jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Right. Apple could have treated him a bit better and he could have been professional by not throwing all that up on the net.
it's a hack in the Bruce Schneier "easiest way to steal pancakes has nothing to do with where money changes hands" sense...

Our goal is to eat, without paying, at the local restaurant. And we've got a lot of options. We can eat and run. We can pay with a fake credit card, a fake check, or counterfiet cash. We can persuade another patron to leave the restraunt without eating and eat his food. We can impersonate (or actually become) a cook, a waiter, a manage, or the restraunt owner (who might actually be someone that few workers have ever met). We could snatch a plate off someone's table before he eats it, or from under the heat lamps before the waiter could get to it. We can wait at the dumpster for the busboy to throw away the leftovers. We can pull the fire alarm and sneak in after everyone evacuates. We can even try to persuade the manager that we're some kind of celebrity who deserves a free breakfast, or maybe we can find a gullible patron and tal her into paying for our food. We could mug someone, nowhere near the restraunt, and buy the pancakes. We could forge a coupon for free pancakes. And there's always the time-honored tradition of pulling a gun and shouting, "Give me all your pancakes".
> and they should not let you disable submission checking

I realize the security implications of all of the latest Posterous musings. But the fact is if Posterous didn't allow you to disable this I'd stop using their service. Posterous knows this.

My use case for Posterous is my phone. It has a nice 8 megapixel camera, and with literally two clicks I can have a picture sent to my Posterous blog. Is it secure? Not at all. Is it extremely convenient and productive? Absolutely.
We've always had secretaries!
I second that. You can have a successful tech career without a degree, I have a close friend doing it now, but not having one will get you instantly excluded from many big organizations.

Also, even organizations that will happily hire programmers without a degree may balk at letting them become managers or even more senior level engineers. Even if you think right now you will never want to be a manager, it is probably a good thing to keep open. You may very well change your mind later.

If the problem with college is boredom, then perhaps I can suggest two answers which are not mutually exclusive so you can do both:

Work with your University to substitute something else for the classes you think won't teach you anything. I know it it is an institution by institution question, but my undergrad college was very accommodating at letting me substitute upper division classes for lower division ones when I balked at taking things like "intro to programming".

Take the extra time you have from finishing the homework so fast to work on other productive things. Technical certifications come to mind. I know many people mock them, but they really do open doors when you have to navigate HR departments or hiring managers that have MBAs and no technical skills. Open source software is nanother great one.
Duder who runs that is a super nice guy and has poured his heart into Windy Citizen. Nice to see him win the Knight prize.
>Collaborators? Not innocent.

Not muslim/chiite/sunnite ? Not innocent.
The bubble has reached it's peak folks.
What I also notice about FB is that people are using it entirely for chatting.
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You cannot verify that WhatsApp isn't cheating without a source code analysis. And it's even worse, WhatsApp is a doughter company of Facebook, so WhatsApp is falling under Section 215 US Patriot Act.

In short: it's not Facebook's or WhatsApp's fault, but they're forced to cheat if there is the requirement from US officials.

While there may be E2E encryption in WhatsApp, there is no way to get it trustworthy.
"Wow, amazing how accurate karolisd was with their first few predictions for 2014."

I don't get it. Is this sarcasm? He's pretty much completely wrong on all counts
You'd probably still want a ledger there, if you're trading physical goods. That way you can correlate confirmed receipts on both ends of whatever cards were traded.
Wait, they are trying to patent tabs and hiding search results? You can seriously do that? Isn't that a little broad?
advertising rarely causes anyone harm.
> I don't really understand -- it seems like you just defined the words to suit you. Personally, I would use "dabbler" to mean "a generalist who is no good."

Okay. If a generalist turns out no good, then why does that happen? Skill? Ability? Work ethic? Marketing? Their ethics and philosophy?

"Not shipping work before moving on" looks like the best explanation to me. If you have an alternative take, I'm all ears. I'm not so sure on this one, and would really like to hear alternative points of view.
Once you throw Screen into the mix it's a lost cause IMO. Having it bind control-a by default means it's absolutely unusable without a .screenrc. Anyway, it's easy enough to just hit "curl p.hagelb.org/d | tar xzf -" first thing you do once you log in, and bam--all your stuff is there.
I can tell you what tab I never leave open, anything that requires me to be authenticated with Google. I'm probably being paranoid, but I'm afraid to remain logged in to google in the event that somehow a site would manage to read the google auth cookie and gain access to my email.
The lens is warping the view of the earth to make it appear that they are higher up than they actually are. Still really cool, but I was ultra-impressed in the beginning portion of the video.
Can we get a link without the sign-in?
Post a technical question about how to make your single page application crawlable, if it includes the word "SEO", there are great chances it will be closed.

Some examples:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21044302/make-ajax-loaded...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26298780/how-to-make-ajax...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14887710/ajax-deep-linkin...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21785074/seo-with-single-...

The comment to justify why the question is closed is always the same: "This question appears to be off-topic because it is about SEO".
I think they announced that they are going to allow publishing to web via HTML and CrapGL at some stage. So you might have something eventually.
No one thing discredits all of them, and personally I think that Occam's razor compels us to agree that in the vast majority of reports people are describing an actual phenomenon they saw.

However, the sheer variability of these reports does discredit the idea that there is a common explanation for all of these sightings. And that's where things like the alien visitation hypothesis begin to unravel. For the most part UFOlogists fail to see the forest for the trees - they look at each story individually, and never really spend any time trying to figure out how they could all possibly fit together into a single coherent story. Occam's razor also compels us to seek different explanations for different phenomena in the absence of any compelling evidence to show that they are, in fact, related.

The problem is, it's nearly impossible to come up with explanations for every single isolated anecdote by virtue of that very isolation. Skeptics understand this truism so implicitly that they oftentimes even fail to realize it's worth mentioning.
Also, every app, whether it is hidden or not still responds to Alt+Space which does what the single-click used to do and bring up that old window controls menu, and it still drops down from that same Win 3.x corner. It's a fascinating commitment to a strange backwards compatibility.

(Up until Aero Snap in Vista and it's keyboard shortcuts of Win+Arrow Key I used to use Alt+Space,M a bunch because it was always the easiest way to move any window by keyboard in the event it got stuck somewhere out of mouse range or you just didn't feel like switching to mouse.)
Is it cheaper yet to random walk the entire private key address space to look for wallets with value, than it is to generate Bitcoins, in terms of "dollars earned per hour/month/year"?
ES's practice of making its security a proprietary paid for product is the cause for these kinds of things. It's a shitty practice, and this is one of the reasons I'm glad AWS forked it.
I actually agree with you -- my point was more about things being worse than today because, much like today, the future we are headed into will be fallen into unintentionally if we don't recognize now that we should be designing for what we want it to look like and come to a common understanding of what ethics that system should enforce.

For example, it seems likely these decentralized networks will have their designs (such as moderation) iterated upon in response to points of crisis, as opposed to being methodically designed around a collective set of ethics that serve as a foundational bedrock for decision-making. To do so will require "adult decisions" which will have distinct tradeoffs. Without that, the loudest or most powerful voices will end up driving the ultimate long term structure, and we will be left almost certainly with a suboptimal outcome.

You can see this happening today with Mastodon: there's a huge amount of contention around what is the proper ethics with regards to developing software that would allow connectivity agnostic to content, vs stipulating that clients could not be used by certain groups (despite the network itself being inherently decentralized.)

The fact that this kind of question wasn't answered from the beginning before the first line of code was written, but is being answered in response to a blatantly predictable 'crisis' in the form of the arrival of a node like Gab full of Nazis, shows that many participants building these networks have actually failed to come to a meaningful consensus about how they think things ought to work and what the optimum social system is to balance these competing concerns of decentralization and harm minimization. It's trivial to design a decentralized system that works as long as nobody comes along who has counter incentives to the system designers.

It seems like we need to have a wider conversation, along with education, about what the various end states of this can be, recognize that the future will not necessarily represent the present, and then design incentives and legal structures to guide towards the ones we want to actually see happen.

Currently, we are being almost entirely reactionary and have an incredible lack of imagination (and in turn, optimism.)
I would like to humbly submit, from my nose-bleed seat, that ML would serve us best by adding it to our arsenal of fuzzing techniques.

Train a model and then set it loose to do exploratory testing, looking for valid-looking inputs that cause the wrong answer to be returned from our entirely pedestrian Plain Old Business Logic. The AI proposes a scenario, but the human is the final arbiter.
Single-family homes aren't subject to rent control in Los Angeles.

YOUR RENTAL UNIT IS NOT SUBJECT TO THE RSO IF:

You live in a single-family home (that is the only
residential structure on the parcel)

Source: https://hcidla.lacity.org/what-is-Covered-under-the-RSO

But, yeah, rental regulations are much greater burdens on small properties, especially a psychological burden. Odds of getting a problem tenant are tiny, but if you're only renting one unit than the risk is immense. The larger the property, the greater the turn over, the less you care about losing money on the rare nightmare tenant.

A family member lucked into a small efficiency in a 15-unit building in the Cow Hollow/Marina district of SF in 2011. (It's one of the nicest and richest areas of the city.) She currently pays less than half what new units lease for. Yet after 8 years she's one of only three tenants remaining from 2011. The rest voluntarily left or, in one case, died.

Stronger rent control should go hand-in-hand with policies that promote density.

Interestingly, if you rent your property through Federal Section 8 programs, you're immunized from many state and local rent control laws.
I guess it's a matter of personal taste but I actually love the new Windows 10 UI/UX. It's very simple and clean. I love the new line icons style as well.
Frotz is a good Z-machine interpreter, and there seems to be a MacFrotz:

https://www.thinkyhead.com/macfrotz

You might be able to compile the original frotz:

https://davidgriffith.gitlab.io/frotz/

There's more here:

http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/Interpreter
> large portion of CS students nowadays choose to focus on Machine Learning, many brilliant CS students decide to get a PhD in ML

These claims are massively exaggerated. Students don't "choose", "decide" etc. In the US, lets be generous & say there are 50 top universities with good CS/ML depts. After students beg plead & submit their GRE scores & recos & transcripts etc, each dept chooses on average 20 students for incoming PhD cohort. Of them easily 20% will wash out for sure. So atmost 800 top students graduating with a PhD in ML each year. Let me caveat by saying there are nowhere close to 50 top univs offering ML PhDs or having an intake of 20 per dept.
So overall, the number is probably close to 200-300 students for the whole USA, not 800.

So all this handwringing for what some 200 kids will do ? I don't care if they do a PhD in basketweaving, in the grand scheme of things, 200 is not even a drop in bucket.
>tendency among science journalists ... to overstate the significance of new advances in AI and machine learning

It's very hard to not overstate when overstating brings you clicks, likes, retweets, and dopamine spikes.
Seems neat but using Intel chips over AMD is an immediate deal breaker for me.
Any way to export the notes via some kind of API?
Mostly just the intuitiveness of the architecture. I don't need bi-directional if I'm mostly just showing you some forms in a CRUD app, and client-initiated request/response is simpler to reason about.

Bi-directional gives you more power, but you also have to think harder about the protocol and application state once the server is also pushing events to the client unprompted.
There are places to buy bitcoin without KYC enforcement: Localbitcoins still exists; I'm sure there's some dark web site to coordinate in-person OTC trades.
Very cool! The output looks nice, will definitely give this a whirl for some blog posts.
Their asset class analysis has made them billions upon billions over decades but their issue is that they simply don't get what's going on here??
It's more focused on the merits of Bitcoin as it relates to being a financial asset class, and not on the merits of Bitcoin as a system.
Not sure what you're confused about - your hand can hover over the keyboard and trackpad at the same time - they're right next to each other. I don't need to move my hands to go from one to another?
It's already like that. You don't buy stock on RobinHood, RobinHood buys and holds the stocks for you.
They weren't watching _every_ customer _all the time_, were they?
Sounds like the goal is to pilot within Amazon first and then make it available for all.
Even across the US, it's hard. Basecamp is an outlier.

Now, in practice, a fair number of companies probably don't have large systematic salary adjustments by US location, including remote generally. But they mostly do it by just not paying market rates in the highest paying markets like the Bay Area and, especially, not going toe-to-toe with the likes of Google and Facebook.
I've always felt that most good programmers go through 3 stages.

Stage 1: Write very simple, naive code, no fancy design patterns, just kind of brute force everything.

Stage 2: Discover design pattens, and fancy obscure programming constructs. Use them everywhere regardless of whether it makes sense or makes the code easier to understand and maintain.

Stage 3: Realize the folly of stage 2, and enter a zen like state where one writes deceptively simple, clean code. Rarely, if ever, use any fancy constructs or design patterns (except where it actually makes sense to use them.)

For the novice programmer looking at someone else's code it's very very easy to confuse stages 1 and 3.
Masking tape is the easy-to-remove paper tape you use for decorating, rather than the clear cellophane stuff.

I've always known Scotch Tape to refer to Scotch Magic Tape, the slightly opaque, better-quality sellotape, rather than just generic sellotape. More expensive as well, so I always got told to use it carefully & in moderation when I was a kid. It has a little tartan-pattern strip of paper at the end of the roll so you can find it, I never really thought about why it was named beyond that.
Why? I know hating Comcast is popular, but I've actually found them to be quite good, although expensive.

With Comcsst I get a lot of HD channels. I get a dual tuner DVR w/ no upfront fees or commitment, just a rental fee. They have a pretty good sized on demand package, with the ability to continue watching content from any TV in the house. They've recently added the ability to control my DVR over the web.

Comcast at the half the price is a pretty good service, IMO. I certainly wouldn't want them to die, as I currently have no other service giving me 4 HD ESPNs, Big 10 sports, HD Nick, HD Nick Jr, HD Sprout, and HD on demand for many network shows I watch.
Congrats guys!! First exit in the batch.
"We removed the ability to share the project source code because it enables communications with our servers in a manner that is a violation of our Terms of Service."

Arash, you're confusing the software and its potential uses as if they were the same thing, which is standard DMCA brain damage. It's the FUTURE communication with the servers that COULD violate the terms via such communications, IF it actually happens because of an unknown person (possibly not the hoster) using the software at some (unspecified) later time. If that TOS-violating communication actually HAPPENS then you can gleefully shutter HIS account. You don't get to ban the software itself, if the hoster has permission (via MIT license) to host the file. Illegal sharing of copyrighted files is what's prohibited, and that is what the "automatic DMCA takedown" suggests---to wit, that your banning-files-by-hash system is designed to take down copyrighted files in response to DMCA takedown notices. If it was meant to ban files you don't like, you would have had a clue that it would send an erroneous DMCA message about the file.

So it's obvious you just wanted to ban the file. Can you really cite the TOS language that says hosting software that COULD be used for TOS-violating communications with Dropbox, is also a violation of the TOS?

I also think it would be interesting for readers of this forum to see whether or not you've already quietly changed your TOS to cover this case (or will soon do so.)
It's still sharing data. Sorry.
If you believe someone has done this (downvoting all your old comments on unrelated posts), try emailing the modstaff. It happened to me once and dang quickly fixed it.
Can’t talk about unreliability, never had a problem with that. But for neighbors, a lot of people here (on average older and left-leaning) are on nebenan.de which is a nextdoor.com copycat. Unlike whatsapp it actually works on computers :)
There are videos of Capitol police opening barricades to let the mob in and taking selfies with the insurrectionists inside the Capitol. Hardly what I would call "fighting valiantly to defend congress."

That should upset every American.
I can second this. The price is considered very expensive and every increase is met with huge criticism.

(Also hi Asad, great seeing you!)
It’s motives are noble, but once you allow the government to dictate corporate structure and association, where does it end?
So we’ve moved from there is no fraud

To there could have been fraud but not enough to win a state

To, ok, maybe one state but not enough states

No dude. No amount of potential fraud is acceptable.
>All people are subject to the rule of law of the land, whether you think it is just or unjust. You have the right to vote for whoever you want but you don't have a right to do whatever you want. Democrats haven't taken over the federal government. They were voted into office, just as several republicans/whigs/federalists/anti-federalists/literally whoever.

When I talking about democrats taking over the federal government, I am talking about court packing, senate packing (by adding states), and other tactics to establish they will use to establish a permanent majority. I am not talking about the recent election.

The person I replied to seems to think that all those things are justified because the democrats are more popular than the republicans.

I have no idea what you are talking about with regard to political parties or choosing to reject facts. I assume you didn't actually read the thread so you took what I said out of context.
A) It may not have been the Capitol Police, there is some speculation that it may have actually been the Secret Service

> A witness described the shooting incident to WUSA-9, saying: “We had stormed into the chambers inside. And there was a young lady who rushed through the windows. A number of police and Secret Service were saying get back, get down, get out of the way. She didn’t heed the call and as we kind of raced up to grab people and pull them back, they shot her in the neck.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/vid...

B) While she may have been unarmed, the people that shot her could not be certain of that. Multiple firearms (including concealed ones) were confiscated from the intruders.

C) She wasn't standing there passively, she was trying to jump through a door as the vanguard for the mob.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/ks12mn/anot...

D) Time will tell whether or not the shooting was justified, but it obviously wasn't a matter of protecting property. They were trying to protect the members of Congress, staffers, media, Vice President, and other people in their care from a violent mob.

Edit: added source to support possible Secret Service involvement
The Bazel plugin for IntelliJ works rather well - I’ve used it for Python and Go quite extensively and it “just works”. I assume this is the case for Java too (though have not verified). The main issue is that releases often lag IntelliJ releases by a not-insignificant amount since they’re (I think) done by Google and not JetBrains.
That's my whole point, though. Negative confirmation bias happens because there is taboo surrounding the drug and those that are silently proud, are just that, silent. While those that condemn it are vocal. Hence more negative stories are told giving people more negative anecdotal data to draw from.
How's being bigoted relate to this? Most people oppose killing innocent people. What is and isn't a "person" is partially a subjective judgement; people who oppose abortion might believe that e.g. a one-month-old foetus constitutes a "person", while people who support abortion might disagree. People have a right to believe that killing one-month-old foetuses is wrong just like vegans have a right to believe that killing animals for food is wrong; there's no objective answer to moral questions.