support for violent protests on Twitter and Instagram without understanding the laws in question, how they address numerous complex problems, how Indian politics works, and other relevant details. Even Greta Thunberg got involved, tweeting a "toolkit" (https://nypost.com/2021/02/04/greta-thunberg-faces-probe-in-...) that amounted to undermining the government of India, and setting off investigations of sedition. Everyone seems to cry wolf about foreign influence on their own political system but are willing to do the same to others, seemingly.

Apart from the peculiar case of Sweden in coronavirus politics, we are now also seeing other European leaders recognize the influence of US media and the threat it poses to their political systems, societies, and culture. Macron and other French leaders spoke about this publicly when Twitter banned Trump (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa...), warning against an "intellectual matrix from American universities". Angela Merkel railed against the immense influence of American tech companies, and the threat it poses to free societies (https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/01/11/problemat...).
While "nameclashes" are a problem, I don't see any evidence that they have been created or promoted by any nation-state. Actually it seems to me that sjw was rather adopted as a more precise term than leftist, to reduce confusion. To refer to people who mainly talk about race and gender that rather than say raising taxes for the rich.
Yes, the short version. I didn't realize there was a full-size version or I'm sure I would have picked that when my Mac was replaced.
What you mention deserves to be repeated. The chinese people and the CCP are not the same thing, just as the national security apparatus of the US... and US citizens are separate too.

its natural to catch flak, but it happens to both sides.

The saudi arabia govt is friendly to our govt, but the vast majority of their population thinks its totally OK to blow up US citizens.

Iranian leadership is constantly at odds with the US military leadershp, but iranians themselves welcome tourists from the US with open arms , love US culture and movies, and want americans to visit.
Pricey but incredible: https://surgicallycleanair.com/
Has a bit of a problem for them as don't have many papers yet.
>Someone that publishes their name doesn't deserve anonymity, correct?

Incorrect. Someone making a mistake does not give you the right to exploit that mistake. That's what Eric Harris thought but it's not how civilized society works. The fact that Scott gave some information away (indirectly) at some point (which you call "publishing") doesn't actually change the significance of the actions.
The Times has a long history. There was the WMD scandal where Judith Miller credulously wrote about the Bush administration’s lies on Iraq.

Then in the 2016 election the NYT had a front page spread implying major scandal regarding Clinton’s emails. This probably cost Clinton the election.

https://www.vox.com/2017/12/7/16747712/study-media-2016-elec...

I could come up with more examples but the times have a very clear slant, much more marked than say the washington post. The NYT produces good reporting too but they can produce some real garbage.

I could have sworn the times wrote a really bad article about islam in London but can’t find it.
Did they have a choice to become a HIPAA covered entity and decided not to do it? Or that was never a choice?

The problem here is that the HIPAA legislation is outdated. Another problem is that there's almost no regulation around selling data.

My true question is: what's the business model here?

a) offering this testing service (which to be honest, sounds pretty interesting and useful)

b) selling the data of unsuspecting customers ("the 23andme model")
There are more recent cases that go the other way. I don’t think that ruling is as expansive as you think it is.
Let's take a helicopter view first. Accounts being banned because of hate-speech, threatening violence, or glorification of terrorist acts is nothing new and shouldn't surprise anybody here.

That being said, Trump's Twitter account, contrary to other peoples accounts, enjoyed special privileges and protection only because he was (currently still is) the president if the USA.

After the riots which were started at his rally, him not only refusing to condemn the violence but actually endorsing it, and the Capitol Police's stranfe way of handling the situation, he lost this privilege.

On a personal note I'd like to add, that Trump pardoning war criminals and protecting disproportional police violence reminded me of Adolf Hitler's rise when he surrounded himself with dishonorably discharged military and police before he grabbed absolute power in Germany.

I believe USA ditched a bullet here. Without his catastrophic COVID-19 response he might have been re-elected and behaved more unhinged than he already did in his second term.
Either way time to look into denazification and how it was done historically (Germany). Rewriting school textbooks and more.
The reason they are different was in original intent, and what outside factors influenced the transition. They both turned into shitshows. The DC shitshow was 100% the fault of the people present and the strongman authoritarians who incited them. The CHAZ shitshow must be blamed on a number of actors, including the protesters, police who were present, etc.
> They are being deplatformed because their speech is violent and damaging—in many cases it’s literal incitement to violence.

I challenge you to provide any concrete evidence for this claim - in particular, that (1) the majority of their speech specifically consists of calls to violence (not just "violent" because that term has been twisted recently to mean a wide range of things that a certain political party disagrees with) (2) that the behavior of the tens of millions of people in this political party are at all correlated with the several hundred people who stormed the capitol and (3) that this was significantly worse than the Antifa and BLM riots that we had throughout the entirety of 2020.
It is like when the republicans nuked the filibuster for supreme court justices. Same concept.

Question ... does 4chan have an app on the apple store?
Correct, I'm familiar with how it works, hence whether they are willing and able to contest it. Often the will to contest it just isn't there, as people know they've been had.

That said, one's will is often contingent on one's ability.

Anyway, the reality is likely that the biggest impact of forged evidence is unlikely to be in courtrooms; it's going to be in the court of public opinion.
I have no doubt in my mind that if the Charlottesville rally had happened in '02, Bush would not have claimed the are fine people on both sides.
And occupying the Senate building for the SCOTUS confirmation, admittedly to intimidate senators to change their vote, is different how? Other than one was met with resistance and the other was given unfettered access.
> we have much more visibility into those dealings.

in Russia people have a lot of visibility into all the corruption and how the things are being done.

> Not to mention a refresh of power every so often and bloodless changeovers of power.

you should be confusing Russia with Iraq or some other country. in modern Russia there were only bloodless power changes.

> I can't imagine living in a place where you actively fear your government...

the people in the West have this advantage - not to fear their governments, everybody should admit. there are not very many stories about how some businessman or ordinary citizen was killed or imprisoned.
While I believe this to be true, I also believe it to be in the (very large) category of overlapping lessons between chess and Go.
Likewise. For the first 45 seconds or so I was like "Oh, that's kinda neat" but it went on to show more and more tours interwoven together and his little hidden personal details in it... That's a thing of beauty right there.
(speaking for myself)

I focus on why a language looks interesting and worthwhile to learn - i.e. what new ideas are in it that are worth stealing.

Over and over, I've found that grasping the new ideas in one language almost always permits you to use it in another more "mundane" language. I've for example used C++ functionally, brought Objective-C and Erlang ideas into C++ and so on when I was dominantly programming in C++. During that period, I also made a scheme-dialect interpreter in C because for some of the things we wanted to do C/C++ were too hard boiled.

More recently, I've brought CSP into Javascript through sweet.js so I can write go-routines in JS, and along the way also brought Mozart/Oz's "data flow variables" a.k.a. promises as native to JS (again through sweet.js).

I've also run a short fun "course" at my company called "no spoon" where the participants build a stack-based language in JS and implement many defining features of many other programming languages .. including all the above.

So what I'm trying to say is that you don't need to lament that you can't use a language that you learnt in your day job. New ideas in languages are always worth learning no matter what language you work with on a day-to-day basis.
Just going by the interview posted by another commenter, it seems to me a big reason is that he seems to enjoy the "people challenge" about as much as the technical challenge.
I haven't done as much research about CloudFlare. I generally appreciate their views on privacy and the internet, but I have heard some really sketchy things about the way they route traffic and what you're describing sounds worrisome for sure!

I find it extremely hard to be an ethical consumer these days and honestly just get burnt out learning about all the horrible things people and companies with lots of money get away with, so I need to pace myself and take it in manageable doses. I will spend some time learning about Cloudflare this year.
Maintainability.

Same reason that, when you code, you want to include comments, have good variable names, use reasonably-sized functions, etc. It makes maintainability and future extension much easier.

Forget about semantic purity. CSS has survived all these years because it's been very useful in a very practical sense.
Did anyone else notice the Chuckle Brothers in the photo? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckle_Brothers)

They're down as the picture for Chris Piro.

Apologies for those uninterested in 80s and 90s UK kids entertainment, but it just seems so random.
Good point emilam. I've reached out to a few of their portfolio companies and had a good conversation with one. That CEO gave a glowing review, but one doesn't constitute a pattern, so I'll definitely keep asking around.
Is it possible to even notice 30 years in 50M-year frame?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault

inappropriate touching is sexual assault in many jurisdictions.

I don't think many men seem to understand this.

The rules are clear regarding the TSA agent's responsibilities. The agent didn't meet those responsibilities. They proceeded to touch this woman in ways she didn't consent to. In many places in the world, and in my own opinion, that is sexual assault and is not worthy of being down-played or dismissed.
Launching another spam site?
At it's core, Wave was trying to attempt the same basic thing: bringing together all your communication into a single pipeline. Facebook is doing that exactly same thing. The difference here is that they are polishing the UI and the backend is incomplete, whereas Wave's backend was fairly complex and the UI (merely the client) was more a technology preview then the actual technology.

Aside: Google's Wave UI really was just a technology preview. It wasn't the product. People are confused by this (and rightly so), but it's not what made Wave awesome. The UI was merely what was added on top of the protocol so they had something they could show to the press.

Google failed Wave in that it made it out to be a different product. People confused Google Wave the UI with Google Wave the protocol.

Basically, Google should have made Wave apart of Gmail like Facebook is doing by making their messaging system apart of the default UI people are already used to.
It looks like lots of nice new features. The statistics area looks greatly improved. (It was kind of weak before, compared to R). You can import any of the Wolfram|Alpha data sets, and directly manipulate them. I like the financial charts, which were more or less impossible before. The C integration might be useful. I'll also like the improved word processing, so you could write a decent looking paper in MMa.
Ok, but didn't have the one piece of information I was hoping to learn. Does anyone know what Google is using to render the preview images?

Now that these images are in search results, everyone will need to make sure that Google renders their site well.
Keyboard events work the same on IE as they do in every other browser, so that wouldn't be an issue.

The demo does not appear to be doing anything subtractive, which is the only piece of 2D vector stuff that VML doesn't do (and therefore that excanvas doesn't handle automatically). So long as they're just drawing shapes on a canvas, it should simply start working once they include the excanvas script.
I've been using MT's grid service for a about 2 years. About a year ago my websites started being unavailable for brief periods of time (<30 minutes) at increasing frequency. In november I moved away from them, at that time I had on average one such mini-outage per week.
the bad:

>Ugly syntax

The syntax is not that importent (the semantics are the BIG problem) but you are right. What to expect from somebody that didn't even want to read a hole parser book (not blaming him i think there boring too but if you don't want to read a parser book implment a lisp)

>Lack of some necessary features that other languages have (prior to 5.3, namespacing, closures)

Having a feature in the language is good but not worth a lot if there not idiomatic to use.

>Inconsistent function naming, usage, and other quirks
Inconsistency is te big word. Everywhere. Nobody thought about what is done how, where or why.

>The fact that 80-90% of PHP projects are probably gigantic piles of shit

yeah.

The "good":

> Standards (not universal, but generally a flavor of MVC for most projects, and little procedural crap)

1. Application Design is more then just MVC.
2. Most PHP Code produced still suckes. Sure there are frameworks and standards know but how many % of the people writing php know this? I know lots of people how get tough php just like 10 years ago and if they are not really into programming (like people here) the will never learn the good stuff.

Having "Standards" and people using them is a diffrence.

>A very low barrier to entry
True. Php was just at the right place at the right time.

> Speed & Scalability (maybe the best among script-based languages)

From most benchmarks I have seen php was really slow. Isnt it compiling to bytecode witch then gets inerpreted?

There are projects like HipHop and phc but I havn't seen really good numbers for them.

Are there good up-to-date benchmarks to support this?

> A great unit testing framework

What language that could has somewhat the same scope as php does not have really good testing frameworks?

> Arguably the best documentation for any language

Read some compents in this thread to see peoples opinions on that.
Listia is YC S09: http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies.php#listia
Scars come from being injured, not being inadequate.
You have not really given much information about what steps you have attempted to gain traction. From the outside looking in I would try to polarize the audience around hot topics like gun control and abortion.
The Continental application for iOS allows you to just pull up your boarding pass on the screen and have the security screener scan the phone screen.

I would imagine that some of the other airline apps do so as well.
Heh.

I appear to be blacklisted from google. I interviewed 4 years ago over a 3 month period, after which they said they were excited to send me an offer.

The next day, they called me back and said, no, they were not going to be giving me an offer.

Recently, I applied for a position I thought I was perfect for - and the google recruiter contacted me asking to talk about the position.

He asked if I had ever applied to google before, and I told him I had. I related a little about the experience and what happened.

He put the phone interview on pause and said he was going to go look into that and talk to the previous recruiter.

Radio silence for over a week. I sent him an email asking if my previous interview experience precluded me from interviewing there...

He said he was still collecting data.

Then he called me last friday and said that after reviewing the position with the hiring manager, they decided not to move forward with me any further, but he had no information as to the reasoning.

That was that.

But here is what I find both hilarious and infuriating: in my current company, a small design firm of just 10 people, we design a lot of google infrastructure projects; their datacenter fiber plants in the EU, NC, projects for gmail and other infrastructure projects they have going on.

I am good enough to be a contractor designing the systems - but apparently not good enough to be an employee.

I wonder if they are reading my emails or something ;)
why do you want to deadpool it?
> I think "attotrenching" is what I called just running cables into people's windows and not burying them.

Behold, MSU dorm LAN in early 2000s.
https://medium.com/@pv.safronov/moscow-state-university-netw...

Partial “topology” shot: https://chronicles.igmsu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/topo...

Home LANs and early ISPs were built with the same equipment by the same kind of enthusiasts. Typical commieblocks have enough place for cable shafts inside, though. Then the building roofs would get connected (with any kind of cable having any properties you could find) in the same grassroot manner. All that free libertarian enterprise, and now, after a number of tech upgrades, mergers, and so on, you can get gigabit for ten bucks.

I get it's not that suitable for suburbian installations, but the idea is that it all starts small and ugly. That's why your cable corporations are never ever going to allow even a tiny bit of alternative to happen, heh.
I've been thinking of doing something and i'm looking for people to work with! Notes here: http://memeschemes.com/code_search/
While not in the same section as posted above, the ~same limitations apply.

Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at a speed less than the normal speed of traffic moving in the same direction at that time shall ride as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway except under any of the following situations:

(1) When overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction.

(2) When preparing for a left turn at an intersection or into a private road or driveway.

(3) When reasonably necessary to avoid conditions (including, but not limited to, fixed or moving objects, vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, animals, surface hazards, or substandard width lanes) that make it unsafe to continue along the right-hand curb or edge, subject to the provisions of Section 21656. For purposes of this section, a “substandard width lane” is a lane that is too narrow for a bicycle and a vehicle to travel safely side by side within the lane.

(4) When approaching a place where a right turn is authorized.

(b) Any person operating a bicycle upon a roadway of a highway, which highway carries traffic in one direction only and has two or more marked traffic lanes, may ride as near the left-hand curb or edge of that roadway as practicable.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
Growing up the hacker culture most resembled War Games for me.

After high school, it began to resemble The Loan Gunmen from X-Files and maybe a little Sneakers.

Later on, in the late 90s, it began to resemble Hackers, but I felt all out of place in that environment, with the wild hair, outfits, and theatrics.

Now, I don’t follow the culture, so I don’t know — probably Office Space? Few seem to have a deep understanding of anything, let alone many things.
Why do you figure it would use 2x the fuel of a 'normal' RC Jet engine? Edit - anyhow you're right on the consumption of this engine: 476 mL/minute. Still though, would be out of the feds' sight before they realize what's even going on. At night they'd never have a clue.

RC Jets are fast as hell; over 200 mph is very common for turbine powered RC planes.

More craziness, 440 mph RC jet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa-TSNeTK-A
Example profile: http://billings-police-dept.copscore.org/police_officers/gra...
Thanks, those look great. Good work. Looks a little leaner than fluxible as well, which is always a plus
I'm not sure what they want to accomplish with this edict(?).

Maybe it's an attempt to influence entrepreneurs to create ideas in those 16 areas.

I mean, only those 16 areas? We are in the middle of some unprecedented cultural shifts, and those are the 16 areas to focus on?
The excerpt of gameplay suggests that it suffers from the same problem as the original text games: having to figure out the exact syntax the designer wants to hear. In the 'recall the brass tarnish ritual', there are five steps, but only three are performed, one of which doesn't match up with the relevant step ('Speak a word of essential nature' => 'say the sealing word').

I'm happy for other people to enjoy this kind of game, but the above is why they're not my cup of tea.
No mention of media, which seems odd considering their investments in Buzzfeed and Genius.
It’s more catered towards those who use traditional means and who have external users who need to upload or download files with more granularity.

It was originally designed for those who use Linux infrastructure and wanted to get their files to the cloud without needing to use jump boxes or provision their own server. It uses the native applications too so there is no need to install software.

But yes, it also acts like a secure backup service where you are not restricted to a single endpoint and you can control your data.

Also this offers more security such as limiting uploads from
specific source IPs, permissions and ties in nicely for those who script (as there is also a SCP solution).

In the end, there was some interest so figured I’d share it here around the SFTP side and have some feedback.
A stall in population growth (decline if we exclude immigration) must play into it also.
Congrats on the launch. This looks like one of those great ideas that works so much better than the old way that it feels obvious in hindsight.

I’m curious how you handle different monitor resolutions?